skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And really one of the biggest pieces of proof of this is that some of the earliest mathematics developed was planar geometry.

But, planar geometry (primarily involving triangles and squares) does not actually exist in nature. Which means that planar geometry is an approximation technique developed by the brain in order to begin to understand the actual much more complex geometries that appear in the real world.

This also suggests that mathematics is 100% constructed by the human brain, even if it is highly-influenced by relationships found in the physical world.

But, this makes sense because we really don't ask the same question about human language. We almost never ask: is human language constructed or discovered?
Since the exact dimensions are curiously not mentioned, here's my service to answer your questions:

The stamps have a diameter of typically 69mm, while larger ones are 100mm.

(Source: http://www.megaministore.com/stamps/asia/bhutan-stamps/bhuta...)
I have a Wordpress blog that has been continuously up, barring two host server migrations (~3 hours), since 2004.

It is powered by a Linode. I have literally never needed to manage the server unless I was actively working on something, like changing the theme.

People overcomplicate things these days. You could spend X hours creating some autoscaling, autorecovering setup; but for 99% of projects, it'd maybe encounter an outage that requires your intervention, once a decade.
>EBS volumes have a ~99.9% reliability rating so on a long enough timeline you're going to need to restore from snapshots.

Where a long enough timeline is 700 years (before you're more likely than not to have suffered a full or partial failure).
I really admire http://tachyons.io, with its principles of shallow cascade and low specificity.

( It really sucks to have to jump in and work with some project's massive blob of vestigial, conflicting styles. )
I have had exactly the same experience in my previous (and in my current) startup. I would never add the logo of a client without their consent. (maybe some don't follow that logic)
How can we assume that the proposed solutions or diagnosis of the problem can escape the trap of 'human ignorance'?

Human nature is largely static. The fallibility of man is a constant.
He meant the original paper for calculating delta2 which was merely referenced by the original BM paper.

Sadly this seems to be the pattern for most everything coming from 'academia' ever.
Literally nobody is talking about "free housing", we're talking about communal ownership in communities and cooperatives.

"Selling illegal drugs" as some sort of indictment is laughable considering we're talking about weed, which is quickly being decriminalized and legalized all over the world, as the relatively harmless substance it is.

You are sadly quite ill-informed and way out of your depth on subject matter you only have cursory experience with.

I genuinely suspect that D stands for Dunning-Kruger, and I would recommend you stick with what you know, instead of embarrassing yourself on subjects your software development experience has absolutely no relation to. Being smart in one area does not make you universally smart in other areas.
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To me this sounds like an echo of the view that free will is an illusion. The stories that King is going to write are already predetermined by the laws of physics applied to the initial conditions of the system. In a sense, he's really just "along for the ride".
Quebec Canada is like that: it’s own system, and only interconnected through HVDC links.
I block cookies (and some other stuff) on YouTube, which also causes all of my settings to fall back to the most annoying defaults possible. So I use a combination of userscripts and userstyles to batter the YouTube client until it does what I want (i.e. a dark theme by default, auto-pausing of channel trailers, a sane default volume and a few other things). It's pretty amazing how powerful userscripts and -styles are!
I don't think you are off base here. This seems like an iteration to improve this aspect and open the timeline to rolling admissions
Let the sharecroppers do all the research, development, marketing, refinement. Then steal their thunder.

Been there, been done like that.
Orwellian.

Similar "but the children" fallacious legislation BS took down Craigslist's personals section.

This makes encrypted, zero-knowledge customer data an insurance liability.

Porn is next. And then the regulation of abortion and consensual sex between adults. Oh wait, the first is already happening.

Next will be individual social media licensure, individual journalism licensure, and internet licensure... "it's a privilege, not a right" they will say.

Watch when the wealthy elites begin to lose their grip on power from below, the restrictions on freedoms, eliminations of rights, and sanctioning of more abuse and violence against dissidents will accelerate markedly. If the people cede one inch, they will take a mile and never give it back without a revolution.
Okay, I will check it out, thanks!
One more: hardware controllers use proprietary software. When the controller dies this means pain.
If the temps are below 0f, it seems like none of this is preventing your free from dropping below freezing. Maybe it’s really more about the varieties they cultivated.

With modern crisper I bet you could
Make some amazing frui trees.
The article hints to a correction that was ommitted and the letter it links to is a dead link. I highly doubt he didn't "invite anyone from the physics dept".

Listen to Eric's podcast and you will come to realize that his relationship with mainstream physics dept is much more complex and nuanced.
> the books on text algorithms.

