skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big problem with a pandemic like COVID-19 is when it's presented in terms of personal risk.

The reality remains that any given individual's chance of becoming seriously ill, let alone dying, from COVID-19 is extremely small. The problem is not this risk, but instead the risk that large numbers of people will be sick enough to require health care, particularly hospitalization and even more particularly ICU facilities, all within a very short period of time, causing overload of health care systems and many more unnecessary deaths from things other than COVID-19 due to the impairment of the health care system.

But instead, huge chunks of the media/culture discuss COVID-19 in terms of personal risk. The personal responsibility that we have to each other in a pandemic like this is not a question of "I should do X because I might die of it", but rather "I should do X to reduce the risk that others will die of it and other illness".

And no, "your health is and always has been your best defense" is a ludicrous position. It's abundantly clear that none of our socially-understood markers for "good health" are guarantoors of "covid will not kill you".
Sigh, now I pressed Win+C because the article mentioned it... of course that opens cortana, the app that insists on being unclosable and sticking around in your alt-tab order, no matter whatever you do.

Lovely.
Thanks, the other link got hugged to death, or whatever we call the HN equivalent.
That's not how it works.

One group of powerful people, better positioned to take advantage, want to analyze the personal contents of other powerful people. The more well positioned group always thinks they can be spared from their own creations, that they're in control of it. The politicians that passed the Patriot Act didn't personally fear it, they viewed themselves as the masters of it; it was to be applied to the other people.

For example, that's how you build an illegal dragnet spying operation against an inbound, democratically elected President. You do it courtesy of having the loyalty of the intelligence community top to bottom. And you avoid that illegal activity becoming a punished criminal deed by controlling at least half or more of the government. One power group targeting another power group, that's how Washington DC has always worked, and will always work (as well as most governments throughout history, it's endemic to politics/politicians).
"Click the '+Add a New File' button to create a new file."

Call me stupid, but I can't find the '+Add a New File' button. Where is it? If I click "Files" on the sidebar, I only see a 'Let's Start!' card. I signed up as a guest.
I'll take the words of those particular strangers over yours, after all, you are also a stranger, and an anonymous one at that.
> But that is because LaTeX, and the styles it is built around, a block equation is considered to be part of a paragraph. For some people, they are outright considered part of sentences, put on their own line only for clarity, with commas or full stops at the end to make the sentences grammatically correct.

As someone once trained as a mathematician, I can confirm that's exactly the case. Simple example:

Newton's second law states that
$$F = ma,$$
where $F$, $m$ and $a$ are the force, mass, and acceleration, respectively.

Of course you don't indent the rest of the sentence.
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I would like some substantiation for your claim that Android is doing better in terms of privacy. Everything I’ve seen more or less points to the opposite.
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> a princple within the law that basically suggests "if you don't vigorously defend your IP, that can be taken to mean you don't much care in the future as well."

I thought that was only trademarks?
A friend of mine is a manager at a Safeway. He says a typical store might lose six figures worth of product in a year. In a bad neighborhood it's not uncommon to lose over a million dollars a year.

They hire security personnel, but people figure out that a) even when security catches you, they are not allowed to restrain you and b) the police do not respond to shoplifters (in certain jurisdictions they are not allowed to.

The stores are responsible for the cost of missing inventory - they credit it back to the manufacturers. Stores already run tight margins, so this cost ends up getting paid by reduced headcount at stores (except for security, if it's bad enough) and directly in prices.

And this is in the grocery space, where there's very little secondary market for the stolen goods!
In nature biomass ends up in roughly the same places so this balances out, with crops farmers are removing significant biomass from farmland. The use of fertilizer is in part a consequence of specific plants depleting soil.

Carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and hydrogen which represents the bulk of organic mater is available from air and water, but phosphorus for example gets depleted. Nitrogen fertilizer is something of a special case as extracting it from the atmosphere takes a lot of energy. However, nitrogen fixing bacteria will return it to soil if given time to do so.

The specifics of course get more complicated, sod for example is physically removing layers of soil.
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Excel is insane, the undo button is universal, meaning if you are editing multiple spreadsheets, you can’t just undo changes to one of them if you made a mistake between editing, you have to undo all changes to all open spreadsheets to get back to your desired undo point.
No, nowadays unless you are working in a new proj or a startup then you are pretty much maintaining legacy code or developing new code on piles of legacy code.

