skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the corpus frequency of "Prince" 王家

What? 王家 doesn't mean "prince". Or at least, there is no such dictionary entry in the ABC dictionary or in the 汉语大词典. I would expect 王家 to mean "prince's household", in the same way that 皇家 means "imperial household".

汉语大词典 has two glosses for 王家:

1. 犹王室，王朝，朝廷。 [Equivalent to "royal family"/"royal court".]

2. 王侯之家。 [An aristocratic household.]

There's no problem with the concept of the phrase 王家庭 meaning "prince's courtyard", since a home can easily contain a courtyard. But the phrase should arguably be segmented 王-家-庭. (Or not -- there's very little to distinguish the idea 'one word, "the prince's household"' from 'two words, "prince"/"household"'.) Regardless of that choice, the courtyard is being associated with a household, not a person.
And another https://www.fastorslow.com/app/profile/2bd978bd-f107-5761-84...
With Google tightening its belt to appease Wall Street, I doubt investors would look kindly on Google acquiring a struggling business just because too friends shook hands on an airplane.
Write meaningful git commit messages, always. Even in stupid side projects that don't matter. Because then when you're at work, it will be second nature to write good messages, and your colleagues will absolutely appreciate it.

I've been following the keywords here: https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/git_commit_message
tech internships pay well more than the average American salary.

https://www.levels.fyi/internships/
Comments: you'll thank yourself later.
Not all countries in Europe are going full benefits. Mine has given peanuts to all those people who cannot work at all due to the lockdown (and only a tiny fraction got the money). Or worse, it has offered them loans.
> ... as far as the app-like school of thought goes, the new facebook.com is a pretty remarkable achievement.

I agree, they’ve done a fantastic job. Not only that, but as far as corporate engineering blogs go, this article is one of the best I’ve ever read.

Usually I either know the subject too well to learn anything, or I don’t know the subject well enough to understand what they’re saying in the amount of time it takes to read an article.

In this case, they found the perfect depth, they had great judgment on when and how to use visuals, and what they’re conveying is so clearly valuable.

If you usually skip the article and just go straight to comments, consider actually reading this one!
Segment lays off 10% of staff due to Covid-19 impact
> not exactly. a site can't set basic auth for you,

http://username:password@example.com

Not sure if that works via 301/302 redirects - I think it might - but most/all browsers warn that there's a username/password in the url?
Set up a "scratchpad" repo for small experiments / learning, and phrase your learning as tests.

Not only does it get you practice writing code, you have evidence that what you think is actually true. And/or you can demonstrate it's not, when you learn otherwise. And if you push it somewhere, you can link people to it trivially (great for questions / teaching / bug reports).

It's pretty much guaranteed to be faster to hop in / build / run than your day-to-day repository (often by a few orders of magnitude), and testing some things forces you to learn some new tricks (concurrency tests / bug demonstrations are particularly complex). And personally I also recommend setting up an auto-rerun-tests loop (I prefer `entr`), which gets you very nearly repl-level feedback in any language. You can interactively explore to learn basically anything in any language.
Tens of billions is not really that massive in 2020.
There are jet fuel futures. If they speculate on crude and then jet fuel itself goes up because e.g. a big jet fuel refinery blew up, they're screwed, because the crude future didn't actually hedge against the specific problem they're facing, and now they have to pay a lot more for jet fuel. Or it could be any other problem that specifically affects jet fuel but not crude in general.

Anyway, as usual, Wikipedia has a relevant article, and it seems that airlines do both: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_hedging
Dr. John Campbell, an educator in Northern England who's been doing daily Youtube updates on Covid news since January I believe, has put out a few videos from time to time related to vitamin D:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5yVGmfivAk - A month ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCSXNGc7pfs - 3 weeks ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-mHCn74E5o - 3 days ago

He suggests vitamin D deficiency may play a partial role in explaining higher mortality rates among people with darker skin (other important social disparities notwithstanding).
I'm happy about this.
Eh or just want to pretend to care about their health and the cost of being guilt free about it is a monthly vitamin D bottle.
Oh brilliant. Not sure why I didn't think of this. Here is our company website profile for https://www.defiant.com

Profile: https://www.fastorslow.com/app/profile/8b282a3c-db98-5b1a-98...

If you get a 502 or if it takes a few seconds to load, we're busy adding another DB reader, so just reload and it will appear. Should stabilize as the new DB reader comes online. HN is slamming us right now.
I honestly know a lot of scientists who get really upset because Elon shows you don't need a degree to do any of that.
If I search these comments for the word "union", there are no relevant results. Why don't we unionize tech workers?
And you'll be quicker to automate the next thing, since you have more experience automating.
This research would have been well underway before Covid-19 appeared.

