skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will ignore the human aspect of Trump being sick because I don't think that is nearly the most important part. America needs to reckon with everything Trumpism has revealed about our country. Him getting seriously ill or dying would let a lot of people escape that reckoning. Not to mention that there is a non-negligible portion of this country that still refuses to believe the seriousness of this pandemic. If Trump becomes seriously ill or dies, those people are likely to view this as some sort of assignation, coup, or assault on our country. There could be real violence or prolonged civil unrest as a result. I firmly believe that the best thing for the future of this country was for Biden and the Democrats to have a decisive victory in November, put Trumpism to bed, and force the GOP to reevaluate how they allowed someone like him to take control of their party.
Ask HN: How is Trump testing positive for Coronavirus not on the frontpage?
"They do have quite different economies, different populations, different healthcare systems, etc."

Really? I guess your definition of "quite different" is different from the usual. Would you care to expand?

Language and culture across Scandinavia is very similar, and Finland's culture is different only to a small degree if at all
This will be good for his election chances.

Probabilistically nothing much will happen to him, which aligns with his governing.
If we're concerned about the risk of COVID-19 to cause morbidity in youth, like these reports indicate could be a problem, it's reasonable to compare the frequency to other risks out there that we accept-- will it cause more morbidity in this population than a typical flu year? Less? About the same? It's a reasonable yardstick to use.
> if there's a cultural pressure to assertively put themselves out there and actively look for jobs in these ways.

I am a student so my world-view is highly myopic. That said, in my personal experience, there is a pressure among engineers to stand out, else they won't get a good job. Also there's a rat race mentality inculcated by our parents to excel and always one-up others, rather than to co-operate and collaborate. It was okay when we were school-students and had to contest for entrance into a renowned college. But, the "I was the topper in high school, I gotta excel in adult life, be it through hook or by crook" mentality still runs in college and (hearing from seniors and relatives) in jobs. People are eager to do the 4 hour course on Tensorflow and mention "Tensorflow expert" in their resume to get an edge, people will and do write "Hacktoberfest 2018 and 2019" in their resume, a guy who can fire up an EC2 instance will call himself "moderately proficient in AWS". I'm not joking about these, job-hunting season is starting and I've seen resume of other students mention all this. People see videos of conferences where engineers wear swag t-shirts, and associate swag with good developers, that was further intensified by this guy's video and people wanted this swag for all these reasons.

I guess I've gone slightly OT here, so I'll summarise: Herd mentality due to poor guidance, peer pressure among engineers and the societal pressure to stand out (for securing jobs) is a big culprit here
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/hacktoberfe...
Yes, normally this type of post would be #1 on the front page, but there's too much partisanship and the probability of a flamewar is a bit too high. Not a big fan of this kind of heavy-handed moderation sometimes, but I guess I understand it
This transition to keto to become more metabolic flexible then try fasting and the planet by consuming one day not food in a week.
Akregator, a native (C++/Qt) application that runs on my machine. Happy user since ~2002 or so.
Time to slide up the old fear fader to scare the public into staying at home on election day, and oh, he doesn't have to fall on his face again during a debate -- text message cancellation.
What is the future of passwords on the Internet?
The pull request I have seen were changing "how to install" into "how to easily install" and such. They were not fixing typos or even making sentences better. They were just meaningless changes.
On the upside, that means a lot more founders are given the chance to test out their ideas. That should hopefully lead to more experimentation and faster iteration of ideas in general.
C Programming on System 6 – Intro [video]
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. [...] If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
An exciting day to launch a new prediction market, when Trump announces he's caught Covid and Betfair has to suspend their presidential election odds market....
In what way could this possibly be good for his election chances?
Redux is king speg and boiler plater. So much work to do simple things, followed with advanced tricks to me the difficult things easier.

I've used both extensively, MobX def wins IMO.
Actually I might as well end up with a FM2 or FE2 as they are more likely to be found and that too a lower price and in better condition (and a new one if I get really lucky). FM3A are simply gone now and the price has gone way up.

