skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
BillShark Evaluate: Is that this app value it?
No, it's an interpreter for CIL. Wine is mostly an implementation of the Windows API, not an interpreter or emulator of any kind.
Restaurant food has a lot more fat and salt. Even if it seems healthy. A salad has hidden sugars and more processed foods as condiments than a salad you’d toss at home.

I used to be work in the restaurant kitchen ..ok, granted it was Michelin starred ones which guarantees ungodly amounts of butter and salt...but the underlying philosophy of any restaurant is ..make it tasty and addictive and memorable so the punter keeps returning for more. Restaurants rely on foot traffic from regulars. Especially regular lunch/breakfast joints and casual eateries. That’s what keeps them afloat.

The take out culture has made it worse because we don’t get to sit down and eat and converse etc. (the French are better at this more than any other). It makes one eat more food and enjoy less.

We have switched to shoveling food in front of television or a quick lunch. It’s convenience over taste or health. This certainly ends up with lots of empty calories.

I am only talking about my observations in America. And then there is the ridiculous amount of restaurants competing with each other. So there is really no need to cook at home. Perhaps the silver lining is that people will cook more at home during this covid shut in. And perhaps get healthier eating/food habits.
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I can certainly see your point, but in my experience of late, email communication is rarely used to host lively communication. It's killer in this role was IRC, Slack, Discord, and other real-time communication channels. It's not until this live communication has come to a head that email is used to preserve the decisions and forward them to leadership or outside companies.

So while some intelligent pruning may be of use, it's been made much less valuable over time. I've been added to a few lengthy email chains late in the process, and the lack of pruning was not even really noticeable.
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I want to point out that somebody somewhere will put that on their CV.

It also must be interesting to meet with friends and explain to them what you are doing for work.
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I quit my software engineering job and spent two years driving from Alaska to Argentina through Latin America.

Then years later I quit again and drove three years right around Africa through 35 countries.

For anyone that wants to do something similar I also created wikioverland.org
One of the things I know Simon Peyton Jones spent a great deal of time looking at during his time at Microsoft Research was Software Transactional Memory, and in all of the videos I saw he emphasized the composability problem. I don't think it would be particularly wrong to assert that he spent about ten years thinking about this problem. Might still be for all I know.

Interesting that his wikipedia page doesn't seem to mention it. I'm a little sad that STM didn't seem to pan out, but maybe someone will try again someday on top of a Rust-like object ownership semantics (some sort of escape analysis for shared stated).
My guess is that it would be much more expensive unless it's a frequently accessed image. CPU and GPU time is much more expensive than storage costs on any cloud provider.
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I wonder if there's a way to do this more like traditional compression; performance is a huge issue for compression, and taking inspiration from a neural network might be better than actually using one. Conceptually, this is like a learned dictionary that's captured by the neural net, it's just that this is fuzzier.
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Azure App service lets you do this. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service/container...
Yes, 2 full standard deviations would be the higher (ie, lower) extreme of my "within a std.dev. or two" ballpark.

I use that ballpark because I'm told it's (very roughly) the population that my students were randomly selected from. My methodology isn't perfect, to be sure, but I'm not pulling numbers out of thin air :)

The specific criteria is that none of my students had an IEP. And, by definition, everyone more than two standard deviations from mean had an IEP.

Now, probably there are a lot of students with IEPs who are less than two standard deviations from the mean. Hard to know who those students were in terms of the IQ distribution. Probably a lot of them are on the lower end, but possibly learning disabilities are more smoothly distributed than that. And I also don't know how many students were excluded, so even if we knew where to concentrate their mass in the IQ distribution, it wouldn't help.

It's worth noting that this means I also never worked with students who tested above two standard deviations from the mean. "Gifted" students had their own special education that ran concurrently with the period of the day when the enrichment activities were done. I guess the assumption is they'd be fine, but I'm told by some teachers that's not necessarily the case.
I support the second half of your comment. All websites (webapps excluded) should strive for as little JS as possible. It isn't all that hard to support IE11 for most things, if you aren't doing anything super crazy with your design.

