skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this lies at the heart of what makes so many people uncomfortable with ultra-wealth.

Put aside all of the adverse incentives that go along with accumulating so much power and control over people, politics, capital, etc.

It's random. The rewards (infinite cosmic power, more or less) are disproportionate with the risk. Some/many people take greater risks with no hope of even a fraction of equivalent reward.

Nobody denies that the billionaires of this world worked and work hard for their billions. Some might have even taken great risks. But there is little sense of justice in it.

"Why should they get billions while I work just as hard as them? Because they happened to have that one good idea?"

This is where the Marxists sweep in and wow everyone with their promise of a different way. I'm not convinced, but I definitely see the appeal.
For some providers, if you cancel and sign up again after 31 days, it counts as new service and qualifies for 1 year of promotional discounts as a "new customer".
Since this is an Electron app, does that mean your API keys are distributed in the app.asar? Otherwise, I'm not sure how it's possible to make OAuth requests on the user's behalf
I love how in every HN thread about Bitcoin, someone says the coin currently trading above $30k has no value.
In either case, in all cases, correlation is not causation. We can debate the degrees of difference between overwork and Covid but speaking of correlation as if it's causation is unacceptable. Simply because one agrees with the correlation doesn't magically make it causation. Yes, this attitude has been normalized, but that doesn't make it correct.
Two things: One, this was the supposed goal of such a loan (keep jobs, and not sign multi-million bonuses to CEOs). Two, you could give this to a small business and keep as many jobs (on total) if not more. However, bigger companies have better means to navigate complex governmental schemes. This means people who have substantially more wealth (owners of big companies) get an easy ride during such a crisis while the smaller guys get screwed.

Or, you know, don't give money to anybody. You'll have some people bailed out through deflation, and some other screwed because they are over-leveraged. Whatever happened to being responsible and putting some money aside for a crisis?
> takes minutes to get a fix on most phones

I've never experienced that. It usually takes a few seconds for me.
T-mobile now offers 5G home internet service for $60, which might convince a cable provider's retention department to offer a discount.

https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/t-mobiles-60-home-interne...
I take your broader point that empathy is important; this is absolutely true. But in no way can this type of rhetoric - and the violence it intentionally stokes - be seen as the only remaining possibility.
Rumoured in next one based on some acquisitions they did pre-pandemic.
> one of the most crufty-but-heavily-utilized user facing pieces of software Apple puts out. Maybe they have some long term plans to refactor it ala iTunes but yeesh.

The Messages app on Mac was rewritten for Big Sur (last year). It gained some features but also some bugs in the process.
How Aeroflot's Russian Made Fleet Has Changed over Time
Should not be a surprise after Theranos.
This is what we, in popular language, call a scam.
Would that this was true. That would be an originalist reading. The modern activist SCOTUS is able to find "emanations and penumbras" in the Constitution of which the founders never dreamed. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut
Mind sharing the RSS feed link, please?
I don't think that's the sort of question a supercomputer like this can answer. It has additional compute power - it doesn't have any breakthrough in the AI itself.
Show HN: Parsnips, Link Sharing and Organization
I never have gotten a satisfactory answer to why Google Play needs access to everything including camera, mic, location and accelerometer data. But it sure chased me off of their platform...
Most of the Apple Watch health features are blocked in Australia because they were literally too lazy to submit the paperwork to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)!

All a competitor has to do is submit their paperwork and they won't get any competition from Apple. Easy!
American Journalists Shielded China and Erased the Wuhan Lab Leak Theory
Well iOS is also a subpar experience on the ipad pro. Besides Apple does not need to write drivers for it. The ipad pro is just a macbook with no builtin keyboard and with a 120hz mini-led touch screen. Work on getting linux to work on it is essentially a few months to a year away most likely. Apple only has to allow users to run non-apple OS on it.
The Inner Works of the Fed’s Money Printing Machine
Ask HN: How do you remain secure while surfing the web
What are some best practices to follow to keep your online identity secured while surfing the web
is it legal to collect the hacked accounts/emails/etc. lists from the places like hacking forums/etc.? Wouldn't it be a stolen property what can make FBI go after you?

