skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You think UBI can work? Show me the numbers for some western country. Can be a small country like Luxembourg.

First show me the numbers if all people that are working now keep their job. Show me the extra cost and how you will get that money.

After that, give me a prediction of how many people will stop working. I can't imagine moms (or dads), that now have only 3 months of parental leave, will keep on working when they can have a nice income every month without doing anything, and not paying for daycare. Your unemployment rate will not go down, I hope we all agree on this.

And then finally, show me that this has 0 effect on all prices. Show me for example how rent will not go up, when all of us have 1-5k extra to spend on a bigger appartement or house.
Well I think it's just a matter of lag between bugfix and updates on my side. Which means from time to time I get a guru error. Other than that it's quite stable.
The article, though, describes dates that do not overlap the games:

> The report, carried out by private experts, suggested there may have been a "hazardous event", specifically at the institute's National Biosafety Laboratory, between October 6 and 11. Analysis of mobile phone data from around the institute also suggested roadblocks were in place between October 14 and 19.

This doesn't rule out the possibility that the discrepancy comes from a drill or other preparation for the games. However, it does make this information worthy of deeper investigation.
This is a strawman! You're right, nobody has shown eradication. But there are examples of control, with a straightforward set of techniques for getting there. It is difficult and requires competency to execute those techniques, but we should be coming together to do those difficult things and demanding competent execution of them from our leaders. There is really no excuse to do otherwise at this point, long after other countries have already done the work to cut through the uncertainty and demonstrate a much more successful approach.

But we aren't doing this, we're instead bickering incessantly and fatalistically rationalizing a much worse outcome than necessary. It is a deep deep historical failure of leadership.
The title implies that we're reading someone writing on their struggle with death, not the last published words of a dying man, insisting that he will fight a disease and try to beat the odds, punctuated by the editors note that he died days writing after the article.

I'm sorry but I think that is deserving of a more explicit content warning, and I don't see what that would cost you or others.
QWERTY Theory
It's certainly possible. I used Chef for this. And spent a few years maintaining a pretty nice cookbook for a small startup.

Then tried to use Ansible to setup and maintain an OpenStack cluster. Biggest hell no so far I found in "orchestration and config management". It was a big ball of yikes and anti-patterns, plus it was extremely slow, brittle and hard to debug.

Is this Ansible's fault? No, of course not. But it's no wonder k8s seems the way forward. Having an active system that checks and maintains state and appropriate abstractions to describe apps, services, containers, volumes, network, etc. is easier than to write really idempotent playbooks.
FCMP Outdoor IM4000 Tumbling Composter, 37 Gallon, Black
> At that point, just shut them off.

There is value in exposing and making it very, very hard to miss the level of brainworms with which we are dealing.
Who goes by Dick these days? Seems like a 50s era nickname. I'm also a Richard.

I would've expected Dick to go the way of the Adolf.
Building the model is not solved though. Kemper sort of does that by not sure what, but an approach that simply measures the effect and creates a complete model in hours would radically change the industry. Companies like Yamaha (line6) would be able to add hundreds of simulations in months instead of a couple.
The Power of Adiabatic Quantum Computation with No Sign Problem
You can do this with youtube-dl and FFmpeg.

If you create high-resolution GIFs, you will end with huge files, that's surprising. This is because the compression, after reduction to a 256 color table, is lossless.
People are dying at an increasing rate?

What data are you referencing?

I'm a little blown away by statements like this. The United States is not New York City. New York City is a single location in a massive country.

Other than New York City there really has not been a problem with coronavirus in the United States compared to other nations in the world.

It is imperative that we all act responsibly to prevent other parts of the United States from getting to a bad place but we should maintain perspective that this is not the end of the world.

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1259629409016954883...

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1259601646591582212...
That's great. That means that current politics aren't focused on making your life worse, or making you feel unwelcome. That means things are pretty good for you.

This is not the case for every one else. For many people, "Make America great again" is the slogan of people who hate you, who don't think you belong in your home, or who might even want you literally dead.

For them, it's not great hearing that phrase used as a joke.

The fact that this does not apply to you, personally, is not a reason to dismiss them.
HN doesn't usually fare that much better with COVID-19. It got politicized in the US, so there is a partisan faction that is going to parrot or at the very least, try to explain away, whatever the federal line of the day is, no matter how crazy.
GNATPro is commercial, which is GNAT plus some extra stuff and commercial support from AdaCore.

Modula-3 frontend was commercial, by Elego Software Solutions.

