skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My Docker setup isn't slower than when it was running Arch Linux. The downside is that I have to start Docker Desktop compared to having the docker daemon start at boot. The upside is that VSCode and the browser is 10x smoother on Windows than it was on the same hardware on GNOME, so the whole dev experience feels much better.

RAM usage due to the Linux VMs might be the issue in your case, I have loads of it.
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I'm no expert on the biology. But AFAIK there's no _universal_ contamination source that would be screwing up all these tests, as they're various forms of antibody reactivity tests. This isn't like PCR testing where trace amounts of the virus cause false positives.

OTOH, as I said, it certainly doesn't prove by itself that the antibodies came from COVID infections.
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> I don't remember ever, not even once, using a paid search engine.

I believe he's referring to Yahoo, where you used to have to pay a few hundred dollars a year to get your site listed on their directory.
I think rewrite is related to program transformation [1]? Most stuff that I've seen looks pretty academic, obscure, not very well maintained, etc ...

Pure [2] is the only practical language I've stumbled upon that appears to be general purpose _and_ based on term rewrite.

I wonder if XSLT could fall under this umbrella? It rewrites trees into other trees ... not sure if that's enough to be considered a term rewrite system. If yes, then maybe CDuce is also an interesting thing to check.

The author of Ragel also has a program transformation system [4], but I'm not sure what state it is at, he seems to have been working on it for a long while but it doesn't seem to be something nearly as popular as Ragel.

Edit: I think specter [5] and meander [6] also could be, perhaps tangentially, related to rewriting. Meander expressly mentions rewrite as inspiration/fondation. Curiously these two look a lil bit like xpath/xslt but with EDN as data model instead of XML infoset.

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1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_program_transformation...

2: https://github.com/agraef/pure-lang

3: https://www.cduce.org/#whatis

4: http://www.colm.net/open-source/colm/

5: https://github.com/redplanetlabs/specter

6: https://github.com/noprompt/meander
That page indicates a lag in their data is similarly possible:

> Deaths: SD-DOH does not report deaths until a certified death record has been filed with COVID-19 as a cause or contributing factor. By law, a death record must be filed within 5 days of the date of death.

(I don't know how long it takes between filing and processing after that point, but it's clear that there's potential time between death and showing up in the count.)
This have been my experience also. It takes a little bit to get the configuration where I like it, but it's solid after that. Especially if you have top tier hardware (which you can actually upgrade, which is also nice).
Ah yes, you're right. I just couldn't believe the number is that low since it looks so big from the inside (AACR had like 100k attendees). Especially when you compare this number to tech acquisitions...
Is it common practice to measure effectiveness in this way?

They only evaluated ~90 of their 30000 test group, and out of that tiny sliver of the data there were more in the placebo group that got covid than the vaccinated group. My questions would be:

Does their small subset have the same number of vaccinated vs placebo? Are the ~90 evaluated cases representative of the whole group, or are they only from one area or health profile? How long have they followed this group?

It still seems like this early on in the study you could cherry pick the data to show any amount of effectiveness that you want.

Did I miss something here?
Pardon the cliche, but we really do live in a society of consumerism. I'm a victim to it to some degree. I've spent a lot of money of stuff that I regret on reflection, but that's what fuels my perspective and makes my lessons learned. If you have material stuff you love, and you don't regret it, kudos, you probably don't need my advice -- but don't think your advice is universal.

But guess what, a nice backdrop in my study didn't help my work. Focusing did. Locking my phone and removing distractions did. This weird culture of buying stuff that aims to magically provide a silver bullet to all problems. Okay, maybe one exception -- plants. They are great.

Protip, if you are a college student on a tight budget, guess what, you are automatically a minimalist :).

> There is a difference between clutter and having some decoration. Proponents of minimalism seem to conflate the two.

See that's what I disagree with, I find decoration in a workspace clutter. And I say to you I am not demoralized. I am happier, more focused and my wallet is heavier without random doodads in my eyeline. An empty workspace is a dream to me. Pure focus is the minds elation in my humble opinion.

> Also whenever someone complains about something being materialistic that automatically sets off my BS detector.

Well, shucks, you caught me! Because I am a here to sell you my minimalist blog, book and podcast!

...

Not really.

I promise I am not, but I can see why you BS detector is high. Fad peddlers and the mass media marketing discovered not owning stuff can be called minimalism and make youtube videos on why living in a van is the future, when in reality opponents just say it's just a coping mechanism for not having money.
Antenna Theory Propagation
There are multiple widevine keys, some are in CPU memory (shipped with the client software), some are in trusted enclaves on devices. Some of the trusted enclave keys have been dumped from hardware (nexus 6 for one, iirc) and eventually those keys were revoked or downgraded
I think you mean disparity
As a 24 year old, because I'm not a shitty human who externalizes my anger at the world on a demographic who might have caused me some issue before.

