skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
do hospitals even use generics? (but I was not talking about hospital use in my previous comment)

One reason why it is deadly in the streets is because a safe dose is so small and hard to measure: http://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/wosu2/files/styles/x_...
Mud: all-purpose c++ app prototyping library
What year did this start?
It adds the filter of over 20k MRR.
We often draw hats and shirts, but we do that but not the candidate. That happens to be related to our domain.
No, as an owner your interests do not necessarily align with the DPO. They might, but they do no necessarily.
They're a Russian company and semi-recently Trump banned their software from government agencies.

People theorize they're controlled by the Russian government but I've never come across any evidence that they're anything other than a top tier security company though.

They have done some fairly bold moves in the past though, like cleverly calling out other AV companies that were copying their detections [0] and kind of embarrassing the NSA [1] when a NSA employee took their malware/cyber weapons home to their PC running Kaspersky AV, which detected the malware and sent it back to Kaspersky server for analysis.

[0]https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/10/kaspersky_malware_d...

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nsa-employee-...
> walking a pretty thin line just trying to not make people sick

Yes and no. There seems a lot of confusion about that. About which design constraints are coming from which goals. Yes, for the common style of immersive gaming. But when I'm working, I'm usually down around 30 fps with high variance, running on integrated graphics.

What constitutes a "horrible" "immersion-breaking" "visual artifact"? And how much will you pay to avoid it?

I'm looking at a laptop's desktop. It's obviously a display panel. And not my wooden desk. And that's fine. When looking at my HMD "desktop", it's also obviously a panel. And not my office. And that's also fine. Using emacs isn't fighting slimey zombies. Usually.

Paper novels can be immersive. Even if you sometimes notice turning a page.

The design goal "avoid reminding the user they're wearing an HMD" is a very challenging one. It prunes the design space, discouraging many things. Camera passthrough AR. Lag. Different objects having different lag. Visible boundaries in display space. And so on.

For example. If you mostly care about text, then you want to see unblurred pixels, which means only the center half of the lens-blurred display is useful. Passthrough AR can provide balance even at low fps. So it can be shown beyond the center. Which creates a visible boundary in display space. And that's fine. And if when you turn your head, some graphical elements slowly chase others across the screen, that's fine too. So now you can run on old Intel integrated graphics. It's a different point in design space from fighting zombies in a warehouse. And it has different design constraints.

So when people say "VR requires X", that's worth translating as "SteamVR games require X". And it can be fun to consider other things you can do with a tracked head mounted display.
There must be something about the Malvern Hills! Last year I ran up Worcestershire beacon from Great Malvern on a gorgeous spring day. Quite a few people were up there enjoying the day. There wasn’t a breath of wind, no one was talking, and the only sound was the buzz of a drone.
That's why PhDs are favored because with their experience having to write grants to get funding for their research they're exactly the type of people that can take a naive problem, work it to a result, and then sit in front of a board room of non-technical people and explain why their result was worth the money that was given to them.

My wife has a PhD in comparative lit, but she now works in banking. Her PhD gave her a superpower: Reading. She can quickly absorb large amounts of text with abstruse, complex, and subtle distinctions and tell you very nitpicky things about it. She thinks financial/banking regulations are light reading in comparison to the stuff she waded through to get her PhD. (It's also quite surprising: the number of C-level people in banking who have little patience for reading. She's won a number of boardroom battles because she has actually read things.)
I face this problem all the time. It's idiotic for people to put someone else's email id. This causes a lot of spam. However, I typically try to give them a chance to correct. If the spam still persists, I just go ahead and delete the a/c.
I agree: get to production uses with code examples as quickly as possible.

Tough to know whether this is a fringe feature or actually useful on a regular basis without really digging in. Luckily, other comments here highlight some usecases.
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> we know for a fact that a large amount of what is done in our education system does not provide any benefits that we can measure in any way

I strongly disagree here. Unless you can provide conclusive studies separating useful and useless knowledge, my facts tend to show that education is profitable, and my opinion is that the value of any knowledge is largely up to the learner's personal preference.

> Most arguments for the educational status quo [...]

You're starting a debate that is not the one we're having here. I suggest you keep it for someone interested in pursuing it.

> most knowledge doesn't need to be taught to everyone.

Applying vertical and horizontal separation to teaching and the acquisition of knowledge is definitely an extremist view in my opinion.
Maybe you would, would people everywhere? Also, the tanks are underground, encased in concrete, with a submersible pump, and there are no power tools.

Might be possible to get to them. But that's solving one problem. If we're talking continent scale blackout it's also unclear what that gets you.

Typical backup power is measured in hours or days. Black start time scale for a blackout that scale is potentially significantly longer than that.

