skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here in the UK unemployment was rock bottom before the Pandemic, we only had a couple of hundred thousand people who had been unemployed for more than a year.

As for globalisation, the US became the dominant global economy how exactly? Protectionism, aside from being an autocratic intrusion into the freedoms of citizens, just doesn't work.

Take the US steel industry, a main target of Trump protectionism. Yes blast furnace employment is marginally up, but steel mill employment has been hammered because it largely depends on working imported steel. The domestic furnaces can't expand fast enough to meet supply, and don't produce some of the steels needed by manufacturing anyway. As a result manufacturers consuming steel are facing inflated prices and reduced competitiveness. It's unintended consequences all over the place.
Well of course not, but building colonies inside the solar system is much more forgiving. In fact much of the potential benefit lies precisely in trade between Earth and the colonies.
They don't. All subscriptions drop to 15% after the first year so Apple is just counting the existing time where they were figuring out the process. That still applies to everyone, not just Amazon.
Openwifi: an open-source Wi-Fi baseband chip/FPGA design
Yes, it's been amazing to me how nearly everyone with continuing interest in HCQ has emphasized Zinc as an important factor, while so many studies have ignored it: neither supplementing it nor even checking enrolled patients for zinc deficiencies (which may be especially prevalent in the aged or those with known Covid comorbidities).

So I'll see, for example, some otherwise-highly-credible UCSF researchers mention a bunch of evidence they think puts the potential of HCQ to help to rest, without any mention of Zinc considerations (even in passing, or to ridicule, or to share why they don't think the link credible). But even coincident upon the very 1st discussions of HCQ as having potential, Derek Lowe shared an anecdote about how carrying-Zinc seemed essential to Chloroquine-related-compoounds' bioactivity (https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/03/20/ch...).

And, in many parts of the world, HCQ – as a cheap drug that, in moderate doses with proper monitoring, is very low-risk – is already considered part of the Covid-19 "standard-of-care". So, it's given even to the 'control' arms of trials for other compounds – making both its effects, and those other compounds' effects, harder to disentangle.

All I want now is true randomized trials - and can't at least one of those monitor, or vary the supplementation of, Zinc as well?
Analytics can be done less granularly and still benefit the user. Also, surely not every data point collected is used to benefit the user.

For example, Amazon doesn't need to know where I am when I request a definition or translation. If they're concerned about usage, they only need to know how many times I actually used one or both of those features per day, per week, or month. They don't need to know instantly every single time a word is highlighted.
Link to your bug reports?
Thankfully, the UK went ahead and carried out a large-scale randomized controlled trial in the middle of the pandemic anyway despite the difficulty - otherwise we'd all be completely in the dark. Unfortunately, we seem to be pretty much the only country which did, which means that the evidence available is limited to the treatment and dosage combinations that happened to be included in that trial.
>the material standard of living has decreased for most people in the working class in the developed world

Who told you that? Both inflation adjusted median personal and household income have increased by double digit percentages over the past 50 years. In the case of household incomes that still happened even with the shrinking average household size (i.e. number of people in a household).

[1]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N#0

[2]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N/
Oh, don't be patronising. We'll see how the case pans out. I think Apple is in enough danger that aggravating the situation is a bad idea.

https://twitter.com/EskilSteenberg/status/129752027579013939...
Engineers or quants? For the latter it is a common case in most trading shops.
I think it is important that we all take a second to realize that surveillance can be a reasonable apparatus of a well maintained democracy. We should strive to have proper checks and balances on those powers rather than pretend they are not useful or do not exist. With proper checks surveillance can greatly improve national security but it should be kept to that domain and we should seek to prevent abuses.

I think us in the EU are due for a Snowden moment at some point here - the public is pretty in the dark on the level of surveillance pervading EU countries. I think it would be better if it was more transparent because we could actually have these discussions and work to prevent abuses.
Both can be true. It can be wetter on average, but drier during fire season
Openwifi: Linux mac80211 compatible full-stack 802.11/Wi-Fi design based on SDR
Original article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-particle-collision-math-m...
By 'generational', you mean "spanning multiple generations"?
> Still no text-reflow.

It has a "reader view" with adjustable font size, like the desktop version. Not exactly a text reflow, but helps with some websites a lot.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-articles-reader-vi...

