skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we’ve never done a lockdown before. We sort of knew there would be harms based on decades of research we’ve done on substance abuse, domestic violence, cancer, heart disease, etc. But there we go, running the worlds largest experiment on social distancing to try and find out which measures work or not. Except we didn’t even get good controls for it. Germany is doing that now apparently.

edit: how many papers are out there trying to quantify all of these measures? There's dozens of published papers and hundreds of pre-prints. How can we view this as anything but an experiment!?
I was dumbing it down to prove that consensus is possible, the same can be achieved on your scenario though the consensus could well be less unanimous, I don't know enough about this area to have an opinion, though I suspect that people would prefer the former to the latter.
if you type a letter, it fills the rest of the line with what it thinks you want to type next
In (high energy) physics the digits in the parenthensis states the error bar.
SourMint Malicious SDK
I'm sure it has, but a look at the current white house suggests it still has significant ways to go before reaching influential levels
Jumping Jack, one of my first Speccy games.
In Nvidia’s case, they have an open-source shim layer in between the kernel and the closed-source bulk of the driver. In theory, the shim layer is a derived work of the kernel, but the closed-source part is not. I’d say that’s a bit of a dubious argument, but who knows? It’s never gone to court. Search for “GPL condom”.

As for ESX, that has gone to court:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-developer-abandons-vmwar...
> We consider it perfectly acceptable

I doubt people on an ethics board for medical studies would find that perfectly acceptable.
How is viewing Chernobyl from that angle useful in this context?

The Houston Ship Channel has the potential to become an environmental disaster similar to Chernobyl, but affecting the fourth-largest population and economic center in the US.

It's not hyperbole -- if you drive down 225 and 146 from Houston to Galveston, it feels like you're in the Sonic the Hedgehog Chemical Plant Zone... it just goes on and on at an unbelievable scale. It self-perpetuates partially because expanding existing petrochemical complexes seems to meet less opposition than building new ones.

https://www.google.com/search?q=houston+ship+channel+plants&...

https://www.google.com/maps/@29.7348066,-95.1345542,13223m/d...
How to write rich text English:

1) The writer should make a conscious effort to keep his or her sentences as long as possible; just one word: the flow; some shorter sentences can be juxtaposed, periods replaced with comas or semicolons; the abundance of adjectives and adjective phrases never hurt --

2) The passive voice has to be chosen whenever possible; safer, less offensive, less responsible language is the enabler

3) Possessive determiners are to be preferred over personal pronouns, the passive voice is based on their liberal use

4) Thesaurus is considered by some to be essential for richer and more subtle communication, word substitutions refine the ideas being conveyed to the reader --

-- the reader should be never explicitly solicited to do anything -- he or she should be free-willed into doing

6) Consideration of these dos and donts will likely unleash also the power of nominalization; nominalized verbs put action first

*) Bullet lists are the standard punctuation;

/s
I think you're still advised not to eat boar meat in Austria because of the radiations. This is an article from 2011 [1] documenting the fact, and this is a study from 2019 [2] which found that:

> The caesium levels of 8 wild boar and 11 roe deer samples exceeded the limit out of the 490 specimens

Now, 19 out of 490 specimens exceeding the Cs-137 concentration level limits is too high a percentage for me, but maybe other people are willing to take more risks in this area compared to me.

[1] https://www.medindia.net/news/wild-boar-meat-in-austrian-sup...

[2] https://www.ages.at/en/topics/radiation-protection/caesium-1...
Z-Polls, good for newbies, uses Django and Bulma CSS
A poll app made in Django and Bulma,
good for begginners and intermediates.
Needs contribs to add features
He founded the company and has been CEO for 27 years, so that he could extract short-term gains?
I second zulip, it offers most of the features you want, is truly self hosted so your data stays home (very important for me in my business) and the self hosted version is not missing half the features (eg full search).

Only thing missing is a more modern UI (I like the UI as is but in non tech companies it's hard for many users to use it compared to the cutesy competitors).

