skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah after writing this post, I found [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bitcoin#Prices_and_...
Good point. What opportunities are there? Seems like low-hanging fruit is building video / audio calls with presentation sharing.
My bad, misworded slightly, but yes, thanks Walter. Apologies for getting sloppy.
LinkedIn’s alternate universe – how the platform makes networking weird
The Watch_dogs franchise is IMHO the one that does the living modern city the best...
This is also a false Argument, as even moving from the US does not absolve you of US Taxation, even if you renounce your citizenship in some cases they take your past, current and future wealth in taxes

This is aside from the fact that is a clear logical fallacy [1]

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fasTSY-dB-s
We're all doing in this pandemic winter
Could be. Certainly the problem is not unique to mine. Maybe they eventually fixed it, or maybe it only shows up on some batches, and I've been unlucky.

I want to emphasize that this is my only complaint regarding the Pinebook Pro. Everything else is really good, actually much better than could be expected for the price.
Here's the CDC:

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Data regarding the “real-world” effectiveness of community masking are limited to observational and epidemiological studies.

* An investigation of a high-exposure event, in which 2 symptomatically ill hair stylists interacted for an average of 15 minutes with each of 139 clients during an 8-day period, found that none of the 67 clients who subsequently consented to an interview and testing developed infection. The stylists and all clients universally wore masks in the salon as required by local ordinance and company policy at the time.

* In a study of 124 Beijing households with > 1 laboratory-confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 infection, mask use by the index patient and family contacts before the index patient developed symptoms reduced secondary transmission within the households by 79%.

* A retrospective case-control study from Thailand documented that, among more than 1,000 persons interviewed as part of contact tracing investigations, those who reported having always worn a mask during high-risk exposures experienced a greater than 70% reduced risk of acquiring infection compared with persons who did not wear masks under these circumstances.

* A study of an outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, an environment notable for congregate living quarters and close working environments, found that use of face coverings on-board was associated with a 70% reduced risk.

* Investigations involving infected passengers aboard flights longer than 10 hours strongly suggest that masking prevented in-flight transmissions, as demonstrated by the absence of infection developing in other passengers and crew in the 14 days following exposure.

Seven studies have confirmed the benefit of universal masking in community level analyses: in a unified hospital system, a German city, a U.S. state, a panel of 15 U.S. states and Washington, D.C. as well as both Canada and the U.S. nationally. Each analysis demonstrated that, following directives from organizational and political leadership for universal masking, new infections fell significantly. Two of these studies and an additional analysis of data from 200 countries that included the U.S. also demonstrated reductions in mortality. An economic analysis using U.S. data found that, given these effects, increasing universal masking by 15% could prevent the need for lockdowns and reduce associated losses of up to $1 trillion or about 5% of gross domestic product.

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Taken from: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/masking-scien...
Yeah I think Google is pretty hard to beat for anyone who only cares about cheap storage, unfortunately. One argument I have for that crowd is that there's nothing stopping Google from coming seeking rent in the future (like they're currently doing with Photos), once they successfully kill off all viable competition by offering their products at a loss, which they can afford to do but a lot of companies who only do one thing (like e.g. email) can't.

But yeah I also don't think Nextcloud or other alternatives will really take over unless security/privacy/ethics become a higher priority than cost for most people, which seems unlikely to me.

Edit: Typo (of -> off)
Star Wars Novelists Seek Years of Missing Royalty Payments from Disney
> Marriages of what? Sam and Bob? George and Shirley? Second the expression itself. Again what is a bob and jane? What is a partner? Partners in crime? Also seriously:

And we get to the key point you are missing. Its clear from the context. The code we had wasn't some imaginary code where the variable was far away and had a ton of context. It was that particular code. Different code might be better written in a different way. If you a have different code context in mind with higher complexity, show that one.

