skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true, but even if you quadrupled the costs to account for market rate salaries, you're still two orders of magnitude smaller than typical development costs.
Same, went through a wiki and onenote stage. Didn't last. It piles up, and becomes a chore.

Paper outlasts everything. Easy to organize spatially, sketch things, recompile notes, put many pages visible at once, decorate the walls... Unimportant papers end up on archive stacks with little effort.

Recently started using a synced folder with plain Word documents, though, alongside the paper. For writing the more elaborate drafts, and mobile note taking.
"The SOFTWARE PRODUCT is licensed, not sold."

It looks to be non-free software, with a $-free licence tier for personal use.
> I use Emacs agda-mode

I think Emacs is basically required to use Agda, right? To the point that the set of Agda users is a strict subset of the set of Emacs users.
While the posted article is of somewhat decent content quality, it none the less shows what is imho wrong in today's internet. This piece was written for the sole purpose of SEO and being shared to forums like this and it shows. It simulates depth, while staying on a purely beginner level. It regurgitates some facts and it feels like it had one in depth source (maybe a white paper) that was dumbed down and augmented by some additionally googled soundbites.

For example while it talks about employee engagement it never defines the exact meaning. While it quotes some Gallup stats on how said engagement rose for companies initiating some measures it fails to exactly describe the change (before and after state).

And so on. In the end it is nothing but advertising dressed up as content.

[Edit]
And, just realized, it was posted without stating the affiliation of the poster to the advertised company.
Mass terror didn’t kill 200000 people.

Also, if it bleeds, it leads. There’s no grand strategy here in the US, just media doing what they always do and government not making grand strategy.
But someone who regularly wears an N95 mask with a valve might be less likely to contract the virus (because N95), so discouraging use of N95 masks with valves could make the situation worse.
> The only explanation I see why politicians are so eager to overreact is because most of them are of certain age and because of that belong to the risk group.

I also think shutting everything down is a politically safer move than not doing so and having to face headlines about X number of deaths in their district/town due to [politician], even if most or nearly all of these deaths are very old people who may have died from the flu this year or next year anyways.
There’s no hard data to support this claim, only anecdotes from the beginning of the first wave.
Point is infected people can be asymptomatic and wearing masks will reduce the chances of them spreading it to others.
I think the 'security' issue is:

* The default camera app always takes a photo from the front or back camera

* Custom apps might return a photo from a usb camera, a remote camera, a file or a webpage. Exif data could be faked too.

* The 'security issue' is therefore that apps that ask the user to take a photo to prove something (for example, taking a photo of your passport to prove who you are, taking a photo of a QR code in a shop, etc) cannot have the assurance they want that the photo was just taken.

Discuss!
Show HN: A crowdsourced spreadsheet for products to calculate their durability
“Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.”

― Terry Pratchett, Mort
99% of medical symptoms are just mental illness. Any doc will say the same.
This is an artifact of history and where the companies that started Silicon Valley existed. California in the 50s, 60s, and 70s was a different place than it is today. It's remained a nexus in spite of the taxes and cost of living, not because of it. That doesn't mean you can raise taxes and cost of living arbitrarily high and the nexus will never shift. There is no force of nature keeping it in place, just habit and custom.

We're rapidly finding out this year that we don't even need to be in a particular place to continue working together, something that has only become true relatively recently.

It is dangerous to assume that things will remain the same as they always have been, regardless of other things that change.

There's obviously a breaking point at which people will leave. There's a thread here almost every day now about how everyone is moving out San Francisco.
By that reasoning, I'm using the "Public right of way" to make this comment. Therefore, I'm a defendant.

Listen, I get it. They want some compensation from Netflix, Hulu and Disney+ eating up all their local bandwidth. But that's where the money was.

They need to skate where the money is going, not where it was. The money was in broadcast TV and cable. And most of it is still there. But it's rapidly being sucked away by individual creators.

And at some point advertisers are going to wake up and realize the premium that broadcast and cable operators are charging per 1000 viewers is not really worth that much more than what YouTube pays Jake Paul.
Uhhhhhhh haven't tried but let me know? XD

Don't feel weird about asking that, not the first time I've read about it so I want to lean on yes????

Give it a try and email me your results! I'll Venmo you back if you're disappointed. Deal?

daniel.getman@miracle-nutrition.com
I was asking myself, how could we quantitatively measure how durable a brand or product is?

I guess that a good indicator would be a data point that shows how long someone has owned and used certain products, so imagine a brand or product has an average "years owned" metric.

And that's why I need your help!

Just add your favorite Buy For Life products and fill the "years owned", "condition" and "frequency of usage" fields. We later will be able to calculate how many years certain products are owned on average and how durable they are (of course in relation to the product category and frequency of usage).

