skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily. I worked on the team the managed the OS for an embedded hardware project (radio equipment) and our disk was partitioned four ways:

1. current operating system

2. previous operating system (and next, on upgrade)

3. data partition, shared across both current and previous OS

4. factory reset partition

That means if we needed to do a factory reset we could just load the firmware archive from the fourth partition onto the second partition and execute a normal upgrade, albeit to an older version. Since upgrade packages were small, maybe 500MB?, we could easily cut a little space from the rest of the partitions to make it fit without having to increase the flash capacity.
If you think like this, then of what use is the sanitizer in the first place?
Commercial linear induction motors were invented by someone at the Kirsch Company to solve just that problem.[1][2] It was a real product, it sold, but it didn't catch on.

[1] https://www.kirsch.com/about-us
[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=bdgDAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA163
Maybe the government should instead invest in lowering demand by creating decent homes for < $1000 in a skyscraper or something in NY.

Seems to me the problem is a supply issue, and we just need a bigger supply. That's an easy solve.
I've tried places like HN and a little bit of Google Ads (too expensive). I don't know how to reach my customers...
OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
This is still used for set-top boxes, at least in Belgium. It happens in the background now, but up until a few years ago when you first got one you'd only see the firmware downloader for an hour or two, with this block diagram where you could follow along: https://i.imgur.com/hh7eWZr.jpg

The worst part about that was if your signal quality wasn't great. You'd see blocks fail, and it'd take ages for them to come up again.

The boxes now ship with usable firmware preloaded, and will update in the background in the first few days usually.
Creators have the right to set terms on the fruits of their labor. Your rights end where their rights begin. A restaurant's terms is their fee, YouTube and creators' terms are ads or Premium.

I don't know why some people think they can just make up the right to do whatever they want with other people's work. You can do what you want on your computer, but not with their stuff. Easy solution: don't use YouTube, but apparently you think you're entitled to it.
ahh... that could be
Does anyone know of a company that accepts any of their certificates as valuable? I am curious to see if they are actually making a difference in the employment markets.
I’m not sure why you are arguing this. Arson is a horrible crime and the fact that it is being attempted towards fire resistant buildings (according to you at least, I’m not convinced) doesn’t matter. This makes me wonder if you also have a theory about why 9/11 towers couldn’t have fallen on their own...
I was wondering what's the difference between the two.
wear are you getting those numbers?

This site shows $1700 for a 2br in brooklyn.

https://www.apartments.com/brooklyn-ny/2-bedrooms/?so=2
No discussion is complete without mention of Erlang’s view on this

https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
> Sounds like another financial innovation to avoid transparency.

I guess it depends on whether you think the financial regulations around IPOs are mostly needless friction or necessary for the public good.
Why is everything with B a bubble?

Its revenue went from $60M(2016) to $170M(2019) [1]. In 2019, it reported over 45 million learners on its platform. It is adding enterprise customers at a steady pace [2].

A conservative estimate of 250 million revenue in 2020 puts it at 10x revenue. This is pretty normal for a SAAS company that is growing 50% y/y.

1. https://www.classcentral.com/report/coursera-2019-year-revie...
2. https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2019/04/25/online-ed...
> A large new study from South Korea offers an answer: Children younger than 10 transmit to others much less often than adults do, but the risk is not zero. And those between the ages of 10 and 19 can spread the virus at least as well as adults do.
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Sorry for the rambling... I'm happy to elaborate more, if you like.

#4. I was a Business Management major. I learned far more about business by being in business for myself. College tuition for MANY majors is a complete waste of your money.

Business is much like programming. There are many things you can learn from a smaller body of knowledge. The biggest gains are going to be made by DOING.

#3. There are a handful of books you can read for much cheaper than what it would cost you to pay for an undergraduage degree in Business Management. You can learn from those books what you'd pay tens of thousands of dollars for in tuition.

The BEST learning comes from practice, though.

For me, with programming... I'd ask all the typical questions. What's the best first language? what tools should I use? what frameworks should I learn? they are a distraction from what you really should be doing... practice. Don't wait to start. Don't wait for the perfect language/tool/framework/editor.

JUST START.

Pick something vanilla (no frameworks until later). Read about it. Write code badly. Write more code badly. Ask questions of other coders in $LANGUAGE. Put stuff up on GitHub for review. Get feedback. If you don't stop, you WILL get better.

DO. DO. DO. DO. DO. Reading is only the beginning.
> needs constant firmware updates

Firmware updates are good. They can patch security issues and they can improve different aspects of the device. The security being the best plus obviously.

Wholeheartedly agree that there is no reason for a company like Samsung to track your every move despite you paying them hundreds for said devive. I'd be very surprised if they don't make a hefty profit from such devices. So why then, do they need to track us in addition to making us fork over our money.

