skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No they didn't, but they proved who they were to the OP's satisfaction, and left it to him to decide whether he should help them or not.

To me, this is a bit of a no-brainer. A government agency wants my help to do something. Do I trust them? Do I help them? Well... yes. They're the government. Incompetent sometimes, irrelevant a lot of the time, inefficient, sure. But ultimately there to provide a service for me as a citizen. If they need my help, then I should probably help them.

I understand that Americans don't trust their government like this. I'm not sure why not.
I am not sure why I am biting this, but here goes:
If you are the only Internet people know and can afford, it doesn't matter if you are a private entity or the Govt.

I can't satisfy your curiosity because I too also sincerely don't know what flavor of undesirable behavior a monopoly creates but that they create bad behavior is as intuitive to me as is breathing to anyone else.

A first person anecodote which doesn't necessarily further my point but still - I had Jio fiber installed for a relative, I was visiting in a small north Indian town - unbelievable price, offering, everything great. But it took me 3 days of multiple hours on the phone, and I still couldn't access Hackernews, or reddit or even New York Times. Pages for these and quite a few other sites just wouldn't load. The first canned response - 'Reliance only blocks what the Govt. has told it to block' (paraphrasing). I didn't anymore have the energy to analyze if it was a technical problem, casual censorship or just customer service issues because of fast scaling.
The first time I saw a "self-emptying" Roomba station, I thought it was something you plug into your central vac outlet. Is there a reason we don't have that yet?
[1] has some word problem examples for every year of primary school in England. Year 1 is age 5-6:

"Chris is going to buy a cake for his mum which costs 80p. How many 20p coins would he need to do this?"

I remember lots of these "coin problems" when I was 5 or 6, since we had plastic money to help understanding, but I don't remember other problems.

If I'm equating the grades correctly, the Russian problems appear to be about 1-2 years "harder" than the English problems, at least around age 9-10 (Russian grade 4, English year 5).

https://thirdspacelearning.com/blog/maths-word-problems-expl...
Although I think JQuery can easily be swapped for Vanilla JS, I totally agree with the React angle here. I've seen so much time wasted setting up tonnes of React boilerplate for a tiny single function website.

It's absolute madness the amount of time wasted on such things all for a fractionally more interactive page.
For some people it is a bit of a revelation that this can work, at all. Because they are so used to the status quo of some dude in suit micromanaging what they do in a waterfall like process that people insist is agile (usually anything but). This is not the only way to develop software.

If you think about it, there are a lot of developers world wide, which makes any perceived scarcity locally a non issue once you change your mind set and stop insisting that they live within easy commute of wherever your office is.

Also, a lot of OSS software that we love and depend on every day defaults to fully remote people organized in collectives that are vastly larger than most corporate software teams producing software at a pace that these teams can only dream off. Good software gets developed by an army of remote developers and you probably use a lot of it every day and maybe even contribute to it once in a while.

Another thing to consider is that lots of large corporations are so large that most of their people might as well be remote even if they share the same building (if they still fit in just one). Being in the same building doesn't mean people talk to each other.

I used to work in Nokia when that was still a multinational making phones and employing around 30K developers & engineers spread over multiple countries and continents. Think lots of telcos, traveling and miscommunication.
> I got beat up, physically, by my peers

This is a problem. Regardless of whether hyper-tracking is beneficial, no kid should have to suffer from this kind of bullying. I don't know why bullying in the U.S. is (or seems to be) so much worse than other countries.
>> Harvard won’t use any of its $9 million stimulus check to make up for losses

>> “Harvard is actually allocating 100% of the funds to financial assistance for students to meet their urgent needs in the face of this pandemic,”

>> Harvard will need the money. It issued room and board refunds to students who left campus.

So... they’re giving full refunds plus an extra $9M, right? Not counting on it.

Government money doesn’t come from nowhere. It comes from people with a median of around $41k income and $100k net worth for the entire household. What percentage of Harvard families fall below that line? They need it though. I’m sure the average American would gladly donate if it wasn’t forcefully taken from them.
Im crap at math, but annoyed at why. Read about math teaching, and what I found was that there's nothing that correlates with math ability except interest and encouragement (and general iq). There's no genes, brain scans, blood tests, or behavioral signs at preschool age that can predict math success. Teacher ability and enthusiasm likely plays a role.
Also because you asked for feedback, and I'd like to understand how.

- When I draw, I can't scroll anymore.

- When I draw, I can't quit. The button to open the menu doesn't work and I see no button to exit.

