skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are correct and those people are too ignorant to understand how ignorant they are. Don't worry about the noise they generate. They have nothing else to contribute.

Here is Hermann von Helmotz on Michael Faraday (who knew no math) -

"Now that the mathematical interpretation of Faraday's conceptions regarding the nature of electric and magnetic forces has been given by Clerk Maxwell, we see how great a degree of exactness and precision was really hidden behind the words which to Faraday's contemporaries appeared either vague or obscure; and it is in the highest degree astonishing to see what a large number of general theorems, the methodical deduction of which requires the highest powers of mathematical analysis, he found by a kind of intuition, with the security of instinct, without the help of a single mathematical formula."
> I'm neck deep in FP Scala now (the cats ecosystem with cats-effect) and hoping I eventually come to feel the same way about it.

I think if you want to experience a similar feeling, you should look at ZIO instead.

It makes things so much easier compared to cats-effect by being less abstract and more direct, but still works with the cats type-classes. Really recommended for the functional side of Scala.
The argument underneath this comment is unbelievable. I wonder if anyone arguing tried to just search for this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qnzfY4aODUc
For example, I found this question from 6 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/276pvz/can...

So apparently not only bhoping is harder (jumping window much smaller), the default speed is also capped at a very low value (300), where in 1.6 it was uncapped and you could have easily reached 400-500 speeds while bhoping.

Another related thread: https://www.hltv.org/forums/threads/1169582/16-movement

So, although changes are not clear, all of those who did play HNS before agree that mechanics are different and it just doesn't feel the same, you don't have the same freedom, it feels a lot more sluggish.
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> I blame the education system

This is a popular venue for blame, but perhaps you haven’t yet met the highly respected scientists claiming that masks don’t work against covid, that AIDS wasn’t real, or that vitamin C cures everything —- these are all highly educated people who, in their fields, have a deep understanding of “theory of knowledge” and “scientific method fundamentals”.

But, they are also human, and suffer from the human biases: confirmation bias, various selection biases like survivorship bias, etc.

These, I think, are more likely the culprits — and if you can figure out how to solve those within the education system, please share!
I live in a small country (~5.5M people) that is near the top of the list for CO2 emissions per capita. The usual argument around here for not spending any effort in reducing CO2 emissions is that it won't matter: as a nation, we're so small compared to China and the US that we'll make no difference. Therefore, we should sit on our hands and tell the rest of the world to fix the situation while we watch.

By your logic (edit: unnecessarily harsh. "by the logic you present here"), everyone else but the absolute largest single CO2 emitting entity shouldn't do anything (because there's someone who's even worse), and that largest one can point back to the others blaming them for not doing anything either.
This article has me torn. On the one hand, I always use multiparadigm languages at work, and have always preferred a pragmatic, "best tool for the job" approach.

On the other hand, I am starting to believe that, in truth, there are no multi-paradigm languages. Only imperative languages with bells and whistles. Because what matters isn't how you can use the language, it's how you do use the language. With the peculiar recent exception of Scala, multi-paradigm languages seem to always tend toward a mushy, homogeneous, imperative style whose most noteworthy feature is just how imperative it is. Even with all the classes, higher-order functions, and declarative DSLs sprinkled on top, the overall shape always ends up being overwhelmingly imperative. It takes more than a dollop of meringue to turn apple pie into key lime pie.

I didn't really start thinking this way until more recently, when I started looking outside of the mainstream and paying more attention to explicitly single-paradigm languages. I think maybe it's a bit like how McDonald's, A&W, Burger King, Hardee's, etc. all seem completely interchangeable if you don't spend a lot of time eating at them.
I don't disagree that the may-issue / shall-issue is a 14A as people are not getting equal protection under the law. My GP post was addressing the issue that many are under the impression that the 2A is interpreted as a universal right to have a gun anywhere at any time and that we are are still legally addressing that question. The 14A is important but secondary to that question. If it is decided that public carry is a 2A right then this 14A issue disappears but if it does not just like speech it is subject to reasonable restrictions, I cannot have a nuke, I cannot have bio weapons, I cannot have destructive devices, these don't make sense to extend to privileges. Public carry for the reason of self defense, does. As I said, if they go to a will-issue like FL and TX and universal reciprocity like the drivers licence system. I have no problem with the interpretation remaining that it is a privilege. It is not an unreasonable infringement on the 2A.

There are restrictions on free speech in public, I cannot yell fire into a crowd, I cannot incite a riot, I cannot tell people to vote for Jo Jorgensen while I am waiting in line to vote. Same with voting, I cannot vote twice even if my freedom of expression wants to.

