jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you have a mask shortage and there is one mask left in the country, is it better for the society for the sick person to wear it or for healthy person to wear it?
To add, self-promotion is also a very useful skill in these times.
which gives you the opportunity to make billions in profits while everybody else is suffering.

And hopefully utilize those profits to help fewer suffer.
The care industry at local level is poised to do well and get funded more than in the recent past in order to protect the vulnerable part of the population from the disease and avoid further waves. They will need generalists and computer-savvy operators to smoothen their peaks for sure.
This is slow going, but informative and topical. The differential equations in question are to do with propagation of infectious diseases.

[EDIT] I posted too soon! Just the first two out of three examples are about disease.
Some would say America is doing Great again.
It was the best ending possible. The first line of the first book was what hooked me on this universe, so I loved reading the last line years later.
> To clarify, can people outside the US be hired to do remote work for US companies?

It's often called 'offshoring', I think. I know plenty of US companies large and small that hire remote workers. It also doesn't seem like it's a net win in most cases that I've seen, but people generally don't set themselves up to re-evaluate their decisions 3, 6 and 12 months later, nor have the willpower to reverse the decision if it's not working out as expected.

To clarify, I have seen remote workers outside the US, working for US companies, be a net positive/win, it just hasn't been the norm.

By 'net win', I'm meaning the original goals - more work getting done at a lower cost at the same or better quality in the same or reduced amount of time - panning out. Usually the timezone and cultural differences are bigger hurdles to overcome than anticipated. You often need more US-based resources dedicated to managing the remote team than originally planned. To counter some of those, you can hire more experienced overseas talent, but that's a higher cost, eating in to the anticipated cost savings.
Rust is influenced by OCaml but has lots of C++ concepts thrown in too. I don't think it makes sense to be choosing between OCaml/F# and Rust since they are so different. If you need the performance characteristics of Rust, then the choice is made for you (and you should also consider modern C++). If not, then the borrow checker is probably a burden that you don't need.

Maybe I'm missing something. Under what use-cases would someone be choosing between OCaml/F# and Rust?
The reason is politics. It's easier to raise taxes that are invisible to voters.
I’m saying that new companies that were remote from day one will never be non-remote. They’re not going to go buy a bunch of office space and force their disparate workforce to relocate. All hiring has been remote the past year, that’s not really reversible.
American schools heavily teach American exceptionalism, at least in my experience. Basically that our values make us special and better then everyone else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
We’re so deep into pedantry that we’re missing the point of the conversation.

To clarify, most jurisdictions have definitions of theft that will be true even if you only deprive the person of their property for a short period of time:

> Today, many states have extended the definition of theft to include depriving the owner of the property even for a short period of time, thus rendering unauthorized borrowing as theft.

From https://lawshelf.com/shortvideoscontentview/theft-crimes-a-s...

So yes, maybe there is some jurisdiction somewhere that wouldn’t define unauthorized borrowing as theft, but chances are good that if you borrow something without authorization, you can be guilty of theft (among other things) in most jurisdictions.
Fair enough, but my judgement call still stands. His apology post only confirms that. I don't just someone by their origin but by their vector.
If you have a Tesla power wall, I believe you can set it up to do this. Basically go power wall (house battery) to house during expensive times of electricity. And then charge the battery back up during cheap electric times. I think even 10% of the grid with such a system would do a lot to take the edge off peak demand, as all of those goes guys go to 0% usage.
After SARS and MERS, the risk of another coronavirus-outbreak was well established.
Did you go to school in Northern US?
The third option is that everything is simply too far apart and any detectible transmissions are either too faint or buried behind all those massive fusion furnaces.

For instance, if our best Earth tech was pointed at Earth from a distant star, how far away would we be able to detect our own traces of life? We know that life is "a little rare" at least, but there is a huge range of rarity where life is everywhere across the vast, vast universe but sparse across the dinky number of light years we could see each other. Maybe aliens have tech that is 10,000x better than ours but the scale of distance is just too big of an obstacle.

There is an assumption that alien races must have figured out things well beyond our understanding and be doing things like harnessing stars in some dramatic way, but maybe that just isn't a reasonable thing for life forms to do? Or if they do have that ability, they may operate on a much longer timeline, simply nudging things along in a way that escapes notice.
Sorry, but I don't see how a company that...