Long before petrol in refineries runs out our logistics system that distributes food to people has failed. The water system probably has failed. Now if you're in the countryside with a full pantry and a stream next to you that might not matter too much. You'll sit this one out. But if you're in the middle of New York?
Unless your side project is a Bot-Net this article seems very FUDDY...
The secret to being a top developer is building things
It's an universal truth: if you want to keep something from jamming up, you need to exercise it. It's true for the human body, for machine parts and for protocol features.
It's quite a comedy that this feature has not been implemented for at least 6 years, solely because the raw git:// protocol's parameter handling was severely broken, and feature detection by disconnecting and retrying [1] was ultimately deemed far too dirty.

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/CAJo=hJtZ_8H6+kXPpZcRCbJi3LPuuF...
Divining rods are trusted by many, and have been in use for centuries. If they weren't a good way of locating water, why would so many people use them?
From a cryptography standpoint, could this hint at attack vectors for things like discrete log problems?
I've only learned of the math behind that myself recently, not sure what implications having a "topographical map of the primes" could have, especially if the pattern is relf-repeating regardless of the size of the primes.
Step 1. ur problem graph better be a dag

Step 2. ur sub problems better overlap

Step 3. time to table dat dag

Step 4. solve ur problems and build ur table graph the way a dag would : to-po-lo-gi-cal-ly
For me it was a bit the other way around. I solved the problem in a brute force way and on interviewer's asking, was flopping to come up with a better algorithm. Then he mentioned that I should consider DP.

Unfortunately my DP was really bad so I knew right then I'm going to flop. And flop I did.

For me the two weakest points are DP, and coming up with the right O() estimate for an algorithm that I just created on the whiteboard, and am looking at it for the first time in my life. Would love advice on how to get good at both.
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I was thinking a solid new business plan is to register gdpr.me (or whatever) and offer a service. $40, fill out a form, and I will send a GDPR request to every company in the world on your behalf. The data coming back is then offered back to you with the ability to create further requests (deletion for example) selectively or in full.

This seem explicitly allowed for in the law.
This. I switched to Vim full time as part of starting a new job and picking up a new stack/language, because I was so frustrated with how useless/frustrating Ruby IDE and editor environments all seemed.

The only time my progress is hindered (im still not amazing in Vim) is during debugging, which is why I'm pretty excited about this update.
The Story of Bob.com
Side note: as I was building this, I discovered that Google (the owner of the .app registry) seems to have banned registration of a bunch of interesting domains. This includes most swear words, street drugs, etc. Also on the list: gene.app, bacteria.app, pigeon.app, lens.app, and glove.app. Google Glove anyone? :)
Besides, it would mean that the service (website) is so bad that they do not verify email ownership before allowing creation of the a/c with this email id.
I understand what you mean, but how many great breakthroughs in history were where someone shared the foundation of an idea and then another formalized it?
Because the publisher agreed to that when they started the relationship?
You probably haven't looked then. Despite assumptions elsewhere, I'm from Europe and still live there for example. The idea that everyone loves GDPR is naive. Only today I was working next to someone who was trying to figure out how it applied to her (tiny) business, and getting annoyed by the process. She's just copy/pasting the contents of an email she received into her own mail copy to avoid having to do extra work.

Nothing about GDPR has to do with "obedience to technocratic elites"

No? I think you missed by points then.

The GDPR was created, is enforced by and serves the interests of regulators. It specifies so little it is essentially a direct grant of power to those people - they can do whatever they want within its framework and that framework allows nearly anything.

As for 'technocratic elites', did you see political parties campaigning on this issue? I sure as heck did not. Right now the hot topics in European politics are immigration, terrorism and economic growth. Not data protection.

is in fact about rejecting the ability of institutions which are not democratically accountable to gather personal data and monitor people

Of course companies are democratically accountable - outside of monoplies (rare), you can just not trade with them if you don't like their data handling practices.
In the UK, at least, there are rules against this. A government bill’s short title

> must describe the content of the bill in a straightforwardly factual manner. An argumentative title or a slogan is not permitted.

From Erskine May, what the Financial Times calls “the bible on parliamentary procedure”.

https://www.ft.com/content/05253602-ce4a-3f64-8ace-6a6f03876...
And really, like other famous software that people love to heap shade w.r.t how awful it is focusing only on it's warts instead of the immense productivity realized as a result, git really does have some nice parts and it was the best option for a while. The fundamental concepts of git is really not that hard to understand -- it's fundamental architectural model is event sourcing, and it's fundamental data structure is a DAG. Those are pretty good choices.

