skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because I'm an Atheist, that doesn't mean I can't appreciate Tolkien, or C. S. Lewis. What matters to me is the quality of the material. Sure I found the metaphysics in the last season a bit much, I know plenty of people that didn't enjoy it on it's merits and that's fine it's just personal taste, but there was still plenty for me to enjoy so that's fine.
This pandemic can help us prepare for the next one, says Catherine Hankins, co-chair of Canada’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force
It’s been said that SARS-CoV-2 is just the beginning of the new war on viruses. What do you think the future has in store?
Researchers are looking into whether some people have a reduced susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2. Could this explain why some have never been infected with it?
What can genetic research poten­tially teach us about preventing or fighting infectious diseases in the future?
> Every sane person I talk to has the opinion that there are not enough money in the world to deal with an asshole like Musk.

You don't talk to any poor people. They already have a bad boss that underpays them, a bad boss that pays them well is a massive upgrade.
any idea if you can merge a dreambooth checkpoint with the inpainting model to get the best of both? I mostly use inpainting to fix custom trained faces.
afaik you can't because then there are no dns records to verify against. You could use a subdomain of a real tld if you had one though, or just bite the bullet and spend 10 bucks a year.
Centralization is better than decentralization in 99% of cases, but the 1% is really important: when the centralized system fails, or is controlled by an adversary (e.g. malicious government).

IMO decentralized internet (and social media and currency) should be possible, routinely tested, and readily-available when the centralized internet fails. But a neutral, trusted, central server will is basically always preferred when it is available.
Although I have not seen the source code, I was mind blown when first heard of and saw the demo of the Sketchpad, a program created by Ivan Sutherland in 1963.

http://scihi.org/ivan-sutherland-computer-graphics/

Ph.D. thesis:
- https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/14979 (1963 original),
- https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-574.{html,pd... (2003 electronic edition)
This is from 2016. I wonder if they still have this policy in place.
Is a free and open cloud possible? What if we could freely share, clone, and fork live services just like open-source code? We're building an open-source platform to make this a reality -- what do you think?
honestly even having a progress bar on the bottom right of the status bar would help - then at least people know it's doing something
Here is what the next big aspiring social media company should put on their website.

"$COMPANY_NAME is currently free to use. Unfortunately, we do have employees and computers to pay for to keep things running. When we hit 1 billion users, we intend to start charging all our users a very small fee: 1 hour of minimum wage in whatever country you live in for an entire year's access. For example if you live in the UK, this means you'd only pay £9.50 for the entire year. If you live in Portugal, you'd only pay €4.38 for the year. Your first year will always be free to see if $COMPANY_NAME is right for you.

Your IP address currently shows you're from $COUNTRY_NAME. This means a year's access for you would be $COUNTRY_MINIMUM_WAGE. This fee will only ever increase if your government increases the minimum wage of your country and will always stay pegged to that rate.

This means that, regardless of where you live in the world or how much you earn, access to $COMPANY_NAME only requires, at most, a single hour of your time each year to continue using. This allows us to keep the platform free from ads, tracking, and from wasting money on useless VR products nobody wants. Help us build a better, fairer future for everyone: not just shareholders."
Maybe you could try routing the emails through an account registered in a country with stronger anti-spam protections?
I'm both saddened and excited. Saddened because this abuse is all too common in capitalist corporations led by megalomaniacs. And excited because my company is hiring and we don't ask anyone to work more than 40 hours a week. Hoping we can interview some people from Twitter soon so that they don't have to worry about finding new work after layoffs
What settings are you shooting? How do you edit your images?
Well, this is cool. I had a convincing conversation with a squirrel. (Aside: Forest animals might be one of the most perfect use cases for this. A squirrel wouldn't be expected to remember facts for very long, and might make stuff up.)

Obviously gaming would be a huge use case. It's not hard to imagine a forest creatures RPG type game. (Though, an actual game would need some kind of direction to the conversation. The squirrel I spoke with didn't seem to have any objectives of his own; and didn't recognize when I wanted to politely end the conversation.)

Business use cases are very exciting as well. You'd definitely need to solve the "make stuff up" problem; possibly giving the chatbot access to a restricted set of facts it knows and nothing else. I wonder if that's within the black box, though; is it even possible to separate factual statements about the world from other components of conversation?

Really curious to see what the business model is.
Maybe you should email the site and let them know instead of complaining on some random forum?
I don't keep a record of the articles that have made me roll my eyes. Usually it's when they report on an area I know a little about, like New Zealand or tech news, and I think "wait, that's not entirely true" or "that's not what people actually think about this subject" and it makes me think if I feel that way about those articles then that reduces the credibility of all articles by a small amount. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/ has some information and examples.
Idk man.

