skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cities aren't in any way preventing improvements elsewhere.

Yes they are. No one has unlimited capital for investment, so infrastructure companies will invest where they get the maximum returns. If they're left to their own devices cities would get increasing fast internet, and everywhere else would be left stagnant. That drives more people to live in cities, which in turn makes rural economies fail. Then the people in cities start running out of food.

Slight reductio ad absurdum argument on my part there, but it's just to illustrate the point. For a country to operate having significantly worse infrastructure in one place damages the entire economy. Infrastructure investment has to be managed carefully.
"Biden is most likely to select one of two people: either Edward "Smitty" Smith, a telecom attorney who has worked as a legal adviser to former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; or Jessica Rosenworcel, the most senior Democratic commissioner at the FCC."
https://www.spglobal.com/marketintelligence/en/news-insights...
Well, these rural areas keep electing "free market" republicans, so...
Dijkstra’s EWDs are full of examples of thinking about problems mathematically instead of operationally and then deriving elegant procedures.
I'm a little late, but here goes.

How many software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb?

(None. It's a hardware problem)
It's not really blu-ray quality though. You could have a 4K video conference at 1Mbps if you so wished, but it wouldn't look nice. Likewise a 1080p Zoom stream isn't really anything like a blu-ray video.
Appointed by Obama/Biden under Mitch McConnells recommendation. I.e. Obama/Biden wouldn't have been able to get anyone else through with out Mitch McConnells (GOP Senate Leader) green light.
The same dynamic exists for private insurance companies. The existence of incentives for illegal activity doesn't shift the blame off the criminal.

We don't say that an ATM mugging victim bears some responsibility just because a criminal knows that such people will almost always pay out.
> They do literally cite in words where they got their sample data in the first two sentences of the linked article.

No, they do not. They say they used the U.K. biobank, but otherwise do not tell how they selected upon “European ancestry" in that bank.

> This, and referencing an apartheid test for ethnicity, suggests you are no longer speaking in good faith. I have already explained why this is biologically highly relevant to this case.

And I have argued why it isn't by the argument that an individual that is biologically “white” or almost fully white can culturally be considered “black”, depending on the culture, and obviously vitamin-D production cannot be assumed to care about such cultural divisions.

It has long been noted that many persons in the Anglo-Saxon world, particularly the U.S.A. that are referred to as “black” are genetically speaking effectively “white” and almost completely “of European ancestry”; — the article and those who replied to me are entirely unclear whether they are included or not in the sample.

> There is no harm in claiming this research result applies in general to people with European descent, a known problem of bias in existing data sources that is known to have an impact on the quality of medical care, and whereby you can make your own decision as to whether this might apply globally.

There is absolute harm in using vague terms of which no one exactly knows what it means.

What do you, for instance believe the actual selection of “with European ancestry" signifies here? What concrete, testable definition of “of European ancestry” was used?

> There is potential harm in claiming this research result applies globally, since you are working with highly biased data, and applying solutions that appear to work for a distinct subset of the population might work ok but also might be harmful to the other 90% of people.

Indeed there is, but there is no false dilemma here. — both can be as ridiculous as the other and in fact do not exclude each other, because the term “ancestry” is used, not “residence” which indeed implies that the result holds for persons of European descent, globally. One can be located anywhere in the world and still be “with European ancestry”.
People care about the murder statistics because they don't want to get murdered. If you're trying to use them to measure the performance of the police force, that might make a small amount of difference, but for the way most people are using these stats arbitrarily excluding a whole bunch of murders because they occurred due to the wholesale, officially sanctioned breakdown of law and order would be very misleading.
According to IMDB¹, that was Rob Brydon. Although I thought that the voice of Death in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather (2006) was good (by Ian Richardson).

1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199468/
> ...brilliant and also deeply flawed people

We are all deeply flawed. In my experience, being unashamed of our flaws is a side-effect of honestly and humility. Being unable to spot another's flaws is most often the result of duplicity on their part. Sure, there are some pretty decent folks out there (Fred rogers comes to mind) but nearly all "perfect" people are just charlatans.

It's good to admire flawed people, because they are real.
My daughter had the same score and experience two months ago. Scariest moment of my life -- But all is well now thanks to some amazing, fast moving doctors.
Fairer job interviews with Metaview's privacy-first speech processing
so many poor poor redditors are going to have trouble feeding their children because of this tragic joke piracy ;(
You have anxiety about missing your connection because the airlines all colluded to have 'capacity discipline.' Every seat on every flight is sold, so if you miss a connection, you're potentially stuck there another day.

