jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
You do realize the young going out and becoming immune is what is filling up hospitals? The vast majority of young people have older or vulnerable people in their life.
We’ve so far had 10x the number of deaths in the US compared to a bad flu season. Places that had effective lockdowns with actual enforcement have had much lower death rates.
I'm getting to the point where yes, I want to force these "private" companies to uphold civil liberties and principles such as innocent until proven guilty. I care way more about citizen freedom and expression than the concept of a "free market" which is a platonic ideal that has never existed and never will.
> does the D-Wave have to be cooled to some absurdly low temperature to work?

Yeah, 20 millikelvin. It's cooled with liquid Helium.

(http://www.nas.nasa.gov/quantum/quantumcomp.html)
How does it compare with Zstandard? http://fastcompression.blogspot.com.es/2015/01/zstd-stronger...
The only question is that of materials - and since CNC can work with a wider of materials ,which are both very strong, bio compatible, and dentists have decades of usage of them in the industry - it seems that for now the CNC will win - although dentists could surely use more affordable cnc machines, since last i've hears those machines cost at least $50K.
if this is just logging location, how does it do contact tracing? don't you need everyone's location, or the 'nearby' data like gov.sg's 'trace together'?
I’ve honestly asked this question multiple times to people. FB made a mistake not doing this 10+ years ago. Feels too late now. What can they offer that isn’t available already?
I believe CDC guidelines are to wait at least 3 days after your fever subsides.
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Every large company has certain dependencies (compute, networking, and storage in this case, although you could argue for ex. food service, HR, maybe financial tooling), and those dependencies entail cost and risk, with more risk from using external vendors. So eventually, big enough companies build their own. They build their own datacenters, write their own provisioning tools, design their own network setups, flesh out their own HR departments. And then they look at it and say, "hey, if we can safely sell this, we can recoup the costs of building it, and maybe turn a profit." And if their system is general enough, and they can deal with security well enough, then usually they do just that. Compute is easy to rent out. Networks require some work for security but it's quite doable. HR tends to be too specialized and/or sensitive to resell. (But not always, and sometimes you do see companies reselling employee portals and whatnot.)
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Why? The discussion is about IaaS not SaaS
I don't really feel out of the box when I type

pip install django south
> Perhaps, given the dire state of tuna supplies and consumers who apparently cannot tell the difference without resorting to testing, we should be encouraging mislabeling.

Yes, because fighting ignorance with lies that cater to it is much better than fighting it with information.
Definitely seems true. You can almost feel it in his internal retirement letter to employees where he writes "My original thoughts on timing would have had my retirement happen in the middle of our transformation to a devices and services company" and "I take this step in the best interests of the company I love"
Almost all of the time.
Personally I think the notion that C++ offers "precise control" as you call it is overrated. For instance flexible memory allocation is touted as an advantage, but in practice this is limited by the fact that there is only one global implementation of new the operator.

Over the long term I think Go is going to offer a much more sane environment for implementing high performance servers.
Author of blog post here: Interesting that you say that. I came really close to saying in the blog post that Rust could be the alternative to C++ that I am looking for. But then I decided that I know way too little about Rust at this point to make that statement.
Languages like Haskell and Python being suitable for many applications in no way changes the fact that there are many other situations where they would not be suitable, and a language like C++ would be needed.

Keep in mind that there are also many cases that are the opposite of what you describe. I've worked with many systems that were initially implemented in a non-C++ high-level language, yet the developers had to go back and start incorporating C or C++ code at some point for various reasons, if not re-writing the entire system in C++.

The hybrid approach that Python allows for is extremely powerful, given how it makes calling down to C and C++ code from Python code quite trivial, or embedding a Python interpreter within existing C or C++ code.
I doubt Slack will take some IRC channels. For many, there's an unique nostalgic charm that ties up a lot of communities. There's a lot more than just frontend design and PR.
World governments were formally advised by the WHO to not impose any travel restrictions. The WHO also laughably said there is no "human transmission" of the virus.

