skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We seem not surprised that India could undercount millions of deaths, but my impression is that China's near-perfect suppression of all variants of the virus in their population of 1.4 billion is taken at face value. Is it not possible that China is also covering up their real death toll?
> There is zero expectation when looking at someone's project from afar.

Let's say I release some code that is isn't fit for purpose. For example, it corrupts user data 5% of the time.

The code has a README that doesn't mention the issue, and I close all issues that refer to the problem. I also reject any PRs that try to fix it, and so on. I don't, however, disable issues or say the code is unmaintained, so there is a steady stream of people whose data gets corrupted when they download and use my code.

Since you don't seem to like the term "social contract", would you at least admit that I am violating a few norms and acting like an asshole?
You think? I actually have the opposite impression. This takes away control from the founders and makes it harder to precisely control dilution, which is very important at the early stages.
I liked this quote: "The Turk remains emblematic of the only real ghost in the machine: human agency."

Most, if not all of us, are offended by direct or indirect manipulation. So it stands to reason, that our agency is the greatest thing we must protect.
I don’t know what you mean. Please rephrase?
Fraud is a crime defined in law and this would not meet the bar.
So if you imagine that USA was healthy then health outcomes look great?
Based on that logic I should suffocate you now in your sleep so you don't have to get old and die of cancer. Don't look out for me with my pillow I don't buy that logic either.
Really? Because from your original comment, the NSA is circumventing protections that are in place to spy on US citizens

That is exactly what you are suggesting. These rules should not be "bent" because there are legal mechanisms to investigate that are being blatantly bypassed to make things easier
That looks like an incredibly founder-friendly deal, and such a huge change wrt the current YC offer !
I for one am addicted to the Keytronic KT-2001 which happens to be rubber dome. I just love the key travel and the feel of typing on it. I have hoarded 10 of them now to save for a rainy day, so I keep a good supply :).

Spec: couldn't find it, chryosan22 on YouTube seems uninterested in reviewing it, and not on deskthority

Sound: https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=2088
The honest answer is that we don't know.

Experimentally, it works. There are theories (google will give you a couple vaguely plausible mechanisms), but it's too early to say. And it's likely that the antidepressive effect of ketamine has nothing to do with its NMDA antagonism, given that other NMDA receptor antagonists do not work as antidepressives.

Neuroscience theory lags far behind applied psychiatry, so all know is people whose depression resists normal treatment now have another very promising option, with a very different mechanism from normal antidepression treatment.
Which language would be better than bash for building concurrent pipelines from other utilities? Sure, you can build pipelines in Python via the subprocess module, but it’s not exactly an ergonomic API…
>If people don't want to take personal precautions, they should be at liberty to assume the additional risk.

I agree to a point. If their personal choices endanger others, then it's less about their liberties and more about how their choices impact others negatively.

Another part of the problem is more human in nature. People are tired of others crying about their own freedoms in regards to vax, but declaring other's freedoms are their choice as well. You know the political party I'm speaking of.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27252066

Archived post: https://web.archive.org/web/20210516172305/https://marak.com...
In an ideal world, someone would go over the open bugs on some timeline and mark them as no longer an issue, still an issue, don't know, or won't fix. An easy timeline to specify would be take a look 3 months after last activity and double the wait every time.

Of course, that takes time and effort and some bugs are harder to evaluate than others.
> The last thing which is important to know is how we can send the electricity to the grid. It is simple from a technical point of view [..]

It's not simple from a technical point of view. It's bewilderingly complex, in fact. If not done right, it can threaten the stability of the grid. It requires parts of the grid to have increased capacity. In/out balance needs to be maintained at all times.

Decentralized production is great, but it could really benefit from more decentralized storage. Might be useful to start installing sizeable batteries near all medium->low voltage substations. Seems like the right place for it.
I've heard (but not verified) that ibuprofen is a vasoconstrictor like caffeine, and can be more helpful in easing withdrawal symptoms than other OTC pain meds.

That said, it's likely also tolerance-inducing (https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/stopping-the-vicious-cyc...), so don't overdo it.
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This feature of the (newer?) members of the BLAKE family would not help at all in this case.
That's most of the reason, yes. Just be careful not to make the dual mistake of (a) assuming that the way that schoolchildren are "socialized" is "better" than they way that you were socialized and (b) school and daycare are the only ways to achieve socialization.

Your problem wasn't that you were socialized "late", but that you were socialized in a way that didn't allow you to compete in the world outside of the circumstances of your upbringing. If everyone else was socialized like you were, you probably wouldn't have that problem.