It's a very interesting area, and has been for a while. Just look at the neat pictures in the article! I did my PhD on mesh-free approximations in the 2000s, and this kind of research has been picking up steam for decades as people exhaust possibilities for meshing and gain computing power.
I can't say enough good things about a multiple clipboard manager. Not only is it useful to copy/paste multiple items in sequence, but it's a game changer to be able to quickly retrieve a code snippet, or URL, or CLI command you used recently; and/or, to trivially stash one just in case you'll want it later. (Primary downside: using a computer without multiple clipboards feels broken. What do you mean it "forgot" the thing I copied five minutes ago?)

My weapon of choice these days is LaunchBar [0]. Despite the clipboard history feature being bolted on to otherwise unrelated functionality, I love the low-friction keyboard shortcut: Cmd-\, arrow-down to the chosen item, release Cmd to automatically paste.

[0] https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html
It's kinda the same reason why I don't watch stories on Facebook. I don't want people to automatically know I watched their stories.
Well, technically speaking, the federal government has the ability to create money. The states do not.
That doesn't seem to be the case for the most part, although I'm sure something would need to consistently monitor weather conditions to avoid anything close to that.

This altitude is within the high-velocity "superrotation" region of the Venus atmosphere, where a constant wind
moves at a velocity on the order of a hundred meters per second. This means that over the two days of the mission,
the balloons traversed about 11,000 km, from the night hemisphere into the day hemisphere. About two days into
the mission, the primary batteries were depleted, and contact was lost.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201100...

Edit - According to this the zonal winds are ~60mph at certain elevations.

https://trs.jpl.nasa.gov/bitstream/handle/2014/44535/13-5079...
Earn Bitcoin
so how long have you been following elon musk? how long have you been paying close attention to him? cracks are showing now more than ever before? this implies you have been looking for cracks for at least ten years. or perhaps you are yet another casual onlooker who, after reading a few articles about elon musk in the washington post over the past three years, doesnt know what the hell they are talking about?

> takes credit for all the hard work the actual [employees] do

he literally addresses this exact sentiment multiple times in many interviews, gushing with praise and admiration for the thousands of engineers who make tesla and spacex possible. literally yesterday he stated in an interview "it would be impossible for me to [build rockets] without my employees [...]." but you dont know any of this because, surprise, you dont know what the hell you are talking about.

> absurd fantasies about industries he has LITERALLY no experience in

ie automobiles and rockets?

> hyperloop

did you even read the white-paper?

oh, im a musk fan-boy. good thing too, because you might have had to use critical, logical thought instead of dismissing me. saved you some energy.

before i or anyone else heard of elon musk or the roadster, i was an electric vehicle person. i was an advocate for electric vehicles. everyone in my small camp knew that an electric vehicle revolution (like the one we are experiencing today) was possible but nobody seemed to get it. then elon musk came and did it. did it despite facing intense resistance, criticism and pushback, being called a carpet-bagger (ahem) and even having the new york times sabotage him. back when nobody knew who elon musk was, i had a front row seat to his first rodeo with "the haters." he is single-handedly responsible for getting EVs to where they are today. none of the manufacturers were doing it -- they were in fact sabotaging progress intentionally. and if anyone counters with "nissan leaf," they are only betraying how little they know about electric vehicles. sorry but he did amazing work and he has earned the right to not be subject to inaccurate facts and characterizations. i dont like everything elon musk does. he cheated on a married man for example. but he has earned the right to factual consideration of him and his activities.
I hadn't seen the UK alert on that, but to be clear my point wasn't that that particular this was an indicator of a different strain, but that something like that, if it turned out to be isolated which wouldn't always be immediately obvious, could be such an indicator that would only be recognizable as such in retrospect.
As for the original topic, it's patently wrong. It sounds like an individual case being blown out of proportion or a disgruntled employee trying to leave a mark. I can speak from experience that their safety standards are above and beyond regulation, and sometimes reason.
"You shouldn't even listen to what I'm writing here"

If you believe that, why are you writing it then?

I think, because you do believe, that text can help others understand something. Not always, though.
For me, the biggest problem with all of these note taking systems is they are clunky. If I want to quickly write something down, or find a piece of information, I have to page through tabs in chrome which totally ruins my focus.

To solve this, I built https://mmap.it - a short cut driven note taking tool that allows you to save and search without context switching.
> Companies being made up of people is no excuse for them doing these incredibly dumb, stupid and toxic things.
I never said it was -- I didn't defend anything about the actions themselves, but a lot of people were blaming "Google" as being awful, which is generalizing a local problem.

> That's what policies, mission statements and guidelines are for.
Yes... but these obviously don't apply everywhere. That's like saying "that's what laws are for" then being confused that criminals exist.

