skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The idea of being able to socially distance and work from home is one that is very much rooted in white collar and office jobs mindset.

Here is a paraphrasing of a conversation I had with my cousin who works as a research scientist for vaccines(not COVID), I am a production engineer at a manufacturing facility.

Cousin:"If we just locked down everything for a month or two, Covid would be gone"
Me:"I don't think we have food in the house to last 2 months"
C:"Well, grocery stores would still have to stay open I guess..."

So we need food, that keeps grocery stores open. Need delivery to the store, that keeps gas stations open. Need to repair cars, garages are now open. Keep unpacking things and you begin to see that there is a lot that is essential.

Now, you could help limit things by saying only 1 grocery store in 5 mile radius can be open but who gets to pick which store? Keep the Whole Foods open or the Kroger?
I'm not sure I've gotten a clear answer to this before, so someone please help me understand:

I can see how smart contracts might be useful in contracts that involve other assets that are directly connected in the same decentralized context (i.e., other bitcoin transactions or blockchain entities).

However, for anything else in the real world, they always (from what I've seen) require an "oracle" of some kind. True, that can be based on a consensus algorithm involving multiple parties in the real world, but it always ends up requiring trust that those real-world entities are playing by the rules. If we're relying on the good faith of real-world entities, how is a smart contract any better than a legal contract (a human would have to step in as the arbiter in either case)?
Or even negative. I've seen situations where the idea person is so busy being Mr. Toad that everyone around them is regularly scrambling to clean up messes and it ends up being a constant distraction from actually pushing projects through to completion.
>he is a master social engineer and manipulator.

Lol, I think we all just learned everything we need to know about your POV.
It’s funny — I found this link a few days ago and now it seems like it applies here.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello...

It’s a summary of how section 230 works and is worded. The tone of the piece is overly hash and critical of its readers (prompting me unnecessarily to write this paragraph), but it raises some good points, and I was surprised by more than one of the clarifications it made.

Basically, as it applies here, I don’t think Twitter moderating its content to remove SciHub goes against Section 230. My understanding is that it’s specifically covered by 230.
Redoing counting was the best thing the Swiss may have ever done.
I came here to say that. Here's a super informative thread laying out those events from the perspective of one of the Decred developers.

https://old.reddit.com/r/decred/comments/6wxueo/your_best_pi...

TLDR: Smart contracts on BTC were intentionally strangled because it would necessitate bigger blocks.

At the same time, BTC core devs were gearing up to start their sad push in creating artificial scarcity on a perfectly functional blockchain by reneging on the agreement they made to increase the block size.

They traded their ideals to get rich and all that momentum was lost. Instead of peer to peer cash, we're all left with a thousand useless ponzi schemes and a handful of promising coins that can't work together to actually achieve Satoshi's goal.
Creating a giant barrier to entry for competition?
>The only problem is that people posit "but it's a problem when transactions are reverted, and, look, ETH reverts transactions!", which assumes the problem even though the assumption doesn't really seem to hold.

But if all we cared about is the "right" thing to be done at the end, why bother with smart contracts? Why not use the courts?
You are talking about something different. I had replied to a comment which said Facebook breaking the contract they have with their backbone provider is the only way their provider can terminate the connection. That's clearly false. There are many laws outside of the CDA.
I've used aquafaba in cooking a lot, mostly to avoid using so many eggs in baking. And while I've had great results for a few specific recipes, I've also found that it's not a universal egg replacement, and it's hard to tell which recipes it will and won't work in.

I bake a lot of gluten-free and grain-free breads and biscuits, and aquafaba is a great egg replacement in these. Sometimes it even produces a better texture. But in other recipes, like cookies, it doesn't work at all; the dough loses its shape completely and deflates into a puddle.

I've also read about using aquafaba to make meringue or mousse, but I haven't had good luck with that so far. The chickpea taste is strong, and does not go with sugar at all.

I haven't tried using any beans other than chickpeas. Maybe it would work better with different beans.
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Apple disabled both Facebook and Google's iOS enterprise certificates because they were using them to collect data from external participants in violation of the ToS, although that wasn't the main app. And the access was restored once they took down the offending apps.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/31/18206020/apple-facebook-i...

If the violations were serious enough, I think Apple/Google would consider some kind of temporary shutdown for the Facebook app if they thought they could weather the PR storm.
"I don't think the parent meant any disparagement to actual primitive tribes. Why did you assume that?"

Because all of these statements of ethnicity have to be contextualized.

You can't just say 'Well White this, Black that' - other than in a very American context.

I live in Quebec and they are essentially the only classical, coherent 'ethnic group' (i.e. language, governance) in North America aside from Aboriginals - and due to the fact they are surrounded by the 'Angloshphere' there is a very legit concern about the erosion of their culture.

