skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's undoubtedly true, but I think the more important thing is that cursive is just dead in adult society. Reading other people's cursive handwriting represents a tiny, infinitesimal percentage of the reading in most people's lives. Computers, books, magazines, newspapers all render text as block letters and that's what most people are used to nowadays.

Teaching cursive is a complete waste of everyone's time.
Accident at Nuke plant in Russia?
They must be decades behind, then. I don't think in-house Russian engineering capabilities have been competitive let alone ahead of the consumer electronics curve going back at least a decade in the of fabrication. Maybe when it was 1997 and everything was DIP.
In fact, the smallest quantum error-correcting code using qubits uses only five qubits. [1] So you could fit 10 of these codewords into 50 qubits.

But that's not right. At least two more qubits are needed for fault-tolerant error correction. So that means you could fit nine codewords into 50 qubits (since 9x5+2=47 < 50).

But that's not right. There exist more efficient codes that put multiple encoded qubits into a single code block. [2] For example, three qubits can be encoded into eight, still with distance three. [3] Six of these could fit into 50 qubits (since 6x8+2=50), giving 18 encoded qubits.

But that's not right. The IBM systems are superconducting qubits, with very constrained interactions. Not every qubit can talk directly to every other qubit. So you'd probably want every code block to have its own extra qubits dedicated to error correction. If you need 8+2 qubits per code block, then you could fit five code blocks, for 15 encoded qubits, into 50.

Obviously this is really complicated.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilizer_code#Example_of_a_s...

[2] http://www.codetables.de/TableIII.php

[3] http://www.codetables.de/QECC.php?q=4&n=8&k=3
Even after Chernobyl and Fukushima, outside of the impacted area, there really wasn't any detectable increase in background.

You're much more likely to get an increase in background going into your basement (because of Radon daughters) than from an nuclear release halfway around the planet.
Sky & Telescope
Non-mobile link:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography
When did new react developers start learning redux? From my experience that just isn't true.
There's a complicated legal situation around Tezos that seems to be causing development delays. There is infighting among the founders concerning the legal structures established to hide^H^H^H^Hprotect the ICO money [1], and also a class-action lawsuit [2].

[1] https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/tezos-derivatives-crash-amid...
[2] https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/tezos-founders-hit-class-act...
Currently it's my feeling about Kubernetes. Yeah not coding, but the same feeling.
You don't have to have computers to have amazing record keeping combined with shitty security. Egypt under the rule of the Romans was run with a ridiculously tight ship because they wanted to extract tax revenue from every single person in the country. Same with China around the same period.
IMO interfaces are the Achilles' heel of Golang. Another thing that has been bugging me about them is that you cannot specify which interface you're implementing in the code (beside from comments). I think that is so because Go hates circular imports. If you had to import a file to be able to use an interface, you'd soon run into compile errors due to circular dependencies.

And as there is no way to immediately see where some interface is declared and if/which interface is implemented, you have to rely on comments and resort to manual search to find out more. That may be easy in smaller codebases or worthy of effort in important codebases such as Go standard library. But all an all this ambiguity does not fit with Go's discipline to prevent human errors by making everything uniform and explicit as possible.

Just for the sake of providing an example, let's look at time.go under https://golang.org/src/time/time.go, we can see in the comments of several functions that the programmer states a particular interface is implemented. Line 1112 of the aforementioned file is as follows:

// MarshalBinary implements the encoding.BinaryMarshaler interface.
func (t Time) MarshalBinary() ([]byte, error) {

Now where is encoding.BinaryMarshaler declared? There is a package called encoding, maybe there? But the package has many many files, where would I find where BinaryMarshaler is defined? I'd have to resort to manual search. Now imagine that this is not an interface in the standard library, but rather an interface in some mediocre codebase that you're handed for the first time...

Tl;dr All I'm saying is that runtime errors due to empty interfaces are not the only flaw of Golang. Interfaces as implemented in Go could in some cases present a serious threat to code structure.
I hate to say this, but it actually got better when Robert Jordan died. He lost control of the series around book 6 and just started meandering, and books 7-10 aren't really worth reading. He picked up the pace again slightly with book 11. Then the Sanderson books (12-14) are excellent; he managed to tie up most of the loose ends, the characters basically read like old Robert Jordan, and the pacing moves well (even a little quickly at times).
Lately, it's an insider cash grab and market manipulation technique.
Big.little was popular on ARM land before too, the Apple difference is the speed of the big cores, and plain higher clockspeeds...
From the FAQ:

>The main reason 8th is not GPL licensed is that I (Ron) have strong philosophical objections to being forced to give away my intellectual property. I disagree with the very tenet that "code should be free" in the GPL sense. Instead, I am of the opinion that you are free to have access to the 8th source code if you are willing to pay for that privilege. If not, not.

