skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe there is a bit of variation across Vietnam? I’m just sharing what my in-laws observed where they live.

Perhaps. My experience was with HCMC and Hanoi.

> When I say “all international flights” stopped, I mean, you can’t just hop on the next flight to Vietnam. Yes, there are still repatriation flights happening and flight for certain purposes, but “normal” air travel has stopped, no?

Actually, there were normal, scheduled flights throughout the lockdown. There are right now, there were last week, and there were every week before that. You can trivially confirm this on a flight-tracking website (one of the ones that goes on the ADS-B data, so you see actual aircraft tracks, rather than just a flight schedule website which may show you flights that didn't actually operate). Visa waiver, visa-on-arrival, e-visa and visa issuance for tourists completely stopped, so in practice a tourist can't board a flight to Vietnam, but a small number of flights have continued running throughout, indicating sufficient demand from people who are able to fly here (Vietnamese citizens, people with residence permits, people who were able to get issued non-tourist visas in their home country, ...)

> So regardless, would you agree that Vietnam is going far beyond a lot of countries in trying to control the spread?

I'd say they're pretty much on par with any of the places that aren't a massive failure. But I also think the question of which country did it better or worse is not very interesting, and mostly a pointless political distraction from useful questions like which control measures have a meaningful effect and which don't.
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Explaining the Standard Model clearly and correctly is just really hard! I've tried, a lot. Costless simplification is impossible, because the mathematical form it's usually written in is already the simplest, clearest, and most concise way we know to describe it. (If there were a better way, we'd be using that instead!)

Anything simpler necessarily sacrifices correctness. Metaphors are great, but it's clunky to explain when the metaphor stops working or becomes actively harmful to understanding. For example, adding a 4th neutrino that is otherwise identical to the other 3 would break the Standard Model would violate anomaly cancellation, making the model mathematically inconsistent. But explaining from scratch what an anomaly is or why they need to cancel would require a ton of vague, fragile metaphors layered on top of each other, at which point I'm not sure what value it would provide.

Imagine explaining how a CPU works on the silicon level to somebody from the 18th century. It's the same problem -- it's hard to say anything that isn't the length of a full textbook, or completely misleading, or bordering on woo. I've written and then thrown away a lot of attempted explanations because of this.
If memory serves, they've been offered but the bounties are always been given to charity.

I'm guessing that's a policy/requirement of Project Zero as, presumably, the P0 folks are making "enough" already.
Yes, definitely worth it. There are some great stories in that collection:

- The Garden of Forking Paths
- Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote
- The Lottery in Babylon
- The Library of Babel
- Funes the Memorious
- The Secret Miracle
- Three Versions of Judas
- Death and the Compass

You will not regret it. :)
This is great, I was literally banging my head against a wall last night trying to determine how the length of the ECS was determined. What a lucky coincidence!

I'm trying to build a small C# library to support reading image types to learn about them, png was quite understandable but jpg is a little trickier, given I panic when I see maths.
Nice work! Please add a LICENSE file
You forgot the Nazi personal in the 2nd half. The BND is a NAZI organization. Lookup Gehlen. Didn't change much after they died, if you look at the various BND scandals since.
Amazon will pay $135,000 to settle alleged US sanction violations
Here's a counter example. Just watch this guy working on "something he personally wants to work on the most". [1]

1: https://www.youtube.com/user/wintergatan2000
That can indeed be a goal, but DNSSEC is useful even without DANE.
>.NET on Linux

Why so unreasonable claims?

It's works very well
They are recommending a managed k8s cluster, although that k8s cluster can run "windows containers", but if the goal is "don't use aws" then they have to be pushing this way.
Does this work for arbitrary data sorts? If not, beating quick sort is really easy with bucket sort.
I don't like stores that proliferate DRM. GOG has the right approach about it. They simply don't allow DRMed games in their store and actively work with publishers to dispel their messed up DRM mentality.
Thank you :) I almost bought it on impulse, and I think I'm going to order it today.
Errr, they could do that. Or they could commission an app.
Well it's matter of comparing it to their competitors.
GOG actively advertises and encourages devs to eschew DRM, lots of games became DRM-free just to appear on the store.
Humble also actively advertised DRM-free games, and even source-available games, though granted, nowadays it's more of alternative steam store interface with charity, with very few direct download titles.
itch.io, due to the area they operate in -- niche indies -- it's pretty much cultural standard to have no DRM, so they don't even have to mention it.
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I learned recently that Caesar was pronounced like "kai-sar" in the original Latin, and had thought that it was interesting that it sounded like Kaiser. You just closed the circle for me on why that is. :)
They seemed to do what no other (perhaps very few) places have done; have real vintage machines accessible via the internet[1].