- Beta tests critical software in the public which has lead to actual customer deaths;

- Refuses to follow industry best practices when it comes to safety sensors;

- Refuses to seriously investigate safety incidents and implement technological and cultural fixes to prevent them from happening in the future;

...will lead us into a utopia of automotive safety. At best what they're liable to do is create a climate where mega corporations feel free to use public spaces as their own personal laboratories, because the ends justify the means after all (don't pay attention to the decapitations, we're doing it for the safety of us all). We will all pay the price for that.
If you knew you had a 60% chance of winning, wouldn't you want to bet a small amount to reduce variance?

I guess on the down side that is A LOT of clicking. It is similar to how when playing a better team in basketball, you want to slow down the pace of the game to limit possessions.
What do you think the odds were that it was something that would cause problems in fewer than seven months, or that if she experienced symptoms that they would move her up in line?

Genuinely asking, since I don't know any details about her situation or much about lung ailments.
On mine, it was 981 followed by the last 4 digits of my phone number that would result in a "callback," and a constant tone would play when you answered.
Interesting job with other people they like is probably a good guess.
I don’t disagree but what is the government’s alternative here? I just don’t see them being able to quickly pull off such a massive change in vendors if Solarwinds goes under. They’re like the government contract equivalent of “too big to fail”.
For reference, I was referring to this one:

> JOE: The people in this House who stole this election from us hanging from a gallow out here in this lawn for the whole world to see so it never happens again - that's what needs to happen, four by four by four hanging from a rope out here for treason.

https://www.npr.org/2021/01/07/954324571/pro-trump-crowd-tur...
They might be the same corporations offering coverage, but the plans are different. It isn't just the employer subsidization that you need to factor in, but that you as an individual will never be able to negotiate the terms of the plans you're offered, nor will you be able to negotiate for group plan rates.
The cop's case is a trivial sell. For instance, who would prosecute him?
But what is the cause of low or high corruption in a society? One method is a free press, which can highlight corruption, along with free elections where corrupt politicians can get kicked out. Is there an alternative?
I came to say the same, though I suspect they may have gotten the passwords by watching them being typed. These people go to conferences or whatever and could have leaked the password, but the username probably wouldn’t need to be typed.

At least to me, this seems like the most obvious vector for a leaked password, but not username.
I don't see life slowing down, maybe after some natural or man-made disaster wipes out half the population and most modern infrastructure, but until then, I only see things getting faster.

HFT is the perfect example of the benefits of being fast, literally by trading faster, not necessarily better, billions in profit are made. In other fields, first-movers often have a massive advantage, AWS for example.

Just look at Europe, things are slow and rather relaxed here... and as a result they've missed out on about the last 3 generations of technology.

I think many people won't be able to keep up, but the future of evolution is probably people who can sit still for days on end, just consuming information non-stop, with the ability to react very quickly as soon as the information signals opportunity for a reward. Some sort of really autistic apex predator stuff.

Ironically, even though computers can do so many tasks faster and better than humans, one would think we could all relax and let the computers work, but instead the trend seems to be, that we constantly have to be even faster in the remaining fields where computers are not yet superior.

The result of for-loops and automation hasn't been that humans no longer have to rush around doing mundane tasks, but rather that now we have to rush around writing for-loops and fixing all the bugs introduced by rushing... and so it continues...
> What if the person doing Manual QA of an application also then writes tests afterwards based on what they have determined are the likely problems in the application

I wouldn't really call this manual QA then. I'm describing the thousands of orgs whose QA processes are limited to "These people will run these five thousand test cases by hand for every release", and/or "These people will be handed a ticket and manually click all the buttons before marking it done"
Just another variation on:

"...the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must"

Thucydides
The great majority of effects tested and listed in the 'Human Effect Matrix' at [2] are either minor in magnitude or non-existent. That would seem to contradict your statement that Omega-3 is a miracle chemical.

Am I reading it wrong?
Mad offtopic unimportant nitpick here.

I'm so extremely put off when an author spends three paragraphs building up to an exciting climax, hits enter enter and then writes "Michael Larson was born in the small town of Lebanon, Ohio in 1949". I had to skim half the article to find out how the story continued.

