skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Run for elections or get a job in government.

There are 90 thousand government agencies. Local, city, county, state, etc... There are people out there who wants you to think they are all like the DMV or dysfunctional like the Senate and Congress.

Or worse, that the private sector somehow is where the challenge is. Maybe where you can get richer, but look at the department of agriculture or any other major government institution. $150b in budget and 100k employees. You find me a private company with similar size and a mission to feed 380M people.

The US needs a renaissance of the importance and virtue of public service. Our best minds are selling ads or consulting to shave off 0.001% of sub-prime derivatives in nanoseconds.

The government is us, and it’s huge and slow and careful and conservative and complex. But it needs us inside to change.

PS: I got inspired by words from Anand Giridharadas, so bonus points if you recognized any from his interviews.
Any tips where to look for db modelling learning resources?
There is also my new toy project, apy [0]. It allows, among other things, to add and modify cards from cli.

[0]: https://github.com/lervag/apy
I'm more tempted by one of these [1], clock speed is a lot lower than the Ampere but I'm limited by RAM on all my current AArch64 systems.

[1] https://www.96boards.org/product/developerbox/
1,000 students per semester times $10 bucks is money I wouldn’t mind having.

Professors write tons of pages on various topics as part of their job. We call that “research”. Not sure why contributing to a book effort should be looked at any differently than research papers.

Plus, from an economic sense, when you lower the price of a compliment, your demand g or price ) goes up. So it’s actually in a university’s interest to provide books for free (or very low cost).
> There are multiple implementations of that standard, in the form of exams that meet the standards. The government checks the exams satisfy their standards.

In other countries, all students get the exact same exam.
On the bright side, if it is true that they can't layoff anybody for the next 8 weeks and there is no loophole. This could save the economy from incredibly large rounds of layoofs, remember that large companies each employ many people. This could dramatically help to stabilize the economy if the lock down is relaxed before the 8 weeks term.
It's a feature for the people whom the government serves.
Yes but these fees are huge with larger loans. Why are the fees percent based rather then flat rate? The banks giving out these loans are not taking on any risk with the loan. So how are they getting away with large fees associated with the loans?
Most likely supply chain managers will establish "second source" policies, just like the US Defense Department has always done for many products. They won't necessarily move away from China entirely, but will build factories in other countries as well.
No idea but that's what they say: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/11-procent-av-stockholmar...

Google Translate:

> Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet have collaborated to produce a new antibody test in the fight against covid-19.

> - We are happy to have a test that we know is okay. It is not 100 percent sensitive, it has sensitivity of 70-80 percent. Some will test negative even though they have had it. But no one will test false positively. Those we have tested that should be negative have been, says Jan Albert.

(Google Translate translates chief physician to consultant for some reason but other than that the translation seems fine)
I learned SQL working in Access. There wasn't anything like generate_series(), and I remember having to do things like above by having a start and end date, cross joined with a table of nonnegative integers I made, and creating a field which added an integer to the start date, subject to being no greater than the end date.
My actual point is that archaeological estimates are like epidemiological models: smart folks offering a snapshot of what they know.

Until that knowledge is over-written.
With AI, Africa’s health systems can take on Covid-19
People--including end-users and non-technical managers.
To not arbitrarily give certain citizens money. At least now they have to make a private placement offer and jump through a few hoops to get the right bond rating
Devil's advocate (again, I agree with you but just for the sake of hearing you out) -- What makes you think the govt is suppose to support the people at massive scale? Last time I checked most (or at least the great majority of those that dominate and survive) organized governments were put together for the purposes of serving a few elite.

;)

again, I agree with you
Specification gaming: the flip side of AI ingenuity
The flip side is really the question: Where does the money come from to buy the things produced by the robots if people are no longer being paid to produce things?

If you answer something like UBI, then you're just passing the buck and the obvious question is, "where does that money come from?"

This problem is secretly baked into the structure of the current crisis. More automation is inevitable, I'm not arguing about that, but it will only exacerbate the problem.
To be sure, there is a habit to make the teacher's life easier by lying, and I certainly believe you when you say that you were lied to; but all of these can be rescued, as a sequence of decreasingly incomplete truths, just by adding quantifiers. Since the human brain is (excessively) good at ignoring quantifiers, a skilled teacher (not me, in this context—I'm a college teacher, so am not claiming that this is the right language for primary schoolers, just that it's true) can speak truthfully without impairing the pedagogy:

Q. how much is 3 - 5?

A. taking 5 out of 3 does not give a whole-number answer.

Q. how much is 2 divided by 3?

A. dividing 2 by 3 does not give an integer answer.

Q. what are the roots of the quadratic function ...?

A. this quadratic function doesn't have real roots because you can't take a real square root of a negative number
> I doubt most shareholders care about that at all. Feeling good vs making money?