If I zoom out from parsing word by word...

...feels like I'm saying a Keurig "rivals and surpasses espresso machines" because it can produce a better espresso than an arbitrary espresso machine in arbitrary hands.

Yeah, true. Not very meaningful though.

There's probably a McDonald's hamburger analogy here that's better, but, here we are.

My challenge to an ambituous reader looking to comment: make that one work too.
"A lot" isn't the phrase I'd use here. Criticisms of various CDC policies around cloth masks are the big one. You could maybe include the gain-of-function stuff but the lab-leak theory hasn't "turned out to be correct."

What else is there? That it'd go away by Easter? That it'd be less deadly than the seasonal flu? That the vaccines would give me 5G reception?
Just the fact that Irkut (Russian) and Comac (Chinese) have competitor aircraft not only taking orders but in the skies should be enough to get most of the octogenarians in congress to give Americas flagship aircraft manufacturer a green light to sell whatever it wants during a global recession.

it does nothing however to ameliorate the fact that most of the original 737 buyers who were grounded have moved on to Airbus or variant Boeings with a less haunted track record.
Four Days of Go (2015)
Couldn't you take those photos and apply it back on the computer? Yet when i try to do HDR with 5 shots in Lightroom, it takes 10s of seconds or even minutes. It seems computer haven't caught up either?
Elixir wasn't there when the article was written, I'm not using it but read elixir code and look charming
One crazy guy breaking into the house of a politician that will obviously get covered by the news versus all the antifa mob attacks that have been participating in looting, riots, and assaulting people for having "wrong" opinions that get called "peaceful" by news outlets because both fight for the bottom line of the establishment.
In addition to oversaturation, on-demand access to things can also lead to a sort of paralysis: the fact that I have access to shows on demand all the time means I almost never actually watch them. After all I can always do something else (read a book, browse HN) and watch that thing some other time. Whereas I will watch live TV (Jeopardy, sports), because I have to turn on the TV at a particular time to see it.

Your line of thought "rhymes" in an interesting way with Matt Levine's column today about how illiquidity sometimes has value [0]:

> Another, funnier sort of financial innovation is about subtracting liquidity. If you can buy and sell something whenever you want at a clearly observable market price, that is efficient, sure, but it can also be annoying. Consider the following financial product:

> 1. You give me the password to your brokerage account.
> 2. I change it.
> 3. You can’t look at your brokerage account for one year, because you don’t have the password.
> 4. At the end of the year, I give you back your password and you pay me $5.

> Is this a good product? For me, sure, I got $5 for like one minute of work.[1] For you, I would argue, it’s also pretty good. For one thing, you avoid the stress of looking at your brokerage account all the time and worrying when it goes down. For another thing, you avoid the popular temptation of bad market timing: You can’t panic and sell stocks after they fall, or get greedy and buy more after they rise, because I have your password.

[0]: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/matt-levines-money...
What is being banned are non-competes that don’t pay someone to not compete.

There are legitimate reasons for actual non-competes in many of these cases, and CAlifornia for instance just requires you pay them for it.

Which in such a situation seems justified.
Good looking != captures reality.

iPhones apply filters to make the photos look more vivid and to make them "ready to share". If a professional camera would do that, it would not be professional.
I doubt those iphone photos look the exact same as the nikon ones on a large display (i.e. anything bigger than an iphone...) It has not been the case for me.
I don't think this is comparable.
> It makes it absurdly difficult to share common styles across components.

It's a feature, not bug. In the world where many components are created independently by different developers, It's suddenly possible to define element style easily, without requiring you to consider affecting tons of other things that are not in any way related and you know nothing about. Less sharing is good when sharing requires expensive coordination.
This also happens in the US, it just isn't reported on heavily by the media.

When the dining workers at my university in the US were campaigning for a contract, teamsters blocked most truck deliveries to the university
Though there is the threat of rules being made to govern "unsportsman-like" behavior that dissuades this kind of thing. If the powers that govern the sport determine they don't want this to be a mainstay, they can rule it out. The videogame exists in a realm of concrete and unchanging rules, theres no threat of making anyone mad, besides the person at the other end of the couch of course.
Perhaps it’s your vantage point. I just saw this on mobile, and if it does what I think it does, I can’t wait to try it out. At least for me personally I think this may be exactly what I need for knowledge (interest) management.
Saying "here's an image I generated" is exactly the use case of reddit. DDoSing reddit is not the use case of reddit.

