skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> To think that one can casually split a project 1000 ways is assuming the mythical man month.

But I never said that. Quite a lot of people are reading my comment wrongly.

Like I said, I don't doubt that some devs are more productive than others. The question is whether it's worth paying up for the top guy, as opposed to the next guy. I never said you can just divide the top guy's salary by n average guys.

In a sports situation, the power law is much steeper. It's adversarial. And all the merchandise arguments connect to this too, it's all the same, the top guys kill and eat everything, everyone else around them are like housekeepers, they have work because it would not make sense to have CR7 do anything other than score goals. It's even well known that he doesn't track back, others have to fill in the defensive hole for him, and it's worth it.

It's also a principle of good software that other people should be able to understand your code. That's cooperative. Number 2 might be worse than number 1, but he doesn't get pummelled. Hopefully if you have a top character on your team, he helps everyone get better.

It's often not very obvious where the productivity is coming from, though of course everyone wants you to think it's them. In sports you can have the entire movement history of a player for every match they've ever played in. You know who is fast, who scores, who makes the passes, etc. And you have a well defined metric for what the goal is, and those goals have been static since the dawn of time. In business, you have constantly moving goalposts. Quick and dirty can beat well-thought, best-practice engineering. People have heterogenous roles, and you don't know what they're doing every minute of every day. That makes it a lot harder to think about who is better.

This all leads to the curve of reasonable pay being a lot less steep. I'm not saying there's no curve.
You have a problem with advocating for correct representation of people’s names?
thank you! i guess you can say that we were a bit naive about this whole permissive license thing so it now feels better to have some of the protection that AGPL brings
> which is especially ironic as you are usually explicitly requested to provide the name as stated in the passport.

Mine either doesn't go through, or goes through and is silently trimmed down to whatever amount of chars they support.
Wtf machine learning has enabled humanity to solve real world problems that brought a LOT of value.
I find this paragraph to be too neutral about HCL, and tbh a bit out of date:

> Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are other potential but controversial drugs that interfere with the entry of SARS-CoV-2. They have been used in the prevention and treatment of malaria and autoimmune diseases, including systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis. They can inhibit the glycosylation of cellular receptors and interfere with virus–host receptor binding, as well as increase the endosomal pH and inhibit membrane fusion. Currently, no scientific consensus has been reached for their efficacy in the treatment of COVID-19. Some studies showed they can inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection in vitro, but the clinical data are insufficient. Two clinical studies indicated no association with death rates in patients receiving chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine compared with those not receiving the drug and even suggest it may increase the risk of dying as a higher risk of cardiac arrest was found in the treated patients130,131. On 15 June 2020, owing to the side effects observed in clinical trials, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revoked the emergency use authorization for chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for the treatment of COVID-19

The in vitro studies that showed HCL efficacy were using vero lines, basically kidney cells. Those cells don't express the TMPRSS2 receptor, which is expressed on lung cells though. Studies have shown since that if you modify vero lines to express TMPRSS2, or use lung cells instead of kidney cells, HCL has no effect. It's kinda understandable that the earlier studies have used vero lines, because it's a standard cell line. But research has moved on since. The newer study has come out in July and should have been known to the authors of this review.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2575-3
I agree. Picking too open a license is a danger for OSS-based corporations, which the original article explains nicely. Glad they recognized the problem and fixed it, instead of succumbing to the Scylla and Charybdis of BSD-style openness and closed-source copycats.
"Currently, our knowledge on the animal origin of SARS-CoV-2 remains incomplete to a large part."

So we still have no proof of SARS-CoV-2 originating from natural selection, just as we have no proof of human intervention. I often read the first hypothesis is far more likely than the second, but I do not agree. The actual probabilities to be compared are:

- the likelihood of a virus outbreak due to natural selection in Wuhan

- the likelihood of a virus resulting from a gain of function experiment "escapes" from Wuhan BSL4

Note that we are sure that Wuhan BSL4 was doing gain of function experiments. Also note that natural virus outbreaks are quite likely when looking at China as a whole, China is big, or even when looking at the whole world. But that does not answer the question at hand, and that does not make the natural selection hypothesis "far more likely".
> A shared RNG seed is essentially entanglement.

