skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me how how Basecamp would have acted during WW2 as well. Nothing to do with business so take it outside.
Not sure if you have spotify, but here's my "techno" playlist that has over 800 songs in it so far. I put techno in quotes because I'm sure someone can find songs in there that aren't "real techno" but you won't find any big room EDM, that's for sure.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1LSjVUxQk1Nrh7kHavZ4uu?si=...
The best is when these transactional emails don't have a way to unsubscribe (thanks Comcast).
> I think my main contention can be illustrated by trying to discover where Disco comes from.

Isn't the concise answer Philadelphia? :) Partially joking, I know this is an oversimplification.

In any case, this interview with Earl Young from The Trammps, discussing the origin of four-on-the-floor, is pure gold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsf51_a1ceI
You could compare the excess deaths for New Zealand, South Korea, Australia and other countries that were able to prevent Sars-CoV-2 from spreading with strict lockdowns.

Diagnostic delays are not caused by lockdowns. They are caused by an overwhelmed health care system or the fear of infection, both of which are caused by high incidence.

You also need to consider the damage that long covid possibly do over the next 30 years. If only 1% of the working age population that got infected suffers permanent disability, then the cost-benefit analysis will show that a low incidence strategy is clearly the better strategy.

Here are the statistics for Australia. They had a strict lockdown when cases where high.

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/health/causes-death/provis...
I would assume this falls under Severability [1]. In most cases, the button you click on literally says "I accept", which the corporate lawyer would interpret in a similar way to signing a contract in full.

In other words, if I click "send" on my resignation email to my employer, but later argue in court that I totally didn't mean to actually resign, but only to check if my email program works, I may have a challenging case.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severability
Yeah, but no. It definitely is a buzzword that randomly gets attached to every method of data analysis these days. If you disagree, then please give me a definition that is both distinct from statistics but also means that Regression is an ML technique.

BTW, that doesn't mean there isn't also very substantial work done under the umbrella term.

Regression analysis was first introduced by Legendre in the early 19th century. I never would have dreamed to pretend it is Machine Learning 10 years ago when the term ML was still used somewhat more sparingly, and carried a bit more meaning...

But "I will use ML to analyse the data" gets more funding than "I will run a regression on the data".
I prefer simples tools like Word or PlantUml than complex tools. Maybe i'm python developer, simple is better than complex
> The research looked into using quantum machines to price complex derivatives, one of the most computing-intensive tasks in the financial markets and a significant cost for banks. ...

> The research pointed to near-term breakthroughs that will make it possible to quote prices over the phone to customers looking to trade complex derivatives, rather than wait the hours it can sometimes take to run calculations using today’s computers, said Paul Burchard, head of research in Goldman’s R&D. “There’s a very large computing bill we pay each year to price those derivatives and run risk on them,” he added.

[Article also archived at https://archive.is/DWEcI ]
> caused by the lockdown (i.e. delayed elective medical procedures, suicides, etc.)

That's a dangerous way to phrase it. People would delay the elective medical procedures due to covid, even without lockdown. Overwhelmed hospitals would enforce the same. The covid/lockdown split of excess deaths is very complicated in itself.
For 15 Years Sweden Thought Russian Submarines Were Invading. It Was Fish Farts
Yes, I just looked at the source. That leaves them open to an attack, but I guess they trust google. Fingers crossed.
You don't need to be a monopoly to violate antitrust laws, which is what Epic is actually claiming in the case.
I think it's an interesting solution. I've tried dvorak, I'm curious about other alternatives to conventional keyboard layouts. Can anyone recommend anything cool?
Look up Hope-Simpson's work on influenza epidemiology, he observed seasonality like you say, but there are certain regimes that correspond to latitudes.
The Threat of AI Weapons
For those who use an actual editor https://www.vimconf.live/
Heh can one imagine a conference for NANO?
I use ublock origin and disable javascript for the session.
> For someone who seems to have been around the scene for quite a while, you come off as woefully uneducated on the history of electronic music.

