skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1000 times yes - there's 100+ year history of fraudsters, and IT DOES NOT WORK to prosecute after the fact: the incentive to defraud is simply too high, and the frauds can last for too long. Consider Bernie Madoff: he lived well for decades before his fraud unwound, and his fraud was not original - they call it a "Ponzi Scheme" after Charles Ponzi, a famous (but himself not original!) fraudster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ponzi
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I don't know what culture you come from, but in the US and UK and similarly influenced cultures justice being seen to be done and recorded is a pretty important principle and mechanism against overreach of the state.
Wow yeah, this made my day! It's nice not waiting 10 seconds for a video I don't want to watch to auto start playing (just so I can stop it).
I got to a point where I would just write down all my solutions on a final paper to turn in for my math assignments.

I did everything in pen, bc of handwriting issues and pencils. I simply burned through sheets and sheets of paper with my preliminary work- then copy everything to something both legible and presentable.
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For sure, this needs study too. There have been studies of those who were given treatment though and it shows a correlation. We don’t know, for sure, that COVID-19 is the direct cause of mental issues or a side effect but it’s been recorded in a sample.

I think a study of a general population sample for mental health issues with or without a prior COVID-19 diagnosis would show how varying the COVID-19 patients experiences are vs how everyone else is fairing.

I’m not a scientist or a therapist so I don’t know the exact approach to use to do the comparison but I suspect it could be done.
Ugh. I don't want to make Youtube a career or anything, so I figured if I ever reach 1000 subscribers I'd disable them since I really don't like watching ads for myself.

Now Youtube is going to put ads on my stuff, and I don't get any money for it, so really the worst of both worlds.
> too cold outside now to hold an outdoor dinner.

If it was good enough for the Peanuts, it's good enough for us with appropriate clothing. :D
> It was downloading 300MB worth of resources to show the webpage. Incorrect implementations and inefficient use of libraries is the reason why we're seeing a bloated websites all over the web

In situations like that, it's right and proper to ask who built the site. Then shake your head with absolute contempt.
>masks don't help much

I don't think you're taking away the complete story of the paper you mention. There are two fundamentally different ways in which masks could help: protecting the wearer from others, or protecting others from the wearer.

They state:

"These findings do offer evidence about the degree of protection mask wearers can anticipate in a setting where others are not wearing masks and where other public health measures, including social distancing, are in effect. The findings, however, should not be used to conclude that a recommendation for everyone to wear masks in the community would not be effective in reducing SARS-CoV-2 infections, because the trial did not test the role of masks in source control of SARS-CoV-2 infection. During the study period, authorities did not recommend face mask use outside hospital settings and mask use was rare in community settings (22). This means that study participants' exposure was overwhelmingly to persons not wearing masks."

By suggesting that this paper concludes that masks don't help much, it totally ignores the community benefit of widespread mask-wearing.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/04/dont-wear...
Nice ad hominem bro
You can't "pay" by watching ads. Watching ads is a harmful and non-productive activity, so it's impossible to be obligated to do it.
I have a feeling an improved webcam (and FaceID) will be one of the features Apple will use to distinguish their forthcoming higher end MBP's.

Surely, they won't keep using the same aging technology. At least I hope not.
What was likely meant by experience is things like the display (P3 retina 3K in the macbook air), the trackpad (still unmatched in any other device), the metal housing that is very refined and doesn’t flex at all, ...

In my experience if you want the level of physical build quality of a macbook, you end up in the price range of a macbook.

Windows vs macos vs linux, that is personal preference. I use all three and they all serve their roles well. I do find that windows and linux require more configuration and maintenance, but YMMV.
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I believe there is 1 single use of the word bourgeois in this whole graphic article. It is used to define "of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes." Which is a neat and succinct way of representing the "order and rationality" of the referenced people spoken of in this piece.

Nothing egregious here.
I assume you went through the proper channels to get written permission to make that link.

From the legal disclaimer at the bottom:

> linking to this website without written permission is prohibited
If they remove the wealth test completely in favor of a new unsponsored test solely for accredited investor status, I will be satisfied
That's what happens when teevee is your source of truth.
If anything - I believe the most lasting lesson from the world wars was to avoid attempts to “shape societies” at almost all costs - for better or for worse.
(Light grey sans-serif body font means you hate your readers' eyes.)
Thanks :) It absolutely does not, I didn't even set up a user system (unlike most other screen recorders) for that reason. For privacy purposes in any case the code is open source - I was thinking about adding a section in GitHub on how to self-host it (zipping the contents and dragging them over chrome://extensions in developer mode might work except for the "save to drive" functionality which is tied to a client ID for the app).
Are you sure? From https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/... :

> In this study of a cohort of German patients recently recovered from COVID-19 infection, CMR revealed cardiac involvement in 78 patients (78%) and ongoing myocardial inflammation in 60 patients (60%), independent of preexisting conditions, severity and overall course of the acute illness, and time from the original diagnosis. These findings indicate the need for ongoing investigation of the long-term cardiovascular consequences of COVID-19.