I ended up with CMD + Q to close the application. I now see there's shortcuts in the menu, but I wouldn't rely on shortcuts for operations. In my opinion, shortcuts are shortcuts for buttons, not a substitute.
Looks cool. Does it work on IE?
That's theoretically a possibility -- make it like smoking for health insurance. You have to answer the question up front but if you say yes you pay higher premiums and if you lie then it's justification for denying your claim.

A lot of people hate that because it means people can choose not to be covered and then have a Very Bad Time when they can't file a claim. But it's not like they have anyone to blame but themselves.
What other meaning do you think "develop Go on" could have?
After 10 years working as data-analyst I felt the urge to do PHD to improve something I was always struggling with in operational projects. Was backed up by a potential mentor a the uni. Was partly backed up by my Boss.

Most logical funding available for my case was denied by the authority "because that would have set a precedend... Look your idea is nice, useful and all, but we never actually activated this (fully defined by law) funding and we fear other might come and ask for it if we do it for you"...

Project is still in a corner of my mind but in standby (also for personals reasons beyond funding).

So yeah I can pretty much relate!
>> People have rights to secure/hide those things when they're no real threat to national security

ftfy
As far as I know, smoking isn't illegal. Operating a motor vehicle without a seatbelt is illegal in 49 states in the US and around the world.
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That's the best explanation I can think of too.
R0 is not static. It will come down as more social distancing/mask wearing - hospital/nursing processes improve day by day.

Just remember the initial months numbers you base your projection on is not todays reality. No one was taking things seriously back then. Many deaths were because hospitals had no plan to handle overload.

Today even Trumpers who are protesting for reboot are wearing masks. Things change. Hospitals and nursing homes are much better prepared.

Most importantly just tracking covid deaths and forgetting about everything else leads to a Focusing Illusion - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...

Look at Sweden in the table provided why do they have the least Excess Deaths even though they are following a different strategy?
I'm keen to try out Flutter as I've heard good things, but I'm weary of delving into an entirely new language for this project if the languages I know already offer a viable (and popular) mobile app dev stack. Unless it really makes state handling on the UI mega simple, which is my biggest problem with the JS library/framework solutions I've worked with before.
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The controls look great but the text looks off. I forgot the UI font in Windows 98 but perhaps it was Tahoma. Maybe try that and disable anti-aliasing. Better yet, get an image of how the actual font is rendered on Windows 98 and make the glyphs into a bitmap font. That would also sidestep all the font renderer differences between then and now.
The problem is how you calculate the increase in salaries. For example, how is the salary of different people going up or down. Is the salary right out of college going up? Are only senior engineer salaries stagnate?

I think you really need to look at total compensation to see if that is stagnating, and that can be harder to track. There is a huge part of many companies compensation that includes stock in one form or another (options, stock grants, espp, even 401K match). I think due to the pandemic, that total compensation is likely to go down this year for most people (stock component is worth less), so you can't probably track for this year. You could still try and look at previous years though.
You can't and you won't try to. You leave it to the quality of jurors in the locality,allow maximim number of jurors(practically limited) and unanimity. False conviction rate at 11/12 guilty verdict can be 90% in NYC and 40% in rural alabama for example and it can change ovet time based on population change. Someone needs to keep track of the stats, their methods will need oversight and what happens when bad politicians want high conviction rates, influence the stats measurement? Will be gerrymandering all over again.
Haha. I was just thinking of that. Been wondering if there's any operating system I can theme to look like Win3.1 any more - the aesthetic of Windows 95 is better but Windows 3.1 seems to fit our contemporary standards of flat and fewer colors better. I did like the more rounded buttons of Windows 3.1 better than the harsher edges of the Windows 95 buttons.

The mistakes a driving me crazy. I assume the fonts are just issues with me not having the right font installed. The command menu should be flat and the bar in it should be longer, rectangular and with a drop shadow. The minimize/maximize buttons don't look at all right (no highlight, too stretched). When you move the window, the frame looks wrong - i think the grains are too big and widely separated.
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The commentary here seems to miss a certain basic point about the situation with Cheran (and many other regions of Mexico, where I live, that are controlled by autodefensas groups and other types of local vigilante security groupings).

What the people of Cheran did is worthy of applause, because it brought some measure of peace in the middle of a desperate situation of insecurity, extreme violence and governments that at both the federal and state level are almost catastrophically corrupt on guaranteeing security.

However, for this very reason it's a sad thing to see. The single most basic debt to society that a government owes in return for paying taxes and agreeing to its rule is a monopoly on violence that's fair and sufficient enough to prevent rampant criminality, yet Mexico suffers from the latter so severely that large swathes of the country are firmly outside the government's supposed rule of law, and make small towns and regions have no choice but to take measures like these.

