skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think the wearing of masks is a root cause of suicides. Pretty asinine to think something so minor and inoffensive and self-focused could have such a huge societal effect

Regardless, I'm gonna continue to wear a mask in public beyond this pandemic. It's not gonna make me more likely to kill myself, and I don't see why it would harm others (outside of people getting mad about it apparently)
The people who still have their jobs, but have had nothing to spend their money on for 8 months probably will.
Honeypots, I guess? At least that's what I'd set up if I were CIA/NSA. Ask Facebook to create a bunch of vulns that leave the intruder in a sandbox, sell the vulns, and watch where the attacks come from.
My issue with the strict enforcement of speed limits is that safe speed for a given stretch of road varies drastically based on conditions. These would include weather, light level, traffic density, vehicle capabilities and condition, and driver experience and aptitude.

It's not possible to set an optimal speed limit for all these conditions, so normally speed limits are set quite conservatively. Of course it is theoretically a limit, not a target, so you could instead set it closer to the target speed for ideal conditions and expect people to slow in other conditions. That is done in some parts of the world, but not most. And so in somewhat of a causal loop, many drivers therefore consider the speed limit to be a target rather than a maximum, and don't apply a lot of judgement in determining safe speed.

My belief is that (with sufficient time and training to reach a status quo) a system with less strict or no speed limits, and instead a focus on safe driving, would encourage drivers to be more thoughtful and attentive, and result in fewer accidents and possibly even fewer injuries and fatalities. This could include design elements such as traffic calming where appropriate to encourage an appropriate speed without using conservative speed limits. Perhaps an increase in consequences for at-fault collisions would make sense in conjunction as well.

I do recall seeing some evidence that increasing or removing speed limits can reduce collisions, although perhaps not fatal ones. On the other hand, I can certainly understand if one did believe that lower speed limits save lives, one could argue it's better to over-enforce the limits and risk wasting people's time than under-enforce them and risk wasting lives. Also any increase in legal subjectivity increases the risk of unfair enforcement. So I don't think there's necessarily an obvious best approach.
> I don't have a solution to this.

You basically just articulated the solution. Spend the money to give more of your team access to the analytics tool, using the argument made above.

It will still be infinitely cheaper (by like 100X) than building anything.

And the more you spend with a vendor, the more they’ll be willing to completely customize their product for you.
i doesnt matter how uncommon it is

Actually it really does matter. Just like the anecdotes of people becoming re-infected. These things often get presented in the media as if they are common but turn out to be rare. I don't know if that's the case regarding asymptomatic transmission or not but there is an ongoing debate about it.
Same for hiring. FB's money making machine needs very few engineers, but it still needs to keep hiring to deprive potential competitors from competent programmers.
That reminds me of the time someone online pointed out that customers did in fact believe "essential oils" to mean "these are essential = required for survival", not "these constitute essences = extracts of a plant's ingredients".
I'm in the UK, and by the time you've reached a certain age, we've all heard of families torn about by bad driving. The couple who we bought our house from, the mother pulled out in front of two racers just down the road from us and ended up with life changing injuries, unable to walk and with brain damage. A little boy at our local nursery died along with his father hitting a van head on who'd crossed the road taking a corner too fast.

It's not just boy racers, but plenty of older men and women who are reckless and inpatient in their usual driving. There are people who think that their luxury cars are an excuse to break the road rules as well as the rules of common courtesy.

Despite the UK having one of the safest road networks in the world, still around 75 people die or are seriously injured per week in car accidents. For a preventable injury that is still far too high.
A tangential comment. Any good casual reading books about world prehistory? Google doesn't seem to give any interesting results.
Lego won't make modern war machines, but others are picking up the pieces
Look, I think Yarvin is a psychopath as much as the next reasonable human, but let's be clear - Urbit is garbage on technical grounds.

The terminology is a shell game of confusion and deliberate obfuscation. They pretend that it's a network, and a server, and a virtual machine, and an operating system, but it isn't any of these things -- you still need to provide all of them yourself.

It's just a program that sits on top of all your "real" infrastructure, that then emulates its own shittier "make believe" infrastructure, where you're expected to pay for shitty fake IPv4, shitty fake DNS, and are expected to write UDP applications in an esoteric programming language.

That's it.

There is absolutely nothing redeemable here. Please just let this tire fire of a project die the lonely, obscure death it deserves already.
> But you did say it would be "useless" if there were different strains and now you are saying "there are multiple strains".

Yea... That's what the experts are saying, you know the scientists. Are we not to believe them now? And the experts have said if it mutates alot that a vaccine could only ve good againist a certain amount for a certain amount of time. You see a vaccine could work againist strain 1-8 but then stop working on strain 9+.

