skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their definition of entropy is missing a negative sign...I understand that this is a preprint but come on.
Mandates will increase compliance and save more lives.

Sorry but your position contradicts itself and smacks of confirmation bias. If the US government really were systematically corrupt and authoritarian, why would they want to curtail economic activity? They would tell everyone not to worry about COVID and keep driving, eating out, shopping etc to maximize tax revenue and the availability of bribes.

I have read that many people believe outlandish conspiracy theories because humans have trouble accepting the reality that sometimes, bad things simply happen for no rational reason. It is easier for many to believe that a secret government cabal is conspiring to keep people in their homes than to accept that a deadly virus has infected millions of innocents and created massive global inconvenience.
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It depends, in part, on how quickly you can find another job. On the one hand, as a programmer, you may be fortunate enough to be able to hop jobs until you find one that makes you happy. You spend a lot of your life at work. If something is making you miserable, and you can do better, why not?

On the other hand, any change is a crapshoot, so if the price of change is high, you'll need to evaluate the cost to benefit. That will depend on your location, your skillset, and your personality. That's something you'll have to discover for yourself.

Like you, I've got little tolerance for hostile people. They cost me a lot, mentally, and I take pains to avoid them. Often, they consider themselves justified, and consider it your responsibility to adapt to their style rather than the other way around.

So if you're unhappy, and fortunate enough to have the power to leave, you can at least ask your teammates and management to help you find a better solution without leaving. They likely spent a lot to hire you and would rather not train your replacement. If nobody else on the team wants to work with them, then maybe they need a change in the team, and not starting with you.

And if that's not possible, you take what steps you need to stay sane. Work isn't always pleasant, but it doesn't need to suffer from people making it unnecesarily harder.

Good luck.
Really cool! Thanks for sharing this here.
This kind of software is not simply installed with an apt-get one-liner, github can’t be exempted from choosing their business rules on screening matches.
> Nope. No backups, no sympathy, simple as that.

This is a really garbage opinion. Long tail reliability situations like this is a major blocking point to large scale adoption of many things. No one wants to use something where the consequence of making a mistake is "well I guess you're f*cked now". You're ignoring the entire usability side of computing and innovation.

> 2FA is worthless if you start to put holes in it like that.

No, it is not. 2FA can still prevent 99% of takeover attempts. There are other ways to verify identity (especially within a social network, where real life people know other real life people), but these companies simply do not want to put the effort it. And I can't really blame them: it would be a large investment to verify the identity of a given, every day person. This could be something that can be paid for in order to regain access in order to cover the elevated review necessary.

Trust me, if Nat Friedman somehow loses his email and 2fac at the same time, I can bet you that they would someone find a way to verify his identity and let him back in to his Github account (or honestly any other account).

> There's no such thing as a "trade-off" when it comes to cyber security

This is false. Almost every part of cyber-security is a trade-off between security and usability. If you want the most secure system, just turn everything off. Totally secure. But also totally un-useable.

> If you can't spare a few hundred bucks on a NAS that you can just put in a storage unit or bank vault if need be, you data can't be that valuable anyway.

Not everyone has the privilege to spend a "few hundred bucks on a NAS" and pay for it to be securely stored somewhere.
Volkswagen has majorly invested in EVs. One important model Volkswagen has made is the ID.3 . Similar in size to the golf / rabbit. This is an attainable car I'm interested in buying.
non copy right sound and messaged a bunch of small producers on yt. you could make it a bit more interactive with fun image manipulation or html to image. then do some fancy prerendering of html/js.
Right,I think GP post is just saying buyers were "pulled forward" (in parlance we use to discuss iphone buyers)

If you were going to buy an electric car in the next couple of years, you should do it before you lose the discounts

Of course, budget electric cars are continuing to improve year over year, so that along with gas prices and the charging station network effect (which is perhaps fairly saturated in Norway? I don't know) should help draw in new buyers post incentives

I agree that I don't really imagine much backsliding unless the current generation of first-time buyers hate their electric cars (I suspect many will love them though)
> Massive effect, causes lots of poverty and pain for the populace but that's on purpose

This is what I'm talking about. Even if I'm to agree with the purpose of the requested change, does it justify the means by which it's being procured?

Trump may have screwed it up even more, but sanctions of the second kind have been introduced on countries like Iran or Syria since the mid-80s afaik. No major change happened, but the idea of knowingly use the population of another country to pressure their government which is known to not be chosen democratically is basically a form of hostage situation, and is immoral imho.
The legal basis is they are using a U.S. company (GitHub) that has to has to follow U.S. laws. And that makes certain things inconvenient for them.
Same here; coffee has never made me feel generally "bad" in any way that I can detect. I drink several cups a day - sometimes (not usually) as late as 5 or 6pm - and sleep like a baby anyway. I haven't ever given it up completely, but I did cut down to a single (8oz) cup first thing in the morning for a little while. The only noticeable effect was - as you said - the coffee I did drink had more of a punch than before. I didn't feel like I had more or less energy overall; I certainly didn't notice anything like "skin greasiness" before or after.

