skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess in a semi you brake all wheels and braking just the front ones (where the motors are) wouldn't work?

Although with normal cars, most of the braking is done in the front anyway? And vans can be 4x4, electric motors are probably relatively affordable to put on all wheels, considering things like the Toyota SUVs with AWD system that has electric motor in the back instead of shaft from the engine.
On the other hand people "just do Z" every day. People make decisions and do stuff without infinitely agonizing over it.

As a mundane example: "Why don't I just stand up and go to pee? My bladder is exploding." "Well, because you're kind of stupid, you should indeed go to pee." "But if it was that easy, I would have already done it 5 minutes ago!"

Things are never settled and fully in balance. There are constantly surfacing opportunities to do something positive, ranging from straightforward to counter-intuitive.

It's not good to shut down all thinking with "nope, surely can't be done; if it could be, people would have done it already".

Thinking about why a company won't just do X or trying to put yourself in their shoes and come up with ideas is good mental exercise. Not everything is in a perfectly balanced out equilibrium. Otherwise there would be no profit made in this world.

Why bother doing research? If something is easy to discover, why haven't people already discovered it?

Of course I get the sentiment, you should think deeply before trying to revolutionize the strategy of a company. But ultimately the people who do decide on the strategy also don't precisely know what will be best. Nobody knows how one or another decision will actually pan out, in interaction with the real world with all the other things going on etc.

At some point you have to say, I've got enough details now, I'll make a choice. It will never feel completely satisfying. Either way it pans out, there will be a bunch of people who will say "they told you so", even just by pure chance.
Not good enough.
Given location and user name, probably milk.
Because it's about as helpful as saying "you shouldn't have moved to Los Santos if you value safety" to someone who's bleeding on the street having just been mugged.

The same message could also be worded more like "once you get past this, I'm sure you're already considering moving registrars. But please let us know if the support you're receiving from them is as bad as (my experience / reputation / etc.)".
How dynamic credentialing makes apps portable
Neither US nor Canada requires fingerprints for passport issuance nor renewal.
I don't think it's in bad faith. If an employer offers on-site cafeterias, catered food, nap pods, free massages, game rooms or other stereotypical tech company perks, they may simply be trying to improve employee happiness because it helps with recruiting and retention. Or it may be to get employees to subconsciously accept a lower salary because it's such a "cool" place to work. Or it may be symptomatic of a work culture that blurs the distinction between work time and personal time by bringing your recreational activities into the workplace.

Anecdotally, I've personally had employers try to use these perks to extract unpaid overtime from me, and I know lots of people in the tech industry who regard them as a red flag. Not something to immediately write off a company for, but something to carefully examine before accepting a job offer.
The fascinating thing to me about Clojure is that it's so vocally a "practical" language, and yet is a) a Lisp, and b) purely functional[1]. Usually those two things are associated with language enthusiasts, and not """pragmatic""" development. In the end it works, clearly, it's just very interesting to see that juxtaposition.

I think it says something interesting about the practical value of higher-brow programming concepts, but also about how important the packaging/marketing/ecosystem is to conveying that value and making it accessible to the masses.

[1] I know it's technically not 100% functional, but all of its messaging highlights that philosophy as a focal point and advantage.
That’s the difficult part, but that’s the job of the public health authority. Same thing with missed semesters of a school. How many add up to an 80 year old dying? And so on and so forth. I don’t envy those that have to do this arithmetic, but it can’t be avoided.
I wouldn’t soon pick make for such a job, but I think idiomatic (¿GNU?) make would be

abc = a b c

.PHONY: run $(abc)

run : $(abc)

$(abc) :
some-command $@

This allows running the three commands in parallel, too:

make -j run
401k backed loans are nothing new. The incentive is the avoidance of tax penalties (or less obtusely that's the disincentive at the federal level to just withdrawing). It's not to prevent stock sell-offs, it's to prevent people for whimsically withdrawing from their 401k/retirement account..

Nothing stops your friend from selling everything and leaving it as cash or some non-stock instrument in the account.
There are various ways to make this less painful. To start with, use anycast DNS so you don't have to type the address of your DNS server(s) into anything, and have a local DNS server with your local names in it so they all still work even if upstream is down.

Then give important machines simple addresses. Assigning your DHCP server [network prefix]::3 and your file server [network prefix]::4 instead of [network prefix]:[64-bit random number] simplifies things a lot. You can also do this with link-local addresses, so then your local file server can be accessed as fe80::4, or something not too far away from that with ULAs if it's not on the same network segment, e.g. fc00:abcd::4.
I do not want to leave the impression that there are no issues with fMRI analysis. Its hard to do right.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2314-9.pdf
Hey, think positive! If microwaves prove too dangerous, and they finally do manage to build a cable from the orbital power station down to earth, they have a space elevator as well!
Agree, automated testing is good as far as it goes but really shouldn't be the whole story with grading.