Note that this study includes a group of COVID survivors who have recently recovered, and 2 control groups: healthy, age-matched participants, and a group of risk-factor matched control patients. It is published in JAMA Cardiology.

Obviously, this study doesn't say anything about truly long-term consequences of COVID, but that, IMO, is more because we haven't had time to reach "long-term" status yet. I would give it at least another 6 months to a year before making up my mind about the incidence of long-term consequences.
The interesting question, to me, is whether we will see a visible spike in all-cause mortality for, let's say, 2020-2025.

COVID-19 is particularly hard on the elderly, which is by no means an inevitable fact about epidemics. Every person who dies of this disease would have lived longer, which makes their death a tragedy: but how much longer?

Cards on the table: my suspicion is that we won't. I could be wrong, particularly if recovering from the disease shortens lifespans for an appreciable number of patients. We'll know when we know.
Do what exactly? This is essentially a performance optimization for folk bagholding oceans of vulnerable hardware
Unless you’re Bruce Wayne. Sorry, couldn’t resist...
Yes, I was referring to Chomsky's "manufactured consent", but I suppose consensus works as well here.
"We need to make an AMP site to get into this carousel" is a much easier sell (to executives) than "we need to rebuild our site according to some not completely specified principles to hopefully get a higher search rank".
Why are you so hellbent on dragging this on a completely off-topic discussion...? Nothing in my comments was anti-capitalist, I just said too much surplus is being accrued by certain elements and this might not be the just and ideal balance. Please point to where in my comments I asked for the abolition of capitalism.

The real point remains: WFH in certain fields of endeavour is patently ripe for abuse. Or are you sincerely happy with the way DC Comics treated Simon and Schuster? Or the way Marvel treated Jack Kirby? Or, to get back on the issue of the day, what Disney is now doing to Mr. Foster?
One could easily imagine the incentive for private initiative in the field of space travel.

But fundamental research on a huge scale is something that governments are axiomatically the best supporters of. Let's not drink the Ayn Rand Amazing Kool-Aid here.
That's definitely true too -- the rates of mental illness are something like doubled in the base population. But the frequency for people who have been sick is much higher than the general population, even accounting for the spike in overall mental illness.
In 2005 if your bank rocked up to their regulator explaining that they wanted shared hosting of their financial systems on commodity hosting providers they would have been told to reconsider or lose their banking license.

Now it's carte-blanche to have core financial systems on Amazon, running alongside EC2 instances purchased with stolen credit cards by folks in non-extradition countries.
If you're offering a service that is so uncompelling or so undifferentiated that the page load speed is a driving factor, than you should certainly focus on page load speed.

On the other hand, Gmail regularly takes 10s+ to load and yet most users are glued to it.

If you're a SaaS business, your marketing page is probably not your app. The people using your app care about usability, and page load speed is rarely the driving factor. Especially with SPAs.
Granted, I was a teen in the 90s, but I never found Doom to be scary. However, Wolfenstein 3D left me an anxious wreck -- likely because the AI always (seemed to?) know where you were. (I also didn't get to play Wolf3d until DOOM had already come out, so I don't think it's related.)
When I'm having a transcendental youtube experience, last thing I want is to have is an ad disrupt my focus. It disturbs the "flow".
I think it's parent commenter who is confused, complains how hard it is to "squeeze state of the art models into my limited memory", which sounds like inference.
Because you guys in Germany took the virus seriously and put measures in place. The US went full YOLO.
In my experience Google search results have gotten less and less informative for a very long time(last 4-6 years). Seems to me Google at some point in the past decided it wasn't going to show everything, only what it meant i needed to see, monetization on the other hand has gone up.
That's Electron for ya. We decided that javascript was thew ay to write cross-OS UI's. God help us.
Can you share a link? I’d like to check it out :)
> less government

It's enough to look at the current holocaust in the Dakotas to understand the true value of that "philosophy".
I use YouTube to listen to guided meditations. Getting ads in the middle will be a new way to test my equanimity
Technical interview practices that breed impostor syndrome
What about the problem of CO2 / MB ?
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I've been lucky last summer to be able to see one of the exhibition of forensic-architecture in Basel, Switzerland. And today i'm happy to see one of their work on my favorite website HN.
This was a very interesting work between art, data, dataviz, video art.
I would recommend to everybody to check their exhibition schedule and go out to see if there is one not far from you https://forensic-architecture.org/programme/exhibitions
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Just for your information, from their legal page: "...linking to this website without written permission is prohibited." Not sure what is meant by this, but I found it funny.
I think the state of dreaming, a dissociative mindset, sleepiness, and to some extent, meditation, certain drugs: these all can lead to creative and insightful thoughts.

