skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain more the logic behind this;

So Qatar was being punished for supplying natural gas to UAE? Why and by whom?

Also why is Yemen being genocided by the sauds with US MIC weapons? (When I worked at this RFID company - and we were bought by Lockheed - several muslim employees quit and said "we will not work with a company that sells weapons to kill arabs/muslims)

Also why are Uyigar children being raped and beaten and murdered in China?

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS WORLD.???
It also shows how the oldest proprietary software helped experts, vs today's race to the bottom / ease of learning vs actual use mindset.

I guess only free software can buck the commercial mandate enough to do that now.
The "DeSantis judge" I mention was appointed by DeSantis (the Governer, who has been pro Trump on a number of issues). Here's an article that is (AFAICT) is rather neutral regarding the judge:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
Author is the same guy that wrote Arrow Rust library ;-)
I assume it is hyperbolic. The OP clearly has issue with the Go language. The rant contains the common misunderstandings about it (no generics, must be bad), etc. Go has survived 11 years without generics (they might be coming) and underpins some of the most popular software out there. Clearly, it has something going for it. Pike and Google understand generics, but generics have pitfalls. So when Pike and co decided to design a new language, they took lessons from the years of history, rather than repeating the same mistakes. Go is a language that is easy for people to learn, but more importantly, get right. It is just as powerful as virtually any other language out there, so caters to the advanced programmer as well. Those attributes are something not a lot of languages can legitimately claim. And people, for some reason, get really upset about it. shrugs. I say kudos to someone for building a language that isn't a research project that crammed every possible "cool" concept in. I like learning languages and would rather appreciate them for what they are than whether they have X thing. If X thing is big enough to be a problem, then I don't use the language, simple. No need to get all worked up about it and post rants on unrelated articles.
You're joking but the right wing media apparatus has successfully convinced a lot of their audience that Putin is more aligned with their notion of a "Patriotic American" than a Democrat like Nancy Pelosi.

Which is really just more evidence to show that you can make ignorant people believe just about any message if you deliver it a certain way and often enough.
Post-CXL laser surgery is not always possible. If the cornea's thickness has already degraded too much, lasering would be very risky and lead to tearing.
> It definitely has a sensor-like mechanism, but is it qualitatively different to some plants growing to face the sun, or a climbing plant climbing up a wall?

Are you able to prove that your behavior is qualitatively different? That you are not merely a sufficiently complex chain of reactions to stimuli?
Suicides are way up. So are overdoses.

But the real tragedy is the lack of support for third world countries due to the contraction of the global economy. Millions will die due to a reduction in vaccines and treatable illnesses in the developing world. Millions. But it seems we are okay with that as long as _we_ don't get covid
This is preposterous.

I thought we were here to satisfy our curiosity.
Right. When I see one party state I think of the CCP. The better terminology would be the majority party, or the dominant party. I think there's a lot of heterogeneity within the Democratic party in California, especially at the local level, and are much less likely than Republicans to march in lockstep.
I am a practitioner of life sciences. I use category theory to understand what I'm looking at around me in the world. I don't know if I'm even applying it properly and it's still been incredibly useful to me. I've developed basic principles for myself I use in daily life, to handle my emotions, and for raising my child.

Practitioner apathy and willingness to dismiss things as not useful can reflect a lack of intellectual humility in their cultures and lives.

The generality is useful if one practices seeking subject-specific insights from the generality. It sometimes leads to new options I haven't even thought of or leads me to reconsider decisions.

"Useful" is a judgment and most judgments like this are made on too short of a timeline. What's actually happening is someone hasn't found a use for the thing labeled as "useless" and is blaming it on the thing, themselves, or where the thing came from. Instead, a growth mindset focused on learning, accountability, and responsibility might be "I did this thing and the outcome I wanted didn't occur. I haven't yet learned how to use it for said outcome."
That ... doesn't seem quite right, no.
Can We Add New Numbers to Mathematics?
A short history of number systems that got added to mathematics (and math education), as well as the proposal for having hyperreal numbers be the next addition to the curriculum.
Introduction to Information Theory
No worries. Noted.

My point wasn't about vaccine distrust although that's part of it. It's more about not having a competent media that will at least say "we will question everything" and investigating along those lines. COVID is the prime example in my opinion so I provided links when asked.
Go is not a particularly safe tool. It is a simple tool. That isn't the same thing. Sophisticated type systems are designed to improve safety at the expense of adding abstraction.
The project uses stable Rust. Which version are you trying to compile with?
I think it would technically be espionage rather than treason, but still a very serious crime.
> being driven by anarchist fanatics

Literally backed by the government. Cash is a government-backed store of value.