Another fun tool is CrowdGrader (https://www.crowdgrader.org/). It's a nice way to distribute reviewing/grading throughout the class to make it more scalable. When I was teaching I really liked it, it meant I could assign more interesting creative assignments at a faster pace. It's a different type of "automation".
US lost 1% of its population to Spanish flu which was shortly followed by the roaring twenties.
Wow, I’d use Google before I ever used GoDaddy, I mean that’s probably the most well-known "Do not use under any circumstances" registrar.
The original comment came across as dismissive of India because it's a third world country and therefore cannot be better at anything.
We live in weird times. I too am shocked and constantly shown wrong by the SP50 rising while many millions file unemployment.

I’ve read that part of the rise is from the Fed lower rates to 0. It essentially pushed banks to buy into the market for their only sources of interest.

I know from the past that company stock usually rises after they announce reorganization. Investors may be seeing opportunities for profit down the road from more optimized org charts following the mass unemployment.

I do believe Dr Fauci and other medical researchers comparing this to 1918. If past is precedent we will see a far worse outbreak and economic fallout in the fall and winter then we did this spring. If the valuation decrease were over pessimistic this time around then next time may be more muted. If the decrease prove to have been over optimistic then expect further devaluations next time. Both of those assuming rational actors and reactions, neither of which assured.

I also think we haven’t seen the full fallout from even the spring yet. I think we won’t know until the end of august how all of the unemployment affected rent and mortgage payments during the spring outbreak. We also don’t know whether the protests are going to spark super spreader events. That could necessitate closing the economy yet again and sooner. On the other side, we don’t have a monthly stimulus or cancelled obligations-those could have up or down impacts respectfully.

I see a lot of really grave uncertainty in the future right now. The pandemic is a very real thing. The protests are too. The political desires to stimulate the economy despite any other affects is perhaps greater still. So I think there’s lots of noise and uncertainty here-which makes for volatility in valuations.

Edit-I also just want to point out that the 1920s were marked by more than just Black Friday in October(date?). I’d suggest we all go back and refresh on how things played out back then to compare to today.
macOS in QEMU in Docker
this is great, can't wait to try it
UPS trucks have either 165 or 195 HP, so it’s still significantly faster than they accelerate. Even 18 wheelers generally have ~500 HP or less
I don't know about Austria bit there is a healthy market in Sweden for anything which is heavily taxed - mainly alcohol, cigarettes.
> There's no reason whatsoever to use software rendering if hardware acceleration is available.

The really obvious one is that you might like to have a program that will work with or without hardware acceleration present.
The resolutions on those are way higher than what Signal is doing. It's not surprising that a neural network can give a decent guess at what a face can look like. Faces don't have that much entropy. But you can blur them out if you get it down to like 4x4 pixels.

Anyway, if you want scarier panopticon stuff, you should look into gait recognition, which is way harder to censor.
> What this pandemic has taught us so far is that we're really bad at predicting the future. In the meantime, we should try to minimize the death toll in the here and now.

While I agree that it’s hard and speculative, I don’t agree with this. We have to minimize total suffering and lives lost and in the long term even if it means using very difficult predictions.
Interesting note that during WW2 people expected another great depression, so policy makers coordinated (GI bill, etc.) and we actually had an economic boom.

We now understand much better how to tweak a country’s economy.

Some key points for the next recovery phase:

-Give tax incentives for automated robotic farming, our food supply should not be dependent on poor migrants, we need to transition to pesticide/herbicide free produce that can ramp up supply on demand. Workforce will be highly skilled as well.

-Make massive investments into local micro-grid community solar. This will make us more robust to cyber attacks and black outs and provide lots of jobs. Solar is now the cheapest power generation method.

-Ditto on batteries. Make 10 more gigafactories, invest in Lithium extraction from the ocean and recycling infrastructure.

etc.
Is is extremely laggy in my FF.
Power vacuums are a very dangerous thing. This is how ISIS/ISIL came to power after all...
banads says>"Whats so difficult about letting a user toggle those existing filters on and off? Or allowing users more control over their news feed, such as allowing it to be chronological? Or hiding items based on keywords?"<

This! And...

allow 3rd-party individuals/companies to create user-filters that users could load up at their preference. Allow a proliferation of filters to compete.

So, say, if you don't want profanity you could view FaceBook with the, say, "FaceBook-no-profanity" filter active. Or if you don't want antisemitic remarks you can load up FaceBook with, say, the no-antisemitic filter. Filters could be loaded, unloaded, switched on and off at the users desire.

