skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a graduate student in a small city. I would gladly use this dental cleaning service. I haven't been to the dentist in like 2 years because I really can't afford it. I actually get my prescriptions via Walmart already without insurance because it cheaper than using the insurance given to the grad students.
Except:

- the price of carbon offsets may not be high enough (particularly if you care about types of pollution other than CO2, and/or you believe that pollution near/at population centres is more damaging than pollution elsewhere)

- carbon offsets do nothing to address the other issue (congestion)
> The myth: Common Lisp scripts and binaries are hard to distribute; binaries are too big.

As far as I can tell, it's more like you have to pick one or the other. Distribution is easy if you don't mind distributing a 50 MB image (which is, of course, trivial for some applications and catastrophic for others). Most of the suggestions on reducing application size are essentially accounting sleight-of-hand that doesn't actually reduce the overall footprint (I'm reminded of the compressor that can "compress" any file by one byte... by moving the byte to the file name).
I’m gonna get some heat for this, but that’s OK; it’s my honest opinion.

I can’t really think of a better way to hamper progress on an open specification then by delegating the problem to some private corporation; especially one that has a penchant for censorship.

If more than .0003% of people actually used Firefox, we would have to worry about Cloudflare taking over the entire Internet. So it’s probably a good thing Mozilla ruined their brand over the past decade.

I would be willing to bet money that Mozilla is getting paid millions of dollars by Cloudflare for this.

In the meantime, this is the final straw for me. I’m done with Firefox for life. I haven’t used anything but Firefox since 2007... 13 years...
In Canada the govt doesn’t provide healthcare. It sets public rates for services, and then providers can provide those services to the public and get paid the set rates by the govt. This is called “single payer healthcare”.
> That, and Azure is actually really good

Do you have something to back that up? From almost everything I've heard, and most of the quantitative measures I've seen, they are strictly worse than AWS and GCP. As mentioned above, they are 2nd only due to their strong existing connections to enterprise.
To the person who wrote this, I would suggest SwiftUI is not for you. Please just go back to writing Objective-C or learn some good ol' UIKit. You can then have full control over whatever color you want your buttons to show up as, and where to have them show up, and with whatever padding you like, and as a bonus you can use commas and all kinds of great additional syntax all over the place. (I think what SwiftUI is for, has largely flown over your head).swiftly
It prevents a bug in your text rendering module from logging you in as admin, which is usually not the case inside a single process.
Re #3, care to point to any evidence of LAD and Arizona shenanigans? I follow baseball pretty closely and I guess I haven't seen any. We can throw accusations all we want (#5, and #5b seems suspicious because doing something like closing the dome would have the same effect on the balls the home team hits too). Agreed on #6.
edit: it appears rahimnathwani has worded his comment better. you should respond to that one instead

>Taxes make it so only the rich can have certain privileges the rest can't.

what privileges would the rich have due to this type of taxation that the poor wouldn't? gas already costs money.

and if say, a poor person has to commute on bike instead of car, while a rich person could continue to commute in car, isn't that the free market doing it's job? this seems like the ideal situation to prevent the tragedy of the commons: if the costs of a rich person being taxed on their ride are outweighed by the benefits (and vice versa for a poor person), doesn't that mean that society is "allocating pollution" in a more efficient manner than if they both had to commute on bike (based on the economic value generated between these people)?

>Taxes shouldn't be a means of controlling behavior in a free society. Pass a law or leave it alone.

why should it be this way? I am curious why you would think this way. I've heard these kinds of arguments with respect to parking, and I still disagreed with them
Very true - even blue belts in BJJ are savage killers compared to similarly-ranked adherents in other arts, TMA or not, much less the average drunk bully in a bar.

Yet a lot of the same life lessons are passed on through the right, uh, professor.
In reality, market is not that liquid: interesting projects have no headcount, problematic projects are available. At the end of the day you need to know people and come with recommendations to actually transfer to something good. Ask me how I know.
There's a vast ocean of difference between "don't build a tannery here" and "the only thing you can build here is a single family home on a minimum quarter-acre lot"

Problems with zoning laws are independent of red lining.
> No matter how well you optimize your code the JVM will ruin it and make it slower and consume more memory than necessary.

On the contrary, I for one enjoy the benefits that the JVM brings to my poorly-optimized bytecode produced by javac.
Out of curiosity, have you done anything to prepare for any major lifestyle disruptions?
You should start by looking into the network requests. Most developer tools show you metrics on load time.

