skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am sorry that posting links to mainstream evidential data gets you down-voted.

Age is pretty much the only risk factor - the average age of death from COVID-19 is higher than the average age of death. [0]

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db355.htm
There's no accounting for taste ;)
> Grin, to pick a cybercoin which has some interesting technical innovations, issues one coin per minute, forever.

With a 60 Grin block reward and 1 minute block interval, it's actually 1 Grin per second, forever.
I beg to differ:

https://flirc.tv/more/raspberry-pi-4-case
A lot of people underestimate what a high scale workload means.
I believe Patreon allows consumers to set how much they would like to pay.
The cs101 solution adds an unecessary extra variable "prev" that you have to study to figure out what it means. That's harder for me to grok.
I’m surprised someone hasn’t made a SATA MITM that does this.

I once put an LED in series on a long rs232 link so I could see them flash when I/O was happening. But they have the spare voltage to work with.
They started the whole thing, were the only member of the Libra Association (now Diem Association) for several months, and still fund the staff and almost all of the engineering effort.

Diem is deeply and fundamentally a Facebook project.
What stops one from making a more secure pixelation algorithm?

One that will shuffle around or maybe just randomly derive the pixelated blocks if they're within a certain color threshold of similarity?

I still generally like pixelation over drawing a box for aesthetic purposes.
It keeps living on Linux too. My customers are too small to need Kubernetes and we won't switch off our docker containers in development and production. And a customer created a container on his Mac on Thursday to run something I run natively on my Ubuntu laptop.

To be fair to the author of the post, he wrote about the continuing life of docker in the inner loop of development. It will keep going also in production on medium and small projects until we start using something else for multiplatform pull and run software distribution.
https://my.fsf.org/give-students-userfreedom

This is an old problem that the FSF has been warning about for years, if not decades.
Clifford algebra is definitely not common. And when you say introduced, what do you mean by that? How much time was spent on it?
> "landlord" has a legal obligation to renew your lease should it come close to expiry.

This isn’t true. Your landlord has a legal obligation to offer a renew at a fair price (method of calculation is laid out in law). But they have no obligation to actually renew if the leaseholder doesn’t make them. Long leases can absolutely expire, doesn’t happen very often, but it’s certainly not impossible.
How is that so? I couldn't live in quarantine without having an Internet connection. There's a limit to how many books one can read.
Both of these implementations seem to be missing a call to `free`, or is that something that the caller should be taking care of?
The only maser that would fit the bill is a hydrogen maser with a frequency of around 1.4Ghz.

That's a wavelength of 21cm.

That means that your beam waist is never going to be less than 21cm, which means that your beam divergence is going to be of at the very minimum 0.21/pi radians = 3.8 degrees, likely twice that.

That's just not targeted enough to be able to hide the massive EM interference it would cause (like, instantly destroying electronics). And also, if the transmitter was 200 meters away, it would have to be dozens of meters big, assuming you got some lending system. Otherwise, it would still be huge, but it would also spew radiation at a truncated cone with a radius in the meters.

Also, building walls would certainly deflect a lot of the radiation and cause decoherence but also heating and destruction of electronics.

In any case, if it was any kind of EM weapon at a suitable frequency, it would be incredibly detectable and we wouldn't have this discussion.
You might have a good point, but you haven't given enough code to expresss your idea.

What is "each" ?
My Procedurally Generated Music Is Awful
By noticeable, I mean as in electronics being destroyed, and any kind of equipment the US would have obviously deployed to attempt to detect it would register an absolutely massive signature.
Not sure I understand the question. Loop() should call draw() each frame, forever. Does it just hang, or run out of memory?
> It's stretching the Big Oh notation but it isn't terrible

I'd say it is terrible. O(10) is O(1), and it doesn't make a lot of sense in this context (measure of growth to represent a scalar).
Docker Desktop is the only non-hacky way to get a decent Docker (and k8s) setup for development purposes on macOS and Windows. Linux on the desktop never needed that, but those other two do.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_and_personality?w...