Here's how to solve it: Fly earlier in the day to your connection, ideally have 1 or 2 flights departing after your connecting flight in case your first flight is delayed. This sometimes means spending more money or choosing a different airline, and sometimes it means flying on a different day entirely.
Right. Mostly-correct and on-time is all we're getting paid for. That's what agile is all about.
A simpler and more testable MVVM on Android
The enlightened Europeans were begging Netflix to start throttling during the pandemic; the US didn't.
IBM AI-funded system to recommend personalized, healthy recipes
In case people are not aware, ProPublica tracks lobbying. Here is their page on MetaBank, who manages the stimulus debit cards authorized by the US Treasury:

https://projects.propublica.org/represent/lobbying/search?se...

By including this link, I'm not making any particular claims one way or the other about MetaBank's selection.
> an bunch of endangered ants

As best as I can tell, there are no ant species on any endangered list, so this is a hyperbolic point.

(In general, we don't even study ant species enough to know whether they are endangered)
The web server was configured to check the referrer.

If (referrer === ‘https://news.ycombinator.com’) {

// show offensive pic of male genitalia
}
The free version of MBAM is an old-demand scanner but the paid version has "active" protections.
That problem can be solved very easily and very cheaply with better communication and scheduling rather than any sort of tech though.
Code for the recommendation system at:

https://github.com/hugochan/PFoodReq
Folio Society editions are amazingly gorgeous. I have a few, but none that cost $345.

Two things about the linked article:

1. The lede is just bad. Why would dense writing be in tension with winning a Nobel?

2. That the Folio Society consulted Noel Polk on this is an excellent sign. Polk, who sadly passed away in 2012, was one of the foremost Faulkner scholars. I had the pleasure of knowing him as I was growing up; his kids were a couple years behind me in school, and we attended the same church. I knew he was an English professor, but I had no idea of his stature until I picked up a copy of _As I Lay Dying_ for class, and saw it had a forward by Dr Polk.

Sadly, this edition of TSATF is long since sold out.
FreeCodeCamp would be my recommendation. It's more or less what they do.
Sonar operators are pretty cool. I saw a clip where they identified another ship (or sub) because they heard a valve open or close. It sounded and looked like static to me but they said it was pretty clear to the trained ear.
What is the difference between FDA approved and an emergency use authorization, from the perspective of the law?

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coro...

https://www.fda.gov/emergency-preparedness-and-response/coro...
This was exacerbated by charging for checked bags. Now everyone is trying to stuff all of their belongs into the overhead.
There's a reply in that Twitter Thread. Go will be switching to ASCII: "Thanks for the ping. Our policy is that anything that requires a proxy to forward an invalid Transfer-Encoding header is a vulnerability in the proxy, not in the server. We are planning to switch all net/http to ASCII strings functions anyway for defense in depth and correctness." - Filippo Valsorda, Go Security Lead
Most employers are reasonable and don't make you do dumb things like wear full PPE for a job that really doesn't deserve it in a poorly ventilated space on the hottest day of the year and other common sense things like that.

However, the kind of people who do safety for unreasonable employers (usually process driven BigCos, mines and shipyards are good examples) and the kinds of people who's only exposure to industrial environments is the mandatory safety training they took once upon a time for their internship tend to dominate internet discussions about PPE and safety. This results in some real gems of insanity.
I already have a Matrix server with the bridges I need running. Can I still use your desktop client? It looks sick!
Well, not necessarily; the linked story is from 2012.
Absolutely. That's how it works for the artists in my family.

There are more analogies with Open Source developers. For example, you can't expect that you'll become famous for writing a simple Homebridge plugin. Just like your thirteen-a-dozen blues song doesn't make it to the top of the charts. Thousands or even millions of people may use it, but you're mainly doing it to scratch your own itch. The statistics are just a feel good bonus.
It should be possible to convert the tax code to some kind of decision tree. I suspect this is essentially what tax prep software does internally.
> That's pretty clearly not it. The UK for example has seen no spike in murders...

The UK - and the rest of the developed world - did a lot more income support to the general public.

https://www.newsweek.com/heres-how-us-coronavirus-stimulus-p...

> Britain's government is issuing grants covering 80 percent of unemployed workers' salaries up to a total of £2,500 ($3,084) a month. The package also reportedly contains statutory sick pay for employees that have been told to self-isolate.

That's more per month than the US has given in total.
This is the best resource I can find that disagrees with you:

https://mises.org/search-mises?search=deflation
Variant I heard, had a physicist, engineer, and mathematician sharing a room.

The first two wastepaper basket fires were taken care of the same ways by the physicist and engineer.

