skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I am particularly worried about a proprietary solution. If I am putting my preferences in the public, pretty sure I am giving up on some dimension of privacy. With books at least, it doesn't seem so concerning as long as the recommendations don't suck too much (I don't particularly rely on recommendations that much though). But of course, you never know!
The point being that there is a trade-off to be made between paying for an OS instance and having certainty of support, versus community distros with no upfront sticker price but might cost more in man-hours when things fall apart.

Anything run-the-business should have support. Anything used by developers for R&D / messing about can be unsupported.
Graduating from an american university gives you an american network. This can become quite useful later in life if you want to spend your career in america. Building the network later on is still possible but harder.
Sure: https://gist.github.com/jiva/954a22bafcafec2d594b5c3454a10b0...
This is repeatedly the case: Xerox and the graphical computer environment, Kodak and the digital camera, and other exemples Aaron Brown has that I forget.

Often because "that's not the business we're in". Kodak was a photographic film company, not a photography company.
Can it run Docker?
Ironic username
Because of authoritarians that hate freedom of expression. Death to tyrants.
And in some cases the last author doesn't even read or understand what is in the paper... (Seen that first hand)
I've given my rationale. Calling it evidence-free when there are thousands of examples where it works and almost everytime there is government involvement it happens to be a mess. So piss off with you patronising response.
I consume media the sane way as OP, here are my answers:

1. Being able to hold conversations with people from all political persuasions (eg. Knowing how to reach agreement on things and knowing what pushes their buttons)
2. Entertainment
Why do people buy Apple products on mass then?
Authy seems great for this.
I think you meant to post that here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25406467
It's interesting there wasn't direct economic injection from governments.

Both the humanitarian and economic toll of COVID is off the charts. 20% contraction in the economy, is like 4 Trillion in GDP loss for the US alone, maybe 20 Trillion for the world.

And that's just the money, not the human loss.

Given that, I don't get why nations didn't give them basically blank cheques, enabled the socialization/commandeering of factories and equipment, 5-10% of the Armed Forces for whatever needs etc..

Literally every drug company can 'report their assets' to the COVID task force and they will get deployed as needed. The companies will be happy to do that because they'll earn 3-10x return on those assets otherwise anyhow.

That seems a little dramatic but it's basically nothing compared to the damage COVID is causing.

Also: they didn't go into the actual manufacturing details to much, sadly.

Edit: also interesting would be the sunk cost / opportunity cost calculation on ramping up production of untested vaccines.

If opportunity cost didn't factor in i.e. if ramping up one vaccine didn't come at the cost of another, my bet is that it would have been worth any price.

If the US had spent $2B on ramping up every vaccine candidate before they were approved, and only 1 out of 10 came through, costing $20B for the first massive batch and accelerating subsequent batches, instead of merely $2B - would it have been worth it?

$200 a dose instead of $20 dose?

The math would say it's way beyond worth it. There's a case for 'prepping' every single vaccine candidate to the extent it's possible and even starting to manufacture in quantities way ahead of time.

This financial calculus doesn't work in the context of Pfizer - it doesn't make sense for them - however it absolutely does in the bigger picture.

A 'remedy' for this could have been to offer Pfizer massively increased price per dose for earlier delivery, in which case it would have made sense for the to spend $20B instead of $2, or simply some kind of national 'blank cheque' intervention. The former concept is neat but would be hard to nail down, the later is probably more workable.

Given that vaccine manufacture is 1/2 the equation, not just the R&D, I hope the 'after action reports' will put this in context.
In this case it's a positive cultural stereotype not a racial one.
I came across a copy of QuickPascal for $19.99 from Surplus Software and used that for a while because my version of Turbo Pascal was old (2.0) and am the current one was $69.99, a lot of money since I was just a kid.
Taking advantage of Python's concurrent futures to full saturate your bandwidth
I would say that in every case there is a set of things (maybe with a single member) and a set of predicates (maybe with a single member), a mapping from the things to the predicates, and every mapping produces a true proposition.

"Women and children were present" isn't saying the intersection of the women and children were present but that the things were women and children and they all were present.

The rest of the variety of "meanings" of "and" are just inferences on top of this basic meaning. If things occur in sequence, for instance, we can infer causality from what we know about the things conjoined apart from the conjunction.

Crucially, there is more here than just "joining multiple clauses together" (and many of the things conjoined aren't clauses), because "or" can be described this way too, but "and" does not mean the same thing as "or". With "or" you are only asserting that some of the propositions are true.
Just showing that testing on humans (for the level of safety desired) and physical delivery (the way humans like it to be done) are harder problems than developing even a new vaccine. To be honest, if these two were as malleable an objective as the development (usually R&D is easier to speed up) by allowing mass inoculation (rather than individually shipped vials) or reduced safety/efficacy then they could be sped up too.

