skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suggest spending less time with online lectures/videos etc. and more time with actual Books. The online stuff should be an adjunct to your study of books. Also it is best if you look at books dealing with a survey of all the relevant topics required for Science/Engineering before delving into specialized ones. To that end, i can recommend the following;

Mathematical Techniques: An Introduction for the Engineering, Physical, and Mathematical Sciences by Jordan and Smith - This book is really accessible.

Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering: A Comprehensive Guide by Riley, Hobson, Bence - A more advanced coverage of topics than the one above.

Mathematics for Physicists: Introductory Concepts and Methods by Altland and Delft - The coverage is excellent but somewhat challenging to read.
Which laptop is that?
Not necessarily. First not all providers store IP addresses and secondly you can always hide your IP, via multiple hops if you need to. Otherwise there are hosting providers you can sign up to in person, while being masked if needed, and there wouldn't be any IP traces then.
Will look this over and update, thanks!
If I'm reading everything correctly then they don't? The deal with Merck didn't go through and they don't have the Oxford vaccine?
Tilt and Turn: Ingenious Three-in-One Window for Security, Breezes and Egress
Yeah, I've said it here before but I created cdnjs.com 10 years ago or so.

I use webpack and other more secure/performant strategies for all my JS needs when working in a serious environment.

But when I am building something personal/light, I still load up cdnjs.com and drop something in. It's just easier than thinking about how I will serve files etc
> After the road is built, the road belongs to the public.

Depending on where you live, you could very well be under the impression that the roads belong to delivery companies, taxis, etc. (private companies that make money off them) as they are effectively useless to everyone else (= the public) while they are constantly blocking them.
You’re being overly reductionist and dismissive.

No one is claiming otherwise. And back to normal is still a long ways off.

If you’re admitting we’re giving them money for a thing, it’s paid for. I don’t know why you quote it like that, transfer payments of public money to private institutions is a thing, is it up for debate it happens?

Also cost is emotional. Does it have to be 20 billion or is the government handing out cheddar for consulting jobs later?

There’s more too it than high school capitalist theory. Just because you can’t for $20 billion doesn’t mean someone else couldn’t for $5.

But we hide the work in private accounts. Humanities work, built towards by countless hands and minds.

Yeah ok we get it, Murray Rothbard; You’re only 1 in 7 billion. Why does your theory matter? Roll up them sleeves. What? He’s dead? In the bin with it, no need to carry water for a dead man.
Scaling up low thrust to weight engines with large cooling and shielding requirements doesn’t create many mass efficiencies. Maybe in the shielding, but that’s the least of your concerns.

The other problem is that low thrust to weight means an NTR spade ship can’t land on Mars, or on any body with a significant gravity well. So you need to bring chemical rocket landers, increasing your mass duplication and tech complications.

A multipurpose chemical rocket powered space ship Luke Star Ship is far more practical and nearly as fast.
We don't have good data for long term high G tolerance, but estimates I've seen are usually around 1.5 G maximum. However, engine efficiency usually comes at the expense of thrust; there are few theoretical designs even that could provide 1.5 G for the amount of time needed to get to Mars.

For this engine, for example, the specific impulse is twice that of a chemical rocket - so around 800. At an acceleration of 1.5 G, this engine could only run for around forty minutes before exhausting all the fuel in the vessel.

So we are not yet at the technology level necessary for Brachistochrone trajectories (accelerate halfway there, flip over, decelerate the rest of the way); this would merely allow for a shorter Newtonian transfer orbit.
Agreed. Flagged on that basis.
Why does "super thin" matter, if "powerful" is important?
I'm afraid there's not much to be done about that, other than finding something you're actually interested in.

Me, I've accepted that I probably won't become much better at what I do, and there's more important things to worry about than my performance. Like beer and video games.
Well, I think it will result into the same consequences. It would be immediately weaponised by the political opposition and would be retired almost as soon as it was introduced.
Thanks for the catch! Will update
A toxic secret lurks in deep sea
> much better than boilerplate you'd have to do with classical languages

Except that over-enthusiastic use of macros replaces well-understood idiomatic boilerplate with project-specific magic.

