skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice use of matplotlib. I'd like to apply this to US states as well.

Although even between states the variation in test rate is so great that it's hard to gather much from it.

I personally use hospitalizations as a more accurate metric of total infections in the US. For example, Washington is being hailed as doing a great job to slow the virus down, but ~80% of the confirmed tests result in hospitalizations, because they still just don't test you otherwise [0]. Compare that with a more realistic hospitalization rate (many states with a lot of cases are around 10% -- who would have guessed it would be Louisiana and Florida doing the broad testing?)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2020_coronavir...
Then they would have no problem making it a coop.
I think it's teaching you something about how society should or shouldn't be designed. Whether this could be said to "put you ahead" might be the wrong way to think about it.
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I once mixed Settlers of Catane with Risk soldiers, to improve the former’s game military aspect. The result was surprisingly fun and balanced.

Edit: photo of board here http://unixorn.azurewebsites.net/img/catane_krieg.jpg
LinkedIn itself lets you export your CV as PDF. I never bother with anything else.
I agree with everything on this list. Been bit by most of these at one point or another. XID wraparound was the worst.

Ironically we avoided a lot of the replication bugs by accidentally deciding to use logical replication from the start, but that of course brought in a whole different set of bugs instead.

I'm surprised there wasn't a complaint about the vacuumer. That was probably my biggest single pain of running a large active cluster. There was never a good time to vacuum, but if you skipped it, it eventually happened automatically, usually at the worst possible time, when the database was most active.

To be fair I haven't managed postgres since 8.3, so maybe that got better?
If a bank says my money is federally insured, when it really isn't, I'm going to use another bank.

If a car salesman tells me a car has the feature I want, when it really doesn't, I go to another dealership.

When a salesman is honest, even when it hurts, it makes the company look good to me and I'm far more likely to buy something.

If you don't agree with the above, I wouldn't do business with you.
>> the hand you’re given, parents, status, genetics, etc pretty much decide the outcomes in reality.

> Did you know that the overwhelming majority of immigrants came to America with nothing but a suitcase?

I'm pretty sure they also had genetics.
I think the more interesting question isn't really what you carry but where you go. If you can control where you go (doesn't really matter when, as long as its >250 years ago) the obvious answer in my opinion is you take enough documentation to recreate the Bessemer process and steam engine, some historical prospecting maps, and as much gold as you can carry to pay for the manpower to build everything. If you pick the right spot (assuming it's populated) near known easily accessible iron, coal, and other mineral deposits, you'd be able to begin the industrial revolution centuries or millenia before it actually happened. The Romans had water wheels, rudimentary steam engines, steel, and coal but all of the easily accessible materials were spread out across several continents so there wasn't enough available to really develop towards industrialization. There's no real reason the technologies couldn't be bootstrapped with the right geography. It really isn't a stretch to add a section on gunpowder to the documentation and leap another age or two, bringing guns to the iron age. If my Empire Earth simulations are anything to go by, it would lead to total world domination in short order (which would then quickly collapse because long distance communication would still be centuries away).

The problem with taking something like aluminum is that until it was plentifully available, no one had any idea what to do with it and it wasn't really worth all that much. I've got a 1867 Scientific American with several articles/letters to the editor arguing back and forth over its future potential with one side emphasizing the fact that since it was so rare, few people had access to it to develop technology to use it and so there was little demand. You'd basically have to bring the rest of modern civilization with you to make the material useful and valuable in a human life time. Same with computers, anything that runs on refined fossil fuels like gasoline or electricity, and so on.
VLC can speed video or audio up/down on the fly, preserving audio pitch. I'm using it with audiobooks and old movies, and also occasionally (without pitch lock) to turn hard house into sweet groovy house or breakcore into playful idm, as suggested by RDJ himself—see https://youtube.com/watch?v=5yBvP3616Wc and https://youtube.com/watch?v=aWqf17mUyoQ

Btw, for some reason ffmpeg doesn't do well with changing speed of music—the result sounds poor compared to VLC. I found that `sox` gives better quality.
There’s s a (common) grammar mistake: “let’s” is a contraction of “let us”, it’s “lets”(in the sense of “allows” that you’re looking for.
Sure, we shouldn’t be extra paranoid and literally live in a clean room. Yes, the simulated room had zero circulation, which is unrealistic. However, the point stands that micro-droplets linger far more than you’d think. We should find ways to systematically improve the health of the population. Guidelines to cough into our elbows just don’t cut it. Flu vaccines are great but they’re not enough and they’re not universal.

