skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The FAANG took a lesson from DOJ vs Microsoft, they no longer compete, they just bought all their competitors.
They managed to kill Assange already, all is left is a human corpse still barely functioning and the result of the case is just facade.
Famously Microsoft does with Windows. That's how an exe file from 25 years ago can still run today.
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> I'm guessing "leveraged" means something closer to "owns at least one option" than "would be wiped out in a 25% market correction".

I hope so, but do we know this? My understanding is that apps like Robinhood make it very easy to do options trading, and there's a whole online subculture around this type of trading.

Can we actually rule out the possibility that a non-trivial percentage of the recent run-up of the stock market is based on "dumb money" from unsophisticated investors, much of which they may not actually have?

edit:

Also I just searched Robin-hood options trading on youtube and this video was the second result:

https://youtu.be/EQRLRYvRYOM?t=568

I find the UI effect when he finishes the option buy to be very telling, and it's interesting to think about who the intended audience of this content is.
This sentence was quite the meta-contradiction:
"Prominent leaders include co-founders Lucien Febvre (1878–1956), Henri Hauser (1866-1946) and Marc Bloch (1886–1944). The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel (1902–1985) and included Georges Duby (1919–1996), Pierre Goubert (1915–2012), Robert Mandrou (1921–1984), Pierre Chaunu (1923–2009), Jacques Le Goff (1924–2014), and Ernest Labrousse (1895–1988)." - in other words, the Annales school was made up of important people doing important things :)
Not an expert at all but moderate dosage should have no side effects. Regular Overdose by 2000-3000% can have some long term negative effects.
Progress takes time. It's been baby steps and I think GM is walking now...in January GM announced a new plant to the tune of a $2.2 billion investment. It builds only EV.

"But with the official announcement about the facility today, and a battery gigafactory in the works, GM begins to transform Detroit-Hamtramck for an electric future, with a growing workforce dedicated to EVs. The pieces are coming together."

https://electrek.co/2020/01/27/gm-declares-detroit-hamtramck...
Not really -- What I'd like would be something that doesn't require me to annotate, in advance, what I want to find again. I often think, "I know I read something about this a while back!" and then I try to think which website I'd seen it on. The ones I've read about just watch your whole browsing history and let you search that.

I also couldn't get it to work when I tried a while ago (which I imagine they've fixed).
The 8 level deep stack of 8008 precluded most complex software though. It was also 4 to 6 times slower than an 8080 running at 2MHz, had a very small package that required extensive demultiplexing, slowing it further.

There were multiple kit computer based on 8008 in the era, ex. Mark 8, the French Micral, but they were severely hampered compared to something like the Altair 8800 and it's unlikely they could have had a similar story despite launching earlier.
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Not an expert, but as usual, it depends. You may want to check your levels changing too because you can overdo it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D_toxicity Talk to your doctor.
I guess the 50c army is here on HN now trying to defend china.

I’ll maintain my opinion from experience of working with people who were not allowed to setup a WFOE business and were forced to give 51% of the business away for the china subsidiary. It’s really strange how people can try defend china when it’s not china that’s the bad guy, it’s the ccp.
Hi, Thanks for your feedback you are right. Currently algo evaluate how a user will feel...when they look at your site above the fold...it's like tinder you just look at the pic and decide to swap right or left.. this is based on : Users make lasting judgments about a website’s appeal within a split second. This first impression is influential enough to later affect their opinions of a site’s usability and trustworthiness...of course lot of areas we can improve...hope u enjoyed..
These things never seem to matter even in English. How many times have you heard someone say “I don’t like Microsoft”, followed by “that’s what she said”.
Could you please share your stories? I've been bitten by the difference between Typescript compile-time and Javascript run-time in the past, but I've come to learn their limitations and ways to overcome them.

> oh wait, maybe someone is using this as any somewhere

There's a single option to disable any in all of your codebase. I've also found `unknown` type very useful for situations where you just don't care about what type you have, but would've had to use `any` before.
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Neither is learning to do open-heart surgery, but both can save lives.
I'd like to offer a counterpoint on the masks: as soon as the epidemic started, the Hong Kong population -remembering SARS 15 years ago- started wearing masks and sanitizing hands.

Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated area in the world. There is no way to implement effective social distancing here

The result so far? one of the lowest rate of infection and death per capita of any developed country: 675/M and 12/M respectively.

To put this in perspective, the UK and US are at 50x that death rate.