The first half though...we have grateful degradation for this reason. There's no reason to serve larger woff fonts to all users when it is so easy to use it as a fallback, preferring woff2 when supported. There are a lot of simple ways to improve the experience and data consumption for modern devices without sacrificing functionality in IE11.
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There's no mention of any of the promised Wayland improvements (which I'd been looking forward to).

It's a bit unclear if it hasn't made it to the final release, or if it's just a matter of the Linux userbase being too small for them to announce Linux-specific changes.
Spreading misinformation is bad. However, maybe casting media into the memory hole risks creating glorified digital martyrs.

I wish the WHO made more transparent arguments about the utility of masks. Their failure and apparent flip-flop gives the crazies low-hanging fruit and ethos.
https://dev.dictummortuum.com/ I am a programmer, so I write techy stuff. The basic premise though is that I keep everything succinct.

Not much content or traffic.
> Somehow I feel like that's water under the bridge at this point.

As Heraclitus said, no man ever steps in the same river twice.

Yet the river is just as eager to sweep you away as it ever was. Unless you intend to be willfully naive, past encounters with the river should inform your future expectations of the river. Who in the 1990s could have predicted that in the 2020s Microsoft would be a distributor of spyware? Every damn Microsoft critic saw that coming.
You need it to work on ITAR related projects. I worked in a company that had internally "subcontracted" uncleared employees from another unit for design work. One was belatedly found out to be a Canadian citizen and was removed the next day.
I thought about doing something similar in university. But I used LLVM as the compiler backend: https://github.com/lostmsu/CodeBlock

Written in F# of course.
> elevetors have screens and touchpanel buttons.

I've not encountered systems like this. How do they handle accessibility for the blind? Are the physical buttons still present?
Agreed! Asking people how they feel and jotting that down on a piece of paper isn't science. Similar to social and nutrition "sciences" that gear more toward PR angle and "number of news outlets talking about my paper" than legit science.

They should all be relegated back to the arts and crafts.
I got a Sansa Clip (something or other) around 2012. I barely tolerated it for a few years until I discovered Rockbox. Now, it's a joy to use! I would gladly use it every day if given the chance.

I hear new batteries get manufactured from time to time, and my parents have a Clip that they don't use if mine breaks.
Yes, I installed Jitsi Meet over the weekend and enabled auth so you need credentials to start a new conference, but anyone with the link (and optionally password too) can join unauthenticated.

I followed these instructions to add the auth https://github.com/jitsi/jicofo#secure-domain
The hospitalization rate is dependent on the denominator, how many people you test.

Even NYC is doing just fine. Number of beds needed was overestimated, Cuomo himself said they have enough respirators, and the hospital ship has a handful of patients on it.

The unnecessary panic diverts attention away from real problems like lack of PPE. We ordered GM to make respirators when what we really need, even in NYC, is PPE.
Not surprising, was wondering how SoftBank seemingly walked away so easily.

If you are Softbank do you use this Covid crisis to back WeWork in to a corner even if their suit is legitimate as they might run out of cash before it reaches the courts?

From what I understood SoftBank already owns a majority of WeWork so how does the company they own, suing them work?
"Compose on Kubernetes"[1] seems to be what they're advocating at the moment, and it's included in Docker Desktop. It's probably an OK first step for simpler deployments, though I suspect in order to do any troubleshooting, one would have to learn k8s anyway.

1. https://github.com/docker/compose-on-kubernetes
I'll venture that it's "the work" that's at the center of transformation, spirituality, self-actualization. Pick your modality: therapy, AA, fitness, yoga, meditation, many others.. anything that leads you to truth, awareness, empowerment, accountability.

You can find references to this in recovery, relationships ("Looking for [..], someone who's done the work..."), etc.
They cite what looks like this book in the footer

https://www.amazon.com/Traditional-Colors-Japan-Japanese/dp/...

Although it references a 2007 edition.
how do I deal with this as a consumer when... I go buy a router from target... bring it home. 4 months later there's a security upgrade which also changes the DNS resolution behavior to give me ads.

