skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Next up: A semi-autonomous backhoe and dozer that can intelligently dig a level bottomed hole to specific cubic dimensions with equipment accessible ramp and all the waste material piled neatly on the sides in safe and sane manner and then can also load that same material into a waiting dump truck. Can also work in a swarm of two or three machines for more effective material handling. All controlled by a remote operator whose sole job is to hit the stop button if he spots anything on the camera that shouldn't be there, e.g. an underground power line that wasn't mapped. Was a fun project to work on.
It's not recommended for me in my country (Germany) to take the seasonal flu shot, because I'm not over 60. I suppose it might be similar in other countries.
> Our bodies are amazing in their resiliency

Collectively, sure. Individually, each potential source of error and unexpected stressor can act differently and cause the complete opposite effect of what was desired.

Just by virtue of its novelty, any "breakthrough" brings so much uncertainty and unbounded risks. It is irrational and downright dangerous to think that individuals should accept these tail risks just because on the average things look good.
American farms rarely plow in the traditional sense of a plow. No till is cheaper and better for the soil. It is tricky to get into, but it is not new.
No, and I like this blogger's reason why:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120206012754/http://counternot...
Thank you for the stories! The folks over at 68kmla would probably love to hear from you, if you're interested in reliving those times a bit.
Go f1980efb92c011eab71aa61b68ccf58d845d1de7 on a Mini on 11.0.1

goos: darwin
goarch: arm64
pkg: sync
BenchmarkCond2 4849542 249.7 ns/op
BenchmarkCond2-2 2639139 531.1 ns/op
BenchmarkCond2-4 3112030 393.1 ns/op
Funny how all those visions (like the Starfire movie in the link, but certainly similar and even older ones, such as Xerox' promo for the Star or Apple's promo for Lisa) are almost always about some unspecified middle manager working either alone from home or in a large, private office.

Imagine an open floor plan with a hundred programmers or administrators shouting code and commands at their giant, flashing 52" screens all day, having to raise their arm in some ergonomically counter-indicative way each time they need to swipe a pop-up ad away from their vision.

I know what a general purpose computer is. I know how to control it. Without a reasonable interface to do so, being completely at the mercy of some "UI visionary" (probably the kind who decided we shouldn't be able to change the default fonts in programs made for text messaging), it'll be even more useless to me than most modern UI:s already make it.
TLDR:

Apparently Robinhood doesn't display warnings about risk/volatility before customers purchase leveraged/inverse ETFs, which is standard among competitors.

Also, Robinhood displays different information when buying or selling options, in a way that highlights the possibility of making money and downplays (or completely ignores) the possibility losing money.

Competitors show the same information whether you're buying or selling. Robinhood shows a measure called "to break even" if you're looking at buying a call option. If you're looking to sell the same call option, they instead show you "chance of profit". In both cases, they show no information about how likely you are to lose money, or how much.

Perhaps relatedly, Robinhood makes tons of money off option fees; in September, they made more than 2x as much from option fees than vanilla stock trades.
If they were “said so by their doctors”, how come they still were injected by the doctors?

Also, most people carrying epi-pens don’t know full severity of their allergies since there is no way to test it.
For some people their house and land aren't a crop to raise and sell, maybe they like their hidden gem for what it already is. See the lamentations on Austin's growing pains in this thread.
The US passed on an opportunity to secure up to 500 million additional doses despite warnings from Pfizer. [1]

> Accounts differ over the timing of the discussions between Pfizer and federal officials about locking in extra doses. Several people said that during late summer or early fall, Pfizer officials repeatedly warned the Trump administration that demand could vastly outstrip supply and urged it to pre-order more doses, but were turned down.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/us/politics/trump-pfizer-...
You wouldn't though because the one big tractor does less damage to the soil.
Really? Things only really hit the fan when the bans scaled up. I don't ever remember things being this bad 5 years ago.
They probably are FMA ports, but they didn't say that anywhere in the article, and it still doesn't explain the "quadruple the throughput", as both of Intels ports are FMA and 2/4 of AMDs are FMA.
Yes, yes, yes, I finally find new content!
The FDA reran, in a matter of weeks, the entire analysis undertaken by Pfizer’s pharmacologists and statisticians over a series of months.
National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
> "My guess is that their left hemisphere for language & logical thinking is very active while their right hemisphere for emotions and empathy is less active."

