skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would we never know? Quoting from the blog post: "The specific reasons given were that [...]" followed by a bullet list. Your guess is unwarranted speculation.

The question was: can we find out if hidden political vendettas against OP were the cause of complaints? You're implying that, yes, we can find out, because the complainers provided a bullet point list. If the complainers had hidden political vendettas against OP, do you actually think they would have listed them in the bullet points?
I use medium, as a freelancer, the extra little boost in cash helps during dry spells.

I mean, if people can't afford the $5 per month that it costs to read all medium posts, they really shouldn't waste the time complaining.
Mostly because we have 325 million people to feed on a daily basis. Not arguing right/wrong.
Not if the wolves are reintroduced and protected by the government.
Deep Adaptation – A Map for Navigating ClimateTragedy [pdf]
I read this paper in 2017, I thought it might serve as an interesting starting point for discussion.

I'm young, and living in a place where being a software engineer pays only marginally better than other professions. I haven't managed to gather the land/capital that I think I need to cope with the changes I believe are coming.
Its worth the money, I wouldn't expect this sort of thing to be free.
The analysis was riveting as always. I'm not sure his position that Biden is a true moderate holds up though. Biden acts like a moderate, but Harris is the most radically left Senator we currently have [0], and kowtow's to BLM's view of the world, which is one of the more factionalist elements in our culture right now. I still don't understand why Biden chose her as a running mate unless his goal is to smuggle extreme leftism into power.

Not to say Trump isn't hard to defend, but at least he's not threatening to undo all the republican aspects of our government that give us stability like the left is (abolish the electoral college, pack the court, get rid of the filibuster, abolish the senate).

I wish we could all get along and row together on policies that make sense. But Bret is right about stasis reinforcing itself to the point of breaking up families. It's bizarre that it would, but I can feel it; everything has to be a conflict, and our opinions on that conflict itself are polarizing, even though that's not our goal.

[0] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/41267...
"Stream your Steam Library" would be a pretty solid value proposition.
But what the parent is saying is that lots of people who have fever may be self-isolating and not seeking medical assistance thinking it is Covid (as many of the symptoms are identical), whereas they may have seen a doctor a year before. In this case, the population that doctors see that have flu-like symptoms (as opposed to other symptoms) may be less. So it doesn't matter how many samples you take in that population, you would get less flu patients.

All speculation. But just a plausible explanation.
needs a 1995 tag ... or however old it is
Half of my body is numb and I've needed a doctor for 5 years. I do the opposite: ignore health and hope this all ends soon.
Do it! Though it ends up being far easier with a camera as you aren't restricted by seasons and locations. I think part of the fun in hunting is that most of the time you turn up empty handed, so the one time you get it is special. Certain tags can take decades to acquire, then you have to actually kill the animal in the right (potentially quite small) location, in the right (potentially quite narrow) time frame, using a single shot from potentially hundreds of meters out. Compared to with a camera you can walk onto a wildlife preserve, find a watering hole, and shoot away all year round.
North Sails' 3Di tech? They make precisely curved sails for racing yachts. https://www.northsails.com/sailing/en/innovation/3di-technol...
You're in a position right now where you probably ought to continue using Python. It's a great tool for many jobs, the community is super helpful and very capable, and the ecosystem is tremendous. Tech decisions are hard to make and managers try to choose carefully. It sounds like your team already bought into some of the costly hype by adopting Kubernetes (and probably microservices). It takes restraint not to go further and rewrite everything in Rust.
It's been a while since microservices became a big deal, so the tech industry may be due for a cost-cutting correction where projects consolidate a constellation of microservices to efficient monolithic systems written in systems languages such as Rust or Go and use leaner hosting solutions. You can adopt Rust then, maybe.
> Waymo says its vehicles were involved in 47 “contact events” with other road users, including other vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists. Eighteen of these events occurred in real life, while 29 were in simulation.

If they drove 6,100,000 real miles and ~5,000,000,000 simulation miles, and had 18 real contacts and ~29 simulated contacts - that strongly indicates their simulation is not representative of reality.

