skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do you know masks are mostly BS?

There is no creature on the planet with a greater sense of survival than a politician. If masks were effective in the least, Gavin Newsom wouldn't be caught even in bed without one on - instead he's photographed at a dinner in a restaurant with over 20 strangers - all in the medical profession too - without masks on.

Medical theater. Even more annoying than the security theater I have to go through every time I fly. This article is spot on!
20/35 is 4/7 the speed, and therefore it makes every trip take 7/4 as long. So you spend an additional 15 minutes on every 20-minute journey. You're rapidly going to waste more human lifetimes sitting in cars than you would ever save from driving slower.
Unless you know the area.

The parent has a couple of counter examples to that. Seems like the caveats, that sometimes you do actually know you're alone, are exactly the scenarios we're talking about.
Ask HN: What game-changing tricks did you learn about your editor/IDE in 2020?
Which editors/IDEs do you use? Did you learn new tricks or shortcuts or commands in your editors/IDEs this year? please share!
Really clear quote.
Closures: Magic Functions (are just struct in Rust)
I don't think state funded healthcare works the way you think it does. The american system is the most economically inefficient system out there, to the extent that people without experience of other systems likely end up with highly distorted perception.

Note that a mixed economy (combined public/private funding, like the french and australian systems) are probably for the most part the most economically efficient. A big problem in australia is over-provision of services, especially ending up getting more pathology tests than strictly necessary.
Reading through the replies you got for this post is really quite interesting. I feel like what it boils down to is that there are a decent amount of people that prefer life under an authoritarian regime (whether governmental or corporate). A regime where someone they trust decides for them how they should enjoy their life and protects them from bad choices. Merely allowing a different party from offering a competing choice would undermine the whole premise.

It's a bit like the cruise ship industry where you forgo choice (compared to traveling outside of a tour) but gain safety and the benefit of not having to research or make decisions. If anyone could open up a restaurant or organise an outing on a cruise ship, then that perceived safety disappears and the need to make conscious decisions arises.

As this seems to be a reasonably common theme in these posts I wonder if there's a market for more products that follow a similar purchase incentive, like a fridge that only allows you to insert groceries you've bought from the trusted supermarket.
Japan's suicide rate is 14.9 per 100k. US is 14.5. Belgium is 15.9. https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/suicide-rates.htm

Japan is a bit of an outlier on the high side, but the US is nearly as much so.
I'm not sure you are describing the situation here. What other things did these workers try? What other avenues were available to them? (Also, destroying corporate property is not violence.)
I recall being told that Hawking radiation happens when matter/anti-matter spontaneously appears when straddling an event horizon.

The Universe full of matter/anti-matter bubbles popping in and out of existence. Most of them don’t straddle an event horizon but they still occur.

How much would such a fog contribute to the darkness at night?

Edit: Aha, clouds are irrelevant. Any dark clouds would heat up until they are the same brightness as the rest of the sky. Thanks, article!
There are exactly 0 situations that require you to break the speed limit to become “safe.” The UK Highway Code and driving lessons are very explicit in how you respond to emergencies and “speed up” is not on the list.
The stock market is very much not “the economy”
I have been incredibly interested in ontologies and information science recently. So I’m wondering, what are the hob prospects like? What are you doing now? Your classmates?
couldn't agree more. waiting on nushell to mature so that rich data is the norm for shell stuff.

learning to be comfy in shell is still worth it though. It's saved me, at minimum, hundreds of hours of work.
S.F.’s building department is a mess. It's no wonder pay-to-play rules the day
Ironically, the 1st Amendment protects Twitter's ability to block anything that it likes.

Fundamentally, the government can't dictate what anybody chooses to publish (or not) on a website that they own. They can seize it and prosecute the owners if the content is illegal, but they can't force editorial decisions.

This whole arrangement drove a lot of traffic to Twitter and helped to keep it relevant; they just didn't want to kill their golden goose.
Ask HN: Proper way to setup M1/Silicon Mac?
Anyone find any good resources on setting up a new Silicon/M1 Mac?

Wondering how to setup non-native apps like homebrew, node, vscode, etc.

Preferably in a way that when official support comes out things could be ported to the new official builds? ex: homebrew suggests installing to two different locations

Resources I have found:

- https://isapplesiliconready.com/

- https://applesilicongames.com/
Whoa, interesting, thanks for the heads up! I've bookmarked that puppy.

Whatever I was watching recently still had that slurring effect in all of the speech that I recall from back in the day, but I just checked out some recent recordings from OP25 and that is actually quite a bit improved. May just try that out first and see where it goes. Thanks!
If the heading said “US Economic recovery” instead of just “recovery” it would remove several layers of ambiguity in that heading, including the one you mention.
Unless you have constant surveillance on the km in front of you, you cannot know you're alone. Things happen. They may not be likely at all, but as a whole we're not good judges of probability.

