skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so basically, the God entity withdrew (contracted, rescinded) its infinite presence and thus us finite creatures came to be?

I had thought that the nature of the void (i.e. nothingness), or rather, its lack of a nature is what allowed stuff to freely appear into existence (as many times as it wants).

the void imposes no restrictions because it is not really there to impose them.

stuff pops freely into being without requiring any reasoning; requiring a reason would be a restriction which would need to be somehow imposed.

in contrast, they say that, in fact, there wasn't a void, there was only a God entity filling up everything until this entity withdrew from a part of itself (from another part of itself I suppose) so form a space (or a void?) into which creation subsequently appeared
This.

The value I got out of university was mostly not tuition, but I think overall, (very pre-pandemic) the whole package was worth it. I've learnt vastly more by reading, engaging with people, and doing both before and after university though, for much less cost.

I've also never been on a paid training or course that was worth the cost and didn't involve something above and beyond the tuition (networking, project based, access to facilities/tools/data, etc.). The only times this obviously isn't true are when you're gaining some required or coveted industry certification, and then that's only because of the value attached to it, not the value of the learning itself vs other ways to gain the same skills/knowledge.

The lesson for me has been that for any course or school there's got to be an expected benefit way beyond the perceived value of the tuition, and that most of the time this doesn't exist.

I think paid training in companies is likely as popular as it is mostly because it feels a bit like a vacation and most companies don't allow, or don't make it socially acceptable, for people to take sufficient time off for their own long term wellbeing.
It is not YC’s job to support the company. That is the founders job. I’d suggest money supporting the company at seed diverts from a focus on monetary fit asap. $25k is enough to scrap by for enough months which should be the initial goal
Well said, I don't believe it is beneficial increase a person's anxiety to extreme levels just because some people think that makes them work harder.
They did diffusion tensor imaging. What this does, using MRI, is determine the local anisotropy of water flow in each voxel. You assume that this anisotropy aligns with with the axis of axons, since they limit the diffusion of water across their axis (water diffuses along them). You can then use the principal directions of the diffusion tensor to estimate in what direction the water, i.e. the axons are "flowing" giving you an approximate picture of how axons connect different parts of the brain.
Powerful Earthquake Strikes Off Alaska Coast; No Reports of Damage or Injury
"non-producer"? Oh, you mean human being.
That depends completely on what type of business you're running. Anyone that has an environment that is unlikely to massively change (expansion excluded) within a few years benefits from the stability of Nagios. I know many large companies that use it, or derivatives of it, and even many state/military organizations.
I’ve tried this and I tried just gdocs like everyone at google did. Gdocs seems better for iterating because github review ui sucks (and everyone else sucks even more). If google critique was publicly available I’d much prefer markdown for designs
I kind of remember an extension with this functionality but I cant find it right now.
Maybe someone who plays the game could clear it up. I did some searching, and it appears as though the ordinal ranks on the x axis are just buckets of players in ranges of 25 points in each bucket. The underlying rating system for these rating points is apparently something like Elo or Glicko, but I couldn't find a source that explicitly says what.
Linux Kernel Blacklists “Blacklist”
I'm not sure what you mean by "enabled and sustained by political protection" in this context. Facebook and Twitter didn't have to build the web infrastructure, but there were other social networks in existence before those two became dominant. I'm not sure how we perceive their network effects as non-self-built.

Facebook beat out competitors with two advantages: access to primary sources (they primed the network with college students) and requirement to use real names, which set them apart from other persona-based social networks at the time and encouraged people to be their "normal selves" on FB. Turns out, that's what a lot of people wanted; relative to the cyberpunk-esque other options, it felt "normal and safe." They made a market choice and it paid off for them.
Pocketbook Colour – E-reader with colour screen
Small sample size, but this is consistent with what I've observed in some specialized people... For example, I have an uncle that is absolutely brilliant. He's an excellent lawyer and can remember any fact that even slightly interests him. He's simultaneously the most absentminded person I've ever met - he forgets meetings, is always mindlessly snacking (despite being on a diet for pre-diabetes) and generally forgetting things that he doesn't deem to be important. It always feels like he traded something that "normal" humans have for his smarts. It might just be mild autism, but it seems to me like savant autism is an extreme example of this effect.
A more accurate ASVAB?
About to self publish my first book [Motivational post]
5 tips and motivation for all aspiring Indie Hackers:

Never doubt yourself. It is your self perception that either limits yourself or give you "wings".