Taking a vaccine isn't intergenerational solidarity. It's just ethically good. That shouldn't be politicized.
Shocker.

edit Will add context. Police oversight will always be a totally unbalanced fight for power. Police obviously do not want their behavior analyzed because of the obvious and frequent abuse of that power. For some reason, lots of america believes that being a police officer should come with total unchecked power amongst their communities - even so much as scrutinizing their use of excessive force has become a politicized nightmare.

So no, it is in no way surprising that police oversight is garbage and continues to give police easy outs.
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Wsl ubuntu and hyper terminal for nix, then chocolatey for windows apps should have you covered
I'm curious if any of these problems have happened to someone to wiped their drive and installed fresh. As a software developer I'm pretty sure the happy-path of "reformat and copy everything onto the drive" will work correctly, but I'm pretty sure that there's untested edge cases and bugs in all the varieties of 10.15.0 -> 11.0, 10.15.1 -> 11.0, 10.14.3 -> 11.0, 10.14.4 -> 11.0, etc., not to mention what happens when someone disables SIP to overwrite some system binaries.

So far, reformat and install has never given me a problem, but I also don't upgrade until Xcode forces me to, so probably the problems tend to be ironed out by then.
But you can calculate the difference, which happens with GPS satellites all the time.

GPS is based on synced clocks. Problem is that the satellites suffer the rules of relativity. But the good news is that we know the rules of relativity, and therefore can compensate for them.

I always thought relativity was purely theoretical, but it is actually practically applied in GPS sattelites.
I did look it up myself. I used the 7 day moving average to get more stable results and Germany is 2x better than the US in new cases/deaths per million right now even while having 3 to 5x less cases/death in total since the start which means it also has a more vulnerable population at this point. I didn't pick Germany, you did, and claimed it was "much worse". And it's not the best case, there are several countries doing better or much better than Germany.

As for the other examples Europe is now having a second wave after successfully suppressing the first one. The US has never suppressed the pandemic, or at best is now at a third wave, and thus has a currently less susceptible population from all the cases and deaths it has already had. And even then it's still having more new cases and new deaths than the well managed countries in Europe (Germany, Norway, Finland, Denmark, etc). It's hardly in a better situation right now as you claim. The worst countries in Europe are at the US accumulated average, some are catching up but the US is also spiking right now.
The IETF is an open organisation. Specs are written & ratified by the people who show up. And often that means folks from large companies.

If you don’t like that status quo, get involved. They would love to have you @tptacek.
Swear words aren't a problem. The problem is breaking the site guidelines, such as by being unkind to other users.
Well done eff and github
There tens of different platforms for OSS monetization options https://www.oss.fund/
An interesting question along these lines arose recently in relation to an Australian password disclosure law that related to accessing “computers,” which was used to compel disclosure of a smartphone passcode. To HN readers and the digital forensics people who pull data off smartphones, they’re obviously computers. But the judge was not convinced that a law written to allow access to “computers” in the early 2000s was intended to allow access to smartphones today, which contain far more personal information than the typical personal computer of 20 years ago. After all, if you asked someone “do you have a computer?” they would be unlikely to say yes based on their possession of a smartphone. And if you ask someone who streamed a YouTube video whether they “downloaded” it, I think in most cases the answer would be no. That’s why the tool is called “youtube-dl,” even though it is now used for streaming as well.
Apple is a wierd case, I agree. because while they are powerful they do not really have anywhere close to a monopoly, iPhone account for less than 35% of all mobile devices in the world, 50% in the US. It is a duopoly though with Android.

This Duopoly is largely supported because of FCC Regulations and carrier restrictions it is very hard to get access to Wireless frequencies and ever harder to do that nation wide, given this it is hard to deploy a mobile device in the US.

Apple then relies upon Copyright and Contract law both of which are favorable to large companies not consumers to ensure their market dominance by making it impossible to create interoperability between their ecosystem and others.

Then you have the various Tax and general business regulations that favor all Large companies, some of which in general prohibit smaller companies from growing.
The Omnipresence of Work
stated preference is frequently different from demonstrated preference. if you fail to simulate people then you will fail to produce an accurate representation of their desired outcome.
Neat. I'd kill to have a podcast player with that feature.
Yet another case of big corp attacking someone, that someone having an online voice and complaining, big corp doing damage control spinning some tale about how they'll endeavor to do better in the future and how much they agree with the little guy.

For once I'd like companies to be honest, just say you reversed it when it was found out it would be more cost efficient to do so.
> language-specific package managers

I wouldn't include those on the same list. It makes sense for various (source-form) libraries to be maintained and updated and made available independently of the OS and uniformly across operating systems. I don't see this as undermining Linux distributions - as these are used when you're making your own builds anyway.

