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Ask HN: What YouTube channels do you subscribe to?
I'm sure there is a lot of cross-over in the HN community. What Youtube channels are you subscribed to that you'd like to share?

A few of mine:

- LockPickingLawyer (A lock picking lawyer): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ

- DW Documentary (Docs): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW39zufHfsuGgpLviKh297Q

- Tom Scott (General Education): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A

- Today I Found Out (General Education): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC64UiPJwM_e9AqAd7RiD7JA

- WELT Documentary (Docs): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBAeFXaLV1ZqKqc-Uf3pKaA

- Doug DeMuro (Cars): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsqjHFMB_JYTaEnf_vmTNqg

- MegaProjects (Construction): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0woBco6Dgcxt0h8SwyyOmw

- Adam Ragusea (Cooking): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9_p50tH3WmMslWRWKnM7dQ

- rctestflight (RC Stuff): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq2rNse2XX4Rjzmldv9GqrQ

- Stuff Made Here (General Education): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj1VqrHhDte54oLgPG4xpuQ

- PBD Space Time(Space): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7_gcs09iThXybpVgjHZ_7g
> there is no "zero carbon diesel".

There is, it’s called biodiesel. It’s certainly possible to be net zero carbon with synthetic fuels.
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Both sci-hub and libgen are mentioned in the article as targets.
Discussing the length of a prison sentence strictly in terms of income lost is also greatly understating the actual severity of the punishment.

I would gladly give up say 10% of my lifetime earnings for all sorts of things, but I wouldn't trade 4.5 years of my healthy adult life for anything.
This post makes the same point at greater length and considers counterarguments: https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/01/fi...
What's the expectation in lives/disability of one course vs. the other? That's the first-order question.

Added: https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/m20-8137

> We find that under most plausible scenarios, a more balanced approach that withholds fewer doses during early distribution in order to vaccinate more people as soon as possible could substantially increase the benefits of vaccines, while enabling most recipients to receive second doses on schedule.

I've only read the abstract, but this is an example of the kind of analysis you want to see behind a decision, as opposed to "we cannot conclude anything definitive" which is true but a deflection from actual decision-making.
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News is generally trustworthy, but it is in their interest to always make everything sound as dramatic as possible. "Potential new strain which may result in mild reduction in vaccine effectiveness" is not a headline you will ever read. It's a very boring headline. It's in the interest of an advertisement supported company to make the most inflammatory headlines possible.

Let the science do it's work, don't try to be clever and cheat the system.
> Teslas are so common here know that it has lost much of its novelty.

Also there's been some widely known problems where Tesla has failed big time wrt service.
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In the UK, you might find something at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/innovate-uk.
Literally everything you said is wrong. The figure does not include hybrids, driving around a battery does not consume more energy, and yes they are being used.
Interesting site. Here in Germany, most of the electric cars I see are delivery vehicles by Deutsche Post or Renault Zoes (I don't own one, but regularly drive a Zoe (carsharing), I have no complaints). The market share for Germany seems to reflect that. I have never seen a Tesla on the road here.
I think that's a little unfair.

Gutenberg has some annoyances/quirks, but if you're starting from scratch and using a modern theme it's not bad by any stretch.

Having been in the position of rebuilding two sites from scratch (one personal, one commercial), they are miles easier to edit and maintain with Gutenberg than they were with 'classic' + a third-party page builder.
This is an economic sanction against Iran; it has nothing to do with state, or corporate, secrets.
Omg, fixed thank you so much. Something I had changed this morning and not tested correctly ...
On a basic level the program below would accomplish that (can't promise this sounds pleasing to the ear ;) -

start

chunk lefthand

play C3, Eb3, G3 for 2b

rest for 2b

endchunk

chunk righthand

play C3 for 1b

play Gb3 for 1b

play Eb3 for 1b

play Db3 for 1b

endchunk

run lefthand with loop for 100

run righthand with loop for 100

finish
I cannot tell you how hilarious it is to me that the by-far-easiest part of research - the incredibly trivial act of posting a paper on a website - is the only part that is privatized and immensely profitable
Speaking as someone who manages a WP blog rarely, makes no money from it and has no skin in this game or preconceptions about RTE in Wordpress, I am really impressed by Gutenberg.

It seems to be about the right level of abstraction for "semi-structured" data, it feels balanced between block and WYSIWYG editing, and that's a hard balance to strike.

