skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW I'm definitely part of the group making far more money working from home (in a far cheaper area too), but I'd happily give that up for my freedom back. I've been in a state of existential dread since the first day of lockdown.

> The consequences of this are going to be felt for years after this, if not decades. We likely won’t even remember the virus in 5-7 years, but we’ll still be living under the system it ushered in.

Economically, for sure. From a human rights perspective I can't see us continuing for much longer without large scale riots, like we saw earlier this year but directly focused on the lockdown.

One chilling effect from all this is when something worse than Covid inevitably comes about, reasonable countermeasures are going to be completely ignored.
JetBrains CLion for Apple Silicon is now available
Can you on your own machine run your own bootloader and execute whatever instruction you would like to execute?

If yes, what’s your point?
only because of very constrained weight budget (which is constrained by the high price of delivery into space) so you can't just throw in an AC with a radiator. The radiative power scales with the 4th of T, so it is pretty effective in space if you run the hot end of AC hot.

I suppose there were a lot of arguments about usability and various constrains/impossibilities 30+ years ago when cell phones only appeared at $1+/minute and were available only at a very few places. Yet here we are. The cheap access to space will do the same for various tech-in-space (how about unlimited access to space with fineprinted "cap of 1000kg/month" :).
Blockpad (http://www.blockpad.net) tries to ease some of these pain points but more in the engineering space.
It’s about prediction markets, but one better does not create a prediction market.
> When I sorted the reviews by date ... most recent reviewers actually had bought a drone ... But the older reviews were for honey.

I'm definitely going to use this sort-by-date trick for future product research adventures.

I do miss the good old days when Amazon reviews were an amazing product research tool.

Aside: I have no idea why they bury the "search reviews" feature. It's essential for discovering, say, real-world Linux compatibility for random pieces of hardware.
Nobody wants to live to be 100 except the man who's 99.
For anyone who might be curious as to how this worked in practice, Retro Game Mechanics does an excellent breakdown of the technique used here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fooSxCuWvZ4
Agreed. Still, to me, starting from a more reasonable starting point and then following the exact same playbook seems like a bad idea. I think it likely that the playbook is dangerous, not just the starting point.

How is it dangerous? I suspect that the logic of it drives you more and more into open conflict and warring camps. I'm not sure that's the best response to cancel culture.
The kids will be fine. It's their teachers who will need to do more work to find new resources and update their lesson plans.
We have a few customers in reinsurance, and for the most part the goal is to do the opposite of what the python solutions try to do. Instead of integrating foreign stuff into existing workbooks, the goal is to retain the existing worksheets as source of truth and build modern tools around the files. The most common use case is building out a web interface to replicate the Excel formula engine.

In the python space, there are libraries like openpyxl and xlrd, but the real hurdle is introducing python into an ecosystem which otherwise has no natural knowledge. JavaScript is the language of choice for modern Excel addins as Excel provides an actual API for it https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev/add-ins/referenc...
I think that you are correct. There are alternatives though, but they don't like to use it much. Also would be alternative that the web browser could be designed better; interpret them differently and more efficiently for the user to have more control and don't waste too much energy.

For different applications, you can have:

- NNTP

- Gopher

- IRC

- Telnet and SSH

- etc.

(I have a NNTP server set up. If you want to set up discussion forums, this is a good idea, I think. I also have Gopher and QOTD (TCP only, no UDP) services set up too.)

There can also be the better uses of HTTP too (it is capable of some things but that they don't commonly use properly), and the uses of different file formats (you do not have to be limited to only HTML; you can also have plain text format, httpdirlist format, etc).
>> but just go and read science quietly

> Can you imagine the pretentiousness required to say this?

I'm just advising what I'm doing myself. Without pretence.

