skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly my point. A high-performance 2D GPU library won't make older hardware unusable – "the right tool for the job" and all that.
It is niche, but it does come up. Usually with boolean parameters, but also on migrations. Makes it possible to change defaults in a controlled way rather easily, since you can very easily log all of the places you used the default.
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> Maybe one day these things will be standard

Many of these things already are standard for EU data subjects.
Of course the credit market is ok with it, they aren't taking on the risk. Shareholders on the other hand are down almost 20%
> Each of the ports on the USB hub will detect the device and deliver its fastest possible charge.

Isn't that how standard USB is supposed to work?
Depends on your use case but yes: https://www.giantbomb.com/api/
could work but we’ll need to condense 50k LOC crud spa into a flowchart without loss of essence. (that’s what i work on). what is your angle? i checked out treenotation.org , is there more? flowchart is graph
Up near the timestamp in the post (right of your username), you have an edit link there for two hours after the initial post.
Ah, Hacker News. The self righteous complex runs deep in this gaggle of busy bodies who have rarely, if ever, seen real hardship or discrimination.
Polyglot: How I Learn Languages [pdf]
> citizens of the USA _want_ to see inhumane prisons because they feel the inmates deserve it

While I think that's true, I also think it's missing another major argument: that prison is a deterrent. I don't know enough to agree or disagree, but it's a big part of the discussion.

My feeling is that Nordic countries can have nice prisons because their social safety net is so strong. Maybe they can argue that being a free, poor person in a Nordic country is still better than being in their prisons.

The same is not true in the US, especially when you consider how harsh our culture is toward people who suffer from drug addiction. Abject poverty is much, much worse than the prisons in this tweet, and we don't have good non-criminal options for people who are both poor and deeply addicted to illegal drugs.

You can imagine a poor person in the US (with or without an addiction) trying to steal from someone's house and ending up shooting someone. If they go to a dangerous, filthy prison, they're probably worse off than when they were free.

If they go to a Nordic-style prison, their lifestyle has actually upgraded quite a lot. My understanding is that the latter option, the Nordic prison, would reduce their likelihood of having to resort to crime in the future.

But the question is how much violent crime is deterred by fear of prison and whether the Nordic style of prisons would instill enough fear.

I think I'm on the side of having nicer prisons, but I don't really know enough about it.
And you can make gdb send program output to a different terminal with the --tty option if you don't want program output to mess up your gdb windows.
"(Women were present) and (children were present)"
The change to The Open University in the UK (to remove subsidy and drive it's fees up to ~2/3 the cost of other universities) has to be one of the worst things that has happened in the UK in he last 10 years. My Dad did an OU degree late in life and it was really important to him, I think that an opportunity - like the one in this story or like the OU - for people to find another direction later in their lives, no matter what their background, is hugely important.
I studied there.Graduaded with £15K debt. While it's highly accessible,the quality of studies is a bit hit and miss tbh..
I could see farm equipment as a great use case for swappable battery packs. There are loaders readily available for lifting them into place and they could be made easy to access as the equipment does not need to be compact.
Are these courses accredited by WES Global Services?

If I completed Masters from this university and apply for Canadian PR, would I be getting extra CRS points for completing Masters from this University?

Thanks beforehand for taking interest in my questions
Relevant: https://www.principles.com/the-changing-world-order/#chapter...
thats right it is a way of stimulating the immune system to action. The problem is that some mistakenly believe that a synthetic adjuvent is required for a vaccine and it is not.
the adjuvent increases the gain so that you can use a faint signal- that means less mRNA has to go into a vaccine that means this expensive little molecule can be used for many more doses instead of one enormous dose of high concentration, as mentioned before if we needed adjuvents for immunity of any sort we would not be here.

the substances you are mentioning are features of live pathogens and are being mimicked by adjuvents.
No, she turned them in which is probably why she is dead now.

