jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The United States jumped from position 20 or so on the world ranking for the number of cases to spot number 3 in a manner of days. NYC doubled overnight. There was an article published all of seven hours ago that claimed the US was #4: https://www.newsweek.com/u-s-now-has-third-highest-number-co... it has already been made outdated by developments: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ .

Wonder what degree of revisionism the 'it is just a flu' crowd will engage in where they are on the record.
Well if that's the means to an end, then this world has gone just crazy.
Seems this is the strategy Saudi Arabia is adopting. They don't care anymore if the barrel of oil is 20$ because they are among the very few who can still benefit from such a low price.
I like the advice, but unfortunately not an option in my case -- very short consulting gig
This is somewhat unrelated, but maybe folks here have some experience with disclosure programs like HackerOne, which is something that I don't have much familiarity with.

We'd love to have a way to encourage security researchers to focus on our software and give us reports, but we're Open Source and our budget is miniscule. What is considered "insulting" as a minimum reward? What will actually get professional people looking at it with a critical eye? Is its popularity (~1 million users and a pretty well known Open Source project) enough to compensate for not paying very well for disclosures?
"Delayed Circadian Rhythm Phase: A Cause of Late-Onset ADHD among Adolescents?"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6487490/

"Up to 75% of adults with childhood-onset ADHD exhibit delayed circadian rhythm phase, including a rise in salivary dim-light melatonin onset (DLMO) and alterations in core body temperature and actigraphy-measured sleep-related movements occurring approximately 1.5 hours later in the night than healthy adults. In addition, adults with childhood-onset ADHD exhibit a delay in early morning cortisol rise (i.e., a hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenocortical (HPA) marker of circadian phase), with secretion occurring two hours later than healthy controls. Adults with childhood-onset ADHD are also frequently “night owls” who display delayed circadian preference and increased alertness in the evening (Kooij, 2017, Coogan and McGowan, 2017)."
First of all, thanks for your input and sharing your experience.
I think I'm a similar position to you for as so far that I don't really love math enough. My main motivator for doing it is to become more competent for other things I'm actually very interested in (algorithms, machine learning etc.). It's a means to an end and therefore a chore in some ways.

To put frame it in a more positive light: I'm confident that if I am able to grind through the first years of math, things will get much easier due to my much higher interest and a less workload during the latter years. There is some career/research advice that goes along the lines of "do what you think about when you shower". When I'm showering I often think about something relating to machine learning or similar.

As for medicine not being less mentally challenging, I don't think that holds true in my country. I know it's the case in most countries but here medicine is 6y and average study time is around 40h/week with only P/F grading.
I'm really sorry that this was your experience. I give a little bit of historical context elsewhere on this thread[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9280602
worth mentioning that this seems a problem limited to the US. Even in Canada, the smallest of towns will have contactless payment. Many Canadians don't really use cash because interac/credit cards have all supported tap to pay for over a decade now.
For any n, there are only a finite number of hypergraphs on n vertices, much less linear hypergraphs. It is therefore correct, and equivalent to say that the proof omits "only a finite number of hypergraphs," when the result is shown for sufficiently large n. I haven't read the paper through, but, I suspect it's even possible to extract some explicit value of n for which the conjecture is true. In any case, it's enough to know that there is such an n.

I looked up Artin's primitive root conjecture on Wiki because I wasn't familiar with the result. I think you may be referencing the result that there are at most 2 primes for which the conjecture fails, no? If so, I would agree that's not close to a complete proof.

The difference here is that, in principle, since hypergraphs are just finite combinatorial objects, one could, in theory just run a generic coloring algorithm over the finite number of things left out of the proof to obtain the complete result with a bow tied around it.

In the case of Artin's conjecture, you have two difficulties: identifying 1 or 2 candidate primes for which it may fail, and verifying the conjecture for those primes. Even if you can somehow overcome the first difficulty and identify the candidate primes for which it may fail, in the absence of machinery that lets us make such a conclusion for those two primes, we are reduced to calculating an infinite number of discrete logarithms, which, obviously doesn't fly.

So, TL;DR: the difference here is literally the difference between finite and infinite. There are a finite number of hypergraphs left out, which can, in theory be tested using a finite number of operations to verify the conjecture. Not so with Artin's conjecture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artin%27s_conjecture_on_primit...
Is there a convincing reason why this software can't be baked into the chip, and exposed to the containing device as digital output? I don't see one.
Also, I don't think `Cargo.lock` is a valid measure of bulk as it contains both dev and prod dependency tree. For compiled languages, the binary size probably can be a better measurement, but that's also debatable since c and c++ use shared libraries while rust uses self-contained ones.
It seems you agree, then, that there is no ethical dilemma in insurers paying for HIV treatment regardless of whether the patient acted irresponsibly. But it would be easier to understand your answer if you’d just say whether or not you think that access to HIV treatment in the US should be more restrictive than it is at present.

