skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of many such stories of indomitable courage and persistence is that of Jyoti Kumari, a 15-year-old native of Bihar's Darbhanga (Indian village), who travelled on a bicycle for 7 days carrying her wounded father and covered more than 1,200 km from Gurgaon in Haryana to her village because public transport was shut due to Covid.

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/bihar-girl-who-cycled-1-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23401308 for my conspiracy theory on how Hitler wound up in the bunker, without requiring he be a madman.

(Any good recent Hitler rants? Or has that meme fallen into desuetude?)
To preface, I disagree on the pandemic damage vs lockdowns damage (other than the economy, projected increase in deaths from heart disease, cancer, increase in suicides and domestic violence and (in the developing world) starvation, malaria, tuberculosis, reported by UN and WHO).

I also estimate the risks of COVID to be 10-20x of flu (and I had a relative who died from flu complications - maths is still maths), so I take 20x the precautions compared to what I do for flu in a year when I forget to get the shot... 20x of almost nothing is just a little more than nothing.

But that has been discussed above, with much better words and numbers.

I only have one unique contribution. A little bonus that made me happy to go outside to closed outdoor areas during stay-home orders, visit (willing) friends at the height of the lockdown, and hit the gyms and restaurants as soon as they opened with work-to-rule mask wearing and distancing, is that it makes unjustifiably sanctimonious people angry.
Really liked this book, and agree that you must draw what you see, not what you know - e.g for an eye, areas of light and dark and their relative positions, not an ellipse with a circle in it. That said, it is worth understanding some basic anatomical rules - e.g. that a persons eyes are halfway up their head, not near the top.

This is why drawing people is such a good test. If you draw a house or a tree, you can get proportions wrong and it can still look credible. But the same types of error stand out glaringly in a picture of a person.
How do you use stocks to your financial advantage?
Calling Nietzsche a nihilist is a complete misrepresentation of him. He wrote on nihilism a lot, but only to criticize it. Nietzsche believed holding a nihilist viewpoint to mean that one, in short, has failed at life.

It's more accurate to call Nietzsche an existentialist, as long as one keeps in mind that this term can refer to a wide spectrum of different moral and ontological ideas.
What I'm saying is that if someone shows they are completely unwilling to either look at the facts, or just don't care that their actions have such an outsized negative impact, what can I do? They are literally holding everyone else hostage because they don't want to change. That's not negotiation, and the only "policy" that will work for them is "whatever they want".

That said, I don't think this is how people are. I think people are living in a deep cognitive dissonance and refusing to see the facts, not acknowledging them and saying they don't care.

That's not a policy problem, that a problem of educating people that do not want to be educated. Should the rest of the populace just shift our views away from reality so people that don't want to face it can get a better deal out of some policy? That won't lead to an acceptable outcome either, when the policy in question is about public safety.
One nuance to make is that having trees doesn't necessarily equal a forest. Lots of agroforestry ends up being a monoculture with very limited biodiversity.
Can address this with probabilistic checks. Download random pieces of your data and ensure it has acceptable latencies. If not, move the data to a different provider.

By erasure coding your data over many providers, you minimize the amount of harm that a couple of bad apples can cause.
...and if they forget that, they can just edit the source code in "command.com"

https://dilbert.com/strip/1994-02-01
Unlike most of you fellows, my coding skills are akin to those of a dog. However, I can draw like an angel. From this experience, I can say that they both manifest as complex syntax, and this syntax can be elegant or clunky, succinct or elaborate, effective or ineffective.

The key difference seems to be the different ways that they can fail. Code can break in ways that are beyond argument. Certainly a drawing can break, but it is always possible to claim that it has not (e.g. 'I drew one foot larger than the other on purpose').
While on paper that analogy is sound, I feel in practice the asks being made are more extreme and disruptive than short-term water conservation. Others may disagree.
The Law Enforcement not gonna to allow Rust to live. Rust must Die. We need Zerodays to protect our citizens. Fuck you all Rust and Bitcoin Retards.
>A key feature is indexing the maximum amount i.e. what a person with 0 income would receive to typical cost of living at state or country level. This way it auto adjusts.

If you pick a value too low it does not actually keep someone alive, fed, and housed.

If you pay enough to live half the shitty jobs everyone hates become not worth doing.
Notice how the system cools by absorbing heat from a body, but the greenhouse theory says that the earth surface warms from air absorbing heat from it. The GHE is pseudo-science.
Even time off work? Do you have no understanding of other people? How can you assume that's an option for people?!
Right at 9am pacific too. Good reason for me to wrap up in APAC. Thanks Google!
People becoming more careful maybe?
> the reason most families stay poor forever is the guardian (usually the father) of the family is indulged in cigarette, tobacco or alcohol consumption.

