skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People trust the brands they grow up with. For example, Boomers trust Betty Crocker, Heinze, and AAA, which do not even show up for younger generations.
In fact the governor of Washington said in a speech that we are limited in the amount of testing that we could do, and that we need to be substantially increasing our test capacity and turn-around in order to lift lockdown. So it's very accurate to say the US isn't testing enough.

And in fact the limiting factors for test capacity is our ability to manufacture PPE, swabs, containers, and chemicals. All the things we've been busily outsourcing overseas to China.
How much were you drinking? Multiple cups a day?
There's a painful cognitive dissonance that people seem to have about this disease. If your lockdown stops the spread of the disease, your population doesn't get immunity. No amount of infrastructure will allow the population to get immunity without all of the deaths that come with it.

Absent effective medicines being developed, which are very unlikely to appear for a long time, countries need to consider that they're choosing somewhere to fall along a spectrum of disease, or disease + poverty.

In Star Trek there's the famous unwinnable test, the kobayashi maru, and our hero Kirk says there's no such thing. This is the kind of naive arrogance that is going to amplify an already bad situation.

I don't know much about India or its particular situation but rising food prices are going to be a hell of a struggle.
Great analysis
The story of diapers.com is probably as clear cut an example of predatory pricing as you could get:

https://slate.com/technology/2013/10/amazon-book-how-jeff-be...

The whole point of predatory pricing is that you jack the price up if you don't currently face any competition and use the threat of plunging prices to scare off competitors, so of course they're going to be more expensive by default.
Thank you for the correction. I didn't realize they structured the team without a 'maintainer' role.
I guess we have to wait for the arstechnica writeup so it can get posted and discussed.
Ray Optics Simulation in the Browser
> There's no group of people up in the sky listening to our complaints.

Do you not believe the government exists? Regulatory agencies aren't mythic gods, they're law enforcing bodies constructed by the people we vote for in every single election. You don't have to pray to them, you can just write them letters or call them.

Life does work that way, and has always worked that way since the beginning of the US. We have always regulated the market, even from the very first day that this country was founded.

> People are voting with their wallets

Yeah. And they're also voting by actually voting in the real elections that phrase is based on.

It's normal and realistic for government to break up monopolies and force regulations that help the market overall, especially in cases where market forces overall can't be trusted to enforce the same outcomes. We do this all the time; see pollution, price fixing, privacy violation, false advertising, and so on.

Arguably, Amazon itself only exists because of broad Title 2 classifications on the early Internet. No online business can in good faith argue that market regulation is unrealistic or impossible or inherently immoral, when the entire Internet ecosystem is built on top of the exact kinds of market regulation they're protesting: a forced level playing field that was forced by the government even though no individual consumer would have turned down zero-rated, prioritized, or access bundles through their ISPs.
R&D Roundup: Sweat power, Earth imaging, testing ‘ghostdrivers’
All the French ones are right-wing, 5/7 from Les Républicains (The Republicans, a right-wing conservative party).

That doesn't say that much, as most of France is under right-wing leadership at the moment (president is centre-right)
the easier way, assuming neither is a primary key, is to convert the field values to UUIDs, which has the added advantage of anonymizing the data. that's disadvantageous if you want to prevent re-signups though, unless you take other measures.
> 0.00...1

And what does this mean? I will remind you that for an integer d between 0 and 9, 0.ddd… means the limit of \sum_{i=1}^N d/10^i as N tends to infinity.
Lowest end VPS I know about is $5/month. Which means it costs more than an RPi after 9 months or so (7 months for the RPi, another month for the SD card, and one more month for sundries). Power usage on a RPi is pretty trivial so that probably won't change the equation much.

