skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you, I found that much easier to read than the article posted.
I wonder if there's a way for the testing to go faster. Maybe now we've tested one mRNA vaccine you could get away with a bit less on a similar one.
> it should be addressed democratically - protests, lobbying your representatives, even voting.

That hasn't worked yet for Wikileaks. If this worked and/or was the best way to deal with the types of problems Wikileaks is exposing, there would be no need for Wikileaks to exist.

The reason Wikileaks does exist is because, typically, when we attempt to address atrocities "democratically" we get nowhere.

On the other hand...

> Inventing a new currency that is, for a little while, hard to track by the government

This _has_ worked for Wikileaks in the past. When the US persecuted Wikileaks, Bitcoin helped to heavily negate the immediate impact of this action.

> The form that persecution takes is secondary.

In that case, why can't the form that Wikileaks' solutions take be secondary as well? If we are in agreement that Wikileaks is an important organization, then when addressing atrocities "democratically" fails, what would be wrong with short-term innovation?
> Local residents always complain about everything.

Only true because the UK has a horribly regressive stance on renters rights.
That's a fair point. I hadn't considered the names at all; I suppose one could argue that a three letter prefix is the least of Java's verbosity woes.
The tables may be the same distance apart but is the seating? In the video I can only see one chair per table. It is also possible they don't allow people to sit at adjacent tables. I'm not saying this is the case, I'm just pointing out that a picture may not tell the entire story.
I have an Argon NEO:

https://www.argon40.com/argon-neo-raspberry-pi-4-case.html

It gets hot to the touch, so I presume that it's dissipating heat like it's supposed to.
could it be that the author's first language is not English? "pixelized" sounds like a literal translation of the French word for "pixelated".
I got my place insulated when i moved in, so every room is now a Celotex box. I remember wondering how they made it fireproof, but never looking into it.

Mind you, it's a garret in a mansard roof, so before the Celotex it was just wood and bitumen, not exactly fireproof either.
Hawaii real estate has a similar dynamic.
The same argument was made recently about the reduce function: it's a known pattern for some and a hard to understand trick for others.
The number one rule of a good salesman is to not look like a salesman. IIRC, it's from the Thiel's book.
I have to disagree. This code is simply concise and elegant.

Generally less code is better, since there are fever lines that can have a bug.

While pathological terse code can be obscure - to prove that the author is clever - and then it really is a pathology - simple terse code is just beautiful.
> Facebook brought a vastly better user experience that seems mundane in retrospect but it won because it was so much better.

My impression is more that FB won because of Zuck's talent/luck/vision for weird acquisitions (instagram, whatsapp) that paid off in ways nobody foresaw. Facebook was by no means the clear winner then, and I would argue most of it's success since then has been first-mover in global markets. FB engagement has been in decline in the US for years.
Black bars alone may still leak info.

First, if you add black bars on your own and don't use professional redaction features of software, you might miss the OCR text layer of the PDF, or the bar might be added as a separate object entirely which means it can also be removed later on.

Second, if you don't use monospace text, the width of the text you are redacting will reveal information about it. That's why monospace fonts are so commonly used in the intelligence community for example.

Third, if you just add a black bar to a screenshot, there might be residual values of the text left in adjacent seemingly white portions of the image, but they might not be entirely white due to compression effects. Better you run it through a filter before publishing.
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They were already performant enough when converted into Flash and Crossbridge.
The important aspect is the rate of increase. Beyond that, Russia is still Cuba’s largest creditor. They may not have the same influence as the USSR but they still have considerable leverage
Reminds me of this quote:
"Great Minds Discuss Ideas. Average Minds Discuss Events. Small Minds Discuss People."
This is a game-changer level feature. I have been dreaming of this and more other power features for a long while.

Well, except for the Name Manager part in their implementation, which seems to be a total disaster. I really hope this is a first version and they are going to keep improving it as they say. One should really define the functions in the cells and be able to reference them like =A1(2). The last thing a beautiful functional environment needs is globals.

Super curious what the future of Excel holds.
Masers have been around longer than Lasers [0].

I don't know how building walls would affect coherent radiation at various frequencies, but if 80% of the energy made it to the destination, the other 20% could explain the variety of symptoms experienced in the room.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maser#:~:text=A%20maser%20(%2F....
Here in south Louisiana there is a special collection of Christmas trees and they are used in the fight to preserve our wetlands.

