skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a really easy solution to this: write regexes with combinators.

star (range 'a' 'z')

Naturally, it's trivial to have a `posix` combinator (or any other syntax, really), which allow you to be compact when things are trivial, explicit when they are not, or even a mix of both. You also don't have to conflate parens for priority and capture anymore, and you can create high level combinators.

For instance, this is real code to build a regex parsing URLs (translated in a JS-ish syntax):

let cset = chars => compl(set(chars));
let prefix = (head, tail) => char(head) ++ rep(tail);
let scheme = rep(cset("/:?#")) ++ str("://");
let host = rep(cset("/:?#"));
let port = prefix(':', digit);
let path = rep(prefix('/', cset("/?#")));
let query = prefix('?', cset("#"));
let fragment = prefix('#', any);
let url = scheme ++ host ++ opt(port) ++ path ++ opt(query) ++ opt(fragment);

It's less compact, but it's still as fast and it's actually readable/maintainable.
It's all the advantages of Perl's regex, without having to suffer Perl's taste in syntax.
Antibody production in vertebrates is an amazing example of an extremely efficient directed evolution system within our own tissues.

There is some interesting work being done to mine antibodies from people who have recovered from diseases and use those as a therapeutic medicine. Worked great for Ebola, would also work for COVID-19, but scaling production is really really hard (maybe some schlep blindness there)!

If I recall correctly, they pretty much put the gene for the anti-ebola antibody into a plasmid in bacteria, then vacuumed those bacteria into tobacco, which mated with the tobacco, which caused over-expression of the antibody. Then, you grind up the plant, and purify the protein.

I'm interested in trying that out with my own blood - effectively making open source antibodies for different diseases. I also know a few folks working on DNA vaccination, which could have an interesting intersection.
Except that there aren't really any practical (affordable!) RISC-V based Linux boards/modules.

The Onion Omega2S is based on a MediaTek MT7688 (MIPS32LE) and since the demise of the CHIP-Pro, is really the only inexpensive surface mount Linux SoM left.

https://onion.io/store/omega2s/
Perhaps a cultural difference. Swedes tend to respect a bit of humility. Especially if you can pull it of with confidence ;)

To us Americans f.ex. can seem way to confident and boasting. If I generalize a bit.

At the extreme we have things like this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
I perhaps didn't emphasise this enough in my original post, but I believe it answers your questions.

> I think the timing of our national lock down is strongly significant to our success, we managed to do so before it was widespread in the community.

> Why are more people dying in those countries?

Timing is a very significant factor, I believe - I couch that as a belief, because I haven't had the time to compare all lockdowns, but you'll note that on this FT graph[1], NZ's lockdown began near immediately by the metric being used, whereas the UK's took a full two weeks.

We know that the UK government dithered, initially focused on herd immunity (and worth noting that Johnson and his advisor Dominic Cummings who was hugely influential in pushing for it both went on to contract the illness), hired social media bots(?!)[2] to spin the party line, and only after all that, then went into lockdown. A veritable case of closing the barn door after the infectious horse has bolted.

Of course there's a bunch of other factors in death rates - the comparative proportion of your population which is especially vulnerable, medical care capacity, but it seems obvious to me that the largest factor will always be the number of infections in the first instance.

[1]: https://www.ft.com/__origami/service/image/v2/images/raw/htt...

[2]: https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2020/04/21/fake-nurses-pro...
Anecdotally, people procure the Nintendo Switch just to play Animal Crossing.
Papercraft Models of Old Microcomputers
I still use my Nexus 7 with LineageOS - daily. It's cost? A hundred sixteen dollars - in 2013. I use it for web browsing, reading and video mostly at 1920x1200 for 7 inches with a battery that still lasts a couple of days of heavy usage - I find it extremely difficult to justify spending over a thousand dollars for something that offers a whole lot of stuff that I don't need.
One caveat, if you're largely using your phone for pictures then I can imagine it would be worth the cost for newer tech. I just don't need it.