Given the referenced hemisphere model of the brain is largely refuted I find it unlikely this person is a real [competent] psychologist
I wish more people understood this dynamic.

I’m married to someone who is caught up in this right-wing cult (it is a cult) and every time a video is removed, it simply convinces her even more that it’s true. If it wasn’t true, why would they hide it? Why do they not want you to see it? BECAUSE IT MUST BE TRUE.

This is just the information equivalent of Ruby Ridge - a self-fulfilling conspiracy theory.
It baffles me that some people wants herd immunity. But are against vaccination.... That's really what herd immunity is about folks. So yeah 1)
Exactly. No one was starting companies in the Bay Area because of how inexpensive it was.
In the 80's, "PC" meant IBM or compatible. Nobody ever called their Apple, Amiga, Commodore 64, etc. a "PC."

There were even some products, like the "Apple II PC Transporter" that made your Apple II compatible with a PC. That meant an IBM PC.
>Interesting, somehow I don’t think how companies where run in the 1950-1960 translates to today

In some ways maybe.

In the 50s your wife stayed home to work while you worked a blue-collar job, probably having only a high school diploma (if that), and your blue-collar job supported a family of 2.1 kids, your wife, Rex the dog, a car, and a mortgage in the suburbs. Oh and it probably came with a pension. Everyone smoked indoors. Companies felt obliged to look after their (male) workers and sexual harassment of female employees was routine and casual racism was baked-in to the culture.

Over the years CEO pay has risen something like 1000% and worker pay less than 20%.

Now companies spy on their workers and engage in union-busting while paying their workers a pittance such that even a person working two minimum wage full-time jobs is barely able to sustain a family in the USA and Canada. We don't smoke indoors any more. Sexual harassment of female employees is still routine and casual racism is institutionalized but perhaps less overt today.

I guess society can pride itself of the smoking thing but we've either made no progress or regressed in a lot of ways.

>someone fired end of story

Take off your rose-coloured glasses.
They're not questioning an election, they're making baseless accusations of fraud.

Conspiracy theories like Sharpiegate, hacked Dominion voting machines and Georgia election workers counting suitcases full of illegal ballots have been debunked. Trump's legal team has filed over 50 lawsuits to date, none of which have exposed any evidence of fraud or criminal conspiracy. The legitimate questioning is being done and the answer is, to an ever increasing degree of certainty, that Biden has won, and won legitimately.

QAnon nuts claiming the election is a coup de tat by Red China or a satanic cabal of Democratic pedophiles are not engaged in honest, good faith attempts at validating the integrity of the electoral process.
Who are "them" and "these people" here? Republican voters? The Republican leadership?

Even if the plan is to marginalise Republicans by selectively suppressing their views on YouTube, it seems questionable if that will provoke the same response as banning "fatpeoplehate" and "coontown" from Reddit. Tensions are likely to increase.
Is your avoidance of frameworks/libraries based on principle or performance?
> The danger of radicalizing a bigger part of the population is what is at stake here.

The real danger is that, one day, your own ideas are the ones considered too radical.
The throughput for RDRAND isn't that great and often getting worse as mitigations get rolled out. For cloudflare scale using dedicated hardware makes a lot of sense.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Rd...

