skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is the longer original article, scanned by Google Books and hosted by the HathiTrust project:

"Age of the Sun -- Force and Heat"

Scientific American Vol IX -- No. 7

August 15 1863

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001601382&view=1...
> It's a crime to see how any of the app is running.

Have you got something supporting this? Here's a panel of Australian-based security people decompiling and discussion the details of the app: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3dN99ljgD4 Are you saying they've all publicly admitted to committing a crime and are unaware of those laws? Are all editors here https://docs.google.com/document/d/17GuApb1fG3Bn0_DVgDQgrtnd... criminals?

The only serious analysis I can find is in http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/JlLawInfoSci/2003/2.ht... and it's "kinda depends why you're doing it, but either way it's largely untested".
Does the sensor need to be in the same place as the camera or could it be at the bottom of the screen?
> Overwhelmingly unpopular to the public but driven by special interests.

I'd suggest this describes most lobbying. When something's overwhelmingly popular to the public, no one has to get paid to make that clear to the powers-that-be.
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Some things that help me:

1) Echoing what someone has already said, a big key is to do a little each day. Before doing that, I would try to read whole chapters of books at a time and feel overwhelmed. Setting aside 30 minutes each day and sticking to it, even if you feel you have more energy at the end, is the way to go. Progress will be slow, and it'll take you months to read a book. But you'll learn a lot this way, and the sporadic bursts accomplish much less in my experience.

2) When choosing what to read, I tend to go for books that are fundamental. I do ML/stats work, so that tends to be math books on probability, linear algebra, stuff like that. These also tend to be the books that require the greatest mental effort.

3) Watching stuff on YouTube isn't a bad thing! The books I got the most out of were those that also had an online lecture series.
Thank you for this post. This seems incredibly useful for casual settings when you're on another computer and you want to pull up another app.
Talk about a bummer... Golang makes it easy to make static binaries. Way too easy for the distro apparently.

Deb files will be just fine.
SELECT Email
FROM mailing_list
ORDER BY JoinDate

SQL Error: There is no field named JoinDate in the resulting FROM table.

Ok? What engine is this using? That's valid SQL in my universe.

In PostgreSQL 12:

mulmen@shell> psql
psql (12.1)
Type "help" for help.

mulmen=# CREATE TABLE foo ( bar INT, baz INT );
CREATE TABLE
mulmen=# INSERT INTO foo VALUES (1, 10), (2, 20);
INSERT 0 2
mulmen=# SELECT bar FROM foo ORDER BY baz;
bar
-----
1
2
(2 rows)

mulmen=#
Exactly .
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Show me any institution that has maintained trustworthiness for all of history, and I'll consider trusting Apple/Google/our govt. with the ability to tell where every citizen is and who they associate with for the rest of the future.
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Yes, I was surprised by that line. I tried to do that. 10 years ago I was a newly minted Ph.D. and my wife and I had to solve the 2 body problem and we compromised with our jobs so we could both be employed together in a nice town with a relatively low cost of living and a great place to raise a family. Our lives outside of work were fantastic! Great friends, nice house, lots of weekend activities, got my first pup (waiting my whole life to have my own place so I could have one), had my twins a year later.

But good God was my job (big company, lots of politics and bad management... the usual) absolutely soul crushing. I thought that I'd be able to make my peace with it in lieu of everything else which was near perfect, but the more time dragged on, the more it crushed me and sucked joy out of the other areas of my life. I will never forget the sense of existential dread that would overcome me every Sunday evening and the relief on Friday evenings.

Fortunately I was able to leave and take up an opportunity at a small startup in the ML/consulting space. It's entirely bootstrapped, so no VC people fucking everything up, and the management are incredibly nice and decent humans, and several of them I count as close friends. I love the work that I do, and I am almost always learning new things. I've been working here for 4 years, and I have never yet experienced that existential dread on a Sunday evening. Work is just another part of my life that I enjoy now, and it is incredible how happy and fulfilled I am with my life. My wife has fortunately experienced the same with the move and change in jobs.

I get hit up by recruiters for the big tech companies all the time and there simply is no reason why I would ever consider working at any of those companies to be another cog in the wheel. No amount of money can ever make up for what I have now.

So I would strongly encourage anyone who is in the situation described by OP or me above to try their best to switch jobs if possible. I can't fathom going through my whole adult life as unhappy as I was at my first job and I wouldn't wish it on even my worst enemy.
In a regional context a bluetooth proximity app offers even less theoretical value.