Who knows how sustainable this is, or its long term ramifications. What it definitely does do is further weaken that same government's capacity for reestablishing its main responsibility.

The government of Mexico of course knows this, and so do the state governments that supposedly have authority over places like Cheran. For this reason (and for reasons of extreme corruption) they not only resent vigilante efforts like these or any attempts by private citizen groups to defend themselves with weapons or by other means, but also often actively, violently try to impede them "legally" despite not being able to replace these localized security measures with a useful reformation of their own.

This is done under the pretext that non-state armed security groupings are dangerous to public safety, but curiously, the same efforts at curbing heavily armed groups outside the law seem to evaporate when it comes to curbing the power and rampant impunity of cartels that also control whole regions much more viciously.

One of the reasons why? Unlike the people of Cheran or many private citizen defense groups, these cartels are typically colluding with the same politicians that claim armed vigilante activity as dangerous. The cartels also have their own similar reasons for disliking armed civilians who tend to retake peace from corrupt gangsters and politicians.
That is fantastic. Will use, will recommend!

Putting in a few unpopular artists that I like came up with a lot of related bands that I already know and like, plus double that number that I now need to add to my ever-growing music to-do list.
Applying reasoning to a similar but more familiar domain is a good sanity check for said reasoning. Let's then apply what you said to programming. Would you say that the "academic learner" who read a lot of CS and programming books but haven't written a single program on an actual computer learned understanding, while a "rote learner" who keeps going through hundreds of small programming exercises learned to "regurgitate a mechanical process"? Doesn't pass the sniff test to me.

The way I see it, doing the thing gives you ample opportunity to figure out theory on your own - repeating a menial task prompts the brain to invent shortcuts. Meanwhile I can't imagine someone learning only theory to not fail spectacularly at practical tasks - because theory doesn't capture everything; there are lots of practical, intangible things that crop up when you start doing the work. On top of that, it's easy to feel you understand something without actually understanding it.

The best way, IMO, is what philipov's father said - you have to alternate between theory and practice. It's how you can build understanding faster while continuously validating it.
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As far as I know, reeacttraining.com primarily does on-site corporate training and in-person workshops.
As a Dutch PhD student, I am not sure I agree. There is some hype around the rankings of the universities and specifically the bachelor and master tracks at a given university, but not many students really care about them. I certainly did not choose my university based on their ranking, and don't know many that did. Choice is based much more on travel distance and other factors, not on perceived quality of a university. I also would not be able to point out the best universities in the Netherlands, which says something as well.
Cut flower export sounds like climate travesty; they are not essential, they are fragile (requiring energy-intensive cold chain logistics and air-freight) and after all that effort... they have a shelf-life of a week.

If there is an industry that should be strictly localized, it's this one.
Yes sorry that last paragraph is a bit of a munge it should read:

Rendering it on the other hand would be relatively trivial with a marching cube algorithm AND using one or more rays per pixel [to ray trace against the hull constructed by the simplified marching cube algo - for DXR]

Having thought about it a bit more since (in the other answers) you may be better off with a signed distance field or constructing a specialised BVH yourself as this is a simplified case.
Don't forget genetics.

To have true equality we will need to bring genetic engineering to the masses. Human genetic augmentation seems criminally underfunded and over-restricted to me.
> but they are not in effect shaping the discourse nor the policies

But again, shaping where? In America not at all, as a matter of politics. In Germany, they seem to be listened to and shaping both discourse and policies. In UK, experts put up the fight and ended up being listened to. Not the first moment, but politics turned around.

> They are just voices in a crowd of equally credentialed institutions that have been caught doing very bad science

But that is the thing ... this does not seem to me to be the case. There was plenty of good scientific discussion. It more of seems to be the case that you had to cherry-pick studies other experts criticized a lot and then ignore said criticism.

This was absolutely done for political reason, but politicians doing it were already known for lying. The fans of these politicians are unmovable and their trust wont change either way. Their primary motivation seems to be destruction of government institutions anyway, it is not like that would changed.

> The Stanford Study being the best example.

The Stanford Study was being criticized from get go and the conflict of interests was pointed out quick. This particular study is good example of study being promoted for political reasons. And the people doing that should not be trusted. If the "one outlier in Stanford says it, therefore it is true" idea dies, that is a good thing for science. Institutional pedestals are bad for science, but knee jerk eagerness to promote outlier instead of consensus is even worst.