Let's find out which products/brands truly deserve the description "Buy For Life" :)

PS:

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Even self-made cloth mask show an effect on reducing spread. More and more studies show this now - and you can try for yourself. Put flour in front of you in cough into it, once with a self made mask and once without. The spread will be much less. Surgical and N95 masks are better to protect yourself (and others) though. Still, even a small reduction in spread can have a huge effect on the pandemic if everyone adopts it.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/07/sci...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7321045/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7186508/

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.0c03252

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7191274/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7253999/
1% of 300 million is 3 million, I think that’s the fear on a large scale. So dissemination of information is important, but the 24/7 news cycle not so much. It started its current cadence well before the pandemic, somewhere around mid-2015. I think it’s here to stay. Here at least we have an excuse of keeping people informed for their physical health, even though the amount of new knowledge about the virus itself is vanishingly small.
It feels to me like being shown a similar shape (and specifically being set a shape-based task) would explicitly reinforce the perspective-interpreted shape, just like someone presenting you with the classic duck/rabbit image and saying the word ‘duck’ in your ear. Therefore I’m not completely sure this proves you would naturally hold on to that representation by default out in the real world.
Can you catch it from reading HN comments of people who have it? Seems a lot of people here have it. I'm getting out
If events A and B are close to each other in space time (light from one can have arrived at the other by then), then the ordering is fixed. If they are far from each other (light won't get from one to another by then), then time gets weirder.

The notion of what is simultaneous to what gets weird. If you and I are moving relative to each other, we're going to disagree on which distant events happen at the same time. If that happens, then whether something's happening now might change depending on reference frame. The ordering can be t(A) = t(B) or t(A) != t(B). Since no frame is privileged, we can also change the other way around, so t(A) != t(B) can be t(A) < t(B) or t(A) > t(B) depending on reference frame.

It's only flexible like that for things that could be simultaneous in some frame, which at least in special relativity means light from one can't have gotten to another yet. I never took general relativity, so who knows how it works in that setting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity#Tho...
Intel had eDRAM (Crystal Well) for a while as the cache for their integrated Iris graphics.
These two statements don't really go well together, do they?

> I am not a person who underestimates Covid-19 and take all the precautions that are required.

> So I wonder if a lot of the fear of Covid is based more on propaganda and social panic than on actual health risks.

You can inform yourself here about the differences to a normal flu: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/symptoms/flu-vs-covid19.htm

I don't like how people point out anecdotal evidence in this thread as if it meant something.
Hardware tied to some account is ridiculous. Good thing there are projects like OpenHMD and Monado, that aim to implement open runtime for VR and AR devices.

* http://www.openhmd.net/index.php/devices/

* https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/ligh...
What exactly is "fair"? There are lots of ways we could tax people, that some or other people would declare to be fair.

Sure, we could tax all sales at 20%, or 45%. That would be fair. Can you see any problems?

We could tax everyone a flat amount - $10k or something. That would be fair. Can you see any problems?

We could tax everyone a flat percentage - 15%, say. That would be fair. Can you see any problems?

We could tax everyone such that we all have the same income - $50k perhaps. That would be fair. Can you see any problems?

The idea that higher taxes "punish" the rich doesn't make sense to me. We have the money! Of course that's where taxes should come from. What, we're going to shake down the people making $12 /hour? They don't have any money.

Here is my thinking: we should decide, as a society, what is essential. Defense, roads, fire departments, schools, etc. And then we figure out the best tax system to pay for that. We should aim for that system to:

1) Gather as much money as we need to pay for the essentials.

2) Cost as little to administer as possible.

3) Discourage harmful societal behaviour and/or encourage beneficial societal behaviour (generally, the more you tax something, the less of that thing you get).

4) Impact people's lives as little as possible. This is where progressive taxation wins - if you tax a poor person, that's money they really, really need. They were going to spend that on essentials. If you tax a rich person, their quality of life isn't meaningfully impacted. If Jeff Bezos has to pay more taxes, that impacts his day-to-day life exactly not at all.

5) Be conceived from behind the 'veil of ignorance', as much as possible. (This is where the 'fairness' argument comes in)
I did the same for a popular tech company many years ago. If you attempted admin only actions you got a "402 Payment Required"
I'm reading it as he went to a place were nobody wore mask, thus increasing the spreading.

He's not saying that he took his mask off for a brief moment so he caught it, but that everybody put their masks away for the entire evening.
At Cloudflare’s SF office, the conference rooms are all numbered after HTTP status codes. Our Board Room is 404. The coffee shop (Cafe Lambretta) in our building, at the corner of 2nd & Townsend, is bookable in our calendar system as Room 418.
100% agree, this isn't the right thread for my random thoughts on web APIs!
You're falsely equating inflation with actual wealth tax when they work differently (wealth tax does not apply to every saver, or to every saver equally), and then just blame wealth tax for the faults of inflation that it does not share. Really.

