skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To clarify some of the confusion- my point is not that the world is great. My point is that if I free myself from intellectual rigor and data/evidence based claims, and allow myself to focus on emotion, vague statements, and anecdote, I can paint whatever picture I want. lots of good examples in replies about how dome of the wishy washy statements don't really hold up - thats the point - I only mentioned spacex while leaving out the money pit that is SLS for example.

Ultimately the irony here is that the article itself is a pretty good example of self interest - its a bunch of the type of arguments they go after academics for making, and then uses it to try and sell their book.
I love that channel! I was really impressed when he attempted to eat the Civil War-era hardtack.
I really wish I had access to this, I have chemotherapy induced tinnitus and it has been mostly unchanged since finishing chemo 5 years ago.

My Oncologist said it would get better over time, and it has, but its still far off from where I was when I started.
Non-Data Signals in Entrepreneurship
> people left because the only thing keeping us there was a paycheck and family

People only put up with SV's downsides for the paycheck, most of them don't even have family there.
Repurposed antiviral drugs for Covid-19 – Interim WHO trial results [pdf]
What part of this quote gives you that impression?
before reading the article my initial answer was 'nothing'
The huge video data set that their users are sharing with them could become a valuable asset for Comma AI.
Surely the answer is "of course you can", just tack on "all media mentions must have an approved attribution without which all license terms are null and void" to any license and viola!?
> There's a reason senior engineers are paid what they're paid, and it's because it saves time like this

The right senior engineers, yes. The wrong ones, OTOH, would have gone further down the crazy path, inventing an all-new programming language and runtime for the server-distributed code (for 'security' or 'performance' or whatever other reason seemed to pass muster).

> They have a shop where designs are done in caffeinated weekend pushes without input from other developers.

I have a strict rule on my teams: no development outside of work hours (whatever 'work hours' means for an individual, where there are roughly 8 work hours in a day and five work days in a week). It is absolutely vital that developers get to recharge their mental batteries, in particular because a symptom of overwork is bad judgment, and a symptom of bad judgment is being less able to judge one's own decisions. Log out, go home (or walk away from one's desk), spend time with one's family: the work will still be here tomorrow, or Monday.
Makes me wonder if a company could "give" the influencer something that looks benign with an extravagant retail price (£100k+) that costs very little to make, and tip off the tax authorities.

Would love to see HMRC come down on these jobsworths.
> What can we say about `not A' and `not B'?

Haha, yes. I interpreted the `and` in that sentence as the logical connective, and (A → B) says nothing about (¬A ∧ ¬B). But he meant `and` in the human language sense.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9640384
Ernst & Young are one of the 'Big Four' but it used to be one of the 'Big Five' until Enron and Arthur Anderson went down.

Will it soon be the 'Big Three'?
This is usually comes from a confusion of upfront costs and ongoing.

For example a printing press. To use old tech as an example. The press itself is wildly expensive. So I will have to divide that price across all things I sell using that press. However once the press is paid off my marginal costs are little more than cost of paper, shipping it around, and paying someone to run/fix the press. Computer chips are made of silicon one of the cheaper materials to buy out there. The up front costs of setting up a foundry is akin to buying a printing press. An older tech foundry can still make marginal money as the big cost is already been paid for. Everything after is marginal.
Where would you go though? Always interested in hearing people's answer to that.
Show HN: I have made a Twitter bot that Tweets a Hadith every hour
On the other hand, I don’t write FOSS in the hopes that some corporate overlord will eventually recognise my work and essentially buy the project from me with a job offer. I write FOSS because fuck you I have a computer and an internet connection and I’m going to do whatever I want. If you want to fork it, go ahead, but I’ll be damned if I’m going to spend my time (paid or unpaid) writing features that only make sense to Amazon.
SV will probably end up like NJ, still one of the most advanced and prosperous places in the USA.
Quite a few. Maybe not at the national scale as much, but definitely at the community scale. For instance, socialists in Seattle are collecting donations to buy school supplies, laptops, tablets, etc. for kids who are unable to afford them while attending school from home. Another thing is paying bail for people who cannot afford it.
"not B" doesn't mean "something else which is not identically B", it means "the negation of B". Also, the statement "A->B" has absolutely no bearing on the statement "B->A". Hope this helps.
Agreed. His base cause appears to be "self interest" but hasn't that always been case? What's different about today that makes self interest a bigger influence?

To reparaphrase a popular quote: those who forget about the past are doomed to complain about the present.
Don't CC-NC licenses count?
Wearable Wonderland: How Tech is tackling Covid-19
> Facebook is most definitely centralized. So is Twitter, and so is YouTube.

