skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, what's even worse was that the commission made it out to be pointing fingers at China, even though the origin of COVID-19 is still uncertain. Just yesterday, there's news reports that COVID may be in Italy as early as September 19 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-italy-... along with the (not yet peer reviewed) study that COVID-19 may be in Barcelona as early as March 19 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.13.20129627v...

What's even worse is that this sets an ugly precedence where countries first detect a new disease may not want to announce it to the world due to the stigmatisation.

I've been pointing this out for a while on this board, and every time I've done so, I've been either downvoted, flagged or both. Hence the throwaway.
I didn't know what GOS meant. It's galacto-oligosaccharide.

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

https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1462/galact...
> In Linux, why even bother having extensions

While the file extension can be lying maliciously or can be just plain incorrect in 1% cases, its informative for the user in the other 99% cases
For most helicopters its around as far as it takes Lambo to accelerate for 20 seconds.
> For some people, they perceive their problem to be that they don't smell the way they want to smell, or the way they think other people want them to smell.

This is one of the prime examples of problems that are explicitly created by advertising itself. What these example people perceive as a problem and the way they see it are product of generations of advertising.

> you need to address the underlying causes for the perception of countless problems that may or may not actually be relevant/rational etc.

There is nothing to address here. The market is an optimization system. As long as there exist a single exploitable loophole in the human psyche - and there always will be something[0] - advertising industry will evolve to find and exploit it. Lying to people, or making them feel bad and offering a product to relieve the emotional pain? All par for the course, tried and true methods.

Advertising - and marketing in general - needs to be reined in, because it's a cancer on modern society.

--

[0] - Even if we were emotion-free robots with perfect reasoning capabilities, there's only so much time an individual has to acquire and process information about any given thing. This limit, and prioritization in general, is exploitable too.
I guess there's a sense of "achievement" when you beat a game that's hard and has no difficulty settings. The idea of "beating" the game holds more weight in that case.

But when a game has so much more to offer - atmosphere, story, adventure - (like Hollow Knight) it is certainly a bit unfair to restrict those things to only the hardcore players.
The issue isn't, that Slack doesn'T work. The issue is, that it causes an infinite redirect loop on the slack homepage. (Additionally, I'd argue that while Slack itself may be a webapp, but its homepage is just a landing page, not a webapp)
As a reader, I must say that at least in the books section the recommendations work. If I buy a book I like, I look for automated recommendations, because the chance I might like those books is rather high.
From all the posts in this thread, I wonder if there is a positive example of integration of Roma anywhere in Europe that other Europeans might look to.
Croatia, country where I'm from has it's own share of problems with Roma and the levels of integration vary.

One of the issues I is the social welfare state and the underlying social contracts it is based upon that are taken advantage of by Roma. There is an incentive for Roma communities to stay the same because of that as minimum social welfare check, child support and similar handouts help provide for a life based on large communities.

In order to make any progress, a country should start by recognizing that in order to help Roma people and brake the cycle, special laws will be needed. In order to be smart about it, it should be done like Denmark did it with it's ghetto laws where they target an area (not ethnicity) and implement special restrictions, tougher laws, tougher punishment but at the same time focus more on providing primary and secondary education, working with families and so on.
Good question. I guess I'm just used to it; I like the context pointer that's passed around; the cookie handling; etc. I guess they're both probably quite a like?
Except that's a breach of the EULA and therefore comparable to piracy.
Of all the people you could have quoted, I think you chose the wrong one. Jordan Peterson has a persona and reputation that extends well beyond simply being a clinical psychologist, and that colors the issue.
I thought the answer was money laundry
> I think that almost everyone should be able to achieve a solid 2000 elo rating, with enough dedication over the years

I went to check rating to prove how unlikely this is. Sure enough, that would put you just outside the top 100 players in Australia.

But then I noticed the guy who played one board above me at school when we played is rated above 2000, and he wasn't really much better than me.

So yeah maybe it is possible!
They, and much of the nation, would say that it is to stop a coup. The facts are quite disputed.
I don't deny its existence (in conference papers, in labs, in black projects by government and corporations, or even in a tiny startup company). I'm just saying so far it's not mature enough to be widely deployed on large platforms, like Amazon's banner ads.
I was very surprised to be in such a small apparent-minority. 17% seems incredibly low for something like this to me.
New Ethereum vulnerabilities put almost $1B at stake
The vulnerabilities range from integer underflow/overflow to unauthorized withdrawals and "self-destructs" of smart contracts.
:) Thanks! And yes, I did read that part, and it is true, but I think it was getting at something slightly different.

"What are you not saying because you're scared I'll blame you if it fails" implies that the advice-giver has a certain mental model that didn't quite resonate with me.

