skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read through to what I quoted.

What an author starts spouting completely nonsense arguments, why would I waste my time continuing further?

The author apparently thinks self defense is as bad as killing for the heck of it, if they're that dumb, why would I be interested in their moral judgment for anything else?
Is anyone actively working on it? That new UI has been the plan for a very long time now.
This might just be a transient anomaly, perhaps exacerbated by insufficient testing.

But if it's a real difference, the possibility of genetic resistance ought to be explored. It's not that it would likely make any practical difference. But it would at least be interesting, and one never knows.
Of all the answers here, this is the one I resonate with the most. There is a tremendous diversity in skill levels of students entering a Bachelor's program, from borderline illiterate to exceptionally equipped.

And say what you will about whether or not a college degree is "important", everyone I've ever met[1] who has one has some key skills that not everyone has; the ability to work on a project over time, some ability to research a question, and the ability to work on "uninteresting" things to get to the "interesting" things.

Getting a masters degree is about processing information, organizing it into something you can use, and then demonstrating your skill at that by applying to to a problem of your choosing. These programs can "assume" you've got the basic skills already and work from there.

[1] And being a nerd is biased toward BS degrees rather than BA degrees but the trend seems consistent to me.
Reasons why he should feel Okay with it? He was Tricked into committing genocide, and the story goes on to show that the aliens weren't bad and how the entire war stemmed from the type of misunderstandings that come from interacting with an alien consciousness.

It's far from being a book that advocates for or otherwise encourages genocide
That was Hong Kong, not Japan
That's a great point. Creating infrastructure is relatively easy when times are good, but it creates an expense. As the collapse progresses, those costs tend to grow with regards to the available resources, thus start to become unbearable.
Starting about 7:09 he talked about why the Arduino wasn't a good fit and explained his choice of the TI board (including speed, single-cycle floating point hardware, responsive interrupts and dedicated peripherals to latch consistent, jitter-free reads of the quadrature encoder counts).

Note it's a 4096 step encoder, mounted on a different shaft than the one he's driving, that can run upwards of 2500rpm. His motor control loop (not the complete end-to-end, but the bit that maintains output position to that desired) takes under a microsecond. His code works with either a Nema 24 stepper or Nema 23 servo, and he demonstrated both.

In the second video he maths out some projections for error/drift (factoring in floating point representation error) and its ultimate impact on thread accuracy (which provides some motivation for what you might initially consider "overkill" hardware).

10hz is just the refresh rate for the tachometer calculation.
I don’t get this at all.

It’s unlistenable. Dreadful. Who considers this music and why? What’s the point of it?

What am I missing?
I'm surprised no one mentioned "Atlas Shrugged" by "Ayn Rand". It's not a typical fiction book but really made me think
Amazon worker describes 'living hell' despite coronavirus lockdown
Korea's used to be, what, .6% when they stabilized the number of infections? At the time I was hoping the true IFR was that low but as you say this thing can take a long time to kill people and given what a good job Korea's done with staying on top of their testing I'm not holding out hope that the IFR is below 1%.
Capital One got CFTC waiver after oil price plunge increased swap exposure
How much mentoring do you think goes on at your average school? My assumption is the motivated students seek it out, but the 5x/week kegger types probably get very little.
Bear in mind that English is everyone's second-favorite language, which means that probably half its speakers don't always feel comfortable recording or public speaking. This helps them over the hump.
China has a history of embellishing and fabricating all sorts of published economic numbers.
The number of funeral urns being collected is raising questions about the true toll (https://time.com/5811222/wuhan-coronavirus-death-toll/).
Democratic countries can skew their ICU or death statistics, but only so far.
Having built a system in my basement to grow basil, spinach, and lettuce, there's a whole lot more to it than $25 in plastic.

First, you should use food grade plastic, then there are lights, a pump, shelving, growing medium, fertilizer, ph adjustment, extension cords, timers, cups, air tubing, and air stone, and a bunch of other stuff.