Plenty of literature referenced there.

At best, not even a modest correlation (r=.42, at best, r=.06 at worst) for openness.
Many Programmers who don't use C are afraid of pointers and prefer superficially simpler (but overall more complicated) things like Java's abstraction towers, despite the extra expense.
Gold markets are most definitely regulated, especially if you’re doing any meaningful FX volume. And since we’re talking about crypto, it’s worth adding the gold mining tends to be too, perhaps more so.
Resignation at ID2020 Raises Doubts About Covid Immunity Passes
Totally agree - this could actually be a really natural bridge into programming for a lot of people whose advanced Excel skills already have them on the cusp.

Name Manager though... Would be really nice if they could come up with some idioms for writing these functions in a multi-line format, with indentation, and give a slightly nicer editor. I realize that might be a bit tricky without changing the language syntax, but after the 2nd nested if-statement I find that I really struggle to follow someone's single-line Excel logic...
Um, yes. That jumped out at me. If there's a no-find, the code will de-reference null and crash. That's just not acceptable. Try to write that in Rust, using Some(ref) for the forward link, and the compiler will force you to test for None and detect the end of the list.

This is pre-1990s programming style. I've seen such code in assembly programs. Because I was reading crash dumps where it failed.
Not inherently, but the brand seems well established as a sex brand.

No reason they couldn't just start another brand for mainstream use though.
Hey people, I built this particle simulator in ~500 lines of self-contained HTML/JS/WebGL2.

It's designed to encourage creativity and exploration. You can just download one of those universes and open up the HTML file in a text editor to tweak the physical laws and constants. Then open it up in your browser to see the result immediately.

I had a lot of fun exploring the beautiful emergent behaviors that arise from those simple rules, give it a try too! There's plenty of documentation and you don't need to be a programming wizard. :)

The most interesting universes I came up with are on display here: https://exophysics.net/exhibition.html
That basically how I did OCR 20 years ago :) One can also notice that kernels inside a text trained NN would have somewhat similar blocks and as a result what the net would be doing is a similar matching.
CVE-2020-25638 A flaw was found in hibernate-core in versions prior to and incl
The Intrinsics of the Market Making Queue
> if list elements are stored contiguously, is there any advantage to using a linked list

Storing them contiguously probably implies that you consider "freed" space in the middle to also be part of the contiguous area. Otherwise you can't remove in O(1) time.

It is straightforward to maintain a list of freed nodes which you can add back later.

If you don't mind not being able to remove in O(1) time, you still have the advantage of passing the handi-capped (contiguous) linked list to interfaces that expect a linked list, but still get the cache locality of a plain vector.
Robotic kitchen is the ultimate smart home gadget, but you can’t afford it
Yeah, this is 1 month old: https://letsencrypt.org/2020/11/06/own-two-feet.html
It's pseudocode. The code as-is is not valid C anyway.
It's a lot easier to "get the address of this field in a struct" in C than in Java or Python or JavaScript.
Apple, Samsung and Google Phones All Have Display Gaps, and That's a Problem
What I don’t understand is why the external surface is flat.

Even worse, they polished them to a mirror-like finish!

You want to maximize surface area to radiate heat. Ideally they’d be rippled like a regular heat sink.

Edit: also standoffs! Don’t undervalue how much heat you can expel from the underside.
The author starts with a few political comments and then goes into another direction - programming languages. I was expecting a conclusion on the political comments, without finding it.

But, even if Paul Graham has been wrong about language design, it doesn't mean he's been wrong about current affairs or the importance of startups in the coming future.

If anything, his bets have been largely successful and by openly sharing his thoughts he attracts some criticism from the different minded folks, like the author of this essay, who's clearly a smart fellow.

I saw that piece from the NY Times about Coinbase and I feel that it's reactionary to the announcement from Coinbase about not mingling into politics, which I support btw, I don't like the politization of every aspect of our lives.

