skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you need to look at the future not just now. The overall side effects of burning care now may have a higher body count than covid. Case in point if you look at the austerity policy attributed deaths as a reference.

I know someone who just got handed a guaranteed poor cancer outcome because her preventative surgery will only be done when it’s an emergency later on.

These will be easy to write off as incidental deaths and poor health outcomes which is why they aren’t prioritised as high as covid outcomes. Honestly, staff have complained about this too, but when it comes to triage do you stick a 90 year old on a ventilator or do you reserve the ICU capacity for 10 cancer patients waiting for preventative surgery with a better outcome? That’s the hard decisions being burned for political capital.

The real travesty is we have to choose and that is down to our politicians and the slow wind down of NHS funding and political tennis for the last 30 years.
I’m curious if you’ve tried TrueNAS (was previously called FreeNAS). It offers a pretty streamlined GUI for the common stuff and is free and open source.
> Gold is desirable

> completely based on the greater fool theory
The patent app you linked doesn't mention a chatbot in any claims, which is all that matters. Saying it was for some project has zero relevance to the patent system.

Care to list the claims in your patent you think are the same as the MS claims?
It took 2 days for the Moderna vaccine to be created, and it still hasn't been approved in the EU. We could be doing amazing things in bio with mRNA, Crisper and deep learning but the entire thing is so wrapped up in regulation in order to protect the incumbents that it is not a space worth working in.
It took Victoria, Melbourne over three months of a hard lockdown to get the numbers to Zero.

If you compare some of the attitudes in both policing and policy to Australia and the response between parties you'll understand why the UK can never get there.

Consider this:

- Victoria handed out 20K~ fines by August 26 [1]

- England & Wales handed out 25K~ fines between 27 March and 16 November [2]

- The UK has 120K~ police officers [3]

- Victoria has 21K~ police officers [4]

An Australian State which has only 10%~ of England's population (6M people vs 55M) and only 17% of England's Police Force size managed to get 20K~ fines by August.

The attitude there-in lies down to effective policing and policies.

Eg Melbourne made it a mandatory requirement to wear face masks in public - I don't think the UK could get close to that. Time will tell.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/aug/26/victo...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-55134562

[3] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Police
There is igraph, graph-tool, snap and even a CUDA enabled one (cuGraph, they try to follow networkx API).
These are simply the most recent users who have signed up, and unfortunately the the HN demographic is pretty male...
That is horrible. Wasting tax dollars spying on schools.
Yes, it's mostly nonsense. Unfortunately, the parts about America's vulnerable electric grid are accurate.
Like it. A nice feature would be: Some kind of password-protection or private mode.
Does it make sense to speak about the composition of a group without understanding what the group membership represents?

Eg: what if that's the list of people who gave him financial support building it? What if it's his buddies from the Navy SEALS? Perhaps it's a list of sexual predators in his area? Should it still be 50/50…

Though I agree it's not clear what those pics on the bottom represent.
> "...ensure some new hire from a hot company doing the same job as you is not making 2-3x your salary"

Given the number of young people in software and entering software, seniority based pay and losing the ability to job hop for increased salary is pretty much the last thing on earth they would want. It would also kill the company's ability to hire top talent by being able to offer more money.
I went with white because my keyboard only has white LEDs, but RGB white (255,255,255) still has strange colour tinges that vary by component.

This app is great but the tales of bricked RGB hardware during development are a little concerning.
> Do you need a picture drawn for you or something?

And Reddit clapped.
Similar story with a patent that a friend applied for at National Instruments some years ago for his work on LabView software. As far as I could tell from his description it was more of an implementation detail rather than a patentable product. NI was pushing for patents though, and he obliged. Ended up getting a nice little bonus for his young family!
Obviously anecdotal but from my experience of having done a bit of tech support for many friends and family members, this kind of content is extremely popular. By this kind of content, I mean what I consider low-effort memes, jokes and gifs surrounded with copious amounts of ads. Many if not most users seem to be ok with it.
> It does not. Burning in an incinerator is completely clean and releases only water and CO2. If you burn it badly you can make smoke, so don't do that.