Coincidentally, just few days ago a Russian owner of a platform for such exchanges got his sentence:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/russian-hacker-sentence...

"DEER.IO sold not only stolen accounts, like the gamer accounts identified in the plea agreement, but also Americans’ personal information, to include names, current addresses, telephone numbers and at times Social Security numbers. On March 4, 2020, the FBI purchased 1,100 gamer accounts, and on March 5, 2020, the FBI purchased the personal information for over 3,600 Americans. On March 7, 2020, Firsov was arrested by the FBI in New York City when he flew into JFK Airport from Moscow."
I liked my Apple Watch for a while. Then… I forgot to wear it sometimes. Then everyday.

I’d love to buy one again if it could hold a charge for several days. But the value proposition isn’t high enough for the pain of daily charging.
Can I use this on hacker news?
Actually it makes a huge difference. You haven't played WoW have you?
Presumably because the money set aside was miniscule and was presumably 'narrowly tailored':

After convening several virtual meetings, the civic leaders proposed a bold and novel solution that state lawmakers approved in July. The state would earmark $62 million of its $1.4 billion in federal Covid-19 relief money to provide grants to Black residents, business owners and community organizations enduring pandemic-related hardships.

Notably, the black population in Oregon is around 2%, but the amount set aside is slightly over 4%, which may give plaintiffs grounds to challenge the allocation.
A spectacle?

(Paging 'dredmorbius; I'm way past my bedtime, and he knows this stuff better anyway.)
Now the important questions:

1) does it run FarCry?

2) are the GPUs limited in their ETH hashrate?
They found an innovative method of cost reduction by stealing electricity.
The combined indirect result of the housing crisis and the COVID crisis is that the upper class doesn't fear recessions anymore. They now have the bail out machine very well tested and oiled. At any sign of recessions they will force governments to bail out their bad investments and let the population die of starvation if necessary.
If you give cash to people, they'll use to buy stuff from corporations, Mom&Pop, and uber food. That should create jobs?
I start to talk with an accent when I'm around people speaking in accent, but it only happens under the influence of alcohol. Always puzzled me, not like I'm doing it deliberately, almost becomes a sort of shtick.
Seems quite easily deniable to me. Men dominate school dropouts, suicides, prisoners, and the homeless. All of these issues disproportionately affect the working class and other disadvantaged groups, so that strawman can go back in its box for another conversation.

On overwork specifically, fathers are the most likely to work overtime and swap shifts - more so than men without children (and women in general). When it's a choice even other men don't make, it should be obvious even to the most frothy ideologue that there's a unique pressure on fathers in this regard. They're giving something up that literally everyone else finds valuable.
Some past related threads:

What a Russian Smile Means - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17445108 - July 2018 (67 comments)

What a Russian Smile Means - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17381975 - June 2018 (1 comment)

What a Russian Smile Means - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17376212 - June 2018 (1 comment)

Do Russians smile at each other? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7491944 - March 2014 (1 comment)

Why do Russians smile so little (and Americans so much?) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2375633 - March 2011 (105 comments)

Pretty sure there have been others. Anybody?
It seems like the pendulum has swung back in favor of air-defense systems. Also doesn't help, I am sure, that the biggest weakness of the F-35 is itself. I am also curious, in the event of a breakout of hostilities, is there any way to emergency-reboot F-22 manufacturing? Or is 187 all we have, and that's it?
It’s unclear the extent to which it’s futile. Does getting educated, working hard, doing side work, DIY work to save money, spending money wisely, saving and investing for retirement, buying one house, marrying one spouse, help your family “get ahead”? Pretty reliably. Nothing’s guaranteed in life, but doing that list gives you pretty good odds to enjoy life and get your kids started on their own enjoyable lives.
Who's the mug in this situation? Apple, or the Australian people?
Thank God somebody else has seen what I have been saying for a long time.