https://www.reddit.com/r/crypto/comments/h07u2q/rdrand_perfo...
Hi Colin,

Given that you run your own spider, presumably you provided it one or more urls to get started spidering. I'm curious what those were.
To add to this: TSMC states either 15% performance or 30% efficiency gains on 5nm (relative to 7nm). Applying the 30% efficiency gains to the similarly performing Zen 3 CPUs gets you to similar consumption as the M1 (in a load scenario, big little has idle advantages).
I am not 100% clear on the math here, but it does seem like the Uber and Lyft innovate more in accounting, tax-dodging and sidestepping regulation than they do in any real technology. Their value to society is seems marginal to possibly negative.
I own one myself and talk to other owners occasionally. People get chatty during those Supercharger breaks.
Because I'm not a front-line worker, or obese/overweight, or in a nursing home, I will have to wait anyway. While I certainly believe in vaccines, I don't know if I'd want to be the very first anyway. Let other people get experience with it for a couple of months first.
No problem. All that's needed to get people wanting it is to tell them they can't have it. Just announce that it will be distributed last to places that don't require masks, and watch the screams.
GitHub Discussions are out now. Will be interested to see how the combination of issues / discussions enhances the understanding.

Have you included anything off of GitHub, like Slack/Gitter activity?
We pay very very well, all my peers from NVIDIA are above 700k. Why would you presume anything about salary?
From what I can pick, Javier Soltero, ex-Microsoft, arrived at Google's G Suite in last year's October. [0] Then the pandemic hits and it gives reason to Google's Creative Director Margaret Cypher to "reinvigorate the design [...] that's remained mostly untouched since its arrival". [1]

>“The individual apps serve as expressions of Workspace capabilities... but they also need to be individually awesome,” Soltero says.

Which to me looks like a failed endeavour, because it obviously lost individuality and just seem to enforce the idea of the umbrella that Google Workspace encompasses, and he now leads.

>“This is the moment in which we break free from defining the structure and the role of our offerings in terms that were invented by somebody else in a very different era,” says Javier Soltero, Google’s vice president and general manager of G Suite and now Workspace

And that's how you say that it "changed because I arrived and yes, I'm asserting dominance."

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/22/google-picks-up-microsoft-...
[1] https://fastcompany.com/90560175/gmail-new-logo-g-suite-goog...
Okay. So, according to [0], about 6% of the covid related deaths have only covid as a cause.

According to [1], there have been 291,522 covid related deaths since Jan 21 of this year, and according to [2], there were 2,977 fatalities in 9/11.

All numbers are rounded to the nearest whole number. EDIT: Except for the 6% and final results, for obvious reasons.

291,522 * .06 = 17,491 deaths with no related comorbidity. This number happens to be still ~1.7 times the number of drunk driving related deaths in 2017.

Finally...

17,491 / 2,977 = 6 times the number of people who were killed by 9/11 with no comorbidities.

---

Now, lets do the math for this past week.

16,308 * .06 = 978.48 deaths with no comorbidities.

2,977 / 978 = 3 -- So last week was equivalent to one third of 9/11 for deaths with no comorbidities.

As deaths are expected to climb, we can expect to have at least the equivalent of 9/11 every three weeks for a while.

And none of this math includes those who were mostly fine, but happened to have a small condition that was lumped in, causing them to not be counted in the 6%.

[0] https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/514915-is-us-covid-19...

[1] https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_totaldeaths

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_September_11...
Well, Taibbi hasn't mentioned Section 230; I see only two other comments mentioning it. Also, I skimmed an article that says most people don't understand Section 230 (or the context around it—it provides immunity for certain things, and therefore you have to understand "immunity from what?"), so I would hesitate to say too much about it. It's entirely likely that there are some prominent partisans who claim to be in favor of free speech but don't have a principled stance on the subject (e.g. think flag-burning should be illegal), or who are as ignorant as I am on section 230 and less averse to recklessly advocating for political measures they don't understand.

At any rate, as I doubt you'll be surprised to hear, I am also not in favor of business owners getting raided by the FBI because users uploaded illegal content. That sounds like a mechanism for crushing small websites who can't afford their own legal department, thereby protecting large websites against competition.
How do you make an HN poll?
Indeed. Chiral refresh that works on Windows and/or Linux x86? Shut up and take my money! :)
>. Pushing these radicals onto radical websites only further radicalizes them. That should be an axiomatic fact, yet nobody seems to understand it.