Mostly I try to avoid hurting people who ask me for advice. A) because I care about them, and B) because very often the "right" answer could reduce their will-to-action in a completely counter-productive way.

(As a hypothetical relevant to HN -- 9 times out of 10, the "correct" advice to give your friend on their startup/product is to deliver a completely filter-free structured rant about all the ways their startup/product is complete and utter dogshit. "Correct" in the sense that their startup/product will be bad and need iteration, but also in the sense that founders/creators almost always have a Parent-Child-esque emotional connection to their creation, and without some external emotive-"knock" they will often rationalize away the need to make changes.

But of course that is incredibly poor form as a friend, which is your foremost relationship with this person, and not as a product-reviewer! And so you'll tend to give some nice comments and then some highly-couched "constructive" critique that signals you know they want some negative feedback, but don't trust them to handle it -- and as a result they won't really know where their product stands, and nothing improves.

As a prospective advice-seeker, you really can't over-signal your commitment to getting the other person's raw & emotional thoughts. "Swear" words tend to be one good way to signal this sort of thing in the English-speaking professional environment, but ultimately humans evolved to be master-tier readers of their friends' inner emotional state and if you feel a tightening in your gut when you get harsh advice, the advice-giver knows you feel it)
> This is already taken care of in the proposal, by permitting clients to access only data they own.

I'm curious how this works. In a database that stores something like an address, how do you prevent someone from slightly changing the query to give them someone else's address stored in the same table. I've heard of giving per-table access, but never per-row.
In that case someone in the EU with a static IP should file a data request.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/refo...
What do you mean? Are you for real?
Simple and lightweight video processing library
Some years ago I had Goat and had to go to the doctor.
The doctor prescribed (onlY)Aleve to me. I find it curious she didn't tell me anything about more effective medicines such as:
https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a682673.html?fbclid=Iw...

Is it possible that a doctor does not know about this medicine?

Or is this such a new treatment that it didn't exist about 8 years ago?
True, and though selling soap and toothpaste is now 99.9% execution and 0.1% idea you probably won't get a billion dollar business out of it today.

I guess a good idea now also contains a good idea on how to execute it as well.
Einstein’s relativity: the special and general theory is very readable and very insightful. Instead of explaining how the math works first he goes about explaining how he came to put these theories together, which makes the math come pretty naturally
On the discrete GPU front, most AMD users will be using FOSS drivers that are built into the kernel, plus the standard open source Mesa.

In fact, AMD actively recommend you use the open source ones. I think the community radv vulkan driver also outperforms anything proprietary they offer.

Nvidia still requires proprietary out-of-tree drivers and causes breakage every so often, but AMD is just like Intel integrated graphics now. Never tried it with an AMD APU, but I would hope it would be the same with the open source amdgpu driver.
Paul’s dampkraft blog has been on the front page of HN quite a lot lately and I’ve enjoyed every post a lot.

I’m wondering if this has helped him generate new leads or clients.

Polm23, if you are reading, do you have any comments on business impact you are willing to share publicly?
Very interesting article. Explains spacetime in a way non-physicist like me understands. Even better than Hawking’s book did. Or maybe those books built the base of understanding that this article now profits from ;-) Fascinating stuff. Always reminds me of the movie Interstellar and how they treated time. Getting back to earth to find out your young daughter is now in her 80’s :)
ELO from IRL tournaments and ELO on these websites is pretty different. Tournament C players can pretty easily have expert ELOs online.
You don't have to excel at every layer. If you understand the basics of every layer, you're so far ahead in the game that you might as well be a magician.
‘You Have Zero Privacy’ Says an Internal RCMP Presentation
Polling has issues, but it's an extreme exaggeration to say that it's dead and that any statement based on it is fictional. Anecdotally, very few people I know are comfortable with the state of personalized ads. The kind of people who are too paranoid to answer polls are probably not fans of personalized ads either, so I wouldn't be surprised if the real percentage of those who disapprove is higher than the polls in the article show.
Some of the comments are nitpicking, for sure. A good benefit of Python is that it abstracts a lower-level language into a higher-order one. So that you get some percentage of the raw speed of the lower-level language but in a "easier-to-use", "easier-to-reason-about" and safer format.

On some level, it's like complaining that C# is just using C++ modules because the CLR that interprets the C# byte-code is written in C++.

But it misses the point. You wrote this in Python and you were able to leverage the speed of a much more complicate language for your benefit. Without touching the lower language and without worrying about it's memory-management or lib dependencies. This is a win, and it's part of the beauty of programming!