Of course you'll also have to pay for your bandwidth with the RPi solution, but you were doing that anyway. The hosting will have more bandwidth and processing power, but also the possibility of big bills if you get large traffic spikes.
The Chinese Ecosystem Has Two Things the U.S. Doesn't
The federal government does not have the jurisdiction to change how people vote in elections. That is determined by the states.
Learning algorithms for classification comparison on handwritten digit recogniti
Google has been the starting shopping point for me, not Amazon. Probably because:

1. Easy to access - I just need to type the item I want in browser address bar
2. I feel Google is relatively quicker at returning result - couple hundred millisecond that I can feel
3. I usually do find what I need in Google result
> There is no infinitely small number between 0.999... and 1. The difference is 0.000... Not infinitely small, but infinitely zero.

Zero. Just zero. The difference is zero. 0. Because 0.999… = 1.
My understanding is that the "69 candidate strains" have been identified at least 1 time in the population. 1 is not a large cohort.
AFAIK they all already have to support vote-by-mail for various reasons (the military, if nothing else) so it wouldn't be an introduction of a new program, but an expansion of an existing one. Which, yes, might add costs, but it's not a wholly new process for any state, I think.
> you get something like Google, which is quite data-driven, and which doesn't have any unifying personality.

From an outsider, it doesn't appear to me that Google is data driven, or at least they haven't ingrained it in their culture universally.

I can't imagine data lead them to believe they needed the 4 or 5 messaging apps they had at one point with the mix of hangouts, allo, duo, etc.
Doesn't doing soft deletes on user data breach GDPR laws regarding deletion of user data when requested?
Your multiple appeals to authority are just that.

If you can't debunk the math, take some.
Current POTUS has come out in opposition to vote-by-mail. Why would he want to be involved in shaming states?
What is the source for this claim? They only work perfectly with Apple devices. For other devices, they're function just as generic Bluetooth earbuds
A trip report of flying them

https://youtu.be/v8O0WUwiweQ
One would almost expect the home internet to die before the RPi, especially if it’s an RPi4.
>proper encryption

Keybase does not have PFS, unfortunately...
I know this is talking about Senator voting, but I feel like it is time for states to seriously adopt mail-in voting like Oregon (and other states). We have to assume that there could be a shelter-in-place order in the future during the beginning of November. Better to prepare now rather than to scramble for a solution at the last minute.
Warm and fuzzies go away pretty quickly when you get a counterfeit product.

Wal-Mart won the retail game because it won the price war, like you said, but it held the keys to the kingdom for so long because it also enforced a minimum quality standard with suppliers.

Ebay used to be inexpensive and widely used until it was overrun with counterfeits and scams. Amazon is on the same path with it's lax counterfeit enforcement with suppliers and fake reviews.
New Study Tracks NLP Development and Direction Through a ‘World Scope’
This is a e-store page. It makes sense to follow the region instead of language preferences.

Makes sense to whom? Not to someone who's been using a company's web site in one language, and then suddenly gets shifted to another language simply because they want to make a purchase from the same company they were communicating with seconds before.

Imaging talking to someone at your bank's call center, and then when you get transferred suddenly speaking to someone in another language. "Well, you wanted the Fraud Protection department. It makes sense to speak {$xx__language}."

Computers are supposed to work for people, not the other way around. We have grown accustomed to half-assery, using the excuse that "everyone else does it."

Just today I received a package from Amazon. A simple cat food bowl. I had to put it together. I remember when it was so unusual for production burdens to be shifted to the consumer that such products were labeled "some assembly required." Now we're so used to companies not completing their work, that we make excuses for them. Enough.
Perfect, just what I was thinking. Does something like that exist for C++? Visual Studio 2019 doesn't seem to have it, but it's able to show a local's type when I hover over the local's identifier.
Right, but it could have been an amendment, or (more likely) some incentive-based "we're not making you, you'll just get less money if you don't" thing.
Lol, let's mind-fuck the public and tell em there's shit running around that can radically outperform our best jets/pilots... Um, No. That's even dumber.
The criticisms in the linked article are simply not grounded in fact, and the article was obviously written by someone without any expertise in how modern compilers work. There are also a number of basic errors in the article.

