skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25220589

I actually submitted it some time before, but evidently the original title and a direct link to youtube weren't as appealing to HN readership.

UPD: If it isn't obvious, I was making a comment about the effects of the original title policy. If the original title is confusing / unappealing, the submission wouldn't be noticed, but someone's "repost article" with a better title would.
Skepticism is the lesser part of the point. I believe 100% that there are excess deaths, in some places non-trivial. I'm more skeptical about policy interventions, but I'm also willing to believe they are more likely to help than not. The degree to which they help, I think, is contentious, but harm unlikely.

The question is what amount of freedom, legal order and economic growth is worth giving up over what amount of deaths.

For example: I'm pretty sure most would agree 1 extra death a year wouldn't justify any limitations whatsoever.

The implicit consensus also seemed to be that winter season flu (+ misc virus) excess deaths didn't justify any limitations either[0].

I don't believe that the (yes, yet higher) amount of deaths caused by COVID justifies them either. The moral precedent here is very troubling to me and I hope it will be rejected by the people.

Many of the policies manufacture the impression of popular support. Without enough people actively signaling their disapproval the perception will remain slanted.

So IMO it's perfectly reasonable for a healthy young person to disregard some rules. While those at real risk should obviously take necessary precautions including potential vaccines.

And this is exactly what a good (in my opinion) policy would do. Focus on helping those at risk without any compulsion. In which case I would also be more willing to follow recommendations as doing so wouldn't signal support for any policies.

[0] Although I could see that changing post corona, many were simply unaware.
Here "horseback" is a term I'm using to mean "applied in the field, cutting corners as needed to make things valuable now". I'm not sure exactly where I picked it up, but I like the idea.
Totally! A Modulor (big art store) gift card would force me to buy things I don't usually splurge on. An Amazon gift card would imperceptibly reduce my next order.
That is super interesting. I programmed in Python 2 for a good six years and didn't know it had a long type!

>>> type(1)
<type 'int'>
>>> type(1111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111)
<type 'long'>
> The point is that if I blindly break a larger functions by functionality, I still have to understand the deeper functionality. So, I can't just skip when I'm debugging or deeply reviewing/inspecting the code, or doing a rewrite or trying to understand it.

That's exactly what a well abstracted function should let you do.

It only comes difficult with global state, and unexpected side effects.

You should break up functions by intent.
That's pretty progressive of them, to put hate speech first and front of their priorities. Many of us in the West would love if we did the same. Go Pakistan!
Well, Japan's response was of course not perfect, but their results are really not much worse than South Korea's, widely regarded as the best-handled on the planet. They have, for example, much better results than any nation in Europe.

Now, this may not be due to Japan's government; more plausibly, there is a higher level of pre-existing resistance to the virus, since all the nations of east Asia (including Australia and New Zealand) are doing better than all the nations of western Europe. But it doesn't point towards an especially bungled response.
Google, apparently, lists all it's products here: https://about.google/intl/en_us/products/#all-products - I'd never heard of Google Duo.
Did the Wow signal come from this star?
One has to commend the BBC for sticking to things like the 3-parter miniseries. It's 2-3 hours of your life you've spent watching a quality drama with a conclusion, and no cliffhangers / "possible second season".
They are still listing it as a major feature of their $20 tiltbrush app.

They are still publishing their unity asset encouraging people to use it as a runtime asset library.

I’m going to see if I can get a refund on tiltbrush. I don’t want to reward this kind of behaviour.
As easy as it would be to explain the color blue through text.
You are right, time series data like BPM over time does not lend itself to anonymization nicely, the provider most likely will have to ask the user organizations what kind of measures (features) they need and return an average (if that's what the receiving organisation was after) that itself can be k-anonymized.
Kind of sad, the platform looks to be a sort of creative commons / remixing community for 3d assets.

Usage seems super low, features models and scenes (which are all really good!) have likes in the mid double digits.

It is unfortunate that a larger community didn't really spring up, from what I can see the artwork that is there is good.

I suggest everyone spend some time going through and looking at some rather nice 3d scenes!
Using Bloom filters to efficiently synchronise hash graphs
> The headline refers to "incrementally updated materialize views". How does a company get funding for a feature that has already existed in other DBs for at least a decade?

They're getting funding for doing it much more efficiently.

I read into the background papers when it first popped up. This is legitimate, deep computer science that other DBs don't yet have.
I wonder how many people in this conversation have actually seen a shipping port first hand.

