jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sure, I still find it's a weird choice for a privacy-focused service. Also it's not clear that the Cloudflare cookie is really required to ensure the functionality of a web service (it probably isnt' as they're planning to get rid off it), so just pretending that you don't need to inform customers about this cookie set by your data processor is mere wishful thinking. Again, no one cares much about this and it's not enforced, if you're building a privacy-focused service you should give it some thought though instead of just saying "Cloudflare is cool because it gives me free TLS and load balancing". Just my 2c.
At least for me, the key was to keep it capped at 10 hours a week. With more hours than that I would have struggled to balance coursework, social life, work, and sleep.

You definitely can't pay for everything on 10 hours a week, but it at least pays the bar tab...
how is this even legal in the US?
I believe you and the OP are talking past each other. The OP didn't reference R value, just herd immunity.

Take the US...

Certain sub-populations could very well have herd immunity within that group. A group like meat-packing plant employees and their families. They've all had COVID or been vaccinated.

But, within the group of "white collar workers who can afford to remain socially distant", we could be a long way from herd immunity - this group has remained distant (low number of past infections) and hasn't been eligible for vaccination (<65 years old, mostly healthy).

Yes, at a macro level, herd immunity is mostly binary. But, over a population of 300,000,000, there's a lot of room for sub-populations with differing levels of immunity.
Facebook can't use the breach itself to contact users, no. The data could have been tampered with, and besides, Facebook doesn't have permission to process the leaked data in that way.
The UK's strategy with vaccine roll-out was very specifically nothing to to do with herd immunity, because at the time that the vaccine roll-out started, there was no direct evidence that vaccination prevented infection - only that it was very good at preventing death, hospitalisation and illness.

So the British government built a vaccination strategy around preventing death, hospitalisation and illness. It was estimated that if the vaccines had been available during the first wave and we had just vaccinated the priority groups we would have saved 90% of the lives lost to Covid.

Those over 20 are due to get their first dose by the end of July.

One important reason that school kids aren't being vaccinated is that the vaccines haven't been approved yet because trials in that age group are still ongoing.
>let's assume that MS Word will give you a 1% performance increase over LibreOffice

That's a pretty big assumption.

I've used both products. I didn't notice any noteworthy differences when it came to regular usage. I actually think the new-ish Ribbon UI is extremely confusing and slow to navigate.

This certainly isn't like Gimp vs Photoshop.
What a horrible web site!
Yahoo Mail, Flickr, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo News. It still doesn't smell right, though.
I hate what Apple's doing and I'm a HUGE Android fanboy, but this seems way out of Congress's jurisdiction or list of important things.
What are your interests? Yeah, besides programming. Do you play guitar? Are you a baseball stats geek? Do you like math puzzles? Pick a problem aligned with your other interests, and go for it. Whether you do this in a language you already know or a new language / framework / etc. is your call, but challenge yourself.

Your interest will keep you going through the slow parts, whereas if you're just learning tech for its own sake, you might just start learning something else as soon as it gets hard. That can feel like progress, but doesn't usually add up until you stick with things for longer.
You can take a look at actual prices on freelancersunion.com.

Keep in mind that the next couple years are anyone's guess because of all the new healthcare regulations coming in. (A lot of insurance companies are hiking up their prices ahead of 2014 when they will be forced to offer more coverage at lower premiums).

It also really varies by state so you should mention where you are moving to.
I think this is _great_ advice. It reminds me of Ramit Sethi's 'Conscious Spending' principle: Spend lavishly on what you value, cut ruthlessly from what you don't.
From what I got, it virtualizes everything but CPUs and memory. Each Atom sees virtualized network connections, disk storage and whatever else the custom chipset wants to present. I am not sure if you can make the 8 Atoms on each board see each other as it they were an 8-way SMP box, but I am quite sure you can't make them believe they are a single-image, 512-processor machine.
You all already know about it. I should rather take a trip to Hacker News meetup Seattle or somewhere :)
Here you go: https://www.1000tools.com - specific to tool rentals and very local.

