skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As has been often emphasized, the reason that COVID-19 is considered a pandemic of such dangerous degree to require a rapid development of vaccine, is because it overloads hospitals and can deny many others (not just COVID sufferers) access to urgent treatment. Without that factor, the most vulnerable demographic for COVID-19 in terms of mortality rate is e.g. elderly people in care homes who are ordinarily a low priority for innovative medical treatments, and it is hard to imagine a vaccine would have been rushed just for their sake.
Most advanced does not necessarily mean most big.

I myself only saw Chinese manufacturing, and to lesser extend Vietnamese (which is mostly run by Chinese, and Japanese anyways.)

The PCB stages were fully automated for decades, and even very small shops may have zero manual population. PCB shops look more or less the same anywhere in the world.

Most interesting things come after that.

"Robots" are very easily beaten on cost by manual labour unless there is crazy commitment to volumes, long production runs, and having robotisation done very thoroughly.

Automation has economic advantage in very narrow sets of circumstances.

Though the variance in non-automated assembly lines can be giant. You can easily spend 10 times to assemble a widget with same amount of people, and equipment by getting the process management wrong.
I came in to my current (first) job with this kind of cynicism. Had I held on to that I would be a lot worse off right now. I hope to prevent others from making that mistake.

Especially if management is slightly worse than at my current job. It would be easy but wrong to write them of as incompetent based on articles like this. This would be quite costly for anyone making that mistake.
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Hell is a funny word for a place that has one of the greatest quality of life of any OECD country. Yes, their tax rates are high, but not vastly higher than one might pay in California. I'll say this for them, at least they pay for their spending. Sweden's national debt is 35% of GDP, while ours was over 100% even before Covid-19.

Basically, if sweden is 'tax and spend' we're 'spend and future financial crisis'. I know which country I'd rather live in long term if I did not have a life to uproot here in the US.
Same for me. I can't code as effectively with lyrics in the music. Postrock hits the sweet spot for me.
I've been through many vendors on these things. I would literally pay $100 per lightbulb for a zero-bullshit implementation that can actually last 10 years regardless of how dirty/variable my electrical power is and/or how 'hot' the lightbulb area gets (as if this couldnt be anticipated by engineers). The PSU in my computer is certainly capable of this level of reliability and has an even longer warranty.
The goal is just to not get caught holding the bag.
Fine. Come up with something else then once we eradicate Bitcoin.
They are more than likely just trying to lower the overall power sink that the city pulls as it grows. Obviously the massive buildings and projects are going to be using a shit-ton of power and I don't know where dubai gets its power from - but it is most likely limited... so this is a good thing for that infrastructure.

I have a friend who lives in dubai, Ill ask her about where their power comes from as well..

I wonder how many datacenters are in dubai.

We bought a new house this year, and replaced all the lights with LED lights - and our power bill is really low.

in 2001 when the Enron fiasco happened, I received a power bill for $900 for one month, and my usage behavior didn't change from previous months. It was during the dot com crash and I wasn't working - and I couldnt pay the bill had my power shut off and had to borrow money from my parents to pay the criminals.

So I am very power conscious...
Probably for the same reason that despite persecution all over the world, Jewish people have generally been fairly successful – good work ethic + strong sense of community + cooperation within that community.

Or it's because they really are Yahweh's chosen people. That would probably help things along.

I've leave it as an exercise for the reader to decide which is more likely.
I've been using R nonstop for pretty much 5+ years. I'm happy that there's established competition coming from Python and new competition coming from Julia. Having these languages compete over similar types of programmers pushes each one to be better, which is awesome. I'm not a die-hard R person, I'd be more than happy to switch under the right circumstances.

But...I think one thing gets overlooked way too often. For "data scientists" or "statisticians" or [insert new term here], the majority our non-modeling time is spent on just plain old data wrangling. To me, R is unbeatable here. I've tried Python ~2 years ago and pre-1.0 Julia.

Using tidyverse you can do pretty much anything to any dataset, often *without a monstrous amount of keystrokes*. (The pipe syntax is awesome). If you really need speed you can always switch over to data.table for uglier but faster code. I really tried but I could never replicate the "brain cycles to keystrokes" speed of R in Python/Julia. That is, being able to intuitively and quickly just convert my thoughts into readable data wrangling code.

Sure the base R language is not that "fast" and Julia/Python benchmarks are way faster. But in practice this doesn't matter to me. Most of the performance sensitive packages are written in C/C++/Fortran anyway (rstan, brms, glmnet, caret). I don't care that I could write 3x faster loops. The extra 5 seconds for that one piece of code doesn't make up for the absence of a good data wrangling ecosystem.

My message to the Julia team: You can get a very large portion of the R userbase to switch over if you focus on a Julia version of the tidyverse (especially dplyr). I know that DataFrames.jl exists but it just doesn't even come close. There's a difference between "you can do this in Julia too" and "here's a clean/intuitive way to do this better without extra baggage".