I sold 13 books so far (Pre launch stage). This was only possible because I was out there. There are million books - so what. There are million authors - so what. Start with something. Plant the seed and grow.

Any achievement is an achievement. Be proud of yourself and of how much you make from your project. Keep your attitude positive.

Give back to community and to the planet. The planet is our home and the community is the people we share it with. Make this place better by being better, respect and give back. That's why I share this post with you and why for every book sold on Gumroad I will plant a tree in the Amazon Rainforest.

Remember to enjoy life and put some time off your side-project. Life is more than just work-work-work. Eat good and healthy food, spend time with friends and family, travel and stay fit.

My book: https://gum.co/side-project
The decision is pretty prominently placed on the publish modal. I think you'd probably notice.
What I learned creating 12inch.reviews, a mashup of Spotify and Pitchfork
Ah indeed, I was wrong. You will get approximately 6 false positives for every true positive.

Unfortunately I can't edit my comment anymore.
I smell a DoD grant in the making!
Also gold medals aren't being used as hiring criteria for technical careers.
Welcome to the TimescaleDB community! In case it is helpful, we wrote a tool to easily migrate from InfluxDB to TimescaleDB:

https://docs.timescale.com/latest/tutorials/outflux
And they don’t have the same security properties as bitcoin does.
I predict amazon will buy slack. This move makes sense if you think about it.

0] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/04/amazon-licenses-slack-for-wo...
Gitlab 13.2
No doubt that the community around courses could be improved, but I think it's also a matter of enthusiasm. People are probably a lot more enthusiastic about Rocket League than about some online degree. (Whether that's how it should be is a different issue...) Anyway, that naturally leads to higher participation in communities etc. So I don't know if online course makers even have that much influence over community building in the first place.
Depending on your field a masters degree in anything is seen equivalent to every other masters degree. And on the other side of the spectrum, they're not considered useful by many employers/jobs.
It’s a good epiphany to have - you can offload pretty much anything to your subconscious mind, and call it intuition. Everything can be like playing the piano or riding a bicycle, and utterly automatic. It saves a vast amount of conscious cognitive effort, which can be spent on novelty instead, feeding the underlying machine new patterns, new quanta of information.

It’s like diagnosing sick systems - I don’t think about it, at all - I just look, listen, observe, take in the landscape and the music of the machine, and then point at the problem. Software, mechanical systems, networks, any domain where I have enough knowledge to know what I’m looking at, the pattern recognition system can handle the rest. It makes people think that I have expertise in many domains, but really, I’m just a one-trick system-grokking pony.

The structure and function of the animal brain is remarkable. Only a few weeks ago, I was noting the habits of a hornet, which tended to pass by the same point at the same time each day, and marvelled that such a tiny handful of neurons could manage not only flight and navigation of 3d space, but a routine, habits, behaviour. What the many orders of magnitude more grey matter we have might be capable of beggars belief. There’s the old bullshit adage that you only use 1% of your brain, but there’s perhaps truth to the idea that most people horribly underutilise the power of their minds, because they have been trained to think, not to intuit.
Many in person classes are not worth the cost of full tuition.
The Defenestration of Bari Weiss
Sweden saw the same level of damage to their export-oriented industries as their neighbours did, but less damage to the service industries that are directly affected by a lockdown and less of a decrease in mobility: https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2020/06/01/na060120-swe... You can't just lump the two together and claim it shows that not locking down causes about the same level of economic damage as locking down, especially given that those export losses are presumably directly attributable to their neighbours' lockdowns.
> except to schedule patients for more frequent traditional testing

That sounds very useful to me!
The problem is that you don’t want to treat every cancer like it’s potentially life-threatening (many aren’t) because you can cause other problems with detection/treatment. I’d want any early detection to be pretty damn solid if we’re going to start talking monthly checkups for something that could resolve on its own.

