skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cornell student here that's taken a bunch of classes at all of the levels - in my experience, undergraduate classes/master's classes are kind of taught with the expectation that you're taking the course as a requirement and are much more evaluation heavy, and that you're likely taking a full course load of other courses as well. PhD level courses are generally assumed to be the only course that you're taking that semester and that you're taking it more because the material will be useful for your research rather than for the credential, so there's much less emphasis on evaluation; i.e. a smaller quantity homeworks that each much harder than an undergraduate version of the same class, and final evaluations are much closer to reading recent research papers and understanding them rather than a timed exam.
That's a good point, my local pharmacist said that sales of cold and cough syrup has been down significantly, almost non existent, since our city has had lockdowns.
There's no evidence that getting the vaccine doesn't mean you can't still be infected and spread it to others (you just don't get sick). So giving it to super social/stupid people up front may not help, because they can still spread it and probably think it's no big deal anymore because they're vaccinated.
"dark matter" ??
20%. Yay? How much longer until herd immunity?
As soon as possible. I've got a bicuspid heart valve, and while its in good shape, I really want to stop having to worry about suddenly needing to replace it.
Thanks for sharing this! I only now realize this is also available for Windows, which is much easier for me to emulate than anything Mac.
This is not correct. I work for a CA based company. I work from home in a different state which is my legal residence. I do not file or pay CA taxes.
> What people are missing is that every car company is a fast follower

I don't know if it can be considered "fast" when Daimler copies the Model S vertical touchscreen after 8 years and puts it in the S class. They seem to be slow followers in an industry that wasn't moving fast for decades and has now picked up a pace.
>Californians moving to Texas make it blue-er and themselves red-er.

Not if people are just sitting in their home all day. They won't be influenced by their environment but will still vote the same. Dockerized voters.
Anyone have good, in production, examples where equipment has gotten smaller than before because a human no longer needs to operate it?
I don’t have experience with Enterprise Grid but shared channels are absolutely amazing. We have shared channels with vendors, partners and customers and across all functions I haven’t heard a bad word about them (except that only IT can set them up but that might be a permission thing on our side)
No doubt this happened with both Google Chat and Microsoft Teams - Google and Microsoft continue to gain marketshare from companies that previously were running their own email/file servers, so any attempt to get them to move to slack is going to be an uphill battle.
Hi whizzkid - great questions! Our tractor provides real time alerts and can notify farm operators when the battery is low, if human or obstacle halts operation. Like jmtulloss mentioned, we do have a battery swap cart so you can swap out a battery with one person in under 10 minutes. Standard charge time at 220v is 4-5 hr.
You can find all the specs at monarchtractor.com
I'm insinuating that without media coverage I would not notice it.
Yes, that line of logic requires this to be true. But although it hasn't been proven in the field (since, you know, we have just started handing them out), it is the desired (and likely) outcome of the vaccine.

This entire exercise in waiting for the vaccine was so we could get there.
I agree. This is a bad poll that can be used to derive whatever meaning you want to derive from it. There’s no reason we can’t have fifteen more specific options listed.

Is it no because you don’t need it because you already had the virus? Is it no because you’re allergic to vaccines? Is it no because the virus is a hoax?
> I’ve been curious if the spikes we’ve seen since October is the flu season giving people with cold symptoms which get them out of the house to be tested and it caught many more asymptomatic people than usual.

If that were the case, you wouldn’t see the hospitalization, ICU, and death rates surging at the usual delay behind the general case rates, but you do, which suggests that, no, the surge in COVID cases isn’t inflated significantly by finding COVID-asymptomatic cases with a concurrent symptomatic common cold.
I do something just like this but using CapRover self-hosted PaaS (receives webhooks from git and redeploys automatically) and a two stage Dockerfile: one for my build (jekyll) and another that's just FROM nginx that copies the _site directory to /var/html or wherever nginx serves statics from by default.

Works a charm. Glad to see more work in the space.
The US accounts only for about 10% of English speakers in the world.
Even if you live somewhere relatively well-populated, if you & most of your social sphere have been practicing solid social distancing from the very beginning it's very plausible. That was the case for me, until very recently, when my sister's child was infected. And that only happened after my sister relaxed her guard a bit and let her kid have a few visits with their friends.
I abstained from voting for the same reason. It seems likely that people with a high enough level of antibodies will at least be at the very back of the line for vaccination.
Personally I need to switch from ddg to Google maybe 0.1% of my searches, but at least for you you've managed to avoid Google 70% of the time, and it's not like adding a !g to do so takes more a milisecond.
Mind to share sources about the immunity lasting only 3 months?

