skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your biases are so ingrained you don't even realize them.

Yes, I am biased against for-profit corps. Which one, especially among the pharmas, do you trust?

No, this is not my gut, this is my experience with for-profit corps and my knowing their past and recent history.

And you say there is something wrong with my message, but you did not state one single fact to argue. You are the one arguing from your gut and your belief that our govt and for-profit corps give a shit about anything other than your money. They only care that you can't prove the tort.

And who said I trust governments? You did. I didn't say that shit. I said our government should run these programs, but what I didn't say was that we need governments made up of actual "public servants", not the corrupt, self-dealing lying pieces of shit that take a boatload of money from corps of all kinds, the bigger the cozier.

Your thinking you are so smart is getting in the way of your education.
Not trying to extract the bad parts here – this looks like a lot of effort went into it and it certainly is useful – but there are a few wrinkles:

[[ $? ]]

is always true, even if $? is non-zero; it only checks if $? is non-empty. A working check for successful exit status would be (for Bash)

if (($?)); then
echo "not successful"
else
echo "succesful"
fi

For prompt configurations: the article hardcodes the "$" sign. A useful feature is to indicate when the user is root by switching to "#"; this can be achieved by escaping the "$".

$ declare -p PS1
declare -- PS1="\$ "
$ sudo bash
# exit bash
$

And lastly, the examples should be careful about quoting. This

function mkcd {
local target=$1
mkdir -p $target
cd $target
}

breaks when called like

mkcd 'has space'

because $target expands unquoted. Or

mkcd '*'

would expand to all files in the directory.

The colour section doesn't mention true colour support; many terminal emulator come with it these days, see https://gist.github.com/XVilka/8346728.
Ah yes, UN, excellent idea https://unwatch.org/un-sells-3-womens-rights-bodies-oil-rich...
You have to bring your own, Firebase, hasura, and Prisma are good options for building out something quick. Netlify does not host backends, iirc, so you will have to do something there. The above 3 all have hosting options, the first is only hosted, the other 2 are open source. Prisma 2 was just released.

You will still need to implement much of the logic.
I find it interesting that out of the massive field that is CS you focused solely on a single area.
Covid-19 from a data scientist’s perspective
I think the answer to this is emerging, but I would say yes. Vulkan and SPIR-V are rapidly gaining features, while OpenCL is stagnating. Some of these features are very recent, like pointers and a memory model. Another area I'm expecting Vulkan to pull ahead is support for efficient float16 computation, which is important for ML workloads, and is increasingly well supported in hardware.

One thing to keep in mind though, programming directly in Vulkan is too low-level for most users, while OpenCL is a fairly friendly API. We need tools that can compile to SPIR-V and deploy on Vulkan, but high enough level you can express your problem rather than (for example) manually placing pipeline barriers between dispatches. The lack of such tools, and having to build some of my own, is one of the reasons for the slowdown in progress on my renderer project.
I'm not making an argument. I'm just providing a reference to counter the claim made. I have no dog in this fight other than I like to see references and evidence. Hence why I only dropped a link. You don't need to pick fights with everyone, you know?
Make a wild guess then multiply it by a number between 2 (10+ years of experience) and 4 (newbie). Works pretty well.
Odd how you get so many upvotes for a link to yourself.
The year is 2030.

Amazon has announced it's new consumer biotech product: the Squindle eReader, the only e-reader that works underwater and requires no battery.

In fact, it only works when kept immersed in pressurized salt water and fed a steady diet of mollusks.
Definitely. Literally half of the features in the "What do we want?" section would get his replacement banned in the PRC, which is one of the few markets where WeChat is popular enough to even be something to replace.
Don't you want something simpler, like P=NP or the Riemann Hypothesis?

Just kidding. The problem with estimates in SwEng is complicated. The main problem is: every system is different from another.

Anything that's moderately complex will have a variable production time because the process keeps getting improved.