It's interesting that it affects people so differently. It takes a whole lot of coffee for me to even feel jittery; most of the time it's just a pleasant boost of emotional energy. Like an anti-depressant. I feel excited about life and ready to go dive into it. That's the main reason I drink it most days; not to keep myself awake. It just feels good, seemingly without downsides.
From a disinterested third-party perspective, this reads like it could be applied exactly in the reverse. Would it be any less correct if they were to say the same about you? Are there differences in intelligence between people? Should less-intelligent people have a voice on issues? Is there anybody more intelligent than you? How do you know that you are smarter than someone else? Do they know that you are smarter than them? How would you know that someone is smarter than you? If you are certain that you are right, is someone that disagrees with you certainly wrong? How would you know if you were wrong? If you were to ridicule someone for a belief that turned out to be correct, what is your proper response? Have authorities always been correct for all of human history? Is there any authority figure that you disagree with today? What is the difference between authority figures that you agree with, and those that you don’t?

Let’s take a perspective from statistical theory. Suppose there is a coin that comes up heads 1% of the time. Person A observes it 10 times and concludes that it always comes up tails. Person B does not observe at all and guesses 50/50. Who is more correct? Let’s see what happens when they start betting with 100. Person A is certain that they will win, so always bets everything. Person B expects no gain, so will not bet anything. After 1000 games, what is the probability that person A will have more money than person B? For a more theoretical treatment of why person B is more correct, see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullback–Leibler_divergence

I hope that you can understand that, just like epistemology, statistics, and stock trading, civics is not a domain where self-righteousness leads to good outcomes.
> This in turn slows the eradication of vices like human trafficking, which are largely an outgrowth of poverty.

Human trafficking is not just a symptom of poverty, it's typically a symptom of a lack of law and order with strong systems that can deter human trafficking through a penal system. Giving human traffickers a bunch of cash isn't going to stop human trafficking.

> KYC goes against liberal democratic principles like privacy and due process

People in Somalia and Uzbekistan do not in any legal sense have privacy and due process. They do not live in Democratic regimes. Full stop. They have a moral right to those things, but it's on them to obtain it.

The US is not responsible for making sure non-citizens/non-residents have those rights. The US is not the gatekeeper of the world. The US is responsible for guarding it's citizens and residents - and there are KYC controls in the US that enable due process and privacy. Yes, if you're outside the US you don't get those protections but you never had them to begin with. You are welcome to come to the US or our allies and gain those things.

You can't force other people to transact with you. If we're freezing you out of an economic system because you keep giving money to extremists to kill women and children with, well, that just sucks to be you - you don't get to force us to trade with you. Take it up with your government.
I interviewed at a large UK gov Ministry for a technical architect role a couple of years ago and one of their interview questions was:

"How would you architect new features on top of a legacy system implemented by an external agency that is hard to work with and has many bugs but we are unable to change in any way for contractual reasons?"
If there was any remaining doubt about the UK Gov's design chops, check out their Github projects. Just to highlight one... they've published one of the most accessible and intuitive reverse-engineering tools I've ever used:
https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef
There are fully reverse-engineered FPGAs and open source toolchains to drive them.

The real question is: Is there anything hidden in the silicon? That's something you can only solve by owning your own fab - the US military approach.
Agreed. I like the US design system more than anything else out there: https://designsystem.digital.gov/

It’s incredibly well thought out and designed.
I never quit, but I have gradually reduced the ratio of grounds to water so now I have become accustomed to a very weak coffee, which still has just enough caffeine and flavor but I can also have a few cups. I find that stopping drinking coffee by mid-afternoon really helps. When I was young, I could drink a cuppa at 10pm and be in bed by 11. Now, I aim for maybe 3-4pm at the latest.
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Ask HN: How do large teams of electronics engineers coordinate their work?
Intel has around 100k electronics engineers. How do these engineers divide work among themselves? In software development we have the concept of modules and tasks. Each module can be assigned to a 1-10 developers. Same thing goes for tasks.

