jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Hell, they didn't even quarantine people with AIDS and how many did that epidemic kill, millions?

Exceptionally bad comparison. If I have measles, I can infect dozens of other people in a matter of days without realising it, by walking around, in places and situations in which these people have every expectation of not being at increased risk. Once I know I have measles, I know I am a walking dispensary of disease and can expect to infect other people just be walking around near them, sneezing and coughing and touching things. If I get quarantined (and don't die), a week or so later I'm clean.

If I have HIV, I cannot infect dozens of people by walking around with it. Other people would have to be exceptionally unlucky to catch it from me, or be deliberating engaging in known unsafe practices. If I know I have it, I could take a few extra precautions myself and have every expectation of never infecting anyone. If I get quarantined, I'm there until I die. Decades maybe. That's not quarantine; that's life without parole.
IANAL: what could actually happen to you, legally, if your hard-drive self-destructs after being tampered with?

Is that really "destroying evidence?" What if you just shut down the computer, rendering the hard drive unusable, its contents completely encrypted (a la TrueCrypt). The evidence isn't destroyed, it's just inaccessible.
I'm not a developer of the game but:

DestinationQueue handling: It is not redundant, those are different options. Just to give an valid example: Add something to the queue, sort the queue, make the elevator run the updated and sorted queue.

Having both goingUpIndicator and goingDownIndicator is probabaly necessary to get this abritrary third state (both enabled / both disabled) which essentially indicates that the elevator will go in both directions.
Not to be picky, just interested. What's the reason behind using a daemon instead of simply running sensor check scripts in Cron? Or even better, raise interrupt when sensor fails, so you don't have to wait 30s (in worst case).
> Did you even understand that the whole point of the article was about not bringing up Monads? Jesus.

Indeed, but there were people in this thread who were asking about them, and I will always prioritize people who are asking to learn something over people who are asking not to teach something.
More than that. They look for outgoing connections that look like Tor, and then, few minutes later they actively scan it:

https://idea.popcount.org/2013-07-11-fun-with-the-great-fire...
It's easy! Just Disrupt™ Facebook!

/s
Israel feels like the only nation taking the importance and urgency of vaccination seriously.

Here in Europe, articles are coming out complaining that the slow vaccination could be harming the economy which, well, fucking duh. (https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/belgium-all-news/154626/c...)

Fast rollout. Involve pharmacies. Involve the army. Distribute widely and efficiently. Prepare for months before the vaccine is here. Follow-up campaign to convince vax holdouts. A real War Effort.

There's barely any calls for volunteering here in Belgium. Hospitals and vaccination centers will complain to the government that they are understaffed but you seldom hear them urgently asking for new volunteers to assign to COVID teams and vaccination centers. We spent a ton of time debating whether the social bubble should be 2 or 3 large, whether kids should be 12 or 14 before they count for it, etc etc and those spending that time were the same people who didn't prepare for the eventuality of a vaccine, and started doing so in late December.

Sorry this has veered off topic. The number of articles that can be summed up to "Vaccines work, are good, and israel is doing it right" frustrate little european me. :(
Absolutely, couldn't agree more. If you want a secret, just find what scaling laws are there and find tunnels to bypass them. There's always a way to the secret garden, you just sometimes have to look long and hard... ;)

I started with my 1070 flat, and have had some people far, far, far smarter and more experienced than me help me understand a lot of the underlying mathematics a lot. Semi-supervised/bootstrapping may be a fun topic, if you can avoid the giant CAT trucks of the FAANG monoliths blazing through there, and there's always really good artisanal work to be done if you can prove certain mathematical conditions hold such that other (oftentimes counterintuitive and bizzare) operators still work, or work when they shouldn't before.

You could also get into the rat race of the *formers -- the Nyströmformer is quite spectacular and nearly linear, and yes, if you're hot on your feet and clever enough, you might be able to beat everything into submission.

Also, distrust every non-bayesian thing involving means and sigmas. Those are always ad hoc and beat the real data manifold into submission, which really does a disservice a lot of the time, I think. There's a lot to get around that (I suppose including the above, which I'd forgotten about, but there's always, uh, SeLU if you're looking for inspiration plus a phenomenal appendix. You want universal attractors? Set up and prove something that's more amenable to a good manifold structure than simply a certain distribution of activations -- that truly tells us nothing!)

Hope those are fun ideas -- and my deepest apologies if I was uncharitable to you in my former post. I went back and edited it for politeness but reading it again felt some of my earlier aggression fall through, and I'm certainly sorry about that -- I should be helping new folks, not being an aggressive gatekeeper against that.