I know there are still real-hardware microcomputer BBS's (the C64 scene is arguably the biggest), but is there ANY other place that puts real big iron on the internet?

As a retro computer nerd, I hope these machines aren't silent in their storage units, and will one day again roam the internet with their descendents.

[1]https://www.livingcomputers.org/Computer-Collection/Online-S...
To get a general idea of the engineering and moral progress mankind has made from the first century to the twentieth, compare:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limeswachturm_Wp_3/26

with

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flak_tower
This is so sad. I love this place and it was a great place for kids to learn too. I hope it comes back one day, or something like it.
Tried to read their FAQ but it is sort of handwavy. Do you have any links on the research behind this tech? I understand it uses CO2 from the atmosphere and solar + wind to build hydrocarbons? But what are the technical details there? How is this being done and why wasn't this done sooner?
You can cash them in for beer tokens.
Brazil’s definition of slavery is much broader than the one you’re thinking of.

> In Brazil, slavery is defined as forced labor but also covers debt bondage, degrading work conditions, long hours that pose a risk to health, and any work that violates human dignity.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-coffee-slavery/pic...

Their “slaves” are generally people with poor alternatives with a side of government corruption/ineptness.
Someone wrote a SIMD-fuzzer across AVX512.

Its quite possible that someone figures out an x86 emulator on GPUs that fuzzes register values, similar to AVX512 fuzzing. https://gamozolabs.github.io/fuzzing/2018/10/14/vectorized_e...

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Fuzzing is unique in that 99% of code probably traverses the same set of if-statements or branches. Whenever code significantly diverges (usually defined by Fuzzers as a significantly different instruction-pointer path of some kind), you've successfully fuzzed a new result.

Fuzzers... strangely enough... are programs I'd expect to run pretty well on GPUs or SIMD. If enough R&D research effort were put into it.
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Next step is to prove the ML-produced algorithm is correct. I can see a world where we generate algorithms and then automatically prove they're correct based on a formal description of the problem being solved.
Nice list. In particular, I think consolidation of payments infrastructure and the anonymous credit card ideas are great though both are some what opposed to each other!
Merchant acquiring doesn’t need to exist anymore... Just look at the amount of small shops who refuse to accept AMEX or small card payments - they are price sensitive to acquiring fees and some of the savings could be offered to customers an incentives. As you note, network effect is the hard part but I’m sure there’s a way.
On anonymous payments, I think a credit or debit card like thing that offered anonymity online when buying things would be quite attractive. I would use it. In the EU, you could implement it with open banking and there are various services which already provide virtual card numbers. Problem would be dealing with all the payments regulations.
>At the time, this was looked upon with dismay by the majority of computer-chess researchers who had pursued methods that leveraged human understanding of the special structure of chess.

This seems problematic as a concept in itself.

Sure human players have a "human understanding of the special structure of chess". But what makes them play could be an equally "deep search" and fuzzy computations done in the brain that and not some conscious step by step reasoning. Or rather, their "conscious step by step reasoning" to my opinion probably relies on tops on subconscious deep search in the brain for pruning the possible moves, etc.

I don't think anybody plays chess at any great level merely by making conscious step by step decisions.

Similar to how when we want to catch a ball thrown at us, we do some thinking like "they threw it to our right, so we better move right" but we also have tons of subconscious calculations of the trajectory (nobody sits and explicitly calculates the parabolic formula when they're thrown a baseball).
to the олигарси?

My outside impression of EE common wisdom last century:

1980's: hmm, maybe the capitalists were right about the communists all along.

1990's: hmm, maybe the communists were right about the capitalists all along.

homo homini lupus

Edit: for the downvoters, what is incorrect? I did state it was an "outside impression," and therefore would appreciate factual correction from people who were there, so I can update my models.

As one can tell from the latin phrase, it's been a reasonable maximum entropy estimate for at least the last couple of thousand years (and probably even the last fifty thousand).

Someone who actually speaks bulgarian can probably easily find a much better source, I tried "списък с български олигарси" and got:

https://anonybulgaria.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/олигарси-в-бъ...

which probably has a few specific answers to ur-whale's original question, "to whom?"
> Why would they want to do that? Why adopt something that is on its way to the museum?

