jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Chopping and rearranging something that's the same spherical shape (but different size) is different from chopping a 2D square and rearranging into a circle. Presumably, if it were easy, Tarski himself would have shown it, given that he's the one who posed the question.
"Hague invasion act" =:-O

The US truly are the bully in the room.
Nyarlatothep 2020: The Dark Pharao for President!

Hastur 2020: Who but that which is already the yellow king?
> The average working class person knows more than you think. They probably don't have a lot of time for abstract theory...

Yet there are traditions both within working-class leftism and working-class libertarianism that emphasise that what you call the "abstract theory" is key to activism and informed participation in the democratic process. After all, the argument for why whatever political system is just and fair is based on a canon of writings that goes back centuries. Thus, as I said, in the past political thinkers have urged the working class to read, read, read, and not just go off their anecdotal experiences of interaction with government and society or their gut feelings.
Hi HN,

I am Robins, co-founder of due.work (https://www.due.work/). Due.work helps teams to organise, track and manage their work

Actually, after working together with several companies and managing teams for years we actually never found a single productivity solution with whom we can really love using it.

Problems which we had with existing solutions:

1. When working with teams even on a very small project after some time tasks always get cluttered even if we are using several labels, priority, etc.

2. It was very difficult to get to know the list of all overdue tasks that gets missed its deadline. No matter how productive we are there is always a probability of missing a deadline especially when we work in a team. What we wanted was something to aggregate all overdue tasks in a seperate group and display it on top whenever a task gets delayed, so that we can decide what to do with those missed tasks.

3. There were no good tools that actually let you decide what you really want instead they enforce you to it. What if the product manager prefers a view to writing tasks which will have beautiful Gantt chart to displays all the timelines of the tasks whereas the Business analysts of the team want a board view like in trello where all tasks present is on status wise. whereas other people want just a simple todo list view which only displays those tasks that needs to be done today.

4. An online feature like (in google docs or sheets) was missing in all the productivity apps. When we are working together in teams we often want to know who else is also online/working right now. It helps to boost confidence among the team. With team showing online we can also, ask anyone at that moment only if we had any issue.

5. A simplistic tool to be used by all department of people was missing in all productivity platforms. Many good tools like trello or basecamp actually offer a simplistic solution. But they with basic feature only and we are only left to use several integrations to use it as a whole thus we end up paying more and more.

This was some of the main reason, we decided to build an altogether new productivity platform due.work (https://www.due.work/).

I would love to know your thoughts on the same.
My schooling was very similar and I didn’t get to go home. Australian private boarding school. Toilet time was scheduled, you had your designated bed, designated desk, designated table at mealtimes. Timetables handed out at the beginning of each fortnight telling you which building to be in at which time. Alarm for waking up, showering, chapel service, national anthem, first session, cleaning duty, etc same time each day. Didn’t leave the school grounds for two years.
Paywalled. Would appreciate a link from a source that's readable.
It looks like it's running Windows XP.
Of course not :-) Python, Ruby and friends can do so much more (and you can run your pipes on your own computer, for example, ...).
I think the answer is to develop and use systems that make it easy to apply (and "un-apply") the Futamura projections (aka partial evaluation.)
If tuition is not considered a loss, surely every other expense would be considered a loss then. A medical school student isn't working a part time job to pay their rent and feed themselves; that's all out of pocket and a pure loss.
Discussed in a Wall Street Journal editorial: "Inconvenient Facts for the War on Testing: College admission based on personal essays helps affluent students."
April 4, 2021
https://archive.is/8TvzE#selection-133.5-169.31
One thing though is seriously missing in MSFS is crash physics. So many of other types of games have realistic collisions and destructuble environments (Racing games like Dirt 4 even have that for licenced models). Why can't MSFS can't have something that other games are having for many many years?
I'd never quite thought about it in these terms before, but the way you laid it out makes it obvious: there's no replacing politics. At most, you can hide it.

The reason it cannot be replaced is that there will always be resentment and dissatisfaction brewing among society's relative 'losers'. Eventually, society's "losers" will want to change things. Whether those people are right or not about which policies are hurting them is almost irrelevant. They will want the agency to make some change - any change. But: if you factor out all of the things that are still up for debate and start re-categorizing them as laws of nature or apolitical infrastructure, then there's nothing left to change! It will be cold comfort to them if all of human policy is "above changing". What they will hear is "Everything is fine. Stay where you are."
No-one is being "forced to help". They are providing a paid service, and all times you pay someone to do something in the U.S., there are legal requirements on the seller and the buyer.
ok, great, when will I be able to scope tokens to acting on only one repo, or only one org, or in any meaningful way?
As a physicist, I would say that physics is still and will always be beautiful and fascinating, but I also believe that biology is where it is happening now.
Is intellectual surprise caused by anything other than bias?

