skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Theoretically, but the price increase has always lagged the halving, probably because enough people believe it won't continue.

This is a pretty good visualization: https://i.redd.it/qfekfq88qwp31.png

Keep in mind that this is logarithmic and error bars are generally .1 to 10x the actual price.
Especially during a time when every meeting is online via Zoom.
It really depends on what you're using. Most microcontrollers don't require external memory to store their program because it's stored in on-chip flash memory. Additionally, you can generally order microcontrollers from a distributer that are already flashed with your program. Though this may require ordering 1000+ units. If that isn't an option then you'll have to ensure that the pins used for programming are exposed in some fashion and then you'll flash it. The exact details are dependent on exactly which microcontroller and toolchain you're using.

It mostly comes down to reading the documentation for the specific microcontroller that you're using.
In addition to the issues like MMS not working, there are lots of papercuts that collectively add up to a really annoying experience. I kept having issues with the battery being recognized one minute and not the next. The touch detection needs some polishing, as does the keyboard. They are usable but have some metaphorical rough edges that need metaphorical sanding. Battery life isn't great yet either, I assume because it's not optimized yet.

That said, go ahead and get one. They're cheap enough that they are fun toys, and it's a way to vote with some dollars. Even tho it's not ready for daily driving, I think it will be in a few months, or sooner given how fast things are moving in the community now that there's real hardware people can buy. You can help with development by reporting bugs and such. Also you get to be a part of history!
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Predicting past performance with error bars measured in parsecs doesn't sound super useful to me.
I do not know in general, but in case of paper on theoretical physics, I have trouble seeing how such a statement provides anything to the reader.
I have never heard of this before, and I'm sad that profit-driven, marketing speak has taken over even non-profit product pages.

> An easy to use, powerful, and reliable system.

This is the title. That's the most important sentence, and it's absolutely meaningless.

It's bad enough that everything has to "sell" - just describe to me what your product does and I'll decide if I need or not. Don't try to convince me.

If you have to sell, do it by differentiating yourself from your competitors. No one is calling themselves "Difficult to use, weak, and unreliable", so saying the opposite is not differentiation.

When did we accept that marketing-speak was default communication. Can't we have some landing pages that are essays? Or even a few paragraphs instead of trying-to-be-catchy bullet point phrases in large font?
Well I had to pick an example to illustrate my grief with denoising, but the problems are not limited to my example.

In general, if you take an AI to replace your noisy image with a noise free but plausible alternative, you should be aware that you're replacing content, so that this can change what you see to the point where it is not representative of the fully converged image anymore.
I bet on my health, fitness and diet and it already paid off a lot more that I initially thought. I fast (OMAD) and mainly eat animal food. I'm down 20% of body fat and lost 50 pounds eating barbecue almost every day.
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The fees are paid by the users of the network, if the demand on network transactions is low, there will be little reward for mining.

This means that without sufficient demand for transactions, a majority of miners would have to abandon the network, which would indeed put network security at risk.

Therefore I predict that the miners will make the supply of Bitcoin unlimited, should that situation occur. They already got their way with keeping the Bitcoin block size fixed, which kept transaction fees high.
Thank-you for your kind words.
>They are of course acting on behalf of an elected body, and ultimately accountable to that body.

That body being whom?

>They're also audited.

By whom?
True, and there are also commodity markets that are not controlled by an oligopsony, which truly are controlled by the market.

It's an important distinction to make, because the statment "Oil's value is controlled by the market" isn't very true.
Neither site is clear where the testing capacity goal comes from. For NY, it is 30 per 1k (3%). For Bay Area, it is 200 per 100k (.2%). If my math is right, that's a significant discrepancy.

Actually, I see NY's goal is monthly. So I guess that is more like 30 per 1k per 30 days (.1%).

There some discussion of necessary testing rates in this NY magazine article:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/white-house-plan-for...

It looks like .2% is at the low end of most ready-to-reopen requirements. In any event, it looks we're nowhere near a test for anyone who wants one.

Also, does anyone know of a good chart that graphs daily new cases vs new tests? It seems like that ratio would be significant, especially when comparing case rates between regions.
I wouldn't really call them a consumer-oriented startup. I left Kernel, OpenBCI, Intheon, g.tec, etc off the list.
Is my bank balance “deceiving” because I might spend a lot tomorrow?

It shows the current state of the metrics. That’s it. If a region takes enough of a downward turn, the lockdown tightens up again.
So Elon should pick and choose what laws he wants to follow ?
San Mateo now has a nice dashboard with daily cases and cases per city: https://www.smchealth.org/post/san-mateo-county-covid-19-dat...
How is the public intended to consume a dashboard like this? Is this supposed to inform citizens actions in some way?
I think you're onto something, but I think Doom is closer to a Mona Lisa than a Illiad. It's a work of art that has proven it's ability to attract people to it.

