skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because people still believe that video games and entertainment in general aren't subversive propaganda in disguise (yet somehow classify American Army into a genre of it's own, hypocritically), I am going to drop this in here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent#Entertainment

Make of those acquisitions and buyouts whatever you will.
Inspirational messages are good, and there's certainly a good chance that you're right in this case, but I also don't think it's a great idea to speak with such certainty.

I mean, they had a brain tumor which could've been causing damage itself, plus radiation to the brain, invasive brain surgery, altered brain blood flow during the surgery, general anesthetic... That's serious stuff affecting the most complex machine we're aware of.

The brain can be capable of amazing feats of recovery, but it's always going to vary based on someone's pre-existing genetics, environment, age, and the specific damage they might have incurred. Recovery back to baseline absolutely may be possible for them, but there's really no way to know that for sure when dealing with something so serious and without knowing many other factors. Hope is good, but sugarcoated false hope isn't.
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Having built systems based on both, I could not agree more.
Thank Edward Kmett! That slide is single-handedly responsible for me getting into abstract algebra.
AFAIK, humankind flourished during the medieval ages (minus plagues and modern medicine and war). But, at least nothing obviously climate related. I wonder why we would have more trouble nowadays with even more advantages.
He started and is running DistroKid, which is probably the most popular way for independent music artists to get their music into digital stores and streaming services.
It absolutely still is.

If I have an in-depth technical question about Rust, I can make a post about it on the Rust subreddit, Stack Overflow, or the Rust community forums, but if I jump in IRC I'll have an answer in under five minutes and an interactive explanation.

IRC is the internet of the 90s and 00s. Without all the spam, advertisement, and noise.
The awesome list: https://github.com/davisonio/awesome-irc

Supybot's successor is Limnoria: https://github.com/ProgVal/Limnoria

GitHub plugin: https://github.com/ProgVal/Supybot-plugins/tree/master/GitHu...

Btw. on the topic of bouncers, Simon Ser is developing a new one in Go:
https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/soju
Because you extract most money from the market if you have products at a range of price points. If you only have good expensive products you only get money from rich people. If you only poor cheap products you get money from everyone but not a lot. If you have both you get lots of money from rich people and some from poor people. It's called price differentiation.

The reason they make their cheap product by crippling an expensive product, is because it is cheaper to do that than to manufacture an entirely separate product.
Mux (video for developers) is hiring distributed systems engineers
The guy has no idea what he's talking about. The virus is not playing this game by itself but against humans. When the host is dumb then the virus can play out based on how fast it infects, incubates and kills the host. In this case, despite a high R0 and a long incubation time, man is fighting this with social distancing meaning that the virus can't burn itself out. What the prof is suggesting is letting everyone get infected. Sure, that could be done, but at what cost? Say 1/2 the population 3.5billion people at 1% morality that's still 35 million dead.
> entire personality with video games / following the latest tech releases / anything related to their job.

Sounds like me if you throw in anime :) But, what's wrong with that? Other people do the same thing but with sports or music or raising kids or "hanging out with friends" or whatever else they fancy, but one is no more a "real personality" than the other, though, people with other interests always seem to have no real personality and be all about that lame thing they like, don't they? :)
What you describe does sound just like a battery that was almost always fully charged, and is about .. six? years old. You may want to try the “rumored to work” calibration process, or replace the battery after the latest OS update:

https://help.ifixit.com/article/265-battery-calibration

Which is essentially “set it never to sleep automatically, plug it in overnight, unplug it for 24 hours lid open and let it die and stay dead a while, charge it fully” without ever interrupting the charging process.

On a healthy battery this will slightly reduce capacity each time due to deep cycle so don’t go doing this if you’re not experiencing “shuts down at 42%“ problems!
Apparently many US hospitals are formally non-profits but operate very much in a corporate logic. What did mayo do with its bn profit last year that Op mentioned?

Mayo earns $12bn per year.

As contrast, a hospitals in Germany for a whole year cost €105bn, with an average total cost per stay (including operations etc ) of 4500€.

https://www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/2018/11...
There will be no 'back to normal'
Thank you so much for the thorough response! I read through your articles and then the rest of the blog post as well. On a side note, blog more, on the topic - you have convinced me to grab them!
What's really nice about that approach is that I run linux on mine and it all still works perfectly!
Proximity Models for Anomaly Detection in ML
There are a lot of very interesting issues there. For example, surely you have to look at the entirety of both keys at least once, yes; but you don't have to do it on every comparison, for example in mergesort where you can store a longest common prefix between pairs of adjacent keys and avoid comparing them byte by byte most of the time, or even storing them. The algorithm is tricky both to implement and to analyze, and I don't think anyone has done it, because there are better options for long keys; but I conjecture that it actually gets mergesort down to a real O(N log N) instead of the O(N log N log N) of the usual mergesorts.

