skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny how places like Taiwan reacted far earlier and have near zero fatalities then.

I sometime forget to not bother commenting on overly politicized things on HN. Your own links show 20% potential asymptomatic influenza infections, which is only a tiny bit different from the estimated 80-95% on SARS-COV-2.

Downvote away though.
I have a nefarious theory. Geopay will act like as an assumed filter. Top go getter types who are the future leaders will (in theory) come to the office and get the high pay. The less ambitious but still capable workers will move to cheaper places and earn less and be more easily replaceable.
I suspect the crux of the disagreement is whether the conflict is "Israel/Palestine", as you label it, or "Israel/Arab", as I suspect crusso labels it. The UAE/Bahrain peace deals are a big step for the latter, and not directly relevant to the former. So if you focus on the former, you are right that "not much has progressed", but that's a matter of what sort of progress you care about.

For a long time the two conflicts were sort of interlinked, in that the Palestinians were used as both a rallying point and a pawn in the more general Arab/Israel conflict. Part of the significance of the UAE/Bahrain deals is an ongoing de-linking of the two conflicts.

As a concrete example of a substantive changes that will actually affect the lives of a number of people that have happened recently in the larger Arab/Israel context, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain are now generally allowing flights from Israel through their airspace. This and the other recent liberalization steps are worth considering in the context of the situation described in https://ewerickson.substack.com/p/the-peace-deal-is-a-big-de..., where quite recently references to Israel were routinely censored in textbooks and encyclopedias in the UAE.

It's a big change from that to where we are now, and importantly it's a lot harder to sustain hostility against people you interact with on a daily basis than against a mysterious and vilified "other" that you never experience in person. So to the extent that easier travel leads to the travel actually happening, a practical effect of the sort of normalization of relations we are seeing could be a reduction in hostility "on the ground". Though that's likely to take a generation or three; these things are slow to change.

Now how much credit _Trump_ should get for any of this, I dunno; I wasn't in those conversations. But I also don't think people should claim that the changes here are not important just because they (for excellent reasons!) dislike Trump.
I believe the hype, but more as hype than actual good ideas. The EU will likely spend a lot of money to at least get started.

I would be very surprised if at some point there isn't a change to switch to methane instead.

1. Existing distribution network for natural gas can instead distribute pure synthetic methane as natural gas is 96-99% methane.

2. Vehicles can be adapted to CNG without complete redesign. A 5k retrofit might be attractive vs scrapping a whole car.

3. It would be possible with some work to retrofit airplanes to burn LNG. You might have to lose some of say the baggage area for LNG tanks and insulation but once the engines are running the fact that the chilled LNG is boiling away is A-OK since you want to feed it into your engines anyhow.

4. A lot of existing peaker power plants already burn natural gas, no reason they couldn't burn methane too. The round-trip efficiency might not be great these plants already exist. It might be possible to repurpose them to run perhaps only a few dozen hours per month when the wind and solar in your local region happen to both be low output.
any lossy video-compression algorithm face the same challenge. what you are seeing is artificial and is constructed by the algorithm to minimize the perceptual difference between the real and the constructed video feed.
Facebook was really the winner of generation one of social networks. Friendster and Myspace were the first movers, but there were a ton of social networks born in that timeframe.
> My unpopular opinion is that H2 is an overall very poor solution to our current problems.

That cannot possibly be an unpopular opinion. Hydrogen is way to cumbersome/expensive/dangerous to serve any useful purpose in transitioning to a "Carbon neutral" society.
> Facebook is not evil in and of itself. Facebook's management is evil.

Sarcastically this make me want to reply that John the ripper was not evil. John the ripper's brain was evil.
Are you running it on multiple nodes? If so, how confidently can you handle typical "cluster" operations like adding nodes, removing broken nodes, etc? Happy to hear via DM as well.
Something about cherrypicking outliers compared to the droves of managers who haven't written code in 20 years and have been converted to the dogma of management
Tax policy is considered fiscal policy, separate from monetary policy.

Those rates can always be adjusted, and are regularly. For instance, the top marginal tax rate in the US for much of the 1900s was over 90%. It's now, what, 37%? So much for inflation taking away your gains :)

However, progressive tax rates mean as much for the viability of an inflationary currency as they do for a deflationary currency like a hypothetical BTC. That is therefore outside the scope of this conversation.
The link you cite is a very rough estimate of CFR as described in the paper. CFR varies tremendously based on the underlying demographics of the population and the treatment available - it's unclear why you focus on this metric. COVID-19 in the United States and other countries as well will be (if it isn't already) the 3rd leading cause of death. This is something that many people will change their behavior around, whether that is "panicking" or not is unclear from your original post.