So everyone could see the Internet they want or, at any time, view everything or part of it. And if you want to see what a friend is talking about, you could load the filter(s) (s)he is using. Sets of filters could be grouped, e.g., TomT's filters, Mary's filters, Mom's filters, etc., so you can, so to speak, "see the (Internet) world through their eyes".

I see where this is going...in the long run the Internet will turn into a vast wasteland with gardens of little consequence and minimal membership. It will become defunct and all else will be simple P2P over TCP/IP.
"juxtaposition"... pun intended?
What was wrong about the shut downs is the arbitrary nature of them and inconsistent application from state to state. The same is occurring again with the lessening of restrictions.

We saw attempts by some governors and mayors to play political games with the shut downs by favoring certain business types over others when both had similar staffing concerns all to score points with one group or another and little to no concern with public health. We even had one governor ship sick people to elderly care homes!

A lot of this can be laid at the feet of the CDC, which Trump not withstanding and I really question his affect over the CDC, which fumbled the whole event and still does not manage it well.

However people need to realize, outside of war, the Federal Government of the US in not up to the task. They have fumbled natural distastes with the most recent famous one being Katrina but even subsequent disasters did not show much improvement.

To that end, what Congress should have been doing instead of trying to craft stimulus programs to benefit political buddies is run the CDC and FEMA through the ringer and start the process of building a coordinated process to follow for the duration of COVID19 as well as future issues. Instead they are all playing up for the November elections
Mixed feelings on this. On the one hand, I prefer not having to spend an extra hour to find a photo place each time I need new documents.
On the other hand, I have a good photo on my documents :)
Bitwarden and iCloud Keychain. Bitwarden has a generous free tier and there are other forks you can host yourself (bitwarden_rs written in Rust is a popular one). It’s not as feature rich as 1Password, but you’re not pushed to buy a subscription. The client is a bit sluggish on every platform I use it on, but it’s not terrible though.

I also tried Firefox Lockwise, but not having clients on multiple platforms is a barrier for me. It’s not feature rich either.
If it hasn't been deleted before, be the change you want to see in the world :)
But even with a hard brick (where it's "literally a brick"), you can sometimes bring it back to life by opening the device and swapping a component or soldering something.

I like soft vs hard brick, because it connects to software and hardware. With a soft brick, the device is basically a brick until you reset the software. With a hard brick, it requires potentially a hardware fix.
This appears to be focused almost entirely on Javascript outside of the html/css/databases portion.

Curious if there are plans to expand it into python or other languages.
The Right Team
Eh, I haven't seen it in production.

I hate seeing politics of any stripe in my news feed, for example. I get enough of it elsewhere. But how can Facebook take an image, recognize that it is a cartoon, and that the cartoon is based on something political? We're not there yet. We're not anywhere near there yet.

You and I, as humans in this time period, will likely recognize a drawing of a man with kind of mocha-y skin, ears that stick straight out, large-ish front teeth, and kind of a squint as a standard issue caricature of a particular former President of the USA. We can immediately go "aha, politics!"

So I suppose we could try to train some AIs on a historical set of caricatures of politically-relevant figures. Of course, caricaturists and cartoonists of all stripes are called upon to produce new stylized exaggerations of people as they step into the limelight (or are dragged into it), so our training set must be updated on a daily basis. Hrm, some more work there ...

But then it gets into "politics you would like to hear" versus "politics you would NOT like to hear," and that is just going to be something that will require a mental model of what you do and do not like.

Right now, Amazon and Netflix cannot get my recommendations even CLOSE and their data is much better curated than what someone might type into a Facebook text box.

Chronological? Reasonable! Probably doable. Keywords? Who is putting those in? Who is curating that set of keywords?
From my guess, the plasma is already quite hot, so you could do whatever you do to cool it normally, just more so because it’s self-sustaining.
How should it look like according to you to be good?
For me it was called the 90's.
I have used hover for years and quite like them. The customer support was awesome when I had an issue with getting a .com.au domain setup for a business. Australia has some extra requirements for domains that I wasn't familiar with. I also like to have my domains separate from everything else so if I move hosts/email providers it's easy.
You confuse something that is bad in practice with something that is bad in theory
Best Practices for Feature Flag Testing and QA
That's a very interesting approach -- I really enjoyed reading your transcript, and your implementation of the system as a circuit is really quite unique!

I think you're onto something with your motivation: most epidemiological models basically consider the infection/mortality/recovery rate to be fixed, or at most modifiable over many years by national investments in health. It seems that, before COVID-19, nobody had really thought that the trajectory of an ongoing pandemic could be changed, so I haven't seen any models which incorporate that.

