skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few months ago there was a great write up called The Hammer And the Dance. The idea was to first "Hammer" down there numbers to something controllable with a tight lockdown and then use contact tracing and targeted quarantine to mostly keep it at the lower level. Countries like Spain, China and Italy nailed the hammer part, but are struggling with the dance. South Korea seems to have danced their way through the entire thing by never getting it escalate in the first place.

The US tried to do a hammer and failed. The numbers didn't really go down for the city as a whole. We never had a coordinated decision to transition to the dance either and don't have anything in place to be successful at that step. Tests taking over a week and high case numbers to begin with make contact tracing and targeted quarantine in outbreak areas impossible
You know, one thing I learned from getting interested in stereo equipment was the concept of overengineering.

I always thought... how can there be such a thing? maybe you let the non-recurring costs get a little high, but don't you end up with a better product in the end?

Turns out overengineering is a thing.

I had a friend who was a real sound engineer.

You just need a good (not overpriced) set of earbuds.
I was told (but don't quote me on this) that this is the reason why they require you to answer so many questions as part of the ESTA process. It more or less serves to cover the govt's ass and give cause for deportation if you lie on your application.

They used to ask if you had been involved in persecutions associated with Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1945. It still asks

> Do you seek to engage in or have you ever engaged in terrorist activities, espionage, sabotage, or genocide?

I don't think anybody would ever seriously answer "yes" to that question, but if the US government wants to deport an individual and it's discovered they lied on their ESTA application, it's more straightforward to deport them.
Don’t give them ideas! ;)
cool project!
would be helpful if there is a refresh option to get the next random domain, instead of refreshing the whole page.
You would reduce it all to atoms.
Seafood? Tilapia are freshwater fish...
Other countries like Germany also have federal systems. They were able to coordinate successfully because they didn't politicise the entire thing, because their election system doesn't create was us-vs-them two-party system
That's a good distinction between diff types of messaging.

I use email and messages as well, but the voice call is the big component. Generation-wise, it is from 7yrs old (nieces) to 90yrs old (no surprise there; oldies love to chat).
ROHIT KADIMISETTY is a Bania and NISHAD KUNJU is a Brahmin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varna_(Hinduism)

Complete list of Caste-wise scandals https://archive.vn/wip/8MNNs
Paying with your face is hard sell in China
https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ :-)
Terrible! This should be disabled by default! Safety first always!
Linux has support for most GPU options.

Most ML is done on Linux so it better well have GPU support.
Hard to agree with you.

Setting up restic/duplicacy/kopia/etc is easy and you get to choose your storage from wide array of choices that's pretty much 1/10 the price. Does tarsnap even have retention rules?

Just because someone behind may be famous, charging 10 times for something that's not even better is absurd and should be seen as an obsolete service when there are a dozen others with competitive pricing.

I see you're happy to pay $100 for something I pay $10 because making a cron job is tough for you.
You actually think that the largest communication app in China isn't under complete control of the CCP and that they don't have complete access to every transaction that flows through Wechat servers?
I don't think they claimed only social media has problems or advertising is the only reason it has them. Social media is where the problems meet and affect the world most. And Facebook was always designed for advertising.[1]

WhatsApp has large groups anyone can join. SMS doesn't.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/facebooks-first-ever-ad-sale...
So that it backs up at a different time each day? For instance, if it is set to 11H, and you were starting at 4pm on a day, then the backup would run next at:

15h, 2h, 9h, 20h, 7h....etc. So you won't have the backup running at the same time everyday.

Personally speaking I would prefer that the backup runs at the same time everyday but some people don't.
Exxon had their own state of the art climate science department. Way back in 1982 they accurately predicted that in 2020 co2 would be around 415ppm and there would be about 1C of warming.

At a time when the average person had never even heard of global warming Exxon had already confirmed their product was irreversibly damaging the planet and shortly thereafter shuttered their science program and began spending millions a year funding public influence campaigns to sew doubt misinformation, and turn the issue into a political wedge.

Of course the companies are vastly more culpable than the public. The average person is far too busy trying to keep their lives in order to educate themselves on a highly complicated scientific issue. Especially when much of the population lives within a subculture that would turn on them and ridicule them if they did look into the issue deeply because the fossil fuel PR machine managed to co-opt all of their political and cultural leaders.

The corporations had the information, the clarity, and the opportunity to do the right thing. Instead they chose to poison the discourse and stymie progress any way they could.

edit: Exxon accurately predicted 1C of warming by 2020 not 2C
I definitely like the free labor of others.
It will need some additional strategic investment from another decent size company. Currently it is still too tied with IBM on OpenPOWER CPU's production.

