skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Why did the flu also disappear in the states that had effectively no covid restrictions?

Where are you getting this take? Life in the US in 2020 is dramatically different than it was in 2019.
Well this might be answered by asking who got it, what is their business, etc.

In general good malwares either try to make money or have some kind of geopolitical goal (industrial spying etc).

Information is power, but generally, a good hacker would know how to obfuscate the reasons why he is putting malware.
>In contrast, pornography (visual or textual) is quite similar to its real-world counterpart.

A cursory look around online erotic roleplayers, online stories, the manga/doujinshi sold in huge numbers every year in Japan at Comiket, or even the plots of mainstream porn will quickly disabuse you of this notion. I'm also not convinced on the 'no real comparison' for video games. I'm reminded of the fact that the US Army recruits first-person shooter players, and that video games can show a rise in aggression in lab settings, similar to real sports do.

Even if they were all that different, you'd still have to specify in which specific ways, and the extent of those ways, the difference between the two entertainments is relevant to your argument.
Hi, I built out our microservices solution and you read more about it in the Microservices Architecture documentation [1]. There is also a walk through of setting up two applications with this approach in the documentation [2].

At a high level, the way ReleaseHub solves this issue is through a feature we call App Imports. Each App would be microservice and there would be one application that imports all the others. For the sake of simplicity let's have two microservices, Frontend and Backend. Frontend would import Backend and when a deployment goes out, ReleaseHub would deploy Backend first, followed by Frontend. Both deployments end up in the same Kubernetes namespace so the pods can talk to each other directly.

This setup allows for creating the dependencies needed to run the services. If you wanted to set up Backend to only deploy itself and say run integration tests against it, you don't have to connect it to any other services. But Frontend may be useless without Backend, so hooking them together is a requirement.

[1] - https://docs.releasehub.com/getting-started/common-setup-exa...
[2] - https://docs.releasehub.com/examples/app-imports-connecting-...
Glad to know I'm unaffected since all my machines run openrc and herd.
The third option is hiring enough people that when you are kicked off, there's an actual human visibly in the loop making the decision when you appeal.

It's not just that people get kicked out, it's that people get kicked out with no warning, no explanation, no way to contest, and no guidance to fix whatever the issue is.

It should be easy for Google at a minimum to explain why it thinks DroidScript is malware. If it just tripped an automatic system, then "computer says so" is not sufficient, an actual human should review it, make a decision, and explain how they came to that decision.

(for totally new apps, summary denial of obvious malware is probably more reasonable, but if an app has been around for years, Google owes them something)
> Progressivism is the new Christianity

> No conservative in the 1970s would have thought, everyone in Britain should be a conservative

Like the points your making. I would add that by the standards of the early 20th century when progressivism started even a 1970s conservative is a progressive.

Even taking American conservatives, who are more conservative that than their British peers, conservatives are fine with social security, medicare/medicade (NHS), and fine with government run education, and fine with an unbacked U.S. dollar funding this modern welfare state. I.E. even American conservatives are mostly fine with the lasting policies of FDR; perhaps our most progressive president.

What am I getting at?

My broader point is that Progressivism is indeed the current state religion. Both parties are 'progressive' parties by historical standards. The only recent development is that we are now approaching near total domination of the cultural, political, and legal rings of influence by Progressivism and this has resulted in a new popular interest in actual reactionary politics as people wake up.

> everyone in Britain should be a conservative

This is important to understand because it is how we got here. Reactionary ideologies are not interested in global leadership, but rather local control. Progressivism is an expansionist ideology interested in global domination; which is why we are currently either all progressives or former progressives (like yourself).
As far as I can tell, you're still using a fixed inverse DFT as the reconstruction layer, so it's not just rediscovering the DFT on its own. Instead of learning a linear transformation from input-output pairs, it's learning the inverse of a linear transformation when that transformation is given as an oracle. It's not terribly surprising that this works, although there are probably some interesting issues of numerical conditioning in the general case.
Within a single country, legal, since ultimately the same tax is paid and Corp 2 isn't lying about its expenses. (Corporate income taxes are usually flat rates, not progressive/step rates, and most corporate groups file a single consolidated return for the entire group.)

Across borders, it would be a huge violation of transfer pricing laws and result in huge penalties. But the marketing part of it would still be legal.

What you've described is actually pretty similar to how Coke/Pepsi is sold: Company 1 (Coke/Pepsi) makes the syrup, which they sell for inflated prices to Company 2 (the bottler/distributor), which then sells it to a store (Company 3) for a less-inflated wholesale price, and the store usually sells it at very small markup as a loss-leader.
Not really, at least as far as I know. Historically, prices have been set in a pretty ad-hoc manner by revenue managers at the airlines. I'm pretty sure that's where the "best deals for flights are on Tuesdays" thing comes from. Revenue managers would show up to work on Monday, spend the whole day reviewing the performance of their routes and then on Tuesday morning they would set the new prices for flights based on that analysis. In some cases, they mess up and you would get a really good deal because humans aren't perfect.

