skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can get pretty complex behavior almost entirely due to the structure of the neural net[1], and judging by the rest of our bodies, building non-trivial structures is something the genome is quite capable of.

[1]: https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/exploring-weight-agnostic-...
I can understand why people want refunds (it's not their fault), but also understand why SXSW may find it financially impossible to cancel (it's not their fault either).

To be honest, this is the type of call that ought to be made by governments, not individually by private citizens/organizations. Either all conferences nationwide should be cancelled, or none, but that's not a decision any can make individually.

If this is a national emergency, let's take national responsibility and share the burden nationally. Have the government shut down conferences, if that's the right call, and use tax dollars to reimburse the conference organizers to a reasonable level, that they are also forced to use to reimburse attendees to a reasonable level.

Really, how is this any different from flooding or hurricane damage that gets federal money to rebuild? A national emergency is a national emergency, period.
The cost of doing nothing may have been far higher, though.
Darknet Diaries (ep54) had a great podcast as well on notpetya and talked to the author of Sandworm.
> Linux hasn't had hardware video acceleration for over a decade when Windows and macOS did have it, precisely because it was too hard to support this use case within the restrictions of X11.

mpv and kodi have no trouble rendering hardware accelerated video on Linux under X11 though
I don't think that's what the parent comment is suggesting. Instead they're saying that it might not be greed in the sense of "wanting to make an extra 5% no matter what" but a lose-the-whole-business question. That's not to say it's not the right thing to do, but it does help to realize that the picture isn't so black and white.
I think it's mostly to do with timing. What he is highlighting is risk mispricing when it comes to coal loans (that aren't properly disclosed to shareholders of banks). But the effects of this mispricing - and market competition from renewables can take years to play out.

In the meanwhile, climate change doesn't wait - if we want to have any chance of not going beyond widely accepted atmospheric CO2 limits, it's important no new fossil fuel infrastructure is built.
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This is a very good and thought-out comment - I don't understand why it was marked as dead.
"Hundreds of thousands flock to Austin for the event each year and its economic impact to the City of Austin was $355.9 million in 2019, according to an analysis by Greyhill Advisors and South by Southwest."

If it looks like a recession and sounds like a recession ...

It's amazing how rapidly confidence in the economy can evaporate.
At which point rates are generally raised to cool things down.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/about... interesting parallel 25 years later
I'm a user of mailbrew when they launched their beta. Love how it makes all my reddit, twitter information overload bearable.
Yeah the party keeps going, but the crash will be worse. Worse crashes means more time to recover, more americans lose their jobs, and so on.
If it “builds wealth” faster than any other means then it necessarily becomes more expensive for new entrants. This is an inescapable outcome.
Since gdpr, businesses are "required" to make your data available to you for transfer in a machine-readable format and you could argue that pdf is not exactly machine-readable in the sense of the law. Practically I have seen cases where you do get csv or something similar, but especially smaller firms will probably give you word documents, excel files or pdfs.
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It really is downright shocking sometimes how much gets caught by the rust compiler. It's the first time in my life when I feel like code is likely to actually work once the compiler comes back clean.
I don't think he is to be blamed on that. What happened for GE/IBM/Boeing is just the symptom.

After all the deindustrialization process had been going on for decades, and naturally the only way to keep the company afloat is to cut cost or "financializate" everything.

The real questions are:

1 - Why there weren't enough people who were interested in STEM?

2 - Why didn't the government (and the voters) do anything useful about this situation?
Ok, so this is pretty much counter to my experience. I've spent a significant chunk of my career just diagnosing errors based on error codes. It does work. When the kernel tells you some data is not found, permission is denied, or the filesystem is corrupt, or I/O failed, it really isn't kidding, it gives you specific advice and you should pay attention. You can also do things like look in kernel source to see when that error occurs, and depending on the error get really specific ideas about the problem.

Keep in mind not every job will have you with total control of a machine as in a server use case. In many domains deploying code to someone else's device you won't know that you're running somewhere short of disk space, or whatever, until you see it in the error code.

