skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, companies may have interests in some areas and not others, but it is counterproductive and even irritating if the company does not clearly communicate what the areas of interest are and which are not. An order to retract without explanation is rude and counterproductive.
Some clinic in some less developed country had issues with people not taking their antibiotics for STDs reliably and they had a high failure rate. They switched to using Zithromax -- which stays in the system about two weeks -- and sitting them down and giving them the entire dose in sitting while a nurse watched them swallow it. Their cure rate skyrocketed and incidence of STDs plummeted.

Similarly, some study found that treating kids in school in less developed countries for common parasitic infections was the best way to improve school performance for students. Surprisingly, with treating all the children at the local school, they saw knock-on effects in the entire neighborhood served by the school. Not only did school attendance improve, so did work attendance for adults in the neighborhood.

If you can improve compliance for even half the women, you can begin to contain what is an epidemic in some African countries. Some African countries have very high rates of HIV positive people.

This has really huge societal implications where you see high numbers of orphans because both parents have died and children born HIV positive because their mother had it. It is tearing apart the fabric of society.

So this may be a much more significant innovation for some parts of Africa than most people hanging on Hacker News would ever guess. HIV is crippling some parts of Africa and adding something that is more convenient and effective to the tool bag for addressing the problem could be a major watershed moment for fairly large swaths of the African continent.

https://www.avert.org/professionals/hiv-around-world/sub-sah...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4893541/

https://www.csis.org/analysis/worlds-largest-hiv-epidemic-cr...

https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/fact-sheet

https://www.drugs.com/medical-answers/how-long-does-zithroma...
I'd actually like Alamo Drafthouse more if they skipped the whole dinner thing.

I mean the dinner thing is great, but I do find the extra movement distracting. The drafthouse I typically go to doesn't have stadium seating so it is noticeable.
Merchants are not allowed to ask for proof of a dog being a service dog.

https://www.ada.gov/service_animals_2010.htm

>When it is not obvious what service an animal provides, only limited inquiries are allowed. Staff may ask two questions: (1) is the dog a service animal required because of a disability, and (2) what work or task has the dog been trained to perform. Staff cannot ask about the person’s disability, require medical documentation, require a special identification card or training documentation for the dog, or ask that the dog demonstrate its ability to perform the work or task.
you do know that Appalachia is still the poorest area in the US, and the unions did not fix the economic problems.

yes it provided the employees that were still employed with greater protections, but it is not the utopia you seem to believe it is
I think this link does a nice job of contextualizing at least part of the situation. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-03/google-s-...

I’ve been at companies where I’m faced with an approval process before publishing research to the outside world. It can be quite stressful, especially in the face of holidays and impending deadlines.

However I guarantee that if anyone had a problem with the work, they would take the time to tell me why.

And it would happen without untitled meetings or unrelated email drama.

They might even work with me to fix the problem because they’re my coworkers and that’s what it means to work together in a normal workplace where people respect each other as colleagues.

Sadly every piece of publicity related to Google and its workers makes me want to work there less and less...
I’ve done cocaine and overdosed because of it being laced with fentanyl. It should be legal just so people don’t instantly die, it’s about equal to alcohol and we stigmatise it and it’s users into horrible places
It's a quote from the same piece of classic literature that the GP is quoting from.
They submitted thee paper for internal review one day before their external deadline.

They set themselves up for failure regardless of the paper's content.
What you're talking about is already happening, but we still call them "tv shows." A great recent example is The Queen's Gambit. It's adapted from a novel, which "normally" would become a movie. But instead it became a 7 episode miniseries, which allowed for much more character development than a 2-hour movie. Game of Thrones is the obvious example of something that also could have instead been several movies.

I think what we're discovering is that movies, as a medium, are for narratives that can be told in under 3 hours. If your narrative requires longer, or you just want to be able to have more time to develop characters or worlds, it's better to create a show.
>No, for technical analysis to work, EMH needs to be false.

The way it was explained to me is that if the EMH is true, then looking at fundamentals is pointless because all the fundamentals are already priced-in, which leaves nothing but price and volume data left to analyze.

How could EMH be anything other than true in that case?