What kind of hoops do you have to jump through to say "my federally standardized central currency that only the government is allowed to print is a tool of the anarchist anti-state fanatics?"
Just because someone is interested in a topic doesn't mean they're connected to the topic.
"Is Lava Wet" is art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWF_8dw0zdQ
Underrated answer, but it isn't an anti-trust violation when they have permission to accredit med schools!

To be clear: I totally agree w/ you that the AMA is a cartel.
I meant literally this:

julia> (x = 1, y = 2) .+ (x = 1, y = 2)

ERROR: ArgumentError: broadcasting over dictionaries and `NamedTuple`s is reserved
Handling heterogenous (and potentially untrustworthy) systems also adds overhead, not to mention that buying hardware in bulk is cheaper, so it makes the most sense just to raise the money and buy the hardware.
You should start a side hustle as a medical power of attorney for marginally suicidal geriatrics who are worried they're loved ones won't have the stones to honor their DNR wishes. Something tells me you'd be ready to pull the plug, no questions asked.
> It can also help to remember that memories are far from totally accurate video recordings of an event. They are highly-lossfully-compressed, and there's some evidence that the act of recalling them is destructive

We have counter-examples of eidetic memory for vision, conversations etcetera so any model has to allow for near-perfect recall.
The non-compounding aspect is critical: you can think of the Medallion fund as a business that, with a capital base of (say) 5 billion dollars, produces an annual profit of 2 billion dollars ... but cannot grow, and so distributes all of that profit every year. Kind of like a very profitable but geographically-isolated monopoly, telco, etc.
MuseScore.com, the sheet hosting site tied to the app, has been acquired by a bigger, paid sheet hosting site in 2018[1] and has recently changed its subscription model, monetizing the massive amount of community created content by not allowing free downloads anymore.

I'm not in any position to judge them for wanting to make more money but it sure feels like a way to kill off your userbase.

[1] https://www.scoringnotes.com/news/ultimate-guitar-acquires-m...
Stale Bots are one thing, it's another thing when a huge company puts an intern in charge of issues and pull requests. You open an issue, and a pull request. The intern fails to see what the problem even is and closes the pull request and the issue telling you they don't see a problem. In other instances, pull requests would sit there for months for use cases that are no-brainers.

We made the decision not to contribute to that project and not to maintain a fork. Instead, we developed plugins that are independent so we do not depend on pull requests being accepted, nor have to keep the fork in sync.
See my edit above... couldn't reply at the time for some reason
Generally, every hospital reported price is different. Many of the prices reported are "all in" service packages, but several also wouldn't include these ancillary charges. Forthcoming price transparency legislation puts more pressure on hospitals/insurance cos to quote these "all-in" bundles. On the Turquoise site, we'll be representing all inclusive bundles with a checkmark + explanation that the provider has verified with us the rate is inclusive of all professional/ancillary charges.
Feds walk back DOJ memo saying Capitol rioters sought to capture and assassinate
... or reveling in the mighty beard.
Wouldn’t this be achieved by an array and a Boolean flag just as well?
I thought lilypond was a somewhat lower level abstraction, like the score tool they talk about?

It would definitely be cool to export, but import sounds inherently lossy if what I said above is true.
Another way of doing text steganography that might not be as obvious
would exploit fill-justified text written in fixed width fonts, the
way some word processors used to output documents in the old days
before laser printers. If each line is filled to 80 characters and a
given line has n words in it whose cumulative length is k, then it
needs 80-k spaces distributed as equally as possible over n-1 gaps
between the words. If 80-k is not a multiple of n-1, then there are t
= (80-k) mod (n-1) gaps that need an extra space thrown in, and s =
((n-1) choose t) ways to assign them, hence the possibility of
encoding floor(log_2(s)) bits in each line. I did this project for fun
a long time ago and found pretty consistently a ratio of 137 bytes of
text needed for each byte of concealed data. You might squeeze in a
little more by considering multiple lines at a time.
I can see the benefit of a local signaling server however I am always online so I would be happy to run it in my browser and avoid running electron.

> The speed is also much better when doing direct communication through local signaling server running on host machine.

This should only affect the setup time right? As soon as the connect is established the signaling server should not be required.
I agree, the emotion and division around this case seems a little odd. Another commenter states:

> She was defying the team of epidemiologists in publishing bad data

Whereas your take is:

> they pressured her to make the numbers look better

And I'm sitting here thinking, between potentially corrupt state government officials, and a potentially dishonest individual making claims against said state government, are we going to get down to facts and evidence instead of debating our feelings? I'm not believing either party based solely on he said / she said arguments.
What about your state? They are the ones who are supposed to handle stuff like this.

To me it is a cop-out to blame the feds. There is nothing to stop any state in our union from addressing this pandemic as they see fit. The states making up the Euro aren't blaming Brussels for their problems.