First off, that's not an axiomatic fact, that's the definition of an empirical question. Secondly, even if it was true, who cares? You can't enlighten every crazy person on the planet, it's a waste of time. The goal of effective policy is to isolate radical elements to a point where they can't target mainstream communities of people who hold malleable beliefs. That is effective prevention.

I also see absolutely no evidence that the thesis of further radicalisation is even true. Here in Germany we have taken fairly strong, preventative measures to tackle hate speech and conspiracies online. It seems to have mostly worked, we have I think, one of the least polarized populations right now, broadly speaking. Insofar as there are fringe elements in their dedicated spaces, because they are in dedicated spaces, they can be monitored.

edit: another important point I forgot to mention, a lot of radical activity today uses commercial platforms for revenue to further fund their cause, maybe nowhere as evident as in the US where that sort of political activity seems to be a legitimate business. Depriving extremists of those revenue streams alone probably does significant damage to their cause.
Why is this post flagged? Does this not adhere to any guidelines? Genuinely curious.
> Several of the lawsuits have been dismissed on the general basis that "election laws being broken is not evidence that fraud occurred".

I do not believe that is correct. I have seen none for which that is the case.

Several have been dismissed because (1) process changes that they claimed violated election laws were well-known long before the election and, if they were illegal, had a viable remedy before the election, but the actions were not filed until after the election with no good cause for delay, and were thus barred by laches, (2) they made allegations which were incoherent in the light of the applicable election law and procedures, (3) because the remedy requested was factually impossible (e.g., cases asking for the ballot count to be halted because observers were allegedly denied access and until that access was restored that reached the court after ballot counting had completed, cases seeking delays in certification of results that has already occurred, etc.), (4) because the plaintiffs failed to present evidence of the specific allegation in the case, and (5) [what appears to be the single most common reason] because, after grabbing headlines by filing the suit, it was voluntarily withdrawn by the plaintiffs. This last seems particularly common with cases filed by Trump, though Trump-allied groups have also withdrawn a lot of suits.

Which specific cases are you referring to?
As someone who just received a J&J vaccine or a placebo, I can definitively say that at least the one is not banned currently.

Both studies were paused, as is customary, due to medical complications from someone in the study. Upon investigation it was deemed in both cases to likely have not come from the vaccine, and the trials were resumed.
spoopyskelly 3 minutes ago [dead] [–]

Caters to the other side, therefore bad.
Also the sooner a vaccine is released, the sooner you can dampen the exponential growth, potentially compounding the lives saved. Not sure how significant of an effect this might be, though.
You don't appease fascists.
The email asked for a special exception. "Are the YC applications for the next round completely, 100% closed? ... They missed the deadline"

pg replied with a link to let them apply, in spite of the fact that the round was closed. It was an exception to the normal rules. And the exception was accessed by having a personal intro from a YC founder.
I tried some of this, mostly because I was curious, but, although they said 'remote very possible', jobs always turned out to actually be on location. Did covid change this radically?
That’s false. The policy only covers services being turned down. A-la Google reader style. Not api changes. Not forced sdk/software upgrades. Or pricing changes.
To be clear, my comments were limited to mass-broadcast over social media. If people want to form small clubs within which to share lived experiences without fear of societal retribution, then I'm fine with that.

> make spokespeople and activists extremely vulnerable

As you've demonstrated, anonymity is an imperfect system of protecting such spokespeople, so they should have greater legal protections. Reducing the spectrum of internet anonymity would actually support this goal as it'd simplify applying existing legal protections such as restraining orders within the internet domain.

> Beside, plenty of far-right reactionaries are entirely unafraid of attaching their names to their beliefs. Just look at the stuff people say on Facebook.

Perhaps, but that far right ideology must receive social promotion through 'likes', 'shares', and other such mechanisms in order to spread their message. Why is it necessary for these acts to be anonymous?