Also, even if you crash with nobody around at the time, someone else may crash into the rescue team just arriving to help you.
To the people downvoting this: this is the U.K. law in this area. If you weren’t the driver, you must tell the police who was driving. If you don’t, you’re the one who gets the speeding ticket.
I think that's stupid for one reason. As an engineer I often considered 10% tolerance to be sufficient. I think enforcing speed limits to anything greater than 10% is just silly. I often drift +/- more than 10% of my intended speed. It's just human nature. I pay more attention to potential dangers and obstacles, and less on whether I am within a % of the speed limit, and I really hope other drivers do as well.
Sure, interested in how the problem they're solving may get them a pot of gold.

Founders aren't motivated by the problem no more than athletes are motivated by the love of the game. Children are motivated in that manner. But not adults.

Startups, like sports, are a business. The only concern is money. That is the ends. The startup, problem, etc are just the means to that end.

Every founder is motivated by money. It just sounds tacky and cheap to say you did it for money, so everyone builds up some silly story - "to help people", "to solve a problem", "cause it was a passion", "to create jobs for the community", "create value for others", etc. Nope. It was all for money. No need to be embarrassed about it.
If you know you are truly alone, then you know there's no police. Plus there's animals. I see dead foxes, dogs and cats all the time on the road.
Time perhaps to remind people of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668496

(A period table of visualization meathods)
It means it wasn’t good for their adverts.
That usually doesn’t kick in at higher speeds, due to the risk of it suddenly breaking on a motorway. In a way, this makes speeding even worse.
I think these will emerge organically in time, but I think to really exercise the power of piet-gpu in particular, we'll want to see apps that display or visualize huge amounts of data. I'd love to see scientific visualizations.
Gandhi said, “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”

Humans value freedom too much. Statistically speaking, we would rather feel like we are in control, even if we have objectively worse outcomes that way. Just think about air travel vs driving: one is much more likely to die in an automobile accident per mile traveled, but air accidents are more terrifying because there's nothing one can do about it as it is happening. Humans are wired to be optimistic in the narrow sense of control systems theory: we believe can control everything. Hence childhood beliefs in telekinesis, but also the reason children blame themselves for their parents' divorces.
You're a danger to only yourself until suddenly you aren't as alone as you thought you were.
There are many cases being presented in the courts, by many plaintiffs. I'd be surprised if there weren't some frivolous ones in there. That doesn't mean they all are, and we can't know until they are presented. If your argument is simply "No good case has been made yet, therefore no good case can be made," well, I don't think anyone with sound reasoning skills will agree with that.
I worked at radio shack outside the US in the late 90s.. we use to listen to cell phone calls. Most calls were drug dealers,some were affairs mostly it was call girls. The variety was great.
> doing 35 mph in a 30 mph really going to kill anybody?

Quick check says yes: https://www.tac.vic.gov.au/road-safety/statistics/summaries/...

Or specifically, not "speeding will kill someone" because we'll always have some level of accidents. But increased speed translates to increased accidents and increased accidents translate to more deaths.
If cleaning toilets paid $1 a month, but required enough skill that you could realistically get everyone who can do that on board, you now have a leverage of having all the toilets in some region dirty. That pays more than $1.

Literally the point of unions (and big part of companies).
Much of the time on a typical London car journey is spent idling in traffic, so it’s not so easy to calculate.
The Cyberpunk 2077 review drama
Review: AirPods Pro
Right, but they were responding to the part that said "Odds are the stock market comes back".
350M Mountain People Now Vulnerable to Food Insecurity
Until you can donate someone your time, that's not how it works. This take is "my 5 min is so important, I'm willing to risk someone's 60 years" (scaled to thousands of people).

You can also make other choices that reduce your 15min to begin with. (If the small difference there makes important changes in your life)
Consider that thicknet (and thinnet) looks alot more like wifi than TP ethernet does, the only thing missing is on thicknet all stations can hear each other. But it is fundamentally RF, and a shared medium.
I worked at Radio Shack and a customer came in, asked to see a particular hand held scanner. He moved around the buttons a few different ways and showed me it had a backdoor to listen to cellular calls. A few months later Radio Shack recalled that particular scanner. I had spent some time listening to calls and they were really boring. No girlfriends or drug deals, completely inane conversation.
because then your shell will be slower than a snail.

for real though, after looking at your examples I feel that features like those would fall on your terminal emulator to bring to the table, not the shell itself.

specifically, I don't want to imagine trying to connect to a headless server during some crisis over bad wifi and have the shell think it needs to send a bunch of graphics to me.
> I would never assume a plumber is wrong and I am right about pipes

Hahah, great example. I want an explanation of everything -- from plumbers to doctors. I wouldn't start out with the assumption I'm right and they are wrong, but how do I tell a trustworthy one from an untrustworthy one? I got ripped off by an auto shop who sold me a bunch of pointless work because they were having a slow week -- it's not an academic question.
If you're using log rehydration with DD it's hard to hit the $30k/mo fee. Before I left my last company we were evaluating DD logging and it came out to ~$5-6k/mo for about 25B logs per month.