Btw, my compliments to you on writing this! Really cool project/poc.
That's the first line treatment for gout so I'm sure she knew about it but didn't prescribe for a different reason.
I have this on the official Debian version. But I think it is not browser dependent, it is screen size dependent.

The margin-left calculation on the toc class puts it outside of view.

I think this can be solved by setting position: fixed and margin-left: 10px in a media query for bigger screens.
You can also gauge how well you solve chess puzzles. A great place for this is Lichess[0], where you are presented with situations from real games played on the platform, and you are trying to find the best series of moves for one side, playing against the computer. Those puzzles have difficulty ratings based on the ratings of players who have been able to solve them or not, and your rating goes up or down depending on if you solve it successfully. It's also great because there's no time commitment or pressure with the puzzles. You can jump in or out at any time.

[0] https://lichess.org/training/
Another point that is often overlooked is that geographical _flat_ size is misleading and often irrelevant.

The distance/area of 1000 kilometers gives you very little information without topographical/logistical context.
i.e. knowing that it takes a 5 hour long drive between point A and point B or that area C has 2 million people living in it and has big undeveloped forest density is much more relevant than saying it's 200 kilometers apart or it's 100 kilometers m2 big.

TL;DR: landmass alone is very uninteresting and misleading.
Why is there a random Jordan Peterson video in that playlist?
> anyone trying to sell one would get arrested.

Absolutely not. Again, every few years there are cases of millions worth of books having been stolen (and sold). Priore operated for 20 years.

Discretion is highly valued in the art world, and collectors are generally careless at best, they will balk at obviously stolen items but a thin layer of legitimacy will suffice.

But that is why fencing rate art is not trivial unless un steal to order.
Show HN: A browser-based word processor for writing poetry
>I don't think they were talking about an actual web host

This HN post is about a blog hosted by WordPress.com (but not on the hostname wordpress.com). So given that context I think it's clear this is about blog hosting. I agree that "platform" is a bit confusing, but WordPress.com the company can be called both a host and a platform (Wikipedia calls it both[1]). I would say that WordPress.com is in between a regular web host and a social media platform, but closer to web host, especially when a custom domain is used, as it is here.

>clearly talking about social media platforms

I don't think that's very clear. Especially given the previous debate about Cloudflare taking down Daily Stormer[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordPress.com

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15031922
Unnecessary ad hominem with the 'special mind' but I will try to bring it back to the actual discussion point.

All the points I mentioned were massive breakthroughs and improvements in their primary application. The point is they had massively wide scale secondary effects which Humans at the time were unable to predict.

You say a small percentage of outcomes but many of those small percentage of occurences have had a negative effect on the whole of Humanity and even a Planetary negative effect. Just because the are few applications it doesn't make their magnitude small.

The original argument from GGP was that we as a species have failed to forecast these secondary effects on Chemical compounds which are theoretically less complex systems than Biological ones (by simpler I don't mean with less merit).

If we fail to predict theses effects on a Chemical level, it follows that the claim that we can confidently make such changes on a Biological system without secondary effects is very weak.

In my comment I was not arguing that the last 3 centuries of Chemistry are a failure or that we should stop developing, I am providing supporting evidence that even a 'simple' field as Chemistry is already vastly more complex than we can currently predict, it follows that changes to a more complex Biological field will very likely introduce more complex secondary effects which we once again will fail to predict.
The biggest contributor to income inequality and biggest burden on the masses, is the rise in rental rates, produced by rising land use restrictions, particularly in high productivity coastal metropolitan zones (New York, San Francisco and San Jose):

https://eml.berkeley.edu//~moretti/growth.pdf

https://medium.com/the-ferenstein-wire/a-26-year-old-mit-gra...
I guess with some categories it may work, like books, movies, video games etc
I agree that it is undervalued and maybe because it is seen as a women's job, but that part is speculation. I live in a country with stronger social systems and there are countless interests that keep the pay as low as possible. You would not find a single person that says that nursing isn't important.

As I said, you if you want to have a tech job, you currently almost can choose where to work. Men and women alike, so I cannot see that many barriers.

I don't buy into the prestige argument at all, it feels far removed from reality. I didn't pick my profession because of prestige and I don't think many people do. This isn't the showbusiness. Do you know what people with strong affinity to tech were called? Nerds. The good payrate is very recent, as are the gender discussions btw.
About 63% https://zdnet4.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/2020/10/29/c612e8ee-3387...
He probably saw benefits from using UDP because he's no longer limited by TCP's congestion control and can flood the pipe with duplicates of his packets.
I think a lot is also circumstances. If there is too much pressure from outside even the best engineers cannot do great work.
> - the best advice-givers are aware of the effect that giving their advice would have on a typical recipient

I’ve started to think of advice as a moral dilemma. Someone asks a simple question and I start thinking, “oh god, what is gonna happen if I start mouthing off right now?”

