skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>there wasn't as much to eat.

Do you have any citations? I was always told that the average level of nutrition often increased once the Romans were no longer in charge - since less tax was being levied.

I think the idea that the Roman Empire was bad for its citizens varies in persuasiveness depending on the era. The Roman Empire was very unstable and extremely prone to brutal civil wars, and when it wasn't in a state of active conflict, the maxim of Severus "Be harmonious, enrich the soldiers, scorn all others" was pretty much the norm. Which isn't exactly great for everybody who isn't a soldier.

That all said, there were definitely times in which the Roman empire was stable and prosperous - but I think the system itself didn't encourage it.
I've always wondered about this. It felt counterintuitive. Nice to see some proof!
1) It is in fact possible but as noted previously, most people still wouldn't feel comfortable running their core business long-term on this kind of tool. However, no one worries about running their business on AWS and in fact our infrastructure is on top of them (like Heroku). So we need to grow a bit more before people are OK with that :)

2) Retool is tailored at internal tools, so you can't quite customize the UX as you'd want for something that is touching end users. Besides, it's quite expensive for the MVP use case because they price per user (we don't, our pricing page is coming soon).
The delay doesn't annoy me that much but the Day 0 patch trend does.

Seriously why people can't just release 1.0 software that is 1.0 anymore?

Although broadband now is widespread, in many situations people might not have it.

Situations where day-0 patch is bad:

1. Countries or places with poor infrastructure

2. Rural areas

3. People using the software after many years when the server with the patch might be gone.

Also there is the fact many companies abuse patches to add features they shouldn't or remove features (rootkits, DRM, or Paradox habit of removing features in a way to "encourage" people to buy DLC, or PS3 suddenly not supporting Linux anymore, and then there is Epic "hotfix")

The possibility of having patches is good. The habit of patching is bad. Or course adding features and content over time is fine, but releasing software you know it is buggy intending to patch is later is not.
Great Woman of Mathematics: Marie-Sophie Germain, 1776-1831
You have to shut down intolerance, because if you don't, it threatens to take over your free society. Ideas spread, and shutting them down prevents them from spreading. "Bad ideas" are real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
> I'm convinced that it can still be dealt with

Ah, I remember the first time someone said this! It was in the 1970s, and I believed them.

I mean, it _can_ be dealt with. It always could be dealt with - we just _won't_ deal with it.
This is so true. If you want to feel again what's possible, make a vanilla website (without JS and with very few images) and do all form processing server side. You will be astonished how fast and actually reactive this side can feel. Part of this feeling could be that animations (thinking of the popular material design by Google) itself take 10ms to 100ms. Within this duration, the browser can easily load a new page.
Finally a free PDF editor! Thanks
A Shot in the Arm for the Travel Industry
This is the resource I used (as someone who's been doing web development for ~20 years) to get a a basic understanding of React. It, plus some side projects, was enough to get me up to speed: https://daveceddia.com/pure-react/

I'm sure there are others that are free; but, this is what worked for me.
I agree that the second point is overly simplistic, I do think there is some sense in the argument and that it remains to be seen whether the state of AI will advance enough to be better than humans. Yes, humans do have intelligence and that does help quite a bit, but I would also guess that a system could potentially be better than most ordinary human drivers without LiDAR just because they have a much better view of all cars around them (humans have a somewhat narrow field of view and can only look in one direction at a time, computers can have a full 360 degree view all of the time). They never suffer fatigue and never get distracted. My guess is that, yeah, it is better to have LiDAR, but also we can also probably make a really good system that is better than humans on average and saves many lives per year without it. It seems worthwhile to me to continue exploring and investing in.
I've been using Stadia and you can get close to max settings and I've had very little issues with a hundred gig internet connection.
There's been a recent trend to increasingly move more compute capabilities into NICs. This has been going on for a while, but has gained a new dimension with cloud providers. For example, with their "Nitro" system, AWS can more or less run their Hypervisor entirely on the NIC and completely offload the network and storage virtualization from their servers. This development is likely to continue. FPGAs are going to play a significant part in that because they allow the customers to reconfigure this hardware according to their needs.
Yes, the FAANGs are very close to being public utilities, and therefore deserve a special treatment.
>Isn't that the one with the fundamental flaw that means everything it encrypted is trivial to unlock today?