When you start you'll likely pay a few hundred dollars per month tops. Your personal time alone is probably worth more than that.
I agree with that, there's a printable version with better contrast but then the margins are too wide for my taste:

http://thoughtmesh.net/publish/printable.php?id=367

I just put this sort of site through reader mode but it shouldn't be a requirement.
I imagine it's also annoying for those in the Southern Hemisphere.
The founders I have worked with (who became billionaires) are quite boring.

In pretty much every social gathering with them, they were silent (brooding) and didn't have interesting things to say about things and didn't seem interested to hold a conversation on their own. They seemed to be content listening to others talk.

But in work related meetings, when it came to making crazy bets they were extremely passionate about their belief and commitment and made those decisions like a boss. (They had personality flaws (they could be perceived as rude, unpolished etc in those situations) and they made mistakes when they became insecure while making high-stakes decisions as stakes became bigger.)

In most other cases (in not so crazy decisions that needed to be made everyday), they showed great amount of trust in others. They also showed genuine humility - they didn't assume expertise they didn't have and didn't try to assert that they are the boss.

I have come to believe that the founders mindset and behavior is crucial in attracting and retaining the right kind of talented next 10 employees. After that crucial bit, it is those 10 employees who determine the success probability of the company to a great extent. That founding/forming team is a bigger determinant of success rather than just the founders or just those initial employees by themselves.
Replacing heads of military administration with stool pigeons sounds like the soft start of a coup to me.
Wow! That is awesome! Thanks for sharing :)
Wow, that's awesome! I never considered the possibility of such a large input surface... And the way the LEDs light up around the movements is really nicely done.

> love the "no camera" sign right in the middle :P

I'm not sure why this is here, you would think it would be good PR if it went viral (like this video possibly did). Even I now want to try my hand at replicating it.
Without commenting on substance, Emacs is an application that rehomed itself on unix, but isnt a genetic unix application, Emacs was developed on ITS.
I had a weird situation 12 years ago. I got a tv for christmas. When I set it up it scanned for channels. It picked up channels with decimals in the high range and there were pay movies on but when they finished the channel would go dead. The next day I rescanned the channels because of fuzzyness and it picked up new channels with decimals. This time some of the movies were x-rated.

I would rescan daily usually in the evenings and watch what other people paided for. Thursdays and Fridays were good. During the day mostly kids movies.

In the mornings someone would watch a porn fast forward 10 minutes to one specific part.. slow down the video to play 2 minutes then turn it off. Very funny.

If you are in a building let your tv scan for channels in the evenings. If you see a decimal high channels you may have it too.
When one user is waiting for one image, this distinction matters. When multiple users are waiting for an image, or one user waiting for multiple images, the extra complexity is questionable.
That's not what the article talks about though. You're talking about herd immunity because all the children who could die are already dead. Not really "under control" as much as "optimally catastrophic".
Keeping money moving is the name of the game. Each dollar transferred represents at least 10x in value trickled throughout supply chains, so they're eventually providing value from a reflexive standpoint.
I can’t tell if you are being serious or sarcastic.

FWIW I think all of those things sound interesting and cool.

Here’s the abstract from the ‘Saga’s Sorrow’ paper:

“This article examines the construction of gender roles in contemporary white nationalist music. Grounded in extensive and ethnographic fieldwork, the article traces the rise of leading Swedish singer Saga and argues that her music frames women as besieged embodiments of racial and national essence dependent on men for deliverance. The discussion of Saga’s music draws from a review of recent social and ideological shifts in radical white nationalism, insider interviews, performance observations, and structural and textual analyses.”

For some reason I’m reminded of the Zack Snyder film ‘300’.
Yes, the IDE is supposed to be faster for the things it was designed to do. That's the whole reason for its existence. But the shell allows you to do much more than your IDE was supposed to do. If you don't learn it, you're confining yourself to the boundaries set by the IDE.
Yea, I would've agreed ten years ago but Apple gets plenty of criticism here these days.
Team uses copper to image Alzheimer's aggregates in the brain
Amazon Timestream uses quorum writes as an example.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/store-and-access-time-serie...

