skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, I appreciate the feedback!

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You can add a Mugshot to your site without evening visiting the landing page. For example, let’s say you blog at masilotti.com. Just set your og:image to `https://www.mugshotbot.com/m?url=https://masilotti.com`. That’s literally it. No downloading, no account, no setup.

My goal is to always keep a free plan with the branding in the bottom. I haven’t figured out exactly the pricing yet, but I’ll be looking at indies and small blogs. So expect something closer to $20 vs. $1000 per year.
And with a balistic trajectory detection it could gulp trash on the fly!
TruffleRuby doesn't have a GIL though.
They're talking about Existential Crises in another post today.

I think I still have a copy of the book that Johnson wrote to accompany the creation of Spring (which someone wants $300 bucks for on Amazon, I didn't know it was a collector's item). The last time I used Spring, I had the distinct thought that I should go through his book as if it were a bingo card, comparing it with the latest version. It seems like it has reacquired all of the bits of J2EE that it set out to avoid.

If, outside of Spring, there is anything in the Java world that more perfectly embodies Nietzsche's warning about fighting with monsters, I don't know what it is.
Are you not aware of the high rates of cardiac issues seen longterm?

https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-causes-heart-damage-hea...

https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/27/covid19-concerns-about-l...
Wouldn't the microparticles wear away the record and plaques?
Ah, good point. I was imagining office waste like paper, but if you're putting in kitchen scraps and dirty diapers, ignore my suggestion...
It's really not bad at all. I've yet to run into a task I couldn't complete with GIMP.
It makes intuitive sense that a face covering would reduce the viral load one is exposed to. I've heard of other studies that have shown that the degree of virus exposure affects outcomes. Those involved exposure time and exposure distance to symptomatic patients with COVID-19. If a face covering reduces the viral load you get exposed to, seems like it would have the same effect as getting a lower dose exposure due to being a greater distance away or because of a reduced exposure time with a contagious individual. I hope more research supports the benefits of masks as it sounds like good news.
Well, I doubt the revival process too but the freezing bit might be ok if it was done expertly well.

My understanding was that ice crystal length was also related to time taken to freeze.

IE freezing faster produced smaller crystals that don't then damage the cells so much.

We have a liquid nitrogen icecream shop that exploits the shorter crystal length to make "creamier" icecream while you wait. Not exactly how I'd want my brain frozen but hopefully the cryogenic experts know a way.
Damn I hope I never have to leave gmail and bother with this self setup crap. Would you self hosting guys feel silly if gmail existed in 30 years and you wasted all this time doomsday prepping for nothing?
Yeah if only but they do not.
Interesting viewpoint. Humor me, if you will?
What unsubstantiated hatred. Give militant atheists control and they'll end up killing people anyway. It's human nature, not religion.
That's not the conclusion, and cherry-picking those sentences is misleading because makes it sound like the article is citing a totally inconclusive paper. The next sentence is "The balance of evidence, however, seems inconsistent with aerosol-based transmission of SARS-CoV-2 particularly in well-ventilated spaces."
Email sent. Thanks! Sounds interesting
Krita doesn't have feature parity with GIMP.
I figured some of you might enjoy this story. I talk about how my Medium post on setting up Zapier to tweet your Instagram photos, lead to a SaaS product that recently got acquired for $30,000 (with one asterisk, details in the post).

It's not a life-changing amount of money, but I think it's a more typical example of what you can expect when selling a bootstrapped side project. Hopefully it will inspire some of you who have been on the fence to start your own project.
But GP is too focused on hyping XLNet for some reason.
Yeah some reasons, it might be because of stars alignment and could variate inversely with the weather.
Or it might be because it's the paper with the biggest number of first place at SOTA leaderboards?
https://paperswithcode.com/paper/xlnet-generalized-autoregre...

I've queried most of your examples on the SOTA database that is paperswithcode.com and they have almost zero results.
You illustrate the problem, if researchers like you don't even know the general SOTA, how can it be expected to be beaten?
But beyond scientists ignorance there is also the problem of models not submitting their results to paperswithcode.com or not testing them extensively but only on niche benchmarks. This second behavior sentence such potentially promising models to remain unknown and therefore mostly irrelevant.

It's always remarkable how one can be a smart researcher and yet not adjust its behavior to be rational regarding those two flaws (not seeking SOTA knowledge, and not promoting SOTA knowledge; READ, WRITE)
That is a weird wording on the last sentence, because the virus doesn’t transmit by magic. All epidemiologists I’ve read sofar seem to speak of mostly droplet transmission with some role for aerosols, which is indeed still studied afaik.
Simple solution,
Create a probe that travels to another star, harvests resources, self replicates, sends our pulse, continue on to next star.
Should have the whole galaxy covered in a few billion years.

