skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds great in theory, but what happens if your dev/ops ratio is something like 15/1? How do you put an ops person in every team? I think it's the right answer but it seems impossible to put in practice.
Why not? Plenty of folks from all walks of life down there get their CCW.
It's designed to be used in a MOOC, so there should be lots of text around them. edX math classes use them a lot.
Is there any good de-clickbaiting (/de-spammy-buzzfeed-esque-naming) extension? Stripping certain patterns (such as anything starting with 'You') out of headlines, or hiding matches?
> Of course Stallman and a large group of volunteers can't compete with giant corporations.

If they (or their ideology) can't, then nothing else they say has any relevance.

> But their contributions are very valuable and needed.

How so? Decades of their braying has not solved the problem; indeed things have gotten much worse.
As an employee, this signals to me that I'm not ready for the better position.
> Wouldn't they just... buy drugs and stick them in the car?

Maybe they want to create too many false positives deliberately, or maybe they do it just because they want to see if and how synthesizing such a chemical can be done.

When putting pictures on someone's phone or computer, there are ways to add false positives as well as maybe doing false negatives sometimes (e.g. by encrypting the picture or using an uncommon file format so that it must be converted, or using complicated HTML/JS/CSS to render it instead of just a picture file).

Also, if someone has the picture or drug or whatever to find if it is what they are, can you accuse them (maybe they are the police) of liking pictures and drugs, too?
The entire point of the masks was to catch the large droplets that people cough or sneeze out when they are infected with a virus that has a droplet based spread.

That prevents those droplets from landing on surfaces where others will come in contact with them.
It's a pretty solid gotcha.
So, like The Thing?
> The great incoherent idiocy of anti-* Americans on the issue of masks has always been that they say "cloth masks are ineffective" and propose a solution of "do nothing" instead of "get effective masks."

I think the "no nothing" solution has more to do with a desire to return to normal than it is a refusal to "get effective masks" and just wear them forever or until some agency says not to anymore. There is a valid point to be made that once you're vaccinated and most people around you are vaccinated it's time to start learning to live with the reality of covid being a mild disease you get once in a while. I suppose a masked up future is one of better public health for some, but for many it is psychologically exhausting to see your friends and coworkers as potentially dangerous vectors of contamination. This is especially dystopian when the government forces you to do this whether it's sensible or not.
Ask HN: Best way to donate to improve Linux user experience?
After the multiple discussions about moving from Apple to linux, and how Linux isn’t ready for the masses due to poor user experience, problems and difficult solutions etc., I want to donate to help solve it. Which is the best open source project to donate to specifically improve this problem?
From the page:

> Generally speaking, less code is better than more code

This is true, but, generally speaking, readable code is better than compact code. Making it harder to scan through the code, or requiring more horizontal reading to understand code while you're scanning through it, is objectively bad.

This is going to push people towards making less-readable code for literally zero benefit. Considering how many of the checks in pylint are to make your code more readable, this is a clear step backwards.

I agree with him about the problems involved in while loops; there are cases where what you actually want is "loop forever until you die", but they are pretty rare, and all the rest can be converted into some other form of loop; that said, those situations also seem to more likely complicate the understanding of your code in many situations.

All in all, while-used is highly opinionated but has a point to make; consider-ternary-expression is an asinine addition that's going to push people towards writing objectively worse code for literally no benefit other than reducing line count. If that's your KPI, then sure, fill your boots, but it makes zero sense to enable it by default.

Edit: To clarify, it does not seem as though PyLint is enabling this by default, but I'm concerned that some shops will enable it by default and push their developers to write worse code.
I used to work on a system with a heavy amount of UGC (gaming network). We had a big team of people doing moderation of reported content, and the amount of stuff they had to deal with was monstrous. Lots of death threats, racism, evil images, SWAT-ing. They'd invite people to do ride-alongs to see the types of things that were reported, and it was brutal. A very tough job. A lot of those folks were ex-military, we needed really tough people.