"Uber is a scam creaming off lots of money for its management from investors and drivers alike."

When the investors finally wake up that Uber is a scam and stop throwing good money after bad, Uber will shrivel up and float away, while abandoning the sucker drivers. In the meantime, the management guys will be laughing all the way to the bank.
Who buys stolen electricity? Bitcoin miners and weed growers ... at best! Selling this to homes would be even more illegal because of the negligence. Someone could get killed fucking around with that much power.
Hope this helps someone:

https://github.com/capitalone/DataProfiler

We’re working to automate much of that as well in a Python library.

The end goal is to:

1. point at any dataset and load it with one command

2. Calculate statistics and identify entities with one command

3. Generate robust reports with one command.

Regarding the data wrangling... Believe it or not, even automatically detecting a delimited file with a header is hard work. Imagine a header can be on the 3rd row and has a title and author ship one rows 1 and 2 respectively. Further, the delimiter might be the “@“ symbol!

The linked library wrote handles that scenario. But that’s just CSVs, there’s also Json, parquet, Avro, etc etc...

This is an extraordinarily deep and complex field.
I don't think voting is a very good idea. I live my ideals by not voting for anyone.

Voting makes sense if you're trying to decide where to eat dinner in a group of five. It doesn't make sense to pick leaders to represent you in incomprehensibly complicated sets of unknown decisions.

Using the last election as an example, take Trump and Biden, and just consider one single choice, like their respective positions on the Iran nuclear deal. If I wanted to make an intelligent choice between Trump and Biden on this issue it seems like I'd have to know what they were likely to do regarding the Iran nuclear deal, and I don't trust either of them to tell me. I'd have to actually know what a good solution to the Iran nuclear deal is - but that seems like a question for intelligence analysts and geopolitical strategists to discuss likely implications of various choices. I'd have to weigh the morality of sanctions that hurt Iranian citizens versus the increased risk of regional or global nuclear war - which seems almost impossible to do. I'd have to be able to put the importance of the Iran nuclear deal into context against the broader set of foreign and domestic issues facing the would be President known and unknown to come up with something like "I like Trump's position on Iran but Biden has a better position on X, Y, and Z, and together those things are more important..."

It doesn't strike me as believable that most or even more than a negligible amount of voters are making informed choices like that. I think mostly people just vote the way their friends and family do, or vote for the person they like better, or vote based on the political and rhetorical games, or for the taller person, etc.
Yep you hit the nail on the head. Twitter sucks for politics and is good for other things.
I use a Garmin Tactix Bravo in tactical situations and it's brilliant! I think the battery lasts about two weeks.
Didn't know this. Thanks!
Is there a difference?
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972837924/how-bellingcats-onl...
No, but it might have been better than what you had.
Not to be too cynical, but I wonder what the result would look like if they were able to do the math all the way. It seems like they can tell us how many people die early from heart disease due in part to overwork, but we don't know how the value provided by their work extended the lives of others. For example, if overwork created a higher GDP, which resulted in better nutrition, medical outcomes, etc. maybe the net effect of overwork is positive. (Now that I think about it, that could get very dark if we embraced the idea, though.)
How do you prevent click-farms of promoting entries? All user-based decision making problems can easily be rigged by fake users/sock puppets. As long as there's a monetary incentive to promote/demote items with votes, people will pay for it.
Nice. I am building this too. Looking forward to exploring your vision of it.
I always saw a lot of irony in the focus on the 1% when the occupy protests were happening because if you asked people to describe the 1% they would almost universally describe traits of the .01%. Private Jets, yachts, super cars, multiple mansions being C suite at a large company that are totally unattainable to the bulk of the 1%.