Has this been substantiated?
Absolutely, this is a great point. We were working with B2B clients previously so we could "get away with" not having proper onboarding/documentation.

We're working hard on this and we'll have something close to what you mentioned soon! Stay tuned :)
Diagnoses among 30 and 40 somethings are rising in large part because the amount of testing has been greatly increased and well as the sensitivity of the tests. Accounting for changes in testing flattens out recent increases in positive diagnoses.
Yes, though our tendency to anthropomorphize also helps makes other people human
“Colonoscopies are very often done with anesthesia in the U.S., making them essentially minor surgical procedures. A 2016 analysis found that for every 1,000 colonoscopies, about 16 people will end up hospitalized within a week.”

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-early-is-too-early-...
„ United Airlines (UAL) and Cathay Pacific Airlines (CPCAY) are testing the CommonPass digital health passport. Right now, they have volunteers flying between London, New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore. The US Customs and Border Protection and the CDC are monitoring these trials.

If all goes well, the Common Project and the World Economic Forum would like to expand CommonPass to other countries in quick succession over the rest of the year.

Full-scale deployment of the framework is planned for the beginning of 2021.“
Many thanks :) like the concept of your site, I will take a look some time
How is this expensive? Almost all of the trailers I watched had in-game action, and only one featured Keanu and his bike company, which was obviously shot months ago.
It was speculated that No Man's Sky launched in a minimal state due to meddling from Sony.

The fact that the devs improved it significantly afterward for years is unusual, especially since that game in particular does not rely on microtransactions which would benefit from a strong base game.
I don't understand what the researchers violated - it looks like they didn't sign the FB's EULA, nor did they perform anything resembling CFAA violation.

It is the FB users who signed the EULA and use "unapproved" user-agent to access FB services and to voluntarily share the data (isn't FB a sharing platform btw?) in "unapproved" way. Thus FB should go after the real violators - their users. I wonder why FB didn't do it ...

I mean i can write any stupid EULA, yet until you agree to it my C&D based on that EULA is just my personal hallucinations, and even if you agree to it, your communication/business/etc. partners don't magically become bound by it too.
I suppose the closest thing for story games is an episodic model.
I've been wondering for a while now how the cyberpunk setting holds any more water as fiction these days.

It seems to mostly have grown into "this is simply our reality now."
Nice classsplaining.
Is it within the rights of a company to dictate what software I have installed on my personal machine? If Facebook wants to ban every account using the software that is within their rights, but they don't get a say in what I have installed.
I do not believe that this will be at all useful.

Their underlying assumption is shown in, "Previous research has shown that the progression of Alzheimer’s disease is driven by a vicious cycle of the protein amyloid β (Aβ) inducing hyperactivity at the neuron level."

This is a widespread belief and has been the main target of attempted treatments for decades. Every one of which has failed. And therefore I predict that a drug trial based on this research will likewise fail.

So if that fails, what should we do instead?

See https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05719-4 for an overview of why it is reasonable that the root cause is infections and amyloid β is a symptom of our brains attempts to fight it off. Which explains why decades of drug trials aimed at disrupting the creation of amyloid β (which this does) have failed dismally.

As https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/could-alzh... points out, treating people with the anti-herpes drug acyclovir was found to reduce the odds of getting Alzheimer's by 80%. Contrast this with the inability over many drug trials of any drugs aimed at amyloid β to demonstrate any effect on Alzheimer's at all.

