skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure you appreciate what "no government lockdown" vs. a soft lockdown means.

You can consider some of the ways it could go:

(1) people/businesses do voluntarily substantially the same things as soft lockdowns codify. In that case, the impact on the economy, deaths, hospitalizations, etc, are about the same.

(2) people/businesses do substantially less. Deaths/hospitalizations increase. I think the economy probably does worse -- many people get scared and avoid many kinds of economic activity, take their kids out of school, etc. Other businesses are disrupted as employees and owners get ill. In the US, the large number of seriously ill uninsured/underinsured throw an anchor on to the economy for years to come.

You suggest to "sacrifice the old and obese", but it's not clear there's a payoff for that sacrifice. We may end up with 2x-5x dead and a worse, longer-lasting economic situation.
I would say curiosity..
Sounds like something a PR department would do.
"Only" doubles? Compared to what reasonable baseline?
One step closer to having decent VR meetings. I don’t want to see someone’s avatar, I want a virtual representation of their face that looks like they’re really talking.
Iatrogenesis from hydroxychloroquine and other drugs probably contributes in some cases.
Google Teases Large Scale Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure
Yes, your point applies to many modern discussions and an often used rhetorical device I see is to jump away from the "should we do this" discussions and into the "does this work discussion" (to paraphrase jurassic park a bit). Common examples that won't make me popular are climate change, current anti-covid measures, and not eating meat. People get hung up on technicalities about whether ice cores show evidence of some climate relationship, or whether staying home reduces disease transmission, and pretend that those facts automatically lead to a conclusion about how we should behave, while bypassing the discussion about the kind of world we want to live in. I hypothesize that people feel on firmer ground when they shift their ideological arguments into facts about causality, instead of head on discussing why they value a certain kind of society.
>> We don't have the best security and privacy

We today probably have the best privacy tools in all of recorded history. Modern encryption means that anyone on the planet can send a message to anyone else on the planet without fear of government decryption in transit (asymmetric public keys, Tor, PGP, pick your tools). Using freely available tools I can encrypt a file on a USB drive in a way that even an NSA data center running for a billion years wouldn't decrypt. Those sorts of things were not possible a hundred years ago. They weren't really possible only a generation ago.
But you're also no longer paying for your commute.
Filon is also bad, means running away... Having a product name being different in different countries would hurt the brand too.
>How many cubic feet of soil, at what depth, do I need in order to stop purchasing food plants from the store, year-round?

Nobody can provide that evaluation for you without quite a bit more data. Your latitude will make a huge difference to the answer. Your altitude will make quite a bit of difference to the answer. The amount of available water will make a large difference to the answer. Those 3 alone (and notice that none of them are equivalent to "climate" though they all play a role in determining that) mean that the answers will vary across a huge range. There's also the nature of the soil in question, another far from trivial issue.

You can get some answers, however, from "How to Grow More Vegetables Than You Ever Thought Possible on Less Land Than You Can Imagine" by John Jeavons. Some of the answers can be very encouraging, some not so much. I did a weekend course with Jeavons a couple of decades ago in which he pointed out that a typical single olive tree will not even produce 1 cup of olive oil. The scale on which humanity now produces food is sometimes hard to imagine.
We plan to offer paid premium features such as spending insights and advanced reporting. We also have plans for personalized recommendations and exclusive deals, provided the incentives are aligned with our users. We'll never sell your data to third parties, or try to sell you something you don't need (e.g. a credit card or loan offer).

Paid budgeting tools generally charge between $80-$100 per year, which can be a good value if a budgeting methodology works for you and saves you money. This, however, limits the size of the market significantly.

Fion is free because we want to make it easy for as many people as possible to track their spending across all their cards.

We will expand on this topic on our blog, because it's a very important issue that all free personal finance apps need to address.
Monoculture methods may be more economically efficient, but they're far more wasteful ecologically in a number of ways, including both basic output of food per the amount of space used/energy inputed and in terms of nutrient input requirements and effects on soil.

Monoculture is only "efficient" because it's economically convenient and benefits from dead simple logistics and easy automation.
Whilst MS just install their browser and occasionally use updates to put the icon back in your taskbar. They're both shit.
Sounds a lot like FB-DIMMs.
A uniform force doesn't do anything harmful to you. You get stretched into spaghetti by the difference in force between the ends of your body. In large black holes that difference can be small even as you pass through the horizon (where the total force is large).
That would certainly give VR headsets a huge performance boost.
Tenacity is the short version of what Norvig is saying.

A curious thing that happens every time I write code is that some unexpected error occurs. Sometimes it's trivial stuff, other times it's deep structure. Either way, you have to be bothered to make changes and test them. Sometimes this tree gets very very deep. See an error, Google it, find an example that mentions a new keyword, explore that cave for a day, return to previous branch, etc.

