skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sometimes there are only so many people who can solve a problem

That's a very small subset of the entire workforce.

Maybe one in a million or less

> No it's reality!

It's not.

> Look at how many people criticise presidents who are 'golfing' when there is a crisis and life is being lost.

They are right.

The president is not a salaried worker, it's the president.
You have it backwards. You say:

> Yeah...and the article in the op is saying we shouldn't rush to attribute excess deaths to the new vaccine.

That's NOT what the article is saying. Excess deaths are those beyond what are to be expected. The article specifically is saying not to attribute the many, many usually expected deaths to the vaccine.

The article's own words:

> And about 14,000 of that ten million will die, out of usual all-causes mortality.
How many billionaires (paper or cash) has YC produced?
Well it won't solve for every case, but you could use the Hindu tantra - vasana daha tantra. You write down your worries, fears, anger - anything troubling you that you want to express - then you burn it.
Among many other things, COVID is changing this industry rapidly. Fashion brands have been pummeled and are looking for looking for alternative revenue sources.

A friend of mine started ReCircled (https://recircled.com) to offer a 360-degree solution to fashion brands to help them get a garment recommerce solution implemented quickly.
Uber will sell its flying taxi business to secretive startup Joby Aviation
> I think the much touted "NEW MAGIC" will be the thing that does the automatic content refresh.

The StimulusJS handbook has an automatic content refresh example at https://stimulusjs.org/handbook/working-with-external-resour....

As for NEW MAGIC, DHH mentioned it will have a Rails server side aspect to it so I don't think we can compare these tools directly.

He did say other server side frameworks could implement similar behavior too but it would involve the framework having built-in support for websockets and job queues. This is based on a question I just asked him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1334953167327547397.

So it sounds like NEW MAGIC will probably make it super easy to push / broadcast stuff from the server to the client, but to get everything working with a really nice API and it being seamless will require a substantial amount of work if you planned to re-invent it in another framework.
Well this is clearly stated in the paper.

* Only the visitors (cases A and C) sitting in the air flow path of case B were infected with COVID-19, while other visitors (V2, V3) closer to the infector for a longer period of time but in the absence of direct air flow did not become infected. In addition, the visitors sitting at tables with cases A and C (V1, V6, and V7) were not infected with COVID-19 because they faced away from the infector’s face. These findings strongly suggest that this outbreak occurred by droplet transmission exceeding a 2 m distance and excluded contact and fomite transmission. This transmission pattern is similar with the outbreak of a restaurant with air conditioning in Guangzhou, China.21 In this article, the authors concluded that the most likely transmission was done by droplet and also emphasized the direction of air flow.*

Also they analyzed the RNA to confirm linkage.
a website would be like an apple tree if there was an infinite number of apples in it. so you could bring a harvester and still leave enough apples for everyone.
This is why I try my best to wear organic fibers. If I can't donate them at least they'll quickly decay in a landfill. A quick google search revealed that synthetic fibers, polyester, spandex, nylon, take 20 to 200 years to decompose.
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In certain period of the year, my home town is covered with silk, I was always wondering how is possible that spiders cover so large distances, now I have answer. Thank you.
"This is an opinion presented as fact. The Dothraki looked cool to me."

The point I was trying to make is that the Dothraki aren't dressed like any human culture would dress. Therefore, the practices and culture which go into dress are equally underdeveloped in the Dothraki. In comparison to the Westerosi fashion and garments which are much more complex (a point made in the article) that their clothing is represented as more simple is also making an argument that their cultures, and by extension the cultures they're based on, are more simple than those of Westeros, and the cultures that is based on.

"You can make that same argument of every single fantasy novel that draws from history"

Exactly, you can and should. Because fantasy, while a genre I enjoy, produces a very warped view of history.

"Europe suffered raids, invasions and displacement from horse-riding steppe peoples for millenia."

All that displacement Europeans suffered from Amerindians. Regardless, I accept the point you're making regarding where the Dothraki are placed in the story but I would ask why that means that complexity should be denied them. Particularly since so much of Danaerys' story is about becoming a part of that culture.

"but to argue that therefore the Dothraki is a demeaning stereotype is not reasonably defensible"

It is reasonable to say that, restricting ourselves as this particular article does to clothing, that the Dothraki are a demeaning stereotype about clothing/fashion/how these cultures dress. Don't forget this is the first part of a series of posts and I think the specific claim made regarding clothing is perfectly defensible based on the evidence prvodied.

"offhand quote"

You've repeated this a lot but this is a view which Martin expressed and I don't see why you have a problem with comparing this stated intent to the actual work he produced.

"the observation that Dothraki armor look nothing like Sioux buckskin."

