skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How do you feel about the right-wing media that was obsessively critical about Obama for strangely irrelevant things such as his choice of mustard or color of suits?

I feel that it was idiotic propaganda.

>It seems to me that almost all of the criticism of Trump is well justified by his incoherence, rudeness, anti-intellectualism, blatant nepotism, lack of structure, refusal to divest, repeated untruthful statements, lack of logical consistency, questionable policies, and apparent tendency towards cronyism.

The problem as I see it is too many Trump haters go beyond the many valid reasons to hate him and instead, due to conscious or subconscious bias, start to do things like take things he says out of context, or read more into those things than is necessarily justifiable, or try to paint him as a uniquely evil figure even though we have had presidents in recent memory who literally supported death squads in third world countries... etc.
Did you try LSD after that time in your teens?

I think it is a bit too reductive to say they're neutral, just yet, but I am willing to say they can be used responsibly if the right information actually existed - but like with any science I am open to changing that if the conclusions were found to be different. Again let's just stick with acid instead of all psychedelics.
Demolishing the California Dream: How SF Planned Its Own Housing Crisis (2018)
My feeling is that they are getting it right this time, as science and medicine is still trumping politics in Australia's COVID response. (Though that's beginning to change.)

Getting it right this time means the Government doesn't have any excuses going forward.

Overall Australia is genuinely doing a great job in relation to COVID, mainly because the Government had the good sense to put the experts center stage and give them real authority. Most Australians have spotted this break with the past and have unified to contain COVID. Going forward, maybe the nation can keep sanity in government and avoid the political parties again taking over the asylum?
The competitive effects of start-up acquisitions by digital platforms
This mirrors the idealism of the early internet:

"Oh we'll have so much good information at our fingertips!"

Reality:

A torrent of misinformation drowning out the actually good information.
Nothing at all is wrong with it.

I live in a pretty well to do family oriented neighborhood in central Tokyo, and this is a very common design. Although I’m not sure about mortgages, but rents definitely ain’t just $850. But as the parent post said, it’s all about location. Prices nosedive once you leave the center of Tokyo or are off the main train lines.
Here are the things that I really really hate about javascript:

I find javascript really hard and annoying, even if I have enough experience with JS that lets me build a basic react framework, I still find it hard to use.

On top of that, getting javascript jobs is harder compared to other programming languages. IE: you need 7 years of experience for a company at the same level where they only need 1 year of IOS/Android experience.

You always have to be keep up to date. The popular libraries that you can use changes so fast, and sometimes they don't even work.

Javascript gets a lot of disrespect from beginner engineers. Something about doing frontend work, isn't hard and it isn't software engineering in their perspective

There are so too many ways to do the same thing, unlike something like lets say golang

You always have to learn more than javascript to compete with other javascript developers. IE: dev ops, backend, database, sre, ux design
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2020L00480

7(3) If COVID app data is uploaded from a mobile telecommunications device to the National COVIDSafe Data Store, a person must not:

(a) retain the data on a database outside Australia; or
(b) disclose the data to a person outside Australia.
Tesla's Andrej Karpathy: AI for Full-Self Driving
Sorry, don't have time to unpack all this, as some are things that scientists understand, but some are so deep that ... not.

When talking about light or radio waves, you're probably talking about Classical Electrodynamics, which does not include the notion of a photon. In Classical EM, light is an EM wave in the sense that if you look at the electric field E or magnetic field B (of a plane wave) at a fixed point in space it is varying sinusoidally. So the waviness is in the amplitude of the E and B fields.

Once you talk about photons, you're in the realm of Quantum Mechanics (QM), and yes things are harder to understand.

It's actually all just fields according to the Standard Model (particle physics), a quantum field theory (QFT).

In QFT there's a field for each fundamental particle that permeates the whole universe. E.g. an electron field, a photon field, etc. Disturbances in these fields are what one would call particles in non-relativistic QM.

So Classical -> QM (quantum system, classical observer/apparatus) -> QFT (quantum everything)

In classical EM, light is a wave. In QM, light is particles. In QFT particles are just disturbances in the all-pervading fields.

Binney has said that QM is just measurement for grownups, or some such. What is a measurement? It's when the system you're observing becomes entangled with the measuring device. We don't know the exact state of every atom in our measuring device, but these could all perturb the system we're measuring. So QM is a hack where you treat the system as quantum but the observer/measuring device as classical which is why you need this confusing wave-function collapse. It was a conscious choice in the development of the theory. This last bit might give some insight into why trying to sense the photon at one of the double-slits ruins the interference pattern.
> I'd suggest putting the testcase output directory on a spinning-rust hard drive that you don't care about instead of your (presumably much more expensive) internal SSD.

