skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but you've also set up a strawman.

> private vehicle ownership is a blight on society

I didn't say this, I said that in urban areas, parking is a blight. Parking uses valuable real estate to create surface lots at worst, or space that could be used for housing at best.
This library is on my todo list to learn and master. Not as intuitive as Mathematica, as variables are second rate citizens, but it is hard to beat the price. Also, Python integration is very nice as well.
Unpopular opinion, but I didn't really have a problem with corporations taking PPP money they were legally entitled to. The problem is that Congress didn't do enough for everyone else.

The PPP program concluded with $130 billion still in the bank. What a waste!
In the Nordic countries, people often know personally someone who has managed to live on the dole for years and years in spite of being totally able-bodied and capable of working; the person would simply prefer to spend their lives playing video games or toking or whatever. That is rather unfair and that person might be called a leech, but still few would want to rock the boat and end the welfare state just to eliminate those cases. So, indeed, in the Nordic countries people are prepared to accept some fraud and mismanagement to keep the overall system going.
Fed. system to track hosp. beds and Covid-19 patients provides questionable data
This sort of thing is very effective if you manage to keep the pace just right. After a certain heart rate threshold, the drain on your focus makes it very difficult to be productive.
Federal Lawsuit: This Video Game Is Too Damn Hard
Maybe, but the dead battery is still in the circuit. So a tiny wire won't provide enough current to raise the voltage enough across the entire circuit. (I assume that it requires something akin to a the solenoid of a IC car.) You don't need the cranking amps, but you will still need something thicker than a USB cable.
I think most people who actually want to cheat regularly on online chess also lack the skills to set up a highly effective and stealthy way to do so.

There are a lot of obvious cheaters that you can catch by looking at move times.
If you want publicly accessible histories I can think of a few better ways. The (very) old school way was to have indexed logs accessible over HTTP. You can almost certainly still find IRC logs on google this way --

If it’s internal just stick an ELK stack behind an authentication proxy it’s 20 minutes of work, an hour most with the addition of a log bot which joins public channels.

This is for IRC though, better options exist for things like Zulip or Matrix. (non-exhaustive list, obviously)

Side note though: I find it weird that this is the bar. It comes up every thread but it’s tantamount to a “ha! Gotcha!”, because no -sane- messaging system logs its history in a way that is retrievable immediately because indexing -all that content- is expensive and better off being centralised; additionally chat history (almost by definition) loses relevance quickly.

It’s almost certainly an anti-pattern when you feel the need to refer to things you said 2 years ago, immediately, in the same client you used to write those things.

I don’t know how you’re using slack though, so I guess it’s pretty central to your flow.

EDIT: am I wrong? Is this normal? Someone correct me please if you’re not happy with what I say.
I think you're making a big mistake by buying into the argument that a big new employer moving in drives up demand for housing, and therefore it will immediately be a disaster for the community.

The reason this argument is flawed is that it's ignoring the supply side of the equation.

SV, and especially SF, have numerous restrictions and NIMBY empowerment issues that dramatically constrain the ability to add new supply to the housing market. It's incredibly difficult and expensive to build new housing there. Likewise for Seattle. The local activists tend to ignore this supply constraint, and attack the easy target of the big, evil tech companies and their rather easy to pick-on "yuppie, hipster" employees, acting as if demand for new housing is inherently bad for the region.

It's an incredibly myopic, and frankly, greedy, view of the world. "My city was perfect as soon as the dwelling I live in was created, and nothing else should be added after that."

DFW doesn't have the same constraints on new development that SV, SF, Seattle have. You wouldn't see a huge spike in housing costs like you had in those locations.
Sure, sites like Pinboard, SourceHut, and of course HackerNews, that appeal to the bloat-averse traditionalists who believe web pages should be lightweight.

It's not about aiming for an ugly UI, it's about getting out of the way and presenting a clean, simple, fast, functional page.

The designation brutalist web design has gained some traction. (I would have linked to an article on this, but ironically the page I found was offensively spam-ridden.)
Future Farming Field Robots Catalogue
Unilever to trial four-day working week in NZ
Huawei: UK bans new 5G network equipment from September
Cool, thanks for the detailed response. As a dev I'm always curious about the decision making for startups that are choosing between hybrid and native. Seems like the best decision for that is unique to each project.
If you are designing proteins, you're not limited to those that are already encoded in the host's DNA.
> You can't externally kill a goroutine at arbitrary points

Why not? Isn't that just an artifact of Go's implementation, or is there fundamentally something in CSP that prevents this?
Is that even a thing?
> States probably can compel people to take it, considering some already require it for use of public services like schools.

