skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As of writing the GP comment, I am starting to informally test the hypothesis as well. I've switched to sponge + soap to fully clean the inside with every use (after chain mail to remove larger bits, if needed), then dry on the stove & re-oil.

Specifically the idea is that IF the seasoning layer is quite durable and is difficult to damage or wear through, except by the rough metal of the spatula I use, then the best seasoning should be achieved by thoroughly cleaning any contaminants off it and then applying a fresh coat of oil.

It will likely take longer than the HN comment window before I feel comfortable drawing any conclusions, so I'm not sure how I'll follow up on this. Perhaps I'll post something at https://smichel.me/castiron (currently this page does not exist).
Sounds like some Type 2 fun

First heard about types of fun from an article posted here - I think it was this one
https://www.tetongravity.com/story/culture/the-three-and-a-h...

Edit: put type 3 at first but on second thought it’s type 2
Very few people are being taught this anywhere. Even M.D.s (some of the most intelligent and educated among us) have so little statistical knowledge they can barely reason about novel type 1 versus type 2 errors.
How true it is, and the knowledge that suffering eventually ends is the key. The phrase I learned was repeating as many times as necessary “how it is now is not how it will forever be”
Making the Most of Code Review
The name reflects this observation: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
Show HN: A high-performance TensorFlow library for quantitative finance
Even distributions can fail in execution. I can't remember the name, but the joke rule that work expands to fit the time given to it. Such that, if all work expands to the max of the distribution, your time is easily set at the point of the max.

Of course, this has been tried and doesn't work. The max time on many distributions is effectively infinity. Which, fails. For obvious reasons. And is why I assert you can really only talk of how long you are willing to work on something. Not how long it will take.
I agree. The D program is cool, but pretty cryptic. A simple Rust version [0] is only 21 lines yet much more readable in my opinion. I'd take readability over a couple less loc anyday.

[0]: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
> I still use Subscribe and Safe for the 15% discount - a nice discount if 5 subscriptions are due in the same month.

I have used Subscribe and Save for the better part of a decade, and I think there were maybe 2 times that my subscriptions lined up this way. I've tried delaying all non-essential subscriptions to get to the magic number, but in my family it almost never happens.
In my experience, it works out better to know the truth and act in accord with it, however inconveniently it contrasts with how you would prefer things. The client probably should realize the hubris of the endeavor and expect failure.
When costs are nonlinear, keep it small
What is the actual behavior we see? Higher incidence of domestic violence, drug abuse/dependency/violence. And much more.

It's hard to say definitive, concrete examples because trauma is so personal. The same things can cause two divergent reactions in other people. As a random example from a single friend, I had a friend whose dad died via suicide by cop after he became addicted to drugs he prescribed as a small town's ER doctor. She saw her dad murdered by her friend's father from her living room window. This friend said I had it worse than she. While I definitely have my own scars, I don't think they're anywhere close to what she experienced.

I'll share how I was ill-equipped for life. Please note that while I was never put in foster care myself, I likely should have been; the only thing that stopped me going into foster care is a terribly overburdened and underfunded Child Protective Services department. Every single one of the complaints alleged against my family (of which there were several) were true. The social workers and CPS department as a whole simply has too high a caseload and I fell through the cracks. For better or worse.

I never had anyone around me that modeled how to successfully handle stress and anger. So I constantly walked around in fight or flight mode for all of my teen years and most of my twenties. It led to more than a few of assaults (both as a profession--I bounced a bit--and otherwise). I also made many other impulsive decisions, because I only knew how to solve interpersonal problems one way.

It literally took me until I was in my early thirties and hospitalized with what I thought was a heart attack to figure out I had problems with anxiety, ultra-vigalence, and a hair-trigger temper with associated anti-social behaviors. That's how I was ill-equipped for life in normal society. And again I wasn't even in foster care like some of my closest friends and loved ones.

Just one of those times I let my fists do the talking for me could've led to someone geting knocked out, falling the wrong way, and dying after landing with their head against a curb. That's manslaughter (at best). It's blind, stupid luck that I eventually got my shit together and work at a FAANG rather than shooting you a kite from behind bars.

I have someone very close to me who did go into the foster care system, and was placed in what amounted to a juvenile jail. She had a 'bunkmate' who burned their entire house down in an attempt to kill her family. And then the bunkmate tried to burn others while in the foster care facility. Now my friend has troubles sleeping; especially in areas around which she's unfamiliar (e.g. hotels) or around people she doesn't know well (e.g. B&Bs, friend's houses, etc.).
We had a sibling pair for a year and were on the verge of adopting them. DFCS was more than a year late than was legally required to file TPR and at the last minute moved them to yet another home, this time based on skin color. These kids are pawns of a harmful ideology.
Oh please. If it weren't tech, then it'd be the ISPs, telcoms, etc. And don't forget the ridiculous platform power of the banking, financial, and payments industry. This would have gone down similarly on bare metal in a colo because... Trump and Co rolled out SESTA and FOSTA, along with several other content provider protections that make content like Parlor a liability for deeper platforms. Don't for a second think that they were kicked off because the companies somehow objected to providing the service. They only object to taking liability for providing services to an unmoderated communication platform.
> The only downside is I ended up with a lot of Spaghetti Os :'(

Downside? :-) !!!
Decentralization and deinstitutionalization is dangerous to Democracy. Uncheck conspiracy theories, QAnon bullshit, Parler boys, 4chan anonymity are all dangerous to public, intellectual discourse.

