jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Sorry, I should have clarified: I'm a limey brit so closing our (my) border is almost as easy as it is for the aussies.

Similarly, we have no constitution or bill of rights, so a house arrest law is easy and quick to pass.

The issue with the .5% figure is that 5% of covid patients would die if they didn't receive care. So the death rate is only 0.5% until your last hospital bed / ventilators / nurse is busy. Then it's 5%.

We've fucked about letting more and more people get it. Which is fine because 0.5% and because we're following the "herd immunity" strategy. Unlike Aus that went for eradication. But now, so many people are sick the hospitals are full.

London expects to run out of beds within 2 weeks. Rest of the UK in 3 weeks. Given the 5-6 day incubation period, that means we need to reduce the R number below 1 by Monday in London (where people are densely packed and rely on public transport). You have 7 more days for the rest of the place.

Or we accept the 5% marginal death rate. 5% is pretty fucking high.

Look around your office, your sports team, your family and fields. Pick 1 in 20 to die. And that's 5% across the board. It's higher for your grandparents, your sick cousin etc. Plus you have people permanently disabled and "Long Covid" to factor in.

So having encouraged people to go out, having let people test the rules and find them unenforced, and having done all the easy cheap shit (office worked wfh), the government finds it has to get very strict, convince people it means it this time, and get them to stay home, all in the next few days.

Oh, and the current government was elected by the people most likely to die of this. And the current leader is dumb and lazy. And he's spent the last year promising his party no more lockdowns...
Work to get every of-age tribe member a class 2 SOT. They're their own local law enforcement. Done.
This is from 2008... that should be in the title.
I almost forgot! thanks for the upvotes! :)
I see many comments about what's wrong with Coinbase. What would a secure bitcoin exchange look like? A few of the features have been thrown out, e.g., little or no hot storage, two-factor authentication, (some) insured deposits, multisig-protection, decentralized services, etc.
I'm normally very annoyed by pedantry, but in this case we face a very real risk that the pedantic difference will cause a huge difference in outcomes for a huge number of children. If it turns out that a large number of national governments simultaneously embark on a huge effort to teach kids "coding" without much if any understanding of how to teach them "modeling", then we are setting ourselves up for a generation of failure and frustration with regards to computing. (Think "computer literacy" classes that actually teach typing and maybe a little MS-Office.) Maybe few extra kids will be nudged towards learning computation on their own. But, the overall movement will miss its mark in a tremendously disappointing way compared to it's potential for improving how people learn and work in the near future.
Not to mention the fact that they pay the salaries of many working on Coreboot.
Well, if you are writing with the intent that nobody read your work, then you're not doing anything of academic merit. The whole point of writing this stuff down is to teach others.

Maybe journals should refuse to publish anything they haven't read and don't understand? Force people to write better...
Ofc there is some amount of hyperbole in the analogy.

Computers ARE orders of magnitude harder to use than cars. A car has (at the simplified level) a single wheel that goes either left or right and 3 pedals. The hardest concept relating to hardware is what a gear is and why you need to shift it (among a few others).

It is correct though that software CAN be more simple than that in their use. Those pieces of software tend not to solve complex or any problems in our real world though.

When it comes to 'coding as literacy' this has not much to do with using a highly simplified UI. It has to do with the fact that if I want to use most of the features of the machine we call PC, you HAVE to be able to program.

Sticking with the car analogy my kid can have great fun if I show her how to use the horn in the car. It will not allow her to do anything meaningful with the car (getting from A to B). All she can do is use the car as a toy.