(disclaimer: I started it)
their Simple Pay guides point to FPS functions for "advanced" usage. do you auth first and capture on shipment without relying on FPS functions (or widget checkout)?

https://amazonpayments.s3.amazonaws.com/FPS_ASP_Guides/ASP_G...

https://amazonpayments.s3.amazonaws.com/FPS_ASP_Guides/ASP_A...
I have the same problem with LightTable... ClojureScript is Lisp and all, but why not Javascript? Huge user base, must be faster since its CS target, and pretty good as a extension language (or just use Lua :))
He crowdfunded the money to pay the lawyers to look into it, quite a few people in the industry donated, it wasn't all his money. He published the lawyers' findings on his blog. As is often the case, there is one person who is leading the charge and acting as spokesperson, but there are a lot of people involved in this. See how many show up for the march outside the Oscars.
It's not about Trump, it is about claiming the US is close to devolving into the state of handmaid's tale. I don't know how many people here have read it (the book, I mean). I have read it. It is a ridiculous claim.
To be fair the article does that. The above URL just links to an anchor in the middle where it talks about codec implementation. For instance this quote from the article

"We learned that it's not feasible to use video without any compression; a single one hour video at 720p resolution with 30fps would require 278GB*. Since using solely lossless data compression algorithms like DEFLATE (used in PKZIP, Gzip, and PNG), won't decrease the required bandwidth sufficiently we need to find other ways to compress the video.

...

In order to do this, we can exploit how our vision works. We're better at distinguishing brightness than colors, the repetitions in time, a video contains a lot of images with few changes, and the repetitions within the image, each frame also contains many areas using the same or similar color."

https://github.com/leandromoreira/digital_video_introduction...
Probably not - I suspect it's only there because Arizona has a storied history of planned communities
One more argument for taking out name-to-IP translation entirely out of "managing organizations" and moving it onto a fully decentralized blockchain.
I faced the same problem (though my name is not at all very common). Banks, mobile companies never did anything even after I repeatedly told them on phone and Twitter (and have kept a record of it).

One day after I had received a person's bank, mobile statement and many other bills for few months I decided to call him (his number was easily visible in many emails) and inform him of his mistake. He turned out to be lawyer and he said he will "decide" what to do about it. And the next thing I know is he sent a carefully drafted email (as a legal notice) that I should hand over my email address to him without further delay and all that.

I didn't do that. I talked to a lawyer friend and he just told me to reply with a "G F Y" card. I didn't do that either. But that pushed me to finally move my emails to my personal domain as it was/is a Gmail account and if someone complained Google would have just terminated my account and I don't know anyone who works at Google.
A question to those who downvoted this comment: why?

I'm genuinely curious. It was not nasty in any way, it was readable and presented a good argument. That you disagree should not be a reason to downvote.

I don't think 2000 mile range would be that important, but >1000 km would be useful (I have a diesel car that can do this).
and shameless self-promotion, cause somebody asked about 2.9

http://www.reddit.com/r/scala/comments/eb0rd/programming_in_...
I'm now going to change my employment status on linkedin to "participating in the maximum alleviation of scarcity".
Accident, not cleverness, I assure you.
I had to Google "AMA". Now I get it.

You can ask me anything and I'll do my best to answer. I'm still pretty guarded about info, perhaps unnecessarily, because I'm not sure what is and isn't ok to chat about anymore.

15 years ago, photographs like these would be a big no no:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:20061027-6_b2cockpit-1-515...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:B-52_lower_deck.jpg

This was apparently publicized at some point, as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGM-129_ACM (which I view as the precursor to modern UAVs)
Can you elaborate in what the potential downside might be ?
It only matters to me if a woman is not competent or qualified for the job. Otherwise if competent and qualified go ahead.