I've spent a good deal of time gazing out at the docks at the Port of Seattle. There are train cars and last-mile tractor-trailers that are designed to have a cargo container bolted directly to them. Without the containers, you have to repack the cargo half a dozen times:

- factory to truck/train

- truck to docks

- docks to ship

- ship to docks

- docks to truck/train

- truck to warehouse/distribution center

With the shipping containers you have:

- warehouse to container

- container to warehouse/distribution center

The effort needed to move the container instead of the contents is a couple orders of magnitude less, which is the whole point of the containers.
The network effects has its limits. Messengers and social media platforms have so far resisted a winner-takes-all situation. Since social networks are still more often than not rooted within geographical boundaries, it's possible for competitors to coexist on a global level.
SF Supervisor Board Meeting Spends 2 Hours on a Single House Renovation
Parent is still kinda right though. The original animal makes its meat by consuming and processing vegetable matter. All the lab-grown process does is replace the animal's process for doing this with a different one.
This FUD is dangerous
It’s one of the main features of the $20 tiltbrush app. People ARE paying for it.
This is really exciting news for mice! Before long they'll probably outlive humans.

For all those naysayers out there, you're thinking linearly when you should really be thinking exponentially. I suspect that the first mouse to reach 1,000 years has already been born.
I'd like to hear how the problem was introduced in the first place and how something like it will be prevented in the future.
Of course, who defines hate speech? Even here in the US we're already starting to see attempts by local government to define anti-cop sentiment as "hate speech"; an obvious perversion of the original intent, but a sadly predictable result of leaving such a wide ranging power within easy reach of partisans politics.
On con calls? Or in person?
"how they want"

That's what those marketing dollars are for. There is a practically infinite supply of free games, but somehow parasitic pay-to-win dark-pattern companies stay in business.

"constantly productive"

I hope that everyone feels like they are making constant progress towards their own goals. If someone wasn't they might bury their head in a stream of constant distraction. Wouldn't that be a shame?
Sounds like they're doing all the things that have a hope of working without voluntarily dismantling their economy.

We should envy them, not drag them down to our level.
It's more a matter of people misusing the terms than any sort of "scale" shifting. Officially, the term "low-level language" still only refers to programming languages whose structure corresponds directly to that of the intended an instruction set architecture, i.e. machine code and assembly languages. Everything else is a "high-level language", according to the academic definition. That includes C, C++, FORTRAN, COBOL, Java, Python, Typescript and Swift.

Of course, we all know that there's a pretty marked difference in programming in a language like C vs a language like Python, for example. So often people use "higher-level" or "lower-level" to express this comparison. I wouldn't even argue that those are bad terms to express that difference, but over time people have conflated "C is a lower-level language than Python" with "C is a low level language", which brings us to where we are now where "high-level language" and "low-level language" have, as you said, fuzzy definitions in colloquial usage.
Static pages do not have a code base, they're just data to be served on demand.
Can you give an example of people saying masks will work and fact-checkers or experts attacking them? I have looked and cannot find a single example. I can find news anchors repeating the crappy CDC guidance, but they clearly cite the CDC as their source, not "science" or "experts".
I noticed that you can use Tesseract as an OCR adapter for rga. Tesseract is written in python, IIRC, and in the OP it comes with a warning that it’s slow and not enabled by default. Are there any other fast, reliable OCR libs out there? Or any rust OCR backends?
Start yelling "Bababooey, bababooey" at the top of your lungs.
There’s nothing special about quantum tunneling versus ordinary conduction. You lower the energy barrier, the probability of crossing the barrier increases exponentially. Think about how GAA works. Makes no sense from the electrostatic perspective, right? All it’s doing is lowering the tunneling barrier from source to drain. The issue with size is the ratio of energy states in the interfaces between materials versus bulk crystal.
Open teams in the browser, open console and paste:

setInterval(() => {angular.element(document.body).injector().get('presenceService').setMyStatus(1, null, false); }, 15000)

This snippet is my own, made by looking at the source code, maybe the 15 second interval is overkill so feel free to adjust as you need.
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Russia is also starting vaccination with their own vaccine next week: https://www.livemint.com/news/world/russian-president-vladim...
Give it a few minutes.
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Horseshoe crabs have been around largely unchanged for like 450 million years, I like their odds
That doesn't really make sense. poly.google.com looks to be essentially a repository/library of 3D renderings people want to share. There is no "standalone app" here, it's just a sharing site.
Yeah just keep throwing apps at every problem, that'll fix things eventually.

lmao
Just came across this comment (I work at Render). We did have 2 hours of downtime on 9/11 but it was the only big uptime incident in 2020, and we haven't had any major incidents since (even when AWS was down for 5+ hours).

