skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm typing this on a pocket-sized device that can translate between hundreds of languages, instantly send a message to the other side of the world, and answer questions tapping into an encyclopediac database of human knowledge.
Turns out if management ignores what high-talent employees think is important, those high-talent employees just switch to an employer that doesn't ignore them.

The free market at its best.
Yes they are https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/02/police-roll-up-crime-netwo...
Right, no new policies, just a reiteration of existing ones to contrast what’s been announced for neighboring counties. Which itself has value. But I don’t think the rest of the justification/hedging has value to the public. In times of crises, leaders need to clearly and succinctly convey the state of the world and the policies in place to address that state. This statement does not do that. It offers explanations and logic that are more at home in a personal blog post.
Note that the video doesn't show the police pointing guns at any one, child or adult.
I "solved" that issue by getting a pcie usb card and passing that through.
two years into a job with a dozen applications where sharing databases amongst them is the defacto standard. there aren't even any views. I feel like I'm in a never ending loop of debugging and troubleshooting and never have time to burn it all to the ground. it is time to move on.
> A single point basis [...] is not in itself a combinator.

> A combinator [...] must have all lambdas in leading position.

What's your opinion on:

ωabcd = bd(cd) if a has no normal form[0][1]
or = c if b has no normal form
or = d if c has no normal form
or = dd otherwise
where
SII = ωωωω
Ω = SII(SII) = ωωωω(ωωωω)
S = ωΩ = ω(ωωωω(ωωωω))
K = ωωΩ = ωω(ωωωω(ωωωω))
I = ωωωΩ = ωωω(ωωωω(ωωωω))

as a single-'combinator' basis?

0: Aka, does not halt.

1: Evaluation diverges if a (or b or c, if queried) is somthing like:

SII(C(C(B(ωωx(KI)K)(SII))Ω)I)

(from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatory_logic#Undecidabili...) that tries to diagonalize ω.
kudos on a well reasoned decision.

this is all we can expect of our health officers. look at the data and make the best decision possible.

if the data changes i hope he will also quickly change his mind
Some people don't like systemd because it rolls a bunch of other functionality beyond 'just init' into a giant monolithic beast. The advantage is that distro maintainers are able to present an extremely usable and stable system like Ubuntu, Arch or any of the other mainstream distros. For most people that just want to use their computer to do regular stuff like browse the internet and edit photos and stuff, systemd or otherwise doesn't really matter because you pretty much never need to touch those parts of the system. Alternate init systems are for power users or people with particular constraints. For example, one of the reasons Alpine Linux is able to be so small is because it uses OpenRC instead of systemd.

Personally, I use a non-systemd distro because my computers all have tiny-sized HDDs by today's standards and I hate having to read a bunch of documentation every time I want to create a new system service. To me, it's easier to just write an ordinary shell script. I don't need all the ridiculous logging capabilities that systemd offers. Regular old plain text is enough for me.
If doubling every 2 weeks is your standard, everyone in San Mateo County should stay home. Their case count has more than doubled in the last 1 week, from 137 a week ago to 343 most recently. It was their second-highest case count on record, second to yesterday which was 400 cases.
The cost is likely to fall in the 1%-3% range of that of a C-17. The War Department could buy 100-200 of them for the cost of 2 C-17 Globemaster IIIs.

I would be interested to see if some form of portable, quickly constructed landing pad could be deployed, much like the mats used as runways during WWII.
Note how there's no criminal history associated with her, and none of her behavior is a predicate to the warrant. Compare to what the warrant says about the other occupants of the building.
Oculus Quest user banned from Facebook, Instagram without explanation
More juvenile posturing from Elon Musk. Such a whore for publicity.
I appreciated all the detail he put into it. It gave me a lot of insight into everything that he considered. I think the detail proves that it's just not a simple problem. If you want to give a complete explanation, you're going to need more detail.
Different situations. If you’re a VC you’re simply buying preferred shares. Shouldn’t be owing anything until you sell. And if your residence for that tax year is somewhere else I don’t know of any reason why California could claim capital gains tax simply because you invested in a pre-IPO company and selling post IPO.