Something about this is related to addiction, I think I'm somehow fortunate to be addicted to something useful rather than just some molecule.
Critical thinking is the most essential skill in my opinion to be a good programmer
Acceptance Parenting
> I personally really like the pvp scaling

presumably you've seen the latest video of a level 20 going around one shotting level 120s?

blizzard don't even understand their own scaling system

at the start of bfa you had also level 110s beating up 120s due to the magic of scaling combined with the loss of the previous expansion's abilities

awful, just awful
When to switch to Python 3.9
It seems like you think there is some inconsistency between the sometime occurrence of spontaneous formation of bilipid membranes, and cells not relying on that to make things.
You forgot to mention the time-gating, which is maybe the main thing that has me on the fence about the upcoming expansion. Most of the progression mechanics force you to wait a certain amount of time before you can keep going. This is incredibly frustrating to me, because I tend to play in bursts. I don't feel like logging on for 15 minutes to do a daily every day, and then when I do feel like getting a long session in, my progress is arbitrarily and artificially capped. Haven't looked into whether this will be better in the next xpac, but it's been a frustrating experience for the last 2-3.
A dilemma for ‘long-haulers’: Many can’t prove they ever had Covid-19

https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/26/long-haulers-dilemma-man...
It is accurate that quail should need be free-range, yes. That's just a good way to lose all of your quail.

But, they do need a flight pen, for humane husbandry. They naturally like to run around and peck things. They need space to do that. Anyone who justifies cage raised quail because they like confined space is just trying to justify a bad decision.

>It just might be that we won’t really try until we are forced to by some kind of collapse scenario or another.

This is 100% what I believe the case will be. We won't try anything, at scale, until forced to. The reason I live the way I do is to prepare for (what I believe to be) the inevitable change/shift in the world in the next 3-5 decades.

That being said - mega-cities, and a majority of humans living in cities is a relatively new phenomena. I am not sure our current structure lends itself to 'local' living - that's my argument above. It takes a crap-load of space to feed a family.
What people get wrong about herd immunity, explained by epidemiologists
It’s applied problem solving. I often think of programming as invisible legos that you put together that build some sort of Rube Goldberg machine.

At many times during the process the formation isn’t expressed in code yet, so it’s up to the mind of the programmer to keep the pieces fitting together as intended until the code can be written and take a little bit of the lift from the programmers brain to expressed code.
This is fun. But for just learning to type, not quite suitable for beginners. A nice addition would be to include finger position overlays for beginners.
Cloudfare Workers, WebAssembly and Haskell in the same idea. Oh the times we are living...
"powered by AI and machine learning" wahahaha. No thanks. I'll stick with YNAB.

If you're not paying for it, you're the product.
The single greatest benefit to my career as a developer has been learning to draw.

I draw on whiteboards, in moleskins, on printer paper, on the back of resumes... anywhere and everywhere. I do this because I need to convey complex ideas to important teams who are NOT programmers: Product, Marketing, People Ops, and the C-suite.

Helping people understand my ideas through illustration creates buy-in from them and trust in me. You can be a great programmer, but if people don't know and don't trust in what you're doing you'll never be given the space to execute.
It's getting to the point on HN where the informative posts are greyed out and you have to find them before they get killed completely. Sad!
Science as Scorekeeping
Go vs. Python: a surprisingly even-handed comparison
>He was an antidemocratic thinker

Yeah he never pretended otherwise. I'm not sure what your point is here - that there shouldn't be any antidemocratic thinkers? There should only exist people who like democracy?
I don't have enough information/trust to actually give my email, because I don't know whether the product will work for me. Basic questions like:

- Is this a web app? Are there mobile apps? Android/iOS?

- How does it work? Does it read my SMSs? Do I need to upload my invoices? Does it read my email? What level of access and hand-holding does it need?

- Does it work for non-US residents?

- No pricing information, as already pointed out.

- Currency support? All screenshots are USD, so I don't know if this will work for me.

There's also the fact that you list "third-party analytics" in the list of service providers that get access to my information on your Privacy page.