The converse would be to have one world government make decisions for everybody, right? That would work if we all agreed on everything, but we don't. So it is good to have different states try different solutions, and copy what works. Better then having a bad federal solution imposed on everyone.
> In all, this video shows exactly how political the justice system is

I've spent the past 2 months arguing against people claiming election fraud, and part of my argument has been that our judicial system is mostly fair and apolitical.

If what you're saying is true (and I maintain that it's not), then what happens to our claims of judicial impartiality in evaluating election fraud claims?
Yes, kinda, with a few small exceptions. Exothermy and being thermodynamically spontaneous are strongly correlated, but you can have endothermic spontaneous reactions, such as dissolving urea in water in those instant ice packs.

You can also drive reactions by removing the end products in lieu of providing external energy.
A mouse trap also responds to tactile stimuli.
Anytime I see a Twitter post by a dude coming after women...especially something like this my eyes roll out of my head. Cool. Another hit piece on female founders. Never seen those before.
so why isn't this thread full of articles from other reputable sources?
The best approach is dependent on the definition of "best", and for whom it's best, etc.

For example, in the last 10 years I've seen numerous companies I know switch to Scrum/Agile. They always seemed to have a worse result than before (bad software quality due to lack of long-term planning, lots more meetings and overhead than before). For example one company I'm aware of recently informed me they had to do a "huge refactoring" taking a whole day of the whole team, this was for a project that isn't even online yet, the project is maybe 6 months old. Surely this is a failure?

Why were they continuing to use it? I think Scrum really is "best", for the following definition of best:

- For the customers who are stating the requirements, if they make a huge mistake the person making the mistake could be fired. The only sure way to make sure a decision is not a mistake is not to make any big decision at all. Scrum promises you you don't have to plan out e.g. 6 month projects in full, only specify the stories in the next sprint in detail.

- For an agency billing by time, the more meetings there are, the more hours they can bill and the more money they can make. The worse the software quality is, the more refactoring is necessary, the more times you do things the more hours are billed.

So, for an agency selling to a large customer, Agile really is "best" for the participants personally.

It might not produce the best software, or the cheapest software, but that isn't what actually matters to the people involved.
I agree that Tether is a terrible thing to the whole ecosystem. Their market manipulation makes it that no one can actually be sure of BTC's price and consequentially most crypto assets. They effectively turned themselves into all of crypto's central bank, which is exactly the kind of thing that crypto/blockchain technology to eliminate.

But we are talking here about the technical issues regarding crypto.

PoW is just too costly and damaging to the environment, the fact that most of the miners are located in areas where they can get subsidized, cheap and dirty energy makes it all the more concerning. PoS should help here.

The ability of the network to scale is still a problem. ETH2 + layer 2 solutions (combined) should also solve a lot of these issues.

What I'd like to know is what are the technical issues that is still going to be used as an excuse for people to be against it.
> The fresh-cut grass smell is a signal to other plants that the grass is in distress

This is really interesting. Signalling to other plants for what purpose? I'd like to read more about it.
Via Cava: The Cave Roads of Tuscany (2019)
What you describe is truly an https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/abomonation
Babies are easier because they don't start off bad. Teens have had years of abuse behind them. Read the reports of others here and you will see it is rare and hard to fix the kids after that trauma.
Everyone hates pharma (not entirely without reason!) but all drug spending is about 10% (slightly less) of US health care spending.

If you spent $0 on drugs next year, we would not save that much money.

If you want to cut spending, you need to cut spending on doctors and hospitals.

If you want sources for these numbers, here is the National Health Expenditure summary from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Studies:

https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Sta...
These led strips sound interesting can you suggest some brands/models? I've had led strips but not with a diffuser.
Same, I've been mapping out CA average prices at http://hospitalprices-env.eba-r2yhwdcw.us-west-1.elasticbean...

Comparing just the price of a hip replacement is difficult, because there are so many other services that will bundled in with a hip replacement (anesthesia etc) that may not be represented in the service price alone.

The "average cost by diagnosis code a patient comes in with" transparency requirement is an attempt at solving that, but doesn't differentiate between insurance plans.

Also, I love OpenStreetMap, thanks for your work on that!
Wow, this is awesome!

Thank you!
When two functions with the same name are ‘extern “C”’ for example, the compiler/linker will pick only one of them and which one is undefined. The choice could even change the next time you build. I’m not sure if compilers/linkers warn about this now but they certainly didn’t warn about it back when I first discovered this on a project.

And of course, the outcome ranges from nothing (if both copies happen to be identical), to slightly off (e.g. one dependency had a slightly older version of the function), to downright wrong (e.g. crash in this case).
I know there are many downsides to it, but I enjoy these places where you can get away from the 24/7 always online world. There are so few left anymore
> You're not forced to suffer the consequences.