Further, I suspect you are working in higher level languages where somebody has already wrapped the error codes in exceptions, and already logs unhandled exceptions to stderr. So what I would call very basic "error handling" is already done for you. When talking about C, if this more manual work is not done, ignoring error codes and continuing to keep on chugging is just stupid in a lot of cases, will cause you to silently lose customer data if you don't stop yourself on the error, etc., which is bad times.
Many seem to think like us on this front (at least, in the NH comments). Now, what can we do concretely besides implementing those concepts in our own apps?
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While unsurprising, this is deeply depressing.
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He used to say that 2008 was the end of the big long term debt cycle. Now he's saying it hasn't happened yet.
There generally isn't a responsibility to maximize shareholder value. See, for instance https://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/academics/clarke_business_...
Really shouldn't conferences be paying for insurance against X?
I've also done a lot of work in this space and one thing I don't understand is why more extraction libraries don't support images as input. If your PDF isn't layered or OCR'd, it might as well be an image. I've lost count of the number of times I've downloaded some PDF extraction tool and then had to hack it into accepting an image.
Because it makes the assumption that they are still well intentioned and want their product to succeed. Even well paid engineers feel stress. Additionally, overtime pay seems unlikely :)
In Italy at the moment the data is far worse.

We have a total of 2263 currently infected people of which
1000 with few symptoms, 1034 hospitalized and another 229 under emergency treatments [0]

If the number of infected keeps growing (+400 today) and the percentage of hospitalized remains the same, hospitals will have serious problems very soon

[0] https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cronaca/2020/03/03/coronavi...
Actually, yes. The judiciary does provide a check to executive power - just not as often as the press tells you it should.
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Thank You, there were too many ARM Server Startup, merger and acquisition I sort of lost count. I think we are left with Ampere and one from Marvell.

I sort of record Applied Micro were doing POWER as well, is that still the case with Ampere?
I did go on to acknowledge the "underlying supply problem". But this thread is about financials, and without the endless supply of money, asset valuations would be much lower.
I'm inclined to agree. Incentives matter!

It's still deeply disappointing (to me) that the organizers have so few internal incentives to put lives ahead of profits. The entire value of an ethical framework is in the times when following is not what's most personally beneficial in the short term.
My kids adored this and have had a good few goes out of doing most of the experiments and making some up too Galt Toys Science Lab Kit https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06XDD3K8Z/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_... thojfh my 5yo gets it a lot more than the 3 yo
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I'm not an economist or anything, but isn't this article really just a complaint against pure capitalism? Jack played the game and played it well. I wouldn't vilify someone because of that. Blame the system and then propose something better.
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Thanks. More sources and customizations are really high on our list. Long-term, we really see this becoming some sort of knowledge/news-hub for people.
I feel like a beginner a lot of the time.

There are several competing forces at play.

On the one hand, JavaScript is changing every year. CSS releases new features such as grid. New releases of frameworks such as Vue and Svelte are released. React launches hooks. The list goes on and on. You read the headlines about all of the new stuff, but you may not actually use the new stuff in a real project.

On the other hand, the client needs features yesterday, and there's a need to deliver new features as fast as possible with the functionality you know inside and out.

You keep using the small core of functionality you know over and over again for years. You know a small number of things very well, but you know nothing about many things you read about. There's a whole world of things that experts know that you have never used.

Maybe a lot depends on your environment? If you're at a shop with 100 developers, a few developers might spend a lot of time playing with new stuff, and teaching it to others. In a small shop, your results may vary. Not every shop has that new junkie who jumps on the newest thing, evaluates it as appropriate for this shop or not, and efficiently teaches the new stuff to others.

I try to use and learn new things, but it's time consuming. So even though I am learning new stuff all the time, I often feel closer to the beginner side than the expert side.

The default is to make the donuts every day with the tools you have. It takes effort to learn new things and use them in a real project.

I'm happy to answer any questions.
Gnome Web, Midori, Falkon and Konqueror are browsers that only run on the "free" desktop, and don't support VAAPI/VDPAU either. Google built an entire OS based on Gentoo, and the desktop Linux build of Chrome doesn't support video acceleration either.