I noticed this when I started rereading the dissent with a s/Oracle/Sun Microsystems/g. I felt a bit more swayed when I started to recollect all my fond Sun memories: blogs, hobbyist customer experience, etc. and stopped thinking about my glowing hatred of Oracle.

The dissent does seem nuanced to me even though I am quick to dismiss it based on the premise and my superior technical knowledge and maybe a bit of my own biases that I can't quite completely ignore.
Citus Data paid for one full-time Postgres developer for a while (me, before I left), and a few employees contributed things on and off. That didn't really provide Citus with a meaningful amount of control over the community, hence Microsoft didn't have that either after the acquisition.

Since then Microsoft has hired a few Postgres contributors (Jeff Davis, Thomas Munro, me, David Rowley, Melanie Plageman) to work on Postgres itself. While larger than before, that's still not anything close to a controlling fraction of Postgres developers.

Microsoft has - I guess I can't really provide anything more than just my word on it - been giving us a lot of latitude what we work on. FWIW.
I don't know if it's just me and my bias against the current state of the mainstream press but this article read like a pile of unacknowledged contradictions.

The author advocates for the people's "right to know", but complains that social media has made it possible for people to reach a mass audience without relying on the press' megaphone. Surely social media increases people's right (or at least opportunity) to know, unless you consider that only what the press publishes is worth knowing.

It goes on to complain about the influence that social media has given powerful people yet acknowledges that the press itself is owned by the same powerful people.

And then we have the complaints about "tabloids" against respectable journalism at a time when the New York Post was the only paper with the guts to publish an election scandal while the Times is peddling public shaming campaigns that do little but lower the level of public debate.

The title, at least, sounds right and if journalism want to have any power, they'll need to find wat to be indepedent. the recent case of Glenn Greenwald has shown that this seems to be the only road left.
>We've written before in the Planet Money newsletter about growing evidence that our welfare programs may not be up to the task. A study last year by the California Policy Lab found evidence that a huge percentage of poverty-stricken Californians are not getting the Earned Income Tax Credit because of the difficulty of filling out tax forms. Mullainathan and his colleagues' work is a reminder that policymakers should recognize the cognitive burden on many of those who live in poverty and make it easier for them to get assistance.
I find SSC pretty insufferable, but the self-delusion in this essay is wild. A founder of Gawker is claiming she's never been involved with, or even heard of, a hit piece.
Yes, I completely agree. The reason this is very disheartening to me is because I believe the thing that is really special and awesome about science as a discipline is that it teaches people how to critically evaluate and weigh evidence in support of a hypothesis. So instead of teaching people how to be good critical thinkers (and, especially in this day and age, ascertain whether a particular source of evidence should be trusted and what the potential biases that source may have), "trust the science" has been turned into a pretty empty appeal to authority.

This has been pretty evident in the past year when the experts have often been wrong, or at least pushed their opinions in a way that wasn't really supported by the underlying evidence ("the public doesn't need to wear masks" back in March is a good example). It actually wasn't really that hard to dig in to the underlying evidence, assess the validity of that evidence, and make up your mind for yourself.
Sounds like what Shadertoy was built for-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDxAnguEOn8
I’m pretty sure extinction isn’t a risk for us. We lost over 500 species in the last century which would have been 9 at natural rates. During the same time our own population grew from 1.6 billion to 7.8 billion.

This subject is so distasteful to most that even the educated are prepared to temporarily put aside rational thinking and engage the monkey mind: Lets have less kids doesn’t mean “You want us extinct bro!”
IMG tags pointing to SVG's don't have ID collsions since the SVG is in a isolated context, it's opaque to the referencing page because it's treated like any other img reference.

We use some server side code to recolor svg's on the fly with caching headers so they aren't requested all the time, mostly through img tags since we moved from PNG to SVG, its just works.
Yeah, I'm including equity. Equity at a public company like Google is liquid and easier to value. But usually new grad offers don't include a lot of equity. I'd say that pre-ipo unicorns can also be a great option if it's available to you. Base salaries are usually high, and equity can end up being really valuable. Recent IPOs have made a lot of millionaires.