As the old quote goes, "science progresses one funeral at a time". We're going to see ongoing research for a long time based on the idea that amyloid β is the cause of Alzheimer's. In the meantime if you have a family history of Alzheimer's, I would recommend getting a prescription for the only drug that has ever demonstrated any clinical success. Namely acyclovir. And start it before permanent damage has been done to your brain.
And this is why I will refuse to take any calls from Facebook researchers. It's bad enough that Facebook is disproportionately used by Right Wing Trolls and Authoritarians. See [1] for more information about why this is so.

[1] https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-maria-ressa-weap...
The one thing that's keeping me from using Ninja for the use-case Julia is describing is lacking support for reading environment variables in build.ninja. I understand why that's not part of Ninja, but it does stunt its usefulness.
Yes, eventually every cloud vendor will shutdown.
The question people should ask themselves is wether the convenience of having an app store where you have a X% chance of losing your purchases every year outweighs having to manage the physical/virtual copies yourself.

I personally have more money than time, so for me the answer is a clear "yes, app stores all the way".
thanks, will do, but the broader question is how to make a good feedback look? how can I talk with customers that I don't know?
>That's what srcset & <source> were invented for.

I don't know Next.js but I just spot checked a comparison to see if srcset is an exact subtitute.

- If I'm reading CanIUse chart correctly, it says IE11 isn't compatible.[1]

- syntax of srcset requires manual and verbose specification of different source images. E.g. from MDN[2]:

<img srcset="elva-fairy-480w.jpg 480w,
elva-fairy-800w.jpg 800w"
sizes="(max-width: 600px) 480px,
800px"
src="elva-fairy-800w.jpg"
alt="Elva dressed as a fairy">

- Next.js example[3] is simpler and shorter:

import Image from 'next/image'
<Image src="/profile-picture.jpg" width="400" height="400">

The Next.js post also says that <Image> tag also provides the following dynamic feature: When using the next/image component, images are automatically lazy-loaded, meaning they're only rendered when the user is close to seeing the image. This prevents loading that 30% of images outside of the initial viewport.

Like I said, I'm not an expert. The Next.js Image function doesn't look like useless redundancy with plain HTML5.

[1] https://caniuse.com/?search=srcset

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Multimed...

[3] https://nextjs.org/blog/next-10#nextjs-image-component
My 2 cents as a person on the sales engineer side of the fence.

I can't speak to your experience or all organizations, but what you're getting at in my eyes are two things.

Sales Executives _tend_ to be the most transparently compensated employees. It generally is 60 (base) / 40 (variable) but other ratio exist (70/30 is more common the technical sales side). Since the sales side has explicit KPIs tied to revenue, it's very clear how success can be determined unlike most other roles inside of organizations. In the best case, there's a stock plan but that is only indirectly related to revenue. Moreover, if you don't hit your quota, you are gone. If you're a seasoned sales rep or have personal relationships, you can skate by having a bad quarter / half / year but this is the exception, not the rule. This is a fine-ish solution for compensation for the sales side of the org, right? You have a quota, your success is based on attainment. Easy-peasy. Didn't hit your quota because of a recession? Didn't hit your number because of a global pandemic? Didn't hit your number because of A, B, or C? Tough luck.

For other roles, in my eyes, there does need to be an intrinsic decoupling of current or next quarter / half / year sales objectives and their incentive structure. Refactoring may be important for a code base but fundamentally doesn't bring in revenue. It nets to _hurting_ short-term revenue since the man hours aren't focused on the newest widget the competitors have. Over a longer time horizon, it can fuel revenue indirectly by making it easier to add new features, etc, etc but for someone like me who has a quota, it doesn't _help_ me in any direct manner. I have to build presentations and demos to work around the bugs I know exist, weak spots in the product. I have to explain roadmaps for feature sets while being very transparent that a purchase today does not entail a customer commitment so that we don't have revenue recognition issues in 3 months when a feature slips. If the company doesn't ship features X and Y within 6 months, are engineers fired? Generally not. Will the net effect from a marketplace competition perspective result in sales reps being fired? Generally yes.