Using an SCM tool isn’t going to cause additional problems except for reminding yourself of all the dumb mistakes you made last week.
Defenses for Data Poisoning Attacks [pdf]
I'm not sure what you mean by "this" but I suspect you mean Nagios XI or some other corporate offering. I was referring to the core monitoring component and its forks/derivatives.

Other than that I don't quite understand the point of your comment, you say you have "severe reservations" but many of the points you list are available even with Nagios core, and most of them are available in other Nagios variants.
Ben and Jerry’s Perfected the Delicate Recipe for Corporate Activism
Don’t, is always the simplest answer. Global state that is non-constant, causes all sorts of testing issues down the line. It should be avoided.

Edit: since a lot of folks are reading this as saying “never” rather than “avoided”. The point here is to keep access to data and state restricted. The entire application does not need to know that some piece of data is global. If you design a central container in a generic manner, it can restrict access to globals in a way that allows for easier refactoring in the future. It also allows one to design users of those globals in a way that doesn’t leak the fact that these things are global.

By doing this, you don’t leak globals through the application, and you keep things isolated in a way that allows for easier testing.
I wonder whether said balancing mechanism can be bypassed to achieve broader connectivity, and if so, what the consequences of that are. Sounds like they do not know the specific mechanism yet.
I don’t think it necessarily has to be negative (which being a grifter implies). I think there are just some people who think of life as a game where you need to collect as many badges of “honor” as possible. Undergrad degree, business school, graduate degree, incubator, spouse, zip code, country club, etc.
I think you should ask yourselves why you are drawing blue rectangles. What is their purpose? Do they just happen to be blue? Or are they blue because they have they all "do the same job"? Maybe you should have

drawInlineHelpBox(x0, y0, x1, y1)

or

drawEnergyShield(x0, y0, x1, y1)

We can see from the language that unlike your example this is a true abstraction. You went from color parameter to a specific color. It's both phrased in terms of colors.

But here we go from color to ui elements. The terminology is completely different.

def drawEnergyShield(shield_capacity, incoming_dps, x0, y0, x1, y1):
hue = incoming_dps / shield_capacity
alpha = shield_capacity / 200
drawRectangle(hsva_color(hue, 1, 1, alpha), x0, y0, x1, y1)

And I think you should embrace having business logic in there.
I am just storing ephemeral id and username in JWT and put the encrypted id in a separate cookie.
My kneejerk concern is that this result will be used to attack or dismiss the idea/existence/manifestation of genius.
Why does this person have a particular issue...

No one knows for sure. This person also has issues with other tiny pieces of the federal budget, such as the CPB.

Various theories are advanced, such as political strategy (kill mail-in-ballots, NPR is seen as leaning slightly left) or profiteering (the USPS has a large pension fund, perhaps an appealing target for a corporate raid).
Ran into this issue with a crate that uses CUDA in Rust - how do you hang onto the pointer to CUBLAS/CUDNN so that all CUDA functions use the same pointers and also it goes out of scope at the end of execution.

The big problem is the second part - lazy static doesn't allow you to run destructors, and this is one of the few times you really need a custom destructor to tell Rust to kill the CUBLAS/CUDNN pointers at appropriate times.

Ended up connecting it to a struct so that the destructor could be tied to the object rather than anything else, but lazystatic's (lack of) story around destructors definitely created a bunch of problems that weren't apparent until we started finding memory leaks.
The state was far from complete failure, very far from it. Nowhere near Syria.

The state kept control of the military. Troops were orderly demobilised.