Liveness information simply doesn’t belong in the bytecode. SSA is trivial to recreate from local mutable variables (it would make a good homework assignment for someone in an undergrad “intro to compilers” class). WebAssembly is obviously a register machine.

> With this, it becomes possible to get rid of locals entirely.

Both factually incorrect and pointless. There is no tangible benefit in getting rid of locals entirely. You are merely changing out one representation (register machine) for a different one (stack machine).

There are valid criticisms of WASM, but the linked article doesn’t have any.

The weird part of WASM is the control structures. The rest of it is a fairly sensible, actually rather nice register machine. You can see that older bytecode systems like the JVM are stack machines, but newer ones tend to be register machines. This isn’t because people are getting stupid, it’s because there are legitimate reasons to prefer register machines, and on the balance of things, my observations are that people with experience in the field tend to prefer register machines.
Yes, preferably not too deep water. Still better than trying to keep a windmill-like turbine upright (those exist, but look complicated https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/st... ).

edit: oh you mean for the electricity, yes...
I assume hearing damage from wearing an earbud for many hours of the day.
What do you mean by normal? Not doing anything illegal?
It was an opinion piece, not a study, and was labeled at the very top as such:

https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...

Opinions don't need checking, peer review or double-blind controlled studies to be heard. That's why they're called "opinions".

"Opinions are like assholes: everybody's got one and they all stink!"
- Unknown
(NOT DeadPool; much older than that!)
>I think the author had a spat on twitter a while back because of the same question.

Ok, I guess that explains downvote to my post. I was just wondering. Cause now we can get free SSL with let's encrypt. And since traffic and be hijacked and modified, it just seems to make sense to have a site that serves text files to have ssl.
I wonder if he was running a database driven site off of his Pi? It wouldn't take many queries per second to kill off something running on a SD card. A static site would probably be able to saturate the Ethernet before the Pi gave up. Even old Pentiums could saturate Fast Ethernet, although the Pi is penalized because the Ethernet runs off of USB so its extra processor intensive.

Edit: is blog is back up. It apparently run on Node, and most of the article is about how you break through multiple layers of NAT via a Google service. Very useful if you are hosting your blog off of your cell service or something, although someone with a regular router on a regular ISP can just port forward and set up dynamic DNS to avoid the headache of a Google service that will be discontinued in a year or two.
I work with C#, Visual Studio. 1 level of folder nesting was more than enough for me so far. I see a deeply nested folder hierarchy as a code smell, I once had to walk one such hierarchy to convert files into utf8, and it was a massive pain.
Pelosi: It's time to consider universal basic income pushed by Andrew Yang
Cruelty-Free Powder
> It is hard to have the patience to chase down the consequences of their ill-fated definitions, though.

Of course it's hard because in day to day life, even for the vast majority of STEM practitioners, the nuance of the proof that 0.9999... is 1 is not of much utility.

Whenever one sees a 0.999[... to however many digits] one can safely assume it's less than one or perhaps more realistically "almost 1". To say 0.999... with the very specific detail that the 9's go on forever is actually a strange thing to say and outside of most people's experience.

There are simple enough proofs of this that normal folks who paid attention in high school can follow, but I think it has to be framed more as a clever brain-teaser than as a proof.
> So does this mean that an infinitely small number is zero?

What does "infinitely small" mean?

> As in 1/∞ ?

What notion of division are we talking about here? The division most people expect is that of real numbers. ∞ is not a real number, so you'll have to specify what you mean.
Netflix’s Extraction engineered a 12-minute, one-shot action sequence
> It's a different strategy. Prime is an investment up front, so it puts people in the mindset of wanting to come up ahead. By buying full Prime, you've essentially prepaid $120 in shipping costs, so you want to take advantage of it and order more than $120 worth in free shipping.

Some retailers do this too, mainly warehouse clubs (e.g. Costco and Sam's Club).
We benefited in a number a ways from the regulations imposed on insurance by the ACA. Obama represented some of my view, but not all of them all the way, and was counter to some of my other views, yet I voted for him and considered that the right choice.

