skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His argument doesn’t even make sense within his own theory. Obama-Trump votes correlated strongly with Google searches indicating “racial resentment.” Okay, but why did those people vote for Obama in the first place? Sure, someone could be a racist and vote for Obama, but what changed? Schor says the salience of different issues changes in different elections. That makes sense. But surely race was a highly salient issue during the election of the first Black President. Yet Iowa voted for Obama by almost a 10-point margin in 2008 and for Trump by almost the same 10-point margin in 2016. Wisconsin voted for Obama by a 14 point margin and Michigan by a 17 point margin.
Reported by By Maggie Fox, CNN
Updated 7:55 AM EDT, Wed October 14, 2020

"New reports show coronavirus immunity can last for months"

Three new reports show coronavirus immunity can last for months -- and maybe even longer.

The findings suggest that many, if not most, people who recover from coronavirus infections are protected for at least a period of time. They also suggest that coronavirus vaccines may be able to protect people for more than just a few weeks.

One study found that people produce antibodies that protect against infection and last for at least five to seven months.

http://cnn.com.via.snip.ly/t2azqx
Programmers have a wonderful solution that builds on shared presence -reducing loneliness- while enhancing focus. By using a shared screen for WFH, pair programming seems an ideal fit for the current situation. It also allows for expensing a nice gaming headset.
agree the keyboard-in-one is great -

also fyi the pi-top project has a DIY 'all in one' for the PI:

https://www.pi-top.com/products/pi-top-ceed

and a DIY laptop:

https://www.pi-top.com/products/pi-top-3

only claim pi-3 compatibility at the moment, not sure if it would still work with 4, probably need some adapters or so

(maybe other projects like this, not sure)
This feels like its stolen from Kyle Dunnigan
I'm working on a set of schematics that generate an Nx Workspace using NestJS and Angular. It uses GraphQL to communicate between frontend and backend and the data layer uses Prisma.

It's pretty much work in progress but you should be able to scaffold out a new working project.

Feel free to check it out. Happy to answer any questions

https://github.com/nxpm/stack
The original vision of the rPi was to stimulate education in the way that the original 8-bit microcomputers did. Those machines were pretty much this exact form-factor, a keyboard with a computer stuck underneath.

I really like how this is the same thing, and cheaper than the ZX Spectrum ever was.
Same here on Firefox/Linux.
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Every benchmark means something. The problem is you make a benchmark to measure the thing you are curious about. If that then indicates a result that makes something you like look bad, then you feel it is an unfair benchmark. Or if you were curious about some other kind of performance, then it is a bad benchmark.

Every benchmark is meaningless or unfair to somebody.
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With millions of cases worldwide there will always be some statistical outliers. Those are individually tragic, but not very relevant to most of us. The best estimate for infection fatality rate in the 20 - 49 age group is only 0.02%.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...
Access to Internet, thankfully and recently, has become super affordable by my own standards to give away. I have a 100Mbps fiber from Airtel (I have US/Europe calls all the time) at around USD 15 (INR 900) / month. I could easily get another for the cafe.

Rent for a small garage would be about USD 35 / month. Electricity would not cross USD 50 / month.
Cloud companies are useful as long as you want what their selling. The best case is needing say 2 TB of ram for some workload or test that only going to take a few hours.

Or something like the Olympics where 95% of your demand comes in a predictable spike across a few days.
The question was "Is this good or bad news?". Linking to a tweet reporting a single case of reinfection, without any context, does not answer it.
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It's so easy these days to play old DOS games, it's great. Not just because of The Internet Archive's fantastic work in recent years with getting these onto their website, but also the work put in by the Dosbox and ScummVM people.

These old games are more accessible now than they were back in the day, when you had to configure your AUTOEXEC.BAT, get all your IRQs in order and make sure you have enough memory and whatnot.

The accessibility and availability of this stuff is one of the reasons why we started DOS Game Club a few years ago over on https://dosgameclub.com - it's like a book club, but instead of books we focus on a different DOS game every month and discuss it on our forums as we're playing them. At the end of the month we invite some members for a chat and publish it as a podcast.

Turns out there are loads of people interested in playing these old games, some of them quite young too! And with how many games are available all over the place, it looks like we'll have plenty of material to keep us busy for many years to come.
How is OneDrive different in this sense?
The display seems to me to be a bigger problem than the battery. Small, 3 Amp capable USB batteries are common and cheap ($10-$20 on Amazon). Displays are expensive (and need their own power source), but people can at least use TVs like they did with those 1980s PCs.

