jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> You can get a lot of the way (just not to `exp((E_old - E_new) / Temp)`) by explaining the origin of the algorithm

The exp is from the so-called Boltzmann factor [1] which (in somewhat simplified terms) describes the likelihood that a physical system in equilibrium at temperature T will transition from a state with energy E_old to one with energy E_new. So sure, you can derive the whole algorithm from classic "annealing" and physics alone.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_distribution
>Scenario #2: When the card was physically present during the transaction, and when a pin code was used, the customer is always held responsible unless he can prove he and his authorized users were definitively not present.

I think you ought to fact check on Scenario #2 (at least in the US), The merchant is responsible for confirming the identity of the customer matches the one stated on the card - the customer does not need to prove anything.

Link (re pin number use): http://www.occ.gov/static/news-issuances/memos-advisory-lett...

As for Scenario #1 - the 60 day limit is quite reasonable. What kind of investigation of unauthorized usage could a bank possibly conduct 60 days after an unauthorized $50 payment?
You are wrong, in many cases the customer has no recourse for credit card fraud: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8918865 People think credit card anti-fraud measures are perfect. They are not.
Well, that is the point. I leave my house every day, even though I know lots of bad things can happen to me, just because I am more or less in control of the risks. If one day I wake up hearing that people are randomly being being stabbed, pots are falling en-masse from balconies for unknown reasons, people are being abducted without leaving trail and so on, at some point I'll start considering staying at home. Not yet the case (at least in my country).

In the internet, I am not in control of the risks anymore. I do not even know who is lying to me. Can I even trust the government? Obviously not! They even have laws forbidding to talk about what they are doing. Is this a democracy? Whatever ...

I'll stay at home for a while, thanks.
It gets confusing very fast. I have a personal account, and a Google Apps account. I did work with a company that gave me a google apps account for their domain. And my youtube business page has a Google+ profile.

It is very, very difficult to figure out how to not create duplicate Google+ profiles. There's no clear way to tell Google "This is a different email address that I, a person, use. You should link it to my personal profile".
"http isn't even in the same network layer so I'd find it strange to even ask about the 'difference'"

Why? You just answered it well enough. There are people who could not say what you just said; you don't want to waste your time on them.
Ok, so IIUC, the main difference with firecracker versus docker is that processes are better separated from each other ("micro VM" instead of namespaces) and that one can run a customized kernel. But for e2e tests I've written, neither of these advantages mattered.

I do love the idea of taking a snapshot of a prebuilt database image and can see where this would really speed up the tests.
it proves the little guy can't win.
> If stablecoins, custodial or noncustodial gain widespread adoption, DeFi will remain as a niche for hardcore crypto fans.

Why? It seems the exact opposite to be — if stablecoins gain widespread adoption, there will be a lot more exposure to DeFi because you have stablecoins already and can directly partake in DeFi.

Right now the biggest hurdle is fiat -> crypto conversions and back, stablecoin or not. If you already have stablecoin because it’s widely used, then that won’t be a problem anymore.
What's the story with JavaFX nowadays? I'm not a Java dev, but from a user perspective it's a bit of a PITA since OpenJDK doesn't (?) package JavaFX with it (and neither does the latest oracle JRE/JDK?). It seems to be open source but the main program I'm thinking of, an old-school raytracer for minecraft Chunky [0] requires it be packaged with the JDK, hence the requirement for Java 8.

Is this just laziness on the part of those devs to not package it up or is there something else going on?

[0] https://github.com/chunky-dev/chunky
Then your boss sucks. There’s no excuse for a leader who doesn’t do 1:1s.
Single data point on new grad s/w engineer salary at small/medium business in Melbourne, circa 2015 ~40k in USD.
(project author here) That is pretty close to the approach this project has taken, although my motivation was not so much avoiding IP as exploring the line between hardware acceleration and software.
As opposed to electron apps which are thin memory users and paragons of UI
I recently ported a Java game from 2002 to the modern web using TeaVM and Flavour. You can play it now at https://frequal.com/ifml To learn more about the porting effort and how I used TeaVM to bring an old Java app alive again, read the full details here: https://frequal.com/java/RestoringA19YearOldGameWithTeaVm.ht...
bioavailability of plant proteins is much lower than from milk/eggs/whey.
Obvious bugs.
I'm not sure.

I know that in the USA the political action has been largely irrelevant and low profile, though it has weakly galvanized politicians who were anti-NSA before the leaks were even public knowledge.
We're still working on shelf life, we're within reach of a month and might be able to do significantly better.