> people were hired by other people who ultimately were hired by the people at the very top who set an example for the corporate culture they want to create
Yes... and again, Google is rated by most agencies and people as having one of the best cultures out-there. This is not the end-all be-all predictive measure. Taking a hyperbolic example, one could imagine a world where Gandhi ended up recruiting someone who incited violence. You know, the whole Christian-crusades thing might be another example.

While you start off the sentence with an implicit agreement with mine ("I think it's equally important") you then go on to directly oppose it with views. It's not "equally important", you can't hold both side by side (not saying one or the other is more correct).

It's not hard to make an argument that Google has done _the best_ at keeping their "do no evil" culture at scale than any other company of their size (or even half their size). My point is the opposite of yours, which is you cannot control at a certain point, just as cells in your body do not replicate perfectly and produce mutations -- studies have shown that you only get around 13% of an accurate look at someone in the normal interview process, mistakes are bound to happen. People change for other reasons too, their are external pressures. No matter how perfect your values are, you will end up with people doing stupid shit.

* Not condoning any of the actions of Sidewalk Labs.
No non Windows client.
So down the rabbit hole we go.

Why not make it online then? What could be more convenient than that?

Why not type in your SSN or Government Issued ID Number as proof of identity and vote online, while relaxing on your couch?

Why force everyone to vote with mail-in just because you find it convenient? Perhaps I enjoy the ballot box experience - feel like I've actually participated in our democracy? Perhaps it's convenient for me to do it on my way home from work. Perhaps it being on one day actually motivates people to do it, instead of procrastinating until it's too late? Maybe I don't like the chance USPS will lose my ballot?

Just because there's no evidence either direction to support or contradict claims of voter fraud - we should just adopt systems that make it trivially more simple to pull off? When do we implement a system that lets us actually measure the amount of voter fraud... or make it impossible completely so we don't have to think about it anymore?

> If you spent 20 seconds looking at the CA secretary of state page, you'd see what they do. Yes, they have a process for it. Yes, they've thought about it.

Really? I just spent 10 minutes looking and couldn't find one thing. I had to google it![1] Only to turn up a buried page about checking your Ballot status, and a bunch of phone numbers to call. Nowhere obvious does it tell you your ballot will be disposed of without notification if they can't match your signature... or feel like counting your vote.

Look at these articles[1][2] stating tens of thousands of ballots were thrown out because of a signature mismatch. Is this rampant attempted voter fraud? Or just a failing identity verification system?

What about the courts ruling it unconstitutional to just dispose of ballots[3]? So they give you an obscure way to see if your ballot was counted? Good enough? No way.

The primary driving argument against VoterID laws is economically challenged people will have a difficult time obtaining and paying for a government ID. These same people though, will have easy access to hidden websites and ample time to call obscure phone numbers to follow-up on their ballot status? Just make a basic Government Issued ID free of charge, and problem solved - everyone can get one.

Voting is supposed to be private as well. They claim they dispose of your envelope with your name on it before counting the ballot - but can you prove it? Maybe your ballot has a signature mismatch suddenly because you voted for the wrong guy?

The opportunity for abuse here is extreme.

[1] https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-status/

[2] https://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/tens-of-thousands-...

[3] https://calmatters.org/blogs/2018/11/did-you-vote-by-mail-if...

[4] https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler...
Not enough existing research controls for when in the day vitamin D is taken or for other related nutrient levels (K, Mg).

Vitamin D is part of a whole complex network of signaling processes related to (at the very least) regulating circadian rhythms and how is calcium absorbed and used in the body.

I could see how taking vitamin D in the evening would actually be harmful if it disrupts melatonin synthesis. Do existing studies control for this? If they are, they're hard to find.

Until I see vitamin D studies controlling for those things, I take meta-analyses like that with a grain of salt. And I'll keep taking vitamin D in the mornings + magnesium in the evenings when I'm depressed in the winter. It sure seems to help.
Oh hey Ryan. Didn't see you there. :-)

Ryan built this thing.
In general I agree, but I'll give this one a pass for being meta.
I feel like most people know of this. But oh well, what do I know
Maybe there will be an adaptation of the Three Body Problem novels.
I think you put it well.

At the scales our brains are familiar with we experience "emptiness" as a kind of space which can have things placed in it. A chair is empty if you can sit on it, a box is empty if you can put something in it. The sub-atomic "empty" space is filled with fields of various kinds. You could not place something where those fields are. The spaces are not empty.

When you fill a box with things, you are filling it with sub-atomic fields.
> separate object in code

I hope you don't mean object in the OOP sense, but in a more general way, because that would be the slowest thing ever, no matter how smart your compiler/framework.