Then naturally Objective-C and Objective-C++ frontends used on NeXTSTEP and OpenSTEP.
Real engineering problems are solved over weeks of research, however, not binary pass-fail pop-quiz format.
The implication seems to be "no".
Yeah, I was surprised that the article made a reference to the movie loosely based on Nasseri, but not to the actual story.
> The life is sucked out the game if things are truly random on every deal.

But .. the game is to play with others and have a great time, no? At least poker is fun, yet everyone knows the odds.
I run Unbound alongside Pi-Hole. I’m not familiar with all the features of OPNsense, but pi-hole is convenient because it

- automatically updates the block lists each week

- supports regex filters

- has a admin web interface which makes it easy to view statistics and filtering log, edit the whitelist/blacklist, etc.
Who are you to call people thin-skinned, when you are not on the receiving end of the hatred represented by that phrase?
That's not really what the comment I was replying to was talking about though, was it?
Pine tends to have that effect; there's a reason I have a pinephone and not a librem 5. Turns out, 80% as good for 20% the cost is pretty compelling.
Not sure people there have such a coherent ideology?

Restaurants NOT opening when the restrictions were lifted is actually a good sign if you are interested in small government: it tells that the restrictions were most probably non-binding as a constraint.

Ie they were telling people to do stuff that they would have done anyway.

(Compare to eg a 0.1 dollar/h minimum wage: almost no-one would actually be at that minimum wage, so it's 'non-binding' in the same sense.)

Government constraints that are non-binding or almost non-binding aren't too bad. Since they don't change market outcomes (too much).
Pretty sure it does. Delphi can be used to build its own components and the inspectors will pick up properties etc automatically. Compile time is a lot faster as well.

Creating GUIs, including resizeable windows and controls was not only possible but relatively easy.
I'm generally an optimistic person but I can't see a way out of this mess barring a vaccine or proven cure. South Korea's recent spurt shows that a single super spreader event can undo all the gains of the lockdown.

My country (India) had one of the strictest lockdowns, but the economic fallout from it is too severe. The message now is that we will have to learn to live with the virus.
I got the opposite experience. People with good technical skills often write dense, skip explaination of topics that they find easy to grasp, assuming the reader also find them easy (which usually is not the case).
And what modern application is?
Agree completely, both wrt the grating-ness of the terminology and of its profiteers.
Keep in mind that, because of the hub and spoke route system, that the most popular flights don't match the most common tickets. 6 of the top 10 routes touch LAX and 3 are from ATL. I haven't been outside the airport to Los Angeles in over 35 years, but I've been through LAX probably a dozen times since then.

I wouldn't be surprised if more pax buy tickets from NYC to the Miami area (FLL above) than originate in the Atlanta area and fly to Miami area. If that's true, they're not likely to be happy with high-speed rail replacing their NYC3-ATL-FLL travel.

I agree with you on the sustainability point, but it's not at all clear to me that rail is the answer.
What operating system / graphics backend are you using? Do you have multiple screens? E.g. you can encounter issues with hardware acceleration on Linux if you have multiple screens.
How can I get an alignment for two different tokenizations?(e.g. BERT vs. spaCy)
> Writing is hard. Why is it hard? And how can people learn to write better? Those would be worthy topics for a longer post, which are not addressed in this one.

Amazon has a half-day internal course on business writing because it's taken so seriously. Everyone on the corporate side is encouraged to take it. This results in better writing, on average, which lets everyone see the value of good writing.

It's an investment that pays off.
Recorded at Strange Loop 2013. Please add (2013) tag.

Edit: https://thestrangeloop.com/2013/programming-a-144-computer-c...
Does anyone know what the difference is between installing this custom kernel and merely replacing the WiFi's firmware as outlined here[0]? More generally, what features does the custom kernel add? (I've searched their wiki but the feature matrix they present there doesn't really say what features they added.)

[UPDATE]: Never mind, the repo's `patches` directory[1] answers my question.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/94hjxv/surfac...

[1] https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface/tree/master/p...
Years ago, i read a paper that looked at a database of all known organic molecules, and found that a disproportionate number of them had an even number of carbon atoms. I can't find it now, of course.

The paper was a similar "that's funny, i wonder why" sort of piece. The tentative explanation i remember is that a lot of those organic molecules are natural products, and the nature of biosynthetic pathways is that they tend to add carbons two by two. Which i don't think is even true - terpenoids are built five carbons at a time.
I'm not sure what the stock market doing well has to do with whatever things are going badly?

The stock market doing well would be a rare glimmer of hope in a sea of trouble, wouldn't it be?
> than say writing your code with ES Next or React

Say again? One is a framework, the other is an updated version of the language that can be transpiled to ES3 for (non-mathematically) provably identical results.
From experience, no.

