skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a well-chosen book, such as the ones in the submitted article, doing the exercises is not to test your memorisation, it's to develop your understanding.

This is a great point and example of the problem with a one-size-fits-all strategy. For some books, exercises are an essential part of comprehension. For others, not so much.

> Math is not a spectator sport. Reading about math is fine, but it will not take root and develop unless you engage with it, and the exercises are the way to do that.

My experience is that by taking excellent notes and asking why, you engage with the material to a similar degree, if not a greater degree, than by doing exercises. (Once again, depending on the book, as you mentioned.)

> Ignore the exercises if you want, but you almost certainly will end up knowing about the math, but not able to do it.

I would argue that's the point. Usually self-taught math is about self-growth. Getting new ideas, being exposed to new concepts, recognizing patterns. Being able to actually "do it" on-the-spot is beside the point (and is the quickest level of skill to evaporate once you stop focusing on that material, anyway.)
ESR might be a lot of things, but he’s not a junior dev by any standard. And experience reports are pretty consistent across the experience gradient—Go is useful for solving real world problems, and often the very abstract languages fail to do so (often especially those languages beloved by intellectuals). You can challenge the qualifications of the reporters with respect to their own experiences if you like, but that seems like a silly thing to do.

If PLT can’t produce languages that practitioners find useful, then PLT is at fault, not practitioners.

EDIT: Rereading my last paragraph, "PLT is at fault" sounds harsher than I intended it to. Mostly it just sounds like PLT is based on a model of software development practice that doesn't fit well with the real world. The model performs poorly, but PLT supporters like the parent commenter are (implicitly or explicitly) blaming contemporary software development practice for the mismatch.
even if you have something like a "donate" link that's goes to a third party payment processor. a MITM could redirect that link the their own paypal collections page.
IMHO, the cost of that attack is pretty darn high.
hey, this is Rami .. I lead hw team in Cloudflare.

Great observation! these chassis are designed for 19" racks, not OCP spec. But, who does not love green thumb screws!
How to figure out what's real in an inflated letter of recommendation
I’ve got dozens of RSI stories here from many people:

https://github.com/melling/ErgonomicNotes

Lots of people have tried many things.
>with heavy use of GC

Game logic can optionally use GC, the engine itself does not. so, it would only be heavy use of GC if you had lots of computationally heavy game logic. If you do, you might not use the GC!
I was curious what this might look like and found a couple videos on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBhBqlQj00Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGPNs5C1Lp0
If the repair included a differential the line item would have said that right?

Replacing an axle doesn't mean the differential is involved at all.

As someone who's replaced at least a dozen axles.
I've been voice coding for about 5 years now. For those of you not on windows, I use talon voice on mac (linux version is in beta). It works quite well and I'm at least as productive writing code by voice than I ever was by hand. I was someone who would spend the time to get my emacs and then later vim configs highly optimized, but there is something liberating about not constraining yourself to key bindings. I used to type gcC to comment a python class in vim, now I say comment class. For commands you type frequently to get into muscle memory this isn't a huge gain, but for all the things you don't use regularly, it's so much easier for me to remember normal words than keyboard shortcuts.
I'll happily admit that I have no experience with bug bounty programs. I'm just a heavy PayPal user who's shocked to learn that PayPal apparently doesn't care whether someone is able to bypass their security measures. Whether or not that's "standard" doesn't really change my reaction.
New Job from Maark at Boston MA
Off topic, but did anyone else think that the diagonal black line on the Share button on cybernews.com looks like a very thin hair on your screen? Almost feels like it was done on purpose
What drives people crazy about Go is the laser-like focus of the designers on real world problems over theoretical problems.

Theoretical problem: Someone might mutate a variable intend to be constant.

Go designers: Then put a comment saying not to do that.

Real problem: People ignore compiler warnings.

Go designers: Then eliminate warnings.

Real problem: Exceptions can happen anywhere and often go unchecked.