Then you have to get it all home, double and triple check you are doing it correctly.

I don't think I spent $500, but no way anyone can put together an equivalent system for $25. Like most things, there's a lot more complexity than people realize.
Interesting is this a counting sort then?

Might you or someone else have a link that states the whole interview question?
Pierre Gloor's book The Temporal Lobe and Limbic System has an excellent discussion of this pages 316-318. I'll try to type it in by hand and stick it on pastebin later since it is unfortunately a rare out of print book (Google Books has it but it seems to show much less text these days than it used to). Gloor suggest that because low level olfaction is not able to distinguish parts of a smell it is more heavily associated with context than other senses. He notes a study where recognition of olfactory cues are not as immediately reliable as visual or auditory cues but there is very little decay over time of that recognition ability in olfaction while visual and auditory cues are recognized no better than chance after 3 months. He compares the Proust description to electrical stimulation of the amygdala in an epilepsy patient and suggests that particularly strong memories may be amygdala assisted recall (and notes that similarly vivid recall can happen with other senses but seems to be less common).
You'll need to back up the claim that "only a few very elderly/unlucky die"

What % of people actually survive after being on a ventilator? Because I've seen various studies and anecdotes of this for C19 specifically, with results ranging from "basically no-one" to "80%, at least temporarily, but hardly anyone is actually out of hospital yet so maybe they're going to die later".

Beyond C19, this study suggests roughly something like 50% long-term survival IIUC: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26003390

Ventilators are invasive things that themselves can do lung damage. Fairly common for people to choose not to go on them in end-of-life directives.
I don't see anything that could be classified as "incredibly angry". Seems that people are mostly just bothered that they wasted their time looking at this only to find out the obscured fact that this is GIMP with a new name.
Aw man, Mordor had air support though (nazgul). It's like saying the allies could have just assassinated Hitler. Not a plot hole in my opinion.
Do you think there's a correlation between the top comment, about erosion of values and the entitlements you refer to?

"My personal favorite is to look at the original values that were used to build the empire. If those values degrade and are not sufficiently replaced/reinforced, this is a sure sign your empire is in decline"
Original comment:

> Naturally-occurring herd immunity is a temporary effect.

Reply:

> No cases of the first SARS-CoV have been reported worldwide since 2004.

No I very much intended to write it here. Which part of this interaction needs more explaining?
> wgu

I second and can vouch for this one. I completed my B.S in 3.5 yrs with WGU, and it was one of the best decisions I made. Competency based (don't need to waste 3 months doing a course I already know about), and flat-fee (2.8k a 6mo term). It is very affordable and if you're self-sufficient, WGU is a great option. Really flexible and good curriculum if you're self-motivated.
If your startup infrastructure scales "to well" then the new attack is not DoS but a CoS - cost of service attack. Trigger a cloud bill so high it bankrupts them!
Cars kill almost as many people as influenza, and costs far more in marginal QALY (younger, healthier people).

Flu isn't so incredible. What's insidious is that it's just not bad enough to make it worth the cost of prevention (and it's hard to prevent -- the vaccine is a luck shot every year, as flu has strains and mutates), but it's the rumble before the storm, as one of a family of viruses of varying parameters that occasionally strike far worse (every few decades).

A general solution to viruses, something like gene therapy, would be a very big deal, perhaps more than cancer treatment, in eliminating perhaps the largest non-self-imposed threat to humanity.

> We’ve updated our atypical Illness map to reflect the cumulative amount of atypical illnesses we’ve observed since March 1 — previously this map reflected only new atypical illness, updated daily.

Whyyyy??? that's incredibly stupid way of obscuring information by multicounting, that at best adds no value because the integral of an exponential is still exponential, and at worst makes a hash of it. The only rationale I can see is to make the numbers bigger and more clickbaity.
It's interesting to ponder what could be past UBI in terms of entitlements?
> I did hear rumors of Japan doing this intentionally to make it look more under control than it was.

