skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not arguing for just data, I’m arguing for both. I would be equally “annoyed” if it were just data.

Just data wouldn’t give me sympathy/empathy and not being a medical professional I’m not familiar with diagnostic or clinical language. Data won’t properly convey the suffering unless you’ve seen it.

I’m weary of just anecdotes because it is impossible for me to be able to allocate my limit resources efficiently. I’m not saying this isn’t important or can only be validated when enough people are devastated.
Can you also add the request to https://helpwithcovid.com/ ? That seems to be the biggest list/forum for projects.
When I was looking into this problem neither -J nor -W options existed (that was a really long time ago).
It's a matter of size. If you have 1% "falling through the cracks", it's individually tragic but not something that will negatively impact the economy that much. If you have 30% falling, you're going to be in for a rough time.
> ) if it's given away for free, you do not have a right to complain about its quality

What ? This does not make sense. Being free does not give any passes.
The narrative about capital providing opportunity for many is largely a myth IMHO. While this may have been true when companies reinvested in their products and people, in the age of stock buybacks and leveraged takeovers, capital seems to serve more as simply a tool for accumulation; permanently removing value from the economy for the benefit of a very few.
The biggest single thing DF can do after graphical improvements is fixing the performance, perhaps make it not single threaded. I've been able to get past the graphics, and work through using the keyboard menus, but having the fortress come to a screeching crawl when there's a ton of things going on is when I stopped playing.
Having the schools teach RightThink instead of WrongThink tends to be a hard sell to an ideologically diverse nation.
The thing is, it's really not. Granted, I always used the Lazy Newbie Pack which gave you basic tiles, but once you get used to ASCII, things tend to be a lot easier. Also, this is a detailed simulation, so things move a lot faster if you're not spending CPU on graphics.

Remember, each creature has a bunch of parts with individual health, each tile can get stained by various materials (that can spread disease) and everything is made of various materials with all sorts of mostly-realistic properties. I mean, DF is the sole reason you can find the solid density of Saguaro rib wood on the internet and the value came from an empirical test of a small cube of Saguaro rib wood. It's in the DF raws.

So yeah, you might enjoy DF with a tile set like the LNP if you like the mechanics. But it's a super-complicated game so it takes a while to learn to control things, to learn the requirements to make various items, etc. It's not a game for everyone, you do have to sink quite a lot of time into learning it to enjoy it.
For those playing on mobile (I started from materialistic's webview), it might be worthwhile to add a media query to

1. Reduce the width (the text is far too small, even on a 8" tablet it's ~1/2 the size of the system clock).

2. Add a good amount of padding to all buttons (I kept accidentally tapping the wrong file) and

3. Adjust the size of the -/del and +/move buttons in the file list; this was even worse than 2, and chrome's attempts to be helpful and pick the right button had the opposite effect here...

4. Request fullscreen as soon as possible if on mobile. The browser UI toggling as I scrolled was really annoying.
GBA = Game Boy Advanced
It is about the volumes I guess , millions are filing unemployment claims now , the impact is going to much higher on these issues , lot more people will suffer due to this, so more people have been talking about it .
The only way to restart normal life is with a combination of massive scale testing and contact tracing. Someone in charge needs to be working on this right now, but all we hear from the White House is denial and false hope.

The markets are distracted by a couple trillion dollars, but like everything else we're doing right now it only buys time. Time for what?
There is actually a difference between 'vegan' and 'plant-based diet'. A car can be 'vegan'. A car is not part of a 'plant-based' diet.
I meant to say this year I got the flu and it was very bad. I realized that since I work from home now the week home is not worth it. I'm going to start getting flu shots.
Validation is the problem. If someone thinks they’ve successfully applied, rejecting them asynchronously is often worse than not letting them apply in the first place.
> But do you want Gates negotiating with China, Nancy Pelosi, and Mitch McConnell? Do you want him to make decisions about law enforcement

Yes, I do. I want anyone who has such a large base of competencies, can consume and comprehend books at a rate that most people consume Doritos, has run one of the largest tech companies in the world and currently runs one of the largest philanthropic organizations, and has learned many lessons on how to communicate with individuals, organizations and government. We could do worse...
Maybe? I don't know if there's a command Discovery for scsi that would let them know if things are supposed to be supported. If there is maybe it advertised support and confuses the system when it doesn't work
>University admissions for computer science is mostly demonstrating a strong ability in mathematics and reasoning, and an interest in the subject.

Both were abundantly clear with my application, with a high grade in maths (the one they wanted) and a personal statement about what programming work I've done. I would have met the grade boundary had I gotten a slightly better mark in "IT". Requiring "mathematics and reasoning" is already demonstrated by the requirement of a maths A-level and a science A-level. It is in no way demonstrated by the ability to set up a Joomla website. My point still stands.

