skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.harnesswealth.com/articles/promissory-note-progr... What about a system like the one proposed here? This is the only tech startup I’ve heard of that uses an alternative equity system.

Agree with your point about 409(a) disclosures. As an ex-employee with outstanding options in two tech startups I find it crazy that nothing requires firms to annually disclose this information to options holders. And while I was working at these companies there was no mention of the #of shares outstanding and the % allocated to employees—even if you knew your personal percentage stake, you didn’t know how much was diluted with each subsequent round.
Why would you provide ticket sellers with their own bank accounts? Why not send their funds straight to their actual bank accounts?
You know, I would have sworn that Dvorak used to write a Mac column for an American Macuser or Macworld when I was a student in the 1990s, waxing lyrical about the Mac.
There are different claims -- if one is "frustrated" it's only if one doesn't even attempt to distinguish what's written where. Reading more than just the title in the link you've given:

"The results could indicate a more moderate degree of protection of 15-20%" to the wearer.

"The findings are consistent with previous research. Health experts have long said a mask provides only limited protection for the person wearing it, but can dramatically reduce the risk to others if the wearer is infected, even when showing no symptoms. Preventing the spread to others is known as source control."

Now consider the following: if the "current" R number (the average of how many people are further infected by one infected person) in some environment is 1.2 that still results in the number of infected per day exponentially(!) increasing. Example: after the sequence of 10 infections with R 1.2 there are 6 infected, after the sequence of 20 -- 38, after the sequence of 30 -- 237 and after the sequence of 100 -- 82 million people infected, starting from just one. It is estimated that it takes just a few days for one sequence. Taking that number to be around 3.6 (it doesn't have to be that number, it's just to take some convenient number as an illustration) means that 100 sequences can be imagined as one year. So 82 million in one year.

Now if every wearer is protected only 20%, it can appear to the wearer who doesn't understand math that he should not wear it. However, reducing current R number from 1.2 to 1 means that the number of infected per day doesn't increase at all but remains constant. Example: starting with 1 infected, after the sequence of 100 there are just 100 infected. Using the same convenient number, after one year, still just 100 infected.

That, in turn, means that if everybody wears it, everybody wins: allowing exponential increase of infected will result in everybody becoming infected, whereas the constant number of daily infected could guarantee that most don't become infected before they can be vaccinated.

Not to mention that if the number of infected per day can be kept constant some other kinds of measures
(lockdowns with closures, bad for economy) could be completely avoided, especially if it is achieved at some low level. Which means that it can be of immense benefit to the wearer to wear the mask as much as possible even if he increased his own direct protection in some specific situation for mere 20%! Moreover, the benefits are dependent on most others also wearing the mask! If he's doing that alone, than it's in vain -- he alone can't change R for the whole population: his highest interest is to convince others to do the same.

Being willing to understand math and to read carefully helps.
How useful masks are depends on so many things. What are they made of is just a small part. Do you know how to use the masks you have? Do you have a beard? Or just a one day stubble? Some masks consists of one layer of fabric and even three-layer masks can't be worn endlessly, they can be washed but not infinitely. Some people wear the mask just covering the mouth, not the nose. Or upside down so the metal strip that seals around the nose is under the chin. I'm no expert in how to use masks but I see dubious things the whole time, both in reality and on TV.
If you have bad eyesight, you actually want a high DPI display. You crank up the scaling to 200% and have images that are the same size but much sharper.
My CS department formed an "industry partnership" with Microsoft (circa 2015).

All of a sudden, we were made to spend time learning Azure, we were given Surface Tablets for building apps, there were guest lectures by Microsoft employees, we were prompted to apply for MS internships, etc.

What the department intended to be a harmless collaboration, turned out to be an aggressive marketing push by Microsoft for hearts and minds of the students.

Thankfully, a backlash from the student body prompted a dampening of the relationship, but the experience showed that barriers to entry for corporations pushing their own agenda into academia can be low.

Managed properly, these sorts of relationships can be win-win, but there's a clear limit and universities should be conscious and forthright of where the line is.
>> Masks did not become obligatory elsewhere

I have to challenge this assessment from the article. Masks did become mandatory elsewhere. Mostly in targeted spots in the cities such as the zeil in Frankfurt and Potsdamer platz in Berlin and I can tell you that it is met with strict enforcement and that people are adhering to the rule ardently with very few exceptions. The article and much of the science leaves much to be desired.

It is my opinion that the “all or nothing” pro mask people are actually obstructing the science. Their intolerance to confront or question evidence that is contradictory or unexplained anomalies in the data such as this article is dangerous to actually having the right response to covid leads to nonsensical draconian rules like the California mayor suggesting requiring wearing a mask 24 hours a day and only removing between bites when eating.
Soft boiled.