In any case, so long as you're able to keep mathematical interest, there's always a nice hole to square yourself away into. Talk to a good accomplished research professional and they might be able to point you in fun directions (aside from my personal noobishness ;))

Let me know if any of those catch your eye and end up going anywhere, I'm happy to help when it moves the field forward! :)))
Reading the article and seeing applets, my mind was like "hey, 90's tech, let's talk about ActiveX too". I mean, if we're talking about dead & malware ridden tech for web ActiveX is king, followed by Java applets and only in the 3rd place is Flash.

Don't get me wrong, current model of app stores and their "verified" apps is just as bad when it comes to malware, but hey, it is what it is.
I agree. But what about the business that aren’t 100% digital? Is it okay to have half your workforce at home? Is it fair? What about roles that thrive off human interaction, do they get written off?
You can‘t transfer single ips to aws, only complete networks. And then this networks is limited to a single region.

So it sounds easy, but is only usefull for companies with multiple networks. But even then i guess aws is publishing that they handle your networks.
I should have clarified that I meant "compiled easily for 10-100x speedup" (on representative workloads) as the OP was saying.

You can definitely compile anything... whether it's worthwhile is a totally different story. I learned this the hard way :)

As far as I remember the Ruby 3x3 effort yielded 3x on SOME workloads, with tremendous effort, which is about what I would have expected due to Ruby's very dynamic semantics.
Did you read past that sentence? They go into explicit detail as to why they made the call.
>The four boxes of liberty is an idea that proposes: "There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."

Big tech, with crowds cheering, is pushing these people toward the one that we are going to regret.
FDE could be made to protect the data when the machine is out of range of its secure home network too.

Leaving it on, the machine would detect loss of home network fairly quickly and lock itself.

The FDE key would depend on a key server on the home network, so it could not be rebooted and unlocked just with the physical on-board devices.

If some parts of the FDE were handled on the storage itself and required a periodic end-to-end refresh with the home network key server, then even freezing main RAM (literally) to extract keys later would not work.

More generally, the FDE key could be split over a number of components on the machine, all of them requiring end-to-end periodic refresh from the home network key server, making it extremely difficult to freeze all on-board devices effectively enough to extract the whole key and decrypt the storage contents. Add RAM encryption to complete the job.
> no evidence that the election was crooked - the courts think so too

Haven't all of the cases been thrown out for lack of standing thus far? Doesn't that mean the evidence hasn't even been heard? How can the "courts think so too" if they haven't heard evidence?

Also, it's offensive when people say the election wasn't crooked to people that witnessed its crookedness firsthand. I am one of the many people whose ballot went uncounted.
You can, http://member.cash

It is on BCH, so cost is more like a fraction of a cent, but same idea.
Well, at least in that case things would have to be legally equal right? Twitter would be required to also ban the thousands of Antifa and far-left violent groups that have ravaged cities and local businesses all summer. No more double standards.
There was NO detail. That means NO ANSWER to nerds like us.
Well, for example, here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_reply
When you say average here, is that in the sense of average resistance over time for a given patient or average resistance across a population? The paper seemed to imply a great deal of heterogeneity in individual responses to the variant, so significant average would just be something like part of the population affected very badly, another part not at all, vs everyone affected mildly?
> Rather than trying to combine multiple components into one monolithic process, breaking up components into their individual components.

Why does this only apply in the user space? The first thing I thought if when I read this sentence was systemd...
Can you please elaborate ?
Yeah, I think he is thinking you may be able to re-use some of the heat energy from the output of one machine to be the input on another.

This never gets close to over 100% efficiency because of the laws of thermodynamics.
Why would a taxi need a taxi medallion? Because the government says they do.
I agree, there's a million things that can go wrong just in installing, setting up and compiling the project. I see losing a lot of good candidates here because they happened to have the wrong version of some library installed..
There's a pretty fun subreddit satirizing this mindset. Eat lentils, drive a 2003 Corolla, save every penny for retirement. https://www.reddit.com/r/PFJerk/

Also, just in case anyone needs to hear this, starting your own company is not carte blanche to deduct all your living expenses, hire your spouse, etc. There's a lot of folk beliefs around this circulating on the internet, and following such advice without doing the legwork is a good way to get yourself into hot water with the IRS, or your local equivalent.
Agreed, I don't think OP ever tried to figure out what happened in that scenario, just waved it off as dumb drivers, "I would have had different results", rather than the sudden undetectable absolute loss of traction event, which probably wouldn't even have a high chance of being detectable by any fancy Vision/Lidar self-driving algorithms (black ice, no change in contrast).
I use '..' for '$ cd ..' and '...' for '$ cd ../..'.
"Full union membership thus no longer can be a requirement of employment. If a new employee refuses formally to join a union and subject himself to its discipline, he cannot be fired. Moreover, no employee can be discharged if he initially joins a union, and subsequently resigns."[1]

[1] https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/473/95.html
> Buy things if they:

> Get used everyday (Ex. Nice pants, laptop and phone).