Public schools likely could not exist in the densities they currently exist if people didn't vaccinate. Likewise, dense urban housing, and many public venues would cease to be viable. Measles spread far faster than COVID; even with something like 95% of the population vaccinated we still have outbreaks in high anti-vaxxer communities. If we didn't require measles vaccines where we do, it would be absolutely everywhere. Likewise similarly conquered diseases like smallpox and polio.

> Citizens who are forced to give up bodily autonomy to use basic services they can’t reasonably avoid (roads, public transportation, schools, etc) simply don’t have basic freedoms in my view.

To date, no state requires vaccinations to use roads/ public transportation and I find it unlikely that they ever will. But I would support requiring proof of vaccination at the state/ national borders during an outbreak to prevent spreaders. Likewise, large gatherings (including schools) absolutely must require vaccinations. This isn't a matter of freedom/ versus not freedom. If they didn't require vaccination, they could not safely exist.

If you choose to opt out of large events, then I support that right. But schools/ colleges/ concerts/ etc, cannot exist in a vaccine optional world.
I’m refuting the argument that someone spending a lot of time and engineering on something means it can’t be dismissed as “gross an immoral”.

Proposing a system that destroys the open web with a bunch of applications that break link following, screen readers, text only browsers, etc is gross and immoral - no matter how sound the implementation.
Realistically speaking, if you are a scientist who could use this and you mailed DeepMind, they will probably run it for free and send you the result. It would be a good PR.
Excellent question. At somepoint, I think the only answer is, "have a bunch of different people run a bunch of experiments on the same protein."

The threshold for "real" in particle physics is +5 sigma. Which takes a lot of data.
> I'm almost unsure how to reply because you seem to ignore the central point of the comment you're replying to. Your characterization omits the most salient point: That it had to be done fast.

It had to be done fast, and it had to be handled by a department that's chronically underfunded due to decades of underfunding fueled by all the political hand-wringing for which terms like "welfare state" have become watchwords.

One could mount an argument that that's irrelevant, the real problem is that the IRS is being asked to do something like this in the first place, and there would otherwise be no need to have an organization that's well-funded and competent enough to handle things like this quickly and accurately. I personally find those sorts of arguments specious, though, by virtue of being anti-democratic. This is not Plato's Republic, and we do not get to rely on infallible philosopher kings to make our decisions. As long as there is a plurality of opinions, and as long as opinions change over time, there will always be this sort of tug-of-war and sloppiness as the policy decisions being made now interact poorly with the policy decisions that were being made at other times.

Or perhaps I should say ademocratic? It's arguably sensical to think, "Everything would work great if it just went my way," but it's best to relegate that sentiment to the world of political thought experiments. Taking it as an unstated major premise in an actual political discussion about current policy decisions in a functioning democracy is painfully impractical. It's just like code: If you try to deal with a messy legacy system by closing your eyes and blithely steamrollering along with your own clean, modern code, the end result will not be more clean and modern. It will just be an even bigger mess.
Those documents are pure FUD from haters.
Look at this article: https://www.indidea.org/gael/blog/2020-and-the-minority-spre...
Cryptocurrency is still a misunderstood concept for many ppl in the financial world. As use and integration increases, btc will likely stabilise. Meanwhile, we get interesting volatility.
So you would model the equations on the fly for a certain optimization problem? If so, can you expand on the problems you were solving?

I'm trying to solve a similar sounding problem where I have to build the model equations from scratch quite often and right now it's using templates to recompile my binary with new equations whenever I need to do so, but that takes time and I have to manage a lot of code complexity. I'm doing it for performance reasons right now because other methods I tried we too slow, but it's getting unwieldily.
And what do you do with functions from external crates that take callback functions but are not async themselves?

You are now limited to non-async functions and if the operation of the crate depends on the return values of those functions, you will need some extreme measures to make it work.
I’ve gone so far as to maintain a consistent weekly schedule of food and water intake and weight myself under the same conditions each day. It’s easy to become distracted by wild weight fluctuations due to water variations if you’re not conscious of how dramatic those variations are day by day.
Sure, democratize capital. Then it will be decided by a few thousand voters in swing states, with “who are you and why should you get to decide” problems that put VC to shame.

A lot of VC capital is democratized: an elected official appointed a pension fund manager who decided to allocate some funds to a particular VC firm.
And is it even meaningful for DeepMind to score better than experimental results? How are DeepMind’s results scored then?
There's a big difference for me between 8 hours of mandatory work vs 1 hour of self care/other misc activities.
I would still consider myself free in this case.

I just don't see how I can find happiness when I have to give away 8 hours of my prime mental resources 5 days out of 7 while having stress of needing to meet expectations and impressing others. I just don't see how.