The reason some people are surprised by tax bills when they move is because they vested their shares or options while in California as part of their compensation and then later moved. Logically it makes sense in that situation to owe state taxes on income that you earn in the state you earned it.

When you later sell you shouldn’t owe taxes in California if you’re out of state for that tax year.
Malicious code could also print the ROT13, hex, base64, or even selectively fail tests so that every failure is a bit of entropy.

Filtering secrets from logs only protects accidentally dumping your environment to a log Because you left in an echo $SECRET. It doesn’t stop a determined attacker who can run arbitrary code.
For some wierd reason I was thinking it would be about escaping a company that was in disarray!
You sound like someone who is at the beginning of the learning curve. Nothing wrong with that but don't be so hostile.

People used tables for positioning and as containers. More data was present compared to whitespace and mobile reduced sites.

People had different screensizes back than. How do you deal with that? You take a 3x3 cell. You cut a picture into 9 slices. You take the top, left, right and bottom images and make them a background at 100% width (top/bottom) or height.

That is the basics of a simple flexibile container.
Just alone that the Movie industry in Los Angeles is allowed to continue their operations while small businesses are shut shows exactly what COVID has become.
People can make their own decisions whether to go out and how to stay safe.
Good evidence pointing towards ~infinite energy or some other 'exotic physics' that invalidate my assumptions for the need for space colonization.

Otherwise They should be trying to grab as much energy as possible, for whatever is it they want to do (as should we) and we should see at least some galaxies going partially dark.

There was a paper I can't find that addressed this somewhat. It said that the energy stars burn is a small part (<1%?) of what they contain in total mass/energy, so it might make sense and harvest that energy later. (The paper did not explain a method for efficient matter/energy conversion but I think black holes can do that?)

That paper didn't fully convince me but it's one of very few arguments that tries to address what I think is the core issue. (At least a few species will want as much energy as they can get.)
I think I did a poor job in highlighting the meat of my response from the rest. The point is not about what I would do, or could do, in a situation like that. The point was that people don't behave rationally in situations like that; not because they're fools, or weak, or immature; it's because they are having a physiological response to extreme emotional trauma. If they don't, they are textbook sociopaths, or have been put through large amounts of emotional conditioning.

Read through your comment:
"I doubt the husband has a firearm handy or a means to defend himself for this situation. So his emotional response to attack without proper weaponry is foolish"

This point of view is speculative, it doesn't come from experience (or even a basic psychological understanding). People do NOT function that way. Maybe they do when playing Call of Duty or watching a Die Hard movie, but not in real life. I can't really impart what it feels like in that sort of situation, but I hope you never have to experience it. You end up needing therapy.
It's not intended to be helpful and, quite frankly, the people who silence those who try to raise an issue with Han supremacist deserve every last bit that is coming to them. You don't like it? Tough.

There's nothing to be added to this discussion. Steve Blank is a great person and it sucks to see the way things are turning out for his position here. I'm glad he's raising these issues and for that I hope he gets out with his head intact.
It shouldn't be a goal. The virus cannot be stopped with our current medical technology, but you can certainly punish people into poverty and homelessness with draconian lockdowns.
He was who he was. It doesn’t diminish his greatness.
> It adds in developer overhead and for someone writing in JS that is often what you are trying to minimize.

Typescript compiler supports (some) JS DOC

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/jsdoc-supported...

So you can use the compiler as a static analysis tool without buying into the language itself completely, which I do and just stick type definitions to comments when needed.
We pay for CircleCI at $WORK and it’s pretty good. You get up to 40x concurrency in the “Pro” plans and I’m sure you could work whatever you need into enterprise.

