skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I think there are some really good & interesting futures for MS & everyone if they did WSoL rather than WS(f)L, but it seems unlikely & chasing this path would require enormous work & deciation. I did feel though that the top rated comment was off-base & incorrect in it's analysis.
Absolutely worthless in cases where States get away with flagrant violation of it regardless. Looking at you California and New York.

Also, good luck with actually exercising your right to "keep and bear" arms when the Interstate commerce clause is the preferred mode of shadow firearm regulation, so production of regulated parts can get you into hot water if someone doesn't like you enough. Enjoy carefully planning every travel arrrangement with having the possession of your firearm in mind, so you know the right song and dance to do on crossing State/jurisdictional boundaries, and double check with any NFA items and whether you need to engage with an FFL before crossing State lines. Also God help you if they really don't like you and you have the means and knowledge to manufacture an automatic firearm or other NFA item. In today's world, I'm not entirely sure they wouldn't try to spin it as constructive possession. Furthermore, if you machine or manufacture related components, enjoy your Special Occupational Tax, and if you're a Federal Firearm License holder, surrender of your 4th Amendment rights as a condition of doing business, and opening yourself to at will audit by the government.

Yeah, yeah, I get it. "Just don't do anything illegal and you'll be fine." That's cute and all, but I've been trying to run down and list everything I have to technically pay attention to and make sure to never slip up on as a pre-condition of owning something, and to be honest, cannot justify the risk of ownership given most of the penalties involved, because I'm horrible about keeping up with the bureaucracy. It seems to me to be less a means to get anything meaningful done, and just something to increase the odds you can throw the entire book at someone if they do do something.

So while technically the argument can be made you face no infringement to keeping and bearing of arms, I don't buy that that assertion holds water. When you create a secondary class of citizen that has to report every movement to the government just to keep their personal property with them, that's the very definition of infringement. Same thing is relevant to the closing of the Machine gun registry via the restriction of funding applied to maintinging the bloody thing since 1986.
Well, lockdowns definitely worked, as there was significant decrease in the number of cases afterwards. Yes, it was a brute force solution that nobody liked. Yes, epidemiologists and politicians still retain it as the last possible resort. But rest assured everything else will be tried before that. Nobody likes lockdowns. We medical researchers had to stay home like everybody else, and we didn't like that a bit.
What parts of this article are deeply correct?

Jim Keller famously says "99% of what I believe is wrong" in an interview https://lexfridman.com/jim-keller/ (although I am not smart enough to read much into that quote).

There is some deeper truths behind the gloss, otherwise the article would just be trash, but I haven’t had enough experience conducting interviews to know where the truth is hiding.
The biggest problem I have with the article is that it focuses on absolute numbers rather than any kind of proportional impact. Per-capita numbers or something along those lines would be helpful. Even the chart halfway down that appears to address proportionality doesn't indicate what percentage of indicated departments are in each distribution...you could have, for example, a university police department that's in a district with 15k violent crimes per year but they are only responsible for handling parking and property violations.

I don't doubt there's an impact, I would expect it to be honest, but it's not clear that this article is making an objective case for it.
That's a long term losing strategy and I think they're smart enough to know it.

I'm guessing their current response would be "we have Microsoft 365 for the web" which is becoming less and less adequate.

They'll eventually need to decouple the two and sell them independently. At the end of the day, they're a commercial software company - platform wars aren't in their interest.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24750936
"First, a Vaccine Approval. Then 'Chaos and Confusion'."

"Rooted in Faith, Barrett Presents a New Conservatism"

"The comments from the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff came after the White House tripped over itself on the issue of Afghanistan troop levels in recent days."

"She is a stark departure from traditional Supreme Court Nominees."

The selection of which articles to put on the front page is also evidence of bias.
Your ISP sells your data, your mobile phone carrier sells your data and the apps on your phone sell your data. But it is anonymized so it is no big deal, right? Well, it is not anonymized enough and they sell just enough data that unscrupulous middle ware advertising companies are buying that data and then identifying user information including home addresses.

I am copying and pasting another comment I made on another thread:

"Companies are now promoting data services to advertisers that allow a company to install a cookie on their website and, by just having a user complete a site visit, match an IP address to a physical mailing address with claimed 90% + accuracy. Don't believe me? Check out this company: https://www.eltoro.com/. One of many companies that have recently popped up offering just such a service."

