skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good luck keeping restaurants in business at 20% or even 50% regular volume. In a pandemic, restaurant visits drop sharply regardless of what official government policy is. They would have gone out of business anyway. Even now in places that have been open for months, restaurants are still struggling and/or failing.
$500B a year or so is the estimate.
I think I'm fairly creative, but I've only had one or two ideas that weren't reinventions of something someone else had already done. Doesn't matter what it is: software, electrical circuit, some clever mechanical thing, it's almost always already been done. Even if you look at patent grants, almost none of them are truly novel.
B vitamins have a different boiling point than water. Certainly won’t go flying somewhere. The reason you feel satiety sooner is because it’s harder to digest. Do you eat to feel satiety or to get nutrition?
As someone who loves a good tartare or sashimi, it’s good to eat every once in a while but I tell you you’re going to run into issues with a raw diet. It might take years but if you’re not careful they might be hard to fix
Well that just messed with my head. For some reason (advertising? confusion? stupidity?) I had thought that Gore-Tex was based on a special weaving technique and use of special acrylic fibres... Wikipedia says `It is composed of stretched polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), which is more commonly known by the generic trademark Teflon.`

Damn....
[My pure speculation]

Founders pursuing ideas as broad as "AI" or "blockchain" are not front-running existing products and markets. Founders who are narrowly focused on application of these technologies to a single domain are likely to have their companies described by the domain rather than the technology. Going further, potential founders still capable of front-running existing products and markets on the broad basis of blockchain and AI are likely to have other business opportunities...I mean if you're at the forefront of AI, someone will hire you or invest in your business.

In short, the standards are higher. Ten years ago, there was no OpenAI and there was room in the BlockChain to "sell shovels to the gold prospectors."
I have both, and while I haven't used Sidebery as much as I should (since I've known and become accustomed to TST first), I can say at least this: Sidebery has tabs groups. These display as icons to the side of the tab tree, and when you select one it will show the tree of tabs in that group only.
It's actually more complicated than that. In many states if you are convicted of a non-violent felony then at the end of your sentence your firearm rights are automatically restored. There are also the cases of pardons, expungements, and other restorations of civil rights. It varies by state, and while USC 922(g) outlaws firearm ownership possession by any felon, in practice the Federal courts look at whether the person has had their civil rights restored in the state of the alleged offense. When it comes to Federal charges, the prospect of amelioration is grim. In the Federal scenario, there is no expungement or pathway to restore your civil rights, but a pardon is possible. [0]

There's also a discussion to be had about your and the legal definition of a "gun." For example, antique firearms such as some black powder rifles are specifically excepted [1] from the Federal legislation, but it could vary on a state by state basis.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/921
The liberties protected by the Constitution are not fair-weather freedoms -- in place when times are good but able to be cast aside in times of trouble.
There is no question that this country has faced, and will face, emergencies of every sort, but the solution to a national crisis can never be permitted to supersede the commitment to individual liberty that stands as the foundation of the American experiment. The constitution cannot accept the concept of a 'new normal' where the basic liberties of the people can be subordinated to open-ended emergency mitigation measures

- U.S. District Judge William Stickman declaring PA's lockdown orders unconstitutional
Relevant chart I did mapping how much $1 gets you in GPU compute on AWS over the last 10 years: https://twitter.com/lmeyerov/status/1232937998464901120 (note the log scale)
All in git with reasonable formats like markdown?

Could you make something that indexes these in (say) Elasticsearch?
Don’t know why you are being downvoted, this is the most accurate summation of the ban I’ve read yet.
But isn't it that what has happened is the Democrat party has moved so far left that they've abandoned more centrist values, ceding ground to the right?
> to be considerate of users of GitHub

Which users?
Flaged for obvious reasons.
The best part is, he ended up being justified in his self confidence. He was talking about his company Tarsnap, which still seems to be going strong 13 years later, and now has Stripe as a customer.
It sure hasn't stopped the Biden campaign from blaming every..single..death on Trump.

Yes, it was a lifetime event. But the failed responses of many leaders shows they shouldn't really have the power in the first place.

Democrats were still bickering about Trump's impeachment until the end of January (which turned out to be a big nothing, which we all knew). Trump started the ball rolling when it comes to Covid and started banning flights from China early on. He was called a racist and a bigot for doing the right thing.

The Mayor of New York put the elderly back into retirement homes, even after testing positive for Covid. This contributed to many deaths and we still don't know to what extent, because data on it won't be released until the totally random time of the day after the November election. Many other Democrat governors followed suit.

The Governor of Michigan has made herself the dictator of the state. She overrules anything she doesn't like with executive orders, essentially making the local government void.

Covid has shown us the true colors of our local leaders: they really just want to be petty dictators and aren't really trying to help the people at all. Democrats have pounced on the opportunity to destroy the economy and blame Trump, all in the hopes to win the next election.