And "private" has more meanings than "secret/only personally known". Posting something you generated on Reddit for fun is private use.
My personal experience with non-compete is something that was being purchased from me by my employer as part of a severance package. Does this mean that that ability for me and my employer to make those deals is removed?
> in case elon burns the house down

He admires Twitter. He wants it to succeed. I don't think he wants to torch Twitter. If anything his account is a giant AD for Starlink, Tesla, SpaceX, etc

Twitter needs to be a /protocol/ not a website/app.
Friends don't put friends in jail.
I’ve had the good fortune to visit Tokyo several times, and visited a few apartments of friends who have regular middle class jobs: animators, cooks, tailors. Every apartment was tiny. Like less than half the size of any apartment I've ever lived in at any point of my life living in Los Angeles or San Francisco.

I’ve stayed many times with a friend whose father is a well-known Japanese movie actor and even they live in a house which would be modest by any US suburban standard, in a quiet part of a nice neighborhood (kichijoji) but still an 8-10 minute walk to trains and very bustling, active parts of town.

The thing I’ve found remarkable with Tokyo is how walkable it is and how, despite how crowded and dense it can seem, the street level experience can feel very accessible and not at all overwhelming. Many good parks, walking paths and general accommodations for people not in cars.
> For influencers who are popular enough that they can pick and choose, this isn't all that hard.

Sure, but there's no way for me as a viewer to tell whether a given influencer is making honest choices, or just peddling whatever shit pays them the most. In fact, the whole value of influencers to the marketers is that they confuse people on this very issue, that they convince people they're being honest even though they're not.

> The thorny issue is the smaller influencers (who are the majority, for sure) who have to take whatever is offered to pay their bills.

Right. And since the popular influencers started as such smaller ones and most likely had to compromise their ethics right at the start, why should I believe they suddenly found their moral compass again once they became popular?
My sister in neighboring Arkansas lives a 15 minute walk (3/4 mile) to her son's elementary school, but they have a similar policy and banned my sister and her husband from walking their son to school.

I live in Seattle now, and the elementary schools here have a 1 mile walk boundary before they will bus you. About 1/3 of students in Seattle walk or bike to school.
Between Not Wanting to Live and Not Wanting to Die
I know you are trying to be flip here, but I can almost guarantee you that their number of job applicants has probably exploded as a result of these shenanigans.
>Published today in PLOS One, the study found weight-normative messaging - the idea that weight is the most important measure of a person’s health - largely predominates on TikTok with the most popular videos glorifying weight loss and positioning food as a means to achieve health and thinness.

I'd really like to know how they drew the line on any of this. A few years ago I was about 15 pounds over what I used to be - a BMI of 26. Not crazy, but was def getting tired more than I used to. I started a spreadsheet logging everything I ate. Within four months I was back at my goal weight and have mostly kept it off since. I worked out some, but mostly just got 10k steps a day to get my weight down. I'm sure this would qualify as "weight-normative" messaging by the study.

I obviously know all the studies that have shown BMI is not perfect (especially since it counts muscle and fat tissue the same) but people take this to mean that it has little or no effect. Most people into dieting are smart enough to know if the ten extra pounds they put on is making them healthier or not. There are obviously some people in America who choose to eat to little, but this number dwarves in comparison with those who eat a lot and a bit telling this study focuses on the first group instead of accounts which talk about drinking, fast food, cooking, etc.
Well, I mean... if Boeing is so corrupt and/or incompetent to let TWO of their airplanes full of people crash because of bad engineering / bad ops, perhaps we can have an opinion on the matter?

If retraining those pilots, mechanics, and other support personnel are required, then why not do it? Sure, it will be expensive, but if the costs are human lives, c'est la vie.
So, if I already model systems via boxes and arrows, and use things like petri nets, then am I good, or do I still need to learn category theory?
In my (blue) state if you quit and file for unemployment due to hostile/unsafe work environment, they ask the company if that was true and take the company at face value and reject your unemployment claim.
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I've often pondered the idea of something similar to this. I'd love the idea of a note taking app as relational database.

Most of my work tends to follow a few similar formats, which I would like to create as templates that pull in data based on queries for whatever project/product/task I'm currently working on. Editing the document in current view would then modify the database, while editing the templates would allow for a quick update of all files simultaneously (i.e.- generating a test plan for a physical product of type "X" would then apply to all products of type "X").

It seems like a great way to take out the annoyance of the "little stuff" by providing a boilerplate way to get ideas off the ground.

Any ideas if this already exists, or if I'm just talking crazy?
Extremely doubtful. There is no shortage of people looking for work.
Not using Recall Graph built on Arrango DB by chance, are you? https://github.com/RecallGraph
People Will Pay for Illiquidity
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How many listens has your website gotten already? How much money have you made for your partners? It sounds like this is unproven, and you're assuming quite a bit here.
In practice that doesn't solve the problem as much as you'd expect. Consider two or more people maintaining the same system. You are tagging something, and the tags that first come to your mind don't appear among the suggested ones: is that because you're the first person to ever tag something like this, or is it that you're describing it in a different way than I did last year?