I'm sorry if the above seems harsh. I genuinely appreciate the Julia team's efforts. I can only imagine how hard it is to create a new language. I just wanted to be honest.
Most, not all, Kids with single moms I know have turned into horrible people.

Giving them everything they want, making excuses, and Lack of discipline were primary reasons.

The friend I know who did well had a strict non nonsense mom.
Since we are throwing around shallow mantras in lieu of a discussion,

"People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones."

If my original thoughts on <that which is not to be discussed> bore you, I guess I'll skip my comparison of conditions around here to the peasant scene in "Monty Python's Holy Grail". [1]

On-list moderation makes boring reading, too. <Yawn.>

"Cheerio, old boy," as the gentry used to say.

--

[1] "Help, I'm being repressed...You saw him repressing me didn't you?" -- Michael
Same with old incandescent lamps.

The glass bulb is quite reliable, it's often the filament that dies many times quicker.

(I'm confused why so many people feel the need to differentiate the reliability of the power supply from the LED chip in this context.)
I guess I will fail your interview as well.
> Check your visa requirements: can you really move there without a job?

If you're willing to live a slightly rootless "digital nomad" life, you can ping pong across several countries spending 3-6 months in each back and forth to remain on a visitor visa indefinitely. Not ideal, of course, but you can do this until you get on your feet in a more permanent manner IE full-time remote work.
Maybe he sells them instead of giving them away?
There's one with their name on it in Wisconsin they could use
> Would a religion-ist ban really be any more acceptable?

I don't really see religion as any more than personal/group belief; I understand America sees it differently, and privileges religious belief.

Is a religion-based ban more acceptable? yes, race is an immutable characteristic that does not determine or prescribe a persons actions or motivations - "religion" is a systems of belief that absolutely does.

> Neo-Nazis are not targeted under the law for being Neo-Nazis

If the metric for hate speech is guilt-by-association with acts of violence, any ideology that promotes violence is hate speech. Neo-Nazi ideology falls under this category, and I believe "refusing entry" has a lower bar then outright bans on freedom of expression.

> That is in no way comparable to targeting "Muslims"

The Muslim ban was so-called by Trumps opponents. The ban targeted specific countries, and was not an exhaustive list of all Muslim nations.

> The mistake you are making is to conflate the criminal act with the motivation for that act

I'm not sure they are so different. Thought-policing ones own citizens is chilling, but I'm less certain about doing the same to refuse entry - we already filter based on a persons character.
This is true, of course, but how fair is it to be able to eat your way to the front of the line?

They should do nursing homes and health workers first, then open it up to all. If they're afraid of crowds, divide up days by birth month, etc.
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what if that thing had an elliptical orbit?
Even how it's minted and by whom?
I think it’s irresponsible to let bugs languish like this. The way I handle bug reports is to say “Hey, look, I just can’t fix this right now because I’m working full time and don’t know when I’ll be able to get around to fixing this without getting paid for my work.” E.g. https://github.com/samboy/MaraDNS/issues/84

I can see why a lot of people don’t do that: It’s a little rude, and there’s a small but significant chance it’ll become a flame war. I have only once had someone get rude in a ticket when I told them “That’s not a bug report, but a support issue”; I ended up deleting the ticket. GitHub also allows you to edit or delete other people’s comments in your tickets, as well as locking the conversation.
> Yeah, it's annoying that neither Google of Firefox stores have easy payments — it makes taking payments less accessible for developers. But obviously it's still possible to roll your own payments or using things like my own https://extensionpay.com

That's cool. I may look into this. Do you have a list of extensions using the service?
> Social technologies like monogamy, marriage, church, community, and even things we think of as "negative", like shame, were developed to combat much of this.

You may want to look at the long history of severe abuse perpetrated by the Church in their pursuit to "combat this".

We've just seen the Irish Laundry report released and it's fucking horrific.

https://www.history.com/news/magdalene-laundry-ireland-asylu...

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/women-on-seco...

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/social-affairs/treatment-of-...
Anti-ageing effects of protein restriction unpacked
It’s the French patent website, INPI
There is a huge variance with LED lights in my experience.

LED bulbs from Ikea are cheap garbage and die quickly.

220V 10W E27 Osram bulbs are pricey but reliable (but I don't have as many of them, so maybe I was just lucky).

I've never had a lamp with non-replaceable, built-in LEDs die. Probably because the power supply is not directly next to the LED, and the LEDs are typically attached to a big heat sink.