Now, you're not building 10 systems of the same type. Maybe if what you did all day was building, let's say, a blog with RoR you would be able to time it to the minute (but then again, that's not how software works, and once you built it once, it's just a matter of copying files).

In traditional "factories" the design takes some time, then putting together the production line, tools, then the production.

In SW, "real" design and production go together, and "paper sw design" is fragile.
Checkout Binderhub - https://binderhub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Your three examples run in a similar vein: individual rights vs the role of government. I think many of those you would see as holding contradictory views would say that government intervention in these areas actually fall under the domain of something they believe is one of the few justifiable functions of government: defense. Only, it's not a war this time.
> You always need a "mandate" to debit an account and if you get that properly signed by the customer, you should be able to get the bank to reverse the reversal

That's unfortunately not true. There is no recourse to direct debit returns; there is no dispute resolution process or anything like that. The presence or absence of a mandate only impacts the timeframe for returns to be files, as far as I understand.
System design interview on a virtual whiteboard
It's difficult to mandate self-evolution through education. Most people just binge-watch vapid fiction after vapid fiction.
Let's be blunt: this is a blatant attempt to displace the blame for mishandling the emergency. Trump needs popularity because elections are coming, he doesn't want to take the blame for his own actions, so he will blame China, the WHO, and other countries, or his own staff, if things get worse.

At least the US are taking it seriously now. China and the WHO alerted the world that this wasn't a regular flu variant since before January.

On a related topic, thanks to their totalitarian government, China controlled the pandemic effectively, and will recover its economy faster. The US will resort to more commercial war to level up the field.
This view ignores that energy can have a different cost in different locations, and that fuel is convenient due to its portable nature. Converting energy into fuel may be economically viable at a solar plant in the middle of a desert even if it wouldn't be so in the middle of a city.
16 and counting at this moment with a broken post.
Because your whole argument is an example of an "argument to moderation" fallacy[1] that is only valid as long as there is some evidence that points to the fact that the majority medical opinion on vaccines is wrong (and of course, the majority opinion is not "everyone should get every vaccine there is all the time").

I mean, I get the point that name-calling doesn't help, but we can't just accept statements that contradict established scientific opinion without any strong evidence, otherwise there is no means to progressing as a society.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_to_moderation
Energy simulation: whether a convolution using kernel A on top of a thresholded convolution using kernel B can be represented using just one convolution using kernel C.

i.e. with H as Heaviside operator, T the threshold, and * the convolution operator, prove that the following can hold for some kernels A,B,C and signal D:

A * H[B * D-T] = C*D
Well, there's Wordpress, isn't there? You can make a basic web application pretty quickly with no code.

And there's also MVC platforms that auto generate a lot of code. In ASP.NET MVC (and many other platforms) you can just define the data fields and it will generate views, models, controllers and DB scripts automatically.

Which is well and good until you have to process business logic, at which point you need a developer.
Shipwright – UI Kit: A fully editable design system built in Figma
Information Security: getting people to classify data properly. Everything ends up as the default classification or set to public so they can send privileged data over email.

Also, having some agreement on code scanning. Every time security settles on a code scanning tool, engineering gets a million findings. This results in arguing about whether potential risks are actually vulnerabilities rather than improving security.
I remember a version of this being proposed some 15+ years ago. Glad someone is trying it. IIRC the estimated cost was not that high. It was not intended for local use.

Please don't use fossil fuel to run stuff like this.
what do you think of something like https://github.com/google/jax that i guess claims to be a jack of all trades, in the sense that it'll transform programs (through XLA???) to various architectures?
OpenTrace Trial Methodologies (Covid-19 Bluetooth Tracing)
My experience with Futhark (and to some extent accelerate) is that they're not terribly hard to program in applicable cases.