But I do agree with you, it's high risk and there's a lot of luck involved. And it's much more important to find a job that's a good fit for you.
Poverty also makes learning difficult. Students shouldering numerous burdens of poverty are simply not prioritizing education over day to day survival. We talk a lot about how the US is falling behind in education. Well, solving poverty is a key component of that puzzle.
I personally take Alesse as birth control pills to prevent pregnancy. I order them online from this website - http://all-day-chemist.us/ . I was very nervous this birth control would make me gain weight, but it didn't happen because I eat pretty healthy and go to the gym regularly.
I don’t know any Japanese but for Chinese, metrics like this are misleading, because the long tail of unknown characters are still enough to prevent you reading. If you know 80% of chinese characters by frequency you can’t read 80% of the newspaper, it’s probably closer to 10%. In other words, comprehension does not scale linearly with number of characters recognized, it’s more like a step function.
"amid covid outbreak, ..." missing from title. It's a control measure to prevent a larger outbreak, and will only last until the 21st.
Ponzis actually pay [some of the] people back.
You wouldn't say you have deep knowledge of JS & front end frameworks?
Exactly! At the bottom of the organization, your boss can be better than you on all dimensions. Towards the top, you are better than your boss at your job. It gets wider and wider, culminating in a CEO who is worse at tech than the CTO, worse at finance than the CFO, etc. At those levels, your actual skill is in driving experts to results.
The current MacBook key travel is similar (a bit less travel but much more than the butterfly keyboards).
480k/320M Americans gives a 0.15% mortality rate, and that’s incorrectly including tens or hundreds of millions who haven’t gotten it yet and thus don’t count in CFR/IFR.

Even by the most charitable treatment of your claim it’s off by a factor of 10.
> Rust doesn’t claim to have invented this, or many of the other aspect of the language at all really.

Oh, I did not mean to suggest that Rust does, just some people do, because they are not familiar with other programming languages and whatnot.
I've been trying to do this for a few years, this was the first year I hit about 24-30 books/audiobooks. I know pg wrote about remembering books a few weeks ago but I recently developed a strategy, thanks to "Make it Stick", to help me remember content far better then just reading.

1. read the chapter's summary before reading the chapter - I generally use https://www.blinkist.com/, but amazon reviews and goodreads are good alternatives. This allows you to know what the key elements of the chapters are so you can pay closer attention to the important stuff.

2. read the chapter

3. when you get the time write a short summary (usually a paragraph). You generally want some degrading to occur so don't write it right away.
Grails is a Jvm clone of Rails, and Groovy of Ruby.
I think this is what Andrew Hunt and David Thomas meant when they said "program _into_ a language" as opposed to "program in a language" in their book The Pragmatic Programmer.
All of the new hiring took place around that time just so there would be more people to grade.

A lot of inward facing companies in Japan foster an atmosphere of "you aren't working unless it really feels like you're working." But no one cares if you sleep at your desk, so it's not all bad.
This closely aligns with what I've seen in the field.
If that's your argument, then we shouldn't trust them with the ability to vote, enter into contracts, or get married.
That's a very awesome application. I have huge fingers and an Android phone, so I will have to try it out.
I did't know how to take a screenshot on the iPhone but this would be useful. So I searched for other iPhone tips I'm missing, and here is a pretty nice collection:

http://iphonetoolbox.com/news/ultimate-list-of-iphone-tips-a...
Clickable link

http://userslike.me
I think historically footnotes have been of lower value to the reader than links

I must have OCFD (obsessive-compulsive footnote disorder). I feel compelled to read every footnote.

Years ago I read the first ~100 pages of The Sound and the Fury, then stopped. It still bugs me that I never finished it. Unread footnotes are like that.
Sounds like someone along the line made a mistake - toxoplasmosis isn't infectious between humans (except mother to baby) and shouldn't be included in these test. Typically syphilis and tuberculosis are tested for, plus any additional infectious diseases depending on where you are from.

Perhaps the test was to make sure you already have it, so you would better fit in with us raw-meat-eating Belgians :)
This returns me to the question I asked here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1361382

If I'm compiling, what should I target?

I could target LLVM, C, some high-level compilable langauge, or now, Parrot.

There doesn't seem to be any cogent, clear, knowledgable discussion of the various features and merits. I suppose asking for one is like asking "which language is best," and the answer will always be "it depends."
> "and liberal arts could cost you $1.50 in library fees."

Many subjects cannot really be learned from books. Regardless of how many history books you may read, for example, it will not shed the same insight as a profound discussion with a highly-experienced academic in the field. This is true for many aspects of the humanities.

Which isn't to say self-study is worthless, but rather that it is a poor substitute for interaction with your professors. IMHO to claim that liberal arts can be just as well studied by oneself is myopic and tunnel-visioned, and about equivalent to me claiming that aspiring nuclear engineers should pick up some textbooks instead of going to school.

IMHO the whole topic of the monetary worth of schooling is an interesting and worthwhile one - but discussions on it on forums such as this one is invariably tainted by the fact that many people in our field have incredibly arrogant and misguided superiority complexes about technical degrees over the arts. I personally tend to think that one ought to be responsible for their own academic spending, and that studies of the arts is a luxury that not everyone can afford - but I hesitate to voice this often, since many of my engineering peers hold this opinion out of disdain and trivialization of the humanities, and I really don't want to be associated with that kind of ignorance.
I think what you said hits the sweetspot. I understand not to give advice until I am asked for, but I just never realized that someone coming to tell me a problem != 'i want a help'

huge heads up, thanx!