Then a third fire appears, but on the curtains. The mathematician says he'll take care of it, so the others go back to sleep. The mathematician removes the curtains, puts them in the wastepaper basket, and says, "Now it's a solved problem." He then goes back to sleep.
The quality may not be there but the pixel count is. I agree most webcams are not precise enough to give a real 1080p quality + bandwidth constraints. But you would be better off with a fluid 720p.
I can safely say that the ISP situation in the US is simply abysmal. I'm an expat here in France and the market for ISP/mobile is pretty great. Companies are very competitive in their offers, and I can switch at any moment since contracts are less common.

Whats more, fiber is mostly available throughout the country. Our current administration has an objective of providing even more infrastructure to remote locations. Obviously, US is much larger than France, but I still maintain that it can be vastly improved.

Concluding that 3Mbps is _enough_ is not grounded in reality. Lots of people are working from home these days, and I suspect remote work will continue to climb now that companies are becoming more comfortable with that option.
If people lose trust in fiat legal tender (e.g., their money starts losing value very quickly), they will look for an alternative. This is universal i believe, and no amount of central bank or legal banning will be able to reverse the loss of trust.

The USD has not yet had its trust lost by a majority of the world. Whether it will in the future or not depends on the US gov't and their repairing of fractured relationships and bad PR, as well as increase stability and future outlook.
Hi, author here!

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And then the sonar operator records the sound onto a cassette tape and plays it at 10x speed for the captain to convince them that they really are chasing another submarine.

I love that movie so much...
Biden Order Blocks Keystone XL Pipeline
It's especially odd considering that the vaccines don't make any claims about their effectiveness at reducing transmission of the disease.
Automated test suites suffer from the same problem.
I accept your reasoning. Still, I raise you a C-130 with rocket engines bolted to it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Credible_Sport

It's a 1980s idea, though.
I'm not so sure - but it might be ok if the racket app is submitted as an interpreter. Less sure, if it is for example used to implement a game engine and game data (code) is downloaded?

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

> 2.5.2 Apps should be self-contained in their bundles, and may not read or write data outside the designated container area, nor may they download, install, or execute code which introduces or changes features or functionality of the app, including other apps. Educational apps designed to teach, develop, or allow students to test executable code may, in limited circumstances, download code provided that such code is not used for other purposes. Such apps must make the source code provided by the Application completely viewable and editable by the user.
https://vim-adventures.com/ -- this one is perfect for kids (and free iirc)
The way I heard this (https://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/506010907021828096?l...) was "There are two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off by one errors."

Still good though.
Do you need the traffic regulation policy makers to understand the inner workings of a tesla engine, or combustion engine, or gear boxes, to make good traffic policies?
Ask HN: Only searching a cofunder, impossible task for latinamerican dreamer?
I have the experience, i have the ideas, i have the genius, i dont speak english, i dont go to a university, i am a self-thaught student... i rewriting web-components without knowledge of that, i rewriting Gauss theoremes without know nothing of math... but is impossible to found a person with my own intelligence, and worst in Bolivia my country, all people think that im crazy.
Is the answer to ignore anecdotes until long term data has been done? Sometimes science doesn't have the needed solution quickly enough to minimize damage. Being overly cautious in times of uncertainty has always been a human risk minimalization technique, might as well wield it, in moderation of course.
> Drawbacks over signal:

I'd like to add "network effect" to this, as I can draw a parallel to another failed attempt which made the same general mistake (placing a hurdle in front of newcomers). Google Plus.

When Google Plus hit the streets, Google had this stupid "invite only" system and it just became this huge thing within 24 hours to "buy invites" and so forth, people at that exact moment were ready and willing to try the new thing and were excited... then were hit with "yeah sorry, you can't sign up right now" and walked away never to return. They heard about it on Facebook, tried to go give it a try, then hit the hurdle and stayed on Facebook. It's my personal belief this initial step is what Google got wrong, all warts about the service aside. The first 48 hours was make or break, and they lost the momentum and never recovered.

Threema was the same to me - I heard about it years ago and read very positive reviews, however to even try it out I needed to spend money and convince a bunch of friends to spend money just to get the client and see what it was about. It may have been great! However if I couldn't have a friend to chat with, it was of $0 value to me to even buy the client. IMHO, this is the hole Threema now has to dig themselves out of - walled gardens with an initial adoption hurdle trigger a psychological "nah, maybe later" reaction out of many people.
Is there a site to check if there are any openings right now?
I sort-of disagree. Compilers that produce small and/or fast code and good error messages for complex languages are hard, but simple ones for simple languages aren’t.

Also, creating a toy one for a simple language is a fun educational exercise. We shouldn’t deter people from having a go at that by making them think “compilers are hard”.

For many simple languages (e.g. a language doesn’t need to have strings, multiple numeric types, operator precedence, or even have expressions containing multiple operators), writing a one pass compiler that always spills back operation results to memory isn’t too hard. Its assembly output can fairly easily be matched to the source, and it will provide a decent speed-up compared to a naive interpreter.