What has changed a bit is airlines have invested more into machine learning and trying to apply revenue optimization models to programmatically adjust their prices. You still get those weird deals since there's still some ad-hoc price adjustment and also machine learning models aren't perfect, but the pattern is less predictable.
I just put these "keys" into the local part of the email address, no additional protocol "fixes" needed. I can make up keys on the fly then add the filter for them later whenever I get home. It is very obvious when a sender has sold or shared an address and I blackhole accordingly (this is actually extremely rare).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter#Obsolescence_of_te...
It is not black/white

Google's problem lies they rarely respond to appeals unless it became something no less of a public outcry.

What is hard to believe to me is that they could still get away with even with piling scandals.
Define western nation? System? Culture?

HN people are filled with Westerners fascinated by Asian culture, and then get disappointed once they realized that Asia being Asia and do not want to have the West problems by introducing diversity and PC talk.
Building a Game Boy Emulator with Rust
you should not use it as a measure of productivity. I wrote my message to warn people who might get that idea.
I think Cowen has a lot to offer and he frequently challenges me to think about things differently.

But this is perhaps the least convincing argument I've ever read from him (and the commenters on Marginal Revolution seem to agree.) It does nothing to convince me that raising the rate on very wealthy individuals is a bad idea.

I'd be willing to entertain thoughtful arguments on either side of the debate and I wonder if anyone here can point to more convincing examples.
I thought America valued work

As a worker who goes to work a job created by a Job Creator, I'm sure that is exactly what you were told, yes. And if we tax the gains of those Creators of Jobs, there won't be any more jobs.

I value work, but that doesn't mean an enjoyer of work can't call propaganda when they see it.
You're missing my point. Your "old lady" example isn't relevant. I'm not arguing that cops should shoot everybody who swings a fist in their direction. My point is merely that sometimes it's justified to shoot an unarmed man. Just because you hear an "unarmed" person was shot by police, you can't automatically assume that the shooting was unjustified.

I can think of one very famous case of an unarmed man getting shot by police in the US where it's beyond doubt (confirmed by the forensics and all the credible eyewitnesses) that he was shot after punching the officer, trying to grab his gun then charging at him. This shooting was totally justified - but I wouldn't dare say that in the workplace if someone mentioned this guy ("say his name!") as an example of a martyr.

> I've seen a lot of videos on Reddit of cops tazing, pulling guns and acting super aggressive at mad old women probably because "cop's life potentially under threat".

Yep, American policing is fucked up in many ways, and police violence in the US is a huge problem. But I never said it wasn't.

And anyway, I'm not American.
at least on large servers, the search indexes are reasonably up to date and include user IDs.

(on small servers they're unfortunately on-demand, but you could still store a set of all guilds a user ever joined and build an overview)
The thing that troubles me is how hundreds of good-faith patches came under suspicion.

We can say that the researchers are entirely responsible for that as well -- for creating that need for suspicion. But I do wonder if we were too quick to also fall into a pattern of outrage and absolute rejection.

This story went viral partly because it seemed much worse -- "And they're still submitting malicious patches to this day!" -- than it actually was.
Time to `composer self-update`
I mean, I had both kids and car. I also used public transport. I also breasted - personally, I am woman.

Calming crying kid on carrier is easier then while driving.

Breastfeeding in car is not all that comfortable and you cant drive while breastfeeding. Typically it is not that difficult to find reasonably private place within time limit since kid cries constantly. You are going to spend time somewhere, park or friend or shopping center. That somewhere has usually good solutions, otherwise you would not be spending time there.

I never used pee bottles and such.
Cryptocurrency does not equal Proof of Work. Stop conflating them, it makes no sense to do so.
You realize those « deep cleans » are mostly comms operations for governments to look like they are doing stuff, right? Virus live (mostly) in people, not on sidewalks.

One of the most ridiculous example: the Thai government went to the extent of spraying disinfectant in the forest next to the Burmese border, and got pictures published in newspaper to show their great work. Comical! [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/thainewsreports/status/13819185863488225...
Ml.net:A Robust Framework for Implementing Machine Learning in .NET Environments
Thanks for this article. I have a friend whom I asked almost the same question as is in the article. He suggested to me modules based on esp32.
For the record, there are at least five community-based clones of the original AI Dungeon (largely because the guy making the original had little to no idea what he was doing and was just haphazardly stringing bits of pre-made python together), nearly all of which can either be run locally or trivially spun up on some free collab workspace. The catch is they're all GPT-2, as was AI Dungeon originally. The step up to 3 is dramatic, and unfortunately out of reach to the ordinary user for now.
This kind of thing is trivially detected with basic system integrity tools [0][1] but I think a lot of those kinds of sysadmin tools have gone out of vogue at this point.