I think some bit von-Bobby wrote some books on it.
My recollection is slightly different:

> 1. Masks don't work! -> Nope, they do.

I thought that originally the WHO said that masks are not proven to work, not that they don't work at all. Now masks are proven to work.

> 2. You need training to make masks work! -> Nope, you don't.

> 3. If you don't wear your mask perfectly, you're going to get the disease. The outcome is binary. -> Doesn't look that way.

I don't remember these guidances from the WHO or CDC. Can you provide a source?
I think you could do away with all the signals until a vaccine. Sorry!!
Is fzf buying you anything over just using :grep? (If speed is the issue, the magic words are `set grepprg='rg --vimgrep'`, after which it's actually usable.)
aka "poisoned" to near-death
The problem with severe COVID, as I understand it, is an immune system that did nothing until it was too late, at which point it overreacts and releases a cytokine storm.

The hamster study did not show a big difference in outcome with higher viral load, contrary to what the article suggests.
Smack the back of a mortar round of pavement, and you now have an impact grenade. Hang that under a drone, and you have a way to drop impact grenades on unsuspecting targets from an altitude high enough that the drone can’t be detected visually.

ISIS was doing just that a few years ago. There were/are plans floating around on the Internet for stabilizing fins for common mortar rounds - 3D print those, and you’re 90% of the way there.
The precursor to modern methods was to obtain a little bit of smallpox and inoculate yourself with it. It was vastly less deadly than being exposed in the normal course, though not really safe. It still demonstrated the principle, that a little bit of smallpox was quite a lot safer than being exposed to a lot of it. This is not a good idea generally, it worked on smallpox when there was no other option. Still, dose can absolutely make a difference in how deadly a virus is.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation

The first real vaccine was to inoculate with cowpox instead, which was safe for humans but induced immunity to smallpox as well.

Modern methods are substantially safer, usually by entirely deactivating the virus before using it, but there are still some vaccines that use live virus (the oral polio vaccine is a live attenuated virus).
The Case of the Missing Tuna
aka "poisoned" to death.
This study from 2010 is the only one I've ever seen which tests the effectiveness of masks being worn on a face:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/153567601001500...

"The protective efficiencies were 33.3%, 11.3%, and 6.1% for the surgical, bandana, and dust masks, respectively. The N95 mask protective efficiency was 89.6%. In conclusion, the surgical mask protected the best of the three face masks tested. However, it is important to note that all three masks offer very little protection when compared to the N95, and wearing these face masks may produce a false sense of protection."
It's not infinitely divisible, quiescent power draw will limit you in any case.
I’m not sure if it’s just as critical or actually more critical to make sure “your side” is not disseminating fake news.
Best to be subservient and compliant in all dealings with CBP. My bet is that the agents didn't like her attitude. Once that happens, it's time to find another crossing and change your plate - that's the first thing the cameras feed into the computer system. That might work better for the ordinary schmoo than a special pass holder.

Living close to the border I cross often to pick up parcels. For some reason I have yet to fathom, CBP often asks exactly what I'll be taking back to Canada;so I tell them without asking why they are interested.

They have the power to make my life miserable, even bar me from the US where I have family. I think it best to humour whatever bee they have in their bonnet at the time. Mind you they may be following whatever directives are in effect at the time. I've been questioned about certain items several times in a row and then they come up with something else.

Canada customs is usually friendlier, but can get shirty every now and again.
Native apps are still more pleasant and performant enough that they make users happier than mobile web apps and PWAs. Web apps have become better, so native apps are not mandatory to achieve acceptable levels of performance, but at the same time, the cost of developing and releasing a good native app has fallen, so the utility of native relative to incrementally improving a mobile web app is still quite good.

Developers may not like that this is the case, but I expect users will like being provided a better experience for some time, and that we’re likely to see companies develop natively for new platforms faster than native apps for mature devices will be folded.
It seems like every time they update their website it ends up on HN and everything the discussion is the same. Unless the website actually introduces new facts or plans I wish it’d stop popping up.
I can't disagree more strongly about this. Many, many times I'm trying to understand a codebase, and what I have is that codebase, not the dozens of dependencies involved, and not a full development/build environment. I may not even know what, if any, IDE the original developers used.

There's also very common sources of bugs when functions take multiple arguments of same (or sadly in some languages, implicitly convertible) types. With named arguments in complex functions, you can sit down, read the code, and spot the bugs. Happens frequently enough in code review that we have a category for it. Without named parameters here, every single function call becomes a game of "mouse over the parameter in the IDE". Moreover, "you can just read the docs inline in the IDE" also causes people to not think much about naming things, which also harms maintainability.

It's a real issue in large, long-lived codebases that may not seem like much in smaller projects.
I agree. It's a good tool and gets the job done, and it's been a tool that I've reached for a long time.