I think it's not about technical centralized/decentralized but about who decides what can be read. Pre-social-media: journalists are selected by companies based on political alignment and are controlled by their editors, only journalists get published, average people cannot communicate with each other at scale, journalists/media companies have total control over information and thereby over the perception of reality.

Social media changed that. You can no longer just put an embargo on a story and expect people not to learn about it, as was made very obvious in Germany at new year's eve 2015. The news will spread via social media and there's nothing you can do about it short of shutting down the communication networks.

Federated social networks take that a step further by also removing Facebook's centralized control from the system, but that's a minor step, because Facebook doesn't interfere with their users that much. At least that was true, the Hunter Biden thing might be a taste of what's to come.
If your system is basically one long-running process, why would you need Linux? Maybe something lighter weight, like FreeRTOS, would be a better fit?
A course in logic is often offered in a Phil Dept, perhaps as a way to meet liberal studies requirements (that's where I took it, and where the course is at the school where I now teach).

The equivalence of A => B and ~B => ~A is taught in every college and university CS program I've ever seen, as part of a standard course that may be called something like Discrete Math. I teach this course out of a book by Rosen and another popular author is Epp. This equivalence is also, as many other posters noted, perfectly natural to a person with a technical bent.

But I understood the piece's author's point to be that they are looking for a certain maturity. When we teach, we see that there are stages of competence through which students pass. First they are able to ape the required work on a sentence-by-sentence basis, but not whole problems from start to finish. Next they are able to reliably work entire problems, but only in a context (for instance, they can do induction in the Induction section but outside of it they are easily confused). Finally, with enough practice, they have a larger view and can select the appropriate tool for the job when there are a lot of tools lying around, as well as apply that tool. (FWIW, I take the posters here saying that the author didn't prompt well enough to be recognizing those stages, implicitly.)
The GNU project disagrees:

This license is also sometimes called the “4-clause BSD license”.

This is a lax, permissive non-copyleft free software license with a serious flaw: the “obnoxious BSD advertising clause”. The flaw is not fatal; that is, it does not render the software nonfree. But it does cause practical problems, including incompatibility with the GNU GPL.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#OriginalBSD
Interim results of a randomized trial with 11,266 adults in 405 hospitals in 30 countries.

Conclusions: "These Remdesivir, Hydroxychloroquine, Lopinavir and Interferon regimens appeared to have little or no effect on hospitalized COVID-19, as indicated by overall mortality, initiation of ventilation and duration of hospital stay. The mortality findings contain most of the randomized evidence on Remdesivir and Interferon, and are
consistent with meta-analyses of mortality in all major trials."
>The Bay Area has amazing weather, unbelievable scenery, world-class recreation, and tons of music and culture.

The weather will persist, but the rest are qualities of cities with large populations who have lots of disposable income.
The FBI has the hard drive and they have not denied any of the allegations. Biden’s lawyers haven’t denied the allegations. Biden’s campaign has not denied the authenticity of the emails.

Your argument is “I don’t believe it, so it must be false”
Does this actually do anything or is it a page that just hard codes "no"?
^ Listed the 2 that I think really need help above

Biology isn't nearly as organized as software, so the bio communities are a bit disparate. It also doesn't help that biology has such a large scope. From my experience, conferences and academic labs seem to be the only real places were bio folks congregate. To get a sense of needs, conferences are definitely the way to go. iGEM comes to mind as probably the best one to attend.

The culture is a little bit different, too, which might impact that. The idea of someone coming and saying "hey I have some <engineering> skill, how can I help?" is pretty foreign. Contributions are almost always from people within a lab, so there aren't any mechanisms in place to get interested outsiders involved.

I think that'll change with the increased networking in biology, but right now, people just aren't helping each other very much :(
I was a heavy cell phone user for several years, I developed tinnitus in my right ear (same ear I would hold the phone to) it thankfully resolved itself when I stopped using mobile phones. Hope this information can help someone.
> I recently conducted a large number of remote one-on-one interviews of candidates to a new master program in software engineering.

> Assume that A implies B. What can we say about `not A' and `not B'?

Maybe I'm missing something but there's no "implies" operator in programming languages and it isn't used this way in casual language so why would you expect software engineers to understand a very precise definition of an operator they don't use?

I've taught formal logic classes and people new to it including programmers always have problems with "implies". Formal logic isn't intuitive and needs to be taught.
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Takeaway Friday – A Stoic Philosopher in a Hanoi Prison
Has anyone tried this kinds of treatments? The internet seems full of snake oil cures. To my knowledge the only medically accepted treatment for tinnitus is antidepressants, so you don't feel so bad about having tinnitus.
I'm using Firefox on Fedora 31, but this seems to be an issue across multiple OS versions. The machine is a Dell Ultrabook with a Core i7 processor and 16 GB of RAM.
The downfall will be due to loosing patience with democracy. Don't assume people motives for voting one way or other are any different than yours.
I read the comments first, to decide if I want to read the post.