>Service Providers. We share information with third parties who provide services to us, such as customer service, interfacing with Third Party Sites, analytics, website management, information technology, and other similar service providers.
Europe has also had laws prohibiting cousin marriage out to some fairly wide degrees at times, for various social ends, since Roman times.
Article is a Washington Post reblog of this more detailed original piece, which is accessible for free without doing the WaPo quasi-paywall dance:

https://eos.org/articles/kabuki-actors-forgotten-manuscript-...
+1 I won't sign up without properly understanding how it works and how it syncs the data (do I email receipts? Will it connect to my banks in Belgium and Singapore?)
Show HN: Deploy to K8s without YAML using ShuttleOps
- Communication skills

Being able to clearly explain why your solution will solve a given problem better than the alternative and listen to your colleagues when their suggestion is better than yours, will save you an incredible amount of frustration. It is in my opinion the most important skill I have learned

- Asking why when debugging

Finding the code that's causing a bug is only the first step. The next is preventing a similar one happening again. By constantly asking "why was this choice made", you end up finding the actual weak points in both the code and your process. Whether it's because a hack some other place forced you to write another hack, that then failed or because there was a deadline so the commit was made at 3am, there is an important lesson to be had. If you combine that with good communication, you can talk to the team about changing things, so you avoid creating similar bugs in the future. (Pro-tip: 99% of bugs are there because there wasn't time to do things better)
> As someone who was finally diagnosed by two different neuropsychs (involved days of testing) at 22 it's something I'll regret the rest of my life.

I don't think I understand what you meant. The diagnoses made your life worse? Or made you more aware?
Understanding DiffWave and WaveGrad, New Neural Speech Synthesizers
Orwell's take on anacylosis (in both Animal Farm and 1984, as well as Homage to Catalonia) is that twentieth century democracy decays not to ochlocracy but back to oligarchy, in the case of Animal Farm, and aristocracy, in the case of Goldstein (who discusses the pragmatics of halting the cycle) within 1984.

Looking back on that century with a couple of decades' distance, I'd say oligarchy.
the ability to communicate well is an essential skill.

If you think about it, software is driven by business requirements in most cases. But business requirements are open to interpretation. How do we know what people really want? This comes down to good communication.
The $2k is the filing fee. Seems punitive when compared to other government fees.
thanks! makes sense and i'd like to see that change too! i've added the request to our github now so we'll see what can be done: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/issues/344
No thanks, I enjoy killing and eating animals. It's my prerogative as a human animal.
Coinbase is an american company
In some sense, nothing particuarly interesting happens at the event horizon of a black hole. For a sufficiently large black hole, the space at the event horizon is essentially flat [0]. The time and space swapping weirdness is entirely an artifact of the coordinate system being used.

If you think of spacetime as a 4 dimensional geometry, there is no particularly reason to pick out any specific shape of the "time" coordinate. For a given interval in space-time, there is notion of "proper time" that is invariant to coordinate system transformations, so a given observer does have an "ideal" coordinate to use for time. The "proper time" of a given observer could be the space axis of another coordinate system.

Assuming you have enough background in math, what I think is a reasonably understandable explanation is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv2-KPagCQs&feature=youtu.be...

Once he gets through explaining the hyperbolic coordinate sytstem, you can skip ahead to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv2-KPagCQs&feature=youtu.be...

Space is time line:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv2-KPagCQs&feature=youtu.be...

A somewhat clarifying picture of it taking "infinite" time to cross the event horizon, without anything interesting happening near the event horizon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv2-KPagCQs&feature=youtu.be...

[0] As with any gravitational object, there are tidal forces. However, due to the increasing radius of the event horizon, the strength of the tidal forces at the event horizon decrease as the mass of the blackhole increases.
A standard 80 year old, which is striking as stated above.

It's bad odds for sure and if 80 you wouldn't want to contract it. Only implies it's not a death sentence, roughly as dangerous as space flight.
It would be silly for Sony to not support BC to at least PS4 games (if not PS3-2-1 through some sort of emulation) since Xbox Series X will have BC down to the first Xbox console.
Autopilot will be disabled.
Hello! That's good idea, and I may add feature at some point. Thanks for the suggestion!
I would definitely not dismiss this technique b/c of my quick prototype. There's a ton of work that has gone into the foveated rendering you will see on quest. Check out this paper: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/deepfovea-using-deep-learning-f... (that I link to in my post) to see a what a real version of this technique looks like.
It's a bit sad that there's still no windows support, it would obviously impact performance and there are a few things to keep in mind in regards of worker health checks but I don't think it's something that justifies not supporting it (not trying to imply that they owe anyone anything though).

A few years ago I added native windows support to python rq but the maintainer couldn't accept the pull request which was a bummer so I just abandoned the project.
Markets and Political Parties
I still have a directory tree around from doing those lessons. Given how picky python is about indent spacing, I agreed somewhat with the philosophy behind those lessons, particular for people new to coding.
> So, at least in this case, the Bible got the math down fairly well, and I'm bringing it up purely as a historical document here.