Edit: My (old, now changed) numbers were wrong but my theory was right!

So they drove 6,100,000 real miles and had 18 real contacts. Between June 2019 and April 2020 they drove ~5,000,000,000 simulated miles and had ~29 simulated contacts.

So their simulator is 3 orders of magnitude safer than the real world. The only number that's really fuzzy here is 29 - the number of simulated contacts (because the dates don't match up perfectly, as this report from Waymo started counting in January 2019). But no matter how you slice it, there is clearly no way the simulated miles are representative of reality.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/10/waymo-has-now-driven-10-bi...

https://blog.waymo.com/2020/04/off-road-but-not-offline--sim...
Of course. I said it isn't perfect. It's a balancing act between preventing cheating and practicality. The requirements you laid out would result in no leaderboard at all.
Not all rainbows are divergent, but if you look at jet you can clearly see it's designed to be roughly symmetric about the mean. Rainbow and divergent are not mutually exclusive.
Thanks! Yeah, the previous one had some nice retro charm. We are now in the modern age :D
Apparently here in Germany the authorities believe that they detect about 50% of the infections...

AIUI the tests the Slovakians are going to use will discover 95% of the infections, and have lots of false positives, so if they've been roughtly as good as the Germans until now, they'll discover at least 25k unknown covid carriers (assuming 27k known infections in the past week) and will have almost 100k false positives, and will leave a few hundred carriers to roam the streets. Is that roughly correct?
Dark web hackers say they hold keys to 10k Robinhood accounts
Loving Deepnote so far. Being able to seamlessly collaborate with others during the pandemic is a lifesaver!

It would be great if you had automatic versioning similar to Google Docs, using Git with notebooks is a nightmare.
Miharix WiFi RC: super cheap RC control over WiFi
So you're saying, you'd rather pay me $19 for my tutorial, than pay $5 for all tutorials on medium's platform?
Ah so you’d say the nested setup is one thing that differentiates Rspec.

I’d use inherited test classes for this case, either sharing the setup in the parent and having each child define their own tests, or defining the test cases in the parent and overriding the setup in the child classes.

Seems like the latter might be hard in Rspec? But the former sounds more concise in the Rspec notation, I agree. I think Ruby’s anonymous blocks seem to be the differentiator in the toolset, I’ve not seen a Python DSL that’s as good in that regard.
I think the prior art you're looking for kinematics and robotics... and I distinctly remember that e.g. for multi-joints robotic arms you can actually use methods from the algebraic geometry instead of calculus (so you solve polynomial equations instead of differential equations).

Also, no one in this thread mentioned Opus Magnum from Zachtronics which has some quite neat mechanical movement in it.
First time posting, I forgot about links not working in text submission.

Vielight devices:
https://vielight.com/brain-photobiomodulation-devices/

Studies:
https://vielight.com/references/

Transcranial Photobiomodulation for Depression Treatment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zhE02ZL-4o
I highly doubt it's possible to do Android stuff with toys, I'm still curious to learn otherwise.
Hardware-as-a-Service
In short: it is too earlier for 2020 (week 43 is almost nothing in 2019)
Example from the paper, alternate AI lyrics for Can't Touch This:

Prompt: You cannot touch this
And and and and should not touch this again
Do not touch to the tongue
The person in question
And no one trying indigestion
Do it in anger because they
Should not touch the tongue say it ye and yea.
I said unto you
And if anything, uh, you pursue.
The idea that 172 different strains of the Flu virus can be accurately detected and tracked, but suddenly adding a 173rd virus (COVID19) to the mix would mess up their survey seems a bit ridiculous to me.

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These flu-surveys are extremely important for designing next year's flu vaccine. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of flu strains, since that virus is constantly evolving. But the flu vaccine can only protect against 5ish strains.

Some strains (in particular: Flu TypeA) are known to spread much faster than others (ie: Flu TypeC). So even if TypeC is more common, maybe Flu TypeA is prioritized because of the risk of it becoming a pandemic a year out.
A lot of the background work is handled by the staff, not by the elected members themselves.