New migrants basically don't want to learn French, and more and more English language 'everything' encroaches on the culture.

Now - some Pro-Quebec sentiment is really ridiculous, racist, over the top and frankly dumb (they want to ban 'Staples' from being called 'Staples' because it's English) but there is an underlying legitimacy.

Unspoken in all of this is that Quebec culture is defacto European and essentially (though not technically) White.

Also of interesting note that intellectually it's super-secular (they don't like their Catholic past) at the same time, culturally, kind of super Catholic.

Point being: there are calls for the 'saving of our culture' basically daily. It's part of the program here and it's not overtly racist or radical.

My MP (like Congressperson) is form 'Quebec Solidaire' and it's the very farthest Left group in North America it actually has roots in a former Communist part. (I didn't vote for them!) - but - they are equally Nationalist! They walk a tight intellectual line with justifying their Nationalism on a 'racially inclusive' basis, even though their ideology is at the same time very exclusive to outsiders, who happen to be Anglophones ... and people of colour.

In the face of Globalism 'We Are All Aboriginals' - which is to say every single culture save maybe Han Chinese is under the threat of being 'globalized' in a kind of Anglo-American hot-mess of commercialism.

So yes, it's not the same thing for some French guy to be saying such things as it is for someone from the disappearing Tribes of the Amazon, but this isn't the 20th century anymore, the fault lines are changing quickly and context is really important.
There's not a lot of magic in php nowadays with strict typing and unions.

Warnings at compile time are a plus yes.
I agree that there is a big cultural factor here. I wish people focused on this more. So many people want to look at correlations like income:BMI that don’t generalize to other countries or cultures. Really what they expose are cultural and societal idiosyncrasies, much more than they expose that “cheap food is not healthy”. Of course, that is less appealing to an epidemiologist because the cause and effect is less clear and has much greater implications than recommending more exercise.
Mere hearsay is not sufficient cause for eviction. Might be grounds for calling the cops, but not locking someone out of their home. For all the landlord knows it was a TV show.
isn't it more "what have they done" with your data that makes you think this needs to be /s?
Right-wing politics are in an internationalist phase thanks to the rise of the internet, not unlike internationalist phases of the past brought about by wireless telegraphy or moveable type. After we get through this political spasm perhaps there will be another in a few decades as telepathic augmentation becomes common and people's inner monologues become even easier to share.
> Farmland in Eastern Washington and neighboring Oregon is blessed with abundant moisture, cheap electricity, and unrivaled soils.

unrivaled? Try the gulf of Naples in Italy, or Eastern Sicily, or Eastern Japan, or a dozen other locations I'm not even aware of.

Most of America is too "old" (in terms of Billions of years) to have "unrivaled" soils.
> Still, barring the political stuff (supposing that's possible)—your comment implies that people who wear masks do so because they are educated. I'd suggest that it is far more likely that they do so because they are deferential to authority by default.

Authorities in the US initially said don't wear masks as private citizens. There was a groundswell of people saying "it's not a panacea, but it's quite probably worth doing for everybody" to get them to change their position and admit the original one was based more on trying to avoid a shortage than on anything about efficacy. That pushback seemed to come from an educated populace.
For onchain purposes it can just be a matter of convenience, not a panacea or cure all
They could still do that - just not on platforms who don't want to support people rallying violence against others; it's not smart to build a palace on potential "enemy" territory - or on land of those that may not agree with you - although understandable if they do out of ease, when there's technological convenience to do so.
Aquafaba can be made into icecream, too. To prevent crystallisation, just add some vodka (or other alcohol).
> It says that Dire Wolves are an offshoot of "dogs"

And then it says that their genetic analysis might indicate that they're not even part of the canis genus. Which means they would not be considered dogs at all- so how could they have descended from "dogs"?

Seems just sloppy terminology to me.
Can't forget the white collars also living paycheck-to-paycheck for whatever reason
That is brilliant indeed. Although I don't understand why I would use '!g' instead of just 'g'+tab/whitespace, as that would use google as the browser search engine - if you manually added 'g' as google's keyword, or if you used google enough that when you type 'g' it interprets as possible google
Just curious, what is your company moving to, and are you far enough into the transition to verify that productivity and retention are better with the new language?
I love how hardcore France is on privacy, even in the midst of a crisis:

>"Last summer, the Parisian transport authority suspended an effort that used AI technology to monitor whether Metro riders were wearing masks. France's privacy watchdog had criticized the experiment, arguing that it risked "a feeling of general surveillance among citizens" that could "undermine the proper functioning of our democratic society."
Even though the cameras had been installed for experimental purposes and were not used to impose fines, CNIL objected to the absence of a way for people to opt out of the footage."