Maybe Apple's better pricing will give Google the kick in the ass they need to bring back an inexpensive phablet like the Nexus 7.
Vaccinia
Seems like there were plenty of problems past year already...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22392517
/s/re-invents/implements/g and suddenly JavaScript is running a successful dev cycle.
I graphed death rate by absolute latitude for countries with more than 1000 cases, and there is a clear trend. There is a bulge in the middle latitudes, and dips toward the lower and higher latitudes. My guess is the virus doesn't do well in hot climates, and people don't congregate much in very cold climates.
I think most businesses would be more than happy to lose the tiny percentage of customers who use NoScript in exchange for better fraud detection.
If you have a strong, negative emotional response to the name of a project, I think letting the project author know can be helpful.

I’m a rational guy to the best of my ability, but FWIW I would avoid using this project solely because of its name (just the thought of that name evokes a sick feeling to me - that’s how strong the negative association is... I won’t explain why as this isn’t an appropriate venue for that).

We are human, and sometimes visceral responses can’t be ignored regardless of their irrationality.

I could invoke Godwin’s law to give a more universal example of words with negative associations, but I’ll refrain.
Why is it so hard to fathom? I'm pretty far from smart but I understood functions at that age, and going a few steps further is not that hard. Besides, this is a child of a brilliant CS professor we're talking about, not your average kid.
Rankings are a bit dumb, especially because any non english university is going to get ranked terribly basically on every of these rankings. There's no way that the oldest university in central Europe, started in 1348 should be placed 400-500th. That's just a joke.
Mark your personal space with the Social Distancing Laser Hat
> Finance is a very important industry that adds a lot of value. If you get a student loan, you can go to university tomorrow

The vast majority of student loans are guaranteed by the federal government. The banks take zero risk on these loans and still charge higher rates than home mortgages. Something seems broken there.
A Visit to id Software – November 1993
> On the contrary, that mental model was only useful to your 8-year old because he had contextual experiences and was situated in a reality where he could easily explore its consequences.

This doesn't really make sense to me. How is it impossible that explaining feedback couldn't have been useful unless he had contextual experience and could explore the consequences?
In terms of hardware: NXP ColdFire.
The problem with not getting it over with is that the next wave is at extreme risk of colliding with the peak of the next flu season, which is a really great way of overloading your medical system and causing a bunch of deaths. This is something that's getting a bit of attention in the US now, but (of course) the UK government spotted it fairly early on and was pressured into ignoring it by our idiot press who think that paying attention to anything other countries aren't is a delusion of "British exceptionalism" that needs to be squashed.
This is MasterCard and VISA processing fees at scale. When you own the highways, you set the toll.

Don't like it?

Vote for someone who wants to change it.
This documentary is without nuance and without pragmatism. And it criticizes without proposing a path forward -- it's a bunch of cheap pot-shots, and it demands perfection instead of proposing progress.

Yes, there are valid criticisms. Wind turbines are made of unrecyclable fiberglass. It takes energy to build them (truck rolls to the site, concrete for the foundations), and it's important to make sure the energy return on energy invested is net positive. We use fossil fuels to produce these renewables technologies. That's all true, but not insurmountable.

They say battery storage makes up only a tiny percent of the needed capacity to overcome renewable intermittency. Sure, but it also omits how solar has dropped two orders of magnitude in price over the last few decades as we've built more of it and gotten better at making them (the "learning curve").

It follows a group of Vermont hikers hiking to a wind turbine site and then being NIMBY about it, but none of them talk about where their energy SHOULD come from.

Look, it raises a lot of critical questions. But it also seems to expect a single magic pill that just doesn't exist. 2/3's of the way through they talk about the misrepresentations in biomass and point out how many organizations seem to be both for it and against it. "Which side are they really on?" says the classic accusatory documentary voiceover with scary music. Well, it's complicated! Clearly you don't want to burn all the forests all at once. And yeah, if you burn pressure-treated wood, those chemicals go into the local community. At the same time, wood does grow back. The nuance that's missing in this documentary is questions like "how many acres of rotationally-harvested woodlands are required to power a 1MW biomass plant sustainably in perpetuity? And can such projects exist in practice?"

