skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are people spending tons of time these days, doing menial tasks?

I guess there’s commuting and sleeping. Maybe eating and exercising?
Not only that, but listings plummeted with Covid. I'd be interested to see how the cumulative inventory compares to this time last year.

If all those people who were going to sell in March, April and May just delayed until now, you'd see a big jump in inventory, but the overall number of homes changing hands might not have changed.
Not the same ball game, body count is so low you probably wouldn't get a reliable signal. And even then, I bet rural Japan and Korea are affected far less. It's simple common sense. R0 depends on fanout exponentially. On average, the higher the density, the higher the fanout.

Downvote all you want, you know I'm right. :-)
R&D measures often include a lot more D than R.
Does this not work on mobile? I just get random lines then they disappear.
Yes, everyone on HN likes to make fun of JavaScript because of leftpad, but the C/C++ ecosystem is much, much worse, which is a real achievement.
Solid state batteries potentially can make electric cars more affordable with longer range and fast charging times.

Nuclear waste has been piling up since the first reactors went online and are stored onsite. The US designated Yucca mountain in Nevada as the long term storage site but due to NIMBY it has been in limbo meanwhile nuclear waste keeps growing.

Rising sea levels are estimated to displace many millions of people which will lead to refugee exodus with many eyeing Europe and the USA.

Increasing bitterness and division in US politics make it easier for demagogues who promise quick fixes to gain power. These charlatans may lead us to a path of self destruction.
Were those deaths in the dense areas or the less dense areas? Turns out that living in a denser area was "protective." But it wasn't actually protective because density is unrelated. It's socioeconomic status and being forced to work versus being able to shelter in place.

Plus all the counter examples where dense places have quickly stopped the spread. What killed NYC was terrible leadership that told people to go out and enjoy social settings, which launched the initial spread, and then people forced to continue in essential jobs where it could continue to spread. Not density.
They also have ESC symbolname ESC, with autocomplete.
> Jeff Bezos Ends Day with an All-Time High Net Worth of $X

Couldn't this be said any day Amazon stocks hit a new all-time high? What makes today special that a news article is written about it? I could imagine $200B being a significant milestone, but why not wait a few days and publish the article then?
>>Please note that we have weekends/8h work day/ban on child labour and also still have the super rich. They never left.

The fact that are still super-rich people doesn't imply that such interventions did not have a negative on the number of people who are super-rich in the US. High taxes have a well-established negative effect on capital formation, and investment in-flows. This isn't some conspiracy theory promoted by the super-rich to manipulate you.

I think you're giving the arguments made against high taxes a very shallow treatment.
Yeah definitely not San Mateo, but east bay will do that. My realtor says her business in SF and the peninsula is drying up, but east bay is hotter than ever.
Makefiles combine the expressivity of Bash with the clarity of Bash.
WebXR: The Game Changer
Looks like not much has changed yet, but I'm still really interested to see how things are different 5-10 years from now. If big tech companies like Facebook actually follow through with shifting large numbers of tech workers to fully remote, there could be a lot less demand for housing in tech cities, which could lead to big drops in home prices, which could cause tech companies to pay less.
> If you take economic affections away from the government, what remains with the government?

Enforcing civil laws and contractual obligations, court system, police, and army.
Christopher Poole did a Ted Talk 10 years ago on the value of anonymity online. Hiding a real-world persona has the power to create new and different things.

https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_moot_poole_the_case_fo...
I'll have to dig out an archaeologist but I don't thank that is quite right. I'm a Civ Eng graduate BTW.

Romans - conc - yes. Inventors - maybe but probably not (see below)
Medieval period - conc - probably available and probably used

Conc is a funny old beast. Basically, it is a chemical reaction between its ingredients and not a drying out and setting thing. That's why it will set underwater or if you pour too much in one go, it will set itself on fire - exothermic reaction.

I suspect with no evidence whatsoever that someone will have noticed how mixing water with some types of earthly deposits etc etc.

Look at "cob" which is straw and mud and water and some pretty interesting admixtures - starting with wee (horse and human.) My aunt and uncle's last place had 1620 written on the wall near the entrance - so a bit modern for these parts. It is cob and thatch with a few sticks thrown in.

I suspect that conc of some sort is ubiquitous throughout history and has simply not been noticed by us modern lot. However it does generally require processing of some of the raw ingredients so perhaps I'm off course.
Maximizing time the users spent in your software must not trump general design sense—just remember the (sometimes devastating) effects of YouTube’s switch to maximizing the time users spend watching videos.

While for an ad-supported product like Google’s video sharing platform it might be an unavoidable tough trade-off in order to not be a loss leader, but a paid product should aim to solve user’s problem most efficiently and give them time, not take away from it.
ReviewMeta's is also the same, within the granularity of half a "star".
I was an Amazon millionaire. I know how life changing that money can be.