People who get into the business early is lucky as they get to build new things regardless of their skill levels.
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It's quite common in Clojure circles. Care to elaborate? Not copyleft?
They never wanted to "keep your children safe" as this "plan" has a hole in it big enough to drive a semi through. As in the criminals know it's there and can avoid it. No this was to please the government a little bit and so they can say "look we're thinking of the children". Governments want this so they can eventually add more scanning On Your Phone in the future for anything and everything. Just look at what's going on in Australia right now with authoritarian type surveillance getting passed in 24 hour session. Western nations aren't safe from the Stasi mentality if we don't fight back. Donate to EFF and ACLU today please.
Really really good developers are in high demand, and they're hard to find. At the top there's a ton of salary competition with the FAANG companies and other large companies, or with startups that offer equity and more interesting work. MS is neither of these.
I'm sorry. That button was supposed to be there, but it wasn't implemented... (yet) Anyway you can add new files by clicking the + button on the top page.
Ask HN: Why doesn’t Amazon enforce review policies?
Everybody manipulates their reviews nowadays. Pretty much every seller asks their customers to either leave a good review or to contact support. Many contact customers who left less-than-perfect reviews and offer a refund, or a free product, in exchange for changing the review. Then, of course, there are accounts that do nothing but provide paid reviews. I’ve been contacted by Chinese merchants several times now who got my address from Alibaba purchases, and who now offered me free products in exchange for reviews on Amazon.

The result of all of this is that reviews on Amazon cannot be trusted anymore. There are even online tools now that try to score products based on the quota of likely manipulated reviews.

So, why is Amazon allowing this? They have all the data, IP addresses and all. Their machine learning algorithms would surely be able to figure out which reviews are real ones and which ones are fake. And yet, it seems like Amazon is quietly looking away.

Wouldn’t it be in the best interest of Amazon to make sure that their customers always find the product that is really the most likely to satisfy them? Just like it is in Google’s self interest that the top search results will also be not those that are the spammiest, but those that are actually the most likely to be useful to the user?
Calories is an extremely reductive measure and isn't really good for much more than a general rule of thumb for evaluating food. The problem with calories comes from how the caloric value of food is determined: quite literally incinerating the food and measuring the released heat.

This is obviously not how your body digests food and disregards completely the macro structure of what you're taking in. Take pasta and rice for example, both have around the same calorific value however, the carbon chains in rice are much longer than those in pasta. The implication of which is that it will take your body more time and energy to digest rice than pasta meaning that the energy release to your body will be quite different. Looking just at calorific value though, one would erroneously conclude that these two foods are more or less identical.
> It’s honestly really hard to tell if you’re engaging in good faith here.

I can see why. I am, though.

The first paragraph is a good demonstration. It's falsifiable. I can look it up myself and agree or disagree. Either way, good. Thanks.
My point was that Arm was completely familiar with the concept and took a conscious decision not to include it in Arm64. I am absolutely certain that they would have tested various approaches before coming to this decision.

I agree 100% that there are interesting pros and cons from a performance perspective but you have no actual evidence that it gives performance gains anywhere near the numbers being quoted.

I love RISC-V for many reasons but prefer to have debates grounded in evidence on things like performance.
Amazing video. I don't have much to add but I love this.

That growth timelapse reminds me of some cool generative art: https://sagejenson.com/physarum

Obviously inspired by slime molds but just so cool nonetheless.
Ask HN: What do you use to stream to TV?
I don't want to get a chromecast because google so I'm thinking of something like a raspberry pi with Kodi.

I'd like to be able to stream DVDs from my Linux box but also get it to play things like youtube videos or netflix. Ideally I'd like android and iOS apps to control it as well. I'm open to suggestions.
What sort of intellectual dialog and witty repartee did you expect? I'm pretty sure that the guy at Amazon who decided to hire the potheads isn't going to win a Nobel.
Yeah but no one's found any evidence that any code calls it. (At least not that I've seen.)
Misokinesia is a sensitivity to seeing others fidget that is prevalent
While the article is easy to believe, I'd prefer it was phrased more precisely. For example:

> news publishers known for putting out misinformation got six times the amount of likes, shares, and interactions on the platform as did trustworthy news sources

If a publisher is known for putting out misinformation (and what is the threshold?), that does not mean all their stories are false. To make the claim in the title, the shared articles would have to be individually evaluated for truthfulness.

The second thing that stuck out to me (emphasis mine):

> The researchers also found that the statistically significant misinformation boost is politically neutral — misinformation-trafficking pages on both the far left and the far right generated much more engagement from Facebook users than factual pages of any political slant. But publishers on the right have a much higher propensity to share misleading information than publishers in other political categories, the study found.