Biomass isn't a panacea solution, and the HN startup mindset of "can I scale up a technology to dominate everything" doesn't apply because biomass has limits to it's scalability. It's just one of many tools, and the problem about this documentary is it can't envision a future where many tools are used together. When a Sierra Club exec is questioned about biomass, they kept the part where she says their "position is nuanced", but then they cut to something else without explaining that nuance. That's lazy documentary filming.

The complicated thing about energy is there is no silver bullet. This documentary finds the bad in each technology without considering how all the pieces could fit together. It presents the bad sides of each technology as if that should disqualify the tech instead of asking how can we improve each over time. There aren't easy answers to these questions, but this documentary just wallows in how bad everything is without asking the hard questions about how things can be made to work or what the alternative of doing nothing is.
"that there was nothing in the middle managing connections"

Found the real bug, and it wasn't in the library.
In particular a revenue neutral carbon tax with dividend should be politically as uncontroversial as it gets because it is also economically equitable. It's totally perplexing to me why these relatively low-hanging fruit solutions are not being pursued.
Doesn't the logic go the other way around though? For Sweden's numbers to be unimpeachible now, they would have had to have never been wrong going back decades. But in fact public numbers get reported incorrectly all the time, they just get corrected.

This is happening everywhere right now, watch all the various numbers on Worldometer jump around like crazy.

What you're doing is pointing to this one, single number, as collated by the New York Times in one story, which doesn't match any other numbers in the same data set. And you'redemanding that we treat it as proof of your particular policy views on this one country.

And I'm saying: well, OK, that could be true. But it's probably just a mistake.
Yeah. From my experience, they're saying the want the housing in their city to go to them, not to tourists who are going to go and leave it in a few days.
Masterful strategy and execution. Peter definitely got lucky in the execution but his downside was fairly limited. He could always settle. We all owe him one for effecting a rare intervention and getting the patent invalidated. Imagine the pain and suffering of all the future targets of the patent troll that he headed off.
This is why a "universal" port was a bad idea. Just because a cable looks like it'll fit doesn't mean it will work. Charging ports have fundamentally different requirements from data ports and display ports. I miss MagSafe.

Also, if the overheating issues are true then macOS should issue a warning when charging from an unsuitable port.
Honestly the first thing that came to my mind was Watchmen.
> I think this is a bit of an oversimplification. It seems like everything can be described as an abstraction of something else

Correct, any new ideas you abstract are composed of pre-existing ideas you have. Trace any of those ideas to their roots and you'll realize all ideas come from what you originally had to subject your senses to (i.e seeing it, hearing it), otherwise they're some abstracted combination thereof.

Although my prior post was an attempt at a logical proof of sorts, the only real caveat I find in it, is this part: if there's a limit to what we can sense and observe. This is not proven as far I can tell (which is why I prefaced it with an 'if').

Again, I think Ludwig Wittgenstein's work may say all of this better, but then again I find it hard to grasp everything it tries to convey.

EDIT: As for Duell's statement, perhaps it's taken too literally. I can see they had an equivalent to email (e.g. regular mail), atom bombs (regular bombs) and AI (basic schemes & algorithms) back in those days, just not literal equivalents. But his statement is not the argument I'm making in my prior post. Rather it's more "our ideas are limited by what we sense".
Thing is, Google requires an absolutely stupid amount of computing resources for running their core business. YouTube transcoding is a great example and a big one for sure, but I bet they have even bigger ones in there somewhere. I have no real data to base this on (and I'm sure nobody does), but I'd bet 5:1 odds that if Google were an AWS customer, they'd be bigger than all the others combined.