You don't see a connection between Facebook's recruitment of engineering talent and Facebook making money? It's almost as if you didn't read my comment.
Jericho might interest you then. It's an oasis city, with a very distinctive view of surrounding hills.

The most ancient structures are from 9kya, and the city existed in a lot of forms since that point. I believe the current city streets are from the Roman period, and probably date to the iron age or older.

What fascinates me about the site is the architectural similarity between the oldest city (the 9kya, neolithic city) and Çatalhöyük of the same period. These are the oldest known cities, and predate the oldest known "empires" by a lot.

This hints at a neolithic (and perhaps even ice age) cultural exchange over very large distances.
I was under the impression that it disables it on a deeper level since disabling Camera, for instance, disallows apps (like Snapchat) from accessing the camera even if you'd previously given Snapchat camera permissions.
I agree, though in the long term this still means China represents a smaller percentage of the world's manufacturing.
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One of the less horrible of the many dystopian futures visited by Time Traveller
Exactly. And when the inevitable "but why?" comes, you can either say "don't worry about it for now, magic" (disempowering) or explain the actual reason why...when you have lots of these little segues simple tasks and simple concepts become suddenly complex. There's a lot to take in, and although the fix is simple, it's yet one more thing to hold onto that can be imprecisely remembered.

If the next time they sit down to do something at the command line they write the equivalent of `cmd "arg 1 arg 2 arg 3"` it should not be surprising, and frustration that it doesn't work as intended should be expected... especially when they're not even trying to learn about their command line in that moment.
I am personally a supporter of this foundation's mission -- more because it gives our civilization an alternative to cloud storage that is not controlled by Big Tech.

However, realistically, I don't think we can assume that storage prices will drop forever. That depends upon continued advances and breakthroughs in science, engineering, and commercialization efforts. I recognize that, ironically, Big Tech help drive storage prices down. It may be a generation, or five, or ten, but the tech advance boom won't go on forever.

I don't know if the foundation will be around at that point. It is pretty ambitious, and perhaps, they may have to change their charter. The founder of the Internet Archive is on the governing board of this foundation, and I can easily see this idea cooked up as, "hey, what if every Joe and Mary can have their own micro Internet Archive?" "People have photos of their great great grandmothers 100 years ago, but everyone's stuff is no digital; what if they could have saved that for their kids? Would they have a place to stash it even after they die? ('cause, you know, no subscription fees) Can you depend on Facebook to memorialize that?" (One of the people on their board is involved in a geaneological company)

I think it is a good vision, although their plan is not without risk. (But what isn't?) We're also depending on our descendants to value these personal, mini vaults of data to keep donating to preserve it (if the endownment model does not work). But you know: we would be dead and it would not be up to us to value and preserve our own history.

I am really surprised at the amount of backlash I see on this forum for it.
Doctors aren't working for free, so I'm not sure why bank employees are expected to.
No, but some people think it is.
I guess I just feel hopeless because I cannot manage things on my own anymore, like I used to when life was good, and I cannot find enough help to survive. I have been failed over and over by systems and people and saying that is used as something being wrong with ME. Admittedly a couple of very rare times I have failed to grab on to a helping hand out of fear and situations making things worse, and I don't know if those things would have worked or not, and those rare instances seem to paint me in an even worse light as someone who is beyond help and NEVER acts or does the right thing even though that isn't true, but mostly there isn't any help. That's why I ended up where I am. People seem to think they would always be capable of finding a way out...I thought so too...the reality is different. I wish I had succeeded in leaving this world because I see no way to survive in it that is accessible to me. I'd be getting social assistance in most first world countries. I am angry, alone, in pain, exhausted, and hopeless...and that annoys and offends and I understand why but it still hurts. Just have no idea what to do...feel adrift and hopeless in a way I never imagined possible.
It doesn't have to be artificially "made". It could still be "fostered" in a lab.
This kind of platforms should punish that kind of simple translated versions, then reward original texts to motivate content creation at the non English native language
It provides another way to represent individual register fields without using bitfields. And probably gives you stronger guarantees about what happens when the bitfield overflows.

It also provides a way to pass those values around without passing the whole register struct around.
Underrated point. In Poland grades often don’t matter at all (e.g. for university admission). Cheating is widespread in school (but not at final exams after high school). Meanwhile in US your high school grades matter for university admission etc.

And, yes, it is often possible for students to complete these harder classes without much to show for it.
What It Costs the Amazon FBA Full Course (Organic) in 2020
Yes, the article was about the US.
The only cryptocurrency based project with a potential for utility is https://handshake.org

If that fact grinds you gears, you might look for some lubrication, because it is a fact. Maybe national digital currencies is the first wide spread adoption, still, public permissionless blockchains do not have a future with utility
> No surprise here. Yes, these programs will help out small businesses. But, the rich need their cut first.
Hopefully investigative journalists will be able to find the corruption/fraud in a few years.