From what I read, Corona-virii are in general slow to mutate and infected people should be immune for a longer time. Also, not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but this idea that a vaccine should neatly work in a way that it would be recommended to take it on every season smells of a pharma PR submarine.
Why? Developers ;) they have exactly this problem ;)

Ps: this is not a serious answer
Obviously I would agree if you're talking about Alex Jones. A thing that worries me is when people are banned or videos are removed when the facts in question are in dispute.

I was a very big proponent of wearing mask in the beginning of the pandemic back when the WHO and Dr Fauci had advised against it not because it was true but to manipulate the public for the purpose of preventing a rush on n95 masks.

If I had stated in a video the truth which was that the public was being manipulated to protect the masks, I would have been contradicting WHO and the video could have been banned. That's a problem.
Will probably take 10+ years to build?
Until very recently Turkey was only reporting symptomatic patients. After some pressure from healthcare unions they started reporting all positive cases.
On the long term, having a job you're able to feel passionate about helps a lot.
Wait, I just realized now that universal free vaccination might not be a thing in the US. I live in a developing country with 200 million people, and the dozen or so most common vaccines are free to everyone, and everyone gets it and it is managed by the government. I'm sorry, but it works. Government here has /many/ faults, but managing vaccination for 200+ million's not really one of them.
Well, the reason AirPods are great is the same reason why an M1 outclasses all intel competitors: they are optimized for a platform that is developed by one company.
Source or don't spread misinformation.
> This part was always magical. It seems to free up the local memory usage of the program, but it doesn’t seem to release the memory back to the operating system, until some type of triggered event.

That's up to the C runtime's memory allocator. Modern memory allocators don't typically request a new chunk of memory for every malloc() call -- instead, they allocate a single large region of memory at a time and carve that up as needed. This is massively more efficient (system calls are expensive), but also means that those regions can't be released to the OS until all allocations in them are gone.
This is fascinating but I'm surprised by how little progress we've made in automating farm work. There have been articles about how complicated it is for a computer to pick vegetables and fruits, and how nothing compares to the human hand. How long will it be before we see robots take over the field, displacing seasonal workers?

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/03/20/592857197/ro...
Fairly odd view to take given that other modern, western countries have already approved it...
I don't get orgs that use stats like commits/LoC/PRs as KPIs. Most time for software engineering ought to spent ensuring you're building the right thing which requires a lot of collaboration, writing design docs, thinking about the problem, etc to avoid 'building the wrong thing' which is probably the 'default' behavior and hard to avoid. Software engineering is only really valuable if you can easily extend and build it on it to enable whatever product or service you're selling to change as the business changes. If you're churning out throw-away code you never reuse you don't realize any of that value and you will lose.

I did have the idea of directly tying value to a graph of code that enabled a certain user journey. Sorta like 'CUJ-coverage' instead of test coverage. So if a user spent $20 at checkout, every line of code that was touched to enable that user's journey would be credited with that $20. I think this would be an interesting metric I'd probably respect but there are still probably a lot of blindspots this methodology doesn't capture.
I'm surprised you would find that novel.

Yes alcohol should be avoided if pregnant. Smoking as well. Cat litterboxes can pose a risk.

Many other products are removed because of unknown risks.
I'm not going to explain how clinical trials work and why you should trust that process. Again, bad situations do not invalidate all work being done in a field.
Speaking as a mobile browser snob who lives and works out of their phone, it changes tons. Firefox Mobile used to be garbage but now it's my primary mobile browser. HN gets overly focused on cyber politics while forgetting the user experience imo. Right now Firefox Mobile comes with a better ad blocker than chrome, a better dark mode than the competition including Brave, and it has a reasonably good setup for a bottom screen omni bar (controversial with people who hate nice things).
What if every young person with no risk factors (that might be those more likely to be out and about spreading the virus) thought like that?. It sounds kind of selfish to encourage others to be your guinea pigs “so they can protect their parents”
I thought the bit about polls had been there forever. Someone could check that via archive.org - but you have to use the older URL which was probably http://www.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
> Seasonal influenza activity in the United States remains lower than usual for this time of year.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm

While not dead as GP expressed, there are notably fewer infections so far this year.
Not just temperature but also humidity, isn't Austin unbearably humid in the summer?
Three things the press keeps getting wrong about the Facebook antitrust case
I don't know how to get there, but we need to somehow reacquire the notion that it's okay to like and interact with someone that you disagree with, politically or otherwise.
I would urge my parents to continue quarantining and take it once most other people have taken it without side-effects. I don't see why I would take it as I'm young and I've probably already been exposed at this point.
In the midst of the pandemic, it is easy to overlook California's yearly water supply. The snow-pack numbers this year do not bode well for next year.
It's not just age range, it's individual health, down to the specific person, not a group. Also you have to multiply the risk by the chance that you will actually contract Covid-19, which is very dependent on lifestyle etc.