And of course, if the govt (leaders) was competent there wouldn't have been 300k lives lost, and arguably economic damage could have been minimized as well. I'd argue that's a goal post that moves independent of delivery time.
Yes. It is raw data.

I believe Massachusetts comes as close to capturing 100% of infections as anyone at this point, although that wasn't always the case. There is a lot of test infrastructure.

CFR can overestimate or underestimate IFR. In most past pandemics, CFR significantly UNDERestimated IFR during the pandemic, because the raw numbers include a lot of people who are sick, but haven't died YET.

There is a tendency to take CFR, apply very liberal corrections, sometimes multiple times, and get artificially low IFR numbers. Those aren't really plausible, even looking at scenarios where we could catalog all cases (e.g. the cruises had an IFR just over 2%, with state-of-the-art medical).

My general impression, looking at data, is that the IFR was around 3-ish percent early on, and got better, potentially due to mutations making the virus less fatal, lower initial viral loads due to precautions, and/or better treatment.
OpenBSD devs imply they don't have to follow their own policies
You're going to leave security, data integrity and privacy compliance up to random unaccountable anonymous strangers on the Internet who self-host?

You're going to trust them to have proper backups, proper disaster recovery, proper resiliency and scalability?

What you're describing works for small-time stuff like blogs, personal projects or other inconsequential things, but anything at the scale of Goodreads, where users are trusting years of data to someone just can't be hosted by random people.

I'm not saying I have the answer but "people should self-host this kind of thing on their Internet connections" is not it.
TL;DR: Paypal owes me $200.

Yeah I got a letter from the State Comptroller about an old account that paypal locked me out of and wouldn't re-activate (I jumped through all their hoops but they never replied) saying "call this (paypal) number to get your money or they'll give it to us (the state.)"

So I call the number and the person says "check or paypal balance?" and I choose check because of course I've been locked out of the account for years. So she says "Okay, we'll mail you a check."

And that's the last I ever heard about it. I figure they kept it. I could follow up with the comptroller's office, but it's already more than my time is worth, so I just complain about it in public, like this, from time to time.
You need the money upfront. Admissions requirements will be harder to meet. Teaching quality may be lower, leading to less retention and lower grades.

The first is the real killer. You can't use financial aid. You could maybe use a private loan, but I am not aware of anyone giving those out for foreign schooling.
I'm taking about in use, mainly. Python, as an example, really screws it up by not giving you a way to know if you have the default or a value that equals it. Then, the more default values you pile in, the more this fun facet piles up.

So, if you skip on that part of it, and you can while still getting far, it is easier. With it, though, is stupid complicated for little benefit.
I hope millions of people die from this vaccine.
> Vocabulary is the least important part of learning a language.

This is the first heading I read and it’s good the author write it upfront because I know his page is total bullshit.

Vocabulary is the most important thing in language learning since even without any grammar you can get basic communication done ("I hungry, please pizza"), while you can master all the grammar of a language you won’t go far without vocabulary.

Also while it’s good to give an opinion on the internet, it’s better to look at the half century of research in the field, starting by Nation book(s).
> Another vector, more dangerous for senior developers, is thinking that abstraction will necessarily work when dealing with complexity.

I'm pretty good at fighting off features that add too much complexity, but the abstraction trap has gotten me more than once. Usually, a moderate amount of abstraction works great. I've even done well with some really clever abstractions.

Abstraction can be seductive, because it can have a big payoff in reducing complexity. So it's often hard to draw the line, particularly when working in a language with a type of abstraction I've not worked much with before.

Often the danger point comes when you understand how to use an abstraction competently, but you don't yet have the experience needed to be an expert at it.
> no intrinsic value.

You say this as if silver has "intrinsic" value. It (and gold) have no intrinsic value to humans I would argue, and are simply assigned arbitrary psychological value. They could have industrial or even aesthetic uses, but those are culturally defined and not something innate to the material.

IMHO the only things with "intrinsic" value for humans are air, shelter (especially against 'extreme' temperatures), water, and food.
So you object to people speeding illegally, yet you have no problem with using your lights to illegally distract other drivers? How curious!
"rotary ventilator"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-498

The lineage ends up at a lot of the IEEE / ISO standards in use today for more formal systems and software development.
My professor at the University used to let me use an HP Prime emulator on my laptop for tests, and to some of my peers, they would be allowed to use HP Prime emulators on their phones, it's really difficult to cheat on the kinds of tests where you need these calculators, you can't simply copy your classmate's answer and be done with it, you need procedure to back that up.