Texture/taste wise they are like a cinnamon bran muffin. We were actually surprised we were able to get the prototypes tasting so good.
is that some kind of packaging solution?
Dear lord, wait until the Daily Mail cops on to that one.
What if you'd like to help out but aren't an anointed™ one?
Rubbish.

Firstly, nutrition science is not real science - we don't have a full understanding of how our body processes foods, etc to be able to model it properly. So it's not real science.

Secondly, having a balanced nutrition isn't nearly as complicated as you make it out to be. Variety and everything in moderation. Humans would have evolved to be able to live off a variety of different diets and foods. Most of our history involved a food shortage and so a very specific set of nutritional requirements would definitely not have been selected for.
I read it too when it popped up a year ago. I played PoP back in the early nineties and reading the journal made me pretty sentimental.
Definitely the important part. Linus Torvalds once joked: "Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it." Distributed SCMs like git are a great way to

But GitHub's main value over something like, say, gitosis, is all of the metadata. This stuff is mainly useful to github users. Projects you're watching, pull requests, bug reports, fun (if only of dubious general use) graphs. That stuff doesn't come across the wire with the individual repos. The big (in terms of bytes) part, the "events" table, is helpful for keeping up with people and projects (if sometimes noisy). I use the RSS feed of that, though, so I didn't even notice the interruption until I heard about it here.
In recent times, technology has proven to be more sophisticated and just like any other currency that can be stolen or lost, crypto and other digital assets has proven to be more difficult to recover but not impossible, and just like searching for any other monetary currency, you need a trustworthy and honest agency or personnel who can track and recover the value lost or stolen, in my case I hired Assetsrepo. com, they followed the blockchain and was able to recover over 85% of my stolen funds within a couple of weeks. The fees for the services I received was fair and communication was excellent.
Signal is more valuable to democracy than CNN and Fox News combined.
You're forgetting the unwritten "but drugs" exception.
> I can't imagine that there's a FOSS project which directly provides mission-critical, "press this button to stop the war" functionality.

Of course. You have to do

sudo ./war.sh -f --command STOP
Somewhat of a tangent, but I recently left a company. While working there, they automatically associate your ID so that you can dogfood the product of the org I worked for (in hindsight I should've had them use a new secondary account, oh well).

Well, it turns out for employees they have it set up to create a new monthly subscription at $0.00/mo.

When an employee leaves, they don't notify them that on the next billing period the rate will go to full cost ($19.99/mo).

A few days before that bill date, I happened to be checking my personal account since that's what I'd linked it to. Lo' and behold, I find out my subscription is being auto-renewed for that price with zero notification. I then went through the public process to cancel the thing, and it was multiple steps (I think 3 separate cancel pages and each one was set up so the cancel button is the non-primary or whatever the term is so you'll subconsciously press the opposite button).

What a pain.
>1984 is not boring

Maybe not for you. But it was for me. I am not sure how claiming that it is not boring for all people could be true (implied by your comment). Much easier to defend the counterfactual that all topics are boring to at least one person.

It's not like I was not interested in the ideas in the book. Merely I had seen them explored elsewhere before I bothered to try and read 1984.
In my view there are some situations with guns laws that should be seen by most anyone as crazy in an apolitical way.

For example, section 922r import rules are silly to begin with (basically certain imported weapons must have 10 or fewer foreign manufactured parts, said parts coming from a specific list, or are illegal), but the list is extra bad because it includes magazines (rather like labeling the cargo as a component of a cargo plane).

So if you have a foreign made "non-sporting" gun, if the magazines were not one of the 922r compliance parts, using a non-US manufactured magazine in the gun makes you some sort of criminal.

Imagine if importing a Toyota car not only required a certain specific number of US made parts, but that list included tires, so if it was delivered with US made tires, putting tires manufactured in Europe on your car would make you a criminal (unless you replaced other foreign made parts with US made parts, so maybe you need to replace the engine to legally use foreign made tires)... You'd probably think it's a law almost designed to make Toyota owners commit crimes by doing normal car maintenance.

I don't think you need to be a 2nd Amendment debate person or like guns to think various of the rules and laws around guns are at best questionable.
I guess you prefer the agile with certified scrum masters crap instead.
It is not like c++ is bullet proof e.g., "Anything in C++ generally comes with its very own footgun." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9670382
Can you shoot us an email at ulrik.hansen@cord.tech -- we can continue the conversation there.
sparrish> I suppose smaller cars are harder to see at intersections (side-impact) and when in traffic, smaller cars can't see past the larger vehicles in front of them to see the traffic stopping so braking response is slower.

phjesusthatguy3> You appear to be blaming the person being run into, which is almost always wrong (at least in Michigan) ITYM people in larger cars can't see what's going on in front of them (side-impact) and when in traffic, larger vehicles can't stop in time.