I'm not trying to talk you personally out of getting the vaccine, I don't think it will turn you into a zombie or some foolishness. I'm just asking you to understand that it is a rational decision for some people to arrive at a different answer.
Hey salty_biscuits, the tractor has a full sensor suite and great work lights so it can operate autonomously day or night for 24 hr operations.
Good. Can he keep it, please?
Are you aware of any free countries where vaccination is/will be obligatory?
Tesla isn't about performance, that's just a by-product of making EV suitable for everyday use. Teslas are about adequate range (400+ Km, 250+ miles), fast charging and a charging network that enables long-distance journeys, as well as getting as close to self-driving as possible. That's why 1 million or so people chose a Tesla over other EV and gasoline cars.
> personality studies that have detection for people attempting to fool the study

Interesting to hear about that, and what you've found.

What you write, makes me think about the feelings part of the brain, and that those parts are really old, like, from the dinosaur age. And they're a bit stupid and predictable, I think.

The emotional intelligence tests try to "measure" those old and silly and predictable parts of the brain -- but maybe the new and fancy cerebral cortex logical thinking parts of an intelligent person's brain, can always learn and understand how the feelings parts of the brain, would react in different situations.

Maybe it's impossible to create accurate EQ tests (that cannot be gamed by a bright person with some life experience), because the EQ parts of the brain are too simple to understand how they work, for the thinking and reasoning parts of the brain.

> you can simply choose to be a dark person for no particularly good reason other than deciding to be.

Apparently you can -- I cannot though. The long term effects of my decisions, needs to be friendly to others (or have no effect), otherwise my brain produces strong unpleasant feelings.

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Interesting to read about the $5 from the register question. I'd never think about that way at looking at the answers.

Instead I'd thought that never never taking $1 would have been a bit too rigid, inflexible, a trait that I d guessed could cause other types of problems (but what do I know).
Oh dont get me wrong, i am also ok with quarantine and all. And if others in a more risky position than me need the vaccin they get it before me. But i was talking about the ppl that dont trust the first batches.

If it’s your turn to get the vaccin, take it or you stay in quarantine until you get it. That’s my take
That's a hell of an edit you made to your comment there.
There is such a thing as unnecessary comments and I only add comments myself when factors outside of the immediately visible code are effecting the logical flow... but removing other people's comments (other then auto-doc style ones) is a really bad habit.

You're essentially invalidating the opinion of whoever thought it was important to put a comment there in the first place and, unless it's done after a team discussion on the types of comments to include in code, it's being done unilaterally.
Appreciated! You didn't have to redact your comments and I'm sorry if my replies were more testy than they should have been.
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Well, I mean you could go review their plans, if you are so concerned. They will begin vaccinating any day now.
There will be other more traditional vaccines in the next couple of months
> Californians moving to Texas make it blue-er and themselves red-er.

That depends on the Californian. I don’t think Larry Ellison or Elon Musk moving to Texas make Texas bluer. It might make them redder though. Californians on average may be bluer than Texans, but the migration is a randomized sample of Californians.
> There are potential side effects, these side effects are potentially long term and severely debilitating and despite being a low risk, it's still a higher risk for me than experiencing anything terrible from covid.

Your risk perception is way off. Like orders of magnitude off. You're also assuming the risks of catching COVID are known and minor, but the risks of a vaccine are unknown and possibly off.

In reality it's the inverse. We have well over a hundred years of research into how vaccines interact with our bodies, as well as similar knowledge of things like manufacturing safety, injection best-practices, etc. While the exact mechanism of the mRNA vaccines is new to vaccines, it's been studied very closely in tens of thousands of people over several years (there have been several mRNA vaccines in the pipeline, but due to less immediate advantages their approval is slower going). It's mechanism is new for vaccines, but well understood.

COVID on the other hand is a virus where some of the immediate, worst effects are known and feel safer. But that's completely not true. The immediate effects we know are very dangerous (As a 39yr old male, I stand a 1/2000 chance of dying if I get the disease) and you're not factoring the risk of unknown long-term effects, which are unknown. It's entirely possible that damage done from the virus could have long-term hidden consequences that we won't know for many years.

So then you're left with your risk of catching the virus. Of course, this varies greatly based on behavior and region. You may feel safe, and you may indeed be relatively so, but of the hundreds of thousands of people who found out they tested positive today I'm willing to bet a good chunk of them felt just as safe as you.
> Throughout the last five years, we have failed repeatedly. We have mislabeled tubes and used ethanol instead of water to dilute DNA. We have dropped flasks, shattering glass and spilling bacteria on the floor. We have been frustrated, again and again. But we continued on, inching closer to mastery over the molecular wiring of genomes. In the future, we’d like to extend this work to other organisms; perhaps even humans.