But I read the post before I comment.
Also INim at the Nim-2020 conference for a REPL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa_9vut4TzQ&list=PLxLdEZg8DR...

In short, I think at least for the linked to table you mentioned, Nim does check all the boxes.
A question on writing. Is this really good writing? The author spent the first 2/3 of the article talking about beaches, clams, crabs and what not. It's interesting read for readers who are interested in this kind of knowledge, but in general is slowly laying out an analogy a good writing practice?
Bluetooth bugs are making contact tracing apps spit out tons of errors
A guide to getting work done
No, soon it will be the 'Big One'... After the other 3 get audited.
I think people can tell that bullshit has been spewed in all directions. Nobody is looking good here. Nobody is above reproach.
I've been using vscode+nim. Debugging was mostly just writing correct code in the first place! ;) The only gripe I have is sometimes nimsuggest hanging itself at 100% cpu use, and I have to kill it manually.

Even with the rather oldschool approach of echo/logging.nim usage, things tend to turn around quickly. I have not felt the need to be able to attach a debugger to the process, mostly because our architecture is very pluggable. Almost all events/interactions are on a message bus and can be hooked/handled individually.
Sure, but he doesn't provoke the intense reaction that Trump does.
This probably depends a lot on the quality of the masks and the whether people wear them properly or not. So far I'm not too optimistic about either.
I've been following tinnitus research and the most promising treatment is FX-322 [1]. It's a drug that will treat hearing loss, but it could also help diminish tinnitus.

It's currently in phase 2a [2] and results come out next year [3].

[1] https://hear2tell.com/2020/09/29/frequency-therapeutics-fx-3...

[2] https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04120116

[3] https://www.hearinglosstreatmentreport.com/estimated-fx-322-...
Could there be other factors affecting the outcome?

Hydrochloroquine seems to have been dismissed, but watching this video he makes a a good case for it working at low dose - it seems like a lot of the trials involved too high a dose. (He talks about a relatively large scale study in Belgian hospitals).

There seems to have been multiple studies done, some giving good results some not. I am curious if the ones at the lower dosage were separated out would they all gave more positive results. Unfortunately I don't have time to check through them all myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uzXHnUViro&feature=emb_logo
wholly funded nah we get $1 from Joe down the street he also owns it technically...
>I want to live in the nice, beautiful, low-stress place

As long as whatever you consider nice is the same as whatever every other similarly paid white collar worker with a spouse and 1.75 kids considers nice you will never be able to get that. Those places always will be overprices and high stress.

Look at how Boston area money has shit up Cape Cod, southern Maine and NH. NYC money has shit up all of Long Island, large parts of PA, upstate and VT. CA money has shit up Colorado so bad that CO money shits all over Utah. Chicago money shits all over Wisconsin.

What you're really trying to get away from is the secondary effects of people like you (and me, and most everyone on HN). You're trying to get away from a service and tourism economy where everyone else is (somewhat rightfully) out to screw you for every dollar you're worth. Unless you have radically different tastes in what you want this will never be possible because all the other people of the same means will gravitate toward the same places.
well the article was mentioning long running. But I agree, I shd use FreeRTOS.
>> there is the same kind of spin and framing you'd expect from Fox News

Almost every independent analysis of media bias and journalist quality disagrees with you. In fact, I don't know of one that agrees with you.
I have also found that most people don’t know how to think. There is nothing tricky or unclear about the way he asks the question. I certainly wouldn’t hire somebody to write computer programs who couldn’t answer this question right away. I don’t think that’s harsh or elitist; I just don’t see how someone who doesn’t know this basic rule of thought can be a decent programmer.

Not that I would qualify. I’m not sure what the complexity of quicksort is. But I know how to think. I think.

ADDED: I’m also fuzzy on MVC. I think I know what they’re supposed to mean, but, in practice, the ideas seem to overlap so much that I’m unsure. In Django, for example, that calls itself an MVC framework, there is a certain lack of agreement about what is what.