Eventually some of them broke out of prison and executed her in the street.
> Bluetooth devices now show their battery status in the power widget. Note that this cutting-edge feature requires the latest versions of the upower and bluez packages.

From the KDE Plasma 5.15 announcement [1].

The support for this in upower and BlueZ landed in 2017 [2] [3].

[1] - https://kde.org/announcements/plasma-5.14.90/

[2] - https://cgit.freedesktop.org/upower/commit/?id=ccb1b0ed96baf...

[3] - https://marc.info/?l=linux-bluetooth&m=150600624229315&w=2
Yeah. If you smoke weed, you deserve what you get.
I'd say all languages work like that, not just English. Your phrasing "too ambiguous" is a little off to me. Ambiguity (in the sense of utterances having multiple possible interpretations) is the norm in natural language, and it combines with our ability to effortlessly pick the intended one based on context to make natural language work.

Even sentences that on their face are strictly propositional will, in actual situated language use, have implied meanings (a pragmatic level). The canonical example is where one person says "It's cold" (at it's core a statement of fact), after which another person closes a window, or hands them a jacket, or follows with "Let's go home, then". If you want to give an account of natural language meaning that's even remotely complete, you cannot stop at what's in the sentence at the surface, you absolutely have to look at why it's being said.

Indeed, if you think of an actual situation where someone would say "do you want to eat pizza or pasta?", I think you'd find that it does, in fact, imply that the two are exclusive in that context - say if you're at a restaurant where they only expect you to order one main course. But this is not a problem at all, it's just how language works.

(And personally, on the subject of logic and language, I'd even go as far as to say that logic is based on natural language rather than the other way around, but I think that might be tough sell to the mathematically minded.)
Linux doesn't suck. The drivers suck. Fix the drivers, fix "Linux".

(Of course the state of Linux drivers plateaued a decade ago, and everyone else says it's just fine, so I'm not really holding my breath).
Indeed, I am very surprised, I also didn’t find the content erotic or pornographic FWIW. I guess this is another news on how American can’t stand their own naked body.
The article answers this. Because further government involvement would slow down the process. E.g.

“To as­sem­ble its mRNA pro­duc­tion net­work, Pfizer used its own money and didn’t take any from the fed­eral gov­ern­ment. Ex­ec­u­tives said they didn’t want to give agen­cies out­side the FDA more lever­age over the de­sign of the tri­als.”

“Ri­val Mod­erna, which took fund­ing from a di­vi­sion of the U.S. De­part­ment of Health and Hu­man Ser­vices, suf­fered a three-week de­lay in com­plet­ing its own mRNA trial af­ter fed­eral of­fi­cials there asked the com­pany to slow down en­roll­ment to boost the racial and eth­nic di­ver­sity of study sub­jects.”
God damn, no good deed goes unpunished. Lesson learned.
Or the bot is trying to transfer you somewhere that isn't properly set up.
If you want lots of machine learning people to work on some data-related scientific problem, just launch a Kaggle competition.

You don't even have to organise an official competition. Just upload your dataset with a related task and sit back.
The uber strategy (speaking of ponzi scheme...).
Many Germans use it over the FernUni, because (a) there are many, many more courses, and (b) you don't need Abitur. The FernUni is a traditional university with traditional limits to access.
Wouldn’t that defeat the purpose?
Java and Javascript. This is the tech stack/need of the vast majority of the software development world. Be good in these two and you can be employable anywhere in the world in most industries.

You will be able to be hired even in the highest paying companies.
Really don't believe you know HN very well. Compared to most popular forums, HN has to have one of the higher rates of self-made/startup employees/entrepreneurs. I don't see how bitcoin and modern liberalism would be at odds, both are pro free market.
> One problem is that the story gives zero information on princess except her blood being barbaric [...] And the only property of wife that matters is her look.

This is the only information you really need.

> They don't have psychology beyond crude stereotypes.