I personally have stuck to kind of basic git usages (call it "Git: The Good Parts" if you will), and have never had the problems people claim to have with git. It just has always worked, and it has always been there for me.
> on January 18, 2018, I found a numerical sequence that generated the exact same pattern as Shaun’s pattern

Does this mean that we have a sort of bloom filter-esque test for primality? (ie, it will give you a guaranteed no in O(1) but you'll have to crunch numbers to get the yes?)

If so, are there implications for things that want to know "is it prime?" quickly? Crpytography comes to mind, for instance...
> One reason to read old philosophy is that it is way more approachable

I don't think that's really true in general. Sure, Plato is more approachable than Wittgenstein, but I don't think the comparison works the same with, say, Rawls in place of Wittgenstein.
Either way, hearing a mathematician explain why this is a non-discovery would still be interesting to pretty much anyone who doesn't study primes. Kudos on a cool visualization.
> Of particular interest to me are Wikipedia and StackOverflow, where the pedantic rule-following, rule-enforcing insider group eventually squeezes all joy and then all productive life from the the system.

I can't be the only person that still finds both productivity and joy in StackOverflow and Wikipedia. I've had mixed reactions with the moderator class on those websites, but overall the websites are fantastic.
It's going to have a lot of similarities to reddit - reddit does a lot of things right. However, there are also quite a few mechanics on reddit that are too ingrained now for them to ever be able to change, and some of those really hurt the site's ability to have high-quality content.

So I'm hoping to try and address a lot of those issues with different or adjusted mechanics - finding a voting/ranking system that isn't biased towards "quick entertainment", moderation systems that don't result in communities needing to relocate to new subreddits all the time, and so on.
I use Vim bindings for VS Code with the Angular work I'm doing at my job. I can vouch that they're the best emulated bindings outside of any JetBrains app that I've touched.
Putin unveils underwater Poseidon drone that carries nuclear warheads
A very big problem I see, even in "good" communities, is a pattern of well-intentioned people commonly mistaking popular opinions for facts. Of course this is inevitable to some degree when emotional beings are involved, but the part that I think is worrying is that more and more genuinely intelligent people are starting to become undisciplined and let their integrity with respect to the truth slide, because it feels good to stick it to someone who may be an asshole, or you know to hold other beliefs with which you disagree. This behavior isn't illogical either - as they say, perception is reality, and sometimes the ends do justify the means. But in the big picture, the world would be a better place if there was one social site emotion was acceptable, but objective truth trumped everything, and that belief was upheld by admins, who themselves would have to be extremely aware of their own bias.

I will give a hopefully not too controversial example: tax policy.

I'd feel comfortable asserting (while standing in front of God at the entrance to the spirit world, so I must be honest) that well over 50% of people believe that <their person favorite economic policy> is(!) the "best way" to run a society, for <reasons> and <citations of "studies">. The reality though is, it is a matter of opinion, not of fact. And even if it was "objectively provable", that proof only holds under certain circumstances. The optimum policy varies based on the input parameters, which vary over time, but it also assumes we are all optimizing for the same thing!

Or in other words, the correct answer is very often: "it depends". You can see all sorts of people happily agreeing with this principle in their daily lives. How many people would get really, really angry if I said Vanilla is "the best ice cream flavor", or that "saving 25% of your net income is a wise strategy, if you can manage it". But wander into topics such as gender, sexuality, politics, etc and most of these very same people will become very emotional and illogical very, very fast.

If there was a site whose administrators were absolutely hardcore about not violating that principle (asserting that grey is white or black is not allowed, period, with penalty of a temporary or permanent ban), I think it could not only work, but if all the pieces fell together in the right way (with intelligent help and cooperation from admins/mods/users, and maybe even input from a broad spectrum of serious professional psychologists/sociologists/etc), it could change the world. I truly believe that.

EDIT: I'm kind of on the fence about whether this strict rule should be site-wide, or only in certain subforums, I could make an argument either way. I think it's fun to think about.

Also: I fully acknowledge I am one of the assholes I mention above. I'm an "asshole" because I actually believe ridiculously strongly about the importance of truth and logic (but also emotion), and that it matters more than almost anything. Literally millions of people die on a fairly regular basis because humanity can't get it's sh*t together on a handful of problems, most of which (but not all!) really aren't that complicated.
https://paleotronic.com/2018/05/19/steve-wozniak-talks-disk/ <= has a bit about sound too, read it it's worth it
Just run a search on: prime numbers fractal, and many interesting articles (both academic and other) will surface. Search for: zeta function fractal, and you'll find more. I'm no mathematician but it wouldn't surprise me if two very deep fields turn out to be different "manifestations" of some deeper underlying truth, and I then wonder about the possibility of a larger grand unified theory that includes both maths and physics that would have far reaching insights which would go beyond both mathematics and physics, but then I realise that perhaps I've seen too many movies :-)
You might be a great candidate but how would anyone know? Something on your application needs to stand out. If you don't have a degree that's fine but recruiters need some way to filter through resumes. I'm generally not a fan of cover letters but write one and make a case if you have one.
Of course.