> got an M10

You mean Leica M10-D? Isn't that a range finder and I would assume it's automatically out of my budget if a used FM3a is costly for me :)
My assumption was that this is user generated flagging. It's not moderation. It's people saying "we don't want to see this stuff". Same reason people are down voting our comments right now :)
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Feelings I'm afraid have little to so with the legal realities at play here. He had choice to sign or not sign. He signed. While not same subject, there are equally intense feelings that arise in marital separation agreements especially when an ex moves out of state possibly taking kids, alimony due to ex if she/he purposely avoided work to get alimony and 81 other things. The courts are not really all that interested in those feelings of unfairness between exs here.
Linus Torvalds: Nvidia, Fuck You (2012)
Why can't Digital Ocean, this youtuber and Github just work together to make the world a little bit better? It's OK not to be perfect, but they can acknowledge their mistakes and work together to improve them.

DigitalOcean could work with maintainers to allow registration and get some kind of participation icon for maintainers to put on their repo.

Maintainers, Github and Digital Ocean could work together to define parameters of acceptance for PRs (maybe an integration?).

The YouTube could then become the face of the thing for India and show people how to make a meaningful PR on a digital ocean repo. It would also serve as an ad for them.

Just be nice to each other...
Wouldn't it just be easier for him to be nominated in name and then hand the presidency over to his running mate, in the case that he wins? Or does his running mate automatically get the nod in case the worst happens before election night?
Interesting video from Steve Mould covering this topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=975r9a7FMqc
This is exactly the kind of spam we’re talking about. And I saw the repositories.
I completely agree with you, but at the end of the day, it doesn't matter who shoulders the blame if OSS maintainers start to get wary of README/docs PRs from github users with Indian-sounding names.
I think this is pretty much what PG and YC have discovered from reading their essays. They're not really concerned about the idea of a startup, if anything they would like there to be more startups to invest. The exponential nature of growth means averaging over large numbers seem to still provide decent returns and all they have to filter for are teams that are really serious about getting something done.
Scrollbar hijacking should be 20 years to life.
I’d like to see some innovation on this front from VSCode or any of the major editors. The developer ui experience can easily be overlooked since we’re used to dealing with all kinds of hoops to do most of our work.
It doesn't sound like the MobX author has any attention on supporting MST.
In Iceland they bury bread dough in little boxes near hot springs and bake sulfur-flavored rye bread

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BAgbrau%C3%B0?wprov=sfla1
FreshRSS. It's pretty good and much like Google Reader, if you liked that.
Feedbro: https://nodetics.com/feedbro/
> CodeWithHarry is not a bad guy, I don't want to cancel or shame him

I say, cancel him. And all his fans. CC's think they're hot shit because they can produce a video and upload it to youtube, forgetting entirely that it is the content of the video that gives it any worth. We hate on moronic Medium posts idiotic PR releases, and other low-effort media, why should this be any different? If he deputizes his audience to be assholes he should pay for it.

Stop letting ignorance be an excuse with these folks.
In a talk held at Aalto University in Helsinki Finland in 2012, Linus Torvalds addresses a question from one of the audience members regarding issues they had with a laptop running NVIDIA graphics and the lack of support for Linux.
Trump saying him and Melania testing positive for the Coronavirus four weeks out from the presidential election is huge news. This story is not about politics (i.e. about a political issue), it is about a political/world leader and his wife.

Edit: So "TV news" covering the newest iPhone release would probably be off-topic too then based on this reasoning, but this seems to reliably hit the front page of HN everytime Apple does so. Apologies for the bad example.
Even better -- use this script, paste anything into stdin. It will come back out quotable and pasteable into a shell.

#!/bin/bash

printf '%q' "$(cat)"
echo
Ah, yes, I see. For some reason, I always assumed HNews users leaned a bit more left than the general internet population
No, they flag it because it is against the rules.
Source is [1], 45k / 1290k for drug possession (and nothing harder), plus 145k for other drug charges (which I guess is closer to 11% not 10% as I said).

Minnesota's 17% isn't that far off the national number it seems. They don't give a breakdown for simple possession. Violent crimes at 55% are again a majority.