It's unfortunate that their funding situation is so dire. It's a project that could use a cash injection like Blender got. Blender went from having a terrible UI to winning awards.
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Things You Can Make from Old, Dead Laptops
we definetly try to upstream as much to Alpine as possible. Also postmarketOS basically maintains KDE in Alpine
The public health experts didn't say "Masks don't work", otherwise there wouldn't have been such an issue to getting masks to health care workers.

There also was a very robust debate at the time about whether masks worked or not, and which types of masks worked, hence why lots of researchers immediately started to study these issues.

I'm not saying there wasn't incorrect information out there, but it wasn't nearly as binary as you are making it out to be.
I know this is a joke, but we’re legitimately running v8 as a PHP extension in production on high-traffic sites. It’s actually quite good for server-side JS rendering when you’re working inside an existing PHP framework (WordPress, in our case).
Yes, I believe your thinking on this is correct, and it seems to be where the consensus is anyway (not in the media, or the average person, but among experts): transmission is concentrated in indoor activities with sustained exposure without masks.

I would add to your list that contact-based transmission, in contrast the the obsession over surface sanitizing procedures, is not a meaningful transmission risk. Derek Thompson called it "hygiene theater", similar to the post-9/11 security theater.
Democrats are a center-right party.

Republicans are a far-right authoritarian party.

The USA has no left-wing parties.
Thanks I misused it. One actually has to touch the headphone icon which is not very accessible but it works!
You could have best of both worlds: Hook up a private domain to GSuite. If Gmail starts sucking the next 30 years you can move it to the next best thing :)
Another unintended consequence of this is that it makes it extremely difficult for doctors and nurses to pull data to do basic research or look at patient outcomes.

For example, if you wanted to see what the outcomes of giving a specific drug at a specific dose to a specific group of patients at your hospital was, you're in for a real fun time manually copy-and-pasting thousands of entries from the EMR to a spreadsheet.

Now more than ever it is important to look at data relating to patient outcomes with various COVID treatments that haven't been thoroughly vetted yet. But, guess why your local hospital isn't doing anything like that? Because what should be a simple 3-hour exploratory data analysis that can be breezed through IRB now has to involve a budget component of hiring a professional copy-paste person. Can't even use med students to do it anymore because they aren't allowed to hang around the hospital due to COVID, and you can't access those records remote due to HIPAA.
Reading your comment made me interested into looking into some figures to compare cities in Europe and the USA.

If you look at the population of agglomerations (some cities in Europe have ridiculously small limits - Paris is fifteen times smaller than London), you see than London (14,800,000) and Paris (11,400,000) are a bit less populated than the the biggest US cities New York (22,100,000) and Los Angeles (17,700,000) but slightly more than the third Chicago (9,750,000).

The next biggest agglomerations in Europe, Madrid (6,550,000) and Milan (6,200,000) can be compared to Houston (6,750,000), a bit less populated than San Fransisco (7,850,000).

Then you have Berlin (4,725,000) which is close to Seattle (4,425,000) or Phoenix (4,700,000).
Undecidability and unpredictability: not limitations but triumphs of science [pdf]
> but I can’t imagine this being simpler than just rewriting the C in Rust.

sometimes it's impossible without falling back to unsafe Rust, which kind of undermines the initial incentive. C codebases heavily utilise pointer arithmetic programming.

Simplicity is a good trait though, and there are a few promising initiatives in that regard in ATS3 - https://github.com/githwxi/ATS-Xanadu#project-description
It's really great. I appreciated that you gave equal weight to ups and downs, and the pros and cons of each decision, while still keeping your explanations clear and focused. Informative and enjoyable.

Congratulations on your successful project!
This randomized trial from 2015 looked at cloth masks.

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/4/e006577

> Conclusions This study is the first RCT of cloth masks, and the results caution against the use of cloth masks. This is an important finding to inform occupational health and safety. Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection. Further research is needed to inform the widespread use of cloth masks globally. However, as a precautionary measure, cloth masks should not be recommended for HCWs, particularly in high-risk situations, and guidelines need to be updated.
Nim does too.
I think the real question one should be asking is "why is AMD's support for high-performance computing" so bad?

This applies both to CPUs (where they have to rely on Intel for this) and toe GPUs (where their offerings are under resourced, buggy and lagging what NVidia offer).
This says 85% wears masks in the Texas region.

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/08/27/more-americ...
Bitcoin being a public ledger, it's fairly easy to see if 1,400 BTC was moved recently: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/ef600c380a239d9b929c6c964d...

I mean they definitely could have seen that transaction and just acted like it was their stolen money.
What's wrong with the design of the web site? It's borderline unreadable.
For example they rejected the future changes that were potentially limiting uBlock Origin.
But most of the time, chromium Google devs are just talented engineers and Microsoft has not to conflict much with their excellence
It's interesting that the word used for inactivated viruses is "killed" rather than, for instance, "destroyed". Destroyed might not be a better word choice because it may imply that the structure is completely taken apart but point being: (not to throw semantics into the mix just for kicks) does modern science consider viruses to be alive?
> It doesn't have to be just sustainable, it has to be competitive.