This is achieved by layering user data from mobile applications and user data from ISPs and mobile carriers. Combined it is enough to do some scary stuff.
Exotics are towed all the time. Many exotic rental companies prefer to tow the car for every delivery and pickup. Many owners tow their cars to shows and rallies. (This all seems stupid to me, but I don't own an exotic, so maybe they know something I don't.)
I agree in general, but I think that the problem is that a lot of people refuse to wear masks or exercise even a modicum of social distancing. I think we already have all the tools we need to control COVID to a level where most people can live a relatively normal life but there is a minority of people who refuse to accept that this is a serious problem at all and refuse to take any action, no matter how trivial, to deal with it.
Why have you quoted this bottom line?
I think it is and it isn't. The author definitely believes in testing for people's IQs, so I think the whole section on "identifying talent" is meant to serve as a reductio ad absurdum.

Some of the author's tweets about identifying talent, IQ, and temperament:

· https://share.getcloudapp.com/YEuyyKbE

· https://share.getcloudapp.com/z8uYY5gZ

· https://share.getcloudapp.com/E0urr8B5
Other Things Equal (1992) [pdf]
Deep Learning for Procedural Content Generation – a survey
Best Machine Learning Books for Beginner and Experts in 2020
It aggressively wipes EFI, so the traditional way is still windows first, then Linux.
Based on the rather uniform but manic writing style I expect to learn that this was cobbled together with output from GPT-3.
Good for him. I'm just fine working from home.

Probably knows no way to evaluate his underlings except based on how busy they look?
Why is religion different from other views?
The Toll of Covid-19
This is super cool!

I've been following Numer.ai for a long time and always thought everyone modelling the same dataset would have diminishing returns so opening it up to submitting signals trained on any dataset is super interesting (and I'm sure will have a significant impact on their hedge fund performance)
That's the theory. At the same time, in physics and generally in science any theory must be verified through experiments (rather not falsified, but that's a different story). I'd love to see some experimental data on your assertions.
>Our goal should be a nice balance that is preferable to me.

You've just described politics.
They did separate out never and rarely in the original research survey [1].

Edit: The question was "In 2021+ (after COVID) how often would you like to have paid work days at home?“ (surveying "2,500 US residents aged 20 to 64, earning more than $20,000 per year in 2019 carried out between May 21-25").

The results seem to be:

- 20% Never

- 19% Rarely

- 8.2% 1 day

- 11.1% 2 days

- 11.7% 3 days

- 5.4% 4 days

- 24.2% 5 days

from the diagram [2].

[1] https://siepr.stanford.edu/research/publications/how-working...

[2] https://siepr.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/styles/page-w...
I hate that so much. "Complying with your regional laws makes it harder for my business to scale!" As if gigantic jurisdiction spanning global/national firms were desirable things everyone wants. CCPA is a great example. If a company thinks it's hard to deal with California, I'm happy for them not to, and let a local firm pop up that delivers on the terms I want (CCPA compliance).
That's a no-hire.
Which neo nazi groups are currently a problem in the US?

What left wing groups would you consider banning?
You can infer it from models though. If you know the R number, fatality rate, and death rates you can fit it all to a model and estimate how many people have been infected. Not as simple as that, but my point is that testing people isn't the only method, so imperfect tests don't mean that we definitely don't know the answer.

This is the best one I've seen for the UK - they just updated it today and estimate that 9-15% of people in England have been infected.

https://joshuablake.github.io/public-RTM-reports/iframe.html
Not OP, but for me the ‘it just works’ aspect of Google Wifi fully makes all other aspect of the device irrelevant. I’m quite happy with my 3 node mesh. When combined with gigabit landline it’s great.
I don’t see why they would even have to send the actual audio bits over the wire...? Couldn’t the phone just do some work on audio and send the data after?
The Undying Appeal of Nikola Tesla’s “Death Ray”
Urbanization. It might change with a switch to mobile homes and neo-nomadic lifestyles, flexible villages driven by your friends and preferences list. Everybody thinks that megacities are the future, but maybe they're not.
> If that's the case, then one is assuming that the public is incapable of discerning good ideas from bad ideas.

I'm assuming that the mob can't, and that even a democracy struggles; however, given enough debate good ideas will rise to the top more often than not. The viability of this kind of debate depends on free-speech ideals, however--our debate is presently very toxic in no small part to the fear that cancel culture inspires.
The RCMP isn't a great example for why militarized police are a good idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_controversies_involvin...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24629322
There's typically a training 'residency' period for new police officers as well. Where I'm at it's one year plus the original ~600-1000 hours in academy.
If you ever find yourself wanting a Ferrari, head over to your friendly neighborhood exotics workshop and have a look at the cars that come in.

"Quality" isn't a word I'd use around a Ferrari.
The real WTF was probably the hiring agency that the hiring manager insisted we go through. I'm pretty sure they were coaching their candidates, but we couldn't break away from that agency for some reason (cough kickbacks cough). The answers were suspiciously similar.