And the staff are typically in their 20s or 30s, and use tech like anyone in their age group.

The elected members may not be great questioners, but the recent antitrust committee report had staff fingerprints all over it.
There's a lot of comments about "ideas are not scarce". Here's the bit that mentions it.

> Ideologically, it's pretty simple: I don't believe that ideas can be meaningfully owned as property. That is, I see property as a means to non-violently resolve conflict over scarce resources. But ideas are not scarce, and thus, to me, they are not property and thus should not be treated as property. This is a fundamental assumption on which all intellectual property rests, and so, I reject it from first principles.

As I see it, there's some transitive logic being invalidly applied here. The post also says it's from a viewpoint of practicality. I consider the AGPL style licences are being used for practical goals.
Well, we are not a Jupyter hosting service. There's definitely a lot of work being put into embedding Jupyter into data science platforms (mostly putting Jupyter into an iframe). But at the end of the day, there are limitations to this approach so some things won't work that well.
So a deeply held cultural point of pride to be leveraged for political points all the same
I used xpath last week for something
EFT is unrelated to head tapping for setting internal wake up calls.

In EFT you're tapping on the end points of the meridian lines to send a kind of "reset pulse" to clear emotional issues. (At least that's the concept.)

To set a "wake up call" you (basicplus2) tap your head with your finger, but probably not on a meridian point, and you're not trying to clear an emotional issue. Also, some people tap their whole head on their pillow instead.
Damn. XPath went off the rails after v2. Though, to be fair, so did JavaScript, and look where that is today!
That's not what the article says. They drove 6.1 million miles autonomous with a safety driver.
That sounds fantastic. I would love to be stuck on a planet, with my entire life in the hands of Elon Musk - whom has been progressing into a temperamental asshole and probably has a gigantic ego. What happens if you do something Elon doesn't like and he wants to cut off your Starlink access, or kicks you out of the SpaceX colony. I'm sure there are plenty of SpaceX security folks that would carry out his decrees.

I wouldn't set foot on a SpaceX martian colony without some further protections.
The 6.1M miles was self-driving in real life, with a safety driver in the car.

The simulation portion only comes into play if the safety driver intervenes in a real life situation. In this case, they go back and simulate what would have happened in the safety driver did nothing.
Thank you! Actually I'm working on that right now.
If I chose to live in BFE, I’d accept the wilderness is a harsh reality and be less brittle over what is ultimately a personal life choice

Not up to everyone else to let the ecosystem go cause they want to LARP John Wayne movies
In 2020 with so many issues in the world — high scores in video games is not worth caring about.
If we are truly talking about "contact events", I have seen on multiple occasions, pedestrians walking into the side of stopped vehicles. This is definitely an area where data speaks louder than words, so good on them for releasing it.

Edit: skimming through the paper, it does appear that at least one of the events was exactly this scenario.
It is the swiss army knife of scraping indeed. I feel like I can do anything with a scraper thanks to XPath.
> ALGOL 60 included a series of novel features, such as recursion, which was supported in a much more complex manner than logicians had ever envisaged...Recursive procedures in ALGOL 60 are much more complex than in Lisp.

Can anyone explain how this "much more complex" recursion works?
Cattle, not pets
I'd recommend checking out Mario Grand Poo World related record runs and the history of those mods. It's crazy how much effort goes into it.

Run from the namesake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwYt3QxJv34
Wasn't that the point? The elk were eating everything down to the nubs.
They do, there already was one!

At the time it was called "Don't Be Patchman", apparently it changed its name and was ported to Windows and macOS.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/378410/Patchman_vs_Red_Ci...
Yep, makes sense.

I thought this proposal was some kind of pitch to solve that specific problem, not just automate the process after receiving a payment.

I just misunderstood what the goal was
Couch change.
Because they make food. They are the first part of the supply chain; a chain that is a massive industry.
Muslims have been doing this for centuries
With temperatures, the blue-red color-map is makes intuitive sense because, culturally, we already have an association of blue = cold and red = hot.