The stream / topic system works great once you get into it, but make sure to use it rather than fight against it.
DevOps roadmap – how accurate is it?
Is this DevOps roadmap an accurate representation of the skills required to get into the field?
Automate the build and deployment process on AWS
Apple can ban just Fortnite (and any other infringing app) a la carte, without banning the entire account, so they wouldn't need to ban or allow both in the first place.
We self host Mattermost and it works well. Logs are in Postgres which is nice. Building the React Native app was not super fun but we have some experience in that already which helped.

It's a good alternative for teams unwilling to shell out every month for a Slack subscription, if you're willing to put in the work to get it setup.
for people who claim this most of the time another goal is having "programmable components". also there can always be ergonomic/stylistic improvements like pug
Apple One Tap Account Upgrades from WWDC 2020
Learn about Apple's new One Tap Account Upgrades presented at WWDC 2020
And how's it on production?
I remember, we considered it, and rejected because the framework visibly far from release. Maybe, we were wrong.
I'm all in for the small web. I have my own personal site for my content[0].
But the writer misses the huge point for the "big web": network.
It is hard or even impossible to get traction for the small web. But posting on facebook? huge traction.

But it goes for anything really. Writing a technical blog? post on Medium or on dev.to or whatever is hyped right now to get traction.

This is the real problem here.

[0] https://snir.dev
Flutter vs. React Native, writing an app with each one: Part 1
I see HN in the same way. It happens so often that HN discussion is much better that article itself that I go there first, and RTFA only if the discussion makes me want to read it.

For this article, I tried to read it after reading a few comments, but got bored.
It's so the load is evenly distributed across AZs because I bet most people just select -az-1.
Wireless device makes clean fuel from sunlight, carbon dioxide and water
please post some references to these claims
The problem here is that the majority of discussion around this conflates the iPhone with the App Store. The App Store is a platform, it's fine if Apple wants to charge for curation, distribution, etc.

The iPhone is a hardware device, not a platform, and it's not fine if Apple wants to be the sole guardian of it. Even the court response here conflated the two. Epic doesn't want to be on the App Store for free (that wouldn't be fair), but it does want to be allowed to install its software on iPhones for free (that is fair).
Look the problem is, you CAN make Linux as proprietary as you want if you DON'T redistribute it, like google, so google cannibalizes Linux too.

It's just a different vision, if you want real freedom and want to work with a community go with BSD/MIT.

>ended up the same way BSD systems have: a largely academic project routinely cannibalized by behemoth closed-source companies.

That's BS, just look at how Netflix and Dell EMC work with FreeBSD. And for example Juniper, they learned a lesson not working with the community and fell far behind because of that.

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/relnotes.html
That's the point. There's a friend episode where Rachel and Ross go out for dinner with her Dad. He pays the bill ($200 or so - fancy resturant) and goes to the bathroom. Ross comments he'd 'only' tipped 4%, and leaves some cash.

Great putdown when the father comes back, sees the tip, rips up the credit card receipt and tells Ross to pay the whole bill if he wants to be the 'big man'
Reminds me of this software that, like all softwares, had a miles long Terms of Use. Buried in the middle the developer said something to the effect of "Contact us at this address and receive USD XX,000".

Most users clicked the "I have read and agree to the Terms and Conditions" and only a handful actually contacted the developer. They did receive the money though.
>Molecularly engineered photocatalyst sheet for scalable solar formate production from carbon dioxide and water

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-020-0678-6
Whilst I sympathize with why this person is ranting, I find it kind of funny. People act the way they do on social media due to a mix of the design of social media, and human nature. It's not complete chance that twitter has an entire underclass of people who just yell vitriol at the blue checkmark brigade. It's not chance that reddit divides itself into lots of echo-chambers that are essentially repeating the same handful of opinions in various different colours (in reddit's defence this can be avoided using extremely hands-on moderation).