I suspect that isn't the reason this kind of analysis isn't usually done, though. If you measure the running time of a standard comparison sorting algorithm on real data on almost any general-purpose computer from 1955 to 1985, you will find that, above very small sizes, it is quite precisely proportional to N log N, where N is the number of records. The extra factor of log N doesn't show up. Why is that?

It's because almost all of those computers, even bit-serial designs like the RCA 1802 and the LGP-30, aren't bit-addressable; the smallest amount of data an instruction can manipulate is a character, typically 6-9 bits, but often 32 bits. And almost none of them could manage more than 4 gigabytes of data, because that would have been too expensive. So in practice the average time to compare two separately stored keys does not vary by a factor of 100 or so over the data sets the machine could process, as you would expect from looking at key unique prefix length. It might vary by a factor of 2 to 4, but more often was actually constant. MIX in particular had 5-character memory words, but only 4000 words of memory, so its comparison time for internal sorting is quite precisely constant for any realistic data.

After 1985, caches and massive parallelism complicate the picture a bit, initially for largish machines (though Stretch too had cache, such monsters were exceptions) and finally for almost all types of computers, though perhaps not yet the numerical majority of computers, which are probably mostly 8051s and Cortex-Ms and things like that.

Anyway, back to the issue at hand: assembly language exposes all the computational costs by default, which is what you want if you're going to prove theorems about them, while high-level languages obscure them by default, so more of your theorems will be incorrect. And that's Knuth's primary concern.

That level of single-minded pursuit of excellence is the reason we can learn things from books Knuth wrote in the 1960s that are still useful for programming computers that are literally a billion times bigger than the machines Knuth used as his model. It's also the reason he's not done yet, 55 years later, with what he thought would be a single book, done in a year or two.
also when you're testing things out on the machine you have to know how to change security settings for opening ports and providing access externally. These aren't too complicated to do, but just generally having simple tools/UI for making this simpler could be useful. for example, if you're a flask dev you may want to just run a site "locally" and make a few setting changes before being able to access your site. i've helped friends with how to do that before
Why would I need TypeScript, code splitting and new functionality on a single page with one purpose: to sell?

I’m all for extensible solutions when required but React does not buy me much for the overhead on a landing page that I drive paid traffic too.

Now if a client had marketing team that needed to spin out a new landing page along with an ad on demand without code, I’d use React to build a landing page builder. The server would generate a static page and I’d have something cache that (and purged on modification of that page or a release). That’s perfect use case for React.

But a single page that I’m driving paid traffic to for a new business? Not in react. If I needed two, I have no shame, I’d copy and paste. Then at 3 I’d consider static site generation - on the basis that the build produces static assets only. Perhaps if the campaigns do their job, I can invest in tools that empower my marketing guys to build landing pages for their campaigns.

The fact is I don’t need the interactivity of React on a landing page. I don’t need more functionality on a landing page than CTAs, sales copy and social proof. If I’m putting anything more than that on a landing page, I’m failing. If the landing page is not 100% focused on what I want, which is usually sales or the entry to a funnel, it’s failing.

Now if the product you’re selling, as I said below, IS highly interactive and user friendliness is a selling point, I can see React being of use for live on-page demos of features. Because that’s what you’re selling!
No, the covid costs are actually not terribly high.

The other thing is that as millions of employees get laid off, millions of health insurance premiums stop getting paid.
The benefits to this are substantial, which is a bit worrying.

If this style of computing becomes the norm it would centralise and fragilize any systems, companies, economies that rely on it. As well as passing control over what can be run to a third party (see: "The war on general purpose computing").
A long time ago parsing Echelog logs was how I was able to monitor the IRC activity of an attacker at a company I used to work at. I didn't normally sit on these channels myself, but Echelog enabled me to look back and collect data on the various handles that this person operated under.

There were 20-something handles they used over approximately a 6 month period of monitoring. I was always able to find a small piece of information to correlate these handles together. Sometimes it started with a hunch, such as the language (even slang) they would use, but eventually they'd slip up in some way and we'd have a pretty irrefutable link to the person.

This information helped us develop a motive behind the hack and the ongoing public info was then fed to national crime agencies. My employer never went through with prosecution, but as this person was of much interest behind other hacks they were eventually prosecuted and convicted. I always wondered if my occasional Echelog intelligence reports ever had a role in that conviction.
This is just one logging service, not any actual IRC servers. So today's news is not necessarily a huge deal.