The issue though is where to draw the center between blue and red? Like, when do we transition from light blue to light red? The average temperature? the freezing point? And even then, what color goes in the middle? White, grey, and black are common, but not necessarily natural or perfect options.

One solution is to use a sequential, non-diverging color map that starts at white/light red, and gets more red with higher temperature (or blue, or green). But then we miss out on that intuitive blue/red relationship, and people may have a hard time interpreting "light red" as a low, cold temperature.
You're quoting The Verge's words, not Waymo's there. I'm curious how Waymo actually stated this.
While there may be some packs up in the northern Rockies, when was the last time you saw a wild wolf in Texas? Admittedly I'm no wildlife expert, but I believe there's also a distinction between the northern (doing OK) and southern (non-existent) subspecies.[0]

[0]https://www.wolfquest.org/wolfopedia/Wolves/Gray-Wolf-subspe...
There were virtually no deaths attributed to COVID last winter - everything started in March, past the influenza peak.

This winter the number of deaths from COVID will be an order of magnitude higher than the deaths from flu on an average tear. So even if we attributed every sobgle death from flu to covid, it wouldn’t change the overall picture on Covid really.
Commenter told me to "grow a fucking vegetable" but I can't because a wolf keeps eating it. So now I have to murder a wolf or my family starves.

See how this (aka life) works?
(Trivia:) Looks like they might have used LaTex (vice Microsoft Word) to create the PDF.

EDIT: This is mildly noteworthy because the authors are at Harvard Law, and lawyers and law students typically use Word, not LaTex. The senior author, Harvard Law student Sunoo Park, is also an MIT computer science Ph.D and computer security researcher.
Medium pays based on users subscribed who 'clap' on your articles, the more claps/views the more you make per article.

It's literally $5 a month to subscribe to all medium articles, I don't get the problem. That's less than a starbucks latte.
It's not unreasonable. Wolves are among the few predators that can and will attack humans.

That the wolves, themselves, now have a deep-set fear of humanity and would only dare to do so if they're desperate and starving... is a distant second to that same deep-set cultural fear of wolves.

Unpopular Opinion Time: The ecosystem damage from not having apex predators is large enough that it might be worth a few human lives to avoid.

Unpopular Opinion Time the Second: But there are other apex predators, such as the lynx, which can take much the same role without being nearly as dangerous to megafauna like humans.

Though that's only a decent solution if you don't have problems with megafauna like elk.
As long as new grads can continue to make $200k out of college, Google's hiring pipeline will continue to be fine.
The median household income of milwaukee county is less than the median household income of nearly every single county in the northern half of the state, and as you go further north, the median household income goes higher. What are you talking about?
Fitness tracker data may predict Covid-19 better than symptoms alone
Fellow Steam Controller die-hard here. Nothing else really compares. One big issue was that the best features (like mouse-like joystick and gyro-assisted aim for FPS) took time to configure when most controller users want a controller to just work. But Valve’s community configs solved this extremely well. I can jump into just about any game and have an excellent controller config running out of the box.

The touchpads, gyro, and back paddles make it so much better than any other controller. It’s a shame they discontinued it. The more mainstream reviews of the controller by tech news sites and Linus Tech Tips didn’t quite grasp its potential, which is understandable. But there are some solid niche YouTubers like RambleTan and Critical Input that have made entire channels out of exploring its potential, and the subreddit is pretty good too.
How VGA Works
Where did you get those numbers from? according to the article 6.1M miles was driven on the roads with safety drivers, and additional 65000 miles were driven without safety drivers.

"Simulated contacts" are when safety drivers engages, and Waymo investigates what would happen if they did not, so this is as close to the real life as it gets.
Reading the drama unfold in realtime a few years ago on the forums was enthralling. It was like reading a 500 page serial and by the end there was cold-hard facts vs "I'm going to expose fake news on my friend's right-wing internet radio show." King of Kong made him look shady, but the evidence of cheating since then is all based MAME emulator quirks* of very specific versions that allow replays from arbitrary points, lack of sound in recordings, glitches in video recording at convenient times, high score runs witnessed without anyone in the same room.