Unfortunately Broadcom, Qualcomm, Marvell, Apple, TI, etc all the big names in Fabless Semiconductor Industry haven't taken any interest. That might change with the Nvidia-ARM deal depending how certain companies management / engineers hate Nvidia. ( For what ever reason )

Personally I would love to have an A20 CPU POWERed Router to play around.
One of my favourite features (if you could call it a feature) of gas stoves is that you can immediately tell if it's on or not.

It's a lot easier to accidentally melt a plastic chopping board onto an electric stove than a gas one, and much harder to clean off when you do.
It’s mostly seen as a food for kids in the US too.
I honestly think extra hard work actually makes a significant difference for rising above, even though it's probably a bad idea to expect it of everyone. Necessary but not sufficient for rising above.
The article also says that 64.4 million pounds of fish sticks were sold in in 1955, which means it's dropped quite a bit since then (and that was still under half a pound per person per year).
Stay with me here: killing thousands or millions of people, by slow death from cancer, is strictly worse than killing tens at your local retailer.

Has even a single tobacco or coal executive been arraigned for murder?

Is killing millions for profit less bad than killing tens for bigotry?
Fried crispy in oil, sprinkled with lemon, and a side dish of steamed peas and bearnaise sauce they are delectable.
I based that advise upon my own personal experience. If it wasn't true for me I wouldn't have written it.
> Do you have a sound logical reason for why wealthy lobbyists would go out of their way to spend money on opposing immigration?

Xenophobia.
Stack script: A guide to scripting in Haskell
Pricing definitely doesn't look smart when it's the cost from 15 years ago maybe at 10 times the competitor.
Ask HN: Do You Need Help?
Hey! Tough year for many. Do you need help with anything? Perhaps sharing it here could be useful.
Work on other branches or projects. Go to the restroom. Have a coffee.

If working from home do some housecleaning. Wash dishes. Shave. Prepare food for lunch or dinner. Etc.
Lets take bets on the next white guilt label change:

I'm betting Master Chef or Master degrees.
What if someone lives abroad and is very close with a large extended family (plus immediate family), all of whom regularly communicate on WhatsApp?

Probably not uncommon as Whatsapp was at first widely used outside the US or for folks living in the US to be in touch with family abroad.

Very often one person is not able to change an entire family dynamic. Sure, they could not use WhatsApp, but then they’d rarely talk with their family!

Point being, we don’t know the poster’s specific circumstances enough to offer any sort of informed critique.

That said, the question of generalizing from the poster’s experience is, imho, a valid one.

If we want to get all analytical about it, that’s my two cents ;).

Which is to say, my opinion is barely worth the paper it’s written on.

And since this is all on a screen ... ;)
Is Substack the new Medium? Starting to feel eerily the same in terms of content quality.
I guess so, but I find it a mild inconvenience personally. I'd struggle to come up with an example where it would be a deal-breaker. Could you write about how you'd use it?

Incidentally, I ended up needing a function that places a cylinder between two points in OpenSCAD yesterday.

Here is my implementation - might come in handy!

// Transpose of matrix A (swap rows and columns)
function transpose(A) = [for (j = [0:len(A[0])-1]) [for(i = [0:len(A)-1]) A[i][j]]];

// Cylinder of radius r from P to Q
module cyl_between(P, Q, r){
v = Q - P; // vector from P to Q
L = norm(v); // height of the cylnder = dist(P, Q)
c = v / L; // unit vector: direction from P to Q
is_c_vertical = ( 1 - abs(c * [0, 0, 1]) < 1e-6); //is c parallel to z axis?
u = is_c_vertical ? [1, 0, 0] : cross([0, 0, 1], c); // normal to c and Z axis
a = u / norm(u); // unit vector normal to c and the Z axis
b = cross(c, a); // unit vector normal to a and b
// [a, b, c] is an orthonormal basis, i.e. the rotation matrix; P is the translation
MT = [a, b, c, P]; // the transformation matrix
M = transpose(MT); // OpenSCAD wants vectors in columns, so we need to transpose
multmatrix(M)
cylinder(h=L, r=r, $fn=24);
}
Ah. Bunch of 60+ ppl trying to figure out how tech works and then think of laws governing the said tech which should appear to be fair and useful. Sweet.
There is definitely something off about this article's timing. It is clearly designed to create outrage and contains weird factual errors about SARs, PEPs, and BSA in general.

Granted, a lot of this stuff is not common knowledge partly due to associated secrecy, partly due to most of it happening behind scenes, but the actual law and interpretations are on the books and not secret, so it is hard for me not to judge it more harshly.

So what does that mean? Article is purposefully trying to sound more clickbaity than necessary to sell the story.

For the record, there are some real issues with SARs and BSA, but the article mentioned none of them.
Minimal Fab
The two are not mutually incompatible.
?