It's been nice being in states where people voted for candidates that legalized marijuana. Does a candidate need to be an exact spitting image of me and my values to be worth voting for?
I think a lot of people don't think of math in terms of definitions and proof. Math was just something they were taught as kids. And even if they've gotten into more advanced math, i think the 1 = .9... question hits their kindergarten brain and they just say "no" to it the same way they'd say "no" to someone singing the alphabet song in the wrong order.
> Lying is exactly the correct thing to do when living in an unreasonable world.

I suppose this mindset could be an ingredient for a CEO that wins. But there's a difference between forgiveness and credibility of character, and credibility is part of a CEO's job.

What Damien did was drive white supremacists to a synagogue shoot-up, and in the Navy he continued to befriend white supremacists. All these matters affect credibility, and credibility is part of the CEO's job, and hence why Banjo is being distracted right now.
(1/3)/∞
could you provide the type of this map function ?

auto map(auto x) {
if constexpr(is_same<decltype(x), int>) {
struct T1 { int getStuff() { return 0; } };
return T1 {};
} else {
struct T2 { void doStuff() { } };
return T2 {};
}
}
Thank you for the Ditto shoutout! Our team took quite some time to make bitcode and rust work with our customers. Glad to see it was useful for another company building cross platform SDKs.
Engineering teams at Amazon does indeed have a lot of autonomy. I have been part of multiple teams over a fairly long periods of time (7+ years), and it's been my experience every time. There were times when it felt like each team was its own start up, at least when it came to deciding what to build / prioritize.
Curious, do the French people consider Macron a right winger?
Video encoding is definitely more expensive with AWS if you know how to do it yourself and you spend the money up front on hardware.
Probably Ethereum or a stablecoin on top of the Ethereum blockchain. This would also open the door to supporting in-page transactions with Metamask, which might make a smoother experience.
My experience is that if I have an event that I need to be ready for and don't set an alarm my brain switches into panic "Oh shit, I overslept mode!" and I wake up way too early, repeatedly, and end up with a terrible night's sleep. In fact, I get that whenever I travel for work even though I do set an alarm because the disruption to my routine makes me afraid I failed to set it correctly.

What I find helps the most for getting restful sleep is to do this at night:

1. Set an alarm for when I want to wake up.

2. Go to bed at a time that makes my sleep duration an integer multiple of my sleep cycle. For me, that's around 3.5 hours. I'll feel more rested with 7 hours of sleep than 9 because at 9 hours I'm woken from deep sleep.

3. When I get in bed, mentally how much time between there is between now and my alarm going off. Deliberately tell myself, "My alarm is going off in X hours."

Setting an alarm cures my "I overslept!" anxiety. The other two points help align my alarm to my sleep cycle so I'm in shallow sleep when it goes off.
Yes, this is the problem for returns, but it's going to be difficult for the compiler to put something useful. The best it can do is point you at the code that returns, and let you figure it out.

I still think the best option is let the author describe it in ddoc, as the semantic meaning can be much easier to convey that way.
Our state is going to attempt "phases" - https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/27/texas-loosen-restri...
POTUS and the GOP are against it because opening up voting access means they lose elections
Yes, it's just regular lexical closure. I don't think his comment was literal since JS itself is lexically scoped. If you think about how `this` works in JS, it's very similar to dynamic scoping because it matters where the function is called.

With hooks and dependency arrays, similar to dynamically scoped languages, it matters where the function is called.

Thing is, people rarely write functions and use `this` is in dynamically scoped ways anymore. Remember when you had to explicitly bind function scope everywhere? With ES6 and arrow functions, I don't miss that.

Anyway, hooks forces you into that mindset now.
This is a good point, but an even more basic issue is that the question "what is a number" is a matter of definition. There isn't a "correct" definition of numbers; only one that we've accepted as standard. The accepted definition of a "real number" is actually quite complicated [1], and it's certainly not easy to convey why this complexity is necessary. Other definitions are also possible [2], but nonstandard.