Additionally, "merge_married_profiles_into_list_of_pairs" is not necessarily better. When debugging the code, we don't know what that part really does. An implementation using a more generic standard library function lets us glance over that bit since we already have understanding of it. (And again, it might depend on the audience - are we talking to a language expert, or a domain expert? Do we have a well tested and well defined library of domain functions that everyone has a clear understanding of?)

Context and audience matter. Verbosity can be a lazy cop out for bad structure. (That's applicable to writing English as well.)
I just started to doubt myself but you saved me lol. OK take a look at the front of that building (found on flickr)

https://i.imgur.com/cDF8Fsr.jpg

Now take a look at this map image, and go back and forth to see if you feel that the X i marked is a reasonable approximation of the photographer's location

https://i.imgur.com/fvj0ZPj.jpg

Now take a look again at the SAR image and tell me if you can see any artifacts from the front of the building through the roof (hint, zoom in and look for the curved line of bright dots :) )

https://www.sandia.gov/radar/_assets/images/gallery/ka-band-...
The interesting part of this trade is that their TAS trade was “in the money” at the same time their long positions were.

That’s not supposed to happen. Your hedge should cost you profit but because of oil going negative both sides of their trade were profitable.
Reminds me of a line by Mark Fisher (1): "Real wealth is the collective capacity to produce, care and enjoy."

1. https://repeaterbooks.com/abandon-hope-summer-is-coming-kpun...
Oh obviously it's more effective, but as we're seeing, that efficiency requires a tradeoff that many people are not willing to make. And in the long run, it's not more effective if it drives everyone to ad blockers and privacy-oriented operating systems. It's like saying dictatorships are more effective than democracies, which is true until people decide they want to get rid of the dictator. My point was that this doesn't have to be a choice between ultra-targeted Facebook ads and non-targeted billboards. We can imagine a compromise with semi-targeted ads that most consumers can tolerate and most marketers can live with, but it just isn't viable if Facebook maintains its dominance.

The solution I'm suggesting is to either break up Facebook or legislate away their business model. I know that would make your life as a business owner more difficult, but wouldn't you also feel a little bit better knowing your business couldn't be wiped out by a broken algorithm disabling your ad account?
Does anyone who would has access to such information, know if this means Disney has not agreed to pay or if this just took that long to work its way through WSJ?
No doubt, some of the self-moderating policies limit subjects of controversial topics. But it also filters out a lot of the routine reflexive debating that accomplishes nothing.

I'm surprised at some of the headlines that make it to the popular page. Not sure what to do about this. Maybe it can't be completely automated. Maybe there has to be some amount of manual curating of stories.
I’ve always used IceWM because it was the default or forced upon me (flashbacks to my high school, which took CentOS 6 and replaced all the logos with the school’s mascot and changed the background picture so they could brand it as their custom Linux distro). Does anyone actually use it because they prefer it? If so, why?
Tell HN: Instapaper iOS copies from clipboard without permission
As described in the title.
The iOS app reproduces this behavior every time it boots up. Observed on iOS 14.
It means he has 40TB stored I guess.
I see two instances of the rootcow in these sceeenshots. I had assumed rootcow was specifically a Berkeley thing circa the 90s. Was it a broader phenomenon?
Additional note: Nextcloud also comes as part of Mail-in-a-Box (MIAB). If you are using that version of Nextcloud, you need to know the following:

1- It uses SQLite, you can't change this easily as the same SQLite is also accessed by MIAB to sync contacts and calendar functionality. The Nextcloud devs don't recommend SQLite for multi user servers. [1]

2- MIAB supports using Nextcloud for managing contacts and calendar but file management is not officially supported so if you want to use that same installation of Nextcloud for storing your files, you won't get support from the MIAB devs in relation to any issue related to files storage [2] (in that case you will have to seek help from the Nexcloud community).

