skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the spirit of open discussion I would like to raise to you some salient facts.

The article in question does not address the fact that I raised, and also you shouldn't make claims the authors are not making:

"Our findings, based on comprehensive surveillance and contact-tracing data from the Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh, provide insight into the epidemiology of COVID-19 in resource-limited populations."

Specifically:
"Whereas incidence declined steadily at ages older than 30 to 39 years in the two Indian states, incidence increased at ages of ≥65 years in the United States."

So their finding might be applicable if the general trends matched but the study specifically says they don't, in the way that I generally pointed towards.

Also the study in question points to "superspreading individuals" but not "superspreading events" and that difference is significant. A "superspreader" who attends an event that can cause superspreading event, but a superspreader that goes to many places and meets just a few people at those places can super-spread! It's different! The study does NOT support your implied claim that asymptomatic spreaders can't be superspreaders.
Now would be an excellent time to ask people who use gmail for business critical operation how well that SLA and telephone support work in practice.

I know for example companies that use email for handling customer orders at their stores. I can just imagine the loss if the system was down for hours a few days before Christmas, or worse, actually lost the data.
Andy Ngo is known to use selective editing and openly lies about facts, and is not a valid source on anything\

A single instance of a protestor who falsely claimed to be press, and did not commit any crimes does not prove that people who claim to be journalists are throwing rocks or molotov cocktails.
> But is a bad prediction better than none at all? Depends on how much you rely on it. The more you rely on it, the more it matters that it is accurate.

Sometimes (in a iterative process, for example) all you need is a starting point. But some iterative processes can get stuck in infinite loops with a bad value. So sometimes a bad prediction would be better than none at all because you just need a starting point. But sometimes a bad prediction would be worse than none at all because you'd be in a non-halting process.
I've had the misfortune of interacting with some of the engineers at CD Projekt Red in the course of my job in the past. There is a serious competence issue. It's not surprising in the slightest bit that they have this many problems with their release. On top of that, those engineers were arrogant AF when I talked to them.
I definitely remember playing this game when I was little. Definitely loved
Did they fix the bug where you couldn’t search for empty strings using quick search hot keys?

Previously a search for an empty string would go to the quick search link with an empty query. The previous release wouldn’t let you submit the search without a non-white space query. Which breaks using the quick searches as bookmarks.
Reddit couldn't be a better example of the fact that culture is absolutely set by moderation policies. But whatever you say, dang.

This is a throwaway because I've deleted the passwords to my past 5-digit karma accounts because of my disgust with the commentor's of this site's obsession with freeze peach and their prepondency for posting misinformation.

Has anyone gone back and looked at Corona threads from earlier this year? Remember when HN was telling everyone that there was absolutely no societal harm posed by anti-science folks pushing anti-vaxx and flat-earth theories?

Meanwhile I know that numerous others like me have lost all interest in participating and have left. Because this is what happens when comment sections aren't moderated properly.
Yeah, this is a particularly pernicious failure given how email works. Many mailing providers will just mark these as blacklisted, now, and lots of unsophisticated users likely won't notice.
For SWE positions the algorithm and design interview a are mandatory. It may be different if interviewing for senior leadership positions.
Sensor size designations are very confusing. The 1/2.3 is based on the diameter of an old tube sensor, of which a large portion couldn't be used for imaging. The 35mm is based on 35mm film, which was actually 24mm x 36mm. The only way to make sense of it is to use a table showing actual dimensions, such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_sensor_format#Table_of_s....
That's not actually true, at least via Ajax. Certainly you can just throw a POST at the website, and we hope that any web server is secured with CSRF protection. Additionally, the SameSite changes recently introduced by Chrome should further mitigate this problem.[1]

> The Cross-Origin Resource Sharing standard works by adding new HTTP headers that let servers describe which origins are permitted to read that information from a web browser. Additionally, for HTTP request methods that can cause side-effects on server data (in particular, HTTP methods other than GET, or POST with certain MIME types), the specification mandates that browsers "preflight" the request, soliciting supported methods from the server with the HTTP OPTIONS request method, and then, upon "approval" from the server, sending the actual request. Servers can also inform clients whether "credentials" (such as Cookies and HTTP Authentication) should be sent with requests.[2]

[1] https://www.chromium.org/updates/same-site/faq

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS
More like "if mail to gmail fails it's not us so pleas don't flood the support with comaplains".

> Running a datacenter is no easy task.

Sure, but then there are very view companies which have more experience with running data-centers and (normally) providing reliable email service.