No. Genesis is not a historical document. It is an allegory about creation. Adam and Eve need not necessarily be the first humans, but they were the first to receive a divine spark called "the soul".
I know of no government ever that has been so benevolent that its citizens didn't benefit from privacy and security.
> And yes, it is true that these totalitarian methods ar efficient in fighting street level crime.

You give too much credit to police states.

What happens in reality is that criminals with connections and a minimum of self restrain are folded into the "dark side" of the State, while their rivals are cracked down hard. In this way, a number of low-impact, high-revenue illegal activities are tolerated (in exchange of bribes), crime syndicates are expected to self police and not break whatever taboos were imposed from above; and then this "dark side" of the government do put a lid on top of the deviant side of society, diverting their energies into activities that do not challenge the status quo.

Does it make for a safer place to live for the common citizen? Maybe. While it may be less likely that you will be injured in an armed robbery, you will also be more likely to get your money swindled by this scheme or another... and you will have less chance of redress when this happens.
Related discussion on reports of bribery fueling antitrust focus on tech companies: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24694454
This is wonderful. I have been working with my mother (english is her fourth language) to learn how to type and also to improve her English.

I am really looking forward to sharing this with her over the weekend.
Encryption might be unstoppable but they can always just assign you an IPV6 address and encryption fingerprint that becomes your new online social security number that is required from the compiler on up.

Notarize your apps buddy and sign into your app account... ;)
> CPU chiplets are coupled with different IO dies depending on the design

How does that differ from Intel's approach?
I think there are two separate things being conflated into the term "long Covid".

Do we have reason to believe that lingering fatigue, cough, etc. is a real thing? We do. Any serious infection can cause these things, and (as quoted in the article) some experts in the area say they're more common and severe than would normally be expected.

Do we have reason to believe that Covid causes some crippling disability that can never be treated or recovered from? Not strong ones, although of course even weak and inconclusive evidence should be investigated with a novel disease.
Like they did to Ross Ulbricht?

[1] https://freeross.org/real-untold-story/
It looks like you didn't accept the answers in the previous github issue https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/issues/767 and opened a new one with the same claim adding '[confirmed]' without further proof.
Its GPT-3 if you sign up and pay a monthly subsription I believe. Otherwise its GPT-2
You can dump your tables to a .html file on a schedule and then serve it via a CloudFlare cache with an expiry so that your reports are generated once every 5 minutes and the first request is served by your server then it's served via the cache until you refresh it.
I second that you should get properly diagnosed by a doctor and try the available medication. If the medication works for
you sustainably it will make your life that much better and easier.
It matters but I wouldn't say it's significant for a typical design. A ns is about 12in (30cm) from Grace Hopper's famous wire visual aid.
Funding Black founders fuels generational change
You are the result of a thousand generations of cousin-breeding, and from zero to a couple dozen generations of not-cousin breeding. There are still current anti-incest traditions followed by modern people that pretty much read "You will marry your cousin." The sky doesn't fall in on them, although miscarriages and infant mortality are high, as well as a bunch of recessive diseases.
Pessimism. Expect everything that can fail to fail and code defensively to deal with it gracefully. Doesn't make you much of a joy to work with though
Right now, Fion supports connections to US-based banks.

Regarding the business model, we will expand on this topic on our blog. Our goal is to be the most transparent and user-friendly option in personal finance.
To the Cyclone devs, If you want real-world users make sure you address the glaring documentation issues.

I'd recommend moving the SRFI list to a footnote. Have your own API documentation with examples. Instead of SRFI-69, have an entry for hash tables. Mention at the bottom that you comply with SRFI-69 with a link to the spec, but have your own docs that show how to use those APIs instead. Also make sure you document all the r7rs-small functions and data types too.
Core skill: Being able to read and write documentation.

After the inception of stackexchange, the ability (or motivation) to read man pages seems to have have plummeted.
Somewhat related, I have a list of privacy friendly Google-Analytics alternatives at https://workflowy.com/s/analytics-software/0yDQ899MfOsE2WAO
You're looking for lectures on the Hawking-Penrose singularity theorems. I don't know if there are any videos about them, but at least knowing the name should help you search.
Given the various privacy focussed comments here: for a self hosted FOSS tool to track your spending, consider Firefly III.
Is that so? I don't think it is.

Core-to-RAM latency is in the neighborhood of 50 ns (well-tuned Intel system with low-latency memory) to ~80 ns (bottom-of-the-barrel system). At propagation speed, that's about 10 meters. A big chunk of this latency is internal to the CPU (so is not influenced by distance to the memory at all), another big chunk is the inherent slowness of accessing a DRAM array (10+ ns, independent of the location of the memory).

It's worth pointing out how little this has changed over the past decades. A 2006 AMD CPU is 100 % competitive in regards to memory latency with Intel's 2020 flagship desktop CPU.