I'll note that investopedia is often not a good source. Here's an investopedia article that explicitly supports my position, for example: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/technicalanalysis.asp
Not sure what you mean “the outside”. Only indoors are air-conditioned (using electricity). And in the UAE, right now, electricity generation is slowly being switched over solar energy (away from natural gas), which is clean / renewable / sustainable. (https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/worlds-largest-...)
Exactly! I would love to switch my systems off of x86, but I can't buy anything performant for a price that I'm willing to spend on hardware. I might yet try a Pi 4 as a desktop with USB for disk, but that's hacky and still suffers from performance problems. Or, I could get something with good performance, either POWER or ARM, but then I'd have to pay through the nose for the privilege. Now, some of this is market size: I get my x86 boxes at a huge discount by buying used, and high-end ARM/POWER machines aren't popular enough to really show up on eBay (yet). But in practice, there's just no good options.
CIA: "What's that? You want ANOTHER coup? Ok..."
jgrahamc wrote a fascinating comment about how Cloudflare started this way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22883548
I was in the college film group undergrad and have stayed in pretty close touch with a bunch of other people of the same era. There's definitely a split between

1.) Those of us (like me) who might go see something in IMAX once a year but are mostly very content to watch at home and

2.) Those who just can't understand not watching films in the theater if at all possible. (Said film group is still around but a bare shadow of its former self. And a number of my friends simply don't understand how today's students could not want to go see the movies on the big screen.)
This is not a research institute, it's a division in a for profit global corporation.
I'm frankly disgusted that people who call themselves researchers of the humanities go work in this sort of obvious PR stunt of an "institute".
> “What did you expect?” is my least favorite conversational trope (it’s more disappointing on HN because in general I have higher expectations here, but it’s common everywhere).

> On the surface it sounds smart and world-weary. As an actual part of a conversation, whether something is expected is pretty orthogonal to whether, say, something would ideally be done about it.

Yeah, it's pretty much just a lazy dismissal of the issue, and maybe even an attempt to jam up the discussion.
PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.”
― Groucho Marx, Groucho and Me
This is the story of our entire media. No, they didn't line by line come in and edit the article, but any media outlet is going to self-censor to not lose a big sponsor. I think that's pretty self-evident at this point. The classic Manufacturing Consent does a deep dive into this dynamic.

Related, newspapers are historically unprofitable. Why would someone like Jeff Bezos buy the Washington Post? Like any investment, he expects some kind of return. And the return in this case clearly isn't direct revenue.
You misunderstood what that means. Samsung is continuing to develop Exynos SoCs using stock Arm CPU cores and AMD GPU cores. This will require fewer people hence the layoff.
If consumers all want unleaded and every available option is leaded, someone will make unleaded fuel and become enormously successful. That's how a market functions.

If they're unaware of the negative effects of lead or a business is being dishonest about what's in the fuel, that definitely falls under unfair/dishonest practices and the government should prosecute that.

But how on earth is that relevant to Facebook or Apple antitrust? Facebook operates a bunch of websites that millions of people voluntarily sign up for and can leave at any time. The government isn't suing Facebook for safety issues or anything, they're suing them for antitrust which means they believe Facebook has somehow unfairly coerced consumers into using their product over their competitors.
Until relatively recently I'd have agreed but at this point I'd take a modern display over a CRT assuming we're talking about high end. Popular options in the high end are displays like the LG 48 CX or some of the "G-Sync Ultimate" monitors like the Predator x27. These kinds of displays start at prices higher than a 3080 though so you don't hear about the market as much since people usually expect to spend less on a monitor than a GPU and the 3080 is generally consider the top of most high end price ranges.
Well how do you define value? Is it workers should get enough for a modest life, a fair pay for a fair days work, the rest goes to shareholders?
I mean, so were pretty much all of the best people in history. That's not a great filter for finding the next hitler, is it?
As much as I cannot believe I am saying this, Kimetsu no Yaiba got $280 mil at the Japanese box office.
Comments like these always make me wonder if I'm the only person in the world still delighted by Apple products. I mean I alone can not be responsible for their sales volume.

And then I start to wonder if I should be more critical of Apple, so I fire up my Windows machine and think silently "No, this is still a worse experience". So I fire up my Ubuntu and have the same reaction. I just don't understand the vitriol some people have for Apple, to me it is hands down always the better platform.
Yes, sure, the current situation a sign of a misalignment in goals (and likely values) that has gone unaddressed far too long; and that's the responsibility of managers to ensure that this communication happens early. However, it somehow seems that if this situation was managed properly, the result would simply be that she would quit or get fired some time earlier.
This article actually brings to mind an old question of mine regarding short range infra-red rangefinders. Are these devices discriminatory because they respond poorly to less reflective objects? If white men were not so prevalent in the development of these devices, would we see a greater emphasis on inexpensive sensing solutions that measure return from objects based on a human common denominator like density rather than the reflection of nearly-visible light?
I see - so you're saying that for someone:

* in their 30s - so, say 10 years of engineer-but-not-FAANG salary

* with a spouse who also has a white collar job & about 10 years of savings

they would not have $200k to put down 20% towards a $1M place? Not that putting down 20% is even common anymore, average is ~9%.