I'm not sure Futhark-generated code is as fast as specialist code but it's definitely a speedup compared to even skilled CPU implementations.
I feel exactly the opposite, I like to stick with the defaults and change only if there's something that really bothers me with it, like urxvt.
I don't really see that cycle. I think Hotspot's latency and memory usage has always been atrocious, and they have slowly been working to improve that with ParallelGC->CMS->G1.

I don't think there is a black/white world like Hotspot people tend to claim about these things. You can have your cake and eat it - acceptable latency <10ms/1ms AND good throughput/memory usage is possible without excessive manual tuning. golang is an example of this, as are GCs in other language runtimes. In every other managed language I've worked in, I never even think about the GC 99% of the time. Whereas with Hotspot you have to tune and think about it 100% of the time. Hopefully it will get there one day and make working on JVM projects less painful.
U.S. airlines sitting on $10B in travel vouchers, lawmakers say
> "Our prototypes are being tested by regulatory authority, while we’re running a pre-production batch of a few dozen pieces"

Since they are currently under review I'll wait a bit to see the results, but other than that the prototypes seem well made. Good job
Not vaccinating does potentially cause harm to others through infection, and someone unvaccinated can only fully prevent such harm by completely avoiding any contact with humans they are not living with; furthermore, such harm cannot be reliably attributed to the perpetrator, so punishment is hard.

Hence, it is reasonable to outlaw being unvaccinated and going out of the house.
That's great to hear. Unfortunately, such perspectives don't seem to make their way to the news sources I generally consume (i.e. TV ads, news.google.com, etc.). The level of exposure I get tends to come across more as doom and gloom: all the icecaps are melting, climate catastrophes everywhere, etc. and so we must force these unwieldy CO2 based policies on the population (and maybe drastically reduce the population and economy). So, I think part of the strategy should be a better PR on the issue. But, maybe the non doom and gloom perspective doesn't sell as well?
I’ve often thought about the fact that most food into places like Barrow, Alaska is flown in, and wondered whether it would be practical to set up local infrastructure like this to grow food locally (with “practical” meaning “the CapEx of doing so would be repaid in logistical OpEx saved over a small number of years.”)
That's partially on the community for making so much free (as in beer, often also as in freedom) software. The expectation is now there. Though how to reverse it remains an unsolved problem.
Not sure what you mean by that.
The number and severeness of natural disasters is only increasing[0].

Shifts in rain patterns due to these oscillations have always occurred, what does this mean?

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/number-of-natural-disaste...
> Yep, the counterpoint to the unreasonable effectiveness of maths in the natural sciences is accompanied by the unreasonable ineffectiveness of maths in the social sciences, humanities, etc.

Except it's not ineffective at all in these subjects. Social science experiments have so many variables that the small experiments that can be conducted given the financial resources are insufficient to infer a good model. This is not a math problem, it's a money problem.
For the report is more like a collection of cherrypicked information than good research. It was discused here yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22897708

One of the comments that I think is important was made by nicolas_t:

> Haven't read much yet. But the first point already doesn't inspire much confidence. "This market is less than 9 miles away from The Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences". 9 miles away means that it's at the opposite of the city.

> I mean, that text is trying to make it seem like they are close to each other when actually it just means that both are in the same city. 9 miles is not a small distance in a big city like wuhan.

> It's like saying that Queens is next to the Statue of Liberty.
Question: what is the state of GPU compute w.r.t. Rust? Are the libraries on par with accelerate or (not exactly comparable) Futhark?
Of course it can, it all depends on the actual proportions in each reaction.

Most notably of the share of CO2 in each, which aims to be drastically different.
Yes, isn't the question "What's an unsolved problem in your field?"
hey Chris

Why would I use dash rather than jupyter notebook with inline plotting?
Tailwind is becoming the new Bootstrap. It's pretty recognizable in it's default configuration.
The survival rate of a COVID-19 patient once he requires a ventilator is closer to 20%. So running out of ventilators wouldn't double the death rate.

https://www.sfgate.com/news/medical/article/Some-doctors-mov...
I don't think it's strange to have to write a ticket to get a GPU auth. Google Cloud Platform requires the same, can take days to approve, and is more expensive and WAY less intuitive. Plus I've had ton of glitches working with GCP where they said they approved my request but didn't -- multiple times.
Do you still buy food from for-profit farmers? Clothes? Housing?