The criminality was comparatively low in comparison to Putin's years. The state-mafia fusion came long after the years immediately following the collapse.

The same is for much of the industry, much of it has failed over nineties, and not immediately after.

The remnants of state economy at least managed to keep supplies going. Utilities in cities on "life support" were failing, but otherwise kept working at any cost.

If Russia will fail today, the collapse will be much less gradual, and this time, there will be a civil war, and warlordism, and famine, and mass humanitarian catastrophy.
And here I am in Belgium, paying 2000 a year for a Masters degree.
You can do these things (and much, much more) with the new Flux language
Yes - but this is what every company does at founding. Get really lean, survive on whatever it can. Founders should expect company building to be a nervous and anxiety inducing endeavor for 7 years. It is incredibly painful - and not for those who see it closer to a paid sabbatical
US Cloud Gaming Subscriptions Target $3B
Seems 2020 might finally bring colour e-readers [1], something I've certainly been waiting for.

This specific one appears to be delayed until end of July [2].

[1] https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/these-are-al...

[2] https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/pocketbook-c...
For sure but then the question I would have is can we take cues from enthusiasm around Rocket League and bring those into the community?

The real time ranking system I think is the root of a lot of this. It allows people to know where they stand and they can look to the community on how to improve their game.
Naver transfers Hong Kong backup data to Singapore
Yeah, he calls it a "filtering function"... yes, to filter out people without safety nets.
"[..] that the disease did not kill 1%"

This is new for me. My understanding is that the current total mortality estimation is a little below 1% but, as you say, very skewed to old people.

That is: for old people is a lot more that 1%

Can you share any data that contradict that?
Yeah that sounds clear. Awesome puzzle game, very educational.
I like it because it disadvantages the politically competent types while advantaging the technically competent types. Guess which category I fall into.
The thing this has me thinking about is, assuming Slack wins this lawsuit, can MS no longer add any more fully featured products to Office? Not saying that is good vs bad, it just becomes interesting if their position suddenly means they must create new bundles for new offerings and cannot ever leverage existing offerings to get into a market.

Perhaps that would be fair, being such a massive company. I just don't know.
Depends on what you think of the value of school is. Given the distribution of outcomes and skills, the effect of a degree for the vast majority in the long tail of graduates is just tribal affiliation with the people who achieve in the upper percentiles. For most people, simply paying for the credential without attending classes would deliver most of the value. Traditionally, this was known as "purchasing a commission," (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purchase_of_commissions_in_the...), and today we do the same thing with student debt.

Online classes may be a forcing function for the discussion of how to price education, but the question itself has been the elephant in the room for decades.
What's missing from this discussion is a history of Universities. In the 19th century, as a student, you paid to be tutored by a professor to pass a standardized exam. Professors were paid by for tutoring. Profs were expected to teach classes, but were not paid for it. It was a means of recruiting students to tutor. Classes were also small, more like seminars.
You can absolutely hire a rockstar dev, you need to think in terms of cashflow. You may not be able to pay a full year of salary, but you can still pay their full weekly salary as you go until you either run out of money or produce enough revenue to get to that point.
The missing piece of the puzzle is that in US law, there are some very specific groups of people who are carved out as having special protection (the general guiding philosophy is: it's not legal to discriminate against people for some innate qualities, including race or gender).

So the missing piece of the puzzle is: which of the protected groups would every member of QAnon fall under? There's no law against discriminating against people who believe the QAnon conspiracy and spread it.
I’d suggest the opposite. One who is used to living off $1k a month for 1-2 years have an upper hand on founders used to a more cushy lifestyle. Or even having no income and almost broke for years like many successful founders I know of.
Terraform OPA Integration
Scalr has introduced its Infrastructure as Code Platform, which is a remote operations backend for Terraform. The Open Policy Agent integration is one of the main differentiators that reduces stack complexity and lock-in from proprietary standards with open source principals.
Slack needed to learn 4 years ago that it takes more than a decent chat app to make a company fully remote. It's a critical piece of it, but your wiki, knowledge base, and business planning software are all part of it too. Microsoft bundles all of these into one package, I fail to see how they are anti-competitive when they aren't even selling the same products.