They've even become anti-vaxxors, trying to put the seeds of doubt into the minds of anything that will listen that if a Vaccine comes out and Trump is president, it's bad and you shouldn't take it.

Even big tech is doing the dirty work of the Democrats by censoring all opposing opinions which directly results in election interference.
As a person who suffers badly from misophonia (which is not limited to chewing sounds) it’s pretty fucking grimly depressing to see research on it treated this way.
You have the causation reversed. Marijuana, abortion, and gay marriage were all legalized because they became socially acceptable while illegal and the laws no longer reflected the values of society.
> The course used to be in Java, but switched to Python two years ago.

Why? Are they all comfortable with the english language? Why not find a french language PL and teach them that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotte

I'm guessing all the libraries, documentation, etc would be in french.

> It's intended for complete beginners and aims at explaining basic CS concepts through Python.

Why would you use a programming language to teach basic CS concepts? Also, does it have to be fun? Must we be having fun at all times?
> Like, one 1200 check for people

That's really dishonest. The unemployment insurance boost ($600/wk for many months), continuing in a limited fashion, was huge and expensive. And the PPP (even if there were execution problems) was a forgivable loan, basically a grant. A huge amount of money was pumped into maintaining employment.
Is it something you could build/deploy as a Cloudflare Worker?
This isn’t about stock but geopolitics.
That seems unnecessary to push them into a DB - what is the benefit there?
The most exciting discovery in our lifetime. Zero conversations about it on some lame social news platform owned and operated by a bunch of dogmatic capitalists.

Clueless to innovation outside their realm of control.
> I don't think the CCP is as concerned with chinese citizens knowing what they are doing

If you ask a random Chinese citizen "are you okay with the government listening in to your phone calls?", most people would say Yes. Having the government listen in and having government presence on the streets makes us feel safe, because most of us trust our government. Sure, it has it's issues, but in general, the government acts in our favor, and without it we'd have far lower standards of living.

The US is a total polar opposite in this regard.
If the presidency and senate were held by the Democrats they wouldn't wait.
Bribes helped fraudulent Amazon sellers, DOJ says
it's tough to say without seeing your code, but I'd be happy to code review anything you like.

What sort of development do you want to do?
A McLuhan-Syntonic Approach to Computer Literacy: Toppling Pillars of Cyberspace
'Almost everyone needs reading glasses by 40'

I think it's more like 45 than 40.
Thanks for the reply. Is second line treatment, what is heard from others may be derived from drug war propaganda, got it. This clears things up nicely. Thanks.
Starch was the staple after agriculture but the real staple was fruit and possibly small animals. Just look at chimps. Practically all cultures when they have the chance, prefer fruit. But even to this day a lot of people cannot afford them as a big component of their diet
> There was no reason for any business to go bankrupt while a proper lockdown was implemented

What does this mean? That the Fed will just print money to cover every business expense of every business during "proper" lockdowns? That seems like a terrible idea.
It doesn't matter because lead-time is fungible. Saving 250ms in a pit gains you 250ms on an opponent who also has to brake and accelerate.
Tarsnap was his startup in question. It looks like it's still going strong. Even has a testimonial from the CEO of Stripe on the website.
You really need to explain your point more thoroughly.

- "allow WeChat to gain an even greater foothold on American soil" - does this mean have more users?

- "minimize total damage" - it would be good if you articulated the damage being done

- "Imagine if Google was as controlled by and as much of a cheerleader for the US government as WeChat is for the Chinese" - according to Julian Assange, https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
Yeah, I've been kicking these ideas around for a while.

There are a few directions we could take this. Some freaks (myself) find them all fascinating.

There's the development of modern business comms and procedures, notably at railroads and DuPont Chemical. Joanne Yates has written a history. These became codified in business practices training.

Standardisation itself has been a tremendous advance, much of it lead by a Republican, Herbert Hoover, as Commerce Secretary.

The establishment of common practices, methods, and skills is itself a powerful asset for companies. Armies of workers skilled in typing, filing, programming languages, operating systems, productivity software, and more, make the underlying companies' products and services more valuable.

The classification of skills on a hierarchy is its own mess --- from basic to complex. Breaking apart the Seven Liberal Arts into their sub-groupings of the trivium (grammar, logic, rhetoric --- think of these as input, precessing, and output), and quadrivium (maths, geometry, music, and astronomy --- quantity, quantity in space, quantity in time, and quantity in space and time), reveals some of this. I've been considering similar fundamental divisions of technical mechanisms to fundamental dynamics or elements.

Or the classical professions: medicine, law, theology, business. Later engineering and technology in its own right.

There's the durability or ephemerality of knowledge, skills, and equipment. I've been in tech long enough to have some sense of what does and does not endure, possibly even why. Future Sock spoke to this 50 years ago.