Convince me. Your body has cancer, swift removal of it before it “decentralizes” is the only option.

I would be in favor of actual decentralization: Being able to broadcast 50km radius on the internet and improving communities, thriving local newspapers and localization of concerns. If you want to broadcast to state level, you must have education, journalism rigor, and standup to scrutiny, have to explain inconsistencies or your role is revoked.

“Decentralization”, the widely used term is a congregation of ill which cannot survive the scrutiny of public IMO.

Before you go touting for decentralization, ask yourself when was the last time you checked city news and county affairs? What happens at the National level has little effect on you locally. What Ted Cruz and AOC exchanged on Twitter has no bearing to your county. Internet gave everybody a centralized platform in the first place. Some good aspects (Wikipedia) and some horrifying consequences.
You could use a co-routine to generate the magic numbers. Something like this:

def gen_magic_nums():
for i in range(100):
yield i**2

for num in gen_magic_nums():
add_to_plot(num)
Thanks for clarifying, no that wasn’t the intent of the message - contraception and education are key
They've dropped it to 5% for just about everything. Diapers might be the only thing we still get 15%, but half the time they're out of stock anyway.
They are getting rid of Prime Now and merging it into the .com as well.
puerto rican nationalists stormed the capitol and shot congressmen in 1954; leftists literally bombed the senate chamber in 1983; we somehow managed to persist without restricting civil liberties both times. have you ever even heard of these events? i would wager most of us haven't. this time though, they had a 10,000 page anti-terror bill waiting in the wings and ready to push through, a dark reminder of the patriot act and the post-9/11 expansion of the security state. and just like telecoms and media companies after 9/11, the corporations line up to kiss the ring.
Have any recommendations on servos for this purpose?
Loved this article.

Nevertheless, I think there's another dimension to the ability to endure. 2 summers ago, I hiked the 230 mile Cape Wrath Trail in the Scottish Highlands with my brother. I didn't have any of the physical issues that the author described (despite almost endless wet conditions underfoot and frequently from above too). I had trained for and finished an extremely hard 50km trail race in the Colorado Rockies 2 weeks before the hike started, and was in excellent shape even before we started.

Nevertheless, it was only my brother's inability to even imagine quitting that got me to the end. I was variously bored, confused about the why, and/or simply willing to call it quits. I wasn't in pain, I didn't dislike walking all day with an insanely heavy pack on, I hadn't even minded a 30' fall down a mountain. But it still took everything I had, plus more from my brother, to get me to want to keep going.

People who can do that easily have my respect, admiration and envy (like ... my wife!)
Is the expectation that Canada will throw any excess vaccine in the ocean or something?

I don't see why the US didn't pre-order ~500 million doses of each vaccine candidate that they ordered 100 million of, with the intention to just give the excess away. It would have cost something like $25 billion, which is basically free compared to everything else going on right now.

Working out the logistics might have been a problem, but not an unsolvable one.

In general it's really difficult to reconcile how unambitious "Project Warp Speed" has been. Small orders, minimal funds for states to build out vaccination programs, etc, etc.
A climbing buddy of mine related this ‘fun’ scale to me years ago. I honestly kind of thought it was an off the cuff type thing from him, but I guess it’s been banging around.
I'm far from being an academic, but if I were to make a less snarky interpretation, "not unreasonable" would be written if the reasonableness isn't binary, meaning that "not unreasonable" doesn't necessarily mean "reasonable", and that interchanging the two might lead to a less accurate, stronger statement. Alternatively, one would write "not unreasonable" as a way of contrast relative to something that was previously claimed to be "unreasonable".

I can think lots of other reasons, but feeling clever isn't one of them. I mean, if someone would like to feel clever, there's probably a more eloquent synonym for that.
I similarly needed others, nothing I did alone, or any level of negative consequences (some big ones) made a difference.
> if they have been sticking to in-person chats (in normal times, not now, obviously) or phone/video calls, good luck

that's why I usually request a summary by email or send one myself, asking if anyone has anything to add. Even beyond creating a trail, it's also useful for me as I'll be using those notes as a TODO list.
Well Trump via a number of high profile anti-immigration polices has given Biden a Casus Belli to give that 11 million people citizenship.
This does not really comport with the restaurant menus that I saw.