These are all essentials too, that are far less regulated than drug production, and with equal chance for harm or death.

And there are plenty of "farmer-bro" libertarians out there, including in your local organic farmers market, out there just to seek profit and ask you to get rid of the minimal regulations on them and to go back to a system of just trusting your farmer and the transaction (back in the 2000s Michael Pollan's book profiled one guy of that sort).

The people who are producing vaccines don't typically make tons of profit on them. Most are cheap, ubiquitous, except for some new ones that took a long time to develop. They are not huge money makers, and neither are organic beets, but they are business none the less so people make them.

> But people who trust for-profit corps with their health are stupid marks.

Are you a stupid mark for trusting Whole Foods. A huge for-profit company, for not making them sick?

Are you a stupid mark for trusting the regulatory system that ensures safety?

There's so much basic wrongness going on here that shows that you have just bought anti-vaxxer nonsense, hook like and sinker. How much good and how much harm has happened because you, as a "stupid mark," trusted for-profit healthcare companies with MMR? Why that one and not others? Too mcubprofit in other vaccines? Too much "risk"?

You say that you are not an anti-vaxxer yet you perpetuate exactly the same flawed lies that they tell themselves in order to justify endangering their own children and others' health. It's a weird contradiction.

(And for the record, I'm anti-libertarian, but I will still buy from the farmers market, not because I accept their ideology, or because I want to give them profits, but because I trust the rest of the system. I can transact with someone without adopting their ideology.)
Proof that voters don't bother to read the page behind the link.
Absolutely love Tailwind.
Max Tegmark has some fun books. Apparently he got to be at the forefront of some discoveries as he and his wife knew C++ and would do all the after the fact data analysis.

If you've ever been around a campfire with a good storyteller that has their audience at the edge of their seat, I felt like this in some spots.
Thanks. First I've heard of it, in fact, so I don't have any thoughts on it. It's interesting though, and would definitely be worth adding to a list of attempts to build portable layers.
Like I said, what was in that document is no different to what you'd need if you were going to run enterprise WP on-prem (or any HA provider for that matter). But if you want something simpler or cheaper to run on cloud hosting then a classic dynamic CMS like WP isn't going to cut it.

Where AWS really comes into is stuff like serverless (yeah, I hate that term too), auto-scaling, object storage, etc. I've got a few static sites that are compiled in AWS Code Build whenever I push new markdown to GitHub (literally just using shell scripts and pandoc). They're then pushed to S3 and sat behind CloudFront. It costs me a few dollars a month to host, I don't need to think about scaling and I get near instant page load times. Running that kind of thing on-prem wouldn't even come close to being as cheap nor convenient as AWS.

This is why I commented about WP being ill-suited for modern cloud deployments in my edit.

To be clear, I'm not claiming AWS are the only hosting providers to offer the aforementioned. The same arguments can be made for and against GCP, Azure and so on and so forth. I'm also not advocating that everyone should switch away from WP or adapt their workloads for the cloud. People should just use what works for them the best. I'm only commenting on why that AWS architecture isn't as insane as it first appears.
They tlds are basically scams. When they are introduced they claim to have a rollout schedule that allows the general public to register names but the good names are effectively reserved.

I tried to buy california.beer on the first day .beer was available to the public. It was always listed as unregistered but if I tried to buy it strange errors occurred.

After the time period where they were required to allow registrations for a set price, california.beer was listed for $1000+.
> I wonder if DDG has just caught onto this trend, and is prioritizing the language of the article that has the most editorial activity.

