skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The login screen one is particularly ridiculous, because my Ubuntu machine takes about as long to wake up as my Windows, but it sensibly buffers the keypresses until it can insert them so I never mistype.

It's just glaringly obvious that nobody has bothered for even a second to think about how to solve the problem (or indeed, just copied the solution that already exists elsewhere).

The start menu on the other hand I gave up on several years ago. I don't know what's in it anymore, and I don't care, because nothing could be worth the >5s wait for it to open.
Some meats are associated with disease (including those eaten in western countries, like trichinosis from pork) and others are not.
“On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness” (1930) by Arthur Guiterman:

The tusks which clashed in mighty brawls

Of mastodons, are billiard balls.

The sword of Charlemagne the Just

Is Ferric Oxide, known as rust.

The grizzly bear, whose potent hug,

Was feared by all, is now a rug.

Great Caesar's bust is on the shelf,

And I don't feel so well myself.
>It's innocent and safe. The government should have no business regulating what people do with seeds.

I feel like that boat has flown, or whatever. It's kind of like saying the government should have no business checking passports or levying an income tax or something.
The lack of a standard lib puts pressure on the ecosystem to provide simple functionality like leftpad for every project. Managing those is diffcult.
Why do we make bad choices?
If you by way of the trail you get there at 530-6 or do before any buses arrive.
There are definitely incorrect animals to consume. I have no problem stating that it is wrong to consume animals from wild populations of species that harbor viruses potentially capable of infecting humans and causing a global pandemic. Also endangered species. If that's controversial, well, it shouldn't be.
Pretty much: http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/mechano.html
(Yes, the same Merkle as in Merkle trees.)
Since the point of this article is he went off on this with no data and plenty of feeling, and then did studies that were roundly criticized for omitting data and bad stats, and his let-it-ride vision of the pandemic is an order of magnitude less lethal then the shut-it-down-sorta we got I figure a good chiding might be in order.
I’ll say that I‘ve dipped my toes recently as well, and sense it might be a real buyers market.

I also could just suck. Like all things, the answer is probably some combination.
There's no need to be rude or accusatory.
Tom Gauld [1] is one of my favourites. He is easily on the same level as Larson and Bill Watterson, in my opinion. Like Watterson he's a very gifted artist; his New Yorker covers are beautiful [2].

Among lesser-known geniuses I would nominate the Icelandic cartoonist Hugleikur Dagsson [3], The Perry Bible Fellowship [4], and Jake Like Onions [5].

[1] https://www.tomgauld.com/

[2] https://www.heartagency.com/artists/tom-gauld/

[3] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002RI9X9W/

[4] https://pbfcomics.com/

[5] https://jakelikesonions.com/
> It is not like playing a sport, except perhaps if you do it competitively :-)

Or if you're into hi-tech trance or frenchcore ;)
Because even though the 'y' was originally a substitute for the thorn rune, it then passed into common language with the 'yee' pronunciation. Given that this poem was written in the 1800s, I would guess it's meant to be pronounced with the 'y' sound and not a 'th' sound.
I've always wondered about this since I read about Richard Feynman investigating reversible computing.

I think it was too early for people to value or adopt the idea, since moore's law was on trajectory and nothing was slowing it down.

It's interesting (and good) to see that maybe it will be what helps take us further up the curve.
I’m curious to know if you think the animals the west consume which cause disease are satisfactory.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-national-pulse/

Please keep this garbage out of here
Good to know. BBCRM?
Among other things, this is exactly my experience. I was invited to virtual on-site interview earlier this year due to covid19. After the 3rd round, I was told to wait there and the next interviewer would come online soon. Two hours passed, no one showed up. That was it. No response or whatever ever since. And btw, no one communicated with me beforehand what the interview would look like. I asked the headhunter but they had no idea either.

It was really weird interview experience. They gave me the impression that they're really a group of "elite" engineers. It's a general SWE (not quant) interview but they asked quite a bit of mathematics and statistics questions. At some point I can feel arrogance from one of the interviewers.
Pretty much any animal except pangolins and bats that does not carry COVID & friends...
Not if they are from wild populations, or raised in a way that they could be exposed to viruses from wild populations, or if they are endangered species.
analytical and critical thinking, good grasp on spoken and written communication in english, some coding. experience with running business operations and product line creation. love to know how things work, especially businesses.
I knew someone teaching it in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
I've read that you can take some courses from WGU[1] to qualify, again no personal experience with them.