And why would someone not want a solution? yet to figure this one out...
The words 'monetize content" are on the edge of joining the set of words 'viagra britney cheap mortgage now', so I think people are likely to mentally filter/bias against your emails.

Could you post here an example of your cold email?
This is also the basis for the fourcc's used in multimedia. Checking them only requires an integer compare.
void strcpy(char *s, char *d) {
while(*d++ = *s++);
}
Canadian tax payers. I think the article mentioned an increase in taxes (or a cut in spending from somewhere else) would have to fund it.
Looks like mutually assured destruction.

This is hardly a zero sum game.
It seems like a lot of these should have leading slashes so they only match the root directory and not any file with that name.
This is ultimately self-defeating. Following the principle breached by this and countless other abrogations of individual rights, what right does anyone have to keep or reinvest the profits from a startup when that money could be taken and spent on exactly this sort of minimum income program?
As a Canadian, I'd be willing to pay an extra $X in taxes just to see if this would work or not. They should probably roll it out provincially in isolated areas first rather than going the full 9 yards (or metres as the case may be.)
try http://www.airbnb.com/jobs
Huh. What's the source for your claims?

They teach you about those topics. But it's not clear how much they teach actual skills beyond finance and presentation, in that there's no actual business to run. One can read about negotiation, for example, but actual negotiation skills come from negotiating deals.

A friend of mine went back for a high-end MBA after a few years working for large companies as a (non-software) engineer. His basic take was that the curriculum only had one thing that he couldn't have figured out just by thinking about the topic for a bit. (It was the principle of comparative advantage, which is a bit of a mind-bender.) He says what he really got out of it was strong relationships with a network of people that were soon highly placed in a bunch of major companies.
You have to make poverty wages to qualify for medicaid or be otherwise blind, disabled or 65. Some states have spend down programs and some states (mostly red states) do as little as legally possible.
> the second it was clear this was a global problem

The problem is that the west has nobody in power with living memory of a pandemic. An unfortunate failing of human cognition is that most humans discount that which they have no direct experience of. So it was never going to be clear to most people that this was a problem until we had waited way too long. I mean, most people can't be bothered to not spend everything they make when the last recession was 12 years ago, so what do we expect when there hasn't been a pandemic in the west in over 100 years...
I keep having this crazy, irresponsible, dangerous... hopeful idea: virus cruises. Take one or more available cruise ships, equip it with ventilators, tests, supplie, ask for volunteer crew, passengers, and medical staff, and send everyone off for a two week cruise to get deliberately infected with the virus, study its characteristics, and start to build herd immunity. Seems like it'd be a way to get started fighting back.
I’ve done that too, but handing the pen over to someone else is troublesome
Thanks! I'm curious what motivated you to want to use a dual quaternion or why you want a slerp algorithm for that. I have yet to run across a use for a dual quaternion. Wikipedia says that they are used in mechanics to represent rigid transformations. That sounds useful for animation but most animation or computer graphics people would represent a rigid transformations with a quaternion and a translation vector, and if interpolating a rigid transformations they would slerp the quat and linearly interpolate the translation. So I'm not sure what the advantage of a dual quaternion would be in this context, or do you use dual quaternions in some completely different way?
Really depends on your use-case. Tor is great but easily detectable and thus blockable, and though its speed has gotten much better, it isn't as fast as other options. But again, it really depends on what your goal is.
Very important:

1. Gov. Cuomo announces trial of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin to start in NY

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/22/coronavirus-ny-gov-cuomo-say...

2. CDC: Healthcare workers OK to use homemade masks (bandana,scarf) as last resort.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2020/03/20/calling-all-...

“Healthcare personnel (HCP) use of homemade masks:

In settings where facemasks are not available, HCP might use homemade masks (e.g., bandana, scarf) for care of patients with COVID-19 as a last resort. However, homemade masks are not considered PPE, since their capability to protect HCP is unknown. Caution should be exercised when considering this option. Homemade masks should ideally be used in combination with a face shield that covers the entire front (that extends to the chin or below) and sides of the face.”
I've found that there are certain types of engineers who take the chance to hijack a shared whiteboard situation in order to publicly display their solo thought process. Seems like maybe an ego thing or at the very least a mildly autistic inability to share the board and collaborate.

Just like pair programming, whiteboards can work really well for certain personality matches or really poorly for others.
If you are building vents, please consider submitting your plan to the DoD:

https://vulcan-sof.com/login/ng2/submission?collectionUuid=2...
Has anyone tried Feynman's not so subtle approach: "Will you sleep with me tonight?"
Chickpea salad (onions, celery, mayo) is remarkably similar to tuna salad or chicken salad made with the same additions.