I suppose I should have been more careful with my terms - "burning" was meant as a layman's "making fire" rather than in a controlled process within an incinerator as you mentioned.

If this is clean, why are people so motivated to look for alternatives for its disposal, giving up and resorting to landfill? Is incineration cost-prohibitive? Or is the transport to the incinerators inefficient?
>We are already on our way to full blown censorship. Cancel culture et al is effectively the beginning of the same outcome. Censorship starts with chilling effects

I suggest checking the US history, both somewhat recent and not recent at all. Cancel culture is just the continuation of the old tradition of "naming and shaming", it isn't something new.

First there was "tarring and feathering", then there were the witch hunts in MA, then, more recently, there was the red scare. Current "cancel culture" is pretty much just a much lighter version of that, and we are definitely not moving any closer to "full blown censorship". In fact, I think that the modern "cancel culture" (despite me being very much not a fan of it) cannot even hold a handle to the red scare investigations of just 60-70 years ago
jewelery produced and stored is not necessarily jewelery used. jewelery inflates speculative portion as much if not more as other instruments you listed and if gold was stripped of it's exchange value, most of the jewelery in the world would be up for sale to recover at least some of the "investment" (even if that investment was inherited, which it is in vast majority of cases).
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Haven't heard that one. That would be the best expression -- Made by an Ally to co-brand with Made in America. Made in America protectionism raises the ire of all its allies (which over the last 4 years it has trashed).
USA-centric (but not in the south): I'm pretty open to most immigration. The "close our borders" discussion tends to lump in skilled-worker programs; I think those are usually more amenable to most than general immigration. Regardless, my country was built on immigration and I think it'd be foolish to lose sight of that.
psychiatrists, as in MDs, in the US used to study psychoanalysis until about the 80s/90s.

i think one factor that discredited it is that psychoanalysis does not have an adequate theory or treatment for diseases like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. these both seem to be mostly biological, are attested throughout history and nobody had any way of really dealing with them before lithium and antipsychotics.

(some would say that people with these disorders used to become shamans or priests, but I think that this is somewhat disputed these days.)

anyway, as far as I know no amount of wisdom, compassion, or even complex theories of mind will treat psychosis, although they certainly all can help get somebody to stay on their medication.

and i don't think it's a minor thing -- seems to me like the core problem a psychiatrist ought to be able to treat, even if in numbers depression and anxiety are way larger.
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Rather than storing state from the server in the JS heap, new state gets stored immediately in indexeddb transactionally and is pulled out strictly on demand. So, my account (which is admittedly large, with around 3000 rooms and 350K users visible) uses 1.4GB of JS heap on Element/Web, and 14MB on Hydrogen. It's also lightning fast, as you might expect given it's not having to wade around shuffling gigabytes of javascript heap around the place.
By closing businesses and shutting down the means of people to provide for themselves, governments are also forcing people to depend on handouts. Printing money without increasing value will not last. It has already damaged our economy and made us dependent on states that have not shutdown (some with terrible human rights violations like the CCP government).

It should be clear it's a means of control, used as an excuse by World Economics Form to continue with their plans for debt reset (only for certain people of course; Bezos and Gates won't have their wealth affected to devalued, just everyone under a certain income range).

I agree. This is insane and it bothers me few people on HN see it as such. There is no room for discussion on this forum for the true weight and reality of what we are seeing unfold.
Not true. Converting from BTC to ETH is a taxable event, for example.
Takeaway alcohol sales run a real risk of alcohol consumption on the streets in the neighborhood of alcohol sellers. That, in turn, can easily lead to loose interpretation of social distancing rules.

The argument for allowing elite sports to go on typically is to give the population some distraction during lockdown (it’s a bit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses)

As to golf: if you allow that, why wouldn’t a group of four people be allowed to kick a football around? Tennis be allowed?

Also, part of lockdown is the prevention of people mixing over longer distances. A local outburst of COVID-19 is bad, but if the infected move home over tens of kilometers (as, I guess, is quite normal for golf), you’re asking for a much bigger problem.