They were kind of a weird org, the police of the network, and they kind of kept to themselves but carried a ton of weight. When they were looped into a meeting for a new feature -- for example, "Should we let users send videos to each other?" -- they'd list out the evil ways people would use them, and then list out the various CSAM scans we'd be obligated to do if we hosted the content on our servers. They didn't have the means to block features, but they did put a healthy fear-of-God into us, and made it so we didn't have a lot of big public debacles of kids seeing porn on the home screen of the device, or things like that.

I can imagine that Apple has a similar group. I can imagine they went to some executive, told them that this would be their best way to comply with the law, of course you don't need to access the images themselves, that would be a privacy violation and we don't do that! We just need the hashes, may we remind you this is CSAM we're talking about? Then it went up the chain and people were excited to "protect the kids" and protect the brand, hashes != user data, everyone wins!

I'm guessing this move was mostly misaligned priorities, and possibly some genuine incompetence or perhaps people not speaking up when they saw the potential here.
> Widespread mask use came as close to wiping out last year's Flu season as we've ever seen.

This is an assertion. It could have been the fact that nobody was traveling last year. It could have been the fact that most kids were out of school. It could have been distancing. It could have been any number of other things.

Any conclusion here is premature.
So the only way to opt out of an intrusive, sloppy and flawed algorithm now is based on you hoping Apple sticks to their word? The same company that gives the CCP unfettered access to Chinese iCloud data?
Nitpick: a healthy young person has ballpark 1 in 10 thousand chance of dying per year. So it's enough to be 99.9999% sure because extra nines don't really make your life safer.
Did I just read that the A/M SoCs are getting an RISC-V co-processor?
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The science on mask mandates for young school children is unclear. Most European countries don't require it.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/08/the-science-of-maski...
> It is best to make them with a four inch thick filter, which HD does not stock

I bought a 20x24x4 #10 pleated wool air filter at HD yesterday.
In java 16, they've added record objects to help with this pattern.
Maybe consider the Framework laptop which has made the rounds here a couple times recently. They made good hardware choices for a productivity laptop (3:2 screen, good keyboard), is easily reconfigurable with USB4 modules for a custom array of ports, is designed to be easily upgraded and repaired, and is sold for a fair price. There's an argument to be made that a device designed for upgradability and repairability can reduce TCO. Mine is shipping this month.

https://frame.work/
10x more type safe as well!
Why it’s not possible to synchronize turn signals (but it is) [video]
You've piqued my curiosity; what did you think meant 2 that they thought meant 3?
Still not getting it. I eat, I breathe and I work. If I stop eating, I die. If I stop breathing, I die. If I stop working...life goes on the same as before. I currently live off of 4% of my net worth per year. If I decide not to go back to work on Tuesday, I could live for another year, or another decade or another half century.

How is that the same as eating and breathing?
> We're talking wearing a mask and saving lives

This study doesn’t show that - it shows a slower rate of transmission, but without vaccination, the long term infection rate will ultimately be the same.
No, you are not interpreting it correctly. The 11% reduction is the effect of the intervention (encouraging people to use masks), which meant that the rate of people complying with the measure went from 12% (control) to 42% (intervention). The 11% refers to the effect of increasing mask use by that magnitude.
A Conspiracy of Hogs: The McRib as Arbitrage
I like what I got to know as "the Japanese way" to count to 144 on my fingers. I´m sure it´s not exclusive to Japan tho.
Using thumb as a pointer, I count not on the fingers, but their segments. Each finger is 3 segments, which gives 12 per hand. Now, to boost it, one hand is used to count the dozens from the other hand.
Gets me thinking, maybe this is one of the reasons for popularity of 12-based systems in ancient times? Did our ancestors just use their counting fingers better?
Have you not heard of the lockdowns here in Europe?

In Spain we were forced inside for 2 months, and then forced to wear masks at all times in public - indoors and outdoors.