(disclaimer - I love macros, used sparingly)
It is an analogy, and it's already established we aren't discussing law. The question is the principles, causes, and reasons at play and how they relate to other principles, causes, and reasons.
Still way less of an issue than someone feeding last month's public data dump into their credential stuffing script.
Do not go back to a Macbook. I've been using Macbooks for ~10 years and their quality has been going consistently going downhill the past few years. I usually buy a new one every 1-2 years. I'm currently on a maxed out 16 inch Macbook Pro. Can't even connect an external monitor because of heating issues. Unless I mod the whole thing with cooling pads.

The last two times I bought a new one I thought "Not happy, but let's give Apple one more chance because they used to be good and everyone makes mistakes" - Regretted it every time. Keyboard issues (went to the Apple store 6+ times), Touchbar issues and it's annoying as a whole, overheating, GPU issues with external monitors, Bluetooth issues, and more. Next time will be the first time (really!) that I'm not buying a Macbook anymore.
If you are doing squash merges, git branches have a cost.
Would you better not able to solve at all?

Ship and troubleshoot solved by distro maintaires. Niche products solved by Flatpak and its runtimes.
That's how security is at essentially every company but it's extra grim in the mental health/medicine world :\
You're describing a brachistochrone trajectory. The "magic" in sci-fi isn't the drugs, it's rocket engines that are actually that efficient. If you accelerate/decel at a sustained 1 g, you can make it to Mars in about 2 days.
Facebook launches cloud games but says Apple won’t allow it on iOS
Given that cache hits only work with a specific URL the results are in practice anything between pointless to only slightly good (with maybe one or two exceptions).

I mean to have a cache hit you need:

- Same CDN

- Same library

- Same library uploader/name

- Exact Same library version down to every byte of js

- Exact same way to refer to given version (e.g. if latest is 1.3.2 then foobar-1.3.2 and foobar-latest are not the same, except if foobar-lastest is a temporary redirect to foobar-1.3.2. But that would induce a further round trip).

If we furthermore consider that most people most times visit a small number of domains it's not to hard to reason that the value gained from caching doesn't outweigh the cost for the majority of users.
Purism seems cool if you are into that sort of thing. If you want a more mainstream Windows/Linux laptop go with the Dell XPS. (It has good Linux support because there is a version with Ubuntu preinstalled). The new Mac pro is also quite good.
Those already take the slow boat Hohmann transfer orbit to maximize payload capacity. Starship might be able to send 150 tons that way to the surface itself. And building bigger starships is easier than building NTRs.
Or MultimediaArchiver, AFAIK it works with some audio only sources as well.
Yeah .. something like that is missing in C# land (IMHO)
>There is no evidence to prove the vaccine has caused any serious adverse effects so far. If that were the case, it is unlikely the Data Safety and Monitoring Board (DSMB) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would recommend resuming the trial.

There's also no evidence to prove that it wasn't. Furthermore, the AstraZeneca vaccine was halted for a case of transverse myelitis, a very common (and serious) adverse reaction seen in DNA/adenovirus based vaccines like ChAdOx1 [0]. These complications have not been seen at all in the mRNA based vaccines, since they do not involve a live virus.

[0] https://medcitynews.com/2020/10/report-fda-takes-closer-look....
For real, I had a very long page open the other day (was linked probably from another page) and it just loaded straightforward.

Meanwhile I'm developing a single page webapp and my system seems to struggle. Mind you, the unuoptimized version is already (apparently) 35MB (uncompressed) JS. Should see if I can improve that.

edit: built version is ~600KB, of which ~70KB is actual application code. Seems like I'm using a 'big' version of lodash somewhere.