Over the past few weeks I’ve had people tell me that thanks to my advice, they have either decided to continue trying to work on a problem (that they were going to give up on), or the reverse. I think this happens by accident when you are a subject matter expert in a field—no matter how narrow that field is, no matter how little of an expert you are, you know that 1) you can push someone new to the field in almost any direction you want, and 2) if you don’t push someone in a direction on purpose, you or someone else will just push them in a direction by accident.

That, and when you want advice you are rarely able to formulate the question correctly. Like if someone asks, “Can I do this?” the literal answer is, far too often, “Yes, but let’s have a discussion about whether you want to do that.”
"Something that I learned recently that blew my mind was that gout is caused primarily from consuming DNA."

I came here to say just that.

I have never experienced gout but years ago I was very interested to learn, and then dramatically oversimplify: gout comes from eating DNA.

Presumably that's how beer is such a catalyst for a gout attack: all that dead yeast ...
>For the individual the answer is almost certainly yes

That type of thinking will ruin the second planet just as much.
> If you're going to get a significant fraction of the human race living off Earth you'll need to build something nicer than Earth

that's what Blue Origin is working-on but their timeline is unsure to me :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Uyfqi_TE8
"How is it possible to maintain an average speed that high on public roads?"

Seems you've never driven in Italy. Let me assure it's very possible. In fact it's just matter of fact!
I did have some issues with getting proper utilization of a 3000-series APU on Debian stable. Eventually got it working but it did requires mesa > 20.1 and some specific version/params in kernel (can't recall exactly what did it).
Racism is not that obviously immoral behavior depicted in Disney movies when ugly people misjudge good people for frivolous reasons. Racism is when a group of people consider another group as inferior / less worthy for some reason conflated with their biology or culture (of which most often than not very little is actually known). Racism is exactly the thoughts you have just expressed.

Upvoted for your honest contribution that sheds some light on what's racism in 2020's Europe, despite it makes me sad how easily one still associate the conduct of some members of a minority that's discriminated against with the genuine culture of that community.
Alternative title: What makes me a good software engineer?
There's cheaters but the number is so low that it doesn't really make that much of a difference. Also, if they get caught you get your points back.
Does that the time that it takes to prepare a helicopter and a pilot? Because that's probably the slowest part.

I've been on a helicopter ride once and it took quite a while before we were actually in the air. A lot of the time was spent on all of the pre-flight stuff and refueling. And that was in a scenario where a pilot was waiting for us at the airfield. I have no idea if the police in Italy always have a pilot ready to hop in at a moment's notice.
Instagram has many reported profiles with child porn that they don’t take down
Absolutely, as long as they're operating within parameters there's no failing them. I've been running brushless systems in RC cars for the last 7 odd years. The only motor failures has been when It's been subject to extreme abuse, as in the rotor reaching 100+° (internally), going from ~55-60K RPM to 0 in fraction of a second or the rotor being forced through the bearings.

For unmanned flight i do agree on multicopters being the best option. See this[1] video for an example of a multicopter flying with disabled props.

However, as you see this flightmode isn't appropriate for human beings, humans should keep flying helis for now. The swash plate design even though more complex than a prop mounted on a shaft is still a rather simple design, litterally a bearing mounted on a 2 axis system and rods attached to rotate the blades. Multicopters with swash plates are interesting too as they can be simplified not to tilt the plate but only offset it up and down to alter pitch the same way all around the rotation. If. This exerts less force on the bearing, but considering there's still 4 of them rather than one might increse failure rate. With swash plates on multicopters we could have two motors driving one system that drives the props, and do many amazing things with computer aided controls in case of failure.

Idk why i keep on going, TL;DR: Being able to control pitch is key, multirotor or not.

I'm not really with Elon Musk on alot of things, but personal human flight is one thing where i agree with him, It's not going to happen.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2itwFJCgFQ
Get money worth from those corporate subscriptions to Alamy and Getty Images.

They even partner with Getty Images to market their services for them.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2020/bbc-partne...
Why should I trust Apple, or Facebook, or Google, or any company but myself with my privacy?

Why do I care about what they say? Its marketing speak. Why not just not do it at all? Let me decide how I want my data to be sent. Which ideally, is zero.
> I like that some random guy on the internet is telling a guy who was in charge of the satellite internet on a military base that he doesn't know anything about satellite internet.

I like that to you only one is a random guy on the internet. And I should know, I'm the president of the World Liking Things club, and you random guy on the internet have no business liking things like I do.