> I haven't seen anything about the current vaccines not being effective to what is already out there. If that is true then what you are saying is wrong, because the fact that the vaccines can treat what is now filling up hospitals and killing thousands per day means they are the opposite of useless and in fact one of the most valuable things in existence right now.

Overall, this paragraph is moot because you failed to understand my original point, which I'll explain further down when responding to another line. But the fact you haven't heard anything about how a brand new vaccine just being rolled out this week. And I believe there were thoughts it wouldn't work againist the mink strain that Denmark had to cull it's entire mink population to stop.

> Even the regular flu shot was recommended as being more important this year so that there would be less spread and less to deal with.

Who said that? Last I read, they were expecting the flu to be pretty much non exsistant this year due to all the measures to stop corona stopping the flu. They seen this in the south and expect it to be true for the north.

> No, that isn't what you said. That might be what you are trying to claim now that you said something ridiculous.

Ok... I said something ridiculous? I repeated something the experts said. The flu vaccine is needed to be done every year, why? Because the virus mutates so much that it's only good for one year and then useless.

My original comment was merely there was another option. It didn't advocate for anything, didn't state any opinion, etc. You seemed to misunderstand a rather simple thing and on a massive scale.

You seem uninformed on this matter. The experts have been saying for a while, even if we get a vaccine (which we have) it may not to stop it as it may only work for a short period of time. And the fact they won't be able to vaccinate everyone in a timely fashion due to production limits, means corona could be around for decades.

And if you're going to carry on saying I said something come back with the quotes or please keep your thoughts to yourself.
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Deep learning is closer to linear regression than it’s to human capabilities.
Do you remember when the whole internet was outraged over reddit's creepshots subreddit?

I expect it was the same people were white-knighting on Reddit in one window while simultaneously consuming this material on Pornhub in another.
Urbit sounds dumb. Like pyramid scheme dumb.
Instagram is also full of bots, spammers, fakes and suspicious ads. I have previously reported some fake accounts obviously impersonating popular celebrities and they didn't take any action. Apparently engagement is what matters to them.
mmap is not only to map a file content into a process address space, it can also be used to request memory from the OS using the MAP_ANONYMOUS flag. Early on a malloc-like allocator would use brk/sbrk to get a chunk of "raw" memory, and manage this for the user providing access using malloc/free. Nowadays the same "raw" memory can be obtained using an anonymous map. A raw pool, when unused, can be returned to the OS by unmapping it.

Using an anonymous map provides address space randomization by default (for the raw pool location), whereas brk/sbrk extends a limit and because of this are predictable.
> I've noted a trend recently where the traditional, long-established meaning of words is being cast aside so as to present normally unacceptable actions as "not really so bad."

The good old euphemism.
Why can’t there be a discussion on machine learning without everyone on HN trying to prove how unnecessary it is. Queue the anecdotes on simpler regression based methods, over paid scientists, and how much superior some other simpler method is.
The important thing to remember is to use COPY .. FROM STDIN, not insert, for bulk loading into PostgreSQL. Most PostgreSQL drivers support COPY from the client, though it's not always available through generic database APIs.

COPY commands typically write hundreds of thousands of rows per second on a large server/cluster. It's useful to write over multiple connections, but rarely more than ~16.
I like Zach Tellman's response to this:

"Pretty sure Paul just called me a Renaissance man"

https://twitter.com/ztellman/status/1337921811397283842

At this point, my main criticism of Paul Graham is that when he's called out, he never backs down. He never admits he's wrong.
Open discourse doesn’t mean giving everyone a platform.
You have it totally backwards, people who use IDEs don't like "dumbed down code" for the sake of the IDE. Nor are languages like Java designed with their IDEs in mind. The IDE is designed with the full language spec in mind, understands the language at the AST level and supports the full set of language features and all their permutations. A developer who is writing code in IDE is utilizing every permutation of what the language provides and it is upto the IDE to understand it.

IDEs for the most part are not covering for language flaws, they are helping developers be more productive by removing the need to focus less interesting parts of the process and focus on the the problem being solved. While the need for an IDE is more important in some languages over others, there are a set of common problems that exist in every language that the IDE can help solve (navigating the codebase by jumping around to symbol definition/usages, auto importing packages/modues, intellisense, refactoring).

Refactoring does not mean going back and refactoring 6 weeks worth of work that you seem to have in mind. Most people who refer to refactoring are referring to it in the context of multiple small refactors during very short development cycles (every few minutes or hours). My workflow and the workflow of many developers I have worked with goes like this:

* Write some code (not more than 200-500 lines)

* Write tests

* Refactor if needed- potentially rename variables, potentially extract some code into methods, potentially pull stuff up into constants, potentially introduce a new class or interface, potentially change types of certain members, potentially visibility of certain members or methods.