Otherwise - yes, agreed, and it's also about redundancy and bloat when installing software; and some entities writing software that can only run on their own docker image; etc.
One thing about this: Ok, Apple is not that evil to use my data(?), is not that bad because whatever, but:

My mac become ABSOLUTELY freeze. Impossible to use. In the middle of a fix that UI must have delivery (a host was down for a customer, good timing!).

So, the fact that the machine become a brick is a part that is not considered much on this discussion.

Look, spy on me, ok(?); but also not allow me to move?
Even if largely PR, that's still a million dollars.
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https://inovelli.com/black-series-dimmer-switch-z-wave/

I've also bought Zooz switches, but wouldn't recommend them. Inovelli has had major issues with stock in the past, but otherwise makes a good product.
Oh my. Today's polarized online discourse. All right, let me be more precise, since multiple people seem to be jumping to the conclusion that I'm some rabid anti-mask, anti-lockdown, science-hating, Trump-voting neoliberal. I was hoping to contribute fruitfully to the discussion in short form, but seems like I'll need more words.

The coronavirus pandemic is a terrible natural disaster. We are right to take extreme measures to control it until proper mitigating measures become available, and we are very lucky that it did not happen ten years ago. Our societal surplus thankfully allows us to do the right thing and protect our weak and unlucky, as well as be more precautionary regarding long-term effects than others would have.

Reiterating my point -- if we were unable to use modern science and technology to combat the pandemic, the death toll and long-term health effects would be comparable to a minor global war. This would be a catastrophe that would be remembered for generations. It still will, but thankfully writ small.

Compared to other historical catastrophes -- the Black Death, the World Wars, five centuries of European warfare, Mao's Great Leap Forward, it would be a mild event, mostly because the death toll would hit the elderly and the weakened hardest. It would be bad, but it would not mean sacrificing a whole generation of our most ambitious young and capable people. It would certainly not be a catastrophe that threatened societies, although political follow-on effects would have lasting impact.

It's also worth noting that many authorities around the world have bungled the response terribly, both being ineffective in their measures and causing more economic damage than necessary. But that's dangerous territory to discuss, since you risk being branded and shut down with the terms I mentioned above.

(For reference, I made a fool of myself in my social circle in early March by suggesting 'extreme' quarantine measures before any Western governments did. I've been supportive of most science-based measures to slow and contain the pandemic, while at the same time being critical of many authorities' slow adaption of the best available science -- including lack of early mask recommendations and reluctance to consider aerosol contagion).
It’s hilarious how people are so ingrained in their culture that these things affect them so much. Like if I ate a roast dinner for breakfast or took a shower every lunch time, I’d be considered a madman.

It sounds absolutely silly but really there’s few good reasons for most of our habits.
I've found that my side projects are very rarely about completing anything. Usually a side project is about chasing a curiosity in a piece of tech or a workflow change or something. "Could I build a faster CI pipe in Terraform?" "Could I write this Kafka consumer in Java?" "Can I containerize this?". Things that aren't really about "completing" or "shipping."

I think that people like me often forget that one of the biggest drivers for working on projects past when they become interesting is the money I receive for working on them. If I'm not being paid, it becomes difficult to fathom struggling for 10 hours on building something past when it's particularly interesting. Once any personal project would require basically any UI work, that's about when I bail (as I have no interest and actively dislike pretty much every UI-based technology I've ever encountered).

Getting paid to work is important to me.
> consider how programming (especially hacking) is portrayed in popular film/tv. usually it looks very little like what we actually do all day

That's because what we do would genuinely be boring to watch in a tv show or movie. I can think of exactly one time in my 12ish year career where a co-worker actively fought a malicious actor, and that was more entertaining than anything.

This is true of most jobs, present and past. Ever see a soldier or warrior with a sword strapped on their back and draw it out to do battle? Yeah, thats not a thing. It looks cool, but is physically impossible to do smoothly or single handedly with all but the shortest of swords.

Similar things can be said of archers, peasants, gypsies, police, journalists, etc.

While I am on a rant, the term "bohemian" when used for artistic hippy types is blatantly racist, and we have ignorant young French aristocrats to thank for it, but nobody actually cares.

Would a fisherman write such an article? No, because the article was about a transformative experience which defied expectations. A fisherman who has done naught else is not likely to have the same experience, but that doesnt change what the author did experience.

I don't see what is uncomfortable about that at all. /end long winded meandering rant that probably missed the point
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They didn't set out to explicitly prove 1+1=2, they just got around to it after 2 volumes, it didn't require 2 volumes of background. A direct proof of 1+1=2 is pretty short in most logical systems.
You'd be multiplying the square roots, not exponentiating.

