skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to choose between Software Delivered on Time and Good Software (2018)
Base assumption, we just print the money. It's how we pay for everything else like wars and subsidies and whatnot.

Then, as a courtesy to those people who benefit from a society without excessive inflation (mostly, people with lots of money who are clearly benefiting the most) we take and burn that money, to remove it from circulation.
This isn't helpful for you if you're trying to pick one, but I find OCaml and Scala somewhat complementary for my tastes:

Scala is a pretty great investment for services, big data, etc. It has a robust ecosystem.

However, the compiler is slow, and startup time can be slow (and Graal and Scala Native just aren't options yet), and if I want to make some tool that gets called fast in a loop or deploys as a "small", native binary, OCaml is nice alternative which I prefer to the only other compelling entry in this area, Go.
Yeah, the 74181 was a bit earlier, but what's interesting is that bit-slice is a generic building block technology. For example, the VAX 11/780 used '181s, but the compatible 11/730 used 2901s. It's all about how the control microcode is written.

The '181 evolved into the 74281 and 74481 with more functions. Then TI jumped to the 74as888 line, which is an 8-bit slice. There are also things like the IDT 49c402, which is basically 4 x 2901 + a 2902 on a single chip.
Nonsense. You don't have to pay extra to post a copy on Medium, or one of the other 9 zillion free publishing platforms
Record government and corporate debt risks ‘tipping point’ after pandemic passes
Funny how this suggestion comes up every time Google or Facebook are subject of some minor regulation outside the US.

Yet suggest they should give up their participation in military or US border security, two areas that are unlikely to be larger than their business in Australia (or, other times, the EU), and there’s no shortage of people explaining what a stupid trade-off that would be.

I guess the tech crowds’ priorities are clear: drone targeting? So what? This is strictly business!

A bit of taxation to maybe rescue the journalism a democracy depends on? To the barricades! We will gladly give up 100% of earnings to take a stand against the injustice that is...taking 5% of earnings.
Awesome project! I was really hoping to read about the amp/cab simulator and effects running on the Rasperry Pi as the title mentions, but the software side is entirely missing from the story.

Note that from a cursory look at the links, there hasn't been updates since 2018, and the KS project never launched.
True. Also, if you read Superforecasting[1] you'll learn about several experiments where "non-experts" beat experts by a lot by just being well informed. Even when the experts had access to confidential data.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Superforecasting-Science-Prediction-P...
Personally, I would just throw High Sierra back on the machine. It's the best of the semi-recent macOS releases anyway.

It's going to go out of support when 10.16 is presumably released this fall, but... I don't know, live a little!
He does say "Alexa, give me some metal EQ" and similar things multiple times.
Please help me with the logic here:

"It concerns something I didn't figure out until I was older, that children are brought into existence w/o their consent.

Now I don't believe this is* (edit: fixed) an evil or unethical act; it's simply an unavoidable facet of reality. However, it creates a debt to children so massive, that it can't be fully repaid in a lifetime."

I wonder, why does "my kid didn't consent to be born" mean "I owe him/her?"

Is the implication that being alive is a bad thing?
The coins went down hard in march along with the financial markets...
> I frequent the web sites of a two publications that block both crawlers and social media referrers, and they're quite civilized.

I'd guess the causal arrow flows in the other direction. Publications that are explicitly targeting a smaller, more specific market can afford to avoid courting the kind of person who get their news from Facebook. But pubs that are going for a broader audience can't ignore this channel.

I know someone's going to respond "maybe they shouldn't be targeting that audience then" but....why? If CNN stops pandering to the average dimbulb and said dimbulb's Facebook feed becomes even more dominated by Macedonian (actual) fake news sites, is that _better_, for either the reader or for society? The irreducible reality is that most people like the kind of crap that mainstream news sites put out, and those people need to get their news from somewhere. (By the way, this doesn't exclude mainstream "prestige" publications like the NYT that pretend they're going for high-minded audiences; their drivel just has one layer extra of tidying up than CNN's does).
Id start with Freecodecamp - you dont have to complete the modules but chose the ones relevat to you
yes, a better problem definition would in this case reveal that the estimate becomes quite good (in my definition) around the 50% time mark, when the transition from ^x to ^-x takes place. More specifically, I mean that although the stable point is still off by e.g. 25%, the important thing is that the stable time of the curve is well-estimated. you know it's no longer increasing exponentially...
My rule is that a todo should have a way to get to done.