>A secondary reason we do not follow the "open source" idea is that, frankly, over the many years we have used open-source projects, we have been struck by the simple fact that a great many of those projects are maintained only to the extent the author decides to do so. Thus for example, the venerable "gcc" compiler has severe bugs which were reported many years ago, but which will probably never be fixed. This, despite the fact that the code for it is available and anyone could fix it at will. Nobody has, probably nobody will -- because the gcc code is extraordinarily difficult to grok. So the "many eyes" argument for open-source and GPL is not overly convincing to me.
This puts me in mind of Aphyr's series on a powerful wizard interviewing in the valley:

https://aphyr.com/posts/340-reversing-the-technical-intervie...

https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview

https://aphyr.com/posts/342-typing-the-technical-interview

I think there are wizards but I'm not one of them.
Surely there are lower and higher levels of abstraction and impact in accounting too—and a lot of repetitive drudgery in carpentry and other crafts.
HTML is for displaying information, not being littered with things js needs to query for and access. That's the whole point of using something like vue?

Put a function on the vue component that will make a request, keep all the data stuff in vue.
Is there any way for me to get my information removed from Equifax?

Do I need to contact all of my line item creditors and ask them to remove references to Equifax?
Moved from slack to hipchat, or from hipchat to slack?
This reminds me of a recent Radiolab episode [0] in which they discuss a new technology that would allow you not only to remove words from audio, but also to add new ones in the speaker's voice -- and likeness, in the case of video. They made an example video [1], which was not super-convincing, but a very good demonstration of what it may be able to do in the future.

Of course, the focal point of the episode isn't the technology itself, but the implication it could have on society once it gets good enough that its output is virtually indistinguishable from real video (i.e. fake news in the form of convincing-looking videos).

Highly recommended if you have the time.

[0] https://www.radiolab.org/story/breaking-news/
[1] https://www.futureoffakenews.com/
That renders this site more broken though, since there's just brown squares all over the page instead of characters from whatever font. I suppose due to no fallback?
When thyroid cancers started increasing in south east France, what was a rumor (imagine a cloud consciously avoiding France...) begins to be a proof that leaded to an investigation.

More infos (in English) here https://www.expatica.com/fr/news/country-news/France-hid-inf...

I'm afraid I don't know how it ended (I wasn't in France at that time)

Edit : it seems the case was dismissed (as it is often in France when government is implicated...) https://amp.rfi.fr/en/asia-pacific/20110907-french-court-dis...
I have this nagging feeling that my imposter syndrome is forced, fake, that I really am an imposter, other syndrome suffers have it, I don't.
I am showing my age here. I destroyed a CRT monitor once when I used the wrong incantation for xorg.
ignore all the fancy curly parts that uppercase letters

You could be talking about Roman Cursive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cursive

You could make a case for that.
Wait, I didn't think we had actual quantum computers yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_computing
I am not afraid of what "biohackers" can do with CRISPR. It's very hard to come up with "pandemic viruses", even for nature, let alone for scientists, or even hobbyists.

At worst, the capabilities CRISPR and other techniques from synthetic biology give to genuine researchers will offset any mischief a hobbyist can do.
I just heard about the Provider pattern this week when reading about using react-router and mobx. That being said, it is a solution to a "problem" that I noticed fairly early on in my react usage.
My dad was an automotive engineer for Faruecia (sp?). A lot of emissions code is code he wrote. Wil Crawley , if you look up his 13 or so patents. He did things like the Electronic Muffler (which cancelled exhaust sound with antisound from a hardened speaker).

I saw what he did for code review. He didn't "review it". He proved each function, for every input and output. The code he wrote had side effects that only 1 function could write to - and the function was called to change it. And those side effect variables were never critical ones.

It was as close to Mathematical Proof as you could get.
you're right that it would be more fair to keep AMT, but that's only because of the complexity of the tax code with all of its deductions and loopholes.

but i disagree that the tax plan is not designed to be dstructive. the bill is tax gerrymandering at it's finest--designed primarily to boost the republican party, it's cronies, and especcially trump himself, while punishing all others, including the poor and powerless. it saddles the federal government with massive debt while providing tax breaks to those who least need it. there is simply no intent anywhere in this "tax reform" to actually improve our economy through good policy; it's rather designed to achieve purely political aims, destructiveness be damned.

but more to the point, the proposed 409b section is about restricting when we can recognize income for tax purposes. while fictitious corporate "persons" are allowed to shift income and losses at will forward and backward along the timeline to avoid taxes, we humans, i.e. real people, cannot. this is simply the exact opposite of how the system should be designed. we should favor real people over fake people (especially over fake entities designed solely to completely shield already-advantaged owners from their failings and mistakes).

even better, let's entirely remove the ability to move income and loss recognition through time for tax purposes. it's simpler and less prone to gamesmanship (i know that's more complicated than it sounds, but it's surely much less complicated than the current rules).
> ... while paying much less attention to the vocal minority's complaints (generics, package system, etc).