Back to the culture issue, yeah, that's present. The boiler room mentality of a lot of sales reps breeds a locker room mentality and the incentive structure formalizes things. Sales reps aren't retained for being a nice gal / guy / whatever. They are retained based on a single figure: revenue. That's the focus and in poor sales orgs that's the only focus.

Will someone make more money, all else being equal, selling something? Yes. Will they have a stable livelihood? Almost assuredly not.
Pretty sure it's the same for Teams
Visualizing Partial Election Results
They explicitly mention the delay is about the Day 0 patch, though, literally the sentence after the one you posted.
I disagree. This looks more like pandering than anything else. Friedman has nothing to lose by making public statements of support, but a lot of reputation to gain if people buy into it.

Instead of taking it down in the first place, Friedman should have told the RIAA to shove it, deliberately opening Github up to liability with the intent to defend this in courts and create precedent should the RIAA file suit. Even losing - and losing a few million in legal fees and damages in the process - and losing is far from certain - would create precedent that would create a lot more certainty of what goes and does not go with the current law, and give activists and lobbyists concrete jurisprudence to point to when approaching law makers and Library of Congress for changes.

Now that would have been real support. A somewhat risky move indeed, but also a necessary move if Friedman really thinks youtube-dl is an important piece of technology (with important policy implications).

Instead, he essentially left the developers, which lack the deep pockets of Github/Microsoft, to fight on their own, going even so far to suggest to budge to the RIAA's claims that youtube-dl contains a "circumvention" technology without challenge and remove the offending bits.

But at least he publicly stated he is "annoyed" by the RIAA. Talk is cheap. This is like showing up and telling David that "well, tough shit, Goliath is annoying but a lot bigger than you and will win, so you better capitulate, and I can help with that!".

(Yes, Microsoft being a RIAA member complicates things; Microsoft should in my humble opinion leave the RIAA; being a member of RIAA isn't compatible with their "we're the good guys now" image they are trying to foster regardless of the youtube-dl fiasco)
There is at least one 3rd-party benchmark available at this point. AMD is slightly, possibly margin of error, ahead of NVIDIA.

Assuming that the benchmarks are good, that AMD will undercut NVIDIA (as they tend to do) and that you don't want to do ML, Radeon is probably going to be the one for those who have been waiting.
How about research it yourself before spreading false information about a really amazing tool masked as a question.

Or do you have a competing tool? Let me guess. Someone will ask for an alternative and another will suggest..
> but every react site I've ever used is still buggy and slow as hell

This is just as asinine as saying "every Ruby on Rails site I've ever used is still buggy and slow as hell".

No, every terribly coded site youve used is slow as hell.
Awesome feedback, perfect. We're working on templates and onboarding! Currently we only do web apps (no mobile apps), we will adjust our copy based on your response. Thank you!
I can't fathom the death march those employees are facing.
Maria Ressa on the Weaponization of Social Media
I had a patchset to make linux 2.0 / 2.2 talk PPP to several ports on livingston gear or itself. I got reports that it worked in some other situations; and there was an interesting bug report from an early version of Android that looked a lot like one of the failure modes i saw and never fixed in that code.

Best I ever did with that code was a bank of 8 ISDN modems to a PM3 that we did as a test at the ISP's office just to see how far it could stretch. 230kbps serial ports on an ISA bus.
Running a PR outreach initiative is not so different from a sales outreach one. We can always take many learnings from both:
- Email outreach is a great skill for any entrepreneur
Would love to give it a shot !
I think there is; the cigarette companies came up with a stick of tobacco (looks a lot like a cigarette) that gets inserted into a vape that heats it up.
Duck Duck Go wrote an open letter to European Commission
Can anyone familiar with Twitter explain how people like Jeff Tiedrich, Eugene Gu, ToddlerTrump, TrumpOwO, etc, manage to be the first few responders to everything @realDonaldTrump tweets?

(Edit)
To expand on this, some of these accounts are clearly bots that just modify the text of the tweet. I can see how easy it would be to make these bots - but not how they manage to be the first responses so consistently. Surely there are other competing bots trying to do the same thing?