[0] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...

[1] https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/security-monitoring-tripwire
All this being with lockdowns, which are demonstrably effective at slowing viral spread. Just imagine what these charts would look like _without_ lockdowns.
Maybe a single corporate entity with lots of conflicts of interests shouldn't be deciding what people are allowed to run on their computers.
Anti-Vaxxer Hijacks QR Codes at Covid-19 Check-In Sites
The UK government publishes other ways to measure COVID deaths. the "positive test result with 28 days of death" results in the lowest count:

Deaths in England and Wales in 2020

80,830 Covid-19 as underlying cause of death or contributing factor
77,161 Increase in deaths (from all causes) from 2019 to 2020
73,444 Covid-19 as underlying cause of death on death certificate
70,013 Any death within 28 days of a positive Covid test

Sources:

https://fullfact.org/health/liam-fox-death-figures/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/22/uk-official-co...

https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths
What a rhetorical power move it is to preemptively decry "torch mobs" for having your comment disapproved of. You might also consider the possibility that you'll get downvoted for suggesting that "ridicule" is an appropriate response in a code review.
> Did I express an opinion? I'm pretty sure I just quoted a statistic.

Picking which statistics/examples to cite is an opinion. Furthermore, you did express an opinion: "give a cop a good reason to shoot you".
NUIs: iNuitive User Interfaces used to be (perhaps still is) an interesting design philosophy in the UX space. The goal being to build a system that a brand new user fresh off the boat could walk up to and intuit what the system could do and how to manipulate the system to solve their problems. Though this is complicated by our thought patterns and habits being altered by just interacting with computer systems. So, it becomes hard to pinpoint exactly what "intuitive" means to an audience as wide as the entire population or even small groups like "university students".

Thinking this way becomes incredibly important as systems move from dedicated devices further into coordinated actions of ubiquitous devices.
> On the flip side, their ships would be highly vulnerable to anti-ship missiles

The PRC's been pushing hard on anti-ship missile capabilities and I don't know if I'd say they're any worse off than we are.
I agree. Love Cowen, thought this article was very meh. Seems like it's always his weakest stuff showing up on HN :/

A better critical take on the capital gains issue is Scott Sumner's short and succinct one: https://www.econlib.org/capital-gains-nonsense/
Large indoor gatherings, indoor restaurants, bars, were shut down for months. Grocery stores enforced or at least encouraged their own mask policies. What’s more in Florida, those few steps covered almost all the ways people really interact there. Like much of the US, there is almost zero spontaneous sharing of space outside of bars, restaurants, stores and churches.

I personally dislike the isolation of extreme car culture, but it does help in situations like this.
If your phone has a panorama mode try taking a photo while the car is cruising. As a passenger obviously.
Personally there is no such thing as fair in taxes or even in life. there is only what "the people" can agree on via their representatives.

one way to rationalize it is like insurance. someone protecting a 100K house pays much less than someone protecting a 500K house. It might not be linear with the value of the house.

Your share of the military is larger than someone that makes less because the military is creating more value for you by protecting more assets.

Your share of the SEC is because you receive more value from the SEC than the poor

etc

It is value based taxation instead of cost based taxation.

Is that really less fair?

In the end the only thing that matters is 1) enough taxation to pay for the things "the people" want. 2) minimize the drag that taxation causes on the economy.
It seems that backpropagation might be a good abstraction for biological learing rules after all: "local predictive coding converges asymptotically (and in practice rapidly) to exact backprop gradients on arbitrary computation graphs using only local learning rules" from https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.04182
Category theory is a universal modeling language
I find nano a bit frustrating to arrow around in.

Maybe someone could add vim binding support...
I've never owned a smart phone because of this, even when I was a system administrator for lots of people with them.

It helps that I grew up before cell phones were invented, younger people might not be as flexible. I can still get places with an address and town name, and a Rand McNally Atlas.
> Prediction. By 2030 China will have its own 5nm and 3nm fabs.

Independent, and fully owning the IP, is the guiding principle of the current 5-year national plan.

Precise year or date is guess work, though.

But it's clear that the trajectory of innovation is on China's side. Innovation is built on top of resources, intellectual integrity, and market. Resources and market wise, China already surpasses US (in purchase power, and size in quantity and capital). Intellectual integrity is catching up. But I am confident in CCP's engineering prowess in that category.

After all, CCP engineered the biggest and the most important human mind transformation project in the entire human history: reforming China, from a feudal nation with thousands of years of continued cultural and political linage, to a socialism super power that reflecting not only the proud drawn from the long history, but also the unquenchable desire to rise and rise.