Edit 2: Fixed, shaved off down to ~730KB. Biggest factors now are React itself, react-bootstrap, i18next, yup and lodash-es.
Very awkward use of informal english in this article's title, particularly from Reuters.
Transaction costs say it's not worth double the transaction costs for 1 more chocolate bar
Common Worlds, Common Sense, and Digital Media
you would preach but you would not contribute
In my experience, most companies use ADP or Paychex or similar, they rarely roll their own solution. This is a non issue IMO.
Which form factor of the Dell's 7XX0 are you talking about?
WRT ELI5 (and bear in mind I'm a layman who's only briefly skimmed the article, but this may do till an expert chips in, corrections welcome):

There are a couple of main ways of calculating the speed of the expansion of the universe; they are very different and act at different scales, but should obviously tally. They don't, and the mismatch is often referred to as a crisis in cosmology in popular articles on the subject. It's a serious issue because each of the two different methods is foundational in our understanding of the structure of the universe in their domain; we can't just prefer one over the other.

Our standard way of modelling the universe relies on Einstein's general relativity in a larger framework that caters for dark matter; a (controversial) "Newtonian" alternative is called MOND and this article proposes ways that elements of the two (but favouring the latter) might be combined to counter the discrepancies in the measurements, taking into account other difficulties in the process like the void in the title.

Further reading;

Crisis:
https://www.quantamagazine.org/cosmologists-debate-how-fast-...

MOND
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics

Standard Cosmological Model
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-CDM_model
My similar story goes like this: We had CRM software that let you setup user defined menu options. Someone at our organization decided to make a set of nested menu options where you could configure a product, with every possible combination being assigned a value!

So if you had a large, blue second generation widget with a foo accessory and option buzz, you were value 30202, and if was the same one except red, it was 26420...

Every time the CRM software started up, it cycled through the options, generated a new XML file with all the results, this took about a minute and created like a 60MB file.

The fix was to basically version the XML file and the options definition file. If someone had already generated that file, just load the XML file instead of parsing and looping through the options file. Started up in 5 seconds!

What was the excuse that it took so long in the first place? "The CRM software is written in Java, so it's slow."
I use a modern desktop with Arch Linux and KDE. I stopped using Windows ~10 years ago and not looking back.
I guess the CDNs assume people should use libraries without version pinning, ie "latest".
It's great news, though at first I thought they had released Phase 3 results, which would be earth-shattering news. They are still the leading vaccine candidate and the one most likely to get approval this year (though the US press tends to ignore it in favor of covering the various US-originated vaccines that are also in Phase 3 trials).
They tried it, didn't work as well!
This is not corrupt. It’s money well spent. The benefits to us all are most likely more valuable than anything we’ve spent on vaccine research. Government balance sheets also probably come out ahead on that investment given that the alternative is an economy with a raging pandemic and resulting lower tax base.

Then there is the logistical effort of manufacturing the vaccine at the scale and speed required. There are huge capital investments and risks associated with doing that. If a company wants to do that and seek the profits from that, great.
Literally everyone comes out ahead. You, me, the government, the manufacturer, distributor, and every other business or person in the economy.

What is the alternative? We create a government agency that specializes in manufacturing and distributing pharma products?
I think the writing is on the wall for ReactOS. When it gets close to being able to be used as a daily OS Microsoft will sue because they've been accused of ripping off the Windows Research Kernel[1] and because Windows NT3.5, 2000, and XP code has been floating around the net for a while now - it's going to get harder and harder to keep the room clean when anyone can contribute.

That being said, some of ReactOS's features are really cool and I hope something comes of it.

[1]: https://www.osnews.com/story/130275/reactos-a-ripoff-of-the-...
As much as I really hate to say it, youtube seems to have the best collection of recorded math lectures I can find anywhere. OCW has quite a few but only the ones from MIT. One of my professors only uploaded to youtube (and I think he was doing this without the administration knowing, they were generally hostile to recorded lectures and the official policy was that recordings of lectures should never be shared to non students for some reason.)