And also "Flexible Pattern Matching in Strings" by Navarro and Raffinot.
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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. Although at least to some extent statistics is the one branch of mathematics that does seem to be applicable (but the way this influences results, as opposed to methods, seems to be mathematically not that interesting).

There have been a lot of efforts of modelling social phenomena, the arts, etc. mathematically and while there are some interesting partial results (e.g. that languages can to some reasonable extent be analysed by parse trees or some aspects of music), most "grander" theories I have seen do not really stand up to much scrutiny.

I'm not an expert, but I could assume that part of this is due to a lot of nonlinearity in the phenomena studies, which means that many classical methods don't work well; maybe chaos theory etc. could shed more light on these things, but I don't know enough about it.
Light weight event driven tasks are very important.

I outline some of the key improvements in this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dtn9Uudw4Mo
I've seen a lot of Animal Crossing screenshots recently; people will spend an incredible amount of time working on something to make it look nice. They can spend hours to make simulation-life more productive in a way that gets such a marginal return, they won't make the hours back.

Meanwhile, I've recently spent an equally unreasonable amount of time unifying my bash environment across all machines so that I get a different color for each host name. So now my bash prompt is color coded by machine. I was lying to myself about it being more productive or whatever. I did it because I thought it would be neat, and it looks cool, and I felt pretty clever implementing it. One of my customers is a lawncare website and I get some satisfaction seeing the @host turn from blue to green when I ssh into their server. I think this is the same human satisfaction of organizing your toolshed, or customizing your town in Animal Crossing.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22685053
The author is trying to evoke electroluminescent backlit displays. It's a very specific kind of display technology and it's become fairly uncommon, but for maybe four to ten years it was ubiquitous.

I'm trying to think of an example... the Timex Indiglo watch? A lot of displays with that weird, creepy green or blue glow. Oh, some Palm Pilots and other early handhelds.

I don't actually think e-readers with EL displays are common but some e-readers have a similar color and it's easy to see being confused.
For that matter though, a linear interpolation isn't a faithful representation of the data either. Would it not be better to just display the raw data in a scatter plot?
This is probably really good but the linked Colab notebook is failing on the first step with some unresolvable dependencies. This does seem to be a bit of a common theme whenever I try running example ML projects.

Edit: I think I've fixed it by changing the pip command to:

!pip install torchaudio comet_ml==3.0
EB is for sites operating at a different, smaller, scale to the kind of sites you'd host with the AWS design being critiqued.

Personally I've found EB to be a great development tool but it's really hard to manage once you step up into the enterprise scale. By that point you'd be writing your CloudFormation scripts by hand (or better yet, using Hashicorp Terraform) and "building stuff to fail" (as the adage goes).

edit: getting downvoted. I'm guessing some people are using EB for sites that generate millions of visitors a day (let alone minute like some services I manage). I'd be interested to hear how you overcame EB's shortcomings with resource failures breaking the entire EB build pipeline in often unrecoverable ways.
It is not a microchip, but not a conspiracy theory either:

http://news.mit.edu/2019/storing-vaccine-history-skin-1218

"Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Koch Institute "

Thankfully this won't fly in Germany, because the Nazis tattooed concentration camp victims with numbers. Not sure about the U.S. though.
Thank you! Should be fixed now. https://make.graphiteapps.com/create?createUrl=https://graph...
Not all mathematics though.

Math works by starting with a set of axioms. These are chosen, usually but not necessarily such that they will describe some kind of physical reality. That is the part which you invent to describe phenomena, like the Peano axioms which describe quantities of countable things.

But then, you discover (and of course also prove) things that follow from these axioms. So a mathematician would find that if you take this set of axioms, then this statement is true. Is that an invention or discovery? I would call it a discovery, although different from a discovery of a natural phenomenon.
The best book for this question is: "Seeing Systems" https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Systems-Unlocking-Mysteries-Or...

It give insights a) on why this happens and b) what scope for action you have (a lot).

ad b) i recommend two sided strategy> continue to do your best work while not caring about it. - and - start "beening open for new oportunities" side project job hunting & networking. it might cost some energy, but either the situation in your job improves and you can keep your job, and if not, you have a head start when your job hunting gets serious.
As a quick note, no affiliation whatsoever on my part - I've had great success running online meetups on the LGPL project bigbluebutton. Hope it helps some members here with their pain point.

https://bigbluebutton.org
Seeing what the Trump administration did when Trump wanted to play tough against China and the trade wars that ensued, I think it's entirely possible.

Throughout the entire Trump presidency the US has been straining or severing ties with their allies under the guise of "America first".