Edison used to take frequent naps, which may have been a font for his many ideas.
I'm not even a Trump supporter.

I'm just saying that it's a mistake to think that America resoundingly rejected Trump. He got roughly 11 million more votes the second time around. That puts him roughly on par with Ronald Reagan as far as popularity the second time around. In terms of raw votes, he's the most popular encumbent we've had period.

Biden's win is a pretty narrow percentage -- in the battleground states it came down to less than 1%.

This is very much an unsettled political question. If you think that that political movement has buttoned up and moved on, you're nuts. The results of this election are going to be in play in the mid-term elections and the next Presidential.

Feel free to downvote the unpopular truth.
I would call most of what was done in this presentation Photogrammetry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry
The markets themselves are completely classist. Even if there were no accredited investment standard, no VC would want your money, and VC funds formed to capitalize on small investments from retail investors would underperform classic large-LP VC firms --- probably dramatically, possibly even comically. A basic thing to understand about the investment markets is that VC firms compete with each other for dealflow; simply having the right number of dollars isn't enough to get in on the real remunerative deals.
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That is interesting. But what do you/does him mean by "create a mini-component"? Are we talking about a React component, a Vue one, none of that?
Why would that be the real problem?

I'm talking about smart people not realizing consequences from their own actions.
Very normal word from where I'm from (UK).
Has multiple connotations.
Yeah, I was amazed to see Trump actually had a larger percentage of the popular vote in 2020 (47%) than he did in 2016 (46%).

https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php

https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2016&o...

Edit: That's not to say Biden is not the clear victor, only that there are still A LOT of people who support Trump, and even people who didn't vote for him in 2016 who did vote for him this time.
On a curious note, what's Hacker News score? Seems ala carte minimal no?
> Unless you are specifically targeting low-bandwidth users

There aren't some tiny number of low bandwidth users with some esoteric internet problem, there is a significant divide due to technological and geographic reasons. Averages are very misleading when the majority of people in cities connected to various fiber end points keep getting crazier and crazier speeds while 50% of the US is stuck on ADSL, with a theoretical max of 20Mbit down - add geographical limitations and that's often far lower due to line noise. Where I live in the UK it's also just a matter of luck, I live in the middle of a major city and yet in the 5 places I've lived over the last 10 years the only option was ADSL, and never >6Mbit.

I haven't even started the argument about other countries with poorer internet infrastructure.

When you assume being able to download at 1MiB/s is basic, you make the internet suck for a huge chunk of the population, they are not the majority - but barely.
Yes, popular meme.

However I have a bunch of users who suddenly upped and left the office in April and still needed access to in house resources, fileshares, intranet, reporting services. Things we haven't finished moving to the cloud. Perhaps you can tell me how else I should do that overnight without a VPN?

Everyone elses job looks so easy doesn't it
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Sure, I'll post after the dust settles. Server getting smashed but still handling searches pretty dang well.

Some sites crash from the page views, and here I have to handle everyone searching 400 million documents too.
The tricky thing with analysis that I don't think many professors are good at conveying is that the ordering of statements in the proof isn't the same as the ordering of steps the proof writer performs to come up with the proof.

Basically you sort of write the broad strokes of the proof up front, leaving the right hand sides of statements like "Choose epsilon such that epsilon = __" blank. Then you do a bunch of scratch work to figure out what epsilon needs to be so that your proof works out in the end.

Another challenge with analysis is that inequalities are central, so fluency in their manipulation is absolutely critical. And naturally most students aren't fluent with them by the time they take analysis, so they get bulldozed by Baby Rudin and learn to hate a pretty cool (and useful) branch of math
> Wonderful to hear that and was wondering if that would be down to the catholic church having a better structure of leadership that was on-board early?

I don't know the full mechanics of the decision. But a few things to note:

1. This was Archbishop Gregory's decision. I'm unsure how high up the "chain" goes for the Catholic Church. As such, Archbishop Gregory's history is important, but also the Archdiocese he's leading. So #2 goes into that background...