I understand Google tracking us. I don't agree with it, but I understand it. Same with Facebook. But Samsung? Apple? No. They're even going to certain lengths to prevent you from fully enjoying your devices (such locked bootloader, making it hard to repair etc).
It’s the same with Calgary, Alberta as well. Rocky Mountains on one side and the prairie on the other. It still gets inversions and bad pollution.

My understanding is it’s a layer of cold air that sits over warmer air on the ground.
I completely disagree. A program or function is designed to perform an operation. If that operation requires the contents of the file, then the program cannot continue unless it successfully reads the contents of the file. There is already a natural asymmetry. If you cannot open the file, there isn't any more to do.
Israel, Italy, and the UK have had a terrible time with coalition governments in recent years.
How has decimated changed in meaning?

Decimated comes from the Roman military punishment "Decimation" where for some military unit being punished, 10% of their ranks were to executed by their colleagues.

The most literal meaning of decimated is "to reduce by 10%" but the common meaning is from the complete and total destruction of morale and resistance that results from being forced to kill your colleagues.
Ganeti – A fault tolerant, HA virtual machine cluster management tool
Not ADA compliant, therefore not worth it in the eyes of most businesses.
I created a web-based utility. That on its own isn't much to bring people in (or even back). I quickly found out that it was important to keep the site updated regularly with fixes and new features.

Announcements of new changes would be published to sites like HN or Slashdot as press releases. So I wasn't really posting things like "hey, check out my site, it does X!" It was more like "How Y can integrate into X" or "trending stats on Z, provided by X". That sort of thing.

It was also crucial to have a mailing list in place where people could sign up easily. That way, I could reach the users directly without worrying about trying to get a post approved or posted onto a third party's site. The other benefit is that, if people liked my updates, they would sometimes go out of their way to repost my updates on sites that they visit that weren't even on my radar.

Communications would always try to tie back into relevant problems or interests of our userbase's demographic, but referring to the site as a potential solution. So there's value for readers, even if they aren't my users.

Just keep trying new things and new audiences. Things will click into place as you go if you're delivering quality and as long as you don't stop.
This isn't accurate. The M&A documentation from Uber confirmed that Levandowski had stolen 5 discs worth of data from Google.
I've never asked those I'm hiring, nobody ever brought it up. Ages ago I asked recruiters if they thought it mattered, they only care if the company does. No investor I've spoken to thinks the certs matter either. I'm like 0/60 with my population.

But, I do think the coursework is educational.
$2 trillion
Not sure on housing regulations, but definitely need healthcare for everybody. Couldn't hurt to have the government also build some public housing to offset supply. It'd probably be cheaper. In the old west you could stake a claim on some land and just build a house, and live in it.

Those days are long gone and aren't coming back. So there needs to be some other contract that can guarantee a home for everybody.
Yes, I do strength training and also trying to cut body fat.

I’m on 2.5g protein per kg body weight which is high as I’m trying to maintain muscle while on a calorie deficit.

If I didn’t need to be in a deficit on lower carbs it does look like I could achieve the macros I need from vegan meals. It’s not I need 190g protein right now, it’s I need to aim for 190g on about 2300-2500 calories with a bias towards gaining those calories from protein/fats. Hitting 190g protein would take me above 2300-2500 calories due to the amount of carbs consumed from vegan protein sources.
I'm hopeful for multi-use plastics that can be sanitized. I own a gas mask (over the top) and a washable face mask, both obviously allow for multiple uses with some cleaning and maintenance.

Something that can survive being washed with hand soap for example should be more than good enough for most people in terms of sanitation.
Depends on your niche. I'd recommend directly engaging on Twitter, and launching a podcast and/or YouTube channel. Look at Reddit and see if there are any subreddits you can start contributing to. Reddit advertising can be somewhat effective, but some subreddits' ad inventory are bought out often.
Head's up to anyone considering these pants, as I did -- reading the reviews, it appears they changed the design of these pants recently, replacing some of the zippers with velcro, and using different material. It doesn't appear to be popular with their audience.
Indeed. And at least for African Americans, the Great Migration was from the South to major industrial cities (Detroit during the automobile boom, LA during WW2 for the war effort).

Without a huge draw of good paying jobs I’m not sure you’ll see a lot of diversity since no ethnic group has a lot of incentive to move there.
Shoes or not most diseases cannot infect through skin. They need mucous membrane. Washing hands after touching the feet is enough to keep the worst stuff out.
> Why dump core when you can log the bug and continue?

I see from your replies what you're trying to say. If an error occurs, most likely you want the entire operation to abort -- that doesn't necessarily mean the whole program depending on the program.

For example, if I have a GUI app and the "save" operation fails and I typically roll that back right to the event loop of the application and the user gets an error and they can retry the save.

For other types of applications, killing the whole process is ending the operation.
Where did the author insult cargo pants users? This is all I saw mentioning cargo pants in the article.