The WHO chief just blindly parroted whatever the CCP said for nearly 2 months while the pandemic spread and got out of control. That man deserves to be stripped out of his position. But he will face no justice for the many, many lives he has taken.

The entire timeline of tweets and statements by the WHO is open on the internet - don't see the need to quote them verbatim here.

The only nation in the world raising flags was Taiwan - and their warnings were ignored until it was too late.
I am okay with the general concept(though I guess it would be a lot better to put a computer on a keyboard, or seriously, on a phone), but I think that claiming this is the future of computing is ridiculous, pretty much the only thing this seems to be good at is being able to procrastinate at work, and once people are aware that you can put a computer on a mouse, that goes away
Agreed; there's a massive difference between the capital needed to start something like a pizza shop, as compared to the resources necessary to start a web startup. Sadly, the larger companies have such strong roots that starting a traditional mom-and-pop shop is much more daunting now.
Any in Chicago? These games got me into programming when i was pretty young (scott adams style games that is - maybe I have IF entangled with text adventure?). Would love to meet up with some people who are into this stuff still - i've been playing around with some concepts recently for my own text adventure games.
Need to consider the script tag.
actually styleguide.html is probably what you're looking for. You'll have to download the whole zip though; it doesn't seem to be online
It doesn't overwrite uncommitted changes.
Well something like this fully implemented to be "production ready" gives you the fast startup / teardown of containers with the hardware separation you get with virtual machines. It is the best of both really.
After all the stuff the Guardian published, and which has directly resulted in a massive reduction in Europe-wide security from terrorism, it's easy to see why.

The Paris terror attacks probably would have been stopped if Snowden/Guardian never happened or was better controlled in how the specific details were announced. UK's spy agency has more powers than the NSA can dream of; and is largely responsible for protecting not just the UK, but the rest of western Europe and even some of the USA.
Yep, good call. I didn't think outside of "consumer" headspace...
People have funny beliefs sometimes and sometimes they're dicks about it. Like I only want to back someone that is an entrepreneur and entrepreneurs only act this way.

I had a friend apply at my former work place. He was a brilliant programmer and a millionaire. He wanted a job to get immigration. So he said he would work for the minimum required to get immigration. My boss at the time was insulted that someone would offered to work for cheap. He didn't hire him and went on to ridicule the guy, assuming he would have been a bad hire. Little did he know the guys priorities were different due to money he had made offshore.

I'd say that is what is happening here. Some people can work with folks like that. I wasted to much time with those sorts. I'd rather not personally.
> I wonder if this comparison is what caused nintendo to cease and desisted an online melee tournament that intended to use rollback.

No, Nintendo famously doesn't bother to understand or pay attention to details like this. Their higher-ups can't be embarrassed because they barely understand the very concept of networking, let alone how it affects their own online multiplayer, let alone the distinction between delay-based and rollback, let alone how such a distinction might manifest in a foreign tournament on the far sign of the world. Nintendo's lawyers, on the other hand, are predictable: advertise anything about a modded game of theirs and the C&Ds come out. It's the same reason they went after Project M.
Is/Are there projects like Coq but with a similar aim to Z3? (I.e. being embedded into other things, with an API). I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for since I'm not an expert in theorem proving.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24342948 - Sept 2020 (96 comments)
How can you say that and not link it?

https://ninja-muffin24.itch.io/funkin

(Or so Google suggests)

EDIT: The game seems to be super-loud by default and apparently I can't play any music games other than Guitar Hero. YMMV.
8 bits is just a convention. 6 and 9 bit bytes were common until the 1980s. Standards still say octet or specify 8 bit bytes.

ISO and IEC standards defined a byte as 8 bits in the 1990s. But they also defined kilo and mega as powers of 10.

Powers of 2 were never used exclusively.
The article observes that if the Myers-Briggs axis are treated as continuous then they map very closely to the Big 5 personality traits. It seems to me that observation is substantially more important than the space it is given. If M-B is basically measuring 4 of the Big 5, that really sets up a lot of the rest of the conversation.