So in that case, optimizing for a single customer makes perfect sense if it's the right customer.
I suspect that in the aftermath of this. There’s are the things that will have had the biggest impact on outcomes. The pre-conditions at the start. Not differences in response strategies.
Wouldn't their value add here be that they can quickly do due diligence and expedite these loans given their expertise in the field?

Seems you're extolling their ability to perform quickly, while also excusing away their inability to perform quickly.
It doesn't need to contain the words. It clearly and repeatedly portrays this as some kind of women's movement, when it is not.
The hospitals were overloaded in Lombardy, in exactly the way you're saying will not happen.
"The public school system" is not an organization. It is thousands of organizations.
I assume that all modern CPUs are CISC-ish opcodes running in microcode on a RISC-ish core, and it’s been a few decades since those were useful labels.
Why is it important that you're not at Amazon? Because they'd be biased against engineers with your background?
What if I want to drive in 200 mile segments, but I want to stop places that are more interesting than electric charging stations?
You have good points. Clearly the name of a thing matters.

I'm arguing that the naming of a thing matters less than the efficacy of the thing itself. Doubly so in a hacker-oriented forum.

As for the echo-chamber, that's a classic human fallacy which I think is magnified by the centralization of content aggregation into heavily personalized "newsfeed" style design choices perpetuated by major players.

The epidemic of "outrage culture," or "offense culture" is something comedians and free thinkers have been discussing for awhile, and I think is underpinning of my personal frustrations.

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"This idea of "I'm offended". I've got news for you - I'm offended by a lot of things too. Where do I send my list? Life is offensive. Get in touch with your outer adult, and grow up, and move on."

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Post, comment, discuss as y'all like, right? That's the beauty of the format. I'm simply one of ∞.

The folks in the community here are brilliant, and the reasonable ones are off doing something meaningful, whereas I'm here arguing for practice, basically.
> The expectation is that because of lockdown, the excess mortality from non-covid-19 causes should be lower than previous years

It is hard to say whether this is true. There are two reasons why there could be excess mortality caused only indirectly by covid-19 (so not part of covid-19 mortality):

1) Overwhelmed hospitals cannot offer proper healthcare to some patients with non-covid-19 illnesses. This might happen in Italy or Spain.

2) People are too frightened by covid-19 to visit doctor even in acute cases of other illnesses (e.g. minor stroke) and sometimes visit them too late. This was reported by doctors in Czechia.
There's a very definite possibility that what people died of is lockdown and fear. More specifically, there have been some really worrying alarm bells going off in multiple countries about people not seeking medical attention for really serious conditions, or not receiving it when they did.
That's why I said also "future prospects". It's likely RISC-V will for the very least fill certain niches.
The Alpha port made it through to early release candidates of Windows 2000, and somebody is using it, because there were PuTTY builds for it.
Hardly. It means the IP will be sold off to someone else, who might just make it more expensive to milk some profit from the deal while pushing customers to their own platform.
(As you know) most of the lower div EECS courses inherit slide decks and the coverage is set by the department. CS70 has a wonderful set of notes which should be a book. I regularly go through the CS61C, CS152 and CS252 decks; those are great Berkeley classes. CS162 has a good set and then Kubi has his which even better. Hilfinger's CS61A notes were quite good. The deck the EE40 prof used was based on a previous semester and it was pretty good. It's just that the class is an insane amount of material and work.

There was an intent behind the work. All of the lower div classes are hard with a massive amount of content. But you can show up a Berkeley from a substandard high school on the wrong side of the tracks and blow it out of the water; a buddy of mine was like that and went to Columbia for his PhD. It's very simple. You just have to work. Immediately. Day one. I don't think Berkeley EECS rewards creativity. Indeed I think EECS punishes creativity. But EECS teaches its students to work their asses off, regardless of whether they came from Lick Wilmerding or Skyline.