I guess I could believe it given how little housing there is in SF - but wow.
I have a pretty unpopular take on this, being married to someone with severe pet allergies. That take is, dogs (and cats) have no place on an airplane, and responsible adults shouldn't get pets that they can't find sitters for or board while they are away.

Planes are enclosed-air spaces, and the allergens from your dog make anyone with allergies miserable for the entire duration of the flight. Every single time we end up on a plane with a dog (even the "hypoallergenic" ones), my wife ends up sick. Not to mention the fact that there are plenty of people with severe phobias of dogs, and that the animals themselves tend to be extremely uncomfortable on flights. That last factor has actually led to a number of innocent people sitting next to folks with dogs getting bit, etc on planes.

Actual service animals do still belong, because they provide an actual service, are extremely well-trained, and are worth the allergen/phobia tradeoff because folks who need them literally need them.
Are they going to clean that up? Is "decommissioning" just a fancy word for "leaving a big pile of garbage in the woods?"
Questions or Suggestions for 18 highpowered servers?
Hey guys sorry if this isn't the place for this I just highly respect your opinions. I'm mostly a lurker

I have a network I maintain of 18+ 1gbps, 32GB DDR4, 8 core xeons, with DDoS protection up to 100gbps, spread across the globe (LA, Denver, NY, TX, FL, Atlanta, Amsterdam, London) and many other places.

The project I was working on got halted. I was wondering what are some cool things I could set up with a network like this especially behind cloudflare? Any suggestions on running fun stuff for communities? I just want to give back. But of course if you guys have some million dollar ideas I'd like to hear it.

I'm burned out from computing lately and just can't come up with anything.

Thanks again!
You're right. My most common interactions with ESAs is definitely people abusing the loophole to take their pets places which leaves a sour taste in my mouth, but there are certainly valid uses and positive impacts.

I'm a bit touchy on it because I've seen it become a real issue for people with service animals.
Guinness World Record Attempt for the Biggest Online Toast
This is my experience as well. It is definitely one of the things that HN worries a lot more about than any CTO I know from tiny startups to billion dollar businesses.
By that logic, so does Git (disregarding fundamental Git vs Pijul differences).
> That's a direct mechanism of protection that will help to both prevent people from getting sick

That's what the reported numbers claim: up to 95% people less are getting sick.

But it's unknown how much it will "knock down shedding" and the experts who follow only publicly available data are still cautious to claim the opposite of what you claim, specifically:

"it will be important to communicate to policy makers and the general public that first-generation vaccines are only one tool in the overall public health response to COVID-19 and unlikely to be the ultimate solution that many expect."

You may not like that or believe something else, but it's not what I hear and read the mentioned experts say, like, as an example, Natalie E. Dean whose article I've already linked to, and you can follow her other writings too. And, as far as I know, her opinion is far from being untypical, i.e. it would be easy to find more actual experts (which I define as those who were doing active research even before Covid-19 in the field and not something totally unrelated and who aren't just jumping in for political purposes -- note that that definition automatically excludes those like Ioannidis) who publicly say the same.
The F-22 Raptor Will Always Beat the F-35 Stealth Fighter at Dogfighting
Not really. H1B immigrants raise the bar on hiring. Often times they are willing to work more hours, study more, etc for a chance to thrive in the USA. This reduces working conditions, effective wages, and employment prospects for Americans.
Have there been any UFO sightings nearby?...I just love alien conspiracy theories.
Or you’d have to pay a premium to access x+ years old movies. Which would be a smarter move.
I'm afraid I have no idea what you're trying to say.

("[T]hat jet liner that kept falling apart because of the square corners in the hatch" is the DeHavilland Comet, BTW.)
Thanks for the links. Looks like I also got the AUO display (FRUofAUO14.0FHDIPSAG).

Edit: looks like you can get the Innolux on eBay for around $100 (shipped direct from China). Might have to consider that.
In places like Portugal consumption decreased.
The hint is in the configuration.