Hell, I honestly wouldn't be that surprised if he'd announce that the US would be leaving the UN next week.
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If anyone's wondering why we have anti-vaxxers... Well, we are living in a time when bodies that could abuse them have proven time and time again that they deserve absolutely zero trust.

The root cause is a completely rational crisis of faith in institutions.

Regardless of the essential nature of vaccines, given the track record of modern governments you would have to be brain-dead to let them inject substances into the whole population without trepidation. It may easily be more stupid to not even question the system than to be overly paranoid.
>Is the Federal Reserve rate responsible for this.

No, it’s caused by the fact that I get a minimum of 2.625% cash back on all purchases, and actually 5.25% on all online and most of my other purchases with credit cards.
I would say at least 50% out of those 85% (educated guess). The reason WordPress is popular because literally anyone can start a blog or website with it relatively quickly on one of those cheap shared hosts. And thats why the volume.
Btw, this is a widely known practice (not sure if it's legally accepted though). Government contractors often play a big role in shaping the RFI/RFP requirements. This is a multi-year process that involves socializing, discovering the legacy/obsolete systems in client environment, learning about their business side, identifying pain points in the gov customer side, etc. Big contractors like Raytheon, CACI, SAIC have a well-defined and stream-lined process for this. This is where smaller contractors or startups find it very difficult to get into gov contracting because they don't have the kind of access that Raytheon/CACI has. So, I don't see any surprise in AWS giving inputs for shaping DoD requirements.

Cutting all the politics and legalities, is n't AWS superior to Azure? I guess Azure's major revenue is still from MS-office subscriptions, but AWS is more battled hardened, more reliable and has more variety of services than Azure. At least, that's my perception.
Depends on which gates you allow in your design. But the SMT encoding is really flexible, so you can adjust it for your needs.
You're absolutely right. 10X for point 1. Millions of people are carrying this virus by now. Most (probably 99.99% of "contacts" do not result in transmission), and the virus is airborne ffs, it could easily blow down wind and somebody could catch it. Are these apps accounting for this too?

Honestly how accurate do they expect these apps to be?

Absolute waste of time. Nerds with too much time on their hands.
uber surge pricing might actually be a good thing in an emergency. unlike buying all the hand sanitizer at your local CVS to resell, it can actually increase the "supply" of drivers. of course, if this saturates the road capacity, it might be a net negative.
Perhaps they simply can't make accurate predictions. The rest of their behavior can be easily explained in terms of self interest. While this may be overly cynical, I think it is worth keeping Occam's razor handy.
It's work in progress. I was hoping to get more done on the renderer but various things have been slowing me down. But lately I've been feeling a new burst of energy, so hope to have something more to show before long.

I agree that the talk raises a lot of questions. Hopefully that's a good thing, as I think they deserve the attention of curious people!

Regarding the mismatch between 3D hardware and 2D rendering, we'll need hard empirical numbers, but the approach I'm taking is basically to write a software renderer (not unlike Cairo or even libart which predates it), just one that's designed for massive parallelism so it can run on the GPU. This will have performance characteristics more similar to Cairo (just faster as so much more throughput is available) than rasterization-based approaches. The latter really fall down when there's soft clipping and lots of blending, as that requires generation of intermediate texture buffers. I do address this in the talk :)

I hope I will have more solid answers for some of these questions before long.
Yes exactly, by default it has a tab-bar UI element, but you just have to set tab-bar-show to nil and you can use it to switch between window configs without the UI.
Start by asking a fully formed question on HN.
Thanks! The links shows a "Chernobyl-moment", bad consequences and chilling effects from censorship.
I went a step further, and automated as much as I can with Ansible. Had to reinstall everything after an SSD failure recently, this made it a fun project. I'm also planning on upgrading my machine soon, so that should make the process a lot faster.

I started from this and customized it to my needs: https://github.com/geerlingguy/mac-dev-playbook
So you'd be ok with dying from e.g. measles?
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No, you're mistaken. A _prediction_ was made and matches experiment, therefore the _prediction_ was proven correct.

I believe you're repeating the idea that "_theories_ aren't proven correct, you can only ever fail to falsify them", which is true. But you're applying the idea to predictions, which makes it false because predictions absolutely can be proven correct. In my opinion you come across as confused about these ideas.
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I bet people forget about this stunt in a week lmao.
I wonder if we'll ever get a good feel for what really happened / is happening in China?

Maybe decades later something like after the conditions like the cold war Russian will happen with China. Where archives were slowly accessible and we got a much better feel for what was happening?
And thank you for addressing it, Samuel!