Slack failed to see how fragile their product was and now needs to be acquired or make their own productivity suite.
>"Many browsers today are gigantic resource hogs, which are basically VMs for various web applications..."

Other code can run inside of a browser VM as well, including but not limited to: malware, spyware, surveillance capitalism apps, tracking, and other privacy-violating code/apps, and with unpatched flaws and zero-days, privilege escalation/bypass-the-browser-to-run-directly-on-your-OS-code can run, which can be inception points for worms, viruses, and all other manner of unwanted software...

>"On the other hand, Links is a HTML browser."

Thank God someone understands the dangers of modern-day browser VM's!

>"Links is a graphics and text mode web browser, released under GPL. Links is a free software.

• Links runs on Linux, BSD, UNIX in general, OS/2, Cygwin under Windows, AtheOS, BeOS, FreeMint.

• Links runs in graphics mode (mouse required) on X Window System (UNX, Cygwin), SVGAlib, Linux Framebuffer, OS/2 PMShell, AtheOS GUI

• Links runs in text mode (mouse optional) on UNX console, ssh/telnet virtual terminal, vt100 terminal, xterm, and virtually any other text terminal. Mouse is supported for GPM, xterm, and OS/2. Links supports colors on terminal.

• Easy and quick user control via pull-down menu in both text and graphics mode, in 25 languages.

• HTML 4.0 support (without CSS)

• HTTP 1.1 support

• Tables, frames in both graphics and text mode, builtin image display in graphics mode

• Builtin image display for GIF, JPEG, PNG, XBM, TIFF in graphics mode

• Anti-advertisement animation filter in animated GIFs

• Bookmarks

• Background file downloads

• Automatic reconnection in case of TCP connection breakdown

• Keepalive connections

• Background (asynchronous) DNS lookup

• Possibility to hook up external programs for all MIME types, possibility to choose one of more programs at every opening.

• 48-bit high-quality image gamma correction, resampling and Floyd-Steinberg dithering in all color depths.

• Font resampling (antialiasing) for virtually unlimited pitch range, LCD optimization of fonts and images."

• Builtin fonts in the executable without reliance on any fonts installed in the system

• User-adjustable menu, HTML font size and image zoom factor.

• User-adjustable display gammas (red, green, blue), viewing-condition correction gamma and precise calibration of both monitor and Links on a calibration pattern

• Automatic aspect ratio correction for modes like 640x200, 640x400, 320x200 with user-adjustable manual aspect ratio correction.

• Support for one-wheel mice (vertical scroll), two-wheel mice (vertical and horizontal scroll) and smooth scrolling by grabbing the plane with a mouse (no wheel needed).

• Easy installation, the browser is just one executable and no more files.

My comments: Thank you for writing Links!!!
No, but they were written using the Closure Compiler type annotations. So closer to TS than plain JS.
IMHO you are absolutely right. I would add that also it mixes reading from left to right with from right to left (think: P(b|a) P(a)). Personally, I really dislike that it made the trend that we use:

v_after = A_3 A_2 A_1 v

not (what I would consider more straightforward)

v_after = v A_1 A_2 A_3
> Polarizers essentially just project the electric field of the wave onto some axis

Where goes the energy of the orthogonal component of the field? Absorbed by the polarizer, reflected, ... ?
USB-C really needs to support charging + displayport altmode
(simultaneously if possible, to plug in something like this:
https://www.amazon.de/Cable-Matters-DisplayPort-Multiport-Ad...)
Ah, that is a bug the dotfile should not be there. Thanks!
GEDmatch Goes Haywire
Not really, as demonstrated: A: Why must there be a god? T: The universe had to come from somewhere; how do you explain all of this; something must have created it! A: Who created god? T: God has always existed. A: WTH.