Article from last year: https://www.nola.com/gambit/article_5ab7222e-2e60-11ea-a845-....
this is the big point. when coding alone I strongly prefer Linus's version.

but it seems to cause friction and get called out whenever I use it in a group environment. so I don't. or I change it.

the code itself isn't important. its about the functioning of the group, the velocity, and the ownership.
I think we still need to reach the step of enumerating why the problems are problems before it will be clear to people why and how they can be addressed.
Thank you for the correction. I trusted a news article without carefully reading the source myself. My bad. I added a different survey.
Lines of code are expensive, because we expect human beings to reread them with almost no help from tools. Concise code is a temporary problem for novices, until they grow into experts. Bulky code is an ongoing problem for everyone and we don’t have a solution.
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The more succint version of that code is easier to read and review and it makes the code surrounding it easier to read and review. The extra conditional blocks are superfluous and take up a lot of lines. This is most definitely not about performance but about coding style.
It seems to have less to do with science then an unwillingness to back down.
Oh crap, I had no idea he'd died - I met him once when he was on his happiness tour, really interesting, genuinely nice, and driven guy. He took the idea of selling shoes and somehow morphed it into spreading happiness including touring it to markets that Zapos didn't operate in (like NZ where I met him), which obviously had limited direct benefit to his company. Only really visionary people would be able to pull off something like that and connect those dots.

I also met someone who grew up with him, he said that Tony was always looking at everything with an entrepreneurial eye. Anything and everything would be a business, even bringing in a grill to sell burgers to his class mates at lunch.

Big loss of a visionary.
Relatedly (and this is probably not surprising to anyone here) if you draw a black box on a PDF file to cover sensitive information, chances are a simple screen reader will still able to extract the information just fine.
Fortunately or unfortunately you don’t always get to decide who touches the code, so unless performance is a concern as it is in kernel development optimising like this in the day job will eventually lead people making mistakes. Basically I say be as explicit and clear as you dare, even at the cost of some CPU cycles.
Almost every language has a killer application though. If you do machine learning, for example, Python is the obvious choice.
Eyes only have high resolution in a tiny spot.
Does it mean that developers working locally with
containers should ditch Docker and Dockerfiles altogether?

If so, what should they replace it with, esp, if all you want to deploy to prod is contained in a single docker-compose? Is switching local development to kubernetes a good idea in terms of performance, fast feedback loop, development experience (smooth flow), etc. ?
Not true at all.

People, and state economists, have confused inflation and deflation so much for their propaganda that right now is almost imposible to have a discussion around it primarily because different people don't mean the same things when they use those words.

Is the inflation you talk about consumer price inflation? is it assets price inflation? or is it money supply inflation? is the deflation caused by increases in productivity or is it caused by decrease in demand? Is inflation a product of regulations? of corruption? or was it caused by central banks and politicians' stupidity?

Those are all very different situations that require very different approaches, but because the "inflation-good deflation-bad" mantra has been repeated for so long (without any actual proof!) idiots now can't see past it, and think it's fine because they call themselves economists.
Hey, VisiData author here! If you do want to make a FIX loader (or any plugin), you can come chat with us on Freenode #visidata and we'd love to help. A straightforward row-based file format should be quite straightforward to make a loader for!
For kernel SVMs, one needs to keep around part of the training data (the support vectors) right? With DNNs, after training, all you need are the model parameters. For very large datasets, keeping around even a small part of your training data may not be feasible.

Furthermore, number of parameters do not (necessarily) grow with the size of the training data, can be reused if you get more data, can be quantized/pruned/etc. There's not really an easy way to do these things with SVMs as far as I understand.
This is a really cool new bit of intuition:

> A key property of path kernels is that they combat the curse of dimensionality by incorporating derivatives into the kernel: two data points are similar if the candidate function’s derivatives at them are similar, rather than if they are close in the input space. This can greatly improve kernel machines’ ability to approximate highly variable functions (Bengio et al., 2005). It also means that points that are far in Euclidean space can be close in gradient space, potentially improving the ability to model complex functions. (For example, the maxima of a sine wave are all close in gradient space, even though they can be arbitrarily far apart in the input space.)
Looks like the initial concept got lost in translation. The original “arewefastyet” was created to focus relentlessly on one single goal and be accountable by making it public.

If you have fifteen of those hidden under funny URLs you’re kinda missing the point.
It's not just that corporations own a lot of the physical infrastructure. Another factor is that humans as a group tend to force other humans to commercialize what they do, even if they expressly don't want to do that and would rather publish it without ads, without paywalls, without subscriptions, etc.

We do a poor job of making it possible for people who create open source and people who create free content to get enough money out of that to give things away freely in service of their ideals. And after a while, people sometimes get fed up with working for free, seeing it benefit other people and not benefit them.