The tiny GU10 LED spots are the worst and die about as quickly as the halogen spots they replaced.
> "The government itself has pointed to cheap electricity rates, enabled by government subsidies, as another major cause of the blackouts"

This is the real problem, and it's a nasty one; poor countries often have below-cost electricity and various other sorts of fuel subsidy as part of their welfare system. It's a reasonably effective way of handling a subsidy where there isn't a strong bureaucracy and banking system to distribute payments. Removing them can trigger protests (remember the gilet jaunes complaining about fuel prices? and this was an issue in many of the Arab Spring riots.)

However, bitcoin provides a way to arbitrage that subsidy to world-market prices. It also provides a way for Iranians to evade the sanctions targeting their country.

(Iran would be a middle-income or even wealthy country if it wasn't embargoed almost entirely)_
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My Dad fosters what seems like an unending stream of kids. The parents have a drug problem and end up losing their kids. Once the parents get their shit together again they get the kids back.

Form the kids perspective they are either dealing with temporary guardians or with a parent that provides next to no super vision.

The state can’t parent children, but foster care is in a real way keeping children off the street.
It uses more power than Switzerland to do TWO TRANSACTIONS PER SECOND at the very most. A PC from 2004 could run this network better.

It is beyond ridiculous, it's a crime against humanity.
How “old” is a single-celled organism? I don’t know the precise details for Cyanobacteria, but it could be a relatively equal split (unlike budding, a perfectly reasonable alternative). In that case, are both offspring of a cell division the age of the “parent”? If so, why stop at the time since one generation? “But wait”, you may complain, “they are constantly exchanging molecules with their environment!” So is the “age” of the organism the point at which none (or equivalently half or any other fraction you choose) of the atoms inside the organism were inside the organism previously? That implies you could watch a single, discrete cell not dividing, and it’s “age” would be constantly fluctuating, not simply monotonically increasing. It’s entirely possible that age is not a meaningful, well-defined concept here.

But less philosophically, when people refer to “living fossils”, they generally mean that the organisms haven’t changed much in form or physiology in a long time. There’s no reason to believe that they aren’t subject to the same pressure to adapt to changing conditions via natural selection, but those adaptations aren’t readily visible.
> That's neither ethical, nor is it possible since reproduction is such a strong biological drive

What about this sentiment isn't ethical?
SO: “why didn’t you walk the dog before you went to work? He obviously needed to go; now I have to clean the floor.”

Me: “Because of Bitcoin. It’s ruining everything.”
Seems to not work on `ansible-collections/google.cloud` for some reason?
Not if the father is violent, or dependent on alcohol or drugs, or sexually abusive.
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That's definitely not normal. Normally, the current needed to fry the lead will be many times the current needed for the diode junction to short.
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Isn't Craigslist/OLX/Facebook Market the monetized version of this?
It's been minted by the state since the Bronze age - since well before the invention of either the modern state or modern banking - and this seems to work?
With xubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 I’ve always had sound right away in zoom. So there’s definitely some way to avoid that bug on linux.
I think in erasure coding you typically know the locations of the erasures: If a disk fails, you know which one failed.

However, I don't see how you would know the locations in this problem?

Maybe you can elaborate on how this problem relates to erasure coding?
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&ge... Generally, it's been losing them. It's only the degenerate gamblers still clinging on, and the scammers. So many scammers.
Not sure about your exact use case and this is not part of Julia which I have ever used myself but the answer might be here:

https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl

There is a presentation from a recent JuliaCon by Kristoffer Carlson on the topic too, I believe.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d7avhSuK2NA
> if a senior engineer would be more productive patching up code written by a bot or writing it from scratch.

I have no doubt writing from scratch would win hands down. The main reason we patch wonky legacy code is because it's already running and depended on. If you remove that as a consideration, a senior engineer writing the equivalent code (rather than debugging code generated randomly from Google searches) would -IMO- would be more efficient and produce a higher quality program.
Do you have evidence that the foster care system was less fucked up when religious institutions were stronger? Or alternatively could you point to studies comparing religious foster care vs nonreligious foster care?

Genuinely asking, because it never struck me that the foster care system was ever not horrible in America.
It would be nice to be able to see the lowest & highest prices & other stats. I can manually find the lowest price by sorting by price but I can't seem to reverse it to show the highest price first...

Anyway, it seems that there are orders of magnitude differences for the same service.

The service 'MRI Lumbar Spine With & Without Contrast Material' has a lowest price of $210 while the closest and highest I personally could find was ~$4109.

How can there be such a large difference in price for something that, I believe, is legally & medically the same procedure?
I've been returning bulbs to amazon for years this exact way, even if the bulb is out of "warranty". I just go on the chat, say "the bulb packaging says it will last 15k hours, it hasn't even been 15k hours since I bought it, much less 15k hours of use, so it's misleading advertising". They just accept a return&refund 100% of the time. Amazon is too big to care.
> Like the early Romans, could we create a kind of social reward that would be able to compete with wealth?