It should prioritize the language of the query. I'm supposing the commenter above searched for something in English and got a non-English result?
Windows doesn't ship it, so now your build system got even more complicated on Windows.
Exactly the same problem occurs with legislation. For years this was solved by third-parties publishing enormous annotated legal references. Nowadays the government (in the UK anyway) publishes legislation online incorporating all the edits made by later legislation.

Knuth's TAOCP serves as an annotated third-party reference, except that in this case he's not a third-party. I don't have a copy to hand to see if it has the correct version of the algorithm.
>For some reason a lot of sources present the algorithms as 1-based.

Because that's a natural mathematical model. "the n-th element" being at position n is handy and natural. What's nuts is that array indexing based on pointer offsets has made its way into nearly all high-level languages.
The Art of the Con. A Custom Marked Deck
Just because you dont understand how to do something useful using ethereum doesnt mean that no one knows how to do something useful with ethereum.

Please investigate ethereum name system(ENS) and Handshake name system.
Why and how I use Gatsby.js
Early modern humans had already left Africa and made their way as far north as Greece 210,000 years ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1376-z
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-07-11/modern-humans...
Impressive of the American news channel, CNN, to convert images in minus one second.
The title is slightly misleading. The open source license (according to the linked documents) expires on 31st May 2020. What happens after that?

Feels like the open source is aimed only for the development phase, and no one else other than the authors will be able to execute large scale production
The headline says "glowing like e-readers" not "communicate like e-readers".
> As long as a third party central authority controls our money system, we will always be subject to the whims of the few. Bitcoin is helping to liberate us and it’s absolutely working.

A bold claim without evidence. In fact, the opposite may be true [1]. This is but one counterpoint; another notable problem is the centralization of bitcoin mining in China [2].

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/the-bitco...

[2]: https://thebitcoinnews.com/study-argues-chinese-mining-centr...
You can find it here: https://github.com/mgubi/texmacs/tree/guile3
I think people that feel WeChat is simply a social network don't understand WeChat. Though the article doesn't say this, the comments here and popular opinion generally think that.

From my time visiting China I'm not sure it's possible to live, in the urban areas, without WeChat. Payments are basically all through WeChat; I found places that didn't take Visa/Mastercard (or even know what those were, although that may have just been my pronunciation).

So the answer to this article is simple:

- For China: CCP approval

- For America/Europe: WeChat would never happen, unless there was severe monopolisation that allowed a company to roll something like WeChat out successfully, or the federal government / national governments mandated it

The article discusses how a WeChat replacement may be done using blockchain, not what a WeChat replacement needs to be successful (as the title would imply), or what may be the most technically viable way of doing it.
Technocrats and Authoritarianism
His entreaty was in response to a post about the Bank of Lebanon ordering foreign currency remittances to paid out in the local currency.
China Just Admitted Coronavirus Death Toll In Wuhan Was 50% Higher Than Reported
> It would solve that problem by allowing governments to directly issue certificates for every domain under their TLD, while not actually preventing CAs from doing anything (see Adam Langley's post for why)

Definitely a valid point - DNSSEC and DANE are incomplete without Handshake [1].

> quirky version of the DNS

It's the same DNS, simply the root was decentralized from ICANN to the commons.

> I don't understand why this project is taken seriously.

The reason the project is taken so seriously by so many is because the project improves our internet by improving security [2] and gives ownership of the internet back to the people where it originated, and where it belongs [3].

[1] https://github.com/handshake-org/hdns

[2] https://handshake.org/files/handshake.txt '### Proof of Work as a Trust Anchor'

[3] https://handshake.org/files/handshake.txt '# Stakeholders'
I'm sure this will be an unpopular answer on HN but have you tried Azure notebooks? Microsoft's Eric Camplin has a series of edX courses[1] that do a great job getting total newbies up and programming with python as painlessly as possible.

[1] https://www.edx.org/bio/eric-camplin