You should absolutely mistrust those who were involved in apparently bad studies. I just dont understand how outlier non-peer reviewed studies that got criticized quickly imply that you cant trust anything and anyone ever.

That is the irrational part and uneducated part. It implies not understanding how science work, how peer review works, how common disagreements are in science, how scientific consensus emerges, why it is important and how it fails. It implies uncritically trusting feel good outliers studies before they were peer reviewed and before multiple other studies were confirming results.
I can no longer enjoy the music the way I did as a teenager. I automatically picked up the lyrics, I still remember them to this day. I sought new music, new bands. There was a peak when I was around 18-19 and after that I listened to music less and less. Similar thing happened with movies.

I followed sites like pitchfork but today I'm just not interested. I started noticing that music on my hard drive would get bigger and bigger and I had no time to listen to all of the stuff I wanted.

I do have some moments where the spark lights up again. There was a recent live 12 CD The Rolling Thunder Revue that I gobbled up and learned a lot of lyrics automatically. Or the new Arctic Monkeys album, or Kendrick Lamar's butterfly.

What my conclusion from this is, I'll just let the Lindy effect filter all the good stuff and I'll come back to the music from decades ago when the time is right. A bunch of new music and new movies are just forgettable, even the critically acclaimed.

I guess I'll miss out on a lot of present culture but I really don't go around circles where present cultural references are mentioned regularily.
Yes, Patreon should be rolling in cashflow.

Them taking venture capital is right up there with GumRoad taking VC money for levels of completely inexplicable for both the VC and the company.
You should try https://meet.jit.si. Started using it this week, works great with no login necessary. And open source :)
> Today is a sad day, and people will react in different ways. However you react, those emotions are real, and they matter. This was one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever made in my life.

It's unfortunate when CEOs neglect to mention the difficulties of those they fired — instead focusing on the the difficulties they faced in doing the firing
> I think on average the difference between a high school student from Russia and US is negligible

I went to high school in Russia and then moved to Australia. The difference was immense. It felt like i just dropped 2 year levels. Even the accelerated programs were hopelessly behind the regular curriculum for my age group in Russia. AU/US high school students can't possibly compete against RU or CN high school students. The gap only begins closing around year 11/12, sometimes not until tertiary education.

One of the major factors is this weird anti-intellectualism culture that just doesn't exist in Russia. Doing well at your subjects in Russia put you in the cool group. Doing well at your subjects in AU got you labelled as a nerd. This permeates western culture across the board, hence domestically popular tv shows like Big Bang Theory which have 0 audience in countries that value intellect. I hear the culture of marginalising smart kids is somewhat changing lately though.

The other factor is that westerners really love to coddle and infantalise their children. A 12 year old in Russia is basically treated as a small adult with the associated respect and responsibilities. A 12 year old here is treated (and behaves) like a large baby.
I don't know this makes me never ever want to lose the optionality of my own car with my own private space. Uber prices spiked where I can't even make a cost case for not having a car.
EME encodes the video content. i.e. without eme you can basically extract the video via tcpdump, with eme you can't since everything, even metadata is encrypted.

the attack inside the pdf does basically mention the old technology which netflix used and not dash+eme inside video element (MPEG-CENC). i.e. widevine
which is kinda funny because the browser drm is highly controversial, but in this case serves as additional privacy since video metadata and content get's encrypted, no matter which transport layer is used.
If you have an old dumb-phone without a sim-card you can use it as an alarm instead. For me it turned out to be cheaper and better!
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that's interesting question.
Mediocre doesn’t cover it - mine just spreads dirt around, and then inevitably gets stuck on something super-challenging and unexpected in a home, like a chair leg.

I just use a broom these days.
There are rooms on Google Chat. The threads are in each room.

What is missing is a way to sort through the threads (no title, no list of threads, no way to jump to the ones you have a notification for…). And probably a way to sort the rooms too; I'm part of 23 rooms and it's all over the place (and growing).
My friend went to one of the best high schools in my country (Poland), where students would, on their own accord, practice using old Soviet math textbooks.

I got my hands on one of them where the task stated was usually something short, like: "доказать тождество", followed by a set of rather insane(at least for a highschooler) equations.

That bit about a dearth of equipment is true in most eastern block countries by the way. Case in point: the other day I asked my younger cousin, who's currently doing his master's, if they still use those multimeters with nixie tube displays like I did ten years ago.

They do.
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Someone has to make it ready for the "enterprise". I expect they will be ready to post the LeftPadStrategyFactory module on NPM any day now.
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