skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With so many people ignorant of the science, believing in wild conspiracy theories, being antivaxers and antimakers, of course it's going to become endemic.

It remains to be seen if most people will even get vaccinated if/when a safe and effective vaccine becomes available.

Even if people got vaccinated once, to actually eradicate COVID-19 they might have to get revaccinated multiple times, possibly over a span of years. We can't even get everyone to get flu shots. Getting everyone to get a new vaccine to a disease towards which there's so much disbelief will be even more difficult.

We eradicated smallpox, but that was a fluke. Take a look at the eradication efforts towards HIV, measles, and polio. Much more progress could be made on these fronts, but paranoia, ignorance, and long-held beliefs and behavior patterns stand in the way.

Even if COVID-19 itself is eradicated, something else to consider, that virologists have been pointing out, is that there are plenty of other coronaviruses in various animal species that could make the jump to infect humans, possibly causing another pandemic which is just as bad or even worse.

A major shift in thinking and priorites has to happen globally, on many different fronts to make humans less vulnerable to this kind of disease in the long-run.
If that drops r below 1 long enough it would have to right?

This seems especially hard to do though, since compliance would need to be nearly universal. You could potentially wipe out influenza and the common cold at the same time too though potentially.
Very interesting.

How quickly can you trigger it?

I've experienced something similar but it takes long time to arrive, at least 5-10 minutes, I wonder if with practice you found exactly the state that triggers it and you can do it instantly.

Also, have you felt it as in waves going up and down? or just located in same place ?

And lastly, does it have any health utility?
I understand where you’re coming from, but I also think that having a generally-reasonable-ish response time on decade old hardware that was considered lightweight-tier even at the time is not as awful as you make it seem.
I think hubspot is an interesting inclusion after reading the Dan Lyons books.
They should put them into special measures like a failing school. And BA should be forced (at their own expense) to have regular detailed audits of their information security which are published and scrutinised by the ICO. Maybe for at least two years. Of course one would need to find competent and able auditors and ICO employees to fulfil this.
Yes, that's what MIDI is all about. on/off/volume those are the basic components of any midi file.
How does MSG_MORE save syscalls, given that it's a flag you pass to syscalls? Do you mean "save packets"?
I might be wrong, but the key point between a microcontroller and a application processor is deterministic execution. When controlling a motor say, it might be vital that your interrupt handler finishes in less than 100 clock cycles.

A microcontroller usually[1] doesn't have fancy out-of-order execution, fancy caches etc as that would make the execution less deterministic in time. A MMU would as well.

Lacking these features also make microcontrollers a lot slower, and I'm guessing he's thinking about cost/watts per MIPS or something like that. Yes the application processors draw more power overall, but (I assume) they are so much faster it more than makes up for it in dollars per MIPS or watts per MIPS.

So it appears more of a symptom than a cause. But again, I might be wrong.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_Cortex-M#Silicon_customiza...
> We really ought to start officially standardizing the English language

How can we standardise English when we can't even agree on the spelling of the word 'standardise'.

But, seriously, one of the strengths of English is that it is a democratic language. It is usage which defines the language, not some official body.
Ohh I get your point. What I'm saying is if your not ok with the biggest company on Earth using your code you need to release it GPL.

Dual licencing is also a strategy, GPL is free and commercial usage can be $5,000 a year or whatever.
> Regarding 2: I would love to see some of the community aspects of christianity/religion brought back in a secular form.

You're essentially describing (secular) Humanism, e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular_humanism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanists_UK

https://humanism.org.uk/civi/humanism/local
I can't imagine that `.to_parquet` takes any time at all, relative to `groupby.agg`. But yeah, It would be nice to get seperate benchnmarks for the two parts of your benchmark.

Maybe one-factor groupbys are faster in pandas, while two-factor groupbys (as in https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/) are slower?
As a range or interval specifier, many (most?) non-programmers will assume the interpretation of “midnight” that favours them in any subsequent dispute.

In practice this often means that “from midnight on Monday to midnight on Tuesday” is a 48-hour interval so far as consumers are concerned. I recommend advertising things like cut-off times as “11:59pm” and friends, when possible.

Also, my time formatter turns “12:00” into “12 noon” following weary experience of people who confuse 12:00 with midnight.
And yet, a company that is about a quarter its size and entered the race 2 years later is able to beat them in features, performance and stability, even in these trying times.

All of that and they don't have Enterprise contracts with SLAs!

(I'm talking about Discord)
Vatican used charity funds to bet on Hertz credit derivatives
I think OS creators should reap some of the rewards of their software. Popular OS projects have provided incredible value to the industry. It's only fair that some of that value trickles down. Sometimes it does (sponsorships, job offers, etc.), but oftentimes it doesn't. Obviously there's no rule enforcing that creators get their fair share, and nature of open source means there could never be such a rule. A blessing and a curse, I suppose.
Saying it "never works" is taking it too far. It depends what your goals are. Norwegian is "standardised". There are official versions of the two variants that are used. The prescription has significantly affected the evolution of both variants over decades of gradual language reforms used to bring them closer together.