Fundamentally, there aren't too many people who can meaningfully comment on most papers. The alternative to commenting before reading the paper is almost certainly reading the paper and then not commenting because you don't really have much to add. So let's assume some people do start reading the articles? Well, they're just going to say less. There's a thousand ways to have an easy and wrong take on a paper. If you want good reasoned discussion about papers you're better off looking elsewhere - for example, The Weeds podcast from Vox, where they actually take a white paper, read it, think about it and discuss its implications. You can disagree with them and talk about how effective they are at engaging with the topic (or as is often the case you can get irrationally angry because you don't like their politics), but fundamentally it's a much better venue for having that sort of nuanced and informed discussion than 140 characters at a time mixed in with the sewer that is twitter.
That doesn’t work. I find it better to stay anonymous and avoid spam from these services.

The perpetual spam is worse for me than the $5.
Ask HN: Reduce work to ~20 hours/week?
I would like to drastically reduce my amount of work hours per week.

My dream is to come down to about 15-25 working hours per week.

I don’t mean to work part-time for all of my career. But I would like to have such an arrangement for the coming 5-10 years.

Has anyone tried this? If so, how did you manage to achieve your goal?

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Why work part-time?

Since this is an important topic for me I thought I’d provide some background for my reasoning.

For me there are two major reasons. First of all I want to have more time for my family. My wife and I have three kids. I feel that work takes away too much time and energy for me, time and energy that would be better spent with my kids during these formative years. We do have daycare. It’s pretty crowded though, so I don’t want my kids to spend too long days there.

I also have a long commute. Since the housing market is what it is, we have settled in a small town with a ~60 km commute to the nearest big city (about 40 miles). So if work requires me to be in the office every day then I need to spend 12-13 hours commuting each week. That is also time that I can’t spend with my kids.

Sometimes I feel that all this would be easier if only one of us was working. But I can’t demand this from my wife. She likes to work and she doesn’t want to throw her career away. Rightfully so. In theory, I could put my own career on hold and then I could be the one that stays at home with the kids full-time. I believe we could afford it if we wanted to. I’m certain though that it wouldn’t work out so well in practice. I’m just not good enough at that kind of stuff to do it full-time.

Having some kind of job is probably a “must” for me. But it’s also crucial for me to have time and energy left for my family. If anyone has tackled a similar situation I would really like to hear your thoughts on how to handle it in a good way.

I work in tech/IT but not as a dev.
Hoes does this give them feedback? It looks like Yelp for US Government.

In some ways, I worry about online mechanisms to rant about politicians because it can make people feel like they have done something about it, when they really have not.

The #1 way to give feedback, especially right now, is to vote.
So far RISC-V market is still wishful thinking, beyond a couple of maker boards.

First get C, C++, Go, Rust, Java, Erlang, .NET,.... generating competitive native code, port all their main libraries and IDE tooling, and then it might stand a chance.
The funny thing about theirs website is cookie notice. Either they didn't read GDPR (which is unlikely), because you don't have to ask consent for "We use cookies to avoid showing you duplicate content, ..." or they're trying to get sneaky.

You have to obtain consent if your pass data to third parties but again, what is the point of advertising privacy on the page then.

You wouldn't see the cookie's consent on the apple website.
Chernobyl is a lesson not because what it was, but what it could have been. Only miracle (Legasov ans Sherbina being honest and persistent people) saved the damn thing from polluting whole Europe. Train wreck is a train wreck, it is limited in terms of destruction it can produce.
Dataiku Raises $100M In Series D Funding
I see no proof that 'active' is better than 'passive'. Does anyone have any more information on this?
It is also possible that certain styles of writing and clothing are felt by some to be more beautiful. It is not necessary to reduce every stylistic predilection to status or identity signalling.
>"GPL condom”

Ahh its ok for the driver but not for net-code?

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/04/gpl_condom_nvidia_lin...

See that's exactly the Linux Problem...