The reason I don't like recommending school or daycare for young children is that although they learn superior marketable social skills (lying, deference, aggression, status gaming, etc.) early on in life, for the most part they think and behave like inmates do. I cannot deny that those who don't go to school find themselves at a social disadvantage, but I do not think that those who go to school are "socialized" in a healthy way.
A small amount of caffeine has been enough to keep the withdrawal headaches from occurring for me.

When I've stopped in the past, I usually take one diet soda I don't especially enjoy (like a Diet Pepsi) and drink a quarter of a can a day in the morning.

As you might surprise I've never attempted to quit caffeine permanently, just to reduce my consumption or to stop for a few months. It is indeed an easy habit to start back on.
Why are all the em dashes missing from the PDF?
Thank you for the explanation. I hope too you will continue the OCaml compiler bimonthly, it's always an interesting read, and it's nice to be up to date with what's happening.
Yeah, looking back to the mid-aughts you could probably "launch" a "product" in a few weeks. You could stretch that 5K into a few months of runway as your expenses are rent, food, internet, and maybe $150/month tops in SaaS stuff.

Like you said, it was also easier to find people who wanted to work on that stuff. Tech jobs were less kushy and highly paid. Working at that kind of startup was a dream compared to slogging through crufty code at some company where software was viewed as a cost - rather than profit - center. But I think back then market rate for a mid-level dev was something like 70K.
For me, I didn't like being physically addicted to something.

I've switched to decaf coffee, because I still like coffee and the morning ritual. But I limit myself to 2 cups, and I have herbal tea later in the day if I still want something to sip on.

The same goes for (added) sugar - it's amazing how you feel when you stop eating candy/ice cream/sweetened drinks/etc. And it's surprising how bad you feel when do you have sugar after you've been off a while - same as the author's experience with caffeine.
> You can lapse at any time later just indulging in one craving.

This rings very true. I tried coffee one time after quitting and the withdrawal migraines came back the next day like I was back in the thick of it.

I haven't had caffeine since then.
Insight: There is a single source of all harmful side-effects.

Insight: It's not capitalism. It's something else.

Perhaps the actual problem for the author is education because any moderate amount of reading comprehension coupled with a little skepticism should keep "insights" like this from spreading.
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Yeah, if at any point I had to do any kind of remote meeting in the metaverse I'm totally okay just moving to a rural area and not doing tech things for the rest of my life.
Of course not, there's no incentive for China to lie. None at all, they first established the virus existence, where it came from and took appropriate action.

What else do you expect? /s
It can't. You can only perform range queries and the like on "sort keys." All sort keys are on the same partition, so has limits on storage size and throughput.

Partitioning is very explicit in DynamoDB, for better or for worse. Harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but also limits what you can do.
I still use my 2013 MacBook Pro too, but with Windows 10 on it. Honestly it's a very well made machine and perfect couch computer. I've been wondering about refreshing its thermal paste to cool it down and extend it's life further. But I wouldn't dare try to open it, especially since it still works so well.
Corrected title to reflect that in February 2020, Steve Hasker succeeded Smith as President and CEO of Thomson Reuters
TFA speculates that laughter or similar vocalizations are a signal of nonagression in play. Play is necessary for animals to learn to hunt and survive. There is no indication that the "laughter" is due to a feeling of "joy" as humans experience it, but I guess there's no way to really know either. Do we observe animals telling jokes to each other, or laughing when another of their group slips and falls?
It does happen, but it is the exception and not the rule. If you're entire argument hinges on the exception case then I'd rethink your position.
The achievement of freedom for the individuals/small units is commonly in conflict with the goal for the larger collective. I see this play out in many aspects of life and is a constant source of tension, for how to let the top soar (race to the bottom is also race to the top), while also continuing to lift the floor for those at the bottom.

Some examples are the constant debate about schooling and segregating kids, to higher achieving children in families moving away to achieve success, but leaving other members of the family behind, to various companies achieving outsize gains and leaving behind or obviating other industries in a society.
“ build a dedicated following among students and other stoners”

Apparently I did being a student all wrong.
I guess the conclusion they only did legal spying, and that any errors where accidental and not systematic breaches of the law so it was ok? Don't know what the commission concluded (most details are probably secret anyway).
Show HN: Mozart Piano – A piano with a touch display
This is my vision for what I believe a 21st century piano could become. As a long-time member of the music community, I listened to the pain points of different musician groups about their experience today and made a strong effort to solve their problems in order to create a global and vibrant community.

- Here are some advantages of the Mozart Piano:

> Teachers could host live lessons.
No extra technology needed. Rather than setting up a tablet on the side and sending raw audio, imagine playing with your student at the same time where you listen to each other’s playing as if you’re next to each other.

With the Mozart Piano you could host live lessons, share exercises, and play with each other at the same time.