So any outage for more then just a short time is very unusual. I'm really interested what went wrong.
May I ask, why did you guys wait until now to start marketing? Just curious about your decision.
hey try among us or jackboxtv
List of Destroyed Libraries
Laser Cutter for Wood Engraving
Laser cutter can create many customized wooden craft, like Woodwork, Crafts, Die Boards, Architectural Models, Furniture, Toys, Decorating Floor Inlays, Instruments, Storage Box, Wood Tag

Typical materials for laser cutting and engraving wood (MDF):
Bamboo, Balsa Wood, Basswood, Beech, Cherry, Chipboard, Cork, Coniferous Wood, Hardwood, Laminated Wood, Mahogany, MDF, Multiplex, Natural Wood, Oak, Obeche, Plywood, Precious Woods, Poplar, Pine, Solid Wood, Solid Timber, Teak, Veneers, Walnut
I noticed a lot of extremely successful companies were employee-owned for a significant fraction of their early growth.

I'm thinking Valve (still is!) and Microsoft. Wonder if there's a correlation.
The EU is either just pretending to do so or doing a very bad job. They've accomplished nothing, except force everyone (not just Big Tech) to put annoying (and increasingly so) cookie banners on their websites and users have to endure them.
And tbh the security services in the have more oversight than the FANGS do
Relying on sanitization is bad practice. Your systems should work properly and securely even if every text field in your database is filled with Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;-- or <script>alert(document.cookie)</script> - if displaying them in web UI leads to an injection or XSS, then the web UI code is horribly broken and needs to be fixed, input sanitization is at best a temporary workaround.
The Waking Up app by Sam Harris is a great way to get started - there is an introductory course I found very helpful.
Oh, this is even more interesting after looking into it (see this diagram from another site): https://www.dpreview.com/news/7542036825/french-startup-is-p...

The curvature goes in the opposite direction of what I would have thought. I would've thought the orientation of the curve was in the sense of maintaining a "constant radius" from the end of the lens stack. (exit pupil?) I.e. the curve helps bring in the distant parts of the sensor closer and more orthogonal to the light rays.

But the diagram shows the opposite kind of curve! That makes even less intuitive sense to me.

(I can't imagine someone not involved with the company creating this diagram, or it being so wrong and not being caught by some review process? I figure the diagram is legit? Someone drawing ray tracing level details would get it so wrong?)
People should be thinking more in terms of game theory, incentives, iterated games or one-off games, the effects of imperfect information, lemon markets, delayed effects and the difficulties of credit assignment, job hopping and the lack of long-term reputation the way we evolved to have in close communities we stayed in for our lives in the ancestral environment, etc.
This is the Nightmare Scenario for mailing lists.

Many of them auto-unsubscribe after a bounce.
Presumably because it's a lot cheaper and more convenient.
> It allows certain sections in a work to be unchangeable, such as the front-cover and back-cover texts, so that the information in the original publication won't be distorted.

That way, the author of the manual can receive credit. And also the author can insert whatever sponsorships, dedications, and website URLs in there. And this is key, there are a lot of scam websites that just <iframe> existing websites and put ads outside the iframe.

CC-BY-SA is a weak copyleft– akin to LGPL while GFDL is akin to GPL.
AI Predicts Cancer Killing Drug Combos
I wonder how AWS is supporting the development of Prometheus. Are they financing the OSS developers who are spending countless hours dedicated to the project?
> AFAIK a good chunk of digital camera processing is still done in ASIC/hardware

I’m not authoritative on this topic, but I can’t think of a camera produced by one of the majors which isn’t mostly or entirely ASIC based for image processing.

> Fuji recently introduced in-camera HDR

Canon has had in-camera HDR for years, but I’m not sure I’d really put the output in the same category as a modern smartphone.
this a hundred times, for me. Thank you for expressing this so well.
Nothing that is common and built in that meets these requirements and is very legible AFAIK.

I tend to write most of my scripts in PHP so I don’t have much of a leg to stand on other than that it is:

- very scriptable.
- common in the environments I work in.
- can easily shell out.
- can be either completely loosely typed or more strongly typed as you wish.
- has an extensive standard library.
Not that programming languages are arbitrary, but that the choice to use words (Python) rather than, say, punctuation (Brainfck) or emojis is because is easier for our human brains, thus arbitrary. But the task at hand is still problem solving, not language processing (at least not in the capacity of a typical conversation). I think a good example of this is the popularity of code visualizers. The only thing stopping Brainfck from solving your problems as easily as Python is the ease of human understanding, not some fundamental property of Python being more “language-like.”
> Well, you either know a thing or not. Its really that simple. You know you are sitting at a table, typing, etc. I also accept the results of repeatable experiments, as long as I have verified them.

Marcuse and Gettier have some things to day about this (paraphrasing):

"The world is too complicated for people to verify everything themselves" -Marcuse

"Its not clear what (if anything) constitutes justified true belief" -Gettier

> I also accept the results of repeatable experiments, as long as I have verified them.