So I would be able to answer the question that “nobody” can, and not do too well on the other one.
I thought it was lovely writing. I like reading Annie Dillard and it reminded me of her writing. It did take a while to get to the point mentioned in the HackerNews title, however the title of the blog entry was simply "Abundance" so much less was promised.
If only hundreds of infrastructure experts had warned us in advance!
Coinbase Gets a Lot of Data Requests from Feds, Mostly FBI
To me, this is just extending consciousness to more of the body; not beyond it. I think that's what the parent probably meant, as well. Wim Hof breathing demonstrates our autonomic nervous system can be made a little less autonomic - any claims beyond that seem unrelated (and unscientific).
I have seen something similar to what you are describing and not just the lowest bidder (my experience in government contracts, but not related to construction). They have proven past performance clauses (you have to show you successfully completed X number of similar projects to acceptable levels and budgets), feasibility clauses (you can’t just say you can do it, you have to provide details how you can do it with your stated time and budget and show you account for reasonable problems that come up), and capacity clauses (you have to show you actually have the equipment, personnel, experience, etc. to perform the job you are bidding for). Then all those criteria are given point values and bids are tallied up and awarded to the highest point bidder. So if you come in with a low bid but have poor past performance and inadequate equipment, you'll lose out to the higher bid from a proven performer.
In US: Austin, TX. Utah, Maybe Florida.

Outside US (taxes could be higher, but what I get in return could be a better deal than CA): Sydney, Australia or Auckland, New Zealand.
> there are people who don't believe that supply and demand exists in housing? What does that even mean?

The most good faith, steel-manned way that I can interpret these types of statements, is to interpret it as "Supply and demand in one area of the market have little effect on other areas of the market, especially those areas that are currently subject to existing government regulation and programs".

EX: If someone has been living in a rent controlled, or low income housing, for X number of years, it is correct to say that building a few more high end condos, is not going to reduce this person's rent (barring implausible situations, such as building hundreds of thousands of new housing units).

Yes, it might reduce the rent of people renting high end apartments, but it is not going to effect the rent of people who are, by definition, not paying market price for apartments, due to rent control.
Silicon Valley survives because VCs with more money than they know what to do with like the local weather. It's like Hollywood, which has had many boom and bust cycles of its own, yet it's always there because the people with the money decide to stay, so that's where you go if you want your film project financed.
I agree, but I was trying to be apples to apples and compare launch announcements, and when Redshift was announced, the discussion of Postgres was quite muted (admittedly several years ago, so their messaging may have shifted over time)
If another state had the IP and non compete protections of California, had some wealthy former startup employees to found VCs, a liberal culture that celebrates risk (and its own arrogance, perhaps) then Silicon Valley might be threatened.

And I can't be the only person that's tried to leave California only to realize that everything but the housing costs are worse elsewhere.
Binary packages make me sad too and I wish there were a way to mark them as such using a `meta` key.

It starts to become a bit of a grey area in some cases though. For instance - java packages. Is a .jar a binary? Probably. But so many java applications rely on pulling loads of .jars down from maven. Are we going to sit down and figure out how to build all those jars from source? It's not uncommon for there to be literally hundreds.
MIPS has four (two instructions for loads and two for stores) instructions exactly for unaligned access situation, when it cannot be handled in software. This is exactly what I am talking about. BTW, MIPS were proud that their ISA is as good as microcode, and the solution with two instructions is exactly that - expose as much of abstract internals as possible.

Thus, I cannot agree with you on "every hardware architecture walked back".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexra - for an historical expose.
Unmentioned so far is the NimScript mode `nim e`..For a portable sort of alternative to Bash scripting ("sort of" from the presently much longer start-up time...).
Me too! Join the DSA! :D

But also, historically, these sorts of communities have been targeted by governments. Police literally went to war with unions to break up community power for coal miners. While communism is different than socialism, there's a huge public smear campaign trying to couple those two together. (And, in fact, historically there were major pushes to blacklist folks who were connected to communism.)
The amount of pseudoscience in this thread is incredible.
My understanding is that GPL doesn't force the user to do _anything_ except license any derived work under GPL. It specifically doesn't put _any_ limits on what someone can do with that code precisely because doing so would limit your freedom (with the exception of the licensing issue which is required so as to not deprive _other_ people of the freedom to do what they want with the code.)

It specifically does not require you to pay homage to the original author. The point is to ensure that the code remains free, the original author has no say over what happens to it.
Why stop fighting when it becomes just a cold? The common cold costs billions (not to mention making people miserable).
Running Nx Affected Commands in GitHub Actions
The underlying problem is the lack of oversight that has allowed a president to continue to go rogue and command our institutions as his authoritarian playthings. Regardless if his malevolence is due to backwards ideology, deliberate foreign agenda, or just Dunning-Kruger ego, the Senate needs to express a newfound willingness to convict on a new impeachment. That's the proximate cause of our ongoing dumpster fire, which at this point indicts all Republican politicians who have supported the corruption.

The longer term fix is of course to stop delegating so much authority to the federal executive in the first place. Ideally more powers would be vested to the states and therefore under control of state governors, but that's a libertarian pipe dream.
How likely is that? There's a curious lack of non-anecdotal evidence.
The idea that we can exert conscious control over an unexpected part of our bodies doesn’t really provide evidence for astral projection or whatever.
In the US it is common for businesses to offer unlimited free refills on soda.
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