We already covered the special case of contested treatments. It’s obviously irrelevant here as we are just talking about access to drugs for HIV patients, not access to an inherently limited resource. Either you pay for Truvda or you don’t. There’s no queue.

Similarly, if you are obese, no generally available treatment that could be of medical benefit to you will be denied merely because it’s expensive and you’re obese.
Troy just added phone number search to Have I Been Pwned as well: https://www.troyhunt.com/the-facebook-phone-numbers-are-now-... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26709848)
> they modified the protocol slightly to allow for someone in control of the administration server to change a user's private key without their knowing, so that the admin can decrypt the E2E communications using the known key.

You mean, no-longer-E2EE.
If I'm already happy but just want to expand my horizon, isn't it bad to wish for 1 mln ?
Google code, "What are installable web apps?" http://code.google.com/chrome/apps/

Also, it looks like google is trying to make an app store for the browser: https://chrome.google.com/webstore
Any plans going to SE Asia?
You replied to this person:

>>are pretty good at treating symptoms, but when it comes to root causes of serious diseases, they're pretty bad at treating them without inflicting collateral damage on some other body system. [Especially bad when messing with systems designed by evolution]

saying:

>Statins stop the production of cholesterol .. these get at the root cause of the problem and don't merely treat symptoms.

No, statins do not treat the "root cause of the problem" and in fact, merely "treat" symptoms. In doing so they do great damage and kill people. Look up torcetrapib or clofibrate for examples.

0) Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torcetrapib

1) pubmed http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6147641?
ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum

2) Pubmed Clofibrate http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20535009

Production of cholesterol is not the root cause of the problem. Starting from wrong axioms always produces wrong results. It's the kind of stuff that leads to blood-letting being the leading treatment of the age.

If you're in medical school I would urge you to read Gary Taubes' book -- the man makes some interesting observations about how medical textbooks have changed over the years (esp. in the fields of diabetes, iirc).

Also, sure antibiotics kill bacteria, but they also take a toll on the body (granted they get at the proximate cause of the problem).
It's on ABC's website:

http://abc.go.com/shows/jamie-olivers-food-revolution
I think he means that the guy from airbnb was paying $800/mo for his room. That would be $2400/mo total if there's 3 tenets each paying $800/mo.
French might well be the next vertical.

The plan for now though is to focus on just doing one thing really well. There are plenty of sites that have poured lots of money into doing online tutoring in the general case, and there are plenty of smaller sites that do online Spanish tutoring acceptably. But everybody with funding has thus far gone the way of being generic, so there's a gap waiting for a really good site doing just Spanish.

At some point, we'll outgrow it (hopefully), and "French by Moroccans and Guyanans" might be the next one.
I always thought of inversion as moving the world, and non-inversion as moving the gun.

Either can make sense, it depends on the game.
Getting down on the ground and playing with your kids > dating/video games/movies.

If not, you're doing it wrong.
Good point, and another argument for maintaining a reasonable test coverage. I'd even argue that a merge strategy that is too clever (like the one you described) could be more risky than a dumb one. It could lead to a resolution that is valid from a compiler standpoint, but wrong semantically, which makes it even harder to discover.
"Mail servers do not require you to send emails to recipient@mail.domain.com. Likewise, web servers should allow access to their pages though the main domain unless a particular subdomain is required."

Sure, email is like this thanks to MX records. We could have the same for web servers by using SRV records ("_http._tcp.example.net" pointing at your "real" web server[s]) but I have no idea how many browsers support looking up SRV before A.
I epoxied a keyring onto my Square device so that I can keep it on a keychain. Having anticipated the spinning thing, I have the keyring hanging off the same side as the headphone jack. That way, when I have it hooked up to my iPhone, it acts as a brace and doesn't spin at all. It wiggles slightly, but no spinning.
I believe he said horrendous since there is a certain trend that Facebook will, in some sense, be a closed internet. There may come a time when not being a Facebook user means that you cannot see some significant portion of the Web.
Were you not paying attention the other day when the New Zealand govt passed US style copyright laws using "emergency powers"?

Just because you're in NZ, AU, Can, Ireland or $Taxhaven, doesn't mean you're 'safe' from US interference.

The tail does not wag the dog. And it's a bloody big dog.

Arguably the only place safe from gross US interference is the EU, but mainly because as the world's largest government-by-committee they cannot find their arse with both hands and a map. And even then the reality is somewhat different, it isn't hard to play one side off against the other in their internal wrangles.

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I would guess most of those places have been leaned on by the US to also ban online gaming.
I think this list is greatly erring on the side of caution. Some of the descriptions are incorrect, for example:

Aspirin (Bayers) is trademarked in several countries around the world, including Canada and the United States. The word Aspirin cannot appear on any imagery submitted to the RF collection.