However, if folks are willing to wear seat belts (although in the vast majority of trips they are useless) for a less likely cause of death, many will put on masks, avoided crowded indoor spaces and practice better hygiene for the 3rd leading cause of death. This will occur whether legally mandated or not.
While contrast is almost certainly part of it, I’d hazard a guess that the training set is also partly to blame.

Now, I don’t know much about neural networks (AI), but my understanding is that if you provide a training set representative of the population makeup, (in America at least) it’ll be biased towards white people as it hasn’t “seen” enough black person images. My limited understanding would then make me think one would need equal white person photos as well as black person photos.
Imagine being so callous to think that the preventable deaths of 1,148,700 of your fellow Americans is okay.
The Rise and Fall of Science
> If we're speaking historically, under inflation the prices of consumer goods have tended to rise faster than wages.

Inflation is defined in terms of the price of consumer goods, and in the US, wages have kept pace with inflation.

> Of course lately we have massive improvements in technology to thank for boosting productivity in almost every field, which somewhat masks the negative effects of the inflation. If it weren't for that there probably wouldn't be much of an economy left by this point.

That's a non sequitur, as inflation is actively managed with a goal target rate. Had it started to drift, the rates that govern inflation would have been adjusted.

> Of course artificial deflation is no better; the ideal is not forced deflation but rather a currency whose supply is not subject to manipulation.

This does not follow either as the currency supply needs to be able to respond to external factors, such as increases or decreases in population. In an increasing population, a currency with no new coins is deflationary. In a decreasing population, it is inflationary.

Money supply needs to be able to respond to externalities.
You implied that the west keeping the devil dictator is better than having a revolution and for people to chose their own destiny. Even if it looks like a warzone now, assuming those people are left alone to decide their future, they will go back to peace and prosperity instead of having someone millions miles away decide what they eat, think and see.
Even dogs get to try out those VR glasses I've been hearing about since the mid 90s before me..
If you don't want anyone connecting to you network, don't connect it to the internet. If you only want certain people to access your network, whitelist their IPs.

If you don't want people to look at you, don't go out in public.
I am confused as to what you are suggesting with that link and its contents.
Dogs are more disposable than people? And I love dogs, but I don't see why they would inherently deserve better treatment than a cow or pig, and honestly if you oppose mistreatment of animals, than the cow or pig is probably suffering a hell of a lot more than the dog in this scenario.

Edit: https://xkcd.com/2368/ Lol, guilty, but if you want to talk about the moral imperative of vegetarianism than I am willing to listen.
IMO it requires government regulation since the app stores function as virtual "natural monopolies" (natural monopolies are regional monopolies created by the nature of the product or service you provide). Natural monopolies are most definitely regulated by sane governments.
If can settle for 14" check out system76 (NA) or tuxedo computers (EU)
Sounds workable, though you'd also need a way to save and restore any internal state, or else some way to mark off checkpoints where it is interruptible.

The other thing to note is that this only covers using the FPGA for compute. While that's the obvious use-case for an "FPGA in CPU" concept, in the real world, IO is a pretty important part of many non-cryptocurrency FPGA applications, whether you're just counting edges on some input like an encoder, providing a highly time-sensitive output signal, such as for an SDR, or implementing some custom serial protocol.
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Odds on this agent taking commands from the network running as root? Just one buffer overflow away from the whole networked being owned.
Not sure about other peoples experiences but all the best and smoothest projects of my career were done with groups who had good social cohesion, got on with each other, supported each other and most importantly socialized with each other.

There is close to zero opportunity for free creative brainstorming in the workplace and all the true innovation we made came out of discussions outside of work at the pub.

Definitely know there's benefits for working at home, especially for the first few years of your kids lives. But career wise if you reduce your presence to a name in a slack sidebar and an occasional face on a videocall, don't be shocked if you're treated like a name in a sidebar because just like any relationships in life presence makes a difference.
Have they banned the discussion of certain topics entirely? Or have they just said that they don't want the company as an entity to get involved with these topics?

There's a difference between saying "we don't think it's appropriate for us to take an official stance on X, but feel free to discuss X on your lunch breaks like you would any other topic" and "thou shalt not mention X in any context while an employee of this company"
You're talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Other people are talking about the wider Israeli-Arab conflict, which has been closer to a cold war in the last couple of decades (modulo various training/funding for proxy operations), but just as real as the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union. And worth defusing just like that one, though obviously it didn't have the "possible nuclear holocaust" issue going on.
Scan any large network instead of the whole internet. If you want to scan many ports in a large network quickly then you need an "internet-scale" portscanner like masscan.
Well it's more limited right now but under normal circumstances most of southern Europe, Pacific Asia, New Zealand, European-associated Caribbean islands, Costa Rica, Belize, etc, are all decent options.

