skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Midwest could support a dozen more funds of the same size, he said. “If we had co-investors here, this place would be just going crazy.”

That’s a $1.2 billion fund. $15 billion to light up the economy of half of the US (well, present circumstances notwithstanding). Intelligent political leadership should be (have been) pushing this. Is (was) it happening?
Since when do billionaire CEOs respond to these types of posts?
12 months is a bit arbitrary if taken literally, but I think the writing was already on the wall for bootcamps as an industry before the current economic crisis. Bootcamps that only get paid when their graduates get jobs are even worse off - if hiring falls for software engineers, its going to the be the bottom tier candidates that get hit hardest. Folks coming out of a short program with little to no other experience are going to be greatly disadvantaged when experienced folks with better education are getting laid off and competing for a reduced pool of jobs.
I find myself wanting this every morning. How long ago did you start the app? It seems like the perfect time to launch it being that everyone is home.

I just bought it and will be using it tomorrow AM. Works great.
Here is a tweet from Germany's most renowned Virologist who actually developed the Sars-cov-2 Test, oversimplifying the Lancet Paper on Masks to the point where he concludes the opposite of the contents of the paper he links to: https://twitter.com/c_drosten/status/1241659738569539584

The discussion raged for weeks, before "masks for as many as possible, healthcare workers prioritized" became the public concensus.

This is just an example, but there are so many more that it becomes hard to show no sympathy to people who have "fact fatigue".
The main problem in academia is that people still can be harmful even being in good faith. (remember that "road to hell" saying, right?)
as opposed to what, no cheap internet ? As compared to which comparable country, China ? Where literally the Govt controls everything.

I appreciate the enthusiasm for privacy and all, however the priorities for Indian citizens is having a cheap, reliable internet service that becomes a backbone of the modern economy.

Now i am not defending any business practices here, however you will be hard pressed to find something as succesful anywhere else in the world which is not politicized with currying of influence and favors. That is essentially the nature of an industry which has become a utility.

People are free to educate themselves and use alternatives based on their understanding.
Let’s not call it jugaad. It was corruption and a lesson on how stupid laws force people to find an illegal way to do things that should be legal.

The reason reliance gets shit though is not because of corruption - Reliance is fundamentally a predatory firm.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? It unfortunately looks like you've been doing that quite a bit, and it's not what this site is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Two possible reasons:

- They may have interviewed for those roles internally but not found a fit

Or,

- Those job lists are "continual" in other words fake so they can increase their applicant pool and possibly use it in the future (or they haven't taken them down)
The National Review was founded by William F Buckley in the mid 1950s. Let's be clear: I think Buckley was, in many ways, abhorrent. Nevertheless, at least Buckley had some principles.

This article is simply designed to justify our President's desire to undermine social distancing across the country, which will unnecessarily kill people. I cannot imagine Buckley standing for this sort of garbage.
Low prices enabled millions of Indians to get connected to the Internet. Interest of millions of Indians will be always given precedence over interests of a bunch of companies that want to keep data prices high to ensure their profits. Please share citations for your other accusations.
Jesus what a pile of drivel. Zero commitment to addressing the misleading advertising or making amends.
This is the first time in a long time I’ve read a long form article all the way through. Very well done. It’s well written and a fun story.

Thanks for sticking it to the trolls.
You can find polls of popular support for seatbelt laws anywhere. The numbers depend on the poll but generally some large plurality of people (e.g. 30-40%) disagree with the law, sometimes more.

It's obviously basically impossible to measure how many of them respond to the campaign by not wearing their seat belts, but out of what would be something like a hundred million people who disagree with the law, do you really expect the number to be zero?
Fortunately, it's not used on 8TB+ disks yet, so you're safe.

The problem will be getting replacements for these, as it's not safe to just buy HDDs anymore.
in fact arguably this is the first time in Indian history where i believe the people at the top are not corrupt to the extent previous Govts were (coalition politics !). The middle and low level corruption is slowly reducing as we move to more tech enabled services and transparency is a feature although it can never be eliminated, people find a way. However as the new generation in rural areas start using mobile phones with data and access services like banking online i can see a sea change. I saw farmers taking pics of their cultivations and uploading to Govt websites for availing subsidy in Karnataka. Now they had to pay 10% of the subsidy amount in cash beforehand to their local officer, but i still consider this a win and improvement. The primary reason this happened , digitization and a strong push for it.
My problem is primarily that I'm working with SPAs where a refresh really lowers the game.

