skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump and his team had a rally and other campaign events after Hicks came down sick. If it turns out that Trump was symptomatic before those events it’s a huge lack of discretion and maybe even criminal. In theory he has access to a test with a 15-minute turnaround time. So why the delay in diagnosing?

His team also refused to be tested before the debate. Imagine if it comes out that they knew they were having an outbreak and showed up anyway without masks. It sounds like a conspiracy theory but I can see it happening- the alternative would have been to cancel the debate at the last minute, which has terrible optics. If his team had suddenly worn masks it would have been an indication they knew something was up.
Then cache the dependencies you're using.
> For some people their code are like their kids; precious and they can do no wrong. These tend to be a problem when bugs crop up, because bug reports are like a personal insult to them.

Maintainers that have that attitude just shouldn't have public bug trackers that anyone can submit to. If they choose to do so anyway, and react poorly to legitimate bugs that are respectfully presented, that's on the maintainer, not the reporter.
>People still happily recommend a 4-core CPU over a 6-core CPU with ever-so-slightly-lower ST performance for new builds.

and that is reasonable if you are focused on the bulk of games available today, and not next year or 5 years from now, and you don't want to do any streaming while gaming.
This is the best criticism of this entire thread.

It'd be easy to employ ... as a document separator / end indicator that could be checked for.
Holy crap this is amazing!!! I'm going to pester my polish coworkers all week with this (Spoiler alert: I'm from Argentina)
> I really would like to see a discussion on this, as most people seem to put a lot of blame on JS as a whole, while it's mostly a handful of popular projects generating all the complaints.

Discussion on what? You're right.

I know we joke about left-pad, but like you pointed out, a lot of big js hitters don't have many if any dependencies. That's true, but irrelevant.

Those dev-dependencies are still potential security threats, with all the minification and other crap, it's really hard to know what gets injected into the final runtime. And if not security, it's still development hell. Development, yes, but that's a if not the thing that programmers really care about.

And even if runtime dependencies are less common, there are a lot of developers that still do ascribe to using as many deps as possible especially because the web can be quite fragmented and they have to support a myriad of different target platforms. So even if it's a lesser issue, I think it's fair to talk about the js ecosystem as a whole when making criticisms about it's dependency disasters.
Which basically makes this a study of Catalan-Spanish bilingualism.

It would be interesting to see if this also applied to other combinations of languages.
Surely the point is not to "know the numbers", but to understand the mechanics and the relative positions of each peice and their relative efficiencies in system architecture.

when I'm doing optimisation, my goal is not to explicit say "oh, L1 cache is X nanoseconds", it's to say "the profile pattern of the performance we see indicates that X is the current performance bottleneck, and if we can change programming/design, we'll gain Y". Especially since, by the time we're optimising heavily, it generally assumes something was amiss in your original coding or expectations of the system anyway, so your memorised numbers of what performance should be are often shown to be wrong in the first place, and your real world measurements will tell you the numbers that are relevant to your particular use case.
No... pero pega en el palo.
could a proc macro not do it?
In Michigan traffic lights are painted yellow, which works well for me at night. In California traffic lights are painted black, which means at night I cannot distinguish red and yellow lights. Although some traffic lights are now getting a reflective strip around the outside, which is the best.
Ah... no, not in the slightest.

Every major web framework's standard build tools (Create-React-App, Vue-CLI, etc), are based on Webpack + Babel, and most folks who are using one of those frameworks but setting up their own build toolchains still base them around Webpack + Babel.

There's some potentially interesting technical alternatives out there, but Babel is a keystone in the modern JS ecosystem.
> The problem with open devices is that at some point someone is going to undercut you by providing a "free" product and then we're back in square one of trading user data

Except that the stores have to compete with each other, so who is going to choose the one with all the apps that trade user data? Certainly not the users who are allegedly patronizing Apple only because they don't want that.

> and in the process you created a fragmentation hell.

I don't understand what this is supposed to be about. Is it "fragmentation" that you can get books from a book store and a library and online and a thrift store? How is that a problem? If the books in the thrift store are torn up and written in, why not just buy from a different one?

> Clearly its something the consumers want, hence Apple's monstrous pile of cash.

People keep saying this, but the fact that you have no alternatives to Apple's store on their devices is precisely why you can't prove it that way. We have no data on how many people are buying their devices for the store vs. despite the store and for the hardware or the OS or iMessage etc.
Similarly, when my niece recently got married I was tasked with putting together the photo/video show for the event.

I chose Blender because it's easy to use and loaded with image and video capability.