The bulk of the 1% 10 years ago by number of members was probably mostly made up of doctors and lawyers although the wealth is disporportionately held by the top percentages of that range. Same is true today except add a major component of people in tech.

But the 1% rhetoric never made any sense.
Demand for a decentralised Ponzi scheme.
WoW's servers fall down pretty hard if you have 200 players in one spot doing more than just running around. The Ashran battleground was lowered below 40v40 for a while because even just that many players fighting each other was enough to get multi-second lag on abilities.
Great answer. Thanks
US does not allow any kind of remote work for any part of the stay with a travel or business visa. You can only work under a work visa.
Hi Hackers, I hate bookmarks. They're where good links go to die. I've always wanted a simple way to organize and share links that are important to me. After not finding a solution that fit me, I decided to make my own. This product has been in the works for an embarrassingly long time, but I think the time has not gone to waste. I love using Parsnips and I hope you might too. Would love your feedback and adoration ;)
Not just for perl!

> namesake of Saul Perlmutter, an astrophysicist at Berkeley Lab who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to research showing that the expansion of the universe is accelerating
When my wife was dying (she has since passed away) and nobody could figure out her illness, she'd be in the most wretched pain, in the ER again, and she'd be retching awfully and almost uncontrollably.

A doctor would walk in, having heard of all this already and ask "How are you?"

Sometimes she gave them the benefit of the doubt, and sometimes she was a bit less charitable.

My point? Americans (as she was), Russians, Ukrainians, Latvians, Japanese, Kurdish, Bolivians, Icelandians, Koreans, Germans, Chinese, Scottish, Irish, Australians, Austrians, Swiss, South Africans, Egyptians, Mixolydians, Bohemians, and even Canadians all agree one one thing:

Being asked "How are you?" is the LAST thing somebody wants to hear when they are suffering.
Oh, I find their UIs, once logged-in, nearly incomprehensible. Nothing makes any damn sense. I don't know how people use them. I don't, for that reason. But signing up's pretty straightforward and there aren't really any choices-with-unclear-consequences you have to make.
Hope this doesn't turn into another SkyOS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyOS
Why bother sending it to the UK first when you can send it directly to IOM, the Channel Islands, etc?
Give me a break, I was giving the parent an opportunity to provide evidence. All evidence I have seen is to the contrary:

> In our analysis based on 490 roll calls between 2005 and 2014 in the US House of Representatives, we find strong evidence that representatives are more likely to vote with special interests and against constituency interests when the two are in conflict. Importantly, the latter effect is significantly larger when there is less attention on politics.

Speaking of quick Google searches, the quote is from the first result when you search for “Do politicians vote with people's opinion or special interests”.

http://ftp.iza.org/dp11945.pdf
"Extremely high false positives"-- no, inability to culture from the specimens, which isn't the same thing as a false positive. Please stop conflating the two.

It's a sensitivity vs. specificity issue, as I've said before, and I'm willing to listen to arguments on those grounds.

As the studies you've cited show, the vast majority of positive samples become so before 30 cycles. Then there's these relatively few "weak positive" results, where the ability to culture live virus is less. There's not enough of these to explain the number of cases, deaths, or overall excess mortality (as you've attempted to say elsewhere here, and others have rightfully corrected you). And these results being considered a positive is arguably a good thing while the virus is very common, as I've attempted to explain to you.

> 2nd study shows 34ct is the cutoff for infectivity and that 2nd study also cites a 3rd study that ct>35 decreased to 8% active viruses

Yes, but "infective at the moment you took the test" is not a useful metric. You want more people to be positive than this, so you can A) contact trace people who were infectious immediately before, and B) get people who were just infected to stay home -before- they're infectious.