Classical entanglement, which is not good enough to explain quantum entanglement.
Works like that in French -- with subtle caveats depending on the length of the name and weather it starts with a vowel: "D'Alembert", "De Sèze", "De Gaulle"... but "La Rochefoucauld".
Example given?
There are actually a whole series of algorithms used to help match the name on your passport with the name in the airline reservation system, due to absolute mayhem when dealing with asian names for example
I'm working with a different type of serverless approach.

For a few hackathons now my team tries to push a client-side frontend + smart-contracts on a blockchain as a backend solution. This has a UX hit (some downsides of it could be mitigated though) but it made our business logic easier to implement. Depending on the project it has additional benefits to go with this stack. This cannot be applied to every project though and usually the UX hit or the lack of private transactions is enough to favor more traditional stacks.
> "Jukka Pekka" [...] also you could have 2 names "Jukka" and "Pekka"

How is that distinguished in legal documents/while registering the name/...?
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Could it be related to Zwarte Piet? Perhaps Facebook is just banning everything containing "Zwart" in its content, just to be on the safe side.
Also he's just generally a jerk.
They can if you are signed in using the same Google Account that was invited to the document
None of this has anything to do with AI. It’s just a barely tangential critique of... society? Capitalism? Either way it has nothing to do with the OP.
Still waiting for ai to predict or at least help with a solution for covid.

Jokes aside, ai has done a great job for chatbots, deep fakes, profiling customers and analysing stats about data. Beyond that its mostly sensationalism.
Cartam – a P2P marketplace dedicated to cryptocurrency users
thank you! the easy / "obvious" choice was to close source but this was not really something we wanted to consider. we're in the privacy first space and we want to stay fully open source. AGPL should hopefully protect us better from similar commercial threats in the future
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Facebook's new ban on holocaust denial won't extend to other genocides
Only if the measurements align. If they do you get perfectly correlated numbers. If the angles are 90 degrees apart you get completely unrelated numbers.

The problem comes in when the angle between your two measurements is anything else. The chance that the measurements match is based on the cosine of that angle. There's no way for this to happen if the measurements are independent.

If you try to write two equations, where the first equation takes the secret particle state and first angle and gives you 1 or 0, and the second equation takes the secret particle state and second angle and gives you 1 or 0, you won't be able to reproduce the odds you get in the real world. Only equations that know both angles will work.
Interesting, why you're using 3 readers?

Why use BazQux for GitHub and nothing else (it supports Facebook feeds too)?
Raindrop.io is my go-to. I’ve tried Pocket, Google Keep and Collect by WeTransfer before. And always found myself coming back to Raindrop every single time. It’s great because its free tier is more than enough if you’re looking for “keep track of all the interesting sites/articles” and that’s that. Also, it’s cross platform.
And I made a presumptuous comment in another thread about the irony of the author getting it wrong.

Whether that’s you or not, I apologise.

I shall leave my shame there, as a reminder to myself.
Facebook's obsessed with showing me ads for some kind of plastic earplug for treating tinnitus and non-chafing underpants at the moment. What I don't get is who the heck all the people under the ad commenting about how great the product is are coming from. Is anybody that excited about buying something that they make a point to look out for the ad in future so they can comment on it?
Does it require actually "inventing" something, i.e. specific genetic manipulation to achieve the desired effect, or can you just try a bunch of things and go "whatever this is exactly, that's what I have a patent on now"?
They are all Latin according to Unicode 1.0

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_script_in_Unicode
Great VS Code plugin to Polaroid your code and taking snapshots
Are you chiding someone for knowing and communicating their confusion and assumptions? When someone is already communicating enough self-awareness to obviate that, either contribute clarifying information or say nothing.
I appreciated the science that went into Delta-V but I just couldn't enjoy the book itself. Random things happening that provide continual doses of danger and excitement I can deal with. But main characters making engineering decisions that seem designed to provide that less so. And secondary characters whose only motivation I could figure out was to keep up that same danger and excitement just ended up making the book unenjoyable for me.
This is a kind of help vampire question. If you don't have problems which made you look at big data solutions, don't look for them. Those solutions will create problems for you if you don't already have them.

