skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current serological tests aren’t effective after a few months because antibodies counts decrease very quickly.
I think this is a situation where having loss of smell is a strong indicator of having COVID, but not having loss of smell doesn't imply testing negative.
As a GenX in the 90's my money went to:
- Going to the movies
- Going out for fast food
- Renting movies
- Renting video games
Judging from the error description, deleting cookies would likely not help in this case. This sounds as if sessions are mixed up on the server side - deleting your cookie will only remove your session token, not remove the session server-side. You’d need to actually send a logout request to the server.
C++Cast: Performance Matters
Hey Namdi!

> it is a major assumption to think that VCs are good at calculating the expected values of companies in which they make investments.

It's not quite the same as proving VCs can calculate expected values well, but VC is one of the few asset classes with persistence of returns -- meaning having a top quartile fund is correlated with the next fund also being top quartile. In most investment classes, being top quartile across funds is basically uncorrelated. So good VCs tend to be reliably good and not good just because of pure chance.

Source: https://www.morganstanley.com/im/publication/insights/articl... (p 51)

> The fundamental randomness is so high here that any ranking a VC made would likely be garbage

A ranking doesn't have to be perfect, just better than random. E.g. let's say you give me a bunch of companies and ask me to rank them, and I put 60% of the actual top 1% and 40% of the next 1% into my top 1%. I'm making mistakes, but that's still pretty good. As long as I'm directionally right on average, I should do well on the investing side.
Yep, and now we can see why developers end up putting "Best viewed with Chrome" on their pages; it's easier than handling bug reports from a userbase that won't open the console (nor should the users be expected to, but that's the space we live in).

There's no real reason, but there is a reason. And part of the 5 why's analysis will show that the developer doesn't test on Firefox, but why should they when less than 1 in 10 users will use Firefox? They'll only make the spend if they have ideological dedication to a poly-culture of browsers or they are incentivized to capture the subset of the last 10% of potential users who can't see their way to switching to Chrome (for even one website).
Sure, but if the dynamic stuff was down, you just wouldn't be able to edit, but the static part would keep humming right along and never get counted as an outage.
I think the parent commenter was making the point that if the person with the keys to the kingdom is compromised, so is the kingdom. I was trying to point out that this is the case with any tool that has access to many systems.
There's reports of some models connecting to any open wifi networks, which would include your neighbours. And it's only a matter of time until they come with built-in sim cards
This sounds really great, and I think that this will open up a new frontier in winemaking.

One question I have is how you plan to replicate terroir. TA, Brix & pH are great indications of when to harvest but drainage, soil composition, sun direction, duration, diurnal temperature swings, seasonal temperature patterns, wild microbes, etc. all have a significant effect on the outcome of the wine.

For those who aren't into winemaking: the most enduring, famous wines such are not just famous because of winemaking technique but because of the specific place - even down to the rows of vines - the grapes are sourced from.

Assuming consistent winemaking technique from a cellarmaster, when you get to the point where you can control all those variables and get to the outcome you want at the individual vine level, then comes blending, which takes flavor profiles from wines made from various plots and/or vineyards and selects for specific flavor profiles to make up the final wine.

So, you'd have to achieve what you're proposing at scale as well as with variation across different "lots" so that you can "replace the vineyard" for a given winemaker.

Just food for thought, I like the idea but I think there's more thought that needs to go into your product development and target market.

They say that wines are made in the vineyard, and that has been true for a long time, but with modern techniques, it's hard to tell if a wine was made in the vineyard, the cellar, or in the lab.
Maybe I'm naive, but I think this is true in basically every company engaging in user-hostile behaviour.
Tries, dictionaries, and queues: Applying data structure knowledge on the job
> How is an individual refusing to provide a service which is readily available from others significantly impacting other people's life?

That's a strawman.

> Also not being able to practice ritual sacrifice if it is part of your faith is a violation of your religious freedom.

No, it's not. The ritual is not illegal in its religious aspect. Harming the other person is illegal.

By the same logic I could claim that running someone over is freedom of movement. It's not.
As Taleb says, an intransigent minority is a powerful thing.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
so they could temporarily make more exotic materials down the periodic table?
> Yubikeys don't have an onboard battery-backed clock, so they can't give out timestamped responses.

Ok got it and we can't trust the host PC clock or any web based clock via host pc...
This is a nice thought but that ship has sailed especially with the invention of things like Bitcoin. Capital naturally moves wherever it's best used and there's no way for a government to really prevent that.
Don't think a real time trading website has anything to do with HFT. Still, some of these trading websites that target day traders for customers need to be pretty fast.
> Eventually this might make it into browsers and web servers

I'm skeptical at least for browsers. Browser JS VMs have integration between their parsers and their interpreter and their JITs, at minimum. You wouldn't really be able to drop in a standalone project like this.