It is much more difficult not to add a feature than to add it, and the ability to reject even important feature requests is very important for the survival of a system in long term. This observation is formulated in "Getting Real" (https://gettingreal.37signals.com) as "Forget Feature Requests" and "Start With No".
Interesting blog post! From a 10,000 ft overview is this method utilizing the conditional posterior's to incorporate uncertainty information into the model GAN model? If so how does it differ from using drop-out's to approximate Bayesian behavior ala https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02142.pdf ?
Django settings.py when deploying to multiple environments
> Is there any way for me to get my information removed from Equifax?

No. Pay cash or get tracked.
While I personally avoided this pitfall and learnt React alone before Redux, I have not meet anyone else who did the same. Literally everyone I've talked to about learning React did so (or tried, and failed to do so) with both, up front.
React vs. Machine Learning – the plight of non-tech companies
Thanks for your suggestions simantel! Writing about what did and didn't work for the Product Hunt launch to help others is a good idea. I really enjoyed Traction, but I should probably re-read it. Thanks for the reminder!
I’m suspicious of the idea people are afraid of wizards versus wising up to the fact that wizards aren’t as wise and just as society presumed they were. They’ve found out that wizards are just people with a particular skill set.
> From a technical perspective there is a difference now that this is public, but from a security stance, physical access is physical access.

Access to a USB port is not physical access. USB is a network interface that is commonly used to connect host computers to small portable embedded systems, often tiny NAS units of other people also known as USB flash drives.
sorry, i should have said compiles to a bytecode that's not half bad
> the separation of Control and Command on macOS is the one thing I love

I became a reluctant Mac user (work gave me a Mac laptop).

Being able to use ^D, ^N and so on in this text edit box is very useful, especially on a laptop keyboard, and it's something I miss back in KDE. Does anyone know a way to bring the same feature to KDE, Firefox etc?
Here's a transcript of a recent talk given by Josiah Zayner: http://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/diy-human-gene-therapy-wit...

[20:40] “If you look at Step 3 - which is, uh, you know, I like steps and lists, they are awesome - uhm, there are actually websites out there that have this infrastructure completely built. You can go in, type in the name of a gene. Not even the name, you could type in the name you think a gene should be named, and what it will do is predict the best guide RNAs, the best 20 bases, to use, so that Cas9 enzyme can cut in your genome in this exact place."

"Literally, you don’t have to do anything, right? You have to go in, type in the name of a gene, and press enter, and you could modify yourself with CRISPR. Right? That’s what this DNA basically is. This DNA, if you think about, took me about 5 minutes to make. Actually, it happened so fast, I had to go back and verify it a couple of times. I didn’t think I could create DNA that could modify my own genetics with CRISPR in 5 minutes. Now, if that doesn’t blow your mind, I, I really don’t know what does. And, the next question comes down to, 'What’s holding us back; what’s stopping us?' And I dunno, to me, I, I don’t really know what’s stopping us, you know? I, I think about it a lot, because, I have this really, you know, bad snaggle-tooth, and I think like what happens if I could change that?"

"No but if you think about, people are born with things that they have no decision over. And then everybody else says, 'Oh, no, fuck you, I'm athletic and 6 feet tall and, you know, good looking, and you just, you just, the genetic lottery - you lost. That's the truth. You lost the genetic lottery and you have to suffer through it.' How does it make sense?"

http://www.the-odin.com/diyhumancrispr

personally i'm down to fund projects like this, so if any of you are interested, get in touch & let's deploy.
Regardless of what the standard deduction is, don't you still have to first itemize in order to figure out whether you should itemize?
Not a strong connection, but both features are managed by the Go runtime.
Yes, indeed. Like in São Paulo.
We can try to partition the machine so your process can use some qubits and mine uses others. I suppose a classical computer would be running the OS, at least at first.
Personally I (30 years old now) went to Catholic school (K-12) and learned cursive somewhere around 2nd or 3rd grade and was forced to write in cursive until I graduated 8th grade. Most of the time as a kid I hated it and wished I could write in block letters and once I hit freshman year of high school I never looked back. Fast forward through four years of high school and three gap years when as a freshman in college I realized I really missed writing in cursive. After a pretty rocky few weeks of abysmal looking script I got back into the groove and took four years of notes in handwriting and continue to journal and write notes and letters in cursive.

I've always been somewhat artistic and take a lot of pride in my handwriting as I would a drawing. I look at others' writing to see how they draw letters I like and try to incorporate it into my own style. I take my time writing each letter and word and try to make it as consistent and beautiful as I can (and while others compliment me on my writing I'm always a bit dissatisfied) and generally take a lot of pleasure in the simple act of writing. For me it's a means of expression for myself.