Your options for finding out are:

1. Step back and do some research, look at all the tags and find ones that someone might have used to describe something similar, and then check the original item to make sure.

2. Ask your team if anybody has tagged something like this before.

3. Institute a sort of merge request process for new item tags.

4. Make up a new tag and move on.

Guess which option people usually go with?
https://archive.ph/Fg2ma
> that will basically eliminate them

in NYC, it doesn't seem to stop quant firms. they have a term for it, although I forget what.
The size of the sensor isn't as important as people think it is. What really matters is the diameter of the aperture (the absolute diameter, not the f number). Consider a cone of light for a given angle of view hitting a small sensor close to the aperture and a large sensor further from the aperture:

o < aperture of a given diameter
/\
/ \
---- < small sensor (less area, more light per unit area)
/ \
/ \
-------- < large sensor (more area, less light per unit area)

If you compare typical shooting apertures for DLSRs and camera phones, they're not radically different. Say you are shooting a 50mm lens at f8 on a DSLR. That's an aperture of 6.25mm. A typical smartphone camera will have an aperture of around 3-4mm. In this scenario, then, the DLSR is getting about 3 times more light (or ~1.5 stops).

Of course you can use much wider apertures on DSLRs, but their use is more limited given the shallow depth of field that results. If you're shooting e.g. landscapes, then you're probably not going to use apertures much wider than f8 anyway.
Yup, hackers run through leaked email addresses, or target people. If your email is listed in haveibeenpwned.com dumps, scripts are processing the lists.

Only real basic things you can do, dont use your primary cell/emails as 2FA backup. Amazed theres no company offering security enabled sms enabled numbers via a webpage to plug the sms hole.

And if you use your primary cell for 2fa, call your carrier and put a no-transfer lock on your account. This is how the bitcoin hacks happen.

Also, google has titan keys, they ignore them for 2FA also. Kinda mornic.
In fact there is so few evidence of this actually happening I'm not sure the facts of this article are real. This should be flagged.
This is true today in Seattle: https://www.seattleschools.org/departments/transportation/

> Elementary and K-8 school sites have a 1-mile walk boundary. Eligible students are provided service primarily on yellow school buses. Middle school sites have a 2-mile walk boundary.
Show HN: A productive/fun alternative to endless scrolling on social media
When feeling like you need to take a break (or when you're sitting on the toilet), instead of endlessly scrolling though social media apps, you can learn something interesting/useful on https://somethingto.watch/
Since the iPhone 11, the primary stated purpose of the Pro variants has been photography.

For users less interested in photography, the regular iPhones have a more subtle camera array.
Well, it's Texas. One of the reasons I fled the midsouth to return to my native northeast was the shockingly pervasive culture of marginalizing walking (or biking or anything but a car) as a way of getting around.

The assumption was no one would ever willingly use anything but a car to go anywhere, even half a mile away, unless they really really had no choice.

I started taking to wearing a collared shirt when I went for a jog to avoid being looked at or treated like a homeless person. Of course, then I would constantly get asked if I needed a ride. But eventually I just did it less and less because of all the stray dogs, not an issue I've ever seen so much in places where walking is normal for the non-destitute.

One time I tried biking through a drive through (the walk in doors were closed for some reason) and they threatened to call the police on me.

Another time, despite being clean and well dressed, I was treated like a homeless shoplifter at a CVS, and I'm sure it's because they saw me walk in off the street instead of from the parking lot.

Nothing remotely like any of this has ever happened in the northeast. Even in the least walkable places in the northeast, people are at least not surprised if someone insists on trying to walk places -- they-re probably just some ex-new Yorker, ex bostonite, etc.

It was like being in a different country with different customs. Indeed I've learned the US is a more culturally varied place than I had thought as a young boy consuming national market media.

If you like to walk don't be a dumbass and think you can move to somewhere like Texas and "I'll just walk around the leafy suburbs then"

Maybe you will and sure, people do it, and neighborhoods certainly vary, but it really depends and you will find it is not something you can take for granted like on Europe, latin America, or the northeast corridor of the US.
Really, which laws are those?

The only ones I’m aware of would be trade secret laws, but they’re dubiously applicable to bare customer contact lists.

You can make contractual restrictions of course (company property), but good luck being able to prove they actually took it unless they’re really dumb. Merely contacting all, or many, customers for instance wouldn’t prove it.

Being able to show they work for competitor x is easy, however, as is showing they’re pursuing customers in the same space.
That's the most hilarious double speak. I can only imagine the repressed artists getting told off for putting 5 slices of cheese on a foot-long instead of 4. "I was just trying to express myself, you said I was an artist."