Go Bears.
Thanks for the recs. If you're willing to share what other paid courses you consider good, I'd appreciate it!
Traditional addressing modes have been largely abandoned because modern architectures are based on the load-store principle. Simplicity has little to do with it, and referring to that whole shift in design as "complex" vs. "simple" instruction sets is a bit of a misnomer. Besides, well-designed architectures are not exactly lacking in ease-of-use.
you are a disgusting normie. I wish the internet was harder to connect to.
Even Microsoft make Jazz:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(computer)
to develop NT.
Don't ideas naturally breed more ideas? Perhaps it takes a certain type of mind, but from my perspective, ideas are synthesized from life experience. That life experience could be prehistoric or modern, but the flow of information in life is going to generate ideas. Ideas are needed to solve problems, solving problems ensures survival, so we naturally think in terms of ideas much of the time.

Illustration: A prehistoric person invents the basket: They gather apples from a tree that is a mile from their cave, but can only carry 6 apples and must make several trips. On one trip, they pass a tree with a nest, the nest has eggs and the idea happens: eggs:apples, nest:[basket]. They fabricate a basket out of a hide, and can then get all the apples they need in one trip.

In Moore's law, I'd argue that keeping apace in fact requires many more ideas to get to the next node than it took to get to the current node. The fabrication complexity is exponentially greater, not linearly greater, and more ideas are required to get there. Getting to node x+1 indicates much greater progress than was seen getting to node x, because exponentially more ideas were required to succeed. Moreover, you had to have all the ideas of x to build on in order to get to x+1.

I argue that we are not generating fewer ideas as 'harder to find' would imply. But rather, exponentially more, and, the resulting achievements are all the more spectacular.
MacBook Pro 15. I always charge on the left and USB-C 4k@60 video on the right. It runs the coolest and quietest.

My work monitor only has 60W USB-C PD anyway (home does 100W).
> Yes, there are valid criticisms. Wind turbines are made of unrecyclable fiberglass. It takes energy to build them (truck rolls to the site, concrete for the foundations), and it's important to make sure the energy return on energy invested is net positive. We use fossil fuels to produce these renewables technologies. That's all true, but not insurmountable.

These turbine blades can be broken down into pellet insulation or used as feedstock for cement kilns. It's a supply chain and economic incentive issue, not an unsolved technology issue.

I can't speak to Moore's beliefs, but his documentaries (IMHO) are designed to inflame, not to have an intelligent discussion about complex problems that require complex solutions. They are "clickbait" disguised as objective information.
It's also COMPLETELY WRONG. Charlie Munger has said several times that the NUMBER ONE thing you should do to solve complicated problems is HAVE A CHECKLIST OF MENTAL MODELS AND USE IT WITHOUT EXCEPTION. So this guy is obviously making crap up. Buffet's business partner is the guy who wrote the fucking book on making investments and problem solving this way.
Really enjoy BBB, we used as a replacement from Zoom when all the security stuff came out.
> there's some evidence they're no good at passing the infection on to others

May I ask: What evidence of this did you find convincing?

From my own digging it seemed like this was a claim from China, which merely indicated that it was rare that, in a family, the child got it first and gave it others.

However, when the epidemic really started taking off, it was the middle of CNY and kids weren't in school, which could completely account for why they didn't observe child->adult transmission.

I'd love to be wrong about this, though.
This is really cool! This is kind of a cloud CPU version of Universal Audio Apollo which offloads on local DSP chips.

What's the lowest latency achievable in practice? I'd be surprised if you can run anything under 50ms, so it's probably limited to mixing use-cases, which is already really cool because that tends to be the "plugin-heavy" phase.

How does it work in terms of licensing for the plugins that run remotely? I'm not familiar with common licenses used by plugins.
-flags+commands

I can say I've never heard of -h/-H and never thought much about
symlinks vs. chmod and I never had a problem with it because I've never
thought that a symlink can have its own permission (I didn't even know
such systems exist).

So for me the default of -H is fine.
It is not logical either - numerous exceptions can be found, including in this pandemic.
I am satisfied that this reply chain recognizes the irony in my long-winded argument. :)

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