I'm having trouble reading this in any way where it isn't obviously false.

Unless there's a secret source of hazmat suits I haven't heard about, other people's poor behavior in a pandemic creates a measurable, deadly risk to the people who follow the guidelines.
Your analogies fall short when talking about a microscopic virus.

It's funny how many people underestimate this virus in terms of its ability to mutate and spread.

And it's laughable that people think this can be contained with 'contact tracing' and 'monitoring' the movements of private citizens. It is a force of nature.

Contact tracing simply gives the illusion of control while giving governments and excuse to spy.

How easily free citizens give up basic fundamental rights in the name of Fear.
>People ... expect to be able to get passwords reset

I think it works like that with Apple. When I turned on encryption it says do you want the key stored in the icloud thing and presumably in a locked out situation I get on to Apple to get it. Seems quite a good solution.
Well none of that is referenced in this article. Do you have a decent source for these claims?

Also I don't think looking down your nose at the quality of her degrees in doing yourself any favours. This article claims she wrote the code that pulled the stats together so at the very least there was some familiarity with the problem set. You'd figure implementation issues are just the matter of a Github review or smth, so how did it get to her being fired and all this crap happening?
There is also a more recent blog post which perhaps led to the project being posted here (I am guessing).

https://andygrove.io/2021/01/ballista-2021/
If someone can conclusively teach inexperienced programmers good approach to estimates (methodology) + help embed this into sales process of a software house-type company, I know some folks who'd love to have this :)

My own experience has been this: people make estimates, client has expectations based on some variant of those, and something later happens but so much change is introduced during the actual software development, that there seems to be no sane way to compare what happened with original estimates. (new features, changed features, lots of new information, market shifts/product vision shifts, quality assumptions change, etc. etc.)

But at that point nobody cares! People go on with further projects, and no data is ever collected.

Nobody learns.

When f*ckups happen, i.e. a gross over- or under-estimate, this is often not shared with the broader organization (ashamed/afraid sales people/PMs/devs say nothing/hide it/sugarcoat it). Client walks away.

Sometimes project is severly underestimated but usually not just because of the software part. Again, no decoupling and estimation of contributing factors is done.

It's insane.
Do you expect something that's useful to be immediately acknowledged as such in the field, much less adopted?

Human cultures are more complex than that. Capitalistic pressures to produce results have had a noted impact on research and development. There will likely need to be a practitioner willing to do the field work to bring about the big "Aha!" for that field. Based on the silo'd history of so many fields, it's a safe bet to say that may be necessary in every field where CT can be applied.
Hm, not at the speed of reading. Takes a bit of slowing down to get some.

A complication is that a lot of these are from elementary school geometry books, so i tend to just remember the answer before getting a chance to look at it.
s/she took resources/she allegedly took resources/

But yes, that's my take on the case.

Prior to this, the press downplayed that she allegedly used shared credentials to the department messaging system, and she made a name for herself before the raid by being very public about concerns with the data on the dashboard, so the "story" was that the raid was retaliation.

This could be someone trying to silence her, but the court seems to be shutting that down very well with reasonable bail. She's also very passionate and convinced she did the right thing, so using the messaging system (despite sloppy credential management, this would be illegal) is in character for her.
What's the worst-case scenario if they had succeeded? That they take some people hostage and have a stand-off until the FBI takes them down? There was no path to them attaining any actual power. Their actions were violent and bad, but had no actual effect on anybody outside of D.C. That is not what I call an "existential threat".

Again, you have to compare the downsides of free speech vs the downsides of censorship. If you only look at the cons of free speech, then of course you will hate it. But if you compare one impotent riot to the tens of millions dead as a result of suppression, then free speech seems much more valuable.
Ikea fixture and Ikea LED lamps.

I've taken many of them back. They give me replacements if I can show them the receipt... Maybe a good counter to poor quality LED lamps is making stores perceive them as a huge hassle with high return rates.
You still need criminalization as a “stick” to either get people into rehab or not take these drugs at all.
The discussion is about covid because that's the only factor informing people's opinions on the matter. If we didn't know anything about her Covid work - if the only information we had was that some random government ex-employee was arrested for allegedly misusing government credentials - nobody would presume to know what the full story is or what's motivating the prosecution.
AFAIK, certain non-profits are required to report the salaries of their ten highest paid employees.

Doesn't mean it will be easy to find, but you might be able to find it that way.

But this is not information the hospital would share w/ you w/ great enthusiasm, obviously.
Thanks for the good find!
No, I just know people in those countries.

Poland, Ukraine and India aren't exactly hugh cost living places compared to Zurich or SF.