My biggest complaint has been it lacks an very useful built in ability that Travis had, which is automatically running your builds on the merge of your current branch and target branch. You can right a script to do it yourself, but there missing some environmental variables to do it easily (because the build can start before the target branch is known).
Here's one important example from history...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone
Nine months into this it would be nice if we had good data on the risk factors of transmission. I know it’s a tricky virus to trace but shouldn’t we have better info on which activities demographics, etc are the most risky by now?
Why should the US have an extremely costly lockdown (which will almost certainly fail) to stamp out a virus for which we will have a vaccine being rolled out in a week? Mask orders and other low-impact restrictions are great but I don't understand why you would try to get rid of the virus with lockdowns at this point.
You are a dumbass!
I agree that union-typed null was the best solution for Dart, but I think many of the article's criticisms of option types aren't good.

> We can’t perform arithmetic on an Option<int> any more than we could on a List<int>.

Why not? One sensible definition is

Some(x) + Some(y) = Some(x + y)
_ + _ = None()

> In fact, with Dart, we’ve found that most existing code is already statically null safe

This is a very good reason to use union types — lots of programs and lots of people are used to thinking this way, and pulling that out from under their feet wouldn't be very nice.

> Nullable types, since they have no explicit runtime representation, are implicitly flattened.

Yes, flattening things that shouldn't be flattened is the biggest problem with union types. Different people will assign different meanings to null, and it's a real headache when trying to write generic code. Discriminated unions make this a no-brainer.

> With nullable types, since there is no representation difference, you can pass a value of the underlying type directly: takesMaybeInt(3);

That's a very minor difference, but if it's that important, Rust lets you write

fn takesMaybeInt(x: impl Into<Option<i32>>) { ... }
Probably the volume of users in the free tier is too big so they need to reduce expenses. It might be like giving away free storage space, too. There may be 0.001% of users that have a crazy amount of usage compared to average. At least my OSS project got to have many free builds, props to Travis CI.
Adding an `Option` type to an existing language doesnt really solve many problems unless you can also somehow remove it's existing support for `null.

Java added `Optional` and while it makes interacting with newer API's clearer, there is nothing preventing you from passing a null Optional.

I think if you are designing a language from scratch, you should avoid null, but nullable types are a good feature for existing languages.

Having written a fair bit of kotlin, I have found the ergonomics of it's nullable type system to be really nice.
> It is not that Linux is not a viable gaming platform. It is just developers not publishing games for Linux.

As a user this makes it a non-viable platform.
Speculations on the Evolution of Intelligence in Multicellular Organisms
One of the coolest things I ever did was call him on the phone in 7th grade, and no joke, his secretary put him on the phone and I got to talk to him for a few minutes. He was nice to talk to, and humorously, had recently fallen off a horse... Again.

I was obsessed with the Discovery channel x-planes series, and ended up doing a video project for a local history day competition. My project partner's dad worked for an defense company, happened to know a guy that knew a guy that had his phone number.

Probably one of the coolest things that's ever happened to me.
> Apparently she has also has a criminal history including battery against a police officer and sexual cyberstalking of her ex-boyfriend.

Please do not post off-topic and irrelevant information onto existing threads, you run the risk of derailing the current conversation.

Her criminal history has nothing to do with whether or not this specific warrant, raid, and overall government response was justified.
To my knowledge, from working on an actual software router, a router will only touch the TTL and recalculate the IP header checksum.

There is no reason for it to touch the TCP header.
Are these transcripts online?
I did... thanks for the link. I also went back and started watching the first part.
You would agree that people "making their own decisions" do affect others, though, correct?
From Twitter:

> I’m hearing AT&T got their shit together and things are working now. Big thanks to @vikxin and @bmastenbrook for doing the heavy lifting here.

https://twitter.com/Catfish_Man/status/1336170784784412673
Similar story two years back involving Senator Feinstein:

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/08/01/details-chinese...
Etruscan shrew can shrink and regrow their brains
I have ATT fiber in Texas and was having issues recently, probably for a few days, where DNS props would just fail(I use Google's DNS), huge pauses in page loads with the occasional just doesn't. Happened over the long weekend IIRC and was sporadic enough that I didn't look into it further. I thought it had largely cleared, but now I'm wondering about some ongoing page load pauses..
It used to be when I was in uni. Then everyone complained it was not cutting edge enough for the job market.
"Ready" or "safe" are matters of opinion, though.

