skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure the western style lockdowns work very well. In places like Thailand they try to identify the infected and then put them in separate quarantine facilities rather than making them stay home where they can infect others. The local transmission there and places like Vietnam with similar policies is now basically zero. There's a bit of an imposition on your freedom if you get quarantined - I did there but it's only 2-4 weeks and only like 0.01% of the population so overall it's probably less of an imposition than the half arsed mess we have in England where I now am. Also the deaths have been like 1000x less.
Avoiding debt is very laudable, but home ownership is the place where even avid debt-haters like Dave Ramsey admit a loan is the only way most folks can do it. Nearly everyone who owns a home does it with a mortgage, usually 15/30 years. Fixed rate seems out of fashion these days, but it's far from dead.
I was raised on programming contests and it took me many years to realize that clever code doesn't equate good code. In the vast majority of cases readability is more important than cleverness, performance, abstraction, and adhering to imaginary rules. The best measure for the quality of the codebase is whether at a glance you can understand what's going on.
> If someone is on a Mac, then they are now running a Linux VM, then running containers, then logging into said fucked up environment and then finallly... running... awk?

Err, no, they are not doing this. That's not how it's working for a start (there's no SSH here) but the user experience is literally

Install a standard application, downloaded like any other.

Open terminal.

Run "docker run ..."

That's it.

> It is absolutely 100% only adding complexity and making things more confusing. How many people will not realize these utilities are on every computer they use?

They aren't on every computer, and they are different on different computers. A point the author not only talks about in the linked explanation but describes how that bit them.
This is in tune with what happens when you change the timescale in a game engine with proper physics.
The C++ article did not use any header-only libraries, though, it just used the standard library, unlike the post about Rust. And Rust's behavior on overflow is "safe" for a certain definition of safe–in release builds by default it will wrap, which is often undesirable.
If...editorial articles...count as valid scientific publications...than I'm going to write an editorial saying poop is gold, eat some taco bell, and retire!

"""comparing Sweden with America with no appreciation of the difference in the culture, lifestyle and handling of the coronavirus """

Where is the science regarding your claim that cultural differences invalidate country Covid rate comparisons.

I see that in some of your historical comments on this site you compare different countries Covid rates despite their cultural and lifestyle differences.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=starfallg&next=22685...

Why does it not count in Sweden's case? Is one only allowed to compare countries when it supports your narrative?

Can you please give me a break and be intellectually honest for two seconds?
Oculus was the first to realize that we now have the technology to do VR right and forget about all the failed attempts from the 90s.
^^This point exactly. The entities that want legislation to help them make money do not change. Which is why elections hardly mean much. Trump does a little bit though just because he's lone wolfing it/looking for his own self interests. So it's "different" in a way, but it's still the same game.
>You can also just not use social media.

Have you tried that? Lots of stuff that shouldn't be on Facebook is, like state/government/etc. using it for lots of different purposes. It's like saying "you could also just not have a phone/computer/internet/heat".
> having prayer rooms in schools that students may use

Which is exactly same as Islam in schools. Why should a public school provide "prayer rooms" which is basically a euphemism for Islam rooms. Today it will be prayer rooms tomorrow it will be halal only meat in cafes. This is a tyranny of minority. I am sorry, I do not see any difference.

> Not, like, actually teaching kids to be Muslims.

That would be the logical next step after the prayer rooms.
You still gotta 'manage' your natural resources. Lumberjacks try and keep the forest from burning down. Miners keep their tunnels from collapsing. Similarly, google should manage their users better.

'Should' here is not meant as a moral imperative. It is meant as "If you want decent profits, you should do this".
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It's been some time since I studied these things, but I believe the post was trying to illustrate that the geodesic lines in spacetime created by Earth's gravity field can be visualized as straight lines after a nonlinear change of the coordinates system. [1] To simplify, these are the lines along which particles move when no outside force is exerted on them--again, considering gravity to be a distortion of spacetime and not a force, very much like the well-known metaphor of steel ball on a rubber sheet, which would curve marbles towards the "well" it's created in the sheet. But you're right that once the marbles and the steel ball get to a point where one of the gravitational fields cannot be ignored, this framework becomes less useful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic
>I heard an interesting question at one point: "how come, when you throw a ball up on Earth, the parabola is so strongly curved? Spacetime is nearly flat, so how can a straight line become such a steep parabola?"

Air resistance, wind, and horizonal acceleration. Over long vertical distances, these perturbations in the x-axis cause an arc. Nothing to do with general relativity.
You do know HK had an different government than communist China, no? That recently lost its independence but is still mostly functioning. Most Americans I talk to seem oblivious to this
Like I just said it's clear that masks stop particles. That part is obvious.

