skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too. I don't think crypto can ever be implemented correctly as long as government is involved in it. The current state of crypto isn't really anonymous since big banks are still involved.
Teen in the 00s here. It happened befor the documentation - really I think to a degree it was the related intersection of "juvennile delinquient" moral panics, crackdowns, zero tolerance, and general frankly batshit paranoia where the definition of being a "good guardian" amounts to operating a panopticon which ignores life traumatizing bullying and blames the victim yet freaks out at anything which goes against their precious norms even if perfectly legal. Granted the latter bullshit has a long legacy in American culture.
My chosen encoding is usually LANG=C. That is, just show me the bytes, escaped as needed (as with Python 2).

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I wasn't able to get very far in that one. Everytime I finished a chapter I felt like I missed out on cooler storylines by making the wrong choices.

More subjectively, I have a hard time enjoying AI uprising games where it's explained that the robots explicitly can't feel emotion and yet they inevitably do anyway.

I much prefer the variant where it's clear that they _appear_ to have emotion, but whether or not it's an elaborate trick isn't clear. Ex Machina and Westworld season 1 come to mind.
Certainly. You'd be just a `nix-shell -p nodejs` away from being in a shell with NPM. And a C^D away from not having it installed, with a caveat that it would be cleaned up periodically and not immediately after exiting the shell. But I think there's an option for immediately removing after use as well.
I think it's true that none of these philosophies will be a "one size fits all" type thing. Personally, worry and anxiety just makes me useless. When I'm drawn into worries and fears about external factors, it saps me entirely of the energy to deal with just about anything, which is why I find stoicism helpful.

I'm sure there are other people who find the stress and anxiety about external factors as motivating and bearable, and would not find stoicism useful.

ETA: I don't find everything in stoicism to be useful. I kind of use my own personal "buffet" style approach, where I pick and choose what pieces from different philosophies work best for me.
UV light that has a high enough frequency to kill a virus is also cancer causing. Most sci-fi authors I read come up with more plausible tech solutions than the Trumpster Fire, and their job is literally to make up lies!
> One of the biggest factors to learning is how much interest you have.

... and it's hard to be interested in something you aren't competent at.
It's not really buyer's remorse if I didn't actually buy anything. I tried a free trial service, as far as I can remember just for an hour or so, and didn't need it.

You may not like this, but I'm posting my experience so that others can protect themselves. Do you at least see the utility in that?
I like that for a full decade, people discussed measurements at reputable labs indicating that certain radioactive species decayed at rates that varied >0.1% depending on the season, and explored possible neutrino flux influences.

The measurements were finally shown to be effects of the immediate environment on the measurement apparatus.

That detectors used in labs may vary with time by >0.1%, unknown to their users, seems pretty important. How did everybody involved not know?
Delivering to Bangalore might be easier though. In a lot of places in Rural India, house numbers simply do not exist, and addresses are of the form

Mr. ABCD S/O Mr, XYZ, Village <Village_Name>, postal code, city, state

The Village_Name part encompasses a very large area. The good thing is people in rural areas know a lot of people by name, so asking a small number of people for Mr. ABCD S/O Mr, XYZ turns out to be sufficient. But I often wonder how challenging it is to deliver stuff with so much ambiguity.
Fair enough, but it's a long way from there to suggesting that there is intentional misclassification. Anything other than a general cynicism to back this?
> I don't think you read my comment.

I read it, I just don't see how that's anymore than conjecture.

This was my response to that:

> the latter [DoD] essentially having unlimited budgets

The DoD also being a a customer that not only has an unlimited budget, but pays in advance, and gives you essential work status during Global shutdowns is more than enough to make it sustainable. NASA's involvement for missions to the Moon and Mars will also have a significant ramp up when this next mission gets the media attention it deserves and a viable Starship itertation is created.

Believe me, I actually hate they have such deep Military and Government ties, because of my pwn personal ideology/ethics/morals but the fact remains its sustainable and is objectively a brilliant strategy: its pragmatic as it is effective and uses the latter to determine its trajectory and business model.

I really have heard your (cyclical) argument, I disagree and I don't think we're doing much other than arguing the same points for what seems like arguments sake, so I'll leave it at that.
Seems like Muddy Waters Research has been dong this successfully for a while. Seems like Ehealth is their latest target, interesting model.

Is there a similar model for common investors to benefit from such research instead of just hedge fund (big) investors alone.
No, I didn't mean that. in my particular domain (a distributed systems library) I have a collection of specifications for things like commands, locks and collections, which are compact enough that I feel I can describe them fully. There has been one case where I had to simplify the model, which I consider a great failure, since that was the one time I had bugs appear that I didn't catch during model testing.