Which is why I can have some understanding of how unimaginable 1000x that really is, let alone 100,000x times that.

I'm all for nice things, but I'm not for Paul Allen deciding what's nice or what we get.
An IP address is considered personally identifiable information in at least Germany. If you're storing that you'll already have to think about the GDPR.

This is just another misguided attempt to adhere to the letter of the law while going against its spirit. Is is misguided because it's based on a wrong understand of what the letter of the law actually is. You see this a lot with adtech and analytics companies who try to skirt regulations through elaborate mechanisms but ultimately in vain.
Im not sure uranium or other radiological material is really rare enough to call it non-renewable. Technically it isn't, but technically the sun doesn't last forever either. Nuclear materials can be found basically everywhere with rock or dirt, and much of it is recyclable into other nuclear materials down to the tiniest little bits. Just because we currently only want the richest and cheapest and least power intensive mines doesn't mean that is all we have available. It is like worrying about running out of iron, technically yes but realistically no.
When I was doing stuff for a pre-Head Start research project, Comic Sans was a great font to do forms in. It went with the program and people were less stressed by the forms even though they asked the same information as the old ones. I really wish someone would have studied that.
Here's a neat story. I'm a transgender iOS programmer living in Toronto and I've been diagnosed with chronic anxiety and CPTSD. I am also a rapper/producer under the name 'Nikki Grace', on Spotify/Apple Music/Youtube, etc...

I've been producing and engineering music for bands and other folks for about ten years, but I had never released any solo material. After my Mother's passing last year, I decided to strut out my first mixtape of just five songs. I was extraordinarily nervous, as being transgender, I had assumed an entirely different tone and inflection in my voice; and rapping was something I had rarely done before.

I put it out in July of last year, and; to my surprise, the music was incredibly well-received; well-reviewed by my peers - and - to my surprise, each song on that 5-track mixtape, with no advertising, has had tens of thousands of listens on Spotify since.

The confidence increase in this was immense! My anxiety about certain integral things has certainly gone down - especially in the field of music, I second-guess myself far less often than I used to; I hit 'stop' on over-analyzing things earlier than before, amongst other tangible benefits. I've never even performed on stage and often end up with around $100-300 of revenue a month just for putting myself out there. (Which, in streaming revenue; is a shockingly large amount of streams!)

There have been serious crises in my life since my Mom's passing; I had to take leave from my work for time, but; guess what? Nobody listening to my music knew any of that. The alter ego literally just lets me go through all of that, put out music every few months, and turned out to be the healthiest outlet of my life.

It is absolutely true - it's paramount that you find your outlet and do it.
He didn't say manufacturing output but jobs, a more relevant number for that argument would be total labor cost in the sector and it's change over time between two countries.
I agree that the CS degree isn't without risk. I also agree that it wouldnt make financial sense to leave a career in tech/finance/oil to go back to school in CS.

That said, the median individual income in the US is about 35K [1] and the median entry level CS salary is about 80K [2]. For a lot of people, that is a great deal for the cost. My big concern is what happens to the people who don't make it through the program, but get stuck with debt they can't discharge.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N
[2] https://www.indeed.com/career/entry-level-software-engineer/...
Absolutely correct. But this article was written now, and makes a claim that is totally unsupported by anything we know now.

I'm entirely down for our descendants in 200 years laughing at our scientific parochiality, just like we often get to do at our double-century antecedents. But that doesn't justify writing right now that Mars and Earth have a priori likelihoods of being the origin of life in the solar system.
Well let's see if it's techies moving pretty if it's other people. In my Bay Area adjacent town, there's toooons of homes for sale but they are not newly purchased within the last 10-15 years, but homes that have been held for decades.

There's also a huge exodus of people from SF that have lost jobs.

It could be techies, but I'll wait and see the numbers to judge that, a mere overall exodus does not equate to a techie exodus for a city where techies are such a small part of the population, but which dominate so much of the discussion.
What advantage would spammers get from trying to hide the provenance of a bought/rented/stolen list? If it was a really profitable scam like crypto phishing, having the modifiers might even be an advantage because they could target the templates more effectively.
There’s a huge difference between “I personally like it when some libraries choose to adhere to a convention” vs “let’s bake this into every tool with a wide, bureaucratic shared RFC process.”
It's not intentionally slowed down. The sampling process is computationally heavy and you'll notice improved performance when running it on better hardware. There are many algorithmic ways to speed up neural network computation and I'm fairly sure I could speed things up by an order of magnitude or two if I invested some time into it.
Julia has this too. https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/unicode-input/ and https://riptutorial.com/julia-lang/example/19760/standard-op... .
There should be [more] publicly-funded, non-profit organizations that do research for research's sake, whose fruits are made available to all.