You'd probably be better off to just have each group as a copy of the original one.

> not practical with frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow

The problem is not the frameworks, the problem is hardware, and physics.

We've hit the wall with clock speeds, we've hit the wall with pipeline depth, we've hit the wall with branch prediction.

The only thing we have left is specialised hardware, parallel hardware, and bigger caches. But all of these only work with SIMD, because it makes data fetches predictable, it makes the cores simpler and it makes adding more compute cheaper (no separate fetch decode silicon required).

For the memory hierarchy to work you want stuff packed like in ECS systems for games, or Matrices for ML.

Even with specialised hardware, changing your neural architecture on the fly would be ridiculously expensive because of all the communication overhead.
Propaganda machine? Give us examples Of what you mean
Mmm, you might be able to argue with poetic license that it stands, but I would argue that's not what it means in English, and it's derivation is not its current meaning, and even with "damnation" as a definition it still doesn't read very well.
Whatever you call it, people are choosing their roles. Should they work against that, such as by denying employment to darker skinned people and denying membership to lighter skinned people? Or not.
Going to a bar for craft beer
I often hear people say ubers tend to be easier/faster to get than lyfts.

When I visited Japan last year, I wasn't going to bother finding out what competitors existed. Just firing up the uber app is no-brainer in comparison.

This is similar to the dichotomy of McDonald's being almost universally considered bad junk food, yet they are packed in roadside locations in small towns because they are popular rest areas among travellers whereas local mom-and-pop competitors are far less successful. Brand is a powerful thing.
101,000ms to 150ms is a phenomenal speedup. Props
There are corona viruses spreading among humans all the time, a significant fraction of "common colds" are corona. Most doesn't get sick since we already have herd immunity against them.
I have no sympathy for this. I’ve seen Airbnb cause significant housing shortages in my area (tourism town), with the owners taking advantage of the city’s resources without giving anything back. They provide no value (except for undercutting our tradition BnB’s prices) and increase housing costs, causing unskilled (and even skilled) workers to need to commute while homes sit empty most weekdays and winters.
The standard answer is that speculators provide liquidity.

People that want to buy or sell a commodity typically only want to do a certain number of transactions. What happens if they can’t find someone to take the other side of a trade? It would be annoying to have to wait a week until someone else is interested. Moreover, they may want a different quantity than you do, or they may want a different delivery date.

There is also price discovery as you allude to. A farmer selling pork doesn’t necessarily want to have to track the details of the Chinese economy and the weather patterns in Europe just to get a fair price for their goods. Speculators help with that.
I'm pretty sure it's because the Documents style isn't viable for Facebook as a business, their money comes from all the interactive JS crap they insist on shoving into their product

Tech has this global problem of technology products never being what they say they are on the tin. It's like those front-end/back-end iceberg memes -- what the user wants and what the business wants are just barely in alignment. This needs to end.
If the answer is poverty and desire for the lifestyle, then what? They can't cure poverty in India or dull people's fantasies. I'd say the situation is OK and doesn't need fixing.
California turns to vote-by-mail to keep residents safe come November
I know it's fashionable of late to lionize Jobs, but was it really him or was it just the "second-generation effect"?

Look at Microsoft under Ballmer, or Google after Page/Brin. All seem(ed) to be hollow shells of what once was.
Embedding a Tcl Program in a DLL
I miss many things, but by far the biggest is being able to go the gym. Working out is one of the key ways I stay sane, especially after working behind a computer screen day-in day-out. I miss going swimming (only pool around here is at the gym), I miss going to the movies, I miss people being upbeat, and mostly I miss seeing my family and being able to give everyone a hug!
For any API, truely understand the architecture and problems it tries to solve, and only then will you stop fighting the API and become productive with it. Assumption - the person who designed the API actually knew what they were doing.
> That means that we want as many people sick as our hospital system can handle, but not more.

This would be the optimal situation, but it requires at least:

* Widespread testing available to any who need it for any reason;

* Careful, centralized monitoring and resource allocation;

* Plenty of PPE, critical care equipment, and disposable goods;

* A cooperative public willing to follow a constantly shifting set of recommendations.

And the country as a whole has basically none of those things. California is better-resourced and managed (for this particular thing) than other states, so they're gonna give it a shot. The rest of the country is just gambling.

This disease does not cooperate with this kind of response because of the lag time from initial infection to critical illness. Reports on this vary from like 3 days to 20-odd days. Coupled with the disease's high rate of infection, this means that a hospital can go from 50% full to 150% full very quickly. If a state government with an impossibly obedient population set a tripwire at 50% hospital capacity and shut everything down the minute they hit that mark, then they're still going to overflow a couple of weeks later as symptoms progress for those that were infected just before the shut-down.