Japan, Iran, South Korea, and maybe China are all fuzzing their numbers:

https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?country=Australia&country=C...

Notice how they are the outliers compared to a ton of countries.
What would you say the biggest downsides are?
> I would appreciate it if we avoided this kind of hearsay on HN during these difficult times.

This graph makes it quite clear that Japan is hiding their numbers (also Iran and South Korea):

https://aatishb.com/covidtrends/?country=Australia&country=C...

The Graph also shows that China either has a cure, or is fuzzing their numbers as well.
Ethicists Race to Set Rules for Deciding Who Lives and Who Dies
Unique vs. Shared Data in Rust
Example: hoisting the condition `if buf[i] < 0x80 ...` out of DecodeVarint into DecodeTagAndWireType speeds up the included microbenchmark by over 10% on my machine, just because it eliminates the function call for tags 1-15 (these are the magical tags, if you are using protobufs in a performance-sensitive context).
Interesting. I was explained this question the exact same way (100 doors) some years ago and it was instantly intuitive to me. Maybe it's how every brain works differently.
Just like I asked my Team Lead to drop IE support. Even the product owner is OK with it. He is quite obsessed with IE.
Lol, but I was a bit disappointed to find only the individual colours named. I was expecting to see overly pretentious names for the palettes themselves.
I like to thing of it as a unit problem. The numbers are presented as x "items", but the definition of "items" for each of the numbers is not consistent (or, even, actually known).
Yeah thats a good point. The use-case I wrote this for involved decoding a protobuf message that has only 3 fields, but where the total size is several MiB. For my workload this optimization is meaningless, the most important thing is to avoid allocating huge slices, but for lots of small protobufs like the one you defined a hand-rolled solution will definitely be faster.

Do you think I could just manually inline the decoding code as much as possible in the molecule library, or does it need a different API?

Also if you open a P.R I'll merge it :)
I don't know how they're paying but it's absolutely 100% routed through a server.
Typewrite.rs
His loop needs to deal with an encoder that generates 1-4K ticks per rotation, hooked to a spindle running, IIRC, 2K RPM. I think his concern was that was 8M events per second, all while also generating stepper outputs.

He mentioned not only microsecond but nanosecond.

It reminds me of Linux routers. They worked great until the PPS rate suddenly got high, like in a network loop or DDoS situation. The kernel would dynamically switch between interrupts and interrupt mitigation/polling, I couldn't find any way to force it to always poll.

If the system was in interrupt mode, and the PPS rate suddenly went way up, the system was so busy handling the interrupts that it couldn't find the time to switch to interrupt mitigation and would livelock.

The solution was fairly easy: Just have more CPU cores than physical network interfaces. Disclaimer: This was ~10 years ago.
Long ago and far away.

Glad you have seen better.
You're missing the part where art is subjective and not all of it has to appeal to your particular aesthetic sensibilities.
I’m talking about which party has burned serious political opportunity for this issue at all. Alternatively we could say Obamacare is weak sauce and cannot do the trick for American health, but it’s also a reflection of a history of which party burned political opportunity in exchange for an issue.

That McCain’s legacy withered so soon after suggests the inadequacy of his reach, not that a vote for the GOP, which worked so tirelessly to filibuster McCain, is the same as a vote cast for Democrats. It was only until Enron and after his presidential run that McCain had the window to gain the bare minimum 60 votes to stop his own party from filibustering his bills to death.

And now we hear that the GOP are the same as the Democrats on campaign finance reform. Okay.
Iirc, trump has censorship powers under the emergency act. If he really wants business to reopen after Easter, I hope journalists are going to be ready for some fact checking
I really like MacDown but it has this weird bug of sometimes hanging for up to 30 seconds with a spinning beach ball and then continuing as if nothing happened.
This is a common fallacy. Lower mortgage rates mean that houses are more expensive as other bidders are able to qualify for the same mortgage rates. There is actually quite a lot of papers showing that it's better to buy at a high mortgage rate and refinance down the road.