I suppose that's one way of saying you have a different perspective from mine.

>Electronic music is and has always been an international phenomenon. Innovations happen due to cross-pollination of styles, not because specifically white Europeans "mature" it.
>The Techno that blew up in Europe was initially imported from African Americans. Jungle/DNB was born out of mixing UK Hardcore with Jamaican Reggae/Dancehall/Dub music.

I've addressed most of your points in another comment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26981256

A lot of the genres that Ishkur despises are every bit as European homegrown as Motown is African-American to the bones.

> Nobody "owns" electronic music, and the scene is so much better when people stop claiming that anyone does.

Sure, but that's a bit like saying Silicon Valley doesn't own the Internet.
It's technically true but SV is still (or was until very recently) a mecca, ground zero for all things Internet.

There is such a thing for music genres as well, and a good indicator of that is the extent to which that genre has bubbled up into mainstream pop music charts.
And now storage devices have shot up in cost. Once again proving that crypto currencies seem to ruin everything they touch.
I don’t think anyone who uses an iOS device wants epic to win. Most of us are specifically in the walled garden because we just want our tech to work.

Would I rather have an open source system, including for my phone, that works as well as Apple things? Sure, but there is no such thing.
Nothing to be amazed about.

The social conditioning of girls is preferring the popular person. The social circles decide half of what's attractive, and that's generally outgoing, 'popular' types and not your math nerd. This is even true for intelligent girls, as most of them are socially conditioned to value characteristics conventionally perceived as musculine and / or attractive. Often the characteristics of the partner decide the girl's social standing among the peers.

I might get a lot of flame for mentioning this, but there's a concept called Fischerian runaway. Basically the fact that female sexual selection is fragile and doesn't always lead to good kind of evolution.

This is probably one thing that conservative cultures get right. If you're a 19 year old studying engineering or medicine in India, no one judges you because you are a virgin. (The culture has it's drawbacks, too. I am not downplaying them).
The BEST thing about slack is (was?) that nobody outside of your organization can message you.
Extreme sustained profit margins are usually a signal that something fishy is going on.
American Mozart (2012)
Even still, you're balancing the number of people dying from the lockdown against the number of people who would have died if the hospitals would have been completely overwhelmed (a la NYC, Wuhan, India, and Italy in various times of the pandemic.)

The "what ifs" get harder to calculate.
It worked for me, I did sign up.
You can't teach someone how NOT to write a program, speaking on the technical side. The more you know the more capable your programs can be. It's about one's morals after that.
yeah, wanted to reply to the british workplace article. This app is pasting stuff wrong
Before WWII, people in the U.S. bought catastrophic insurance and generally paid for their medical care out of pocket without much trouble. This kind of insurance was around $80/month or less in my state before Obamacare was implemented (it doubled after that). Before WWII, everyone simply paid for common Doctor visits and relied on their insurance for larger bills. After WWII, the US made gave employers tax incentives to provide insurance, which in hindsight was a huge mistake.
That evidence exists, in Yifan's case; i have personally seen receipts. Unfortunately i'm still banned on HN so probably nobody will see this.
There is no social setting besides close friends and family(and therapy I suppose) where you should ever "be yourself." I never caught on to the trend that started with social media of blurting or tweeting out whatever you're thinking and for good reason. Now people are going back years scrubbing candid thoughts they had when they were teenagers while the naturally reticent have nothing to worry about.
Are there many potential explanations as to why our justice system has racist outcomes? Absolutely. Does that change whether the outcomes are racist or not? Absolutely not.

There seems to be a lot of confusion over racism where one group seems to think racism only exists when it involves white hoods and hurling racial epitaphs and the other group is more concerned about large societal trends and documented evidence of disparities in outcomes based on race.