Go designers: Then call exceptions "panics" and encourage people not to use them.

Theoretical problem: Someone might ignore an error return value.

Go designers: Let paranoid people write linters.

Etc. etc.
Vaccines are being worked on as we speak but the testing and approval process takes a long time.
>This major shift.....

Intel is still selling as many Xeon as they can make. And AMD's EPYC 2 / Datacenter revenue hasn't move up much relatively speaking.

Not only is it not major by any means, I wouldn't even agree on the word shift.

And that is speaking as someone who really want AMD to do better.
Can someone elaborate use cases for this?
Air temperature could possibly do it or at least contribute, as was the case with SARS in 2003.
AI/ML
When someone is brainwashed or otherwise influenced by propaganda, you cannot argue them out of the position or trap them in a logical contradiction. There is some literature out there on it, but they have to work there way out of it on there own. The best you hope for is to state someone that tricks someone into questioning its validity - creating a seed of doubt.

You'd probably have to state something about flat earth "ideas" that has such an obvious flaw that they can't rationalize it. But not in a confrontational way.

Also, understand that it's not about flat earth. It's filling some other psychological need or some deeper issue.

edit: I had come across https://www.culteducation.com/ a while ago and found it useful. I don't think flat-earthers are a cult, per se, but some of the same techniques could still apply.
Influenza is the single most deadly pathogens currently circulating and we could end up with an entirely separate pathogen circulating annually with similar or worse fatality statistics? Yes that is terrifying, even if I personally have a low likelihood of dying.

Btw, influenza is also very lethal to infants. I have those in my family.
Or, to put that another way—there are two kinds of ambassadors/diplomats:

1. People the administration is paying to go out and brown-nose foreign leaders, or those leaders’ own ambassadors/diplomats, in a combination “outbound sales” and “customer service” sort of way;

2. People who presumably have the ear of the administration, where foreign leaders want to pay to impress them in order to access the administration through them.

Whether or not you call someone who’s a friend of the president an “ambassador”, foreign leaders are going to want to treat them as an ambassador, so you may as well give them the protections that playing that role requires—even if they never normally leave the country—on the off-chance that a foreign leader either runs into them or intentionally pursues and {hires through a proxy, seduces, coerces, etc.} them.

In this second sense, “ambassador” is short for “a person a state leader is worried about the welfare and mental sanctity of, in the face of global political machinery trying to manipulate the leader by any means necessary.”
Last I checked functional programming doesn't have a monopoly on "map, reduce,filter, flatten, flapMap, drop, take, zip", these are functions and can be implemented in any language, object oriented or otherwise.
I was having a “conversation” with an anti-vaxxer on Facebook once, while simultaneously having a backchannel conversation about it with a friend. He made a point that resonated with me: If someone hasn’t used logic and reason to arrive at a conclusion, you’re not going to use logic and reason to get them to change it. I think that’s the crux of the issue here.

I have another, somewhat related, observation: there are a number of these issues, such as anti-vaxx, flat earth, climate change denialism, and the existence of a “deep state”, where the central premise is that there is some vast conspiracy to mislead the public, with huge numbers of people involved in perpetuating the lie. Once someone believes that these conspiracies are real, any attempt to provide evidence to the contrary is rejected as fake news/lies by big pharma/etc. I honestly don’t know how to reach someone like this.

Beliefs like this used to be a rare thing, something you’d only see in the tin foil hat crowd, but it has spread in recent years to a much wider segment of the population. I’m not sure what is to blame for that.
Great! Do you have a live demo? like the one being Showed HN?
It seems that the line at the bottom about the 10% VAT on many goods and services seems just as interesting as the UBI (especially when the UBI seems to exclude many of the poorest Californians).

I wonder how they will administer the VAT without other states cooperating with them.
Not irrational, since, like pandemics, terrorism involves a lot of "unknown unknowns". You're thinking past terrorism attacks == future terrorism attacks, which is the wrong way to look at it. It's not a linear concept like auto accidents. Deaths from terrorism can jump around wildly from year to year. You can have zero deaths from terrorism one year and one million the next. That's how certain phenomena work. Others are linear and it's important not to confuse the two.
I found it cute and quite meaningful.