We've worked hard to incorporate reliability lessons learned from building the platform at scale especially as we've grown [1], and I hope you'll give us another chance. If I can do anything else to help, my email is my HN handle at render.com.

[1] https://www.tfir.io/more-than-100000-services-created-on-zer...
Google has already shown that they're willing to try: they've made Tango (AR, discontinued), Google Glass (AR, enterprise-only), ARCore (AR, active), Cardboard (VR, discontinued), and Daydream (VR, discontinued).
The 1970s swing flu vaccine was ineffective but harmless for millions and left a few thousand with permanent neurological symptoms.

This disease has over a 98% survival rate, and even higher if you're under 40. Many of the "long COVID" studies I've read have been in high risk or elderly people, they were limited case studies and I think a case can be made that most "long COVID" could be nocebo or mass hysteria at this point (or the fact that it could just take the body months to heal from a bad infection).

We've never approved a drug, much less a vaccine, at this speed before. Unless you go back to the days of Jenner where he just stabbed people with Horsepox and there was no real regulation or long term data collection.
Exactly.

I don't even blame people for doing it. The problem we face is our body politic functioning poorly. Applying poor fit type solutions is unlikely to improve anything, more like move the problem around.

Likes as "I'm frustrated" protest will absolutely happen.
Out on the edge: The new cloud battleground isn’t in the cloud at all
I think people confuse having state of the art knowledge of nutrition with knowing how all of nutrition works. There may be good arguements that this is safe, but history will decide that.
Not all suicides are because of a "chemical imbalance" whatever that means.

Simple things, like being broke, and not having a job. Or being rejected by your love prospects. Are reasons why people kill themselves too.Being on a negative spiral, and a number of things going wrong and finding yourself in a desperate situation is pretty common thing.

If you provide hope, and path to something better, there just might be quite a few people that would take it.
To be fair there has been some shocking failures directly related to cronyism, largely the huge failure of track and trace and dire situation around PPR procurement. All of these were closed bids (no one else could submit an offer) and all were won by relatives or those close to an elected official in government (mostly the health secretary). Legal action is just been granted for this to go to court and gain transparency into the £billions of hidden contracts.

https://www.occrp.org/en/daily/13239-court-to-look-into-uk-g...

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/record-view-cron...
Risk of re-identification is hard to estimate. It's mostly because you have to assume some state of background knowledge. I.e. what fields does the adversary even know something about.

If Im looking for a white male in new york city it's going to be harder to find my target than it would be if I also know their birth date and zip code.
It's certainly more difficult on conf calls
I do, for two reasons. One, Google's culture and managerial system is pretty poor, in such a way that it rewards starting things and not finishing them. That hurts consumers. Two, it feels contrary to the design of public corporations. Should Google be allowed by its owners to spend money trying out hundreds of new ideas? Or should it give profits back to shareholders who can then go do these things themselves while Google just tries to be come a really efficient, and insanely profitable search provider?

I'd advocate for the latter as a healthier way to run society with fewer tech giants of lovecraftian size slipping their tentacles into every cranny that one can stuff a million dollars into.
There has never been a flu shot with 95% efficiency. Actually Moderna announced in September that they are getting into the flu vaccine business. It will be great to see mRNA based flu vaccine coming hopefully soon.
Impressive graphics. This would go well with webVR
Looks like VAT in Hungary is as high as 27% (is this the rate that applies in this case? VAT-inclusive pricing disguises this tax.), which accounts for much of the price difference.
Becoming a developer and landing your first job – an interview
There's a distinction between big-brained animals vs. all the rest. Are horseshoe crabs any more conscious than ants?
I've found having a youtube video, like 10 hours of black-screen open prevents my laptop from logging out. Not sure if that applies here though.
Noisy and Stressful? Or Noisy and Fun? Your Phone Can Tell the Difference
Neural Scene Flow Fields for Space-Time View Synthesis of Dynamic Scenes [video]
Agreed.

If anything, the clickbaity title is a reflection of The Guardian's editorial liberty.
Just Google it, it's not hard. One of the first few results for [nhs using only public labs for pcr tests april] is this:

https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-four-issues-that-hav...

