skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember the stock market has always been a game, it's never mirrored reality.

I'd say that the institutions that own the majority of stocks, colluded and just decided to sit tight.
Public corporations are inherently immoral manipulators. We shouldn’t trust any of them with massive access to the nations “youth.” At least private companies have a chance of maybe having a founder with a heart who will turn down a sketchy way to make money
Revivifying Catholic Education in the Era of School Choice
I just left a company that was trying to rush us back into an open office post Covid. As if it weren’t bad and noisy enough pre-Covid.

It kind of threw that whole “we are in this together. Accept your 10% pay cut.” bullshit out of the window. Especially when all of the management had separate offices.
Ayoayo is a game in the Mancala family in West Africa. I grew up playing it and always thought it was a local game (Nigerian). It is kind of amazing how this game or style of gaming spread all over the world and is part of many cultures. Its funny because many Nigerians think nothing of the game, it is just an old game you pick up when you are a child, kinda like hop scotch or checkers. I actually never knew it was this ancient of a game.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayoayo
Does anyone have a working org-mode setup with back-links?
He still wants Emacs to become a general-purpose word processor.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2018-03/msg00...

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-04/msg01...

And not everybody is happy about it.
[Careful, flame ahead.]

http://ergoemacs.org/misc/rms_emacs_tyrant_2018-03.html
I do agree that incentives are a problem. However, I also see this as a sign that small-molecule antibiotics may not be the most efficient approach for antibiotics in the future. Designing small-molecule pharmacological agents in general is extremely inefficient in terms of time and money, and lacks robust design methods. I was shocked at how much "throwing everything against the wall to see what sticks" (high-throughput screening) was being depended upon to optimize drug leads. Sure, machine learning can help this process a bit, but it's building upon a shaky foundation.

We should be investing in bacteriophage research and other methods more robust to evolving resistance. This will ultimately be more beneficial for the public good. Of course, incentives probably still need to change in order for this research to gain momentum.
Open source has a people problem
The point is that, as a source of calories, many vegetables are about as inefficient by land as industrial meat. Optimizing calories per unit land is an implicit or explicit goal of many of the comments throughout this thread. I think this is a poor optimization target and there are much better arguments against meat consumption that aren't also applicable to broccoli.

I chose broccoli because it is my favorite vegetable and I eat quite a lot of it.
I remember working in a lab full of X terminals. They were NCDs, now that I recall. They all ran off of DEC Alpha or DECstation servers. That environment was pretty snappy.
Do you have any plans to allow 3rd party development for the hardware? From my experience with VR, this looks like it could be really fun but get old quickly without some variety.

Also, how are you doing the tracking? I don't see any external sensors mentioned, is it just IMU based? Because anything less than perfect sub millimeter motion tracking has become unacceptable these days.
This is correct. It's about retention more than monetization.

With the app, you can not only send notifications, but you also have the app icon which reminds people of the apps existence. Even little things like "badging" (when the app icon shows a dot or number to indicate new notifications) and even that can have a noticeable impact on retention (we're all programmed to click into anything with a notification).

Also, they can recommend better content for you. I don't know if this is still possible and whether reddit does it, but an app used to be able to get the list of other apps installed on the phone, and many companies used that as an input into their recommendation systems (along with your location, etc).
Yes, that is precisely the point, because lockdowns and social distancing are the ways to stop spread. Avoiding density doesn't stop the spread at all! Living in a non-dense area but continuing to come into contact with people (at church, at work, etc.) does not protect anyone. And it is as easy to protect yourself via social distancing in dense areas as it is in non-dense areas.
Sadly I have some later mainframe peripherals for which the documentation seems lost to time. Outside of maintenance manuals that came with the pieces.
Scalable Linear Algebra on a Relational Database System
Would there be confounding variables though?

Users who have the app are anyways likely to be the ones who use Reddit more so naturally it has much higher engagement than on a browser.
To be clear here, the app doesn't have additional ads but it does show reddit ads.
Expect an escalation if that happens and more bans on Chinese companies.
The steel man defense for nuclear weapons is just that: nobody wants to use them.

Since the development of nuclear weapons, there's been no outright wars between the major powers for nearly a century. We've lived through the most peaceful period in all of human history. It's debatable how much nuclear armarment contributed to that. But prima facie, it certainly seems like a major reason that the US, Russia, or China haven't gone to war with each other.

Given the carnage of the previous two world wars, it seems to me that every dollar spent on nuclear weapons was worth it ten times over.
I think because it's not about the actual number of pieces. The piece ranks being rounded turns them into an approximate difficulty rating that is easily understood. It also (roughly) shows the size of the puzzle and the amount of time it would take to complete.
Ask HN: Which VPN Is Best for Geolocation Testing?
Since I'm working on a project which involves geolocation and suggesting people different pages based on their country, and need to find a VPN or other system which can spoof those as a location.

