skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit late to the party but I've been thinking about this too.

One of the main problems with platforms like FB and Reddit is that the posts/discussions are shortlived. They bubble up to the top in the feed when they're fresh and active but then die off and are replaced by the next thing that craves your attention.

Forum posts are sorted in chronological order, grouped into categories. Browsing through the feed you can see what topics are being actively discussed, or you can search for past discussions on a topic you like, and resurrect and old thread if you find a good one, and it gets a new life. I like this model.

One concept I've thought about is something like Reddit, where anyone can create and manage subs, but which wouldn't have the same kind of karma whoring and short attention span issues, i.e. posts/threads would live forever and not get locked after 6 months or whatever Reddit does, and posts would be sorted by activity rather than ADD points. I've found so many good X years old Reddit threads with super interesting discussions which I would've liked to jump in and resurrect but can't.

Of course an immediate problem that comes to mind is spam. If posts with new comments are lifted to the top it invites spam bumps and thus moderation. And/or it could be combined with some sort of karma system (reputation, account age etc).

And, since this wouldn't be a specialized forum you'd need to make sure you could cater to various different kinds of communities, i.e. have good multimedia sharing capabilities (for those communities only wanting to share images/videos/memes), code formatting and syntax highlighting, maybe LaTex etc...
Nope, I use bottom-up learning for languages/frameworks .
> so why aren't far more people successful?

You can't defeat power law. It's something that happens everywhere.

Natural phenomenons, our universe, social interactions, romantic interactions, business etc.
It depends. If owned land is converted for rent then the LVT is passed on to the tenant. To avoid paying the LVT tenants are incentivized to own, which may imply buying new construction.

As population density increases, desirability increases, and people may try investing with the goal of renting, which with an LVT will more sharply decrease the desirability of population density.
> The study shows that cloth masks (combined with other factors) have no effect on seroprevalence.

No, not really. If you happen to take a few minutes to read the paper, you'll notice that the study was conducted with a type of cloth mask produced locally which had a filtration efficiency rate of around 37% with a standard deviation of 6%, compared with the surgical mask's filtration efficiency of 95%.

The study also points out that the filtration efficiency of surgical masks washed 10 times with soap was 76%, and that they evaluated a type of cloth mask which can achieve a filtration efficiency of 60%.

Thus, what the study actually states is that they observed that wearing poor quality cloth masks showed high-variance results whose confidence interval includes the point estimate for surgical masks.

In other words, the study actually pointed out that using a specific type of cloth mask produced locally and which was known to have poor filtering efficiency had an effect that lies somewhere between being as good as surgical masks and not wearing anything at all.

> The confidence interval on the surgical mask group overlaps zero, so you can't rule out "no effect".

No, not really. That's not how confidence intervals work. At most, the only conclusion you can objectively draw from the data is that even though the positive effect of wearing surgical masks in the past study is clear and beyond doubt, further studies would be required to increase the resolution of that estimate.

In fact, if you happen to read the study you'll notice that the conclution states quite clearly that "We found clear evidence that surgical masks are effective in reducing symptomatic seropreva-
lence of SARS-CoV-2; while cloth masks clearly reduce symptoms, we cannot reject that they have
zero or only a small impact on symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections (perhaps reducing symptoms
of other respiratory diseases)."

Also, your comments feel like a mix of moving the goalpost combined with a considerable amount of cherry-picking. It's a widely known fact that the whole point of wearing masks is primarily to reduce the viral load emitted by the wearer, and a minor benefit is to reduce our own exposure to the virus. Thus I feel that you're trying to misrepresent the whole point of wearing masks by trying to frame it as a "seroprevalence" issue. That was never, at any point in time, the reason why we have the social obligation to wear face masks and respect social distancing.
> without assuming that the cosmological principle holds on too short distances

There's still the problem of colliding galaxies showing a weakly interacting centroid that's shifted compared to the masses but interacts with the visible masses. If truly are variation in the local constants, then one has to explain why these variations shows inertia, at such point it starts looking more and more like matter
You are confusing a geographic region with a language.
The words Has and For are unnecessary words in that variable name.

Think of code as mathematical notation. Some degree of familiarity with the domain is expected. You can use shorthand symbols or words as variable names.

Otherwise you're trying to write English sentences into compact notation and that's just noise. Hard to read.

Try read the A* algorithm when the variables have all been expanded out and you'll find it's impossible to see the forest for the trees. Sometimes G is the correct name for the collection of the cheapest scores known so far. It's compact and is best explained with a comment.
On CentOS and similar distros I agree. But on Debian like distros podman has too many rough edges and the packaging isn’t something you can contribute to easily on GitHub. I find this sad since podman is really good but there isn’t much effort in improving UX on Debian distros.
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But sunlight comes from the north...here in the southern hemisphere. It would be pretty confusing to have two conventions for the different hemispheres, and would make it weird in whole-world views. I never rotate maps when I'm navigating either; it seems like that would make it harder to keep track of which way things are.
I am not sure 'full write-off' is the correct term.