(in the new version, it appears to have an icon in URL bar instead of menu entry, the article probably needs to be updated)

https://i.vgy.me/WEcQKd.jpg
Facebook and Instagram launch live shopping
Back in the late 90s-early 2000s, Microsoft baked Internet Explorer into the Windows shell. It was badically powering the desktop. Ypu could even set ypur desktop background to an HTML page on Windows at one time. But basically, the browser has been given an enormous amount of responsibility that has not changed much since those experiments. We now have things like Chromebooks that are little more than an OS with just a browser attached.
> I know there are many legitimate reasons for an app to obfuscate its code or to check if the device is rooted or running through a MITM proxy (such as banking apps for example)

There's an argument to be made that even those aren't legitimate, since you can do online banking from a desktop computer where you have root. I'd be in favor of app stores banning root checks from apps that don't need root.
R/Z is also a group where 2+2=5 is technically correct, and this abelian group is actually useful. For example, if you consider the quotient topology on R/Z, you find that it is homeomorphic to a circle.
Have you considered that maybe your observations are nowhere near complete enough to make a determination?
Useful insights!
> So, maybe hcq has no effect on outcomes on mild cases. This does not mean it couldn't have an effect on severe/hospitalized patients.

Sure, but that's the exact opposite of the earlier narrative when the trials in Brazil were called off.

(paraphrasing) "Sure, it doesn't help people who are critically ill, but you should use it as a prophylactic to prevent milder cases from becoming more severe".

So... it doesn't work in patients with a mild, moderate or severe case; (per the earlier advice) it must be prescribed after infection but before symptoms develop; and it must be prescribed in doses that are known to cause heart problems in a significant portion of the population (so significant, in fact, that patients prescribed much lower doses of HCQ are normally required to be regularly monitored for the onset of said problems).

At what point do you admit that any positive effect of HCQ is just cherry-picking/p-value-hacking?
A tableau:

Politician A does something outrageous for political gain. A's opponents in party B decry this outrageous action as being outrageous and done for political gain. Decrying things A does is to B's political advantage! Conclusions: everyone is politicizing this issue.

Maybe we need a better metric for evaluating political action than whether the actors see some political benefit.
Is it?

"I haven't ever gotten professional training, but I think my driving ability is above average because I analyze what I do."
No, they didn't. The court ruled in a way to minimize the calculation of damages. Apple may still be able to continue doing what they intended and revoke that partnership but the judge just ruled that they need to keep operating as they have until this is settled so that they don't have to factor in the potential liabilities of both points.
I have my parents' wedding china. I did use it last December when I had a particularly big crowd over but mostly it sits in a cabinet. I use mostly stoneware on a day to day basis.
It's similar to making a taller building. You end up supporting more weight as the structure grows in height. Diameter in this case being similar to height.
Hi ddon.
This is not normal. You may be experiencing a unique combination of factors that results in a bug.
Could you load `about:crashes` and send me an ID or several of an your crashes? I would expect there to be a high number of similar crashes.

It's possible that we already have a bug reported against this particular crash and we need someone who can reproduce it to help us find a way to fix it! I'll look to find such bug and contact you with the people who may be able to fix it.
My email is my hackernews handle `@` `mozilla.com`.

Thank you!
Sci-fi author John Varley covered this in one of his novels.

In a society where anything digital can be manipulated, the veracity of a speech or event depends on a network of trust and people who witnessed the event in real life. If someone made a speech in front of hundreds of live, physically present spectators, these spectators can then verify the authenticity of any recording, and as long as there people in that group that you trust (directly, through your trusted network, or perhaps as journalists of good standing) you can trust that the recorded speech is what was said.

Conversely, a recording of a world leader saying they recommend Coca-Cola to prevent tooth decay wouldn't have any credibility at all if no one credible was actually there to witness it.
This is treason, plain and simple.

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort

Foreign spy agencies, even of friendly countries, are our enemies due to their continual mission of attacking us with surveillance. But rather than working to defend the people against these attacks, NSA has chosen to conspire with the attackers!
In South India, Amazon Builds Its Largest Office Yet
This was posted a few days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24241485
What evidence? I thought that was standard orthodoxy, not just on HN. No one doubts that people can and have beat basic index funds; I just thought that was a poor predictor of what would beat the market again going forward (perhaps after accounting for fees?).

I used to work in sell side equity research before leaving to do software development, because at least from my vantage point, no one was that great at predicting the market.
In case you're wondering why - it's because every version of Windows since Vista comes with .NET Framework, and .NET Framework has this API:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.codedom

If you look at the functionality provided there, it includes ability to compile generated code. This is implemented using those command-line compilers.
Pocket's Article View is optional. Firefox has Reader View built in. Special handling for top sites could be built in. Special handling for any site could use a protocol designed for privacy like malware protection does.

People who want suggestions could opt in.
One consequence is the accidental deletion of AWS things...

If a CRD is deleted the CRs described it are also deleted. So, deleting a CRD (even accidentally) could end up deleting resources in AWS (e.g., backups). So, be careful.

