skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My suspicion is that these events directly contributed very little overall. However, they normalized non-compliance and increased the number of people who don't wear masks as a point of resistance.
You don't need to change the statement much to make it unequivocally true: just change "computers" to "desktop computers".
Grim. London sounds like it’s heading for the same unfortunately
You have an uphill battle to convince me that prison labor is in any way voluntary—to me, that implies access to a fair job market.
This is fundamentals course, so you understand how DirectX or OpenGL work under the hood for example. That's how games in the 90's were written. If you are into oldschool graphics then it's a cool course. He has also raycasting courses and Atari graphics.
This sounds like an auditory processing disorder. I have delayed understanding of words when I'm really exhausted, wrung out or sick. It's not a hearing issue. It's a brain issue, basically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder
How China Won 2020
I think the above is using "meaningful" to refer to "falsifiable". The fact that string theory is so much more advanced theoretically and still doesn't make any falsifiable predictions makes me less optimistic about it than less mature theories like LQG, which (according to some experts) already seems closer to making falsifiable claims.
The issue is that you don't know whether you're going to be in the "recovered" group before you get COVID (which is why the vaccine is preferable, you get good immunity without the pesky dying).
I find that your comment challenges my preconceived notions about the benefits of socialized medicine, so I too must conclude that you are lying for some obscure (but no doubt dastardly) reason.
One of my favourite features of Citymapper when I lived in London was how they would let you filter routes by trains that had air conditioning for the complete hideousness that was summer 2019. Another interesting one I noticed was that they would increase the size of the "navigate home" button after a certain time of day.
Agreed. I should have avoided this thread altogether.
Wasn't aware that adverts are kosher on this site.
> would roughly translate to "reality".

Objective reality includes negotiated sapient constructs like morality, money, ownership, and hierarchies. They're tools. Tools are real.

You might be thinking of Nihilistic Materialism, or something like that which thinks that material objects are the only reality.

Babies also display moral intuitions.

https://www.cnn.com/2014/02/12/us/baby-lab-morals-ac360/inde...
The area is actually full of ice caves and native sites that Google will send you on those dirt roads to get to. Also, regardless of what preparations people ought to do, there's going to people who rely solely on one method without backups. It should be robust to that.
I guess physics is crystal clear on how to calculate the energy, but is surprising to me these robots need a heavy backpack of batteries that need to be recharged pretty often to dance and we just need a bowl of oat meal and a piece of pizza to move the same weight and also process way more information
Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dies of Covid-19 at 41
Google Maps is great at public transport directions: it seems to aggregate a lot of data and getting ridiculously good at estimations.

For road trips or hiking in sparsely populated areas, though, it’s treacherous to rely on automated routes. They make a path seem more reliable and well-known than it is.

A fairly straightforward and generalizable way of implementing a fix to issues like this could be by adding probability estimates and corresponding warnings to suggested routes. A long hike/ride through not-so-well-trodden path with scant data accumulated? Mark it, visibly.
Anti-maskers made masks political. Even people who aren't anti-mask themselves can be surrounded by a political atmosphere where wearing a mask can be construed as a political message.

Also, people can get demoralized in their personal efforts when they see mask wearing as a "divisive" thing that is a matter of opinion, and when they see other people, especially public leaders not wearing masks themselves.
Unclear. We’re not sure how dangerous the new strain that popped up in London is. Often viruses tend to get less lethal as they get more infectious, like the common cold. Certainly I’d still advise caution, but London might not be in terrible shape yet.
No problem.

Defining success can be hard. Do you at least know if success is related to profitability, valuation, and/or target industry? For example, I know success for me is if the startup is profitable regardless of funding but needs to be in an industry that I don't find distasteful. For example, I would find it distasteful if I was making profit from selling payday loans.

By the way, what do you mean by the company must be able to fend for itself? Does that mean the startup has to have a patent or is addressing a market problem in an industry with high barriers of entry (government, defense, healthcare, etc) before you join as a co-founder?

In any case, you could include within your framework any of the below ideas:

>Interest in the startup idea

>Type of co-founder

>Amicability of the co-founder
The Zimaboard seems interesting. I don’t have the patience though so went with a nanopi r4s for now
Maybe I would have. We were trading interest rate and foreign exchange derivatives in 2006. 2008 / 2009 would have been very volatile. We were generally long volatility, but sometimes we had some legs on some trades that would make significant losses in extreme volatility. It's hard to say. It's possible our 4-person desk could have made 100 million and my boss would have thrown a few my way. It's also possible the desk would have folded.

I still think I made the right choice by leaving. You have to live your life, and unless you really love your job, 80+ hours per week in the office is not living your life.