Do you similarly judge a fable by Aesop? Or poetry about human emotions? Have you read Saki's masterful short story, "Sredni Vashtar", and do you similarly dislike it because its characters are not full-fledged?

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice. What information would you need to decide?
Good, good. Reminds me that stealing your https://rubybib.org/ idea for Python is on my todo list for long time ...

Actually, my own ref to the Library of Alexandria, initially done for a word of mouth, is a literal situation in some parts of the realm. Reminds me I wanted to put up a mirror of Rice' Massively Scalar Compiler Project materials somewhere. In my mental map, Cooper and guys literally saved SSA from IBM's freezing hell (quoting Kenneth Zadeck: "What Happened Next / We stopped working on SSA. / None of us actually worked on a compiler project. / We were blocked from transfering SSA to the IBM product compilers.").

Really should do that on winter holidays. By that time, we'll also know if http://ssabook.gforge.inria.fr/latest/ actually have gone down. But at least that is already mirrored...
I started using discord for this. I maintain a private server which just has me and a bot. The bot does everything for me. I'm constantly adding features.
Yes, java would be a mess without overloading (particularly for telescoping args), but that's because it doesn't include other, simpler features that address the same problems. Namely:

- default parameter values

- union types

- names arguments

I would also throw in list and map literals, to do away with something like varargs.

All of these are much simpler, implementation-wise, than method overloading. None would require anywhere near the compiler or bytecode-level support that method overloading does. It just has a very low power to weight ratio, when other langauge features are considered. And, unfortunately, it makes implementing all those other features (useful on their own) extremely difficult.
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Unfortunately the testing was done on healthy people, not the elderly or those with pre existing conditions.
The humanitarian and economic toll has nothing to do with virus itself but more of because of the government response to it. Namely the lockdown.
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People over-leveraging themselves to buy Bitcoin, which anyone with real experience has already moved on from for better designed crypto by the way, is a clear sign that right now we are at peak hype in this space.

This is me speaking as someone who read the white paper on Bitcoin in 2010, and then mined on my GPU for all of 2011-2012 to help build out the network. I have since moved on, as have other practitioners.

The only people that remain on Bitcoin are retail speculators, governments with seized assets, and financial institutions. It’s not a healthy makeup, and extraordinarily toxic to the greater crypto community as a whole in my honest opinion.
What about https://videogamegeek.com/ ?
Is it accredited by WES Global Services?
Hi! I work on Open Library; sorry for the issue! We recently had a big python 3 migration. Chris/Aaron just fixed + tested it, and I just deployed it to production, so it should be working now!

https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/pull/4259
I see your point, thanks for the feedback. :)
You are basically being first choosing the store of value that will be used in the future. That's a risky move if you fail.

Are the rewards desirable? That's an interesting discusion.

Historically, it has allowed humanity to switch to better forms of money: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law
At 130kph, you will spend more of your life driving than at 160kph. If you drive 16k km/yr at speed on motorways, the difference is about 23 hours/yr or 2 months (3 waking months) over your driving lifetime. That’s a different form of life being taken away as well.
Not unusual for commercial trucking, or to satisfy the IRS when you have business writeoffs for mileage.
Random question: why are we saying, "the economic toll of covid," rather than, "the economic toll of the response to covid?" If the lockdowns hadn't happened, more would have died, but presumably the economy would be fine.
Don't buy drugs off the street or promote their use.
The far greater source of complexity is the extra that has resulted from features being analyzed and implemented sequentially. Each one may have been economical in isolation, but as a whole is not. This is why a rewrite often seems so attractive, to analyze the entire known scope and use a smaller set of mechanisms to do the same often allowing for additional changes to fit more easily. Painting yourself in a corner is either short-sightedness (technical/vertical, voluntary/oblivious), a tech-debt choice, something that didn't turn out as well as expected despite efforts for technical reasons or unexpected changes. It also comes from trying too hard, generalizing too early. So there are many reasons, and pragmatically balancing them is something that is given far too little weight.
> After the breakdown of Bretton Woods, the petro-dollar was created by the US being a hegemonic power

This is the petrodollar hypothesis, a debunked theory of global trade.