3- As a result of the 2 points above, for multiuser installations you may want to have a second instance of Nextcloud, backed by Postgres or MariaDB, just for your files storage, while you can keep using the version included in MIAB for contacts and calendar. However, for a single user installation, you would be fine using the version of Nextcloud that comes in MIAB (I have been doing that for a long time and I'm fine, mine is a single-user system).

4- The version of Nextcloud that is included in MIAB by default locks access to the admin interface, this can be unlocked using the provided script [3]

5- The automated backups that MIAB creates, will also include all your Nextcloud flies, not just email, calendar and contacts. So if you have a lot of files it's a good idea to use the S3 backup functionality instead of the default on-disk backup method (otherwise backups files will soon eat up all your storage). In my case I use the MIAB S3 backups feature, and I save my data in Digitalocean Spaces which is S3-compatible [4]

[1] https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/stable/admin_manual/config...

[2] See par. "What’s inside the box?" https://mailinabox.email/

[3] https://github.com/mail-in-a-box/mailinabox/blob/master/tool...

[4] https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/spaces/resources/s3-sdk-ex...
It wasn't really very fast. Intel got away with releasing basically the same CPU year over year with minor incremental improvements for almost a decade before anyone caught up.
Or, you know, you could be an idiot and comment on something you know nothing about. YC is the new Reddit.
Airbnb's First 1000 Customers
Dagenham is quite a right-wing area? People with right-wing views seems to have been targeted with anti-mask and anti-lockdown misinformation on social media.
Show HN: I created this project that lists good deals around the web using CRA
> Haven't been on one to verify use by ridership, or to see what the driver's reaction to noncompliant riders is.

Compliance is very high (>95%?), but the people who do not comply are basically the same people who were problems in the Before Times: belligerent, mentally ill, or both. The drivers almost always let them get away with it, again just as in the Before Times, probably because it's a risk to even interact with these people. I, for one, try very hard not to make eye contact with them or even look in their general direction; treating them like the Bugblatter Beast of Traal is at least moderately effective.

I do wish they wouldn't flash the stupid "Masks Required" on the route signs so often, though. It makes it a lot harder to tell which bus is actually arriving. And showing it on the route indicator on the _back_ of the coach is just spiteful.
Makes sense. You need an RTX Nvidia card minimum. Do you have fiber internet? I have a higher tier cable subscription and I’m seeing lag
Lol. I Was doing that in 2018...
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3321013
Love the commenters that say it looks like N64 Super Mario World RTX ;)
Only the retail trading rube (and a software program used by retail rubes) are quoted as saying they didn't think the price could go negative.
I imagine that person's shell profile pipes fortune to cowsay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cowsay
Some people are saying there's a save-file "memory leak" around crafting, where if you craft an item and then sell it, it's still taking up some small amount of space in your save file, meaning your save file size strictly increases

If so there are two issues: total capacity and strictly increasing size
I'm glad some of yall are mentioning cost. These articles while awesome usually don't mention the cost to operate and support such endeavors.

I would like to host my own Matrix instance, but I have no idea what the cost would be monthly.
What a fascinating comment. I hadn’t thought of any of that at all.
Has China Mastered Weather Modification?
The advantage of the Pi here is that we also have an internal web server, DNS server, Linux build server, desktop computer, etc.
There really needs to be research into breeding or creating trees that grow straight and to tens of meters in the span of a year or two provided a super diet that isn’t naturally found in the ground.
Why can't all 5 steps be forward or even just 4 steps only forward instead.
It is probably the most connected not-tiny island.

(One of the world's biggest airports, several of Europe's busiest, frequent direct rail connection to the continent, frequent ferries on many routes, fully integrated free trade + work zone.)

"According to Getlink, the company which operates the Channel Tunnel, 1.64 million trucks traveled between the UK and the EU using the crossing last year. More than 2.5 million cars made the crossing, as did 51,229 buses and 2,012 freight trains.