Any studies or citation or is this your personal experience extrapolated? I have seen many bad/uncaring poor parents without any addiction(unless you can call drinking tea addiction). Good parents in poverty is a blessing though and definitely a major part of their children's success.
Right. Same old bad arguments. Undecidability, Chinese Room, Penrose, etc. There's a problem, but that stuff doesn't help.

Machine learning as currently done clearly has limits. The big problem is lack of an underlying model of the real world. Systems which do have real-world knowledge tend to store it as something like predicate form. Cyc is the classic example of that.

A useful question: what should knowledge about the real world look like? More specifically, is there some low-level form in which info about the real world could be represented that makes it useful as training data for machine learning? Skin contact and muscle tension, perhaps?
This is DoE I think, not any other 3 letter agency, so they're probably not too worried about it getting out after the fact. Who the hell uses an iPod anymore? Now you'd just use the CCD camera on any modern smartphone, or count DRAM bit errors or something. Then again, they could have done that with the iPod and didn't, which suggests they wanted to measure energy levels maybe. Tight integration makes a lot of sense if you want something that, when opened up and compared to an off the shelf iPod, doesn't look any different.
VARK might not be real, but ADHD is and if someone attempts to force my youngest to sit still it doesn't go well for anyone. OTOH let him move while setting boundaries has worked wonders.
Palantir's had a large, well-appointed, and almost entirely empty office on Blake Street in Denver for years, while hiring in Palo Alto has slowed to a crawl, compared to its offices in New York and London. Palo Alto isn't in proximity to any of Palantir's major clients, not since Fox poached one of Palantir's senior biz dev leads to be their CISO and then fired Palantir as a vendor.

A little curious what's going to happen to the legacy Gotham product, which is the bread and butter of their government work and is an insane ball of spaghetti code that runs on the shoulders of a few veeery long-tenured employees who all have Bay Area houses and kids now.

Ultimately, this is just admitting something that's been a reality for years. For all their claims to their employees that "Palo Alto will always be our home," this is just another example of Palantir's motto of "strong opinions, weakly held."
It's high risk, and institutional finance isn't available to poor people.

Being poor is expensive.
This seems like a short term phenomenon as the market adjusts. Over time, consumer prices of labor-intensive produce will rise relative to non-labor-intensive produce.

If you had to find a humanitarian angle here, you should ask what the people who were previously working in the fields should do for work instead. Is unemployment the only alternative? Or can the large numbers of people who are currently migrant workers be incorporated into the economy in a different but productive way? I don't have good answers to those questions.
"the value of what they produce, there would be no profit, no payoff for investors / owners"

It depends if "the value of what they produce" means marginal output or average output. Due to the law of diminishing returns, typically average output is greater than marginal output. The theory predicts that wages = marginal output: if wages are less, you can increase profits by hiring more workers, if they are more, you can increase profits by laying people off. So it comes to an equilibrium where the marginal output matches market wages. Since this is less than average output, it is still possible to make a profit.

I agree though that the article is being misleading here since "the value of what they produce" is an ambiguous term that should probably refer to average output rather than marginal output.
Old age isn’t attributable to living unhealthy lifestyles, so I consider COVID a threat in its own right and not just a scapegoat. But I agree with your broader point that fighting obesity, smoking, and other health risks should also be priorities even though COVID has greater mindshare at the moment.
Time to give another plug to https://projectwren.com -- one of their biggest CO2 compensation projects is tree planting in Kenya: https://projectwren.com/update/2/may-2020

Support it!
You can't send information faster than C, so if causality == communication it's not instantaneously.
Can't you just put it on Twitch/YouTube?
Ask HN: Beginner non-trivial transpiler projects to learn from?
I have some compilers background and would like to study beginner non-trivial transpiler source code. Any recommendations?
I have the same opinion as well, to each their own. On my case Mac OS is dead last in my personal list when it comes to developing, I would even put it behind windows despite all the windows issues I hate.
Belgium is counting every suspected case as a Covid case.

So the numbers are bigger, on purpose.

Source: I'm from belgium
I'm not sure what you mean by "curve fitting" here. I would definitely say that a deep neural net has observations and categories, and I think it's pretty reasonable to characterize the training process as retrofitting new knowledge into it by correcting its knowledge and changing its perspective.
Nice, I've done this before - even using a prefix byte to indicate the key type. uuids are ugly and the '-' makes them hard to cut and paste imho.

I never did the deduplication query thing though - using 11 base58 digits seemed good enough for that app.
Then stop reading The Economist and start reading NBER working papers instead.
Windows Update 2004 made the experience even smoother on my XPS 15.
Grocery Delivery and The Future of Packaged Food – next big thing
Putin critic Alexei Navalny hospitalized after being 'poisoned with a toxin,'
Okay, but don't forget to also tell that to C++ about their use of string...

Languages get to define their own terms. It's not rare for two languages to use terminology in similar, but different in fundamental ways, concepts. An extremely common example would be "threads".