Do you have a link? I’m sure we could get to the root of your issue quickly.
Goes to show how different people have different tastes. I find this type of exposition very confusing and very unenlightening. Give me a Landau-style "minimalistic"/"focused" explanation any day. Not to mention, it tries so hard to simplify things to a simple analogy (the spreadsheet thing) that it ends up being plain misleading. In other words: "Make things as simple as then can be, but no simpler."
100% Agreed. I've written 3D engines in shipping games and yet I can't do math for shit. I've tried watching 3blue1brown and they have pretty pictures but they don't help at me all. I feel like they're mostly appreciated by people who already understand and can't remember what it's like to not understand.

I was recently watching videos and trying to read papers on geometric algebra and getting totally and utterly lost on actually applying it.
Intuitively I don't see that there's much value in asking radiologists to subjectively "rank" the images. Surely the thing that needs to be tested here is patient outcomes?
As a counterpoint to this I use Brave on my iPhone, Windows home PC and Mac work laptop. It blocks all ads, I don’t use the crypto at all and never have, and it works for 99% of the sites I visit including ones for various services around work. I never opted in or out of anything, it just works and because it blocks so much nonsense it’s fast. Frustrated by all that negativity when it works great for me as a “download and forget” drop in replacement for Chrome without all the Google tracking.
> They have a huge sales team with a monsterous entertainment budget to land "traditional" companies.

This is the disillusionment I experienced in the B2B industry. Nobody cares about your products, they just care about getting free stuff from you. When people are buying something for a company, the money they're spending isn't theirs... but they're the one that gets free sports tickets or free dinners or whatever. It almost feels like stealing to me, but it's "business as usual".
Authenticate devices with public/private key certs that are burned in

Hell no! That's how you get the dystopia of vendor lock-in and absolute control.

If I may be controversial: a little insecurity is a good thing. It prevents such authoritarian monopolies from forming.
Limiting the question to price and quality but ignoring availability might (I don’t know) favor markets and definitely ignores an (arguably) basic obligation of government but not markets.
Though I am not a lawyer, I will jump to a conclusion that
this strategy will fail.

First, algorithmically generating all length 12 sequences
of 8 notes (2^36 = 64 G results) is just math, not music
composition, even if you encode the results in midi format.
Thus, not subject to copyright protection (in the U.S. anyway).

Next, a catalog of 64G entries is not human searchable.
It is an unreasonable to state a person searched or could
have the catalog, and copied an entry. Perhaps a program
containing certain search criteria could scan the catalog
looking for entries with "musical" attributes. However,
such a program would not need the catalog, because it
could generate every entry independently.

Since the output of this effort is neither subject to copyright
nor human searchable, the effort will not mitigate copyright
law suits. It seems a fruitless exercise. I suppose it was
worth thinking about, though.

And that is my opinion.
This is a constant point of contention. The workaround (at least in BJJ that I know of) generally is to have "open weight" fights in addition to weight-class restricted ones. Everyone's happy usually. Now if they have open sex fights then we can see the underfed ballerina vs. a sumo fighter!

It's not as common in MMA, I think. BJJ is often thought to favor the smaller, weaker player but with the less strict ruleset in MMA, open fights aren't as "fair", I think. Physics, basically. Skill level equal, a larger and more muscular and well-conditioned athlete will usually win.

An enjoyable exception to this is the classic BJJ vs. wrestling contest in the early UFCs between Royce Gracie, a 6'1" 180lb guy vs. a seeming bear of a man with proven wrestling skills in 6'2' 250lb Dan Severn. If you're not a fight geek (if you are, you surely already know about these 2) it may be kind of boring to watch and more interesting to read or watch a well-informed analysis with pictures and clips, sort of like a "Gracie Breakdown".
No, they hire 3 drivers in "low cost" countries and the car controls respond to the majority vote, for built-in redundancy. If you buy the premium subscription it's 7 drivers instead.
Same here.

As a lot of the Selenium API is quite low-level (speaking about the Java variety).

Would be wonderful if this and similar efforts would end up in the core Selenium project, keeping the low-level options, but providing an easier to use layer on top.
Not sure how I feel about this. A lot of people don't know about the wayback machine. This may incentivise people to send deletion requests to internet archive.
There's a difference between "sin taxes" that discourage behavior for paternalistic reasons and taxes meant to price externalities back in. Cap-and-trade is another way to use market mechanisms to put scarce goods/rights to their most productive use.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed has declared a state of emergency in the city
It’s harder than it looks in this case.
Oh yeah, sometimes people confuse length with ... all sorts of things.