>I'd guess you have a lot more interest in Japanese than French

An alternative reading, which accords with the curriculum and common method of teaching, would be that the teaching style is not fit for purpose.

>Because it's better to learn the fundamentals, before using tools to take shortcuts.

I agree. That doesn't explain why no computer-assisted learning happens at any point during the course of the whole under-18 maths curriculum.

>Seems unlikely. The example exam paper at [1] asks for pseudocode.

Fair enough, thanks for the link. I must have misremembered. The fact that you need to write a program without access to an interpreter is similarly silly.
The moment they added GPS to the cell phone and would not connect or continue service on phones without, this should of been seen as being tracked in one way or another. Seriously can't believe no one saw that
As a student of Japanese, I often get confused when listening to Japanese because there are so few sounds and therefore many homonyms.

This gave me the idea of a language with only two sounds, "ku" and "ka", being used to express everything. Sort of an analogue to the idea of encoding everything using the binary digits of zero and one.

kakakukukakakukukukuka, as the great philosopher once said.
Does anybody use this for non-academic purposes? I've been looking for something similar to use as a personal knowledge base, but zotero may be a bit much for that use case.
Never really advanced that much in the game to fight orcs. I just set up some good looking magma smelters, smelted whole bunch of jewels and sold them to caravan and elves and stuff. This was many years ago, I remember having a lot of fun, but also how excruciatingly tedious everything was. I remember setting dwarf tasks (allow/disallow) required a lot of micromanaging and DwarfTherapist didn't work well in linux. Regardless, amazing game, I hope devs solve the UX issue. I'd probably buy the game the day it's released.
Mutating getter? Sounds like a generator function that yields. Or a pseudo random number generator implemented with a monad (WorldState, Value). Or any tail-recursive non-void function that carry state without loss?

I'm definitely not an expert but aren't irrational numbers are the best examples to show that these types of constructs already exist in math? You can't calculate them in finite amount of time. You use an analytical formula or series expansions to get the nth term instead.
It's a fascinating book and deservedly highly influential, but please also read some of the rebuttals and counter-points for a good understanding of the issues.
No, it's the other way around. Normally deaths would be specifically linked to e.g. the flu, but in this case, all deaths are being tested for COVID-19 and mostly assigned with that as the 'cause' even if there were other causes like heart failure.

There was an article in the Spectator today where a doctor made that point: that this disease has been made a 'notifiable disease' whereas a normal flu wouldn't be, meaning each death gets tested and reported up to the government if positive, whereas for other types of coronavirus the death would just be marked as pneumonia, for example. The data isn't being treated consistently.
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Attempting to make a project and create a login gives me:

https://i.imgur.com/qypAY4j.png

Let me try a diff browser...
Reading the article, I realized there must be some optimal sizes for vocabulary. I say sizes, plural, because there must be some layers there in terms of usage frequency. Toki Pona clearly goes to an extreme of simplicity in vocabulary space.

But what is "optimal"? You would expect languages, in their natural evolution, tend towards it all the time.
Actually listening to a Robert Johnson album, I was surprised to discover a some Zeppelin rifs were taken from him. Its not the same though (Robert Johnson is a hard listen.). Blues is slightly harder as the chord progression is similar across songs, similar scales. Its seams that sometimes they gave writing credit to the original song writer, sometimes not.

(Songwriters get paid per radio play, which mattered a lot before streaming..)

Wikipedia has a list of Zepplin song "inspired by others": with a list of listed song writing credits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Led_Zeppelin_songs_wri...

The Beatles covered a lot of songs in the early days. (I think they must have paid royalties).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_covered_by_the_B...
Isn't it because the compiled code makes some assumptions about the types of the arguments? So if the types of the arguments change, it would need to downgrade to interpreted code?
If China becomes less dependent on exports to the US, they could dump US treasuries, which could potentially destroy the US economy & the dollar.

They have the US by the balls.
"COBOL was also enormously complex, even for today’s languages"

Is that true? What was the complexity about? I've never done COBOL, but I was always under impression that it was quite straightforward in its infamous clunkiness, lacking lots of constructs that've been obvious for decades now
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great! good to have an alternative to qiqqa in case it disappears, although it looks like qiqqa has killed their cloud libraries and gone open source. I found qiqqa after google desktop was EOLed.

I have been quick to recommend Qiqqa whenever it seems like it might be a useful tool but I never really saw those comments get much traction - maybe because everyone was already using zotero?
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Thanks. So cultural social distancing while not a way to combat virulence did its job.