I've seen many for the sake of diversity to promote an administrative assistant to board member and be a puppet of the CEO.
The Beatles heavily used alcohol and tobacco too. But really, they were three of the century's most talented and most hardworking musicians with incredible managers and producers and almost unlimited resources.

I can't prove it, but I don't believe there is a causative link between tripping on LSD and writing great music. I do believe there is a causative link between working hard and practicing a lot and writing great music.

For the record, Bob Dylan was baptised in the 70:ties. And if you believe LSD influenced the Beatles, then by the same logic, Jesus influenced Bob Dylan.
This helped me visualize how close LEO satellites are, as well as how far away others are (e.g. GPS).

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Orbitalal...
To cheer up, fix your environment. (And your health.)

Most of the unhappiness I've encountered has related to poor environment. Wear and tear over time brought on increasing poor health -- another significant factor.

Meantime, I had people telling me I simply needed to "adapt". Consistently, I was supposed to change in order to meet their goals.

It was the rare person who simply took me as I am and genuinely sought to work with that to mutual advantage. Those people and occasions were some of the most productive of my life.

A consequence of all this, is that I tend to think quite poorly of most prescriptive advice. When people are all busy talking at you, they're hardly ever actually listening to you.
That's all well-and-good for SpaceX but it proved to be pretty catastrophic for the dozens of pump-and-dumps that bankrupted many Americans when we tried that previously.
Please just give me a checkbox input that sends true/false instead of true/nothing
Heya! We (ReadMe) do indeed work well with Open API specs!

There's definitely alternatives if you're looking to just display docs. But we try to take it a step farther, and make APIs easy to use. We generate code samples in every language, have interactive try-it-now functionality, give you shareable links for API logs, have a nice clean `api` module in certain languages, have a mini getting started guide on each page, and more.

My email is in my profile if you want to talk more! (I'd be curious about any shortcomings you've found we can help out with!)
Yes, it's admittedly an incredibly tough problem (how do you get those competing to cooperate?), and how to compute on data that is trustworthy. Ultimately, in biotech/pharma you have to ultimately know what an underlying gene or say pathway actually is, it can't be totally obfuscated. Still not sure how to set this up (if it's really even possible) that solves for this use case.

> but a system where pieces of a research puzzle are stored on chain and each user can claim ownership of those findings, a resultant drug's profits could be proportionally split by every entity which contributed to the research.

I think ultimately this is how a research cooperative could work. If distributing and re-allocating fractional ownership is efficient enough, it seems like something like this might be feasible. The idea with multiparty communication (MPC) is that in this setup a research entity would contribute their data in an encrypted fashion, and any parties would be granted access to compute on it based on some set of rules/buy in etc.

This is a really difficult technical approach, as MPC is really only in it's infancy, made only to seem easy by the far more difficult and distant prospect of socializing medicine, which would seem to be of the greatest benefit.
Agree this is mostly false, and likely not deceptive but fast/sloppy writing. For example, depending on the landscape and forest ecosystem composition, a wildfire could result in the ecosystem becoming a net carbon source. Examples include Ponderosa, Jeffery, and Lodgepole Pine and Douglas fir landscapes in California and Arizona. In a high intensity burn fire where the stand is replaced, it is possible to degrade the soil and emitted soil Carbon through both burning of soil organic matter and subsequent erosion[1][2]. With degraded soil and increasing temperatures the conditions won't be available for Ponderosa, Jeffery, and Lodgepole Pine and Douglas fir to regenerate and the species that succeed them likely don't have the same carbon sequestering potential. This phenomena can be extremely site specific in which former south facing pine stands might not regenerate pine and instead regenerate as chaparral and manzanita (for example, west side Sierra 5000-7000 feet above sea level).