I think you should reconsider how easy it is to smoothly get an accelerated video buffer from a specific GPU component into an already heavily GPU optimized and dynamic web page. Web browsers have a lot more complicated graphics rendering problems to solve than VLC does.
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Just as soon as my Kardashian is charged up, I'll swing by your place to drop off the new samples of the 128-core Bieber X.
I feel like the slowing infection rate in China (if it's actually true) is both very encouraging in the sense that it could show the virus actually is possible to contain, and also pretty scary in that so far the only measures that seem to be working at all are extremely widespread and draconian quarantines.
1. The Morning Paper by Adrian Colyer

2. ArXiv has a mailing list.

3. MIT Technology Review though these days they demand paid subscription

4. IEEE Spectrum

5. Demire’s blog. He’s a professor and his blog often appears at top in HN.

6. Wired, if you consider it technical
archive.{is,today,fo,li,vn,md,ph} allows arbitrary content, which means that most corporate firewalls will block it as a matter of principle, assuming you're using the MITM part of Umbrella.
> I never stated I'd die

Then why the comment that it "saved you"?

These sort of devices pray on fears. I understand your knowledge of the space but you can put me in the same room minus the air filtration device, and I'd wager I would be fine. And I have an auto-immune disorder that wreaks havoc.
How do you check your local rate?
I did that for a good 3 years, writing every day. Started out as a few sentences, and then turned in to bigger depending on how I was feeling that day. I absolutely love(d) being able to look back and read what I wrote and what happened on those days.

It did get difficult at times to force myself to write. Many times I hated having to open up the computer and use that to type. On the other hand, typing was much better than writing because of the amount of words I was able to get down.

In the article, it says to write about work and side projects, and I get that the article is career based, but really, skip that, don't write daily about work and side projects. If you're journaling, write about personal life. That's what's important to have logged.

Something happened that caused me to stop, which sucks because it almost feels like I've lost the last 3 years of my life because I don't have anything written.
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Where the virus can go the antiviral can go too (because it's much smaller, only targeting a smaller protein spike on the surface of the viral envelope).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#/media/File:3D_med... [the N protein is supposedly the nucleocapsid, which is basically/maybe another envelope around the RNA]
I think you have it backwards. Stability is the overall target, and the 2% target was chosen as a way to achieve that. See for example https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/money_12848.htm.

> The objectives as mandated by the Congress in the Federal Reserve Act are promoting (1) maximum employment, which means all Americans that want to work are gainfully employed, and (2) stable prices for the goods and services we all purchase.

> Following its meeting in January 2012, the FOMC issued a statement regarding its longer-run goals and monetary policy strategy. The FOMC noted in its statement that the Committee judges that inflation at the rate of 2 percent (as measured by the annual change in the price index for personal consumption expenditures, or PCE) is most consistent over the longer run with the Federal Reserve's statutory mandate.
Sure, I meant for greenfield projects.
The problem with this type of call being made by governments, which I hope will become abundantly clear in retrospect, is that governments are incentivized to lie about the severity of the situation (consider CCP response to Wuhan, White House response to unsafe quarantines, etc.).
What modern finance theory are you referring to? We may be talking past each other.

Owning equity in a business, either through the stock market or private ownership, is different than a house. Simplistically the equity goes up in value as the business grows or goes down if it shrinks. A business is not a single fixed capital asset.

A house is a fixed asset that does not grow. In order for a house to increase in price you have fixed asset appreciation. If that appreciation increases in price faster than wage growth or inflation it's a good investment and it isn't as affordable in the future for the median wage earner.
Stagflation
Did you read the fine print?
Unless it's changed in the last month or so, no.
The best tool is to let the virus shake things out in the economy. Well managed companies will survive those that are not go by the wayside.
The thing is that it is not significant news, except perhaps to FreeBSD base developers. It does not signify anything really, certainly not all of the things that people are reading into it even in this very discussion. It's not the death knell of GCC. It's not some sort of war. It has no impact on FreeBSD users, or on people building applications on FreeBSD. It's not even much of a change, considering that the actual concrete change, switching compilers, happened a while ago.
Might be useful. But it could be just a single javascript file with 50 lines or so.