Also, I left that macro quant job by calling up Google and asking if they'd re-open the job offer I turned down 4 months earlier. It certainly helped that I had good backup jobs available.
It seems that it's a matter of interpretation. I thought (but I could be wrong) that the supreme court decided that donating money is "speech" and therefore protected. I'm not saying that I agree or disagree with that, just that the supreme court seems to have already weighed in on the matter.
I think we're agreed on the definition of neuroplasticity, just not that it defines you somehow. It's like saying "you are what you eat", which is mostly nonsensical.

Exercising your brain causes structural changes, whereby neuronal circuity is "rewired" to create more optimal paths. Stroke victim recovery is functional, in which parts of the brain take over responsibilities for what was damaged (but it's not "transferred", you still need to learn it all over again).

Neither, however, somehow magically define you as a person just because your brain decided some optimizations would help with repetitive tasks or worst-case decided cortical remapping was necessary to recover from injury.
The 3D stuff in Handmade Hero is mostly platform agnostic. Casey explains 3d graphics from fundamentals and even implements a software renderer before the OpenGL backend is added. There's actually quite a bit of CPU rasterizing in HH.
It gives me hope that there must still be some breakthrough in energy density waiting to be discovered that will eventually allow robots and devices the same energy efficiency as humans.
I think part of the quantitative push comes from a shift in society.

Nowadays we have a meritocratic expectations and want to give equal opportunity to all, our cultural ideal of governance is democracy etc. It this framework a big thing to avoid and a big source of angst is that people will take these tax paid jobs and do jack shit and just sit around having fun. We want to avoid that, and replace any lazy non working people with people who will do it better.

For this we need some accountability. To see that papers get written and not only that, but they are also having an impact on other research (citations). What else can you do? You can have time sheets of working hours or computer software that tracks usage to see if someone just watches YouTube or reads the news at work... I mean, sure you could base it on common sense and talking with the researchers, but that's almost like asking them to write a report, but then why not publish the underlying work as well if it was good work?

Earlier however, science was more like a hobby and the background system was various forms of feudalism. Many scientists were rich noblemen who had the wealth to pursue their interests. If nothing came of it, they were still well fed and had nobody to report to. Or it was enough to have a patron who liked work enough that he fed the scientist. Or the it happened within the church with some theological justification/disguise, but that wasn't democratic either.

Since we now conceptualize power bottom up, from the masses to the intellectuals and not top down from the monarch/God to noblemen/intellectuals to the masses, we need a system to justify funding decisions to the people. And the easiest way is to point to papers and awards and experiments and machines etc.

In a way the old aristocratic system perhaps gave more freedom to a small number of scientists, today we have tons of scientists who all need to follow quite a rigid path.

I guess there was a time in-between, till the seventies or eighties maybe, when things were pseudo aristocratic with relatively few scientists with lots of freedom to do whatever the hell they please, including just reading newspapers or books all day long if they so decided.

I think our collective conscience is catching up and demands objective accountability to things are working in a just manner.
I was not trying to sell his course when I submitted it. He actually has some free interesting courses if you don't want to pay the outrageous 19$
Factor out CA, and the US is doing fairly well.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#cases_casesper100k...

All those measures that CA took that were lauded - they don't seem to be working as expected. The per capita rate in all other states is better, with only TN and AZ approaching CAs levels.
> Much of the language is used inaccurately, something I'm very guilty of, so it is hard to assess what change people are hoping to achieve.

This is very well said, and I think there's an awful lot of public perception manipulation by entrenched interests that's contributing to that.
This website is so annoying with that autoplay video that keeps following me around the page
In the absence of studies, you could look at different cultures to see whether this holds up. For example, in most European countries, levels of violence are very low, and the likelihood/desire for an average person to own a weapon is also low (aside from hunters/the Swiss). Compare this to the US where violence is comparatively more common and gun ownership is high.

Do Europeans consume large amounts of violent media? As a European, I can tell you the answer is yes. I don't know how much compared to the US, but I basically grew up on violent video games and I have a large number of friends who love horror films that depict far, far worse than anything in a game I ever played. I suspect the media we consume is pretty similar to the media in the US. And yet, less violence. So, an obvious hypothesis is that the tendency to enact violence comes from elsewhere in culture than media.

The best suggestion I've come across is from Pinker's History of Violence book. He suggests that levels of violence correlate with an "honor culture" - as in, godfather style "you disrespected my mother now I gotta kill your brother", to varying degrees. In the US, especially ex-confederate states, an honor culture still persists, while in Europe and northern US states we have progessed to a "law and order" culture with correspondingly lower levels of violence. If you're interested in this topic, I highly recommend reading the book. It gives a much better description of this topic than I can here, and once you've spent some time thinking about it, hopefully, you'll come to recognize that blaming media for violence is shallow thinking. Communities and culture cause violence, or prevent it. Media is just fantasy.
To be fair, Handmade Hero is for a complete game with sound, effects, input, etc. This course looks to be focused on a realtime software renderer with the ability to read/write geometry and textures. HH is also a bit overwhelming.