The simplest definition is: a finite decimal ak ... a1.b1 ... bh is defined to be a fraction and an infinite decimal is defined to be a limit. You'd still have to define what a limit is, but that is somewhat more intuitive.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number
That 11ths thing is actually really clever. I had never seen that argument before.
How do we do remote voting securely? The moment you move from a tiny minority voting by mail to the overwhelming majority voting by mail, the payoff for corrupting that process goes up dramatically.
I'd have figured "approaches 1 from the left" would be more accurate.
>require one to show the space around him using a mirror.

I'm hard-pressed to think of many subjects where an "open book" test isn't a better option, even for in-person classes. If a cheat sheet can help during a test, then it's asking predictable questions and measuring regurgitation.

My wife pointed out language tests to see if students can use the skills on the fly, but I can't think of another good case. This should be a time for schools to find which teachers are just going for easy-to-write instead of useful tests.
I used to be wowed by this kind of hypocrisy, but lately I've concluded that these things are happening so frequently because the voters have proved to them sufficiently that they will take no heed provided it "hurts the other team."

Everything on the news looks ironic now because the political class has realized there's almost no limit to what they can get away with.
At the very least, don't write "Of course it does". It does not in the real number system.
Blockchain phone takes over a century to mine enough crypto to pay for itself
0.000...1 = 1/∞
How did you find this out?
Just look at hackernews, reddit, forums, etc. Remote debating never ends.
Last time I checked, Amazon doesn’t have a monopoly on servers, payment systems and shipping...
I wonder if there is something similar for NoSQL?

For me it's much harder to plan for NoSQL databases.
It's relatively easy to draw ER diagram for a relational database, as all in my mind are the problem and data model. With NoSQL database however, I need to take into account how the client(s) works at the same time.
Plenty of precedent for that sort of thing, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law

> States had to agree to the limit if they desired to receive federal funding for highway repair.
Voting will only really get power to the people when we implement a system that works. The best option out there is STAR Voting https://www.starvoting.us/ and online polls at https://star.vote/

As long as we have choose-one voting, it will devolve to two dominant parties that do not need to care about most voters' interests.
Totally Wired, by Andrew Smith, tells the story of the dot com boom and bust from the NYC perspective. There was a lot more happening in NYC than I ever imagined, and I lived there at the time. It was also a much more artistic scene than I ever knew.
What I had in mind was the append function, it modifies the list instead of creating a new list.
America has a weird wealth worship complex, though maybe worship isn't the right word. It's assumed that if you have wealth you are some sort of genius to be listened to about what's the moral right thing to do.
It's simply not realistic to keep a highly infectious disease forever out of a country like India (unless the virus just doesn't thrive there for environmental or demographic reasons). What are they going to do, shut down entire cities every time there's a lapse in security?

If the world did somehow divide into green and red zones, you would have a worse problem on your hands. The red zones are the wealthier western countries, and are more desirable than the green zones. Good luck trying to maintain global economic relevance when you don't allow immigrants from the wealthiest countries in the world. There's a similar argument to immunity passports. If people need to be immune to the disease to re enter the workforce safely, they will infect themselves with the disease to do so.
And Netflix is borrowing billions of year on content....
0.999... = 0.999...9
0.999...9 + 0.000...1 = 1
0.999...0 + 0.000..1 = 0.999..1
0.000...1 = 1/∞
0.999...9 = 1 - 1/∞
0.999...0 = 1 - 1/∞ - 9/∞ = 1 - 10/∞
If x/∞ = 0, then 0.999...x = 1.
If x/∞ ≠ 0, then 0.999...x ≠ 1.
Depends on the value of the template parameter. If it's 0 the return type is an int, if it's not 0 the return type is a string.

There's a wanting implementation of a sumtype in the standard library (https://dlang.org/phobos/std_variant.html#.Algebraic), and a much better one as a package: https://code.dlang.org/packages/sumtype