skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. The other thing is, if you do decide to pursue that liberal arts degree - we need some people who do! - know that you are shooting for academia and plan accordingly. It's cutthroat, but it's possible. But only if you make a concerted effort. Don't just get a degree in something you like and assume a job is going to fall into your lap afterward. Have a plan.

I hate to come at it from this angle because I'm so exasperated by the parents who write off all degrees without a clear economic angle as worthless. Passion matters. But so does prudence. Choose your path carefully, and then figure out what you need to do to make it happen. The vast majority of degrees aren't get-a-job-for-free cards.
If that were all there were to it, I would certainly prefer docker over nixos
Very cool :). Apart from Plan9 that many people already talked about here, it also made me think of Emacs `unexec` [0].

[0] http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/src/unexelf....
What do you mean by "right side comments"? I wonder if there's something in HN's UI that is misleading. (Or perhaps you're using a third party extension of some sort?)
> before anyone puts me in a category I don't belong: I'm not american, and I don't follow or care particularly about american politics

Then why the f are you commenting on it? Don't comment on things you don't know about, especially the politics of a country not your own.
What we don't know is so far greater than what we do know it's almost unimaginable. The truth is, many of us cannot imagine that. And it's hard to find a more glaring example than heath care when it comes to proving it.

You worked in a field that hit you over the head with that truth everyday. People that work in health care do too. For sure those this article follows are right now.

Many people never experience that. They avoid it. They like things black and white and do not like any gray area at all. The "vaxxer vs antivaxxer" argument is an example of where some people aggressively take a side without considering how much we really do not know when it comes to how the human organism works. In the grand scheme of things we don't know squat about it.

To be fair, the advertisements for prescription drugs do rattle off a shit ton of potential consequences and disclaimers, so right there is another absolute proof of the flimsy state of the art, but they get ignored.

It's not that I'm skeptical. I don't think you are either. It's just understanding how little we really know about this kind of thing.

All that said, with the current effort being applied I think we have a good shot at beating it. We're at least better positioned now than we've ever been, which is not close to saying we're where we could or should be. But hopefully this will nudge us that direction.
The common theme there is constrained proximity. To give random chance more of a chance.

My favorite illustration was a video of simulated icosahedral viral capsid assembly. The triangular panels were tethered together to keep them slamming into each other. Even then, the randomness and struggle was visceral. Lots of hopeless slamming; tragic almost but failing to catch; being smashed apart again; misassembling. It was clear that without the tethers forcing proximity, there'd be no chance of successful assembly.

Nice video... it's on someone's disk somewhere, but seemingly not on the web. The usual. :/

> yeast

Nice example. For a temperature/jiggle story, I usually pair refrigerating food to slow the bacterial jiggle of life, with heating food to jiggle apart their protein origami string machines of life. With video like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4qVs9cNF24 .

> Compartmentalizing

I've been told the upcoming new edition of "Physical Biology of the Cell" will have better coverage of compartmentalization. So there's at least some hope for near-term increasing emphasis in introductory content.
> That's not relevant to the specific request that was linked here

Sort of accurate. The "in your head" part is mostly relevant to the United States 5th amendment, where you cannot be compelled by the court to reveal your pin.

So if you live in the United States, they are similar in practical if not technical terms.

If you live in Russia? You're going to need google to fix that.
A sibling comment has mentioned this but the problem is with the terminology and how it manifests itself in your mind. You’ve mentioned it in your comment: trying to view light as a ripple or as air particles... light is neither of them, it’s a different thing entirely. Light exhibits certain properties that are wavish and particle-ish which is why it’s said to be both, technically. But trying to visualize light through analogies with phenomena in the macro world that you have intuition for is wrong. Mathematics is the only “eye” with which you can really understand light for what it is.
jamie=# create table users ("user" text, "password" text);
CREATE TABLE
jamie=# insert into users values ('bob', 'whatever');
INSERT 0 1
jamie=# select user, password from users;
user | password
-------+----------
jamie | whatever
(1 row)

Is because the name /user/ is a pseudo-function keyword, and is an alias for /current_user/

test=# select "user", "password" from users;
user | password
------+----------
bob | whatever
(1 row)

Newer versions of PostgreSQL make this more clear:

test=# select user, password from users;
current_user | password
--------------+----------
postgres | whatever
(1 row)

Here is a full list of keywords: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-keywords-appendi...
That's actually why I prefer the Deus Ex series. I'm partly going in to see a story told to me. I'm going to play the game once and I want that one time to feel very interesting and not get that feeling of missing out on things because of choices.
"Tidal effects" are defined in terms of having different gravitational fields in one place than another (i.e. the tidal bulge near to the moon occurs because the moon's field is stronger there).
Came here for the MOSIX, not disappointed. I worked at a facility that ran it on a small science cluster, and it worked extremely well.