I just need to be able to do things when I feel like doing them as opposed to confirming with someone else's set routine and answering to them. Otherwise I won't be satisfied/happy.
It's not irrational at all but it also doesn't answer my question. Worrying comes from uncertainty. If you had evidence (in either direction), your uncertainty would go down and you would either not worry as much or you would have a good reason to think that the vaccine might be unsafe.

So my question is what evidence do we have that corners have been cut? Are you basing all of this only on the reduced time to produce the vaccine?
People always mention Slack's search as if it's a great selling point. Any time I use it, it seems adequate but nothing really to write home about.
Right, I feel like the unspoken assumption is that we've created an environment where low-likelihood high-reward financial crimes are hard to prosecute and in that environment I find what you're saying easy to believe.
> I put up with increasing crime, dangerous grime (such as needles in bike lanes) and tent cities on sidewalks all over the place for a decade until my brain couldn't take it anymore.

But this is exactly a consequence of catering to wealthy tech: infrastructure is left to collapse while development focuses on the wealthy. Rather than addressing transportation issues, tech just built their own exclusive network. Rather than addressing cost-of-living inequity, tech just drove up real-estate prices.

It sounds to me what you really want is for someone to alleviate your discomfort by shoveling off the riff-raff so that you can enjoy your bike ride, rather than having to address the systemic issues, which might impact your net worth.
I use MIPAV[1] which can run on Linux (or any OS with a new enough Java Runtime Environment). I don’t have a lot of experience with other DICOM viewers and have somewhat limited use cases for it, but it seems to have a good number of features.

It’s completely free, but accessing the download (or the source) requires (free) registration.[2] Filling out the form should take you straight to the download links (i.e. you should not have to wait for a manual approval to download).

[1] https://mipav.cit.nih.gov/
[2] https://mipav.cit.nih.gov/clickwrap.php
Just off the top of my head they managed to keep nature in a kind of cultivated state, which allowed for greater protein yields via game/fish than any amount of cattle could ever produce, also there were less devastating fires and greater ecological diversity.

About ten years ago Utah was doing something where they were emulating herd movements using livestock which helped to create a lot of biodiversity both above-ground and below, which helped water supply, plant growth, really everything improved and this was almost entirely inspired by how native Americans managed land pre-settlers. I think was called something like the Utah grazing improvement project.
I think calling it a "rolling R" is misleading, since it's actually an approximant, /ɹ/.

The term "rolling" or "rolled" usually refers to trills, /r/ or /ʀ/, which no New Zealand dialect has as far as I can tell. Although feel free to correct me, this is just what I could gather from googling it.
Wow - that's nuts. Thanks for posting; And here I stress out to make sure the exact amount I owe is correctly reported. Oh well, better to sleep at night soundly on that issue!
Show HN: Sidekick – the fastest browser built for work
Those SDKs have indeed no place in Tor Browser, though at least they appear to be disabled. Have you witnessed Tor Browser sending telemetry data to these services on Android?

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/fenix/-/issue...
There's nothing wrong with a dish containing a fair bit of fats. A lot of plans call for getting 30% of your calories from fat, which is about 12% of food by mass (since fats are about twice as calorie-dense as carbs or proteins).

Controlling total calories is important in weight loss, and that's a matter of portion control. A diet with a good proportion of fat will be fairly satisfying; you just need to limit the total amount of it. That'll still leave you a little hungry. There's no magic that makes calorie deficit pleasant. Tweaking the ratios can make it less unpleasant, a matter of personal taste.

It doesn't need to be junk. You don't even necesarily need a calorie deficit, if you're happy with your weight. There exist good vegetarian and vegan diets with appropriate amounts of fat and appropriate total calories, and they don't at all resemble "brown rice, steamed chicken breast, and cauliflower".
Damn, no more Fucking.
Shipping Trends at a Glance
There a lot of comments that are being downvoted just for questioning different aspects of such a vaccine and other related issues.

That's not what I have come to expect from a crowd of curious people carrying a scientific temper.

C'mon HN. Let's answer the questions without downvoting someone to oblivion.
I hope the second is never changed - it’s 2020, time to start authenticating the servers you’re downloading and executing code from

Internal doesn’t mean secure
Some of the reason for interface changes is that otherwise people think that nothing changed, and it's easier to make a cosmetic change to UI than make users read release notes.
Mitigate Connection Leaks in Production via Proxies
The Moving Middle
Exactly. Great cultures are different and not everyone is a great fit for every culture. That’s OK!

There are people who are very happy at a well-run BigCo, with a well-defined cadence for making decisions. Others chafe at that level of process, and instead thrive at an entrepreneurial startup. (This of course is a gross generalization.)