E.g. we used to count closer to Danish in one of the Norwegian variants - 27 used to be "syv og tyve" ("seven and twenty"), while it is now "tjuesju", both altering the order and the words for twenty and seven. The Danish form was abolished in 1951. You'll still hear people - especially older - use the Danish form now and again, but it has become relatively rare outside of small geographic areas.

It does however not work if you're not prepared to deal with real-world use. E.g. "syv" was reintroduced as a valid (but deprecated) word for "seven", because its use has remained more persistent and proved harder to eradicate.

Norwegian language reforms have mostly been quite pragmatic in that respect - there's a general direction of travel, but the reforms sometimes undoes changes that proves not to "take". But control over what is taught as "correct" in schools has proven to work quite well as a means of making these changes happen, as long as you're patient and accept that certain types of changes are a lot easier to make happen than others.

It also of course matters that the changes makes sense to the users of the language. In the case of the "Danish counting" a lot of Norwegian dialects already used the "new" form, so it was a simplification, not a new
invention - getting people to buy into something entirely new is generally harder.
Ancient footprints of woman carrying toddler while stalked by sabre-toothed cats
I have never seen anyone say that Rust was easier to pick up than Nim...(Famous last words, I know!)
"MMUless" was intended as a nonrestrictive modifier --- I'll remove it to avoid ambiguity. Microcontrollers tend to be built on larger processes than microprocessors are, so they eat through more active-mode power. The point I'm trying to get across is while you can run Linux on a microcontroller (which doesn't have an MMU), there's not a lot of good reasons to do so. Thanks for the feedback!
is the US really worst of all? in some parts yes, in some parts no. it's a big place that offers a lot of autonomy to state and local governments. my take is that coronavirus has shown the strength of the US federal model. even with the woefully incompetent POTUS leading the executive branch, my state has been free to implement a more-or-less sane response to the pandemic. we shut down pretty hard early on, but now indoor dining is back, most shops are open, and we have a very low transmission rate.
There's a lot of justification for ethical percentage-based businesses. Particularly if the service provided is provided on each transaction.

It also means they don't make any money if their customers don't make any money. It's a good incentive for providing a quality product, over say, a single lump sum purchase price.
The problem is that people disagree on (1) the size/scope of "a community" (2) the obligations a person has to said "community". It gets more complicated because the size and the obligations vary depending on what is being discussed. Most people are fairly comfortable with the idea of some kind of responsibility (even just taxes) towards national defense. Not many people are comfortable with the idea that they have responsibility for fixing the little bridge that crosses the small river in a town 300 miles away.
"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" is her signature book and for many (myself included) a spiritual experience to read.

"The Writing Life" is the best book about the process of creating that I have ever read, and I often suggest it to my design teams. (Designers like to read books about design, but you don't hire designers because they're good at words. You want to read about creating? Read books by writers.)

One of my favorite excerpts from The Writing Life:

> A well-known writer got collared by a university student who asked, “Do you think I could be a writer?”
“Well," the writer said, “I don’t know... Do you like sentences?"
The writer could see the student’s amazement. Sentences? Do I like sentences? I am 20 years old and do I like sentences? If he had liked sentences, of course, he could begin, like a joyful painter I knew. I asked him how he came to be a painter. He said, “I liked the smell of the paint."
I have no illusion that this will ever be perfect, but there is something that may be 'good enough' for the general purpose and then maybe we can very incrementally improve from there. One way in which to solve this is to use an algorithm for the bulk and a database of exceptions for cases where the algorithm would get it wrong.
In addition, there is no positive vision of the future for society as a whole. What does the US look like in 2075 or 2100? All we get are dystopias.

I get that the World, and Europe in particular, got badly burnt by Utopias in the 20th century. But still seems like something is needed - especially given the looming geopolitical changes.
Haha nice. Oh man I got the very year wrong in my first post!
It depends what you mean by work. I read an article a few months back which was saying that the addition of "modern" technology washing machines and the like doesn't give you more free time, it gives you the opportunity for doing more things so you feel more busy and tired because you are doing more things in the same amount of time!
And I have another book to read, my book collection is starting to become like my steam collection.
I inserted 78 learning moments to my day
The internet has beaten me more often than I like to admit...
Yesterday, I visited unproductive sites (Reddit, Facebook, Instagram etc) 78 times! Fuck! Most of those times I wasn't consciously visiting those sites. It just happened..