I converted the streaming and Autopark clients in the Tesla API gem from EM to Async and has been great: https://github.com/timdorr/tesla-api/blob/master/lib/tesla_a...

No more globals, which makes it much safer to use inside of threaded job runners like Sidekiq.
That is certainly alarming that it is so much more widespread than expected - it really highlights the failure of our controls against the virus and the importance of early testing. It I'd good news that this implies the death rate is less severe.

However, a caveat is that antibody tests might have high rates of false positives, which would be a particularly large problem when very few people are actually positive. So read this with a grain of salt. The paper isn't peer reviewed yet etc.
A bit both:

e.g. The circle is an invention. But the number pi (it's value) is discovered
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A lot of the western US has been in drought nearly my entire life. They have been using the underground rivers nearly to depletion (Kansas) or importing water via massive pipelines from other states (California). It's been completely mismanaged even down to choice of crop (I.E. Almonds aren't drought friendly and should not be grown in places that have them).

I imagine if things get even slightly worse it could help lead to a collapse.
> The intelligence community uses SIPRNet or JWICS ...

... and AWS GovCloud [0].

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[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/government-education/government/
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> EBS volumes have a ~99.9% reliability rating so on a long enough timeline you're going to need to restore from snapshots.

Taking regular snapshots decreases the chance of an EBS drive failing.
Do you mean Metrowerks’ own allocator?

I cut my C/C++ teeth on CodeWarrior (and Think C), and vividly remember the incredibly detailed implementation comments in the CodeWarrior malloc headers. I learned a lot from that! It’s still one of my of go-to examples of great tech docs.

Anyway, if that was you, thank you!
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Yeap. Clipper chip 2.0. The ruling elite doesn't want us "plebs" to have any privacy in order to make mass surveillance easier and to be able to exploit pilfered details to silence and defeat their enemies. It strikes me as inverted totalitarianism about to give way to direct totalitarianism.

Think of the children fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children
I was caught off by this sleight of hand; I agree that it is scummy.
Good luck! I was wondering what backend do you guys use for Speech-to-text? As a ML guy I'm quite interested to learn what people experiment with. Cheers:)
While the polio vaccine pathway has been completely debunked medical interventions in colonial Africa have likely been a co-factor in the emergence of HIV due to unsanitary injections of antibiotics and some vaccines.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_HIV/AIDS

For the most part the consensus agrees that the colonial period in Africa likely induced conditions that caused SIV to develop into HIV, and likely more than once.

Humans can get infected with SIV albeit they don’t develop AIDS from it and their viral load drops quite rapidly which makes purely sexual transmission unlikely.
SIV has been known to be quite effective at jumping species through serial transmission during the acute phases with as little as 3 hosts needed until it can effectively infect other species however direct SIV to HIV evolution has never been observed.

So for the most part while HIV has likely emerged in the late 19th century the colonial era which introduced urbanization, increase in trade, slave labor conditions, GUD causing STIs and mass injection campaigns is what pushed HIV’s pandemic emergence.

That said it’s not clear what would’ve have happened if these conditions weren’t present or simply delayed HIV might still have emerged through globalization and the general conditions set by the latter half of the 20th century.

Ironically the emergence of HIV and AIDS in the west has been instrumental in pushing viral epidemiology research and the development of antiviral treatments and protocols to the front stage and between the late 80’s and early 2000’s huge progress and advancements have been made.

I personally believe that without a viral disease that can and does infect the rich and the powerful which causes them to slowly die over decades while drastically effecting their quality of life, life style and mental health we might have been 2 decades behind on viral research compared to today if not more.
you do understand what it means to be at the beginning of an exponential curve, right? this is not going to grow linearly, if this is not contained somehow, you could be looking at millions of deaths in the US alone.

again, all these numbers have been debated so many times before.
> Always buy from good small businesses first (vote with your wallet). Megacorps are unfortunately a practical, but depressing, evil last resort.

Not to be a downer, but if you're looking for _good_ businesses, B&H is likely to score no higher than Amazon by most criteria. They:

- Don't pay appropriate sales tax: https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/14/20964980/b-h-photo-taxes...

- Discriminate against Hispanic workers: https://www.cnn.com/2016/02/29/us/bh-photo-lawsuit/index.htm...

- Discriminate against non-Jewish employees: https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/new-lawsuit-claims-b-and-h-di...
Is it vendor lock-in if the clients want to be there? It's more like you can be in the club with the good music and hip people, or the club with the average unknown DJ and an empty dance floor.
9 miles is a very close distance in a 60x50 mile city. Queens is next to the Statue of Liberty compared to Philadelphia.