Even better, use the /dev/shm RAM disk if your memory is more than enough (although you should probably create an additional RAM disk with a size limit if you don't want a runaway program to accidentally drain your RAM). On a modern development machine, taking 2 GiB out for testcase issue is usually not a problem, and there's often a significant acceleration.
Perl is also concise.
This is not true, as pointed out by the top comment.
Probably taking a well-deserved holiday.

Why the panic about not seeing some celebrity or other for several weeks?

https://www.newsweek.com/putins-disappearance-what-was-all-a...
I personally love Blink https://blink.sh/ it provides a great mosh client.
> ... 1906 ... to 1932 ... as the period of her infection of others ... That's still not 38 years ...

I never stated that she infected others for 38 years. Being an asymptomatic carrier does not require continually infecting others, only that the carrier maintains the infection without showing symptoms. [1] Additionally, the NIH article isn't complete in listing likely infections, as evidenced by comparing it to the Wikipedia article. Nor does is state that she continued to infect others until her paralysis in 1932.

As for the 38 years, the Wikipedia article notes 1900 as the first known, likely infection of a family she worked for. Then, from the NIH article:

> A post mortem revealed that she shed Salmonella typhi bacteria from her gallstones ...

Her death (and, presumably, post mortem) was in 1938. "Bacterial shedding" [2] implies infection and, thus, being a carrier in 1938, though asymptomatic. I arrived at 38 years by considering her likely a carrier from 1900 to 1938.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptomatic_carrier

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=bacterial+shedding
Salaried employees don't get paid by hour our output. If it takes a team a half a year to write the doc, they still get paid for the rest of the year.

One of the reasons I left aerospace is I found out that when a project ends, you and 2,000 of your closest friends all hit the street at the same time. :-)

Or as another friend put it when we were discussing the big companies: "If you work for Boeing, you'll always have a job. But you may have to move to Florida to keep it." And current events show the first part isn't even true any more...
You posted a borderline incoherent rant of nonsense, what did you expect?
The cultural differences make this comparison less meaningful than you’d expect. In Japan you absolutely never have friends over to your house or apartment. Everyone meets at bars or restaurants. Similar to nyc, many apartments in Tokyo are a few hundred square feet and literally only serve as a place to sleep and shower. That means houses aren’t such a major thing and so the Japanese invest way less time and energy (and place less importance on) their homes.

My parents lived in japan and I have a few friends there. I spoke with a friend who works in graphic design on the outskirts of Tokyo who doesn’t even own a fridge - all his meals are eaten outside of his home.
If you get R<1, eventually the disease will die out (see SARS-1). Coronavirus get deletions, etc. A vaccine will likely be developed (we got lucky, at first glance, that SARS antigens are fairly stable). All these things take time.

You don't "track" people with contact tracing, you ask positive cases who they came in contact with and ask those people to get tested.

We could probably "eliminate" influenza with ubiquitous testing (at least for 99.99% of the human race). There just isn't an obvious entity to fund such an effort. There should be, but there isn't.

Contact tracing is done for HIV.
Do any of the custom-built apps work reasonably well? I know that the last time I touched Bluetooth on phones (long ago) the stacks were so buggy that getting different devices to communicate reliably was next to impossible. It would work for some devices, but cause issues with others etc.

I would expect that any custom solution would be implemented by one of the few contractors experienced in dealing with the local bureaucracy, and would thus suffer from a lack of experience in dealing with Bluetooth and all the undocumented quirks.

I wonder if that played into the decision.
Like clockwork. Literally every US voting season, ever since Diebold machines became fixtures. I tire of seeing these problems make headlines yet again when a technical solution exists.
It's local (propagates continuously through space, no faster than the speed of light) and if you want you can view it as mediated by particles (photons), although just viewing it as the EM field is fine too (and certainly no less local). So is gravity, which was spooky action at a distance for even longer, once you invent GR.
Derogatory to whom? It is calling a VR headset that you strap to your face nerdy. It’s not calling a person nerdy.
Yes, but that can be considered assumed knowledge. The specialities of people here lend themselves well to discussing the gritty details of how dystopian surveillance systems are implemented. Which is a far more interesting discussion once you have exhausted your broader perspectives. I worry that the parent comment has a strong emotive hook which will distract from a more useful conversation that hasn't be had yet.
I'm not going to comment on the cost of the manuals, but on a couple other concerns:

1) Mechanics and pilots are responsible for knowing the aircraft systems. Who has time to read and memorize 100,000 pages? How do you recruit new pilots in an efficient manner?

2) The cost could have been largely avoided by using an off-the-shelf airplane, instead of a billion dollar frankenstein. Possibly with the additional electronics in pods that have a limited interface with the airplane electrical system.