I've also heard a podcast with Brian Amrstrong, the CEO of Coinbase, and it's not hard to get to the conclusion that he's a great human being.

I may be wrong, but I distrust most of what the NY Times has been publishings in the past few years, particularly because of their focus on politization. I even feel repugnant by it. It feels like a stance that somebody that doesn't believe in progress would take. Somebody that blames others for his problems and thinks that humans are inherently evil. Usually nihilistic.
> all fire safety experts

Here's the thing, not ALL fire safety experts will tell you the same thing. I just looked up the guidance for my city (Seattle) and it gives what I consider to be sane advice:

> Every alarm must be treated as a fire emergency. When you hear the fire alarm or if you encounter smoke or fire, take these steps to ensure a safe evacuation of the building.

> 1. Leave your unit as quickly as possible, closing the front door as you go. Pull the fire alarm next to the stairwell as you exit if fire alarm is not sounding.

> 2. Use the stairs, not the elevators, to evacuate the building.

[Point 3 concerns what to do after evacuation.]

> 4. If you encounter smoke or fire outside of your apartment and you are unable to exit using the stairs, stay in your unit. Keep your door and windows closed. Use towels or clothing to block openings around doors or vents where smoke might enter.

They also say on their website:

> If you hear the building fire alarm, take it seriously. Every second delayed wastes valuable time needed to escape. For this reason, developing and practicing a home escape plan with all residents is so important. If a fire starts in your building you must know how to get out quickly. Don't wait to find out the severity of the situation. Your home escape plan should include two ways to exit out of your apartment and a designated outside meeting place away from the building.

These experts are telling me to GTFO immediately, and only shelter in place if and only if I am unable to GTFO. It sounds like in London they give different advice either because their experts are fools, or because their buildings are death traps by Seattle standards...

Re-quoting for emphasis: "Every second delayed wastes valuable time needed to escape. [...] Don't wait to find out the severity of the situation. "
VSCode is also a lot weaker in general text editing and extensibility, and doesn’t have a TUI. (I use both extensively.)
Looping works, this is more of a hardware question I think. I want the same instance of the program to run for years/decades if possible. Also want it to be available for people to see it in the same state on the web (streaming vs them running it locally). Does that make a bit more sense?
Perhaps grown in e.g. Poland where land and manpower is lower priced, compared to Germany?

Ikea Sweden used to sell similar-priced christmas trees "farmed" in Denmark, but they stopped doing that after accusations that they were undermining local suppliers of non-herbicide-grown christmas trees. (In Sweden christmas trees tend to be expensive in cities and cheap/free in the countryside.)
Isn't it in Knuth, vol. 1?
> All due respect, but

You’re not being respectful; you’re ignoring lotsofpulp’s point, reposting your own, and being more aggressive about it.
But there's comments that explain it, so I think it's okay. I wouldn't leave a thing that has a mix of &, *, and -> without saying what it was supposed to do, but he does explain it.

I'm ok with clever code when it's explained in words.
Jewel is pretty credible and mentions nitrous oxide by name.

https://people.com/music/jewel-wrote-to-tony-hsieh-before-hi...
Ability to think about others’ frame of mind is a kind of intelligence. You are probably referring to gossip, however.

Also, listening duration is a measure of attention not intelligence.
>>There's nothing wrong with a little restraint.

There is nothing wrong with a little truth or facts either...the guy is dead, he won't be offended.
Eventually the opposition gets weary, and you can sneak it in
Systems at Work
It seems obvious to me why "VBA in a cell" is a nonstarter and why making this a formula-level feature is necessary. I'm glad macros have worked for whatever use case in the past, but it can never be a capital-f Feature of excel because it's a security nightmare and microsoft and everyone that uses macros knows this (or should).