I also definitely sympathise with those that use the classic editor because it's what they know, and that's fine. We should celebrate any architecture that supports choice.
Wow, that's a fascinating project. Wish you all the best.
I have an app on my non-rooted Android phone which does this. You just need to give the app admin permissions.
> grains of sand have definite position and momentum

No, they don't. The uncertainty principle applies just as much to grains of sand as it does to electrons. The only reason they appear to have definite position and momentum is that their masses are large, so a very small velocity produces a very large momentum which gives them a very small wavelength, much smaller than their physical extent. But the uncertainty principle still applies. With the right technology you could do a two-slit experiment on grains of sand. See: https://www.wired.com/story/even-huge-molecules-follow-the-q...
I continue to be in awe of people like Vitalik and all of the other protocol developers who can understand all the different pieces (math, social incentives, engineering) to make blockchain technologies work. Great writeup, I really appreciated the tradeoffs tables in particular.

If you're interested in other uses of zk-SNARK, Celo (an Ethereum fork) is making it possible to run an "ultralight" node on your phone -- not mainnet yet I don't think but some details here https://docs.celo.org/celo-codebase/protocol/plumo and whitepaper here https://docs.zkproof.org/pages/standards/accepted-workshop3/...
Yeah, I'm at a medical university and in a similar situation. However, I am hearing that far fewer eligible people are electing to receive the vaccine than hoped. The line to get the vaccine is far shorter than it was supposed to be. We need people to take the vaccine to make this go away, so I suppose anyone in line should just take the vaccine and not feel guilty.
‘Neural Body’ Reconstructs Dynamic Human Bodies from Sparse Camera Views
My question for all you smart data-oriented people is: why are we not considering the pandemic all but over? Particularly since the only study on asymptomatic cases has failed to prove transmissibility [0]? I know the results are "not generalizable" because of variable viral load, but you'd think we'd have better science available before implementing such draconian measures.

Related to the posted link: https://twitter.com/MichaelYeadon3

[0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201130131511.h...
I'm surprise that the new ID3 even has the volume to compete with Tesla at this point. Does this data include other VW electric vehicles like the Golf E or another model we're not too familiar with?

Edit... just to clarify, nothing against the ID3, just pretty surprised VW could have scaled up production so fast even if they're the largest or second largest car company in the world.
You guys are missing the point. Sure, he has a vision and he doesn't want to abandon it but in order to compete in ranking for super high competitive terms his site has to be on par with the other top ranking sites. Google doesn't know what his intent is and as the site is right now, the algo compares what he has to what others have. He has great backlinks, but really sub par content when you look at who he is competing against. He does not seem like an authority on any of this stuff.

If the concept is to attract the 'satisficers' which by the way, i love that word and that book also, there needs to be some other kind of optimization on the pages. Going after 'best of' for everything looks spammy. And that spammyness is amplified by the lack of content when compared to the other sites ranking for the terms he's optimizing for.

There are other ways to attack this problem. Instead of having it be best of everything - it really should be a statistics site for popular products. Add in some kind of ranking system or some kind of kayak-like search and BOOM - new unique concept that provides real value to people. As the site is right now, its gimmicky, thin on content and is NOT going to rank in today's SERPs the way it is now. Sorry.
Following the status quo path will likely result in significantly more people dying. It's a gamble either way, and if you want to argue that the risk of a first-doses-first approach is not worth the risk, then quantify your reasoning and explain exactly how many extra deaths you're willing to accept instead of these platitudes about paths.
Was the consulting company named after a type of gem stone? I had an eerily similar experience, that I also left after two weeks. The weirdest part of it all was the manager who was part of it all. She used to send a group chat saying she was going to take a nap, close her office door, turn the lights off, and lay down on the floor to sleep for a few hours.

What really did it for me was when we all went out for someone's "birthday" (it wasn't their birthday, the team had put cards in at a few restaurants with different dates for their birthdays to get free stuff, whatever, the restaurants don't care, but it was just weird) and most of the team berated a guy who was trying not to drink so he didn't order a beer. You could tell the guy was uncomfortable, and they just kept goading him for the entire 2hr lunch.

After a week and a half I called back a company I had turned down for this one and asked if they would still take me. Started there the next Monday. That was 10yrs and 2 jobs ago, and easily the best decision I had made for my career.
If corporate management knew about and encouraged this behavior, how is that not "Ticketmaster" doing it?

IMO both the individuals and the corporation should be held responsible.
The error handling feels deeply wrong to me too. I love the explicitness and how hard it is to ignore errors - all languages should make it so easy to expect and handle potential errors - but other features (or lack thereof) of the language make it so you can’t handle any of it in concise or sane ways. Code is plastered with the same boilerplate, everywhere, always. It makes up a significant mount of all Go code.
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> It also completely eliminates general purpose computing.