What's my recourse as a consumer in this case? return to target? return to dlink or whoever manufactured it?
Okay so jitsi can't be the "youtube" itself?
The Mythical Man Month is arguably the most important CS (or software development if you like) book ever written, and it's an easy read. Still relevant.
This is not true at all. If you have three groups, an experimental, placebo group, and control group and you find strong durable lasting effects in the placebo group that's still a placebo effect.
That's very admirable behavior. If he assents, please do share his identity -- even if privately.
Just remember that the Federal government ended up making money on the automaker and bailouts (quite apart from all the jobs that were saved).
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Things that are called ML/AI that aren’t
I don't buy this. I understand the use of your term 'threaded', but these are unconditional and therefore can be incorporated into the instruction pipeline with little or no overhead. Here's a very old SO post, CPus won't have got worse since then

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5127833/meaningful-cost-...

"But in general, on modern processors, there is minimal cost for an unconditional jump. It's basically pretty much free apart from a very small amount of instruction cache overhead. It will probably get executed in parallel with neighbouring instructions so might not even cost you a clock cycle. "
You're correct IFF the TOS constitute a valid contract. Contracts can be invalid for a number of reasons, including "one party wasn't made aware they were entering a contract".

>Yes, your click on "I agree to the TOS" is binding on you

There is no such button in this particular case.

>no, no one cares that you were closing your eyes or crossing your fingers or whatever.

This is a straw man. Nobody is claiming this.

>Your use of the service shows your agreement.

That very much depends.
The performance of the fs is not really related to the container fs (apfs seems like it could be great for a container fs, in theory), but rather the fs being shared across the VM barrier which enables sharing developer-local files with the container.
is there an explanation for stock buybacks that isn't ' evil stockholders'?

edit: this was an actual question not a rhetorical one. curious why the downvotes?
I just launched my blog today coincidentally:

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Why? because it's just so hard to learn a concept by merely reading a blog post without implementing a basic version it yourself.
There's a class of databases called EAVT databases which include time

Which is a cool model if you think about the world as observations of facts over time
> Most forms of depression can be cured with self-care.

That's a very strong claim to make so nonchalantly and confidently without referring to a source.
http://hjerpbakk.com I try to write an article every time Google search fails to help me solve a problem. I also write about my personal projects and what I've learned as a leader and software engineer.
Docker would be nice indeed, an helm chart would be even more convenient.
If we substitute "information" for "image", "low information" for "low resolution" and "high information" for "high resolution", perhaps compression could be obtained generically on any data (not just images) by taking a high information bitstream, using a CNN or CNN's (as per this paper) to convert it into a shorter, low information bitstream plus a tensor, and then an entropy (difference) series of bits.

To decompress then, reverse the CNN on the low information bitstream with the tensor.

You now have a high information bitstream which is almost like your original.

Then use the entropy series of bits to fix the difference. You're back to the original.

Losslessly.

So I wonder if this, or a similar process can be done on non-image data...

But that's not all...

If it works with non-image data, it would also say that mathematically, low information (lower) numbers could be converted into high information (higher) numbers with a tensor and entropy values...

We could view the CNN + tensor as mathematical function, and we can view the entropy as a difference...

In other words:

Someone who is a mathematician might be able to derive some identities, some new understandings in number theory from this...
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The public zoom filling showed Zoom had a lot of co-located servers. From their SEC filing.

"We currently serve our users from 13 co-located data centers in Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, the Netherlands and the United States. We also utilize Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure for the hosting of certain critical aspects of our business. "
I don't think we agree on that and it's relative. Not all people agree on stay-at-home/confinement orders. I personally see them as an authoritarian measure and I think everyone should judge for himself whether he wants to expose himself to COVID-19 risks or not.

It is in the nature of public health that "everyone should judge for himself" guarantees epidemics. Because like it or not, the choices that you make for yourself affect me. You may decide that you'll survive so you don't alter your behavior. But that spreads the disease and makes it more likely that my immunocompromised sister dies.

The result is that public health provides the most clear-cut cases where we have to choose between individual rights and the public good. But we are loathe to make that choice. Therefore it presents us with a series of easily debated moral quandaries.

See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267241/ for some of the relevant history.

As to the point of determining if COVID-19 is deadly enough or not, I don't see how we can do that without sampling the society. It's not clear, right now, if the only cases are the ones that are diagnosed or 50% of society.