Plus, it gave me a good reason to come upto speed on the latest version.
What You Always Wanted to Know About Datalog (2018) [pdf]
This is the downside to involving regulation in a technological space. Government intervention isn't a technological problem and doesn't admit technological solutions. The government can ban any alternative or workaround you can imagine in specific or in general, and moreover can ban the act itself of working on alternatives and workarounds.
The forces that go through that coupling are immense. The tool free, one person (with luck) stuff we have now is a triumph of engineering compared to some of the methods tried before then, I'm sure.

Questions: How often have you done this before? Have you gone and asked someone with more experience for tips and ideas on how to make it easier? Have you trawled the tractor forums looking for advice? Or are you a new user of a developed technology with 50+ years of service who has immediately decided it sucks and needs rethinking?

I personally agree with you that PTO couplings suck; hydraulic drive is a lot easier from a user perspective, but there are a number of tricks to make handling the job easier. Grease the pins, never drop an implement on the ground but leave it on a pallet you can move, etc. A winch on the tractor can be very useful, especially with a pulley or two on the ROPS.
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I don't know anything about those folks but my son (inattentive type) got a lot of value from neurofeedback about 10 years ago under a psychologist using the full EEG skull cap. He went once a week for 18 months then less often for another year or two. Wish I'd done it...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the biggest CA income tax deduction available to most people is the mortgage interest and property tax deductions. So yes, you can deduct a lot of your state taxes - provided you're spending even more on an expensive home.

And yes, the tax rate is progressive, but the average rate is still around 9% at that income level (~36k). Marginal rate is just over 11%.

My overall point is just that almost all of the cost of living delta in CA is from taxes and housing. Didn't mean to get too deep into the numbers.
I've come around to not being annoyed at the repeated push for this idiotic idea.

The world is a competitive market place for ideas and the ideas we choose to live by have consequences. And all of the people who pick broken frameworks like this to be primary influences for their own actions just take themselves out of the competitive marketplace to do the interesting stuff out there that there is to do.
Still, it's coherent with GP's point: LPG and NG have the same finality, they get burned for energy in the same boilers with minimal changes.

In dense areas, the capital expenses of dedicated infrastructure are recouped with cheaper gas price, in sparse areas, we fall back on a more expensive fuel that can be transported on the existing generic infrastructure.

So the question than becomes: how dense do we need to get before dedicated garbage pipes make sense. Seems much, much more capital intensive than gas lines.
Anything the government manages will become a complete shit show. I have no hopes for this.
This seems on its face to be a significant improvement on the goals of YAML, but I think the tradeoffs it makes will likely move YAML’s problems into a different place, creating a whole different set of difficulties understanding what a given data is, means, or does.

The problem with human friendly formats is that the thing that typically makes them human friendly is removing things that make reading and editing difficult, but make disambiguation possible. If the format ever needs to be read by a machine, something has to do that disambiguation.

If it’s not provided by the format, you’ve turned every usage into a potential source of bugs that would otherwise be restricted to interchange/stack implementation incompatibilities. In other words, now your format can have a different set of expectations even on the same system.

The natural response to that problem will be to bolt on validation, types, and documentation that is provided arbitrarily (and with varying quality).

IMO, efforts in human friendly formats should focus less on stripping out funny characters, and more on which minimal set of funny characters provide:

- Good readability

- Good editability

- Clarity of structure

- Clarity of data types

- Reasonable tolerance and flexibility for variance in arbitrary formatting/style preference (particularly in delimiting long form/multiline text and annotations), because no one can agree what good readability or editability means

- A flexible type system that allows machines and humans to know what a given datum is without variation or surprises

- Maybe humans should just use a GUI?
The $59 Rock Pi X is like a Windows-compatible Raspberry Pi with an x86 process
Yes, you could say that. But you would be hard-pressed to convince anyone that that hypothesis is actually the best explanation for all the observed data.
If that's how you react, then you're a part of the problem. If someone opens a bug report that factually represents behavior they've seen, and provides supporting evidence and information, and you react that way, you should probably re-examine your world view and think hard about why you believe that everyone is out to unfairly criticize your work.

> If it turns out that "command X" crashes for you...

As a project maintainer, I hope you recognize that people will run your software on all sorts of hardware and software configurations that don't match how you've tested it. It's impossible for you to test all possible scenarios. Requiring that every potential bug reporter explicitly acknowledge that their issue might be unique to their particular setup in order to assuage your apparently-fragile ego is unreasonable and counter-productive.
It might be noticeable, but as someone who has trouble dialling down the brightness far enough to make them comfortable to look at, I'm not sure if I'd want it to be that bright. That might just be a personal preference though, obviously.
I don't see where in the article they say that PayTM would be processing payments. From what I read, it just says that PayTM was in violation of store policy. I think the parent poster was implying that PayTM shouldn't be hosted on the app store because their violations needed to fixed.
The Garbage Collection Bibliography
Money is money, whether it comes from a prestigious science institute or an old guy who inherited it and wants it spent on cool stuff.
Hjson is the best format in my opinion https://hjson.github.io/
Unlike battery you carry only 1/2 the weight of the fuel as you burn them whilst battery is dead weight even drained. Hence airline considered that more.