By the way...Linus is not ok with a ZFS GPL shimlayer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22005901
Free fantasy books well worth reading
Do people really create zpools within a VM for more than playing around?
The best practice is to point a VM at a zvol the way you might use LVM on bare metal to back storage for VMs.
It is more of a fantasy thing, nothing loosing sleep over, besides some early C and C++ support via GCC, there are almost no mature toolchains to chose from.

And there are only some Linux special variants for it.
For me it’s not the c-suite, it’s the admins who make purchases. Or the hassle of maintaining a corporate card.

The headaches to spend $5 cost way more than $5.
Interview with John Hsu about iPillDispenser and opioid abuse
My point wasn't about the level of validity. My point about making inane comments. OP claimed we don't know things which we DO know simply because OP hasn't bothered to look.

Your numbers, 99.9997% to 99.9998%, roughly ask whether we can distinguish the second-best student in America from the fourth-best with an SAT.

I'm not quite sure anyone is either using the SAT for that, or claiming it's a helpful tool for that. Indeed, at that level, it's not even clear what ranking even means. If you believe people are using the SAT this way, please point me in their direction.

Again, inane comments aren't helpful for advancing the discussion. We have specific facts and numbers to work from. Trump popularized the art of making up facts on the fly, but it's not one I recommend adopting more broadly.
From what I have heard, the amount of work needed in porting native encryption to the original FreeBSD port of ZFS was actually what led to this project.
> So if i compile something with gcc it is a derived work from gcc

Yes. This is why the "libgcc exception" (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gcc-exception-3.1.en.html) exists. The issue is that parts of runtime libraries which come with gcc are statically linked into the compiled executable; without that exception, the result would have to be under the GPL.

The same issue happens with Linux kernel modules. Many functions they need are only defined as macros or inline functions in the headers (since ZFS is a filesystem, just take a look at how many inline functions there are in include/linux/fs.h). And even outside of these, many functions are so closely coupled to the internal data structures of the kernel (and the data structures themselves are also exposed to modules) that any module using them could be considered a derived work of the kernel.
Thank you, my native language lacks articles.
Show HN: Open-source library to push training charts of ML/DL models to Slack
>You're thinking about this from a pirate's point of view

I'm thinking about it from a cost / enforcement point of view.

PGP survived outright, explicit ban by the most powerful government with some of the most powerful cryptanalysis agencies in the world at the time not because "a company hid people's IPs". Your argument is: some users will be attacked for using applications for which lawyers have cheap attack costs/enforcement. It does not follow that, some agents being unable to survive their strategy results in an alternative strategy dominating.

Let's be real: legal systems that have the power to demand IP records subpoenas also have the power to demand logging, so you're argument that white-market companies can somehow provide anonymity, or shielding from culpability, to users doesn't hold water. One might interpret the outcome of the PGP battle happened because of some advanced concept like free-speech rights but the unavoidable reality is, attackers have limited resources and if the benefit is less than the attack costs, the attack won't survive.
> While the Fortnite app was in violation of terms, it wasn’t the app itself which violated the terms—it was the corporation.

Definitely not. If you have multiple apps in the App Store, and one is removed for violating the terms, the rest should not be removed, since the others didn’t violate those terms.
I'm not a music fan but if I were I absolutely will go. The risk are minimal. The virus spread easily but not that dangerous. In fact I've been living my life as normal as I could possibly do all these times.
Facebook blocks access to group criticising Thailand's monarchy
Steam isn't manufacturing computers. This is about Apple the computer manufacturer. It's unfair for them to lock their computers/phones down so people can't install software without Apple's permission.

The App Store is more or less a red herring here (relevant only to the 30% fee being too much).
> view / subscribe / communicate

You can still comment and subscribe on a blog, can't you? RSS is dead is only a figure of speech.

You can still have a blogroll on your site, can't you? Remember FOAF? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOAF_(ontology)

My point is that we don't need to wish for a "Social network with less features". We just need to embrace technology that already exists and that has been ignored by big tech because they don't have much to gain by adopting it.
Does the prebuilt app not allow you to point it towards another server, or why did you have to build it yourself?
>trigger people to not leave urban areas

A lot of different factors come into play which I certainly don't claim to be able to predict--and will likely vary by city.

