skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said "the survival of the species" was at stake. Are you telling me that you stand by that comment? Do you really think this coronavirus might have killed off our species?

There is zero science supporting this. In fact, to the contrary, experts from the beginning expected this to peter out on its own [0]:

> 2019-nCoV joins the four coronaviruses now circulating in people. “I can imagine a scenario where this becomes a fifth endemic human coronavirus,” ... “We don’t pay much attention to them because they’re so mundane”

> Odds: Moderate. “I think there is a reasonable probability that this becomes the fifth community-acquired coronavirus,” Adalja said, something he expanded on in his blog. Webby agreed: “I have a little bit of hope that, OK, we’ll put up with a couple of years of heightened [2019-nCoV] activity before settling down to something like the other four coronaviruses.”

> Odds: Pretty good. What we may be seeing “is the emergence of a new coronavirus … that could very well become another seasonal pathogen that causes pneumonia,”

Your statement about "survival of the species" seems outlandish, according the the science I read. Your above reply "things could have been worse" is not an adequate defensse of such an alarmist statement.

Do you have any references supporting your position? oit appears so far that you do not.

You should keep in mind that not everyone shares your paranoia and want to get on with as much of their lives as possible. We live in democracies and other people will rightfully object to you imposing your views on all of them without better justification.

[0] https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/04/two-scenarios-if-new-cor...
The U.S. Has a New Climate Goal. How Does It Stack Up Globally?
Cripple the ad business of competitors and double down on your own. Then cover it all in the shroud of privacy and righteousness. Genius marketing. Right up there with Apple talking about their environmental credentials. One of the largest polluters in the world greenwashing themselves by bravely selling chargers separately. Let’s not forget that batteries are one of the most toxic things in the world at scale. And Apple is one of the biggest consumers of it.

“He suggested that Apple now wishes to regain this level of control. “If Apple cripples mobile advertising, then the App Store becomes the primary discovery point for apps again, and Apple decides how people use our iPhones, Apple decides which apps are the most popular,” he said.”
> If a person is guilty and the police made a mistake, we should correct the mistake the police made, including by firing people responsible or pressing criminal charges if appropriate, but malpractice by the police should not exonerate a guilty person.

The purpose of that is to disincentivize malpractice. That's why we have the "fruit of the poisoned tree" doctrine for improperly obtained evidence. There's no point in illegally breaking into someone's house to get evidence because that evidence is inadmissable.

The alternative solution is to allow the evidence and prosecute the people who gathered it illegally. The problem there is that there's a clear conflict of interest: they were gathering that evidence for the prosecutor. The same prosecutor who will try to convict them for gathering that evidence. That prosecutor is incentivized to let them walk so they can keep getting illegal evidence. The second issue is that it's not always clear whether it's actually legal to gather some evidence in a particular way. We either have to prosecute negligence the same as malice, which seems unfair, or we leave a gaping loophole where we have to prove malice. All you have to do to get away with is shrug and go "I had no idea that it was illegal for me to just walk into the house if the door was already unlocked, and no, no one can verify the door was unlocked before I got there".
No one expects the date to be right. But you have to have a plan to iterate on and learn from. “Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
Ask HN: What lessons you learned from _personal_ experience of “office romance”?
As a male, I am interested in male experiences. I know lot of sayings : "don't dip your pen in office ink" ,"don't shit where you eat" etc. But I am desperate man. I don't know any other places to meet women. Tinder tried and failed.
I am not good looking either. I don't have 100 friends and they dying to set blind date for me.
I think no one gives a damn if I die alone except my family. But I am scared of #metoo kind of stuff.
So let me hear what is your first-hand experience and learning from romantic relationship at office rather than "cliché sayings". Thanks
Prior discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26891811
They are indeed found in many products, but the key is the exact nature of the specific substances. Do they inhibit MAO-A, MAO-B, or both? Are they irreversible or reversible inhibitors? Do they do other things like cause neurotoxicity? The Harmala family has dozens of compounds, some good for you (for example MAO-B inhibitors indeed prevent PD, because MAO-B inhibitors are used to treat it) and some bad, like some beta-carbolines that are indeed neurotoxic.