But I don't know how much better I could have described what I wanted:

"I want a class for holding a queue of items in memory. The queue will only need to hold a few thousand items, and you don't need to worry about persisting it in case of a power failure or anything. The only wrinkle is that when an item is added to a queue it has a priority. Higher priority items need to come out of the queue before lower priority items, but items with the same priority should come out in the order they were inserted."
I was disappointed this wasn't going where I thought it was - a drinking game.
Judging from the replies it's clear to most people
In my mind, I see the screen door doing better than the chain link fence.
It should sicken you that you can't see the clear difference here. It's not a team issue it's clearly attempting to filter out the ethic ones.
Look to what they do for the government now to get an idea of what they will monetize 10 years from now. Most of the crowd here is probably too young to remember when room 641A was exposed. Several years later, we had Snowden reveal even more with the prism program and bulk collection of metadata. Today, we're here discussing ATT's monetization of the metadata they began collecting and analyzing for the government. Post-9/11, the government was all about behavioral targeting to identify terrorists. Every other day, we're on here talking about Google and Facebook doing it for money. What is the government contracting for today? That's the big tech business of tomorrow.
I saw a sign at a recent protest that read "Silence is Consent". Prior to this, I've been blasted all my life with "Silence is Not Consent".

So which is it? Can you help me out here?

As for myself, I'm certain that silence is not consent. It's a freely-made choice not to take part in something.

Thus, doing nothing is not equivalent to picking winners. Picking winners is when you ... wait for it ... pick winners.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted, but I think it's yet another confirmation that this place has gone full Reddit.
> Do you think the major religions got to be the size they are because people though their story was cute?

Considering that the world's largest religion's central tenet is "turn the other cheek", I don't know if this is exactly a compelling argument for the primacy of intolerance.

It's almost certainly the case that the major world religions, as they're practiced in 2000 AD, are certainly much more liberal and tolerant than their Bronze Age counterparts. The arc of the moral universe is long, but over time it bends towards justice.
If this is the study I remember reading months ago they found some strange results from the gaiter, it was effectively WORSE than wearing no mask. Essentially it aresolized droplets that were caught in other masks, at least that was the common read of their findings. I have yet to read this followup.
From what I hear, most chefs don't do 'real' cooking at home cause they are tired of cooking all time.
I'd rather see Facebook take steps to solve this problem than to start carving out lists of topics that are forbidden. Is there a way they can change the medium to encourage deeper thought, more meaningful conversation, and less virality? Maybe that's a better way to dampen the spread of hatred
> The largest Covid-19 particles can fit 2 wide straight through a N95 mask.

Do they tend to float free in the air? I thought at least the optimistic take on masks was that much of the COVID virus that an infected person sheds isn't loose individual particles, but inside respiratory droplets that are much larger than the virus itself. Like if I'm spilling lemonade, the sugar molecules in the lemonade are extremely small, but most of them are in solution in the liquid and not very much sugar would tend to pass through something that didn't allow much liquid to pass through.

So I thought that while the masks can't block the virus particles, they can often block liquids in which most of the virus particles are present.

edit: the USA Today article that someone else posted in this thread suggests this is broadly right, e.g.

> The virus attaches to water droplets or aerosols (i.e. really small droplets) that are generated by breathing, talking, coughing, etc. These consist of water, mucus protein and other biological material and are all larger than 1 micron.

> “Breathing and talking generate particles around 1 micron in size, which will be collected by N95 respirator filters with very high efficiency,” said Lisa Brosseau, a retired professor of environmental and occupational health sciences who spent her career researching respiratory protection.
One police officer once threw a hand grenade into the crib of a sleeping baby.

Clearly not a good thing, but your phrasing makes it sound like it is some kind of common, repeat experience.
I wonder how Covid will affect labor mobility for white-collar jobs. Driving past the company logo each morning and being surrounded by corporate imagery all day must have some kind of effect.
Doing the right thing is infinitely better than doing the wrong thing, no matter how fast you are at doing it.

Technical excellence is the key to success in surprisingly few businesses. This hurts for engineers to learn, but it's true. By the time you need technical excellence, you usually have more options to get it. But it's rarely the deciding factor compared with doing simple things in the right direction.
Please check your facts before posting. This is misinformation that's been flying around the internet, and it's going to harm people. There's a rundown here: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/11/fac...
We wouldn't even have to do that. PCR test the entire population daily, along with highly enforced quarantine for positive cases until they test negative. If we adopted this approach today, the virus would be eliminated from the U.S. population by Christmas.
Related: Here's a giant list of opt-outs for a fair few companies:

https://simpleoptout.com/
I recently learned that if you mute yourself in Zoom, the space bar acts as a push-to-talk button.
> I want my cut. Pay me.

They very well could say that their product teams (internet, tv, cellular, etc) take the data they sell into account when determining prices and thus prices are lower since barely anyone opts-out of selling the data.
Don't trust one research group, trust the rest of the scientific body rising up to demolish them for obviously bad work:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/experts-demolish-stu...

