skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any links that’s not just news about someone calling it a hoax getting the virus, but one of the actual quote of them saying it’s a hoax? Because one of the supporting links you provided shows one quote and it’s not calling the virus a hoax, it’s calling the pandemic a hoax.

“It's a serious virus, but it's a virus. It's not a pandemic ... You get it. You stand up against tyranny. Thank you for being here today. Thank you for saying no to the insanity."
One thing you can do is realize that experts are often wrong. The prevailing knowledge of twenty / thirty years ago has been proven wrong. Experts never admit they were wrong, they just modify their certainty to whatever the new study says. The fact that their previous certainty was disproven never comes up (think the crisis of bee colony collapse or insect die off). Another thing you can do is accept that changes to the climate have occurred since the beginning, and they will continue to happen regardless of what we do. The last thing you can do is turn off the endless reporting on climate change. The media has a vested interest in working you up (this includes social media). They make money off your attention, don't give it to them.
https://matadornetwork.com/read/mapped-united-states-canada-...

The name sounds nordic. Oslo, Stockholm & Helsinki would end up with a climate similar to Northern Manitoba. I tried to drop a Google StreetView to get a sense of the landscape. It was not possible, there are simply no roads and no cities at those latitudes.

Even the richest of the rich need a supply and support network. Money won't suffice.
I don’t think HN should be a place for “company shaming”… unless the author contacted the company and they denied/rejected/threaten him instead of fixing the issues. I guess it did not happen.

I see HN as a place for collective learning. I don’t see what we can learn from this post.
Another cloud storage solution:

https://icedrive.net

Everything encrypted before upload, cheap and has dedicated linux client.
original article title: This survey among 60+ hiring managers reveals: Don't waste your time on a (React) portfolio website
Anyone in London area want to buy a 2020 M1 MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM + 256GB SSD for £1000?
You turn the hardware client into a cheap fixed function device that doesn’t need a thousand vulnerable legacy components only runs signed and approved binaries with secure boot.
And reduce our use of multi-ton vehicles, because electric or not, the conversion cost of that energy is not cheap. Cars are tools first, far before toys, and they tend to need long, flat surfaces to roll on, which disrupt animal movement and harbor plants that sometimes take over. Driving slower, less often, and on dirt roads seems better for some concerns. Depends on what you care about.
That's potentially, even worse. It means that the 'relevant authorities" can substitute any images they want, whenever they want.
I think there's a difference between companies that build software for the market versus those that build software for a contract. The former tends to be driven by a team that believes in the product that they're trying to deliver, has a management team that has at least some vision for the software and investors that believe in the company's approach to the market. They want to make software / a product that represents the organization well and has long term value.

In the latter case, like so many government sponsored engineering projects, the company has no real long term incentive beyond what is written into the contract. Management isn't driven by the software being produced so much as meeting the contractual requirements that result in payments. In my experience, software contracting houses are a lot more likely to hold schedules over the heads of developers, and that's purely driven by the terms of the contract (billable hours). In contrast, even when I have been a contractor for a company that is building the product for itself, they tend to push for the goals of the project while ensuring it meets the needs of the company. The difference in pressure as a developer is quite substantial.
As with malware. Identify it. Isolate it. Remove it.
Install things resembling 'bee hotels' everywhere you can. Very low cost, potentially might be of great benefit. I was very surprised to see a few solitary bees using the ones that we put in our garden.

Then plant a patch of bee-friendly plants, like wildflowers and clover.

Also, you don't need to take the honey from a beehive. I don't, I just keep them because I like honeybees. Doesn't reduce all of your upkeep concerns, but does decouple it from needing to achieve an outcome, which can take reduce some mental stress.
Giant trial of Covid-19 treatments is restarting. These are the drugs
FTC rejects Facebook justification for cutting off NYU researchers as inaccurate
The median home price in the US is something like 300-400k. You’re on HN so I assume you’re in a tech-related field. If you can’t afford that in 10 years you’re doing something wrong.
It depends on the context. The fact that it's a dating app means both people expect a certain privacy in their words and a certain "vulgarity" like calling eachother sexy without repurcusions.

Just like a porn website doesn't shield you from porn because it's "on the internet" , a dating website shouldn't shield you from intimate language.
Pluggable proxy that adds features to websites without any browser extensions
For some more complex deployments (i.e. not simple batch jobs or web services), we've used the Kubernetes API directly from programming languages like Python or Go. Often as a controller running within the cluster. That allows us the full data structures toolset and freedom of a programming language.

It reminds me of the old article "Beating the Averages": http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
Who was predicting a mere 20 years for 7m? Around 2001 I was only hearing about 1-2m by the end of the century.