Dying trees and wildfire is especially problematic in Boreal forests in Alaska and Canada[3]. Managing Boreal forests as a carbon sinks is going to be difficult with climate change. In Canada million acre fires are normal as the species composition is susceptible to stand clearing fires and fire intensity can be high resulting in the ecosystem being an atmospheric carbon producing source. Conversely, Redwood forests even at maturity increase their capacity as carbon sinks and are highly resistant to catastrophic fire.[4] So, species composition, soil, and fire influence on whether or not decomposing trees are a carbon sink or source.

Building on the model presented earlier:

CarbonCaptureRateToStopGlobalWarming = growTreesPlantsAndBuryDeadOnes(...params) + newTech(...params)

Replace growTreesPlantsAndBuryDeadOnes with growing fire resistant species that sequester carbon in the soil/biomass at high rates. For example, Redwoods in coastal CA and Oregon.

[1] https://www.firescience.gov/projects/briefs/03-1-1-06_fsbrie...
[2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00167...
[3] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-10-3638-5_...
[4] https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=26107
The samsung one is pretty much perfect, since it solves the issue of screen height AND width. I wish i had that available for my Sony Xperia Z1 Compact, since even for that medium sized phone my thumb is too short to even reach across.
I certainly don't blame any companies or the industry. I suspect they usually know what customers want and that I am in the minority.
But then it will be confusing, people will assume that scripting is the same thing as programming.
For their solution to be attractive, they need to learn your preferences. The more customers they get to place more orders, the less attractive it will be for those customers to sign up with another service and have to go through all the motions of teaching those services about them again.

I often pay by Paypal - using an account that's never funded, but paying straight from my debit card - simply because I don't want the hassle of re-entering my card details, for example. It takes very little added convenience before there's a switching cost. And the perceived switching cost may be far greater than the actual switching cost.
And the kind of hipsters who use neovim apparently have unlimited time for guarding threads and realtime downvoting.
quite frankly if you're a professional (a REAL, ACTUAL,
professional, with a respectable salary) in your 30s and
you don't have at least one account with six figures in it
or a house to show for it instead, you kinda sorta fucked
up somewhere along the way.

This is naive in a way where you probably can't be convinced otherwise. Is your worldview so limited that your only conclusion to draw from this scenario is that the person "kinda sorta fucked up"?
oh boy, think we have to go home early today and its tgif.
In realtime?
Status is an anonymous public notes (statuses) sharing application similar to WhatsApp statuses (which i built a few days before my birthday during a personal hackerthon) It allows sharing short texts styled with optional custom background/foreground colors and font weight.

Underneath status is powered by socket.io. It's message exchange server is written in nodejs It handles incoming connections and assigns connecting clients a room with not less the maximum number of users allowed per room (or creates one simply to avoid congestion), Its also instructed to forward messages from each connected client to the room they were assigned to earlier.

On the surface status is a Progress Web Application offline mood supports the ability to read and publish private statuses locally without a server connection
> The sample scan provided by Megel to demonstrate the scanner's capabilities took, he claims, less than an hour of wall time and just four clicks of user interaction — though the processing requires the in-beta cloud platform or a more powerful host PC, with the Raspberry Pi unable to provide enough compute itself.

Is there an actual reason for this? Given the Raspberry Pi is a computer too, shouldn't it be able to compute the results as well, only slower than a proper PC?
At the end of it you also would have 10 years of having lived in London vs 10 years of having lived in Lisbon, for some the financial tradeoff may be worthwhile.
I somewhat disagree with the complaint here.

If you write your config in a "full-blown" programming language, then your configs are full-blown programs in that programming language. This situation just plain sucks, or at least it comes very close to (or passes) the "suck" threshold every time I experience it. Code-as-configuration demands tremendous discipline from the team.

Whereas if you abuse YAML (or JSON or XML or whatever) to create a limited and hard/impossible-to-extend DSL, you still have much more control over what can and cannot be executed by the config engine, even if the DSL happens to accidentally become Turing complete. You can embed limited shell commands in the DSL as an escape hatch, but make it difficult enough that you really have to try to make a mess.