To avoid the problem of controversial projects causing some funding sources to pull their support, there could be mechanisms for funding individual projects.

And to avoid the risk of reappropriation by a government or military, they could be hosted in the EU. :)
The screenshot is labeled "Camera picker on Android 10." Android 11 will remove the camera picker.
Yeah sorry I'm not great at design. 1 man team here. I am looking to rebrand with an agency when I have the funds to do so. This is just an MVP, but I appreciate your feedback and will iterate on the messaging.

Touched on my point in the last sentence - lots of sweeters don't taste quite right. The point you make on xylitol is interesting, but still there are other benefits to the product that are unique 1)the flavor enhancing 2)the time saved by not stirring and the fact that it works on your taste buds rather than the food.

Everyone has their preferences, but your taste is malleable. A lot of people are used to eating lots of sugar so what you may find sweet is not enough for them. This is a healthy way to make those foods appealing to them. There's a really crazy statistic: while 63% of Americans say they try to eat healthy most or all of the time, 85% admit they give in to over half of their cravings for indulgent foods. Imagine what could happen to obesity if people could feed their temptations with healthy food by using miracle fruit.
Because historically, excessive inequality doesn't end well for the haves.
There's (at least) two reasons why they call it "fuck you money"...
That seems like an argument that could be made against literally every opinion poll. The “specifics” according to whom?
Kubectl plugin that prunes unused Kubernetes resources
Recently linked on HN:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/2017...
Coronavirus smell loss 'different from cold and flu'
> Ultimately, energy spent on Palmer distracts from getting Facebook to modify its behavior.

This a thousand times.
I wonder however what people like me can do from the outside, save for keep refusing to open a Facebook account.
Supply chain analysis of iPhone 5c cases and the pencil marks hidden inside them
Oh man you caught me there. Truly a legendary response XD
I agree with this to some extent.. but I think a text editor is a little different than gitlab. Even within the realm of text editors or IDEs, there are still successful paid options (not to mention that the author is conflating ‘open source’ with ‘free’).

With something like gitlab, people may pay for some ‘enterprise’ features, but they are also paying for support. Open Core and totally open source projects can be monetized by offering support.

Other projects are successful just by limiting who can use the open source software for free via different licenses.
Jean Dubuffet, His Art Brut in Red, Blue and Black Colors
I'm sure you meant, "worrying about being removed from it due to missing mortgage payments", right? Because I would definitely find foreclosure to be more stressful than getting a loan in the first place if it ever happened.
Australia's PM says coronavirus vaccine will be compulsory
Shannon Information and Kolmogorov Complexity [pdf]
> People are still paying taxes for infrastructure in the environment they live in, and that covers paying for sidewalks.

Yeah, I agree, that's right. The bikers are paying for sidewalks & roads, just like everyone else. You've nicely summed up exactly why bike infrastructure is not being somehow "subsidised" by drivers and walkers.

Despite your wish to call sidewalks your own and not share them, and despite the fact that I agree with you about separating pedestrians from cyclists, sidewalks are multi-use infrastructure that everyone pays for and everyone can use. It doesn't matter that you don't like it, the intent has always included bikes as well as pedestrians and wheelbarrows and dogs and children, among many other uses.

Thus settles the red herring non-issue of externalizing taxes to pay for pavement. It's not a real thing.
All good points. But now imagine all the ships are traveling at 14,500 knots and can’t stop or turn, aside from minor depth changes.
>If you have $10 million in the bank, you're not just a "saver" or "refraining from consumption".

If an economic agent holds a money, they are -- by definition -- saving their money. If they instead decide to speculate with the money "Hmm I think gluten-free bread will be in higher demand next year, better buy ovens today, to sell to the baker then" they consume scarce resources (labor and materials to make the oven). If they invest the money in a business endeavor "Hmm I need to allocate capital from money to wheat, ovens, to turn a profit as a baker to produce bread" they consume scarce resources. These capital allocations change the exchange rates of these goods.

Try as you might to avoid it, all forms of punishing cash holding induces undue consumption.
Zuck is still a kid. The corporate weaseliness starts at the top.
I think his point is that if the method only defeats basic locks, there's no point because basic locks can be reliably picked with $20 of tools and a few hours of YouTube tutorials and practicing.

That's fair, of course, but the method is still interesting and novel, and may even have security implications if it can be evolved to target locks containing features beyond the basics.
I tried to use an old backup account a while back and got hit with a demand that I send them a copy of my id to prove my identity. I won't do that though.
Have not tried. Let me know what you think :)

I'd like to try more exotic fruits. Passionfruit is absolutely addictive with Palate Pal. I did a taste test with a friend and she was chowing down on it like popcorn.
Twitter in my profile, DMs should be open.
People's reactions to policy decisions/outcomes don't matter nearly as much as the actual outcomes. I think most people will agree that simultaneously raising GDP per capita while reducing inequality and increasing innovation would be a good outcome. Those are all things that can be quantified and measured with very little bias. Survey data isn't as important comparatively.