* Repeat for the entire workday when you are not in meetings.

Refactoring- specifically the kind of small scale refactoring that you do as go through your workday to me is almost as important a part of the development process as anything else and IDEs remove almost all friction from it by removing any cognitive load of the task from the developer.
Yeah, even with those limitations, it's still possible that the relationship between plaque buildup and Alzheimer could be similar to the one between smoking and lung cancer - you can get the latter without the former (randomly or triggered by other causes), you can have the former without getting the latter, but in most people, the former will massively increase the risk of getting the latter. Then again, the plaque could also be a co-symptom caused by some third factor. We'll see eventually
Keep in mind that how strict the speed limits are seems to vary significantly by local laws and driving culture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_Sta...

So what might be unacceptable "speedo pedo"ism where you live might be completely normal going 5 miles over the posted speed limit elsewhere. My personal experience is that people tend to drive at a speed they feel safe at, and don't pay that much attention to the signs.
Yep! This strikes extremely true for me as well.

I've been casually following urbit for 3 years now.

And by "casually following" I mean "every now any then, they have some crypto meetup in San Francisco with free drinks, a tech talk, and stuff and sometimes I accidentally end up there".

And of the half dozen or so meetups that I've stumbled upon, for the free drinks and to meet people for fun, what I know about Urbit is as follows:

It is something related to crypto and also some new programming language, and also there are solar systems, and planets, and somehow that has something to do with people controlling their own code.

And also, there is something about Monarchy, or kings? No idea what that monarchy thing is about.

Pro tip for fellow people who are running community based projects or advertising your product through meetups:

You should tailor your pitches and tech talks to be understandable by a software engineer who is a couple drinks in, and only half paying attention to the talk. Because guess what, that's what the majority of your audience is going to be!
> But I think that’s actually too nice to the helper, and uncharitable to the complainer (in that it assumes they weirdly don’t care about solving their problem).

Yes, actually! Sometimes people don't have the energy to face and solve a problem _right now_, but are still feeling overwhelmed by it and seek validation from others that, yes, the feeling they're experiencing is real and acceptable.

> What’s really going on is probably that your advice is bad, because you didn’t really listen, because you weren’t curious enough.

Or maybe providing you with all the little details and context about their problem is taking _even more energy_ when they specifically turned to vent to you because they don't have the energy to solve their problem right now.
Thanks, I misunderstood the idea.
That's an easy answer if you control the budget.

If you're an engineer in a larger software organization, you probably don't have that spending authority. Which means you have to spend time convincing the people with that authority to spend that money.

That's enough of a friction point that many engineers won't bother - which is why I talk about the invisible cultural damage that this problem causes.

You and I know that it will be cheaper. The challenge is getting organizational buy-in.
The U.K. does have variable speed limits on most major motorways that change with conditions, congestion etc, with LED signs that display the current speed limit.
Isolated Demands for Rigour in New Optimism (On the Great Stagnation)
Twitter is completely free to ban anyone they want for any reason they want. Don’t want that? Nationalize it or set rules that social media companies are not allowed to ban anyone no matter what they say.
True! But: internet has less fading when the ionosphere gets rough.
> "evidence of consistent partisan split votes makes such an argument particularly weak"

Except there isn't much of this evidence. Supposedly "right wing" justices vote with the "left wing" justices regularly, even often against the other "right wing" justices.
It works sometimes.

I'm not sure everyone would have the nerve to aggressively drop zero days, you don't know who you are going to cross, my paranoia would not let me.

I'm also not a security person, but I am sure there are people who have the necessary skills, but have the same nerves as I have.
> 10 super-smart people, but 9 of them are focused on myopic bits of code plumbing or reinventing APIs or something

Hey, that's me! After 20 years I learnt to let go and start caring about the business a little bit more than about the code plumbing.
s/is/was/

I miss the days when there was a messaging service you could buy in order to recieve text messages nationwide without transmitting your location.

RIP POCSAG
https://blog.jooq.org/2016/03/17/10-easy-steps-to-a-complete...
Here is for example a memory allocator used in micro:bit https://github.com/lancaster-university/codal-core/blob/mast...

It's quite simple and extensively commented.
Yes, a finite state machine can be encoded as a matrix. Ultimately it's just a string of bits, represented by whatever physical mechanism it happens to reside in. It's still a state machine, and that's a big difference.
macOS tools generally do not match what Stack Overflow tells you.
> It is a departure from colloquial use to describe property damage as violent and it is counterintuitive to describe a "violent protest in which no one was hurt."