If you spend a good deal of time on Cellular Automata, Dissipative Structures and genetics these things really start to jump out at you.

Here's a starter pack:
Cellular Automata and Computation: https://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_wolfram-ai-the-fut...

Origin of Life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqPGOhXoprU

Dissipative Structures:
https://www.amazon.ca/Order-Out-Chaos-Dialogue-Nature/dp/055...
http://anon-ftp.iza.org/dp3123.pdf
RFC1149, IP over Avians[1] is not in any way protected against e.g. MITM. Nor is sending the verbatim message by Avians. Sending a micro-SD by raven does not solve it either.

All you need is a bow-and-arrow, a practiced hand, and your own raven to MITM the message.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
There have been measles outbreaks and other outbreaks of essentially eradicated diseases because of anti-vaxers. They are no longer simply fringe, and they do pose a real threat to society. A rejection of science, facts, and reason that can be spread instantly over the Internet resulting in something like the possible compromise of herd immunity to solved diseases is a huge problem. How does society continue if it is not based on facts and reason? One person, sure, no big deal. But who would have guessed a hundred years ago people would seriously consider the earth was flat in the numbers that people seem to today?
Call it tragedy of the commons, call it whatever you like; your not buying stuff now isn't going to prevent a run later.

Socially, you're probably still better off buying sooner rather than later, because that means the system has more time to restock and ship things around for people later. If you're part of the end pile up, you're another stresser at the worst time.

As evidence of this... the ideal time to stock up with emergency supplies was months or even a couple of years ago, when it would bother nobody. I've buffed up some supplies a bit, but I wasn't starting from scratch because I've been keeping stuff on hand for a while now. Giving the system months or years of headstart is better than weeks, but weeks or even a single week is better than nothing.
>mostly old age

Same as corona, no?

Edit: I'm not arguing it's less deadly than something else but in perspective I think 'mild' is an accurate description.
It's too late for this approach. The only reason that could explain why the US still does not have many cases is lack of testing and the fact that it goes undetected for a long time.

As you said:

> It very clearly is and it's out of the box
This doesn't really make any sense. The idea that forcing you to handle all cases will encourage creating more edge cases is nonsensical.
I think of asymptomatic infectivity as a sitting war between the virus and the host immune system. The virus has taken hold in a region where it a) does not grow at a rate harmful to the host and b) already has access to a spreading mechanism, while the immune system succeeds in keeping the infection away from organs where (either) c) the virus would grow at an unsustainable rate, eventually taking down it's host and/or d) the immune system's counter reaction would be so severe that it would endanger the host. Avoiding c) and d) are in the best interest of both virus and immune system (even though both are obviously not aware of any of that), so both are effectively happy. Sooner or later the immune system will develop a countermeasure nonetheless, but until then the virus will have spread to other hosts generously. Reliably reaching a state like that would be the second best evolutionary outcome of a virus, only topped by permanently resisting the immune system's removal attempts.
It used to be documented in the usage section at the beginning of road atlases.
Neat resources, thanks for sharing.
The problem in my domain, games, is the frequent boxing and unboxing of values when using functional iterator interfaces in languages common to the industry, particulalry C#. It just thrashes the heap and forces often too-frequent gc.
States solving their own problems. If it's also properly funded by the state, it's the way it should be.
They're the same stock as anti-vaxxers, young Earth creationists and so forth; there's a lot of cross-pollenation. You're seeing perhaps the silliest blip on the radar, the most reflective peak, and ignoring the huge iceberg of harmful ignorance and reactionary anti-science it represents.
You can use a functional style in those languages as well. Or do you mean with Rust's borrow checker you have less mutability to worry about?
I think some people believe in irrational things so that they can conform with their in-group, but I there are a number of emotional reasons people believe in irrational conspiracies.