The Windows setup is convoluted, awkward, and weird sounding compared to the native app. They are using it for a reason though: it’s much much more responsive than native Linux LibreOffice.
i'm sorry, have you seen someone about that?
Is there the option to use AVX2 (256-bit) instead of AVX-512 (which can cause thermal throttling on basically every chip[a])? Now, if Intel can get AVX-512 working well, that’s something else.

Side question: do any Ryzen processors support AVX-512? AFAIK, they only support up to AVX2.

[a]: IIRC, some tests show AVX2 code actually being faster than the equivalent AVX-512 code because AVX2 doesn’t cause the processor to throttle so hard
Not because of people forcing other people to not do things. Because most of the things were super dangerous, and there wasn't enough value sloshing around to have lots of nice time-flexible desk jobs.
In my country relying on someone else's advice even if that is a qualified professional advice won't remove any liability from a person acting on such advice. It's just an information that one needs to decide for themselves and accept consequences.
(since a few folks have been interested in the mask and this is hn, I should mention that I'm currently looking for some freelance frontend dev help right now - I don't have time to fix the hideous parts of my homepage and it's giving me heartburn. Email in profile).
If it will cut into their sales they might have to adapt.

Also, from what I heard, while intel was on top, it was charging outrageous margins on its CPUs. AMD mobile were said to be hundreds of dollars less per cpu. The manufacturers might choose to pass on these savings.

Of course, if AMD becomes the only game in town, they might jack up their prices as well. We'll see.
And every time I see it, my heart aches for the science.
RIP Arecibo, you did not deserve this fate.
It's just not true. Ryzen laptops have been available for months for a fraction of the price of a macbook that are just as impressive.
https://imagine27.com/rise-of-the-mac-serial-killers
We could build an entirely new one from scratch if we decided to manufacture one less F-35.
Very nice. If you've tried using TFLite-Micro, you've encountered what C++ looks like in the hands of academics.

Any plans to support RNN layers?
From my time at Amazon, I wasn't really a part of these decisions so the following is just my anecdotal perception those businesses and how often teams had things like lunches, team events and hired staff

In general, if the underlying business is profitable or if the product is experimental Amazon will allocate a larger budget to the team

- Retail has narrow profits and is fairly well established -> Lower budgets
- AWS is very profitable -> High budget
- Alexa (while I was there) was growing very fast and was trying crazy initiatives -> High budget

Contrast this to my impression of Google, where it seems like every team has roughly the same perks but only a few make money
This is Anthos for AWS, right? Makes sense. The kube primitives are pretty good.
It looks like it is more canvas than svg, yes? Was there a particular canvas library that you used? I ask because I'm working on a side project that feels like it mostly pulls me in an svg direction, so I'm been prototyping with dagrejs and cytoscape.js, but it also has elements of creating (or dragging, like yours) new elements into a graph and connecting them, so I'm regularly torn when deciding on the basic architecture of it.
Linux on M1 bare metal is also in the works.
>There's no equivalent to the curtain

There's no reason you can't do an interview over text-chat instead of in person -- hell, with most of us working remote for the foreseeable future, that's how the majority of on-the-job communication will happen anyway.
We report numbers in the blog post with our managed offering Timescale Forge, running on AWS with storage replicated across AZs and supporting automated failover.

Not sure about "comparably provisioned re: IOPS" given that you don't know about that at all with AWS Timestream, but our blog post reports the performance/cost of a suitably provisioned Timescale Forge instance (8vCPU / 1TB storage).

100GB ingest then query benchmarks took far less than 1 hour with Timescale Forge @ $2.18/hour.

The "consumption based pricing" for AWS Timestream for same benchmark took $336.40.
dang, this title is straight up a lie. She did not resign, and was fired.
Rattling off references to other asset bubbles only shows how little you know about those asset bubbles and undermines the credibility of your strongly held opinions on what makes an asset worth paying attention to.

For starters, you should probably start over on whatever you think you know about the tulips. Primarily its relation to tulip derivatives and the spot market of tulips, and the government's role in the dutch derivatives market at that time. And secondly, the length of that asset price distortion, compared to the crypto markets.
I'm with you on the overall abuse of the system. But given that the alternative is often putting the animal in the cargo hold, it's understandable. It's too bad regulators haven't banned that practice while they're at it.
It’s not impossible to make copies of and secure private keys if you have a plan. (But even if you had bought some and preserved it, would you have had the tenacity/foresight to hold onto the BTC for 7+ years?)