I put together a proof-of-concept using a 'same-domain frame', no secondary domains or apps. The idea is separation over security, so you can unload without any side hustle. Tho without a second domain you're relying on Stripe being as trustworthy as they are, and not looking to actively undermine your sandboxing attempts [which I think is ok - we embedded their library in the first place].

https://codepen.io/theprojectsomething/full/ExVNEoZ
You should really read into how Jio got their license and rules were repeatedly bent to favor them.

https://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/government-helping-reli...
I think the term multiplicative threw you off. It simply means that the R0 > 1. So a virus is contagious and will spread to increasing numbers of people in the population.

Contrast that with the R0 of a car accident. We can reasonably say it is close to zero or some might even say negative ;)
Yes, that’s what I meant (and I for intersectionality). Agreed that CRT/I would oppose standardized tests, but that’s only because CRT/I at its core opposes anything objective. And the philosophy of CRT/I has already made significant inroads in American culture.

Witness all the accelerated programs that have been shut down, the many recent attacks on objective standards—all in the name of “equity” (which does not mean equality of value, treatment, or opportunity—it means creating equal outcomes by whatever means is available —consider the implications carefully).

Universities are being forced to grapple with these ideas, with the core question being “does our university still value the pursuit of truth, critical thinking, and free inquiry above all else, or will we acknowledge that ‘people from oppressed classes have a truth unto themselves that cannot be taught but must be respected, and all opposing viewpoints must be shut down’?”

If this movement hasn’t yet affected you, it will soon. It’s ripping apart social groups all over the place.

(I can give examples of all I’ve described in the morning if you’re interested. I’m just tapping this out before bed.)
Can you please give us a reference to this model?
Perhaps a simpler move would be to stop party affiliation being published in the ballot paper.

Then if you wanted to vote for your local Tory / Republican / whatever you have to look them up, find out their name - and even compare policies.

This is not banning parties (Parties do at least have value as stability mechanism) but it discourages blind partisanship at least

Edit : it is also testable - one could randomly do this on ballots across nations and watch the outcome. I doubt the null hypothesis is same results as ballots with party affiliation.
I agree, and I used to make this same technology-neutral point, but I figure we might as well call a spade a spade at this point, since it's obvious what we get.
This is great - bookmarked! I see that while it does try to avoid busy roads, it often takes the road that's right next to the motorway (even when not strictly necessary - probably because it's shorter and has little traffic).

It'd be better to prefer roads that are further from busy roads. I understand that's very hand-wavey and probably super tricky to implement.
wd red pro are 7200rpm. Power consumption and heat.
CHinese investment should be taken on a case by case basis. We do not want them controlling influence by turbocharging certain apps/networks/companies they own. I am sure if you have significant Chinese money on board a valuable app, you will start seeing CCP influence sooner or later.

There was no reason why India could not create its home grown TikTok, WhatsApp , Twitter etc.
That's the cheaper outcome. What if you survive and are badly maimed and unable to work?
Message from the real 3xblah
Yours truly would never submit a video promoting cryptocurrency. Just discovered account was compromised. Password has been changed.
This is common core, and the reason why it was created will shock and enrage you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ8Nr3_2724

Straight from the horses mouth.
Did you even read the piece by McCarty?
He talks about how it was meant as an alternative to the computational models based on turing machines in addition to a symbolic computation tool for AI and therefore used side effects for convenience but also tried to keep mathematical properties, like referential transparency.

Tbh it seems pointless discussing this with you because the idea of common lisp being the embodyment of the lisp philosophy seems to have become personal to you. Sorry my energy reservoirs are drained, I'm just gonna ignore your posts, and head back to work, there's a large CL codebase that needs to be rewritten to clojure and that's stressful enough.
I'm the only one who hates quora.com?
The internet you use to access content in seconds was created by those elites.
Because Spartaaaaa.

But honestly, I always thought it is because whoever wrote them didn’t care to make them easier as they were not competing for the student.

But yep, they are total hardcore.
I think the general direction here is that if unethical behavior leads to positive stimuli and there aren't some negative stimuli as a counterweight you simply end up with general demoralization of society and even more unethical behavior.

Examples of positive stimuli that may drive unethical behavior:
- short term profit
- gaining market position
- getting to next VC round / not getting fired

Examples of possible negative stimuli to be used as a counterweight:
- quick and effective legal consequences/process for
- same rules for everyone (no matter corp size, political connections, race etc)
- social rejection (also from future business partners)

IMO a very big problem is the continuing devaluation of "truth" and the increased accent on sensation/emotions that I see in the media and corporate/social circles.

Just my two cents.
"> to renowned Virologists stating that facemask usage is ineffective until the evidence was too overwhelming.
Source? "

The 'source' is the authorities of most of the Western World.

Dr. Tam, the National Medical Honcho in Canada made the declaration that 'masks were not going to help' ... until the WHO and other nations changed their mind and she followed suit.

