skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Secondary is the number of cases to indicate the stage of spread (e.g. 1 suggests maybe an outlier, 2-10 suggests early stages of contact spreading, etc).

if you want to indicate that info, why not indicate that info, e.g. by marking current cases of unknown, known local transmission, imports only etc? the absolute count becomes irrelevant.

why use a proxy to speculate about what you can say directly?
Comparing family income 1950 with a single income in 2020 though. Have two incomes of that size in a family, and you'll be at 140k, which will put you in in that range.
A strong enough exponent, and the costs of holding the old works back would very quickly eclipse the protected profits.
I was working on a project where we were consuming a text document that Mac style line endings. Apparantly, old Mac systems used just carriage returns.

Every developer knew this though, as no editor handled this out of the box. (Vim has a simple setting to enable this, but for some reason it is not on by default)
Just the fact that riding a bicycle got more attractive and 25% more people are using their bicycles now means that there will be less people left stuck in traffic in their cars.

Not to mention the people who are exercising by using their bicycles will have health benefits as well.
Converting images of birds on wires into music
RIP Terry Davis - saw his name on a comment and did a double take.
And it doesn't really need to. Consider this:

from functools import singledispatch
from typing import Union

@singledispatch
def myfunc(arg:Union[int, str]):
print("Called with something else")

@myfunc.register
def _(arg:int):
print("Called the one with int")

@myfunc.register
def _(arg:str):
print("Called the one with str")

myfunc(123)
myfunc("123")

Everything works as you'd expect, and the IDE's type hints are accurate as long as you actually put the correct type hint

def myfunc(arg:Union[int, str]):
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What's worse is that they take their masks off to sneeze so they can continue using the same mask.
Since they're not trying to profit from them, they'd probably just get cease and desist letters and take the offending ones down. Since one of the founders is a lawyer, it's probably feasible to handle most minor conflicts that come up while still protecting the vast major of the melodies.
Try searching for it in the Library of Babel: https://libraryofbabel.info/

(edit: ninja'd)
Dirt has become enormously more expensive. The more dignified term to use here is 'land prices have increased.' One could argue that the quality of the dirt has improved a lot; or at least the quality of its location. The US in 2020 is a much richer place than the US in 1950; so we'd expect land to cost more.

(But in addition, there are those restrictions on housing supply that I already mentioned.)

You are right about insulin probably not having gotten much better. There's a few other goods like that as well. Some of those problems are self-inflicted. Eg education is much more costly these days, too.

Who claimed that stuff is more expensive because it's better?

Taking hedonic adjustments into account when producing inflation numbers is the proper thing to do. Productivity improvements would then show up by decreases in the price level measured like that. We can see that for eg computers. A good enough desktop computer today costs less in nominal dollars than in the early 90s, despite being enormously more powerful.

Yes, you are right that we can not buy many of the crappier things any more. That's partially down to regulation, but also down to there just not being enough demand for lots of crappy stuff to keep production at scale running.

So that makes calculating the price level harder. The usual work-around is to only look at adjustments from one year to the next, and chain them.

Another workaround is to go with the Big Mac index. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index) That index is a bit of a joke, since it just measure the price of a Big Mac. But it's surprisingly useful for what it is.
Yes, and with an English-like syntax for ease of use by non-sw professionals. It could be called something like Common Business Oriented Language...
very bezosian. not sure you could, or should, apply this analogy to a human being though.
Uhm, those things sounds like a damn jet engine. The post above asked for a passively cooled part.
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If they killed it today, then if VB6 is anything to go by, it will still be chugging along unconcernedly in 2050.
VBA was a huge component of VB6, so it would be relatively easy ( I think) for MS to produce a 64 bit VB7.
What's the legal principle that distinguishes methods of generation? Even if enumeration is definitely on one side, there is an infinite gradation from there to human generation.
I’m not sure I follow the analogy, but I certainly pay extra for high-octane gasoline when I’m filling up a performance automobile.
This is measuring household income, not individual income. Real household income isn't increasing because wages are rising, it's increasing because more people in a household are working.
There is a difference between a team of people, and the set of people working individually.

An extreme example - there is a reason a SEAL team is called a team.

This is the problem with wage discussions. People equate a measurable commodity like gasoline to the number of hours worked at a specific job.

Sometimes this is a sufficient analogue, but often times reward mechanisms are more complex than that. There is a good reason rewards mechanisms in jobs are a lively field of academic study. People just forget this does not only apply to top managers.
Always filter, not escape.

Escaping input is of course path to nowhere, because you never know what kind of context your data will be displayed in. So, you cannot guess proper escaping rules.