What's not clear is if applying a plague vector directly on your face with a virus that remains active on surfaces for days is efficacious.

Is it efficacious at the community level?

It's basic epidemiology. You could be more pro-science and consider these things.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(idea_l... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy... for more debate over political bumper stickers that don't appear in the encyclopedia pages. It seems agreeing to disagree no longer happens except tacitly, by strictly enforcing only discussion of what you're trying to accomplish and just not knowing who might disagree about anything else.
This has some visualizations of space time curvature where you can get a sense of the lines particles take in different circumstances:
http://www.relativitet.se/Webtheses/lic.pdf

I tried to explain it with words, but I guess the images are worth more than I could write..
Yes, there are certain contradictions between teachings of Islam (misogyny, homophobia, etc.) that might at eventual conflict with the left wing values, I do not how that will play out in future, I guess the stronger faction would win.
The concept of a constant distance orbit doesn't make much sense in 1D. A horizontal line in this model wouldn't indicate an orbit, but rather a completely stationary object. It would then make sense for the world line to curved because it must be accelerating in order to resist the attraction of the body it's near.

By definition, the world line of a stable orbit would be a line in curved spacetime.
The Evolutionary Mystery of Left-Handedness (2014)
Maybe more accurately Ni-SAN as the 's' is quite silent in the first syllable and the stress is on the second. But to be honest, I don't think there is that much difference in pronunciation here in the UK compared to the US and they are both not that far off from the Japanese pronunciation.
Pulling this up out of a subthread, if you happen to have some sort of notification set up for these: https://gist.github.com/saagarjha/00faa1963023206a8ccd987798.... Not intended to be robust or even correct beyond "I tried it a little and it seems to work".
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Nope . The solution is to password protect and not give the pass to developers. Or only give read only access.
C++ multi-threading is easy by not sharing data. Just have each thread produce a result and have a thread that accumulates the results via std::future.

I've converted many mono-thread C++ algorithm this way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-sTs2o0VuY

("Horizon: The Strange Life and Death of Dr. Turing" (1992) )
On the one hand, this capability was already available to users if they connected their voice chat cable through an intermediate recording device. On the other hand, two-party consent to recording is required in 11 US states, so making recordings of party chat without announcing it beforehand would be illegal (regardless of the purpose of the recording).

By adding this to the TOS, Sony is theoretically gaining consent from users to allow other users to record them in a way that might have been illegal before in certain US states.
Are we flat in the time dimension? Or what is our time size?
Safe? If you never use any C functions that expect strings to end in a null character, maybe. (In your approach, the strings end in newlines, including, critically, the last string in the buffer, so the buffer is not null-terminated either.) So, your sort needs to not use strcmp, and your output needs to not use printf (or even puts).

I would argue that this is setting up for catastrophic failure. If not when writing, sometime later when maintenance happens.
Cool. And, yeah..mmap()ing the whole file would also auto-reject non-regular files at the OS layer fixing that TOCTTOU issue..I almost did that, but I'm sure there are various other tricks, too.

I mostly thought Nim deserved to be seen and then it happened to also be faster..perhaps giving folks a slight Bayesian update on presumptions of performance. :-)
> This dynamic stems from audio’s technological simplicity compared to other media types. We can see this in how much earlier recorded audio emerged than recorded video or video game arcades, and live audio (radio) versus live TV or online gaming. Or how much easier it was to make and record music than shoot and press a film, or design a video game.

This is not true for ML. Good realistic speech synthesis is a lot more tricky than images (videos however are another thing entirely).
The planet's curvature is not very relevant to the article, but, yes, if an object is in a free fall at a slow speed (I mean non-orbital) its trajectory is:

- parabola if you assume flat&infinite ground,

- ellipsis if you assume a spherical planet (an ellipsis is crossing the planet's surface).

This is Newton, not GR.
Don't trust automated coffee machines for filtered coffee. Buy a V60 (ceramic), use your normal kettle and start making poor over coffee.

This way you will get the best out of any coffee, you might need to research a bit and practice somedays until you get the right recipe but after that you will get the same result everytime.
I’ve got rattle in both in less than a year. It rattles even without any sounds, just walking around is enough to trigger it. So must be something physical.

I’m in Vietnam right now. There are no Apple Stores, but there are official authorized repair shops. Unfortunately they have to order parts from Singapore.

I’m now without the headphones for two weeks waiting for repair or replacement and I really miss them! My daily walks are just not the same without the podcasts.
Sorry but I have to disagree. Most connections most people have on social media are with those they already know. This is what Mastodon ignores. Mastodon assumes you want to follow random like-minded people, but offers absolutely no tools for the overwhelmingly more relevant use case of finding your existing friends in the fediverse and following them. In other words, it offers no sensible way to bootstrap your network.