Added to the even greater volumes of truck crossings made on ferries — the Port of Dover handled a record 2.6 million trucks in 2017, according to its own figures — it accounts for a massive annual volume."
Nice project. What do you use to store the data?
It’s actually a clear point- there is no nation on earth without a government that will provide you with services that you will disagree with. There are degrees of disagreement, so people do choose to move to one that fits their comfort level. But you seem to be making the case that this principle is completely disagreeable, and so you disagree with the social contract completely. Which is ludicrous.

So indeed, you can’t leave- because unless you move to no man’s land and set up your own government, you will always be betrayed by your own principle, no matter what country you live under.
Your last paragraph is key - once you establish boundaries for yourself, you're free to be generous and kind because you are clear with yourself on what's Ok and what's abusive.

Once you have that, the other factors (industry, city) don't matter - you are able to act the way you want independently of how people are, because you're confident that you won't let their transgressions cross over into "you."

It's been a long process learning this for myself as well.
I learned the hard way that you should never, ever put huge (as
in many files) directories on Nextcloud. In my case a couple Git
repos.

It worked fine at first but after a while it got really
confused, to a point where Nextcloud randomly decided that the
older version on the server was actually the more recent one,
and synced that folder back onto my local, updated repository.
And I was the only person touching those folders, the Nextcloud
server was only used as a backup during that period.

It's got a couple neat features, but problems like this are
really not excusable. When the one core feature breaks in
everyday situations for users doing version control it's not a
good look.
Not a moment too soon...
Yeah it's actually cheaper (and simpler :) ) to sign up with a nextcloud provider if all you want is a nextcloud account. There are other reasons to run your own instance, but honestly I think most of them come down to the hacker novelty factor. One noteworthy one is having total control over your own data, I guess. Depending on the provider it's not always simple to export all of your data to migrate somewhere else if you ever want to.

For folks who would use nextcloud if they didn't have to care about all this server admin stuff I would definitely recommend Hetzner. Cloudamo [1] is also a good option with servers in North America, for people there who care about location.

[1] https://cloudamo.com/store/nextcloud
Given the history of price swings, is the price really worth paying attention to? What's the noise to signal ratio here?
Yes, that's right. But reporters almost never publish an investigation while having extensive doubt and just leave it up to the reader as an exercise to evaluate the assertions.

Here are the Pulitzers for International Reporting, for which "Caliphate" was a finalist in 2019:

https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/210

I challenge you to find another winner or finalist in this category in which the truth value of the published assertions is portrayed as merely optional.
> A California Plan to Chase Away the Rich, Then Keep Stalking Them

The title practically screams opinion piece. No serious outlet would write that at the top of a news piece.
For that I use the Unpaywall API:

https://api.unpaywall.org/v2/10.1097/RHU.0000000000000563?em...

According to them it's closed but I definitely see it as open here:

https://journals.lww.com/jclinrheum/fulltext/2017/09000/omeg...

I'll look to see if I can find another data source for OA papers to add more coverage.
That is not an accurate summary of the study. Emphasis mine:

> Limitation: Inconclusive results, missing data, variable adherence, patient-reported findings on home tests, no blinding, and no assessment of whether masks could decrease disease transmission from mask wearers to others.

> The recommendation to wear surgical masks to supplement other public health measures did not reduce the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate among wearers by more than 50% in a community with modest infection rates, some degree of social distancing, and uncommon general mask use. The data were compatible with lesser degrees of self-protection.

I don't think any public health experts are saying "wear a mask and you'll be safe", they're saying "if everybody wears a mask, that will slow the infection rate". A study of a community with "uncommon general mask use" does not dispute this.

Finally, I don't think it's clear that a randomized controlled trial is the best method to answer this question. Aside from ethical concerns, you can't give someone a placebo mask. Shouldn't we assume that people will behave differently when they're wearing a mask?
It's also important to understand that points don't mean ANYTHING on HN.

Mods have the power to weight stories so that they stay on the first page, second page, or drop off completely. Points don't matter if a mod likes or dislikes a story. Think of them as Editors and we are submitting stories they (the mods) may enjoy. The point value on the story is irrelevant.