Take the example of a reader/writer lock. I claim it's possible to completely define the spec of such a lock, so that any question about the intended behavior of the lock can be decided by the machine. Sure, it's a simple example, but my library is a collection of simple recipes. Do you disagree?
Virologist Maurice Hilleman may have saved your life
Imagine the following scenario, you have encountered an actual bug in concurrent code, and you think it would be great to work on a model and invariants that lets TLA+ find the bug (as an exercise).

So you start writing a model, and a set of invariants, you run the tool and... it finds nothing. Does that mean you just proved the bug does not exist? No, you _know_ the bug exists, what it means is that you didn't write a correct model on your first try. So you iterate on it, add a few things you missed, put some extra labels, read the docs a bit more, maybe refine your invariants, make them stronger, work through a couple traces that don't actually make sense in practice (e.g. actors just never taking any action whatsoever). During all this time, you either found nothing or things that were not interesting. At no time have you ever proved anything correct, you just iterated on your model until you managed to capture a real life scenario.

It takes some convincing to make the jump from "this model does not violate my invariants" to "I think this model and the invariants are close enough to what I care about that I think it's good enough"... I don't know how to go from there to things like "proven correct" and "flawless".
I think the next wave of OSS products will be AGPL-v3 licensed. It's the "cloud condom" model - it protects you from the cloud vendors. They have internal bans on using it, as it forces them to open up their internal software architecture. But AGPL-v3 is still a valid open-source, despite what the shrills at AWS will tell you (they just want to operationalize open source projects, not lead them).
Think about the great lengths that good technology companies go to to get decent productivity. They have to work very hard to get it - companies that don't understand it won't.

What you have is incredibly common in non-technology companies. Good engineers are now very hard to recruit and expensive. Unless your company values them enormously, your engineers are going to generally be pretty mediocre[1]. On top of that, your company isn't going to understand engineering projects - when you need to invest in infrastructure, tooling and technical debt.

These factors together multiply up over time until everything grinds to a halt.

[1] An aside - in my experience of organisations like this and also mediocre engineering organisations, there is usually one guy who knows his stuff, and is holding it all together. Some of it is like Brent in the Phoenix project, but some of it is that the rest of the people are just rubbish.
It will protect for the exact strain of the virus and similar strains for some time. Probably the reports that people is reinfected a few weeks after they get cured are wrong. It is not clear how long will last the immunity.

For example the vaccine against tetanus must be taken again every 10 years, other vaccines protect you forever.
SunWhysEngine is a collaborative game engine developed in C and+ supporting Lua
Good morning, sir,

Today I come to present you with a small ambitious project that I have been thinking about for a long time.

I decided to create a game engine with a real-time collaborative editor, for the moment, you can create game scenes, navigate between them, display and move behaviors.

I'm working on a physics system.

The engine supports Lua for the moment but I'm still listening to add languages such as Javascript.

The editor is being created on another organization on which I am a contributor: https://github.com/canvas-gm

Here is the link to the organization: http://github.com/SunWhys

You should know that there are three repositories:

- Engine: This is the source code of the engine in C++.
- Sample: This is the minimum to run the game engine.
- Docs: This is all the documentation for the game engine.

(Link to the documentation: https://sunwhys.netlify.app)

If you like my work, let me have a star to show me!
It's not the idea that you can chat with people on other providers it's that you still have to choose a provider with no real guide on how you would make an informed decision among them.

You choose your phone provider by looking at the top 3 or so established providers and the choice is usually made on price or other signing incentives. With your ISP you just pick from a couple ISPs that serve your area. With email you just pick GMail or whatever your work gives you.

All of these decentralized chat systems just need to act centralized. Have Matrix.org just be the matrix server that people sign up on and let the fact that other providers exist just be something that comes naturally. Have Mastadon be the StatusNet server but casually interface with other servers.

What seems to kill these projects is that the group positioned to own the market actively shoots themselves in the foot in an attempt to not become too big.

Let the protocol be an implementation detail. Sell the provider as a service.
I suspect that will happen eventually too. Think this is quite different to a warper analogue copy though
> in my opinion Svetlana Alexievich is simply more talented

or simply it is just the matter of difference between textbook and screenplay.
So the opposite of mainstream journalists that know nothing about what they cover.

That's what I said in my first post.
> you'll eventually be evaluated by a Gen-X or Millennial hiring manager

This is actually a really amusing thought. Yeah I could be a manager in 5-10 years hiring current high school kids when they're older. I barely made it through school(failed out at my first shot at engineering) I could realistically be hiring at one of the companies New grads stress out about getting into. I couldn't tell you about ivy league schools without looking it up lol
My father told me that his Uncle Bill once got a letter that was addressed to "Bill James, Wales".