If you want a platform to succeed, make it capable of satisfying most users needs within its sandbox; using macros is just giving up and working around it.
[..]The robotic arms, hands and fingers are taught using bespoke software and motion-capture technology. They can then interact with regular appliances by pressing buttons, turning dials and operating touchscreens. Oleynik adds: "Not all appliances can be activated with an API or remote control because of safety issues. A lot are still to be operated by the robot itself, pressing buttons, looking at touchscreens, opening and closing doors...We can teach the robot to do all this."[..]

[..]But despite all that, the price is still massive, at £248,000 ($330,000). That isn't a typing error. To help soften the blow, customers can order a Moley IoT kitchen without the robotic arms for £140,000 ($187,000), then add the arms (or a future generation of arms) at a later date, which apparently takes just a day's work.[..]

[..] Having gone through 11 development cycles since 2014, the robot can retrieve ingredients from the fridge, adjust the stove, use the faucet, pour and mix ingredients, and plate up. It will then partially clean up after itself, wiping down surfaces and using ultraviolet lighting to sterilize equipment.

So long as everything it needs to cook with is returned to the correct place, and ingredients are stored in the right containers of the custom fridge, the robot uses its sensors and cameras to interact with ingredients, cookware and utensils. The robot can also spot dropped food and clean it up.[..]
When the financing for much of this was agreed upon it was under the previous danish prime minister Lars Løkke, who's wife is Faroese. The second he stopped they founded a company there which has close ties to some travel company among other things. Besides this the family has general connections to the economy there naturally.
I haven't been following what's happening in the UK but here in the Australian state of Victoria (we had a couple of cladding fires too) the government established an organisation called Cladding Safety Victoria. They're identifying all buildings with this sort of cladding and coordinating replacement. They just started on my apartment building this week (there's only a small section around the main entry).
> But I’m at the point in life, where I want to work with tech that I enjoy.

Exactly. When people say "You should work on boring tech." my thought is "Mmkay, sure thing buddy, you do you."
CVE-2020-17521: Apache Groovy Information Disclosure
"Digital Detox" isn't a clearly defined term, but usually does not mean no internet use long-term. And e.g. limiting access to social media or 24/7 news is not necessarily a bad idea in the year of "doomscrolling".
This kind of techniques have been discussed here many times. See for example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8078747

I think one of the reasons people use blurring/pixelation is that it looks nicer than black boxes.

Wondering if it would make sense to build a tool that renders a pixelated version of lorem ipsum or something like that. It would be secure while also looking good.
I've always thought that people's confidence is pixelation filters was unjustified, and that reversal algorithms are eminently achievable. This goes for pixelation of faces for hiding identities, too. Deep learning or even just genetic algorithms testing lots of possibilities and re-pixelating should be able to infer the original image.
It seems there wasn't collective agreement with residents about safety concerns of the cladding, since if there was, surely residents wouldn't have rejected the installation of an adequate sprinkler system? The council leader has publicly said residents (collectively) didn't want the added disruption during the refurbishment.
Assuming you aren't able to update via a custom ROM on unsupported hardware, it should still be possible to import the new Root Cert on Android.

> System-installed certificates can be managed on the Android device in the Settings -> Security -> Certificates -> 'System'-section, whereas the user trusted certificates are manged in the 'User'-section there. When using user trusted certificates, Android will force the user of the Android device to implement additional safety measures: the use of a PIN-code, a pattern-lock or a password to unlock the device are mandatory when user-supplied certificates are used.

Source: http://wiki.cacert.org/FAQ/ImportRootCert#Android_Phones_.26...
Judging from the author's username, he/she is almost certainly Dutch, and in Dutch we tend to use English terminology in most technical matters. But we don't always use it 100% correctly, so that could be a reason.
She sounds like someone that actually cared about him.

It’s terrible that someone who seemed like a genuinely kind person ended up surrounded by sycophants taking advantage of his wealth and encouraging his drug issues.

"I am going to be blunt," she wrote in the letter, obtained by Forbes. "I need to tell you that I don’t think you are well and in your right mind. I think you are taking too many drugs that cause you to disassociate.

“Jewel reportedly told Hsieh in the note that "people you are surrounding yourself with are either ignorant or willing to be complicit in you killing yourself.