A contact is only registered after 15 minutes of time spent within an estimated proximity of 1.5 metres (itself a primitive model of infectious disease transmission based on a 1942 paper). Note other countries set the distance at 2 metres.

As outlined in other comments in this thread, close contact rules include anyone in a room for more than 2 hours, so even though all close contacts have to be manually interviewed (there is no instantaneous notification and isolation) for most social situations close contacts won't be registered through crude estimates of proximity: home, family / friends, work all require thinking about and providing contacts.

When you strip out all the situations that aren't beneficial, that starts to leave public transport in major metro situations where commutes are greater than 15 minutes.

Keep in mind that also implies the end of any social distancing (as otherwise no contacts are registered). That seems obvious, as public transport becomes overwhelmed if capacity is significantly reduced.
Taiwan is a good calibration point. There, they managed to trace all cases down to a single arrival from the mainland.

From that, it looks quite believable that it would've taken 3-4 full generations of reinfections to take the count to 200 hospitalisations.

I think, 200 hospitalisations should've been around the same number for the signal to attract attention by Chinese disease surveillance, if it wasn't picked up by the purpose made SARS screening network.

If we believe the news that Hubei already saw hundred extra deaths in January, and that hospitals were already near full in mid January, then the number of infections should've been already above 1000 at Jan 1.
This sounds very useful as way to quickly dig through data when doing research... then you can always go back and verify the model's conclusions later if you need to.

What makes me nervous though, is that I can easily see this becoming a scary consumer product people would trust at face value. A la, a Google Quick Answer box on steroids that's more difficult to verify.
I prefer the commercials are left in.
It wasn't that far-fetched as it sounds now: using Maxwell's equation, one can easily derive the speed of light, c. But then the question is: speed relative to what? Because Maxwell's equation doesn't tell exactly what it is relative to.

But, as we all know, speed is relative, so it must be relative to something - then the something ought to be the medium for light. So people started looking for it - and it refused to show up even when it should! The famous Michelson–Morley experiment.

Of course, it was resolved by theory of relativity: it turns out the speed of light is relative to everything! You just have to slow down time itself, no big deal.
Apple is known for being far more heavy-handed with its banning of apps in their store, so I wish you luck on that endeavour.
Could you please give a link to the blog post? I'd be interested in reading it.
Roger, one consideration that could otherwise seem trivial or irrelevant is that the word “pig” is not free of connotations, and is not often used positively in many respects outside of pig-relevant contexts. It probably would have been OK in a farming or ore processing context, but without grounding for the joke it’s a rough sell.
No technology is a guaranteed magic solution to any problem. That's what makes it technology rather than magic.
> they can't even associate the trip

That's assuming the single-use codes are not persisted on the other side. Maybe they aren't.

"Apple has the ability to have the data in-house" / "Apple promises not to have the data in-house" would be more precise. The rest relies on the current behaviour and T&C.
Or wear masks.
The issue there might be more that there is a single “publisher” in that media that gets to do all the gatekeeping. I’m sure American Scientist 1863 would have declined to publish lots of ideas, but didn’t have the market cornered.
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That is a whitelist. They don't have to be easy to get on, or, indeed, to even allow any new entries.
Actually, main thing that kelvin got wrong is that the Earth has a liquid mantle. Convection in the mantle means that the surface receives more heat from the interior and takes longer to cool down to the present temperatures. Radioactive decay inside the earth also adds to the age of the earth but not as much as the convection in the mantle does.
I'm talking about 1863, and referring to discussion happened yesterday, about videos removed from Youtube due to being not supported by currently prevailing scientific views and opinions . Apologies for not being as clear as I want myself to be )
How does "verbatim-duplicate" mean botted and fraudulent exclusively? You're absolutely wrong. Most of the pro-NN comments, again, were posted by individuals who had no knowledge of the comments.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/millions-of-people-post-comment...
Spot on. This is why MIT moved away from feeding undergrads SICP: it was a sad realization that the reality of modern software development was less about building/understanding a world from first-principles, and more about finding yourself in a sea of libraries/frameworks and having to do enough "basic science" on them to discover how to make them do what you want (reliably).
For anybody, who thinks "mosquito laser system" was only a made up phantasy - no, it was a real attempt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser
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Event 201 envisions a fast-spreading coronavirus with a devastating impact
GC doesn't matter here. Look at few other benchmarks:

https://attractivechaos.github.io/plb/

https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks

NoGC comparison

http://blog.mir.dlang.io/glas/benchmark/openblas/2016/09/23/...
> I don't think Steve Jobs had a clear vision that he could communicate to others