Uncle Bill was a reasonably well-known rugby player at the time ('50s?), so the post office knew it was most likely him!
AP stem classes are great for easing the transition to college level work, but they are no substitute for college stem classes. If you're a physics major, for example, you need to be taking honors calculus as a freshman, not the weeder classes, and AP calculus is just a warmup.

In my experience, every STEM class in college is just paint over a math class. The stronger your math skills are, the more you can concentrate on the paint rather than struggling with the math.

I agree it's a good plan, however, to take AP courses outside of your major so in college you can take more stem classes. My college offered so many exciting stem classes I was a bit frustrated to have to take some non-stem classes to satisfy the degree requirements. No, I don't think that requirement was to make more money, it was genuinely believed that those were needed for a well-rounded education. That idea isn't entirely without merit.
Sure. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl. You can make a clear line from Stoic philosophy to his concepts as a psychiatrist.
Ego depletion would kinda be the opposite anyway.
Speaking as someone who went to CMU myself, this joke is even funnier.

A common "feeling" among many of my classmates at the time, was that most of us went to CMU because we couldn't get into MIT.
I've always had trouble following Searle's Chinese Room argument as it applies to the nature and identification of intelligent action. I've never understood how the Chinese Room shows what its adherents say it shows, so that would be one topic I'd like to see more perspectives on.
How is your product different than mberry or any other miracle berry available on e.g. Amazon? (Or fresh ones, which are hard to get in many places but e.g. used to be available in many fine food stores in Manhattan)?

Your description sounds exactly like these.
Fourier Transforms. I'd wish I had a intuitive understanding of how they work. Until then I'm stuck with just believing that the magic works out.
I find most explanations of the Equivalence Principle that lies at the foundation of General Relativity to be very lax.

To wit, the idea is that you cannot distinguish whether you are in an accelerated frame or in a gravitational field; alternatively stated, if you’re floating around in an elevator you don’t know whether you’re freefalling to your doom or in deep sideral space far from any gravitational source (though of course, since you’re in an elevator car and apparently freefalling... I think we’d all agree on what’s most likely, but I digress).

Anyway, what irks me that this is most definitely not true at the “thought experiment” level of theoretical thinking: if you had two baseballs with you in that freefalling lift, you could suspend them in front of you. If you were in deep space, they’d stay equidistant; if you were freefalling down a shaft, you’d see them move closer because of tidal effects dictated by the fact that they’re each falling towards the earth’s centre of gravity, and therefore at (very slightly) different angles.

Of course, they’d be moving slightly toward each other in both cases (because they attract gravitationally) but the tidal effect presents is additional and present in only one scenario, allowing one to (theoretically) distinguish, apparently violating the bedrock Equivalence Principle.

I never see this point raised anywhere and I find it quite distressing, because I’m sure there’s a very simple explanation and that General Relativity is sound under such trivial constructions, but I haven’t been able to find a decent explanation.
Vendor Lock-In
Thank you and please please do it and post a link here or send me an email (in profile)! For me the most interesting is the recognition/pattern matching aspect: how antibodies find what to attack and what to leave alone.
Captured States of America
It sounds rather like the coordination friction that constrained social usage of the internet before "always on" (and its exponent, the drool-proof smartphone) became the default; perhaps VR is still in an ergonomic analogue to the dialup era.
Thanks for the link. If anything, these graphs are assuaging. I notice 2 things:

* The spike is steep, but it appears to have quickly receded. Perhaps an artifact of what you are calling 'not done counting deaths'. Would you elaborate, what's holding back the data, when can we count [sic] on accurate counts?

* The spike is not that tall. In deaths/week, 2017 peaks at 70k deaths and 2020 peaks at 86k over all age groups. Going to the 15-64 demographics, turns out that 2018 peaks at 8.9k, whereas 2020 peaks at 9.9k. So we've got 1k extra deaths per week for a few weeks at a population of 200M+ people, the end is nigh?!

https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

PS. Speaking of sensationalist, this is a great time to start presenting data using honest charts that start at zero, and not arbitrary high values [40k/7k] to magnify small variability.

PS2. Does anyone know how to get the euromomo dataset? In a middle of a global pandemic, a bit sad that a critical piece of data is unavailable for independent verification / presentation.
Turing equivalence comes to mind.
Hmmm, you might look up how dendrites form. They’re roughly analogous in how the thermodynamics are favorable to forming more complex structures, IIRC. But it’s easier/more intuit to see how dendrites form. Dendrite formation is also a huge problem in many fields, like electronics manufacturing (eg tin whiskers).
Using slow logs in Elastic Cloud Enterprise
> Programming is a very demanding trade, and I don't think you can do it just for the paycheck, you need to have some degree of passion for it. If someone disagrees with me about this I'd love to hear different takes.