I sort of suspect that if this is really successful, they might come out with a laptop version. That'd be nice.
It’s not as simple as that. They tried to award it just to her husband before splitting it in half and awarding both. Marie Curie’s Wikipedia page says:

“At first the committee had intended to honour only Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel, but a committee member and advocate for women scientists, Swedish mathematician Magnus Gösta Mittag-Leffler, alerted Pierre to the situation, and after his complaint, Marie's name was added to the nomination.[45] Marie Curie was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize.[24”
His conclusion is that this style of paranoia belongs to "the dispossessed" rather than to one political faction. Or at least to those who feel dispossessed.

Another data point for that thesis: Arabs are very into what we would call conspiracy theories. A decade ago there were all these polls showing fairly broad approval among Arabs for Osama Bin Laden. That makes sense when you consider other polls showing that most Arabs didn't think Bin Laden was involved in 9/11 [0].

Personally I have a soft spot for conspiracy theorists. At least Alex Jones is thinking for himself. Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi are on HN a lot and I feel similarly about them -- which is not to say I put them in the same category as Jones. I think they get some stuff right, I appreciate their fire-and-brimstone approach (at least it's fun to read), but both of them frequently write sentences that cause my eyes to roll back in my head.

I think the ultimate source of conspiratorial thinking is linked to reductio ad absurdum. In our minds, we seem drawn to the extremes. Everything reminds everyone of Hitler, Stalin, Maoist struggle sessions, and so on. Trump is a vile white-supremacist-fascist. Biden is kowtowing to critical-theory-reading neo-Marxists. Reducing an argument to the absurd makes sense in logic and math but perhaps not in the real world where there's no guarantee that an argument is based on anything logical.

Or maybe it makes sense in the real world too. It seems to me, sometimes, that conspiracy theorists are actually fairly good at identifying the ultimate goal of an ideology. But ultimate goals are ideals, they're never realized and, in practice, they provide a direction rather than a destination. It's one thing to identify the ultimate goal of the ideology animating leftists but are you so sure our society shouldn't be a little more left-wing? Because, in practice, that's what electing the left-wing candidate is likely to accomplish. It's unlikely to recreate The Cultural Revolution.

On the other hand, maybe the fact that such ultimate goals came astonishingly close to being realized, on the right and left, in the 20th century, is a good reason to be alarmed.

[0] - https://newrepublic.com/article/94546/middle-east-radical-co...
That's not theft in the least. They kept the data that you gave them while using their service. Should banks throw out records for people who close accounts?
I think there was a huge latent undercurrent of racism/tribalism that was activated by Obama becoming president.
Can someone say what method Nginx uses to pass file descriptors from the listening or master socket to the worker? Does the Nginx master proc process accept() new connection and use sendmsg() with SCM_RIGHTS to send those new connections to worker processes?
Time is one of those weird things I didn’t give much thought to until I started programming. And in the beginning it annoyed me that something as “simple” as time could be so complicated for computers. But then I read stories like this and I try to imagine how we’d deal with these complexities if they hadn’t been fixed before things got so complicated. What would happen if we told the world in 2020 that we’re just going to skip ten days ahead on the calendar? How many things would break? I suspect a whole lot.
Regardless of the actual content or quality of the show, I hope this reaches a wide audience. All people should know about the technical capabilities of deepfakes.
Norway has much warmer winters than the other Nordic countries due to the influence of the Gulf Stream.
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Deepfakes have the potential to turn the word upside down and cause utter chaos in the world. I don’t know how we are going to deal with it as a society, I think we are not equipped for it. In fact I fully expected trump to use it for the October surprise, but I guess he didn’t go there for whatever reason.
Not sure what you mean by 'control a zoom session', but yes I use it with Zoom. I use OBS to composite video and some audio, I use the OBS virtual camera as the camera device in Zoom, for audio I usually use the straigh microphone stream because it's fiddly to set up (you have to do the mixing outside OBS because OBS doesn't have a virtual audio device).

If you mean that you just want to mute/unmute a zoom session, then also yes - you configure the stream deck to output key press events so you'd program it to output the keyboard shortcuts that you want. Not sure if Zoom has separate mute/unmute shortcuts and if you change settings with the regular keyboard/mouse you might get the display state of the stream deck out of sync with the actual state of the software, that would probably be finicky and/or a lot of work to solve.