Again, the total amounts are what matters. It’s much easier to take in too much MAOIs from tobacco and coffee than by eating meat.

Something seeming to protect against one specific disorder does not mean that it protects against all diseases.
I haven’t looked at the details of the calculations but one of problems with mining is that mining hardware deprecates and therefor it needs to be used now - in two years more energy efficient hardware will render it useless.

So the idea of switching it on and off according to energy prices doesn’t really hold.
NFTs and Crypto Art, Fungible Bubble or Non-Fungible Mania?
> To be honest here in Ireland where majority of vaccinations have been Pfizer people seemed to stop caring about AZ

That's the case now that Pfizer supply has been ramped up, but our vaccine program would be far more progressed if AZ had delivered. Ireland was supposed to get about 1 million AZ doses in Q1, 3 million by end of Q2. Actual number delivered so far is more like 300k.
I’ve sent an email in regarding a CCPA request and got this response.

“ Hello,

Thanks for reaching out! I'm following up on your request. I want to let you know that no one at Proctorio has access to your information. Only authorized personnel at your school (Instructors or Administrators) can access any of the information collected while taking an exam.

I'd be happy to discuss this further with your instructor if you would like to connect me to them.

Best,

Josh”
How to Experiment Micro Front Ends with Angular and Module Federation?
I've been doing that for my own clothes. White t-shirts turn pink, but pink is a good look too so I don't really care. Maybe that means I'm still a kid :)
The best we could probably hope for is disbarment. These things don't usually end up in criminal convictions. I would imagine a perjury charge is possible, but it seems unlikely.
This is great!

For years when discussing displays and computing ergonomics, I've claimed that I look forward to the day when my screen doesn't need to emit light, and maybe using it can feel more like paper.

Reading this makes it seem less sci-fi future, and possible today if we can get enough interest/momentum.

I'm trying to think of practical places to start for a sellable product. I love the Paperterm idea, but recognize that it's super niche. Maybe something focused on distraction-free writing?
I don’t think it is satire.

I find the comments that want to spin cogs into a good thing by changing the name and manipulating the imaging so lowly people don’t know how you they are really viewed, worse than any thing this app is doing, satire or not.
Oracle was cofounded by... Larry Ellison.
Makes more sense to change how unemployment benefits works then.
They should have just ignored this guy and gone on with life. Now the they got the EFF to deal with and it serves them right.

There is another HN thread on this and a lot of people in it are more upset about the line of work Proctorio is in and how they do it than the fact they sued this minor irritating student. My opinion is there is simply no easy pain free way to do fraud auditing and that's that. I just recently took a professional PeopleCert exam online with a guy watching me through my webcam in a closed room I had to display in advance etc and temp installed some invasive application. So what ? If there was a better way to deal with the unfortunate fact that some people will cheat then I would be all for it but just getting all shook up about a temporary set of specific restrictions for a singular type milestone event is a little unrealistic in my book.

But I am glad suing this kid is blowing up in their face.
Whatever it takes to stay on the AWS free tier.
This is a take that's wildly generous to FoxConn, painting them as the "aww schucks" kinda honest guys that just didn't know about the challenges of the US labor market.

The alternate take is that the whole deal was made in bad faith and FoxConn was hoping to collect subsidies and line its pockets. This version of events has some precedent[1]. It's especially hard to believe that FoxConn didn't know about US labor when this same situation played out in Pennsylvania in 2013[2].