[1] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html
I am an Indian and I genuinely don't know exactly where I stand in the cast hierarchy. In India it was pretty common for people to ask me my caste. However, what struck me the most was, that during my Master's in the US, other Indians who I was attending university with, would ask me the same question. When I would tell them that I genuinely don't know the answer, they would mock and imperceptibly laugh at me. I felt like an outcast because this seemed to be a common question shared by all the regional Indian groups(yes, mostly people from the same region will hang out with each other and refrain from hanging out with people from other regions). I was raised in a metropolitan Indian city where this isn't an issue and I had not met many Indians from other parts of India. So this was a shocker to me. Having not faced discrimination in India, I faced discrimination in an entirely different country, just because I was unaware of my "social status". Wow!
I'm not shedding any tears regardless of the outcome, but I am nervous about what the potential implications could be. This could be a very unstabilizing event in an already dangerous moment.
Hermain Cain, the co-chairman of Black Voices for Trump, died of Covid-19 on July 30th, 2020. [1]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Cain#Health_and_death
If CloudFlare thinks you're a bot, like me: https://archive.ph/0F5nz
Yes, I agree.

I would rather he lost decisively and then died.
So it provides a way to reuse CSS scoped for web components without needing JS?

Neat, I guess, but that's only really useful for basic layout components? Anything more complicated needs JS for behaviour/interactive functionality?

I guess it speeds up first paint, but again it feels like you'd send up with components on the page that look functional, but aren't wired up to do what they are supposed to until the JS comes down and adds event listeners etc.
Hypothetical: Biden tests positive in a week, then dies a couple of weeks before the election.

The potential complications are daunting.
> This story is not about politics (i.e. about a political issue), it is about a political leader and his wife.

That's worse. Political issues as at least typically have different perspectives to discuss, people-facts do not. This doesn't need to be on the front page.
(I'm a VC.) I'm skeptical of simulations like this one because they typically assume that every startup has the same statistical distribution of returns, and whether you pick 15 or 500 startups, each startup will have the same expected value and variance. But in practice it doesn't work like that.

A full time VC might see 2000 pitch decks per year, meet with a few hundred of those companies, and end up investing in 5. So they are picking what they perceive to be the top .25% of all pitches they see. If they invested in 20 companies, it would be the top 1%. If they invested in 200 companies, it would be the top 10%. But because these companies are ranked, the expected outcome distribution of the VC's #1 company should be a little better than the #10 company, and a lot better than the #200 company. The further down the list you go, the worse the expected value -- even though some of the lower ranked companies may turn out to be amazing.

So you can't just 40x the number of investments you make and say "expected value is the same but variance is now much lower!!1!" because you would be lowering your bar a lot by expanding the # of investments. And your variance would go down considerably, but so would your expected value.
> if VC needs 500 investments to make a 15% return on average, you need 5000 years to get the sames returns as a line worker

This doesn't necessarily follow. A "line worker"'s downside risk is the opportunity cost they pay for working at a startup, which has a different distribution than the investor's downside risk (the whole investment). At the extreme end I'd argue that e.g. WeWork's investors came out of it worse than the employees.
Well I haven't worked for DigitalOcean in many many years. My reply was to calling hacktoberfest "shit". I do agree given the scale the initiative has reached, projects should reach out to DO, get on a list and be the "approved" project. As a point of interest on your "but I honestly don't think this was particularly well designed to begin with" - how would you have designed it?
Do we even understand how a neuron works well enough to say that either thing is correct. I thought a relu was just the activation function that decides what weight to triggers the next part of the network with?
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It’s legal for PredictIt. If FB could get some academic researchers on board I could see it happening but I guess it was more of a headache than what they wanted.
Op is likely referring to the fact that, as shown by the recent FinCEN leaks, big banks like HSBC and Deutsche Bank have processed likely (and likely obviously), but filed SARs so they don't even get a slap on the hand.
Does the OpenCL rocm stuff work on those now in Ubuntu? I have a DeskMini with Ryzen 5 2400G and could not get rocm/ OpenCL or HIP or whatever to work.
Which is, given that all of them seem to have been submitted on /newest, pretty clear "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." territory (political or not). It's off topic and the comments wouldn't add anything you would not get from your Facebook/Twitter/news site comments section bubble, instead it would just create a mega-thread of political rants and general toxicity.
Show HN: Uhmmm auto-plays elevator music when online meetings go silent
There are a couple of options without needing guaranteed ordering:

- jobs can have ever increasing ids, workers record the last seen id in one place, and ignore jobs with ids less than last seen

- job results are returned for each job to a supervisor. if a job result doesn't match current expected state, resend job. jobs should be idempotent in case a job is sent multiple times

If the create job is expensive, the latter solution would be less ideal, though.
Show HN: Script which detects and removes Hacktoberfest spam PR's
Fun fact: Apple's recent processors have a mode where they emulate stricter ordering guarantees (for Rosetta, of course).
Ask HN: SQL interview in 2 weeks, how to best prepare?
Hi HN, I have an interview lined up for a data science (intern) position in about two weeks time. This is after I passed an initial take-home assessment testing Python (Pandas) and basic SQL. I received comments from the HR staff that my SQL 'could do some brushing up', which I expected since I had never really worked with it beforehand. He also informed me upfront that the interview in 2 weeks time would 'grill' me on SQL by more experienced and software oriented members of the team.

How should I go about better securing my odds of passing the interview? Previously, I worked through the excellent exercises at https://pgexercises.com/ and am planning to at least go through the introduction for the Stanford Databases course. Are there any other resources (books, online tutorials with exercises) that I could go through in this short span of time which would help me learn as much as possible?

(if it helps, I find that I am still weak on window functions and best practices when it comes to complex queries)
Wow, that's weird. IIRC the first year the PRs had to be merged for them to count.
A hundred billion operations is spinning on a loop for a couple minutes, so not really.
Now you need to queue up events for some time, reorder them using the timestamp, and then process them. It’s possible, but has overhead in both performance and custom code you’ll have to maintain. If there is no guarantee of order, two separate systems consuming those same events also might get different results, depending on the implementation, that can be problematic
I'm not talking about automated proctoring, I'm talking about remote proctoring. Although automated proctoring is its own can of worms, especially when it runs client-side and essentially demands that you cede control of your computer setup to it.

The sole purpose of having proctors is to alleviate cheating. Virtual proctoring is completely ineffective at doing so, and on top of that, effectively invites strangers to watch you in your own house and dictate what you can or cannot run on your own computer.
Which rules is this post against?
The subjugation of our our carnal impulses to our 'higher will' is the issue, and it's a foundational measure of maturity and our ability to act responsibly, and to get along with one another towards forming intelligent social systems.

As our 'cup runneth over' with every material thing that suits our fancy (sugar, information, 'cheap stuff', addictive substances (like oxycontin, fentanyl), even porn) we have no choice but to try to have more self control.

Randy Marsh I think said it best [1] "We must only use the internet only for what is necessary, no browsing while watching TV ... and for porn twice a day, max".

The 'Big 5' trait closely associated with this is 'Conscientiousness' and it's the trait mostly clearly correlated with positive life outcomes of every kind: better performance in the workplace, lower rates of incarceration, more wealth, happiness etc. etc..

But if we can find a non-toxic substance to 'help out' wit this then that's good too - though I always wonder about the viability of eating non-natural chemicals. It seems both Sucralose, Aspartame are not without controversy.

So kudos on these researchers, but it may be a long time before we can fathom how safe it is.

[1] http://www.comedycentral.com.au/south-park/videos/the-best-o...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientiousness
"If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." is probably correct, but, the other question related to that one is: Did they cover it on TV news?
How Google Collapsed
It does, but like the article says this is generally not something you want to be touching. The number of users of this API is likely to be very small, for the rest Grand Central Dispatch is what you should probably reach for.
After one of my school friends remarked that his mother only watched movies with two people who love each other but can't marry because they have the wrong colour dots, I began to notice all the Hollywood wrong-colour-dot storylines.

Bonus clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF6W1XD25Dc
Abandoned Chip Fab: Bil Herd's MOS Technologies Factory Walk-Through 35y Later
I've made an amazing project for people who need to make amazing pull requests, they can do it here

https://github.com/bryanrasmussen/AmazingProject

Now I guess I will have to make some sort of solution that autorejects anything that doesn't have the word amazing (or some synonym for amazing, I'm not a tyrant)

on edit: hmm, there's a typo in the Readme, a good start.