Both extreme statements are exceedingly unlikely.

I had based my comment on published articles estimating an infection fatality rate of 0.4%-1.4% with a best estimate around 0.66%. But the full story is complicated. Work your way through https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/global-covid-19-case-fatality-... to understand the current data, estimates, limitations of various research and so on. It is..messy.
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How did you have that conversation?

The clients I work for are all still worried about losing business due to dropping IE11...so we don't.

They have no analytics on which devices generate income, so it is hard to have that conversation. We know that IE11 hovers around 3% for most of our sites, and I doubt that many of those hits come from legitimate users, let alone someone who is going to purchase something.
Evil CEOs?
Probably an Unsolved Problem in computer programming:

If you are trying to solve an old problem a new way, is it necessarily true that having a large pool of applicants is an advantage? It could be a liability.

On the one hand, there could be more variance in a large pool, so you might find a lot of unconventional thinkers who think like you. On the other hand, large groups have social mores, and so the dogma might be difficult to overcome, like the old "people can write fortran in any language" problem.
Stop taking regular notes; use a Zettelkasten instead
Was I foolish in thinking that gravity works at all scales?
This is just the .Net runtime most application will probably depend on the .net framework libraries so not really.
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I understand how to make bread, bakers-percentages, etc. It's just that when it comes to flour a cup is a terrible measurement, due to the way it packs and the different volume involved in various varieties/types of flour.

Most of the time when I'm cooking and I see an American recipe I just google the conversion; a cup of milk is easy to deal with. Just a minor irritation most of the time, but for some things it matters.
This probably only works if the professionals are blinded to whether the machine is enabled
Global Covid-19 Case Fatality Rates
Plenty of depressed people act normally until they shock everyone in their social circle by suddenly committing suicide.
> A bit of a chicken and egg problem there

A best-effort multicast approach would help here. Reach as many endpoints as you can utilizing otherwise-unused router memory for the group memberships then bridge the gaps created by saturated routers via unicast relays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Fairey

His work was plastered all over major city centers (Berkley, New York, Seattle) in the 90s. 20 years later, it's a retro cultural icon.
There is already a startup that makes a video compression codec based on ML - http://www.wave.one/video-compression - I am personally following their work because I think it's pretty darn cool.
I’ve been blogging at https://NeoSmart.net/blog/ for fifteen years. I started off with whatever strikes my fancy and had no problem posting frivolous one or two paragraph posts but as it gained popularity I found myself raising the bar for what qualifies as a good enough post until I can’t post more than once a month or so, and posts have gone up in length and substance exponentially, especially when you take into account that now a blog post is typically associated with an entire new project or github repository.

I believe I’m victim to whatever is the opposite of a niche effect. My posts tend to be deeply technical but span hardware, software, security, .NET, rust, C++, Windows, Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and more so I never really got the opportunity to pick up readers in one, single niche or domain.

I miss the old days.
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> While zoom has faced many privacy concerns...I bet they didn’t see as their user base. I know more than a few elementary school teachers

They better get on those security concerns quickly if they want to retain these new customer segments:

"New York City bans Zoom in schools, citing security concerns" https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/05/zoom-new-york-city-schools...

"Instead, the city’s Dept. of Education is transitioning schools to Microsoft Teams, which the spokesperson said has the “same capabilities with appropriate security measures in place.”"
Read Cracking the Coding Interview. That’s all that the companies test of your degree.
> As far as I've read about it, the current consensus seems to be that the more severe the depression is, the more likely it is to respond to medical interventions as opposed to psychological/behavioral ones.

I've never heard this in my life, can you link? These test subjects were people with treatment-resistant depression though, which I have as well. My experience, along with others I've known with it, is that we're more likely to deal with nocebo effects. HN is tossing heaps of cynicism on this report but even for unblinded testing these results are remarkable.

> “There’s never been a therapy for treatment-resistant depression that’s broken 55% remission rates in open-label testing,” said Nolan Williams, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and a senior author of the study
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Honestly, it's hard listening to you ramble against Typescript. Adding types to my projects has helped tremendously in reducing bugs.