I spent several months working from the Canary Islands and other than my difficulties in mastering the local Spanish it was great.
I doubt the general technique described here would have any applicability to audio, unless the idea is to dynamically create a text-to-speech model of the speaker and transmit only text. I don’t see that being practical any time soon.
You're also now 10 years older. Health insurance pricing never goes down as you get older, only up. That $77 might have been $150-200+ for someone your age now 10 years ago.
> Microsoft is good (at the moment)

Are they though? Windows 10 "telemetry" seems pretty evil to me.
Do we actually need GPUs to run this? There is no training involved, only inference, and CPUs (or low-end GPUs) should comfortably run the workload, at least for a couple of faces.
AT&T Gives Up on DSL, Leaving Many Out of Broadband's Reach
Rapid evolution: babies being born without wisdom teeth
Yes, this is another reason that kept me from doing it. I have on class of files (images) that go from 1kB to ~ 1MB in size, but never above. But then I have another set of files that go from 1B to several MB in the worst case (with a normal distribution around 13kB). Ideally I'd like to have one store that can handle all of these so I don't have to worry about worst-case performance too much.
We have a universe that expands and expands, and all mass decays away, and in this crazy theory of mine, that remote future becomes the Big Bang of another aeon.

Crazy indeed, but intriguing.
Fighter pilots have been using AR goggles for a while now, and I don't think the world has ended as a result but I could have missed it.
Sure, however basic physic won't change, and H2 will remain the less dense form of fuel (compared to any hydrocarbon). A group of aeronautical engineers calculated that long-haul flight planes running on H2 are impossible for energy density reasons, for instance. So H2 can only work for relatively short flights. Would you set up a whole new parallel infrastructure to cater for short flights only? Probably not.
2020: An Electrifying Year for Aviation
But I thought Uber and Lyft fixed that problem by allowing people to get predatory leases and then work for below minimum wage?
> Being smart and obedient are two orthogonal things.

I used to think that, but I think a more accurate picture across all sentient social creatures is the following.

IQ on range 0-10 (0 being the lowest)

- 0-4, too low to understand commands, ignorant disobedience, easily confused

- 5-6, mostly obedient, only disobedient through distraction (food, mates, tired, stressed)

- 6-8, can overcome some of physical and situational issues, occasionally disobedient due to IQ

- 9-10, freewill, obedient only as a peer. Will absolutely not do something it doesn't want to do.

See also, https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/the-virtues-of-s...
Isn't that quote also the exact thing Apple and Google are doing by forcing a payment processor on people publishing apps to their app stores?

(which I also think is a behaviour that should be stopped)
Ask HN: What is the coolest Phoenix LiveView application you've seen?
Gluten consumption may contribute to worldwide obesity prevalence
Military recruitment intentionally targets poor and working class small towns where people don't have a lot of career choices.
I don't know what is happening, but you could try a few experiments:
- Use them with NC on, but no meetings/music. That would show if your problem is not the 'normal' volume.
- Use them with NC off. No ringing would point directly to the NC.
- Use them full off. Maybe somehow its the pressure on your head.
I can buy toy car or lego technic for my daughter, both of which is me mismatching sex and gender. Sex is that she does not have penis. Gender is that lego technic and toy car are boy toys.

In contrast, my dog is getting dog toys as opposed to pink she-dog balls and black he-dog toys.
Reno is in the same spot. The number of Tesla, Walmart and Amazon trucks clogging I-80 at all hours of the day is astonishing. It also clogs the highway and impedes traffic. I wish they could put a toll or ban trucks from 7am to 7pm so people can get over the hill without tracking trains of trucks. Not sure how this could be solved without an effort of some kind, but as far as o can tell, there are zero policies guiding their behavior.
Because there's going to be long-term harmful effects of the lockdowns too, that will be worse the longer they go on for. The real question is, why do people ignore that while making such a big deal of the long-term effects of the virus on survivors?
In my experience, the big "problem" with Julia's performance is that while it's actually a compiled language, it's also dynamic.

In most compiled languages, if you write code the compiler can't completely infer, it just won't compile. Conversely, once your program compiles, you don't have to worry about the compiler anymore when running the binary - you know your program is compiled effectively.

A Julia program, on the other hand, will run just fine if the compiler can't figure out the types at compile time. It will just infer whatever it can, run that, and then use runtime values when it needs to. That's a big plus for people like me where performance doesn't matter 95% of the time, but it's a bit of a performance trap for newbies.

Almost all cases of people complaining about Julia being slow come from them inadvertantly writing code the compiler can't infer properly. Luckily, Julia has interactive tools to check the inference of functions. In my experience, once you get used to writing Julia, it's rare that you accidentally write non-inferrable code.
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Interesting concept, I read through the landing page and it reminds me of a modernized motley fool. I like the addition of the mobile app as well. I have always had an interest in investing but have not had the time to dive into the market without wasting my account money. I'll definitely be giving it a try, best of luck to you guys!
Pfft, vetting dependencies is for boomers.