Anecdotally, this strikes me as a uniquely American thing to do (or, at least, I've not read a single Dutch article pulling this trick), is there any point to it? Is it just something about eyeballs and ads? Do they teach this stuff in journalism school? Maybe Americans are immune to it because of the enormous amounts of "build up, build up, build up, almost there..... Let's continue after the messages! ^_^" on childhood TV?
Try nitter: https://nitter.snopyta.org/_paulshen/status/1346583010691321...

Or setting your user agent to Googlebot/2.1 for Twitter should work as well[1].

[1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tats/w3m/master/doc/README...
Do knife manufacturers make more money by making more lethal knives, the same way that Facebook make more money by getting more eye balls and manipulating more of people's perception of and interactions with society?
What's the status of adult neurogenesis in humans? Wikipedia says that it's controversial whether or not it exists [1]. If we don't know that happens in humans, what can we make of an a study about exercise-mediated neurogenesis in rats?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_neurogenesis
> Hilariously, I discovered that <blink> is actually no longer implemented in Chrome.

There is a solution!

http://cheese.blartwendo.com/web21-demo.html
900+ for me.
Writing code for HTML email is like a time machine. Even the most basic of CSS like setting a margin only works in some clients. Un freaking believable.
Open Source Firmware Conference 2019 - Talks, Hackathon and more:

https://9esec.io/blog/open-source-firmware-conference-2019-t...
Interestingly enough using Chrome on OSX it looked nothing like those screenshots and didn't bother me at all. I am also red green colour blind.
Sure, but you probably take a 45 minute break somewhere in there to "recharge" your body, so recharging your car isn't that big a deal.
So how do we implement this as policy? What we can't do is just say anyone can immigrate. We need to find ways to make it easy for exceptional people to live and work here but make it difficult (sliding scale to impossible) for everyone else.

One random idea I was thinking about was regional, industry specific visa committees that would review each application to ensure that we are able to more accurately identify exceptional individuals and filter out the mediocre / low-quality talent.
Were you worried that the OS makes it really easy for a user would muck with the filesystem and not update the applications metadata? On the easy of copying one file was it that coping all of the files was too error prone?
So the natural question is why don't "file systems" (aka big database) become useless with some minor level or corruption?
Bugs happen when more than one programmer interface with each others code and the original intent was not clear enough.
If my "number" is in fact a string I'd like to get an error instead of a type conversion that hides this error. This might not necessarily be an ignorant beginner mistake, but may very well be a manifestation of some complicated bug or error on the other end of the program, possibly in a library I haven't studied enough and made assumptions about, or a black-box webservice.

I can handle it but don't see why I would go out of my way to defend Javascript in this regard.
Actually, here's how I'd put it. If you are not competitive (in your terms, drive down the salary) OR produce something great at prices others can. Then jobs and companies will go overseas. Not only will there be jobs will lower salaries but there will be fewer jobs, period. Now that will be problem for entire country.

Having more programmers will not be a problem for the country, they will only be a problem to those who want to maintain their salaries turning their eyes away from reality of globalization.
> I really don't understand any logical reason for this happening,

Maybe it is the federal government trying to bolster their case for stronger control of the internet with a false flag operation.

For the record I'm not a conspiracy nut, but at the same time, given what we know about our government now and in the past, I can't completely dismiss the possibility.
A solution to the road safety and emissions issues is to come up with a public standard for ECU software. Make adherence to that standard a requirement to pass the annual tests in states that have them. States that don't (I'm looking at you, Florida) have already stated indirectly that they don't really give a shit about these issues.
With weightlifting, the number of plates on the bar constantly changes.
> and at first no one wanted to believe me :)

I don't know why people think compilers are so infallible, or are more likely to be better written than your application. If people write bugs in applications guess what the same people write similar bugs in compilers too.
I also find it that Firefox syncs better between mobile and desktop than Chrome did. So yeah, no looking back.
Basically everyone wants security, but nobody wants to pay for it.

Maybe the market equilibrium means people don't get hurt enough yet.
https://github.com/tmux/tmux/issues/1613 is a better reflection of my views on SIXEL, although I am coming round to the idea rather. It is not easy to do properly however, I am interested to see how your code works.
Let me know if any questions, we are ready to help with setup!
> However, if a politician came by and promised to raise gasoline prices by 50% in order to invest $X billion into WeWork so that they could solve the commute problem once and for all,

Than you should like carbon fee and dividend scheme[1]. Tax emissions, divide equally between all citizens. The end result is unchanged populations spending power, but redistributed towards less carbon-intensive products.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_fee_and_dividend
What would you call stressful?