It makes me think of the indian caste system. The diet was also proscribed according to caste. And this lead to more co mingling of members of the same community genetically etc.

Disclosure: I am Indian and when I was a child, I was not allowed to touch even members of my own family esp the women(grandmother, mom, aunts as they were in charge of the kitchen) if I came home from outside. We were kids and teens and we would enter through the rear veranda and shower before entering the kitchen or mingle with the rest of the family.

It was the same with utensils and bed linens. We never shared any of this. We had a separate set of utensils for guests and for the help. In the villages, during illnesses, the house will be marked and sometimes even the entire village will be quarantined with no one entering and exiting. This was especially true for chicken pox and fevers and malaria...I suppose it was too for small pox before it was eradicated.

When a house is marked a sick house, milk, vegetables and food will be delivered by the vendors at door step and until the house is deemed healthy again, no one will be in contact with them.

In a way, we are dealing with covid 19 the same way..but with technology. I find myself meandering in my mind and wool gathering with this..might come back with more thoughts.
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the app is a 3rd party voice chat with a URL link and a countdown, I'm surprised it's so popular tbh
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Totally agree, and I have data to support this buried in some drive somewhere.

Interestingly, I had a famous SLA researcher/professor tell me that this was a non-issue. I assume it was because she dealt mostly with Dutch learners of English, but I found it to be fantastically short-sighted.
It may be a temporary bump. I'm still debating pulling some money out of the market for a while. I'd still be buying via my 401(k), so I'm not totally out, but I just feel like the fundamentals will pull the market down for a while. Then again, we will probably, finally, start to see (stag|in)flation soon so having cash may be a bad move.
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For a humorous taste of a limited language, without venturing outside of English, Randall Munroe (the XKCD guy) has a book called, "Thing Explainer", that's a sort of encyclopedia written using only the 1,000 most common words in English.
Saying things like "maybe we need to realize that..." and so on is nice, and important. But unless things change materially it won't do much. People need leniency, but they need it in more than just the disposition of those around them. They need leniency on rent, they need money to live. These are material needs.

Yesterday, a small group of senators threatened to hold up the bill that offers (pitiful, way too little) relief to workers. They did this because they were concerned the government would be giving too much to workers, such that people would begin choosing not to work.

It's (hopefully) clear that this is plainly ridiculous, and evil behavior. I don't bring it up to say those people are horrible - which they are. I bring it up to point out that this is the ideology and the environment we have to contend with.

People need help but our system is intentionally designed not to give it to them.
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Yes. That is how people learn. Or is teaching children arithmetic pointless because they won't learn how to simplify algebraic expressions? Learn the basics, then add more complexity.

The 6502 was a real system. Conversely, I'd say Visual Basic is a terrible environment and I have a few friends that made millions using it, so, not sure who gets to be the judge.
It ended up being the perfect solution for storing manuals and other random information for me.

It's lightweight enough to not get in my way but still syncs everywhere and is searchable. There's even a third party app I can use on my phone if I need quick access to PDFs.
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These days, if a plane crashes, a well known politician or celebrity dies, or a disease appears, or anything else dramatic, people will claim it was due to a conspiracy. Typically there even be several mutually contradictory conspiracy theories.

We fully expected an outbreak like this to happen eventually, and yet somehow having the expected result occur has spawned accusations of it being an American or Chinese plot.
> "efficiency" and "innovation" are neoliberal buzzwords.

No, efficiency and innovation are real things. Neoliberals tend to think that they are areas that neoliberal policy produces better outcomes on, and in the case of efficiency at least there is a strong theoretical case that this is true in a very narrow range of hyper-idealized conditions.

People who are not neoliberals often agree that efficiency and innovation are important (though perhaps not of as paramount importance as neoliberals tend to portray them), but often disagree with neoliberals as to the optimality of neoliberal policies at producing them outside of the kind of simplified conditions that dominate the first couple weeks of undergraduate economics classes.
My point was if a country wants to be successful and dominate over others it needs to have an economy which is efficient and which innovates that's why USA is currently world's richest and most powerful country. On the other hand China with its massive workforce and efficiency combined with upcoming innovations is about to become world's new number 1 superpower.
I also recently tried a bunch of USB3+SCSI - SATA adapters from Amazon, and only found a single one that supported passing TRIM through. And that's after a firmware upgrade that can only (afaik) be done using an installer running on ARM+Linux and provided by a third-party. Truly amazing.
securedev is what you are thinking of. You need to wipe the drives of every host to store it.
Reads like the graveyard of my high school and college languages

BASIC 1970 high school computer hacking

LISP 1972 MIT A.I. course

APL 1973 MIT circuits course

PL/I 1973 MIT systems programming course

OS360 Assembly MIT systems programming course

FORTRAN 1974 MIT physics research

C 1976 Stanford research

PASCAL, ObjectPASCAL 1984 Macintosh developer

ObjectiveC 1987 NeXT Developer

C++ 1986 scientific programming

Java 1994 scientific programming
Sorry, you're right, I was meaning fatalities.
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> laid out flat for week or more

That sounds about right. I did not really appreciate the distinction between a bad cold and the flu until I finally got the flu. I gained a real appreciation for why it kills weaker people.
> nominally supporting it had several, long-standing thread race bugs

Name one.