It is tax deductable, so you are taxed less, typically max 50% of the interest sum.
Maybe he was scared he may solve it and didn't want to live through apocalypse.
> But when you mention this to non-scientists, they'll gasp in non-belief.

They gasp in pure joy.

Back in school I had a professor who paid out of his own pocket for access to one particular journal in order to bring scientific articles to class. Our library didn't have access to this journal. I was disgusted by how these journals were exploiting him. I looked for a way to fix that and discovered Sci-Hub for the first time. He was overjoyed when I showed him that. Our classes became better, richer. He could finally bring whatever material he felt was important.

The damage these copyright monopolists cause cannot be quantified.

There's also the usability. When I told my classmates about Sci-Hub, they were also very happy because they no longer had to go through our library in order to access scientific articles. They can just download whatever they want. This is how things should be.
(As far as I know:) By sticking to the Vendor-supplied SDK kernel version, with ancient blobbed up 3.X Linux kernels, for architectures, where modern kernel/module/userspace (source) is not available.

Openwrt aims for "near-mainline" blob-free kernel, currently on 5.4, with 5.10 in current master for many architectures.
I don't know if it's just "small hyper-local" maps. The standard map of Manhattan, for example, is normally oriented with "uptown" at the top which is about 40°, closer to NE than N. Mainly because it fits on rectangular displays better that way.

I understand your points about convention, of course, but the trade-off against convention (or in favour of establishing a new local convention) is perhaps made more often than you think.
That's a concern after more pressing issues are solved.
Those 2015/2016 numbers are tiny! I guess a lot of that is no longer representative; e.g. Iran having more downloads than China.

Wikipedia has more up-to-date stats about total download numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub#Usage_and_content_stat...
Let’s fix a housing crisis by having houses be used.

I doubt this is the magical unique problem everyone claims it is, but “oh no think of people’s investment” when people are sleeping outside is valuing property over people.
Note to self : PPOR means 'Principal Place of Residence' here.
No, and the constant desire to apply the same scale of intelligence to dramatically different things is absolutely nonsense. A self-driving car does not need to understand the world in a way a human does, nor can it actually do so. It needs to understand the world in a way that enables it to successfully complete its assigned tasks. Full stop.

Is an orange as smart as a screwdriver? Is an ant as smart as a waterfall? Nonsensical questions. There is no such thing as a universal quality of intelligence.
A system that turns set backs into lessons and better future performance is praise worthy...
Probably applies well to many things in life
You could have use a stingray to capture their IMSI
As a rough guide for new woke hollywoold this might be useful. For as a general principle applied to everything? Nah. I can imagine pretty dull movies where everything that happens can already been projected into the future. Remember these movies where you can say after 10 minutes: "She is going to get in trouble, and he is going to rescue her and get her at the end." Those are fucking dull.
The HTML engine probably has an internal list of ids to quickly look them up. The dev tools, however, access it externally. It's quite likely they simple use `treeNode->getId()` without being aware that this call respects JS overwrites.

It might even be a feature; the C# debugger, for example, will call your custom `toString()` function in order to give a nice representation in the debug window. The problem here is, of course, that the debugger is running against untrusted code.
You see a man putting a bag under a table. Two man arrive, sitting at the table, you wait for the bomb to explode because the bag must have a meaning. The meeting ends, the men stand up, one is killed by headshot.

And your scene depends on the characters. Is one the main character? Highly unlikely he get killed.

It's even worse if it's a TV series. Main character is strapped to a bomb? No problem. Guest star is strapped to a bomb? Might get killed.
Unknown supporting role strapped to a bomb? Sure death.
I think that was part of GoT's success. Surprise deaths. And nudity of course.

If everything has a meaning even the chosen actor is important. Known actor in a minor role? Surely gets important.
Banks don’t get to create money. Quantitive Easing isn’t something banks can call up on demand and it isn’t banks getting loads of free money. Instead they sell certain slightly risky assets to the government at a slightly higher price than they would be worth without QE. This small price difference is the free money but the bigger difference is that the banks have more liquid cash to use for e.g. making loans.

I think mortgages are pretty competitive, especially for reasonably well-paid people and there isn’t really that much profit made by the banks (your interest corresponds to inflation and the risk that you default on your loan with the house price having fallen.