I find this perspective interesting. Presumably the fees charged by the banks form part of their revenue and their profits. I would have thought that this funds the salaries and bonuses from the CEO to the janitor and everyone else in between. The bottom line is the people "getting their cut first" could potentially include many people commenting on this thread. Disclosure: I have worked for one or two banks directly or otherwise.

I'm not disputing that there may be corruption/fraud going on. But I see that as a separate issue.
This is Jordan Peterson's "test" isn't it?
TIL : Today I learned. I didn't know that.

Although I have made your kind of mistake before.

This is why I do a post-proof read / link test after I post.
In many databases you would create a function to fill the role of that "numbers table" and, effectively, map that function onto rows. That function can express whatever "richness" you need (i.e. civil calendar month, phase of the moon, etc... >smile<) that might not be easily expressed as a series.
The thing here is the bank isn’t taking any risk here. All the loans are guaranteed by the government. So banks are really just a middle man that is transferring money from the SBA to a small business’s bank account and taking on zero credit risk.

The government has the ability to send funds directly to people obviously...that’s how they are sending the stimulus checks and send tax refunds.

Banks are basically being compensated for doing paperwork.
This suggestion shows little understanding of the difference between Linux the kernel and Linux the OS distribution. It is the role of distributions to implement defaults for security. The idea, ask the user, is naive - most Linux software never interacts with a GUI or console user.
Agreed 1,000,000% !

If Stan Lee wrote calculus textbooks, everyone would be good at math. [0]

[0] - ok, so I came up with that off the top of my head. But the more I think about it, the better the idea seems to me. Any thoughts?
> Isn't this whole process of debate and individual responsibility basically irrevocably tainted in the age of mass misinformation?

Wasn't there an article here yesterday about the San Francisco anti-mask league [0] from 1918? I don't think misinformation and people acting incorrectly is something new.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Mask_League_of_San_Franci...
When I was in undergrad I was part of program that was heavily programming focused, but was actually part of the business school. Several of the classes I took were heavily SQL focused, with at least one class that had every single assignment requiring extensive designing database schemas and writing SQL. Now, years later, I still think that those classes were some of the most valuable to my career as a programmer.

What's interesting to me is that apparently the CS program at my university hardly did anything with SQL, and I notice too that most programmers I meet "in the wild" are lacking in SQL skills, as you mentioned. It's led to some interesting interview situations where I really struggle with any questions about algorithms (my college courses didn't cover algorithms at all) while the interviewer will tell me that I have the best SQL skills of anyone they interviewed.

Speaking with others that went to other universities, I've heard that it's similar elsewhere for the "business/programming" to include SQL classes but eschew algorithms, while CS programs will ignore SQL but focus heavily on algorithms. It seems to me like both programs could benefit from meeting in the middle a bit.
We live in a world where there are huge rewards for anyone with the right connections. Banks provide very little value, they are basically a glorified SQL database at this point. They're not taking any risk, they're not really creating any economic value, and yet the rewards they receive are enormous.

Watching all this going on makes me feel so disillusioned, and I don't want to participate in society anymore.
Stopping floods, protecting lives, and saving money? Mangroves do it for free
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The word you're looking for regarding PayPal is trust. Buyers trust PayPal, with good reasons. And in a sad way, PayPal didn't have to offer much for that, merely ensure that you got what you paid for or your money back.

It says a lot about the universe of web sites, sellers and payment processors that offering that put them well above every one else.
Triggers are a great option in many situations.
If you don’t like chocolate ice cream, and you are given the choice between two different flavors of chocolate ice cream, picking the other chocolate flavor isn’t a solution.
The list doesn't seem to be complete, Shiraz has been inhibited since 2000BC and it's not listed on the page.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Shiraz
the importance of professional connections are understated in my opinion. You can make a career out of only knowing the right things and you can make a career out of only knowing the right people but you really excel when you know the right things and know the right people.
We are back stopping the banks from failing by buying their distressed assets, changing the fdic holding requirements, helping out with overnight lending rates etc. They shouldn't be charging any fee.
Probably because they don't need to think about those things.

I started my career as an Embedded Software Engineer, and memory allocation, and clock cycles hand to be managed. Our software ran on systems with limited memory, and had to fit in one 60hz cycle. We supported VAX system that used VAX Floating point, and had to be cognizant of both floating point conversions AND endian byte encoding.

These days, such concepts are basically just trivia answers for interview questions.

I had to think about those things because it was required. System software would crash, and debugging it on an expensive government flight sim 1000 miles away was impossible.