Problem is, it has to be one with an absolute ton of server locations, since the country choices include everything from the US and Europe to China and the United Arab Emirates.

So is there a good service for this? Perhaps even one which can be used to spoof any country, in the same way Browserstack can spoof any browser/operating system combo? Or will this require quite a few different services to test?
Oh, come on. Even according to the article, all the employee proved is that they're not unfairly penalizing right-wing (or even non-left-leaning) accounts. That isn't favoritism, that's applying the rules consistently.
In feel this is probably a language-level problem, and solving it only at editor/VC level will be complicated.

At the same time, changes to the lang level would require changes at editor/VC level too.

As en example: a MIX type syntax can separate classes and class-methods into different files, and combine them back again. This way moving a class method around in a class won't be seen as removing a method and creating a new one: the file give the specific method an identity, and a method of differentiating between code movement and code alteration.
> many collapsing apiaries show no trace of neonicotinoids.

And 'many' (notice the weasel word) car crashes are caused by drivers that show no trace of inebriation. More to the point: "Most academic and governmental bodies agree that neonicotinoids have had a negative influence on bee populations.": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid

As for GMOs, they may well be safe (for consumption, let's ignore any invasive-species like effects, or toxicity to insects, or the potentially catastrophic combination of both...), but is our incentive structure ready for them? So far corporations are limited in how much they can tinker with food, but once they have the ability, what are we more likely to get - vitamin-enhanced rice, or vegetables that are as healthy and addictive as Twinkies? And what will the effect on food sovereignty be, when the only way to compete is with GMOs, control of which is concentrated in at most a handful of global companies?

As for the common "well how is GMO different from selective breeding done since antiquity?" objection, it's different in one very important way - in the evolutionary Red Queen's race, it's much faster, and non-engineered life cannot keep up.
If you solve this, you've solved piracy.
Places to Find Freelance Web Developer Jobs Online in 2020
Yes, in all major browsers you can set notifications to auto-decline just like most web permissions (camera, location, cookies, etc...)
There's the beatles, which are worth following chronologically as a sense of how pop music evolved. The "Beatles Anthology" documentary series is great.

Other than that, music is really too diverse and varied to approach systematically IMO, especially from the perspective of individual taste (as opposed to, say, academic ethnomusicology). My suggestion would be tasting assortments of artists within subgenres until you stumble upon something you love, and branching from there. The free NTS internet radio station (https://nts.live) has a lot of searchable shows curated by musicians, so I really recommend that resource for exploration.
And there we differ I guess. The job is the job. Wear this; show up then; answer the phone with that phrase - its the job. Do it, and get paid. Not abuse.
The funny thing about US Naval Intelligence is that it kind of trumps FBI et al in certain ways. FBI had the prohibition to rump around around, while US Naval Intelligence seems to be the forecursor to CIA even moreso than OSINT or whatever CIA merged from under Donovan et al and etc. Naval Intelligence is featured virtually everywhere; at least at that special point in time where they had their tentacles into everything at one point. Naval int is more interesting than CIA in many ways; but that is jist my subjective opinion. Well worth looking into the whole span of their history.
The default state of space is failure. It's incredibly expensive, extremely error prone, and failure can have catastrophic results. There's a reason SpaceX was laughed out of room for years. Hell, the most basic problem is described as tyranny.

Regardless of how rich Bezos is, can he bring the right type of talent together and get that talent to make no errors? How many hundreds of millions to billions of dollars is he willing to throw away with nothing to show for it? It's not just can it be done, it's can it be done in this competitive environment before SpaceX pulls so far ahead that there isn't any reason to compete? Add onto it that most of the top talent wants to be, and is, at SpaceX.
How to Build a Hive Mind?
I had hoped for more there there when I looked at this article. In this case the headline is pretty much the whole of the content.
I am still using Simplenote because mobile works really fast and the sync stays up to date. The approach here of syncing markdown files with icloud seems like it might work well enough.

The lack of linking between notes is definitely the missing feature of Simplenote.

I like the approach here of trying to sync markdown files with iCloud
> Lasers in a vacuum

Wait, Kuiper is doing lasers?
I just looked at the bottom of the page I linked. Solar looks contributes about 2c/kWh to bills in summer, less in winter because there’s fewer subsidies.

Subsidies are rife, but there’s far less solar energy produced compared to hydro and nuclear. The amount of generation we get for that solar subsidy is peanuts. Nuclear is a pesky beast, because shutting down is incredibly expensive too.
Club Penguin released in 2005 and I recall playing Mancala games at least as early as 2000 on PC. Are you sure Club Penguin was actually a cause?
That's a damn fine looking list. I cannot understand why people like King Crimson no matter how hard I try, let alone well enough for In the Court... to place at #5, but otherwise, looks great to me.