And yes, pthreads should just be part of libc. Separating them is artificial and awkward.
Physicist here.

Since you probably have a good background in optimization, work through problems in:

- Taylor for Classical Mechanics or Goldstein (a bit more advanced)
- Griffiths for E/M and Quantum.

For stat. mech. I find the chemists have more intuitive textbooks.

- Introduction to Modern Statistical Mechanics by Chandler
I hate these things too - invariably they also mean "more sugar", "more unsustainable palm oil", "more hydrogenated fat", "more corn starch", "more E-numbers", or just "more random old shit you've never even heard of!".
Intel is at 14nm and amd is at 7nm, yet the transistor densities are higher on the Intel side?

Do you have any source to back this claim?
I know that node sizes are mostly meaningless at this point, but still this is invalidating 3 generations of node jumps on the TSMC/AMD side vs none on the intel side, surely it can't be that meaningless of a number?
" “the Democratic Party in the United States transitioned over half a century from the workers’ party to the party of the highly educated.” Elites’ distance from working-class interest, he contends, led the Democratic party and its ideological counterparts abroad to accede to a policy program betraying the values of social democracy: regressive taxation, elite domination of higher education systems, and forms of globalization that enabled the wealthy to hide their assets from tax authorities and trade agreements that facilitated outsourcing. "

This is great point. I see this on social media commentary all the time and wonder if educated elites being merely oblivious or totally asshole about working class concerns.
It is not that people don’t know this and spend all they make. Not all contractors make enough to save for an emergency fund easily. Independent of all of this, every experienced contractor knows that sometimes there will be dull patches and you save for that . However it is not always possible to do so, and you may have saved for 2weeks or 2 months and it may not be enough the economy might limp for 6months or a year .
Thanks, this is super helpful.

Do you think it's possible to have real privacy/security for someone who faces state suppression a la Edward Snowden?
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I recently found https://gifcap.dev/. Performance is slow, but good to use if I can't install software on a machine.
Thanks for your work! It's nice to hear that Zotero seems to have privacy as a feature and not a side thought.
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"Operating System Concepts" by Silberschatz, Galvin and Gagne, is a classic. It covers the basics: processes, syscalls, filesystems. (it's what we read in our OS course in university)
Coronaviruses are actually created in labs as part of virology research (see my original link). It just seems that, in light of links that people posted, it did not escape/was released from the Wuhan lab - the strain that created the pandemic originated via natural processes.
The thing about the "money" argument is that one could just as strongly claim that you went to 1st grade "for money".
I had the same question as the OP and after some research, I narrowed my choices down to Oura and Dreem 2 and placed an order for Dreem 2 a few days ago. Happy to hear that people agree.
I know it's the crucial part, that's why they included it in the title as an easy-out in case someone calls them out on their dishonesty.

I'd rewrite your example as below in order to more clearly illustrate how I view the VPN title:

US DoHS Keeping Track On World travelers movements, potentially leaking data when visiting the US.

Note the main title, then the comma, and then the minor clarification. Firstly, the "main" point is at the beginning so that's the one that has the most effect and evokes an emotional response that colors the entire reading. Secondly, the last portion is separated with a comma, adds two points, doesn't clearly state how it modifies the first part of the title and is also ambiguous on its own. It vaguely confuses that tracking happens when they visit the US with the interpretation that the tracking happens all the time but only leaks when they visit the US. It also allows your interpretation that they only tracking while they visit the US. The comma should at the very least have been an "and".

If we wanted a real title that wasn't click-bait, here is my stab at it:

Top VPN providers record website-visitor's click/browsing behavior on their sites, potentially leaking it to metric providers with various degrees of anonymization.

OR.

Analysis of User-Behavior Tools On VPN Providers' Sites. <- This last one shows we can have an honest internet that isn't driven by click-bait, and could instead rely on the integrity of publications and the authors.
If I only want the client side, does this add anything over https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/net/proxy ?
In reality, it is probably exactly that. These are the drives that didn't make the cut to be sold independently.