That's why I made a useful chrome extension for myself that redirects me from distracting websites to useful and interesting websites! No more Reddit for me, but more Indiehackers! No more Instagram, but Trends.co. No more YouTube, but more Producthunt.

You get the picture

If that sounds something you want to try, you can add it to your chrome browser for free. Any suggestion would be more than welcome!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/focusfox/knbdgliejcpphfbehgoannkgphpbmncj
Repost from the Reddit:

https://h2oai.github.io/db-benchmark/ is obligatory to show as well. I think you should probably note that this isn't just DataFrames.jl but also in conjunction with Queryverse tools. the reason is because it's somewhat known that the Queryverse tools are very nice to use but not as performant as other parts of the Julia programming language (performance is a result of the language and how it's used). For example, the Parquet to DataFrame conversion that you're using has known performance issues: https://github.com/queryverse/ParquetFiles.jl/issues/32

In general, very nice benchmark contribution and thanks for helping showcase the performance landscape.
Overview and Init Operational Exp of the Limpet Wave Energy Plant pdf 2002
I think it's more that people are not familiar with the formal presentation of the problem. I doubt many people would have difficulty understanding a less abstract statement:

dog => mammal (dog implies mammal )

What can we say about not a dog ? (can be a cat, or a chair... )
What can we say about not a mammal ? (can be a chair, building... )

It's more intuitive because we as human understand the groups.
It’s usually the “supply and” part that people don’t believe; “demand” is less controversial.
NIM and Red (also on HN today) seem both seem to have an interesting and intersecting feature set.
Anybody here used or heavily evaluated both that can comment?
Random preference, huh?

Who wants to tell them?
I also noticed there seemed to be a bit of cognitive dissonance in this fact. I started reading the other posts and it appears the writer is doing the same thing he is railing against. On top of that, the writer does not have any identifying info about their domain expertise. That being said, still found it an interesting read.
LSM Tree Visualizations led to a 80% reduction in data ingestion time
Ever read anything mutually intelligibile with english? I think it is pretty fun. -

https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
Here is the HN discussion of the article described : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24793546

I'm not seeing any top comments talking about GPT-3 or anything that he talks about
If this is true then they should’ve moved JS to a CDN or something and used SRI.
Nice idea and design, best of luck! Seems like this is mainly for businesses, but presumably there's also a market for individuals renting equipment (e.g. tools/lawnmowers to neighbours)?

Small issue: was reading the FAQ and every time the screenshots carousel resets it automatically scrolls me up to the screenshots carousel.
There's a famous summary of human nature: people are cooperative, altruistic and non-violent towards their in-group, and distrustful, violent and selfish towards their out-group.

I try to look at the long arc of human history as basically the story of how we grow the size of the "in-group" and shrink the size of the "out-group". It isn't easy, but we have made significant progress over the centuries.
`A good way to think about hiring and growing your team members is to think that they can replace you.`
This is really wrong.
Manager is a path, but an IC shouldn't need to become a manager to keep growing in their career.
One amusing thing I saw in the two courses I mentioned is that in Intro to Logic, we spent something like a month learning each of the eighteen rules of inference, gradually adding a couple each day until we were familiar with all of them.

In Discrete Math, the professor wrote out the eighteen rules in as part of a single lecture and then we had homework due that same week wherein we were expected to know and use all of them. (He may have introduced predicate logic in that same lecture.)

Intro to Logic was a philosophy course, but some majors allowed students to take it instead of their one required College Algebra course. The result was it was a lot of very non-technical people who struggled with intro algebra, and consequently struggled with formal logic. (Predicate logic was the focus of the third section of the course later on.)

Discrete Mathematical Structures was a math/cs course, where almost every student was a CS major, so it was predominantly technically-minded people for whom formal logic was at least very familiar, if not natural.
I attended my local UU church extensively as an atheist for awhile. 10/10 would recommend.
> Eventually Silicon Valley will end up like Detroit, with abandoned 4-over-1 condo complexes and empty office parks where the software industry once stood.

What if the secular demand for living in Silicon Valley is higher than Detroit? What if Detroit was desirable due to the economics and infrastructure constraints of that time, but what if people like the other aspects, such as location and weather,of living somewhere?

Not that it’s not possible for that to change either, but my point is different pieces of land may be more or less desirable than others outside of economic conditions.
I also gained this ability after meditating for an hour every day for ~4 months. A BUNCH of weird things started happening actually and I kind of backed off of it because of them. It proved to be a lot more than I really signed up for. (Fascinating things happened though...)