I do see a lot of wildly misleading claims in newspapers, including where the research institutes the newspapers claim to be citing release statements specifically denying what the newspapers claim they’ve said, and I’ve been confounded by comments sections under those stories where other readers read only the false interpretations and not the actual words of the researchers.
“X for black people” sounds so bizarre to me(non-American). The cultural divide between the people must be insane.
> Purism is using the only existing WiFi card that works with free firmware. It is less performant than typical proprietary ones. If you don't care about your freedom strongly, you can replace the card (they are very cheap on ebay). Also, check Purism forums for such questions. It works better than "ten feet" for me.

Not the wifi card, the surround material like the chassis are attenuating the signal (the librem 14 should have fixed this issue). I swapped mine out for a well supported and performant Intel card and only got marginal improvements to the signal.

My "ten feet" was using it at coffee shops. I was traveling with the laptop. It was hard. The card switch did get it over the hump for this use case. Not an issue most of the time but still will have get a spot closer the router for video calls (like standup).

So the constraints for work were getting a seat close the router AND a power plug. I ended up USB tethering with my phone alot.

I do appreciate their contributions to the ecosystem but was wronged as a consumer. They need to be truthful.

I take it you have the v3 with the standard boot drive?
Are you suggesting we somehow make our existing gasoline-powered cars electric? I'm not very up-to-date so I didn't think that was possible. Unless you just mean replacing them with electric ones?
Java 8 you have a way to treat an int as unsigned: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/nutsandbolts/da...
UK embassies are also quite good about publishing updates on their websites.
You know Google scans the CP database too, right?
This is a pretty interesting take. Sort of an, "accelerate every country through their inevitable industrialization and all that comes with it so we can help them get past it faster."

I wonder how much of the US defense budget could be deployed to providing nuclear power to newly industrializing countries and what the long-term ROI would be re; staving off future climate refugee issues.
Apple is a legal entity not a moral one. It may have moral employees, but at best Apple itself is amoral. It will do what the law allows (or compels) it to do.

This feature absolutely will be used for human rights abuse by countries like China, just like they have asked Apple to abuse their platform in the past. Why? Because those abuses are legal there, and capitulation will be the only way those governments will allow them continue to sell in their lucrative marketplace.
People always use child porn as the backdoor excuse.

Once they have the mechanism in place to censor and report content. They will for sure be requested to use this. For terrorism, hate speech, etc until it's so blurry until it's absolutely limitless :(
Android apps dont solve problems better than anything else, they are just more available so this doesn't gel for me.

Windows and Android keep reinventing the same wheel even though (especially Windows) is basically still in "Windows 95" mode - getting fancy with a phone ui is just trash.
Time to (re)watch Brazil!
Disagree. I think this is a boon to E2E encryption. However you might feel, content filter legislation is unstoppable. It will just take a few high profile media cases for E2E encryption to be killed, otherwise. This is the right (privacy-conscious) way to implement it, on device. Google has been doing this for years, yet server-side. I recommend reading the actual docs: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

- [Probably erroneously] ascribed to Aristotle

But naysayers will say we are "bikeshedding."

Meh. Whatevs. I do things the way I do.
Good written communication skills can get you out of a lot of sticky wickets. I took one technical writing course in college, and I probably use those skills the most.
It's really sad!

Every time I visit I am more and more convinced I'd like to move out there. I think I'd be happier with more outdoors activities available, but man— it's unnerving.

One of the more peculiar things I witnessed when there last week was—as you mentioned—the very high water levels in Cumberland Lake which apparently forced BC hydro to let open the Comox dam and increase flow down the Puntledge. And for some reason they don't syphon any of that "excess" fresh water off, they just flow it into the ocean. I can understand not wanting to do anything overly disruptive, but it's already dammed. There were water shortage notices posted the entire time we were there.

And it is always amazing in the worst ways to drive past clearcut segments of rainforest. Conversely, I saw some of the most amazing (in the best ways) sights I've ever seen on my most recent trip... I hope we can temper our damage before it changes things too much. There's so much to lose.
Well I personally am perfectly fine with several types of child pornography:

1. Drawn or digitally rendered

2. Photos of me personally as a child (bath time, whatnot)

I have no problem with photos of me being used by anyone who is unfortunate enough to be born with an attraction to children. Who on this planet can say that I don’t have the right to distribute my own photos of myself?
According to the order, in offering and selling mTokens and DMG governance tokens, the respondents stated that DeFi Money Market could pay the interest and profits because it would use investor assets to buy “real world” assets that generated income, like car loans. However, the order finds that after publicly unveiling DMM, the respondents realized that DeFi Money Market could not operate as promised because the price volatility of the digital assets used to purchase the tokens created risk that the income generated through income-generating assets would be insufficient to cover appreciation of investors’ principal. The order finds that rather than notifying investors of this roadblock, the respondents misrepresented how the company was operating, including by falsely claiming that DeFi Money Market had bought car loans that they displayed on DeFi Money Market’s website. While the respondents controlled another company that owned car loans, DeFi Money Market never acquired an ownership interest in any of those loans. Instead, the order finds that the respondents used personal funds and funds from the other company they controlled to make principal and interest payments for mToken redemptions...