Some things being managed by Kubernetes would be really cool. Other things being managed by k8s could break things if something goes wrong. I would plan accordingly.
Estimating and modeling memory requirements for data processing
TBH I'm just taking this and various article'a word that they exist.
when I was at intel (a decade ago) they told us that they are very comfortable because they have 6 years of headstart in manufacturing

I guess the complacency mindset was already at work...
I see that in the face of overwhelming evidence the narrative is changing from "climate change does not exist" to "climate change is not that bad", so that the conclusion remains that "we don't need to do anything about it".

About that "belief" about hurricanes, here's one piece of data : https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:North_Atlantic_Hurri...
How an Algorithm Draws Unexpected Connections Between Works of Art
Is there a use-case where this functionality is useful and non-malicious?

It seems that the protection against this attack is being able to recognize that the file that's attached isn't the one that's intended but I think it's a mistake for the local filename and any fs metadata to be preserved when sharing by default. Sharing a file should mean sharing only the content of the that file.
The RECOVERY study on hydroxychloroquine was a randomised clinical trial from the UK with a large number of participants and concluded hydroxychloroquine had no clinical benefit:

> "A total of 1542 patients were randomised to hydroxychloroquine and compared with 3132 patients randomised to usual care alone. There was no significant difference in the primary endpoint of 28-day mortality (25.7% hydroxychloroquine vs. 23.5% usual care; hazard ratio 1.11 [95% confidence interval 0.98-1.26]; p=0.10). There was also no evidence of beneficial effects on hospital stay duration or other outcomes."

The press release from June: No clinical benefit from use of hydroxychloroquine in hospitalised patients with COVID-19

https://www.recoverytrial.net/news/statement-from-the-chief-...
Edge pdf viewer is a good piece or software. ducks and takes cover
The best way to use Kindle devices is in airplane mode with Calibre. There's an incredible KFX8 plugin that turns any old non-DRM epub/mobi into the special format that Kindles use to render the text.

Basically any book can be gotten from libgen. I usually buy books from living authors, then let those live in the cloud as a backup. I get the pirated version for personal use. If the author isn't living anymore then I don't buy it at all.
As of sometime in 2020, the old CORS spec (https://www.w3.org/TR/cors/) now redirects to the WhatWG Fetch Spec (https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/) which I think is unfortunate because the old CORS spec (https://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-cors-20140116/) contains more exposition and also defines “simple method” and “simple headers” which everyone still uses but aren’t even mentioned in the Fetch spec.
I am perfectly fine with rendering CAPTCHAs absolutely useless for bot prevention if it expedites websites finally getting rid of the absolute pox that is reCAPTCHA.
I'm not at Jane Street, but at G-Research (also quant finance). Much as a joke goes which I first heard in the Effective Altruism sphere, our quants come from all kinds of backgrounds: their PhDs are in fluid mechanics, statistical physics, pure maths, you name it!
Following your line of arguments, should China find pictures of Microsoft employees in front of the American flag, argue that they stand for the genocide of native Americans, drone strikes of hospitals and expansions of the PRISM program, then nationalize Microsoft assets in China?
> They cancelled Epic's developer account which is exactly the remediation listed in the agreement for the account.

No, Epic is two different companies with two different accounts. Apple canceled both the account for Fortnite and the account for Unreal.
>It comes off as as quite tone-deaf when tech people complain about their $150k salaries. There are way too many entitled people in tech who have never worked a shit minimum wage job in their lives.

Seems quite tone-deaf to compare yourself to the worst off. It's easy to pat yourself on the back for not having to sleep in the dirt but that's not a very high bar, is it? Some people want to have purpose and to keep growing and becoming better and more successful -- it's not tone-deaf to want that. And you don't have to absorb the misery of everything that's happening around you or you won't have time to do anything else.
It can't even copy paste normal text properly (the bug has been there for 8 years now: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=810636). Line breaks are ignored and words are just smushed together instead. Ever since I switched to FF it has been my biggest annoyance, on Chrome this stuff just works.

The best alternative on windows is PDF-XChange, fairly obscure but extremely feature-rich.
Wasn't there a article about "read the paper and then comment" in the too of hackernews yesterday or so?

It's sad that many didn't learn anything from this and are now discussing how bad such a study is on basis of assumption which ate easily disproven if you read the article :(

(It's a study about human behavior, about how certain distance rules might work and how not, it's also testing the potential thread of smearing based infections by using desinfec which glows under UV light and by simulating the airflow in the hall and similar. All pacipiants are tested to not be infected, all are required to wear FFP2 masks properly all the time, no food is given out, drinking is only allowed in the emergency, hands are desinfected on entry and potentially later one, too...., So no this should not lead to any relevant increased risk of spread. But might lead to potential reopening of concert halls and similar if it's found to be feasible under some conditions).
> If I were to do this, my paragraphs would become at least 3 times as long. Because much of my writing

I find this jarring to read. That should be a comma, not a period. By using a period, you've technically made your sentence shorter, but the structure is unchanged. Alternatively you could just chop the Because, and it would flow fine. I really doubt your writing is thrice the density of mine. I very rarely encounter writing that approaches sentences this way, authors are able to get by fine without it.