> Come in between you and the ground (Ex. Mattresses, chairs, winter tires).

Lately I've been hearing from friends and marketers "you use your mattress for 8+ hours a day so you should spend $2k on it" or something ridiculous like that. But I can't help feeling that it's bad advice.

You should decide to spend money when the marginal benefit that you get out of those extra dollars is higher than some threshold, that's it.

If you spend an extra $1500 on a mattress that isn't any better than a $500 one, then you've wasted $1500, regardless of how much time you spend sleeping on it.

On the other hand, maybe it's a good idea to spend an extra few thousand dollars on safety equipment for your woodsaw that you use for your occasional weekend hobby, if it means you don't lose a finger one day.
Don’t forget the cable (or cord-cutting channel), mobile, game, music, news, and magazine subscription bills, to which now we have to add apps. Large ones can often be cut to 1/10th by rethinking, switching, etc.
The same site (MyHeritage) has a colorizer for old photos. An open source version is available as DeOldify
https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify
The US is a country that has laws inaccessible to the public with no way of knowing whether you're breaking those laws. It's either naive or just plain intellectually dishonest to think that these laws exist as a preventative measure.
I do this in D all the time, and the system is actually so flexible you can even use things like simulated annealing to optimize (if you are completely mad) to optimize the parameters.

struct DiscardPastN(uint len)
{
int[len] buffer;
uint state = 0;
void put(int x)
{
buffer[++state % len] = x;
//mwuhahahaha
static if(len == 4)
asm {
ud2;
}
}
int[len] get() const
{
return buffer;
}
}

So extremely useful all over the place let alone linear algebra, I'm glad Rust now has it too
> The only problem with this of course is that the range of a car is already limited. Plugging in your car overnight, and then discovering half the charge is gone might be a tad, shall we say, unwelcome.

Indeed.

However, electric cars could have a part to play in equalising electricity production & demand. Electric cars could be re-powered by removing the battery pack and inserting a new one (this would be done at the successor to petrol stations; obviously battery packs would all be the same size and have the same interface). The battery station would then need to recharge all its spare packs -- and it could do it at the times when electricity supply exceeds demand.
The help for logged in users is TenderApp, and the signup welcome email provides several contact emails. You can reach me with my username on gmail. Will add contact info to about page, thanks for pointing out the oversight.
I think you're on to something with "only one member is virtual" and previous experience.

Communication is essencial and harder to manage if just one member is virtual. So, it may not be worthwhile to manage just that one member differently, hence the requirment for "on-site" programming.
Japan seems to overcome the frequency issue somehow:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Power_Gr...

Half of the country operates at 50Hz and the other half at 60Hz:

"In Japan, the western part of the country (Kyoto and west) uses 60 Hz and the eastern part (Tokyo and east) uses 50 Hz. This originates in the first purchases of generators from AEG in 1895, installed for Tokyo, and General Electric in 1896, installed in Osaka. The boundary between the two regions contains four back-to-back HVDC substations which convert the frequency; these are Shin Shinano, Sakuma Dam, Minami-Fukumitsu, and the Higashi-Shimizu Frequency Converter."
I've been living in Taiwan and now Beijing for almost all my adult life, but Boulder is the place I launched from. At one time I was a minor math prodigy and seriously considered a career in programming. Now that my interests are finally turning back in that direction, it's weird to realize there's such an successful guy from back in Boulder helping people do exactly what I wanted to.

I find the advice poignant, too. On one hand it feels like maybe I made the wrong choice to take the road less traveled and leave for so long.
We knew well the risks going in, but still sucks when you run into the worst-case scenario. It certainly moved forwards our plans to get in alternatives.
Where I live they do (its not US).
What was the developement time on the app compared to if you had implemented a full system with photo upload etc?

Was time a factor?
I've never seen "work your way on merchant ships" as an option, but the "pay your way on a merchant ship" is actually more expensive than flying in most cases, since it takes a long time. I'd still like to try it one day.

Crewing a yacht, if you have sailing, cooking, etc. experience, is also an option.

Trains in the US are more expensive than flights (for long haul routes), but in other countries, are a good deal. However, even in Europe, low cost carriers are price competitive with trains. Costs a lot more per minute, but the flight is much faster.
I do indeed recall saying something quite similar to that. For context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7507540
The issue seems yo be that writes in Fractal trees always go through the root node. This would lead to a situation similar to small B-Trees where writes will most likely access the root node and contend.
One of the greatest benefits of visual mass media has been showing the general public that wars mean suffering on the other side. The enemy civilian and their suffering is humanised when you can picture them; when they're not just a byline. This is one of the reasons that the US military didn't let journalists have free reign in Iraq - they'd learned that lesson hard in Vietnam.
Hm, I'm learning JS at a slow pace reading D. Flanagan's 6th edition book. I'm an intermediate level Ruby programmer. The funny thing is that this book is so well written, that makes my understanding of Ruby even better, because I make direct comparisons.