Not sure what the Illiad of games is. Maybe there isn't one. Maybe Doomguy and Mario are closer to mythos like Hercules and other demigods.
Keep in mind that many coronaviruses can cause loss of smell/taste.
I seen various descriptions of message passing in OOP that wind up meaning "invoke a method, alter an object, return an answer." Lots of different ways to describe a method, lots of ways to modify the object, lots of ways to return an answer, but conceptually, they're all just invoking a method.

I think in some languages and frameworks, message passing is associated with expressing a GUI, so objects have handlers for events, and there is more structure around how events can be signalled and handled. I'm thinking of Smalltalk, Hypercard and modern browsers.

It's also more distinct in concurrent programming with something like communicating sequential processes (CSP), where message passing is a way for concurrent processes to agree on how to share state. So when process A writes some data to a channel C it explicitly hands that data off, thus process B can read from C and operate on the data without corrupting anything. (Contrast with threads where you can modify anything, any time, so you have to use locks and deal with deadlock and such.)
Also My Bloody Valentine from 1988:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtsOqxnZPto
What does tether have to do with bitcoin's block reward halving? I couldn't see any references to it here: http://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
His tirade is over a 1-week difference (the county already had an agreement that he could start May 18). The court case won't resolve in 1 week, so it is unclear what he expects to achieve by opening 1 week early, by filing a lawsuit, and threatening to leave.
We all do. Here we are in 2020 and we still can't properly fix teeth.
i think i've read this at some point but taking a quick look to refesh myself, i was struck on the first page by the word procrustean, which apparently means something like "rigidly but arbitrarily specified"[0], possibly obliquely related to hard-shelled sea creatures. neat word.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes#Cultural_references
Next up: lots of proprietary extensions to drive vendor lock-in to AWS at the binary code level, then much lower pricing for instances that use these features to herd customers into them.

It's built right into the name of the product: graviton.

Prediction: today everyone will dismiss this as paranoid nonsense, impossible, or irrelevant. In 2-3 years everyone will be whining about how hard it is to migrate off AWS due to binary lock-in and the need to re-deploy packages. In 5-7 years people locked into AWS will be whining about how they pay 2-4X as much for cloud services but are unable to move due to deeply entrenched deployments and applications specifically written to take advantage of AWS CPU extensions.

This is the same sequence that has occurred for most other "paranoid" predictions about lock-in or privacy violation over the previous 10+ years. They're always initially dismissed as absurd or paranoid and then what ends up happening is usually considerably worse than what was predicted. Example: mobile and web surveillance today makes the predictions of meth-addled 1990s conspiracy freaks sound overly conservative.
Kinda reminds me of this :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ph5OW9p-GHM
I believe most goggles support head tracking. And yes, it is cool!

You'll pay about as much for the goggles as for the entry level drone. Budget some for an extra battery.
Agreed. I've done a few real estate transactions using different agents. Bottomline -

1. There is no such thing as building relationship with agents and clients. It's purely a transactional encounter.
2. As you pointed out, the incentives are misaligned between Buyers/Sellers and their agents. Agents just want the deal done asap, add it to their resume, and move on.
3. Most agents are passive aggressive and dislike most of their clients except for the ones who don't have a clue and blindly trust their agents.
4. I really hope RE moves on to a more structured, online marketplace with consumer protection laws as a safetynet.
Used this extensively before password managers were abundant—even wrote my own bookmarklet for it ~10 years ago[0]. One thing to be mindful of: login URLs can and do change. When this happens, unless you can recall the hostname, you're completely out of luck.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/jasisk/fc0283e84814c696d3cd
Yeah I was torn about responding to this comment. By the employee's own admission, the severance was generous. There is no other option but to use online meetings for this now. So maybe a 1:1 could have been done, but a) that would have taken significantly longer to complete and b) would have resulted in people spreading rumors and employees who were not impacted would have feared for their jobs thus impacting productivity and morale.

We can talk for hours about all the things Uber could certainly could have done differently throughout their history that - maybe, possibly, in a parallel universe - could have prevented this from happening. But they are where they are now, and there's no "good way" to lay off 3,500 people in a situation like this.

Also, to the sibling here - there's simply not enough information to suggest that these employees could not ask questions at all. At least by my read, that's not stated anywhere, and unless explicitly stated otherwise my assumption is that they were provided with the contact information for someone if they had questions - as this is typically how most companies would handle this, particularly at Uber's size.
Well no, that's not the inhumane moment.