Oil is globally traded. It can be and is priced in many currencies. Most international trade was historically priced in dollars for two reasons. The second was, until recently, the unique speed and breadth of the Fedwire system.

The first is the American consumer. When Americans buy, we spend dollars. This puts dollars in vendors’ hands. Those dollars can be reused for trade or invested, the latter supporting dollar financial markets. Both support dollar hegemony, which in turn drives its dominance in global trade and finance.

Oil is priced in dollars, and countries borrow in dollars, because dollars reign supreme. Not the other way.

Yes, the U.S. government has taken steps to bolster the U.S. dollar. Including through its Saudi relationship. But that relationship was then about securing energy supplies and is today about that and regional security.
I actually disagree with you. With bonds you are virtually guaranteed to lose value over time as real yields are negative (against inflation). Thats a risk. Getting poor slowly and not keeping up with other rising assets is a threat to wealth even when you might feel safe from low vol. With bitcoin the long term moving average is up despite short term volatility and network effects are quite difficult to overcome. Bitcoin is a good holding if you plan to lock it up for 10 years vs bonds.

It was crazy to think this 5 years ago, now its less crazy, and tomorrow it will be normal. That my thesis and its also why billionaires are pouring in right now. If you asked me to hold a bitcoin vs a bond equivalent for long term the decision is easy for me especially knowing that global debt monetization is essentially a necessity at this point.
Yeah, could have been anything. ;)
One the one hand it's really hard to program well. I think anyone who can solve a sudoku puzzle can learn to program, but only people with freakish skill or determination can learn to program really well.

On the other hand, those folks who can program really well are often what I call "complexity junkies": programming is their sudoku, it's fun and exciting. It helps that you can get paid well to do it.

So you get things like Haskell and Rust.
Why do you need the money upfront? If you move here on a student visa, you are also able to work here and support yourself financially.

Also most fees are payed on a half-year Basis, Students have Access to cheap housing. For example the city I live in (Leipzig) has yearly Uni fees of ~500 EUR, monthly lodging for ~300 EUR. Assuming you work weekends, you can easily earn ~800 EUR per month which gives you enough wiggle room to eat at the Uni canteen (price per meal 2-5 EUR, heavily subsidized by the state). In the study breaks you are able to work more.

Edit: University Leipzig lists [0] the following costs of living on "average" per month:

231 EUR lodging; 140 EUR food; 50 EUR clothing, cosmetics;

45 EUR ISP, mobile, netflix; 50 EUR partying; 35 EUR misc;

30 EUR books & materials; 40 EUR for fees and local transport

=> 621 EUR month

[0]: https://www.leipzig-studieren.de/studium-organisieren/was-ko...
I use my network mostly for experimentation and it is unlikely to be a target for hijack. If I were a commercial enterprise I would want RPKI for the future. Currently it seems mostly irrelevant in a practical sense, due to the small number of ASes actually validating.
Valid points on eating more whole, unprocessed foods.

But shout out to some of the plant-based meats coming to market. My wife and I switched to a 99% vegan diet this year and I’m impressed with how good plant-based meat has gotten. I can hardly tell the difference between plant-based and real meat.
The US justice system is obviously totally broken, but one would do well to remember the absolutely incredible side of the Norwegian sovereign wealth fund.
Theoretically, you can resell the calculator, but not the app.
I think one of the biggest drivers in US prison conditions is cost. The percent of the population that is incarcerated is quite high. This would increase the per tax payer cost to support the system, while also shrinking tax revenue (people in prison generally aren't making money to pay tax on).

I agree that reforms are needed. It would also be great to see a reduction in the incarceration rate by relying on other punitive measures when possible. And that people actual get a speedy trial instead of waiting years. And officers/judges actually following rule of law.