> You could find, read and edit sheet music easier than ever.
It’s time to move away from paper sheets. Tablets are OK, but being limited to a single sheet at a time is not cool.

With the Mozart Piano, you can view up to 3 sheets at once. You can find and download any sheet instantly. And the sheets you own - you can create copies to edit them, add comments, and send them easily to others.

> Beginners and ongoing musicians need a consistent way to learn on their own.
Learning the piano today is hard - there’s too many resources out there. It’s tough to decide how to start and what to follow.

With the Mozart Piano and its consistent course-exercise format, you could have access to a large collection of learning material. Learn your favorite movie score, a music genre like Jazz, or specific exercises like chords or scales.

> Music creators could make music in an immersive and intuitive way - right at their piano.
Musicians could create beats, melodies and full songs fun and easy. You could utilize loops, layers, effects, and various sounds to create your music right at the piano - no complicated setup necessary. And those who like uploading their recordings to YouTube, the Mozart Piano could have the editing and publishing process much simpler for you!

* Best of all - As your Mozart Piano ages, it doesn’t become junk. It becomes better over time with free software updates that give you added features as we continue coming up with new ideas. This is just the beginning - and with software, the opportunities are endless.

If you believe in this vision as much as I do, consider supporting the project! We have a live crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. In exchange for a contribution, we’ll send you some cool gifts as a way of saying thanks.

Your contribution does two things:
1. In the short term, the funds help us continue our product development; and
2. More importantly, the total amount we raise serves as evidence for the demand of this awesome piano, so we’ll be able to go to investors in order to raise the funds needed to bring this to market!

Thanks for listening. Contribute today!
It was. Now there's 12400F which offers just slightly lower performance(few percent slower) at almost half of the price. And there's 12600k which at the same price offers slightly better performance in gaming than 5600x, but in multithreaded workloads often outperforms 5800x.
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That's true, but then it is not "allowing" or "enabling" me, it is "forcing" me to do it that way. Of course, the Rust compiler is catching a gazillion bugs beforehand, so this is cool: you finally feel like your program will have no bugs once you manage to compile it.

Error management through Option values, the borrowing checker... they are cool technologies for a C-like language, but they are not palatable at the beginning (maybe they are an acquired taste like beer?). I am tempted to stretch it a little bit more and see how productive I can become writing Rust code, but also not so sure about the effort.
Not that long ago there were a lot of hard work that had to be done around the house. Cooking dinner, washing clothes and dishes, ironing, sewing, heating the house. Now we have microwaves, dishwashers, automatic heating infrastructure.

Similar thing happened with raising children. Women used to be in the job of raising kids. But around the time of World War I kindergartens were popularised, so that women could be incorporated into the war economy. The wars ended but kindergartens remained.

After the war a lot of women were already employed. And others, due to technological innovations, suddenly found themselves with a lot of free time on their hands. So it was only natural for them to follow the rest.
The Chinese state has the ability and means to do what few other countries can - lock down millions of people and mean a lockdown where people are confined to their homes.

There are also millions of Chinese citizens outside china. If China were hiding millions of deaths, we would have heard about it.
I also quit, for me what helped was simply drinking plain hot water instead.
The last time I traveled on the east coast I'd amassed _at least_ four separate "apps" on my phone from four different municipalities.

Each one wants my address and license plate number. Most want my credit card, too.

Each app looks and behaves like it was designed by an intern.

Each app wants to send me notifications on my phone (Ok, I guess if you're concerned about the meter running out).

Some of the apps accept payment, others don't (you have to go to the kiosk in the garage to pay). None of the municipalities I visited allowed cash payment.

Now apparently we need to worry about Phishing QR codes as well.

Is all of this worth not having to run out to the meter and feed it once in a while?
I really hope at some point we can stop having every conversation about renewable and electrifying tech be about "payback". Especially among people who can afford to take some loss on it for the greater good (ie. much of the HN demographic).

There are benefits besides money from removing your dependencies on fossil fuels. The fact that it's even in the ballpark of breaking even is a very nice side effect, but it's not the point.
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Yes absolutely. But do you admit that when the other guy is more than an order of magnitude wrong (4%), that’s he is spreading bullshit even more than I was? And do you admit that nobody seems to call him out like they ought to? Maybe he would offer a swift correction like me and restore his honor and the whole situation could be better that way.
BTW, is YC going to open up their early application process this month?
I agree that it was a dick move from his side. Fork his project, or use an older version. I am not convinced that him breaking his code is something that ought to be punished.