I think what specific tutorial might go for depends on that individual's background and goals. I know a bunch of people who work in games/vfx who use tools like Maya/Houdini every day. They don't need a lot of help learning 3d concepts, but are interested to see the pros/cons of different implementations. They aren't always interested in realtime or optimizations. Here are the free resources that normally come up:

https://www.scratchapixel.com/ -- Learn Computer Graphics From Scratch!

https://raytracing.github.io/ -- Ray Tracing in One Weekend book series

https://github.com/ssloy/tinyrenderer/wiki -- tinyrenderer, tinyraycaster, tinyraytracer

http://www.pbr-book.org/ -- Physically Based Rendering 3rd edition full text. It looks like a 4th edition will be published in a few months.

https://learnopengl.com/ -- For learning modern OpenGL
In the current version, 1.1.4, if your package has optional dependencies (AKA "extras"), the generated package metadata is incompatible with setuptools (specifically the packaging package, which can't parse the requirement specs generated by poetry), so I've had to stick with 1.0 for now.

I've encountered a few issues like this since I started using poetry 0.12.
Golang, .Net, and BEM all use preemptive scheduling IIRC. Don't know the specifics of each implementation, but you can use timers to signal the process and "wake" the scheduler.
Most all of it was preventable, which is crazy making.
To be fair, other than the title, I don’t think it’s written in a clickbait style.

I’m not bombarded with ads and they aren’t doing the thing where you get one page per list item. And several people have found certain libraries useful.
Absolutely off-topic, but can somebody advise on the best resource to learn the most up-to-date Python for somebody who is mentally stuck on Python 2.7-3.2? I always referred to Python when I needed to quickly write some tool for personal use, but never professionally, even though I am a professional programmer. And recently while writing something like this I was struck with how bad my Python actually is in 2020, compared to how other languages I know currently look. Quick lookup shows that it seemingly has pretty powerful typehints system now, but I never used it. I have no idea, which parts of standard library you aren't supposed to actually use anymore, and use some well-established 3rd part library instead (like it was with requests). And stuff like that. And is it even a good idea, to finally switch to the newest versions of Python and to never look back?

So, basically, what's the best way to catch up?
>> The US doesn't need to be perfect before US citizens can decry Religious Slave Labor Camps in China

> Oh, yes, it does. Surely not perfect, but much better, or at least not as bad.

The country that was founded on the principal of religious freedom, by people that fled religious persecution, and felt so strongly as to list religious freedom as item number one in their list of human rights, does not need to be "much better" to call out religious slave labor camps.
I think the near eradication of multiple devastating diseases like polio, smallpox, and the measles is evidence that vaccination works and reduces spread.
Google tracks all Android phones all the time, they should be able to see that no one uses that road, they just don't care.
Haven't the companies producing them been studying things like stability?

You say 'there's no way to know how large, how stable, or how aggregated these particles are or what any of that means', but they have been working with them for years.

Of course they could be lying or hiding information, but it seems like researching them is a way to know things about them.
I have a nit to pick with the title.

The intentional wrong tense makes it seem more immediate (and thus perhaps more urgent and interesting).

Ammonites have not gone. They went a long time ago. Where did they all go?
They're way past Ma Bell. After all Ma Bell is back, all the Baby Bells merged back together to re-form "The New AT&T." What changed is our tolerance for monopoly.
I assume there is a business opportunity here.
Not to sound grim, but I now wonder if it would have been best to let things be. Of course inform the public, but enforce no action. Would/could it have led to a huge overwhelming initial spike that has died down months ago? It feels now that we've been in various states of lock down for a year and reached the same result, unfortunately.
And yet, azure and office 365 were both created under Ballmer.
Pedro Domingos uses fake Twitter accounts to astroturf support of his own viewpoints. Anything he does, regardless of academic merit, is a fucking joke.
You might find this story from a couple of years ago interesting:

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/school-lunch...
We manage to imprison 4x as many people per capita compared to China.

Think of every bad thing you think and have been told about the big bad CCP and then think that we manage to imprison at 4x their rate. What does that make us?
I made it through step 4; could you speak more to the fifth step in your progression and how you really been picking up those advanced skills?
Isn't that because it's easier to transmit when the host doesn't die. Like a survival of the fittest thing. Covid isn't deadly enough to stop transmissions
Rich is a really nice library. Glad to see it here.
That depends. A long-running function is usually just a semantically long running function which consists of multiple (usually suspendable) parts. Of course there are exceptions, such as long running cpu heavy calculations for which a single atomic call takes longer than just milliseconds. But I think this is rather rare.