So we may speculate about what had a strongest effect -sanitizing hands, masks, temporary closure of schools and entertainment venues, partial work form home- but it seems difficult to argue that masks have no effects as most of these measures were also tried elsewhere.
A major difference being that, in HK, no-one leaves the house without wearing a mask.
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Yeah, that seems like a step in the right direction -- don't think I want all the images, just the text, but I'd guess that's an option.

Wonder if you could hook that in through a local proxy...
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder as they say. One big missing piece here is context. Attractive to whom? And in what context?

My site is all about minimalism - https://www.anders.co/ - it got an average score. And I guess that is fair. It was also compared to google.com, which I would say is anything but average.
I think 'kitsch' was used to imply that the products of the clickbait economy trend towards the trivial. Kitsch is not just product, it is cheaply produced product whose value quickly fades; I think it's a fair critique.
That is, as usual, a basket of low-quality studies that suggest that surgical masks may(!) decrease infection.

In other words, scant evidence, just like I said. The difference is in the branding.
Intermittency and power density are two entirely different things. I was addressing the former there. But elsewhere in this thread, I address the intermittency issue. Constancy is an advantage, but not an unlimited one. If renewables have a sufficiently large levelized cost advantage they can push nuclear entirely out of the picture, even though they are intermittent.
Doubt if an 8008 uC would have been a commercial success. It ran at 125 KHz with instructions taking around 20 clocks. Instruction set was very primitive compared to the 8080 and the address bus was only 14 bits wide. It was best suited for calculators and controllers.

I built an 8008 machine in 1974 with a whopping 256 bytes of memory and toggle switches for program entry in binary machine language. You could watch it execute subroutines in the address bus LEDs!
The prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 infection was 12.5%, 8.1%, and 5.9% for patients with deficient, adequate, and high levels of serum Vitamin D, respectively. This study clearly demonstrates correlation but further studies are needed to establish causative links.

The data comes from Quest labs that allowed the researchers to use the unique patient ID to associate SARS-CoV-2 PCR lab results with 25(OH)D blood test results. The dataset includes 190K patients.
Hmm, ok. So maybe we should rename the sport from

Cycling

to

Cycling While Pretending Not To Be On Drugs

Everyone would know where they stood then.
Game theory in Mario Party (2010)
I really don't think that's objectively true. The "relative peace" is quite relative after all, depending a lot on where you live, and at best it's less than a century old (75 years since the end of WWII). I think there have been many other societies that have passed an occasional century or so in relative peace throughout history. It's just that the wars are more prominent in the history books than the boring peaceful years between them.

I'm not saying we haven't achieved anything... wide-spread recognition of basic human rights, near abolishment of slavery, valuing democracy and self-determination have all been taking to new heights over the last few generations. But at the moment all this is looking pretty fragile.

And personally, RBG's death today left me feeling more than ever that we're on a knife's edge, and that we could fall right back into those millennia-old patterns that are only occasionally interrupted by a century or so of "relative peace". Or worse.

And I'm not even an American nor live in the US!
Value stocks have always faltered when growth stocks did well.

If value stocks always worked then they would lose their advantage. The fact that people give up on them is one theory academics have used to explain the persistent long-term edge value stocks have had over growth, for at least the past century.
In 1ms sound travels just over 30cms - so just moving around a reasonable room affects the offsets between two well spaced speakers by 5-10ms. I use my own multi room audio system at home - http://strobe.audio - and although the sync isn’t perfect by any means the effect of moving around your house usually the problem. Eg if you have the volume in another room loud enough that it’s louder than the music from the room you’re in you get the weird echo effect. Otherwise nothing.

Turns out our brains are really good at compensating for relatively large offsets
I often wonder how fast the effect of vitamins is.

Let's imagine would could measure the level of Covid-19 symptoms with infinite precision. And let's imagine Vitamin D has a positive effect. And let's imagine we have infinitely large test groups.

Then how long after the intake of Vitamin D would we see a difference in symptom levels compared to the placebo group?

Would it take weeks? Days? Hours? Minutes? Seconds?
Adding another dimension to an n dimensional array -- [0,0,0] becoming [0,0,0,0], the extra zero is another dimension.

It doesn't matter what the numbers represent, x,y,z + time, or whatever - so we can describe the position of a particle using 4 numbers, x, y, z spatial co-ordinates and time. The same with this game of chess, board coordinates and time to describe the positions of the pieces.