Just sayin'
async/await, Project Loom fiber, Warehouse/Workshop Model

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow...
He is an exception in that he wrote about note-taking from the perspective of someone who used his system to make serious contributions to systems theory and various other fields.

But he's a great demonstration of Matuschak's point. Luhmnam wrote dozens of books about a wide range of topics, enabled by Zettelkasten, and then wrote a couple of essays towards the end of his career about how he did it.
Light-Based Quantum Computer Exceeds Fastest Classical Supercomputers
Is UnitSystems.jl the most complete resource for physics constants?
If I have to guess (and it's fun, so why not), I think what triggered the rant was exactly what the comment was describing. I'd call it recursive, but I don't want to sound fancy.

My comment wasn't categorical. IE, I didn't get on either the "T&Cs are evil bullshit" or "contracts are the basis of civilization" side. If you're reading for category, everything else is flowery nonsense. Just tell me which side you're on and why.
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It may be hard to see how masks themselves have a negative effect, but it's easy to see how mask wearing as a medical intervention in the real world could. All it would take is people being willing to stand slightly closer together or take slightly more risks because they believed masks were effective protection.
Ethereum is definitely the new kid on the block here.
Verizon has been leaking customers’ personal information for days
> bulls are tortured for sport

and

> The bull is also angry at being penned and possibly maltreated, before being killed.

Related to the GP's point: are any of these things being associated with your brand going to be a good thing?

Is there a segment of the market that identifies with (not just sympathises with) tortured, maltreated animals that are soon to be murdered for sport?
> why not build that tunnel in a big city

The Faroe Islands are _tiny_. Land area of about 1,399km²

Just a little bit larger than New York City, which is 1212km².

Long Island, NY more than twice as big.
Okay, I admit, my Hungarian is not so good these days.

But if you're right (seems like you are), then why do spell checkers not pick up on "es" as misspelled?
Some videos remove that option. (Haven't tried to see how Hierglyph handles that situation though.)
Question - if you had a really accurate fiducial (say 1/1000 or 1/10000 of a pixel absolute accuracy, sub micrometre) that could be fixed on/ near the model - is that interesting and would it help speed up the photogrammetry ? We have a system for accurate measurement x,y,z,rot by imaging a flat scale and are currently focussed on precision engineering/ microscopy/ xy stages; but I didn't realise the big photogrammetry systems were so slow or desired micrometre accuracy. May be a whole set of questions about depth of field and mechanical and thermal stability, but just a thought
I hadn't even realised it was a competition - I'm not really interested in that... I just want to improve my coding exercise ability should I ever interview again and I'm looking forward to it getting absurdly hard and 100% CHEATING. But I will still learn something so I'm happy to be taking part this year!
Those charts do not show any information regarding the effectiveness or otherwise of mask wearing.

There is no information about what proportion of the populations actually wore masks, how close people actually got to each other, what the population density and degree of urbanization is, etc.

In Norway we mostly have not had strict lockdowns and have not had compulsory mask wearing until very recently and our infection rates and death rates are lower than most other countries as shown on the charts. But you need to be careful how you interpret that; Norway has a relatively low population density and a large proportion of jobs are of a type that can be done at home. So pretty much everyone who could work from home immediately did so (a lot did anyway). We also have a strong tradition of solidarity; unlike the UK 'We're all in this together!' is not just a slogan.

Our government has also been largely consistent in the advice that it has issued and, with a couple of exceptions, avoided overreacting which means that people are willing to adhere to the rules even though most are just advice and not enforceable.

Most charts from all sources, and especially things like the Federalist, should be taken with a shovel of salt; not because of what they include but because of all the information that is omitted.
Two things are true at the same time:

1. Google as a company behaves like evil sometimes

2. Timnit is no angel. She is a bully and harass researchers who do not agree with her.

I thought it is a common knowledge that you can not write papers that tarnish your company's products as that would affect the bottom line. Why is she throwing hissy fit about it?
Not relay the same. This predicts an additional depth channel using CNNs which you can then use to create some sense of 3D by translating the image elements differently based on depth when rotating the camera a limited amount. However you won't be able to e.g. inspect the backside of the object or model things like cavities using this approach. It's more like a heightmap or relief.

With nerfs you get an actual volume representation with a mapping from every point in 3d space to whether it's inside a volume or not. It's an actual 3d model instead of a 2d image with a depth channel.
That's really gonna come down to your workflow and use cases. For me, the Lisp is a bit more welcoming than VimScript for me. It's much easier to test out a small snippet of something in-buffer which might grow into something else.