A single person with 500 karma can "gray out" your post and suddenly you're outed as someone with a "wrong" opinion.

Users have the ability to flag posts, essentially make them invisible if they don't agree with an opinion. Get a few users to gang up on someone and you can silence people and ideas easily.

Points on HN are an illusion. People with 500+ karma and the mods are the only ones with power here.
There is still no evidence showing that mask usage reduces spread. Worse, people think that mask usage entails fail-safe protection. Like condoms against pregnancy. I know of IT-companies that enforces mask usage in their offices but still does not allow employees to work from home.
Different department in the company; different procedures. The podcast was handled outside the standard hierarchy because they wanted to experiment and out of the turf wars.

I'm not saying that's how it should be, but apparently that's how it was.
I couldn't think of one so instead I'll just go with obfuscation. (it's ISBN 1432763962)
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470293

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/12/vmware-flaw-a-vector-in-...
I agree, actually. "Tax bads, not goods" as saying goes. However, as a practical matter I don't think a pure Pigovian approach could ever fly. Overhead and enforcement issues would sink it. A hybrid approach with most revenue from land-value and value-added taxes gets pretty close and is fairly straightforward to administer. Not saying we shouldn't tax those other things, but that wouldn't be a huge percentage of revenue.
Not involved in this area myself, but maybe some application of wildlife monitoring?
SimpleTools – A collection of simple and lightweight programs
تحميل برنامج XAPK Installer اخر اصدار برابط مباشر مجانا
Then write your own better version.

I’ve never heard much of the formal Langlands program, but vaguely read some material on it over the decades. I’d be in a position to have tripped over a good, mathematically sophisticated introduction/summary, and I haven’t read one. The poster’s description is in line with the general tone of what I’ve read in the past, and it is well-written and thoughtful. Your comment is low effort.

I’d propose, if you actually understand the program well enough to critique, to contribute something to convince the rest of us that it is a worthwhile intellectual endeavor. By doing that, making one small step in addressing the issue of the non-existence of communications, as contrasted with documentation, as a core element of the profession of mathematics.
They barely build them here in the UK. The US has an abundance of wood, so you can build wood framed wood clad houses cheaply.

Palestine is not only without forests but semi-embargoed; it looks from the news footage that cement block or hollow brick are common.
> one of the oldest settlements in North America

Cahokia is actually among the newest settlements among North American civilization: it peaks around 1100, fully collapsing by around 1350. The earliest mound building site I'm aware of is Poverty Point, which begins to be built around 1800 BC. The Southwest cultures (e.g., Ancestral Pueblo) are developing clear settlements by around 750. Moving into Mesoamerica, Teotihuacan collapses sometime in the 500s, and dates back to perhaps 1-ish. Contemporary with them is the Classical Maya. San Lorenzo is the oldest Olmec center, dating back to 1200 BC-ish.
Indeed the link to the archived web page from that wiki page confirms this originated in Berkeley (the link to tmonroe’s page). It’s nice to see that it made it widely.
It's really just I didn't want to pull things into a discussion about someone's personal life.
Great book, I have a first edition.

There is a fairly direct successor I also have called The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells by Hans Meinhardt (Springer-Verlog 1995) which is also full of L-system goodness.

Przemysław Prusinkiewicz is also a contributor to that volume, although not being botany it doesn’t show up in the list linked above.
Chief residents are not always in their final year of training. In some cases, like pediatrics, it's a subsequent leadership year.
Me too. But it is also possible that there will be sentient and intelligent alien life form out there. Not sure if they’d be curious or friendly.
GPT-3 can't do source criticism, and hiding the source means that the user can't do it either.
It's funny back in 2000 PageRank was all the rage and it worked by figuring out some kind of eigenvalue based on how well pages linked to each other...

Maybe that's still true so long as other people link to you but you don't link to anyone else...