2. Archbishop Gregory was brought into my Archdiocese as a "turning over a new page" kind of bishop... as Theodore McCarrick (a previous leader) was caught up in the whole sex-abuse scandal that I'm sure you know about. Cardinal Wuerl, Gregory's immediate predecessor, was also seen as too connected to the sex-abuse scandals.

So after having the whole sex-abuse thing come into light over the past few years, and coming on as the new Bishop who will turn a new page after that whole awful affair... it is obvious what Archbishop Gregory should do for his first Easter of this area of Church.

So this is quite possibly a local-church politics (Archdiocese wide) thing that plays into the decision making process here.

> After all, we all know the Catholic church has The Pope as their leader, and probably about the only religion people know who the World voice of that religion is.

And yes, the Pope is the leader for sure. The new Pope is also quite reformist in attitude, and Archbishop Gregory would have been elevated to his position thanks to the blessings of the Pope.

But I didn't know the Archbishop had the power to negate the need of mass + eucharist (temporarily) during this pandemic. Such authority is rarely, if ever, used. But its those sorts of moves that really help get the Church unified during a long-term pandemic like this.

Not bad for Archbishop Gregory's first year.

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https://adw.org/coronavirus/

>> The dispensation issued by Archbishop Gregory from the obligation to attend Mass during this time remains in effect. All persons who are subjects of the Archbishop of Washington no matter where they may be, and all other persons who are actually present in the Archdiocese of Washington who are under the obligation, are dispensed from the obligation until further notice (cann. 87 §1, 91).
> Go where cross compiling is trivial

If that's the criterion the author is using then I don't understand how Rust got a "no". Rust cross-compiling is also trivial and I can compile on one machine for a completely different one and send only the binary output.
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I really wish the author had gone ahead and done some benchmarking of their own. As it stands, they are mad about Apple making claims about their laptop’s performance which are answered with (paraphrasing) “I bet a Ryzen could run Fortnite better than a MacBook Air.” No hard data anywhere to be seen.
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That's nice and all, but --- all due respect --- nobody cares whether you're satisfied, and they're not going to remove the asset test, so if you have something to say, you're going to need to flesh it out beyond "this is the vmception standard".
> While the Greenspan era was notorious for undermining that, the Financial Crisis restored the political will to support their mandate.

Did it? I haven't see anyone prosecuted for the 2008 crash, unless I missed it.
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Now, as a Linux guy, I’ll just wait until innovation turns commodity, having no interest in macOS whatsoever.

You may have a long wait.

Apple has been killing Qualcomm and the other ARM licensees in performance for years. Apple shipped the first 64-bit ARM processor at least a year before Qualcomm could do it.

It took 10-years of designing their own ARM SoCs to get to the point of being able to produce the M1.

Apple showed Debian running in a VM on a prototype 6 months ago, so we know that's coming. There's a decent chance Linux running in a VM (or native Docker when that comes) will be much faster than Linux running on similarly priced Intel/AMD hardware.
If you note, it wasn't actually a complaint, or a dunk.

It was an observation, and recounting some personal experience.

What is bloat, as far as I'm concerned, is hitting a page with a 4K background video.

If you want a real "I had to walk 2 miles, barefoot" story, I can tell you about writing [C]WAP/WML sites (the old "m.<yourdomain>" sites). I actually considered using XSLT to extract WML from the regular site HTML.
Here in Ireland we still have boards.ie which is an invaluable resource for all things related to living here. It’s certainly nowhere near its peak but it’s still soldiering on.
I disagree. We founded institutions like the United Nations, fostered global trade and integrated globally and internationally which shaped societies very much.

But we were apparently not able to throughout educate people to minimize infectious potential. To me it seems like common spreaders of respiratory diseases are completely ignorant about infection and don't even consider that by their actions (and presence!) they might infect others.
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> Obviously, this study doesn't say anything about truly long-term consequences of COVID

Exactly. And it's insane to just assume there is long-term damage with no evidence whatsoever.

Also, it would likely be possible to say something about actual long-term damage if it existed by monitoring patients' recovery and extrapolating.
Was the same study conducted for influenza in 2017/18? I had a really bad case of flu for about two weeks and feld like I got five years older during that time.

The major problem I see is that we currently watch the whole COVID-19 under amicroscope and discover a lot of horrible things. Actually, if you are a researcher, the only way to get attention is by finding horrible things. If we had done the same for epidemics in the past, would we have found horrible things as well?
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The only use of "bourgeois" I see is a reference to a Moomin's return to "bourgeois life." In this context that just means "middle class," which, to be fair, is synonymous with "safe and boring" in this context.

I think you're conflating this usage with Marx's later usage, which refers to the wealthy ruling class, like Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates today. Not sure I see the connection between Marxist theory and Mein Kampf.