But I agree it's not a bad thing to have more JS parsers out there!

Many are already written in a safe language, though, so this isn't new, for example several are written in JS and TS, there is Rhino in Java, Otto in Go, Esprima .NET in C#, etc. etc. But it's natural to want one in Rust as well.
When I was looking at monitor options I saw Dell offering conference-room monitors that were the size of a conventional TV and price wasn't that much expensive so maybe this is the solution.
Presidential candidates preferred by the rural areas have won 3 of the last 5 elections this century -- only once with a larger number of votes. There is a very good chance that they will make it 4 out of 6, again without a majority. It seems that whatever thumb they have on the scale, it overweighting them.

They've also controlled at least one house of the legislature for all but two years of that time -- and for all but a few months had enough votes to veto all proposals. Changing the Electoral College wouldn't affect that.

So I'd argue that "never have political representation again" is unlikely. They hardly seem disenfranchised, except in their own imagination.
is there anyone here building on SLP, the Simple Ledger Protocol?
I must have read something - maybe on hacker news. :-)

“Figured out” was a poor choice of words because I didn’t have an epiphany, “learned”would be more accurate.
Hedgemony: A Game of Strategic Choices
What type of software engineers get paid the most
Ok, we've de-alchemized the title and put the subtitle up there instead (shortened to fit HN's 80 char limit).
Do you have any suggestions for a good mouse for it? I currently use a Logitech combination keyboard/track pad, but it has been connecting worse over the past few years, and I am looking for a replacement.
Does this not happen to most people with regular colds?

For at least the past 5-10 years, I've noticed that whenever I get more than a very mild cold, I completely lose my sense of smell for a few days. (I'm talking 100% loss, like holding bananas under my nose and inhaling and smelling nothing.)

I thought that was normal, but everyone making such a big deal out of the loss of smell makes me wonder if I'm unusual for experiencing it with regular colds.
Its not the advertisers fault, it's the product people at samsung.
Not necessarily leave, but evacuate from a zone with unreliable government towards a zone that has recently shown itself able to resist federal incursions.
> you'll still only get your $40k internship salary. And the company will pocket the remaining $460k, to be paid out to the owners as profits.

It's because of this that I try to work as little as possible, preferably remotely. I claim to the company that I work 8 hours, in reality I work between 4 to 6 hours, and if I'm really quick, simply 2 hours (happens rarely).

That's how I keep my "profit", and if I meet expectations it's good enough for me. I don't think they'd be happy once they find out.
Sorry, but I saw her work in Santa Fe and I thought it was completely boring.
In case anyone had loss of smell, thinks they had covid, and wants a serological test -- The Red Cross is doing antibody testing on all blood donors. https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/dlp/covid-19-anti...
Probably via something posted to HN, I saw somebody's rule that "It doesn't matter what the users say they want, they want Excel." This seems to be the case often.
For me, it started to return a bit over a week after it was first lost, and recovered to mostly normal after about three weeks.
> Apple just get blamed for reserving privacy for the wealthy

Isn't this the market working as intended? Apple is charging more because they want $$$ but decided to obtain that $$$ in a privacy-respectful manner.
What if the company loses $1mil? Does the intern get no pay?

What if the advancement is in the wrong direction in the market? Like Windows Mobile was. You could have built a great system that delivered a few hundred million in sales, but two years down the road it cost the company a few billion in costs. Do you get to pay back your share?

I'm not advocating here for the work to be uncompensated - it's just when you get a risk shield, you also lose the payout shield.

Maybe a better culture of coop's would be a better solution.
The Skype web app doesn't even let you use it with Firefox or Safari.

https://imgur.com/a/cqb6Dpg

https://imgur.com/a/9xSlKsk
On the other hand..

There's a good argument that attaining that self-knowledge takes at least a decade under any circumstances -- and if you can do so while getting a masters and PhD on the side, you've wasted less than most. :)
Which bad behaviors have been made illegal?
How many people read Wikipedia other than from the main website? What's the source on that?
Thats ludicrous, no-one sane will commit collective suicide of the human race. This was well covered in the Yes Minister, which I consider a documentary:
https://youtu.be/o861Ka9TtT4

Suppose, magically, the entire US navy was sank overnight. Would you rather loose some random war in a remote place or be "dying from nuclear annihilation"? Even if you were to loose Hawaii, if that worth the nuclear winter?

Secondly - Global trade is fragile - shipping just needs to become unsafe and disrupted. Even some dudes with AKs on a wooden boat managed to take control of oil tankers.