Why measure 4 of the big 5 when you can measure 5 of the 5? The complaint here seems to be that the names of the Big 5 should be changed to something more neutral (which is a pretty fair idea, they aren't well named).
The Apple TV 4k supports HDMI CEC (and I'd assume the earlier models do too?)

My normal LG TV remote works fine for controlling it
I have been using an Apple TV and a Chromecast for a long time.

I've never seen an ad on the Chromecast - it simply plays a stream as instructed by an app on the phone. Is it different with the Fire Stick?
At least here human operators apparently are paid for call duration and they will prolong the call up to 15 minutes and you don't need to say anything.
What's the point of compartmentalizing it other than to push a misleading "EVs are cheaper" narrative?

If it costs money its adds to the total cost of ownership, whether its preventative maintenance or unscheduled break fix.

The only difference with preventative is its scheduled so you can organize the work to fit your schedule without much inconvenience.

At the end of the day you need to factor in the entire cost of the car over its lifespan and figure out at what distance the cost of ownership crosses over from ICE being cheaper to EV being cheaper.

This includes repairs, fuel/electricity, insurance, opportunity cost of not having the price difference to invest, etc.
An interesting approach and I'm not sure if I'd prefer it (I happen to like my queries being optimized automatically for my very tiny databases). But wouldn't it be possible to modify PostgreSQL to work this way too? It's unclear why you'd want to switch to a whole new DBMS for this.
What exactly did Kristol say? They article says he "is on record as saying that the 'liberal media' canard is often used by conservatives as an excuse to cover up for conservative failures", but doesn't include a quote or citation. (Putting "liberal media" in quotes doesn't count as a citation, since he uses the term all the time.)

I have zero doubt that this is a behavior they've used, but it's a little weak to say that he's "on record" without pointing to the record.
We also have no clue of how to program within specs at scale. Basically every month we have a huge breach at a major company.

CS is at the stage of building enormous bridges based on experience. No guarantees that they can sustain a specified level of stress.
Devops is more of T-shaped role rather than short-fat
But this is exactly my objection. Returning to your example, I don't think working through Helemskii's book helps one really understand functional analysis relative to a well-written standard treatment. What interesting problems does this viewpoint permit a probabilist or harmonic analyst to solve that the standard approach does not? What theorems does it enable?

I find it bizarre that you (and others – I don't mean to pick on you) seem to think that a translation to category theoretic language is necessary (and sufficient?) to understand what one is actually doing. Do the many professional mathematicians who prove important theorems in functional analysis today without bothering to learn this language not actually understand what they are doing [0]? But the undergraduate who reads Helemskii does? This seems like an absurd notion of what it means to actually understand a subject.

[0] See, for example, many of the papers noted here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant_subspace_problem
> as if it was a bad thing.

Future generations may look back on mandatory financial surveillance the same way we look back on general warrants.

Especially because the claims don't match the requirements. If you want to make sure someone is paying their income tax, you don't need to know who the buyer is. But the same is true of sales tax, which is likewise collected by the seller.

And it's the buyer who most needs privacy. The mosque or synagogue or gay bar or abortion clinic or adult book store may not be hiding what it is from the government, but their patrons shouldn't have to reveal that they're patrons.

Yet if you try to activate a prepaid credit card, they want your name. For what?
It comes with the same easy Java interop, but is a much smaller simpler language, while in my view managing to include essentially all of the most useful ergonomic improvements (over Java) that Scala does, but with essentially none of the more complex baggage.
This SO thread [0] on the subject is interesting as well. I suspect this really has no harmful consequences, most browsers have a max iframe depth, although I don’t know how it varies.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14223628/why-does-a-self...
Because I'm an engineering manager :p

I do try and find time to code on the weekends, but the pandemic has all but destroyed my motivation to do anything beyond the bare minimum.
When I was younger I used to say that I was a jack of all trades, master of none. Many years later I feel like a jack of all trades, master of many. I no longer fit any of the profiles presented here.
> The company said it already accounted for a bulk of those costs in prior quarters and expects to take a $743.6 million charge in its fourth-quarter 2020 earnings to cover the rest.