Machine learning algorithms are a perfect example. If you build an ML algorithm for approving home loans using historical data, the outcomes of that algorithm will likely have a strong racial bias due to the history of housing segregation. If a company were to use that algorithm, they would be participating in systemic racism even if not a single person in that company was racist. It's racist because the outcomes are, not because of individual racists within the system trying to explicitly hurt black folk.
> Before COVID, I was under the impression that most Americans found "Give me liberty or give me death" an admirable sentiment.

Are you under the impression that you were experiencing pure liberty before COVID? Because it's pretty obvious to me that there was an acceptable level of restraints that society generally agreed to, and those levels changed due to the pandemic. It's a fun saying, but it's in no way, shape, or form realistic.
I'm admittedly rather disappointed with Chia after reading up on it, as I thought it was closer to Sia [0] or Storj [1] where you got rewarded in coin to provide storage space, but instead it's more akin to Burstcoin [2] and indeed, proof-of-capacity cryptocurrencies are nothing new and the only supposedly added value would be on Chialisp for (safer?) smart contracts. It IS factually correct to say proof-of-capacity is far less resource intensive than proof-of-work crypto as even the least efficient hard drive will consume orders of magnitude less energy than a mining rig, but it's still based on tying up a resource, this time it's just a majority of hardware and a minority of electricity instead of the other way around.

One issue that most people advocating for proof-of-stake gleefully ignore is to work through the initial distribution of the coin- can't stake what you don't have. So you either have a sizable premine, you bootstrap your coin using someone else's ledger or you start out with proof-of-work (or like Chia, proof-of-capacity) and then move on to proof-of-stake once there's a stable ecosystem for it. It does seem like Chia comes with a sizable premine, which is also disappointing but not entirely surprising as practically every new cryptocurrency that has come out as of late has had it to "financially bootstrap" its development and what not. I'd also have some choice words about Bram Cohen, but they'd be rather out of scope here.

[0] https://sia.tech/

[1] https://www.storj.io/

[2] https://www.burst-coin.org/
> (WW2 in Europe started due to US isolationism. Both Germany and Japan thought of the US as country bumpkins in 1940. Today, the CCP thinks of us as decadent and divided, thanks to BLM and antifa.)

Surely protesting against racism is what is makes the US weak. Not income inequality or the almost complete lack of social security net or poor access to education.

</sarcasm>
Substack makes it way too easy to fill your articles with "Subscribe" and "Share" buttons; you can do it with one click.
The address that it's minted from is well documented on the blockchain.
Thanks! That's wild!
Parry sounds like an old-school Jordan Peterson: taking the mythologies from obscurity and bringing them to life by showing their relevance today.

The idea that Homer did not create the mythologies, but catalogued oral history, makes some sense.
Perhaps you could be the one to elucidate the distinction.
Based on what they knew, or what they should have known? I never said they were idiots, but Asian countries already had data on mask use during SARS. I also don't think they were lying about what they thought at the time, moreso they were misleading about their level of uncertainty on the topic. If they really did think masks were useless with high probability then I think they missed some preexisting literature.
When I go to Walmart and try to find the thing on the shelves that the website says is there but is not, I will wrangle an employee for help. Typically they just say that the website isn't always right and leave it at that. As far as I can tell they don't then do anything to correct the website.
The Medieval Problem of Universals
Nano was my gateway editor when learning *nix in college. I tried vi only to have to close the window to exit. I think nano can continue to safely bring in converts from Windows and MacOS.
Many of those jobs produce fewer tangible outputs, are government jobs, non-profit, or otherwise do not focus on maximizing profit. Positions like teachers, social workers, etc are seen as cost centers, not revenue centers. They are necessary jobs and perform valuable societal functions, but they are supported through other revenues which were not a direct product of their job. As for why one gender chooses those jobs more than others, there are a variety of factors. One of the leading ones is that some people are more likely to choose work that is meaningful over just a dollar amount. Studies show that isn't just based on gender, but also in the some minority groups.
How to create beautiful particles effect in Vue.js (2.x and 3.x)
I have always found Borges’ discussion on Homer interesting. Specifically, his reference to Oscar Wilde’s idea that Homer was depicted as being blind in order to convey that poetry is an aural, and not visual, art form.