This issue at hand is with those rights, they do not logically make sense to extend the spirit of the law via allowing some of those prohibited things via privileges.

This is why the 5th is such a good parallel, because I have an inherent freedom of movement but I don't have an inherent right to do it via the public roads, using an automobile. I have the privilege to do so via a licence. Now I can own an auto, I can offroad all over my property, that is my right but as soon as I hit the public pavement it becomes a privilege.

going back to the first, I can yell fire in my house all day long that is my right, but if I pick up the phone and utilize the public networks via dialing 911 and yell fire it is a very different situation. Again, it just does not make sense for the 1st to have some of it's limitations extended into privileges.

My overarching point is the 2A issue is not settled, many tend to take one stance or the other, but it is very much in flux, that will decide if the 14A issue is really a moot point.
I understand what you're saying, but I think there's some "both sides"-ism at play here.

Yes, there is a level of scientific ignorance displayed when people hand wave and claim "the science" is on their side without actually understanding the science. However, there is a huge qualitative difference here, illustrated even by your example of quarantine recommendations.

If we approximate an answer to "What is the optimal quarantine strategy?" through the combined efforts of various sciences--statistics, biology, etc--then while the results are not guaranteed, the recommendation is certainly not unfounded. It may be incomplete, but it is built off of decades of empirical evidence.

Conversely, outright ignoring recommendations about COVID or climate or something similar, simply because "science isn't always right" or because you "aren't a scientist" is a different thing altogether.
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shaloc allow you to share over HTTP files and folders. You can encrypt them using AES-256, randomize the URI, generate zip files to share folders etc... It aims to be intuitive and fast to use.

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Hey, off topic, but while you're here, this is a question I like to ask audiophiles when I come across them in the wild.

What entry level turntable and speakers would you buy for listening to vinyl in a standard living room and why?
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I think you are misrepresenting the parent which explicitly mentions tradeoffs. Science can help inform those tradeoffs but cannot make them for you. At the risk of reopening a rather heated discussion from yesterday, "science" cannot answer the question of whether it is reasonable to have a policy allowing outdoor dining in, say, NYC.

ADDED: Science can (probably and imperfectly) help you estimate how risky a given behavior is likely to be. However, it cannot tell you whether, say, a presumably low risk activity (both personally and in terms of disease spread) should be allowed given economic impact, people's social needs/wants, etc.
> "How much material do I need in this region of the bridge to sustain the load of traffic going across it?"

To nitpick a bit: anyone who answers that question for a living will be practicing engineering, not science. Just as an excellent physician can espouse wildly unscientific beliefs, so too can someone become quite good at the craft of engineering without actually doing much science at all.

> I can't come to science and ask it, "How long should we quarantine to minimize health impact, and maximize economic recovery?" Ultimately, that question does not have a scientific answer. It can be informed by statistics -- to the best that we understand the numbers, and scientists can present models of what they think the future will look like... but results not guaranteed.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you consider "hard" disciplines like orbital mechanics and structural engineering to be science, and anything with less certainty in it to be not science, but statistics. This is inaccurate. Find me a scientific field that doesn't involve uncertainty and statistical analysis. Your examples of orbital mechanics and structural engineering certainly do. Conclusions made in both of these disciplines will always need to account for various sources of irreducible error (e.g., uncertainty in mass, temperature, altitude, fuel load; simplifying assumptions about atmosphere structure, gravity anomaly, solar wind, etc.). The importance of safety factors is the ultimate proof that uncertainty is core to engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_of_safety

Science is the modeling of reality by formulating and testing hypotheses through observation and/or experiment. Does epidemiology not fall squarely within this definition? What do you propose as an alternative approach to inform governments and individuals what to do in the face of a natural phenomenon (a pandemic) which, although inherently uncertain, exhibits behaviors that are decidedly not random and inherently unpredictable?
Don't these just work with web scraping most of the time? That would explain that.
Oh my god, I get like such bad acid reflux and ever since I've taken like 1 gramme of THC a day, it has been so much better. No vomitting. It works.
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Serious question: Who suffers at the hands of Mastercard?
What does science fiction have to do with this?

The real culprit is an established and generously funded PR - "public manipulation" - industry which is dedicated to misleading and misinforming the public in general, and lobbying selected politicians in particular.

Lead in petrol, smoking, toxic weedkillers, unsafe vehicles, and many other money-making aberrations have all been defended by these operations. Anti-masking and climate change denialism are just the latest toxic outputs from this industry.