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/foxconns-history-of-broken...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/how-foxconns...
Samsung Upcycling at Home program to repurpose older phones into IoT devices
Machine Learning Integrated into Beehives
Machine learning is just about everywhere now, but has been long lacking in beehives which have for the most part gone unchanged in over 100+ years, since Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth invented the hive in 1847.
Triangula uses a modified genetic algorithm which I wrote about on the wiki here [1]. The reason I didn't use simulated annealing is because I ran some tests and found it was generally less effective for my case.

[1] https://github.com/RH12503/Triangula/wiki/Explanation-of-the...
can anyone explain why you might need to limit memory consumption of your service?

I thought the kernel has virtual memory and if you consume more it will swap some memory and thats it.

Couldnt you just manage memory from inside your app? if its redis, then check the db size and shutdown/cleanup gracefully, and not crash redis with OOM?
I know someone this has happened to.

Nobody believed her, until she could tell them what the doctors were talking about during the surgery.

It was a special case though, a surgery during pregnancy. It is really hard to do that in a way not to harm the unborn child.
The Golden Age of Compiler Design in an Era of HW/SW Co-Design [video]
We've been solving the problems of trust literally for millennia. For some reason bitcoin apologists pretend history never happened, and painstakingly attempt to re-create the trust systems humans have had in place, once again literally, for millennia.
To me, the author doesn't fully understand how Smart Contract, NFT and ownership work.

It is as if he wrote "NFTheft owns the Joconde" in a Word document, printed it, signed it and tried to prove to the world that he truly owns the Joconde. It doesn't work that way with NTF, nor in real life. Ownership is a consensus.

You can verify the real owner of the token with [0] > Contract > Read > "16. Owner Of" and type "40913", as explain on the original marketplace [1].

However, what he highlights is that Smart Contract doesn't prevent the code from being malicious, in the same way than HTTPS doesn't prevent a website to be hackable. To be even more precise, ERC721 is a code interface. Its implementation is not universal, and thus can be malicious.

[0] https://etherscan.io/token/0x2a46f2ffd99e19a89476e2f62270e0a...

[1] https://onlineonly.christies.com/s/first-open-beeple/beeple-...
This is looking really good, and I'm super impressed how smoothly the development of this has seemingly gone!
The price (and therefore value?) of satoshis rise/fall at the exact same rate as a price of a bitcoin, so I don't see how this invalidates their argument.
It's lacking a comment example of edison and tesla arguing over dc/ac so for me it is subpar.
If you're starting this trail of thought from where you're starting it, you're gonna have a bad time.

It should not be "in place X there are women, so I am going to get one."

It should be "person X is a nice person I like. I will see if she also likes me, and if yes, we might work something out."

In other words: You're talking like it is a pond with fish and any you pull out will be good for eating. That is not a healthy attitude to have towards people.

And it will rightfully annoy them once they find out, which they likely will.
Presentation slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZMtzT6nmfvNOlIaHRzda...

Related - John Hennessy and David Patterson 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LVeEjsn8Ts
No, there is no clear boundary between text and icons. What is included in Unicode and in what way is decided case by case. See for example the regional indicator symbols.[1] Always two of them indicate a particular country code according to ISO 3166-1.[2] They resolve into a sort of a logo: the flag of the country. (Guess what happens with rendering a legacy Unicode document, when a country changes its flag ...)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_indicator_symbol

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2
You're 100% spot on. I cannot be convinced a multi-national mega-corp is ignorant of US labor and the challenges in the US labor market. There just is no way that's possible for a company this size, or am I wrong?