I think the real root issue of all of this is that the majority of people have no idea or experience in how broken to system is. The idea that people deserve it, and even seen that many people don't laws/rights and simply assume someone charged is likely guilty.
That says more about SF, but I think the author would agree.
`position: relative`, and `position: absolute` imo is the source of so many responsive web design CSS bugs

always use flexbox first before position relative
>a private-sector company: SpaceX, the creation of the billionaire Elon Musk... Over the next few years, NASA will pay Musk and SpaceX $2.6 billion to ferry astronauts to and from the space station six times.

Private sector, eh?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/tech/spacex-starlink-subsidie...

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-201...
And interestingly in many places there were excess deaths in the first wave, but not the second. So it is a big question just how many more would have died.
One of the issues is that young people also end up on the IC. If you were to just 'let young people' out and about, hospitals would still be overwhelmed.
I would love a post that focused on alerting - how to structure a scalable alerting system that avoids alert fatigue. How to handle errors that only matter if they happen often in a small window but also could matter even if they happen infrequently.
> Their entire business model is built on nearly complete automation and no human in the loop customer service interaction.

Same as the Google model then? ;)
How much of the wealth fund is spent on incarceration?
Sure, ivy leauge etc gives you the best contact networks, and this is probably what distinguishes it most from the non ivies that still offer good education, but even your non-ivy-leauge peers go end up having careers, and can open doors for you. Indeed you can also hang out at meetups but I feel like you'll have a harder time.
Sentencing in Nordic countries is also much less than what you would expect for a similar crime in the US, there is no death penalty and the prison system is focused on reforming inmates and getting them back into society. Basically the exact opposite of the United States prison system.
They were pretty smart about it. The guy leading project warp speed knew all the new vaccine platforms and funded 2 companies for each approach. I don’t think you could’ve gotten things much faster than this. Big pharma wants to cover their tail because a serious side effect would tarnish their - and vaccines reputation for decades and cause existential lawsuits.

Moncef Slaoui is the guy in charge. He also mentions how they filter out candidates - for example ones needing an exotic ingredient that would make scaling manufacturing too hard. Check out his interview on Steven Levitts new podcast.

It’s pretty incredible the mRNA vaccine candidate was created only a few days after China released the genetic data of the virus.
That may be an excellent argument for what I ought to want, but I am reporting what I actually do want.
Hi! I work on Open Library. Yep, Open Library has public APIs, and data dumps (updated monthly) of all our books/authors if anyone needs them.

https://openlibrary.org/developers/dumps

The project is also open source, and you can find the code (and contribute!) on GitHub: https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary
I don't doubt the author's point that the offering the company a loan for this foray is a good deal.

Does anyone with a good amount of knowledge in the field think there is an actual basis for assuming Bitcoin is worthy of someone calling $1M per coin? Last I heard bitcoin was not technically able to be used as a payment processor subsitutes. My impression then is the whole affair is a bit of a playing-chicken racket.
Duplicate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25406211
> disparaging comments about the dragon book

How's that possible? It's a "keep it under your pillow" book. Whether you read it or not is a different question. I don't know anyone in the 'hood who wouldn't have.
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That doesn't work in reality because for any large, complex piece of software it's impossible to rediscover all of the requirements. There are always hidden requirements which were never properly documented but somehow ended up as code in the legacy system.
I don't know what markets exist for bitcoin, as I'm not that interested, but for other assets there are shorting, transaction fees, arbitrage, and a whole batch of derivatives.
> It's interesting there wasn't direct economic injection from governments.

I didn't read the article, but I don't believe this is true. The vaccine is ultimately not Pfizer's but BioNTech's, and the German government gave them $445 million to develop it.
Here in Sweden almost everyone I've talked with said they would consider taking the vaccine, but that they wouldn't be first in line.

It worries me that so many seem so hesitant towards vaccine and I'll gladly stand first in line, but we're rightly prioritizing the elderly and their caretakers.