It's very disappointing to see a scientist complain about scientific illiteracy and then attack the wrong people for it.
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Hi HN Community ,

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Around it, we're launching the Human Factor Community that will follow during 6 months the making of this 4-episode audio-documentary, that will be designed as an enriched & immersive audio format.

The goal of Human Factor is to help you understand how to take advantage of situations of utmost intensity to become your better-self, not only for yourself but also in your human relations with any stakeholder in your entrepreneurial adventure, or at work.

Why taking the Y Combinator example.

What we know about YC: all things “Execution”.

What we DON'T know about YC: all things “Human”.
_ How to understand the impact on human relations of these twelve weeks of relentless business acceleration that has no equivalence?
_ What definition (s) do humans take in this race for hyper growth?
_ What does the entrepreneur learn about herself?
_ How does she struggle with or against her doubts?
_ What psychological mechanism (s) are tested, weakened or strengthened?

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The website is in 🇫🇷 because we considered in the first place to distribute Human Factor in France.. but it is (very) likely that we'll add an 🇺🇸 version!
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This article fails to clearly mention that Adobe CC is the x86 version running under Rosetta 2 translation on the MacBooks. It's going to perform significantly better once the native Apple Silicon versions are available.

Given the source of the article, the author might just have a vested interest in making their own systems look good compared to the Macs?
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Hostnames depending on multicast DNS doesn't always traverse over network interfaces, eg ethernet<->wifi, so it may be easier with static IP-addresses, or that the router is smart enough to at least re-assign the same IP the next time a MAC asks for one.
Technically true, however, like much of the US safety net there are significant gaps, like co-morbidities, bureaucratic hurdles, restrictive time windows, delayed care, etc.

ProPublica, Vox and Texas Tribune did a great in depth article on this last year, "The Extraordinary Danger of Being Pregnant and Uninsured in Texas". Most of what they found is applicable across the country, Texas just happens to be particularly horrific.

https://www.propublica.org/article/the-extraordinary-danger-...

edit: "And Medicaid pays well for that."

> In Texas, as in other parts of the U.S., providers are paid only about half as much for Medicaid patients as for privately insured ones.
Does anyone know which font is that?
You can check any journal article to see a statement of competing interests.

https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291...
I thought 16GB sounded rather low - it's 8*16 = 128GB.
This also isn't to suggest that the education system is the only thing at play here.
Yes, that’s why I wrote “an RGB colorspace” rather than “the RGB colorspace”.
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This is perfectly what I wanted to say, but was incapable of saying. Thank you.
Even if you're only in Switzerland for a couple weeks the half fare card (CHF 185 for a year) can make sense.

Considering that a 1st class return ticket from Zurich to Bern is 180 Francs (2nd class 102) just three or four longer train rides can make it worthwhile.

The better option (if you're not living in Switzerland) may be the Swiss Travel Pass[1], which gives you free travel for a number of days on virtually the whole Swiss train and public transport network (excluding the most mountainous connections and cable cars, which are usually private and there you get a 50% discount) plus a number of other goodies.

Prices are comparable to what you pay for a JR Rail Pass in Japan. And that's a helluva buy.

In any case practically nobody pays full price for longer range train travel in Switzerland.

[1] https://www.myswitzerland.com/en-ch/planning/transport-accom...
The trading example is perfect.

Something like a Bloomberg Terminal is overwhelming to a novice, but having everything in one place is fantastic.

On the other hand, a simple information view like Apple’s “Stocks” on an iPhone is also useful.

Depends on the situation.
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Nowadays I see much more overeducated people who are blind to obvious real life things, helpless, sick and overdependent on government.
Interesting datapoint. I've built my tolerance up to other nootropics but need to conduct a more thorough analysis on the effects of THC on myself. How bad was your reflux before/after THC? Did anything else help?
I've always been curious if the Flash animation studio really had anything to offer in terms of usability over, say, modern HTML5 in WebStorm or Visual Studio.

It had a huge amount to offer. Very sophisticated vector graphics animations tools with key frames, motion and shape tweening, easing, onion skinning, blending, masking, etc.

You really don't see these amazing sorts of vector graphics animated websites much these days. I think that is due in no small part to the lack of tooling for HTML5 workflows.
> I have even heard someone claim that spotify sounds better than CD.

This can be probably explained by different mastering between the two. CD releases were subject to loudness war. Spotify and other streaming services normalize volume, so there is no incentive to release louder, less dynamic range tracks.
Indeed, good observation!