A fun wrinkle: When the Intel C compilers first came out, they had warnings about process migration -- there's an executable mode where the executable checks to see what kind of CPU it's on at launch-time, and then branches to CPU-specific code blocks during the run. This can be dangerous, the check is only done once, so if the CPU type changes in mid-run due to migration to different hardware, Bad Things can happen.
No, I don't want to die. But we can't take the perspective of aiming for 0 deaths. If so, we'd never ever ever leave our homes.

We won't have cars. We won't have alcohol. We won't have sex (STDs). We won't even have exercise, because exercise sometimes kills.

In 2015, 57 million died in the world. We need to put that into perspective.
This won't work.

First - I would add - none of my detractors or 'downvoters' have provided any workable solution.

Even with 'widespread immunity' that was going undetected - for example, 20% of New Yorkers possibly infected, it still means about a 0.8% overall death rate.

Right now we 12K deaths in NYC (it will be 15K if no more infections due to death-lag in reporting) for the 1.8M already supposedly infected. This is about a 0.8% overall death rate.

It means about another 60K dead in NYC alone (the commenter below puts the number here as well)

This is beyond'acceptable risk'.

60K of NYC is a huge number, and it's equivalent to a few million Americans.

I do not think we're just going to give up on shelter-in-place and then hide our elderly and accept millions of Americans dying.

Again - the solution is already there Contact Tracing.

If you want to talk about 'facts' and 'data' consider Koreas numbers [1]

They are spectacular. 250 dead in a country of 24M people and they have COVID under control. Their economy is not locked-down.

They have scientifically demonstrated a workable solution, it involves community participation via contact tracing.

It's irresponsible for us to avoid proven solutions.

[1]
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/south-kore...
I spent 3 years on 757 flight controls.
> Are Canadians allowed to participate? How about Russians? What about crypto-anarchists who will never pass a military-type background check? I cannot think of a less hacker-friendly competition.

The answers to your questions are in the rules.

https://www.hackasat.com/rules-here
But that’s a standard that even paper ballots don’t meet.

In my state you walk into the polling place, give them your name and address, sign your name, and that’s it. Your polling place is even listed publicly online for anyone who knows your name.
I was shoulder deep in primary source material (#4) on real-time fuzzy search and wasn’t able to make heads or tails of where everything fit. Until I found a #3 overview that referenced most of the primary sources and put them in context. That paper was worth its weight in gold!

Do you have any tips for how to quickly find these #3 materials in other spaces?
There's also the angle that home grown projects can interact better with each other and possibly have a unified look and feel.

You could bolt both of those on top of OSS but that can end badly.
US blames China for hacks allegedly targeting Covid-19 research
For me at least, I learn a lot faster by actively doing something (i.e. working on a toy problem/algorithm) than just reading the docs.
Given that the firmware contains workarounds for otherwise unstable operation, or none at all, who is at fault here?
The OEM who did release an unstable product under pressure of time to market, the retailer for not having upgraded the product while it gathers dust somewhere, or the customer who orders dusty goods from whomever? I know the situation is less than satisfying, but it is how it is.
Right, but it redistributes demand around. Ever been to a busy boardwalk with people hired to call out and give samples out to get people to come in? It's an arms race like that, it redistributes the demand of eating on the boardwalk, and those that don't pay for the advertising don't survive, so everyone does it, but ultimately the boardwalk would be more or less the same without it
That is a tiny fragment of advertising we see though. Of all the ads I see in a month, I feel like maybe one or two informs me of a new product, and usually not one I'll buy (and usually those ads are in non-traditional media, like YouTube sponsors). All the rest are big brands everybody already knows.
>> The Team Leader must be a U.S. citizen, must speak English and will serve as the official technical point of contact for communications with the HAS organizers.

So ya, Canadians are allowed but only if the boss is a US citizen. Don't see any resident language. I make the point because some of the best satellite spotters/finders/hackers are Canadians, such Scott Tilley who was recently in the news for finding a long-forgotten navigation sat. Or Ted Molczan who may have spotted the legendary Prowler sat.

(This is natural. Canadians are better positioned to spot satellites due to their darker sky and the longer dawn/dusk periods of higher latitudes.)
The government does not have an exhaustive supply chain diagram of every essential business. Emergency orders have exempted certain obvious types of business, but their feedstocks and tools come from other businesses that weren't listed and cannot operate today.
What exactly do you mean by journal summaries?

For something between 2 and 4, the best I can come up with would be textbooks or seminars, both being extremely spotty in terms of quality and understandability.

