skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was wondering whether a design using total internal reflection within 90-degree prisms at each end of the arms would be feasible for an instrument of this precision. I assume it is not, and I have a few guesses as to why not: 1) the Fabry-Perot resonator arrangement of mirrors in each arm creates a much higher intensity between the mirrors, and this is important for getting a measurable signal out; 2) the resonator rejects a lot of noise; 3) there's no good way to get power into, and a signal out of, an arrangement of prisms; 4) an arrangement of prisms puts too much glass in the path. I would be interested in hearing what the actual answer is.

Update: there's a lot more information here (though it is about the Advanced LIGO concept), but I don't think it addresses the failings of a prism arrangement directly:

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0264-9381/34/1/01...
Doing market research for the Ballmer Peak
> from a total employment standpoint, there is no difference

There are huge differences. The obvious, but unstated, difference is the existing network of businesses that already work together.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/14/the-net-worth-of-the-average...
SpaceX Starship Prototype Collapses in Third Failed Test
I can vouch for this, having grown up on 'food stamps' as well as most of friends it really isnt enough for a family.

A few times as an adult I've also fallen on hard times and used snap benefits, it was enough for me as a single guy who can cook and knows to eat cheaply, but its hard and not fun.

However where I lived you need a mailing address to get benefits so when I was really down and I was homeless I got no benefits.

That's why this meal program in NYC is so great, it says right at the bottom there is no need for registration, it's actually accessible to everyone.
Yes absolutely.

In this time of crisis, where every hour of every day brings a new horror, it's like this is the one thing we can all be mad at.

Classic painting of the bike shed discussion.
Certainly sounds like runaway automation - perhaps spammers do this to check whether the number is valid?
It really pains me that Safari has become the new MSIE 6.
They can slow down repeated failed attempts to stop "dictionary" attacks.
https://jobs.apple.com/en-us/search?location=china-CHNC&team...

Look for yourself how many postings they have for software and hardware positions in China.
Many States Have Laws Against Wearing Masks in Public
Yep. Netflix's complement is "content that is only/best experienced on Netflix." If they develop consumer tastes, and reduce costs, for content that is 4K and more suitable to stream than to distribute on physical media, they develop an ecosystem that becomes a natural organic sales channel.

Of course, they don't want to commoditize competitors to their complement. They're not sponsoring projects that are useful to amateur YouTubers, for instance. But enabling anime producers to move towards digital workflows is right up their alley.
Equating banning plastic bags to feeding the hungry probably makes it harder for someone to not see you as an amoral monster.

And if we do believe you are an amoral monster, which I do not, what does that say about what we believe about people worse than you?

If you are near our best, which you probably are, how else can we hope to help people than by leveraging government? It should be quite clear to everyone that personal donations do not even come close to covering need.
Nope,because of the way it works. So in the beginning when the model is being trained on the labeled data, it will make many mistakes. So it's confidence for either cat or dog will be low. Hence, in that case unlabeled data are not used at all.

As training progresses, the model will become better at labeled data. And so it can start predicting with high confidence on unlabeled images that are trivial/similar-looking/same distribution with labeled data. So, gradually unlabeled images get started being used as part of training. As training progresses, more and more unlabeled data are added.

The mathematics of the combined loss function and curriculum learning part talks about this.
Not really a fair accounting at all. Everyone points to local efforts to control information about the disease, but that lasted a couple days, not two months.

Genetic analysis indicates a single index patient sometime around mid-November. In late December, there was a large cluster of pneumonia cases with multiple patients at the same hospital in Wuhan, which were mostly linked to the Huanan Seafood Market.

And this is exactly what you would expect. One case in mid-November, 2-3 cases a week later, 4-9 cases by early December, 16-81 cases by mid December, and maybe a couple hundred cases by late December. And among these cases, only a minority are going present to a hospital for treatment. Most will get sick, but simply stay home.

On December 31st, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission became aware of the Huanan Seafood Market cluster and issued a notice to local hospitals. That same day, Li Wenliang made a statement to friends about the unknown pneumonia cases, which was shared by friends to social media. Local authorities arrested Li Wenliang and made him sign a statement acknowledging a misdemeanor, and ordered him not to talk about the illness publicly.

Later that same day, Chinese officials notified the World Health Organization of an outbreak of pneumonia of unknown cause.

On January 1st, local authorities closed the seafood market.

On January 7th, Chinese researchers identified SARS-CoV-2 as the causative agent in the outbreak.

On January 12th, Chinese researchers shared the viral genome with the world health community.

On January 22nd, with about 500 confirmed cases, China locked down Wuhan, and all of Hubei Province the next day.

There were clearly some local efforts at suppressing information about the virus, but at a time that very little was known about it, and apparently all at the local level.