Tax the shit out of companies that pull these kind of stunts to skirt the law. Tariff their products at the border.
If those countries are on the EU, Germany can use its clout to "force" these kind of rules on other countries. This soft power is real, as seen in Greece in 2013.
If the Visegrad countries complain, kick Hungary out of the EU for their rule-of-law violations, it's only several years out of date.

Most of this could fit under the "COVID" umbrella.
Yes, but risk aversion has implications on things other than mask wearing. It's pretty unclear that risk aversion will be selected for because of the pandemic. The least risk averse are probably more likely to find a partner this year for example. Plausibly risk aversion might even be selected against!
Singing Dogs Re-Emerge from Extinction for Another Tune
How do you know unless you try? I don't know why people are so against it. If you want to see vitriol see any discussion of rust on the now impotent slashdot community. If Linus is okay with it, I'm okay with it. He knows a lot more about the kernel than me and probably 99.99999% of of the people on the planet. I'm sure there are some awesome Einstein IQ people that know it even better than Linux, but I'll probably never meet them.
there is a growing number of those that believe the virus also transmits airborne. droplet != airborne.
For me, the photos in the linked article look great no matter what the process was to create them. I don't see why they would lose their charm if they were CGI, simply because we tend to know whether we like a picture or not within a split second of first seeing it, while we generally don't know how they were made until later.

But for the pictures in the GP link, I don't think the pictures by themselves are all that interesting; to me almost the entire interest stems from knowing how they were made.

Somewhat comparable to pictures posted on HN a while back that went from "ho-hum, another portrait" to "that's actually interesting" by knowing that these were not real people or real photos, but rather computer generated portraits. (https://petapixel.com/2019/09/20/this-company-is-giving-away... )

So I think charm/appeal can stem from several sources, like pure visual impact, but it can also stem from an appriciation of the process behind it. And I see people sometimes change their minds on how well they like a picture - in either direction - based on how simple or complex they think the process was, even if the picture is identical. (Compare say a picture of a wild wolf pouncing its prey vs the same picture after you've learned that it's stuffed animals and the scene was arranged by the photographer.)
Way slower (2-3x in compile tasks), always doing some crap. Every time I open any app, sometimes a 5 - 10 second pause while It does some internet shchenanigans, more frequent crashes, many more minor gripes.
First of all, I didn't mention the CDC. Much of what I was talking about was about what HN and forums like this talked about. However, some of these things do apply to health authorities. Fortunately for me, I don't need to rely on my recollection.

https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12337257852839321...

I will quote it here:

> Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!

> They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!

> http://bit.ly/37Ay6Cm

And of course, Fauci told everyone not to wear masks. But that doesn't matter. This is the Surgeon General saying "They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching Coronavirus". That is a categorical statement.
While I suspect that the hypothesis is correct, the article is in no way conclusive or authoritative. There is no attempt to control for other variables which could explain the observations.

For example, the seafood and chicken processing plants had a 95% asymptomatic rate among the infected.

I would love to see some studies which compared this against rates that are normally seen for the same age/gender/heath ect.

Similarly, how do these observations fit in to the greater picture. Are there other processing plants that used masks but had higher rates of symptoms?

Also, another way to view this data is that perhaps we are vastly underestimating total number of asymptomatic cases overall due to reporting and testing biases.
A slight modicum of comfort, can't you see?!
That's because we don't see more than 2 decimals in the graph. The nuclear column is probably closer to 0.074.

32.72 / 0.074 ~= 442
You forgot: work until you're 65 so you can enjoy your last 10 years with a broken body
This is a really great response. I think there are a ton of both selfish and altruistic reasons for the urban sprawl that is Houston. I grew up here (Alief area) and that was the burbs when I was young. (It’s about 15-20 minutes drive from downtown) there was a 10 or so mile gap between where I lived and Sugarland. Now it all runs together. I now live due south of Katy in an unincorporated area about 40 miles away from downtown Houston. Land and housing is still relatively cheap here but it’s filling out every year.

I say that to say this- I didn’t move way out here to get away from some ethnic group or to some other insidious reason. I moved here because I have a large (blended) family and we wanted to own land. It’s a popular narrative to blame sprawl on racism or living above your means. I think the real reason is way more boring than that. Move away from a population center and things get cheaper. Gas is cheaper. Groceries are cheaper. Price per square foot is much cheaper. Those who are upper middle class can live well in the sprawl so of course they do. I have neighbors of every race religion and culture here. They all want the same thing- decent schools elbow room and some fresh air...