Public service attempts to do this with stability and benefits. In other words, in exchange for power you are promised a comfortable life. This used to work but no longer does because property prices near desirable cities, where the bureaucracies are located, are increasingly unattainable even to well paid bureaucrats. The military gets around this, with much lower pay, by providing lodging for soldiers. Perhaps we should do the same for bureaucrats? The revolving door would have less appeal if you didn't need to plonk down a million dollars to live in Bethesda.
In practice the multiple dispatch overhead is elided by the compiler. If it can’t be you’re doing something truly dynamic, which is generally unavoidably slower. It’s still a better place to be than everything being a generic Object type.
Some of the amateur research we’ve done points to the idea that it takes a surprisingly small number of emotionally stable adults to help kids get through chaotic circumstances. If you read the testimonies from children from the foster system like you, or from children with mentally unwell parents, the ones that made it out ok always have some sort of story about how one adult in their life took an interest and helped them get through it. From what I’ve seen, teachers and coaches are the most common adult to help. Not peer reviewed stuff obviously, but the pattern is striking.

Anyways, glad you made it out of such a tough spot doing ok.
Is there a Walmart for medical procedures? A jiffy-lube?
I think preprending “forward” was meant to avoid confusion. Reverse proxy and Forward proxy, but now you’re wondering if there’s 3 types of proxies.
“The miners have nothing to do with the blackouts,” Ziya Sadr, a cryptocurrency researcher in Tehran, told The Washington Post. “Mining is a very small percentage of the overall electricity capacity in Iran.”

He added, “It is a known fact that the mismanagement and the very terrible situation of the electricity grid in Iran and the outdated equipment of power plants in Iran can’t support the grid.”
I don't use a single LED or CCFL in my home as a lightbulb replacement. The reason is because I like a more natural color spectrum not one with spikes in specific bands. The other reason is because they flicker.

Flickering can be addressed by running LEDs in DC mode and CCFLs with electronic ballasts, but both costs a little bit more money and our current society is geared for the cheapest possible product which means you have to skimp on components.

Color spectrum can be addressed by adding more phosphors (more expensive) to CCFLs. With LEDs it can be addressed by not using only blue leds with a yellow phosphor and calling it "white". True RGB LEDs are more expensive.

Every time I visit my folks place which doesn't use incandescent anymore, I am always struck by how dull and desaturated it looks because of the energy-efficient lighting.

There is more to lighting than energy-efficiency, there is also health to consider.

Our bodies didn't evolve under a flickering light source and they also didn't evolve under narrowband color spectrums.
> The solution is very simple: Return any LED that doesn't last the specified time. Manufactures will very rapidly start making changes if everyone did that.

Agreed. I think this is why Energy Star rated LED lamps require such a long warranty. Eg, Philips Hue products have a two year warranty, unless they carry an Energy Star, in which case it's three.
>Art of the deal

-Wisconsin Republicans seeking to subsidize corporations who will never love them back
> Technosolutionists were blithely dismissive of such proven measures [...] because the recommendations relied on the public (that mass of humanity whom technosolutionists, in the main, view as irrational and misguided) to adhere to them voluntarily.

Big fan of techno-solutionist critique in general, but the one critique that frustrates me is "Solution X is bad because we could do Solution Y instead." Don't yell at people doing something to help (as it happens, probably the _only_ way they know to help) because some other people, with some other expertise, could theoretically do it differently/better/more human.

> the same sort of surveillance used to track the spread of a virus can just as easily track one’s movements during a political protest

This is the type of critique that's productive: "your thing helps in one way, but not in another; let's figure out how to max(good) and min(bad)"
Why stop there? Just go straight to the Matrix!
That’s what you get when you mix sycophants with a snake oil salesman like trump
Long-time GCP user here, from a big conservative enterprise. GCP is a wonderful technical platform, but if I ran an oil or coal or tobacco or weapons company, or any other business susceptible to future boycotts and political activism, I would only adopt GCP in a cloud-neutral way. Google employees have disproportionate power over what gets done, versus for example AWS where customers seem to have a lot of power.
So far as I’m concerned, how people and organisations react to their mistakes when they are revealed matters a lot more than the fact that they make mistakes. Everyone makes mistakes, improving in response to them is what matters.
> if you wait til everyting is "perfect", you loose to the despicable retards that dont care.

I've never viewed having a child as a competition. What am I losing?
If you just hold bitcoins they just sit there too mostly. It takes energy to mine them just like it takes energy to mine gold. It seems it takes a bit more energy to mine a bitcoin than an ounce of gold, but bitcoins have other properties that gold doesn't. (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07283-3)
I think you can focus your answers to specifics like the company’s overall core values and reputation. These can also include non-position related things like the company’s community involvement, outreach programs, marketing campaigns, training programs…anything.. anything that you may find about the company that intrigues you and draws you in.
What is O(0)? Computation that takes 0 time? Does that make any sense?