Then there is the nature, history, and function of education, as institution, as sevice, as profession, its roles in society, culture, business, industry, politics, and military. The impacts of the wars of the 19th & 20th centuries really cannot be overstated. There are many tensions, and many covert or latent functions (a wonderful concept from sociologist Robert K. Melton).
Anyone know if this is likely to change? I was playing super hot VR last night, and thought to myself, “this game wouldn’t be so hard if I didn’t feel like I was looking through a toilet paper roll”.
From the beginning of this I never understood how there could be any legal basis whatsoever for the ban. Apparently that's because there was none.
> C++ for OpenCL is a clang specific project which remains to be seen if it ever will get any adoption.

About adoption - you're right. But about being Clang-specific - that's not an issue. That is, OpenCL is also specific to an OpenCL compiler; so the fact that compilation from C++-for-OpenCL to SPIR-V is clang-based is not a problem. We can still compile our host-side code with whatever compiler we like, but the runtime compiler of OpenCL C++ kernels will be clang-based.
> We're getting to the point where Intel is no longer able to deliver significant performance improvements inside a low TDP.

But why are we comparing with Intel chips, when it is AMD chips that have been more successful in delivering higher performance with lower TDPs?
Are you referring to Trump's ban or the judge's injunction?

Edit: that’s what I thought (and I agree with you), but I wanted to make sure since some other commenters sensed the ambiguity.
How does duckdb compare to aws athena or spectrum? Both services offer sql directly on parquet files. I guess you would say duckdb is not distributed but if you create one on time when the user needs to run the sql on the parquet you’d be in a similar use case?
These words of CS Lewis seem appropriate in our time of COVID as well! Here’s what he said in 1948 about the mental shift required by living with the threat of the atomic bomb:

In one way we think a great deal too much of the atomic bomb. “How are we to live in an atomic age?” I am tempted to reply: “Why, as you would have lived in the sixteenth century when the plague visited London almost every year, or as you would have lived in a Viking age when raiders from Scandinavia might land and cut your throat any night; or indeed, as you are already living in an age of cancer, an age of syphilis, an age of paralysis, an age of air raids, an age of railway accidents, an age of motor accidents.”
When the Otters Vanished, Everything Else Started to Crumble
Mortality Rates from Covid-19 Are Lower in Unionized Nursing Homes
The author fundamentally misunderstands how the industry functions.

Money wise, the ARM acquisition for this amount of money makes no sense if they want to save on core, or architectural licenses.

With the amount of money, and engineers Nvidia has, they can easily bootstrap a CPU ISA on their own.

It was by far not their top priority.

And in their function relevant to the "AI" trend as giant linear algebra crunchers, GPUs don't need much help from anything else.

And in longterm, basically anything you do pales to logarithmic scaling of PPW/relative performance. A s..ttier, and cheaper chip few years down the line invariably beats current best.

In practical terms, the winner in the GPU/CPU/WhateverPU is decided by who gets the better fab contract.
Could you point to a good example of an interaction space designed this way?
Consider that these more powerful phones may become servers for new wearable form factors that aren't possible to make with their own chips. Smart glasses come to mind, the phone can do all the image processing over a wireless signal.

Another interesting possible future is the desktop replacement, dock your phone into a hub that exports video and USB signals to connect a keyboard mouse and screen and do away completely with laptops for user's whose computing needs are modest. Samsung does this already with DEX but it's too limited for me to view as more than a cool prototype but with Apple's app ecosystem this could be quite useful.
The unreal part is that your don’t understand free speech rights, ie that the users possess them.

Are you claiming that ByteDance controlled the tanks used in Tiananmen square massacre or is conducting the Uyghur massacre? If so, the Trump administration screwed up by not presenting that evidence.
Agree this is hostile behaviour, but there are technical hacks[1] that a user could find that overrides google being a dick.

[1] https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/382039-speed-up-google-cap...
That's a traditional 1990s trick to stop bots scraping your e-mail address to send you spam.
Trump. The proposed ban was obviously not the work of the judge.
>but honestly I still don't understand why it's such a successful business.

It's the same as any SaaS, who wants to set up their own servers? Sure, you may want to, but think at scale, most people wouldn't, so they pay GitHub to do it for them. There are also a lot of quality of life features such as a better interface for both the technical and non-technical side of a team.
Its not a 1 in 100 year event, its a once a decade event exaggerated by a hysterical media and exacerbated by an aged and unhealthy population, and weak regular flu seasons for the past two years leaving a lot of 'dry tinder'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%E2%80%931958_influenza_pa...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_flu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_swine_flu_pandemic

Sweden's deaths in 2020 are at the highest since 1993. What happened in 1993? A flu pandemic, that no one has ever heard of.
But fruit as we know it isn't anything like most fruit available for our ancestors, most of them anyway. Much lower calorie and harder to access those calories.