Ignorance is not a sin, but some forms of ignorance in our highly connected society become very dangerous when voiced. And since asking is not the only way to learn, other methods are preferable in those cases.
Features and monetization. Peer tube instances had serious upload limits, and it’s been a while since I looked but there were some major missing features like descriptions or editing or something. I actually really like pornhub’s monetization options but there is no audience there for the videos I make. Lbry struck a balance between features and not a porn site.

I make computer security videos so there is a non negligible chance my YouTube will get deleted.
CBOR also delivers optimal wire sizes with its variable length encoding. Ceteris paribus, there's no technical advantage to using protobufs. The choice is almost always non-technical (business, platform, partnership, etc) or simple naivete. It's not harsh, it's just engineering.
If they didn't, people would instead lament them how their OS is unsafe. Removing or disabling unsafe programs is a security feature, almost as if detecting malware.
https creates many barriers for accessibility, and i agree completely.

https is helpful but also a tool for more centralized control.
Your site looks like a satirical fake, nobody in their right mind is going to actually buy something through that.
>It’s a fantasy that the solution to high crime areas is tougher policing.

I didn't argue that. I said that tough policing is a natural result of high crime areas because cops are humans and are affected by the environment they are in. I read an article about Facebook and YouTube content reviewers getting PTSD after only a few weeks of work looking at despicable images.

Imagine being a cop with decades of experience policing one of the most violent cities on the world, seeing what the worst of humanity does to innocent people, knowing that the next stop may be your last. My point is: there are limits to what you can do with policing in such an environment.

Sure .. get rid of all the bad cops you want. File any lawsuits to protect rights of criminals you want. None of that will make the crime go down and safeguard the community.
There are many ideas, even books full of ideas (see e.g. https://www.amazon.com/Algorithmic-Composition-Paradigms-Aut...), but I rarely hear an example which is not disappointing. Recent developments seem to produce better results. If you're interested in a current approach with very promising results see e.g. https://openai.com/blog/musenet/.
Sure, lets look at those one-by-one:

The "American Bar Association" is not a valid source about dog behavior. They're lawyers being paid to push whatever agenda gives them the most money. Not gonna comment on that one since its missing any other scientific evidence.

The 2014 American Veterinary Medical Association "literature review" is being picked and chosen from in the Wikipedia article. Quotes from the very same report that were conveniently missing from the Wikipedia article:

"While small dogs may be more aggressive their size means they are less likely to inflict serious bite injury except on vulnerable individuals"

"Certain large breeds are notably under-represented in bite statistics such as large hounds and retrievers (e.g., Labrador Retrievers and Golden Retrievers)"

"...cases that resulted in very severe injuries or fatalities, pit bull-type dogs are more frequently identified..."

The 2013 Canadian study isn't being cited in the Wikipedia article. Instead, the citation is a link to an opinion piece that mentions the said study without giving any references to it (no links or even author or institution name). As far as I am concerned, that Canadian study is made up, unless you can find it and we discuss it. I never saw any respected author mention a scientific study and then fail to completely give any references to it, not even freshmen in university would do that.

On the other hand, this is an actual cited quote from that opinion piece that's directly linked in place of the Canadian study:

"Breed-specific laws strengthen existing dangerous dog laws by targeting some of those prime offenders."

The Dutch ban on dangerous dogs which was lifted on 2008, was more or less re-instated in 2017. Wikipedia conveniently forgot to mention that:

https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2017/05/dutch-draw-up-dangerou...

Using one law that in your opinion isn't sound, as an argument against laws in general having no merit doesn't make a lot of sense either.

A law isn't a scientific proof, but at a minimum it tells a lot that a problem in society has become so prevalent to justify passing said law.

If the number of victims and complaints were so negligible, the law wouldn't have had enough momentum to pass the all of the bureaucratic barriers, including the European animal rights groups, who are far more fierce than the US ones.
This is tangential.

My wife and I eat organic meats that are as humanely raised as possible for health reasons.

For the environment, and our health, we eat very little meat.
I’m confident the distribution of people that take different days off would be fine.