The paragraph switches from talking about misinformation (which I understand to be information that is false), to misleading information, which is a far more vague categorization. Notably, any kind of disfavored statistic, that is grudgingly conceded to be factual, tends to be called "misleading", either for failing to adjust for enough factors, or for implying some cause or conspiracy, or for measuring something you shouldn't care about in the first place.
The initial varieties into which the researchers introduced the FTO gene do not appear to be modern high-performance crops though. They didn't have yields that were already optimized by breeding, so they were easier to get impressive performance gains from. What FTO can achieve in the performance-optimized varieties that farmers grow today remains to be seen in further experiments.

Source: https://heise.de/-6180853 (German)
Some days it feels like I have the last non 16:9 monitor ever made (and it’s not even 4:3, it’s just 16:10).

Every year I search for a true 10-bit IPS 16:10 (or better) hi-dpi or hi-FPS (ideally both) monitor and every year I’m disappointed. My ZR30W is the oldest part of my PC (Model F keyboard notwithstanding) and has survived maybe four builds.
wow, my bad. That's sets & dicts that invalidate their iterators when the size changes.
Windows UI has been utterly inconsistent since Windows 8.

'Modern develpoers'? What're you talking about, first of all, HN has weird trend of speaking as if Devs are these all-powerful artisans at their org when actually there's a Product Manager and a whole design org that makes these calls, Devs at best can file a recommendation and maybe get it considered.

Secondly, Electron is a business choice to minimize time spent doing cross-platfom GUI development. Can someone give me the list of cross-platform apps from back in the day with well thought out platform-specific GUIs? Cause I swear most of the popular Windows apps I used in the early 2000s like Winamp, Foobar2000, Notepad++, Soulseek, µTorrent, were Windows-only. Everyone's not just gonna run out and learn Qt, so tired of this low-hanging fruit type comment about Electron/Web Developers ruining everything. Go talk to this thing called the market instead.
I can’t imagine thinking that 20% of the population of my society is highly likely to die and then consider it a personal responsibility problem
> There's an evolutionary reason why plants do not naturally grow this big.

That could be said of current crops. They are the result of years of artificial selection
Show HN: InfraGenie – open-source tool to decouple your Terraform
She was running a pre-release OS?
I find it improbable at this state, because 'understanding human culture' and bridging the gaps between two languages without compromising the quality of the prose depends not just on written text, but also decades of experience in being a human being in that society/language, and being able to make connections which may not be apparent from texts. A computer would also miss the final step: our monitoring function that accepts or rejects translations as silly, down-right anti-social, or totally apt — that well honed Fingerspitzengefühl that comes from the total sum of your experience and maturity.

You would, in effect, have to train an artificial intelligence with a brain capable of mimicking ours by raising it as a child in our society (sometimes cheerfully acknowledged by sci-fi writers who employ such characters), and even then you would need to have a brain that processes certain events, happenings, and subtle hints the way a human being roughly does.

Perhaps someone will manage to train one in a suitable manner one day (far far away — not in our lifetime), but I wouldn't want to be responsible for debugging it.

Someone will manage to make one that is good enough for some purposes though. Plenty of semi-gibberish manuals included with products that strongly reek of machine translation these days.
> Liberalism has always had a slight utopianist inclination, be it whig history, "the arc of history bends towards Justice", etc. Reform, not revolution, but certainly not accepting the world as it is either.

Thinking that people can improve things or solve problems over time is not what Utopianism means.

> Again, I think you are imparting a modern conservative spin on the ideology.

No, you are reading that in.

> Again, it might better align liberalism with the reality of what it actually accomplishes, but that is is *too tepid( and will not save it.

This is a restatement of the justification for authoritarianism.
Best not to use a beta OS on your main workstation anyway.
I think it's revealing that message board people are so quick to extend arguments against intellectual property to typefaces. It's hard to think of something that people "need" less than a proprietary font; there are thousands of free ones, and there is no utility benefit to any of the non-free ones. It's hard to see a motivation for "liberating" them beyond spite.
Well, nothing about this announcement yet changes the fact that I still won't be buying the next iPhone or Macbook this fall, like I'd intended.