I complain a lot about that wrt to my own writing, but I'm not the only one. I've seen posts recently that complain about big companies using open source and/or open source providers being fed up with working for free.

Just a couple of things that come readily to mind:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25186890

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25032105

I find this maddening, especially when the idea of UBI is so popular. We actively punish people doing good works and tell them "Up yours. If you are an idealist, you can do it for free and find some other way to pay your bills." and then also say "We should just give money away to all the poor people simply for existing" while not actually making that a reality.

Talk of UBI makes me think of people I have known in the past who would make conditional promises, like "If I win the lottery, I will give you half." Somewhere along the way I figured out that "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" and to not trust "naked men offering you the shirt off their back."

People who actually want to make something happen will do the small thing in their power to accomplish today. People who make big promises based on long-shot bets (or on the idea that you need to make a big sacrifice before they will consider doing something for you -- and, no, it's not a stated as part of some kind of enforceable contract) are con artists, liars, manipulators and people wanting to be seen as "good guys" based on hot air without having to go through the pain and suffering typically required to do any real good in this world.

If you want a better world, pry open your wallet and give a dollar to Patreon for an independent artist or a $5 PayPal tip or something.

It's sort of a myth that big problems need big solutions. The antidote to a behemoth problem is often not some other equally powerful behemoth. It's often enough "little" solutions to weigh as much, so to speak.

Start investing in the small answers. They are easier to reach and support and more likely to be a real antidote.
I taught English in a Japanese Junior high and elementary school. The government makes the textbooks with input from senior teachers and they're all inexpensive paperbacks. It makes much more sense when I consider the gigantic expensive hardcover textbooks I would get as a kid. They were quickly outdated and occasionally filled with obscene writing from previous students.
All due respect, but you're free to observe your religion, I'm free to observe mine. Without forcing my opinions down other people's throats. That's what makes America great.

A Christmas tree has no place in my home.
Where did I said he didn't?

My point was that it ( philosophy ) "... won't give you answers to "life's bigger questions". It'll give you tools to think about them and introduce you to what others think/believe/etc."

Philosophy can lead you to what plato/socrates believed, but it itself won't give you the answers. People who want answers to life's big questions are really seeking religion rather than philosophy. People who want to think about it/explore/etc seek philosophy. Hope that helped.
I completely disagree. Lines of code, long variable names, and meaningless hierarchies are some tasteless taxes. Some people like each of them(!), and I don't get it.
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>"As someone who's been obsessed with silent computing for nearly two decades, just looking at the picture of that fan makes my ears hurt."

I bought 2 Pi4s with different cases. Both came with the same type of fan that looks like one in the article and set of heatsinks. As a person who actually tried it I can assure you that those are absolutely silent. No discernable sound comes out.
> provides strong anonymity

How does it compare to Tor?
It’s really cheap. It certainly helps people stay housed. Contrast this to the system in the United States where renters can be evicted anytime. Most rental contracts are only for a year and rents can be increased at will.

In fact, I propose that we incorporate this system at a larger scale in the USA.
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I take it you live in the US, since you're generally describing US fire code regulations, which are not the same as regulations in other countries, and are generally geared far more towards evacuate-first than compartmentalization.
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If this was around before Kerbal Space Program was written do you think they might have considered as an alternative to Unity?
Countries like...? You must have a source or some knowledge backing that statement?
The trick employed by the "good taste" solution is to ignore the type of the object containing the pointer, which is different for the head, and focus only on the type of the object pointed to, which is the same for all the pointers. This frame of reference shift makes the solution look tricky to people unaccustomed to working with pointers, or languages in which pointers are not explicitly represented. It is also not quite true, as the pointer in the last element in the list does not point to a list element.
What I don't get is why people all try to do their own when there is already a slew of existing solution and it hasn't gained adoption. Why not back something like Stellar if what you really care about is helping financial transactions!
> so it leaves me with the uneasy feeling "what if there's a bug?"

The second solution takes me a bit longer to wrap my head around, but once I do, I like it more, because there's fewer conditionals, and so there's less chance that the function breaks on unusual conditions.

Using fewer local variables is also a nice plus.
The way I use them, "pixelated" refers to images rendered to a target resolution in pixels. "Pixelized" refers to an image that is transformed to resemble pixel art of lower quality (in terms of resolution and color depth).

A screen from Super Mario Bros is pixelated. That's what the art is supposed to look like.

A screen from Broken Age running in Retro Mode is pixelized. The art isn't actually intended to look like that, and it's just for nostalgic effect.
Maybe this is just me but this project leans quite heavily in MailCow's world. At least from a design standpoint.