But, putting Lisp aside, going through the growing pains was worth it for me because of org-mode. I'm certain Vim might have something similar but the proper `org` package is definitely on my list of benefits. I have an org-file that tracks my time and generates invoices with a click of a button. Another one documents all the API calls in another project with interactive areas, thanks to org-babel. I think being able to craft documents like this is invaluable but again, it's gonna come down to how you do work and what makes you happy/efficient.
The study period is end of March to end of April. Masks in the Frankfurt pedestrian zone became obligatory in October [1].
I will amend my summary.

[1] https://www.msn.com/de-de/nachrichten/panorama/ab-freitag-ma...
Radicalization is the style of the time!

Their side is heinous, evil, and kills babies. Our side is just, wondrous, and angel like.

Thus, they enslave, we strive to break free, and bask in the pure bliss our utter and complete correctness enables.
> smudgy

Could you elaborate on this? Maybe you've enabled font smoothing?
This episode happened during the blood moon of Jacobin Twitter this summer. I saw colleagues denouncing colleagues for “liking” the wrong tweet.
Maybe I'm being naïve, but why don't browsers ship with more popular fonts bundled to avoid problems like these? I have no issue with any of my browsers taking up fractionally more space for an extensive cache of the most popular web fonts when the payoff is better performance on so many sites.

Of course, servers should still be capable of serving the fonts that the client requires to render the content correctly, but the browser should be equipped to make that happen as quickly as possible.
1. Who relies on a font that may or may not have been downloaded by a visit to some other website as a performance optimization for one's own website?

2. If cache partitioning obviates the performance benefit of CDNs for fonts, doesn't this mean you're better off hosting your own scripts and images for the same reason?

3. If CDNs are past their use-by date, will performance measurement tools finally stop admonishing you to host your assets there?
Because the author has explained it before :

https://acoup.blog/2019/06/12/new-acquisitions-how-it-wasnt-...

TL;DR : Westeros is an impossible mix of early middle age vassal politics and imperial rome / early modern bureaucracy, economics†, and excesses of power. And to boot with pretty much a nation state (but a vassal one ??) in the form of the North without the required printing press. (By contrast, Gondor makes much more sense.)

†Also, my own comment : the biology is likely to be very different from ours if the winters are so long - does GRRM ever explain that in the books? (And does he really use multiple "years" for a single season ?)
I think it depends on the text. When I read something complicated I have to reflect a lot.

On the other hand it's pointless to reflect on something you already know, understand or simply agree with...
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May I recommend Maria Markstedter? https://azeria-labs.com/the-process-of-mastering-a-skill/

90% of her content is about ARM exploitation (which I'm personally not interested in). However, she has a couple of posts on how she learns and works, that are believable to me thanks to the rest of her content.

She's also not selling coaching, she's selling her technical skills.
Marketplaces holding on to my funds for longer than necessary seems like a dark pattern. Why would a Shopify seller want this? If I wanted a bank account - I'd go to a bank.

Conceptually this reminds me of embedded messaging: every app provides its own inbox, instead of properly integrating with my email inbox. More walled gardens.
This comment is gold, it reminds me also about how when we build something we tend to show it to our friends or peers, when we should be reaching out to whom has the problem we are trying to solve.
I don't quite get the point of the executor service with virtual threads. If they are really cheap to create then why not just create them as required? It's been a while since I programmed in Java though, am I missing something?
Edit: Ah - I read the rest of the article. Using it as a synchronisation primitive makes sense I guess, if a bit clunky.
They are made from multiple pieces of metal; they are neither "mono" or "lithic".

Mono = greek prefix meaning "single".
Lithic = Pertaining to or consisting of stone.

Just passing on a dose of pointless pedantry, enjoy your day!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Fighting_Bull

“During the breeding, in order to preserve their natural characteristics, the bulls rarely encounter human beings, and if ever, never on foot.

...

Some commentators trace the origins of the fighting bull to wild bulls from the Iberian Peninsula and their use for arena games in the Roman Empire. Although the actual origins are disputed, genetic studies have indicated that the breeding stock have an unusually old genetic pool.

The aggression of the bull has been maintained (or augmented, see above) by selective breeding and has come to be popular among the people of Spain and Portugal and the parts of Latin America where it took root during colonial rule, as well as parts of Southern France, where bullfighting spread during the 19th century.