I agree with you on the core problem though. Things are abstraced away from everyone in our daily lives in such a way, that people sometimes are unable to be 'precise'. By that i mean the ability to fully describe a problem and formulate an executable solution. I personally don't think programming is the solution to that. Personally I learned that concept in school in philosophy class.
There's nothing unsustainable about a tracking-less messaging service. Fundamentally, most Whatsapp usage is sending pictures, small audio clips and text. That doesn't take up a lot of bandwidth (= cheap to run), and should be ever cheaper as server costs drop.
Don't be afraid to start small. Companies aren't always necessarily looking for the best and brightest. My first programming employer was specifically look for entry level. They didn't have the resources to hire a top level programmer, nor did they want to undermine the current staff in IT, none of which I would have considered top level at the time. I didn't have a degree, never stepped foot inside a college except to deliver pizzas and they hired me. I still don't make anywhere near what I would assume a "good programmer" would make, but over the course of 4 years my income at that job went up 150% from my starting pay.

Which made getting my 2nd (and current) programming job much easier and more lucrative.

Point being, there is always someone smarter than you out there in the world. It's also highly likely there is someone smarter than you in your current town looking for the same work, but that doesn't mean you count yourself out immediately. As a few people said above, be confident.
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Cool, simple app. I can see this being really useful for teaching programming to beginners, although I'm curious where the name "Thonny" comes from? Couldn't find anything on the website, does anyone know?
The chips you describe, are they responding to brain activity, or are they connected to something outside it, and if so, is that remnant muscle tissue or remnant (peripheral) neural tissue? And if so, do you agree that if that's missing, this is an unprecedented (possible) solution?
I’m sorry but it’s very true. People on Wikipedia have their patch and will revert corrections on a whim. Just as others will remove contributions that meet the criteria purely out of their own ignorance.

Wikipedia is a great resource, but at some point the knee-jerk deletionists won over the culture behind the scenes. It’s toxic for outsiders for the most part.
That's not the case. What happened is that the Samsung UART patches to support the M1 got merged into tty-next first, and it is preferable to have this series based on those - otherwise, the devicetree would fail validation due to the missing bindings, and there would be no serial to debug or do anything. It helps keeping things ordered for bisection.

So we decided to merge a specific point from tty-next into this branch first, before the rest of the patches. Those patches are already in the pipeline for upstream inclusion. So it pulled in everything in tty-next that was before the Samsung changes, and it shows up in the diffstat, but those aren't really part of this series, it's just caused by the merge from tty-next.
Which makes you an enemy of both sides.
> Why then isn't a kind of very simple approximation of a GUI (or, at least, easily-discoverable commands) more common in command line applications?

On IBM i (originally known as OS/400), you can press a function key and automatically get a fill-in-form for any command.

This is because command line syntax is defined, not in your program's code (getopt calls etc), but using declarations in what you might consider to be a separate command definition file (technically called a "*CMD object"). The OS does command line parsing and validation, marshals the result into a memory block, and passes that to your program rather than the raw command line. And the OS uses the same command syntax declarations to generate the (text mode) fill-in form for display.

Other systems which use the idea of command line syntax declarations, with the shell doing option parsing based on those declarations instead of each program doing them itself, include OpenVMS DCL and PowerShell. (PowerShell actually copied this idea from OpenVMS DCL and IBM OS/400.)

I think the big reason why this is less common in Unix-like systems, is the design decision to give each command responsibility for parsing arguments/options, rather than doing it in the shell. This makes the whole approach of automatically generating fill-in forms at the worst impossible, at the best unreliable. You can try parsing --help output or man pages, but that method isn't always going to work, centralising option parsing in the shell does. It is likely rather too late for Unix-like systems to change their approach.
Truly interesting glasses app would be the one to recognise people around you and show quick dossier about them collected from public sources. Unfortunately Google did not build one. That app would truly shake the society.
I just finished watching this and have to say it is a great talk to understand git.

Once you go through the initial 20 mins building a git like utility with bash the rest of the talk about git becomes easier to follow.
I recommend building the git like utility in bash yourself first, playing with it for some time and then watching the rest of the talk.
>Huawei Cloud became China's second-largest cloud services provider in the fourth quarter of 2020, growing its Chinese market share to 17.4%, according to data from research company Canalys. This marked a sharp contrast to the fourth quarter of 2019, when Huawei Cloud was not in the top three.