Source: commercially-rated airplane pilot.
National Electric Code 2020 downloader
This is not the same thing darch does, what darch does can be done by chroot, namespaces etc and is not that complicated.
My favorite personal fuzzing story is from 1987 when a friend said his x86 graphics drawing program was solid, and I said OK and smashed both hands on the keyboard and it insta-crashed.
Use a filter like "has:attachment larger:10mb in:all". For each 100 deleted emails you get 1GB of free space back.
I made up the "big tree" part. It was something like that but it wasn't that. I don't remember what it was.

But it was Glenbrook. I wrote that part down in my journal. So yes, her house was around that street view scene somewhere. I doubt I could find it again, but the scene looks familiar even 35 years on. Not much seems to have changed there.
I haven't used either this or the one in the original submission. What differences stand out the most to you? I'll be trying both out later tonight, but I'm curious to know your thoughts.
Such a thing is feasible for most infectious diseases with sufficient resources. You'd be surprised by how little funding virology research gets.
Civilizational Immune Systems
Covid-19 Antibody Test Certification: There's an app for that [pdf]
Yes, at the moment only Equifax is reported to and yes, my credit score is climbing.
Yes, I know those numbers. That’s not what OP said that I was responding too (see reply to sibling comment for more context).
but it's not always malicious.

sometimes building something new seems obvious. i have to push hard to get people to back up that obviousness with evidence. (provide me with evidence that these existing solutions are not suitable before we build a new one from scratch.

sometimes building something new seems easier or cheaper than the effort required to evaluate alternatives, especially if the solution only takes a few days or weeks of work (take the obviousness factor above into account).

another factor is the seemingly common dislike of working with other peoples code. especially when it's known that modifications will need to be made. do we take this system with a lot of legacy code where we have to modify 20% or is it easier to start over and build what we need?
> I agree that not everyone's entitled to waterfront views, but I think that in a functioning society everyone would be able to own a decent house (e.g. one that gets sunlight), within a reasonable commute of their work, in desirable part of the country (e.g. in a cosmopolitan city).

Out of curiosity, what is your reasoning behind this belief?
I'm a physicist specifically working with magnetic systems, but I have very little pre-graduate teaching experience, so take this attempt to answer the question with a grain of salt.

The reason some people regard Faraday's original explanation of the eponymous law (it is worth noting that at the time it was widely regarded as inadequate and handwavy) as illuminating is because Faraday visualized his "lines of force" as literal chains of polarized particles in a dielectric medium, thereby providing a seemingly mechanistic local explanation of the observed phenomena. Not much of this mindset survived Maxwell's theoretical program and it has very little to do with how we regard magnetism today. Instead, the unification of electricity and magnetism naturally arises from special relativity, whereas the microscopic basis of magnetism requires quantum mechanics. There isn't really any place for naive contact mechanics in the modern picture of physics, so in that sense I would regard Faraday's view as misleading.

Finally, I can't end any "explanation" of magnetism without linking the famous Feynman interview snippet [1] where he's specifically asked about magnetism. It doesn't answer your question directly, but it's worth watching all the more because of it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
My biggest worry (apart from the fact that any Australian law enforcement agency or intelligence service could serve the department that released the app with a notice under the TOLA Act (AA bill) to add a backdoor, and they would be compelled to do it and then deny its existence), is that it probably just won't be extremely effective, but people will see it as a magic bullet out of lockdown.

There is a lot of pressure from the right wing and business lobbies to re-open everything, but the only reason that we have had such low numbers is because we locked down early and hard.

People are saying "Install the app so we can go back to normal quicker" already - this is dangerous. With commercial grade hardware and software not designed for this, we can't assume the app will be reliable all (or even most) of the time. The period of time somebody is infectious seems to be quite long. So using the app as an excuse to ease lockdown will not work and would probably just result in unrestrained community transmission. Especially as we are coming into winter, we really don't want a second wave!
The article has almost no content, but one of the three facts it provides is that Tokyo has 3-bedroom houses on offer for anyone who wants one, for $300K and 1% annual interest. It's not about 300sqft apartments.
I think their point was that Boeing might be charging a premium as they will no longer service the plane.

However, I don't think this is the case, the cost probably has to do more with the specificity and overall data included.
Automatic window tiling with POP _OS 20.04
My first story in a publication Poem with illustration
It's gotten better over the years and some good things came with es6.

The half life of all these frameworks and libraries that come into fashion is pretty annoying. The principles don't change much though.

I don't like that it caters to both the object-oriented and fp world and becomes a mishmash of both.
Does the OP have links to any benchmarks? Specifically, what kind of ingestion rates can one expect with a modest number of machines? Does it support a single-machine (shared-memory parallel) environment? What kind of algorithms are supported?

It would be good to add some information about the features/capabilities on the homepage. Right now the blurbs make vague statements like "high throughput", which could be 1000 edge updates/sec or 10M.
Uh... from what do you understand that? Sweden isn't even close. Their deaths/case ratio isn't too far off from New York. We have reasonably good evidence now that New York is maybe 30-50% of the way to herd immunity (plus or minus a factor of two or so).