Since you need it spelled out again: unlike inflation, actual wealth tax will not take $16 from your Joe because in case of actual wealth tax, $800 is three or four orders of magnitude below minimum taxable amount of savings.
> From the OP: "On the other hand, we often hear reports of people uncovering old things that others had confidently predicted would never be found. Which makes many suspect widespread overconfidence in claims about what we know can’t be there, because if so we would have seen them already."

What percentage of confident predictions about old things were eventually disproved (by uncovering old things)? Poor article with little data.
You can go to /r/covid19positive and read experiences of 100s of People. If all of their experiences Combined are still anecdotal to you, may be consider 170,000 people have died and 5 million people are infected in US alone.
Novikov explains it approximately this way.

Suppose you have a wormhole between points A and B. So from A to B - and from B to A - you can go by two different roads, one is pretty long (say, 1 light month), and another is very short (negligible distance).

Next, suppose B end swiftly rotates around point A, so fast that time in B goes slower than time in A. This means clock in B is going slower than in A, and over 20 years in A only 10 years will pass by clock in B. That can be confirmed by observation - telescopes in A will see slower clock in B, telescopes in B will see faster clock in A (it's B going around A, not vice versa).

That is, if we're talking about telescopes, looking through "regular" space. Since A and B are also connected by the wormhole, looking through wormhole will show us that clocks are synchronized. Over the wormhole, A and B are not moving, so clocks don't deviate from one another.

We can stop B flying around A now. Now suppose B clock has accumulated 10 years of difference from A clock - again, looking via "regular" space. We're leaving point A, flying to point B over the "regular" space and spending 5 years - way slower than speed of light, so our clock is practically synchronous to A clock. At the start of flight, A clock show 20 years, and B clock is 10 years, and by the end of flight A clock is 25 years and B clock is 15 years. After arriving at B, we jump into wormhole and get back to A, when A clock shows the same as B clock - that is, 15 years. According to A clock, we left at 20 years and came back at 15 years. Time travel.
I am not fully sure what this comment is intended to mean, but if it intends to imply that covid-19 is ‘just as bad as’ a bad flu, the excess death statistics in virtually every country of the world pretty categorically show that to be untrue.
For all of the GitHub supporting ICE condemnation, I'm surprised there isn't a license which forbids GitHub from using a piece of software.
Yeah, that's why I said this is what I'd want to know. It's hard to tell if that's how he got it otherwise.
I dunno, seems like a very quackable phrase to me. In fact soon it will probably lead right here!
Did that same flu spread uncontrollably even with countries completely shut down? No? Then why compare it to that and downplay it?

The amount of above-normal-deaths in countries that have taken all kinds of measures kinda proves its not an overreaction.
Not really. The US has more than 7,000 miles of land borders, not to mention sea crossings. Closing European borders to that extent is equally impractical.
A more detailed, colorful map
The 1972 Loch Ness Monster Flipper Photos
You're the one who brought up the forest metaphor, where plants compete for light.
MSR was doing work with digital mapping in the late 90s, but Google still beat them to market in 2005.
My 55" is much more reasonable.
> His case is also not typical for most people who get it.

I'm not sure you are right on that. The author reported a fever, coughing, fatigue, and difficulties concentrating. He didn't reported loss of consciousness nor strokes nor organ failure nor heart attacks. By the author's own words, he felt like his case didn't justified a trip to the hospital. That's pretty much the definition of a mild run-of-the-mill covid19 case.
This website has one of the longest and worst cookie setting panels I've ever seen. I had to flick off about 8 sliders and scroll down forever to disable them...
Yes you will still be travelling forward in time just that your relative time will be slower at speeds approaching the speed of light. So fundamentally you won't be going back in time but much forward in time than you observe. Checkout minute physics YouTube channel course of relativity https://youtu.be/1rLWVZVWfdY
Imitation is the highest form of flattery
I know that underwriters will use google maps (and other services) to check for things like fire risks (overflowing bins).

I also know that some try to automate aspects of this, for example using image libraries to detect large trees that are close to property, that would cause significant damage if they were to fall..
We should also consider that various people are affected in different ways. Some die, some recover but will have damaged organs for the rest of their lives, some recover being weak for sometime, some may recover fully with no long term side effects ( that we may know of right now?).

We need to stop thinking of death as the only statistic.

Edit:
Statistics are for policies. Our individual lives and the lives of those around us are our responsibility (e.g. don't impact others' lives due to our own recklessness and unwillingness to listen to reason).