To make it clear: I'm blaming the vehicle that runs into the other vehicle. You appear to be saying "if the vehicle that got run into was more visible, it wouldn't have gotten run into"
It's a distributed social network with total control over your data and privacy

Typo or joke?
Because it's generally a good idea to hold people accountable for their actions, especially when those people have a long and well-documented history of abusing the general public at every opportunity.

Transparency is a dependency of trust. If we can't see what police are doing, then under what pretext can we even remotely trust them to serve our interests?
There is already ivg https://github.com/reactivego/ivg
You are adding costs and extra work because now you have to make sure everyone is on the income bracket and all the complexities of auditing. Its just much more simple and elegant to make it universal, those at the top brackets will have a negative net due to taxes anyway, so why bother?
You need to reach out to this guy. Hes written a book on the subject.

https://themouseless.dev/
To be more accurate, it feels like negging. The truth is they're just copy pasting stuff and not paying attention to who they're messaging.
Smart. There's a Django app, jezdez's django-compressor, that will do this for you, including packaging and minifying JS and CSS then generating a file with the new hash in its name in the way this article describes.
I use an Acer C720P as well, for everything including programming, via Cloud9 (https://c9.io/). Cloud9 has been almost exclusively the platform for all my development since 2013. Having my entire workspace state synchronized across machines, saved whenever I'm not using it to be resumed precisely as it was, sandboxed from causing or falling victim to issues with my desktop, is invaluable.

I switch off between my desktop and my Chromebook whenever I go out, or even just when I want to lie down instead of hunching over at my desk. I experience no disruptions from doing so.

The only real complaint that I have is that ChromeOS's use of alt+arrows to emulate Page Up/Down keys interferes with a few important default C9 key combinations (alt+shift+down to copy a line getting converted to shift+pagedn).
The reason we don't let 99% of people buy shares of private companies has NOTHING to do with protecting the wealth of the 99%. Nothing. Zero.

You seem pretty confident in your hypothesis. Have you gone back and looked at what drove the change in regulations? It's not like these regulations are passed with supporting evidence. The regulation was passed in 1933, right after the crash.

Between protecting investors and "creating a private market for the 1%", I'm thinking the first seems more rational.
Just think in simple terms: as technology allows us to produce more of what we want with less labor and time, ceteris paribus, prices should fall relative to our labor and time.

A man gathering berries by hand makes for expensive berries. A man harvesting berries with basket and stick technology will make the price for them fall. What's true for this primitive example becomes even more powerful as you move up the production and technology chain: a woodworker with proper power tools can make chairs far more affordable to other people than someone working with simple hand tools can.

So, yes, everything else being equal, the advance of technology will cause prices to decline over time and this is a natural and good thing. It's a measure of the level of corruption in economic discourse that this strikes intelligent people as a novel or insane concept.
So you're going to downgrade from a 3/4 ton frame to something that falls between a dodge dakota and ram 1500...

In other words you overbought and don't use the diesel or the 3/4 ton frame? Because this is definitely NOT a replacement for that.
I think it will be interesting to see what kinds of things bloom from the rewrite of the compiler.
I applaud the author for figuring out how and blogging about how to get away without using jQuery but I'll say the same thing I said last time I saw one of these posts:

> If we've heard this argument once we've heard it a million times. Of course you don't need jQuery but unless you are writing an internal-only app and plan on writing everything from the ground up (all your auto-completes, multi-selects, etc) then you do need jQuery.

> I am not a fan of a lot of the code that I've seen written with jQuery but jQuery itself is not evil anymore than PHP is evil because people do stupid stuff with it. If you use jQuery correctly it is an invaluable tool that makes your like 100x easier.

> Event handling alone, I want to puke when I see the default way to do this, way too much typing, way too verbose. If I had to write that multiple times a day then I would probably create a helper function to abstract it away and I'd be on my way to building my own jQuery. No thank you, I'll take the one that's battle-tested and maintained.

> I'm getting sick of seeing this argument, if you work in a bubble then sure, be my guest (I'll be laughing at all the extra typing you will be doing) but if you plan on deploying your code to the real world? Just use jQuery and save yourself a headache.
Similarly for me.

On every file change ST status bar says - indexing files. And it takes > 10s (I have a lot of files). When it does that - 2 CPU cores are loaded at 99%.