They entered a market dominated by 3 players (Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu) and went from not even on the list to 2nd place with 17.4% share over the course of 1 year, and this is deemed a failure? This is equivalent to a new player entering the US cloud market, leapfrogging GCP and Azure in a year, and then deciding to exit the business because they haven't caught up to AWS yet.
As far as consumer usage goes Firefox is effectively dead

It's rare that see FF usage above 1% on any of my customers' sites and I think it's only at something like 2% on gov.uk

Of course there's a debate to be had over how much FF users blocking analytics affects the numbers but the numbers tie up with the log mining I've done too
If you read the trial data this is a foregone conclusion. The Moderna vaccine produces antibody titres over twice as high as an actual infection from the data I've seen.

My theory is that these companies knew they only had one chance to make a working vaccine, so they did everything they could to make it not fail. Double doses, 5x what was needed in monkeys, gold standard adjuvants.

I would not be amazed in the slightest if they decide to half-dose the vaccine or do away with the second shot or even both. They probably didn't have time to run the trial any other way
How would you recommend doing it? Which company are you referring to?
An estimated 26,000 people die each year due to lack of insurance coverage. That's part of the reason the Affordable Care Act was passed. For more information, see this Reuters article from 2012:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/20/us-usa-healthcare-...
I think, we think similar.

The problem is, that from time to time, people have to stand up for their rights -- either by voting or by other means -- to change the behavior of governments.

What did Benjamin Franklin write:
"Those who would give up essential Liberty to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"

That is not only an inheritance for governments but also for all societies that want to be free. Freedom is not something to be inherited or some "virtue" you have by be born in the right country, but something that must be fought for in daily practice ... by everybody. Else, we will loose it. And we in the western countries are at the verge.
Science is a silver bullet or at least a bullet or at least a way of getting at the truth, but so far this field of science seems like a joke. How nice for them to use thermodynamics.
Nothing, so most people should use Coinbase the same way they use a grocery store: buy what they need and take it somewhere else. Unfortunately most people do not know enough to do that. I wrote a blog post about it if you're interested.

http://diegobasch.com/do-you-know-enough-to-securely-own-bit...
This is a Facebook post, not an article.
The reason people assume apple will prevent you from doing what you want with your computer, is because it’s the logical consequence of the strategy they’ve followed for the past 10 years over their whole product line. From phones, to cable, to messenging software. They’re into vertical integration and walled ecosystem.
Bought an apartment in Germany this year. My effective interest rate is 0.74% fixed 20 years with a downpayment of 40%. The bank guy said the bank will make no money on this loan. They do it anyway because they want the object in the portfolio.
Inflation in the housing market has been tremendous in the last years in germany.
Exactly, if on-call is hard it means everybody is doing mediocre work therefore you are probably not growing/learning. If you don't want to leave, start thinking of what parts are the worst offenders and tackle those as high priority (harder than it seems).
Sounds like I'm interpreting it perfectly.

You are implying surveillance capitalism is necessary because "certain people" can threaten, harass, maybe kill citizens into participating because it makes "certain people" rich.

My sarcasm implies it's unnecessary. Further it is a net-negative to society and everyone knows it. Look at tobacco, oil, or coal.. eventually they lose their grip. Get real.
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Drilling holes for energy storage isn't economical at all. Gravitricity is never going to work on a large scale.
I guess I took the implication of your sharing this list of fallacies to be, "A buncha suckers got duped by all the cloud services hype."

No, not at all. I'm a big advocate for cloud services, including AWS.

I do slightly disagree with your assertion that building in redundancy and failover mechanism is by definition "important." Important is a relative term and is probably more meaningfully looked at from a business or cost/benefit perspective.