...Without admitting or denying the findings in the SEC’s order, respondents consented to a cease-and-desist order that includes disgorgement totaling $12,849,354 and penalties of $125,000 each for Keough and Acree. In addition, prior to the issuance of this order, the respondents funded the smart contracts so that mToken holders could redeem their mTokens and receive all principal and interest owed.

So if I understand correctly this is an example of enforcement gone right? Nobody actually lost money because the two were forced to close up shop and return all money owed BEFORE the whole operation could implode? Good job SEC, I feel like they never get any credit when things go right.
I’ve been telling everyone I know. The number 1 concern we should all have are pesticides!

The number of insects have dropped dramatically and that has impacts on the entire food chain. Particularly, the ability for plants to reproduce. The pesticides themselves also make it all the way up the food chain.

Neonicotinoids have a half life of 5 years and we spray fields EVERY YEAR. So it’s building up in the supply chain. I live surrounded by corn fields and I basically only see wasps, Japanese beetles and some ants. Growing up we saw a ton of different insect species and numbers.

Finally, all these chemicals interact and frankly we have no idea of the long term impacts when combined.
I feel like the cultural divide may be encouraged by certain groups. There's money to be made in market differentiation.
> While I applaud the goal

Really? What is the goal?

It's not to prevent child abuse, since passively looking at images is not, per se, abuse.

It's also not to limit the making of child pornography, since this will only search for already existing and already known images that already exist in government databases.

If you make new images that are not yet in said databases, you're fine.

I'm not sure what the actual goal is (project a virtuous company image, maybe?), but the result could very well be the opposite of what people think.
Yep. You still find variants of that today.
The Amazon rainforest is being destroyed to grow more money. Money is fungible, if beef were banned they's cut the forest to do something else with the land.
Pretty much anyone whose citizenship was revoked by the Nazi government, or descendants of those victims who would have had citizenship today had it not been for the Nazi government, can apply to have the citizenship reinstated. Numerically it's likely mostly Jewish families in Israel and the US, but it applies to all of the Nazis' German victims.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nationality_law#Victims...
As an interviewee, I'm going to be exhausted after an hour on mic and talking about whatever random things come to mind--which are probably mostly random digressions that aren't very interesting. I have been taped for longer than that--with a break or two--but with the intent that the footage was going to be heavily edited.

I'm not even in the efficiency "play it at 2x" camp. But I pretty much have zero interest in hearing two or more people randomly ramble on. The fact that NPR/NPR-like podcasts and radio shows tend to have segments on even 1 hour shows probably says something about what pros find works best.

(I'm also a fan of shorter conference presentations although at large conferences, I appreciate that there are logistical issues associated with moving people between rooms too frequently.)
This is incredibly unethical behavior that we should not be condoning.

If this were someone employed under me as a security professional they would be fired for negligence.
RHVoice is a free and open source text-to-speech output engine for Android. Try it out:

- F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.olga_yakovleva.rh...

- GitHub: https://github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice

Alternatively, if you prefer Google's closed source text-to-speech engine (that is preinstalled on most commercial Android devices), you can download Speech Services by Google through Aurora Store:

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

Instructions for configuring the default text-to-speech engine on Android are here:

- https://support.google.com/accessibility/android/answer/6006...

Most navigation apps come with their own voice banks for turn-by-turn navigation audio, and installing a text-to-speech engine isn't necessary for these apps. However, Organic Maps (which is a recommended app in the CalyxOS setup wizard) doesn't, and it relies on the default text-to-speech engine.
SEC charges hacker news poster for deceitful title
The article makes a lot of good points.
But there are some cases where f16 is very useful. In the context of deep learning it's frequently useful to move from f32 -> f16. This can allow you to double the size of your models in memory (system or GPU/TPU).
Since network size is often determinant of performance, doubling the number of parameters/activations in your model can make a big difference.
> In the UK, LGBT training is a compulsory class for children.

This is way overhyped. It's barely more than “gay people exist, don't bully them” most places. One lesson in PSHE class – maybe two or three, if you get lucky and your teachers decide to teach you about binary trans people too, or if sexuality is mentioned in the Equality Act lesson (which mostly focuses on disability and maternity leave).