Bayer famously lost its trademark for Aspirin in the United States after WWI as part of war reparations. It is still trademarked in Canada and many other countries, so possibly should be avoided in photos that are being used globally.
Not really, but even if that were the case, so what? Does that magically mean they must have been perfect and it's not possible, in hindsight, to realize that not all decisions were good?
Maybe it doesn't have to be with macros.
Imagine the linux kernel development process pre-bitkeeper, mailing lists and patches. That's close to the openbsd process. CVS is mostly used as a record of changes.
> But not all censorship is bad.

pretty much all dictators agree with you on that.
>As the government is not involved at all, the overreach argument doesn't apply.

Is it only the government which can overreach? I'm not sure I follow your argument.

If apple hooked into my banking app and decided to lock my phone because they saw me buying marijuana, that would also be an overreach, and also has nothing to do with the government.
I had a similar experience with a plumber. Normally, I would have no clue how experienced the person was, but this particular person kept "missing" certain parts and had to make 3 trips to the hardware store! He only charged me for the first, but, clearly he didn't know what he was doing.
Currently the site is unreachable (for me at least). But here I've got a Coral Cache version of the content: http://www.j15r.com.nyud.net/blog/2015/01/25/Game_Developmen...
I go out for a warm meal every so often. I just don't want to have to do that every day or to have to learn how to cook.

Before this I drank Soylent for around 2 years, I'm not the kind of person to get bored by lack of variety in food. I just wanted something easier and healthier than Soylent.
Someone is really committed to this.
I get where you're coming from, I really do. I fucking hate what big corporations have done with, to, and through the U.S.

It's bullying, it's oppression, it's borderline slavery, and it's hardcore brainwashing. By loose definitions I'd be willing to call it fascism, but using strong words loosely only makes them weaker.

By all means, hate on the U.S. It deserves it. I just don't think fascism is the best word for it.
It's a joke and a real product - they have a real landing page too.

https://fibery.io

vs

https://fibery.io/anxiety
Clicks -> sees app store link -> hits back button.

If your social media app isn't browser based first and foremost.. then I don't trust your judgement.
Amazing! This guide got me into network programming back when I was still on rural dial-up. It helped me through various programming courses in high school and university, and I still occasionally refer to it from time to time. Thanks for your contributions, they really improved my quality of life!
Slip it or cut it. Doing it in a way that loses data for users is a bad call.
Yeah well the 1800s were also a time where people barely traveled 50kms outwards in their whole life and slaves existed so why on earth would we take that as a barometer for anything.
1040ez is quite easy. I still believe that IRS could just accept you signing that you made a certain amount and these are your deductions. They have the same information that I do, I seriously think they like auditing people.
Falling down is totally different than sticking your fingers into a fan.
Surprising to a Tcl programmer!8-)) b/c

"Everything is a String":

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/everything+is+a+string

and

"Everything is a Symbol":

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Everything+is+a+Symbol
> - Little to no transaction fee - Near instantaneous transaction time

That can be done with Bitcoin today. Download a lightning capable wallet in the appstore of your choice and post an invoice, I can instantaneously pay that to your wallet with near zero fees.

> stable value

That is basically what I was saying earlier, we don't know the correct price yet. However bitcoin is only volatile upwards (if your time horizon is > 2 years)

Bitcoin is the perfect settlement base for layers built on top. The Lightning Network uses Bitcoin for its trustlessness and payments are also denominated in bitcoin.

I know that I sound like the typical Bitcoin-shill, but I really think that this is the one of the most important projects of our lifetime. It is the first shot at seperating money from power. Some of us just need to accept that we missed the early train and didn't get rich (we all would have sold at $200 if we bought at $0.30), but accept it for what it is. The first and only trustless, permissionless and decentralized monetary network.
Thanks for the Reddit tip
They charge high prices because of marketing. Suckers are willing to pay more than their products are worth because marketing has them convinced it's better.
You ever tried to play tennis with one eye covered?

I'm not saying your life is ruined with only one eye, but don't downplay their plight. You can still see in 3D, it's true, but (in my experience) you loose a lot of accuracy.
Yes, if you narrowly define VCS as "shoves code around". If you define it as "versioning the code and related project material" then it's exactly what should be in the tool. In fact, I predict this will be the next iteration of project management tools, where everything is stored and managed in git/hg/mercurial, so the next logical step is what fossil does.
This also reflects in chipset documentation, which sometimes comes with pages and pages of "write X to register Y", and not much more.