Somehow this is seen by some in the West as state-sanctioned efforts at suppression, but the President of the United States saying it's just the flu, nothing to worry about, there are very few cases, most of them are getting better, it's totally under control - that's not suppressing information, just efforts to project calm.

The reality is that China's response to this novel virus represents a new gold standard for emergent disease response. In terms of both speed and efficacy, it was the best response the world has ever seen.
Medical science barely existed at that time.
As others have said, Nim has plugabble garbage collectors, some are quite advanced.

In addition there is active work on a swift like reference counting, lifetime based memory management option. This will be suitable for hard real-time use cases.
I asked the owner for a 20% cut. We had some tough negotiations on my salary 2 years ago and I wanted to express my willingness to share the 'pain'. So far she hasn't taken me up on it.

*I don't know how to take the fact she hasn't taken me up on it :/ but I do adore the company ~ 13 years in service.
Google Duo and FaceTime are able to do E2E with group chats.
I think people were expecting a bigger influx than I’ve seen. The real, noteworthy effect seems to be seen in the extreme decrease among certain publishers. Those in the sports, and music industry as an example.

My read on the negligible positive is that those are mostly lifestyle and entertainment publishers. People already spent a lot of time on those properties naturally. Also community forums are still very active if they were active prior to this.

The thing to watch is who is able to carry their infrastructure through this with the lower ad rates. If you’re big spending on AWS, et al, you might start considering getting a little closer to bare metal.

Note that publishers with lower overhead and can hold out longer usually benefit from the earlier publisher shutdowns, as their ad impressions get soaked up by whoever else remains.

Having watched the publisher world back in 07-08 this is so far feeling very familiar.
Research In Motion meant nothing for most people while the Blackberry brand was strong and instantly recognizable. 37Signals was also renamed after the much stronger brand of their core product. Apple and iPhone are both just as powerful.

Companies like Apple, Nike, Mercedes, Coca-Cola will never completely change the name (maybe some variations here and there, without touching the core name) simply because the brand is so recognizable. It would be throwing money and image down the drain and it would just cause confusion.
On the other hand, they disclosed those documents in the court proceeding (I'm assuming they didn't have to, if they can withdraw it now). So it seems the court is just asking them to follow normal discovery procedure, in allowing the other side to actually look at the facts. Google's barrister should've probably expected something like this.

This case is highly interesting though, and should give pause to any company operating off opaque algorithms it can't explain. Personally, I don't object to this, just like personal data, it isn't all upsides - if you're profiting of these things, you need to accept the downsides, too.

To be honest, I'm more surprised Google can't lay out why they were de-ranked in some other way. While it might give some insight, surely it's better than revealing the entire algo? (edit: I guess that might open the door to further, exploratory lawsuits)
Drinking alcohol increases the risk of mouth cancer, pharyngeal (upper throat) cancer, oesophageal (food pipe) cancer, laryngeal (voice box) cancer, breast cancer, bowel cancer and liver cancer.

But that doesn't really seem to slow anyone down.
It gives access code only to things that the user has given a domain access to, which is not something the attacker can influence.
I think it's more likely to satisfy copyright law otherwise you'd just be downloading books for free. You can use Adobe Digital Editions which handles the DRM, so you can read offline as well. Online works too. I've not used it much, I think some books have limited copies available to borrow as well so you may need to join a waitlist.
Dup is very interesting to me. Does that mean that in Nim all functions will be impure by default, and that it's considered idiomatic to modify the input? I guess it's nice that they're trying to make behavior consistent. It just seems like the opposite of the recent directions I've seen other languages take.
Practically? Yes it will cause all kinds of chaos.

Theoretically? Depends on the transport and it's characteristics. There could be a theoretical gain to using something else.
I use it to control my lights and heating when I'm in the same room as my computer (which is also my TV room).
I have heard that sometimes they are recording your voice to be used to impersonate you for other scams (e.g. bank transactions).
You can get different types of "bail out" for different types of companies... It can be "much more expensive" for private equity firm than "normal" SME... You save as many jobs and you save a lot of taxpayers money
That’s bad. My work hours got reduced to 32 hours with corresponding pay cut. Not a big deal for me but I assume a lot of these people can barely make ends meet even while working. Let’s hope the unemployment benefits in the stimulus bill really work.
Yes, the multiple adversaries and unending situation can make it difficult to apply to business. Business also has a lot of specialized operation methods that take up all the capacity for meta discussion in many organizations. In many cases this is good, e.g., most of the benefits of Boyd’s thinking as it pertains to individual sales performance are already found in good training material. In other cases, such as the cycle of SWOT analyses followed by initiative rollouts, Boyd is nearly absent. There have been some good efforts to reframe marketing as cost-efficiently understanding and anticipating market trends in order to reliably surprise the market which are closer to Boyd’s teaching of how to gain energy advantage than to the misunderstanding of OODA as outworking the problem. In short, it just depends on the business aspect and what kind of thinking is possible by the people working on it.