From On Blindness:

I will begin with that obvious example of the friendship of poetry and blindness, with the one who has been called the greatest of poets: Homer. (We know of another blind Greek poet, Tamiris, whose work has been lost. Tamiris was defeated in a battle with the Muses, who broke his lyre and took away his sight.)

Oscar Wilde had a curious hypothesis, one which I don't think is his­torically correct but which is intellectually agreeable. In general, writers try to make what they say seem profound; Wilde was a profound man who tried to seem frivolous. He wanted us to think of him as a conversationalist; he wanted us to consider him as Plato considered poetry, as "that winged, fickle, sacred thing." Well, that winged, fickle, sacred thing called Oscar Wilde said that Antiquity had deliberately represented Homer as blind.

We do not know if Homer existed. The fact that seven cities vie for his name is enough to make us doubt his historicity. Perhaps there was no sin­ gle Homer; perhaps there were many Greeks whom we conceal under the name of Homer. The traditions are unanimous in showing us a blind poet, yet Homer's poetry is visual, often splendidly visual-as was, to a far lesser degree, that of Oscar Wilde.
Wilde realized that his own poetry was too visual, and he wanted to cure himself of that defect. He wanted to make poetry that was aural, musical-let us say like the poetry of Tennyson, or of Verlaine, whom he loved and admired so. Wilde said that the Greeks claimed that Homer was blind in order to emphasize that poetry must be aural, not visual. From that comes the "de la musique avant toute chose" of Verlaine and the symbolism contemporary to Wilde.

We may believe that Homer never existed, but that the Greeks imagined him as blind in order to insist on the fact that poetry is, above all, music; that poetry is, above all, the lyre; that the visual can or cannot exist in a poet. I know of great visual poets and great poets who are not visual-intellectual poets, mental ones-there's no need to mention names.*
The problem is that he's essentially using this news as self promotion to build his channel. He's probably getting ad revenue for that, and if he's not, youtube is. That's pretty messed up.
You say that with such certainy but the official number I've seen is a 10% increase. Also there is no measure for misery.
What's even the point of a moon landing?
Which is exactly what the article did in its first graph.
Connecting the Unconnected in Rural America
What's driving me nuts is that this has been a big fear about equities for nearly a decade. I ditched a lot of my S&P holdings at the start of the pandemic, saying "Surely this will cause a de-leveraging spiral." That aged like milk.

The market has remained irrational far longer than any of us can remain solvent. Eventually Coyote has to look down and fall... right?

I suppose I'd have to watch the Fed, which is holding interest rates at basically zero, and thus continuing to pump money into the asset markets. It's not causing CPI inflation because what goes into the asset markets isn't increasing demands for milk, and while it's weirding the real estate market, it's swamped by pandemic-based real estate weirdness.
Client side encryption is still useful for webapps (or even proprietary apps) for example in apps like protonmail. At any time the company could send a payload that would extract the keys and pwn a user. But what it does provide is the guarantee that if they start non malicious, but later become malicious the scope of their capabilities are limited. If you don't log in to some historical account there is nothing they can do the attack has to be active. Similarly continuing on the example plaintext emails are encrypted when they are received by them and stored with your key. You could argue "well they could just not encrypt them". But any emails that they did encrypt while not malicious are still outside of their power if they change.
This reads more of a pointless meandering rant from someone with an axe to grind using woketopian aphorisms.
Most Western nations could use more social conformity and shame culture to reduce antisocial behavior. I mean, that's the main reason why Japanese cities are so clean and safe compared to most European cities.
The same argument has been made about monarchies; no rational king would ruin the kingdom for his son. A quick perusal of the history books makes a mockery of that theory.