-- Modern software engineering
The website could detect whether you are using a regular browser or curl itself to download the .sh file and return something different. So inspecting the .sh using your browser before you run that line would not protect you.
After he already murdered one person, you turd.
That video is making the false claim that individual aspects of a video can’t be independently falsified. A simple example is to track down the original referenced paper. Another is knowing that at the time the video was created, VFX wasn’t good enough to fake the shot. That’s not verification of say the amount of effort involved, as they could be scamming their backers or whatnot. But, it does demonstrate the difference between being skeptical and a conspiracy theorist.

A skeptic looks for individual evidence to support every independent assertion, where a conspiracy theory is based on the assumption that individual truths are linked. Using multiple different takes to make a video is independent of the accuracy of the experiment. A trained crow would be able to fake what a crow learning to solve a puzzle does.
Finally! They've been teasing this for a long time. Looks like they support a few server boards as well, not just the Raspberry Pi.
The Guide to AWS DynamoDB
If it includes a knife then "cutlery" seems accurate? Sometimes I'll just make a compound of the items "spoons-and-forks" (when it's pasta for tea [tea meaning evening meal where I come from]).
a) Project was created in 2012 so these statements may have been made around the time when the most popular DFS was HDFS and GCP was brand new.

b) It does have redundancy through data replication unless I am missing something ?
This is an awesome PoC for expanding on to ARM CPUs but i don't see the Pi being an efficient virtualization platform. Once you introduce the CPU/memory overhead of 2-3 vms will quickly degrade any meaningful CPU performance.
Now we can have standard poodles flying those F35s.
And also

"Mohammed was not only a prophet but also a chief magistrate, a political leader who conquered and governed a religious community he founded. Because Islam was born outside of the Roman Empire, it was never subordinate to politics."

"Islam needs a state to enforce its laws, and the state needs a basis in Islam to be legitimate."
Philosophy is mind hunger, an ambition of knowing that takes individuals to risky results like being depressed, isolated and poor. People content with religion, entertainment (social media, consumerism, etc.), or being pressured by their families/relatives to follow non-phylosophical behaviours of hard-workers and breadwinners won't feel the hunger, or will find a replacement for it.
I like his newsletter but I think Matt Taibbi was much better at explaining complex finance transactions
There's a bunch of places where you'd still want hydrogen for non-fuel purposes, for example in plastics manufacturing. It's also useful as a reducing agent in steel production. Finally, the higher energy density makes it suitable for larger vehicles like long range trucks. Electrification is preferablem but not everything can be electrified.

Also, if you have enough renewable generation capacity to reliably cover peak loads then there are also going to be times when you have massive overproduction. Battery costs for the coming decades will be too high with to buffer multiple weeks of power use so it makes sense to have an "electricity sink" where you can dump any excess. Hydrogen production via electrolysis is an excellent option for that since it's very quick to scale up and down and the end product has many different uses.
Having a language that hides it's lispness behind a python-like syntax can be good for the lisp community though, even if they don't use them. People do have prejudice against those parenthesis, so having an entry point that is "Python-like" (the most popular language for beginners and non programmers) that can still teach the core features of Lisp (everything is an expression, sort of easy AST manipulation, macros, parts of CLOS like multiple dispatch) will only help people appreciate the languages it was inspired on. And possibly they'll also feel the limitations of non sexp macros and decide to actually move to racket or common lisp to free themselves from those restrictions once they become aware of them.

Possibly those people will even do something like Clojure for the Julia compiler (a mature version of [1]), with an entire community around it so you don't have to worry about doing "unacceptably lispy" code (and it will certainly interop much better than Clojure and Java).

[1] https://github.com/swadey/LispSyntax.jl
>Make it as silly and unique as possible, I'll be able to search for solutions later

Silly? Not my preference. Unique? Absolutely. Something made up or completely out of context is likely to be a whole lot easier to search for.
Seems like a win-win to me. Think of the photo ops.
I read few months ago after pandemic started, Microsoft studied productivity of its employees. Wonder this policy is a logical conclusion from the results of that study or they simply want to attract talent like few other ones or both
This is one of the themes brilliantly explored (in my opinion), in the (largely hard) scifi book "Lady of Mazes" by Karl Schroeder.
> Among 102 elections in 33 European countries, incumbent parties’ vote-share fell by an average of 4.7 percentage points once 3g arrived.

That's not a loss in faith in government, it's a loss in faith in the current government. A loss of faith in government would be voting for those who want a smaller government with less power, but the movements in Europe and elsewhere are hardly libertarian. Perhaps mobile internet is driving a desire for change, but for different, not less. Why would you desire that if it's government in general that you've lost faith in?