The point of the movie (per the website as well) is literally a call to, “rebuild the system.”
in much the same way the documentary was designed to do!
Choosing the right tech stack for your product
> Sources close to the embattled fuel cell truck manufacturer are reporting that founder Trevor Milton has resigned as Executive Chairman of Nikola Motors (NASDAQ: NKLA) and has departed the company effective immediately

Wow. I wonder if he "resigned" or jumped ship. Either way, it doesn't look good.

Theranos 2.0?
It's also an assignment that close to every electrical/computer engineer would have had to do as part of their degree.

I guess you only need to understand ~50% of the course material to get your degree though.
Uh what? Jet fuel is basically the same as kerosene. It's no more toxic than gasoline or any other hydrocarbon.
You do know that Japan had been invading China and trying to influence it in the decades before WW2 don't you? Joining with the Allies was the common sense thing to do
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The US and a few others routinely sink billions of dollars into weapons systems they'll only ever be able to use once, like strategic nuclear submarines.

So the fact that a backdoor could only be used briefly until it was discovered, doesn't mean that some agency wouldn't invest a lot of effort into developing it, just in case.
True. As a side point, IMHO, therapy and counseling are not products.

They’re services, and, even more so, should be a service bound by a medical code of ethics, which, since the healing professions go way back, imho makes therapy and counseling distinct from many other services.

:)
I'm happy that you became productive in Rust quickly; I do not believe that to be the average case.
Media is the "reality stone" for real, you can do literally ANYTHING with it.
It seems that FOMO always wins over due diligence these days. It's a great time to start a billion-dollar scam.
Hi, I work on Fraidycat - can you tell me what you mean? A new release is going out tomorrow - but it’s troubling to hear of a problem like yours.
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With HTTPS, you can read the request only in the context of the browser.

You can't MITM (via Wireshark and similar tools, or over the network), unless you have a root certificate and override the website's certificate with it (assuming the browser allows root certificates, and Firefox can be configured to not allow custom root certificates). So no, not the same thing at all.

And if you meant that in the context of HTTP-only, well, arguably password managers should warn before autocompleting unsecure forms, and browsers should warn before sending the request.
> is anything actually done about it?

No, because they're "too big to fail". And in the rare case that the hammer is actually brought down, it usually falls on a patsy "rogue employee", despite a corporate culture and wilful blindness that enables this behaviour.
C# (largely inspired by Java) run on even more platforms, because there is compiler/runtimes for mobile platform. It’s also the second biggest "entreprise" language, which fix a lot of Java pain points.
"Seafood, edible aquatic animals, excluding mammals, but including both freshwater and ocean creatures." Encyclopaedia Britannica.

Picking words apart and applying literal interpretations to their component is often a bad idea. Language rarely works that way.
Iraq is not a part of East Asia - Japan, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Mongolia, and the Koreas.
That sounds like an awful experience. From the picture, it looks like the crumple zones on the car yielded very kindly to your momentum as well, which is incredibly fortunate. I'm glad you got out of it alive, if with some serious scratches and dings.

I'm convinced anyone who would be wearing a helmet when driving a car, and narrowly escaping death in a similar way (e.g. a racing driver who is kept alive by their helmet?) would argue much the same way in favour of helmets when driving cars. It's just more rare because we don't wear helmets when driving cars.

What do you think of that line of reasoning?
DOA is a metaphor too, literally referring to people arriving at the ER too late.
> Even worse, the actual coding one does on the job is a completely different

When I encounter this during an interview, which I have, I don't accept the offer. Why would I want to go through an interview process that is completely unrelated to the job I will be performing? There is no expectation of success in that and its completely open to disappointment. Again, if you are a beginner you do what you must. Senior developers are fewer and in greater demand so they can afford to be a bit more selective.
PageRank was an Academic project that got evolved into Google Corporation; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google

"You are a product of your environment" --Clement Stone
The Financial Times has had daily coverage of this in a great series of articles. Unfortunately paywalled.

https://www.ft.com/search?q=nikola
For anyone unsure like me, GPT-3 is a deep-learning based model which can be trained to produce human like written language (text).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3

Unsettling indeed.
Rotate your phone. Some unfortunate styling is cutting off the fronts of words when viewing in portrait mode.
Yes, that is the hard part.
Anyone want to build among us in VR?
Sounds like it'd be a ton of fun, esp with the more accessible VR scene
Capitalism rewards rare and valuable
Very excited to see how this is going to be held up as a failure of tech.
From his Wikipedia page:

> In September 2020, two days after Nikola established ties with General Motors, short seller Hindenburg Research released a report accusing Milton of making false statements and characterizing Nikola Motor Company as "an intricate fraud" over many years.[4] Nikola stock fell by 8 percent that day, and fell an additional 15 percent the following day after Milton failed to deliver his rebuttal as he previously promised on Twitter.[8][9][10] Further verification by Bloomberg and Financial Times confirmed some of the details presented in the report.[11][12] As of September 12, 2020, Nikola Motor Company was being investigated with regard to a shareholder lawsuit by at least one law firm for possible fraud as detailed in the report from short seller Hindenberg (most of which referred to statements and actions by Milton). [13] On September 14, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal all reported that the US Department of Justice joined the SEC in the investigation related to potential securities fraud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Milton
I have misunderstood. I re-read the passage and it seems that in that question you were not trying to derive insights about society, but saying because society is not structured this way, therefore you went and did that. The question was left open until the end, and because of the way the original question was phrased ("society" being the subject) I thought your thesis was about optimizing your life from society's view rather than from your own point of view.
The fossil fuel companies knew their product was harmful years before the words global warming were even part of the zeitgeist. They could have begun planning for the future in a responsible way. Instead they spent millions of dollars every year spreading lies, misinformation, doubt, and turning it into a political wedge issue.

Probably 40% of Americans now live inside of a subculture that would ridicule them if they did decide to accept the science and take it seriously and that is a direct consequence of decades and hundreds of millions of dollars of concerted effort on the part of the industry.
That's what they're saying, that China is a victim and gets special treatment while they put Uyghers in concentration camps, have the second largest economy in the world, and surveil every citizen as if they're guilty of treason.
Well in Singapore it’s “find a job in 30 days or get out” so I suppose the US H1B deadline is.. less cruel?
The PCR test is akin to a companion diagnostic test: it makes much sense to do it alone in presence of something suspicious (like symptoms). If you're asymptomatic, it can be close to useless, because it does not mean there's infectious virus in your throat[1]. That is because you could be either presymptomatic (in this case, there would be infectious virus), or have cleared the infection already (in this case, not). In the latter case, presence of RNA does not equate to live virus automatically.

For asymptomatic people, antigen tests (especially the rapid kind, assuming they're sensitive enough) are a much better deal, despite their lower sensitivity, because they detect virus proteins, which are much likely indication of an infectious virus.

[1] https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/infectious-positive-pcr-test-r...
I may just have to buy rashcreek.com

It's disturbing, yet sophisticated.
aka https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/YMMV
Have you read Koblitz and Menezes on this? Section 3.1 goes into more technical details, which are worth reading and easy to follow.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1018.pdf
On the contrary, without access to Maven Central ecosystem of Java libraries, it quickly loses interest as development platform.
I’ve had some bad luck with hbase for similar but not tried spark - it’s better optimized for writers than readers iirc. Pinterest[1] did an interesting thing where they worked directly on the hfiles. Everywhere I’ve worked I feel like I could pick any random data processing job that took more than a few minutes and get orders of magnitude improvement, there’s just so much inefficiency

[1]https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/open-sourcing-terra...
WeWork.
None of the FAANG companies I've worked at have take home projects or multi-day interviews.
You could check out the book 'Essentialism'
ICANN is a mess, look at the pricing of new TLD like .rich. It's all joke because it's not a neutral entity with proper peer pressures.

ICANN is one of the internet's failure.
I guess I do, too, now. It has got more powerful since I last looked.
I once heard a story from a Newfie: they were poor, and always had lobster lunches. Rich kids got peanut butter sandwiches.

World Ends At Midnight Tonight! (12:30 in newfoundland)

Bonus lyric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-rB0pHI9fU&t=95
I have two thoughts. One is an overloaded CAN Bus. Some process is polling the switch every 100ms. The second is the process itself isn't allowed to run very often because it's sharing CPU time with a bunch of critical stuff.
The sum of it seems to be that you should strive to be really good at something. Of course that’s not super profound and I think most of us could come up with it.
yeah, my smell is also not back. bit i have hope.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations_of_Nineteen_Eighty-Fou...
V8 still uses STW for mark sweep. The benchmark image on this https://v8.dev/blog/concurrent-marking shows 50+ms pause time, quite bad compared to ~5ms or less in new Java collectors. This might be due to STW move phase though? They don't really explain, but the long pause times show that there's definitely still long STW pauses in V8.

For Go, I'm going to be a bad HN user and not read the whole article. Sorry, it's just too long for this time of night. It does appear that my understanding of Go GC is out of date. There's been many improvements in the last couple years. Some strange behavior due to not enough knobs to configure GC, but it appears to have a near constant GC pause? https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2019/04/10/go-memory-ballast-how-i...

I'm annoyed that Google doesn't offer much benchmarking results for V8. Huge articles about improvements made with a single benchmark image. And they didn't use standard benchmarks for either so it's unclear what they're even benchmarking. The Go slides you linked include benchmarks from some guys production server he tweeted images of, a bunch of standard benchmarks but they only show % throughout improvement, and no pause times.
This is great. But, why dont they start with Air Quality first? I think, AQ is something, I ll check more often and helpful in decision making than get earthquake alerts.