Others are direct responses to the content the president tweeted about. Dr.Gu frequently writes paragraph length rebuttals but I assume such responses take time to craft - so there's no way he could have been the first to respond with so much content, right?
Marvin Minsky's 1969 book "Perceptrons"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptrons_(book)

applied rigorous math (e.g. when computer science was new) to prove that a certain kind of single-layer neural network couldn't solve certain problems. (Can't learn XOR) It is like proving that it takes N log N comparisons to sort N items.

This dampened interest in neural networks for a long time but the "geometrical thinking in hyperdimensional space" is what the field is all about today.
> Is Harvard excluding kids from New Jersey and New York because it goes out of it's way to admit kids from Nebraska and Montana?

"According to enrollment data from the Office of Admissions provided by Faculty of Arts and Sciences spokesperson Anna Cowenhoven, 51.5 percent of the non-international students who enrolled in Harvard’s Class of 2018 hail from just four states: New York, New Jersey, California, and Massachusetts." https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2015/3/26/regional-divers...

The following has numbers by state that seem consistent with the article from the Crimson: https://www.collegefactual.com/colleges/harvard-university/s...

It suggests that (New York and New Jersey) have over an order of magnitude more students admitted to Harvard per capita than (Montana and Nebraska).
Yeah, this seems equivalent to "people who have rooted their phones can take secret screenshots of your snapchats!"... which is solidly on the "well yeah, obviously" side of the security-outrage boundary.

If it does change server data, yea - significant news. But that doesn't seem to be implied, except by omission of a claim that it does not.
Ask HN: Talked about my fave cereals now I see ads for the exact cereals. How?
I was talking to my family meme bees about my top five cereals. (Reese’s puffs, Cap’n Crunch etc) I open up Twitter about an hour later and I see ads for those two exact cereals. I never searched for anything but even if I did and don’t remember my search engine is ddg.

There was a tlc Roku tv (which I’m connected to for remote control) and my iPhone, that’s it.

How the hell did I get these ads? I’ve never got a cereal ad before.
Not sure if this should count as "good news", but there's this:

> While the ongoing coronavirus pandemic continues to threaten millions of lives around the world, the first half of 2020 saw an unprecedented decline in carbon dioxide emissions -- larger than during the financial crisis of 2008, the oil crisis of the 1979, or even World War II.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201014082806.h...
I've tried but I (surprisingly) found the string array to be the most readable way to do it without helpers. It's also easily replaced by ES6 templates when upgrading.
FB claims automated data collection, the data is apparently input to the app by a user , i think the hairs will be split between copy paste mechaniics, or ten finger entry in response to prompt, thus massaging the definition of automated entry.

(1)FB has consistently refused to publish anything about how the ads are targeted.

(2)The NYU researchers have tried to fill that gap, offering the Ad Observer plug-in to users who want to voluntarily donate the ads they see — along with the limited targeting data FB displays to users.

(3)Here’s where things get troubling: Facebook is now trying to shut down the Ad Observer plug-in, saying that it violates Facebook’s terms of service by automating the collection of data that Facebook shows to its users.
As lots of other users have been pointing out, it's because it's their conference day. Usually we see this flood-of-post things with $BigCo conferences but it's the same phenomenon.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Facebook isn't doing anything special here, I believe this is what the majority of stores are doing, include the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store.
In fact, I'd be curious to know which virtual stores do not do that.
Not in this case: it's a large and complex adventure game that most people will only play once or (if obsessive) a few times with major plot and character variants, not a puzzle or strategy game that is meant to be replayed over and over again, enjoyed at launch, and enjoyed again after updates.

Only the "maximum viable product", the best possible version of the game within budget and technical limitations, is relevant.
Uh no. I'm literally just saying the things I know about Truecrypt. Its a very old and as far as I was aware its no longer maintained and not recommended for securing things. Am I wrong?