Actually, I used to think that in order for a weblog post to be worth it, it has to be "of substance", and thus "of length". Clearly those are not the same, but luckily I have corrected my thinking in this regard :-)
Heh, hard to imagine what a dog can smell. My wife started bringing treats from a particular restaurant. So when she would come home from that particular restaurant our normally polite dog would run and check her bag.

We thought it was the bag she smelled... until she left the bag outside in the car. Our dog smelled her, asked to be let out into the garage, asked to be let out into the driveway, then asked to be let into the car, and then nosed her bag.

We were amused.
Thanks - I missed your point.
Image quality in MR is very much a moving target too as it varies between patients and there is a far bit of variation in practice. Scans are speed up or slowed down for a variety of reasons. Making a scan faster to fit in another patient or any number of other reasons is something that happens regularly.
That would certainly give a new meaning to "we take security seriously" -- one I would also love to see!
If you want to learn more about Le Guin's influences, I just finished reading Charles King's Gods Of The Upper Air ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42951225-gods-of-the-upp... )

It's pop-history of the early 20th century anthropologists with a focus on the influence of Franz Boas and the many things he spawned, and how Boas and his pupils fought against genetic determinism. Many of the 'characters' in the books appear in OP's article. Recommended companion piece!
What does your friend mean by fundamentals? In 2D fighting games, learning the character's move set is easy compared to learning when and how to use them effectively. People seem to focus on learning combos but a good player can do a lot of damage just by establishing and breaking patterns: throwing when they expect you to attack, attacking low when they expect a high attack, not switching patterns when they expect you to try something else...

The metagame of 2D fighting games is actually a series of very fast rock paper scissors games. It's all about beating the opponent's counter to what they think you'll do.
Completely agree with this - changed my life!
Ok, that's a fair criticism of my reply. I think I'm preconditioned to take any date Elon throws out with a huge grain of salt, enough to not really put any faith in it. Others could definitely be misled.
For a lot of people the reason to work remotely is to spend time with family/etc, so that's something they probably wouldn't want. Personally, I definitely wouldn't enjoy that.

And if someone cannot attend due to personal reasons he or she would feel left out. You don't want to create a situation where remote workers feel like they absolutely need to attend something in person. That's just the same as going to an office.
this is great! i never used calendly et al because it felt like a little too much, you know?

i want a super fast way to grab text for the next 3 days, maybe an alfred shortcut or a bookmarklet or gmail extension or something
The same is also true for mobile platforms, but we have pretty good cross platform frameworks for them. Flutter, Xamarin and React Native all have experimental support for Desktop operating systems and as they mature I expect more apps to be built for Desktop with them.

The only problem is that since they can't run inside of the browser, they'd need to be installed before they can be run. While this might turn out to be a better alternative to Electron, it really can't beat the convenience of an URL.
Because it's not the case that the pharmacist is automatable. A small fraction of the work is completely un-automatable and the easily automatable stuff is just busy work. Even if you automated it they'd still have to hire a pharmacist, he would just have less to do.
We had them, then stopped maintaining them when the development speed was to high.

Now (years later) we have a subset of the original tests to ensure the most crucial processes are regression tested.

My experience is that it's a lot harder for these tests to find the right balance and depth than for unit or even other integration tests.

As already said, it's good to consistently have ids on relevant elements, as otherwise the test code complexity grows significantly.
TLDR; it's an abomination because it's not matlab?
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The line is blurring a bit. Back in the 1990s, hardware modules booted directly from ROM. These days, you’ve basically got a whole computer inside which boots like other modern computers, i.e., slower than it should.

There are also some good examples of software stability. Having used Logic and Reason since the early 2000s, you can see all the care that they’ve taken in never removing anything, and only adding new things.
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I've seen people rationalize Hitler, so I'm at least second ;)
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Hold on.

Here is the literal word for word question that I replied to:

"Why is the government in the business of disapproving prices in the first place?"

My answer was long winded and did not directly answer that question, but requires a person to come to the point themselves. Here's my answer: The government is in the business of disapproving prices because it requires people to purchase a product in order to engage in behavior that we feel is valuable, and the "government" (effectively, all of us) have decided that prices should be correlated with risk, and not discriminate on historically discriminated groups of people.