The Unix kernel is one of the most widely deployed in the world. I don't think it's going anywhere in the next 100 years.
No mention of the price increase? Hm.
Photogrammetry algorithms that process multiple images independently and then combine the results. Unfortunately they tend to be CPU heavy, and what can be is done with GPU help.
Fact: PHP can run on .NET on Linux thanks to the PeachPie compiler and Dotnet Core.
Can I consider this as strategy to against Microsoft (and Apple)? To reduce market share of Windows?
For fundamental data and fundamental based screener, I found stockrow.com very good.
For technical based screener ( It has a lot of fundamental parameters too), finviz.com is very good. ( It has ads though)
I would love to hear from others on any other good tool with clean UI.
I think they don't care because they offer a subscription mode that is 99% cheater free in my experience. I got promoted to prime mode after playing the game so much (I don't pay for it). Cheaters are not willing to burn the prime fee ban after ban so stay on the free servers.
There are hearing aids which use ultrasonics to send settings from a smartphone app. I thought that was a pretty neat solution given the device has strict constraints on size, weight and battery life. Traditional hearing aids can be fiddly to adjust even for users with good vision and fine motor skills.
This is great :) idlewords is the author.

Not directly related to this post, but I highly recommend his other writing too. Gluten Free Antarctica is a personal favourite: https://idlewords.com/2018/12/gluten_free_antarctica.htm
Have you any reason to expect a touchscreen ARM MacBook Pro? I have heard of no credible rumours to that effect (though I don’t follow the space). I know a few people misinterpreted something from WWDC (can’t remember what) to think it meant touchscreen Macs were coming, but that was definitely a misconstruction.
I don't think the alternative is voluntary donations by states to the federal government vs direct taxation of individuals, but compulsory contributions from the states to the federal government.

The reason it would have a different outcome is because in a debate between 51 people, the chair doesn't have that much more power than the individuals. The federal government might be agree to set contributions according to fixed dollar values that the states can watch inflate down to a more palatable value, or they might agree to ignore certain sources of wealth in their calculations.

Discussions and disagreements will take on a very different flavor compared to the discussions and disagreements between a third of a billion players.

It is not apparent to me why this should result in an end to regulation of drugs as this subthread seems to imply it should. States can be just as interested in preventing drug use as the federal government - even more interested.
Common etiquette says that you dont wear hats indoors unless you are in service or a woman, I heard somewhere.
That attitude is quite common in Eastern and central Europe. When I, as a Brit, lived in Hungary I often heard Hungarians apologising for the “Hungarian mentality” or “hungarian thinking” when something went wrong or appeared ill-conceived.
I'm in the same boat as you. Grew up on Valve games, and they even inspired me to become a game developer. I was a mobile game dev at my last job, and it really pained me to see firsthand how much that company was in a stranglehold to develop more and more content to put into the lootboxes instead of improving and adding to the gameplay itself. Not to mention new ways to give out that content. Its a viscious cycle that never ends. I feel lucky to have been laid off now that I look back at it a few months later. I'm never going back to game dev again after that experience. That isn't the only reason but it's a big one.
There's nothing I'd put in an email that I can't put in a comment here. The only reason why you'd want me to respond via email is so that your responses wouldn't be public for other people to see. If you want a longer format, I'm willing to break this whole conversation down step by step.

* Originally you claimed that Scott was being uncivil by directing people to share their feedback on the situation with the New York Times designated feedback contact. Despite the fact that the explicitly directed potential commenters to be civil.

* I asked how this could possibly be uncivil when Scott explicitly tells commenters to be civil, to which you responded that you "have already said several times what was uncivil about it" (you haven't, or maybe it was in the posts that you edited to '-'). You also linked to this twitter post [1] as "actual evidence on twitter of actual coordination among its members for a harassment campaign" despite there being nothing at all indicating the existence of a harassment campaign.

* You then wrote that a civil phrasing would have been for Scott to say that his deletion of the blog was voluntary. I point out that this isn't a rephrasing of the original message, it's a completely different message and one that doesn't capture the fact that the deletion of the blog wasn't voluntary.

* You then claim that it was voluntary, because Scott could have just lived with the negative consequences of leaving it up. I then point out that doing something out of fear of consequences is what it means for something to be involuntary. You also then link to this twitter post [2] as evidence of "one of the members of the tech community actively harassing a reporter". But this tweet doesn't even mention Cade Metz or Pui-Wing Tam. And it doesn't even mention Scott until after the supposedly harassing tweets are made.

How is explicitly telling a community to be civil indicative of incivility? Nothing in your first twitter link even so much as mentions harassment yet you claim it's "actual evidence on twitter of actual coordination among its members for a harassment campaign". How do you convince yourself that taking action under the threat of doxxing and negative impact on your career and patients is voluntary? How is Balaji's tweets supposed to support the claim that Scott is being uncivil - especially when he only mentions Scott after the "harassing" tweets?

Each of your comments gets further from the original claim, and more and more outlandish.

1 https://mobile.twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/128066344682499...

2. https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=from%3Abalajis%20Taylor&...
There is no need for it to be fully end to end on the country.

Regionally it would make a ton of sense over absurdly short flights.