Interesting project
Yeah for me sound is usually the first sign that something isn't right. A truly silent laptop seems pretty inconvenient. if the screen is black and power is on, there are tons of possible causes, but hearing a lack of coil whine immediately clues in that it's properly hosed and there is no point in being patient.
Just look at that bizarre title: "Antioxidants prevent health-promoting effects of physical exercise"
I mean come on!! How can such a generalization be allowed.
I was lucky to study in a great lab, my name is on several papers Nature, Science, Nature Medicine and others. PNAS was always our last resort
https://geti2p.net/en/comparison/tor
Spring Boot if I needed similar bells and whistles to Rails.
> Fake trees last forever... until you throw them away, and then they still last forever.

Unfortunately they look like a fake tree forever too. It’s better than no tree at all, but not very inspiring.
I'm not disputing economic impact.

I'm asking if that's how "essential" is defined.
A REPL treated as a software system.
Musk apparently makes $0 in salary, so what we are talking about is the tax involved in exercising his ISO shares that I believe are worth in the area of $140 Billion.

https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/elon-r-musk/...

If realized as long term gains, that would be taxed at

Federally (20%) : $28 Billion

CA (13.3%) : 18.62 Billion

or

TX (0%) : 0 Billion

I love California, but I would move to Texas for $18.62 Billion.

Note that there are fewer than 100 people in the entire world who have more money/wealth than Musk's potential CA tax bill.

https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/#19efc38a3d78

Having said that, I should also note that I am no fan of Musk. I just wanted to show how much money is potentially at stake.
Redact ---> print ---> scan ---> distribute.

I think US courts and lawyers are finally starting to learn this.
Next up: Excel functions running as Azure Functions in the cloud.
That's why you always use the Adobe Acrobat Redaction tool. It'll obliterate everything and the metadata too!
Testing is great, but that's not a measure of risk.

For every 100 people who eat at a restaurant, how many get the virus? For every 100 people working on a film set how many get the virus? These are the numbers we should look at to compare one vs. the other.
Adding to what others have replied, the difference is simply put: If you can write your custom function as a lambda instead of a VBA function you will not have to save your Workbook as XLSM (M for Macro). That means no warnings when the user opens it and much better security because the lambdas can only call built-in functions and other lambdas.

To be honest, I think this is awesome and has been sorely missed.
I started reading the article agreeing with you. Hearing Linus talk about "taste" made me expect something obscure and esoteric, with a marginal performance benefit, and a subjective/objective debate about whether the value of micro-optimizations at scale throughout the linux kernel adds up to meaningful benefits, and if they are traded-off with less readable code.

Surprisingly, I ended up in a different spot.

I actually think this is a low-level C-version example of the best practice of "use idiomatic language concepts".

When C# first got LINQ, when Java first got Streams, and when both got inline anonymous Lambda functions a lot of old-school developers resisted both.

"The syntax is confusing!". "The behaviour is hidden!". "What's wrong with a good ol'd for/while loop?"

I know because that was my first instinct too.

But I quickly embarced these ideas because they allowed me to write more terse declarative code and spend a larger percentage of my TLOC on business logic. There was a small learning curve to new developers to understand the libraries, but after that everyone was more performant.

I feel the same way about C and pointers and address manipulation magic. No, it has no place in Java or C#. But for C developers, these are their idiomatic principles and concepts. Pretending otherwise, and not leveraging all the capabilities possible with direct pointer and address manipulation is not utilizing the benefits of C to it's full potential.

NOTE: I am not a C developer. This is just how this comes off to me. I'd love to hear from actual C developers if they would say that this is the equivalent of running around with a loaded shotgun and languages like Rust have been designed with solving these things in mind (or something).
If that's what you think, then enjoy reading the many thousands of papers published by shitty paper mill operations.
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For comparison, I started around the same time, never used LinkedIn and still ended up with a job title similar to yours, making a little more than 400k. This is simply a standard rate for someone with 10 yoe who bothers to change jobs.
Another aspect is that as a codebase develops, memes inevitably appear; patterns and strategies that replicate themselves throughout the codebase.

The elegant utility may be difficult to deal with standing alone, but when you see it 2,3,4 different places (by same author, or mimics) it becomes normalized, and once normal there’s really no reason not to use it.

The main problem with clever code is when it stands alone. Which is also the context in which these debates occur.
There's always room to complain but at some point we have to celebrate the fact that the vaccine is even available in such a short time. Let's do that before we start to assign blame for the short comings.