For anyone starting from nearly-scratch with popular music I'd recommend a chronological approach to lists like this. Don't start at #1—cut the list off with however many you're willing to commit to listening to, then order them by release date, and start at the beginning. For the earliest entries consider hunting down the major influences on their genre or a couple major popular acts from the preceding 10-20 years before them to get a sense of where they came from—maybe a few tracks of ragtime, a crooner or two, a couple big-band acts, some early and mid-period jazz, maybe an album of "standards" or something, a small selection of early rock. That's a decent set-up for starting on 60s-and-on popular music, which is mostly what these lists treat (Kind of Blue is almost always the highest-ranking exception to the "60s and later" rule)

[EDIT] incidentally, I don't see a CSV or Excel export option for the list on this site, even in the list of "subscriber" features that I could unlock by paying $15. I am entirely certain I'm not the only person who needs my lists to end up somewhere like that so I can mess around with sorting, checking-off, and so on :-)
Anyone interested in hearing more please join the next San Francisco ClickHouse meetup. The SplitGraph folks will be doing a presentation on integration of open data with ClickHouse.

https://www.meetup.com/San-Francisco-Bay-Area-ClickHouse-Mee...
Well, it’s incorrect when dividing by 0, yes. But when you do the limit as the bottom factor approaches 0, it makes sense.

So, below, the first one is defined, while the second one isn’t.

lim_{x->0+} 1/x == +Infinity
1/0 != (anything)
Mobile gives you way more options (notifications, widgets) to drag users back in which have a nonzero success rate.
So what does it mean "public domain artworks" say if I wanted to put this in an APP or in a picture frame for myself could I do this?
compound eyes consist of thousands of ommatidia which are the individual eye component ... these animals determine direction of movement of their prey in the layer of neurons directly attached to each of these ommatidia ... each ommatidia has 6 immediate neighbor ommatidia ... leaving a given ommatidia are 6 optic neurons connecting that ommatidia with each of its neighbor ommatidia ... when a prey moves across the field of view directly in front of a given ommatidia a signal spike is transmitted in all directions outward through these 6 outgoing optic neurons ... interesting aspect is these neurons incur an intentional time delay in this spike signal ... when the time it takes a prey to move from being in front a given ommatidia to being in front of a neighbor ommatidia matches this optic neuron time delay the neighbor ommatidia senses this as a doubly large spike signal ... this gives the animal information as to the direction of prey movement across its visual field ... this optical computation directly is this simple layer of neurons gives the compound eye animal extremely fast response time when hunting down a moving prey ... think of watching a dragon fly chase down a flying mosquito
You mean like https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/are-we-e... which links to https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03748 ?
Survey of entity encounter experiences occasioned by inhaled DMT
"Antibiotics present an enduring economic puzzle. These drugs changed the world. Yet despite their unique power, the free market doesn’t value them."

No. The free market -- people -- values these drugs. If there wasn't demand, this article wouldn't have been written. The problem is that drugs are too expensive to bring to market for their developers to profit, and that the single greatest cost is often FDA approval.

The article implies that the solution is to funnel more BARDA grants to companies in order to make drug development profitable. This amounts to using taxpayer money to help private companies pay government fees, with lots of bureaucratic overhead (employees, forms, computer systems, buildings) at each end of the transaction. This is dramatically suboptimal.

Instead of this, the FDA process should be cheaper, or the FDA itself should be privatized, and operate as an entity like Consumer Reports or any other review organization. Government need only be involved with prosecuting fake producers. The consumer requires only access to information, and assurances that a substance they bought is the same they have researched.

Paying government expenses with taxes is an unsustainable Ponzi scheme, and takes us further away from a real solution.
Exact same story happened to me. I am an Indian contractor working for a US client in US. I asked for work from home in India. Customer manager said security council didn't approve it. He said something like their policy is 'don't take anything to China that you are not ok with loosing, India is one level below it, safeguard everything'. Now Corona happened and the entire team in India has been working from home for last 5 months.

Another one is AWS Workspace. I think its the same reasoning - that it is more secure and not having to deal with hardware. But that thing is horrible to use. Constantly getting Windows is on low memory, disconnections which can be recovered from only by a reboot that takes 40 minutes. Even on a good day, everything is slow, you can see the Window maximize/minimize in slow motion, run an IDE and try to debug to get 100% CPU. Join a conference call, can't even open any other Window without frustration. Once I am no longer working for this client, I want to give a piece of my mind to who ever is in charge of this.
Boeing's Space Launch System and to a lesser extent ULA's (Atlas/Delta) are certainly disliked among many space enthusiasts (on /r/spacex and other watering holes) for wasting taxpayer money in huge amounts.