Escaping data on input is novice mistake. Not having unfiltered data, reject data not conforming to some rules, so you know exactly what to expect getting you somewhere.

You can bake checks and constraints into your database model too if it is needed.
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Amazon has huge profit margins because they don't do this. If they paid their warehouse staff, drivers etc a minimum of $70k a year, their retail margins would look very different.

For Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft, not much would change, they don't employ that many people below the threshold, I think, unless you count the outsourced contractors that do moderation, annotation etc. This company's policy doesn't extend to the company they outsource the cleaning of their office to either, so that wouldn't be a fair comparison.
but people aren't commodity goods so what exactly does that example prove?
I’m a fan of acme.sh [1]. It’s a battle-tested Bash script that handles many different use cases, including many DNS providers if dns-01 is how you roll.

I run my own DNS server using Knot and acme.sh supports it.

[1]: https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh
Not to me, what I got from the article is that most people can't use basic functionality that macOS hides by default.

The vast majority will not learn that ctrl + click does right-click, and that you can enable scrollbars again to actually see if there is more content to view.
New Scottish technology could end trains' wi-fi 'notspots'
The linked article (1) says the redesign will have "sidewalk level bike lanes".

If there's a way for local people to comment on this, please encourage these to be changed to in-between-road-and-sidewalk level. (Or road level with a continuous kerb in between).

This makes it much, much easier for pedestrians not to accidentally wander into the lane. (2)

1 https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Car-free-Market-...

2 https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/copenhagen-denmark-...
Having used Material UI and Ant Design for React projects recently, I found the documentation in Ant to be less clear and also didn't love the use of Less for customization of the stylesheets (vs MUI's makeStyles / css-in-js approach).

When it comes down to a UI framework docs & styling options are my main criteria, I still haven't had a play around with Semantic UI or Tailwind yet, and haven't found the 'framework to rule them all'.
Yes, I meant to run 2D CNN over generated spectrograms. We do something similar to classify some specific emissions in RF with good success. As for scoring/classification, you can start by having an output of CNN say whether the song is catchy or not.
It’s a JVM-only tool. Doesn’t help you if your code doesn’t run in a JVM.
Look into Green Lumber Fallacy.
I've been using second hand Mellanox for about a decade or so and it's been phenomenal. Great speed, latency and stability.
> You are using cargo-cult reversed-causality reasoning. Just because you put money into something doesn’t mean you should expect to get more money back out. If I dig a big hole in the ground and throw wads of cash into it, I don’t expect market returns.

You should just read the article again. It does actually mention the changes that were observed after the 70k minimum.

Talent retention and employee satisfaction goes a long way productivity-wise.
This seems like a complex way of saying that Go is too simple for your taste.
Your Excel+vba application’s features remind me of when I joined an investment bank in 2000. I had come from an insurance company where I was considered the Excel\vba wizard, and I was impressed, in the extreme, by my new colleagues’ approach to Excel development. Even during the interview process I had realized that, when it came to vba, I was but a babe in the woods. They had auto-updating code (when you “published” code, all client workbooks downloaded the latest version), code-generated collection classes, interface inheritance, tests, error detection, higher-level functions via Application.Run(), self-contained worksheets with embedded vba code that would operate even if moved to a new workbook.

Inevitably, new hires would be unhappy that they did, in fact, have to write vba code all day and would argue for switching to a better language. Our team manager would say, "Vba gives us a superpower no other language does: we can deploy whatever we want, whenever we want, to whomever we want. In any other language, getting 'Hello World' in front of a user is a six month project."
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We don't have 4-way stops, it's roundabouts everywhere. (Need to u-turn? Just drive a few hundred meters more to the next roundabout).

In my experience they drive as well/bad as other drivers, just slower. Even in 50 km/h areas you'll see them drive at 20/30. Generally not a problem in cities. On bigger roads I've seen some move a bit to the side so you can overtake them more easily.
Since it's working for Dan and his company, great!

> in Seattle that wasn't enough to afford a decent home.

Because the population in Seattle has grown by leaps and bounds, if everyone could afford one of the supply of homes, the prices would go up until demand equals supply.
Not a PS1 expert by any means but you have to spend some time with it to appreciate the design decisions. It's a very "wholesomely" designed language.

Try eg. The for each parallel construct which made me realize why the output in PS1 behaves how it does.
Some of my favorites from the first article:

“Gravity’s 2014 profit was $2.2 million, Price adds. At private companies with sales like Gravity’s total revenue, salary and bonus for the top quartile of CEOs is $710,000, according to Chief Executive magazine’s annual compensation survey. At companies with sales like Gravity’s net revenue, the top quartile pay falls to about $373,000. At companies with a similar number of employees as Gravity, the top quartile of CEOs makes $470,000 in salary and bonus. The CEO of JetPay, a publicly traded competitor that processes a similar volume as Gravity, received $355,000 in 2014.“

Yet his comp was $1.1MM?