And it was $15 the emulator app by hp was worth vs $150 for the actual calculator, and I would never use that calculator again in my life, since in real life no one is limiting my access to my computer, which does everything the HP Prime does and more. I thank my professor for that opportunity
Author here, if you have any questions or some feedback I'll appreciate!
I think you're missing the point. These messages are meaningless because they're robbed of any context or compassion. I won't feel wonderful and loved because a random string generator on a GitHub readme page tells me so.

If you tell me "I like your shoes", it will brighten my week. If I see you walking from person to person, telling every single one of them that you like their shoes, it won't feel like much of a compliment. It's not nice nor thoughtful. It's just noise.

You have the right spirit for trying to make the world a little brighter, but I don't think mass-producing generic compliments is the way to go.
Bypass paywall: https://archive.is/Lpz4N
> Certainly a problem, but the time you’d need to spend convincing higher ups is still trivial compared to the time you’d need to spend to build, maintain, and update the tool.

The amount of bureaucracy at large companies cannot be overstated, especially when technology is a cost or auxiliary to the core business.

I’ve run into this twice in my 24 year (!! good god, am I that old??) career.

The worst was during a several month consulting gig for an investment bank, and it was extremely painful.

Every change to the dev and uat environments required sign-off and approval, from sys admins who were in a different timezone.

If the changes had cost implications, it would have been far worse.
“I Made a Covid-19 Vaccine in My Kitchen and It Worked – Science Still Sucks”
Interestingly they also tell the person asking about it to not be rude which they don't seem to be, and the original email has a quote from an OpenBSD dev that is much worse.

They also did what was expected and try to hand wave it away for unknown reasons. Like when they wouldn't update the count of remote vulns on their home page due to made up reasons. Potentially to save their rep.
If your hands are shaking you might be doing yourself harm by being so invested. Try to imagine how you would feel if it crashed 50%. If devastated is your answer, why not scale back a bit? If you scaled back and Bitcoin came to rule the financial world you would still be in a very good position.

I know a friend who got so excited and put a large, large amount in BTC. Bought quite a few. It crashed and he sold. Probably at the bottom — didn’t ask. Later when it rebounded and he bought 1 BTC. He could have saved a lot of money if he just bought 1 from the start. What stopped him? He never sincerely considered what his reaction would be if it crashed and then rebounded. Don’t be like this guy.
Effectively, event-driven programming puts the task of sorting out process scheduling into the hands of the developer, rather than the OS, which would otherwise have to guess at the best scheduling approach. Yes, there are also speed advantages from losing the context switch overhead, but fundamentally, I believe it is the programmer-controlled scheduling that makes event driven apps faster, all other things being held equal.
"Pfizer couldn’t meet every target set by its chief executive. Mr. Bourla wanted the vaccine done by October and as many as 100 million doses by year’s close, enough for 50 million people. Instead about half that will be produced."

It'll be very interesting to see just how many people will take the vaccine over the next 6 months or so. I just had two nurses tell me that they will NOT be taking the vaccine, they are too scared of it. Based on what other folks have said, I'm guessing the number is going to be much lower than hoped. I am really hoping I'm wrong. It doesn't worry me at all.
>Fact is that people drive that speed regularly on German autobahns without any widespread carnage.

Germany has quite a high rate of road traffic deaths compared to other European countries.
PayPal is one of the worst places you can open an account on the entire Internet.
If we didn’t waste so much time in dealing with politics and formal gossiping we’d would be living in the future.
> Anybody can have an accident at any speed that could lead to a fatality

Sure, but do you really think the risk of having an accident, and if so, the risk of it resulting in a fatality, has no relationship to the speed involved?

We accept that virtually every activity carries some risk, but we also choose (as a society, whether you as an individual agree or not) to set some rules to help limit the level of that risk.
Same here, the only thing hate is the ear cushion. I had to replace it 2 times already
Which powerful language do you use that can't be understood by the IDEs. Don't you think that if your compiler can understand it, the IDE can too? :)
Within a problem space, there are two kinds of complexity: inherent complexity, and accidental complexity. This article is about accidental complexity.

There is, as far as I can tell, and enormous amount of accidental complexity in software. Far more than there is inherent complexity. From my personal experience, this largely arises when no time has been taken to fully understand the problem space, and the first potential solution is the one used.

In that case, the solution will be discovered as partially deficient in some manner, and more code will simply be tacked on to address the newfound shortcomings. I'm not referring here to later expansion of the feature set or addressing corner cases, either. I'm referring to code that was not constructed to appropriately model the desired behavior and thus instances of branching logic must be embedded within the system all over the place, or perhaps some class hierarchy is injected, and reflection is used in a attempt to make make the poor design decisions function.