I'm still tweaking my setup but using this piece of kit with a good quality webcam, a Blue Yeti mic on an arm, and OBS, being able to control Zoom/MS Teams/Skype in a uniform way, having ultimate control over what part the desktop I share, how I pre-process audio, being able to show my desktop with myself in the corner, ... is already so much better than the clunky default experiences of each of these video conferencing tools. It's like programming with vim - yes I spend an inordinate amount of time 20+ years ago getting proficient with it, but using it just feels like an extension of my brain, like using a Hilti drill hammer vs using a bargain bin Chinese piece of junk.
I'm not sure how this is any different than how it's been for years now. GitHub has been complying with DMCA takedown requests since 2011[1]. What precedent needed to be set here? The RIAA could always do this and GitHub has been complying with it (because they legally have to).

1: https://github.com/github/dmca/
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It's similar, but chances are you won't lose both accounts at once.
We haven't run into issues with a self-hosted instance of Jitsi Meet. Might be worth a look.
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The article says people are immune for at least six months, not at most.
Of course if you were a brick wall, those two things are the same. Instantly accelerating to zero. If you were a moving brick wall, that's different.

But my comment is this: 20MPH is fast. The damage is grievous. Dead or nearly dead.
How are these facts fear mongering? Unless you know the facts how can you possibly make a good working strategy to fight this pandemic?
GitHub is already expected to comply with DMCA takedowns just like they have to comply with counter notifications. That's how they maintain a safe harbor, though the latter is a bit harder to truly enforce (see the recent Twitch kerfuffle).
I doubt they really care that much. Everyone migrated to GMail from a world with Hotmail and Yahoo email accounts. They truly don't need to lose sleep over other competitors with far less capitalization.
I agree with you and I want to look into that too. But I am not sure it would be easy to order such computers, in working conditions, as easily as this RPi. If the logistic hassle is too much, it might not take off at all.
The article and the other posts in this thread miss the killer feature. Data security via backups. If I put my data in a manager DB and use S3 or equivalent I am more or less guaranteed to never lose data. Running bare metal in OVH can't provide that guarantee. The security of that data depends on the thoroughness and correctness of my back up policy. And those are almost guaranteed to be much worse than what AWS et al provide.
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Curious if you have any specs on the ribbon cable that connects the keyboard. It looks like it must carry more than USB?
> From that, we can already tell that reinfection, although possible, is very rare.

No. From the current papers, we just know that the reinfection where people have had their virus sequenced in both first and second infection is very rare.

The problem is technological. Up to now there are around 50 million confirmed cases in the world but probably less than 100 thousand sequencings performed, and only a few sequencings by those who had strong enough symptoms twice and had the chance to have sequencing twice.

Without sequencing one just can’t prove that some case is an actual reinfection. All other cases are just “possible” (i.e. unprovable) reinfections and nobody can claim anything worthy of a scientific paper about them.
I would be very surprised if there is any code that could potentially allocate in the hot (lol) path of a rocket. There'll just be static arrays in there.
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Why can't you have a Schelling Point hosted in .nl/Switzerland? Is domain blocking the issue?
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Ask HN: Is your developer product competing with FAANG and MS?
Hi all,

I'm researching on products (software) for developers that are competing with Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google and Microsoft. Here are 2 examples:

1. vue.js vs Angular (by Google) vs reactjs (by Facebook)

2. DigitalOcean vs AWS (by Amazon) vs GCP (by Google) vs Azure (by Microsoft)

If you're working on products for developers that are competing with offerings from any of these companies, please kindly reply below.

Thank you.

(Definition of products for developers: anything that the developers use for software development, deployment, maintenance and more)
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The catholic church survived the printing press. We'll be fine. Maybe not all of us will live to see it but society and its institutions will go on.
This raises a question. If you're well marinated in Google services, like me, what do you do? Is there a comprehensive, simple, and easy way to port everything?

Perhaps there's some authoritative site about what exactly you need to do?
People pay with their data. It suits Google very well. If they were able to make billions, lest they could do is to have a proper customer service. I see them now as a company exploiting their customers in every way possible and then giving them a middle finger if there is any problem they experience.
It should not be legal to respond to customer issues with bots or people not trained to deal with specific requests. If this means customers would have to pay extra, I am fine with that.
How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories
> As an atheist growing up in a fundamentalist Christian family, I learned a long time ago that maintaining relationships required tact and self-restraint. That practice makes it easy to maintain friendships across political divides, too.

I learned that self-restraint too. But then there was point where I realized that it is all fundamentally unfair and biased. I had to be careful not to voice opinions to keep good relationships. If I would openly disagree, I would be seen as problem. And they would not use the same restraint nor be expected to.

One set of opinions was allowed and the other one was not. Empathy gotta go two ways.