Masks were officially not recommended, then recommended but not required, and then required in some places.
In an era of reverse globalization, i feel homegrown billionares and/or Govt controlling Indian data might be better than Chinese or American companies. Also i think India has the talent to build what our audiences need so we are not in the same boat as say some hypothetical small African country which does not have an option. The Indian market size will make a difference.
It has a very little usage of ram on phone. Basically 0 when you don't use it.
For that matter, look at say a 4th or 5th grade English textbook from the U.S. pre-1970 compared to even High School book today.
Oops. You are right.

Though 14 days is probably a mean time to getting tested.
> Seatbelts increase the chance of remaining in your seat - and thus in at least partial control of your vehicle - mid-accident.

Is this just speculation? Without a seatbelt you get thrown from the vehicle when you hit something, but by that point it's by definition already too late to avoid it, and then you're just in butterfly effect land. Maybe having someone in the car helps because they keep their foot on the brake and the car stays where it is, maybe that's bad because another car that hits the smashed car has to absorb a harder impact when the other car is held in place by the brake instead of being pushed away.

> Wikipedia has references suggesting it's done more good than harm on at least seatbelt wearing rates

This is not the right comparison because the thing to be compared is not seatbelt use prior to the campaign, it's seatbelt use under a different seatbelt campaign, e.g. one that emphasizes the risks to your life rather than the risk of a ticket -- which may actually be more effective regardless, because dying is a lot worse than getting fined.

> This doesn't measure anger induced traffic accidents, but anyone that easily angered on a regular basis will probably find some excuse to be angry no matter what if you ask me.

That's just a rationalization. Volatile individuals exist. Removing triggers for their volatility while they're engaged in a dangerous activity is an advantage.
yes but I've already seen the attitude among american students who treat plug-it-in equivalent to plug-in devices xD
> I feel like it's worth pointing out here, for Americans who don't know better (no blame implied), that the French have one of the best mathematical pipelines in the world. They have almost as many Nobels (13 vs. 11) despite having 1/5 the population.

I’d much rather measure an educational system by how much it teaches the average person, than by how many Nobel prize winners it produces.
Thanks for this, prolong battery life will make this much better one.
Could you elaborate why it's been more pleasant than OSX, please?
Rapid development of an inactivated vaccine for SARS-CoV-2
This is an attempt to jam a radically different situation into a one dimensional faultline of US politics, rather than learn anything from the town itself.
Windows has only been like that recently. The 9x days, and even a good chunk of the XP days meant standard looking applications.

Now that CSS and Javascript are so widely used, it would be interesting for OS vendors to provide a default OS theme along with their packaged browser, that allowed some kind of sane default for web applications to use. You could use a native skin, or load your own CSS to customise it. Microsoft kind of tried this with ActiveX controls, and then Java Applets tried it, and then Flash was fun by ultimately not a good idea, and now we're here with thousands of themes to choose from and a rough set of guidelines that some follow and many don't.
As an Indian, I find this scary. Govt and Jio has deep ties.
Missouri Attorney General Schmitt Files Lawsuit Against Chinese Government
I don't think my dad has willingly listened to a new song in the last 30 years.
Some of them do. Some argue that that's different because then it is someone bad (tobacco company) hurting someone innocent (child who doesn't know any better).
> That may be short term thinking or kind of defeatist but it is reasonable.

I think this is exactly the wrong thinking about taxes. And it's abused by pundits and politicians by making people spend the same money many times in their head. I mean, you can't be simultaneously outraged that "your tax money" supports elite schools and abortion clinics and the military; you don't pay that much of a tax. In fact, an average taxpayer's contribution would amount to buying some office supplies for one, small government building.

Money is fungible, and by the time enough is collected to fund a school, there's no "my money" in there anymore, much like if you take a fistful of sand from your yard and throw it on a beach nearby, there is no more "your sand".
I don't think the books were made hard intentionally.

From what I understand, in the US, the same course on, say, Introduction to Calculus, can be attended by people who are learning to be MDs, chemical engineers, accountants and mathematicians because there is no fixed curriculum and everyone can pick up that course. So the textbooks and courses need to be as accessible as possible to accommodate a wide range of aptitudes.

In Russia/USSR, at least till 90s (don't know if it's still true since there had been a movement to "westernize" education) you enrolled into a major, not a school, and the whole class had the same curriculum for the first two years with some specialization starting on the third year (the whole program is 5-6 years). So students with the same major go to the same courses, which are not shared with any other majors. In this system Introduction to Calculus for mathematicians will be very different from the course with the same name for sociologists and does not have to be as accessible for people who do not really care about strictness of proofs, structure and other "mathy" stuff.
Brilliant. Now for Windows XP...
Key factual allegations are described[1] with the summary:

"The COVID-19 outbreak has caused hardship in Missouri and across the globe—death, isolation from sick and dying loved ones, massive unemployment, economic dislocation, uncertainty, and trillions of dollars of economic losses. China should be held legally responsible"

[1] https://ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/press-releases/2019/k...
Operation Chokepoint
Any company that allows HR to veto any promotions is royally screwed.
Would Meet get this rolled out next?