I don't believe your assertion is remotely true. The term "vandalism" has its origins on how the Vandals tribe attacked, invaded and sacked Rome, and it refers to violence which results in widespread property damage.

You'd be hard pressed to describe 5th century barbarian invasion with words other than violence.

And by the way, car crashes are also described as violent even when no harm comes to anyone involved.
The images need to be processed before they can be shown:

• Cropping

• Scaling

• Contrast + brightness adjustment

• Compression

That is what the online converter provides.

But I get your point. I will add example code on how to convert an image on your local machine.
"Semantics" is a very overloaded term, but i'm not sure the goal of the semantic web matches the goals of "semantics" in other fields that you are thinking of.
Is that Homo Economicus driving the delivery truck?

You'd expect a machine that saves a life every 5 seconds to have some kind of investment in redundancy. Either is spread over more machines or the wonder device has spare parts that are kept stocked.

And if not, I'm sure parliament could pass a law to clear the streets for the day.
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Any specific reason you think so?
Only for one year (1999). I personally wrote this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
On Culture – Do White People Have No Culture?
I'm a big fan of Markus Winand: https://use-the-index-luke.com/

I've got a bunch of SQL resources I've collected on my blog that you might find helpful: https://simonwillison.net/tags/sql/
Maybe the first few chapters of “Sapiens”?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapiens:_A_Brief_History_of_Hu...
Address Sanitizer has the same.
Some people need someone to vent and feel better when the listener confirms that what they experienced sucks. Just delivering a solution does not give them a feeling of being okay feeling bad, while confirming does. One guy wrote somewhere, that when his wife complains, he asks: "Red wine or boiler suit?" i.e. Shall i listen or do you want a solution.
A) Yes, and many stocks dipped then went back up. I guess I’m asking - what stock? Many of the tech companies saw no loss of short term earnings (rather a bump).

B) Yes, but future earnings per-pandemic may not match estimated future earnings now. Again, much of the DJIA growth has been driven by tech stocks and their future earning could certainly be better now, with the shift to technology to support WFH.
Well I will not pretend that I am the one to make a good case for it. I'm not going to spend a lot of time trying to debate you about it.

I never said it was equivalent to violence. However, if it leads to violence, speech is absolutely dangerous. See murder cases where people are convinced to kill others under false pretenses. Or they are just talked into doing it by a charismatic individual. This sort of speech is actually already illegal. I'm sure it's not difficult for you to imagine speech that leads slightly indirectly to violence. That isn't necessarily the type of speech we are discussing here, I just thought I'd point out the extreme case where we already acknowledge the power of speech.

As you have heard said and I'm sure will disagree with, the internet has lowered the bar to attaining a widespread audience. It used to be that you would have to be eloquent enough and thoughtful enough to throw your ideas into a coherent book, show, essay, or whatever. And there would be people vetting your material for quality before deciding it should go before an audience.

Obviously, that doesn't stop all the bullshit (and actually leads to other bullshit), but having a higher barrier to information exchange meant that content was much more likely to vetted by one or more people who had some critical thinking skills. As a publisher, you couldn't just put out anything because it would cost you something. Now, any half baked idea you have you can put it out there, and similarly minded people who maybe formed the same sorts of half baked ideas or are just incapable of vetting the truth for themselves can find each other and form large groups of people who all now believe the same bullshit. This was always possible with word of mouth, but the internet is a much more effective medium for bullshit and allows it to be much more viral and widespread in nature.

The vast majority of widely available "information" out there is no longer authored by experts, thanks to the internet. It's authored by people who mistake their layperson knowledge as expert knowledge, or believe that their "common sense" is enough to tell them how the world works. The audience can now choose what "information" to consume and doesn't have to believe the unpleasant things experts say or the understand the complicated stuff if they don't want to. They can just pick and choose whatever simple or comfortable truths they desire.

As for evidence, most hard social and political problems are impossible to agree on. That problem is exacerbated by the type of misinformation we're talking about here, because it's even harder to agree on what the facts are. For example, somehow we are still arguing about global warming despite mountains of evidence. The the same thing happened with smoking and lung cancer. I don't have any evidence to share with you, but I'm sure that if I did you'd find a way to dismiss it with your own.

I'm confident that you have heard similar reasoning before.
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Hi HN. I made a tool that allows you to discover what books you are least likely to have come across or enjoyed, but are nonetheless highly rated. These books will likely challenge you if you tend to read quite narrowly. Briefly, for each book entered we find the rarest but highest rated intersections and provide those to you. The query can be summarised as: which highly rated books are least read (and enjoyed) by people who've also read the books entered?
But the Zodiac killer is known to be a man...