Of course, now that we're on a major downslope of cases, this tradeoff is changing...
You’re not supposed to give water to a newborn. Maternal milk has plenty of it already.
That's the constitutional order that prevails in the US and most republics/parliamentary democracies have something pretty similar. I'd be fascinated to hear about alternative proposals, but if you're just going to go on and on about 'dipshits' then you're probably not here for an actual discussion.
> Python programmers will be able to use RAPIDS, Nvidia’s open software suite for GPU-enabled data science

Ah not to be confused with OpenAI Rapid described at https://openai.com/blog/openai-five/ ^_^
I live in Berlin, raised German. The city is a wild mix and what you are describing I would argue is only applicable to a subset of people. Yes, many people here might seem cold and mechanical. That’s what I and this article have been trying to describe, people with an eastern heritage appear to outsiders this way. To me they do not appear this way, I’ve grown accustomed to this attitude.

We perceive Americans often as overly talkative and artificially happy. They’re not, it’s just the way they express themselves.

They might not smile as much in public but they do know how to love, be generous and laugh their asses off, just as westerners do. You’d see that once you get to really know these people.

But on the other hand I have barely ever seen a place that is also inhabited with very hedonistic people who laugh and feel openly. It’s quite a weird place to be honest.

Besides my German roots I’m also half Egyptian. Often when western people observe Arabs, they’re gonna think that they are constantly angry. I thought so myself when I was little. But it isn’t true. They have different means of communication and are some of the most welcoming, caring people I’ve ever met.

All comes down to acceptance. Once you accept the cultural differences you got with that other person and adapt to them, you will not feel them as cold or mechanical.
Former game dev, ten years in the industry. I don't think money is going to be their bottleneck. It's going to be game dev expertise.

This game idea is incredibly banal. It's like the pitch you'd get if you asked a kid to design a game. Pitches like these are punchlines in game dev circles.

Throw in the article's claims that people are working 80 hour weeks and the owners are offering 20% rev shares with streamers, I just don't see anyone who knows what they're doing taking these guys seriously.

With a more professional pitch, one which describes accurately the constraints, it's possible. For example, you can have a hundred million DAU if your game is primarily asynchronous multiplayer. This was being done a decade ago on Facebook. You can have user generated content cover your content gap if you rev share with content creators as Roblox does.

They are basically pitching a game platform but never tell you why their game platform will even boot.
Dude it's just a bunch of GPUs with a fast network...

Source: Berkeley PhD student in supercomputing, have access to Perlmutter.
Some of us remember when YC funded InstallMonetizer and people around these parts were defending it.

I doubt it'll affect the brand.
What makes a human being a human being is not something that science can help answer? What distinguishes humans from dogs? You can't use science to answer that question?
Well, apparently would cost $10b, with a required engine re-design, with approximately $200m per copy [1]

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4452474-F-22A-Produc...
What's great about this tool? since you can use Ansible to install Wordpress and more.
You have entirely missed the point. Which subsidies are bigger is irrelevant to what I said. The financial quarter the stockbuybacks happened under is irrelevant to what I said.

When a company has used so much of their recent cash in stock buybacks, it is disingenuous to call stock bonuses ethically different than cash bonuses.

To say the same thing another way. If the company was willing to issue those stocks to pay bonuses, why didn't they issue those stocks and sell them instead of taking bailout money.
I love my Apple Watch but the battery life thing is annoying because I do want to wear it to bed so the alarm can fire without waking a sleeping companion.
In an area that might be hot, VCS are wise to diversify by investing in multiple companies in the space rather than trying to pick the winner themselves way ahead of time.

VC is about funding the massive winner and much, much less about avoiding funding the runners-up.
Or inaction, rather!

I very much believe ignoring the evidence and refusing to act is criminal or at least unethical.
Nope, I had a very stable home life and most of my family is firmly rooted (albeit in a few different places). I’ve just always had this restless part inside that wanted to get out into the world and was never particularly concerned with the concept of home.
With Cox it was cheaper to get Cable TV & Internet than internet alone, so I ended up with a useless cable box stuffed in a corner to keep track of and return 2 years later. Very annoyingly stupid policy