Imagine there were automated kamikadze-bot robo-submarines, shipping could become too dangerous. They could even be useless against military ships, just dangerous to commercial ones and too numerous / stealthy to control.
Sure, but the Thirty Years War was no joke either. I'm not sure that you're making arguments any more. You may be right that borders cause more harm than good, but the bulk of historical evidence is against you. If you're going to challenge the principle of Westphalian Sovereignty[1] then I think you owe more to a good faith discussion of the topic than a glib remark about German history. Assuming for a moment that you're talking about WWII, then I would cite that as a case in favour of my argument not against it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_sovereignty
I'm speculating, but I suspect marcus_holmes's world view has been shaped by reading the many articles about of the "GIGANTIC SIZE" of various derivatives markets. Those articles almost always use "notional value" of the underlying assets to "size" the derivatives markets. Which is, IMO, pretty misleading.

In the simplest terms, a derivative is a security that is derived from some other underlying asset. Typically, they are contracts -- contracts that can be bought and sold on financial markets. For example, a call options contract says "the holder may, at his option, purchase 100 shares of ABC at $250/share on or before 15-Dec-2020". And on the other side, the writer of that contract is obligated to fulfill it if the holder exercises it (but most options contracts expire unexercised).

What many articles for the public would say is "that derivative is $25,000 in size!" Except that the contract may be trading at around $0.50/share (or $50). And then they'll multiply it out across all derivatives... thus leading to surprising "conclusions" like "the derivatives market for X is 10 times larger than X itself!" Which is sorta true if you squint hard enough, but mostly not true in terms of all other financial metrics.

To circle back, while it is true that there is a huge amount of what many would term "excess capital" sloshing around, I don't think the derivatives market "provide[s] an infinite soak" for it. In reality, a large chunk of it goes into low-risk fixed income instruments such as US Treasuries, other sovereign debt, and AAA-rated corporate bonds.
Not sure about anyone else, but I lose my sense of smell regularly when I get a cold. (Not due to being stuffed up -- even when I inhale through my nose I smell nothing.)
Show HN: SPA Demo Built with Web Components (Also Written with React and Vue)
I use Reeder on my mac, don't have one on my windows machine.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reeder-4/id1449412482?mt=12
The laws in the US do pierce the corporate veil for execs, especially in the case of fraud. Also, SOX does make execs criminally liable for the accuracy of some financial records regardless of their involvement.

I would not be surprised to see a class-action from investors in addition to this fine.
Hey moron, did you read that it said SMELL, not taste.

Holy fuck. Hacker news is worse than reddit.
What I'd like to see on sites like Youtube or other recommender systems that put people into bubbles is a a sort of list of categories that the site has put me in, and maybe even a slider so I can try out interactively what the site would look like if I was in some other demographic. Letting people control recommendation algorithms themselves, even if it wouldn't be widely used in the beginning, would at least be a start to give people control and insight over what they're being served and what they don't get to see.
Development beginning in 1967, three years after the release of Dr. Strangelove, and mostly not functional until the 1980s. Whether the film merely anticipated or actually inspired the weapons management system isn't clear.

American Cold War strategist and generally charming sprite Herman Kahn's 1960 book On Thermonuclear War inspired Kubrik.

https://archive.org/details/onthermonuclearw00kahn/page/n5/m...
Powershell has "here-strings". For example:

@"
For help, type "get-help"
"@

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
The password manager he recommends, pass, is fantastic. It's exactly what a password manager should be.
Uhm...no.

Never lost my sense of smell from a cold. Sorry champ.
In terms of what it'll do for you, an extra $1000 at $20,000 p.a. is definitely a bigger increase than $2500 when you're making six figures.
JIS X 0213 has 11,233 characters across multiple alphabets that gets mixed together in the same sentence, plus the issue of horizontal and vertical typesetting, ruby text, and having to use Unicode Ideographic Variation Sequences to handle things like writing people's names correctly.
Partially agree with you.

When I tried Hugo the first time, I took me more than a day to have a website with the look and feel I wanted. The static generators are good for getting some initial website up and running, but they have so many hidden and poorly documented features that it takes enormous amount of time to customize them.

On the other hand when the site is up and running changes a very fast and easy - mostly because of the markup language support.
Losing your sense of smell and the downstream diminished ability to taste is also a side-effect of having a cold, flu or sinus infection[1].

[1] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/lost-or-changed-sense-smell/
Did this apply to everything? Could you taste spiciness, for instance, from really hot peppers?
It could certainly be undone, for instance, by WW3.

The question is, can it be undone at a reasonable cost.
Having an API really does create an enormous amount of work for you.

As you mentioned, power-users bork their own data and power-users at big companies bork everyone's data at the company.

Another thing is that exposing an API makes you into a platform, on which third-party developers will try to build businesses. At this point you wind up having a small-scale version of Apple's dilemma. Third-party developers don't want you to encroach on their "turf" with first-party features, but it may be much better for your users if you're the one executing that feature. Third-party developers will try constantly to get you to do their jobs. You'll be locked into backwards compatibility in a way that you wouldn't be if you didn't have an API.