If it’s important enough to write a todo then it’s probably worth doing and prioritising against everything else.
Cool so does this mean climate models, with enormous look-ahead windows, are complete garbage?
China has the technology.
Yeah good question. Alexa skills don't want to be long-lived so you have to force them to stay open so you're not constantly saying "Alexa ask <app name> to <x>" which, by the way, hardly ever works.

With a video skill like this, I can submit APL documents and then long-running commands to make it keep "doing something" throughout the playback. There is a limit to how long you can command it to "delay" but I think it's more than 5 minutes or something.

I haven't tried it, but for non-video skills I've read that you can play silent audio for a period of time to keep the skill open.

Janky, for sure.
In Australia many schools are additionally worried because the net effect of government interventionism on visa issuing, international arrivals and quarantine have hit the travel sector so badly that existing international students (their cash cow) have been forced to discontinue studies, and new international students are unable to arrive.
I went back through the press release sources and found that it's actually based off of two recent papers:

[1] https://academic.oup.com/cercor/advance-article-abstract/doi...

[2] https://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2020/03/30/JNEUROSCI...
". . . like a hoard of suburbanites descending on a grocery store's toilet paper aisle." Should be "horde" but somehow "hoard" works better here . . .
We already have all this stuff???
Wait what part of the data do you want to deanonymize?

It's computational impossible to reverse from Rolling Proximity Key to Daily Tracing Key to Tracing Key.
There have been several studies that have come up with different numbers. I guess we can calculate some interesting stuff based on the range, but it's a really big range (I've seen somewhere in the range of 1.5 to 7 in various articles/studies).
I suspect there's a decent chance the same thing will happen in France, if the appeals process doesn't reach some kind of more reasonable solution.
This is a bit misleading, IMHO. The important difference between CC0 and public domain is that PD is a copyright status, while CC0 is a license. Which means you use CC0 to grant PD-like status to works you hold the copyright for. You cannot (should not) attach a CC0 to somebody else's work just because you think it is PD. And vice versa: while stating "I release my work into PD" is probably usable in the US, it is really incompatible with the continental construction of copyright; for that, the explicit granting of a "most possibly free" license is a better fit. (Even though you might doubt even CC0 is bulletproof there...)
of course everyone has to die at a certain point, when does make a difference and COVID is making a HUGE difference as you can see by the spike in mortality rate
> It's always a cherry-picking of the best policies and pretending there's never any trade offs.

Well it's not like UBI is the exception here. This is normal in all forms of political discourse.
The scale requested was actually:

> On a scale of 'Rando County Legacy ISP-provided email service' to 'Gmail' is shutting down, where does this lie?
Blockchain is not in it’s infancy, it has existed for 11 years.
Release of final 'Evangelion' movie postponed because of coronavirus
ah good to know. So at least never an AMD hackintosh for me. Are this problems completely gone with Intel hackintoshes?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22917941
Fair point :)

The remaining piece of the puzzle is that Lihaoyi's libraries and general approach is exactly what a joe average coder would want. There is minimal use of advanced features, it is all quite straightforward and simple.

There are other productive contributors in Scala, but among them I would rate Lihaoyi to be among the least "magical". The fact that he is both practical and productive is what makes him unique. I guess my point was that there is a lot to be learned from that. For some nice examples of what it looks like in practice see his series of blogposts titled "how to work with x in scala".
Are you implying those perceived issues do not really exist?
It is clearly for practice / home use and not for live performance. The main value seems to be the automation for switching tones based on song presets.

This is also the focus in one of the mainstream modelling apps, ToneBridge, except it doesn't play along with tabs, so there is clearly a market for it.
I know you're not defending it, but even this steelman doesn't make sense. They don't run an ad alongside the article; They run it alongside the _link_ to the article, and the Sydney Morning-Herald runs an ad alongside the article. Facebook is providing aggregation and sharing of the link, and advertising alongside that aggregation and sharing. Does the Aus gov't think that telecoms or smartphone manufacturers should be paying extortion money to media companies too?
https://archive.md/Cf6W9
There is not going to be a vaccine and there is not going to be herd immunity. You can't count on either of those outcomes any more than you can count on there being a vaccine and herd immunity for the common cold.

However you can make it mandatory for anyone with cold/flu symptoms to self-isolate rather than do the manly thing of bring it into an office and work through it. You can also make it so that people have to go into quarantine after international travel. You can also do some testing.

Rabies has been kept outside of the UK for decades by the quarantine approach. Pets can go one way from the UK to the rest of the world quite freely but on the way back they have to be quarantined. With rabies free Ireland an exception can be made.