IRC as a system, though, is massively important. I'd say it's like the Twitter of the first half (so far) of the internet. When the (first) Gulf War began, the first reports were via IRC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7990835
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable
the disclaimer about backups is a bit scary... makes me want to use something a bit more reliable/recoverable/version controllable...

> Backups of Wekan database with mongodump once a day miminum required. Bugs, updates, users deleting list or card, harddrive full, harddrive crash etc can eat your data. There is no undo yet.
> I hope developers get the message.

> I'm SO tired of trying to navigate around the mountains of pure garbage every time I want to work on a new project.

It sounds to me like you are also... developers? :)
I'd take issue at the use of the word 'sailor', when it's been an awfully long time since the navy used sails to get into battle...
Sample sizes are one of the only ways to intuit baselines for things as complex as this.

The best way to learn from your mistakes is when you're open to making a bunch of them.
Oh, for sure, if the government is fronting the cost of donations via tax incentives, then we just need to keep on increasing those incentives until it's worth it for the farms to implement this for whatever we consider a "required" percentage of their waste.
Farms are already heavily incentivized to minimize their waste in the first place, since that's a ton of labor costs going down the drain, in a business with relatively low margins, but missing out on the sale is still more important for staying in business.
This video in Dan Gelbart's 'Building Prototypes' series is a great look at producing highly accurate (flat) surfaces.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwdoUjynpEk

Edit: the scraping technique in this PDF is shown at about 13:00.
I haven't gotten to measuring wear on the ways yet, don't think I'll need to scrape them but that's a possibility. This is a pet project of mine, a barn find that was in a pretty bad shape when I got it: rusty, crusty, with missing parts and undesirable modifications by previous owners. Specifically the ways are pitted from rust; worse in places that were exposed to the elements. I'll have to try and measure the effect of this pitting on tailstock positioning. I don't think banjo positioning is going to be affected, the ways are not that bad. But then there's always the obsession with perfection, so who knows. :)

I have a soft spot for pre-1950 Walker-Turner machinery, their aestetics are off the charts; I'm trying to restore this lathe to its former glory, or even better. Not quite a classic car showroom condition but as close to it as I can get without spending a fortune in time and money. :)

The current stage is painting; turned out it's pretty tricky to spray glossy enamel so it would level out smooth! Especially in our cool and humid coastal climate, paint takes a while to dry and even longer to fully cure so the process is quite challenging. Not to mention the countless hours it took to grind out casting imperfections, apply bondo filler, sand it, etc etc.

I thought I was getting into woodworking but found that restoring machinery is lots of fun in its own right, and nothing compares to the satisfaction of using a well made and beautifully restored vintage tool. Especially when I'm the one who did the restoration. :)
In comparison to what other messaging platforms? What do you mean it requires ID/passport? It uses phone number as a "username", which is why it's easy to use.
We did some interesting experiments with Go where we inverted the label of who won and measured what impact that had on the final model. This is a binary label so it's probably more impactful (it's the only signal we are measuring)

From memory it had only a small impact (2% strength) with ~7% of results flipped, at 4% it was hard to measure the impact (<1%)
Also can't script the client, you can't run your own server. Also with MIRC IIRC correctly you could layout the chat windows pretty much anyway you wanted and even have like a desktop background.

Discord is a lot easier to use, but in a lot of ways it is really limited compared to the IRC clients.
If you check the power tab under System Information, you can find some battery health info that might be illuminating. For example, my newish MBP16:

Charge Information:
Charge Remaining (mAh): 8362
Fully Charged: Yes
Charging: No
Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 8647
Health Information:
Cycle Count: 18
Condition: Normal

Looking it up, specced full capacity is 8818 mAh, so I'm at 98% health right now--probably lost a point or two because I leave it constantly plugged in at work. Willing to bet yours is much lower.

There are a few apps out there that can do a better analysis too. CoconutBattery used to be a good one, no idea if it's still around, but they were common.
>However, Stripe offers SEPA direct debit, which is usable with any European bank account and may work better for you.