Does cpu design process have concepts similar to tasks and modules? What does a usual day of work look like for an electronics engineer that works at intel/amd?
2 scans a day for 1 year would be 4,380 µSv, or 4.3 mSv. The yearly dose limits recommended by the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) is 1 mSv per year for the general public, and 20 mSv for “occupationally exposed workers” [1]. Since Assange is receiving this for very specific reasons, I don’t think he would fall into the general public. So he is receiving less than a quarter of what is considered max safe for a radiation worker. For further comparison, long haul airline pilots receive and average of 2.94 mSv/year [2] and “diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine, and radiotherapy workers were found to be 0.66, 1.56, and 0.28 mSv, respectively” [3]. So he could be on the high end when compared to medical workers and pilots, while still being well under the safe max limits.

[1] https://radiopaedia.org/articles/dose-limits?lang=us

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5019040/

[3] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S165836551...
You think a lot of people are proxyjng their traffic through an Iranian IP address?
I didn't read too much into his use of "descendants", trying to be charitable in my interpretation. But having read his response to you I'm starting to have second thoughts...
I actually think coffee is good for you. In moderation of course.

My rules:

- No more than two cups of black (no sugar) coffee a day.
- No coffee after 11:00 am.
- No coffee during the weekends. I see this as a way on preventing insensitivity or Detoxing.
You raise an interesting issue, and pollution is a concern to me also. In my beliefs, part of His plan is letting us exercise our agency (or ability to choose), for our experience/learning/growth, and to find or show what it is we really desire; and there are consequences. It is up to us to learn to make good choices, but He does not force us. There will be justice, and mercy to those who seek it, for whom I believe things really will be made OK in the end. (Our choices matter, and we live in a very imperfect world.) So, there are both big issues and opportunities for individual peace while we work on the issues, and even as we experience troubles (Edit: and our good efforts are all worthwhile, as this is neither the beginning nor end of our existence). It seems good to start with ourselves, and encourage others (that honesty/Golden Rule stuff).

I hope that makes some sense, whether or not we agree on details. More is elsewhere.
Fastmail is monetized in a completely different way from gmail.
I mean people buy new models. When a new model or refreshed model comes out they're motivated to consider upgrading. When a model is a couple of years beyond the last refresh people aren't motivated because it's behind models which have been refreshed and they know a new one is coming so they wait.
Forth's answer to your need is:
Write your own higher level utilities in Forth. :)

I find it better to think of Forth as a clever Macro Assembly language for a two stack VM.

When used as designed, one does not actually program in Forth. You first write a tiny "language" and program the App in that.

Not a popular choice today.
I quit caffeine for a year and found it not to be worth it. I'm simply not a 9-5 type person so when I have to go in an office I need caffeine to function and I function much better.
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This isn't a logical comparison.

The lab specifically collected live bat coronaviruses for testing. The provincial administrative office did not.
Perhaps in your ML union example they would be motivated by things other than financial compensation, perhaps ethical concerns.
No, you’re practicing Doublespeak. Illegality and illegitimacy are not the same thing.
I received an email once suggesting I repost something that sank without any votes/comments.
I have _a lot_ of questions...

* Is this a US Company?

* What was the employee doing in Iran?

* Is the employee an Iranian national?

* Was the company aware of this?

Headlines like this make me really scratch my head.
I had an article I posted get a second chance. I got an email from dang saying it had been reposted then it was on the front page for a bit. It did better the second time. I didn't actually have to repost it myself.
Small countries, high subsidies:

> https://www.nettavisen.no/okonomi/norge-sponser-elbileiere-m...

I mean, the government is spending something like 2.5 billion US Dollars per year to subsidize electric cars, yet people still claim how electric cars are competitive.

From having lived in Norway for a year, I also remember that even buying used cars with a combustion engine is ridiculously expensive due to the high taxes that electric cars are exempt from.

I mean, of course, Norwegians are buying more electric cars. Who wouldn't given these circumstances?
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I went from 8-10 cups/day to a single cup before noon, cold turkey, with insane migraines. Having previously quit smoking it didn’t occur to me to register it as difficult until I read this. Nicotine is a hell of a drug.
I never drink coffee in the morning and never more than 1 cup a day. Coffee is kind of a mental trigger for me to get going if I'm feeling sluggish that day
Should we allow a free market to continue producing vehicles that contribute to the degradation of the planet?
Does optimal pipeline topology vary with the specific workload or is more dependent on the instruction set semantics and result visibility?

Is this something that could be automatically optimized via simulation?

Is it something that could be made dynamic and shared across a bunch of schedulers so that cores could move between big/little during execution.
A bag of coffee beans, grinder and a stove-top espresso maker is the solution to this, not giving up.
There are similar open source programs doing the same or more.

Ghidra probably the most powerful.
The PE structures are public, every compiler, binutil or decompiler has it.
I'd been buying regular and decaffeinated coffee and mixing then for the last few years. One day a few months ago I just bought the decaff and used that and had no difficulties at all. None.

So yes, some/many people will have withdrawal issues, but it might also be that you have no side effects in quitting.