Using those things (Kafka, Hadoop etc.) when you don't have sufficient data to justify it is like using a supertanker to do your grocery shopping.
I've frequently reported those ads on Facebook as misleading scams. Doesn't seem to make any difference.
> try rebooting the instances

I haven't done anything with serverless, but surely the class of problems that would be fixed by an instance restart don't happen in the first place on serverless
Cant read the site as I am opting to decline the consent of being tracked by cookies and tricked by marketing to buy things I don't need.
Why should they do that?
I’m not wrong you should really check out Baltimore.
Unfortunately there are lots of companies with Zero AGPL policy. I remember there were some BSD/MIT + No Business Clauses license.

I wonder if Plausible discovered someone else selling software based on their code?

Although my guess is that it shouldn't matter much? Most people would want Hosted Analytics. So Open Source is only there for insurance.
I don't know who the audience for this article is, whether it's hardware people struggling to pass regulatory compliance, or whether it's paranoid people thinking they can somehow escape surveillance.

For passing certification, the best advice is really shielding closest possible to the source. Bury all signals, have no cables, shield the die if anything. If you can, bury the die.

For escaping surveillance, make sure to never leave the shielded room, or meet with people who do. /s
What does a war zone look like exactly?
What frequencies are you blocking and at what powers?

I've spent a while trying to build a poor man's fariday cage for phone testing and found it almost impossible to isolate handsets.
> One fail state would be if FB is censored in a way that people can't express their opinions anymore,

There is already such a group obviously. There have been new social media services to cater specifically for them (gab etc). It’s a tiny group though.

So long as the group that leaves (or doesn’t join) Facebook because of what’s there is much larger than the group who leaves because of what can’t be said, the “failure mode” is too little censorship, not too much.
True. It’s sad that they hastily sourced tons of MRAPs that turned out useless, but they probably belong to museums and scrapyards.
I agree with you, however these are small issues compared to having arbitrary requirements for names which create real life problems.
No one should be surprised, this happens in many areas, but is mostly equally perplexing to most people:

- For a virus, other than burn-out or vaccine (SARS-Cov-1 burned out; SARS-Cov-2 likely won't), the number of dead people is basically independent of measures -- masks and lockdowns can change the distribution over time, but to first order, that's all they can do; (2nd order effects - collapse of the medical system, and development of better treatments such as clonal antibodies, vitamin D, etc - are also important, of course, and that's why we should employ masks and lockdowns - but we should measure their effect realistically compared to what they can actually achieve)

- In a communication channel, the SnR is roughly speaking the only thing that determines the channel capacity. Knowing where the noise signal has been disruptive turns out to not change that capacity. (Although, again there is a 2nd order effect - if you can tell where and how the noise had been disruptive, you can considerably simplify the design of the transmitter and the receiver - but not increase the capacity).

It's the difference between accidental and inherent complexity. I'm not saying that people's inattention is inherent -- it can be changed; however, given a level of inattention which is likely the inherent cause of accidents, high visibility clothing will possibly change the distribution of accidents over road kinds and time-of-day, but not their overall numbers.
Yes, i meant "aren't". Damn you autocorrect!
The AGPL was a good defensive extension of the GPL, but the landscape has shifted and it's falling behind. We need an AGPL++.

AGPL tries to target hosted services, preventing cloud companies from taking open source components without contributing anything back.

But you know what the AGPL misses? Our data.

We need open source licenses that require the systems that make use of them to provide data export and the right to be forgotten. We should encode the GDPR into our licenses. This would prevent Facebook from taking open source and using it to lock away our data.

We should also fight back against embrace, extend, extinguish. Apple is trying to take over computing and prevent us from running our own software on our own devices. We should prevent them and anyone else trying to do this from using our software.

No right to compute on your platform? Fine. No rights to open source software.

We have to defend computing and open source, otherwise we'll all wind up using thin clients to access walled silos. And we'll be renting the access, too.
Controversial... How about Oncology? It appears to be making a big difference there. Plus there was AlphaGo, which was thought to be impossible, up until the very moment it actually worked, right?
Stationary bikes are pretty useless for getting from A to B though.
Yeah, in the Netherlands we also don't use the "de" and "van" for sorting so it was confusing to find my badge under the "v" at American conferences the first time. Ah well, what can you do? A friend of mine had his FB acount blocked for failing to provide a real name (his last name is "Fun"), ironically after he gave FB a false name they did accept it.
>I don't understand what this is supposed to mean. How are e.g. coq tactics not the exact same?