To be clear, this isn't an argument against exposing an API. Power users and their preferences are one thing, but another benefit is the ability to expand into foreign markets by partnering with local entities. If your software interacts with government regulation in some way, for example, it can require substantial interface changes and putting that maintenance burden on a third party more familiar with the government in question is a big win-win. This is especially true when you are in several markets, all with diverging UI needs - an API and local partnerships save you from trying to be everything to everyone.
Shouldn't this ring any anti-trust bell?
> You want to own part of that risk? Build your own company.

I was with you until your last line. You don't have to build your own company - you can simply go after a job at a company that understands how beneficial it is to align the incentives of its owners and employees.

There plenty of ways to give workers a piece of the pie: there are full-on co-ops (at one end of the spectrum), and there are more watered-down implementations like stock options, ESPP plans, etc., all of which allow the worker to take on some of the risk and share some of the gains.

Plenty of companies also distribute simple profit-sharing bonuses, which (arguably) don't require the employee to take on any risk at all.
Human travelers need rest. Horses get tired, etc. A message can be transferred to a fresh courier. In fact the ancient Persian empire had a system where horses were stationed at regular intervals so that a message could travel across the empire without halting.
Whatever one thinks of Wolfram's theories, the Mathematica generated diagrams are gorgeous.
"I love the port, but the standard just hasn't caught up and when a company like Nintendo flouts it anyway, you have a big problem."

Can't this hazard be eliminated with some kind of "USB Condom" that would, at least, universalize your cables and ports ?

I have a USB condom that I use for standard USB ports for disabling data lines (turning them into power only cords) - I assume you could build a smarter, more sophisticated USB condom that would allow you to safeguard against these edge cases and incompatibilities ?
For the overwhelming majority of businesses in the world, compliance with US law (To the extent required of them by the US) is vastly easier than it for the overwhelming majority of humans in the world to get a US passport.

There is, however, a very loud minority of people whose business revolves around actively violating US financial laws, who run into problems when they provide their services to the US market.
At that point maybe it would be lucrative for people handy with the soldering iron to remove those modems and resell the TV.
It doesn’t run on my phone.

Even if it did run on my phone, I wouldn’t run it, because Google.

Now, on the one hand, this is just me being an annoying, Apple fanboy, tracking-resistant outlier. But on the other hand, “you” targeted the web BECAUSE it’s the open platform for the widest range of users. “You” decided against a native app so as to cut costs and produce a more consistent/responsive cross-platform application. “You’ve” already saved the money it would have cost you to support multiple OSs. Use some of that saving to support the web.
Thanks for the C-star link. At first glance shapes look similar to what have become launch dimensions. I think it'd be pretty interesting to hear a comparison from someone who's used both C-star and CUDA, about the plusses and minuses of each... have you used both?

> Very limited compared to modern GPUs

Yeah, I'd expect the real true differences between CM5 SIMD and Pascal SIMT is just buried in the subtleties of those limitations compared to today's hardware, and that fundamentally they aren't super different ideas. In my mind, that doesn't mean that SIMT is meaningless or the same thing as SIMD.

> NVidia was calling SIMT back in 2010, long before per-thread instruction counters were available in Pascal (GTX 10xx series of GPUs)

Right; I'm saying the "SIMT" of 10 years ago has to do with masking and maybe other per-thread control (even though the Connection Machines might have had it as well), and that per-thread counters are now going beyond what we used to know as SIMT, perhaps deserving of some other acronym. Or maybe SIMT is becoming more appropriate and more differentiated from SIMD over time? Is it possible that CM5 should be called SIMT and we simply didn't have that acronym at the time?
I ate a little less, mostly because the lack of taste made it less interesting. I felt fine otherwise and my smell was back in about 4-5 days.
Yeah, but doesn't the HN community make exceptions for political events of extreme importance, like e.g. election results?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907201
It took about a week to be back fully.
Big Vision, Little Start
I have seen this behaviour on Facebook, ages ago. Reported it and yet nothing came out of it.
An easy tool to shop/ sell on Amazon better
Why Biodegradable Isn’t What You Think
What you have is exactly how my experience with Covid was, I recommend getting tested.
That's what I was getting at -- the defense that package managers handle everything in the existing system falls apart as soon as you start compiling packages from source, adding custom repos, or installing proprietary packages, many of which will statically link their dependencies or use custom versions of libraries. There's nothing a distro maintainer can do about them.

The "authors won't keep their own software up to date" point isn't an argument against Flatpak in specific, it's an argument against custom package sources in general.

If we really don't trust authors to update their own software, then we ought to be pushing for even stricter sandboxing and system isolation than what Flatpak currently provides. The cat is already out of the bag: people already run software on their system from the AUR, from private repos, from custom Linux installers that just bundle everything into a tar.gzip. Dynamic linking won't save you from them.