Some would take Monday (me)

Some would take Friday

Some would take Wednesday.

Hourly employees would still take whatever day fits the official schedule
> I am strangely reminded of the airline flight that sat parked on the airport (at Chicago?) ramp, full of passengers, for over 24 hours years ago.

What was that? Why on earth would an airline do that? Surely the cost in the tied-up-aircraft alone would be astronomical? How did they get food and water to the flight but were unable to unboard people?
The nice thing about Bayesian analysis is that you have to make your priors explicit. That’s what this is, a prior. It doesn’t have to have a derivation; it can just be a guess. The important thing is that you’re writing your guess down so everyone can see it.

You can then also do a sensitivity analysis to figure out how much your conclusions change if you modify your priors. So if you, the reader, think the priors are wrong, then you can change them and re-do the analysis.

I think the most interesting thing about this analysis is exactly that: we can look at the priors and come up with a principled conclusion. We can then argue about whether the priors are right.
Ugh, I had this problem looking for power strips on Amazon too. I wanted something with lots of reviews (to verify quality), but every product with a high number of reviews had at least one scary customer picture.

I ended up relying on brand trust: I looked up reputable brands and bought some Tripp Lite power strips.
I bought one when my Threadripper 2750 blew up (figuratively) and I didn't want to wait for the newer AMD chips/boards to be in stock. I thought it would be a good device to let one of the kids use for school-in-quarantine. That isn't going to happen. I bought the 8G mini, and I've yet to feel anything remotely like memory pressure even running Windows 10 in parallels and having 5+ sessions of VS Code open. I do web, Rust, Go and similar type programming. Just this last week homebrew reached critical mass and nearly everything one would need is available for the arm builds. I love this thing, quite unexpectedly. I'll buy a 16" arm mac when they come out for a portable version because I need a bigger screen than the 13"s have. Zero regrets and 100% surprise from me. I've been a pretty die-hard Linux on the desktop person.
You don't need to force China to pay. Typically what is done is that foreign assets are legally seized, for example, Chinese state assets in the West, if China refuses to pay for damages.
I think the problem is when someone isn't able to decide what's best for their computer - and then decides to blame the vendor.

The vendor has already distributed the software with the QA done as thoroughly as possible/ practical, issued a TOS denying a warranty or any sort of protection from failure - that we all agreed to - and yet the litigation is inevitable if something happens to the end-user on account of a vulnerability in the software.

Its not their computer, but in our litigation-happy cultural climate, its their responsibility. No one is preventing us from doing what we want with our computers with this flash issue - just reducing liability.
I don't even know what free will is supposed to be. Either all our decisions are deterministic, or they're due to random quantum phenomena, at some level. Which of those is the good scenario?
One of the links goes (after a few steps) to https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2313-x that now has a warning:

> 11 November 2020 Editor's Note: Readers are alerted that concerns have been raised about the identity of the pangolin samples reported in this paper and their relationship to previously published pangolin samples. Appropriate editorial action will be taken once this matter is resolved.
The same things that drive them to smoke cannabis, drop acid, snort cocaine, and shoot heroin. Writers are not unique in their use of drugs to deal with life.
Can one run Flash in Chromium on Linux, by the way? I have only been able to do it in Firefox.
The number of bitcoins available (disregarding lost/forgotten ones) is fixed at 21M, and the rate at which they are created is more or less constant (by design), so anti-mining regulations will not increase scarcity. If anything, restricting the network hash rate will make the network less secure and thus less valuable
> evidence of zoonotic origin is equally thin on the ground

What are you talking about? Zoonotic origin is the source of the majority of viruses:

> Approximately 60% of the known infectious diseases and 75% of the new emerging or re-emerging diseases infecting humans came from animals. SARS-CoV-2 is the latest addition to the seven coronaviruses found in humans, and experts said that all of these viruses either came from bats, mice, or domestic animals.