I'm totally happy to have quit caffeine.
Does Norway have any incentives/subsidies for electric bikes or scooters?
For anyone else that is more addicted to the habit and culture of coffee (and not willing to give it up), I really recommend Swiss Water Process decaf. It isn’t perfect, but it’s 90% of the way there. The caffeine level is negligible and a few cups per day has mostly no effect.
For European standards, Norway's petro; and diesel prices aren't that crazy. When touring through the fjords on a couple of vacations, I've found them comparable to what you have in Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands.

Especially considering that Norway's average income is leagues ahead of those countries.
I'm hearing more and more electric cars pass me in traffic and about half of them are not Teslas. (Sweden)

I have no numbers to back this up, just observations of a cyclist commuter in Malmö.

Edit: According to this absolutely awful website[1] it's up to 113,790 EVs in Sweden in 2020.

And according to this[2] much better website jan-nov in 2020 saw 93k gasoline driven cars vs. 21k EVs. So we're not even close to Norway. :(

1. https://www.elbilsstatistik.se/elbilsstatistik

2. https://www.scb.se/hitta-statistik/statistik-efter-amne/tran...
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The interesting thing to follow will be how fast the petrol car infrastructure of the country will decay over time (charging station, mechanics).

May be norwegians will sell their petrol car to less EV-advanced countries before they have no value at all in their home country?
The government where the commercial company is based expects the company to do so, and will hold that company accountable if they do not.

You may not agree with this situation, but it is how it works. The US government will investigate and penalize companies that violate US sanctions, even if the parts of those companies involved did so entirely outside of the US.
This is true. There's another even more interesting question related to the effects lockdowns etc had on the economy I think. How do you even measure inflation with your old basket when some of it becomes unavailable anywhere (some services) and for other parts half of the venues where they were sold (non essential retail outlets) are now shut?

My conclusion is that statistics about what happened to the economy during 2020 (ie the month to month path) are likely to be very unreliable. This might have implications for policymaking in future which I don't think have really been explored anywhere.
Step 1: Make something that is right on the edge of being acceptable according to facebook's T&C

Step 2: Take out $10 Million Policy

Step 3: Have your buddy at facebook flag your content

Step 4: Split money with buddy from facebook
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Now you're losing me. In what way does "culture" matter? Socioeconomic status has nothing to do with "culture".
> So you take caffeine just because you're addicted to it, but see no upside to getting rid of the addiction? This is a really weird take for me.

You didn't say what the upside is.
Everything you said is true but add a populist crackpot President, a huge alt-medicine quackery industry, and a significant fraction of the population that believes absolutely asinine things about vaccines and medicine. The USA would have had a great response to COVID if it weren't for American anti-intellectualism.

Not all totalitarian regimes have been handling COVID well. Russia hasn't done any better than most European countries and may have done worse if they're cooking their numbers (which is likely). Iran has done poorly. The thing that I think made China do well is a combination of an obedient authoritarian society and a large number of scientists and engineers in positions of authority. An authoritarian society is very good at problems of the form "have everyone do X," but that only works if X is the right thing.
That’s easy and free, sure.

I guess I was alluding to the needed(?) network effect for such an app to become popular with consumers.

For me to have this app on my phone as a consumer it would have to have 80% of the local shops I frequent listed.
In the US, 68% of the oil is used for transportation:

> https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-produc...

So, yeah, that argument is actually valid.
Thanks!! As for music rights, all music is uploaded by users :) I'd like to add the ability to purchase or stream music but it would take so much work. Your app looks fantastic btw!
I don't know if having your btc holdings publicly visible is a good thing for a corrupt government
You need to look at the coefficients. Memory queries pull in 64 bytes of contiguous memory at a time (actually more with speculative prefetching). That extra data is used in a linear scan, but is mostly wasted when doing random access. You also have other bottlenecks with binary search, e.g. branch misprediction.

Yes, for large enough N, a BST easily beats linear search.
So regardless the amount of work it involves and how few people use them, e.g. 6-year old devices should always be supported?

With PC the compatibility is quite a success story, but hardly the standard.
I worked for many years in the generic API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) business in Mexico and just started a company in Europe to connect suppliers and clients from Asia/Europe with clients in Latin America. I already build a platform to organize/automatize all the technical and commercial interchange of information and had really great feedback from my prior clients, but I just don't want to do it on my own. I am looking for anyone who is interested in something really nice to niche! Technical (PHP/Laravel, new ideas, commercial background, Pharmaceutical background, etc.) and available to destroy an old school, booring market! PM me?
its simple, they dont pass a background check on them probably.
They are referring to Ethereum, not Bitcoin.
That video made complex analysis click for me