A culture that has generic values is in some ways meaningless.
It got there because Congress, not the administration, put it in there.
It would be interesting to know how companies like Apple account for the market of older models and how that feeds into their services revenue. For example if you can go on Woot and purchase an iPhone 8 for $399, while Apple didn't make money off of that sale, they will certainly make money from app purchases and iCloud subscriptions. And at $399 there's bound to be people willing to purchase an iPhone even if it's older. With Apple's iOS support reaching back several generations, it's not always a bad deal.

So in a way, even though Apple isn't making money directly off the sale of that old iPhone, they're still able to feed this lower-end market and make money from apps and services, without directly lowering their prices and maintaining their perceived high-end status.

Edit: I gave an iPhone example but it certainly extends to the Mac lineup as well.
https://doc.e.foundation/what-s-e

I think the effort is very good. The result is excellent and it's really addressing a much bigger audience that PureOS.
Reinforcement Learning Book
unlikely at any low ratings imo, also you can look at post-game analysis. not a reason for not playing!
The vaccine was developed in 48 hours (Feb 24th) following China sharing the DNA sequence. How many could we have saved?
Explore or Exploit? How to Choose New Opportunities
Oh, wow
Memory Management in C and C++
I make the assumption based on existing evidence. I could be be wrong if it gets drastically cheaper to source lithium, nickel, and iron from mining operations versus concentrated ore in end of life cells. Doesn’t seem likely based on mining costs and the demand curve (demand will increase as fast or faster than reserves can be sourced), as well as jurisdictions mandating manufacturers stand up recycling supply chains for the products they're building and selling (California did this with solar PV, many others have done it for electronics recycling in general, for example).

I would be willing to make a Long Bet [1] on this point. Accountability is important.

[1] https://longbets.org/
Ok, then this is about enzymes which do not yet exist in the organism. You could then modify bacteria so they produce this enzyme and feed on plastic, I see.
I have a Masters in Biology. This was once described as an impossible problem to solve. A huge achievement.
its free with 365 subscription. our VP of IT love it. its good enough why pay for another similar product (Slack)
There's a pretty good Stockfish app available for free
> Maybe it's that I came to data science from a theory-driven science point, but I don't really understand why you wouldn't want to be able to interpret your model.

Because it limits your model to doing things you could understand, which thus makes it less powerful. In other words it’s a useful property only so far as you get it for free. A self driving car AI being understandable isn’t worth it killing more people in the field.
Ah, good point. I guess it matters whether your battery is drained, or dead. Sometimes the battery just doesn't have the juice to turn the starter (you hear the clicking of the solenoid when trying to start, but no cranking). Other times it's so depleted that an external current supply will be sucked up by the thirsty battery.
Thanks! This is a great explanation. I imagine expending it from M1 to also include other major countries' money supply would be a good next step in the analysis.

Curious if you could recommend any good read on BTC upside potential given this framework -- for example, right now the M1:BTC ratio is 1:30, but what factors/behaviours would dictate that ratio to change? or is the idea that the ratio keeps constant with more inflation and thus pushes BTC higher?
While the market is likely driven by fomo and manipulation, cryptocurrencies do have valuable use-cases. See this book[0] for a list of some and an explanation of how Bitcoin works.

[0]: https://whycryptocurrencies.com/
Yes. And it has worked perfectly for me so far, as if I was still using brew on an Intel mac. People complaining that they can't do development on an M1 mac because of the lack of homebrew support either don't realize you can simply run it under Rosetta, or are just complaining for the sake of it.
Take away: Don't follow advice of self proclaimed gurus. Listen to scientists, who spent decades studying the subject matter. Don't fall for short-term dietary tactics as a life-long health solution.
It’s common knowledge (I thought) that you need to plant approximately 1000 trees from seed to get one “marketable” variety.

Put another way, if you plant from seed, 99% of the resulting trees will produce terrible apples.
AlQuraishi's tweet [0] about this:

> CASP14 #s just came out and they’re astounding—DeepMind looks to have solved protein structure prediction. Median GDT_TS went from 68.5 (CASP13) to 92.4!!!! Cf. their 2nd best CASP13 struct scored 92.8 (out of 100). Median RMSD is 2.1Å. I think it's over https://predictioncenter.org/casp14/zscores_final.cgi

[0]: https://twitter.com/MoAlQuraishi/status/1333383634649313280
Does this obsolete Folding@home?
Ask HN: How to Get a Job? Final Day
Today is the last day of asking this question to people who claim to understand life while chosing to dismiss and belittle the poor. No one has answered this outside of empty platitude but I pose this question once again:

How do you get a job?

All I ask for is an honest answer. Since tomorrow I have no way of paying rent, I will be killing myself.

Dang represents a microcosm that is the problem with tech. I hope you recognize that.

Or you can ban this too while recognizing that people don't hate tech, they genuinely want you to perish from existence.