The police got a free pass to beat and arrest people with the excuse of masks or curfew: https://elpais.com/espana/2021-03-28/la-policia-investiga-a-...

I got banned from some subreddits just for posting that, because it's become such a political issue in the US.
That's easy when you know the secret. Give me any prime, as big as you like, and I'll factor it for you right now.
VLSI Technology: An Overview
If it's 4 years old, that WD Red is from before WD pulled the SMR shenanigans.

The TLDR is they switched the WD Red drives from CMR to SMR technology without announcing it or noting it on drive specifications, and then when they got caught they announced the WD Red Plus line which became their cheapest CMR drives with NAS -focused firmware.

So before this, WD Red was just fine, but for new purchases, we have to specify WD Red Plus, not just WD Red.

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/311182-red-alert-wd-su...
at some point you could use KDE's Dolphin on windows, that was awesome
Avoidance of link rot should probably be done with the paper's DOI number - https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3912074
Nun of these seem to be accessible for screen readers, unlike what PHET has.
They did all of those things, but this paper is about the effect of mask-wearing (surgical vs. cloth vs. none) on the rate of symptomatic seroprevalence in the groups. Kuldorff is right, and is just stating the top-line numbers from the paper.
One of the AnkiDroid maintainers here. This is entirely my personal opinion and not representative of a general consensus.

I am strongly opposed to this for ethical reasons. Distracting drivers will kill people. This functionality would also increase the risk of death for non-users of the software.
Quite convinced we have to prepare on getting infected some time. Covid will be around for the coming years and years. Nice that you have less chance of getting that, and then what? You can’t walk around with a mask indefinitely.
Saw another report this week that links to the viral load and the impact: low viral load = no symptoms, no immunity. Medium viral load is minimal symptoms, Immunization. High viral load = serious illness (and immunity, but potentially also hospitalisation and/or long covid)
Would be nice if the masks help you to get in the sweet spot.
Reminds me of that scene in Inglorious Basterds where the spies are outed because of this.
> In India, for example, they use the lines between the segments of the fingers to count.

My mother does this, and additionally used to do arithmetic this way.

She never really taught us how to do math this way.
> The eInk situation is indeed dysfunctional, but the fact that one patent holder is bad at business doesn’t mean much more than that.

Whether they're bad at business or not, it's certainly not a situation that makes me feel like the patent system is in my best interest.
The number 4 may be an issue for some cultures!
Then I can't understand why it would be slow. Because even the cheapest ones limited to 1500 Watt at 230 Volt heat water in about 2 minutes to boiling bubbles, 100°C. And then you can play with it, some allow steps of 10°C, some others only 20°C. Response is instant, trailing maybe 3 seconds max. Maybe you had the wrong pots? Or, as I have written initially...inferior electrics :-)

edit: Or the thing was partially broken/defective.
"...unlike in other areas and not unlike with religion (or culture in general) there are many of them - potentially of equal value, - or that philosophy must always be studied and can only be understood in the historical and/or cultural context."

On one hand, you will find many people who frequent HN like Stoicism, a philosophy that is over 2000 years old and yet still applicable in many senses. (I personally prefer Epicureanism and Zhuangzi, but that's me.)

On the other, I think it would be difficult to understand Kant without being familiar with Hume.

Philosophy is not like physics or mathematics. (Some modern analytic philosophers would disagree. They're wrong. They're also not as smart as they think they are. (C'mon, fight me! Anytime, anyplace! I've always got my Junior Philosopher's Secret Decoder Ring and Brass Knuckles with me.)) To expect it to act like physics or mathematics is a mistake. Do you expect progress from a conversation with friends?
So 4 is the numeric equivalent of a raised middle finger.
It depends on your needs, but here is my expierience. I like my data encrypted, no cloud and backed up, so my config is:

1. Intel NUC + Internal 2TB NVME SSD (24/7)

- Encrypted with LUKS
- All-Day-Data like personal Photos, Music, Audiobooks shared via SFTP / SMB
- Low Power consumption + good performance

2. Dell T20 + 32GB ECC RAM with encrypted ZFS 10TB RAID 1 (wake on lan / on demand)

- FreeNAS
- Backup Server for NUC and all other clients
- ZFS Snapshots for Ransomware protection

3. Alix APU 4GB with ZFS (24/7, off site at my fathers home)

- disaster backup for my most important data
- sync via zfs send with one specific dataset from machine 2

Its pretty low power, but also low on storage - it took a while to find out that the data for my all day use is < 2TB. This is often not enough for most people...

I can recommend to use an cheap old machine as NAS with ECC RAM (a must) and ZFS, like a

- Dell T20
- HP N54L
- HP gen8.

OS can be FreeNAS/TrueNAS, napp-it or another reliable one. I never had problems with these and once configured, there is hardly any effort to maintain them.

What I don't recommend is:

- Raspberry PI based (not reliable, slow)
- Custom build (expensive, much effort)

Soho NAS like Synology are ok-ish, but I don't like them - Bad things happend to me. Broken filesystems, damaged files, non-working backups, slow performance and so on. But that was a while ago, maybe now they are better :-)
Not quite. The wording has to be parsed carefully:

> Those living in villages randomly assigned to a series of interventions promoting the use of surgical masks were about 11% less likely than those living in control villages to develop COVID-19

So it's not mask vs. maskless; it's promotion of masks vs. no such promotion.

The study [0] gives more information:

> In villages that received the intervention, mask use increased by 29 percentage points (from 13 percent in the comparison villages to 42 percent in treatment villages).

[0]: https://www.poverty-action.org/study/impact-mask-distributio...
> Mny password attempts for 1 username, isn't it easier to slow down attempts to authenticate the username after x tries, regardless of the IP? Just the fact that multiple IPs are being used for 1 username in a loop is enough of a red flag.

Nope, one attempt per username - they were using a giant list of hundreds of thousands of leaked credentials.

> That's half a billion passwords to disallow?

Yup.
You're making a foolish assumption that many economists made and I will completely destroy it through an unrelated problem.

That is, monetarists assume a constant circulation velocity of money. i.e. hoarding of money doesn't exist.

This is extremely foolish because it would mean the existence of a debt crisis would be impossible. Every dollar the government spends will circulate and as it circulates it will get taxed. It's impossible for the government to be insolvent or go bankrupt. The truth is that the government cannot repay at any arbitrary interest rate. It takes time for the money to circulate until it is 99.99% taxed out of the economy. That delay effectively determines the interest rate the government can afford to pay. Companies and the rich are strongly incentivized to minimize their tax burden. If they find a way to never pay the money back then the interest rate would have to be 0% or even negative.

This doesn't work for the average household that is paying income tax. It cannot hide from taxation forever. In other words, the money that isn't returning to the government also isn't being used to hire people. The mythical constant circulation velocity simply isn't happening. In fact, it's dropping. You constantly have to add more money into the system just to maintain the same velocity. That constant velocity is needed to maintain full employment.

What inflation does is take money that is stuck in the untaxed section of the economy and tax it immediately.

>If people really cared about inequality, wouldn't they want deflation?

Deflation benefits the rich because they can acquire bigger piles of Bitcoin than you can. How difficult is that to understand?

>Deflation would see wage earners purchasing power increase while the wealthy people's assets would depreciate.

Wealthy people would just have money be their primary asset. Considering that money is needed to pay incomes it doesn't sound like a very good idea. Your boss pays you according to the value you produce, if the money supply contracts/price levels fall off then the products you produce are worth less meaning you have to take a pay cut or get laid off.

>This would definitely lower the Gini coefficient.

You just shifted wealth from one asset to another. How does that change anything?