This. I love the honesty about the scientific process. This is completely lost to most science students while they cram facts before an exam. The road to most beautiful discoveries is often paved with lots of fumbles.
That sounds like a big personal holding. But if he bought it in Early and mid 2019, then he probably spent under a billion for his stake. Which for him isn’t much.

1.5% of the company is still a solid portion. Especially if Musk ever needs to sell shares for some reason and needs an ally with substantial ownership to align with him for continued control
Yes, because all that cable laid over the past few decades is capable of carrying the highest standards of signals, regardless of which smaller cable/telco laid it by pinching pennies before being rolled into a giant cable/telco providers bag of terrible things for value extraction without expenditure.
VAT and other models are pure socialist and communist models. Sales tax as imposed by fly over states is correct way. Europe is lost cause. They haven't invented anything in last 70 years neither they have single technology company making heads spin. Communist, from where this author seems to be, only care of adding more taxes. I would say these people have some components of their brain misaligned. I am researching that now which component.
That would be at around 80%, the US got going in April, so that was 8 months, so another 24 months and we should be there, assuming no change in spread rate (seems unlikely but Im a rando off the net so what do I know?)
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Projection of 1000 years in the future, assuming the human race is doing well
Isn't that pretty standard for a parser? When was the last time a compiler bailed on the very first error it hit and refused to do anything else?

The solution is to pick synchronisation points to start parsing again, i.e. ; at the end of a statement or } at the end of a block.
From the wording: you are right, I apologize.

Regards the argument: if you do not win this audience (predominantly female) you are doomed.

For the records: I do not want to attribute any positive or negative characteristics to any of the audiences.
A possible explanation:

> As the COVID-19 epidemic continues to ravage the American public, an unsurprising story emerges: Poor communities are hot spots for COVID transmission. The death rate from COVID-19 appears to be staggeringly high among African Americans compared to whites. The Washington Post reports, for example, that while 14% of the Michigan population is black, 40% of COVID-19 deaths are among blacks.

> The link between poverty and infectious disease is well-documented. Influenza-related hospitalizations in low-income neighborhoods are nearly twice that of high-income neighborhoods. Pediatric hospitalizations from bacterial pneumonia are significantly higher in low-income neighborhoods compared to high-income neighborhoods. The same is largely true of tuberculosis in the U.S. where active transmission of TB is ongoing in poor neighborhoods – patterns that are not simply due to more people living in these areas.

Reference: https://theconversation.com/covid-19-is-hitting-black-and-po...
What is the “clearance rate” of a homicide? I see you’ve used that phrase a few times here and it’s keeping me from understanding your contributions.
> I also think most of us don’t know someone who believes reptilian aliens in human form control all the major nations of Earth.

Really? I know multiple people who genuinely believe this. Yes you'll always get some constant of random picks, but you also have to understand that our social circles hugely limit us from representative samples of the population's opinions. The only people I know who have actually been in crazy cat lady houses were because they worked as repairmen, since there you'll get a sample of the population which needs their furnace looked at sometimes
I lead product for one of the leading US sales tax solutions, and have also built products automating EU VAT solutions. I came into these roles with little subject matter expertise, but with enthusiasm for making it easier for small businesses to thrive. So, take these inputs with that perspective, please.

VAT tax rate calculations are trivial, but filing returns is complex.

Sales tax calculations are complex, and so is filing returns. Also, the reseller tax exemptions are not easy (in fact, most tax audit fines come from poor records around tax exemption, not from collecting the wrong amount of tax). As someone operating a SaaS business in the US, I wish we had a VAT system.

It's also worth understanding that in many states, sales taxes are the primary way that local governments can directly generate revenues. To simplify the US tax system, we first need to solve how we equitably fund local governments.
I WILL refuse it if they try and make it mandatory, no matter the consequences. Because of it being untested and me thinking this will be used as a test run to see what the government can force on us.

If they make it voluntary, I will wait, because of me being suspicious of long term consequences.
People are not interchangeable parts. If you have high-output staff in a high cost-of-living area, the strategy that recognizes this does what it can to "keep the band together" and keep them doing good for the company, not just saying, "Oh, they're an Engineer 3, why am I paying for a Boston Engineer 3 when I can hire a <insert low COL area here> Engineer 3 for less?" That kind of false equivalence thinking is part of what inspires anti-MBA rants. It's not just about the "same skill set" or title.