> Appendix: Sam, have you simply invented cargo pants?

> No. Cargo pants solve different problems
for different people.

> If cargo pants are appropriate for your
daily life, you definitely don’t want or need
my side-seam welt pockets; and vice-versa.
Cargo pants aren’t office-wear; these dress
pants aren’t combat-wear.

EDIT: it seems like the author edited the article. Never mind.
Yes, static colors for letters and numbers. They haven't changed in 15+ years. It's neither an advantage or disadvantage since I can 'turn it off/on" mid sentence. I don't see colors as literally as the orange bar at the top, I'm just... sort of aware of them, like they're being superimposed after initial visual processing happens.
There are planes already built and sold that are not in the air. Flights are still happening and every MAX that comes online is another older plane that can be retired.

Why would the FAA wait to re-certify? Should they wait for a vaccine then scramble?

The 737 MAX and the 787 are entirely different airplanes for entirely different purposes.
If you haven't already done so then you might read "Patent It Yourself Your Step-by-Step Guide to Filing at the U.S. Patent Office" by David Pressman, published by Nolo. There is a vast amount of expertise in that book. There are also "How to Make Patent Drawings" and "Inventor's Cookbook" to go along with that, also from Nolo, but I have not read those.
The photos in that article are full of nope.
Curious fact: the hippos that were imported to Colombia by the infamous narco Pablo Escobar are now an invasive species.

- 4 hippos were introduced to Escobar's private zoo in 1981.

- The animals escaped in 1993.

- By 2007, they were approximately 16.

- In 2020, they're at least 80.

- By the end of next decade it is estimated they will be at least 150.

Those hippos are reported to have increased fertility. African hippos begin reproduction at age 7, while Colombian hippos begin at age 3.
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This type of thinking doesn't help, because jailing addicts doesn't help (or work), either. Addiction robs you of most or all of your agency, it's not so simple as just blaming the addict for their behavior.

The current legal status of most drugs in the US has a profoundly net negative affect on drug use and its ripples, not positive, because anyone wanting to help those addict parents risks just having them simply thrown in prison for who knows how long. Until seeking help isn't a massive risk, addicts will always end up helplessly trapped.
I'm extremely bullish on online learning. I owe my livelihood to things I learned online.

That said, after trying countless structured courses for a variety of subjects (ranging from design to music production), I've found that my best results are from coursed created by individuals, not large companies.

Individuals who deeply understand their core topic and are financially motivated to make the best possible course, I think, are the future of learning. Not "institutions" like Coursera.
Korean truce was announced 13 years before 1970: that's the distance between 2020 and the last recession. Taiwan's northern territories were still being shelled. Vietnam war was still ongoing. China just stopped the campaign of exterminating sparrows and intelligentsia.
> Did you jump out of a PhD?

Yes, sort of ... I was planning an academic career and had a 4 year contract teaching and researching at uni while doing my PhD, but failed to get the PhD in that time (because of lack of motivation / other interests and projects). Never really got the hang of focusing on churning out papers, enjoyed teaching and short-lived research more. Didn't get along too well with the (much older) colleagues at the dept. either.

After that, I freelanced for a year, during that time I got a great job offer at an EA company for game development but decided not to move to the US for it. A few months later I got talked into accepting VC for one of my hobby projects, so the company was founded. The 4 years I "wasted" were at least somewhat formative and I would have regretted not getting a taste of academia. In the end, entrepreneurship was a good fit for my personality, the joy of doing exactly what I wanted and getting very positive feedback, validation and compensation just from making my work available to the public was the best reward.

At hindsight, trying more things and getting more industry experience as an employee would have been useful, but I can't complain.
If Coursera succeeds it'll be worth far more than 2.5B.
Well said. It's important to remember that we have far more in common with those we disagree with than we do dividing us.
Oooo, that's interesting. I can imagine that's particularly an incentive for startups without robust legal teams.
More info on this blog: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/facebook-research-at-cvpr-2020/
This is a thing you wrote. I agree, very unlikely

> The thing I just can't understand is why they didn't require everyone back then to wear condoms all the time
It's an unbelievably valuable resource to humanity.
Painter/workman jeans with a second set of pockets at the knees came into fashion when cellphones shrunk to pocket size.
The only downside of error codes via Sum types (Rust) seems to be, according to the article, is performance. It then claims that Checked Exceptions are the solution (at least according to Joe Duffy).

Maybe I'm naive to how exceptions are actually implemented, but it seems to me that both a checked exception and Sum Type would incur the same overhead, a single branch to make sure things haven't exploded.
How come coursera can’t get some kind of accreditation and offer degrees? There must be some sort of process.
It's important to remember that essentially all human concepts are socially constructed on some level. Even basic ones like 'fish' (is a dolphin a fish? Many cultures would say yes, but modern taxonomy classifies them differently), 'fruit' (is a tomato a fruit?), 'river' (is this a river or a canal?), so it would be truly remarkable to find out that the concepts 'male' and 'female' correspond to objective physical reality - they would be unique among human words!