> opinions about sexuality are being presented as fact

By this logic, we should ban other children from talking about their religions in schools; they're likely to say things like “Jesus is God” or “God isn't real”. It's unlikely a religious child would get particularly confused with a teacher exposing them to different views on morality, given how much they're already exposed to that.
Solar prices have been decreasing at a staggering pace. 20 years ago, solar was certainly infeasible. That's not the case today and certainly won't be in 20 years.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/sunshot-2030

> Anti-nuclear "environmentalists" are just about the best friends the fossil fuel industry has ever had.

Agreed, and that was mostly by design of the fossil fuel industry. Initial anti-nuclear rhetoric came from them.

That said, the numbers are different today than they were 20 years ago. Solar and wind cost less and has less regulatory barriers to jump over to get deployed than nuclear. That will be true right up until land becomes a premium (which it isn't).

20 years ago, solar and wind were FAR more expensive than nuclear. Now, they are nearly the cheapest form of power generation (I think existing hydro still holds that crown).
gmail (and any other web based email) needs to "read" the email content to provide a search function. If the same program also uses the content to pick some ads from the inventory then I'm personally ok with that.

That is different from searching them for illegal material based on what illegal implies at a given time and location.
It's easy to make high quality software as a team of one - you never have to compromise, after all. You are basically a god of the project. When working on a large team though you have to make all sorts of trade offs at all sorts of levels and it's way harder to produce high quality software because you are no longer a god that controls every single aspect of the project.
All workers in that era wore these working clothes:

https://www.tifantex.sk/fotky39121/fotos/_vyrp11_35pracovne-...

We called them "montérky". They were terrible. They didn't even had belt loops, you couldn't put any gear on you, as if they were designed to lower the productivity. The only thing they were good for was standing around with hands in your pockets. That's why communism failed.
Athas, now that you’ve added fp16, why not add bf16 as well? (A100s support bf16 natively, as do upcoming server CPUs).
What do you do with the info?

If you live in Europe, start planning on a furnace for your home. Wear gloves when installing fiberglass insulation, it itches. The vapour barrier goes on the outside.

London is at the same latitude as Calgary, AB, Canada. Have you been to Calgary? Winter temp. hits -40°C (but it's a dry cold). Every outdoor parking stall has an electric plug for your block heater. Spray ether in the carburetor to get the car started.

Welcome to the 51st parallel.
That’s not at all how this works. It doesn’t scan for images of arbitrary subjects. It scans for exact matches of known CP. Your vacation pics are in no danger of being flagged.
I'll shift to Firefox in a heartbeat if they fix their horrendous font rendering on Windows.
A person yelling "fire" in a crowded theater gets in trouble, but a person yelling "there is no fire" in a crowded theater in a theater definitely on fire is... being silenced?
The problem with the collapse of our ecology (and the collapse of our future) is it forces us to deal with existential questions that were always there, we just used to have good ways of keeping ourselves distracted.

Every society has developed systems of meaning and value to help us individually deal with the fact that we will die and nothing we will have lived for matters. For many societies the future and present where not all that interesting. These societies typically focused on worship of ancestors, and focused on how their daily actions connected them with their past. This develops into more complex systems of religion and spirituality that help give us meaning.

Industrial society has increasingly abandoned these with a new system of meaning: progress. Much of our personal meaning is derived from things like career, contributions to society, our own projects, personal fame etc. We belief we are playing our small part in the future of humanity and that gives us meaning. But now, as that future starts to come into question, so do these essential sources of personal meaning.

The trouble is that we can't trivially go back to older systems. This is the crisis of nihilism we see across America, and people will beat on the empty symbols of blind nationalism, religious extremism etc trying to resurrect lost meaning. This is what Nietzsche was trying to warn us of in his frequently misunderstood "God is dead" aphorism. We have destroyed our old systems of meaning but the new ones we have he correctly saw were fragile, and when they break he knew there would be a crisis.

The comments to view this as grieving are in many ways correct. You can see the stages of grief everywhere:

- denial: "climate change isn't real" or "climate change won't be so bad"

- bargaining: "If we just recycle more, development more green energy, etc we'll be fine!"

- anger: "It's those damn republicans! they did this!"

- depression: "what's the point of doing anything if we're going to lose everything"

The trouble is that getting out this grief isn't as simple because there's no return to normal. The loss is part of our world. One approach is study what the existentialists have talked about, their immediate post-WWII felt similarly lost. My HNers like the stoics which is another path to explore. But either way the long term project is to work on establishing systems of meaning that work for you... else you risk falling into a feverish insanity which I think we'll see more and more common place.