I don't think adding features makes software more complex, unless those features are somehow non-systemic; that is, there is no way to add them into the existing representation of available behaviors. Perhaps an example would be a set of workflows a user can navigate, and adding a new workflow simply entails the construction of that workflow and making it available via the addition to some list. That would be a systemic feature. On the other hand if the entirety of the behaviors embedded within the workflow were instead presented as commands or buttons or various options that needed to be scattered throughout the application, that would be a non-systemic addition, and introduce accidental complexity.
Sometimes those opposite perspectives really are threatening, though.
This is correct. The technical word linguists use for the role words like "and" play is coordination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordination_(linguistics)
It's funny you should say that, because to me FPC feels very slow. Delphi got me spoiled. Especially the older versions build (quite literally) in a blink.
What's something they would have done in the normal process that they skipped?
As others have already noted, vocabulary is the most important aspect with regards to learning a language to a good-enough extent; that is, with regards to making oneself capable of constructing sentences (as non-grammatical as they may be, or as unconventional as they may sound to a native or to a fluent individual, in spite of being deemed "technically correct") that can be understood by other people competent in a given language.

However, vocabulary acquisition shouldn't be constrained to the typical or more salient nouns and adjectives. It is absolutely crucial to acquaint oneself with discourse markers (adverbs, prepositional phrases, etcetera), conjunctions, auxiliary verbs, and other less markedly semantic and more functional elements. The main goal throughout the entire process should be becoming capable of producing intelligible sentences right off the bat about anything that crosses one's mind, without many hiccups. Of course, grammar, phonetics, and phonology must be taken into account as well, and a good grounding on their mechanisms is indispensable for anyone that aims to be proficient.

I'm writing a manual on language learning right now, and I've spent a very long time thinking and testing many different hypotheses and methods I've come up with through the years. It's quite an interesting topic, but I reckon many of the considerations that would make one proficient in learning languages can also be applied to any other learning process (learning to code, learning to play a musical instrument...), so it is probable that adopting a more general perspective would be beneficial.
Or print out the QR codes and keep them in a safe place.
I suppose not needing many facilities nor (I think) research output means you gain a lot of efficiency.
Unless you count obesity and diabetes, the public is not noticeably inconvenienced by the cookie supply chain, because it pretty much just works. So it's hard to find examples of Cookie Technology Failure Modes with serious consequences.

There's a huge difference between "hard to use" and "prone to failure."

Software is often hard to use, but it's also extremely prone to not working.

This is not true of airliners [1], cars, large buildings, large ships, and commodity rocket launch platforms - as well as global supply chains of all kinds.

[1] Unless there's software involved.
Anyone know of a project like this for video games? I got a spreadsheet I use to organize games I’ve played/am going to play and always looking for an easier way to get metadata. I was also looking at building something like Goodreads for video games and similarly that data would have been great.
What is wrong with a yes response to "do you want to eat pizza or pasta?" with yes implying that one would be willing to eat either rather than requiring an exclusive preference that could be asked with "either" before pizza? Similarly with the boy or girl question, "no" may be stillborn.
Doesn't the article say they will buy low and sell high? Great safe plan.. as long as central banks don't start regulating it, realize they can't, then do everything in their power to tear it down.
> on Reddit I was simultaneously subbed to /r/The_Donald, /r/politics, /r/ChapoTrapHouse, /r/Libertarian, etc

Maybe you were just enjoying reading shitposts? Nothing wrong with that, everyone has their version of tabloids they enjoy, but these are mostly barely thought through hot takes posted to get a reaction (and surfaced because they were successful at it). There's no reason to think their intersection is going to be anywhere near something "true" (let alone usefully true).
Well it’s pretty clear that nicer prison cells don’t encourage recidivism when you look at the statistics. So basically it comes down to social drives/desires...

The will of the people has spoken and citizens of the USA _want_ to see inhumane prisons because they feel the inmates deserve it. I don’t even say that while standing on terribly high ground... Australian prisons are much closer to American ones than Norwegian ones... especially for non-white inmates.

TLDR... Shits fucked and the thing I want most from the whole BLM 2020 protest movement is meaningful prison reform. Because it’s a long path to social reconciliation and meaningful integration... but it’s not anywhere near as long a road to prison reform.
Forgive me for not pitying the poor conservative, who has controlled the legislature for a decade, the White House for a term, and the Supreme Court for decades to come.

McCarthyism has little bearing on current political realities other than a passing resemblance.
That's pretty awesome! Did you write it up anywhere?
Check the laws in your local area first. Intentionally dazzling other drivers may be illegal and can carry a much higher fine (sometimes 10x more) than speeding, depending on country.
You might wish to review their Privacy policy, which inspires more confidence than Goodreads:

https://www.librarything.com/privacy

The site's also been around since 2005, so, that speaks well to both its longevity and its integrity. Of course, that's not to say they couldn't be acquired tomorrow and paywalled, but I think it unlikely.