Most people are not flying LA to NYC so that is a minority use case anyways.
HN typically expects more from comments than just a castigatory sentence and a quote.
Yeah, imagine having to negotiate the EULA of every single grocery item to check for “fitness for consumption” clauses, what a Libertarian dream would that be! Of course the Market will eventually average out the bad players, thanks to the compound effect of billions of Rational Choices... eventually we’ll also be dead as that John Maynard guy once said. Perhaps sooner rather than later in this scenario ;)
Exactly. LFS does not support multilib nor cross builds properly, neither does Fedora (missing the glibc headers).

Debian or buildroot are fine to bootstrap new or natively unsupported architectures.
What's funny about his use of the word?
> It would be an ok answer, but the whole discussion started with you saying "On Windows, the native widget toolkits are just awful" which is more than just a statement of an opinion.

To the contrary, that's about as opinionated as an opinion gets.

> So, please, fix your discussion tactics, it's bad.

If it wasn't obvious that it was an opinion on aesthetics from the first reply, it should've been obvious from the second and third. I'm not actually discussing my opinion with you, I'm trying to explain to you why it's pointless to explain further.

You may have noticed that other people chimed in and said things along the lines of "oh no the other stuff is ugly!". I'm not gonna argue with that, those are valid opinions, valid subjective perceptions.

> Nothing looks "objectively bad" only in complete isolation and in the absence of context. When you add the world to an object it unavoidably begets aesthetic meaning. So you're wrong there.

http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.html

> What's a real waste of time is arguing with strangers over the internet.

You're setting yourself up for it, because even four replies in, you insist on criticizing something I never intended to say.
British police officers might be prohibited from taking industrial action, but in 2004 many firearms officers protested by refusing to carry out their usual duties:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3973261.stm
Yes. In my experience, it usually comes down to "Our Windows admins don't know Linux, so it'll be easier for them to manage a server if it's running Windows!"

Except they never do, because they don't know PHP on Windows either and are afraid of breaking things, and the customer ends up with a PHP/Wordpress installation that is 4 years out of date.
Luckily, most of those are internal-only apps, but it still sucks.
>Can you explain why you think this is a modern thing?

Because past societies were much more open to bodily functions and accepting some degrees of "dirt".
I don't think these options you named are the only solutions to fund ongoing development. DLC or addons how they were called before are numerous. I think the models like subscription to platforms would be very bad for the quality of games.
Compiling large projects like the linux kernel is an obvious one.
Think about it this way: collecting taxes from states was a two-party relationship. The states were compelled to pay in this transaction, but it's still two parties on opposite sides of the table, and their are other topics to negotiate later. If the federal government were to play an obvious game of taking money and then giving it back with conditions, then states would have exerted their power in other transactions. For instance, with senators who were chosen by the state legislature (the same body paying the taxes). Additionally, the state is a stronger entity to fight back against this kind of abuse than an individual citizen.

Now, let's change the picture to directly-elected senators and direct taxation. Now, the money is collected directly from the citizens first, and then the government's relationship with the state is entirely different. Now, the state and the federal government are cooperating, and the sucker is the one not in the room: the citizen whose money is being passed around. The state just becomes a node in a hierarchy, rather than a formidable agent with its own powers and responsibilities.

It's actually very similar to negotiations with a public employees' union. The government and the union are "negotiating", but they are really on the same side of the table. The sucker is the citizen who's paying for it all, but isn't even in the room.
As in replicate the behaviour? I think you can get close but setting the filters is cumbersome. Gmail exposes imap i believe, so it should work right out
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Misterio: Docker and Bash vs. Ansible
Well designed ML techniques are always correct 99% of the time. Its the 1% that is the problem.
I hacked my body for a future that never came (2017)
US teacher salaries are abysmal. When education funding gets cut the school boards the unions successfully negotiate stronger employment protections (after all, if a job pays poorly you need to attract employees some other way, such as good PTO, benefits, or in this case: a job for life).

It’s also entirely possible that even without the unions, the school boards don’t want to get rid of bad teachers simply because they’re already, and chronically, understaffed.
Quite dull research wrapped in fancy words.

Essentially they generate functions that map a program state to another program state and counts those function calls and compares with e.g. the number of function calls in quick sort. They "cheat" by feeding how all elements compares the their neighbours at each step. Like, if you give the algorithm that input for free what's the point.

Notably, none of the popular sorting algorithms decide which elements to swap by looking at the whole input at each execution step. On the contrary, the decisions are typically made based on local evidence only. ... We implement this principle for the sorting task by employing a small set of k(independent of n) index variables, and include in the input the information about how A[i] compares with A[i+ 1] and A[i−1]for each index variable i.
The Epic client lacks basic features Steam offers. They tried to set up their platform because of the massive liquidity from fortnite, which is completely funded by micro-transactions, which are not an inch less predatory. What features do you think Steam is missing?