It's ready/safe when governments ("the people") decide it's such.
A drug blocks SARS-CoV-2 transmission in ferrets
> Like is missing a year of 4th grade going to be a problem for anyone?

Yah. There's a whole big subset of the population that barely manages to stick with school at baseline. Educational interruption in other circumstances has been shown to have bad outcomes. We're trying to do better this time, but the school system as a whole is overtaxed.

I'm a middle school teacher. Even with best practices for remote education, I've seen all kinds of negative impacts. It's going to take a whole lot of support to get these kids to anywhere near a normal curriculum.
Downplayed, yes. Claimed it was an outright hoax, no.
> These traces hint at Brønlund's desperate and unsuccessful attempts to light a life-saving petroleum burner before he succumbed to cold and hunger, scientists wrote in a new study.

To expand on this: the fundamental problem with all stoves is the need to drive the fuel up from the bottle and into the burner vents where it can be burned. The problem in that on its own fuel often does not want to do that, especially when it is cold. How exactly they accomplished this in the past is actually pretty tricky to pull off, so it's not surprising that he expired while trying and failing to light his stove.

Your typical modern pocket stove[0] operates on what we call "Isopro" fuel. It's a mixture of isobutane and propane that's really excited to return to a gaseous form. The stove sits on top of the bottle, depresses the valve built into the cylinder, and regulates the gas leaving on its own. They're convenient and easy to operate, but they were invented well after 1908, so they weren't available to him. Also, while modern fuel mixes are proudly marked as "all weather", they are not. Depending on isopro fuel in freezing temperatures will at best leave you with canisters that perform poorly, at worst they will leave you without any fuel at all. These are not recommended for winter camping.

Liquid fuel stoves[1] need some mechanical pressure to get the fuel to the nozzle (since liquids tend to stay down) and some starting heat to convince them to vaporize to a gas for easier burning. All liquid fuels include both some sort of mechanical pump, usually on the fuel bottle, and a design that allows the fuel line to get hot enough to vaporize it. Modern liquid stoves often run the fuel line through the flame, which can help even run isopro fuel at much lower temperatures. The starting procedures[2][3] for all of these stoves involve burning something, usually some of the fuel for modern stoves, in a small "priming cup" below the main stove. This early burn pre-heats all of the stove, which allows it to begin vaporizing the liquid fuel even in the worst conditions possible.

The issue, I think, is that kerosene is a pretty inconsistent fuel, and not one that plays nice at lower temperatures. Kerosene has a surprisingly high freezing temperature of -47F, and is probably a real bear to light at sub-zero temps. I suspect that's why it's recommended that you use alcohol to start the fire, as alcohol freezes at about -173F. And that's assuming that by "petroleum" they meant kerosene. Gasoline or Diesel might start misbehaving at sub zero temps too, and fail to light with a match alone. Perhaps a mix of "petroleum" along with other unpleasant substances could have been enough to light the stove, but it appears to have been too much for the already exhausted explorer.

[0] - https://www.msrgear.com/stoves/canister-stoves/pocketrocket-...

[1] - https://www.msrgear.com/stoves/liquid-fuel-stoves/whisperlit...

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXXaIU0VNx0

[3] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_zRgcmSWh0
> I really wish we had a functioning central government to help coordinate local responses, assist with data collection and monitoring, disseminate clear information, etc, etc.

Absolutely not. The federal government has no authority to force states to close and this is a good thing.
It's obviously ready and safe enough for Waymo to roll it out (and they've been a lot more conservative than Uber here).