"Part of the reason the UK has had difficulty in meeting the 100,000 tests daily goal was because of its focus on centralised testing centres. In contrast to the robust and wide-reaching testing programmes in Germany and South Korea, the UK government initially decided to centralise all of its laboratory testing in a few large hubs"

And yes of course there's corruption and incompetence in government - in procurement as well as everything else. The fact that governments routinely fail to even write proper contracts to buy things should give pause for thought when considering how well they'd handle running the entire operation.
What I find much more intersting about this is that this is the centeral thesis of Scott Adam's "The Dilbert Principle" that was published 2 decades ago. I'll also put out there that it was probably one of the most informative business books I ever read.
Ah right, because using other tried and tested methods like providing everyone better mental healthcare options are boring. Just make an app! Apps solve everything! Apps! Apps! Apps!

Oh right but providing better mental healthcare doesn't allow for people to receive bogus investements for their overhyped app and make millions.

That's why it's not an option.
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract seems to be written in c++ not python
Sincerely, thank you.

The more people that get vaccinated, I think the easier it'll be to start vaccinating more and start getting back to normal fingers crossed
Yes, 27% VAT + high tariffs are a toxic combination. At the same time for non Apple products there is maybe some dodging of taxes going on (like a company registered in Slovakia), you never know why a product is relatively cheap there, but you can guess.
As someone suicidal myself, for sure. Otherwise you're a part of the problem.
People need to stop letting themselves be conned into treating their job as a moral impetus while their employers are solely profit motivated. It is literally propaganda when you internalize a corporation's "values" while the people at the top are making 10x as much money and would still gladly pay you less to work more.
Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify
To be clear, other countries do report suicide data, just not on a month-to-month basis. There's any number of statistics that a government could spend their time compiling each month, and it's not obvious that suicide numbers should necessarily be a top priority.
Mandatory health insurance. Look at the Swiss type system or really more or less any modern healthcare system. Pro-NHS Brits love to compare it exclusively to the USA, but most countries do far better than both.
Turn any CSV File into an API [video]
> Apple has no alternative, so no reason to give Apple exclusive access

Likely billions of reasons. It's likely Apple pays a significant premium to get that capacity.

AMD might not even mind this arrangement. Apple is essentially funding these die shrinks and AMD benefits down the road.
Materialize is the real deal - completely different architecture under the hood. Origin project is Timely Dataflow & Naiad.

https://docs.rs/timely/0.11.1/timely/
But worse build quality and CPU and laptop power and...

At this point it’s not clear if Apple machines are overpriced in any way; they beat all their competitors at their price point.
Every language in widespread use today is either corporate driven or corporate sponsored.

PHP, Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Go, Java, Swift, Obj-C, Rust…

Welcome to capitalism, friend.
Either we embrace the first amendment ideas, or we don't. Which is it?

Traditionally, the answer to speech we don't like is more speech.

Talking about another element of this mess isn't popular, but I'm going to anyway:

The big media companies are in a GREAT position to apply that answer; namely, more speech to great overall benefit.

So, why don't they and or why isn't that working?

Public trust in the well established, domestic major media entities is low and that very seriously compromises their ability to perform as we need them to.

Why?

Opinions vary, and it's a good discussion to have.

My take is media consolidation has created massive conflicts of interest. Specifically, big media won't talk about issues that are a cost or risk to their owners, and or when they do talk about these things, those conflicts of interest run counter to the basic need we have for them to be critical.

A couple examples just to make it clear what I am saying here:

Iraq War

Net Neutrality

Media consolidation and ownership.

Review these topics and major media coverage. It's just not inclusive. Frankly, it's poor.

Now, look at indie media produced by people who really care about that stuff.

You will find great info, and some misinformation mixed in.

With the major media, you will find marginal info, and misinformation mixed in.

We are better off learning how to think for ourselves than we are having major media do it, and it's because of those conflicts of interest.

I don't have good answers. Wish I did.

Meanwhile, speech is getting watered down and or compartmentalized to limit the potential for harm, which also limits the potential for good.

And as an American, I really believe in the First Amendment, and this whole direction is not well aligned with why we have a First Amendment and the value it has.
Is it like this across USA? In the UK I have a 350mb/15mb connection for £50($66) and I'm paying over the odds to get a business connection that almost never goes offline. I am fairly central to a big city though.

I love the idea of Starlink but it wouldn't make any sense for me here.
I "won" but I still feel like I'm missing something. Where's Anne?
I've never heard of this product but I have been doing exactly this for many years with zip ties. Only if I'm in a pinch situation where I need a belt and don't have access to one of mine.
Agree. Pretense & signalling are easy, fixes aren't.
Making sense of the $28B Salesforce-Slack deal