Further, this repeated refusal of Americans of not listening to lessons learned from around the world (e.g. from those of us in South East Asia) will only count against American in the longer term.
I recently discovered unity builds, only applied to C, and I love the quick build times. 10,000 lines of code, included directly into main from other .c files, compiles in 1 second on my machine with -01 optimizations
Here are a couple of links from the CDC. You listen to too much news if you think that young people are at risk. For [0] you should do weekly deaths by age. You'll see that under 25 people are dying at the lowest rate in the past 5 years. For 26-45 you can bet your bottom dollar that the minor bump above is the 40-45 range.

[0] - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...
The Utah Teapot is the Hello World of 3D rendering, and a teapot model is included somewhere in almost every 3D rendering application.

I learned about it when I received a copy of BRL-CAD from the Army Research Lab in the mid-90s and it had a teapot, which I thought was quite odd for an application designed for ballistic research.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot
Two weeks is tolerable. And probably we got acquainted with it. Even in the worst of cases for the influenza virus. We know what it does, we know how to cure it...

Now compare that to almost 5 weeks of that (at least from personal experience) and no clue if it could get even worse. Are you actually in a risk group without knowing? Are you currently having vitamin deficiency or immunocompromised, maybe fighting another virus? Good luck with that. Not even talking about long term damage to your neural system. Fuck that.

Without better and deeper research on it I'll try to do my best to contain the situation as much as possible. Thinking otherwise means jeopardising friends and family health.
It's a bit misleading to say this "says more about our times and the media we're subjected to than the virus itself", although it is no Ebola for sure. To me, it seems to be somewhere (disturbingly) in the middle -- a low apparent CFR and yet it still seems to cause permanent lung damage a disturbing amount of the time. Perhaps it's too early to tell and we should be cautious and reserve our judgment?

Nevermind "should" -- we should definitely be cautious, observe and reserve our judgment. It's good to be skeptical. But, draw a line at careless speculation.
Are the cities charging the same taxes to ISPs carrying the actual data delivered by these services?

If so the court is probably going to frown on double dipping.
High-Performance Computing – Essential for Enterprises
Maybe you should talk to a doctor.
After having used Bear, Notable, and Atom + plugins, I’m realizing I don’t really want an app to manage my notes. I just want the notes, plus a tool to traverse them that’s got a bit more beef to it than Finder.app.

I’d like to use a more powerful app like the one promoted here, but I feel desperately uncomfortable tying my notes [in] to a piece of proprietary software. I feel like that was a mistake I made already, and don’t want to repeat.

It’s almost like Obsidian et al are highly featureful filesystem browsers, but where the only files one can have are markdown files.

What about if I want to style a real PDF in Asciidoc? It’s really common for a note to evolve into a document. An idea becomes a lesson plan for a class, which morphs into a handout with tables, admonitions etc.

What about if I want to represent some idea with a quick spreadsheet? Or a sketchup? It would be fantastic if those were somehow all represented as first class documents in the filesystem, as markdown is inside the current wave of proprietary markdown editors.
Research on Tasmanian devil offers new insights into tackling human cancer
I had an issue a little while ago where I was trying to get iOS's Shortcuts app to post to WordPress. I noticed that doing this seemed to crash every one of my websites within seconds. It was like flicking a switch: I’d run the Shortcuts workflow and seconds later, all of my sites appeared to be offline. This lasted for precisely one hour, after which everything came back online.

Didn't take long to figure out that the sites had actually been online the whole time for everyone else; they were only inaccessible from my local network. At that point, I contacted my host, and they explained that the WordPress component of the Shortcuts app was, for some reason, bombarding the server with a whole lot of requests for files that didn’t exist. The server thought it was under attack and blocked my whole network. Then it got interesting: the guy said that the server was throwing 418s.

I thought he might be mistaken at first. I actually recognized 418, since I've known about the teapot thing for a little while. I asked the guy if it was really the case that the server was blocking my network because it thought my phone was making too many demands for coffee it wasn't capable of producing, and he said that, well, other than the coffee bit, DreamHost really does use 418 for that situation: https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215947927-How-d...

That is the only time I've encountered 418 in the wild. That decision seems to be pretty consistent with DreamHost's sense of humor.

(They did, as usual, manage to fix my problem.)
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Anybody got a non-paywalled link?
Here's something to chew on:

https://differentdive.com/covid-19-and-diving/

And here's a quote from the link you may consider before making snide comments:

"While covid-19 can almost be asymptomatic it can also lead to serious damage to the lungs and heart. Two organs that must be in perfect working condition for our diving activity. We will have to be very careful before resuming the activity."

Have a nice day.
Off topic, but first time I've seen "quackable". Hahaha, I like it! I've tried "duck it" earlier, but it just sounds like I'm stuck with auto correct on.