This leads to a weird UX: you pick an instance, you sign up, you flip through the onboarding, and now what? This lack of discernible way forward drives people away. They sign up, play with it for a bit, like some cat pictures Eugen boosts, and abandon their account.

Virtually all social services that had any semblance of success offered at least one of two ways to bootstrap your network when you signed up: a global search of some sort, or importing your contact list form somewhere else (Facebook/Twitter, phonebook, etc). Mastodon offers none. Now, I understand that it's a technical challenge to have anything resembling globally-searchable account directory in a decentralized environment, but it's certainly solvable. I'm thinking of DHT for my fediverse project for example.
My company is evaluating Open Project, among other solutions. We're outgrowing our current system, and also beginning to suspect the developers aren't interested in moving it forward, or even properly maintaining it. We like that Open Project is open source. We think building as much as possible on open source will, in the long term, be a win. We also have a lot of Ruby knowledge in house, so we could contribute to it ourselves.

What has everybody's experience been?
I don't think that is quite right. If you travelled near the speed of light and then slowed down again it would look (from your perspective) like you jumped 10 years into the future. So high gravity environments "moving slower" shouldn't result in a jump to the future upon exit.

Instead I think what is happening is that massive objects actually stretch the fabric of spacetime somehow so that the closer you are to the object, the slower you travel through both space and time. And the more massive the object, the more stretched space and time become as you get closer to it.

Hence if you go near a very massive object, from an outside observer it looks like you are frozen in time because time is so stretched it takes forever for you to move through it.

As you mentioned though, from any given frame of reference time will always feel the same. 1 second will always feel like 1 second.
I can crack my jaw. What about when you bend your fingers at the joints, I can crack those too.
LyX is great.
It's been an utter boon to me as I have disgraphia and can't read my own handwriting.

Wrote almost all my notes in undergrad in it.
Wrote at least my first paper of my PhD in it, before moving to latex directly for more control.

I still use LyX today if I need to do some mathematical working.
Being able to cut and paste math really is a huge enhancement.
I can't imagine writing proofs without it
Luckily news isn't near as bad most places as in the US. Fox news wouldn't even be allowed to call itself "news" in lots of places.
Show HN: Xenops: LaTeX editing with automatic asynchronous rendering in Emacs
I’m the beginning I tended to dislike him but he has definitely grown on me over time
I was wondering if they’re perhaps talking about gold coins?
There's a better way to do it.. Trees can be planted in deserts without irrigation using technology developed by a Dutch company called Groasis [0]. They have also recently come up with a new version of their Waterboxx that can use any kind of wastewater to plant trees, even sea water. [1] Looks like it works via solar condensation which then wicks into the soil so the roots can follow it down to the deeper capillary water ~3 meters below. So no need for drip irrigation.

This new water filter box will come in handy for ongoing restoration projects in the Galapagos Islands etc where fresh water is unavailable. Will make a post for it when more information becomes available.

[0] https://www.groasis.com

[1] https://youtu.be/dcSnF_AoqgY
I moved in my familly house (me, my wife and 5 months child) and ever since I am investing more time in the house and garden that any other non work activity.
Its great that I won't have to move again from rented houses but I think i would prefer a great rented house than this slavery.
You can find them - but you certainly wouldn't want to live in them. Most homes below $1.5mil in the peninsula have some serious compromises (especially if you are trying to get a home that is above 1200sqft). You're going to have to take a hard hit on the schools and - well - then you're just going to pay for private schools then. What would you rather do? Spend $5,000/month for your two kids to go to some private school or put that $5,000/month into your mortgage instead?

San Jose != Peninsula btw.
That true for now, but building better tools solves a great many problems.
I take your point, but I think the author's main point was that because objects in free-fall merely follow spacetime geodesics, it makes calling gravity a "force" a little bogus, at least compared to the other forces. Tidal effects don't change that; tidal effects mean the spacetime curvature "over here" is different than the spacetime curvature "over there", which means the principle of equivalence isn't true in a global sense. But objects still follow spacetime geodesics, which is a concept that's hard to reconcile with the notion of a "force."
Is this in open-source Chromium?
Check this campaigning : https://twitter.com/DrAmbardar/status/1317217674242318336/ph...

I would expect the muslim campaigners to have a better understanding of Prop 16's implications and what it means to them than outsiders.
If you’re into British history checkout of “fall of civilizations” podcast on YouTube and other podcast apps. The first episode is of how Rome departed Britain
> that's you who don't understand

Because your comments are incomprehensible.

> I've shown particular code that is error prone in JS but is ok in other languages.

It's not OK in Java. It's not OK in C. It's not OK in C++. Because you can't even do that in any of those languages.