As for your other comment, renting or paying a mortgage is a cost/benefit analysis that is way more complicated than "paying someone else's mortgage". If you live in a desirable locale (Bay Area, Seattle), the Buy/rent ratio means that at this point you are most probably ahead by renting and investing the difference in the stock market.
It's way too early to assume that the current pandemic will cause such drastic changes to society. Even if it turns out to be close to the damage as the 1918 flu, that was still more than 100 years ago. My guess is that the rise in remote work will be due to people being forced to all try it now more so than because they'll be preemptively trying to prevent this from happening again.
Ask HN: Could we create a Tor-like system for debit/credit cards?
Idea: stop merchants from tracking all your purchases by creating something like the Tor network for credit/debit cards.

Maybe it works something like this: create a co-op financial institution that issues credit/debit cards. Each time you use a card from this co-op, it runs the transaction under an alias card number. You still get charged properly on the back end, but the merchant sees a different name and card number. To use Tor-parlance, imagine the different card numbers as different "exit nodes."

Would it be possible to create something like this? I'm hoping someone who understand the nuts and bolts of how credit/debit cards work can chime in.

Example:

Here are five people and their card numbers:

| Name | Card Number |
|-----------|---------------------|
| Donna Doe | 1111 1111 1111 1111 |
| Carla Coe | 1111 1111 1111 1112 |
| Brett Boe | 1111 1111 1111 1113 |
| Ralph Roe | 1111 1111 1111 1114 |
| Paula Poe | 1111 1111 1111 1115 |

Donna Doe goes to the same supermarket every day for five days. Every day, she uses the same credit card (number 1111 1111 1111 1111). Even though the same card is swiped every day, the merchant sees five different names and card numbers. Example of what cards might randomly come up on those five card swipes:

Day 1:
Paula Poe - 1111 1111 1111 1115

Day 2:
Carla Coe - 1111 1111 1111 1112

Day 3:
Donna Doe - 1111 1111 1111 1111

Day 4:
Ralph Roe - 1111 1111 1111 1114

Day 5:
Brett Boe - 1111 1111 1111 1113

( I posted the same question to Reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/fintech/comments/frhbw3/could_we_create_a_torlike_system_for_debitcredit/ )
Tbh, I think it shows that you went into the link looking for something to fail it over. I don't think the author makes the claim you think they are making.
Mortality from ARDS is 50% even with ventilators. Source: wife is a pulmonologist and I am a radiologist.
The simplest solution is you Always switch as it meant 2/3 instead of 1/3 winning chance. the door opening earlier or (clearer and easier to understand) later is just to help you to check your 2/3 pool.
That's what the GP said. In reality, the host doesn't open the door at random. They know which door hides the car and avoid opening it. That's why switching the doors doubles your chances of finding it (because the host has already eliminated one of the goat doors).
If this type of application interests you, have a look at:

https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/kinetophone

It is an application/shared library for Linux, released as free software. It has a GUI program for live narration and one, "Vox", for creating video from PDF or still images using speech synthesis (Festival).

http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/kinetophone...

The Kinetophone shared library could be used as a plug in for presentation software. Kinetophone's file format is XML. I haven't updated it for years, and it does require occasional patches to support the latest FFMPEG. It was originally a commercial application for OS X called Ishmael, back in about '07 which I ported to Linux after my company went out of business.
I own 20 ZipGrow towers and have become quite disillusioned with them across 3 growing seasons.

The biggest problem is that there is nothing to buffer moisture on the roots if there is an intermittent problem.

You might get a nice crop of basil growing and then a clogged emitter for 12 hours can be the death of those plants.

Here are all of the failure modes I have experienced:

- pump dying
- Leak in base causing all water gone in 24 hours
- clogged emitters
- water choosing off route through tower and not hitting the plants on top
- emitters getting blown off causing water to spray outside tower
- circuit breakers trip from pump

Overall I’ve probably lost half of everything I’ve planted in a zipgrow.