The point which the essayist reinforced with the example of buckskin was that these people wear decorated, comfortable clothes and steppe people are no exception. People don't dress like the dothraki. The buckskin is an example which illustrates the problem - the Dothraki don't dress like a human culture while Martin claims that they are based on particular historical cultures. Thereby, unfortunately, Martin has asserted in this case that those cultures were in some way less than human.
> That's a terrible apology...

I'm not apologising for anything. I never said anything about 'slacking'? Just confused where you got this idea.

> If someone dies during your free time it's not your responsibility

This isn't reality - look at how people criticise presidents who are golfing during a national crisis where people are dying.

> US have the worst life expectation of the whole west

This article is about the EU isn't it? What's the US got to do with it?

> You should ask yourself why.

I don't know why the US does anything. Why do I need to explain it?
+1 for nb, the dev posted it here a couple months back and I immediately switched to using it, does the job perfectly.
And nowhere did Timnit disagree that the cause he identified was a cause of bias in the system. Her contention is that there are others, and reducing the problem to just "get better datatsets" is a bad idea (and a way for researchers to abdicate responsibility).

To use an example that comes up: do we solve the ethical qualms of a system that predicts incarceration rate based on facial structure by getting a better dataset? Is it even ethical to attain such a "better" dataset, what does "better" even mean in the context?
I generally agree with the crux of this and would like to take it a step further. It's far more important to test edge cases and the lesser used endpoints.

We have major parts of our product where the coverage isn't great, but get tested _every time_ you use the product.

The coverage on our login process is mediocre, but every time a Developer or QA person uses the product, they log in. We'd hear about it. Our landing page post login is largely the same story.

Our rarely used tools several clicks deep into the site _all_ have much better coverage.

We don't have continuous deployment and it's not a goal.
I'm suggesting that HN readers who are upvoting my comments familiarize themselves with these authors.

Gebru is a successful "scholar" as far as the credentials game goes; I don't presume to have anything to teach her.

Edit: Are we sure calling something "common-sense ethics" is a common-sense proposition? Are we comfortable deriving this Ought from that Is?
“Ask Culture” vs. “Guess Culture” (2007)
Is the term "parenthetical" not common in the UK?
>Like saying you knew some technology that you didn't on a resume or selling some product that you hadn't built yet.

Are you sure you didn't just come up with that example yourself to suit the narrative? Until you know what all selected companies chose as an answer for that, aren't we just guessing as to what quality they were looking for?

To be clear, I'm not accusing you of making it up, as my memory of it is dim too, I just can't remember examples being given like lying on a resume.
JavaScript is "logically" run line by line from the beginning of the script. This may not be exactly true anymore for performance reasons, but it's the logical model behind it. A single set of expressions to run in order "a=1+1;" is a conformant JavaScript script; hence, it's a scripting language. It doesn't take much imagination about how to have a JavaScript console that operates interactively from user input.

Java code has lots of structure required to write a minimal program. Java is transformed by compilation into a set of .class files. Then, in turn, a loader loads, resolves all the classes, and begins transforming and executing code.

These distinctions can be muddy sometimes.
I've found that just increasing pixel fill helps with that more than you'd think. I've also found that better contrast (so, black levels, and theoretically HDR) has a much larger affect on readability overall, although that may be partly a result of my personal migraine triggers.
> Uber drivers themselves overwhelmingly wanted to keep their contractor status.

Only after the ride shares corps spent over two hundred million dollars misrepresenting Prop 22. That's one fifth of a billion dollars... to write themselves a law. [1]

Asking in good faith, do you genuinely believe what you wrote above?

[1] https://www.wired.com/story/200-million-uber-lyft-write-own-...
> I was also going to say around 60-70 pct, but for a different reason: what's left in my code is mostly checking of assertions, debug logging and handling rare errors, i.e code that's not supposed to run.

I grant you assertion-checking, but code for handling rare errors is not the code you should skip writing unit tests for. If it runs infrequently then you're far less likely to stumble on a regression during other testing, so it's even more important to unit test.
The bottom line? Understanding disease biology and biological networks is the rate-limiting step in revolutionizing drug discovery. No matter how well the biophysics and structural biology progresses, medicinal chemists could be targeting the wrong protein the whole time. That being said, this achievement almost seems miraculous given where we were decades ago, and it's waiting for us as we work hard to figure out the disease biology piece of the puzzle.
Can confirm in software, at least, we get about a bazillion angry emails any time our customers upgrade, containing actual issues as well as a number of issues that no reasonable person would conclude is related.

"Support, our batch jobs are taking twice as long to run after our last upgrade." (Fair)

"Support, our server hard-drive filled up after we did the upgrade." (Well, it would be unlikely, but it's certainly possible that an upgrade caused a log file to explode somewhere.)