Having said that, it is safe to assume the government is far from an expert on what are the risky things to do. Nobody is.
Yes, this would make sense.
How do I know if an actual product supports RGB or just using colored diodes? I use a throwaway chinese mechanical keyboard in my workshop and each row has different colors, idm that much but I wonder if I can change the whole keyboard to one color cuase otherwise that's not possible https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32812344569.html
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> Well, here we go: procreation is a fundamental human instinct. Do you want to legalize rape?

This is non-sequitur.

A better comparison is like legally enforcing abstinence to eradicate HIV.

If you can't get the idea that isolation is counter-intuitive to humans and damaging to their health and psychology, and therefore bound to be hard to get compliance, I'm not sure what to say.

This is why jail is jail. Isolation is unnatural. It's punishment. No one voluntary chooses this.
After someone gave me mouse with RGB decorations I thought it would be nice to have CPU and RAM usage encoded into it. (in practice it isn't very useful, as it is usually obscured by hand) (https://gist.github.com/Milek7/f5669c00cf660c3984becb031c2ec...)
Okay according to their results: https://pybenchmarks.org/u64q/chartbox.php?s=eNptUtttAzEMW0l... PyPy seems to be twice as fast as CPython in these benchmarks. While this is indeed a noticeable achievement, it is still much slower than Node.
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Because, effectively, the exFAT filesystem is OSS since August 2019 and Microsoft released all the specifications to it [0]. Microsoft has essentially taken public, legal steps to ensure that anyone else can use exFAT without legal encumbrances and without threat of lawsuit.

IANAL - so there's likely some caveats (you probably can't just use the exFAT name unless certain qualifications are met, just like you can't use Firefox's trademarks willy-nilly), but that should be good enough for just about anyone. Including paranoid OSS peeps like me :)

0: https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/08/28/exfat...
And the most awful thing is that they now have $900M of Bitcoins on their company balance sheet. Bitcoin does that: you invest 5% of your portfolio and boom its now 80%. Real creepy.
84% of wealth in the stock market is in the hands of the top 10%

Not sure about housing.
c-suite politics are brutal. There is always a reason to be nervous, it's just a matter of degree.
your argument has been addressed dozens of times. your credentials are meaningless. seek help, you clearly need it
I won't dispute that retirement portfolios and people with real estate have done quite well. But I personally think that many of these people are only doing well on-paper. This is only speculation, and you may rightfully call me a doomer, but I feel like most of this wealth is virtual.
One of the main activities of the CIA is to shape public opinion. They already proved that they hated him enough to hire contractors to destroy him, and the leaked HBGary/Palantir proposal from 2011 even talks about smearing him on social media:

https://wikileaks.org/IMG/pdf/WikiLeaks_Response_v6.pdf
https://www.polyient.games/

> Polyient Games is an investment firm focused on the non-fungible token (NFT) and blockchain gaming industries.

800k makes more sense if it is also an investment and includes equity.
Great feedback - some other sections that have been requested are patents, teaching, and languages. Will likely be adding these soon.
I live in Warwickshire - it's pretty unusual to see people not wearing masks. I even see them wearing them on my walks in the countryside (when they are on their own!). The only people I have see who have refused are some of the mums at my kid's school during dropoff/pickup.

Would be interesting to understand why regions differ so much on this.
It's not good for you long term. I recommend taking one of the bedrooms in your house and converting into a proper home office. And wear slightly more formal clothing than pyjamas. It does wonders to productivity and discipline.
Yes, but no.

Automation could, should and will bring back more manufacturing towards the west, in the sense that the west will produce more goods, in terms of net quantity/value compared to today.

It does not necessarily mean more jobs.

It does not mean the west will produce a higher percentage of global products.

Paul Krugman, amongst others, has written about the subject, I will try to link articles once I get home.

Quick edit: example: GM produces more cars than before the crisis but employs less people

Edit 2: here's one https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/krugman-trade-job...
the first 50% of the docu is about a billionaire who didn't disappear and the second 50% is about some random billionaire who neither disappeared nor has anything to say about the supposed subject ...
Optimizing our energy systems is another one.
As a teen, 20 years ago, I always did my homework from my bed, as that was about all I had. I don’t think that it challenged me in any way and it may have enhanced my thought processes as they article notes. Certain postures are said to influence the way you process and think.