Blue Origin is disliked for being an extremely well-funded project that appears to make almost no progress after 20 years, yet causes SpaceX grief by being a patenting the landing rockets on ocean platforms idea just as they were about to achieve it (and the "join the club" tweet).

The hate may or may not be petty, but it's wrong to say it's not there.
> The only "communism" you are familiar with from history is Marxism-Lenninism and Moaism (a variation of the former.)

That is the only communism that has ever existed at scale. Please stop trying to equate documented world history with personal subjective viewpoints.

> Various forms of mutualism [1], libertarian socialism [2], market socialism [3] and democratic state socialism [4] are all non-capitalisms.

As mentioned in the comment you're replying to, the countries described as social democracies (typically Nordic) are also capitalist.

What countries have mutualist economies?
You can do that with many Emacs themes, but have you tried to read those things for a longer time? I like uniform text with minimal highlighting and I know many developers prefer the same - it is much easier for eyes. Some prefer to have a circus of fonts, colors and sizes. YMMV.
>but it's sure convenient to say we should do nothing

I didn't say we should do nothing. There are things that can be done other than lockdown such as finding vaccine still have to be done, improving treatment method still have to be done, improving health care capacity still have to be done, etc.

>sake of leisure and convenience

Its not just leisure and convenience, people losing job, bankruptcy, mental health problem, suicide, domestic violence, delayed treatment for non-covid cause, kids receiving poor education due school closure, etc

Flu kills thousand every year too, yet we didn't require lockdown.

Likewise be careful when you ask for lockdown, because when you force people into such desperation they will only put up with so much before deciding to take back or destroy it all.

Lockdown maybe justified if the threat is proportional to the severity for covid its not worth it.
Here's a practical argument for why you might need a lawyer to answer this question: the question gives rise to many, many legal issues. Some examples follow; no particular order.

(1) Where does country/jurisdiction X consider the Internet to be for the purposes of defining jurisdiction? Is it where the misled customers are? Is it where the infringer's servers are? What about Google? How will this affect your ability to enforce your TM rights, registered or otherwise?

(2) How does one acquire TM rights in country/jurisdiction X?

(3) What are the requirements of TM registration in country/jurisdiction X? Does it require "use"? What does "use" mean in country/jurisdiction X, including in light of (1) above? How long can you delay commencing "use" in X (or pause use in X) without losing your application/registration? How does X deal with Madrid Protocol filings? What priority, if any, will securing a registration give you over pre-existing but unregistered users of the same or a similar TM in X, and does this situation evolve over time? What is the practical cost of securing and maintaining a registration in country/jurisdiction X? Is your TM "confusing" with some other not-identical TM already used and/or registered in X? What does it mean for one TM to be "confusing" with another in X? Is your TM unregistrable in X? What does it mean to be unregistrable in X?

(4) What are the courts of country/jurisdiction X willing to do to enforce rights arising from a TM registration in X? If a court of X can't stop the infringer directly, would it consider enjoining a third party such as Google to at least stymy the infringer (e.g. by making the infringer unsearchable using Google)? What scope of protection are the courts of X willing to extend to your TM? Will the courts of X let other persons get away with minor variants? Will the courts of X let other persons get away with using the TM on unrelated goods or services? How unrelated? Will the courts of X recognize an order of a court of country/jurisdiction Y?
If you are interested in classical music - here's a couple of good books on the 20th century.

"The Rest Is Noise" by Alex Ross
"Modern Times, Modern Places" by Peter Conrad

The first is just music, the second one covers art and culture in general but has a lot about music.

"America's Musical Life: A History" by Richard Crawford is also great, focusing on America obviously and covers more than just the 20th century.
> In what way would Starlink have any less access to AWS?

It’s a distribution advantage.

To sign up a new customer, Starlink has to...sign up a new customer. Contracts, configuration, payment details, integration. Kuiper, on the other hand, has to get them to click a button on a dashboard.
And reddits App-nag setting is not a permanent choice. When you disable it that's a localStorage thing only, so if you sign out, clear caches, sign in elsewhere, still nags you.
I guess I should add that the market has been hot for the past few years and hasn't slowed down. I think the bigger threat to property values will be if interest rates rise significantly. Barring a complete economic collapse, I think raw land or residential rentals should be fine, especially if we see inflation from the current monetary policy.

Personally, I would never buy real estate in a big city. I might be biased since the ones around here are the likes of Trenton, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. City services have been in shambles in these cities for a long time. I don't even like to visit them.
Having followed scores of these projects, the answer for all of them is likely no unless you do the work yourself.

There is an interesting gap: the C code for the HAL/stdlib of a device is typically machine generated from the VHDL and register descriptions. If you could get at that machine description, or e.g. use clang to parse the headers, you could make some good inroads into this.

As it is I typically avoid microcontrollers because of all the pointless plumbing I am required to do.