That's why I am amused by a lot of people's recognition on China. China is far beyond anyone's perception. The deeds condemned by popular critics are not even scratching the surface of CCP's impact on China...
if you are writing a SQL statement that has high impact on the business, take 7 hours to think about it if you need.

If you are suggesting tooling around for 7 hours and then working for 1... sure, if it is a pattern in the persons behavior but dont use time to commit time as the measurement. The issue is not time to complete. the issue is a lack of engagement and that data can be gathered in less harmful ways.

Additionally, I would refrain from getting so granular into how much someone spends each our of every day. that trope is sure to detract talented people.
Also, I wonder if there is correlation of at-risk people getting more flu shots?
Beatport has been a UI nightmare since the SFX acquisition back in 2014.
There are plenty of really good video recordings of all but the most obscure plays (I'm sure there are a few of King John, for instance, but not a tenth as many as there are of King Lear). It's not the same as seeing it live, but serves the same purpose of making the language easier to follow.
This is why Linux firewall is terrible at blocking systemd’s access to a network port.

Yeah, I had a corner case where I wanted to use ISC DHCP client (due to Juniper DHCP server at my ISP) where I wanted to block all network access to systemd.

Alas, no can do. So i’ve since moved over to Denuvan distro where SysV unit can still be used while having Debian APT repo.

This is a plus for OpenBSD which can firewall by-PID (PID 1, systemd).
Interesting, but probably "of limited use to useless" long term, because batteries don't come apart nicely without, at a minimum, high risks of shorting them out and thermal runaways.

For the typical cylindrical cells, the "jelly roll" is squeezed in quite tightly (this reduces internal resistance by squeezing the bits tightly together and optimizes capacity per cell), and then the bits tend to swell a bit in use. This is one of the advantages of a cylindrical cell - those stresses turn into tension stresses around the circumference and the cell doesn't actually swell like prismatic cells.

But getting the bits out, intact, without shorting something out? Good luck.

https://doi.org/10.1002/cssc.202100629 is the link to the article, but I don't have access without paying. If anyone finds it, I'd love to read it to see what they've done, though!
I wonder how many large meteors are buried in the ice sheets and if there is any reliable way to detect and recover them?
I don't want to go back. The one bright side from the last 14 months was getting to experience working on a remote-only team and discovering that it's great. We have a team distributed across offices anyway, and meetings go a lot better when everyone is using the microphone on their laptop instead of a terrible conference room setup. It's also tamped down somewhat on "let's have a meeting to talk about that" in favor of asynchronous communication.

Unfortunately, while our leadership hasn't said anything official yet, there's so much writing on the wall that you'd have to be illiterate not to see it. They're making anyone who has an office go back full time next month and have been pretty much ignoring the employee surveys saying people want remote flex and a hybrid policy.

My wife is job hunting right now so I'll grudgingly go back so as not to disrupt my family's health insurance, but once she finds something, I'd say it's good odds I'm going to start looking. It's a shame because I like my team, but I don't feel a need to actually see them in person more than once or twice a year. I'd much rather work in my nice home office where the bathroom's never occupied, people aren't walking around/talking and being distracting, my dog wanders in occasionally to see what I'm doing, and my daughter runs in to say hello when she gets home from school. None of the office "perks" measure up to those, for me.
Thank you. I agree with all of this, and that is precisely the reason why I decided to get involved to make things better. To fix all of the above I believe we need:

* Much better tooling and more organized community, thus we started https://fortran-lang.org/ and the associated projects (fpm, stdlib, ...) and discussion board (Discourse)

* Better compiler that has good support for all Fortran features, and can help with linking and using C++ and Python libraries (automatic wrappers both ways), better optional warnings (to prevent old style code), good support for GPUs, etc. Also interactive like Python or Julia. I started LFortran (https://lfortran.org) to fix that.

* Perhaps some improvements to the language (I joined the Standards Committee and I encourage people to join). We have a subgroup for generics (templates). The hash maps should probably go to stdlib first, later we can think about putting them into the language itself.
Maybe there should be IRB-style oversight for Twitter, etc..., to tweak their algorithms. They are, after all, experimenting on humans here.
I’m surprised you had that many. My CS program had nothing comparable that I can remember.

Definitely not computer science.
This is cute but bearing in mind most of today's grandparents (at least in the West) have had decades of using computers professionally and at least a good few years using tablets and smartphones, I really think the pitch should be directed elsewhere. I especially don't think they would appreciate a 'telegram' feature!

Also, I know it's not meant literally, but its genderisation as 'granny' is a really problematic cliche that I wish tech folk would stop repeating.
Building a GraphQL-to-SQL compiler on Postgres, MSSQL and MySQL
Iran is flooding Clubhouse with propaganda
US Labor Secretary: Most Gig Workers should be classified as employees