What makes it feel inhumane is when you're laid off with 3700 other employees in a three minute meeting. It means you don't get to talk directly with your manager nor are you potentially given a chance to speak with your team.
>What kind of companies are these that their engineers need to write perfect code under severe (i.e. on the order of minutes) time constraints?

I, oddly, had to do that once in my career although I had an hour or so. Retail advertising, Cyber Monday, data pipeline is backing up severely, advertising budgets aren't updating, only other data person I can reach is drunk. Bottlenecking code is written in perl. I don't know perl. And no real testing environment. Very stressful hour of my life.

edit: Of course, such things happening often enough to note are generally a symptom of bad process and management, probably a lot of technical debt as well. So generally a workplace to avoid.
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they have a different lineage, but as I stated previously, no major functional mutations were observed.
agree . the top theoretical physicists are effectively top mathematicians, too. Witten got a Fields Medal. you need to understanding algebraic geometry, topology, diff. geometry, diff. equations, numerical analysis, special functions, stats, etc. to be a top physicist. Pretty much everything is pure math.
I’d be interested to discuss this: tom@musicthing.co.uk
No. My scenes usually need 40+ GB of memory to render. Trying to put that onto a 11 GB RAM GPU will swap like hell and be excruciatingly slow.

It's rendering much faster on CPU.
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He already had an agreement for the factory to open in 1 week. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/09/business/coronavirus-elon...

“We were working on a lot of policies and procedures to help operate that plant and quite frankly, I think Tesla did a pretty good job, and that’s why I had it to the point where on May 18, Tesla would have opened,” Mr. Haggerty said. “I know Elon knew that. But he wanted it this week.”

so 1 more week beyond today is what the officials were planning on.
>>And the reason they're doing well is because of their stringent lock down rules.

There are a many of reasons why CA may be doing better than NYC, down to the type of housing, type of public transport, the weather, and 100's of other factors unrelated to the lockdown

it is far far far from certain that the locked played the key role.

Governments like to say that to justify their actions, and secure their authority for their future response

it is very dangerous to just cede that fact to them with out debate or analysis of data

>>And you should be listening to the government about this, because it's been pretty conclusively demonstrated by Musk that he can't be trusted on this topic.

Why government has been routinely wrong on many fronts, including the CA Government. Why should I blindly listen to either government or Musk?

>>Finally, the government isn't even saying that Tesla shouldn't reopen the plant, they're just working on making sure they're doing it safely.

I think it naive to believe the government is purely altruistic and are only thinking about the "health and safety of the people"

Just like there are number of reasons why CA is doing better than NYC, there is an equal number of reasons why the Local Health authorities may want to delay Tesla that have nothing to do with the health and safety inside that plant
the fact that I can't see a straight answer to the general question about 'what does this mean simply' or attempt at some clarity that isn't followed by some argument or pitch or slag off of something response is ridiculous and sums up the world of bitcoin
> There was no `prototype` and `constructor` properties

You are correct. The prototype property was yet another JavaSript1.1 (NS3) feature. (Totally forgot about that.) So, ignore '.prototype' in my example. But you could assign properties and methods to objects. Therefor it was more like,

var a = new MyArray();
a.pop = arrayPop();
a.push = arrayPush();

> No `typeof` (so no `typeof null`), better `parseInt`

Fun fact: also no `isNAN()`. This was, once again, introduced with JS1.1/NS3 and still nonfunctional in IE3 – yes, IE3 had a few of those nonfunctional implementations.

(`isNAN()` was actually available in the Unix implementation of Netscape 2, but this was of lesser concern for the public Web.)

On the positive side, the access to forms and the various form elements was pretty sound and mature, right from the beginning, since this was what JS was pretty much all about.
There's a long history of mathematicians working on general relativity; in fact, for decades general relativity was mostly the purview of mathematics, not physics, due to (1) the difficulty in finding exact solutions to the Einstein field equations and (2) their lack of physical meaning (eg, the Taub-NUT solution: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/196600...).
The Geometry of Dresses and Bodies
How would you lock in a customer who used Java or Erlang?
Counterpoint: Would you take out a new 30-yr mortgage right now to buy a home in the suburbs? Then why aren't you? That's my point.
I sold a motorcycle over craigslist a couple years ago and I would have much preferred to have the buyer send me bitcoin instead of giving me stacks of 50s. I wasn't able to demand a cashiers check and I wanted to make sure the sale would go through that day. Cryptocurrencies are amazing for large (legit) p2p transactions.
that is a treasure trove!

the top comment on the 2012 one was about someone seriously concerned about the 2.8GB blockchain download to get started, and a debate about the scalability of bitcoin.

since then:

- light clients have been created. no mobile or desktop user worries about blocks, keeping only references to a few prior blocks.