My logic for subsidizing good HVAC also applies to other pathogen mitigation technologies. No-touch sinks in public areas are one example.
Maybe my terminology is wrong, but what I'm talking about is basically what you see with the biker and pen here, or the washing machine at 3:44:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6E6InIQ76Q&t=9s

They stay stable in the center whereas the rest of the frame is transformed. This necessarily requires introducing black/white crop frames into the image with all kinds of shapes and sizes, but it turns out incredibly smooth and doesn't lose any of the frame. It also requires no noticeable blurring at all from what I can tell. But that doesn't seem to be quite what's happening with these commands though.
The genetic argument doesn't really hold much water. You've got a lot of great ground to argue on, using something that's as contested as an argument in genetics isn't worth it when your argument can stand on its own merits.
Read sveiss' comments above for a good explanation of what it is/does.
You can still go if you are not taking orthogonal risks. We just cancelled our rock climbing vacation because we intended to do some stuff that's hard for us and I don't want to end up in a hospital for unrelated reason and take up the capacity. Otherwise (e.g. if we were going for a beach vacation), viewing lockdown as hugely net negative I'd totally go.

As far as I'm concerned, violating lockdown right now is basically civil disobedience - I normally run about once every 2-4 weeks, but if they close the park next to my house I'll make sure to go do it as often as my legs allow.
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Please correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Plaid uses an OAuth-Luke experience via an external tab/window to an encrypted sub domain of their website for authentication (so no middle man sniffing technically
possible).

Disclaimer: I do not work for Plaid, but have used it in the past.
Yeah, my understanding is that it's actually very hard to get ffmpeg not to do this, which is why I'd be interested in understanding exactly what this link is supposedly doing. I believe it's almost certainly iframe snapping. If anyone knows of anyway to enforce reencoding up to the first iframe in the copy, I'd love to hear it.
have you looked at asciidoc?
You probably are not the target audience.

As a graphics engineer, the more compelling use cases of ray tracing are things like visibility tests, which can be temporally stabilized by adding a low-discrepancy noise to each sample and used to perform leak-free global illumination. Samples can be used to feed other aspects of the pipeline like generating soft shadows, or atmospheric effects, etc.

It's an API tutorial, for professionals in the field. Ray tracing is just one tool in the toolbox, not the alpha and omega of how the frame gets composed.
Why do so many, like many immigrants, start from nothing and end up very successful if it was just a dice roll? I mean, there's always that factor but it's certainly not everything.
> The entire game was designed to be bad -- it's trying to show that owning land is evil and that who is rich in life is mostly based on luck.

First, the current rules aren't how the game was designed.

Second, the game was designed to show that private capitalist rent-seeking was a bad way to live because someone one and everyone else lost. It was half of a two-part game, where the other part was a socialist version where rents were paid to everyone to share, and everybody won when the poorest player doubled their money.
If Monopoly was designed to be bad, then every competitive game is designed to be bad.

> The winner is supposed to be the person who rolls the luckiest.

Not true. The person who makes the most deals probably wins. This is simple to see mathematically, as each deal is a win-win that benefits the dealmaker more than the other players.

Anyway, most popular kids games are wholly or mostly luck (Candyland, Parcheesi, Trouble, LIFE), and kids enjoy them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game
So Jobs was lower middle class, and led Apple to be the biggest company in the world.

You've made my point beautifully.

> made cash off of it

Yeah, a few bucks. So much money that he started Apple by selling his Beetle. A sorry state that probably 95% of Americans are above.

> Edison grew up in walking distance of a college and was able to take classes there.

And you can take MIT classes FOR FREE on youtube!

The word "college" does not appear in Edison's biography by Josephson until after he invented the light bulb. From page 42:

"The path of self-instruction and self-improvement was, for him, prolonged by many detours; even after years had passed, without money, without friends, it was not easy to enter upon the true vocation he already dreamed of for himself. His "university" was the rough, workaday
world; it was nightwork in shabby telegraph or railroad offices during a turbulent era of war and reconstruction; it was made up also of solitude and study in squalid rooming houses. He might have lost his way or gone
downhill, like so many others, in that long-drawn-out, often unhappy interlude of his youth. Yet when these "arduous years" (as he called them) were gone and he had come to manhood, something of iron had entered into him. What he had seen and learned, how he had learned it all, at so much effort, marked him with sharply individual traits of character and mind, setting him apart from those whose youth had been passed in sheltered ease, under wise and solicitous mentors."

I'm going to need to see a cite for your Edison claim that he was a privileged youth.