When you say they seem to live off this diet, what are you basing that on?
Sure, but being able to vote is not guaranteed, either. If the propaganda wins out, they can stop allowing votes.
"Buy once, cry once."
They are eating a lot of other food, actually; and that's why it works.
As someone with a CNC router with steppers I can not agree more.
The Big Electric Cat
Just a note, some of those charged with arson/destruction of property/other violence which were originally thought to be BLM protesters have actually been far-right extremists looking to incite the race-war. This isn't just some conspiracy theory what-if, these are actual charges against real people who seem to be right-wing domestic terrorists according to the federal justice system.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/self-described-member-boo...

http://stmedia.startribune.com/documents/Hunter_complaint_af...

A good chunk of those "BLM" protesters actually charged usually aren't necessarily leftists, but often are just anarchists who seem to be taking advantage of the chaos. Hard to be both a radical leftist who wants to have an overbearing regulatory state trying to take away your freedoms and also be an anarchist, those are usually two entirely separate viewpoints.

https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-race-and-ethnicity...
Telegram supports (not by default) end-to-end encryption in some contexts, but I wouldn't want to call it an end-to-end encrypted app lest someone get the wrong idea and try to use it for security.
I've tried various different ways to get an OSX iso booted on Linux (system76 laptop) and it's been very problematic.

Is the trick to run Linux on mac hardware and then run the VM host on top of that? If so, why do that, why not just run a VM using virtual box, for example, with OSX inside OSX. Does the lower resource Linux host make it so you can run more VMs (or better specs)?

I'm definitely interested in building a bunch of development images as VMs. The setup of Apple development (signing and notarizing) is so opaque that I'm always terrified our CI will get broken with some small upgrade that I want to save stable images frequently, and this seems perfect for that.
I'll let the US Surgeon General's words speak for themselves. Note that he has since deleted his tweet; I wonder why?

"Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!

They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can't get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!
https://t.co/UxZRwxxKL9"

— U.S. Surgeon General (@Surgeon_General) February 29, 2020[0]

Deleted tweet[1]

[0]https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/29/health/face-masks-coronavirus...

[1]https://twitter.com/surgeon_general/status/12337257852839321...
Might be worth a revisit actually. After having kept off it for years I did a small project in Java for an interview some time ago, and a larger one as a postdoc a year before that. Its latest features, especially functional interfaces, makes it very powerful in a specific niche: The middle lands of software that does have stringent performance requirements - low latency from microseconds upwards and/or throughput, but not necessarily needing a cluster larger than some dozens of nodes. In such cases it is more productive than fully compiled system programming languages, while being much more performant than dynamic languages. Functional interfaces are a perfect match to do data centric designs in it.
Parler partially reappears with support from Russian technology firm
Now 2021 is shaping up to be one interesting year... thoughts folks?
So your theory is that the U.S. is a distributed consensus system but for some reason the company of Amazon.com, Inc. does not participate as a node?
Why is the assumption that three letter government agencies are signing the same contract with Amazon as a random startup? Amazon built an entire new instance of AWS just for government use. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be able to deny access on a whim.
great article!

one interesting thing i've found is that the higher the suffering, the more fondly i look back at the event/time period and overcoming it. the inverse also seems weakly true - i'm not very proud of periods i've spent coasting in life.

second, it seems to create a fraternizing effect - i seem to also recall fondly the people with whom i shared the suffering. perhaps this explains some of the military people reflecting back fondly on times of truly intense suffering.
An alternate take on current events is that Americans are correctly updating on new evidence around right to amplification, in a direction you don't personally prefer.
I wonder what the shareholders do with the dividends... Do they dollar-cost-average into a low-cost index fund? xD
What is happening to this site? The comment above is alleging election fraud, which has been debunked by multiple court rulings from judges across the political spectrum. It is not downvoted, flagged, nothing. The comment responding it to it gets downvoted?
They pat themselves on the back for falling into it. Congratulations and drinks all round after you've signed millions over to big blue for a glorified application level firewall.
> No, the richest and most safe civilization ever existed on the face of the planet is ready to give up on freedom because of TV picture and a bunch of talking heads on TV and Twitter that told them there was an "insurrection"

Is it the richest and safest?
What would you call the event that happened that day?
This is kind of poorly done. Zoom in on my city (Philadelphia). Look at South Philly. It's half green! shocking until you realize this is the giant I-2 Industrial zoned sectors for shipping, the shopping centers, warehouses, etc.
Free speech, from Russia...
I have an 8x4 foot machine, and it’s a big boy, old software I don’t like, steppers, i rarely use it... but I know ONE thing for sure, I would probably not recommend a wood frame. Our steel frame weighs a figurative ton (or metric literal, IDK) and it STILL is not stiff enough for large 3D contoured parts with tons of little steps.
Order on Protecting Americans from Overcriminalization Through Regulatory Reform
Many of the sun synchronous sats are earth imaging sats and are placed to take pictures at the same time of day when there are short shadows.