In the case of "unsafe", we're not even really staying within the realm of software engineering to find a terminology mismatch in this case, we're going back to the English language itself (in which case almost all the keywords in any language might have a similar problem).
Hey! Awesome that you updated it! Thanks for all of your blog posts. You’re one of a few go-to blogs when I want inspiration on new things to learn. I even used your website design as a model for the default template for a static site generator I built :)
Speculation in an absence of information. There are definitely biological organisms that suffer the same mistakes as our curve fitting. Eg the bird that pecks the red dot on the mothers beak. Its selected to pick the biggest red dot, so if you put a giant red dot next to the nest they will starve. Seems reasonable to believe human brains are lots of very good curve fitters working together. If anything because this is so successful maybe it's all we actually need. Specific neural nets for specific tasks. Maybe dualism is correct and conciousness is something special, but we have no ideas on how to test that.
They also get a bit of a bad wrap for pricing out local businesses. Would you rather work minimum wage for a giant, faceless megacorp in a soul sucking minimum wage job with few growth prospects? Or would you rather potentially work for a local business with people you might care about and that might care about you? At least now we can have all the cheap plastic shit we ever wanted.
Doing great in FAANG interview is not enough
Got offer from one FAANG which is equivalent of L5/E5/ICT4/L6. I have 16+ years of experience and did excellent in interviews including SD and behavioral. However, was shocked to learn the leveling. Recruiter had no justification either except for standard statement that it will be easier to get promo from this level than survive in next level. To set some context, all my career I have been top performer, excelled in multiple areas, and recently did entrepreneurial stint. So it's not one-off success with interview here.

My understanding is that this happened because I don't have any other FAANG on resume or a competing offer from them. However, to get multiple FAANG offers, prep time is just crazy and then too a lot depends on luck. The interviewing style and requirements vary significantly between these companies (particularly if you specialize in certain domain) so it will easily take months to prep with regular job, which means you need additional dose of motivation also to persist. Finally, with no competing FAANG offers, you need significant negotiation skills to even get an average salary. All other offers will be downplayed and brushed off. This is another unrelated skill set one needs to learn.

Thought of sharing this with other experienced interviewees, who think they can breathe easy once they have performed well with one company's interview loop :( I was not aware of such practice and now don't have time and energy to interview with other FAANGs. Since I had to decline the offer, months of prep went down the drain. Hopefully, this tip would help someone else and save their time.
A argument I have seen made is that a national contact tracing could be utilized by the antichrist for thier identification procedure.
Embedded where? If it is on a writable flash then you can probably rewrite with your own public key?
No, the 10th class exams are high school graduation. This is incredibly competitive, and the grades you get here will affect what jobs, trade schools and colleges you get access to.
It sort of reminded me of Rocky 4.

“Can’t go to the high tech gym? Just strap a fallen tree to your torso and drag it up a mountain!”
>The initiative, however, immediately drew the ire of the Trump campaign, which accused Facebook—without evidence—of secretly using the effort to help Biden.

Evidence does exist, so this statement is baffling. As recently as June content moderators on Facebook were covertly recorded bragging about being politically biased. [1]

The same moderators explicitly claimed the company was "anti-Trump",
and said "I think [all of the moderators] do that [delete posts for political reasons]".

Reading into the source (Campaign for Accountability), it's clear why they neglected to mention the evidence -- because they are politically biased themselves. [2]

[1] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2020/06/23/facebook_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_Accountability
GCP successfully executing a strategy described by Joel Spolsky in 2002 [0]:

>Smart companies try to commoditize their products’ complements.

[0] Strategy Letter V https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/ (edited)
Is there really no world wide org which reviews proposals for genetic modification of species? Something within united nations perhaps ?
as an ex-apple employee and long time developer, glad people start to see apple is an open source foo creating prisons of software to lure the obsessive brand fanatics and get a fee selling them as users to the other parties.

- in apple tech, the users are volunteer products where servicing them gets a myriad of monetization, notarization etc.

- hope open source starts to ignore apple platforms as a target at some point. Being "*nixy" and presence of "brew" etc gave the false impression apple is in the open source camp.
Other things of commercial significance that you can mail: bees.[1]

https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm
What defines an "immoral culture"? Wouldn't defining that concept require a notion of ethics?
Is it AWS new product season again?
> The Rust definition of 'unsafe' is very far from the everyday meaning.

"safe" is entirely relative in it's everyday meaning. To one person skydiving is safe, to another it is extremely unsafe. When you're a child your parent will tell you what is safe or not, but what your parent considers safe is based on their personal definition of safety.