>But the wealthy people who control monetary policy would never want to see their assets deflate so we will never see a deflationary monetary policy, which could help wealth inequality.

What the hell is wrong with people nowadays? 20 years of low 2% inflation has rotten their brain and made them think inflation is out there to get them. If deflation is really all that great why hasn't it reduced inequality by now?
Noto uses Apache-2.0 [1] which should be fine for most stuff.

[1]: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/blob/main/LICENSE
There are many good suggestions here, though I haven't seen anyone consider a tradition binary model.

Here's what I would do, knowing very little about the particulars of the options that start-ups offer vs. standard options.

1. Determine my fair market total-comp at a well established company. Maybe a FAANG, or some other firm in your industry.

2. Determine how much below that number the offer is for, not including the options. This is the discount you are accepting vs. a less risk comp structure. We need to make up for this discount in the options portion of the comp.

3. Now the fun part -- model the options payout and discount it back to present to determine the effective total compensation of the offer...

3a. A few variables to define. We'll keep this simple and pretend this a single period model - eg. "what's the value in 1 year", and not "what's the value at each exercize point?"

- probabilty_of_default: the likelyhood that you get nothing because the company failed, or some other reason. This is the 'risk' variable here

- strike_price: the strike of the options you're being offered

- price_at_expiration: the company's share price in 1 year

- number_of_shares: the number of shares you'll be able to buy

- interest_rate: this is the growth of cash over the 1 year

- tax_rate: what you'll need to pay in taxes if you excerize

3b. The value of the options in future dollars is then:

FV = (1 - probability_of_default) * (price_at_expiration - strike_price) * number_of_shares * (1 - tax_rate)

3c. To discount to present-day, you can apply the interest_rate:

PV = FV / (1 + interest_rate)

4. We want PV to be equal to the discount we calculated in #2 for it to be a fair offer. You'll note that there are a lot of unknowns in 3a, and that's where the tricky part is. But this at least gives you a framework to think about it.

(Now, I just did this on a whim, and I probably missed some details, so do let me know if there's any issue. But, this should be the gist of a very basic valuation)
Good take. Vegans are so silly. So hilarious and worthy of criticism when people take the time to consider the ethical ramifications of their actions and move their moral bar without descending into absurd reductionism. /s

It's so weird how uptight some people get at the concept of... not eating meat.
Honestly the whole idea of creators controlling their IP is fucked. Everywhere, everyone wants to get in on carving out a million monetizable use cases while the rest of us collapse under the weight of an entirely bullshit system of rights enforcement.

We should not have to walk on eggshells!

Here's an alternative: anything you put out there, isn't yours any more. It belongs to the public. Art, software, music, fonts... it is in the hands of the people. Your role as creator is limited to stewardship.
Literally every car made today requires chips to meet emissions and fuel economy standards. Sure, you can do without that touchscreen and even the stereo, but not the engine control unit.
Temporarily? In what was is any of this temporary if COVID is going to be endemic?

At some point we need a way forward, and that really shouldn’t require masks in all public settings.

BTW - masks completely destroy my beard, so they’re not ‘zero impact’ by any means. ;-)
> and easily reach 1023 without needing a third hand

Given that most people cannot move their ring finger independently of their middle finger, this seems like a stretch.
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And a key plot point in Inglourious Basterds.

https://www.businessinsider.com/order-a-beer-like-a-german-2...
I think it seems crazy now, but that's because we know a lot more about the practical applications of malicious RNGs; they aren't an abstract concern now. But they kind of were when the big debate was alleged to have happened at RSA.

Also: I'm naturally going to sound like I'm defending RSA here, and I am not. I feel like --- I'll probably be proven wrong by this in time because we live in a fallen world --- no major company in the world would in 2021 swap out a crucial cryptographic component for one DOD was demanding while cryptographers were making noise about how janky it is. That should have been the standard in 2007 or whatever, too.
I agree with that statement.

MMOs and lootboxes are a societal harm however.