Otherwise it is situation in which my kids hear something quite anti-semitic on occasion, but I am expected to be silent in response.
Supporting GSuite/workplace accounts is on my list for things to look at once an MVP is ready.

Did you try to process listed here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/100458?hl=en ?
This article is getting flagged and unflagged repeatedly.
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Dan Kohn has died
Dan Kohn[0], executive director at the Linux Foundation, has died[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dankohn1

[1] https://twitter.com/DrOceanJulie/status/1322957062444326919
Absolutely. I suspect if this hit a court, Google would decline to say why the account was banned. A judge would then struggle to see this as not being an automated unaccountable decision.

A good point well made. Several grounds here.
Below is a link to Leonard French, a practicing copyright attorney, talking about the situation. According to him, the problem is whether or not yt-dl was designed and marketed to bypass copyright protections. Still a shit situation (re:browsers and screencaps) but it seems like this is more or less how the law is written. IANAL.

https://youtu.be/wZITscblMBA
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Scary anecdote but not particularly helpful in trying to get a picture of the overall situation.
I think you are one of the people with extreme positions like those discussed in the original article.
That works very well. Much better that distracted drivers and speeders.

But rules and people don't get along that well. Folks get tired and impatient. Even in the industrial environment there are expected failures per 100,000 hours etc.

Still, agreed we'd all do better with a more professional class of driver and licensing.
Sure, but that holds true for lots of other collectibles too. For example, the Pokemon cards currently being discussed.
> lawyers, bankers, patent trolls, most government employees, middle management, motivational coaches, ...

I mean, I get where you're coming from, and I am sure there are at least some percentage of people that are not very productive. But I think that most of the time, what looks from the outside like a waste of resources, is born from not knowing many of the details.

That's why every time some post on HN mentions that $RANDOM_STARTUP has $SUCH_AND_SUCH employees, there are always both comments stating that having so many employees don't make sense, and other people with experience explaining exactly why it makes sense.

And no offense, but if you think that lawyers and bankers as a class are not necessary, then I think you simply don't know much about what they do or why they are doing productive work.

And even if you think that the amount of lawyers/bankers/government is too high, and that we could make those jobs more productive (meaning fewer hours worked to achieve the same result), I'm pretty sure the way to get there isn't to just say "ok, let's just turn off these professions completely with almost no preparation. Good luck!". This is usually a process that happens over many years.

> I mean closing schools for 3 months now is something you could easily catch up for in the upcoming year(s).

I completely agree, and if we are only talking about 3 months I agree that it's relatively simple. But we're already what, 8 months into this? And it looks like we're going to be in this situation for another half a year, at the very least?

To get back to your parent post, whether we can or can't organize our economy to have more people not working in general (and I argued that we can't!), the economy right now isn't organized that way, so for now at least people do need those jobs. And I think your parent post exaggerates just how many people are dying (e.g. seeing dead bodies on the street is an exaggeration, for the most part).

Given our current economic system (which I'm in favor of, to be clear), the situation really is hard for many people. It's really true that people are losing their life's savings, and much worse, given the current situation. It isn't an easy thing to do, even if you agree that these drastic measures are necessary to prevent a worse outcome (which I agree with!) It's the very definition of a lose-lose situation.
I've noticed with Covid is that there is a lot of attention to edge cases with folks implying that the scenario is common. That's a very alarmist approach.

Hundreds (thousands?) of healthy people gets the flu in the US every year and die from it. Not because they have a comorbidity, they just have a really bad reaction to the flu.

But we don't assume that those edge cases are the most typical course of disease. Yes, you may be one of those really unlucky ones that die from a normally non-fatal disease, but the risk of that is pretty low.
Samoa is near the international date line and flipped back and forth a couple times to align with whoever it was doing more trading with at the time (Asia or US). In 1892 they celebrated 4th of July (US independence day) twice.
I wrote an in-depth response to this article here: https://dev.to/mudgen/addressing-josselin-feist-s-concern-s-...
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This is literally the exact same keyboard surface and mechanism as the Pi Keyboard, so it's good, not amazing.

I can type fine on it, though I still prefer an Apple Magic Keyboard (latest version) for daily typing since the body of it is slightly more solid.

I'm not a mechanical keyboard fan, though I know many would like that kind of keyboard here, and it would be more fitting for the nostalgia!
What does “rising diversity” mean in this context? Folks in Texas are angry about folks from California moving in and changing the culture. Is this racist? Equating anxiety about cultural change with racism is putting on ideological blinders.
Depends where you live I suppose. Some areas are perfectly fine. Mine unfortunately has a lot of social issues.
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