Edit: a simpler way to say all that might be that Boyd was too wonky for the military, so it’s even harder to apply to business. The principals can be repackaged and taught to people who don’t need to know OODA. The resentment of the people who write about OODA, in my opinion, partially comes from the knowledge that they would be unable to directly apply OODA in a real organization because they can’t teach the term without losing the full meaning. But it is possible to teach the meaning in business.
I’m in the print industry too.

Things are definitely uncertain at the moment. Our company was fairly small, and we were growing incredibly fast. COVID19 has cut our sales by 90%. As an industry with high fixed costs, this is devastating and I’ll most likely be laid-off in a coming weeks.

I spent years trying to get this company off the ground, and as soon as we picked up steam the market tanked.

I have my doubts about the long term recovery of the print market, so I think this is will be my exit from the industry.
It's almost as if you get ideas to improve products as time goes on. No, that can't be it.
> ad views aren't importanT

You sure? If it’s a supply and demand market, in increase in eyeballs can crash CPMs as the competition to get your ad to display craters.

Kinda like how a small decrease in traffic (say 10%) can turn a highway from gridlock to free flowing.
I’d be more interested in seeing the actual unemployment rate presented like this, not the weekly claim numbers.
Replit is perfect for this.
Relevant to say Zoom has responded to this.

https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/04/01/facts-around-zoom-...

"In light of recent interest in our encryption practices, we want to start by apologizing for the confusion we have caused by incorrectly suggesting that Zoom meetings were capable of using end-to-end encryption."

And

"To be clear, in a meeting where all of the participants are using Zoom clients, and the meeting is not being recorded, we encrypt all video, audio, screen sharing, and chat content at the sending client, and do not decrypt it at any point before it reaches the receiving clients."

As others have said, the moment you have to interact with the public phone system, decryption has to happen before the "end".
Makes me wonder if this can be beaten by changing the telephone system to ring continuously if an unused phone number is dialed.
Food production and distribution has not ceased, nor is there any reason it will. Getting that food to people who cannot afford it is a different issue.
I have a physics degree. It turns out a bachelor’s degree doesn’t help much, and I was too burnt out at the time to go to grad school. I took a few introductory programming classes and I’ve been trying to get back into it lately. Try talking to a bartender sometime, you may find out they’re not as dumb as rocks.
I strictly self-quarantined for the recommended 14 days, plus 3 days following the end of symptoms.

I doubt many people are going to be down for the ~7 weeks of strict quarantine you're suggesting.
it's incredibly stupid to deploy it during the firing process, preventing people from seeing the entire video.
I am not necessarily saying the government is doomed to failure, I just want to remind people that when they believe the govt. intervening will solve problems that they often are the cause of many problems as well.

As for your response that only the American government is highly despised by it is citizens I have to disagree with that, in fact the one universal feature I've found across all internet commentators, admittedly not a scientific survey, is that they all complain about their government, UK, Brazilians, Indians, in fact it often seems that the Chinese and the Russians are the people who love their government the most.

Beyond the internet you can also check out the riots and protests France had last year, generally not an example of people pleased with their government.

Ultimately however my argument against such was focused on a matter of principle and philosophy; however I am a pragmatic person and recognize I live in a real world and that compromise and discussion need to be had, I am cautioning against the simplistic thinking that "hey lets start doing x, y, or z to solve problem A, anyone who disagrees is a monster that hates people."

That kind of thinking leads to divisiveness, the Reds vs the Greens, shuts down discussion and leads to scorched earth tribalism.

Which that was what I was originally responding to, is the idea that because I have reservations around the idea of "just give everyone a house, food and healthcare" I am a miserly scrooge mcduck that hates poor people.
Where can people volunteer with tech skills? Is there a demand for it?
If you buy mainly beans, rice, flour, frozen chicken, etc for your monthly food you will be far under $500. It's all the other distracting items in the grocery store that add up.
> Now that congress has passed the law, it's up to the EXECUTIVE BRANCH of the government to make it happen. There's a politician at the head of that - POTUS.

This is implemented through the agencies of the Executive branch, the operations for which are almost entirely run by bureaucrats. When Trump entered office, he didn't just fire all of the bureaucrats at the Department of Labor, he just replaced its head.

The folks that work on the day-to-day operations of processing unemployment insurance claims, or maintaining/improving the systems remain largely unchanged. Their employment is a function of the budget and funding, which is determined by Congress, and then assented by the POTUS.