Is that right? I've always read "dimension" used in this way in arxiv papers on math and comp sci, time is another dimension when it is used to describe internal state.
Almost as prominent as the Nokia phone product placement..
Words are cheap and you can find dumb opinion articles on every topic and position.

When it comes to action, I don't recall seeing mobs of angry conservatives voters rioting, looting, stealing, and committing arson. I also don't recall see any conservative elected leaders refusing to acknowledge or condemn those actions either.
Is there anything that EU can do about this. It's biggest economy is still a vassal state.

Till you depend on America for protection you will have to play by their rules.

What I believe Americans are confused about European reluctance to protect themselves.

We recently saw Chinese threatening politician from Checz republic. Other European nations still welcomed the group.
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I really do not understand why a (very good) hardware provider is willing to create/direct/hint custom software for the users.

Isn't this exactly what a GPU firmware is expected to do ? Why do they need to run software in the same memory space as my mail reader ?
Its fascinating because you see people get new jobs all the time but you never really know how many they applied for. I'm still not sure if my colleagues just apply for a few jobs they want and get them or apply for 100 and get just one or two.
> basket of low-quality studies

In what way are they low-quality? They are basically as good of a quality as the ethical considerations allow any studies to be made in this area (it's not like you can make an RCT that actively tries to infect participants to study how well the virus does).

In what context are you using the word "scant" here? What kind of practical (realistic) evidence would even satisfy your judgement here as "non-scant"?
It's still the fact for the vast majority of phones. That Storage Scope feature it's not even enabled by default, and only for Android 11, which isn't even released.

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/11/privacy/stor...

Apps can still request the legacy behaviour (i.e. accessing all files on your phone). No thanks.
I'm not arguing that masks don't work, I'm arguing that the evidence is of low quality. Not that the evidence is wrong, or that people shouldn't wear masks.

If you're advocating the wearing of masks premised on that sort of evidence, you should be advocating Vitamin D supplementation, and you probably should be advocating Zinc+HCQ as a prophylactic, because you just lowered your scientific standards by that much.
It still isn't a strong indicator of causation, since nearly all seasonal climatic effects diminish towards the equator.
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I think the problem is not that there isn't enough if it (this may or may not be true) but more that it is very hard to figure out where it is. There are probably a good number of people who aren't presenting themselves well, despite having the talent, and get lost in the many applicants that don't seem to know how to program at all. Finding the right people is really hard.

I do think the need for technical talent is there, though - I've had a very different experience from what you describe.
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FaceTime eye contact correction feature to launch with iOS 14
Bloomberg thinks 20% of the market is retail

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-15/big-inves...

I don't think we can rule out dumb money. But also, it's not just retail who's dumb.
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No, not concern trolling. Designs where rearrange of the assembly increases k were explored for weapons. They were not pursued because they were large and required lots of fissionable material. But a fast reactor core has orders of magnitude more material than a bomb. The regulators will require proof that this scenario is very unlikely, not just an assumption. And that's going to be difficult to provide.
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I guess Annales is not a suitable genre for an encyclopaedia :) But it also doesn't focus on intellectual history, which it itself is part of.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24483283 (4 days ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16513124 (3 years ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6081804 (7 years ago)
Never purchased vitamin D before, if I were to walk into a CVS or Wallgreens what would I be looking for? Is this something you can just buy OTC?
I would agree. Especially when you have something like https://explainshell.com/ to help you understand a command and its flags. It would be nice to have editor/IDE extensions which can do equivalent of explainshell.com's functionality.
I hope it does not go away, one of my favorite types of beans for sure!
I would say that we don't yet have the desired level of evidence for the effectiveness of either masks or vitamin D supplements when it comes to battling covid-19. The difference is that it's almost certainly not going to harm someone to wear a mask, whereas recommending vitamin D supplements to everyone might.

I really want vitamin D to be the miracle cure for this disease but so far only a single RCT has been published. Like you say, this study adds to the pile but doesn't talk about supplementation as such. This particular paper was completed in July and only published two days ago. Hopefully that means there are more studies waiting to be released that can give us a more concrete answer.
He often does blog posts where he looks at a fictional work and explains what it got right and what it got wrong. So fiction is useful to learn history, and then fiction+diff is even more useful.
Not just all that, but also hardware DRM (!!) on the camera module interface: https://mobile.twitter.com/marcan42/status/10884725497159188...
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>FaceTime Eye Contact

>This is a feature that was supposed to ship with iOS 13, but you got it now nevertheless. This automatically corrects it and makes it look as if your eyes are directly at the camera, and the other person feels as if you're staring directly at them instead of some point below their face. You can enable this by going to: Settings > FaceTime > Eye Contact.