Thanks for sharing this use use case too though, pretty neat.
MATH IS MATH
> the word "insurrection" means armed violent action in order to overtake the government

The mob I see here is clearly armed with liberated riot shields, flag poles, sticks and billy clubs, and pepper spray / bear spray, and they are attempting to forcibly push their way into the congress building via mass mob shoving.

https://youtu.be/cJOgGsC0G9U?t=748 (30 minutes, probably NSFW) timestamp links to a coup attempt participant deploying bear spray against the police.

I would call that an armed violent action, if unorganized. Could they have overtaken the government (congress)? Maybe with a bit more time, weapons, violence or energy, yes.

> It is literally impossible to change result of the election by jumping on a desk in a Congress.

And if the coup attempt participants had managed to take 20 or more congresspeople hostage and beaten them with sticks until they passed a law that made Trump's term in office infinitely long? Sure, it wouldn't pass the sniff test or the Supreme Court, but it would be an attempt to overthrow the functioning of government.

You can't say it "wasn't an attempt" because they didn't succeed. I can say it was an attempt because a mob broke into the congress building, with some of the members intent on forcibly stopping the election results from being accepted (as has been seen in other arrested individuals and those who had zip tie cuffs).
FWIW I used to order kitty litter on Prime. Free shipping and all that. Turns out they hugely marked up the retail price for the free shipping. I’ve since found it on Walmart’s website for about 40% cheaper. Free shipping if I order 5 at a time.
When NASA sent a sitting Member of Congress into space
Why is it an inappropriate comment? It is factual. There are photos showing people that have Nazi symbols. One example is this guy in the “Camp Auschwitz” hoodie [1]. He also was present in a photo from the inside of Capitol, means he actively participated. There are more examples.

I had such a similar conversation with coworkers one time during lunch. I said that I had just seen a Nazi on a bike next to the office. One of my coworkers tried to argue, that not every biker was a Nazi and maybe I had jumped to conclusion too soon. Which of course is true, not every biker is a Nazi, but the one I’d seen had had a swastika and SS bolts tattooed on his shoulder.

And yes, there were looters during BML protests.

[1] https://nypost.com/2021/01/06/neo-nazis-among-protesters-who...
Well I just cancelled my talk submission to the Elastic Community Conference and cancelled my registration. If they want people to give them free content then pull this crap I don’t want to be part of their community. If they want my content they can pay me.
> allowing your users to promote illegal behavior?

Which, of course, is perfectly legal in a rapidly growing number of jurisdictions around the world.

The laws of which land even apply?
China’s Growth Beats Estimates as Economy Powers Out of Covid
Long Term Impact of Covid-19 on Life Expectancy and Mortality [pdf]
The government can shut down Amazon.

Amazon can't shut down the government.
Analogies (such as leasing data center and commercial real estate) should probably account for the availability/lack of viable alternatives. For example, how much choice, what options does the consumer have in selecting its "service providers".
In my opinion, the estimate gives them a sense of scale. If some small number of months would cost too much, then you know and can start to have an investigation project of a week to better help define what should be in and what shouldn't.
And my-oh-my the political leverage is colossal
PSLDX does not dynamically adjust the leverage between stocks/bonds as a typical risk parity strategy would. Not that this is necessarily bad, this fund has a consistent exposure to a duration trade, buying long term bonds and paying short-term borrowing rate. over the last 40 years or so this has been a fantastic trade, as interest rates dropping both raises the price of bonds, propels higher equity values, and lowers the cost of leverage.

the downside to this particular fund is the extreme turnover in the fixed income component (only suitable for tax-free accounts) and the interest rate risk; the fund could underperform SPY in a world with increasing interest rates (which is where many traders believe we are now)
You want to be a Spaghetti Os bigot, you go right ahead
Or, put another way: strong bonds require the input of more energy to break them apart, so it's not too surprising if they emit energy in the form of heat at the time of formation.
Reminds me of when Google awarded me a whole Nexus 7 tablet for finding a way to run external JavaScript inside of Gmail for Android. The exploit required the user to tap on the email after opening it, which is why it didn't qualify for any money.
it's possible that free speech is not the problem, but internet. Mush like how eating food isn't bad but concentrated, processed foods are. They say "everything in moderation", but with technology we are way passed "normal". We have super communication power, and organization wield those powers for financial gain.

Free speech in not dangerous in a low-tech environment, its like whole food. Technology magnifies humans, our good and bad.

I think ted kaczynski (unabomber) was right in many ways. Think about how much damage humans can inflict on the rain forest without technology. It would take considerably more energy. Same thing with technology and communication.