Without knowing what their refinements actually do, it's too uncertain.
They may not like it but many jobs, even office-based, could tax one heavily if they're not there where all others sit. Customer meetings would be just an example, or workshops, trainings, and so on. Thus missing some points on your performance review scorecard could potentially have some drastic consequences.
Hello HN,

Dealing with larger terraform project poses several challenges: how to maintain similar but slightly different environments while keeping your terraform code DRY. Infragenie introduces a pattern to help with this. It is inspired by dependency injection in programming langauges such as Java, but instead uses terraform data sources to make it possible.
It was a torpedo to the heart of the privacy marketing campaign they've spent who-knows-how-much-money building up over the past several years. That translates directly to wasted dollars, which they do care about.
security by certification
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We “process” maybe 100 times more text than we used - but to do that we scan for patterns and ignore without reading most of it. (Partly due to the prevalence of advertising as well, of which we prefer to read 0%)
Yeah, this is so unproductive, it boggles the mind.
Is this basically the same as hitting just plain "t" on a github.com repo? (Fuzzy file listing/search).
Taking into account the mess win 10 UI is together with Teams and Office 365 i would say that, yes, they don't have any competent developer in those teams.
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This is not how plants work. The increased biomass comes from carbon in the air.

There is already more than enough nutrients in the ground or applied as fertilizer. In fact most of the nutrients from fertilizer are lost and wash away.

This will allow plants to capture more applied ferilizer. Mostly though these plants will be pulling more carbon from the atmosphere.
Reality check: they run off and nag someone else...very discreetly...until someone caves and fixes it for them. If they get enough pushback they will just quit.
Thanks for your insightful comment.
Now I understand. You're right, that's a real disadvantage. We'll take that into account in our coming research. Thank you!
Please note the "AOSP" mention: I was referring to Android Open Source Project, not the variants with Google's apps and Play Services installed.
> To create your own programming language, from scratch, and then write the entire game engine in it. I don't know of any other games out there that do that.

scummVM is a "gameVM" written by LucasArts.
"Another World" did something similar.

So it was pretty common on old days (near '90).
> Its no secret that Apple are one of the biggest players when it comes to in-house R&D in the IT world.

Google is easily bigger, and Samsung will stomp both.

Apple's engineering is known to be very conservative. And it's certainly more of quality over quantity spirited.

I knew people who worked in Apple's Shenzhen RnD centre myself.
You just need to couple the keys to something tangible. But the truth is that every system can by bypassed if you spend enough effort. The only question is when it becomes enough hassle so that it doesn't disrupt ordinary people's lives. Not even facebook cared about enforcing https until someone made a browser plugin that let everyone steal cookies.
There is no good/bad guy in this scenario if you model the world in a way such that there are people who have and people who don't.
Some nitpicks with the article:

1. Much of section 2 is wrong except the part about arrays representing contiguous objects. The rest is largely an implementation detail.

Zeta C and Vacietis work considerably differently, as allowed by the standard

In addition there are many (mostly obsolete now) architectures in which, when you convert a pointer to an integer, you can't perform arithmetic and convert back because a pointer isn't just an integer address; it could represent segments or support hardware tags.

> C will typically let you just construct any pointer value you like by casting an integer to a pointer type, or by taking an existing pointer to one type and casting it so that it becomes a pointer to an entirely different type.

To be fair, they do say "typically" in here, but these behaviors are (depending on the case) all either implementation defined or undefined; the C standard specifies a union as the only well-defined way to type-pun to non character types.

> The undefined-behaviour problem with integer overflow wouldn't happen in machine code; that's a consequence of C needing to run fast on lots of very different kinds of computer, which is a problem machine code doesn't even try to solve

Some architectures trap on integer overflow, which I suspect is the reason why integer overflow is undefined rather than implementation defined. Certainly compilers today take advantage of the fact that it is undefined to make certain useful optimizations, but from what I can tell of the history that's not why it was undefined in the first place.
Google is doing better as they are not actively scanning my phone for CSAM data (and eventually other data) as a USA policing agent without a warrant. That's what google is doing better. As is windows. They don't scan for material on your phone either. If you have something to prove that they do scan for illegal stuff for reporting to police forces without a warrant then please show us.
Excuse me, but that is reporting to the authorities.

You’re simply describing some of the details of how it happens.

It’s nice that there are some manual review steps, but that hardly changes what’s happening. Especially since the human reviewers are almost surely going to pass the case through to the next step if there is any ambiguity.
How bold of you to suggest they have anyone competent working on PowerShell or Azure.

Everything I go near from them is a monumental crapfest these days. They could be a good platform if they stopped this schizophrenic direction changing and actually fixed shit rather than hiding it behind layers of new shit.