"This is made possible by the way Timestream is managing data: recent data is kept in memory and historical data is moved to cost-optimized storage based on a retention policy you define. All data is always automatically replicated across multiple availability zones (AZ) in the same AWS region. New data is written to the memory store, where data is replicated across three AZs before returning success of the operation. Data replication is quorum based such that the loss of nodes, or an entire AZ, does not disrupt durability or availability. In addition, data in the memory store is continuously backed up to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) as an extra precaution."

Feels like apples to oranges comparison, as the consistency models are really different. Then again, I woul definitely optimize for performance on most timeseries use cases. Different products with different features baked in.
So you think it's alright to smash buildings to protest illegal police brutality?
I'm just saying that cooking isn't necessarily crappy work, whether you can choose to cook or not.
I'd have no hesitation as a juror sending these scumbags to life without parole.
This tends to be my rule of thumb. Speed Limit +10% assuming good conditions. It keeps me from being a hazard when other drivers wish to go faster while pretty closely adhering to the whole point of speed limits. 7 mph over the limit on the freeway is still pretty safe. 7 mph over on a narrow residential street can be quite dangerous.

This rule of thumb means I really don't have to waste any mental energy keeping an eye out for police, since someone else is almost always going faster and I find it doesn't significantly impact my trip times since traffic and stop lights tend to cancel out most potential gains from driving any faster.
>That may be fine with you, but it's not fine with me.

It is fine with me. If the choice is between continuing down the path we're on and some unknown chaos, I'm willing to roll the dice on the chaos.

At least it would be interesting.
We trained a deep learning model to look at like 20 system parameters and predict an output. the parameters were binary. So one curios engineer decided to brute-force the trained model with all possible inputs like 2^20 inputs to see what the model does. he found for the problem we were solving only 4 of the 20 parameters had effect on results. the remaining approx 16 parameters do not affect results.

So he replaced the model with a single line of code with one boolean expression made with those 4 parameters connected with logical operators.
"un-sporting"? It's not a game. It's about reducing the most common cause of preventable death. The harms to privacy or "freedom" or whatnot are more defensible here than pretty much anywhere else.
>convince people without coercion

I think OP's question was whether one would voluntarily defer to some groups' decisions. Speaking about TFA, Youtube isn't coercing anyone, technically. There's no negative externality (punishment) being implemented, only the deprivation of a service that they provide. One might argue that since Youtube is effectively a monopoly, it's different. The counterargument is that people who want a different platform are free to go elsewhere. This appears to be happening with Parler as an alternative to Reddit, for instance. To bring things full-circle: "remember, the players are not your customers -- they are your new boss." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25376714
It doesn't mean economics can't be scientific, only that, e.g., the act of measuring can't be separated from the measurand. Sound familiar?

Of course, the solution is pretty trivial now: commit the predictions to a blockchain or third party under seal, encrypted, whatever, and reveal it later. Or start applying quantum mechanical descriptions to economics.

This paper and discussion are sort of interesting because there's been analogous debates about ergodicity assumptions in psychology modeling growing over the last couple of decades. They started in the 90s and have become prominent topics of discussion in the last decade or so.

Almost no one really believes ergodicity assumptions truly hold anymore in those discussions. The catch is that neither necessarily does stationarity. That is, in the Nature Physics paper cited, something like the left side of Equation 1, although defineable, is not really estimable (because any function of time will change over time), so the right side, although not strictly equal to the left, becomes just as good of an estimate in many cases (because a system at one point in time practically speaking becomes a different system at a different point in time). The problem isn't in the expectations, it's in the uncertainties around those expectations -- or at least, in understanding when the uncertainty about the long-term time average of f is great enough that using the [cross-sectional] expectation value of f is better in some sense. Put another way, are there times when it makes sense to predict your future self better by looking to other persons, or are you always better off treating your situation as unique?

The discussions in the paper are generally about different types of issues, but they dovetail and coincide in certain ways. I'd have to reread the paper cited in the piece to get a better grasp on how. I'm not disagreeing with it; I think it's interesting, but wonder if it's falling into the trap itself is criticizing others for at some level.
This is easily defeated by registering your car overseas, as is the case with most fast cars you see in London.
Ask HN: Are there any companies that avoid too many dependencies/services
Hello,

I've worked for a few companies now that all follow a similar pattern: using 20 different AWS/Azure services and many many long lists of dependencies for things that could seemingly just be a self-written function.

I understand the arguments for "tried and tested" libraries and not wanting to "re-invent the wheel", but I really am sinking wayyyy too much of my time debugging and trying to understand how all of these things work internally. The actual basic functionality of the JIRA tickets I get can be solved in 10 minutes (basically just string manipulation)

Are there any companies out there who have the more old school mindset of just writing a function that does one specific thing really well, instead of having to juggle all of these import statements, long constructor argument signatures, builders, factories, etc?

One looks at the Super Mario 64 source code and just weeps.