I sincerely don't understand how further decentralisation or federation could help resolve the problem. It just seems to me like you'd be making the moderation problem harder as you'd be shifting the burden from a few large companies to many small companies.
I don't think psychologists get a lot of training in neuroanatomy.
Fry's is in the early planning stages of repurposing our Renton, WA location
> To simplify the US tax system, we first need to solve how we equitably fund local governments.

I agree differences between states drive much of the complication, with local jurisdiction taxes, such as in Ohio, adding much more complication. My political views fall more to the right than many HN participants, so I am slow to support the Federal government mandating sales tax changes. Do you have an opinion on the Streamlined Sales Tax Governing Board? streamlinedsalestax.org
I believe Lynx does have a vi mode you can enable, though I might be thinking of w3m...

But the killer app for me with web browsers is link hints, like in several browser extensions (e.g. vrome, tridactyl) and in browsers like qutebrowser. It takes a little getting used to at first to use efficiently, but I hate not having it when I use Lynx or w3m.

Slightly apropos, and for what it's worth, I've noticed that 99% of my browsing seems to be or start from maybe 20 or so web sites. I've started creating shell aliases to open those sites and there is no reason not to use the best browser for the site for each one. It works well with a philosophy like seems to be the one behind the surf browser, where you open each thing in its own window and use your window manager to deal with it, instead of using tabs.
Except we don't know who those 100M people are so we can't exclude them from the vaccination pool.
magit should’ve been one of the use cases. My main workflow is Xcode, but use magit to stage and push to git. There really is no substitute for it!
Sure, there may be 53M infections, but how many of those untested positives will go on to get a vaccine? This will actually hinder herd immunity, wasting limited vaccines.
I think you mean my site https://remoteOK.io.

The other one is a site that's been made to make money from confusing people it's actually Remote OK. The owner admitted that and even used the same logo as Remote OK (without OK) until I send a lawyer to take it down.

Very annoying but I guess that's how business works

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21915805
That's only true in a scenario where you specifically vaccinate exactly the people that were infected that week and later died.
That's too bad. My Lenovo Yoga with Windows 10 works perfectly. Never a glitch.
Show HN: DIY ~/.emacs for beginners to Common Lisp, explained line-by-line
Heat?
I'm a light weight emacs user (mostly for org mode). I'm forever grateful to the dev I worked with who introduced and encouraged me to learn the vi bindings.

I'm probably missing something in your message, but there is support in the shell for vi bindings (https://opensource.com/article/17/3/fun-vi-mode-your-shell)
I have been wanting to run a Jekyll site on my CapRover deployment, but wasn’t sure the best way to set that up. Do you have a repo that you can point me to to see how you have it setup?
Because they were going to do it anyway, and this makes it look like Trump has something to do with it.

It's the same mechanism I use to impress people with my ability to order cats to "come to me or don't, or... go scratch that couch".
Interestingly, this seems to also be the case with pregnant women (unless I’m missing something). I’m guessing they’ll be ahead of teens but still low enough in the priority scheme to mostly not receive it?
you mean pornhub users looking for child porn aren't reporting it to the proper authorities? that is shocking. it's also worthwhile to take all their stats at face value because they have such a strong track record of caring about anything other than a buck. next you'll tell me cigarette companies may have tried similar stunts in previous generations and I'll be equally shocked.
American Elites Still Don’t Understand How Covid-19 Works
Seemed like a fine comment. I now know there are people who think those mentioned technologies are important enough to require mention in this sort of write-up. I’m now curious, and will look them up.
I have three questions for you:

1) I am building a browser [1] for the semantic/static web, would I be allowed to integrate this as a search alternative to searx.me and wiby.me?

2) What's your policy on submitting URLs? Do you support opengraph descriptions? Do you support dublincore (which would be awesome)? Should browser users be allowed to submit things they couldn't find?

3) I couldn't find detailled API docs, only the opensearch description. Do you have a JSON API that would help reduce the load of your web servers? Also, what syntax do you support?

[1] https://github.com/tholian-network/stealth