In May 2010, Spanish scientists cloned the breed for the first time. The calf, named Got, meaning "glass" in Valencian, was cloned from a bull named Vasito and implanted into a Friesian host mother.”
Kinda disappointed there’s no tik tok dancing nurses one.
And yet the unions are democratic, but the employers are not. You can vote out the union leadership and all important decisions require a ballot.

Power structures can be abused, but they can also be a way to concentrate the will of many to achieve something that cannot be done individually.

What's important is the material incentives of those involved. Even if they were to be insincere (in which case they often are removed), union leadership are incentivised to raise the wages of all members since dues are the main way they are funded. Employers are always incentivised to reduce wages as much as they can get away with, since they wish to maximise profits.
Perhaps all that magic is reducing fertility rates?

After all, magic requires power, sometimes quite large amounts, and no power source is to be seen. This means it's either beamed, or otherwise dispersed through the environment. This could have negative implications for health and fertility.
Last chapters of LOTR, after the victory. The heroes come back at home and it is destroyed, no nature, no trees, and a big factory in the middle. Takes magic to restore the natural ecosystem.
I'm pretty sure intelligence agencies often have a better effort:pay ratio. This is due to the high barrier to entry of needing a TS (or even higher) clearance.
The extra care makes a difference. Anedoctally my family did not catch cold or flu since first hearing about the possibility of the pandemy. At least not symptomatic.

> When the situation gets worse then not only the top smartest people but also larger masses begin to take it more seriously to protect themselves, keeping distance, and omitting trips and reducing contacts.
(12 years pass....)

Musk announces the newest brain-link, of which enplantment is a requirement to use modern phones. User complaints of random, altered perceptions of reality are brushed aside, and mostly accepted.

After a quick altered perception of reality. :P

Perhaps enslaved is on the table, 20 years out?
Cleartype is an acquired taste :P
There's a bit of circular logic here because I can't evaluate who to trust if I can't effectively monitor what the developer is doing on my machine.
I've travelled single and as part of a couple. Doing this as a couple is hands-down easier. Cheaper, less stressful, and a lot less lonely. Not only because constant companionship, but also because striking up random friendships is easier if the whole "is he hitting on me?" thing is off the table because the girlfriend is right there too ;)
No, plenty of rapists and abusers etc do all the social justice rituals.
Machine learning in UK financial services (2019)
Your statement about how the kernel only mediates access to the GPU is exactly right. GPU drivers have long followed an "exokernel" approach: the kernel just ensures that access to the hardware is multiplexed with enforced security boundaries, everything else -- the actual abstracting over hardware differences -- is done by userspace libraries.

It's somewhat amusing to me that the people who discuss exokernels rarely talk about GPUs, even though that's the one area of computing where exokernel ideas are universally deployed today.
Take a read of https://hillbrad.github.io/sri-addressable-caching/sri-addre..., for a general discussion of how you can do that (piggybacking on top of subresource integrity), but also the problems of such a scheme in the general case.
haha that's a brilliant idea! Maybe we'll branch out into tiktok soon :)
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We probably get used to whatever font rendering the systems we use the most have.

To me, fonts indeed look blurry on macOS and weird on Windows. Screenshots from Windows with colored pixels particularly don't look good to me. Though after having seen screens of people using Windows 10, it seems they changed whatever I really didn't like about font rendering on Windows.

I still like font rendering on GNU/Linux (and Android) better it is correctly configured, which it is on widespread distributions with widespread desktop environments (I use a QHD screen). But it could be out of habit. On some configurations, kerning is bad though.
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Maybe it is a better way to learn independently, with regular, e.g. monthly or quarterly check-ins with an experienced mentor?

Would solve quite a few problems altogether - people getting more independent and following their interests. You would still have competition, but that would be moderated by actual needs, both in the private and public sector.

Not sure an end to the classic higher-ed system would be a bad thing.
It's my pleasure! Let me get back to you on the license part.

However as a summary you'll be able to use them for personal or commercial use without attribution :)
The third most valuable company on the planet's long term business model has been a "fast way to fall behind", and is not "even attempting to compete with the big dogs"?

Well, they just pantsed Microsoft at their own ARM laptop game (#2 most valuable) and the #1 big dog is, er, Saudi Aramco.
First of all, thank you for taking the time for a rebuttal.

>There is no information about what proportion of the populations actually wore masks

If you had scrolled a bit, you'd have seen the chart linked highlighting compliance rates: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/international/articles-reports/2...
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Is anybody aware of similar reports / plans from financial entities in other countries?

EDIT - I see this particular report was posted on HN and heavily discussed when originally published by BoE:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21289456
Hmmmm >>Japanese officers explained to Odachi and his cohort the plan to use suicide missions and asked for volunteers. They were met with stunned silence.