...But I have retained the piloerection ability, which I can do on command within 2-5 seconds or so. There's also some weird sensations in my sinuses I can trigger... it feels like the tissues contracting or something, not sure what it actually is, but that's what it feels like. ...And I regularly cry now at sad things, like movies and stories and the like. I used to never cry. Not like I was holding it in, but like, it just didn't happen.
Moral Collapse and State Failure: A View from the Past
>> Institutions protect insiders because every insider must mask their self-interest and the general failure of the institution. Insiders protect other insiders lest transparency reveal the insiders' skims and scams and the failure of the institution to fulfill its purpose

That is exactly what I thought was going on. Most big companies definitely give off that vibe and the longer you work there, the more you get promoted, the more dirt you uncover, the more you get paid, and the least value you create...

What are the odds that the author of this article came to the exact same (very specific) conclusion as I did? Clearly it's a matter of time before this is going to blow wide open.
Yeah, I've definitely worked with non-engineers (project managers, designers, QA, etc) who are more than capable of understanding technical issues even if they don't get the details. They're usually great people to work with, and I try to extend the same courtesy to other parts of the business that I work with.
'The Culture 500 measures company performance across nine cultural values — agility, collaboration, customer orientation, diversity, execution, innovation, integrity, performance, and respect'.

I'd say this is dangerous, self serving nonsense by academics cargo culting what they think large corporations look like from outside.
The valuation data is suspect (GlassDoor etc) and anyone who has worked inside any of these entities see through the identity politics pr signaling put out by corporate comms.

The only way to accurately gather data on companies is by exit poll, people who have left a company and have no skin in the game and possibly a dissenting opinion. I'd rather scale up my thoughts and views from criticism than try to make sense of this fluff
Honestly, I agree with this. Your ethical standards should be encoded in the license.

OTH, if you treat people like a jerk (for example by forking their code and not involving or crediting them) there are practical social repercussions from that, but probably AWS is not much impacted by that.
From my experience in Germany: You can still write however you want. The rules mainly matter if you are in school or in publishing or similar. Thus language can still evolve and the standardization body will eventually catch up.

In some ways auto correct is a stronger enforcer.
My mental model of Hunter Biden is a well-coiffed crack addict, who probably has said and done a thousand things and as likely as not has no clue what scams he was engaged in in 2015. He could potentially verify the emails; he could hem and haw out of embarrassment; he could lie; he could have himself lost access to the emails, which were, after all, downloaded onto the laptop he ostensibly lost.

And suppose you're a campaign operative, and you've been tasked with finding out from Hunter whether the emails are authentic or not. He swears that they're not. Next question: do you bet the campaign on his honesty?

> my guess is they probably did verify to some extent

Probably verifying to some extent is frustrating when it's trivial to mathematically prove authenticity via DKIM.

As far as social media and big tech goes, as soon as they took on this role of moral arbiters of the world, they signed onto an endless stream of these controversies. This is the world we live in now.
There appear to be other factors at work in Japan. Despite a high level of mask usage, a recent study found their infection rate was one of the highest in the world. Of course it wasn't a random sample so it's hard to tell what's really happening.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.21.20198796v...
Thanks for asking this question. However, sample size is pretty large. There is a whole community of Sadhus and monks practising this for centuries. This is simply a part of Yoga.

Sample size seems small because Wim wants to hide his sources. See my other comment[1].

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24801967
When I update a ticket I write it expecting someone else to read it. It’s well written and thought out. When I chat I say whatever is reasonable, it’s low effort.

Note I didn’t call out sensitive information specifically. Just that you wished you deleted messages. You shouldn’t store secrets in a ticket system either.
Dog breeds are different from produce varietals. With produce they get consistently the same fruit with grafting and such. The genome is locked in place.

Animal breeds are more subjective. There isn't really an analogous way to pin one down a create consistent copies. If the hypothetical dog company could do this kind of cloning, they would probably spare themselves the hassle by producing only sterilized clones.
Mind sharing which state? I might move in the future, and knowing that I can find sanity somewhere might be useful info...
If core developers are bought up by a single company, I'd be wary of the future control, direction and progress of the project. The open source version would likely stagnate as the commercial version gains features. It'd be hard not to align with company goals and plans when your paycheck depends on it.

Better would be to use mechanisms that already exist to sponsor the core developers for a length of time (Patreon, liberapay, etc). Alternatively, companies like Amazon could create an internal fund that assists key open source projects they've commercialized to set up as non-profits and then makes donations to them over X number of years.
Silicon Valley goes much further back than the Internet Industry.
System calls not packets.

By using sendmsg() with MSG_MORE instead of write(), you can avoid the setsockopt() with TCP_CORK to cork before the write, and the later setsockopt() with TCP_NODELAY to push despite the cork.

You can't give MSG_MORE to sendfile(), though with HTTP you don't need to. But if you need an equivalent of MSG_MORE with sendfile() you can in theory use SPLICE_F_MORE with splice() instead.
Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world because he underpays labor. Taking open source code without even a cursory attribution is completely within the ethos of Amazon.