“Price signed with the talent agency William Morris Endeavor Entertainment and now charges as much as $20,000 per speech, Pirkle says.”

Or his obvious avoidance to answering the direct questions. It’s cool what he did, but I don’t trust the guy. Or at least I doubt his motives are so honorable. Perhaps I’m too cynical.
Going from Data Silos to Data Breaking Silos: Mission Impossible?
Ah, the fallacy of the killfile and transitive reputation. Sorry, but that doesn’t work and has been shown over and over again to not work for large scale communities.
Really confused by your comment to be honest. Maybe it’s an age gap thing? because Bernie is a deeply unfamiliar political animal to people who are less than 40.

Also the left knows exactly what it’s need step should be. There’s obvious changes to be made in the areas of healthcare, wealth inequality, and environment.

In what sense has “the left” not got a clear next step?
The principle is: what actually happened. "Enumerated" is a different colour than "composed by human".
What does your environment look like? Any special tips?
why run a CNN over a spectrogram? besides what I said (convolutions in frequency domain are multiplications in time domain) an FT is linear. if classifying using those features were effective then your CNN would've learned the DFT matrix weights from the original signal.
AMD APUs are quite popular as passively cooled routers running pfSense or OPNsense.
Good tools can help a lot to get the basic things that Tufte recommended quickly.
Given that people are moving from the regular web to web based platforms I don’t think this is true.
I can't find any mention of technical staff having their salary slashed. The only mention of pay cuts is the one the CEO took. Would you mind sharing a source where this is stated?
How exactly? More taxes? Us middle class tech workers will remain totally comfortable under Sanders, and great improvements can be made to environmental and healthcare policy.
Nearly two years ago
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The title from BI is misleading, $3K is probably just to test it. Isolation, oxygen therapy and care for 14 days is gonna run well into hundreds of thousands. ICU costs a fortune, and then add doctors and care.
We use the Marvell Armada 8k SOC (quad core ARMv8, clocked at 1.6GHz) in an embedded board. We can sustain 10Gbps TCP throughout to the CPU on that with around 60% CPU usage on a single core. Bear in mind that these are all large packets (1500 bytes), and it's much harder to achieve this will small packets.

I'd be pretty surprised if at the 1.5GHz part couldn't handle the same.
While 3 is a bit on the low end, user studies are not required to have large sample sizes. You're not trying to estimate what percentage of users are running into a particular issue, but only which issues many users run into. Whether it affects 10% or 30% of users does not really influence whether it should be fixed.

More on this: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/why-you-only-need-to-test-w...
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This is very poor history. A constant theme among apologists for the 17th Century Catholic Church is the claim that the Church was somehow defending scientific rigor. That idea is quickly dispelled by simply reading the Inquisition's 1616 findings on heliocentrism:

> Proposition to be assessed:

> (1) The sun is the center of the world and completely devoid of local motion.

> Assessement: All said that this proposition is foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts many places the sense of Holy Scripture, according to the literal meaning of the words and according to the common interpretation and understanding of the Holy Fathers and the doctors of theology.

> (2) The earth is not the center of the world, nor motionless, but it moves as a whole and also with diurnal motion.

> Assessment: All said that this proposition receives the same judgement in philosophy and that in regard to theological truth it is at least errouneous in faith.

The Church wasn't calling for scientific rigor. It was calling for adherence to orthodoxy - in this case, its interpretation of Scripture.

Graney and others make an ahistorical argument: they cherry-pick one observation (the apparent angular diameter of stars), and then apply modern arguments not known to people at the time (the actual size of stars) to say that Galileo's scientific argument was weak. They ignore all the other observations that strongly favored heliocentrism at the time (the phases of Venus, the discovery that Jupiter and its moons form their own Copernican system, the greater parsimony of the heliocentric system when it comes to explaining things like retrograde motion of planets, and so on), and focus on the argument about sizes of stars. But Galileo had a perfectly reasonable answer to the star-size argument: the stars might be very large, and different measurements of stellar angular diameters were inconsistent with one another. Countering with modern knowledge about the true sizes of stars doesn't give any insight into who had the stronger argument in the early 1600s.