It almost feels like they're trying to hide something if they don't give any reasoning for what those values do... and so I'm rather curious as to what happens if they're changed. Some bits might have no effect, some could have catastrophic effects (e.g. if they control some of the voltage regulation circuitry), and some could have very useful effects that they just don't want you to know about. Intel CPUs have had undocumented features since their introduction; it's not hard to imagine their chipsets do too.
Ever seen what normal people make? It's a pittance in comparison.
I was forced to take a CS High School course by my school district for being computer illiterate, despite having already taken two college programming courses in BASIC and Pascal, and working at a local Egghead Software. I took CS 2 AP and self-taught myself C in about a month. After figuring out how to get around the Novell network restrictions and running unsupervised Doom death matches and Street Fighter 2 tournaments with my classmates, I was reassigned as a student aid to run around the campus to fix teacher's computers.

Probably a better use of my time and channel of my curiosity.
Thought of this. (http://tapastic.com/series/101-uses-for-a-dead-meerkat)
Well, use Whitespace then:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_languag...
2nd comment is incorrect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith,_Jr.
The [scribd] link for this submission does not go to the same document as the pdf link. It's a 1991 form with no paperwork reduction act message. Page 3 is just a list of acceptable forms of identification.
The current Form I-9 is five pages. The first three pages contain instructions for completion of the form. Page three contains one paragraph about the paperwork reduction act. Page four is the form, and page five is the list of acceptable documents. The irony is that the government could reduce paper work by getting rid of the third page of instructions. The reality is that the instructions should probably be about ten pages since almost no one does the I-9 right and most companies would be surprised to find out they have liability sitting in their HR files due to this one page form.

Page five is not a list of forms of identification, it is a list of documents you may provide to prove you have the legal right to work within the United States. It just happens to be that some forms of identification also prove work authorization for some citizenship statuses. For example, if you are a U.S. citizen your drivers license and social security card or your passport prove this. Edit: The I-9 form however does establish identity in addition to right to work because of the overlap.

Fun tip: Lots of companies request specific documents for the purpose of completing this form (drivers license and ssn usually), this is a form of discrimination and you have a legal right to complain to the Office of Special Council www.osc.gov

Disclaimer: I am employed by a company that specializes in supporting companies processes for this specific document.
I don't think a Tcl command shell would be out of the question. It's simple and powerful, but still quite terse.
Most EDA software includes an interactive Tcl shell as well - they're quite popular with ASIC and FPGA designers.
I spent a great deal of time writing a recommendation engine for a major web property, so I'll just offer some brief pointers for anyone interested in this stuff:

- If you know nothing about how recommenders might work, a good introductory book is Programming Collective Intelligence.

- To do recommendations at scale, your best bet is to write them in java and run them on Hadoop using map/reduce. You can write them in python too I suppose and use Hadoop Streaming.

- NumPy is awesome. Its a great way to prototype your ideas and if you come from a Matlab background (as I did), its very similar. I have not yet run anything in production using NumPy though.

- If you want a recommender that works out of the box, check out Apache Mahout (used with Hadoop) or the Weka project.
The domain name is pretty clever assuming your customers are already drinking the "flash-is-dead" koolaid, but this is a service that any web developer can offer. Incidentally, the tracypaul demo isn't HTML5, and doesn't even animate like in the original site.

And don't even get me started on the comment at the top triggering quirksmode.
I was a M-x shell guy until one job where starting to build the project in M-x shell caused the build script to bork. I still have no fucking idea why it happened, but it's scared me off of everything but standard bash since.
My bank's wire room has ground to a halt.
Or when you click accidentally and going back means you have to scroll for minutes to you get to where you were.
> That being said I'm sure that rustaceans disagree about the "No Silver Bullet" (when you can compile to WebAssembly, write HTTP / TCP servers, embedded development and much more).

I'm certain they don't. For one, Rust can't even be used in a niche but important class of safety/mission critical software until a certain level of certifications (i.e. DO-178C) are reached so by that measure alone it is disqualified. For two, what targets the languages compile to are a necessary but far from sufficient measure of a language's practicality - the most important ones have nothing to do with the language and everything to do with ecosystem and tooling.
On a related note, I worry a similar fate may be on Newegg’s doorstep.

Over the years, I’ve seen more and more completely unrelated products in their storefront from their core business, and of the components they do sell in their core business, there are too many questionable Chinese brands.

I more and more consistently feel like I’m buying from Alibaba Express when I go to that website. And it hasn’t improved much over time either.

Why is it so difficult to continually improve how you serve your core demographic for these businesses? I just don’t get it.

Sell PC parts. If you can’t compete on price with shipping (Amazon), for goodness’s sake at least make the search experience good enough that when I think “PC parts” I want to go to your website.

Anyone who ever took 5 seconds to look at Fry’s website knew, “Oh, these guys are going out of business.”

When Newegg is selling coffee machines, I have to ask myself, what moron over there thinks I think “Oh yeah! Electronics! Newegg. Well of course I’d buy my milk frother from them.”

No. I wouldn’t.