Per Quine, individual hypotheses can't be verified, only bundles of hypotheses.
> I completed it twice -more out of boredom and getting my money's worth than actual enjoyment

You should familiarize yourself with the concept of a "sunk cost"[0]. You'll probably be happier for it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost#Fallacy_effect
Facebook can absolutely operate in each country following their laws. They just have to change their own company structure and data policies. For example, they may need to physically separate EU data from US data completely and have separate employees with access to each.

I don't see any reason they cannot do that. It will hurt their bottom line for sure, but it's completely reasonable imo.
Hard to have fun on Zoom...
Neither of those cable entertainment channels are what many would consider "journalism".
Give Manjaro a shot. A lot of people (me included) believe that it's a preview to what Arch can do while still giving new users decent control when it comes to installing packages (Both official repos and from AURs). Plus if you want it to look nice: https://aptrinh.js.org/manjaro-rice.html

Arch still stays on top when it comes to total control of the distro you're using imo.
Except as an academic exercise, trying to roll and maintain your own email is fraught with difficulties.
Unfortunately I don’t think apples had a smooth new OS Release it in some time. This issue was obviously noted with the Big Sur beta roll out where that may be forgiven more readily. But now it’s in the public release. Knowing nothing about the matter I guess I could see how new OS releases break things and how it’s sometimes hard to triage bug reports in a giant organization like Apple. In desktop Linux these sorts of problems are almost a matter of course— I still remember having to drop Arch when I no longer had the time to read every changelog as recommended before evergreen updates. With Ubuntu is easier— just go with LTS and install stuff from source when the packages don’t have what you need. On the other hand Windows didn’t seem to have any of these issues. Not to mention Mac controls the hardware it installed on and Windows had to work on much more diverse hardware. In the end though I think Apple works out its new OS kinks within a few months of release and, even though there ideally wouldn’t be workflow breaking bugs in public releases. You just have to kind of treat the public release as unstable for a few months. Ideally you don’t upgrade before then lest Apple revoke the install signatures from the previous stable release.
Used by Microsoft: https://sendersupport.olc.protection.outlook.com/snds/index....
What is or isn't PII, which is a US legal term, is irrelevant.

What matters is if it's Personal Data.

Personal Data is defined by the GDPR as:

"‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person".

I would say a tracking ID falls under "an identification number [or] online identifier"...
The article was originally written in 1996, and describes GNU policy. As a cultural artifact, it's been incredibly effective but is now outmoded, as what it describes is very solidly the norm, as you note. So today it serves as a statement of GNU policy and as a historical artifact, and isn't so much something that is relevant to today's readers.

Since the article specifically calls out Perl:

In the Perl 4 days (1991 until whenever Perl 5 (1994) gained critical mass), the O'Reilly book Programming Perl was the Perl documentation. Besides the book, the only other official documentation was the perl(1) man page, which (while lengthy at nearly 30,000 words) was not nearly as complete as the O'Reilly book.
Can't wait to go back to campus.
Having watched how our local TV station has steadily cut back on staffing at all levels, I would say that front line staff covering the news are in more danger today than 10-20 years ago. Covering a story used to mean having 3+ people on site to cover the story: the reporter, a camera person and an microphone or uplink tech as well. These days reporters are sent out on their own with a camera stand and do almost all of the work by themselves.

Our local newspapers have seen similar cutbacks. The left and right wing papers were bought out, merged and now the same staff produce 2 different papers with slightly different spins on the same matters.

With all these cutbacks, it's no wonder journalists have a harder time doing in depth and thorough jobs reporting the stories of the day. The advertising dollars have walked away from the local news outlets, and as a result there is far less local oversight.

If we as a society don't figure out how to address how journalism is funded, things will continue to the point where only some well funded niches remain covered in any depth. Democracy can't function without oversight, and citizens can't exercise their oversight of governments without knowledge of what is going on. This is dangerous for the public, but it's not the journalists' fault. And bad journalism happens when journalists aren't funded to do the kind of in depth stories that cost real dollars to investigate and produce.
The game gives you a quickhacking tutorial at the very beginning. The mission with four tutorials in total, two optional
Honestly thank you for saying that. I felt like I'm going crazy, I can't figure out how people are enjoying this game, I tried to find a redeeming quality and "pretty lights" is all I can think of.

Edit: Scrolled down and found great r3view that put what felt into words better then I can.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25436061
> And the worst parts of Common Lisp would be the massive, inconsistent, designed-by-committee language, CLOS, and macros.

I've always wondered what would happen if there was a CL standardization where everything was CLOS'ified in the :common-lisp package, so the #'+, #'map(can), etc. were generic functions along with a nice set of collections (dictionary, etc.). And the more specialized/efficient functions were squirreled away in a non-default package. Well that, and a bunch of other things like a different module system. SBCL seems like such a nice compiler that doesn't get the respect it deserves for being able to compile fast binaries for such a dynamic language.
Unfortunately, I often have renders that take way longer than 24 hours, so setting active hours wouldn't help much.