From there, the first few steps (peephole optimizations to remove store-load pairs, then a slightly more advanced register allocator) aren’t too difficult, either, and bring nice speed ups.

‘Real’ compilers are ‘just’ thousands more of such steps, each either extending the language or improving code generation, up from there. And yes, things do become very hairy somewhere along that route.
> Try telling that to sufferers of sickle cell anaemia.

And do you believe that the persons who in various cultures would be called “black” but are actually genetically 95+% “white” would be more likely to suffer from that? or conversely that the persons who are genetically 95% “black” but would in various cultures be called “white” are not?

Such risk factors do not of course care about arbitrary cultural racial classifications which are often noted to be asymmetrically contagious in various cultures.

> They’re not making a general statement about race, they’re relating it to a specific thing. “Race” may be an overloaded, and often misused term - certainly a misnomer - but it still can be used as a shorthand that is useful especially in medical contexts. Here, it’s probably to warn against generalising beyond whites, though the meaningfulness will be borne out by research with regards to this specific virus, not through your feelings or inferences about possible inferences.

If that be their intent, they firstly communicate it poorly and should have simply said so, and secondly it's useless.

Again, in various countries with a majority nonwhite population, a person who might genetically be 5% white, and 95% local population could conceivably be termed “white”: — is it their intention and your contention that the results of this research may then be applied to such a person that is effectively genetically close to local population?
That's a thing that's being implemented at the moment.

https://defense-update.com/20120214_idas-submarine-launched-...

Russians used to keep shoulder launched SAMs also. Less useful for obvious reasons though.
> The question is: can I create a situation which can not lead to stability?

From the perspective of the universe there is no "create" or "destroy" because time is not experienced, it is just one dimension of its existence. The concept of "create" only exists from the perspective of a 3 dimensional being experiencing the time dimension. We believe we can choose the future because we believe it hasn't happened yet, but that's an illusion of perspective. In a sense, this means that there is no free will, but that's a different argument.

So to answer the question: no, because the fundamental nature physics drops the probability that you would choose such an action to 0, the same way electrons have 0 probability of choosing paths that lead to the gap regions in the double slit experiment.

> And if so, what happens? Will it simply not work? Or will every situation lead to the possibility of stability?

From your perspective, every situation will lead to stability in the end, because the universe where it didn't has a probability of 0.

> Say, I travel back in time at the moment the universe "ends", and from that point onward in the past I destroy all time machines with a certain technology. Then, no one can fix what I did, and no stable loop could exist.

> I mean, my guess is that such a situation simply can not exist, therefore I can not experience it - I can not live in this universe where this is possible. So, I can only live in the universe where my technology somehow fails exactly when someone travels back in time to correct my loop.

Pretty much yes. Though universes in which the situation you describe is impossible to achieve regardless (either because time travel does not exist or because there's nothing you could do to prevent it from being invented again) are significantly more likely.
FWIW, as recently as a week ago, the Canadian PM has said that there are no plans (in Canada) for a federal vaccine passport— it may still happen on a regional or industry-specific basis, or they could change their minds, but this is where they're starting from:

“I think it’s an interesting idea but I think it is also fraught with challenges — we are certainly encouraging and motivating people to get vaccinated as quickly as possible but we always know there are people who won’t get vaccinated and not necessarily through a personal or political choice,” Trudeau said during an interview at the Reuters Next Conference.

“There are medical reasons, there are a broad range of reasons why someone might not get vaccinated and I’m worried about creating knock-on, undesirable effects in our community.”

https://globalnews.ca/news/7576955/coronavirus-vaccine-passp...
>What the article calls quietism has to do with inner non-resistance. That doesn't imply outer non-resistance.

In the abstract, I agree. But certainly for many people they may seem intuitively to go together -- see, for example, the comment of another user in this same thread, who asks "I wonder how does this feel in practice? what does it feel like to be without striving? to surrender? I understand this intellectually but I struggle to understand this in practical terms."

All I was trying to emphasize was that the practical, real-world side of Beckett was substantially more bold and generous than one might suppose based on some of the themes in his art, which is a point your anecdote about the jacket also makes.
(To explain to others)

So now All your base are belong to us (https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-your-base-are-belong-to-u...).
I have no problem paying €4 or even €40. Problem is that I don't know when I can be locked out of an app due to Apple or Google policies. Not the fault of the creator(s), obviously.

That, and as another commenter pointed out: network effects. I'll pay alright, no worries. But how I even test the thing if none of my people are there?

And why no free trial? I'd evaluate the messenger in maximum 30 minutes.