New York has six times the per capita deaths that Sweden does. Just extrapolating and multiplying their current number by 3x6==18, that's about 35000 dead swedes until they get to herd immunity.

I genuinely don't understand the alternative world some people live in where Sweden has already beaten this. They're current curve is about 3 weeks behind most of Europe, largely due to the lack of lockdown that allowed the early outbreak to spread for longer.
Hi Wingy. Sorry this is two weeks late. Life intervened.
I swapped mine and my daughter’s SSD’s and it’s definitely the drive and not the logic board in my case. That’s no guarantee for your friend but you never know your luck.

I was kind of hoping it would be the logic board to self-justify a new laptop. Now I’m thinking I’ll get the cheapest 256 I can get and nurse the laptop along for as long as I can.

But I’m committed to switching to Linux. Still exploring distros.
How would you present a piano roll to a transformer (e.g. what would be a sample of the sequence)? You could try using a tuple of pitch integers for each time step. I'm not sure how big a "vocabulary" would need to be to capture most of the chords (note combinations) - it might actually be comparable in size to a language vocabulary (tens of thousands of words). You could use two channels to capture note onset/offset info (like it was done in a biaxial RNN paper). Or the encoding used for Musenet (with explicit timing info), but somehow I like the idea of "chords as words" better.
costs aside, I wonder how useful it is.

The average reading speed is about a page every 1-2 minutes (for non technical texts). 100.000 pages would then be a 800-1600 hour read, which is about half a year for a person spending 8 hours a day just flipping through pages.

Obviously such a manual is probably not meant to be read cover to cover, but even compared to a reference work, it's three times the volume of the entire Encyclopaedia Britannica - a giant amount of information to be easily used.
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Thank you, that's very helpful!
I happen to agree with you a lot. Unfortunately I think what people will take away from this article is: How can we fix twitter. The answer isn't to fix it. It's the wrong use of the medium.

The bigger problem is how can we network indepdent blogs in a federated fashion where it's easier to have responses, build audiences, etc.

i.e. You can't exactly respond very easily and see the 10k view with a single blog article.

BUT Then again this is what you get with the whole "well twitter is a better place to be"/walled garden apologists.
Why is time needed to "clean up the code"? Why not just develop the code on GitHub, in the open, with full transparency?
If you already buy from them, maybe that makes them less interested in showing you ads than a scammy company that you do not presently buy from.
Ask HN: What are your do's and don't with young children and technology
I am looking for interesting insights with regards technology and child rearing.

One interesting example I've read was in Eric Schmidt book - you really wanna think how you pick their name - whether you want it to be unique or drown among other John Smiths in Google search.

Other cool idea was my partner's - instead buying a baby cam (which we would use rarely) we just Facetime each other and leave one phone on mute.

p.s. our bubs is 5mo old atm.
I'm sure you will be downvoted as hell because you're critic and not upbeat, HN just likes everyone saying good words all the time, i.e. stay politically positive. However I strongly believe critic is more meaningful most of the time as long as it does not have bad intention, thus I upvote you.

JS is indeed hard, learning vuejs for the sake of 'it's simpler than react' right now.
How are they on the right track? They've taken over $17 million in funding from VCs, meaning they need a ~$170 million exit in the next 7 years, meaning they need to monetize like crazy.

Everyone loved Medium, too, in their Year 3 when they were just burning VC cash and nobody there cared about being a profitable, sustainable business.
I say this often: but not all dollars are created equally. I think the size of the recent stimulus packages: $2tr and ongoing trillions on top of it are case-in-point. These numbers are so astronomically large it is hard to fathom what they mean for the US and what it means for future generations.

My point about the headline number of $84 million... this is not a real number in that it reflects more than just the cost of manuals. It reflects the stimulus and backstop of strategically important private defense manufacturers like Boeing and others.
Kalman filters. The explanations always start easy and then get too confusing.
This is really inspiring.
Yeah but you also can't build a car without seatbelts/airbags/backup cameras.
Blink is great, but $20 for a terminal you might use occasionally or emergencies is pretty stiff for me personally.
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entertaining, the comments are a good addendum but are just as speculative. maybe there just isn't good information, its just more of the contradictory information.

"lasting permanent changes, obviously"

"I’ve personally seen several people experience total amnesia after tripping on high doses." No further information.

"Not lasting permanent changes"

what.

Names, sources, medical records, news reports, court cases, there has got to be something out there!
Tree lined streets have a lot of sunlight.
Well, Boeing does need money, overpaying for a bunch of crap already in the works is probably easier than a proper bailout.

Though I imagine both will occur in the fullness of time.
I just realised that using bluetooth directly requires location permission on Android. Which makes sense since you can geolocate using the signal strength of known location beacons.

https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/blue...
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