Money today is worth more than money in 25 years and you have to pay the difference.
Not for financial modelling which is the bulk of work in the front office. Everything is calculated as floats for performance reasons, no model is accurate enough for floating point error to matter.
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There would be a lot less wastage if people wouldn't be bullied into vaccinating and thus delay the vaccination to the last possible moment where they cannot live without the covid certificate anymore.
Is this related to MOND?
Greedy? Not me. Always the other guy that is greedy.

The irony is there is such high probability with posting on this board you are part of the top 1% of the globe when it comes to wealth.
Who owns the definition of 'successful'?

A low stress, high joy life is preferable to these Really Famous Names we could drop.

Sure, they may go on rocket rides, but do they know any peace?

Maybe.
Eat less calories than you burn. Spend less money than you make.

Boring advice, yet the majority of people are overweight and in debt.
The result of years of low interest rate policies.
MOND lead to less paradoxes/mispredictions than dark matter/energy
You can get the reproducibility resolved. But when I tried nix I didn’t found a way to save the source code easily in my project. Similar to the vendor directory in Go there should be a way to backup the source since the source can go away any time.
I still think if the research is paid or subsidised by tax payers money it should be freely accessible. Maybe EU should do something good and make it part of the rules. All wishful thinking of course
I'd still be afraid of PDF exploits when downloading papers from Belarus, where the government apparently tolerates the operation.

Many scientists are juicy targets.
It's a measurable difference. OO in C++ must use double indirect vtable method calls, whilst this OO in C uses only one indirection. It's measurably faster. Objects are a bit larger though, cloning is a bit more expensive, but method calls are much faster and much easier to cache.
A really interesting article but in this instance I'm not convinced it's the app that's the problem. Dehumanisation has been around forever and fluctuates depending on wider societal factors.
This is at least as ugly as binaries which embed themselves into VMs to prevent and detect reversing. I don’t condone either one but can understand first one up to a point. Rigging a website… That’s really some next level ugliness.
This is really necessary.

I'm a senior engineer, my wife is a neurologist, we are currently not able to afford a pretty normal house in the city.

Even if we did, buying now is a enormous waste of money. The market has been bad for years and it's absolutely out of control now.
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The same applies to the whole rented sector. We're all serfs.
> But like other commodities can it go to negative 0?

If it went to near 0 it could be out paced by inflation. I guess also if fees outpaced it's extrinsic value could mean an overall negative valuation. But a actual value below 0 would be rather difficult.
Worth noting that the big pharmacies do not, from casual eyeball, appear to be wasting out of proportion to the amount they administered. (The U.S. allocated more than half of all doses to the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program and big pharmacies are supermajority of that.)

Disclaimer: comment in personal capacity.
>The vaccines (of all types) aren't somehow an alternate to our immune systems, they're a way to boost our immune systems' response. And yes, they do make the immune system significantly more effective in responding to COVID infection.

Vitamin D and Vitamin B are also a way to boost our immune system. Why should I get vaccinated if I'm young and healthy and can take Vitamin D and Vitamin B.

How should I know if my immune system is strong enough to respond and heal from COVID and how should I know what are long term side effects of mRNA vaccine?
I fully agree with your stance. I am from Romania, and, although there are still many things missing, things are, IMO, getting better.

There might be some sort of colonial relationship going, but we are getting in return many things as well, and we have grassroots economic initiatives lately as well. The political system is still a mess, but where is it not?

For me, personally, it would make little sense leaving the country. Biggest reason could be the education system sucking a lot compared to the much better education system somewhere in the EU, and this would become important once I have kids.
OOP in C++ leads to twice as much pointer dereferencing. Just that you don't see it doesn't mean it does not exist. Look at the generated code. It sucks.

The best thing in C++ is compile-time computation (ignoring the horrible template syntax). OO is not esp. well implemented.
What a stupid headline. Talk about comparing apples and oranges... But this is normal now. Since the Google car, the media is forcing the self-driving car narrative down its readers throats.

There is another similar topic which is dear to my heart. Implants that make the blind see again. I feel article about these, and self-driving car, read similarily stupid.
Sorry it's hard to follow your incoherent comment with random mismatched quotes. I wasn't trying to make an argument, just an observation that including the Tailwind build process in most modern apps is not a big deal. If it doesn't work for you that's fine, I'm not trying to "argue" with you
It really annoys me that changing an IMEI is a crime in many countries. The mobile stack has tracing built in a low level, and is genuinely impossible to use anonymously.
Billionaire Marc Lore wants to build a utopian city based on ‘equitism’
> And the family moved in from somewhere else, leaving you with three spots in that some other place plus two spots in the new place, so you have 5 places for students regardless. Not sure why you think this changes something.

Because that family might have moved from out of town, and students can't move to their old place that is too far from the university?