Despite all that, I've tried really hard to come up with defenses for teaching it in schools much like I was taught and I generally come up pretty empty handed. Other than reading some random bits of cursive here or there in our society there really is little need for it. I'd like to think that its artistic merits are enough to justify it, in giving kids a chance to express themselves, but I doubt most kids appreciate it for that - even I hated it as a child. I'd like to say it will help improve people's writing, but frankly most people's writing I see, cursive or otherwise, looks like, as Sister Anne back in 7th grade would say, chicken scratch. As a piece of tradition which unites us as a thread through previous generations I do like it, in a way it's a cultural link to my parents, grandparents, and beyond, but that doesn't necessarily stand as a great argument against more practical skills that could be taught in that time. If the opportunity cost of teaching it can be ignored, though, it doesn't seem otherwise harmful to keep teaching it for the sake of tradition. Maybe keep teaching it but not spend as much time on it to satisfy all camps?
That's not being an ahole at all. They need to get this stuff right. Food allergies and intolerances are very common.

I follow a very strict diet to manage Crohn's disease. If ask for strawberry jam, not only is raspberry jam not acceptable, but other brands of strawberry jam are probably also not acceptable.
Yes, IIRC it was similar to the one you can see at https://us.123rf.com/450wm/baksiabat/baksiabat1410/baksiabat... but worse, it had two loops instead of just one.
The majority of complaints I hear (either at work or online) about React are actually about the React ecosystem -- they have trouble with Webpack or Redux and throw the baby out with the bathwater. I think very few people learn React by writing a pure app (e.g. hand-compiled, no state library).

React itself is an incredibly simple library: you can explain the entire thing in a few sentences. In my experience it has an undeserved reputation for being more complex than Vue.
True; I mean to say until you have a job offer, you have no idea whether or not they are willing to negotiate anything with you. It's easy to fool yourself based on how friendly your interviewers are. So many times I've come out of the interview feeling like I got the job and then been told that they're going in a different direction.
The real estate sector is dying for more open source software. A good example is this:

https://retsrabbit.com

All it does is act as a gateway between different data formats yet only proprietary solutions exist.
Not sure why you're being downvoted for this. Seems like a valid concern for such a system.
I clicked through via PH. I did a few searches and left.

How about an option to send me updates on my query? That way, you can capture my email and notify me when the query results have changed.

Maybe that's not useful but I'm wondering if there are ways to engage your visitors more long term.

Also it's not quite clear -- is it .com only? That's fine if it is but it might be nice to add .com to the results (but fainter or something).
>I have been asked in the past to write as in my recorded sample

if you're a fraudster, this can be easily circumvented by going to a new financial institution?

>record a new one

wait, what's the point asking for a signature sample when you can always record a new one?
The majority may want generics.

I don't know that the majority want generics at the expense of compile times or other possible tradeoffs.
I posted before refreshing and missed the link to this paper. Will need to read through it.
there is a section in the document called "Grandfathering of Compensation Earned Prior to 2018" =)
you do still have money creation through lending but i think that risk tolerance is a limited resource and has a fixed upper limit. If you are too tolerant of risk, your assets will snap back during a business cycle or war or solar flare or asteroid strike or whatever, and the money muliplier will regress to the steady state average.
GitHub Octoverse 2017 – Highlights from the last twelve months
Thanks for sharing the article - it's interesting to hear how other areas are reacting to similar situations (I'm in Seattle). I confess, though, that I don't fully understand the applicability of the downtown LA situation to the affordable housing debate. The article linked seems to lament the construction of units that the homeless on Skid Row can't afford, but that seems to be an untenable expectation in the first place. The basic logic still holds that if supply is constrained in downtown LA, the new luxury apartments in the Fashion District will relieve housing demand in the mid- and low-end for that neighborhood. It will be a net good for the area, all things considered.

The protesters in the article seem to conflate one kind of construction with the other: "The protesters say the city should house the neighborhood’s homeless people before it approves another big residential development in downtown Los Angeles."

Market-rate development is a process that can continue to take place while the city grapples with housing the homeless. They don't interfere with one another, since the market-rate construction is private enterprise.

The protesters, further, are falling victim to the same fallacy discussed in the original posted article here: "They also argued that hundreds of new market rate apartments will drive the neighborhood’s rents beyond the means of residents living “precariously” in nearby converted flophouses, hotels, tents and buildings."

The basics of trickle-down housing dynamics work strictly against the rising rents scenario being true. The pressure goes strictly the other way for the existing units in the neighborhood, which have new competition at the top end.
Oh come on. The absolute last thing we need are more things making it harder for people to keep the options they earned after leaving the company.
Most companies move to RSUs by the time typical employees would hit the exercise cap.
Bold choice.
Proof of Humanity: A Deep Dive into the Blockstack Token Sale Registration App