This quirks are things like (and I'm simplifying here) "Arcade hardware draws girders from left to right, but MAME v1.11 draws them from right to left. Billy Mitchell's video also shows them drawn from right to left, plus this random enemy always appears in the easiest possible position."

One of the original threads:
http://donkeykongforum.com/index.php?topic=2055.0

The 5 or so main threads are novel-length, in total.

And a cringy appearance on an unknown talkshow which was supposed to exonerate him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLxh9Yi5Dc
Do you understand that there is nothing in Times Square that is anything like natural wolf habitat?
Does someone know what a "simulated collision" is? How is it relevant? Or are those still collisions in the real world?

EDIT: it is in the article, I read it too fast:

> The company says it also counts events in which its trained safety drivers assume control of the vehicle to avoid a collision. Waymo’s engineers then simulate what would have happened had the driver not disengaged the vehicle’s self-driving system to generate a counterfactual, or “what if,” scenario. The company uses these events to examine how the vehicle would have reacted and then uses that data to improve its self-driving software. Ultimately, these counterfactual simulations can be “significantly more realistic” than simulated events that are generated “synthetically,” Waymo says.
Maybe I’m wrong, but... everything he says feels like a lie. I just don’t believe a Tesla will be able to go out and drive Lyft for you and make you $100k anytime soon. Even if the tech is there, the regulation isn’t.

It’s weird to see a high end, amazing product being sold like snake oil.
18 crashes in 6 million miles is pretty good. Middle-aged human drivers cause that rate of police-reportable crashes, and one injury per million miles.
Facebook loses users, makes more money
About a month ago, I came down with an upper respiratory illness that felt like a severe flu. Covid nasal swab test was taken 24 hours after first symptoms appeared, and came back negative. Therefore I assumed it was flu.

However given the supposedly very low base rate of flu during the current season, is it more likely from a Bayesian perspective that the Covid test was a false negative?
That actually was briefly true as I recall. It was an early sign of the problems of "preorder culture" in games (a lesson we're still relearning/refighting time-and-again today): KQ8 was a preorder darling with a ton of hype and anticipation. Grim Fandango was a sleeper that "no one" thought to preorder and the preorder shops (for their reasons) weren't pushing. Grim Fandango was considered a "flop" for a bunch of years, though obviously it's done far better in the long tail of post-preorder sales than KQ8.
I think I finally woke up to the realization that nobody differentiates between the 'Web' and the 'Internet' anymore. The Web is the Internet to most people now.
>Early results from DETECT study suggest fitness trackers can predict COVID-19 infections

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-10/sri-erf10282...
The good served by forcing mailchimp to serve all customers (except spammers) is precisely that then serving those customers would not adversely affect their reputation, anymore than it affects AT&T's reputation that their service is used by horrible people.
+ Rachel Maddow
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If you're a techie, you are likely capable enough to learn and use a static-site gen and host your blog on Github Pages, Vercel, Surge, Netlify, etc. If you're a techie, you probably also care enough to not inundate your readers with a crapton of intrusive trackers and weird browser hacks/overrides that Medium employs.

If you don't want to use an SSG, or if you're not a techie, you can use or self-host: https://write.as/, https://bearblog.dev/, https://rwtxt.com/public, https://the-federation.info/plume

The downside of the above options is that they are nowhere near as prominent and thus don't provide the same level of discoverability as Medium -- in which case, if you're really hurting for cash and are trying to make a career of writing, maybe it is in your best interest to stick to platforms like Medium, despite how intrusive and reader-unfriendly they are.

EDIT: I am hesitant to recommend https://dev.to/ because I have this sinking feeling that it will eventually become like Medium. Also, semi-related, but Dev.to uses endless scroll, which I think is very bad for readers (also it makes it impossible to click links in the footer).