Opened the console (@jskinner suggested to enter sublime.log_indexing(True)) and there was a message that index is corrupted and I have to remove it. Index is located in:

/Users/bumbu/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Index

Removing all the files from that folder did the trick.
Like the light switch. Nice.
Mayo does the same thing.
Redirect google users to DuckDuckGo.
> but I wouldn't define (..snip..) to be fully surrendering.

You would if you were a drama queen of tech blogging who didn't get invited to the press conference.
I could see this as a very useful implementation for HTML5/Mobile Web sites.

Consider the user experience for the target site on a mobile platform. You have already loaded the site on your mobile device before even taking action, so when you click the link the response is much faster than requesting the site at the click.
CI is not a carbon copy of Rails, which would be quite difficult anyway given the base language, but the inspiration is undeniable. All the pieces are there -- the MVC pattern and associated features like routes, helpers, etc.

CakePHP-Rails would have been a better analogy, but my point still stands. The language plays a large role in making a framework nice to use, as much as the intrinsic design of the framework itself.
That’s not a variant of Ahmad the name, it’s an eccentric variant transliteration of it. Transliterating that particular Arabic sound to "ch" evokes a "k" sound, and that’s how ignoramuses pronounce it, "Akmed". There is no such Arabic name. The fact that a few people named Ahmad have been mistransliterated as Achmed in no way means that it’s a legitimate variant transliteration. It is simply wrong, and your Wikipedia link is just documenting instances of a mistake. The "ch" or "kh" diphthong is properly and correctly used only when transliterating the Arabic letter خ. The name Ahmad only contains the letter ح, which has a completely different sound.
cnet.com is a particularly egregious offender - I also stopped DLing anything from there because they started bundling things inside a wrapper of crapware.
I switched from ABP to Bluhell Firewall and FF is like a different browser wrt memory
lol. So, you didn't actually read the article? Cool.
The importance of the political message embedded in those books has no more relation to their literary value (which is something quite hard to define) than their political correctness (or lack of it) that offends an overzealous (and ignorant) mother.

I found the idea of banning a politically loaded book (that speaks of, among other things, banning books) irresistibly funny. I am not sure Fahrenheit 451 or 1984 are required reading in the US, but they should be. They should be required reading everywhere.
Hehehe, and 83% of brains are only used to watch porn...
The concept is "maximizers vs satisficers" and is covered some in "The Paradox of Choice":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paradox_of_Choice:_Why_More...

You are apparently towards the 'maximizer' end of the spectrum for some choices.
This is absurd:

> There is no new risk associated to using it that doctors arent already aware of.

You're imagining that their might be an unknown benefit using it with a novel disease, but you're confident that there won't be unknown risks?

Drugs just have effects. Risk/benefit is a human construction we apply over the top. There's no reason to expect only good surprises here.
you should look into our new tooling https://kiegroup.github.io/kogito-online/#/

also, yes: Kogito is still based on Drools for the rules part
The health officials surely isn't (and won't be) curious about isolated flu-like cases, they can't because there are simply too many such patients, to the point it is not realistic to track them all.

The doctors who saw these cases are certainly curious, but unless one sees a number of related cases with similar symptoms, "novel infectious disease" would not be among the first few explanations one turns to. There are simply too many other possible reasons (and more probable in routines) for flu-like symptoms. Unfortunately due to the nature of this virus early cases are indeed pretty isolated.

From what I read, the virus was first detected by an mNGS run in late Dec, which as far is still a "fuck I believe this must be caused by microbe but I'm seriously out of idea what could this be"-thing to Chinese doctors.
And I guess setting up factories to produce millions of doses of new meds can take a while. At the same time, each new manufacturer has to negotiate terms with the patent holder. Using an existing cheap generic drug means that production facilities are already up and running and that any company could start if they have the means to produce it.

Apparently a 1-month dose costs £5 in the UK, so there doesn't seem to be a large hurdle to produce it.
I'm still sure it's a some kind of joke that last longer than necessary, or mass trolling. I'm probably being too optimistic about people's mind in 21th century
Theoretically a company like Amazon should be able to provide masks, goggles and health monitoring to its workers to minimize the possibility of a COVID19 outbreak among them. It’s in Amazon’s business interests to do so (or risk business disruption due to outbreak among their workforce).

It’s also better for society that the congregations of people shift from many geographically scattered and difficult-to-monitor locations to a few single operations like Amazon warehouses that can be very closely monitored and screened for COVID19. Amazon’s warehouses can be more cheaply monitored and supplied with PPE than all of society can.

This should probably be part of SOP for responding to outbreaks like this.
I share your worries about websites nowadays, but I can really recommend installing the uBlock Origin plugin and checking all boxes in the settings; since I did that I've seen zero popups or ads, including on this site.