[1] https://www.wgu.edu/
Wait, why would a CRT be faster than LCD? If anything, I'd naively expect faster response with no electron beam to move.
> infecting humans and causing a global pandemic

Kinda like the swine flu?
The Greatest Political Strategist in History
Yeah the state government is too poor and devoid of tax dollars, so they can’t do anything about that unfortunately.
Because we're Democrats?
We have two carriers sitting in the ocean near China right now due to tensions regarding their oceanic claims and Hong Kong, so people are a bit tense right now.
The trailer for the final season of Breaking Bad had Walter White (Bryan Cranston) reciting one of the versions to great effect and quite well sums up the big series storyline:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T3dpghfRBHE
What kind of seeds are they?
That's not 20% time. That's a project for your primary work area.
This is the part that doesn't make sense: these items don't have Delivery Confirmation. They're untracked. I even entered in a few from the Facebook link below where people posted their own screenshots, and yep, UJ.........CN tracking numbers aren't tracked once they reach USA.

So what's the point of sending out anything at all?

Just include any old tracking number for any other legit purchase as proof of sending something on an illegit purchase.
Lynx take epic, 2k-mile treks–but why is a mystery
Ya can’t tell me Bezos doesn’t know this.

How isn’t this enabling fraud?

Shouldn’t be able to completely change the listing. Versión bumps might be ok maybe?
The thing is, platforms don't really care, it adds to their GMV and fees, in turn it boosts their valuation.
That's why we should only consume pigs raised in captivity with no exposure to wild populations. If that's where you get your bats or pangolins from, and you actually have enforcement and verification of that, then no problem. (Except that pangolins are endangered of course.)
Because it is not location tracking. It is simpler. It just records nearby pings of other phones.
Ancient teeth show history of epidemics is much older than we thought
Heat is radiated as infrared light in a vacuum, and it's an extremely slow process compared to convection and conduction. Read about black body radiation[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation
These packages are untracked and don't have delivery confirmation. I checked a few. So I don't know what's going on.
Maybe also customs would get suspicious if they start detecting empty boxes?
In the post, but easy to miss:

>I do a lot of data processing in SQL Server which can be really memory intensive (no, the cloud is not always the solution to this, I've got a draft blog post on that)

Add to that: video/photo editing, live-streaming, development, and general purpose usage, and it's not an unreasonable setup.
Lol. I was looking for the openjdk source code. Was confused about current status. Good to know.
But seeds cast a whole other dimension onto this problem... It is not a problem if they send you a cheap plastic bracelet but seeds can have unforseen consequences
Application might be able to make choices about APIs that affect output latency. Hardware swap chain (AKA multi-plane overlay) is going to be visible on the screen at least one full vsync faster than something that's composited on a frame buffer. In the best case, this measuring method wouldn't see any difference in such case. In the worst case reading pixels from the screen might even misleadingly measure worse due to triggering a corner case code path in the window compositor.

Using an emulated legacy API (like Windows GDI) might yield a very low latency score in this test, even though it might take much longer to actually be visible on the display.
> if a state uses federal funds for any community development project, some forcing function will cause them to stop single family zoning.

This is specifically about two types of grants (not all federal funds for community development) and it does not require the elimination of single family zoning.

> federal funds going to single family zoning

What does it mean for funds to "go to" single family zoning? CDB grants are largely allocated to specific cites and counties already and the portion that is given to states is mostly spent on projects in urban areas[1].

> if a state uses federal funds specifically to fund single family funded communities, they must move toward ending single family zoning. States can continue receiving federal funds as long as they don't spend them on single family zoned communities.

The actual proposal is weaker than your proposal since there is no requirement to move towards ending single family zoning.

> Disagree it is ironic, disagree it is clear I haven't researched it

The conversation has moved from "abolish suburbs" to "a proposal to require certain cites to make a plan to implement policies that reduce barriers to housing development". So either you were being disingenuous originally or hadn't researched the topic. It's also the exact sort of emotionally charged rhetoric you were decrying earlier.

[1] https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/cdbg/cdbg-expenditure-...
> It is surprisingly difficult to make synchronisation work between two devices that might run different hard- and firmware and even potentially software versions. Cloud based APIs as middleware is soo much easier in comparison.

Even if that were true (and it's not), it's not how Garmin sync works. The website isn't cloud based middleware, and the watch and phone sync over bluetooth. It really is as dumb and frustrating as the OP describes.

Before syncing with the watch, over bluetooth, the app connects to the Garmin website. If the web connection fails then the transfer fails.
Haven't they been eyeing that since the 60s?
Space Oddity – 1927 Rocket to Venus
This poem often reminds me of geological timescale, which occurs over millions of years or more. For example, the Carnian Pluvial Event was a relatively humid rainy era that lasted for millions of years, beyond most of our comprehension in practical terms (https://laughingsquid.com/why-it-rained-for-two-million-year...), even though it's a relatively discrete period of time in the grand scheme of Earth. Even the Permian extinction, the largest extinction event in the history of known life, unfolded for over 60000 years. That is a flicker on geological timescales, but supercedes by a wide margin the period of recorded human history.
Imagine they’re Asparagus asparagoides.