In any case, a big problem you get is a cliff of information content going from 4 down to whatever the next step is. The incentive structure substantially motivates putting out new material, which must have some novel concepts. The focus on novelty and accomplishment leads to quite a mess. People put out half-baked work to be the first to write on a particular subject, which gets citations, which means the next round, also half-baked, is built on a half-baked foundation. When what's most needed in almost all cases is to parse the last generation of literature into something coherent, real, and replicable.
Right but I’m more than willing to throw away my own anonymity for the ability. Hell, I literally do it every year by voting absentee.

Assuming I’m not alone why not give people the choice and increase voter turnout?
Tears are a higher form of power than raindrops. They can indicate joy, or solve intractable problems or eliminate traffic tickets.
A pandemic of power grabs: Autocrats see opportunity in disaster
Quebec earned it over the course of years.
You're talking a coordinated conspiracy involving thousands of people. The FBI would have hard evidence during the recruiting phase.

You can't involve that many people in something and keep it secret.

Even in the best case were we don't find out until elections day, an enormous increase in double votes will be all over the news the same day, and arrests will start happening shortly after.
Great Looking Tables in R: gt (v0.2)
Salary of an OFW in Japan
A lot of Filipinos are aiming to fly out of the country to work abroad, especially in Japan.Probably, the main reason is to get a higher salary than their current job.

Maybe many of you are asking how much money does an OFW in Japan can make. Well, it will be contingent upon in so many factors.

Read more here https://beasenpai.wordpress.com/2020/04/07/salary-of-an-ofw-in-japan/
Can you do that?

Elvis Presley's guitar/clothes are worth more than the sum of their parts because he imbued it with that meaningful connection to whatever was higher than him.

Can you have a spirit without it being imbued in an object? The only other way of distributing connection to this stuff I can see is via people and you end up with a socially mediated distribution system.

If not, you're stuck with capitalism distributing spirits like it does everything else.
The New York Times (via Reuters) covered it correctly. https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/04/25/world/americas/25...

The Washington Post also covered it correctly: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/04/25/coronavirus-...

All three of your articles also reported it correctly.

Even the Bloomberg article was correct except for a single word ("finding"). This looks like a tempest in a teapot to me.
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The only screen time she’s getting now is Facetime with grandparents and some boring educainment we watch while having diner. No plans for screen time until much older.
sorry, this is what i meant, which i never realized since 2015

left side of my name has a number

far right side of my name has a number

left side of my name is the points of my comment

right side of my name is the comments beneath my comment

I never realized that

also thanks for pointing out the rules of the forum, sometimes people forget

and thanks for modding hn

the bug that i find surprising is when i type a text,
i need to make two breaklines to show one breakline
Sort of. I spent much time arguing with Stress over how to calculate the torsional rigidity of the elevator structure.
Is Quora really big outside the US or something? I find it difficult to reconcile their scale challenges with the fact that I don't know a single person that uses Quora outside of when the come up in google search results.
I've begun to grok so much about how law _practically_ works by listening to Popehat's All the President's Lawyers podcast.

Basically you get an educated layperson asking a veteran criminal lawyer questions, usually around the First Amendment, always related to current events. The lawyer (Ken White) explains in practical terms what is likely to happen and why.
That's a problem for the registration system to handle, it doesn't need to be solved at the ballot box.
> does it seem reasonable that an overseas government should be able to force a US company to make changes to their OS and add functionality it was never designed to have

Yes, it actually does. I certainly don't like the idea of such an action being taken in practice, but isn't dictating that certain arbitrary requirements must be met in order to do business within a jurisdiction kind of a large part of the point of having a government in the first place? What's concerning to me about this case is that end users aren't even capable of opting in at present and that due to the time constraints involved Apple would appear to have a distinct advantage.

Note that the previous (somewhat similar) controversy in the US involving Apple was an issue specifically due to questions about constitutionally protected rights and federal government overreach.
Maybe. This article is from Feb. 29, 2020. They identified a url that was accessible via web but it looks to be down. I didn't dig deeper.

https://www.xda-developers.com/huawei-search-mobile/
Wouldn’t a star be definitely “part of” a galaxy or not based on its orbit?
Finding housing for homeless people isn't a money problem. We just don't want to do it.

We find/print money for things we want to do.
My favourite Brian Kernighan fact: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_World!%22_program#...
> That is an orthogonal issue. Turnout is unrelated to security

We are both talking about election security.

The reason we are talking past each other is that you’re describing a neat hypothetical model that fits your belief of what is worth discussing. Whereas I’m describing a nexus of actual threats, carried out by actual attackers, in the context of an overall strategy. You’re welcome to ignore the full context of those threats, but that will result in your model being worthless.

> Identifying voters, and ensuring the integrity of the voting mechanism are both important security issues.

A meaningless statement without clarifying the context.