> it's really disappointing to see this line of thought coming from someone as intelligent as you

You'd have never heard of me if I'd believed that getting somewhere was not under my control, and if I'd believed the endless stream of people telling me I had zero chance.
#2 is explored by John Searle's Chinese Room argument, which is unfortunately completely misunderstood by most technologists working in AI, to their own peril.

This article is an excellent introduction:

http://www.dreamsongs.com/Searle.html

A relevant excerpt:

Searle goes on to contend that intentional behavior must be in response to real contingencies, not formal simulations of reality. If so, it would seem to follow that the capacity for intentional behavior is the result of what might be called phylogenic contingencies, and so would only be found in products of real evolution. In short, what Searle is saying is that, just like other biological activities such as digestion and photosynthesis, thought is intrinsically dependent on the biochemistry of its origin. Just as a formal simulation of digestion is not really digesting, a formal simulation of thought is not really thinking. And to tie this to the gender thought experiment, a formal simulation of gender is not gender, because it lacks biological structural and functional characteristics.

The "Simulation, Duplication and Evolution" section of the SEP article is also useful:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/#SimuDuplEvo...
I'm a single data point, but as a graphics engineer working on DDGI and having worked on SSR/SSAO, SDF shadows etc... I really do not care about the visuals of the tutorial haha. Clear greyscale images are honestly perfect for understanding exactly what's going on. The tutorial is meant to explain the mechanics, not dazzle you with a material shader.
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My guess so far is something like Firefox's history database.
This seems like selection bias. I would bet that far more people end up successful because they started out successful.
I agree. They deffo dropped the ball on this one.
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Not suggesting using it myself, merely saying this is where Microsoft is going with it. They don’t have a cross-platform XAML render. They’re trying to abstract away the OS in .NET Core, and XAML no longer fits the bill.
Frankly I'd rather them blow up my money than spend twenty times the original budget and ten times the schedule filling the pockets of companies like Boeing.
Isn’t that almost as bad? That means that if you don’t breath them in, they’ll have another chance of infecting you through surface contact and inevitable migration toward your face.
I agree, this article was a bit wierd and feels like there's an background agenda to it
Afaik ffmpeg requires a specific option to disable snapping to key frames. Don't remember which, but it can be easily found with a web search.
I also use markdown in vim a lot, and some of these "things it got wrong" make it worse, because you end up having to use html to do things like tables. or numbered lists aren't actually numbered in order, etc.

I'm actually surprised the absence of tables didn't make this list.
yeah, the first impression is a bit cluttered/overwhelming, especially if you're just looking to do a very basic trim with a preview. but a simple tutorial with some annotated screenshots could fix that.
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No doubt that this person made a huge mistake, but...

Is this seriously a thing? A bank that uses one-factor login? Not only that, but a weak one too? This seems absolutely ridiculous. Why would anyone use such a terrible bank? Isn't the bank at least required to try to protect the customers money? It's usually not that hard to get a hold of a number belonging to someone else. Where in the world is this?
Strange idea. Elon musk started in SA. Surely being born to Harvard professors in America is the ‘luckiest’ play but most of them are not billionaires. The winklevoss twins mismanaging their Facebook idea had a massive impact on their long term success.

The people that are born in first world countries and become radicalised over the internet to the point where they join a foreign fighting force in a third world country are squandering their ‘luckiest’ move of being born. That’s a win??
reStructuredText on these, for anyone that’s curious or thinking about it:

1. If you use “5.”, it’ll give you a five. If you want auto-numbering, use “#.” as your prefix. (While I’m thinking of it: I hate that using actual Unicode bullets like “•” doesn’t work in Markdown, and that in https://talk.commonmark.org/t/unicode-character-bullet-u-202... it’s been actively rejected for CommonMark.)

2. Code blocks are by indentation only, no fencing, but avoids confusion about indentation levels by defining all of that stuff properly and having it match visual usage, rather than Markdown’s crazy “four spaces, but in certain situations we’ll let you get by with 3, 2, 1 or even 0—but if you then seek to nest, remember to bump it up to eight rather than just N+4”. Code blocks are indicated by `::` at the end of or as the entire previous paragraph, which is esoteric, but also fits in very well with its directive syntax, which is how you can attach extra metadata to code blocks. It’s definitely not as simple as the newer Markdown fencing approach, though it fits into the rest of reStructuredText in a sane and principled way so that it’s not at all hard. Still, I think that a new version of reStructuredText would quite possibly include fencing in some form—or maybe directives would be resyntaxed to be able to be fenced rather than indented, though achieving that while still allowing nesting would take care.