In the case of CARES, the Senate unanimously passed it, and POTUS quickly signed it into law. He is not going to micro-manage its implementation. It's now up to the bureaucrats.
They should get one vote per person, the same as anyone else. That that puts them at a numerical disadvantage is their own fault for fostering economic inequality in the first place.
I’ve been trying out various EdX classes on data science. Any suggestions?
Well if there's one thing I hate cleaning more than a French press it's a sieve! Or do you have a sieve specifically for the press? That seems like a good idea.
You're comparing a software error (Boeing) to a hardware error (SpaceX).

Boeing's hardware is effectively finalized, but the control software is still undergoing testing with the finalized (i.e., "frozen") hardware specs.
I come from Wisconsin and I've been bit by ticks so many times. If you don't deal with them you probably miss out on how tiny these little motherfuckers are. They look like freckles. That pic with the dime is the same one on my leg there.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/vs4d1k8CGPekvPUC7

Now imagine if it's not on your leg but in your hair. Yeah, good luck finding that. I think it's also relevant to say that the bullseye appears less than half the time that people get lyme, and it's not always a bullseye. I've had weird scaly white rashes, etc.

My advice is go here and buy medicine so you don't have to bother with a doctor. https://fishmoxfishflex.com/collections/fish-antibiotics

Sucks, but that's the life. Take care of yourself.

edit: I highly recommend this video if you're interested in learning more about tick-bourne diseases in the midwest, Lyme is often just the name applied to a bunch of diseaes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N9rx1Vqxbc
Just because other companies have pulled a similar dick move, doesn't make what Bird did not a dick move.
Why do people cheer for sports teams? Many nerds avoid team sports, but we share some of the same psychology as the more typical.

Many people like to dream big, but most of the time life is mundane. SpaceX's efforts are the embodiment of sci-fi fantasy with a chance of becoming real. Why not cheer?
It's not remotely equivalent to compare a year spent dead to a year spent indoors. You need to put a large multiplier on that.
That's a great initiative. Basic "you won't go to bed hungry" removes a major stress factor from people's lives who are down on their luck
How does this apply here, though? I don't think it does...
I’ll never understand what people see in prologue
Sure, the govt says it's effective immediately but the banks are saying something different... typical bureaucracy at work. It will take some time to sort it out. For a lot of (esp. small) companies it's going to be too little, too late. They don't have the cash reserves to go even weeks making payroll with little to no income. Companies with stronger balance sheets are trying to forecast what things look like on the other side and are concluding 'we're not going need all these people, better to cut back now'.

So it will help companies with a stronger balance sheets who expect activity to support the staff they want to keep, for a while, who are willing to take the risk believing that the govt will follow through as it says it will.

Contrary to what the talking heads are saying re: the rescue/bailout bills: this is going to hurt like hell with no quick recovery likely.
These are macros that generate user configurable codegen macros. I couldn't hard code register assignments so everything dynamically generated is prepared with these monstrosities. They also can't have fixed names since some need to be invoked multiple times with different parameters.

FWIW I didn't intend for things to go this far. I just started with some simple macros and it snowballed.
I'm Quarantined in a Truck
Because they interact less and interact less with world travellers, have less world class workers imported from around the globe. They are spread out more, take public transit less. Doesn't mean it won't spread but in a rural setting you see thousands of people less per day on average.
There are tens of DBAs, hundreds of developers, hundreds of application users, those are the users in those groups.

I have done my fair share of integration with AD, including in some of the largest enterprises existing on this planet, where you have hundreds of groups of developers and admins. I read the RFCs and the documentation, in most cases, it is actually quite good and detailed, both on their LDAP and on their Kerberos implementation details.

> I have never come across this kind of setup in a normal enterprise environment. There, you have everything behind some kind of enterprise software. Data entry, auditing, etc.

Well, for you everything is behind the enterprise software, but I'm among those that need implementing it.
> If poor people are to become middle class people

If this is the goal, you need to be pushing to radically restructure the way society and the economy functions. You cannot have everyone employed at, say, $60K a year in the one we have.

Most of the time when people say this, they prefer to focus on individuals rather than systemic issues - "this one person pulled them self up by their own bootstraps - surely others can, too. And "others" can, and do. That leaves people who can't. Now what?

> I think it's better if we strive for a minimalistic government

The problem is capabilities. Libertarian fantasy-states work in frontiers and sometimes in low-population, high-homogeneity areas. As population increases, many public goods need management[1] and public management means the state necessarily takes on more functions. So you need to work on your plan to massively reduce population or get yourself a new planet if this is your goal.

Your desire to drive self-sufficiency by intentionally depriving those in need cannot work in our current world and simply results in performative cruelty.

> Half of being poor is in the mind

Have you been poor? I have have been very poor. I grew up that way. I know what you're talking about, and I suspect you honestly don't understand how condescending and insulting it is.

[1] Growing up in a very rural town in Tennessee, people used to routinely burn their trash. Try that in San Francisco.