Just wonder why hydrogen car is so under the radar. All E except a few advertisements or waiting.
The fact that the CCP are competent authoritarians and the BJP are incompetent semi-authoritarians isn't really in dispute. But the claim that there's nothing scary about living in China if you're not "involved in politics" (whatever that means) is completely absurd.
An EU immigrant commenting on US social and economy development, and equally assured of oneself of the same authority on China.

Chinese netizens have a sarcastic name for people with the tendency to comment on grandiose topics with some form of unfounded authority, who unfortunately dont have a long professional career as an academic researcher or as a long time practitioner of that area.

That name is called keyboard politicians, or 键盘政治家/键政

First as an immigrant, you are farm from the dynamism and inner working of the society. An EU immigrant is surely more informed than a Chinese one, but I would put both as largely blank paper compared to a native person.

For China... I left China 2008, and today I consider myself no fundamental difference when dealing with Chinese affairs than an American. Any one who had not lived in China for the past 4 decades, simply have no way to understand the unprecedented changes and the fundamentally different social dynamism in China.

In short, these statements might be true. But more likely to be wrong. And in the end, they not too far from from a gibberish produced by GPT-3 trained from randomly sampled web articles.

Good luck with the belief...
Development dependencies are especially terrifying because we generally don't use any sort of sandboxing. Any one of these dependencies could append to .bashrc to get your computer to run literally anything, and then hide the evidence.

And developer machines are particularly juicy targets because they often have ssh keys to production machines lying around.
Not with this president
> the hypothesis that the speed of light changes over time is a component of several heterodox physical theories that have appeared over the years

All of which have been rejected for being poor explanations.

> Whether or not there is evidence for a theory depends entirely on the assumptions used when attempting to explain a phenomenon.

That depends on what you mean by "assumptions". Yes, all evidence has to be evaluated against a background theory. That does not mean that the background theory has to be taken as an axiom. The background theory that there is an objective reality governed by laws that are invariant with time and space is not an axiom, it is a hypothesis that has emerged over literally centuries of work as the best current explanation for all the observed data. It is open to question, but if you want to question it you'd better have some damned good evidence.
Hmm, tell that to Methuselah.
Same thing happened in Ocaml land w.r.t. async vs lwt. Not sure what the current situation is but people had to abstract their libraries and do 2 implementations to support them.
The real underlying issue is

a) how to deal with public goods especially networked public goods.

b) The production cost vs use cost.

c) we act on margin always not on total as my mind may think but our act is temporal.
For what it's worth, I felt like I could see him as you wrote about him. And more, I think it's absolutely on topic to hear about the life of a man who worked in the very place the article is about. Gives us an idea of a person to place there. Maybe during lunch he'd prop himself on the embankment side of the blast walls in the sun, with his jam sandwich.
I can confirm this appears to build and launch fine on macOS.
The point is not to memorize the numbers, but to have used them enough that they are at your fingertips at all times. Awareness of costs is essential to engineering economics.

And it is always better not to need to optimize, because the code is already fast enough. You may leap up to proclaim against premature optimization, but only if you have forgotten what Knuth actually wrote.
Extrapolating one experience to everywhere else is a critical mistake. Most areas do not share that characteristic with the Tallgrass Prarie Preserve.
> The author, if you read the rest of their work, which I encourage you to do

Looked at the rest of the site, none of his articles have citations its all just woo with nothing to back it up. The author doesn't know what they are talking about or if the information they are distributing is accurate.

Earlier I talked about different plants needing different nutrients from the soil and that can help prevent pests and that crop rotation was an older more common example of that.

https://rootsofprogress.org/advanced-stages-of-agriculture

The author thinks crop rotation is "advanced" but hes "not totally clear on it", I am not implying anything the article does not say. The site in general makes a lot of claims about how our world works without any real understanding being demonstrated from the author or citations for where the understanding being presented comes from.

I have provided links to backup my arguments as to the falsehoods in the article and the lack of understanding the author actually has on the topics they are writing about and the only argument you have in their defense is that they did not mean the words they wrote. That's not super useful from a writer.
What a link. Thanks!
First, things aren't always that simple. For quite a while, we maintained a Wii homebrew ecosystem that, using our tools, let you run unsigned code on the game CPU, but not the security CPU. By doing this, piracy becomes impractical, because pirated games would need extensive binary patching to work in this environment. All piracy tools for the Wii from this era relied on exploiting the security system, usually with a different exploit from ours, since we were pretty good at hiding them (mostly so Nintendo took longer to fix them, but this was a nice side effect). This had next to no impact on non piracy related homebrew software. Modding worked fine, because having the disc in the drive let you correctly authenticate as the real game, and then you could patch the executable before launch to add your mods only. Such is how the Wii security architecture works.