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/features/ios-14-these-14-hi....

>FaceTime eye contact correction feature to launch with iOS 14

>Apple has confirmed that FaceTime's eye contact correction feature, first seen in early beta versions of iOS 13, is back and here to stay in iOS 14.

The company first tested the feature in an iOS 13 beta before pulling it prior to final release. It used augmented reality and advanced image manipulation techniques to make it seem like a FaceTime participant is making eye contact, or looking directly into the front-facing camera, when they are really looking at an iPhone's screen.

Although the feature didn't make it into the final release of iOS 13, Apple seems to have worked out the kinks and will include it in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14.

On Apple's iOS 14 features page, the company lists "Eye contact" as a new FaceTime feature. It was referred to as "Attention Correction" in iOS 13 beta.

"FaceTime can make video calling more natural by helping you establish eye contact even when you're looking at the screen instead of the camera," the feature's description reads.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/06/22/facetime-eye-cont...
Hours:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4463890/

FWIIW vitamin-D level is almost certainly why brown people and nursing home residents are disproportionately dying of Corona-chan.
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> I’m not sure what you mean when you reference CapEx ...

When I talk about CapEx, I'm talking about the portion of the whole server's CapEx represented by the Nitro hardware cost, including amortized Nitro development cost. CapEx + OpEx is the normal way to account for "total cost" of the new hardware, which can be compared against CapEx + OpEx fraction of the server's cost that can be attributed to the Intel / AMD CPUs.

Likewise for OpEx, I'm talking about the portion of the whole server's OpEx represented by the Nitro hardware operating cost.

They've offloaded 30% of the work to this new hardware, and there are two obvious ways to look at if this was a good idea: (1, evaluating monetary savings) is the cost (CapEx + OpEx) of this Nitro hardware less than that of the 30% of the box's CPU resources freed up? (2, evaluating environmental savings) is the wattage used by this Nitro hardware less than the 30% of the box's CPU resources freed up?
McConnell has already released a statement saying there WILL be a vote on a Trump nomination.
Nice to see you here, good job with the handmade conf :)
> evidently focusing on their existing userbase isn't viable.

I disagree.

First of all: their strategy to ignore the requests of existing users in order to focus on some potential new users doesn't work. Firefox lost around 10 percentage points of market share in last few years.

Second of all: the whole "strategy" of alienating current user base in hope of finding new users is batshit insane.

Browsers are a mature product: it is much easier to keep current users happy and grow organically. This is not some start-up that will come up with a killer feature - you evolve the product.

You can scroll a bit up, even in this thread to see people complaining about the terrible user experience in last Firefox for Android roll out. Do you see a single person praising it? Long gone are the days when tech-savy users would recommend Firefox to their friends and family. Also, why did they even roll out a half baked product? Couldnt they fix it before rolling it out?

As an user, at this point you might start to wonder if it is even worth it to update Firefox. How will the new patch break your workflow? Will some useful features be cut? It's not even about the bugs and the project seems to have them.

People go to Chrome because it is stable. No batshit insane changes to UI or workflow. [and yes, I am aware that Chrome wants to kill the address bar to introduce "AMP" - what is a terrible thing for whole internet]
A HotOrNot service for websites is exactly what this AI is claiming to replicate. It's claiming to predict how users will like your website.
I wonder how kona coffee sells over there.
Why would you say that? They took the case to assure that outcome in my opinion.
" then this could have all quickly gone away"

That's only a small part of what Trump cares about.

Security and trade are much bigger concerns.

Also - this is an election ploy to 'look tough'.
Should be noted that the vitamin D levels were from the past 12 months.

This is pure correlation, as Deva Boone’s excellent blog clearly explains.

However, a few days ago there was on the HN front page a link to what appears to be causal effect - Covid patients who were given vitamin D On admission did better than those who didn’t. That study had some limit and they had a couple of uneliminated confounders - but the body of evidence does hint that proper vitamin D supplementation is likely beneficial in fighting Covid.
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Solitaire - LOL

Internet browsers - almost any one.

GUI compilers / dev environment

GIT

Excel

Word
Yeah, you can easily purchase it over the counter and it's very cheap. You can find it in the vitamins and supplements section. You should probably be looking for "high-strength" pills of 1000 IU. I won't say exactly how much you should be taking, but typical recommendations are of at least 1000 IU per day.