For example, I definitely read books from bed, as I’m sure others do as well, even those that object to television or working from bed. Thinking about it now, lying down may help to displace my mind to the story more than sitting.
>The contract will reflect your coworkers aggregate preferences, which will in general be completely orthogonal to your own preferences.

Can you elaborate on your thoughts here or cite evidence to support it? On first thought, it doesn’t ring true to me. E.g., most of the union contract conditions seem to benefit most individuals with the exception of some edge cases
This is interesting. I checked after the article, and see that where I live has at least 3 areas demarcated with an eruv. There are historical and documentary videos about them on Youtube. Apparently they're pretty expensive to maintain, and according to one that I watched, if someone isn't paid to monitor one, then you have to assume it is "not working" since they can easily be damaged by weather or utility repairs, etc.

I've surely seen them around and thought nothing of it. I have a feeling that various "support wires" I've seen are exactly these.
The citations do not support what you say. Citation [0] says only that excess mortality in specifically the third quarter of 2020 was not higher than previous years. It says nothing about the excess deaths for all of 2020.

Citation [1] is data for 2019, before COVID-19.

Why did you cite these articles and pretend they say something they don't?
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The headline is so misleading that I'm flagging the submission.
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That's my fault- I should have left that last sentence out. Reading it again it begs a reply like Sharlin's. I should have known better than to post it.
“Why not let everyone else sports to stay healthy and strengthen their immune systems, as well as get outside (where it's warm enough) and get the vitamin D they need?”

I’m all for letting people be outside freely by themselves and in isolated social groups. I’ve spent huge amounts of time exercising in parks in the sun outside during this thing for the reasons you mention.

Team sports where you get a bunch of unrelated people together in one place breathing hard and folks probably socializing after the game afterward seems more problematic.
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Don't do that. Be nice.
Union is just another body to govern you, as if the company you work for is not enough. Just from the article I can see they support all kind of political agendas which me or others might not agree with. So no thanks, will rather deal directly with the company only, anyways at the end of the day the market forces dictate the conditions of a worker.
Mine is 40 years old, it is just on an exercise bike right now but I wouldn't change it.
Dozens of Massachusetts lawmakers ask Comcast Xfinity to scrap planned data cap
I did use dithering for unimportant background images of a website. Use just 256 colors, and both PNG and GIF will use a color palette instead of describing each pixel separately. Really helps with the file size. Afterwards muck with the various lossless compression parameters in PNG with optipng to shave off a few more percent.
That's the really bad thing about being the victim of algorithmic discrimination (like I was too with FB ads) and quasi-monopoly abuse. There are plenty of people with similar stories like this one complaining on forums like r/PPC. Dealing with Facebook is like a bureaucratic nightmare from a Kafka story even for customers who spend millions of dollars.

But of course these cases remain a minority or else Facebook would already be bankrupt. That's why the majority will call these people whiners, probably guilty, and so on.

Basically, what Facebook is doing is automatized slander. You've violated some policy but we don't tell you which one. You've been caught in "suspicious behavior" (an actual term used by them) but we don't tell you what we mean by that. You've tried to circumvent our policies - or maybe you haven't, just beg us to give you another chance.

Let's just say it's not fun having to deal with this, and no company should rely much on Facebook ads.
It's also just like how unions work.

Unions are a progressive concept.
They'll run out of money before they attract enough whales to survive, because I don't see anything resembling a fun game here. It's like Minecraft, if you were farming for meaningless loot boxes all day.

Just read some of these insane quotes:

"The game will also have 1,000 farm bots which can mine a token, like a Bitcoin miner. You can buy a loot box, assemble the parts to make a farm bot, and set them loose mining. Or you can just buy a farm bot preassembled at an expensive price.

Then you can mine the currency and provide them to other players in the game, either by giving it away or selling it.

“It’s a way to compensate people who really believe in us in the beginning,” Schiermeyer said. “That’s how we’re structuring the blockchain. The people who were first to play it are going to get more than people who are last to play it. So, I mean, there’s definitely a reason to come in.”

https://venturebeat.com/2020/03/10/zynga-cofounder-creates-b...