What are you basing this on? Seems to me that Apple leadership is pretty well aligned on a shared vision despite however large it's grown. That speaks to the fact that he managed to put (or at least didn't prevent) a successful leadership structure in place that continues to succeed regardless of his presence. It's a supremely difficult challenge & aligns with a lot of the insights that David Marquet makes in Turn This Ship Around. Regardless of any of the detail differences, the only way to measure successful leadership is it's resilience to changing out individuals in any given position.
This article is hot garbage. The specific mosquito (Anopheles) that transmits malaria plays no special role in any ecosystem that can’t be filled by another species. They have been doing this research for years now, and yet this author didn’t cite any of it.
This really ruined my night :(.
Good luck to everyone out there. Keep calm and replace all your ssh keys.

For anyone else that's affected, people have been tracking it within a github issue:

https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/57057
How do they reconcile when they give customers answers > 6000 years and the whole "thou shalt not lie" bit?
In academia you see suites of several offices - bigwig and 3-4 support staff - with a bathroom for the suite. Not quite private but almost as nice.
I suspect they propose to detonate lots of small explosions at regular time intervals and at regular spacings on the surface of the patient, and then measure the responses using seismographs attached elsewhere to the patient, like what the oil companies do to produce maps of subsurface geology.
It's remarkable to me that there hasn't been an effort construct strong anti-covid ventilation/filtration systems, made even with air "disinfectant".

Then again, they can't even give health care workers PPEs.
What you're observing is caused by what I'm describing. The features of these other modes are expensive because they do things that implicitly invoke redisplay.

Consider an ostensibly simple operation like determining the column in which a particular character appears. The answer to that isn't the number of characters since the last occurrence of `\n`, because whatever modes are active can inject arbitrary spacing, or display particular strings as something shorter or longer (a trivial example is the mode that causes `lambda` to be displayed as `λ`), or cause some characters to be displayed in a non-roman font where a single glyph is more than one column wide, and so on. To determine the character's column accurately you need to take into account everything that could affect how you'd paint the screen at that position, i.e., run the whole redisplay loop for some portion of a buffer. The richer the set of active modes, the more expensive it is to do that and the more often it is done.
Wheeler worked as a lobbyist on behalf of Verizon his entire career. He never enforced a single NN violation.
I can only initially rationalise that as "start from God and work back" and "start from science and work forwards".

Whether you ever get to the bottom of this, keep loving them both. That is something that does not need a god or science or even a capital letter - I'll assert: Love is the fundamental thing that transcends any ideology.
> Your "calm" performance metrics will be chosen subjectively, almost certainly on the basis of a moral code which guides your decisions but which you're not objectively aware of - because you consider it so correct it would never occur to you to question it.

This is exactly what makes social and political systems a technology. People choose between different technologies based upon their personal judgments and preferences about acceptable trade-offs. Different people, and even different groups of people, will make different decisions because they have different preferences.
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Throwaway account. I did some freelancing work for a client who has refused to pay now. I worked for this client for 3 weeks (in March). He asked me to stop working on the project in the first week of April because his business was impacted by COVID-19. I raised the invoice after the project handover and sent him 2-3 reminders since then. He tried to bargain for 60% of the payment, but I declined. I sent him another reminder today, but now he has refused to pay any amount. What can I do?

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Here are a few details for more context:
It was a digital marketing (Google ads + SEO) work. I am based out of Toronto, Canada. The invoice is C$1575.
This looks very promising. Great idea. Would be interesting to hook it up to Min.io (S3 clone).
Thanks for the link. I have some thoughts after reading it, mainly entangling with scale of the solutions, optics, and higher-order effects, but I think it's still an incomplete thought. It does drive people crazy to think about the things we can do for people who need help, the optics of how to help and how much can we help. Do you have any more books/articles related to this?
I'm just not sure why we're more trusting of our wireless service providers who have explicitly given personal location data away to not only the government, but also to advertisers, than we are of Apple who would love to sell us another $1200 phone.
I'm considering switching to the Air as well. How have the first impressions been? I'm somewhat worried about using an Air for development performance-wise.

For me the big factors are that I actually use functions keys (in Emacs, mostly) and just cost. My previous Macbook Pro (2011), which is in its death throes, at the time a top-of-the-line 13", was $1200. With aftermarket 8 GB of RAM and a 1 TB SSD, I managed to keep it usable for almost a decade. At the current MBP configurations, I'd almost certainly end up shelling out a mind-blowing 3-4x that much.