GitHub gets the right to close their hand while Marak doesn't.
You still understand the context right. What's the point of cherry-picking then?
I had similar experience around the author's age, but I love my coffee too much. I decreased slowly over the years. First, not having coffee past 9, then 5, then 3, then noon. Now, I have two small cups in the morning, it does jolt me awake, and outside of the rare exception, that's all I get. Sometimes I forget my second cup. It's a missed opportunity on flavor, but I don't have withdrawal headaches.
I am not seeing the value in discussing privacy at the protocol level. Sure I share what I want to share with the other party but that is not where the privacy violations occur. The host of the service (like FB) will suck up all data and use it to mine info on me. That is where the leak is.
Do they work more hours per day?
Yeah, I realized my aspirations to be a founder / work at early stage startups were kind of idiotic after a while. But more importantly, I realized I just liked making more money and only dealing with my own problems.

It sort of sucks, but idk - in my late twenties I'd like to think I have a much better understanding of what makes me happy now.

I'm actually trying to pass FAANG interviews and it sucks, but at the same time I've realized just optimizing for TC over the next few years is something I actually prefer.
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I used debug to write some moderately serious (~5k lines of code) toy programs in assembly. It worked. Labeling it with insults is historical revisionism; it was part of the basic toolkit for how you hacked around on DOS computers of the time.

I learned a ton about low-level computer operations from using debug. It's more than an assembler, it's also a runtime environment with breakpoints and a debugger, and a hex editor. It really manipulates everything going on with the computer at a byte-by-byte level. I wouldn't have learned all that quite the same way from any "real" tools like MASM or the Norton debugger.
You can do your own solar install for about $1.50/W in the US - ground mount or roof, doesn't really matter (the cost of the per panel electronics for NEC 2017 and later rapid shutdown requirements are about the same as the cost of a ground mount).

It's a lot of work, but can make sense, even in low power cost areas.
Those are amazing. Nice touch with the glimmer inside the plastic chassis.
I rode my scooter through the CVS drive through for a test this weekend to get tested. It's really not an issue.
> Although he was named Google’s first “design ethicist” after the report reached the top levels of the company, Harris left the company in 2016 having failed to convince managers to actually change their products.

This reminded me of the saying to "keep your friends close and your enemies closer".

It might be me being a cynic, but whenever I read about some critic being promoted into a visible role that makes them the official evangelist of their ideal I ask how much actual power they were instated with. More often than not it is not there.
Arguably, if you are operating at such large data sets you likely benefit even more from struct-of-arrays instead of array-of-structs.

This is of course a much bigger change than just moving one line in the struct definition.
Bingo. People are social animals and we take our cues from other people. "Unlimited vacation" sounds good but is not great in practice.
no im suggesting that 'yolo lol we have more beds' is meaningless if u end up with worse outcomes. and let me be clear that 66k per 1M cases and 807 deaths per 1M is better than 180K per 1M And 2515 per 1M.
> Do you have more information, than what is written in that article?

No specifics, and I doubt that there will ever be any more unclassified specifics.

That said, this is SOP for some sectors of the world.

> Because I see your conclusion only as a vague possible hypothesis among many other options.

Sure. That is probably how it will remain.

> And intelligence services are by default usually into very grey, if not dark areas of ethics.

Yep.

> So all this might just as well be an internal power struggle of which the public will only get to view a very distorted picture, of what was actually going on.

Yep.
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Probably not, people would "notice the bodies piling up in the corner" and change their behavior if friends and relatives start dying and you'd see that in terms of how full restaurants are, etc. It's not like the Hunanese government was all that good at keeping the scale of the original outbreak secret.
Many countries have signed the UN protocol that says they will not use laser weapons on people.
The whole thing is a bit of a scam though and the crew on tanks and similar vehicles are taught to use lasers offensively on people even though the lasers are being classified for "range finding" or similar. So in practice offensive lasers are part of modern warfare.
it is one anecdote. Too many indians of privilege do not appreciate the fact that the majority of the country does not have that same privilege. Seventy people around you are all in the same social strata as you.
If you're looking for more CS fundamental things--which I take to mean slightly more theoretical--you might be more interested in programming language design. A lot of the features that make an IDE powerful, things like tracking variable references, resolving/unioning types for better autocomplete, dependency graphs, tree parsing, etc., are based on programming language design/theory. I haven't used this, but this seems like an interesting open book on the subject: https://craftinginterpreters.com/

If you're interested more in the complexity management--which I would call more software engineering-y--not sure what the best way might be! I know one cool thing about Vs code is the language server provider (LSP). This provides all the IDE-goodies for all the languages Vs code supports in an abstract interface any plugin can implement. The spec has been so popular it's now supported in a bunch of editors! So you could develop an LSP for eg python, and then just have a light wrapper for vim, Vs code, Emacs.