“When you look around and realize that every single person around you is on your payroll, then you are in trouble," Jewel wrote, according to Forbes.

“You are in trouble, Tony.”

She was right.
apples to oranges. The USA isn't willing to invest in a branch of the FAA that can actually go through every aspect of the engineering of the 737-max in order to understand if it's working effectively.

Even with the MAX disaster, aviation standards are significantly better than the 70s/80s.

Boeing + Airbus have a very very very vested interest in making sure that aviation is safe, and appears very safe (which is why Airbus did NOT go on the attack on Boeing's safety. It would hurt the entire industry).

Building codes and fire safety are something that should damn well be simple / codified enough that it's inspectable by a reasonable person.

Boeing did lie about shit. Middle management pushed some real bullshit with the max.
I don't know what makes you think the US would have no control over the value of any popular crypto.

If it's being spent in the US, they have control. They can make it illegal, tax it to hell, or just start mining it themselves.
Especially relevant for Hacker News:

> They also looked into the highly opaque business of cyber surveillance companies selling Mexico increasingly invasive surveillance technologies that are being turned against journalists.
Any sort of statistical or econometric estimator is typically published as an R package.

So for example, I recently saw a paper with a quite complex estimator based on dynamic panels and network (or spacial) interdependence that could identify missing network ties.
For that, an R package exists.

If you want to use it in Python, you'd have to replicate a whole estimation infrastructure yourself, starting by extending the basic models in statsmodels.

That example is quite typical in my opinion.

Like I said, really like to code in Python and I don't like R all that much.
But if someone says: "Why would you use R, Python is better", then we can confidently say the person does not know what R is actually used for.
would a neural network be able to do something like this?
Family & friends, however, might appreciate less speculation and fewer character attacks if it turns out not to be true.

Even if it is true, I’m sure they’d appreciate an opportunity to mourn in peace.
I haven't followed PG much either of late but it was recently brought to my attention by a coworker that he is now on the side of the 'bad guys'.

I'm all for substantial criticism and discussion, and am always desperately looking for it, but this (unequivocally political) essay unfortunately has all of the distinct hallmarks of the simplistic contemporary political discourse.

It takes a great many words to offer no substantial criticism of any of PG's recent thinking but rather hopes to indict his whole person (as an "unserious intellectual") based on a protracted and exhausting discussion of his naive ideas about programming from 20 years ago.

Who is a serious intellectual? What does that even mean? One thing I know is that serious thinking involves going through many ideas, many of them at risk of being naive or flawed, to sort out how to think about the world.

If an "unserious intellectual" is one that puts substantive ideas out into the aether, however flawed, however self-aggrandizing and, well, human, the messenger might be, then I'll take that over whatever you would call this essay. Everybody is wrong about everything, in part.

I propose a heuristic: if you're reading (or writing) anything whose thesis is "X is a bad person" (or "X is a ____", for that matter), perhaps you're participating in a religious game rather than a thinking game. There's no dialectic available after an essay like this, no opportunity for growth. There is just a like or upvote button -- with only the thought that if you press it you might just be on the right side of 'good'.
Same article, no paywall: https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/the-death-of-za...
While true it is a good reminder that a ton of legacy devices are going to break after 2021-01-11.
I would not enter a stairwell that was filled with smoke. Smoke rises, so if there is smoke in the stairwell below me, it's probably also in the stairwell on my floor as well, though there may be a small window where I get mislead. Nevertheless, in America these stairwells are designed specifically to be used for evacuations, and in my city the official advice is to GTFO as quickly as you can using a stairwell the moment you hear the (building wide) alarm or if you see smoke. So this is certainly what I would do.
It doesn't mention facebook. Why?

If you look at the members section, at the bottom of this page, facebook is not there.

https://www.diem.com/en-us/association/
Ideological conformance. Google has a particular world view that insists that privacy is not a human right, that certain political positions are verboten and unions are bad.