I think calling it "extreme ignorance of binomial confidence intervals" is incorrect and far too charitable. The authors were intentionally deceitful. Co-authors of the preprint requested that they be taken off the pre-print because they had warned that the statistics were bad. Prior the the prevalence study, they had cherry picked weird data sets and published an editorial. They are clearly trying to bend the data to their preconceived notions, in a really public way.

To see journalists pick up their work again, just because they are at a big name institution, is a huge betrayal of the public trust.
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I think you're right about a lot of trends here, especially the funny point about how airlines rewards programs are worth more than the airlines themselves.

However, business travel and leisure travel shouldn't be conflated. I'm much more worried about the hotel industry - which caters to business travelers that will be significantly impaired for much longer post-COVID.

I.e. domestic Airbnb spending was actually up 22% in July YoY, whereas hotels are still getting destroyed.[1]

[1]: https://trends.edison.tech/research/airbnb-hotel-sales-sept-...
They are all still exist, although not used as much as it should be in my opinion. There is Usenet spam today, although in my experience, most of it comes from Google Groups (although there are good messages from Google Groups too); I have not seen spam coming from other servers (there probably used to be a lot more from other servers, I suppose).
This isn't true.

Fact check: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/06/11/fac...
I hope you get better in time. Side effects is really bad
The problem though is that they are claiming it as official which it is not. It's also easy to see how a few ethic names might get lost in this process...
Paul, I am a big fan I wish you all the best and I keep the fingers crossed!
There was a show HN a while back for a product that makes videochats feel more informal: can't remember what it was called though, maybe someone else can chime in.
And the same 'mea culpa' that Google gave when it was revealed that yes, they were in fact grabbing your network traffic as well when they drove their street view car past your house.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/may/15/google-ad...
And Microsoft jumped from Windows 8.1 to 10 to avoid breaking applications they assume “first digit is 9 means Windows 9x”. And possibly to catch up with Mac OS X 10.x.
A “dead box” in the Viennese woods
So you had one bad experience with one person who didn't do a whiteboard?

How many bad experiences have you had with someone who did? I've had enough that I've lost count.

>like using mutable objects with changing hash codes as dictionary keys kind of bad

I don't think a leet code question would necessarily have screened stuff like that out at all.

>Yeah, but when you ask someone for references they're not likely to give you people who wouldn't speak well of them.

Did you actually talk with these references about what it was like to work with him?

>On the last day he cornered me in the elevator and offered me $100/hr to do his work for him under the table so that he could claim it was his.

That's $200k a year. I find it pretty hard to believe that he was serious.
Linux is a developer movement and attacking Linux means pissing off a large number of developers.

Software companies want to attract developers and have good relationships with them.
Dangerous 0-day malware obfucation technique
> Windows does in fact have a significant end-user market share threat posed by alternatives like Linux, specifically in the cases of Android and Chrome OS. They are eating Windows lunch.

Windows desktop is still as massive as ever. Chrome OS has a 0.42% market share, and Android is not a Windows competitor (it's generally a companion).
I updated the post. Thanks!
You're hosed if you're switching focus away from Zoom (i.e. presenting). The keyboard shortcuts (Alt-A or holding-space-to-unmute) only work when Zoom is in focus

I have 2 monitors, and drag the zoom controls to the non-presenting screen

Getting a headset with a physical mic is probably your best bet

Side note: noise-cancelling headphones are way more useful than you'd think. I delayed for 5 months before buying them, and regret every minute I didn't do it earlier. Doesn't help with the mic, but I didn't realize how much extraneous household noises contributed to my malaise.
The goal of airlines is to maximize shareholder returns subject to regulatory constraints and physics.
I still use a TI-92 calculator, and I often work on paper. Probably many people still work on paper.

Which TI calculators did you mean specifically?
I've been reading about this virus daily since February and my impression has been the opposite. It's a very boring virus which has offered very few surprises. We knew since February that it is a flu-like respiratory disease with high rates of hospitalization and death, especially among the old. The initial estimates for fatality rate were about 4% and that has now been narrowed to 1% based on better testing and treatment. Social distancing and masks are effective at controlling the spread. All of this has been known since February/March, most of it is spelled out here: https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/who-chi...

At the same time, there has been an endless parade of contrarians trying to make the whole thing into a big mystery and muddy the waters for some reason. There was the theory that the virus was spreading much earlier than expected. There was the theory that most cases were asymptomatic and that immunity had already been reached. The theory that lockdowns are not effective. The theory that there were different strains with highly different behavior. Some vague theory about t-cell immunity.

None of these contrarian theories have been supported by any real evidence, but there is a large appetite for them and people will seize on any puzzling number to try to rethink the whole picture of the virus.