Yeah, I don't know how practical a construction would be overall for someone who seriously went at it; I was mainly moved to answer because this objection that constructions can't express transcendental numbers just doesn't seem relevant -- digitally you don't keep infinite precision either.

Square roots and multiplying are two of the simplest geometric constructions (geometric mean and taking a proportion), compass and straightedge operations can be accurate, you can construct it enlarged and then scale it down, and finally the precision you need to aim for at the end is bounded. A potentially fun project idea. Think of it as a kind of retrocomputing: how might Euclid or Archimedes have designed a slide rule?
A lot of the better-quality pizzerias now offer a 48-hour dough option. IIRC the longer it is left to rise, the less yeast it requires, and the easier it is to digest.
Well yes, that's a turboprop. But fossil fuel wingsuits don't use turboprops, they use turbojets, whose efficiency very much depends on speed, which in practice means that they are most efficient right before their peak mach, up to around mach 2.
Being a smart guy, you should understand unsolicited hacking is russian roulette at its best. Stick to bug bounties and avoid the extra drama
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I watch Hoffman for the experience of watching the idea play out in full.

On can either throw back an espresso, or sip and consider its flavour. This guy does good complete videos of the latter style. Each to their own.

Coffee is just a ground bean extracted in hot water after all.
Exponential growth can get out of hand very quickly. It doesn't take too many people to mess up, break rules, or get unlucky for this virus to erupt.

Also, way more people are indoors in November in Sweden than August. Many people travel to remote cabins in the summer - August in Stockholm is about as deserted as San Francisco during Burning Man. They're mostly back by September, bringing more people in proximity. I'm in Seattle and Washington is locking down again, as colder temps have brought the long predicted fall spike.
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> Mathematical Challenge Three: Capture and Harness Stochasticity in Nature

> * Address Mumford’s call for new mathematics for the 21st century. Develop methods that capture persistence in stochastic environments.

This is interesting, what did Mumford asked for, and what does persistence in stochastic systems stands for?
I enjoyed reading your comment. As someone who has never been to Italy, I found it informative.
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What makes you think the number of infections should remain constant? Studies suggest up to 20% of Covid cases are asymptomatic - those people wouldn't know to follow any guidance/regulations on isolation.

The basic R0 is believed to be around 5.7, so even with precautions such as social distancing, masks, and hand washing (which won't be followed flawlessly), it's still trying to mitigate something outstandingly infectious. You need to bring the R0 to 1.0 for the number of cases to only increase at a constant rate, as for anything above 1 every 10 cases will lead to more than 10 new cases, which compounds as it spreads.
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> nobody talked about censorship

> put a stop on spread of misinformation

That’s what censorship is. A small group of people will decide what is considered misinformation and will censor everything that goes against that
Okay, this makes sense, thanks.

I happen to not use app-level filtering these days, only pi-hole and and packet-firewall stuff, so I guess I'll be unaffected if I ever upgrade.

Bypassing app-level filtering, though, that sucks.
> Automation is not a good thing when it comes to credit reporting

I only agree in the sense that there are no good things when it comes to consumer credit reporting in the United States. This is just an example of systemic problems that can and should be solved by increased automation and removing humans from the process.

There's not a ton of reasons that setting isDead = false in a table somewhere shouldn't "just work" other than too much human intervention in the processes of evaluating credit, reporting it to stake holders, and keeping information in sync.
Maybe that wasn't the best example, because if the author had done that and written an article about it, she'll still be accused of slumming.

Perhaps a better example would be her just lazing around her parents' houses.
I ordered an espresso macchiato in Naples around 12pm. Without saying anything, the barista gave me a plain espresso.

Maybe they'd already packed the milk away for the day?
The police in america generally have too much responsibility and consume too many of our resources. When you combine that with the privileged status that comes with law enforcement you get a real mess.

The problem is, as in so many cases, fundamentally about power. Until police have less power (that is, less funding, fewer numbers, and a smaller scope of responsibilites), i fear these kinds of abuses are almost unavoidable.
WOW that's pretty tonedeaf.

remember David Foster Wallace? "Consider the Lobster"?

Here's a reminder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fZOl7C_vDI
For there to be a paradox, the observers would have to find out about it sooner than it would take light to communicate the result.

Otherwise, the earliest time that the aliens can find out if they're going to invade or not is when they make the decision. Sure, the observers can find out, and try to tell each other and the aliens, but since it takes at least a round trip of light from the aliens to the observers, the observers always find out after the aliens have made up their minds.

If the aliens find out that they make the decision when they make the decision, it seems to me at least that they actually made the decision rather than having it be predestined