> More so, bats are the source of the Ebola virus, rabies, Nipah ad Hendra virus infections, Marburg virus disease, and influenza A virus.

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/26492/20200717/covid-1...

> An estimated 60% of known infectious diseases and up to 75% of new or emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic in origin (1,2). Globally, infectious diseases account for 15.8% of all deaths and 43.7% of deaths in low-resource countries (3,4). It is estimated that zoonoses are responsible for 2.5 billion cases of human illness and 2.7 million human deaths worldwide each year (5).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5711306/
Related: WebGL globe showing live Wikipedia edits https://umaar.com/globe/

I've also tried to visualise worldwide COVID data on that globe, however performance degrades making it completely unusable.
Apple patents ‘reconfigurable’ Mac keyboard with small display for each key
accessibility is important too. privacy is already a lost cause today for all but the ultra vigilant techies, and https won,t help much there.
Any open-source solutions that make it easy to just slap a video conferencing tool into your website?
You're wise to do so.

People believe (speaking of photography / video YouTubers) that Apple generally doesn't give pre-release or demo units to users (except the "inner circle", shall we say - Daring Fireball, etc.).

Odd, then, how a whole bunch of photography vloggers, the vast majority of whom made absolutely no mention of loaner / demo units, promotional consideration, etc, all got launch day Mac Pros.

"Much anticipated", people might argue, so of course they pre-ordered.

Odd. They must have all got together and talked. Because on my YT subscriptions list I counted no less than eight photography vloggers who somehow, coincidentally, managed to get the EXACT same configuration:

The 24 core, 384GB, 4TB, Vega Pro II Duo, with a Pro Display XDR, nano coated.

Now, not only is this an overkill for ANY photography editing, even 100mp medium format, it's also a $25,000 (33 when you count the display).

I'm willing to guarantee that these were all Apple loaner units and that at some point they bought their own with the specs they really wanted, and "subbed it in" to their setup, later.
Built a SAAS app that automatically generates trading strategies from price/volume data. The strategies were optimized to achieve high Sharpe. However, it turns out that high Sharpe has little value in predicting out of sample performance. Stopped development short before trying to monetize. The app is still up at turboquant.com
The numbers there show the percentage of potentially human palatable food that is consumed by cattle, namely corn.

As the article points out, byproducts such as alcohol production waste are used in feedlot feed. This very much does not mean that a high percentage of feed is grazed grass.

If you have ever made the mistake of trying to eat feed corn, you know that the real world amount of human palatable food fed to cattle is about zero. But that does not matter.

The reason it does not matter is that the land, fuel, water, and capital equipment that goes into making feed for cattle is still entailed in feeding cattle, for about half the weight of each steer.

Tl;dr: the article is not apropos.

EDIT: I should clarify that I do not mean that feed amounts to half the weight of the steer. It takes 6kg of feed to add 1kg to the weight of a steer. Feedlot cows consume about three times in feed what they weigh on the way to slaughter.
We can’t just entertain every complot theory
It's happening on January 12, not on Monday
I've only read this [1] before, and its not a bad story, but I wonder how sure you can be without knowing every corona virus strain in the region, it can still be from a strain we haven't sequenced.

Also, it is more likely a something like this gets discovered in a major city vs some rural backwater, because they have more educated doctors there and more patience to detect a pattern.

[1] https://yurideigin.medium.com/lab-made-cov2-genealogy-throug...
It’s plausible - it’s not a terribly illuminating anecdote
I suppose that's true of most distros (the partial exception being distros that are also defined by their package managers, ex. NixOS and Fedora Silverblue). That said, the packages don't cover everything around a distro; off the top of my head, it only partially covers people (yes maintainers, but people could be involved in other ways), and it appears to not cover events, funding, or documentation (ex. wiki stuff). I'm not saying that's a fault, mind; even the existing database feels like a weird commingling of concerns to me, but <bikeshed> I wish they'd called it the Ultimate Debian Package Database or something </bikeshed>
Debatable.