With this approach we can avoid the indefinite lockdown required until the holy vaccine is found.
In context those A-level results are good enough for any of the top 20 if not top 10 universities in the UK, it's a good qualification if not quite top 5 levels ( oxbridge / top london uni's. )

I suspect the Ivy leagues have enough domestic applicants that a very respectable, but not outstanding candidate with less well understood grades would not make the cut here.
We all understand the application of flying even if we didn’t have the tech for it.

With blockchain it’s the other way around.
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The most reliable report we've seen about a Touch ID returning to Apple's flagship comes from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who says that Apple could introduce in-display fingerprint sensors with the iPhones it'll release in 2021.

That would be a killer feature.
I think Taleb makes a similar point in his books - if you can forsee an economic crisis, you take steps to avoid it and therefore it doesn't happen. But then everyone asks why you were wrong in the first place, as the crisis didn't happen
The US had the issue of complete failure of a federal monopoly. CDC and FDA failed at the most critical time and prohibited private enterprise and states from rushing in.
That's great for people that are technically inclined. Spend some time with senior citizens and the disabled and you might develop a bit more compassion.
There are quite a few Chinese (and Russian, not surprisingly...) companies who will do "MCU breaks". $10k (USD) is near the high end of the price range; price depends on complexity and newness --- less than $1k for some of the common and older parts. Mikatech is one of the better-known and older ones.

They are great for maintaining legacy equipment where the original company has either discontinued support or disappeared completely.
> Generally if you have any of these: 1) unknown congestion 2) unknown speed 3) unknown tolerance for error

> ... If you want to see a modern take on achieving reliable transmission over UDP check out HTTP/3.

Not an expert but I have seen folks here complain that QUIC / HTTP3 doesn't have a proper congestion control like uTP (BitTorrent over UDP) does with LEDBAT: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10546651
> who else but you "can make a fair judgement" about whether you'll buy something?

I can make a fair judgement when "not buying" means I don't get the product.
> Also, I don't really get the societal penalty for disaster preparation.

It makes a lot of sense: if you're preparing for a disaster, you won't go down with everyone else when disaster strikes. This creates some feeling of resentment which caused people to lash out at you.
many hundreds of respirators

I assume you mean ventilators since it would be fairly insulting otherwise, especially when considering Germany's knee-jerk reactions to the initial outbreak in Italy.
All of the existing modelers support toggling based on midi commands
Apple updating areas already covered by new map
Frankly, it's just another case of the non-US developed world deciding that demanding extortion money is better than trying to innovate and create value for the world. The US economy has plenty of pathologies and plenty of things to learn from the rest of the OECD, but stuff like this is the flipside. I thought this was mostly Europe's wheelhouse, but apparently it's broader than that.
These laws are being brought in due to the news aggregation, not due to the search engine. If the search engine forwarded you on to the news site, and didn't clutter up their UI with all the extra information, it wouldn't be as legally exposed. Which was, you know, Google's original business model.
Embedding a Python interpreter into MySQL Server
Related from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18748542
What's the point of this comment? To cast doubt on the personal experience that was shared by another person?

This may sound like an alien situation to you, but I assure you parent is not the only person who's been through this archetype character development.
He's making a subtle point here. There's

"do x"

vs

"Alexa, do x"

vs

"Alexa, ask AppName to do x"

The first is when the skill does a thing and then immediately starts listening again. The blue bar is already there and you don't need to say "Alexa".

The second is when the skill is still open but not currently listening. Takes a bit of hackery to keep the skill from constantly closing, namely, long-running APL commands.

The third is when the skill is closed and you're trying to get it to do something. I call this "deep launching" but it almost never works. Amazon has built an amazing system here, but the Alexa system needs work on recognizing skill names for deep launching.
When you get done with that and want your mind blown, check out the micro-sequence controllers and compliments like the am29803 branch control unit (hardware 'case' statements) and am29811 next address unit (hardware state machine support).
During Covid-19, LDS missionaries instructed not to go door to door in US/Canada
Facebook's Covid-19 Small Business Grants Program has gone live
I had to check if it was the 1st of April reading this.
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Worldwide at this moment total (cumulative) deaths over total (cumulative) cases is nearly 7%, with considerably over half the total cumulative cases still active. Granted that we know that there are many undiagnosed cases, but we don't have a clear picture how many. There's no basis right now for your assertion.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
The internet and smartphones were popular and we understood the applications. The tech was not good enough to make the visions come true.

With blockchain it’s reversed: we have suddenly tech but after 11 years still no idea other than use it to sell drugs, and boil the oceans.
First - if G doesn't want to be in Aussie due to some tax, it's their 'choice' they're not forced out.

Second - it doesn't matter that much where the tit-for-tat is - it would be existentially disastrous for Google or FB in either sense.