-Desire to be nonconformist
-Desire to feel intellectually superior by 'knowing something others don't'
-Mistrust in authority
-Fear of accepting a truth that will upend their understanding or the world
-Fear (or refusal) of accepting a truth that upends their place in the world
-Outright mental illness

One thing I think the internet and social media does is that it allows people with singular causes of irrational beliefs to find others like them and that in turn reinforces their irrational beliefs. Not to mention that they can easily find misinformation on the internet that reinforces them.
I’m in favor of UBI, but it only works with floors on housing, healthcare, and possibly even food (which are more or less in place through ag subsidies anyway). All of this will just be eaten up by rents and rising healthcare costs, and means testing it makes it even more absurd, as it will exclude most vulnerable populations.

Given the recent state-wide rent control, it’s hard to see this as anything other than a sop to landlords.
> a good comparison is influenza (flu), which kills millions worldwide each year

That's a slight exaggeration. The number is in the hundreds of thousands, not millions.
Ah, yes, I forgot about that. Too bad they don't even publish the APK on signal.org.
This post starts out talking about expecting to spend around $1,000.

There are at least two cross-platform projects where the biggest expense is a microphone instead of software.

1. My project, Talon. Windows/Linux/Mac support, and a first party local speech recognition engine that is pretty good and getting better. It’s free, but the engine is in a private beta (which is $15/mo to support development, optional if there’s a financial issue).

2. Serenade. They are VC backed. Currently free, unsure about their longer term plans. They use cloud based recognition.
I won't challenge you, but if you're looking for a Clojure/LISP language discourse you might be interested in what James Clark has to say about his language choices. James is behind Ballerina and was working on SGML and groff in his former life, had specified/implemented DSSSL, the transformation and stylesheet language for SGML based on Scheme, and later XSLT (based on his experience with DSSSL, although without LISP syntax).
The possessive 'its' should not have an apostrophe, similar to his or hers. https://www.dictionary.com/e/its-vs-its/
Yes, but the problem with using that in this context is that an MRI scan can't fully distinguish COVID from other severe respiratory infections. It definitely won't work on someone who's asymptomatic.
Have you heard of Crypto AG ? It's a Swiss Company setup by the CIA that provided intentionally flawed crypto to a long list of European governments.
I can only guess what you might think is wrong, but if you think it is the description of the proposed license as not-open-source, I would direct you to paragraphs 5 & 6 of the Open Source Definition.

https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
_Up to_. It's subject to various considerations (Article 83):

> (1) Each supervisory authority shall ensure that the imposition of administrative fines [shall] be effective, proportionate and dissuasive.

> (2) [...] When deciding whether to impose an administrative fine and deciding on the amount of the administrative fine in each individual case due regard shall be given to the following:

> the nature, gravity and duration of the infringement taking into account the nature scope or purpose of the processing concerned as well as the number of data subjects affected and the level of damage suffered by them;

> the intentional or negligent character of the infringement;

> any action taken by the controller or processor to mitigate the damage suffered by data subjects;

> the degree of responsibility of the controller or processor taking into account technical and organisational measures implemented by them pursuant to Articles 25 and 32;

> any relevant previous infringements by the controller or processor [and other specified criteria]

> (8) The exercise by the supervisory authority of its powers under this Article shall be subject to appropriate procedural safeguards in accordance with Union and Member State law, including effective judicial remedy and due process.

They can't just arbitrarily decide to fine you the maximum.
In step 2 I was just making progress when I felt like studying, so many days might pass between reading about some new concept and then needing to apply it. By that time I might have already forgotten some, and progress felt so slow that it wasn't very motivating to come back to it.