And for just semantically long running functions, it is not difficult to write a scheduler that tries to be "fair", however you want to interpret that. But of course it requires to fully embrace asynchronous programming, something that will probably difficult in Ruby.
The problem is, every few weeks there's a new "well, if you ignore this state, the US is doing really well" story.

CA is still only 34th/50 per capita in infections and 40th/50 per capita in deaths.

We can't exclude outliers and expect to get a useful dataset. Especially when those outliers change all the time, and exhibit the same patterns as each other.
Unless you've got an academic study with a clinical trial of two sets of populations one with natural antibodies, one with vaccination, and perhaps a third without it, you don't know and NYT doesn't know. The vaccine was rushed, showed maybe a 90% efficacy. There's not evidence of widespread Covid relapses after natural immunity is achieved. There's also literally no long term data on this vaccine, because it's brand new.
That's why I said "the biggest problem is blind trust in the system."
Intro to Certified Softness Measurement
I don't know, the other side of that argument is imagine how much worse it could have been if we'd done nothing.
That URL gave me nightmares
The problem is in the US hospitals get overloaded quite easily. Our healthcare is not as robust as Sweden's, so that option hasn't been able to be on the table.

Keep in mind the surge we are seeing right now is from Thanksgiving. It is most likely going to get worse.
By the way each proposition is unpacked in the voter guide mailed out each year, it just sounds like the legislature is passing the buck to the voter when each prop says "placed on the ballot by the legislature" or something along those lines.

I thought that was why we voted the folks into office? Not just to collect a check because they won a popularity contest and meme'd on Facebook hard enough.
A few very notable politicians didn’t exactly set good examples...
Referring to Dario Amodei, VP of research and a lead for the GPT-3 project:

“He and a handful of OpenAI colleagues are planning a new project, which they tell us will probably focus less on product development and more on research.”
The videos are free. $15 gives you access to the source code and some extras like the art files. You can easily produce the exact same source code by following along.
Grandparent poster should've called it a workaround.. yeah the solution is to pester Google to fix their procedures, but how much time are you willing to invest on a war that you might not even win?
Wider availability means you can not worry about prioritization.

There's no guarantee things would be going any faster, but if anyone can walk into a pharmacy and get a shot it seems like it would speed up a bit.
It doesn't matter how acute your condition is if all the beds in the ER, hospital and/or ICU are full with COVID patients - there is simply nowhere to put you. Getting emergency treatment on a gurney in a hallway by hospital staff that is stretched thin and exhausted due to overwork isn't as good or effective as getting proper care.

Additionally, there are all sorts of treatments for chronic conditions, cancers and other maladies that take place in the hospital that are being delayed and/or cancelled due to lack of capacity.
> It's easy to remember all the things he botched (hello iphone?) but if you look at it objectively I think Ms did survive and prospered under Ballmer.

If you look at it objectively you include all the things he botched, which are "easy to remember" according to you. At best, he was meh. In my personal opinion he was horrible - I think a random employee likely would have done better.
I see many other comments in this thread saying that this was preventable, how so ?
Looks like California tried a lot of things (stay at own orders, business closures etc) and they are not in a better shape than more "relaxed" states.
I've seen this model used to develop domain specific decision support software used to help customer optimise costs. Required a few person years of R&D to hit proof of concept & get a contract signed, then contract was large enough to fund a small business & grow headcount for several years.

One potential trap is over-fitting the software/product to what the first big customer wants, or getting carried away spending too much time doing random bits of customer specific consultingware, and not being able to factor out a product that can be generalised and sold to other customers with somewhat different requirements.
Actually we’re pretty sure now. They did studies of the new strain based on contact tracing and it was found to have a 50 % greater chance of infecting contacts. It’s also in the US now.
Those are wonderful, aren't they?

My guess: Hand drawn, with frequent use of a French Curve.

https://www.google.com/search?q=french+curve
And there are still idiots refusing to wear masks in public spaces like grocery stores and gas stations. Saw multiple occurrences over the weekend.
I can't be the only person who really wanted a human to enter the frame and menace the robots with a hockey stick[1] or kick one of them[2].

[1] https://youtu.be/E0Rc9CzVRuQ?t=45

[2] https://youtu.be/cNZPRsrwumQ?t=34
Pretty sure that someone would be prosecuted for violating the CFAA.

Not saying that’s right, just that’s my commentary on the state of things today.