Coq tactics are code - you write terms using tactics, and you edit the term by editing the tactics. Save and load the file, and only the tactics stick around.

In this version, tactics write code - you use tactics to generate a term (Haskell code), and then you can edit the term itself. Save and load the file, and all you get is the Haskell code: the tactics only existed for codegen.

>Not having the metaprogram which generated the code around just strikes me more as an anti-feature.

Why? The trouble with metaprogramming is that you basically never want to have the power to simultaneously edit the program and the metaprogram. As you yourself pointed out, tactics would be terrible as an opaque metaprogram - they only work if you don't care about the particular term they generate.

Tactic metaprogramming lets you write terms quickly - it fulfills a need that lots of Haskell programmers have, which is that certain type signatures have "obvious" inhabitants and actually expressing those inhabitants can itself feel like a lot of boilerplate. But since you need to edit the Haskell code itself, the metaprogram must disappear. You won't miss it, since you won't need to regenerate the program from the metaprogram.

>the image presented uses some form of auto tactic to generate an entire term in one go

Because it's built out of several tactic steps, which the article goes into the construction of. You could still (presumably) have built it piece by piece, by applying each tactic one at a time - and each step only modifies the term slightly, leaving a hole for later steps.
Tin foil connected to ground and you are done. What is difficult about that?
A Nobel prize is often rewarded for work that was done a decade or more ago. That alone makes it difficult to anticipate winning it. Also, there will usually be many worthy candidates. On top of that, the list of nominees is kept secret. So no, I guess that most Nobel laureates did not expect the prize when they got it.
You missed voice recognition, machine translation and copyright violation detection. (Where it creates problems for content creators.)

And some automated blood morphology analysis and MRI/CT/scintigraphy/X-ray analysis, but that's in research so far.
Does someone have a good explanation/intuition for why you cannot exploit quantum entanglement to send information faster than light?

If me observing the particle in Australia alters the probability distribution of your particle in USA, can't I only observe the particle when I want to communicate 1 and never observe it when I want to communicate 0?

Edit: thanks a lot for the answers! I guess it boils down to the fact that the Australian guy cannot condition his decision on the (unknown) spin of his particle -- if he could (eg: had access to the local hidden information) then he would be able to update the USA's probability distribution instantaneously and use it to communicate
Machine translation is the most obvious one.
It’s a new feature. There’s some related discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24754456
The First Look at Boom’s Supersonic Plane [video]
Reminds of something that was on the HN frontpage some month ago, where readers are not sure if it's a parody or not, because of the architecture you're required to deploy yourself to use this new "Perspective" product. Direct link to the architecture, that in the end serves the use case of generating a diagram of your AWS resources: https://d1.awsstatic.com/Solutions/Solutions%20Category%20Te...

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/aws-perspec...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24552779

(regarding costs, this setup ends up being +$500/month, again, to draw graphs of your architecture https://twitter.com/der_rehan/status/1308242717307174912)
You're getting rid of a whole lot of lower stack issues, and I say this as a part infra guy myself.

Yes, Ops will still have stuff to do, it will just be at another level.

It's inevitable, that's why we're not making our own memory cores anymore.
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IIRC one issue with the current design is that as new rows are written in a different place, all indexes on that table have to be updated as well, leading to write amplification. If you do an update in place, you don't need to modify indices (but now that I think of it, what about concurrently running transactions that might want to read the old values using the old indices...?)

Also during the vacuum there's a lot of writes marking rows as available.
Containers Are Linux (2017)
So tell me, this only applies to newer versions, doesnt it?
To give further explanation without studying readme.md I want to summarise feature set within ~100SLOC core:

* data-binding, action-binding

* reactivity

* redux-style management system

* no webpack needed, works in .html file

* include whatever JS library you want. There is no transpiler or bundler!

* use template string stateless components
You might start with the links on https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
The outbreak happening in Wuhan does not mean that the virus originated there. In the beginning there was more genetic variety seen in Guangdong, which is a sign that the virus originated there and not in Wuhan.
Here is the online book with its documentation and some usage examples:

https://docs.optaplanner.org/7.44.0.Final/optaplanner-docs/h...
15-Year-Old Computer Whiz Who Died in 2006 Could Become First Millennial Saint
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