A professional operation with a daily maintenance routine could probably use them, but they are no panacea.
Prices should go up and up on average since there is on average a national inflation of about 3%. If it goes up about 3% only you just come out about even (well actually you lost "purchasing power" since buying a house comes with a tons of fees).
Heh OK, see my other post for the simplest possible improvement.
it wasnt exactly written for easy listening, it represents the instantaneous annihilation of life on the largest scale the world has ever seen.
It's annihilation was natural and those containment efforts were only put in place originally, most were wound back within a few months and never reinstated as you can see from the timeline, the virus still spread amongst the population.[0]

> was extraordinarily costly

No it wasn't, the costs were were a rounding error on the global economy scale[1]

> The calculations above suggest that the cost in 2003 of SARS for the world economy as a whole are close to $US 40 billion

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002%E2%80%932004_SARS_outbrea...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK92473/
I've sure you've already considered this, but wouldn't any kind of training program of the sort you describe risk diverting resources from current operations?
Yelp casually exploits coronavirus with charity scam
I think you can see what colorblind people see with glasses, maybe I don't know if we all see the same colors or we take it for obvious because we all set it, what a fear, enter here to see how I see https://reason.com/2020/02/26/trump-campaign-files-libel-law...
Did you read the sequel?

He literally spends the rest of his life making up for that mistake as speaker for the dead.
Covid-19 forecasting site from The Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford
Honestly, I'd create the instances using an ASG, then set the ASG size to 0 (or throw inside a while loop until any errors go away). Always create instances from an AMI and always put them in an ASG (even if the ASG only has 1 item min, target, and max on it).
It doesn't appear to me that that affected the actual investigation or its conclusions, which, as I said, were that it was not a reactor issue but a subsafe issue. It's certainly relevant for the broader issue of how Rickover operated, but I don't see that it gives him anything to "answer" for the loss of the Thresher in particular.
Hey, thanks for taking the interest.

Yes, that sync method call is intentional (for now) +. I have been meaning to add separate lstat call for async/sync for < node 10 without impacting performance. So that will change. Thanks for pointing that out.

Handling symlinks is work in progress. (it will be exposed as an option that you can enable/disable because symlinks resolution is expensive and not everyone wants that).
I see this trope oft-repeated on HN and I just don't think it's true. I certainly hope that that wasn't your college experience. My experience was incredible, both academically and socially, and it truly changed the way I think. The level of abstraction with which I approach the world now is way higher than when I entered college, and I credit that to the math classes I took.This abstract thinking makes me a better problem solver in every part of my life. I also walked away with a handful of friends that will be my best friends until the day I die. College was the crucible that forged those friendships, and I haven't found a substitute for that since.

To you point about "career training", I don't see college as a vocational school. The best point of college in my opinion is to learn not only a lot of facts and specialize in an area of study, but more importantly, to learn how to think and solve problems.

If you learn a lot of facts and rely solely on the facts that you've learned, then obviously you won't adapt well to the real world where most of the problems you encounter are situations with imperfect information and no clear best solutions. However, if you choose your college degree wisely and learn how to learn, then you'll be able to tackle most challenges that come your way later on in life, both in your job and outside.
Thank you for this information, for I was wondering why they wouldn't have desalinization technology on-board, and you've answered the question -- they do.

Thus, I don't understand the lack of fresh water.
I've been doing the WHM (Wim Hof Method) for almost 3 years now. They have a free app, which is pretty good for tracking and has some videos to show you how it is done.

I use WHM as part of my daily meditation. I don't find that I have had the experience Andrew has had or witnessed. I have a few friends who also do it, and when I asked a few months ago, they said they enjoy doing it, but it isn't a magical feeling.

At the same time, I have experimented with Holotropic breathwork, and that is a whole different animal. I also tried Somatic, but it just wasn't for me. Seemed a bit more like a guy trying to cash in on a fad.