No need to tie it to react.
Write again and tell them you have a roommate who just returned from Iran, you have flu symptoms etc.* I'm curious to find out their response to someone worried they have symptoms and trying to cancel to avoid infecting others.

* Or don't lie & perhaps someone else can do it
What compiler is used to build blas and lapack, as well as a whole lot of programming based on them like numpy, scipy, julia, etc.?
> Based on the tone of your remarks it doesn't appear to me that you desire a discussion

Untrue, I actually own this device.
The government has already shown itself to be wildly irresponsible with regard to testing, allowing community transmission to take place with little hope for contract tracing and effective quarantines, leaving six dead in Seattle.

They should absolutely get their shit together, but we can’t all just wash our hands of our collective responsibility to each other until they do. Adopting their bumbling as a “wait and see” response is just another form of denialism that will cost lives. I’m glad that some companies and events have had enough sanity and courage to respond proactively.
That would be super-interesting to us, an issue we have been struggling with is filtering/summarizing content from sources with lots of content such as RSS for sites like The Verge.
Oh, that was a double typo, thanks.

btw I use archlinux /s
De mortuis nil nisi bene.
Looking at countries with wide community spread[1] the spread is very clearly tied to cold weather (Europe, Korea, and Iran). This pattern is similar to other air transmitted viruses such as the Flu. Warmer countries seem to be resilient despite some having higher density and lower hygiene standards (e.g. India).

Given that the default assumption should be the COVID-19 will follow the flu pattern of diminishing rapidly in March up to barely any case in April [2]. This by no means try to diminish actions to be cautious, or the risk it imposes. However, if you are asked to put money on a certain direction, betting on warming up weather reducing the R value of the virus enough to stop it is what I would do.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ (Sort by new cases)
[2] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm
For me it's a two-step process to write the actual notes. The first step happens in class, copying down what I think I need to understand the concept being taught. Take cues from the teacher, if they write something on the board or it appears in their slides it's probably worth noting.

The second step is much more important. As soon as possible after class, hopefully armed with a better understanding of all the material, I write my actual notes. I write down everything I think I'll need to study to remember what I need to remember. Then I make an Anki deck from the notes some time in the next day or two and by that point I'll have the material pretty much committed to memory. I review the Anki deck a couple times over the next week to really lock it all in.

That's the process that's getting me through helicopter fight training now, currently working on my CFI.
50 bps cut, initial rally, faded super fast and now down for the day. Would be interested to see if Fed cuts further.

The first order effects weren't so large to stem the selloff (first order meaning the PV effect of lowering discount rate).

As for second order effects (rate cuts to spur economic activity), I'm not even bullish about the mechanism to transmit rate cuts to the real economy normally, but I think in a quarantine situation, those mechanisms are even more diminished as there's less economic activity. Thinking out loud, demand will probably just hit a wall--there's no elasticity here when people are worried about their lives.

The only mechanism that sounds plausible to flow through to the real economy is fiscal. Government buys Pampers, burns them, buys them again. Or keep lowering rates to raise asset prices by a purely mechanical lowering of discount factor.
Hate is probably too strong a word but there is a contingent within the BSD community who perceive the GPL as "viral" and actively work to make as much of the project BSD-licensed (or similar) as possible.
I just learned something useful! There might be more crud in BSD, better avoid. The fact they only now remove gcc-4.2 as the base of their system has told me more than enough, thanks, but no thanks.
I wonder, did anybody try reMarkable for taking notes? Is the user experience good enough for note taking any and all meeting notes and is there some sort of built in OCR for improved note searching? Is battery life good enough in practice to use it over several days?
I started using the Cornell Note-taking System:

http://lsc.cornell.edu/study-skills/cornell-note-taking-syst...

Notes become:
- Questions
- Notes
- Summary