Let’s continue your list of possible threats to the integrity and fairness of the US electoral system:

- Voter ID fraud

- Hacking of voting machines

- Hacking of the tally system

- Hacking of government contractors developing and operating the election infrastructure

- Illegal purging of voter rolls

- Corruption of election officials

- Voter intimidation

- gerrymandering

- Targeted shuttering of voting stations

- Targeted disinformation in crucial counties

- Exfiltration of polling data for precise targeting of attacks

- Hacking of political parties (headquarters and campaign staff)

All these threats are being carried out right now against the US election system, in a coordinated fashion, by the same nexus of attackers. They are interlocking attacks supporting the same goal: minority rule and a transition to an authoritarian regime. This threat is as serious as it gets.

Of course there is one exception in the list: voter ID fraud, in person or by mail, is not a threat. No serious election security expert worries about it. That would be like worrying about a Martian invasion in the middle of WW2: there are more pressing and realistic concerns to worry about... There is no serious coordinated effort to commit such fraud, and as far as I know, there never has been.

Hopefully this context will help you understand why you are mistaken in framing election security around the non-issue of voter ID fraud.
That the thing about Faustian bargains. Great in the short term.
I think you’re on to something there. What if we made on very large, and collected lots of water at a central point and could control how much of it we use for electricity? It’s a damn good idea.
A roof is about 200 m^2 (more or less), so at 10 mw/m^2, you could generate a whopping 2 watts. While it's raining. California gets 563 millimeters of rain a year, so you might end up generating an entire 100 watts. For the year.
Coronavirus: Why the world will look to India for a vaccine
Consumer protection laws are only good for the citizenry if and when the regulations protect the consumer more than additional competition would.
Would you be able to tell if the pure black of empty space was brightened by 1000x?

This comment is too persnickety to actually be asked in good faith imho.
I wonder why UX designers don't want to work for free while software developers do work for free?
Regarding your second point: This sounds similar to .NET‘s CancellationToken. It works very well there.

What are those nuances in JavaScript which aren’t handled by it?
Does anyone have a book recommendation (free or paid) that is modern and up-to-date, preferably regarding typescript, that talks about best practices and patterns for large-scale project design and code structure?

For example, a book that could go into details of code practices at companies like Airbnb, Facebook, or Google.
I appreciate the thoughtful response and I respectfully disagree.

I agree with your point about non-technical users, I addressed that in the top level comment on this thread.

Limiting what is accepted isn't hard at all, here's how you do it:

In your config.py module, have a Config class that subclasses a superclass named, say, ConfigBase. ConfigBase implements __init_subclass__ and in there, you can dictate how a subclass is configured and raise descriptive errors if your rules are not followed. You can do the same thing with a metaclass.

With this approach the class does not have to be mainline executable. You can pluck out what you need and use those plucked items however you see fit.

You are essentially consuming a python script as a config file and not actually running it.
This is not Apple overruling the government. Germany is perfectly free to ban Apple products. They did not.

Government / company interactions with multinational corporations are simple: the government makes rules, and the company is free to either operate in the locale or quit.

Germany decided that they would rather have an Apple which refused to play by the proposed rules, than no Apple at all, so they figured out new rules.
> any programming language where testing if foo = foo can return something mechanically equivalent to false is just plain broken

Isn't this pretty much any language? You're describing how IEEE float NaNs work. I'm not aware of many languages that don't have IEEE-compliant floats.
Awesome. It looks like they brought it back!
I star a handful of emails max. each day. Not laborious at all considering the work load offloaded to Gmail's filters and I use a red, orange, yellow, & green star system.
Many do not have the privilege, particularly now, to push back on such requests if they need their paycheck.
There are plenty of 2br apartments for ~$2.5k on the east side of the bay (San Leandro, Richmond, etc.), and you will have better job opportunities as well.
You invalidate duplicates and notify the real voter they need to re-cast their ballot. You then hand off the evidence to the police for prosecution.

But that is getting ahead of ourselves. The problem isn't how do you solve duplicate voting, it is how do you detect it. That is a solved problem, already, and the answer is that there are very few attempts at voter fraud in a vote-by-mail system.

Now, the electronic machines are a whole 'nother matter. I would fight hard against my state implementing such a disaster. Vote by mail is great.
Why does my bread last for a while and then go bad? Or is it constantly going bad and I just haven't hit critical mass of mold for me to notice?
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Yeah, this is just like the WHO announcing "no evidence" antibodies provide some immunity. It just means no one has done a scientific study of how to collapse the food supply on a massive scale. These sorts of "everything is peachy neat keeno" claims are like Fauci saying the "risk to the US is low" back in February. There is a nontrivial risk we are headed toward food shortages. We should get back in a safer, more well understood configuration for food production and distribution.
How will google verify this proof of identity?