They are even moving to take ownership of generic drug production:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/health/drug-prices-hospit...
That's in no way a counter-argument.
Ok, still seemingly the trick Stuxnet used was looping a good copy of those fancy panels and (still through windows) changing (slightly) the operating parameters of the machine, so in this case Windows (directly or indirectly) was capable of monitoring the device and change its operating status.
Until you try to correct simple mistakes on Wikipedia a couple of times, and learn that you should just give up, and accept things like broken grammar, repeated sentence fragments, etc.

I believe they are surfing on the strength of past contributions, and very dedicated in-group contributors, not by harnessing the world.
Great to see a new alternative opening up.
Doesn't Apple already offer free trials directly? For apps that don't want to go the subscription route, I've also used plenty that offered trialware via IAP upgrades...

Just seems like a pretty small thing to start your big 'union' with.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/subscriptions/
Intel’s Autonomous-Car Company Is Selling Safety First
Thank you for taking the time to write this insightful answer.

I really like your approach to this problem. I like the old-school and open not-for-profit approach. You are in for a tough ride and I look forward to hear more about it.
It's a shift in culture, with an added heap of laziness. We're in a time where people like to compartmentalize people/views/ideas in order to dismiss or demonize, because it's easier to do that than challenging ideas (someone else's or your own).

We went from one identity in the US (American) to putting ourselves and others in boxes (black, white, man, woman, whatever) to the detriment of us all. Identity politics: a curious game... the only winning move is not to play.
The Coalition for Cultural Freedom
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

It's not "new" at all, Firefox has had it since v18 (mid 2012 [0]), Chrome since v49 (early 2016 [1]), etc.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_version_history

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_version_history
remember the thread about silent computers ? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17075489

very timely with the chapter on floppy tracks and heads.

I never read anything so detailed about woz work. Usually it's all average apple fan or journalist reverence. But I really love the way he makes that extra step to use the hardware almost fully.
What's even worse is that they won't tell you what you allegedly did wrong. You can appeal, but you have to guess what you did wrong and provide evidence, but you can't even access your click data anymore since you're now locked out. It's like being in a relationship with a psychotic person.
They're hard to predict if you're using something contagious like Influenza. For non-contagious agents like Anthrax (lethal) or Tularemia (mostly just incapacitating) they function more as extra-potent versions of chemical weapons. The Soviets had Anthrax warheads on a number of their ICBMs aimed at US cities back in the day[1], they weren't considered good counterforce weapons but they made good countervalue weapons so if a country's doctrine isn't oriented around a first strike like the US's was they make sense.

And given the possibility of nuclear winter you could argue that non-contagious biological weapons are a lot less likely to get out of control.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdlovsk_anthrax_leak
No. The model has a problem with overfitting. That’s my point.
Ask HN: Help navigating transition from startup to big company for an engineer
I'm a software engineer in a company transitioning from a startup to being more corporate (for lack of a better term). We've recently brought in a whole new layer of engineering leadership.

The overall attitude I'm seeing is that they're here to fix everything, and that they don't trust us to do it.

Startups get to where they are by being scrappy, writing code that works for right now, and planning and hoping for when they can finally build for the long term.

Any ideas on how to properly navigate this transition? How to continue to have impact while working with the new reality? Is there any way to convince leadership that we would be best suited for pushing things forward?

Currently my colleagues and I are getting a bit demotivated from the reorgs and from new teams picking up important refactoring work.
This is great.

Please, please let this concept enter the general public's mind.
If this can really map prime numbers to a least a general region, would we be able to break Diffie-hellman key exchange more quickly?

If so this could be a huge blow to security.

But I must say this is amazing that they were able to visualize prime numbers in this way. These guys are geniuses.
#1. I'm totally fine with firing after 30 days if I don't work out. I'm positive it won't, so I'd prefer to prove myself doing real work.

That's the way it used to be done and I think we should go back to doing that. Read the resume, ask some questions about the resume, 30 minutes to an hour full interview, done.

You get hired on, put on a probationary period, if they don't work out, fire them.
A nonzero number of cluster headache sufferers have actually cracked their teeth from involuntarily clenching down in response to the pain.

It's possible OP has a more mild presentation or something, but what was described is pretty damned atypical – and also about a half-micron away from "I can, so why can't you?".