If a corporation was 'out' of a major, regular western nation for any reason I think the CEO's job would be in serious trouble, even Zuck.
> 1. Germany has nearly 3x the population so that difference is less stark than you are implying.

Germany is capable of doing 123k tests per day currently (https://www.rki.de/DE/Content/InfAZ/N/Neuartiges_Coronavirus...)

So, if we were to to scale Texas' to Germany's "3x population", Germany could still handle that in a week. The implication stands.

> 2. Maybe they haven't broken 200k tests because there isn't an obvious population to test when you've had an order of magnitude fewer covid deaths?

No, it's that they're willing to die for Whataburger. There's nothing else that would tangibly explain a complete refusal by the 9th largest economy in the world to attempt to protect itself.
> In your age category 50-59 your case fatality rate is 1.3%

Most of the passengers on the Diamond Princes cruise ship were 65+ years old.

Only 0.23% of the passengers died after Covid-19 outbreak.
Herd immunity is not just a buzzword. We have two options to reduce the harm of infectious diseases: eradicate them or build herd immunity. The first option has become impossible with this virus that's now truly global and likely much more spread than is known. Therefore herd immunity is the ONLY option.

The question then is how to get as many people as possible immune - you'll either need a vaccine or many need to get the infection and survive. A vaccine is not on the horizon for another 6-12 months, so the best course of action is to build the number of survivors.

What brings death? Mainly the sudden onslaught on the health system. If there is no bed, respirator, blood supply, ... Left then you're much more likely to have patients die than if you have a hospital at regular capacity. There are some that WILL for but by slowly building immunity (i.e. allowing some parts of the population to get exposed) you avoid the high death toll of an unmanaged outbreak.

So if total eradication is impossible, slow infection rates are better than none. Why? Because if you don't build the immunity you will again have violent outbreaks killing many. And you simply can't lock everyone at home for another 6 months.
Blue showers
I don't really understand how you can "negotiate in good faith" how to pay when the government is holding a gun to the head of one side saying that they will have to pay. If the government wants to tax internet giants to pay for traditional news media, it should just do that.

IMO, news media is basically a public good, in the sense that it's non-rival and basically non-excludable. Unfortunately, it's also a relatively low personal value public good. What I mean is that the typical person cannot make decisions that benefit themselves based on the news, and the news provides little entertainment value compared to e.g. video games or television. That is not to say it has no value, just that the value it produces is low compared to what it costs to make.

In the past, news media was more valuable, because there was less other media around. Now there are so many media channels (videogames, cable, broadcast, music, social, YouTube, etc.) that even if they were all equally entertaining to the news, news' share of the whole pie would be smaller. But they're not equally entertaining, they're more entertaining. So news loses out.

Despite its low entertainment value, on a social level, there is definitely some value to having an informed public. So maybe the government should subsidize the creation of informative content, as it does with the BBC in the UK. And maybe funding for this should be partially derived from taxes on internet companies. But it leaves a bad taste in my mouth that the government would basically mandate a transfer of wealth from internet companies directly to the wallets of news media owners.
I believe this move should be followed by governments worldwide, you are accessing worlwide data by providing services to citizens of different countries. You are also generating $ by ad services generated by this data(i.e. access to news portals), and it goes to profit only one country. Are the ads from only local companies?(I don't think so). How fair is that? In a world where trade deals are done to benefit both nations in case of commodities, why not do the same for bits and bytes of information?
Not blockchain as we all understand it.
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It's been a while now :)

Almost any book on raising young children (say birth to 5) would be written with the assumption that diapers, feeding, play arrangements, and what we might call "very early childhood education" were the responsibility of a mother. Many early children's books would feature mothers as the ones taking care of young children too, and that grated on me a bit.

To be fair, there's a flip side to this which is almost as bad. By the time my child ended up at a (co-op) nursery school, I of course got huge karma from all the other stay-at-home mothers there for doing precisely what they did. That wasn't comfortable either, but at least it was an ego massage.

A couple of decades later ... it all seems like water under the bridge now compared to the deeper gender politics that we still face, and I am only glad that it made me pay attention to what I had previously assumed was a trivial thing.
One thing to note (from looking at the graph) is that the noise seems to be additive with constant standard deviation (and presumably floored floored such that the sum doesn’t go negative).

That means that there is huge relative error initially (we have 10 infections +/- 100), and very little relative error eventually (we have 1000000 infections +/- 100).

I assume the forecasts would be better if the error were multiplicative (in other words, with standard deviation proportional to the current value).

However, I think the main point stands: the forecasts get much better once one approaches the inflection point.