Eventually we opened up the security CPU for other reasons (mostly a recovery/low level bootloader tool we built), but even then, piracy requires specific software, namely hacks that translate game disc access APIs to either DVD-Video access APIs or a USB storage stack. So sure, you have a general purpose computer, but you still need specific software.

Xecuter aren't just selling hardware and software that turn your Switch into a general purpose computer. They are selling hardware and software that has specific features for pirating games that are not useful in any other context. And therein lies the difference.
How do you go from studying Catalan and Spanish bilinguism and make a broad generalization To "speaking two langages" ?

We dont know how this translates to other forms of bilinguism at all.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/nyregion/nyc-recycling.ht...

You’re right though, NYC is less affected by the change in Chinese policy..
We Need to Talk
Only because they insist upon uniformity.

"God did it" accounts perfectly for every possible measurement, where any theory at best approximates our results. Yet, we reject that at the outset.
> Upstream developers cannot be trusted to update dependencies on a timely basis.

And the current system, even without Flatpak, doesn't force them to. You're not arguing against Flatpak, you're arguing against decentralized app distribution in general.

You are already living in a world where upstream developers can decide to distribute their software using channels that distro maintainers can't control, update, or patch.

Flatpak changes nothing about that arrangement, it merely acknowledges that the problem exists and tries to make it slightly better. The alternative to Flatpak for a lot of Open Source devs isn't an official Debian package, it's a tar.gz file, which is just objectively worse.
Speed Up and Simplify Your Streaming Data Workloads with Red Panda – Episode 152
This paper suggest causal effect but they have nothing but correlation. There may be other factord at play between people who are bilingual and those who are not. Would be surprising to say the least that one variable explains differences in dementia outcomes...
Thanks for the ideas.

I am not entirely a newbie. I have operated tractors before but I have always preferred (sexism alert)a big strong male around to do it.

I was messing around with a new implement I got from Italy and wasn’t easily compatible with the Kubota quick hitch ..Altho it is technically supposed to be compatible.

I don’t know if it’s smoke filled air or the 95+ degree heat but it was incredibly disheartening.

Straight talk: this is NOT meant for female muscles. Lack of easy sophistication excludes women from working with machinery like this. It’s really heavy. Tractor is about a ton(doesn’t matter anyways) and try reciprocating spader is about 266 kilos. The drive train is already heavier than the Kubota approved land pride implements. What’s the point of third party implements if it doesn’t fit like a glove?

Having said that Kubota and land pride come together like a dream and I bought a special quick hitch for that. Smooth as butter. But I really want to try new implements and re fabricate parts of existing work. Even if I can design and visualize it..I literally can’t heave and ho ridiculous tonnage like this. I am not built for power lifting. I almost broke down and cried today.
Not to mention the 2 core 15 watt laptop CPUs.
Can we "mutate" a virus to use radioactive isotope of carbon (c-14? something that is not harmful for humans) so that we can observe how viral a virus is?

Not an expert on radio isotopes or spectrography or viruses.

Note: I know, radioactive virus at this point might freakout people a little.
>Just vent it out in the open air and not on people

Terrible for energy efficiency
Some software you shouldn't write yourself unless you are doing it to learn only. I would put TCP stack on that list. I would never want to deploy my own TCP stack into the wild.
> YAML came in and solved a few of JSON's most glaring problems

AFAIK they were both independently created in 2001 and YAML was not created in response to JSON.
You mileage may vary, but I found Norwegian Wood to be disappointing. It’s mainly a sentimental piece for collage days and girls you knew back in your youth who are now lost to you in time. That sounds good but Murakami’s strengths are in light surrealism, dream logic plots, some humour as well. He reminds me of William S Burroughs but without the seedy mentions of young boys with over developed buttocks. I’ve been working through his novels chronologically and hit a snag with Norwegian Wood.
Such software exists, it is as bad as you think it is and it produced well off targets that loudly complained. See the nsa skynet program that used map reduce on pakistans telecommunication metadata to identify possible terrorists and promptly identified Al Jazeera as a terror cell. As you correctly guessed LE did not go after them and did not bomb their office because, luckily, someone cross checked the automatons results. And then we did hear about it from a leaker.

There is far less known about such systems in police and fbi but what i read so far about the fusion centers that is, if not already achieved, at least a goal.