The number of people who want general purpose computing on phones is vanishingly small. And since malware is often indistinguishable from general purpose computing, it can be a reasonable product choice.
I have to agree. Starting a venture with a less-than-compatible partner made me realize I would need to do as much emotional labor to stay in the game as I would with a romantic life partner. To be honest, that really put me off from starting a company with anyone I don't already know.
UiPath reduces open source risk through automation
I agree, but unfortunately, bribery, I mean, lobbying has a great ROI. It's cheap to buy your way into Congress.
Moving from basic html to wordpress 'classic' with the 'visual' editor deselected is simple enough.

Arriving at some weird 'blocks' editor - more likely wtf?
AMD closing in on Intel in desktop CPU market share
I've been doing some research and daydreaming about building a VR product that is both software and hardware. Think Microsoft Flight Simulator, but for driving, in VR. I want to simulate real world driving experience as closely as possible.

The idea first came to me when I was driving around in Hawaii along the coast a few years ago. The views were breathtaking. I had watched videos of the drive before, but nothing compared to the real thing, not even close. That's when I thought, maybe we can generate the driving experience in VR.

Think about it. You are not moving anywhere relative to the car when you are driving. If we can build a car that can simulate inertia, acceleration, bumps on the road, the rumble of the car etc., we can almost fool our brains it's the real thing.

The software sides of things is "easier" IMO, as far as being technically possible. I want to do what MSFS has accomplished. I want to be able to drive around anywhere in the world.

I am looking for likeminded folks to see if this thing can be built.
This Numberphile video on the Riemann Hypothesis is also very good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6c6uIyieoo
Ask HN: A recommendation for series/movie in your native language (non-English)
Hi HN,

Just looking for movies/series from different languages around the world.Trying to create a list.

Preferably with following details:
Name,Genre,Language,Country
Facial features provide clue to autism severity
The last couple of years are showing that Go delivers, it's pretty easy to find dozen of "real" software written in Go that are weidly used.
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That's great, but I believe the benefit of it being part of the official monthly posts is that it does not become a pet project of one person, but a core part of the community. Posting all of our info on a google doc doesn't have quite the same community vibe.
Using artificial intelligence to find new uses for existing medications
Outsourcing anything has its own set of risks. Understand them before you commit to living with them.
Agree that they certainly do have a cost. I personally HATE them and am quite annoyed that people pretend the issues they cause don’t exist. They mess up my ability to read and to telegraph social cues, make it difficult for people that read lips to aid poor hearing, and constantly fog my glasses. And I still wear them when indoors in public like I believe everyone should!

But what I said which you trimmed off was that they are low cost _relative to other measures_. People wearing masks well is likely to reduce the need to use far more onerous measures like the lockdowns or having to decide who receives hospital care and who doesn’t.
Gotta fast now and then to keep them in line.
I've also always had a flawless experience with Juspay payments, and their auto entering of OTPs is such a convenient feature! It baffles me why others haven't copied that yet.
I felt that way about most of the video. I never took advanced math theory classes, but I have enough background that those classes would probably have been the next step for me if I had continued on.

Seemed like every time I felt like he was about to explain something in a way that would click for me, then all the sudden he left out the last two sentences and moved on.

Still a neat video though.
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Imagine the horror US has unleashed "invading" almost every country in the world (except 3) with formal or hidden missions.
It’s a very basic game. Don’t add anything new and the art is very rough... keep doing games :)
> protesting ... laws isn’t the solution

That’s gonna be my favorite quote here.
American cars don't have a good reputation with a lot of Americans. They're generally cheap vehicles with poor build quality.
How do you have 10k teachers and 20 students? Or am I missing something (or a typo)?
How Many Slaps Does It Take to Cook a Chicken? [video]
The whole article starts with a straw man about aliens making incorrect deductions based on a version of chess that doesn't correspond to actual chess. This is used to illustrate a very obvious point about local maxima that is in turn extrapolated in an entirely unsupported way to try to draw some conclusions about science and allow the author to make some strange and entirely unnecessarily edgy statements like "Logical positivism is kind of theoretical lobotomy"... "tweaking equations like an oblivious autist is Science" etc.

It's very disappointing to see this on HN
I've heard very good things about Visual Complex Analysis, as well.
I was using it heavily between 2013 and 2015. The content this period was great!
> I could not help but wonder if by taking the vaccine, I was depriving someone more needy of the vaccine.

(Assuming you're in the US) If it helps, vaccine distribution has been so poor that you're not depriving anyone of anything.
Right now an entirely separate platform, but the original idea was an integration with Zoom. Unfortunately their API doesn't support breakout room management yet (https://devforum.zoom.us/t/breakout-rooms-api/4255/111) so the idea was to build it entirely separately, get some validation/learnings, and then integrate with Zoom when ready.