EDIT: I'm not sure that building more dorms is a good idea. My experience (although from totally different country) is that dorm rooms are the worst possible environment for learning. During my time in college there was a clear division: those who prioritized studying lived in the quiet rental apartments, those who prioritized socializing lived in the dorms :)
Maybe peace is overrated?

There is certainly a price to pay for greatness, and some are willing to give it a shot. It seems so condescending to look down on poor them, not knowing peace when perhaps that is not the thing they are searching for.
So that we can now sell old things as exciting new technologies.
The proposal is to ban investors from buying more properties, it is not to increase access to ownership. If anything the effect is more likely to reduce supply than to increase it.

Those who are already able to buy may benefit, but that's about it.

Again, a big part of the problem is also the mountain of free money in the market.
Probably because it was a stupid remark made to elicit emotion and try to blame one person/entity and diffuse responsibility from those responsible, which is everyone.

Even Apple is not capable of being able to sell a product that can’t take advantage of the economies of scale of Chinese/southeast Asian electronics manufacturing, or the metals that come from the middle of Africa.

No one is going to pay $10k for an iPhone versus a $1k Samsung. One company might be able to push the wages and quality of life a little bit, and be able to sell at a 10% or 30% premium. But it is not going to be enough.

Gervais was probably wearing clothes made of materials coming from some Asian country from factories with even worse wages. Easy to criticize and make “smart” comments as a comedian, certainly easier than working in the supply chain and managing logistics for 3 decades and actually knowing what is and is not possible.

A better use of time would have been if Gervais asked Cook what can be done to speed up the improvement in working conditions or what the roadblocks are that prevent it from happening.
I mean, it’s an easily fixable problem.

Punitively heavy land taxes on non-primary dwellings solves this overnight. It also raises a lot of capital that can be used to provide services in the area.
The base perspective of these types of 'discoveries' always seems to come with an underlying belief or assertion that our natural world is incapable and dumb. Why do these scientists assume the worst as a starting point?

What makes these types of discoveries become headlines? I don't get it.
Humans are hard wired to look for quick fixes and shortcuts. That's why instead of eating less calories they jump on some new revolutionary diet or put their money into meme stock instead of just playing the index. Every one wants to be smarter then the average Joe.
This is desperately needed. And not just in the major cities; this is happening in every Dutch town. Amsterdam may have prices beyond absurd, but the whole nation is burdened by this problem.

In the street I live in the capital of the northern province of Fryslân (Frisia) most homes are owned by their inhabitants, but in the past few years we've seen several houses being bought by small-time investors (who already own their own home of course, are financially well on their way, and are looking for ways to save their saving from low interest rates and inflation), who charge renters four times what my fellow homeowners and I pay for mortgage.

You never get to know the renters, because they are really only here for as long as nothing better comes along (like buying a house or social housing), and who can blame them?

Meanwhile maintenance of these houses is minimal, because the market won't really reward proper upkeep at this point; they can always sell the house for an insane price tomorrow.

It's really upsetting to see my younger colleagues stuck renting a flat, while I own my house having even paid of the vast majority of the mortgage simply because I had the luck of buying it in 2013 (a major dip in the market where paying less than the listed price was common).

For the good of society we need to put a stop to this type of speculation on the housing market.
Human exceptionalism is deeply ingrained in most people: We aren't animals after all.
because somewhere between a baby and a bunch of cells you get inalienable human rights. according to texas, after 6 weeks.

Why do I feel I get flak because people think I'm pro life. I'm not, but even if I was that shouldn't be a valid argument.
Wondering how scanning and submitting of private data is possible within the EU according to GPDR rules. I doubt that the EU commission will have a blind eye on that topic.
How many times did you have to show proof of your flu vaccine? If we can exclude the unvaccinated from social gatherings then the same logic applies to the n-1 vaccinated and that means it matters a LOT what the current n is
Designations. That's how. Some houses are built and intended to be rented out to people. These houses are constructed entirely by companies (or people) for that purpose alone.

Other houses are meant to be for purchase, and purchase only. If you purchase a house like this and then rent it out, that should be considered breaking the intended designation.

So if you as an individual want to own multiple houses to rent out, you need to find houses with that designation and that are for sale. Alternatively, you need to find ground with the "rental housing"-designation and build a house or multiple houses on there.

You can do this in a collective of individuals, too.

And people who currently own multiple houses that were not meant to be rented out (but are rented out to other people) would need, by law, to either sell those properties (the current renter should get the first option on the house's current market value price).

And honestly, I feel that the people renting houses that were never meant for rental should get a discount. And that discount should come out of the pockets of the government.

And yes, I'm a Dutch citizen. I know that means my tax money is going to help these people buy their houses a little cheaper at my expense. I'm fine with that as it would create a healthier housing market for everyone. That's exactly what my tax money is for.