Oops!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagus_asparagoides
The NES-CRT connection is analog and the screen is drawn line by line, if you connect a digital monitor that will have to be buffered and you get some delay/lag of min 1 frame.
Only for the lucky 50million-ish year window we are currently in

https://astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2000/10/why-is-the-...
You’re probably right about the demand. Our population is higher now, and there’s the microdosing trend to account for, but it’s certainly not in the public consciousness in the same way cannabis is—I’m almost as certain that that IS higher than ever.

I’m curious about your last statement. Scaling makes sense as a cost factor, but are you saying that lower barriers for production would increase the cost? That seems backwards to me.
How does that compare to 144hz 1ms response gaming monitors? I know that late CRT’s handily beat early flatscreens but does that still hold?
In China they usually need to pay 1 to 1.5 dollars for someone willingly doing it for them, it's open secret and an entire industry, it feeds platform's ranking/recommendation system to get ahead, sometimes platforms actively encourage it.

You may have heard of the Singles Day shopping event, it's common for sellers to boost their revenue that day to meet requirements from platforms, like selling a cheap T-shirt for $150 then refund it upon receiving the package.
If you want a really well rounded finance background, you could pursue the level 1 CFA exam, or the curriculum of it. If you are not looking to pass the current exam, you can get older books for almost nothing used.

If you want to actually pass the exam, you need to register and get the current curriculum. You should be prepared to put in to 200 to 300 hours of study for this, though. Its a lot of material.

If you are not looking to pass the exam, I would recommend going through the accounting section and the economics section. The corporate finance section would probably also be useful.

If you were to pursue all 3 exams and pass, you would have a knowledge base that exceeds an MBA in finance. The MBA has other things the CFA can't give you though like project and presentation experience.
Think it through a bit more:

If obesity were taxed, there would be pressure to put loopholes in those taxes. Somatypes and "thrifty genome" and so on would be perfect hooks to hang those loopholes on. Result? Questioning that science becomes politically untenable, at least in some universities and research labs. After all, "the grants just follow the illiction returns", as the poet once said:

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1987/9/29/borking-up-the-...
I don't agree with this at all. If the software doesn't care to make keypresses responsive how does this philosophy translate to anything more complicated than reading and rendering the result of these keystrokes? The answer is pretty obvious if you try any of the slower editors pointed out in the article (or pretty much 90% of software written in the last decade). It doesn't take a person with sensory hypersensitivity to pick up on the differences.
Asparagus asparagoides

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagus_asparagoides
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2019/08/chinas-military-pur...

Some possibly biased but interesting references on Chinese government efforts in this area.
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I’m not sure being wild is a good indicator. I would think the opposite might be true wherein industrial farming and close quarters would cause more disease, just like how we talk about population density and covid-19. If you aren’t exposed to others, disease can’t spread. For instance, H1N1 didn’t start in the wild. And it didn’t start with an exotic animal. But it was a global pandemic.

The only position you can safely hold is to not eat meat. A weaker position could be around the sanitation and care of stock and its preparation. But what you eat doesn’t matter, be it pig or dog or squirrel or bat.
It’s sad he’s mostly devolved into pandering to right-wing memes, selling anti-SJW calendars and other stuff that’s really just beneath him, I guess to try and remain relevant or make a buck. His early zines were funny and fantastic.
My 8 year old asked "what if they find out about instructions to burn and mix something that produced dangerous gas upon burning?".

I hope she doesn't join a radical militant outfit when she grows up.
It makes sense. Voyager I was powered with nuclear energy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_1#Power
Ill-defined descriptions of how to teach (or manage) better often seem a bit silly to me.

In these fields, people generally improve with a bit of experience and effort, to the point where they're happy with the results they're getting.

Having a fancy framework might help (by giving them some cognitive "pegs" to hang various observations on), or hurt (by distracting them with meaningless or biased assertions).

It's like the four humours in medicine. Maybe it helped some doctors to spot patterns and offer treatment. Maybe it just gave them a toolkit to dismiss their failures with some silly hand-waves. Maybe it distracts them. Who knows.