As for the model explaining itself: the model can show relationships and patterns that humans hadn't previously detected, because there were too many variables. We can deduce new economic strategies by observing model output, such that we can even carry out those strategies without further use of the model. There are also ways to make ML models explain themselves.
from the point of view of the owner of an empty housing unit, if no one is buying and no one is renting then you are just left paying property tax and maintenance on an empty unit.

But, at least in my local market, it would surprise if the banks are sitting on empty units from 2008, as far as I know it all got auctioned off years ago.

This article predicts the covid crisis will center around a new collateralized debt instrument "[after post 2008 banking reform] [d]emand shifted to a similar—and similarly risky—instrument, one that even has a similar name: the CLO, or collateralized loan obligation. A CLO walks and talks like a CDO, but in place of loans made to home buyers are loans made to businesses—specifically, troubled businesses."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/coronav... discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23480680
Article repeats the thoroughly debunked "evidence has continued to show that antidepressants perform no better than placebo."

"Evidence" cited is based on gathering a crowd of people suffering from at least a half-dozen medically-indistinguishable disorders, and giving them all just one medication that helps only the small fraction of them who suffer only what it treats, and then announcing that medication doesn't work.

It is like rounding up people with broken limbs of all kinds--many with more than one break--and putting a cast on each one's left shinbone; then announcing casts don't work, because look at all the ones it didn't help.

The "Gold Standard" double-blind trial works only if you can diagnose accurately. But the only tool known to diagnose depression is to try and see which medication helps. Design a plausible "gold standard" trial for that, I dare you.

The people conducting these depression treatment trials are guilty of malpractice and gross incompetence, and people repeating their results are, at best, dupes.
The way he totally transforms on the spot into a cackling jerk in the kitchen scene is so great, Zack Woods was such an incredible talent on that show.
> No, it's because it's a city-state, and millionaires tend to be urban, so comparison with countries with lower urbanization is misleading. New York City (which has a population not much larger, so it's a community of roughly comparable scale that, like Singapore, is 100% urban) has a notably higher concentration of millionaires than Singapore does. (1 in ~8.4 compared to Singapore's 1 in ~20.)

I'm not sure what your point is. Unless you're claiming that cities spontaneously generate millionaires?

From what I can tell, NYC has lots of millionaires primarily because rich people like to live there, so rich and talented people move to NYC from all over the US.

The same thing is true of Singapore, except that - as you so rightly point out - there is no "rest of Singapore" for them to come from. Instead, they come from the rest of the World, by necessity.
A late 30s guy with a CS degree and no experience will get far less than the median entry level. I think having sufficient social services and interest free tuition assistance for working adults would help a lot.
Ideological contents aside:

> does not exploit the labor of non-members

This is not good legal terminology and so makes it a bad license. People who want to prevent monetization by a closed-source company are probably still better off with the AGPL.
Probably something along the lines of "I said essential liberty for temporary safety, you nitwits."

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famou...
Let's take a look at these 6 new homebrew games for Atari Lynx
As mentioned in the post, a pretrained model is available here: https://tfhub.dev/google/LaBSE/1
What about

> Fourth, this effectively ignores that wealth is a thing that grows and compounds.

You absolutely will not "lose control at some point" so long as the value of your company/stock keeps pace with inflation + wealth tax.

It's the simplest, most straightforward reason this "modeling" is bunk.
Come on! You don’t like the readable and pronounceable J operators like “+/ . “ for the matrix product?

# numpy - matrix product
np.dot(a, b)

NB. J - matrix product
a +/ . b
Working on Android chrome for me, a little cludgy but tolerable
Bigger concern is the long nights in winter (but long days in summer). But plenty of European cities have overcast issues in winter anyway.

All depends where you're coming from. w.r.t weather, I found winters in Toronto less depressing than Paris because Toronto at least had clear skies.
Major Factors Impacting the Evolution of APIs
It's considered PII in the United States as well. PII is a very easy standard to meet.
Should probably be Danger...
But I don't think people are forced into following right? There's still choice. But if I was developing something in Python, I would rather join than not join.
Forgive my naivety, but why aren't worker-owned cooperatives considered to be profitable enterprises?

Taking an example of a typical factory making widgets, profit is essential so that the organization running the place has a buffer in case of unexpected breakdowns or room for expansion.

This agreement appears to forbid worker-owned cooperatives, since profit is essential to the orderly operation of any factory.

Without profit, there is no emergency fund and there is no preventative maintenance.