JS and Ruby are similar in a way, the syntax is not all too strange to me so it's easy to run any JS code in my mind, on the fly.

That said I find JS extremely cumbersome compared to Ruby... But if I could easily add JS functionality to my Sinatra/Rails it would be great! :-)
Seems like there's a bunch of recurring credit card payment services out there now; what made you choose Spreedly?
My point wasn't about what we should or shouldn't do, it's about what we should expect a company to do. The original point was, "Yahoo is willing to destroy Geocities" -> "Yahoo is willing to destroy Delicious". And my argument is that Geocities and Delicious have a fundamental difference that would probably make people complain harder, and thus make Yahoo think twice.
"Big Bang is currently accepted to the extent that it is because it has managed to fit the facts best. "

well the problem is is that it doesn't. And in science, if you find a contradicting fact in a theory, then that theory is totally abandoned. The problem with the big bang is that multiple facts have come up debunking the big bang theory, but it is still accepted as a science. I could give you a few facts debunking the big bang theory, but the real question is: If I could prove to you a fact that disagreed with the big bang, would you then abandon the theory or would you not accept my evidence, and believe in two contradicting facts at the same time? When two facts contradict in simultaneously in a scientific theory, it is no longer a science but religion. Therefore, the big bang is actually religion disguised as science.
Because they didn't think they could get enough for it to be worth the hassle of selling it. Why do people throw things away that they could sell at a yard sale?
The yellow legend (coincidentally, for the biggest chunk of the pie ;)) is unreadable.
It's not particularly clever, nor funny.
The down votes of parent comment makes me feel like this debate is turning more like a religious debate. Where ideology and faith dominates reasoning and logic.
Why are you bothering with Tarsnap when consulting is so much more lucrative?

(Not being snarky).
Here is a link to a PDF summary. Now just waiting for the President to sign it. http://tax.cchgroup.com/downloads/files/pdfs/legislation/bus...

I have spent a lot of time on this over the past few weeks. I'm amazed at how few CPA's actually understand this legislation.
> technique should only be used for major felonies

Doesn’t the crime they were pursuing, dealing heroin in connection with an overdose, rise to that level? (No comment on the merits of the law. Just the facts of the investigation.)
https://archive.ph/UcEMV
I agree with you for the most part, but nearly all introductory courses must have content that is easily available online. Consider teaching students how to write a recursive method. What would their first assignment be?
List length? "find length of list"
Factorial? "factorial recursive"
Fibonacci? "fibonacci recursive"
GCD? "program gcd"

There are only so many simple recursive procedures, and I guarantee nearly all of them are online.

That said, I do think that once students have a basic understanding of computer science all assignments should be given so that the answer are not online. And this wouldn't bee to hard, even. It would just take some effort by the professor.
CVV isn't required and cannot be retained by anyone doing recurring billing. It is nice to have it as an additional fraud check for the first transaction. My discount rate doesn't change for CVV or non-CVV transactions. CVV is optional, but, if sent is verified. If it is incorrect, the transaction is declined.

For AVS verification, only the zip code is needed. I do get an additional discount on my merchant account if I send the numeric part of the street address, but, designing a form to ask for the street number but not the suite/apartment number for an extra half percent may drop the conversion ratio of the form. At best, you could get some people to enter the numeric portion, at worst, you probably require the two address lines for the billing address on the card.

The gateway I use allows me to specify the fields as optional, hidden or visible for every field, billing/shipping address, notes, etc. We can also submit a form to our gateway that can be used. However, we maintain a secure certificate and use our own forms to send the data and get back a recurring billing token from the gateway. That allows us to maintain a bit more control over the sales process.
My AP (Advanced Placement) Chemistry teacher noticed some cheating on a major chemistry test we took. The cheating was pretty obvious; some kids just decided they were going to fail the test so they might as well have some fun. A week later, after a week of lecturing on a new section of the chemistry book and no mention of our scores, a student asked. No, he hadn't graded the tests. He was sorry, he had been really busy. After that, students started asking him every day if he had graded the tests.

Two weeks after we had taken the test, he said, "I have to come clean. The reason I have not graded your tests is that I lost them and have been trying to find them for the last two weeks. I'm very, very sorry, it was entirely my fault, and as a result" (he produced stack of paper from behind his back) "you all have to retake the test right now. Put your books away, take a test and two sheets of scratch paper, and start working."

We didn't have as many students sign up for the second semester of AP Chemistry. Not many people failed the first semester, and scores in AP classes were given a full letter grade boost compared to regular classes, but students knew he wasn't messing around. As a result, it was one of the best AP classes we had, and lots of kids got good scores on the AP test.