Impact (on others, on myself permanently) correlates very well to stress for me.

High impact decisions cause more stress: getting a project defunded, letting go of people, critical mistakes in execution that cause the company reputation or finance damages, etc..

At the very far end are life and death decisions that impact others and the very low end day-to-day decisions that only impact you (what tasks to complete, what shoes to wear).

With the above framework, it's unlikely highly paid Googlers made low impact and thus low stress decisions.
The US has tons of online-only/app only banks too with free accounts.
Not OP, but I think this is a great (and obscure?) book on neural networks: https://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/rojas/neural/

Published in 1996, but the content is all foundational.
The thesis of the article (and I agree with it) - that any half decent bottle of wine will likely taste the same as that $400 bottle of wine.

Indeed - it's the knowledge that the bottle costs $400 which in fact makes it taste so good.

I would agree that the bottle has to start off tasting good (Let's say, Wine Advocate and Wine Spectator rating of 95 or greater) - but I've been to a lot of taste-testings, with people with much, much more refined palets than mine, and we've never had more than random predictability of discerning the difference between a $15, $30, $60 or $90 bottle of wine.
Also, you can have it both ways: asdf-install is installable via Quicklisp.
It's strange seeing this on Microsoft's website considering their multi-decade campaign to prevent web-based games and applications from becoming mainstream.
We should be careful not to overreact to this news, but at the same time, black hats have done considerable damage in the past by cracking personal information and/or one password. It's not unreasonable to expect the same problem to continue now, at least for a small fraction of users.
I've heard it is very dependent upon the team.
is Google buying Delicious next?
Related analysis from 2008: "a radical suggestion: rather than design and develop massive data centers with 15 year lives, let’s incrementally purchase condominiums (just-in-time) and place a small number of systems in each." http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/04/06/DiseconomiesOfSc...
Sharing things sucks. I’ve lived in both situations and much prefer rural-20-minutes-from-a-city to living in a city.
Are there any tools that would allow me to detect this kind of attack on my computer? I'd prefer not to DoS github.
This is a great article on why designers should seek visual inspiration from pre-existing work and I know exactly one on how to do it:

http://cameronmoll.com/archives/000016.html

Cameron Moll calls it "nodes of inspiration" and this was highly influential on my budding young design career at the time. In essence, never rip off one interface entirely, instead you should rip off many elements from different sources and put them together in a seamless way.

It's a good way to build up the skills to make your own stuff from scratch and is the design equivalent of studying someone else's code.
Facebook became popular without apps, true, but they have yet to prove how successful they are. Zynga is more profitable than facebook itself, that must mean something. It's just speculation, but i believe things will change as growth starts to plateau and everyone has caught up with their old schoolmates. As for microsoft, well, remember netscape.
Craft is very good, though I'd recommend going through Art first.

Also, Craft is organized a bit strangely -- IIRC, it was originally written as a response to a specific Prolog implementation's documentation.
I noticed Google asks to do this in Android, too. They make you explicitly OK it though, at least on my (Verizon Droid) phone.

In location options, if you check certain options it warns you that Google will be logging wifi info and other details even while apps that access this info are not running.

The warning shown when you click "Use wireless networks" in Location settings is

"Location consent
Allow Google's location service to collect anonymous location data. Collection will occur even when no applications are running."

My analysis is that this turns the phone into a mobile sensor that performs the same function as one of the Google mobiles driving around with cameras performs relating to wifi and location logging. Google probably collects the GPS coordinates and SSID of every wifi network that comes into range of a phone with this enabled. Given their recent legal troubles relating to wifi discovery, hopefully it doesn't gather more than that.
Can you fail to deliver something if there is no time in which the failure can occur? Not sure...
But sometimes I want to be a complete fool and act completely out of character and inappropriately.

Problem is people in general have a hard time grasping that just because you do something in situation X, it doesn't necessarily reflect poorly on your character. Take a look at all the "Guy posts drunk pic on FB. Guy loses job" fiascos.