The problem with team chat is that it has very low signal to noise ratio, which makes it hard to find structured info.
It’s literally amazing. I never knew the Stasi were such a big cultural meme in Texas.
It's a tablet. It's the best tablet, because it runs a real operating system rather than a crippled "mobile OS", but it's still a tablet.
I agree with you. It's nice to see reasonable people who understand the risk personally.

I saw a comment the other day where somebody said that we can't open anything up until a vaccine is developed. That is one extreme. then you have the other crowd who says just open it up and let me go see football and baseball games.

I think the worst part about all of this has been the fact that it's happened in a election year. We have a habit in this country of turning every election into an existential crisis, which is a recipe for creating radicalized viewpoints. Our media has now turned this into a partisan issue and now it's being treated as such.
This is pretty interesting. I wonder how the recipe parsers from MyFitnessPal or Pinterest compare to this. Sometimes I think they do pretty good, but often they do miss the mark. My guess is on Pinterest they only treat something as a Recipe if it contains the metadata mentioned in the article, and do the easy parse if so. MFP seems to try something a bit more advanced, but I've never been super-impressed with its parsing abilities.
Yeah, real pedal sounds much "better" but maybe we're just used to how they sound.
> Please give it a serious try

Nope. Not again. Gnome3 made a simple, basic functionality, namely to delete - not reset, delete - data set by an application in a user registry nearly impossible.
The only data that should be stored there is DE related configuration, but most of the gtk3 application ecosystem now stores a lot more information in dconf, and it's making one's life miserable.

No, thank you; gnome3 messed up enough things. Please choose Cinnamon, XFCE, LXDE, or even KDE instead.
You have seen past the veil. You must forget you've ever seen this. Some things are too great for a human to know.
You've got it backwards.

New York's curve has flattened, and is trending downwards.

When you remove New York from the US numbers, the trends look much worse.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/06/opinion/coron...
I highly recommend watching the following Youtube channels. These chess masters often stream games in which they explain their thought process behind each and every move, and provide a high level overview of how they design their plans.

Chess Network - https://www.youtube.com/user/ChessNetwork

John Bartholomew - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6hOVYvNn79Sl1Fc1vx2mYA

Of course, following these channels will not improve your chess reasoning by itself, but neither will playing too many fast games without spending time to analyze the games. I typically play one longer game (10+5) and one rapid game (5+5) once a day then spend the rest of my free time trying to find areas of improvement.
Pleasantly surprised to learn that most recipe sites include structured metadata. Makes sense given the combination of a relatively straightforward schema, and SEO incentive from Google.
Isn't this essentially just learning the case of learning one function, with set parameters?

I.e, if you want to build a complete model of the tubescreamer, you'd essentially have to train a model for each possible setting on the pedal - or in other words, every combination of the knobs.

Sounds like a real chore, if you were to actually do that physically - and in the end, don't you just want to learn the impulse response of the circuit?

I know some tools - like the Kemper modelling gear, are made for that exact purpose, and with extremely convincing results.
If the average worker had to pay for those that didn’t via increased taxes of $1000 a month (to balance that budget), I cannot see that happening without a revolt. Would you even agree to pay an extra $500 per month in taxes to pay for someone else’s living expenses? Most workers are living almost paycheck to paycheck as is.
`pragma once` doesn't do anything that a well-written header guard does.
For those curious, a significant percentage of the commenters seem to think that this is exactly equivalent to the Stasi.
That is an entirely subjective measure that can only be determined by each individual/household rather than something that can be determined centrally and applied to everyone.
What's the relationship of the "bolt" project with the default driver support in Linux?
Do you think this confirms the adage that in-person interviews succeed when the interviewer is socially attracted to the candidate, as opposed to when the candidate is merely qualified?
I’m not familiar with the desk lamp, but take a look at Valetudo for your vacuum.

https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo
And that’s not even touching the civil litigation risk.
That would mean it's safe for Dallas to open up, since the state is doing test/trace/isolate and the city requires masks in enclosed spaces.
I live in the UK. We have a higher density of boomers and they’re more boomerish than the US. Like all social categories, ymmv!

Out of interest, what country do you live in? I thought all of Western Europe had welfare etc before the boomers took over?
Thanks for showing me how much I’ve been slacking off lately!
> And of course nobody with any opinion worth considering thinks we have peaked.

This is unnecessarily insulting. Many places have peaked, especially if you look at new cases and not deaths.

There's a difference between a peak and a halfway point. We could have reached the peak but only 10% of deaths if there's a long plateau slightly lower than the peak.
Maybe, but iPads don't run desktop apps.
It's simultaneously not that complicated and more complicated.

The idea that "markets are rational" is an extension of the idea that "economic self-interest is rational." That's a political and moral position - essentially equivalent to "greed is good" - and not an empirical argument. You can certainly argue strongly against it, and many people have.