3. Markdown in HTML in Markdown? That Markdown extends HTML is the real problem here, and is both its greatest strength and help in adoption, and its catastrophic weakness. reStructuredText is a language of its own that doesn’t extend anything, so that style of HTML output is typically done by defining new directives, which can then contain reStructuredText. It’s strictly less powerful, but it composes way better. As a workaround, the `raw` directive lets you put in arbitrary HTML (or LaTeX, &c.).

4. By deliberately not being HTML, reStructuredText handles this sort of thing much better. Each node in the document can have classes (which will end up as class="…" in HTML, something else in LaTeX, &c.). You can do things like `.. class:: …` to apply a class to the next block (heading, paragraph, list, &c.). Most directives support a :class: option. You can define new roles so that :classname:`…` will do what you desire. And none of this is then tied to HTML.

5. reStructuredText lets you define anchors at any place in the document (which can also be used for index entries when writing books or things like that). `.. _anchor-name:` above the heading will do it thus. This protects you against the anchor changing (and thus breaking links) if you change the text of the heading. Any form of automatic heading ID generation is left to the software to decide, e.g. Sphinx generates IDs by default.

6. Field lists. A field list at the start of the document is treated as document bibliographic data, and you can put anything in there you like.

I myself prefer reStructuredText in almost all regards, but I scarcely use it any more other than for a couple of types of personal documents, because of the ubiquity of Markdown. It was similar with Mercurial and Git.
There's a saying in Russia, or rather a hope some opposition figures voiced, that one day "the fridge will beat the TV", i.e. the economic mismanagement and poor living conditions (the empty fridge) will overpower the TV (full of propaganda) and the people will become disillusioned with powers that be. Alas, so far it has never happened in Russia (the closest was probably 2011) - there's usually just enough money from the exports and more than enough propaganda.

There's hope that the current situation will end when it becomes dire for millions of newly unemployed and bankrupt, and the fridge will too defeat the lockdown insanity.
I dislike the cybernetic approach because I find that it first commits to epistemic helplessness, saying that we know nothing of particles. Perhaps that was reasonable when QM was so young, but these days we can use QM for a better answer. This isn't complete, but it helps a lot.

First, note that CPT-symmetry can be extended up to the macroscopic level. Einstein's thought experiments about time involve macroscopic entanglement. For example, given that a red ball and a blue ball are each in their own boxes, and one possesses one box, then the box is entangled to have either a red or blue ball inside. We can use linear logic to reason about these situations; one holds the multiplicative disjunction of red and blue.

Second, note that in order to make MWI's numbers work, we need not just branching of possibilities, but also coalescing. Imagine that, in empty space, we suddenly have a single virtual-particle pair; the diagram would look like () with time vertical. At the beginning, we have one universe; during the split, two universes, one for each chirality of the pair; afterwards, one universe. When we split, the probabilities of each possible universe decrease. Now, imagine doing this with more pairs, and verify that the Binomial Theorem manifests. This gives the same rise to macrostate-like entropy as Boltzmann's approach to thermodynamics, but only using QM particles and QM logic; a QM state is likelier when more of the many worlds in MWI would support its existence.

Putting these together, we may conclude that Loschmidt's paradox is an incomplete part of a bigger paradoxical complaint: We can see that there are time-reversible and time-irreversible behaviors, both in particles and in macroscopic systems. The time-reversible behaviors seem to govern resources; the time-irreversible behaviors seem to govern entropy. The two logics for these two sets of behaviors are distinct; linear logic and intuitionistic logic can intertwine, but here they don't appear to do so. Why not?
as an author i'd say its rare to change headers, while its easy for the user to guess the right link if the id is broken.

careful not to penalize the 99% usecase for a slightly better 1% usecase.
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In the future all Windows applications will be sandboxed, MSIX was the first step merging UWP and Win32 worlds after the failed experiments with Project Centipede, Android and Cocoa integration into Windows 8.x.

The upcoming Windows 10X, uses sandboxing for everything, including Win32.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWZJrkeLOrbZ3CMHpbglE...

This is intended for languages that require some kind of interpreter to run, and to have OS integration out of the box as if they were "native" apps on Windows.
Man I hate those ticks. I have no idea what arcane key combination on my keyboard I need to do to get them. Maybe it's easier on a US keyboard.
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PWA are multiplatforms while C# still hasn't a first party multiplatform GUI toolkit. Which is shame, because the dev experience in XAML+C# is really good, and Silverlight out of Browser was exactly that.
Sadly its not a well paid skill on average (As in, excluding famous youtubers or whatever)
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Some tools are now allowing you to manually specify the ID in this way:

### Things about stuff {#stuff}

Hugo works that way by default, and I copied that syntax for Zola in https://github.com/getzola/zola/pull/685 last year.