Besides that good math books are usually very cheap. I would highly recommend those over a website.
I can concur, I've had family members who ran obsessively and they looked 10 years older than they were. They weren't causal runners, their lives revolved around running.
Cheaper by €1? Who cares? Nobody here is manufacturing tens of thousands of devices.
SRI now solves the problem of ensuring a third-party resource doesn't unexpectedly change its contents, but it can't address the security issues of being able to time how long a request takes to tell if you already have it in your cache.

AIUI it is less practical than you'd like, for several reasons that work together to greatly mitigate its impact: 1. The remote content most vulnerable to hostile change is also remote content already being loaded precisely because it changes; ad scripts, etc. Protecting your jQuery load is nice, and if someone did compromise a CDN's jQuery it would be a big issue, but it's also not what has been happening in the field. If the content has to change you can't SRI it. 2. If you have a piece of remote content that you rigidly want to never change, it's much safer to copy it to a location you control, and it's almost as easy as SRI. 3. If a subresource fails SRI there's no fallback other than simply not loading it, so it has a very graceless failure mode. This combines with #2 to make it even more important to put it in a locally-controlled area. Once local, SRI is more-or-less redundant to what SSL already gives you.

Basically, it's one of those things that looks kinda cool at first and makes you think maybe you should SRI everything, but the real use cases turn out to be much smaller than that.
> Or are you suggesting that unintentionally disadvantaging a group is not only not discriminating against that group, but that also it is is also excusable and needs no correction? i.e. that the consistent, albeit unintentional, disadvantaging shall continue?

It depends on the policy. Is the height of a basketball hoop a policy that is unintentionally discriminating against me because I can't jump that high? Is the Nobel Prize racist because Jews are massively overrepresented among winners?

The debate here is over whether any policy that results in racial disparity is racist. To me, that argument is obviously wrong.

> A good example is in the (historical) [entrance exams for the UK's Grammar School systems which are sat at age 11[(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleven-plus#Controversy); while the grammar-school system was ostensibly universal and open to all, the entrance exams with questions predicated on a familiarity with middle-class culture naturally disadvantaged working-class students.

To you, tests like the one you mention are racist (or classist) because you assume that certain races or classes will be more likely to know certain things and others less likely. But, ironically, to me, your assumption is racist (and classist) because we have different definitions of racism.

Finally, I think there's a serious flaw in your thinking. If "studies show" that rich kids test better in math, does that mean math tests are classist? Is it even possible to create a test so that every group you consider (ethnic or socio-economic) will achieve the same average score? And which groups shall we consider? Isn't it common knowledge these days that there is no canonical way to divvy people up into "races"? Why is it that, for the purpose of college admission, "Asian" is an ethnicity but "Jew" isn't? Furthermore, imagine I am born to rich parents and my parents hire a math tutor from the age of 3 until I graduate high school. By the time I take the SAT, I will probably be much better at math than the average high school student. Is there anything wrong with that? Why is it correct for tests to attempt to discern innate ability rather than current ability?
One would have thought the name was already "radioactive" when the Expanse books were written.
Gorillas.bas :-) Remember it well. Chucking bananas was fun!
Coronavirus: Germany improves ventilation to chase away Covid
.local isn’t the best comparison to .onion

.oarsinsync is probably a better comparison. It’s not explicitly scoped anywhere, and it works nicely in my oarsinsync bubble, much like .onion works nicely in the ToR bubble.

In both cases, you need to connect using some kind of tunnelling protocol to connect into another network.
I use a Dell Precision 5520 as my daily driver and have been very impressed. The things I like about it are a good backlit keyboard that hasn't been forced too thin, a bright screen I can see in sunlight, and a good battery life that hasn't significantly diminished as I have owned the laptop. The only complaint I have is it will sometimes turn itself back on in my bag and drain it's battery. The Precision 55XX line is basically their XPS line with a Quadro card baked in. The new 5550 model has a few spec bumps and a slightly nicer webcam placement and would be my recommendation if you need a Quadro card. Otherwise check out the latest Dell XPS line.
Just in case anyone wants the short version: it starts off sounding like a fan slowly speeding up with something stuck to one of the blades and then (not very quickly) transitions to train/car horn noises.
"Educational" isn't a blanket license to copy. Otherwise there would be no textbook publishers, or companies that make films for classroom use.