- merchant services which are full nodes use pruned clients, which mean their servers only use 25gb or so. (while the blockchain is 10 times larger)

- compression of transactions have improved, so each tx takes up less space on the blockchain.

- validation time of the blockchain is much faster, even if you have to download the whole thing from scratch

- there is still a large and growing community of actually full nodes that do invest in the appropriate hardware for decentralization.

- and mining full nodes and their pools have fierce competition to keep their constituent miners, continually distributing transaction validation even if the pool operator is just a centralized single full node.
I'm not sure I understand your tone. China should be criticized for the things it did wrong and it should be given credit for the things it did right.

China failed to contain it. But they did contain SARS in 2002. With Covid19, and after initially mishandling the situation, they imposed some draconian lockdown measures. Why did they initially mishandle the situation, why the cover-up, etc? Because China is a country of 1.4 BN people, with immense government complexities. It's not perfect. So, yes there was some censure going on, strong-arming, location tracking, welcome to the world.

Overall, if you were to give China a grade between 1 and 10 what number would you choose? What's US's number?

I personally would give China something like 6 or 7 or 8, and the US something like 3. In the end people's lives matter. And the count right now for the US is 80000. And it's not stopping here.
Yes - it's also a digital preservation project from a not-for-profit arts organisation.

https://webrecorder.io/_faq
Another way to analogize: imagine the westward expansion of the USA also being subject to "halvenings" like this. In years 0-9, settlers were encouraged/allowed to settle on 1000 miles worth of land (counting linearly westward), then years 10-19 only 500 miles further, than yes 20-29 only 250 miles further, etc.

Early settlers are incentivized to grab large swathes of land quickly and cheaply, to get the system bootstrapped. Later settlers have to fight over smaller tracts of land, because after all the land is finite (you eventually reach the ocean). However, the land is also nicely divisible into smaller and smaller sub-plots, so units can be adjusted as needed.

The rules by which this "westward expansion" are governed are written into the Bitcoin protocol. But unlike land and the ocean which are natural facts for the most part that we take for granted a priori, with Bitcoin the "border"/limit here is also defined as a theoretical construct (and hence, could theoretically be changed, but this would be a hard fork and people would have to reevaluate the value of a new network with a new set of boundaries/rules).
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"Work from home" is a misnomer. People are free to rent a shared office space if that is the environment they prefer post pandemic. So "work from home" actually works for everyone.
It clearly explains what the criteria for reopening is and shows which of those criteria each region has met, and quantifies how far they’ve got to go. And it’s kept up to date. I can’t imagine anyone looking at this and not immediately seeing how informative and useful it is.
VR will be a lot more exciting when we hit ‘retina’ VR, where immersion will be much more effective. The screen dooring effect of the original Vive and Oculus was a huge negative for me.
People who have diabetes often do blood tests daily, at home, on their own, drawing a drop of blood from their finger with a lancet. If they can get it down to using a drop of blood, I think people could be convinced to test at least one member of the household daily. That should at least give us enough information to measure spread.

It would be new for most people but it's not unprecedented and I think people would figure it out quickly enough. Conspiracy theorists would ruin it for everyone of course.
NiFi is a fantastic tool for a certain set of organizational constraints.

* It doesn't need much in the way of dependencies to run. If you can get Java onto a machine, you can probably get NiFi to run on that machine.
- That is HUGE if you are operating in an environment where getting any new dependencies installed on a machine is an operational nightmare.

* It doesn't require a lot of overhead. Specifically, no database.

* You can write components for it that don't require a whole lot of tweaking for small changes to the incoming data. So, if I have a machine processing a JSON file that looks like XXYX and another machine processing a nearly identical JSON file that looks like XYXX, the tweaks can be made pretty easily.

So, if you're looking for a lightweight, low overhead, easily configurable tool that may be running in an environment where you've got to run lots of little instances that are mostly similar but not quite, NiFi is great.

If you are running a centralized data pipeline where you have a dedicated team of data engineers to keep the data flowing, there are better options out there.
I think those references are too trivial and too numerous.
This would break if the site owner changed their domain name, or more likely, they have multiple domains that redirect to the same IP address. Is that a serious flaw?
It's not civil disobedience. It's "Tesla has such a liquidity problem that if we wait another week it'll go bankrupt and my net worth will be negative".

Also note that he's opening at 100% (not 30% staff) and seems to have taken zero measures "learned from Shanghai". I'm guessing when his plane arrives he'll bring in a couple of masks for the photo ops.