So that leaves either bad faith, or they are just abjectly incompetent. I can't really see any other options. Or, again, am I way off base?
Doctors usually talk during (some parts of ) the surgery. About whatever is on their mind. If the patient can recite some details about that, it's probably not false memory.
This doesn’t appear to reference any sources, so I didn’t go beyond skimming. Is this reliable information and if so, on what basis?
I mostly meant to sidecar the shell and treat it as a debugging utility. While I get the point of ash being smaller as a point for busybox, if size stops being a concern because the shell is in an inactive-sidecar, then you can use a shell that has less surprising edge cases for users, like bash.
Not particularly, but Go is fast, compiles to small binaries, and supports multithreading with coroutines which works well for genetic algorithms.
If Mysql Workbench makes the list, why not Pgadmin?
I'd love to create a game but the sheer amount of time and effort to build something is insane. And then you have to hope you are really good at marketing or you hit the social media lottery.
Which you can type as ALT-.
Maybe a better term would be “micro freelancing”.
Yup. This is super annoying. Web forums that I used to be able to use well on a Blackberry are now auto-flowed to a mobile setup even on a modern iPhone. And here’s the thing: the web forum actually HAS a separate mobile mode!
> Many people don’t regard “you’ll be in pain and then forget” as the same as “no pain.”

I find this incredibly fascinating. If people were to be offered a sum of money in exchange for feeling immense pain for an hour but then having that memory wiped, I wonder how many would shrug and say "I won't remember anything? Sure, sign me up." I wonder at the ethical and morality of such things. If the person's reality is based solely on their memories, is it even unethical? Like I said, fascinating.

Thank you for the intriguing thought experiment for today.
Will Job X run on Node Y?

[] yes

[] no
If the government didn't print infinity money/back fractional reserve banking Bitcoin wouldn't be necessary or popular.

Bitcoin and Gold ownership is a response to fiscal irresponsibility.

Also all this "but energy could be used for x,y,z" is weak. Why not only use a flashlight around your house at night? Why'd you turn on 4 lights every time you enter your kitchen? Do you really need heat/AC on in spring and fall?
I genuinely don't understand how 'international mega-corporation doesn't understand international labor differences' is a no-brainer. Please explain that to me. That seems like one of the first things that any company should evaluate.
I know exactly one population of people who buy crypto with the intent of spending it: people who got in on the ground floor and made it so rich that now it is largely a game.

I know a few people who made $50m before they were 30. The act of spending money is now fun for them, almost independent of the outcome. Incredibly high donations to twitch streamers, denominated in BTC, tickle their fancy.

Every other person I know who owns BTC is either trying to speculate by owning a lot of it or believes that putting 5% of their investment portfolio is good for diversification. In the same way that I don't spend VTI at the store, these people don't spend BTC at the store.
No, but there are other tricks, such as prepending enough zeros and then taking the rightmost 4 characters from the string...

FOR I = 0 TO 9999 : A$ = RIGHT$("000"+STR$(I),4) : ... rest of the code : NEXT I
From a conversation I had once with a pair of starry-eyed young petitioners, I get the impression that the main objection some people have is that GMOs are made by "giant corporations." I decided not to bother pointing out that their iPad they were asking me to sign, as well as their jeans and sneakers, were also made by giant corporations.
I don't know the exact provider. I think it's Azure AD with a hybrid identity (since login forms doesn't leave Microsoft at all), but it's a mere guess.
As a software engineering consultant, be prepared for small/quick stints, some of them as short as 2 weeks.

You will not get time to analyse technical details deeply enough before presenting to clients. Focus on code quality is seldom lesser. Be prepared for a lot more talking than a product org. Be prepared for a lot more work and constant pressure of timelines.
Hey! I wrote this blog post and happy to answer any questions.

I was expecting some of the immediate privacy reactions. Privacy was a key reason I set out to build it. We have to build trust on this part and eventually will -- we're just getting started and are still and private beta (making a decent browser turned out to be remarkably hard).

To make it beyond clear, there will never be any selling or sharing of data with any third-parties. Before we open the app to more users we will make this resoundingly clear in the privacy policy and terms. We localize as much as possible and make it very obvious when something is being stored on our servers (currently only truncated URLs of your likes/bookmarks and explicit "store for me" type interactions).

Finally, most of this browser will be made open source (less some of the ML and domain specific solutions). The innovation here for me is moving whole browser stack into web tech so that more people can hack on and create better browsing experiences. Getting to parity++ was the first major difficult step and the milestone we just reached.