The rust language will tell you if what you've done is safe based on its very well defined criteria for what that is, and won't let you proceed with something that doesn't match that criteria unless you vouch for it yourself. unsafe makes just as much sense here as any other word, it only seems a wrong fit when you look at it from a context it's not meant to be used in.
there is an amazing amount of garbage being said here.

wear a mask please.
Bold of you to assume that:

* the magic permissions ghost that runs in Azure whose job it is to inexplicably deny you resources to things won’t interfere

* Said Azure service will stay up long enough to be useful

* you finish writing the insane amount of config Azure services seemingly require before the heat death of the universe.

* Azure decides that it likes you and won’t arbitrarily block you from attaching things to your cluster/nodes because it’s the wrong moon cycle/day of the week/device type/etc

* you can somehow navigate Azures kafka-esque documentation got figure out which services you’re actually allowed to do this with.

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that Azure is the most painful and frustrating software/cloud product I’ve used in a long time, probably ever, and I earnestly look forward to having literally any excuse to migrate off it.
How We Make Sense of Time
Choose your own adventure

1. Go to the gym during a pandemic

2.a. Your lungs are permanently damaged, with lower lung capacity for life. Your life expectancy is shortened.

2.b. You are dead.

2.c. You did not develop symptoms.

3. You passed on the disease to many people, including your friends and family.

4. Everything you wanted to achieve by going to the gym turned out wrong and everyone now thinks you are/were a selfish jerk.
Microfinance is very hard to get right. It requires a lot of supervision, a large network of loan officers, and intricate structuring of the terms in order to align incentives. Moreover, the loans are capacity constrained, the risk is high, takes tons of work, a lot of local knowledge, etc.

All in all, it's almost impossible for microfinance loans to work for the lender. As a charity, it works okay, but if you want to earn yield, forget about it.

There's tons of really amazing opportunities in EM, but you can't exploit them by sitting at your desk. Or rather, those that can have probably already been exploited.
HN has a lot of users who will say and do anything to denigrate in person attendee workplaces
This isn't just how happy couples argue; it's how happy PEOPLE argue.

You'll find just as much conflict in the workplace as you'll find with your family, and how that conflict is handled will determine how healthy your workplace environment is.

You can't agree on everything (and that's a good thing, because it keeps ideas fresh), but you MUST agree on how to talk about and resolve differences, how to communicate, and how to cooperate.
Just confiscate capital from these fat and greedy pigs, then shoot them, so they will not complain. They are just pigs, not humans. Problem solved. /s
If the tingling is non-trivial and persistent, I'd strongly suggest R-Lipoic acid (not Alpha-Lipoic acid) for the possible nerve damage (peripheral neuropathy). It's over the counter, you can buy it from Amazon etc. 100mg once per day, take it with food. It will drop your blood sugar levels a bit, you may notice that initially (which is a reason to take it with or right after food). Cost is about $8 per month equivalent typically. It'll be worth trying to see if it removes the tingling, particularly if it becomes more severe over time. It's often quite effective for peripheral neuropathy. Also of course research R-Lipoic acid (if you haven't yet) and see what you think independent of what I'm saying.
In addition to IFR we should also consider the rate at which a virus spreads. COVID-19 appears to more powerful than regular flu on this front as well.
You should post a link to your article in the community blog post section of the external-dns GitHub readme https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/external-dns
> Any studies or citation or is this your personal experience extrapolated?

Well, the OP's citation is "Not really an Indian,..." So you don't require more credibility than that when someone is commenting on an Indian story!
> the reason most families stay poor forever is the guardian (usually the father) of the family is indulged in cigarette, tobacco or alcohol consumption

Um no. The reason many Indian families remain poor is due to living in extreme poverty with few opportunities, and a bizarre caste system that emphasises it further. It’s not like if you stop drinking or smoking you’ll magically become rich.
TBF there's only a 50% chance that the deduplication loop will run (once) after 5.1 x 10^9 keys. It's still better than erroring in that case IMO.

If that's not needed, the loop and subquery and be removed. This then enables the usage of shortkey_generate() as a DEFAULT expression instead of a trigger. Maybe I should provide that as an alternative, something like shortkey_generate_unsafe().
Prohibition=war on drugs. Funny how few are willing to admit it.
Immudb4j – Java SDK for immudb has been released
In ancient Greek army, they had a death penalty for losing your shield, the same as desertion. There was no such penalty for losing your helmet or armor. Why ? Because they fought in a phalanx, and a soldier losing his shield endangered not only himself, but also his companion on the left.

Fun fact: all Greek troops were named after the type of shield they used.

Source:
https://acoup.blog/2020/03/17/new-acquisitions-hoplite-style...
Friend used to be a security engineer at Apple and was thoroughly disillusioned with their privacy stance after working there for three years.
> Is there any automatic way to tell your software apart from malware?

There is no universally agreed-upon definition of malware. One man's operating system is another man's malware. For me, an operating system that "calls home" for each new executable you compile is a crystal clear case of malware. In the case of this article, then, the only malware in question is macOS.