I find it similarly jarring to read the sentences beginning with and, or but. It's as if you've told me the sentence is finished, only to then reopen it. It's like a programming language permitting a && b; && c;

There may be situations where it's ok to do this, but I wouldn't overuse it.
Chucklefish Taps Rust to Bring Safe Concurrency to Video Games (2018) [pdf]
we're not too protected either. What percentage of the US's food gets grown in CA? https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/27/california-farms-prod....

The solution to California's droughts isn't just dams. You can't build a dam large enough to hold enough water for going multiple years without rainfall and the aquifers, which bank water in the ground were deeply depleted in the last drought.
> received a verbal offer after my on-site which they then proceeded to rescind while we were discussing pay ranges

I would think that compensation would be a required element of an employment offer. (I wouldn't say that I'd received a job offer if it didn't also include compensation information. If I didn't agree to the proposed figures and decided to negotiate, then I'd received a job offer that I declined.)
GCD(0,0) exists in any commutative ring by definition (and is not unique) :)

d is a common divisor of a,b if there exists x,y such that dx = ay, and d is a GCD of a,b if all divisors c divide d. So there exist many such x where GCD(0,0) = x (including x = 0).
> container tabs, which are now relegated to being an extension

Now? Haven't they always been?

> simply are not cutting it for me.

Do you mind explaining why? I had some problems with them initially (when they first went into production FF), but some small tweaks since then and they've mostly worked exactly as I would want.

The only complaints I have are Google, which I try to relegate to a container, making it really hard to open stuff in different containers because of how they send links in Gmail through a redirect to protect referrer info and making it hard to have separate Google accounts in different tabs (which i could probably resolve mos the issues by not assigning Google to a container by default so some of the switching is more smooth, but ick), and LastPass, which I only really need for work (as I use FF sync for my passwords).

LastPass doesn't seem to be able to deal with containers and work SSO which auto redirects to a container, so I can't even sign in with LastPass without tweaking container domain assignments, and toggling that stuff every time I want to log in is ridiculous.

Other than those, everything works pretty smoothly, IMO. I have 18 containers, of which 6-7 see consistent heavy use, and the most rest are for occasional things and are used once every few days.
Amazon is delivering nearly two-thirds of its own packages
This is great advice. I usually go a step further: the offer isn't a done deal until it's signed by both parties and any background checks have passed. Until then, you're still interviewing and considering other offers.

It also puts pressure on the company because it means you might still disappear on them, so they better take care of their paperwork.
This is the opposite end of my $25 Mi Band, but it is an interesting device with a smorgasbord of sensors packed into it. I hope it'll have decent battery life.
I'm seing more Firefox than before in my stats, not less. Not a lot more, but a few %.

"Not dead yet"
When you play an online slot game where you bet money that some numbers will appear on screen, and they use analytics to "improve user experience" (read: engagement, read: you losing more money), is that benefiting you or is it benefiting them?
Honestly quant finance has a lot of really interesting problems in. That XKCD about "why would I want to be paid lots to work on fascinating problems with the brightest people in the world" is… actually kind of true.
You can abstract using TF capabilities, they just aren't hidden like HyScale. HCL is widely used, people already use the TF tool, so you end up not having to add more deps and yet another DSL to learn.
A lot of the advantages of deducting mortgage interest and state property taxes are no longer the benefit they once were:

* historically low interest rates in the last ten years means the actual amount of interest you're paying each month vs principle is not that high.

* Tax Cuts and Jobs Act reduced the amount of property tax deductions that were typically available in HCOL blue states like NY and California.

* Standard deduction increase (also part of Tax Cuts and Jobs Act) was increased so high that many would be now be better off not even bothering to itemize deductions, even if they had a mortgage.

When I was thinking of buying in about 2017, I did the math, and due to the low interest rates and the lack of any other deductions, neither mortgage interest nor state property taxes would have been high enough to offset the standard deduction. In effect, not a single tax advantage would be available to me with buying a house vs just continuing to rent.
Why would you pay it off early? Can't you find a better return elsewhere? Even if you think the S&P 500 is currently overvalued, the dividend yield is 1.8%.

It makes sense to buy if you plan to stay in an area long term. But, I would be wary buying if you expect to move geographically or outgrow a home within a 5-10 year horizon. If you stay local, your next home will likely rise and fall with your current home.
It sure would be nice if the memory leaks would be fixed. On some of the long-running machines I use, I have to use chrome because Firefox would eventually fill up the RAM.