With that being said, I now have the box in question completely disconnected from the internet and I task it remotely via serial.
There are, quite rightly, strict rules about how companies handle personal data (and that includes not transferring it to jurisdictions where those rules don't apply). I don't think any of those rules apply to individuals handling their own personal data.
Yeah, that's the thing. I used my dock with both my desktop and laptop for months and it worked fine. _Still_ works fine. It's a 100W. If I plug it into my Macbook, it'll run the external display for like 10 seconds and shut it off. It's unfortunate :(
These guys seem scammy to me. What a low median salary.
This is comically meaningless as far as evidence for making a decision goes. It reminds me of the various garbage studies purporting to show that functional programming leads to lower defect rates.
I’m not one who did, but I’m assuming the confrontational tone of GP is likely a cause.
I did so via the registry, but my changes were reverted after updating.
Yeah used to say something like "That's why professionals use Windows 10".
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> If I got paid in tokens at a startup, I would riot.

>> Why is your first reaction to "riot" instead of just "quit"?

>>> Why, when someone tries to take advantage of you, is your first reaction to retreat?

Because, "rioting" when you don't get your way is... unprofessional?
I will add my best unsolicited advice to this.

If you do not understand what a marketing or advertising professional is telling you and you ask them to explain it further and it still does not make sense—lots of jargon, buzz words, and “secret sauce”—do not hire that person.

There is nothing in marketing that is so conceptually difficult to understand that it cannot be explained at a high-level to a lay person. If they do not explain it well they either A. Do not understand it well themselves, or B. Do not want you to understand it.

Also be wary of big promises up front. No one can actually promise XX% increase or XXX more leads without having advertised your specific product before. They might be able to provide a general estimate based on past experiences, but that is it.

Best of luck.
> ... and retained in its last sentence.

That's called a punchline.
I do not believe that violating the spirit, if not the letter, of laws and regulations is a good strategy for enabling small teams to disrupt large incumbents.

If we want a healthy market where small and large players alike can thrive, enabling regulatory capture and expecting small players to ignore regulations as long as they can is just bad policy.
It seems cutting-edge how? Because for example you can literally go to GitHub and get a project with a complex deep learning architecture close to the state of the art (or at least last year's state of the art) for some things.

Then pull that up on your screen and start messing with the structure of the graph, adding layers etc. with impressive sounding names like "relu" etc. Lol. It could look cutting edge and it actually could kind of be cutting edge as far as the fact that regardless of your background the next step to making an incremental improvement in an area may be taking a known model and tweaking the hyperparameters and assembling a good dataset.

But obviously there is a difference between that and creating a new architecture or approach from scratch. In other words, you are not going to invent GANs or capsules by tweaking hyperparameters. Or come up with other more basic innovations necessarily without a deep understanding of the underlying concepts.

However I will say that the repeated practical application of deep learning seems like it is going to be a critical part of a having a strong grasp. And someone with a Ph.D in ML mifht actually be less useful for a particular application than a person who has actually used Keras for ten different real projects.

At the core, many people are involved in applying existing approaches by assembling datasets and tweaking hyperparameters and architectures. Which maybe amounts to modifying a few hundred or maybe dozen lines of Python code that describe the different layers and learning rates etc. and load the data.

People can leverage programming libraries and be more effective than another guy who has less experience with that library but is a true expert in statistics and LaTeX.
They barely answers any questions. If the leadership team is not tracking the metrics they'd need to answer questions like "roughly how have last-gen console sales compared to expectations" or "are you seeing lots of refund requests", it's really no wonder they're in this situation.
I am autistic.. I read code and "interpolate" across lines quite well.
On the other hand, finishing one basic written sentence can sometimes be a surprising struggle.
It really feels like a mashup of GTA 5 and Deus Ex, except without GTA's sense of humor and Deus Ex's feeling of personal agency. That said, I am really enjoying it, I mean a mashup of those two things is very compelling even if it doesn't quite manage to borrow the charm of either.
actually I picked up a scratchy old British army surplus wool blanket and it is indeed quite cozy.
Just get a copy of Ghost of Tsushima and enjoy a top rate open world gaming experience.
Take away the bugs and cosmetic performance problems; the game is just lousy. Every mechanic it implements is lousy and half-baked. From the driving, to the shooting, to the looting, to the AI, it's just mediocre.

Try this tonight: make sure you're absolutely alone and shoot someone. A cop will spawn behind you. No AI, no chase, no nothing, just bloop here's a cop.

The game has destroyed the reputation of this company overnight.