Another example of this DSL model done mostly-right is Make.

Once you accept that idea, whether to use JSON vs YAML vs TOML vs XML vs S-expressions is just bikeshedding over syntax.

As for "why YAML in 2021" specifically? Yes, YAML is a big spec and there are lot of ways to get strings wrong. But maybe you don't care or your team is unlikely to ever go near the darker corners of the spec. For simple config files, YAML is just really easy to read and write. And if you do need multi-line strings, it's a whole lot easier than doing it in JSON.

I'm personally a big fan of TOML, but maybe YAML is still better for highly-nested data.

Of course S-expressions are wonderful for many reasons, but they share the problem with JSON of being somewhat hard to diff and edit without support from tooling.
Sigh... I never remember the names of the logical fallacies, I have to look up them, thanks a lot.

Anyways, here's yours: Slippery Slope.
"I can't remember the date to fill out this form. Can you help me, but give me the least informative part first?"
>It's a reasonable tradeoff.

Saving 0.1% of space for micro-sd-card reader and having headache of dongle for every photo/video transfer? Doesn't appear reasonable at all. They have found space for micro-sd-card reader on raspberryPi Zero ... It's absurd not to have it even on the phone.

Look at my use-case https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26271855

> Imagine your laptop with the power supply built in instead of as an external brick.

You know what? Great! One thing less to care separately . It would be bad thermal solution though.

By the way the brick itself was coming with extension cord. Now it comes without it. Imagine during your travel squeezing it in some public place with bad socket to charge it when it doesn't fit well enough and could even fall and break and your life depend on your ability to charge it. Do it few times during few travels, then you will understand how "reasonable" was to even to remove the extended power cord from the brick.

Many things appear 'reasonable' on the paper until you use them in real life.
I have taken to writing 11 March 2021 or similar whenever possible. But sure, 2021-03-11 is also fine, when trying to save something machine readable.

The US conventions are indeed horrendous.
> you got a "gross" in one of the replies because some people are set off by the use of "female" when "women" would do

I wouldn't reduce the cause to just that one word. That word choice is merely the cherry on the whole cake of Gender essentialism. Deciding that _this_ unsupported irrelevance is where the conversation really needs to go is the foundation of it.
And why would I edit the URL?
Antitrust http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218817/
The database tables don't have to be in schema 1, they can be in any schema, probably the default "public" one.

But yes, you don't have to have copies of the data in each schema. You only put the view definition into each schema, and the view definition is responsible for reading/putting data from/to the right place. And you bump the version whenever the view definition's columns need to change.
Taleb is also an advocate for fasting.

https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=101521750395...
Interesting. I guess the well-off thieves figure out pretty quickly which stores will let them get away with it. Since it sounds like they also buy things from the stores they steal from, it might even be profitable to let them do it.
See https://github.com/laverdet/node-fibers
>didn't love the accountant analog. Part of the problem, aside from measurement, is impact. A great athlete can make outsized impact. And while I'm sure a horrible accountant can make an outsized negative impact, it's unclear to me if a great one can make an outsized positive impact. What would that impact even be?

Are you kidding me? A great athlete can do no impact at all. Except if by impact you mean get people to watch him perform. Other that that, it's pure show, nothing productive comes out of sports.

A great accountant on the other hand can save his clients millions or billions of dollars through (through tax loopholes for example, avoiding costly mistakes, offering good advice etc).
That would make an interesting container for a RPi.
Not sure how I'd be able to edit the site later without a login?
Rockstar accountants make companies like Enron. I mostly mean that in a complimentary way.
> I think it makes a lot of sense and is actually rather progressive.

I don't think that the House of Lords is "progressive". Put it this way: In only two countries do senior clergymen automatically get a seat in a house of Legislature: Iran and the United Kingdom.

It's not progressive company to keep.