But I think it's unfair to use scare-quotes around "models". The truth is, there is a tremendous amount of insight to be gained from those "models" (SIS, SIR, SEIR, etc.). I mean, your own proposed model is even just a small variation of one of the classical models, and you don't even show that it makes better long-term predictions, which is what you criticise in the other models.

Sorry, that was a long-winded way of basically saying: Great work, but don't discount the classic models entirely!
This is great. I have one of those cheap RTL-SDR units, and it was well worth the $8 to pull in and decode ADS-B signals from overflying aircraft. There’s something exciting about obtaining data “over the air” in a way that completely circumvents the Internet.
Other factors:

-lots of uncertainty and unchanged behavior
-strain of COVID spreading
-culture of hygiene
-culture of physical closeness
Can you elaborate what you think the main reasons should be? (Genuinely interested.)
You mean the "juxt" function? I had to google it, so no, but that's funny :)
On the landing page you might want to add a couple screenshots of how it looks on different browsers to help the clueless (me included)
They're responsible for 2015-2019 spike in the murder rate in black communities that has killed 10,000 extra people.
I'd be interested to know what this heavy handed policy was, assuming Google Domains gave you that information. I hope it wasn't something egregious or frivolous as I've seen with other parts of their organisation.
Why not make people nice to each other first, and then abolish or reduce the police? It seems like that would happen naturally anyway. If huge parts of the police force went idle most of the time for lack of anything to do, the force would presumably reduced after a while.
Yes, at least for me, trying to learn it. For example, / in many examples is an "adverb", modifying the previous operator, although xx/ is frequently introduced as a single thing. (Are all built-in verbs one or two characters?)
I’m with you. I usually regret clicking on nautil.us links and I give them only a couple paragraphs to say something. If they don’t, I bail.
It has been deleted and now his entry redirects to Clojure.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rich_Hickey&actio...
ZooKeeper for the Skeptical Architect (2014)
How to develop an writing style: tips and lifehacks
Yes, we've pivoted a few years ago to GitBook. Codebox was not working very well.
that's a fantasy, rojava is a one party dictatorship oppressing Arabs
I'm not sure. I live in the city where everything is dead! Plus it's extremely hard to get into my backyard (gated complex and high cinderblock wall).

I don't think rodents and bugs are typically a problem though. People, maybe, but if someone wants to break into your house it's not hard to do so and the lack of a dog door isn't going to stop them.
You may have some valid points in isolation, but as long as you keep rejecting others' substantive points that don't fit your narrative, it will continue to seem that you are living in a different universe.
As a software engineer: screw software-based solutions. Too hard to communicate to people, too easily compromised without notice, just blegh for things like this.

I remember the Mueller report being printed out, inked over, and then scanned before exported as PDF just to make sure there's no software shenanigans. I really like this idea.

If you wanted to implement that in the field, you could purchase a Polaroid camera, ink over faces manually, and then use your iPhone and take a picture of that picture and destroy the film afterwards.
I enjoy how you suggest that there might be an social/employment problem but then you proceed to suggest things that will actually eliminate employment.
My brother-in-law suffered a severe heart attack about a month ago. He’s 40. His wife told us he showed no brain activity, other than that in his upper spinal cord, in the MRI’s done at 1 and 2 weeks after the event. He woke up a day after his second MRI and is currently in rehab. I never saw the scan results, but I don’t understand how they could be so wrong.
It wouldn't take trucks off the road, it would just increase the capacity that we can transport.
The most significant separator for me is that, from my understanding, Feynman was an actual practicing scientist. I am struggling to think of anyone in an analogous position today who has received this kind of attention.
Right? I mean people don't do science, it just happens.

And while we're at it, why do we care about the background of entrepreneurs around here? I mean just walk me through the business model and give me your KPIs already.

/s
I was not lauding those jurisdictions, for sure. Although if the knee-takers were individual officers being allowed to show their political opinion before being ordered to open fire on protesting Americans, then we should show some praise to those individuals. Although obviously much less praise than if they had simply refused the unlawful orders.
It depends. If the idea is spread by people understanding it and agreeing with it, then incomprehensibility is bad. But if the idea is spread because people want to feel pride in knowing something beyond the reach of most people, then incomprehensibility is a positive. The obscurity makes it a kind of intellectual "Veblen good".

But at that point, it's not being propagated based on its truth or usefulness, but merely as a form of signalling "I'm one of the smart ones". I suspect that at least part of the success of postmodernism is due to this.
And that peak was probably also aspirational at best. The SP500 has basically become the stock price manipulation hall of fame.