So no, you don't require CGT to make a distinction between biological sex and the fuzzy notions of 'woman' and 'man'.

To give some examples: is a person with XY chromosomes but Androgen insensitivity (testicles, but a purely female phenotype, including all anatomy, such as a uterus) Male or Female? Purely biologically, obviously male (small, mobile gametes). Would you send this person to male prison? Would they be able to inherit the title of King in medieval society? Should they be encouraged to dress as a man, because that is their biological sex? Should they not be allowed to a gynecologist, since gynecologists are only for women?

Similarly, let's say you have a person with XX chromosomes born with a typical female phenotype, but who has undergone bottom surgery and testosterone therapy, so they now have no breasts, hair on their chest, a penis and apparent testicles. Is this person female? Biologically, yes - they have (or had) large, immobile gametes. Would women feel comfortable if such a person were to undress in a female locker room? Should an advertising company seek to target tampon ads to this person, since they are biologically female? Should they be allowed as a contestant in a Miss America pageant?

The discussion of how malleable the relationship between sex and gender is, and CGT does make arguments in that area that are arguable. But it is not arguable in any way that the concepts 'man' and 'woman' are much fuzzier than biological sex, that they are socially constructed, like all other natural language words and concepts.
I'm not questioning your perspective.

But I looked at using Qt in 1999 and easily decided against it, in part for this reason. Those of us coming from a *nix background got the UTF-8 thing much earlier than people affected by the Microsoft worldview.
Right, designed by the banks who underwrite the IPO -- not necessarily designed by the companies themselves, hence why a SPAC can look (to those companies) like the better option.

The whole sort-of-conflict-of-interest inherent in IPOs has been fascinating for me to learn about.
Now this is an interesting take. I could be misremembering which documentary I saw this in, but if my recollection is correct, the documentary Maxed Out proposed that if everyone returned credit applications sent by mail to sender, the economics of credit applications would be much less feasible because they would pay the return rates. This was in 2006. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxed_Out
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I do not deny that it is great for learning. Just is that learning recognized by anyone?

Or is it something only worth doing for personal fulfillment?

Coursera has a very heavy pitch about employability.
> Having more or less changes what you can/cannot do on the site.

That’s unrelated to the discussion, which is about how visible internet points affect how users engage with each other’s comments.

Site permissions are a different matter altogether, and not applicable to most social networks.
Taking an ML course there right now
However it also has the anathema: bulges.
Alright. More data in total but less per server because it's distributed.

We run a pair of servers both storing everything. It's the least that can be done to have any resiliency.

I would love to distribute the data, preferably per continent, but prometheus didn't have a good story on sharding. Running independent dataset is worthless in practice without the ability to aggregate. Also, the more servers the more expensive (and they're not easy to procure). Running 6 prometheus servers is in the same ballpark as paying for datadog, so might as well just pay for it.
I have shorts with these pockets. Seeing this thread is lol max. I like em.

https://imgur.com/gallery/01bhkbp
> The folks that think it's a method to avoid day-one price pops are mostly incorrect. Price pops are intentional as selling 10% of your company at a discount fills up the IPO book much faster and causes 10x+ oversubscriptions.

Just because it's intentional doesn't mean companies can't still try to avoid it though, right? I'm still pretty uncertain in my knowledge around this, but isn't this actually still a good reason for a company to seek a SPAC deal?
I’d do way better if I could take these courses with a group with people who could motivate me and hold me accountable. Especially if it was in person.

Is anyone working on something like that? When I do a course by myself it’s too easy to let other parts of life take priority.
Don't know if they still do it in the USA, but about a decade ago Sony XBR TVs were able to OTA update from local PBS stations.

I don't know how useful that was. Most people hook up TVs to cable boxes.

I never hooked up my Sony to an antenna for exactly that reason. There were reports of people being unsatisfied with firmware updates. E.g. the motion interpolation algorithm changed.
But is it really neccessary, for religions to be diverse?

How about ethnic religions? Should they open up, too?

I would just stay away from any organisation in the first place (if possible), if they care about my skin color and not my skills.
> Firmware updates are good. They [[can]] patch security issues and they can improve different aspects of the device.

Emphasis mine - updates also remove features and introduce security issues. It's not cut-and-dry "updates are good"

I am pretty sure my Samsung fridge update removed 3 of the limited ~12 or so apps it had in the first place.
It wouldn’t make much sense. Coursera is a platform for other institutions to offer courses.
I put a Coursera certificate on my resume - nobody ever mentioned it yet but I'm keeping it on there for now.
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