(I have a friend who makes a living as a choral composer. Churches, he finds, are the biggest thieves! They believe they don't have to pay for music because they're a Church.)
If a resolution passes the UNSC without veto, as well as passes the UN GA, then there is much higher likelihood that it is a legitimate issue and not just a game of great powers, perhaps even close to a certainty.

That is not to say that there if it fails to go through the process it is necessarily just a game of great powers, but hey, that's the world we live in.
Could this be why we exist? Aliens don't like to travel across space desert, it isn't worth their time and risk, so we are in an island of safety.
On the topic of undervolting, I run Bootcamp with a 2019 MBP 16 (i9) and it cannot play games like Rocket League without discharging despite being plugged into a 100W adapter. I have even tried disabling Turbo Boost. Incredibly disappointing.
> Walmart's presence lowered the living costs of low income families by $1k-$2k

These studies are useless in isolation. If the super-optimisation of production and supply chains (less factory workers, drivers, other lower skilled labour) and moving production to lower cost economies (far, far less factory jobs) also reduced the average income, then the benefits are far less clear, and may disappear altogether.

Nothing happens in a vacuum. If the people who are supposedly benefiting from these low prices are the same people who lost their jobs to the MNCs in the first place, I doubt they're feeling all that grateful.
"but still a long way to go"

It's actually an "indeterminate way to go". Assuming it is "long" has no factual basis. Phase 3 results could be released literally any day now, and good results would lead to government approvals in the following weeks.
Haiku Operating System
Front End Technologies in 2020
Salt Lake city literally has an indexed grid around the Mormon Temple - it's kind of amazing. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/plat-of-zion/
The title is a bit of a misnomer, isn't it?

> This simple one line change reduced our clone times by 99% and significantly reduced our build times as a result.

Sounds like it didn't reduce build times quite by 99%.
It would be an absurd conclusion to reach that Google can't pay Mozilla to feature their search, but can sink billions into Chrome to gain market share.... and feature their search. I don't see a sensible end state though. What do you do? Spin off Chrome, destroy it as a business by preventing it from doing a deal with Google to feature Google search... and then what? Act surprised when web browser development stops dead?
You need heavy radiators or your entire ship quickly becomes uninhabitable when the engine is running. We’ve never built a NTR capable of shedding all its heat through its propellant. In fact, we’ve never operated one in space, only on Earth where cooling is trivial.
It was in the latter sense.
Why? You could export your weights and everything into any other framework, no?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this the vaccine that killed a test subject?

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/volunteer-astraze...
Yeah, this seems to be an unfortunate recent trend in some gaming laptops, presumably in a bid to save some weight and/or cost, but luckily, it still seems rare enough that any time it happens, the manufacturers still get called out on it in reviews. Usually, the power drain is when CPU+GPU are maxed out, not one or the other. I suppose if you did manage to get into a situation where this was an issue, you could find a bigger power supply. Up to about 180W these tend to be common and reasonably priced, then size and weight start going up dramatically.

While we're mentioning other minor gotchas, another one is memory latency and bandwidth. While desktop systems commonly have XMP and 1.35V support, very few laptops do (typically running at JEDEC timings at 1.2V). While there's diminishing returns, the difference between JEDEC 2933 CL21 or 3200 CL22 and say 3800 CL16 can actually be noticeable in certain workloads and is often effectively "free" (one-click in the BIOS) extra performance on the desktops.
That is wrong by a factor of ~100. 0.2% of estates in 2017 paid an estate tax. [0]

[0] - https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-tax/ten-facts-you-shou...