1) SEPA has an 8-week no-questions no-appeal refund model, which is fundamentally incompatible with a SaaS business

2) Stripe doesn't support SEPA on Checkout

3) Stripe doesn't support SEPA on non-EU/US accounts
I do find the mandatory "async" peppering everywhere annoying, but I'm honestly not a fan of the whole paradigm. I don't actually think it's that important to explicitly specify "await" when you want to await. It's also extremely prone to obscure, frequently-missed errors; a missing await or unnecessary/incorrect await can affect performance or logic in a massive way.
nice idea it sounds similar to affiliate marketing things like clickbank
Whats not clear is do I still pay for it when i'm not using it, but can restore processes and provisioned apps when I need to get back on?
Huh. you're right. I remembered the price drop fiasco-- turns out the entry level 4GB was $499 and the 8GB was $599 at end-of-june 2007 launch, but the price for the 8GB dropped from $599 to $399 when they discontinued the 4GB in September, just over 2 months after both products were released.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_iPhones#Price_drop_...
Yeah, I signed up for free but it wouldn't even let me create a machine. If they're going to expect to sell it, then at least make it possible to put together a machine and then charge to launch it. So far all I know now is tha they have 3 DC's to choose from. The rest, no idea. Can't get that far.
> The results showed that star performers triggered different reactions from their peers depending on the resources available to the team. If resources were limited, peers felt threatened by and competitive toward high performers and thus undermined them. If resources were shared, peers benefitted from working with a star and thus socially supported the high performer.

Germany is known for being a nation of high performers, and also for being a country known for collective reward/punishment. Could that be related?
I'm struggling to see how local people influencing local politics is a bad thing. Would you prefer for remote corporations to control local politics?
The differences between the two aren't what you think.
This makes it sound like you're complaining that the screens are still getting larger even if the devices aren't?
I don't really use IRC anymore but at the time I remember really hating loggers. Chats were informal and I really didn't like them showing up in google results and elsewhere. Not everything needs to be saved.
And the lack of good tools and beefy desktop machines is precisely why they cannot grep the code themselves, which is why those outsourced coders will fail unless you micro-manage them with design specifications.

Living in Singapore, I met some people who trained India and then used their own good equipment and their productivity was on par with US or EU employees. I was also unfortunate enough to manage some people using '95 equipment, and they were basically dead weights for the project.
This is a very common strategy of camera hardware manufacturers Nikon and Cannon had similar firmware crippling.
Hardware accelerated h265/h264 decoding/encoding for media streaming and CCTV cameras.
The only thing wrong with my Note 8 at this point is battery life. I'd gladly have dealt with 80% charge over its entire life in order to still have a good battery life now.
With the orders of magnitudes involved here, it's possible for

1) many times more people infected than confirmed cases

2) many times more dangerous than the flu

to both be true.
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I recommend reading Fooled by Randomness (his first book) if you want the one that maximizes substance and minimizes the bluster.
I would argue that Chrysler did not invent the SUV.
Kaiser Jeep 1963 Wagoneer and 1966 Jeepster Commando were popular SUV's and the 1979 AMC Eagle was the first crossover SUV.
Otherwise I really like the premise of too big to fail and how it has affected the US.
TechForGood Is a Silver Lining of the Coronavirus Pandemic
As someone who is not and has not worked for a FAANG or in silicon valley, I would say that the parent comment's observations are still (generally) correct.
CVE-2020-8835: Linux Kernel LPE via Improper EBPF Program Verification
Please reconsider #1.
Liquor Laws Loosen Up in the Face of Delivery-Only Dining
In an exchange between a government and a company, it's all a matter of policy and law. "We can survive without it so give it to someone more in need" isn't the way it's done, nor should it be in a capitalist society.
>Charging a modern laptop battery to 100% and leaving it there for extended periods of time—especially at warm temperatures—can dramatically reduce the battery’s usable life.

This has been known for years, and this feature is relatively simple to build. I don't think it's an act of benevolence from Apple, I think the estimated cost of another class-action lawsuit has surpassed the estimated gain from decreasing the perceived life of MacBooks.
theres shapr https://shapr.co/ which is sort of similar to what your describing (the tinder part not the code notebooks)
Easy: make the charge percentage display relative to the maximum configured charge. Just like it already is with battery deterioration over time: if my battery only holds 80% of its design capacity, the phone will still tell me to be 100% charged as soon as the battery hits that 80%-of-design-capacity-brick-wall.

I just want the option to manually move that brick wall down a bit (they're already telling me exactly where it is right now, on iPhones at least, on the MacBook I ask coconutBattery).
Also not affiliated with them, and have been very satisfied so far.

OTOH, I'm in Canada, and I've only used them for personal transfers. I have no idea how they perform for businesses, nor do I know whether they work well for individuals in other countries.
What is the problem? You get what you paid for. A lot of costs are R&D. If they wouldn't do this they most likely wouldn't sell at this many price ranges.
Heh nice, I don’t know if you like sports but climbing is really fun. Each climbing problem is pretty similar to figuring out a programming problem: breaking something down into sub problems, figuring out how to do each one, and then knitting it all together! This is something I like to do for fun :)