The amortized runtime for N push_back will only be O(N) if the underlying array is resized to a constant factor > 1 times the required size (e.g. doubling it each time it's full). When prefixing with reserve of the actual required size, then, as you say, the amortized runtime for the N push_backs will be O(N^2).

I once investing a particularly slow routine to import csv to numpy-array of a million lines or so.
It read csv lines in a numpy array, calling hstack for each new line, resulting in huge runtimes.
Since then I have seen similar misuses of hstack and the like.

When you do similar, it is important to resize (by hstack or whatever) to a constant factor > 1 times the required size. Don't forget to remember the current size, as the size of the underlying array is now the capacity.
Maybe cities of different size cannot be compared 1 to 1 and due to it’s size it’s London being orders of magnitude better?

We don’t know that, so it doesn’t really make sense yo compare them.
send contents back to the mothership?

#massivespeculation
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> Instead of doing anything fancy, my program generates the coefficients at random to explore the space. If I wanted to generate a good driver for a course, I’d run a few thousand of these and pick the coefficients that complete the course in the shortest time.

It is worth pointing out that this strategy can likely overfit on the data that you have used for training: when you change the track, your car may not behave as good as before. In other words: the coefficients are only good for that specific track(s).

The author is still using Machine Learning, even if not with neural networks: the need for rigorous strategies for model selection doesn't disappear.
It also fails to mention that the new laptops are 1/2 the price of the desktops and have at least 2x the battery life of the desktops as well.

They need to update the benchmarks to show the performance when they're unplugged from the wall.
People always complain. What matters is their behavior. In most bigger cities, getting around by car stopped being a thing as it is time consuming and not much fun. Places like London, Amsterdam, Paris, etc. outright ban cars from a lot of streets and make it stupidly expensive to park. A weird side effect of that is that a lot of the remaining cars tend to be of the expensive/oversized variety.

But the reality for most is that people get around by bike and public transport and tend to prefer that to getting stuck in traffic and then having to hunt for parking space.

I live in Berlin which is unusually car friendly for a European city because of the German car lobby. You can literally drive up to places like the Alexanderplatz and expect to find a spot to park there (with some difficulty). But even in Berlin, owning a car is not a given for most people that live there. It's just not very practical. I've never bothered owning one and probably never will. With what I save on not owning a car, I can easily afford to rent cars or use taxis/ubers when I need to; which is not that often actually.

Berlin is comparatively unorganized when it comes to protecting bike traffic. Coming from the Netherlands, it feels a bit like a third world country on this front. Infrastructure is poor/non existent and Berlin excels at creating safety challenged situations for cyclists where you randomly get to mingle with heavy traffic, deal with delivery vans using the bike lanes as parking areas, etc. Mostly places like Oslo and other bike friendly cities differ from this by separating flows of traffic systematically. Of course compared to the US, Germany is still pretty good.
Look at the price comparisons as well. The comparison is with systems 165-206% of the M1 Macs.
If electric cars really are more practical, we'll see that reflected in their adoption.
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Please don't frame a political thing as inevitable, unless you want to contribute to it happening or persisting. "I wonder if every country will... how long might that take?" avoids that problem.

Yes, I'm quibbling about words. In politics words aren't separate from reality.
As Asimov once said: "It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong." Right now there are people running around saying that COVID is as deadly as the flu, that the pandemic was faked, that masks are a conspiracy. You don't have to believe that epidemiologists are 100% correct about every recommendation during a fast-developing emergency in order to see how the rejection of evidence and conspiracy-theorizing are harmful.
Now factor in higher rates of IVF and other "late" pregnancies that I highly suspect we have more of in USA and would easily contribute to more deaths at/near birth from complications.

Life is about tradeoffs, and many American women trade their early fertile years for career development. I think it's a bad trade, but it is a freely made one.
> Is this another case where startups plan to break the law until they’re big enough to influence it or they operate at a profit despite fines?

Considering the GDPR has yet to be effectively enforced against much bigger breaches like Google's and Facebook's activities, it seems like it's not that bad of an idea.
I think that you are building strawman of what "listening to scientists" in the context of covid is like and then kill that strawman, basically.

Listening to scientists in the context covid will not tell you exactly how long quarantine should be. But it gives you multiple predictions you can start with and then over time see which are more correct and which are less correct.

It does also answer some of quite sure responses to questions that actually ended up disputed. Like: does the Covid have ability to overrun healthcare system? Do asymptomatic spread exists? Is the Covid just a little flu?