True.. I was generalizing a bit, due to laziness. That and it didn't seem important - at the time - to get into all that. But yes, I agree... the importance of failover / redundancy / etc. is clearly a business decision which is related to a number of factors.
Not to mention declaring bankruptcy with a high steady income guarantees that judge/trustee will not rule in favor of walking away from debts. The most that will happen is a longer payment time on some of those debts.
pretty neat maths problem inherent in the story:

https://groups.google.com/group/rec.puzzles/browse_thread/th...
yeah, I know that part, I was thinking more essentially flipping it upside down. The hammers would hit in the same spot as on the current piano, it's just that the sound board would be above the player instead of below. Essentially, like a grand piano that's had its sound board flipped upward instead of downward like this model.
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not necessarily...they can give advertisers all the ads they want...the low traffic numbers would only affect their remnant ad inventory revenue
As someone who works on ZKPs, that's very doable :)

In a Zcash-style spend circuit, the bottleneck is typically the Merkle inclusion proof, which takes say 32 hashes (assuming a limit of 2^32 note commitments). If we're comfortable with using one of the newer arithmetic hashes like Poseidon, that's about 10k constraints. Any of the modern argument systems (Groth16, Plonk, STARKs, etc.) can give proof times well under a second with a circuit of that size. If we want to optimize further, we can get proof times down to around 10-20ms (single-threaded) by using an arithmetization that's carefully tailored to our circuit's bottlenecks.

If we stick with traditional primitives like SHA-256, the circuit becomes substantially larger, but with modern techniques we can at least get proof times under a second. Happy to talk through the options if it would be useful.
Depending on what you mean by "atomic" (do you really mean atomic, or do you just not want to have to type anything after you've attached to create the new window?), you can do this with screen's -X option. If that's what you want to do I can try to dig up the way I used to do this.
You're overlooking one thing: The less cyclists are on the road the less car drivers will be used to their presence and on the lookout for them. This is the danger caused indirectly by helmet laws.
Everybody is piling garbage on top of garbage, then taking the money and running. Don't be the schmuck who chooses to die on some godforsaken hill to make a point about software quality. When it starts to smell, move on. Is this world suboptimal? Yes, it is.
That graph would not look so alarming with a normal aspect ratio.
New goal in life: if I ever have children, don't send them to LAUSD schools. Schools with armed police at the door are undesirable -- borderline tolerable if they're there to protect from outsiders, but if they're needed to control the students, something is seriously wrong.
Don't ask this, _advertise_ each of those titles. Run a few text link ads, have them lead to a "thanks for your interest- sign up here if you want to know when I write that book".

I forget who I learned this trick from :(
looks pretty. how do you get something out of a box?
drag and drop looks like box can be placed inside other box but it cant.
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I have never heard of Kai-Fu Lee, and I gather he made his name via Google, so the context was useful for me.
Still true today, and highly applicable.

The most annoying example of a poorly responsive application I can think of right now is the HULU app on my Roku. It is truly appalling, especially when compared with the much much better Netflix app.
The damn cat was not both alive and dead simultaneously...
I came to this conclusion very late in the game. After working my ass off for 4+ years I realized the university honor code is basically toothless. Ohh, it will tell you a great story about all the things the university could do to you. But in the end it's not enforced or enforced so lightly that they shouldn't have bothered at all.

It used to be that cheating was just about the worst thing you could do in college and the university went through great pains to remind you of that. Robbery, murder?! that's a local police matter. Cheat, and we'll keelhaul you on the quad.
I'd argue it is also because school tasks tend to get more and more challenging. It is not necessarily the case in a work environment. And I find it harder to get into the zone on trivial/repetitive problems.
Agreed it's a bit silly, but it's still worth training yourself to look past that and evaluate the argument independently of its presentation and other irrevelant context.

It's hard, and I use the word 'train' intentionally b/c it requires discipline and constant attention. But I've uncovered gems of understanding over the years from doing that, that I wouldn't have otherwise, some which confirmed my worldview, and others which refuted it or expanded it.

Some people are brilliantly insightful, but just awful at communicating and presenting their understanding.