The first major VMware version which does not support the installable desktop client has a plenty good enough HTML5 version of the web client. So either/or, you should be good to control your hypervisors without Flash.

And at worst, you shouldn't need to use a Flash-based UI to upgrade VCSA or your hypervisors.
I wasn't suggesting doing nothing, nor was I suggesting fixing everything. I was critiquing your trite suggestion to "get involved in politics."

What? Vote? Write letters? Bitch on the internet? All that does is make people feel better about the system as it rolls over them.

The system has more power over our lives than at any other time in history because people act in the ways the system permits them to act. I don't have the answers, but for sure it isn't going to be more of the same.
Amazon Buys Wondery as Podcasting Race Continues
I'm intrigued where you've been advertising a tool like this in such an effective way(?) I don't have a DNS lookup tool so am not competing :-D
People don't want to share the freedoms they got with their users. That's it. There's no reason commercial software can't be under GPL style licenses.
>Because the author’s skepticism doesn’t extend to the human factor.

And your over-enthusiasm for AV doesn't extend to the human factor. We all have our own blinders ;)

>The notion that we are safe because we can read humans is not substantiated by anything.

That is your own misinterpretation. I did not read the comment that way.

>If AV risk is so obvious as you claim then why does the enormous amount of data show that AVs are involved in the less accidents and lead to less fatalities than cars operated by humans on a mile per mile basis?

What you mean when you say AV, is actually "AV + Human". We're running controlled experiments, limiting the unknowns, and we're mandating a human be present - because the current AV technology sucks.

> We can debate the “when” in terms of AVs but debating the “if” seems pretty out of touch with the way society has progressed with respect to our willingness to depend on technology.

People used to say that about flying cars 40 years ago.
> What does that mean in practice?

Buy the company with loans, strip the tangible assets for cash, burden the company with the loan repayments and bail out.

Basically use the company as leverage to buy it, and then make it pay for having been bought out. It will seldom be able to do so, and eventually will stagger into bankruptcy. Both the company and the creditors lose, but not the 'investors'.
EU-UK Brexit Deal Refers to Netscape Communicator
You want your mind to really be blown, your brain manages to do everything it does on around 20W, even less than that mac mini.
Ken's StackOverflow answer to

"How did Wine64 manage to handle macOS?"

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53244454/how-did-wine64-...
I don't find this answer satisfactory, because you also need to specify in Rust whether or not a function moves its argument(s).

// This moves the argument
fn func(a: A) -> B { .. }
func(x); // x is not accessible after this line

// This borrows the argument, and therefore won't move it
fn func(a: &A) -> B { .. }
func(&x); // x remains accessible after this line
The 6000kWh number is assuming 20W over 35 years. That might be right if you only count the brain, but then you would have to revise the neural network numbers to only count CPU and memory, which would easily halve those numbers (fans take a lot of power).

If we want to account for power supply, temperature control etc. we could use the entire calorie count of a human over 35 years, leaving us with around 30000kWh (assuming a health, not-overweight human). You could now argue that that's too high (the human is doing a lot of other things). But as you pointed out it's a bit of a pointless comparison anyways as humans don't start from scratch.
It depends on what you mean by influencer. Are you measuring influence by number of followers? I'd say think again. Way too many people on Twitter and Medium writing about things they clearly have no experience in.

Speaking of which, I was contacted by a collaborator of someone I respect very much inviting me to be a guest a few hours ago and I was embarrassed that they even thought of me in the first place because I'm not legitimate. I felt horrible, as if I had mislead them into thinking I had anything interesting to say. I apologized for that. That's how much Influvirgins get on my nerve and just the fleeting moment I was one bothered me.

Sex [get any woman in your bed], money [get rich with this plan], fitness [get ripped listening to this tape], machine learning [I'm a two year old AI enthusiast], all have these big mouthed weasels talking the talk.