We need more societies like this.
I can tell you that I’m a not terribly highly paid software dev (by US standards) in Ireland and my marginal tax rate is about 50%, and it could go up a few points if I made more. Add 40% tax on cap gains as well. And bank interest. (I get < 1 eur a year in interest, and they send 40% of it odd to revenue. Why bother? Hell if I know.)
That is incredibly helpful. Thank you!
ECDC Environmental is massive: https://youtu.be/6omwOGWGQXs

Edit: in Utah
How do you protect your baby from the cold to get out in winter?
Temperatures are starting to drop? We continue to ventilate and go out with Baby every day but we take a few precautions. Our advice.
I'm 25.

Had a test 6 months ago out of curiosity,
results came back at under 150. Doctor told me it had to have been a dud and had another test which resulted in around 300.

Results are still significantly below average but the Doctor advised I don't purse TRT or anything as I don't have any adverse symptoms.

I eat healthy, work out fairly regularly and get a fair bit of sun. I often wonder how different my muscle density / focus / sex drive would be at average T levels.
It is true I'd rather my data be with Facebook than a unprofitable startup, which was made clear, so pretty pointless copy and paste
You aren't wrong. Go comes with some boilerplate, but it's not as much as people imagine. My main point was that you can compile, execute, and view your changes almost as quickly as an interpreted language. Anyone who has worked with long compile times from C++, Java, or Rust knows how nice and incredibly powerful this is.
Based on what you wrote I would say Google, because they have so much more to lose. That data is really really valuable to them, whereas to Apple it isn't really.
Yes, this is true. I'd also point out that members of "polite society" may ostracize you for many reasons, including perceived sexual deviancy, punk rock music, dancing, any degree of alcohol or drug use, communist leanings, anarchist leanings, and more. We just have to trust that liberal culture will hold people morally accountable for the people they ostracize, and that those who are impacted have the means to migrate to more accepting towns.

Continuing our analogy, I hope that we use our power to ostracize "netizens" very sparingly. And I do mean our power, not that of the tech giants, who merely do what they believe will be best for their image as decided by us. I also hope that there continues to be a competitive landscape of online countries, each more liberal or authoritarian in its own unique ways, from where differing individuals and organizations can connect with the world.
It is much cheaper to execute a smart contract.
There's value in digitizing 90% of the process and relying on as few oracles as possible. Right now your contracts are enforced by fallible, highly paid interpreters (lawyers) executing source code in printed form.
"If you're in talk-to-VC mode, talk to YC (who is just a VC in hacker branding)" This is some of the best advice I got. You need to "have something to show" when you talk to VCs. The partner in the Startup School videos gave an example of having a mailing list of 100k subscribers and links that to getting in (in 2006).
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It's accessible, novel, well laid out, and something we can try for ourselves quite easily. It's nice
This will certainly help give Google an advantage if they enter into health insurance.

Aplhabet has non trivial stake in Oscar health, and this fitbit acquisition plays right into being price health insurance policies for users.
Ask HN: Is there Android tablet optimized for kiosk mode?
I was wondering if there is ANY tablet that has no extra features and optimized for display completely. Thus very cheap in price.

So that would mean...

- Low Input latency (~30ms)

- High Resolution (300+ppi)

- Fast CPU

- Low Price (<$80)

- 7in, 10in, 12in... 30 in sizes.

Things that can be excluded and ignored...

- Thinness

- Storage space

- Batter capacity (>1hr is fine)

- Bluetooth

- Cameras, Infra, etc

- Gyro, Accelerometer, etc

I'd like to think it's android but android as OS has too much latency to begin with and IOS only comes with ipad thus too pricey.

Is there no one making a tablet specially for standalone display/kiosk.
Why is moon landing hoax less admirable? The US, a large wealthy government, was in a cold war with Russia at the time. It would seem to mean the US had the means, and the motivation to fake a moon landing.

But for actual evidence that it's true (supporting the claim that it's true) - I don't see as much evidence that it's false (supporting the claim that it might be true).

Would "lots of people would need to be involved" the only rebuttal in that case?
> Despite being illegal they are still so very easy to access

access isn't the only issue. There is a high risk with obtaining and possessing an illegal drug.

plus there's no guarantee anything you obtain is safe (mixed with shit) or the correct strength, so there's further risk in putting it in your veins.
The thing is, few other companies will do business with anyone trying to compete with Twitter. Parler was nuked. Gab was almost nuked, but they've managed to survive.