As for safety, all we really need is for them to be safer than the average human driver.
As evinced by the ~40,000 road deaths every year in the US, that's really a pretty low bar. I'd even argue that full autonomous is/will be less risky than halfway houses like Tesla Autopilot where neither side is really in full control, but that's another story.
That’s what happens when you pin your advancement to competition with the Soviets. Once it was no longer necessary to demonstrate Capitalism’s ability to create broad social and scientific improvement, we embraced an ideology where our most base, cruel, and vulgar impulses were justified so long as they made more money.

Unsurprisingly, this yielded exactly the kind of “future” we currently inhabit.
I understand the sentiment, but I think it's pretty clear in retrospect hard lockdowns were the correct way to address this.

This half-assed "wear a mask and social distance if you want" stance just made the economy sputter for a whole a year. I've seen this in France twice, where they've oscillated between doing nothing and doing a lot, a couple brief lockdowns can reverse things quickly even after things have gotten worse than they ever gotten in the USA. In Asia they managed to control the whole thing by trying to squelch it.
The 5268ac pace router is the worst ISP provided router I've ever had, and I've been an Xfinity/Comcast customer, and I've even had a connection in Wyoming. I detailed my experience with it in a review of a third-party router, and found numerous issues along the way [0]. My favorite is that DMZ+ mode, which is what they offer instead of a traditional DMZ mode, just has some weird MTU issue that leads git and other services to break horribly when running behind a third party router. The solution? Don't use DMZ+ mode. Instead, put the router into NAT mode, and then port forward all of the ports to one private IP address. Bonkers. This is sold as an official-looking solution on the AT&T website for a "speed issue." [1]

This is all because AT&T believes that the edge of their network is not the PON ONT/OLT, but rather, the router they issue you. If you want to be on their network, you have to use their router as some part of the chain.

My latest discovery is that in doing this, the router can actually get super hot operating at gigabit speeds for extended periods of time. When this happens, it magically starts dropping packets. Solution? Aim a fan at the router so it has "thermal management."

Total. Garbage. I'd switch to Spectrum if they had decent upload speed, but alas, they don't in my building.

[0]: https://particle17.xyz/posts/amplifi-alien-thoughts/#appendi...

[1]: https://www.att.com/support/article/u-verse-high-speed-inter...
Shedweight
to each his own. but i appreciated the thoughtful, non public relations speak writing. it shows me a person doing his best, with the data that he has, and all of the various factors he has to struggle through to come to the decision.

it actually immensely increases my trust in him to understand the thought process behind his decision vs “let me lead and sound authoritative. trust me i know best”

in fact i’ve just about had enough of that style of leadership from politicians
If you write using random style tags everywhere the next time you want to change all h1s you have to go file by file.

Some people say sure but when are you ever going to change a style? Surprisely more often than hunting every h1
The FDA should approve Pfizer's vaccine on Friday or Saturday.
No, he's stating the CEO is delusional. It's not a crime if you honestly believe what you're saying.

(Oversimplification, of course. I'm fully aware of corporate obligations around market disclosure, profit forecasts, etc).
We have a video its at the very top of the link.

At least three pistols were drawn by officers entering the home. The first officer doesn't draw his weapon until after interacting with the suspect, being told her husband and children are home, and then entering the home. If she has a previous conviction for assaulting an officer that wouldn't matter since she was already removed from the situation at this point. The first and third pistols I saw were pointed at the floor the whole time. The second officer has his pistol aimed at the top of the stairs as he is walking towards the bottom of the stairway.
It depends on where it is going to be delivered, you might be able to send a message to WASP-142b that would get there in 1000 years.
When I think of a fancy kitchen I think of an induction stove. It puts the least heat into the air since it heats the pan directly, its incredibly easy to clean because its a flat surface, it looks great because it can blend into the counter, and its absolutely the fastest way to boil a pot of water.
It's not actually translating GTK themes to QT, its special themes with both QT and GTK versions.
Well technically we've been doing that all along