Sounds a bit like a like a fight club math answer. I wonder what a recall would have cost.
Extensively discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25622322
Yes, but that would basically be a lie by degree.

And what exactly are you talking about? The women can't do math as well as men? Please do share.

Were you referring to gender or race? Because racism (and ideas of racial supremacy) is not not rooted in science. That would be another right wing conspiracy theory.

It's really hard to have a discussion when the examples you use are so vague.
Please consider integration with Vosk https://github.com/alphacep/vosk for offline speech recognition. It should be a good fit.
If the optimal overall speed is determined by greatest efficiency, which means a reasonable maximum speed, then I would think traffic would have an even bigger impact: it's not profitable to compensate for heavy traffic with absurd speeds in rural highways, so the overall speed is really just determined by (1) amount of traffic, (2) battery size, (3) charge time, and (4) aerodynamics.

In this case I'd expect traffic is really the dominant factor.
I don't know if any of these have RISC-V support, but I would be interested in hearing about it. I would actually love a good distro for RV32G which is arguably a better match for FPGA softcores (and dev boards with > 4 GiB of external memory are rare)
> I disagree, trump's rhetoric works precisely because there is enough reasonable evidence to call into question your perspective on election integrity, and people are upset that it's being ignored.

It is clear to me that Trump and his surroundings have no qualms about fabricating "truths" in whatever quantity fitting whatever narrative to match their aims. This has been the playbook from day 1, see [0]. It appears to work regardless of any underlying facts.

I fully admit that I am not privy to the perspective of and influences on Trump supporters at large and capitol stormers in particular. However, the idea that there is a meaningful bar of evidence to clear before his supporters buy into his statements appears largely unfounded to me. Otherwise our current reality would be incompatible with [0].

And let me be perfectly clear that virtually every human will believe a convenient "truth" at some point or another. But given the degree to which Trump's entire sphere of influence has supported any outlandish, nonsensical or downright contradictory thought he expresses, I do not see how election integrity measures would have moved the needle in this regard. (Which is not to dismiss the need for them, just their influence on this attack).

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claim...
Very interesting, when and where was this?
As technical people, we tend to have a bias that we're better equipped to understand things than anyone else, but that's often not the case. Many, many of the things out there don't just require the ability to use Google and do math, but also those things engineers are notoriously bad at like understanding human systems, compromising, and communication. We also don't have any particular advantages in knowing things outside our domain of expertise. An all-engineer government is definitely not an ideal.
I didn't try to convince anyone. I deleted it and people started to reach out on Signal, Telegram and Threema. A friend of mine did the same 4 years earlier and it worked out.

This probably doesn't just work for everyone, in every country. But look, people still use phones and these things actually have a phone feature. You might not be as cut off without Whatsapp as you think.
They're joining the analytics team at Twitter
Ah, it's so sad to me because I really enjoyed the Ender books. But this guy is so frustrating to listen to and some of the quotes I have heard from him are incredibly offensive. I don't know where someone who seemed so intelligent a few years ago now appears to be out of touch with reality.
Not sure if I parsed your comment correctly, but I'd just like to clear up that it was my understanding that that's the official button you're supposed to use, not a ploy to drive people through PayPal by me. -humble bundle cofounder
Actually, most hotels have a policy that if you don't cancel your reservation at least 24 hours in advance, you will be charged for at least one night.
What would make this more attractive to me is a mechanism for local mutable state. Some algorithms are just easier to express if you're allowed to change the values of some local variables. Erlang has no shared mutable state, but as Haskell's State monad shows, it's perfectly possible (and often useful) to keep mutable state boxed off safely.

Since this can be transformed to tail-recursion, you should be able to implement it on the Erlang VM without too much trouble. Getting a convenient syntax and doing the transformation would be the hardest part.
Since you brought it up, I'm not sure if you're aware of it, but he is a fan of Snopes.