There's a huge demand for alternatives to Twitter, but other major tech companies, the corporate press, and many politicians are doing everything in their power to crush those alternatives and prevent them from springing up.
netanya, 93-97 in worst high school of the city. those that were expelled from it, next stop was a cross between school and juvie.

fights were few and between. those that i remember had ethnic background.
> If you know how to reduce risk in the stock market without correspondingly reducing your returns, do share.

If you want to do it without reducing your expected returns you diversify to products with similar expected returns and, to the extent practical, mutually independent risks.
False Flag on US Capital by Anti – Government Punks
2020 - 1968 = 52 years (counterculture in full speed by then)

1968 - 52 = 1916 (who knows what was going on then, except WWI but a lot different than 1968)

So stuck is an understatement
Bitcoiners are already using RSK for DeFi. It's compatible with Ethereum but uses BTC as native currency.
There are several DeFi applications already very popular, such as Money on Chain, Soveryn and rskswap.
More than 600 BTCs are locked in DeFi.
There is, but that case only applies to California (where Twitter is HQ'd, fair enough), and I don't think it's ever been tested for an online service with a ToS.
In my university days, a few of the professors would record classes on VHS tapes that were made available at the library. I would attend class, but occasionally I would go to the library to watch the videos for review. I think we have much more opportunity now to access much more content.

I think you need good subject matter experts to team up with a tech person to create curated material. You also need some way to ask questions if you get stuck on something.

I gave it a shot at teaching a few lessons on how to program with Scratch to grades 1-5. I setup 3 simple lessons ( see my profile ) and provided a way for kids to ask questions via a simple form.

The last thing you need is time with the kids in my opinion, kids will show interest in something if you are taking part in it.
This could also be explained by phasing out of lead-based paints.
Wouldn't that just make those few oracles an increasingly valuable target for manipulation/corruption?
Is Notify proprietary or open source? Does it send data to the cloud? I couldn't tell based on a quick look and search.
Sure. I’m not discounting the value of the network entirely. I’m suggesting that it doesn’t appear to be worth what you have to give up in return. Apart from the 7% and other preferential investor treatment, YC requires that you commit your time in ways that may not be optimal for your business in the long run.
Hmm I wonder whether no sodium would make it better for sweets. Chia seeds seem good for sweets though too.
The Clarity language spec of these contracts is very interesting; seems like a very easy spec to keep in your head compared with Solidity.

https://clarity-lang.org
> I think America is one of the most obese countries on earth.

Yes but not by a very wide margin. [1]

Average BMI in the US is 28.5, Saudi Arabia is the same, Mexico is 28.1, New Zealand is 27.9, UK is 27.3, Canada is 27.2.

My point is that the impression that the US is unreasonably fat compared to the rest of the world is mostly just bias.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_body_mass...
I knew the international cabal of functional programmers was up to something
I worked and built out a proof of concept industrial defect detection system recently, with a large focus on modern DNN architectures. We worked with a plant to curate a 30000+ multi-class defect dataset, many with varying lighting and environment conditions. As you said, modifying and parameter tuning NN is not always a hopeful endeavor.

However, you can make significant gains to your models by going back to traditional image filtering/augmentation. Sticking with well researched object detectors/segmentation algorithms and putting our effort on improving the algorithms that cleans up the data takes you far. It's impossible to avoid because images will always be full of reflections, artifacts, strange coloration unless you have the perfect lighting tunnel setup; doable nonetheless.
The inevitable question: What did you do to turn the spreadsheet into a site? :-)
Thank you very much; works great.
Trying to compare Bellingcat, which publishes things like investigations into the downing of MH17, to Fox News. That is terrible.

Fox News has entertainment departments, fought in court to have Tucker Carlson lie to his followers with impunity. They republished incitement to ramming attacks.

Bellingcat.. They just do investigations.

If you want to try to break things down into black and white left vs right, at least try to do it with comparable organizations. Or even better, try to refute the substance of the article instead of going to a media bias site to see how you feel they land on the political spectrum.

Even the site you linked has them listed as "left-center" with "high factual reporting." How is this grounds to outright dismiss them? The slightest degree of "leftness" makes you want to exclude sources? Do you have any factual reason to be doing this, or is this your personal bias towards right wing content forcing you to seek means to exclude information you don't like the looks of?
> or anyone who feels squeamish about raw egg as an ingredient

I still use chickpea juice in cocktails to mix it up. But the chance of a salmonella poisoning from eggs in the modern US supply chain is astronomically low. You're at much higher risk from most produce.

If you're really risk-averse, you can always sous vide your eggs at 132 F for 60 minutes. This will pasteurize the surface (where any bacteria live), yet preserve the raw egg texture. (Egg whites and yols typically don't change form until around 140 F)