Are you seriously suggesting that the only answers to a rhetorical question should be arguing in favor of a position rather than explaining the logic behind a position?
A very large part of what pharmacists do is double-check the doctor's work. Mistakes, miscommunication, overlooked drug interactions, etc. In a sense the purpose of a pharmacist is having an accredited person dispense the medication as part of the pharmacy's liability insurance.
A fringe benefit, perhaps the only ;), of living in San Francisco is that you are always prepared for major lifestyle disruptions; it is called an earthquake plan and you should have one.

Plenty of food and water to last at least seven days, evacuation meeting points etc. Oh and a wrench for those pesky gas mains.
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I’d argue that the basic obligation of the government is welfare, at its core. Everything else is an implementation detail in service of that.

If the (regulated) market can bring down equilibrium prices to the minimum, then the government’s role could be to provide health stamps or cash to those in need, similar to food stamps (which can arguably be reformed).
I think that is called "concern trolling" right?
I'm currently working on a linear algebra heavy linear programming model for an optimization thesis and the general trick is, as with writing code, to improve iteration by iteration of the model. Starting with a complex mathematical model is always a bad idea, so start small and iteratively improve it. This means no use of advanced concepts unless needed. Also, nobody uses every bit of math in the everyday work. As with programming, you just need to understand the general concepts and the rest can be figured out step by step.
It means the following program will happily exit now.

package main

import (
"time"
"runtime"
)

func main(){
for i := runtime.NumCPU(); i > 0; i-- {
go func() {
for {}
}()
}
time.Sleep(time.Second)
println("bye")
}
How is avoid large crowd advice have more perspective than buy can food?
BTW they made a very fast inflate lib which I repackaged (with permission) into an unzip library that AFAIK is 6 to 25x faster the most popular unzip library.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/unzipit

That speed mostly comes from their library.

Have not gotten around the making a corresponding zip library.
I don't think it handles IBM formatted disks. You can use it with you have an FDC that does some handling for you. Problem is that those disks are practically 'punchcards-on-disk' for mainframes, not PC-based at all. Oddly enough, it does know about paper tape.

Then again, OmniDisk can't autodetect it initially either, so perhaps the whole concept of reading mainframe formatted disks and mainframe encoded data on a non-mainframe system was rather problematic anyway.
How much of your data is repeated as part of a cyclical graph? You may want to try jsog + compression.

[1] https://github.com/jsog/jsog
There's still a human pharmacist on the other end of every single order, it just gets sent in the mail instead of handed over the counter.
Ounce for ounce coffee has more caffeine, but tea also has L-Theanine which calms caffeine's effects. I have anxiety like the OP describes and L-Theanine has been life-changing for me. I'd highly recommend trying it either as a high amount of green tea or a supplement.
Who knows since we only have second hand info here.
No. This is completely incorrect.

The case fatality rate is the number of deaths divided by confirmed infections. This is what is being reported.

Infection Fatality Ratio changes the denominator to a model for the currently infected population. This is a smaller number, because the denominator is much larger.

There is no mortality metric being reported by reputable sources that is multiples higher than the CFR, as you suggest.

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...
Can you elaborate on Azure DevOps? Is that the Azure infra-as-code solution? And if so how does it compare to CloudFormation?
Links for Reverse engineering a solari display for anyone interested, the ones we repurposed from auckland airport and put in our cafe at work have been working for 10 years displaying number of tonnes received in to winery during vintage. Love the noise but they sometimes go out of alignment by one character which would be annoying if used for airport information. Purely from a maintenance point of view I can see why they have gone.

http://unknowndomain.co.uk/2012/07/13/split-flap-display-pro...

http://rodyne.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/solari.pdf
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The Xerox OCR problem is exactly what came to mind after reading the first few sentences t
of the article. And that problem happened well after the times when OCR of standard text had been considered a "difficult" problem. That said, I'm not against using this sort of development, I just think they need to be treated with skepticism and constantly evaluated. If deployed widely, some percentage of scans should always be evaluated from a QA perspective to always be vigilant of misclassification, drift, etc.
I don't think Discord is malware, but we have straight-up 100% malware too! :p https://news.drweb.com/show/?i=10193&lng=en
> It's nice that we all don't have to cram into uncomfortable cities or suffer through the banalities of rural areas, if we don't want to.

It’s nice because it’s the future generations that will have to pay for it.
I can't tell if this is a good thing, or a bad thing.