In terms of mingle-naturalness, right now it's set so the organizer just says how big the mingles should be and how long they should last. So from a user's side, you're in a group with two random people (from the company/larger group) for 5 minutes, then cycle into a new mingle with two other random people, rinse and repeat. Somewhat like speed dating, you don't have any say over who you're mingling with, but it is time constricted.
> Speaking as someone who manages a WP blog rarely, makes no money from it and has no skin in this game or preconceptions about RTE in Wordpress, I am really impressed by Gutenberg.

This is the problem. Gutenberg was built for casual bloggers like you, but there's a significant amount of users who ask much more of their websites and have therefore already implemented solutions and processes that can't be easily undone. If you're new to WordPress, Gutenberg is probably fine.
Net Neutrality is good for society however that wasn't the argument of the person I replied to. I'm merely pointing out that lower telecom prices isn't a consequence of net neutrality.
IIRC at the time a lot of countries these officials ran to were actually providing them with citizenship or some level of permanent residency. The Chinese government wasn't happy about it but as they also weren't likely to hand anyone over to their home country it was mostly a stalemate.

Not sure how frequent that is now.

The "Khashoggi-like" examples area always mentioned in these situations but I think those events are much more rare than people seem to imagine....
Dang, you're right. That's a throwback to like 1990.
Do Go comments work like syntax? Do you mean that they need to be formatted a certain way like they’re language syntax?
Has there been any good work applying causal inference explicitly to common NLP tasks like question-answering? Or to game-play? The lack of common-sense in models like GPT-3 would seem to indicate a huge opportunity, perhaps in tandem with COMET[0] or some other graph-based approach.
[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.05317
Various hugs of death may be correlated. People re-post things found on one service to different ones. You can easily get a Reddit hug on top of HN hug.
Stop searching for marketing growth hacks on Google
No need to go through the speakers, you could detect keystrokes, map them to transients in the recorded audio stream and use a noise gate to reduce their volume (at the cost of a little added latency).

Bonus point: this would allow you to speak and type at the same time with minimal reduction of speech comprehension, especially if using a multi-band noise gate (that acts on various frequency bands independently). It's a technique we used for dynamic de-essing (removing plosive "S" sounds in post-prod recordings) in a previous company.
> There is a lot of difference between learning a new programming language and discovering one.

Yeah, discover just lasts the moment you stumble upon it. Once you sit down to learn the syntax and basics, you're learning the language.

- discover - find unexpectedly or during a search.

- learn - gain or acquire knowledge of or skill in (something) by study, experience, or being taught.

I don't think anyone is reading the title and thinking "Huh, I can learn _all_ of Go in just 5 minutes?!". The time is an indicator that you'll just scratch the surface, not become a master gopher.
(1) I am not sure I understand the question. It seems to me that it really boils down to "Do you trust the browser to run arbitrary code?" There is truly no way for CheerpX to do anything more than what your average Web page could do.

(2) We are implementing syscalls and devices as they are needed for the various use cases we are considering. In general even if something is not natively supported in the browser it can still be virtualized to various degrees. In particular CheerpX provides a virtualized FileSystem that does not map to your local files. The same would apply for the virtual disks in traditional VMs though.

(3) We plan to release benchmarks soon, but the level of performance is very promising. Consider that we have been using the Flash plugin as our main benchmark which is very demanding. For the REPL use case the limiting factor right now is I/O performance, but we are already working on this and we thing we will achieve much better results very soon. In general, all aspects of CheerpX performance will improve, we are really not done yet.
Can you describe this? Tried googling but couldn’t find due to TPUs being so ubiquitous.
That sounds a lot like load testing to me - just a specific load testing methodology.
Is there a list available of the suspended domains? :D

Guess UK citizen can just use some random EU address? Luckily I only have settled status ;)
>automated

I mean, it's better than nothing, and I suppose you can see whether it's open or closed. But having it automated is an odd choice--it's more expensive and less effective from a privacy standpoint.
There is a point the author doesn't touch on which I think ends up undermining his central thesis. One's motivation for setting a default matters. If you're acting in good faith and selecting a default because you genuinely believe (and/or have data to show) that it's what all but a small group of outliers choose then there's no issue. If you're acting in bad faith and selecting a default to shape behavior or to get a particular outcome then you're abusing your position of (relative) power as a decider for other people.

> Second, it should be the default that the status quo is a bad thing.

The author wants this default changed because he doesn't like the status-quo. Look, I don't like it either but assuming that people don't like the current state of things in literally every single aspect of life unless stated otherwise compared to "I want to change X,Y,Z." is way off base.