Perhaps for the developers you work with, they don't need to think about those things because they're not required to. After all they have access to a dedicated DBA/SRE/DevOps/Architect guru.
Agreed. As soon as I see a page asking me to create an account, I nope out of there immediately.
A lot of people don't know this, but `BigInt`s are supported in modern JavaScript; integers of arbitrarily large precision.

Try in your browser console:

2n ** 4096n

// output (might have to scroll right)
1044388881413152506691752710716624382579964249047383780384233483283953907971557456848826811934997558340890106714439262837987573438185793607263236087851365277945956976543709998340361590134383718314428070011855946226376318839397712745672334684344586617496807908705803704071284048740118609114467977783598029006686938976881787785946905630190260940599579453432823469303026696443059025015972399867714215541693835559885291486318237914434496734087811872639496475100189041349008417061675093668333850551032972088269550769983616369411933015213796825837188091833656751221318492846368125550225998300412344784862595674492194617023806505913245610825731835380087608622102834270197698202313169017678006675195485079921636419370285375124784014907159135459982790513399611551794271106831134090584272884279791554849782954323534517065223269061394905987693002122963395687782878948440616007412945674919823050571642377154816321380631045902916136926708342856440730447899971901781465763473223850267253059899795996090799469201774624817718449867455659250178329070473119433165550807568221846571746373296884912819520317457002440926616910874148385078411929804522981857338977648103126085903001302413467189726673216491511131602920781738033436090243804708340403154190336n

To use, just add `n` after the number as literal notation, or can cast any Number x with BigInt(x). BigInts may only do operations with other BigInts, so make sure to cast any Numbers where applicable.

I know this is about C, I thought I'd just mention it, since many people seem to be unaware of this.
Judging by the motivation section, the motivation is primarily for FPGAs which I guess is why they want to allow these sub-int sized bit values. You might come up with some custom C-programmable operator that is only 3-bits wide where before you're presumably forced to use the smallest available power of 2 word size which would waste resources. So I think actually the idea is that this is for code which is not supposed to be portable at all, but rather hyper-optimised for custom devices.
Presenting multiple node label support of the Neo4j Graph Data Science
UB stores passwords in plaintext, and emails them around.

https://plaintextoffenders.com/post/183587319928/userbenchma...

https://github.com/plaintextoffenders/plaintextoffenders/blo...
Covid-19 Outbreak Associated with Air Conditioning in Restaurant, Guangzhou
The root problem was Trump team didn't put in enough money, included too many rich businesses, and didn't require a fair order. Banks knew they didn't have enough meat yet were feeding a frenzy: of course the big dogs pushed through to the front.

So now we blame Banks instead of Trump. Yet if Trump repeats the plan without prioritizing actual small businesses, the co's big enough for in-house accountants and big loan relationships will keep getting the lion's share.
I'd like to get the prototype out quickly, and then there will probably be quite a bit of time before the final product is launched.

Things like this worry me about getting up and running with GraphQL though, especially "Common GraphQL problems: Server/Client Data Mismatch":

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/five-common-problems-in-gr...
Xi Jingping consolidated power by rallying people around the flag of anti-corruption. Same with Putin. Obviously, neither of those people is anywhere close to non-corrupt.

Don't rally around anti-corruption. Rally around accountability, oversight, openness, and balances of power.

Doing things right is harder than calling out others for doing things wrong, and plenty of horrible corrupt people are all too happy to call out wrong-doers. Support people who do things right, not people who complain about others doing things wrong.
i think that the optimism comes from you're the one telling the incomplete truths or lies and not the one hearing them. when i was in graduate school for mathematics, it indeed felt that i had been lied to in undergraduate school. also, i think people are being a bit facetious when they say lie as well, but there's a kernel of truth to it.
CryptPad, open source alternative to Google Docs
The automation is here and is used everywhere right now if it makes economically sense. Good overview of the pricing here: https://blog.robotiq.com/what-is-the-price-of-collaborative-... Basic robot $50k, advanced application - $100k. One can hire lots of workers for the money. Especially during recession.
I think building some sort of OS from scratch would be a wonderful class. I've actually thought about what _I_ would like to see in a class like this before. These ideas might be useful to you:

1. Use a widely available architecture. This practically means x86 or x86_64. Nothing against RPis, for example, it's just that _everyone_ is more likely to have some sort of Intel desktop/laptop before they even have an RPi.

2. Start from the very basics: booting up and go into a NOP loop should be one of the first lessons.

3. Don't need to go too far: basic but functional implementations of things like memory management, multitasking, file systems, etc. are enough.

4. By the end, have a simple OS that boots up to a basic shell, is capable of reading/writing to something like FAT16 and can run multiple tasks in parallel.