On balance, the argument for heliocentrism was already much stronger at the time. And of course, forcing Galileo, under threat of torture, to publicly accept the Church's interpretation of Scripture did nothing to aid science.
I believe there is also clearly a lack of education at the workplace (at least mine) on distractions and interruptions. I don't think people want to annoy me, it's just pure ignorance. Or maybe it's my responsibility to protect my attention and my time. Not theirs.
Stupid question about fb ads
I put a fb ad in order to validate a business idea. Problem is that upon choosing my target group, I've noticed that men click on the ad far more than women do. But if the sample is biased (that is, if men on the target group chosen, are much more than women in the first place) how can one get safer estimation as to what gender is more interested on what we advertise? Are there any proxy ways to deduce what is the gender ration on certain populations (e.g. restaurant owners in specific geography)?
How can one do something like fork/exec in python? That's what I was thinking of when you mentioned "forking off jobs".

There are a number of different ways to launch an external process from Perl, I think this StackOverflow answer summarizes them quite well:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/800105

I'm an experienced Perl user, but I'm not as familiar with Python. In addition, I'm not really using Perl for sysadmin stuff, so I tend to try to keep stuff "within" Perl. As an example, I'd rather use the File::Find module than use backticks to invoke `find`. This has really nothing to do with functionality - I'm almost always on Linux, and the syntaxes are similarly hairy - it's just that usually you get more powerful functionality using the Perl functionality.

(edit rearranged paragraphs)
I thought it would be mayhem but traffic overall didn't change at all. It's exactly the same.
Oil has a smoke point of about 200 C.
The author wrote:

The trick is to ensure that the rice constantly leaves the wok, allowing it to cool a little, since the wok temperature can reach up to 1,200 degrees Celsius.

I am pretty sure that it’s a typo, it would basically melt your wok at that temperature. But also someone else here was speaking about constant temperatures of 500F that is still well over the oil smoke point. So I think that I’m missing something here.
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> Comparing [JavaScript] to C# is really not appropriate here, for so many reasons. I do think you know the main differences between [interpreted], transpiled and compiled for starters...

Are you saying there is a fundamental difference between JavaScript and C# in this regard? I don't think there is.

Each language has a compiler that compiles source code to bytecode. Each has an interpreter that can directly execute that bytecode, and a Just In Time compiler that can compile the bytecode into native machine code.

These languages, along with Java, are pretty much identical with regard to these distinctions.

Transpiled and transpilation are ugly and unnecessary words. They are just a fancy way of saying compiled and compilation.

Some make a distinction between a transpiler and a compiler; however this is a distinction without a difference. A compiler transforms source code into object code. The source code or the object code may be a "low level" language like bytecode or machine code. Or either may be a "high level" language.

For example, TypeScript has a compiler that compiles TypeScript code into JavaScript. [1]

The original implementation of C++ was Cfront, a compiler that compiled C++ code into C code. [2]

For that matter, "machine code" on modern CPUs is a high level language of its own, which bears little resemblance to the low level operations that happen within the CPU.

[1] "The command-line TypeScript compiler can be installed as a Node.js package." https://www.typescriptlang.org/

[2] Personal discussion with Bjarne Stroustrup on BIX around 1985 when I called Cfront a "preprocessor" and he chewed me out and told me it was a compiler just like any other compiler. Also: "Cfront was the original compiler for C++... which converted C++ to C" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfront
Sure, but these jobs are in Seattle!
Alaska and Washington DC have roughly the same population. But there are many more actual connections between people in DC than in Alaska.

Where connections could eg mean: two people come in close enough proximity with each other to spread a virus.
What did you end up with?
I think it should be normalized to the amount of wealth rather than pax, because a larger pile of wealth relies more on this authority to maintain it. I'd even think perhaps supralinearly so.
I think they mean that if the headline is taken as written it implies everyone in the company being moved onto 70k - even if their salary was originally higher, not that the article actually states that this happened.
I learned to slow down. Got two tickets in a week in the Czech Republic, both for about 10km over the limit. That's about 6mph, which is most likely not going to warrant a ticket in the USA.
America is suffering from political decay that makes public administration very difficult.

Poor public administration makes people lose trust in government, which contributes to political debate.

This is a vicious cycle.

As applied to healthcare, many Americans, including leftists, simply aren’t confident the government can achieve major public programs.

Obamacare is a good example: it has been slowly gutted. How? By litigating it again and again at different levels and forums of government.

After congress passed the law, states had to agree to go along, courts federal courts had to sign off, stage courts had to sign off, etc.

There’s no way to enact major changes in American society anymore.

So most Americans, very logically and rationally, favor small incremental changes over big programs.
The only way that makes sense to me, is that "mutti" is a short form of "mutter" in german, which means mother. So a "mom car".

Disclaimer: I'm not english, and only half german.
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
Just wondering, were you able to get a refund of the paid expenses?