I've noticed video quality on it seems to be really poor recently and even just freezes for people who aren't the current speaker.

I don't have the same issue with Slack, Teams isn't great but isn't as bad as Meet.
No one taught me this in school, but if you add up the digits (5+7=12) and the result is divisible by 3, then so is the original number. It works recursively.
The title has been editorialised; the lack of deaths may be significant, but without drilling down into demographics (example: average age of inmates is around 40) and other conditions that's not obvious.
I meant “again underscores the point”.

The point being that this was foreseeable at the time. Which was indicated the first time when he said that he assumed that the authorities in charge with access to more data than he had already had come to same conclusions that he did.
What is extreme nationalist ? India is a 5000 year old civilization.

Does banning triple talaq and medieval Islamic laws count as nationalism ?

Does bringing modern 21st century laws (including women equality and inheritance laws) to a territory given special status for merely political reasons count as nationalist ?

The condescending attitude is very off putting. If you base your opinions on the international media portrayal of Indian politics i would definitely say one thing is extremely lacking: nuance, it is mostly agenda driven drivel.
Last time Patreon tried fucking over the small-timers, in late 2017, it was the whales who objected and fought them on it - Chapo, Amanda Palmer.

Because the whales remember when they were minnows, and the small timers is where the big timers come from.

Patreon has wanted to dispose of the pain-in-the-backside long tail for ages - this was an explicit business plan by mid-2017.

Because they took VC money and turned a sustainable small-time business into something that MUST GROW, whether it makes sense or not.
Who is permitted the time and resources to develop breakthroughs and innovations?

Surely not the proletariat in modern America, where the vast majority are getting poorer year by year.
Tried it and really liked it! Thank you!
Microsoft got around that by asking European consumers which browsers they wanted: https://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/01/europe.microsoft.web...
I've always wondered if Patreon's core business can ever be big enough to justify the VC and company size.

A generic 'patronage' business will always be expensive to develop and run compared with more targeted discovery and patronage platforms - music, video, podcast, porn. If I can see the 'patron early' videos in my normal youtube feed, or pay podcasters from my podcast app I'd use that.
It takes a huge amount of effort to support 'long tail' artists - those that I'm not a mega fan of - on a different site.
But how many people had COVID vs influenza?

It doesn’t list case fatality rate, so your argument is just like everyone who says “the flu is deadlier than COVID”. Flu cases aren’t growing exponentially.
I posted this here, although it's a preprint, because it mentions that the inactivated vaccine does not seem to cause antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), which was one of the unknowns of the development of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.

From the preprint:

> No antibody-dependent enhancement of infection (ADE) was observed for any vaccinated macaques despite the observation that relatively low NAb titer existed within the medium dose group before infection, offering partial protection.
Agreed - a primer for people interested in the Indian telecom story:

Indian telecom had one terrible moment which ended a near dream run for consumers.

Prior to the SC auction verdict we had a huge amount of competition.

Getting telecom market structure right is a hard thing to do, because there are always people working hard to pervert the system.

America has an auction where famously, telcos his the PIN codes for the areas they wanted in the auction bids.

This verdict ensured that many firms pulled out and significant market consolidation took place, till we went from a multitude of firms to 3 + BSNl.

At the point you have three firms, you have cartel behavior.

Then came yet another SC verdict which was devastating (arrears due to the govts was based on total profits, not just on spectrum related profits.)

This is why they were asking for help.

And finally Jio. Jio is doing a perfect job competing in its full throated style to end at least one of the debt burdened and teetering competition.

Sadly they also oppose net neutrality, and have had some amazing shenanigans ignored entirely by the regulator.

It’s not a good time for Indian telecom consumers.
There is a very large amount of chargebacks and fraud happening on adult sites.
Interesting! I never would have thought of a spinning drive as needing a TRIM command, but it makes sense for drives where data is literally overlapping.

But, why would failure to expose TRIM cause errors in in rebuilding a RAID, in which case old drives should be more or less read-only, and replacement drives write only? My understanding is that TRIM should affect re-writing sectors only.
Having been through Guillain-Barre, I can definitely say that there can be lasting effects as a side channel from viral infection (part of why I started WFH a couple weeks before most).

Just because you survive something, doesn't mean you are "OK" ... you may have reduced heart and/or lung capacity after COVID-19, not to mention other issues that can result.
That's my second point though - why do you think that PRML and MLaPP need a modern successor at all?