This gives me pause for three reasons:

- All of the soldered on crap means that I can't use aftermarket upgrades to extend the life

- It sounds like an ARM switch is in the cards in the next 1-2 years

- I just don't like having a $3000-5000 portable device. I have my laptop out with me quite often, and I don't relish the idea of having something worth > $4000 with me that may get lost or stolen.
Except for when they’re not ignored? Remember Wheeler who was against net neutrality, and then he wasn’t after the comments?
> This is a ridiculous stance to take. If true, then open sourcing any form of software is morally corrupt since the government could then use it for evil.

There are popular licenses with such clauses.
Do you have a source for this? It's not listed on any exchange, so I wonder how people are using it.
My wife gets a lot of email, most of it marketing stuff. Most email links will not work with PiHole enabled due to the massive amount of tracking they go through. I always know when she's checking her email if I'm on my phone, cause all of a sudden I start seeing ads for a few minutes.
After reading your reply to OP below, I agree we have a super similar path. Especially the beginning:

> My first burnout was pure depletion of energy. I was young, passionate, and believed in doing the best work I could. I was addicted to work and pushed myself to deliver. I did, and built a career. I left after almost a decade at that company [...]

(However, I never found a way to leave "Tech" for another profession--especially once I achieved a certain salary range, and others depended on me.)

> I can’t shoot the shit and talk strace or gdb with any of them.

Know the feeling exactly...
Your example illustrates perfectly how a descriptive query language simply can't work in the general case for something other than ad-hoc workflows where performance isn't a big concern. Why are we all doing this instead of engineering DB access procedures directly? This is one thing I really liked about CouchDB and its map/reduce based access - stop trying to be smart with queries, instead be dead simple to scale horizontally. Granted, it's hard to design the data structures in the design space of normalization (many joins) vs. read performance (few joins) - but at least it's all laid bare to reason about.
I had the "flu", which started out different than any other sickness I've ever had. Started with a dry cough out of nowhere, and no sore throat/stuffiness, and then the horrible fever set in with an awful cough.
Thanks, i'll give it a try. :)
Well, the primary reason you'd expect a higher than average rate in Nevada is Casinos. Without that, Vegas would have an average rate - plus, is Casinos are the main social outlet, those who don't go to Casinos might not go anywhere and be less likely to get the virus.
Is it though?
Just look at the justice system, for the safe infraction, people of colour get thougher sentences.
The same could apply here.
I love this idea! Offering $M’s for a method to clone passports? Illegal.

Creating a crypto currency that produces $MM’s of incentive to clone passports? Totally legit.
How about forcing anyone coughing incessantly or running a fever to wear a bloody mask?

Every single intercontinental flight I have been on there were always at least three people hacking their lungs out.

And, yeah, I got sick almost a week to the day every single time.
Git log output parsing in Go
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It isn't simply a database, as I'm sure you know. There are multiple pipelines of information which need to be glued together, cross correlated, etc. They (Palantir) provide services to make policing citizens easier and allow police departments to overstep their boundaries.

Also, I'd like to point out that this isn't an "either or" situation. Obviously the government is involved, as they no doubt put out the contracts, but Palantir is the one cashing the check. They've created their entire business model around big secretive government contracts.
I like that suggestion even more than mine. Could be a link beside the timestamp, like "4 hours ago (edited)" and clicking the edited stamp would give you a history. I edit my comments all the time and wouldn't want to lose the ability to improve my wording or fix typos or whatever, but I don't see any harm in that transparency. The ability to completely delete a comment (along with any history) should probably be preserved though.
The notice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/05/2020-05-0...

The counternotice: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/05/2020-05-0...
Very interesting. The repository does not contain any copyrighted content, but it unabashedly promotes copyright violation.
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Are non US citizens even allowed to comment legally?
Meh, it’s fine, downvotes don’t bother me. Especially when you take the position that goes against common opinion, it’s to be expected.

The irony to me is that when I was at Palantir they talked extremely openly about all their technology. A ton of it was open sourced, and in depth tech talks were posted to YouTube, but almost no one watched them.

I think people just like writing them off as shady or sketchy because it’s easier than needing to reason about the clear ethical nuance that exists in the government contractor space.
It's beautiful, but what I love most is the detailed README. Thank you for the attention to detail.