A good acid tests is whether teaching in red underpants could also be a good method. When you first start teaching in red underpants, it might seem a bit unusual, but you'll gradually learn to do it more proficiently. You'll have to wash them every day the right way (if you don't, you might experience some trouble in class, but at least you'll know how to fix things next time!). You can also develop some useful cognitive "pegs" to spot problems - maybe you realise at the start of a class that you're potentially "riding high" (whatever that would mean in terms of student behaviour) so you need to adjust your teaching to compensate - what the underpants are doing and how they impact the teaching is irrelevant, but at least you have a word for what you are seeing, right?
I believe completely changing the listing can sometimes trigger a review. But most of the times, they change it slowly in separate revisions so it is impossible to detect.
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You are correct that the Buzzfeed article includes that quote, but I'm extremely doubtful that Ioannidis ever made this prediction. I'm guessing that they are misinterpreting his "Fiasco in the making" article: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a....

In that, he says: Projecting the Diamond Princess mortality rate onto the age structure of the U.S. population, the death rate among people infected with Covid-19 would be 0.125%. But since this estimate is based on extremely thin data — there were just seven deaths among the 700 infected passengers and crew — the real death rate could stretch from five times lower (0.025%) to five times higher (0.625%). It is also possible that some of the passengers who were infected might die later, and that tourists may have different frequencies of chronic diseases — a risk factor for worse outcomes with SARS-CoV-2 infection — than the general population. Adding these extra sources of uncertainty, reasonable estimates for the case fatality ratio in the general U.S. population vary from 0.05% to 1%.

This strikes me as the sort of thing a careful statistician might say. He then goes on to say that if the rate is at the lower end of this, a shutdown would be unwarranted: A population-wide case fatality rate of 0.05% is lower than seasonal influenza. If that is the true rate, locking down the world with potentially tremendous social and financial consequences may be totally irrational.

One can definitely disagree with his reasoning, but based on this article I can't see how Buzzfeed would be justified in claiming that he "predicted that roughly 10,000 Americans could die", unless you are interpreting "could" very literally as a lower bound. I'd definitely update my opinion of Ioannidis negatively if you can find evidence that he confidently predicted that such a small number of deaths the most likely outcome. Conversely, I'd hope you might update toward seeing the article as a "hit piece" if you can't find any such evidence.
>>> but for external access it was not clear how to limit the queries to the parts of the database the user had permission to view.

You can filter your entire db on the server to only include a subset of datoms
If you use extremely low leakage switches and capacitors, this technique can be used to add and subtract voltages at very high precision: https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data...
Well, it's absolutely not weird. Capacitors are happy to change current instantaneously but not voltage. It's in their spec: i=CdV/dt. If you charge a capacitor to a particular voltage, and then disconnect the capacitor entirely from its circuit, it still holds that voltage. Swap "+" and "-" and you have a negative output. Couple many capacitors together in an array of switches and you can make nearly any voltage you please, but integer multiples are easiest.
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I have to say I’m impressed by how far PHP has come. I haven’t written any in years (well over a decade, even) but the commitment to improving a language many have written off as a dead end is laudable.
I know it is good to build nuclear power plants away from habitation, but this seems a bit impractical.
I was thinking about this recently. Tight, centralized control over servers, employees computers, and devices is hard to set up, hard to manage, and a huge surface where misconfigurations can allow attackers to jump right in.

Decentralization is the key. Microservices, or segregated services, stateless (as much as possible), and perhaps even partitioning groups of users into totally separated instances. One group gets attacked and service only goes out for the 1000 users in the group. Of course, infrastructure costs would go up but maybe not that much (since you need less resources for 1000 users than 100,000). This is relatively easy to build from scratch these days thanks to various IaaS providers and DevOps tools (obviously hard for established companies with legacy tech).

Then, keep employee computers totally separate from production servers. Let employees back them up themselves, especially since so much can just be stored in the cloud (I'll get there next). Forget about VPNs where everyone can talk to everyone else. Don't try to save money by hosting your own Jira and Bitbucket instances. Pay extra for Atlassian to host for you, then let them deal with security (actually it's cheaper from what I remember). Companies already pay for Office 365 and don't self-host that. Don't host your own email servers. Just focus on the core of what the company needs to do and that's it.

This way you spread your attack surface across a whole bunch of services that are better than you at security, and you get the benefit of not having to deal with other issues. If Atlassian or Cloudflare goes down, no big deal; they'll fix it. And all your other stuff still works.
In the US, 35% of the deaths among Hispanics were people under 65, and 29% of the deaths among non-white people. 13% for whites. Overall, 24.4% of deaths were from people under 65. [1]

That doesn't sound like predominately affecting people in their 70s and above to me.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6928e1.htm
Or Dendrocnide moroides:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides#Toxicity
Centuries-old paintings help researchers track food evolution
Polluting other stars?!? Great idea. F nuclear