On the one hand, lower prices make urban areas/city cores relatively more attractive for those who want to live there. (I doubt living in the cores of top cities is ever going to be cheap; it wasn't in Manhattan in the 1980s.)

On the other hand, there may well be less need to be in a city for certain jobs. Furthermore, if city services are a mess, crime is up, and a lot of the restaurants and small businesses are closed, urban living may be less attractive.
I had a Brazilian roommate who could second this. He (jokingly) complained this was the absolute worst when dealing with split-proposition-verbs:

E. g. "aufgeben" translated part-by-part is "upgive", so "to surrender" or "to give up" in English.

However, in sth. like 3rd position singular, the form would be "er gibt auf" ("he gives up"). But in German, the object goes between "gives" and "up".

Thus, my roommate mentioned a sentence like "Der Präsident gibt sein Versprechen zur Verbesserung der Arbeitslosigkeitsquote auf" (The President gives up his promise about improving unemploymemt rates).

So yeah, parsing German sometimes results a pause while everyone unwinds their stack.
A more efficient way to train neurons. Includes source code
Sorry you had a bad experience with it. Certainly compared to redshift it's a dream. I use it every day and it's been great for us.
Basically as much as PIC and similar chipsets, just without the tooling ecosystem.
Sorry. I seem to miss dry humor a lot in person and humor is more challenging online.
Would you be able to create a torrent magnet link? I'd love to get a copy for myself
So glad the App Store prevents malware.
> Use lists where appropriate

This is so important. How many essays are basically a list of unrelated arguments, but not presented as a list?

Things lists make easier:

- Refer to specific points.

- Skip a point you already understand.

Even as I write this, I had to remind myself to express it as a list, rather then a long-winded sentence, which I probably wouldn't have if I weren't writing specifically to advocate lists. It's so deeply ingrained by years of english classes to hide the structure of the text with clauses such as "furthermore". I even remember being supposed to learn a list of such clauses.
Ask yourself why most of the world is poor and bad at creating things, and what that correlation is to where the billionaires live.

What’s with the anti-capitalism and socialist mentality of techy people? In theory this board is generally “smarter” and yet they lack original thinking and common sense.
Risky or harmful doesn’t mean effective
>In 2007, with the support of luminaries like Steven Pinker and Alan Dershowitz, Epstein managed to finagle from Alex Acosta a non-prosecution agreement

He didn't finagle shit, his CIA handler finagled it for him. And that person will never face any consequences.
You're paying for iOS, the phone is free.
For RDS, the “trick” to getting max iops in gp2 cheaply is to get over 5334GB of storage, giving you the baseline of 16,000 iops (no burst at that level)[1].

This costs roughly $615 a month (double for multi az), way cheaper than io2 at that level.

It looks like 16000 provisioned iops in RDS is more like $2266 for 5334gb (double for multi az) a month. Varies by storage amount of course - 500gb storage is $1600 for single-az at 16k iops.

I’m not sure this change affects RDS storage pricing tho? The pricing calculator still calls Provisioned IOPs "IO1".

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_...
This depends very much upon your reality.
You've likely passed over some exceptionaly talented employees that you could have hired because of this pretentious scheme of yours.
Practical tips for better microcopy
Ask HN: Any (Email) Marketing Resources?
Hey all, I've been getting into modernizing a chunk of our company's email marketing program. Nothing crazy - testing, event-based emails, metrics, segmentation, that sort of thing.

I know the sorts of sites I'd trust for software development related-things, but I'm lost when it comes to marketing. The best I've got is googling like "email marketing best practices", which gives something, but it all looks a bit spammy. Neil Patel is everywhere - his advice looks okay.

Anyone have anything a bit better, or are those fine? Maybe a good search term?

Thanks!
Don't marry your design after the first date