I don't have any different abstract or psychological take on it, I just know people who have programmed for 30 years who don't love it now, and some who never loved it and always wished they were doing something more interesting. They are also perfectly good programmers, who work because they get paid for it rather than some spiritual edification.
DIY Multi-Room Audio Setup (“Sonos” for Under $100 Per-Room)
A couple of years ago, our infrastructure team
implemented the ability to move a table from one
MySQL host to another. This allowed us to have
multiple masters with different tables on different
masters, which we refer to as “vertical sharding”.

Each one of these masters, along with its slaves,
is called as a “partition” at Quora.

I nearly stopped reading here.

Naming things is hard, but why would they choose a term ("partition") that has already existed for many decades in the same context?

That's nonsensical.
A US company will typically have a lot of employees with signatory power, not just CEO+CFO. However not nearly as many people as are issued corp cards. That is often an incredibly low barrier (e.g. at my company I believe literally every employee can get a corp card).
Egyptian-Hittite Peace Treaty
tl;dr -- Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections Documentary
Uhh, pretty much everything the media writes nowadays is an advert in some way... Ever visited Medium.com? "No ads" but full of them.
Understand I'm replying not because I think people should necessarily want/try to infect themselves with the virus, but because I'm against spreading misinformation and a misuse of statistics.

Australia is approaching 100 deaths and has several thousand confirmed cases through more widespread testing than new York, doing so at a higher and wider rate than New York who's stats/testing and medical regime show signs of severe failure/ problems.

Australia is yet to record a covid death under 40, and the one we have under 50 was technically a foreigner on a cruise ship.

All evidence from sources I'm familiar with that include widespread testing, good statistics and a healthy population point to a sub 0.2% for healthy young (young defined as sub 40 say, no comorbidities).

Now that being said, what I have seen repeatedly is a misclassification of sedentary young people with worrying lifestyle choices (think overweight/ smokers) as thinking of themselves as healthy with no comorbidities. Especially in some parts of the US, you can't think of yourself as healthy just because you live/look like everyone else.

And obviously, death rates in individual parts of the world will tend to be a function of age distribution, underlying health conditions, medical access, communication and the ability to rest and recuperate.

I personally wouldn't infect myself (the same way I wouldn't ride a motorcycle as my chosen mode of transport), but the relative risks and who the disease targets with mortalities should be better understood, and I'm not supportive of propaganda telling young people they're comparably at risk. They aren't.
> Let nature run its course, like every other flu season.

You could use that same logic to argue against random breath testing drivers.
How airplane wing really works.
This specific government are the ones releasing the app and telling people to “trust us”.
I can't see how they are as likely, and already posited that they are possible. I didn't give a criteria that says everyone who has tested positive should be counted as a covid-related death.

New York pretty clearly did the right thing here. There isn't going to be a coroners investigation, but with somewhere that large you have decent statistics on expected rates and attributing the up tick they saw was methodologically better than excluding those deaths. After all if I understand it correctly "suspected deaths" here is counting the otherwise unaccounted for increase over baseline statistics, not the baseline cases. That's the correct way to do this, and afiak it is how NY did it in reporting but I haven't double checked. It's not perfect, but that's life.

Agree that this years flu analysis will be interesting, but on the overall statistics nobody competent is going to conflate them with covid-19, there may just be larger error bars.
It sounds to me that the list of things make the software difficult to make, not complex. We add a lot of complexity by the technical choices we make. See accidental complexity vs essential complexity.
That is a complicated way to achieve the same thing Darch does. I'd prefer to not learn a new DSL. Packages and products are more widely supported on Ubuntu/Debian. In the end, I just want to work and play, not learn a new DSL, while having everything in the article you shared.
Wartime spending was the subsidy. It always kickstarts the economy although it also changes several industries that are retooled for the war effort.

There is no such thing as a completely free market. There are constant regulations and oversight by government to provide a fair and stable environment to conduct business. When that changes, government again steps in to restore the balance. Again, it's there to serve the people. What exactly is the benefit of letting everything fail and plunging the country into another depression?
> A person’s virtue depends on their excellence as a human being, how well one performs the function for which humans were designed.

humans weren't designed, they were selected for through a happenstantial process. random mutation is critical to this process, and so any one of us can be deeply at odds with whatever the majority are geared towards.