But our past as successful hunters definitely has evidence, my favorite is our domestication of wolves.
You're talking about the only recent US president who didn't invade any countries?
Wait, what? Upstream can destroy my repo by deleting theirs? That's horrific if true.
> Political correctness aside, "main" does sound like a more natural name for the main branch

Sure, but who says that what is now called "master" is the main branch?

In my repos, I consider the main branch to be the branch I spend most of my time working on. For simple things that is "master", but for more complex things I'm mostly on some other branch.
I loved the Youtube video where a woman tries to impersonate a man and get a date with women on a dating app. She cannot believe how difficult it is for men:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZTIbHIsIYw

At about 11 minutes in, the woman says, "Guys don't do this on dating apps. Just don't stop replying. They don't do that. Like, they don't 'ghost'. And, its weird that women do that so often."
It's worth noting that this is a type of economic disaster very different than a hurricane, wildfire, or even the 2008 financial crisis.

No restaurants were physically destroyed by the pandemic. All the buildings, stoves, tables, signage, etc are still around.

The skills of the workers will likely fade only slightly during this pandemic time.

There's likely not much reason to think that in 2022 the dining habits of consumers will be drastically different than in 2019. There wasn't a restaurant bubble prior to 2020 necessitating a huge correction.

Also it's worth noting that government edicts likely aren't the primary cause of business closures at this point.

People (selfishly) don't want to catch the virus and also want to listen to public health advice.

Evidence:

-There were never any real government edicts banning air travel in the continental US (some few places had non-enforced quarantine advisories). Yet air travel has fallen substantially.

-Most large businesses have not returned to in-office work, regardless of no government edicts.

-Las Vegas is Open! You can fly there, stay in a hotel, gamble, eat, etc... but yet Vegas has tons of closures. People just don't want to go there right now for business or pleasure.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8743605/Nashville-m...

In Nashville, TN (USA) bars and restaurants are closed to stop the spread of the virus. In e-mails obtained by a local television station, and later confirmed authentic by legal council, the e-mails discussed how only 80 of the 20,000 positive cases could be traced to bars and restaurants.

> Tennessee Lookout reporter Nate Rau asks, “The figure you gave of 'more than 80' does lead to a natural question: If there have been over 20,000 positive cases of COVID-19 in Davidson and only 80 or so are traced to restaurants and bars, doesn’t that mean restaurants and bars aren’t a very big problem?"

A day after the story broke they allowed bars and restaurants to re-open:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2020/09/17/nashville-...

Indoor recreation was shut down in this city for 80 cases in a city of 2 million aka .004% of the population.

Point zero zero four percent.
Gorhill promised that #1 will never happen, so this doesn't help.
Including Opera, Brave, Edge, etc.?
Slightly tangential, but due to a new job I'll have bite the bullet and learn Java.

When googling tutorials, I see the same material I found 12 years ago. A lot must have happened since then.

What's a good resource to learn Java for somebody who already knows how to program? I'm interested in ecosystem, tooling, best practices, common pitfalls etc.
That random Chinese citizen is afraid to say no, and assuming you will report them.
I have yet to hear from an under-represented engineer who felt uncomfortable from the use of the term master in git and github. I have heard a number of activists claim this to be the case but judging by the reactions from those who supposedly were to feel uncomfortable - some of them right here in this thread - this was a non-problem and the change is purely theatrical.
Not exactly shocking that a judge appointed by Trump would make such a statement and ruling.
Yeah I mentioned it because I got put on dexamphetamine once. Couldn't stand it personally, couldn't sit down or keep still, and made me more annoying I think. Totally understand that even chemically similar medications can be very different to each other.
I don't think they're expecting "no collateral damage," but especially in the US state responses varied widely (not necessarily a bad thing), and some governors grossly overstepped their authority, as evidenced by courts calling some of the measures taken unconstitutional.
I think the problem with our response to covid in the US was that all our policies were half-assed.

The result has been that we’ve had this 7 month period of semi-lockdown (can eat outside, but not indoors; we’re going to send a support check, but only 1, etc.) while China was able to have a full lockdown for a few weeks and mostly eradicate it.

Meanwhile people are still dying here because people don’t want to wear masks because freedom, or something.
I admitted as such, but wouldn't you say the legalization gave an additional boost to social acceptance? Social acceptance isn't a yes/no, it's a 0-100% based on the fraction of the population that accepts it. And if marijuana was at, say, 50% acceptance before legalization, I would imagine (I'm just making these numbers up) legalization boosted it to 75%.
I read it as MOOSE and I was like HOLY CRAP!
Top point talks about targeting data scientists. It would be interesting seeing what that means in their mind.

Based on the current state of affairs oracle and the jvm seem very far away from mainstream ML
Sweden spared surge of virus cases but many questions remain
FortNine is the gold standard of review videos.