It's still super early and we're learning a lot! I really do appreciate your skepticism and feedback. We will do everything we need to earn your trust.
also don't fulfil 1 contract at 100% and another one at 30%..
Just an anecdote: I once had a procedure that required I be under a "light" general anesthesia (don't recall which). I was generally paranoid at the time though about everything, and strapped an audio recorder to my leg secretly. Turns out I did wake up mid procedure (the audio suggests doctor and nurse rushed to stop me from touching the area of operation of my face, and that I was distressed) but as the doctor promised, the sedative would have a strong effect on my short term memory and I remember not being able to recall any of what I had heard on the recording. I don't consider this at all traumatic: my memory was selectively wiped of that time period by virtue of the drug. Life just went on. It may not be popular to say, but I do feel from my experience that pain with no memory is pretty much as good as no pain, in the grand scheme of things.
In the meantime, still no external link symbol.
When exploring a seed article, mousing over a node highlights its filtered graph. Perhaps show its title then as well?

And I'd ideally like to also see the abstract then, somewhere. Rather than that requiring a click. Currently, "surfing", orienting exploration, seems regrettably high friction. Click, wait-for-load, look, click, load, look, "hmm, did I click on that one already? yes, drat.", ... "have I clicked on all of them yet? I don't know, maybe I've missed something nifty, but I'm done.". Having faded pink nodes that no longer respond to mouse adds a "ok, to see that node, I currently need to first click on other node".

For node labels, perhaps have some kind of title digest? To visually aid the "remind me again which paper that node is?". Perhaps the title in an unreadably small font?

When "Run Explore" on a map yields "No results", perhaps add an onboarding hint of what needs to be different in order to have results?

Sigh. When using HN, after logging out in a different window, continuing to edit a comment, and clicking "update"... apparently unrecoverably discards the edit?!? :/

Briefly, on the map list of papers, the scrollbar vanishes after a second or two (on desktop firefox), so you lose the visual indication of how far down the list you are. Have to jiggle the list to briefly get that back.

On the map list of papers, clicking on a paper popovers the paper info. To go back, there's a close-X, and history-back works. But ESC doesn't, and perhaps should.

Off topic but for fun, when using a shallow-3D display (eg AR glasses), it seems information might be segregated/decluttered using depth. So for silly example, there might be lots of title clutter, but if it was on a layer raised above the node graph, one might "look through" the clutter to the graph. And then attentionally shift to the title layer, without that depth step being so large as to trigger refocus eye strain. ... Maybe. Just something I've played with. And it's less than pretty.
This wasn't a direct test on the maintainers, so it is easy to see how the IRB would miss that. Still not excusable to miss that there are humans involved.
It's £37 bn over two years. It's not clear how much of that has actually been disbursed yet (I vaguely recall a figure of £5-6 bn in Private Eye, but I'm not sure).
I bet Apple isn’t really interested in making a big stink and still let this go
Signal is almost like anti-virus software against Cellebrite.
Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect, helped me identify some negative patterns around depending on others too much for happiness and working to put myself first.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, overview of how PTSD forms and how to use break the patterns
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Gotta wash on 60 sometimes too, though. Otherwise your t-shirts are going to become subtly smelly over time.
Have you had a chance to experiment with the SVE and/or AVX512 mask systems, yet?
Scott Walker, the governor, who signed the deal lost his office a year after it was signed in part due to backlash over the deal.

Think about it from Foxconn's perspective, if you got a sweetheart deal and the person who gave it to you got canned for it, are you going to follow thru and put in billions of your dollars on the assumption that you'll still get billions of government subsidies in return?
Meanwhile California is collapsing LOL
Yes, if you only buy things that you wash in 40 degree water and dry in a machine, you can just wash everything in 40 degree water and throw it in a machine.