> still you claim "you don't need this"

Look at the languages I listed above. Think about the program you're trying to write. Do you think it's impossible to write the program you want to write in those languages, where you are not even allowed to to do your clever tricks?

Look at the underscores in the name __proto__. That's a huge, massive sign in your face that means, "If you find yourself touching this a lot, it's because you're doing something wrong." How could it be clearer? Imagine it were called __proto$do_not_use$__ instead. But you use it anyway. And then you ask, "why is this so difficult?". Where's the surprise?

Think about this whole thread. You're doing something, experiencing pain, and then complaining about the pain that you feel. Yes, of course you feel the pain. Every time you mention the pain, you are actually giving an argument against yourself: it's not the right thing. So stop doing it. The fact that you got instanceof wrong is further evidence that you're not the best person to tell us which road to take to get to the party--you don't know the city.

(As for the code snippet you wrote in this comment, it's not clear at all what you're even trying to say. Once again: incomprehensible.)
Being spurred to action != addiction.
Bedrock Sandals for me. I can walk forever in them. Feet can breathe and toes can spread.
In every modern apartment building I've lived in, there is only an ethernet port in the wall.
I will have events as they exist in VK in my project.
Ear wax can harden or build up and usually it is ideal to leave them to self-clear unless there is a deafening blockage, infection or similar.

I had issues personally just with headphones and work from home subsitution with white noise (unfortunately others of my household are hard of hearing and loud) worked well for me.
Recumbent trike. Between balance issues following brain surgery & shoulders ruined by arthritis I could no longer bicycle. Getting back on the road was life changing.
Are we moving through time with constant speed? Or we're constantly accelerating through time?
Relevant article

"Up to 335,000 hedgehogs are dying each year on UK roads, a study suggests."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-545243...
What’s the hardest bug you’ve debugged?
Yeah it's ok to feign surprise if you use it as a "Wow I feel lucky to show this to you." Some people genuinely mean it that way, and if you can communicate that's your intent, I think that's fine. It's exciting when someone hasn't heard about something really cool. And it's nice to feel like you're being brought into the club.
Interestingly, my favorite mattress so far has been a cheap Tuft & Needle.
> 2) Rust's ecosystem makes it easy to find and integrate solutions not offered by the standard API

This made me think back to something Rich Hickey said in his "Are we there yet?" talk. In short rust has memory management, and so can better function as a library language, similar to how Java did back in the 90's. Rich's quote below.

>> And it is a big problem. I think the lack of garbage collection really impeded C++ in one of its design objectives, which is: it was supposed to be a library language. All the original design stuff and any time you heard Stroustrup talk about it, it is like, "C++ is going to be a library language". But it only ever ended up being a parochial library language. Every shop had a library, but there were not a library, and still are not a lot of libraries, that go between places, because of this problem.

https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/ccc4a0172...
This amounts to a confusion over notation: "proper acceleration" (e.g. as measured by an accelerometer) vs "coordinate acceleration" (the acceleration an observer observes an object to be undergoing).

The acceleration an observer sees you undergoing is the same as the inherent "proper" acceleration you're undergoing, minus the acceleration of their coordinate frame with respect to yours. For me to stay still with respect to you, if you're in a frame that is accelerating away from me, I need some proper acceleration to catch up and counteract the fact that our frames are diverging. But if spacetime is curved, your frame probably is accelerating relative to mine - c.f. the example on the Earth's surface, where our frames inexorably accelerate towards each other as we move parallel to each other. So for me to stay still with respect to you, I need to have some proper acceleration to balance out the coordinate acceleration derived from the fact that our frames are moving in a curved space.
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> Sites from local TV news groups seem to be the most dispassionate reporting these days.

Really? Our local TV news websites are:

1) absolutely terrible user experiences -- like, so many ads that the scrolling lags on my 16 inch MBP.

2) clearly just reposting whatever their parent networks feed them for everything except local news (so, Fox and NBC, the two mentioned in this article, are literally feeding lines to these "local" channels that are ostensibly totally different from their parent networks)

IMO: the death of local newspapers is a problem but the death of local TV news can't happen fast enough.
With two space dimensions and one time dimension (2+1), an orbit in Newtonian physics is a helix. In general relativity that same helical path would be a straight line in an interestingly curved spacetime.

Likewise I guess for the 1D gravity well case, where a sine wave would become a straight line in spacetime.
There’s an exemption for “a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity” but I haven’t see any size cutoffs below which an organization can ignore GDPR process friction. 20M EUR fines are explicitly allowed no matter how low your revenue is.
I assert that if you throw a ball upwards in a vacuum chamber on Earth, it will in fact still fly in a parabola.
I'm the guy you refer to. You are confusing broad education with STEM. It is very possible to be poorly educated while being OK at math or engineering.