The second-order question is whether markets are genuinely rational in the sense of fulfilling the contract implied by ideas like rational price discovery, accurate predictions of future prospect ("pricing in", etc), and so on.

You can agree with the first position and still argue strongly against the second.

For markets to be "rational" in the sense that's usually meant, both positions have to be true. IMO this is simply nonsense. There's no empirical evidence that markets behave any more rationally or are any better at predicting the future than a herd of animals or a school of fish is, and plenty of evidence - not least regular crashes - that markets are actually very bad at fortune-telling.

The third order question is whether markets are "rational" in the sense that they create a political and economic reality distortion field which benefits their own interests at the expense of the wider economy. This is another political position, but it implies agency - almost a form of sentience - which predicts national and international policy because it influences it - rather than being influenced by it.

IMO this third position is closest to truth. Markets are politics by other means, and the successes come from having access to political and economic leverage that other classes don't have. The idea that markets are "wise" or even good at price discovery is questionable at best. But market morality is clearly a very influential thing, and it's easier to look like a winner when you have your fingers on the scales.

I think the current market rally is an example of this effect. "Markets" are hoping they have enough influence with the Fed and Trump's government to keep a privileged position above the carnage that's going to spread through the rest of the economy. And this is what has really been "priced in."

We'll see if that's what happens.
Why? What mechanism would drive that? In the West we already have more food available than we can reasonably eat. Margins in agriculture are wafer thin driven down by competition.

Compare that to property where there is a limited supply and people are constrained in what they can buy by their salary and ability to get a mortgage.
Ya, Chrome uses the GPU and that looks like GPU memory failure artifacting. So it’s likely either a problem with the chipset or CPU if OP is on integrated graphics, or whatever discrete GPU may be installed.

Worth updating all drivers before you buy a new computer / GPU though!
We’re not certain, but all signs point to it being so, and we’re rushing advisements to pediatric care providers accordingly:

https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-baby-s-...

I don’t understand why demanding caution against harm to children in a dangerous, unpredictable situation is “disgusting.” It certainly seems less so to me then an a false confidence that could throw them into harms way.
Considering many US hospitals are going under for lack patients, this is an argument that doesn't apply.
Yeah they've also been paying taxes for years when they were working, and are now wondering how the CDC could be so incompetent as to send out contaminated tests, and why we're fighting foreign wars but also talking about mandatory service for veterans because of this crisis, and why we dropped $2 trillion on debt and pretend money and for every dollar that went to the people you're talking about the country was 3 more dollars in debt. The people who were concerned about this before aren't going immediately to think, "Let's give this administration more authority over my healthcare decisions! We should set a precedent that they can make it illegal for me to work and then botch my unemployment claims!"

Let me guess: you already supported larger safety nets before this crisis.
He has a wife tho
Got a sweet tooth? Your gut bacteria are asking for some sugar
I wonder why they are "rich". Hmm.
I heard Ubuntu 20.04 still shipped with Unity as a package, but I suppose you can't get it just installing it.

After quite some time using 14.04, I miss Unity. In fact, I always liked it, despite all the criticism it got. Compared to GNOME 3, I think those "small things" were better, like having the pidgin icon turn blue in the top right corner of your screen whenever there's a message. Now you have a popup notification every one can read if you're sharing your screen, but at the same time you can easily miss it if you weren't paying attention. The same happens with the Thunderbird integration, etc.
* writes are multiplexed to redis and dynamo in the origin region.
https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/38144053?hl=en&msgi...

Has the identical problem, disabling hardware acceleration is the suggested solution.

edit: And https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=106817... for the Chromium bug
It's not eradication, but it's a much more fine-grained tool that lets some of the economy open back up in a safer way. It's what we should be aiming for everywhere.

The US might not be able to do quite as well, but it feels like we're barely even trying.
I’m sure Mark Cuban would also like to avoid the risk of leaving their children without a mother or father too.
> "find the root of the human error"

And sometimes there're many roots, like a chain with many weak links
Eh I disagree. I've never understood "new physics" to mean new fundamental physics. Anderson localization was "new physics." I mean, is discovering new Hadrons "new physics?" They're "just" new combinations of quarks. In that sense it's "just" quark chemistry! I think it's especially absurd since condmat systems can be interesting toy models for high energy systems.

But you know, whatever. The fact is that we as physicists are fighting over crumbs. We should instead be political outside our circle rather than fighting internally. The fact that our budget is orders of magnitude smaller than the defense budget is insane.

Also-also, there's plenty of tabletop fundamental experiments. Superconducting cavity based axion searches for instance.