Turns out humans aren’t perfectly rational, and handing a huge amount of control to a tiny number of rich people is a fantastic way to discover that while any given rich person might be smart and what not, there’s a non trivial chance that their heir is an idiot and will ruin whatever they’re given. This is entertaining for personal fortunes, but not so funny when they control a currency.
I don't think anybody would have a problem with forcing vendors to allow the use of Apple Store payment as an option.

I'm impartial to having a variety of payment options, some more expensive and theoretically trusted than others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Japan
Your privacy policy has a "Login" for internal use only
I would say I would be more likely to buy the chocolate, but not the chicken soup. The bulk of the cost being an opaque category like labor wouldn't sit right with me. I feel like I am being tricked.
Whose labor? The chef, the server, the farmer, the truck driver, the CEO. I think if the broke this category out more it would work better.
WebSequenceDiagrams supports this:

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Premium version allows crossed messages:
https://www.websequencediagrams.com/cgi-bin/cdraw?lz=dGl0bGU...
> The lockdowns increased the rate of suicides substantially

why did you link to stats that only go to 2018?

Suicides are down in 2020[1]

1. https://www.axios.com/suicide-decreased-in-2020-pandemmic-me...
> That happened in Europe in the early 90s, in America in the early 2010s.

Not my recollection, though? "Electronica" was a mainstream record store category and a huge market in the late 90s and early 2000s in North America long before this "EDM" label was applied later.

I think, yes, that it fell out of fashion post 9-11 and so in the 10 year gap the EDM thing happened later. So we're really talking about a generational horizon thing here, where EDM was the re-emergence of the mainstream top-40 "rave" thing 10 years later for the next generation.

But I remember 3 waves of this stuff:

very early 90s, late 80s, crap like C&C music factory, etc. was the mainstreamization of house music. "pump up the volume" KLF "What Time is Love" etc. was chart topping mainstreamization of acid house, hell it got played all the time on the jukebox in my smalltown / rural Canadian high school. I worked an indoor mall amusement park and the early 90s equivalent of today's EDM was on constant rotation. Dance megamixes, etc.

mid-late 90s, "Electronica"; Chemical Brothers, Prodigy, Underworld, etc. were big. And then the tail end of that it just was everywhere.

And then later, this EDM thing.

So 10 year waves, and at no point has it really been foreign to North America. There were huge several thousand person raves all through the late 90s. It's just that in _context_ of hip-hop R&B dominance in North America and its exports, maybe it looks to Europeans as non-existent.
The negative number of excess deaths in some Asian countries like Japan, Korea and Taiwan is interesting. I wonder if it's because of the very high rate of mask wearing that these countries have been known for since early in the pandemic. This might have helped reduce the number of deaths from influenza and other respiratory infections so much that they outweigh the deaths from Covid.
Yup, Donahue was great. He does another interview with Milton Friedman as well.
I don't understand the people who dislike nano as an editor for the *nix system. After spending in it for like 30 minutes - it becomes an indispensable tool for quickly touching up text files anywhere you go to! No matter where I SSH to (*nix systems) - I always had nano available.
A number of teams in my group have long had a rule that if anyone on a call is remote, everyone needs to do the call from their own computer.

I agree that the odd person out being remote is often a problem but distributed teams generally can adopt effective practices. If your company doesn't? Well, there are other companies that are going to be more effective.
I think GP's point is, why are game consoles not expected to be open platforms, but the iPhone is? And who isn't to say Apple's business model isn't greatly tied to their closed platform?

At least as far as public sentiment goes, the only difference seems to just be precedent. Game consoles have always been locked down, strongly DRM controlled machines, while PDAs/smartphones have ... existed in a strange grey area. For whatever reason, people think they should have rights to their phone, but not as much for the game console.

Guessing it's because you can "just buy a PC" with greater performance and flexibility in essentially the same use domain as a console, but doesn't that apply to iPhones as well? "Just buy an android"?