"Support, we did an upgrade on Saturday and on Sunday we lost power." (That would certainly be an exceptional bug if our software could knock out your power grid!)

"Support, our internet is slow. Do you think it's related to the upgrade?" (Come on, really?)
In my experience, the charities usually don't throw those away.

Over here in the UK and much of Europe, the charities sell them by the ton to traders that ship them to Africa or other developing countries.

Some charities don't even handle them, they enter into a contract with a third party that specialises in the trade that collects the clothes and then pays the charity a fixed amount of money per ton. The whole service is branded, so you would think that you're donating to the charity directly when in fact they are paid by the trader by weight.
In Turkish, brackets are called "parentheses with corners".
From what I understand-and perhaps it varies by state-it's just left to the benevolence of your employer whether your accrued vacation days are actually paid out to you or if they just disappear in the US if you for example leave a company or don't use all of them within a certain time.

It's kind of insane to me that they can just be taken away like that.
>All three HTML, JS, and CSS could have used one Lisp-like dialect.

Other than being aesthetically pleasing to a demographic of programmers, what would be the benefit? Modern sites already have a problem with JS being used to generate CSS and HTML, and separation of concerns being completely abandoned, and that's just created a mess where three separate, more explicit languages were simpler.
That's another thing entirely

But being bored is part of the free time

Boring is good, not bad

Edit: I love it too, but when I'm bored I work on some side project (never completed one!) instead
Communities are not monoliths. Otherwise, it would be incredibly easy to charge any sufficiently large community of blatant hypocrisy.
The point is 1600p or 1920p isn't a super-high resolution any more. Nowadays 1080p is low-end. I don't think anyone even produces 15" screens with a resolution lower than this.

200dpi DPI is fantastic for working with text. The clarity you get is more relevant for text than HDR, wide gamut, or even wide viewing angles. I would heartily recommend it even if you only stare at a terminal all day.
I'm not sure I understand what you are asking for to be honest. It's not like the role of every university in the world is quantifiable or that we have some central authority figure who could say one way or another. Plenty of people because clearly there is a push from both universities and from the industry to craft courses that are oriented more towards work than academia. Plenty of people, because enough students seek out courses which guarantee employment, not research, that this is a shifting focus for many places of study. If you have someone you suggest we should ask or whose opinion you would respect, then name them.
I was thinking threads from before his big "shit, i'm an asshole, sorry. gonna take time off" phase. Maybe I have a selective memory, but I'm remembering threads from those couple years before and after Susan Fowler and Uber's culture implosion. It felt like there was a shift in how the whole industry felt about brilliant assholes around then (thank god).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18000698

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18083859

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16508921

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8415603

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2372096

I think the threads in articles specifically about Linus are better comparisons to this, rather than articles about computing that involve him. But, hey, folk like Torvalds and Gebru both really rub me the wrong way, so it's reasonable that I might be selectively remembering threads where HN said I'm right and that he's an asshole (and I did a lazy googling of "linus torvalds asshole site:news.ycombinator.com" which is biased too), so who knows.
Are there any fictional worlds where exploring economics is a major theme? Given the large variety of actual economic systems in history it seems that "truth is stranger than fiction" applies.
some context: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/9k95f7/wha...

https://imgur.com/gallery/eiAAIe8
That quote does nothing to disprove surface based infection though. Some people are better at not touching their faces than others.
Are you saying American developers retire around 40-50yo?
Yeah, it's essentially a paraxial approximation. You can find derivations (through a few steps) by essentially doing the following reductions:

Maxwell's -> Fourier optics (scalar wave phenomena) -> Eikonal equation (rays, but in inhomogeneous media) -> Ray optics (rays, but in almost-everywhere homogeneous media).

I think most modern optics textbooks (see, e.g., Fundamentals of Photonics) cover the reductions and the corresponding steps.
That's not how company works... Any legal documents regarding business and money is very particular and wordy to let things clarified outside of courts.
Linux needs good HiDpi scaling support before I'd be willing to by a high res linux laptop.
Meet the data firms cashing in on the quant-investing boom
US House passes federal cannabis decriminalisation bill
AskHN: What productivity tools and configs do you use to streamline your work?
I love finding ways to save time on processes I repeat often. I feel like the setups I have now save a good chunk of time while working, but I'm always looking for new tools to incorporate.
My list:

- Vim

- The plugin for Intellij primarily
- Notion.so (https://www.notion.so/)
- for general note-taking, planning, documenting
- Karabiner Elements (https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/)
- Rebind capslock to work as a modifier
- caps + hjkl = left, down, up, right
- + 1 = escape
- + 2 = Alfred search
- Alfred Powerpack (https://www.alfredapp.com/)
- Clipboard manager + snippets
- Search
- bookmarks
- prefixes for searching on Sumologic, Jira, Confluence, etc.
- LazyGit (https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit)
- great for quick commits, branch switching, creating new branches and opening PRs
- not the best for reviewing actual changes though
- Chrome extensions
- Quick tabs (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-tabs/jnjfeinjfmenlddahdjdmgpbokiacbbb?hl=en)
- Not something I use much, but makes switching back to the previous tab pretty easy
- Vimium (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogbaibhgnhhndojpepiihcmeb?hl=en)
- Found this while looking for an extension that would offer VIM keybindings for any given text input. Vimium doesn't do that but does offer a number of helpful bindings for navigating
- I don't actually use it much other than to use "gg" and "G" to scroll to the top or bottom of pages. Marking is also pretty helpful
- Iterm2 (https://iterm2.com/)
- Oh My Zsh (https://ohmyz.sh/)
- I've used this pretty much the entire time I've used zsh so I honestly can't remember which features it adds
- Hotkey to edit current terminal command in Vim (https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/6620/how-to-edit-command-line-in-full-screen-editor-in-zsh)
- Makes it waay easier to fix a typo or update something in a long command
https://archive.is/ONgr7
oh, thanks! just fixed it. yeah, I googled real quick and grabbed the first link. Thanks for all the work!
To me, if something acts logically like it is run from top to bottom, it's a scripting language. Python scripts and JavaScript are in this category; Java isn't.

Additionally, explicit compilation/linking/assembly shouldn't be required for a scripting language, even if the interpreter does stuff kind of like this behind the scenes for performance.
I think peak web was around 2005, when Google was still working, Amazon was non-bloated, personal pages still were easier to find, and medium/wordpress nonsense was scarce.

Then the fundamental greed driven changes happened, and here we are with an AOL situation again.

So the difference between 2005 (or 2009) and 2019 is greater, and it is for the worse. A lot of programmers are backstabbing and greedy creatures now who pretend to be good but are only after money and power.

I'm not talking about startup founders here, it is the corporate programmers who are insufferable now.
When I had an idea for a B2B SaaS product, I got in touch with potential customers in my area via email.

I asked if they would be willing to beta test my app and provide feedback.

I emailed ~12 businesses. 2 wrote back. 1 ended up not being interested after talking on the phone. 1 seemed mildly interested, so I clung onto that.

After a couple months of getting to know this person and them seeing me take their feedback and add it to the product we decided to become business partners.

Almost 10 years later and we’ve both moved on from that company after an acquisition but we remain good friends. Probably life-long friends. Our wives call us “work husbands” lol.

So, idk, just try emailing some people in the industry you’re targeting and keep trying until you get a bite. Persistence works.
You don't get determinism when working within the body.

Having a high enough accuracy will give you a "good idea" of the interactions it might have with other proteins and substances, but can't account for the millions of other interactions they might have with other particles.

Most of the bioinformatics aren't deterministic, but still rely on stochastic measures. DNA sequencing is done by sampling, then predicting the rest and as far as my own biology teachings go, it's categorized as "solved". Sequencing might get better, but we've accepted it as a solution for the moment.

Arguing the term "solved" is just pedantic. We know it's not 100%, but the actual usefulness of improving the prediction of a few more Angstroms isn't going to make a huge practical difference.

What matter is that we can start actually building tooling and lab tests on this method.
Agreed, there's even an article floating around that purports to summarize the most offensive tweets. In my opinion, this whole thing is being vastly blown out of proportion.
Don’t see what need has to do with a severance package
Credibility is important if the goal is getting widespread buy-in for a particular action. Playing games with the truth is destructive to credibility. It might work in the short term but works against your goals in the long term. This won't be the last pandemic and odds are that future pandemics will be worse. Destroying credibility to expediate the end of this pandemic ultimately will make the response to future pandemics less effective due to credibility destruction.

Simply tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Word games, spin, and manipulation is ultimately self defeating. Stop doing it.
This right here. When I see a twenty buck wearable I immediately think surveillance.
I imagine the seamless transition between display configs has less to do with the performance of M1, and more to do with the difference between how it and x86 systems implement and handle graphics. I'm definitely not knowledgeable on the subject and I've also only ever used Mac computers, so I'm not sure if this is something that most or very few PCs do when changing display configurations.
Hey, sorry about that. I'm not sure what caused that. Could you give me the video so I can test it out?
on average US citizens retire later than Europeans and die earlier afterwards.
There is no replacement, the tight-knit community is just gone. When slashdot made beta permanent some users tried to spin off the old design (soylentnews is the only one I remember now) but it never caught on.

It's like when a favorite local family owned burger joint shuts down and is replaced by a McDonalds. It serves many more people but the core community and values are gone.