Doing it every day on the other hand, I would quickly need the thing I just learned, both reinforcing the learning and making it easier to apply it. Then as progress was much faster, it was more motivating as I could see myself making gradual progress each day, such that completing each course seemed like a doable undertaking.
Darryl's work is amazing. Today we see people doing the polar opposite, label someone, shum and deplatform, label some more, harass, destroy his/her livelihood, destroy his/her reputation.
44K-year-old Indonesian cave painting: earliest hunting scene in prehistoric art
Gavin Newsom is a weak leader. He can't control his party so we see no alignment on common-sense high-priority issues like housing and instead get DOA poppycock like this. Voters need to take Newsom to task for wasting this mandate. Will anything of merit result from the Democrat monopoly on power in Sacramento? BTW this is just Evan Low trying to break out and make a name for himself with high-profile publicity-stunt legislation.
To me, the innovation was changing social norms to allow complete strangers in your cars and homes and dealing with legal implications of trying to skirt around commercial drivers (taxis, etc.) and residents (hotels, motels, etc.). At the same time, convincing people the liability of driving someone around or hosting them in your house was worth it as an individual seemed like another challenge.

If you asked me years ago if either concept would work at mass scale, I'd think you were crazy. Too many risks and unknowns to be worth it. These days, people seem to be more willing to take risks and work for AirBnB or Uber. I suspect the economic pressures a typical laborer in the US are currently under has made people more accepting of doing this to help alleviate their financial pressures. I know a lot of people who do AirBnB just to help pay off their mortgages and plan to stop as soon as they finish or make some headway on payments.
In Brain Waves, Scientists See Neurons Juggle Possible Futures
The economical viability of things is way above my pay grade but if I were to hazard a guess it could be just to know who is "out to get you" or it could also be one of many forms of corporate welfare the same way the US shovels money into the F-35 bonfire to keep its arms industry afloat, the EU could be doing similar thing to keep its own security critical industries going, especially since Snowden. My €0.02
"Wielding little more than a pencil, a slide rule and one of the finest mathematical minds in the country, Mrs. Johnson, whose death at 101 was announced on Monday by NASA, calculated the precise trajectories that would let Apollo 11 land on the moon in 1969 and, after Neil Armstrong’s history-making moonwalk, let it return to Earth."

The quality of work, done by hand, is just staggering when you think of the consequences that could have transpired if mistakes had been made.
Honeymoon phase was like in 2015. Were way past that today.

Also doubtful? What about Java?
the army will need to step in to keep peace. you are probably looking at a curfews to prevent looting.

edit: probably also rationing: Canned goods are starting to look a bit bare at our local supermarket in Florence, about 200km from Italy's COVID19 cases. https://twitter.com/JacekWork/status/1231900845802954757

edit-2: Residents in Milan, Italy have raided the grocery stores as panic about COVID19 and city lockdowns sets in. https://twitter.com/RuralCdn/status/1231969752890957824
> (b) California residents who are 18 years of age or older and receiving benefits under the Medi-Cal program, the County Medical Services Program, the CalFresh program, the CalWORKs program, or Unemployment Insurance shall not be eligible to receive a universal basic income under the CalUBI Program.

I must be misunderstanding something. If you're unemployed and getting unemployment benefits you don't get your UBI? Isn't that part of the point of UBI?

Edit: Thanks to everyone helping me understand what I was missing!
That is a recipe for an ambitious PM in the corp to just make their own version, tailored for their 1 of 10 companies in the world needs. Once you start getting that big, build starts becoming cheaper than buy for critical infra.
It says it will be funded by a 10% VAT.
Indeed. However, it's refreshing to see a HN thread that's defending vendor snakeoil instead of assuming all infosec is vendor snakeoil.
Cattle breeders don't allow inferior males to breed at all and typically a single bull can have thousands of progeny via artificial insemination. That doesn't happen in human societies where most males will have a chance to breed.
Also the time-spans are far longer for humans than cattle where the next generation is ready for breeding two years after birth.
Oh, it'll be around, that's for sure. Like Cobol.
Medium should be "media," no?
It looks like they're using DAC: https://blog-cloudflare-com-assets.storage.googleapis.com/20...