skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because a household family uses internet for more then a single zoom video. If I have two kids and work from home, 3Mbps isn’t sufficient to support a house.
My wife is a pediatrician. She uses Apgar Scores in evaluating babies weeks and months after birth. From what I understand, it's often useful to know the 1-minute and 5-minute Apgar Scores of an infant or young child, and specifically why they were scored less than 9/10 or 10/10, because some of these issues are germane to that child's future development.
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Now this would be funny if it did not bring up painful memories. :-)
Fermi's paradox says nothing about how likely aliens are to visit earth. It notes that we can't see any sign of them when we look into the sky.

Perhaps the humans don't care about the ants, but the ants damn well can see signs of human activity.
I think this is one of the areas that functional programming naturally steers the programmer in the right direction.
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> Fermi’s paradox is pretentious in that it assumes we humans have some sort of cosmic significance.

No, it assumes that of all the incalculable advanced civilizations it hypothesizes to exist, at least some would be interested, not all, not the majority, not a significant number, but at least one in a million.
How about making sure that whoever is in the chair in front of me does not recline it at any point in the journey.
The PM/task software should have reminders (email and/or push). I use ClickUp as my master agenda. I do the task at the top of the list (sorted by due date and priority) and then move to the next one.

> The problem is that it is quite time and energy-consuming to follow-up with people on the tasks. Any suggestions?

I don't know. I think this is just the overhead of working on a team. Our company hates it too, so we have a PM whose only job is to do that part.
Then she married a lawyer and finally she got fu**d
Original Nintendo Game Boy unboxing doesn't go as planned
:) that's a better way to put it to be honest. Throw enough crap and something will stick = growth hacking.
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This article is not great and does not live up to the clickbait headline. He lampoons airline execs for thinking the problems are welcome screens and harsh lighting. He then points to bad delayed flights ranking and poor customer satisfaction. He then gives a solution of wet wipes, armrests, and more audio announcements. I hope the book is better than the article.
This doesn't surprise me.

In general, underwater sound attenuates more quickly as you increase its frequency. Foot-fall thumping has a pretty strong low-frequency component. It's also repetitious, which (I'm guessing but don't know for sure) probably makes it easier for a sonar operator to notice.
In some countries, such as the UK, doctors are generally salaried employees.

This is not true. A GP practice is a private partnership like a legal chambers which bills the NHS for its services. This fact is strangely overlooked by people angry about “privatising the NHS”, it’s always been this way.
Can they make people take contraceptives, I wonder?

What about “pep-pills”? Can they require that?

Can they coerce anti-psychotic drugs to those who need this medication to stay balanced?
the reason the analogy doesn’t hold up is there isn’t a system there — that’s a set of actually individual choices. When you see systematic behavior, you need to look for the system to fix it. The problem with blame is it doesn’t get you far enough, even if it feels good or right. Finding and fixing incentives is the only way to systematically enact change. Whether it feels good or not.
I've frequented the occasional Haskell discussion on HN and the outcome is usually people refuting this point and not arguing in favour of it.
Catnip is the only socially acceptable drug that I’ve seen that you can administer to animals. Imagine the outrage if you substitute catnip with cannabis or alcohol and post it to YouTube. Granted in the case of alcohol you most certainly could kill the animal.
How exactly does a redirect like that work? I didn't know links provided context when loading the subsequent page.
That would just be worked around with VPNs etc, so then they have to spend a huge amount of their dev time not on features but instead on working out how to detect where the users are geolocated. IP, language, credit card address etc. Just not worth it and always going to be many edge cases. One price for all is fairer even if it is very expensive for some locations/people
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"Yesterday both Bitcoin.org and Bitcoincore.org received allegations of copyright infringement of the Bitcoin whitepaper by lawyers representing Craig Steven Wright. In this letter, they claim Craig owns the copyright to the paper, the Bitcoin name, and ownership of bitcoin.org. They also claim he is Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, and the original owner of bitcoin.org. Bitcoin.org and Bitcoincore.org were both asked to take down the whitepaper."
Tabnine reduces memory usage with a single shared process for local inference
At 360mbps you may try implement basic SDR with PLL trickery.
I like the parallel of Michael Phelps. It is relatively well known that Phelp’s unique physical proportions makes him physiologically advantaged in competitive swimming and yet to be an elite swimmer at the highest level he had coaches pointing out any minor inefficiency in his stroke mechanics.

There is no doubt that many individuals can learn most everything they need on the internet or with a library card, however there is a real advantage to receiving feedback and having an expert to help guide your education. When I was in graduate school I was exposed to areas of study I would have ignored or glossed over. Areas that I thought I knew enough about and understood, but was actually woefully ignorant of.
> Then they should simply word how they drew their sampling

They do literally cite in words where they got their sample data in the first two sentences of the linked article.

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.

There is no particular additional 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 potential additional 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.
I shall never look at calculus the same way again. :) Thank you, comrade!
Tracking and promoting the usage of a Covid-19 contact tracing app
Obligatory "They're Made out of Meat": https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...

A brilliant sci-fi short story about not necessarily how we're uninteresting, but instead a bit too interesting.
There's not potential life-altering side effects from wearing PPE or using plumbing, and those things are outside the body not injected into it.

Seems like a pretty easy distinction to me.
That's how you get out of the simulation.
I think this might count as a "checklist" rather than a "metric", and crucially there aren't quite the same incentives to game the metric.
> Then you are working for nicer people than I was.

Maybe. I also rarely meet with actual customers, and I'm sure that helps too.
Exactly, but some people will pass it off as nothing major. But others will lose their mind, phone customer service and demand the manager because there wasn't enough sticky tape on the packaging as well as the grinding gears, even a whiff of a lawsuit will get thrown out there no doubt.

It's completely dependent on the individual and their ability to determine what is wrong, what is right and what their experience is to be able to determine that their opinion is in line with what you would expect.

Remember that dress? Was it blue or gold? Same difference.
The hard fact is there are no shortcuts to interstellar travel, barring new physics. Any trip will consume vast amounts of energy and it will take decades if not centuries or longer. Advanced tech may reduce the expense to your civilization but the fact won't change.

While all life, ants or not, may be universally worthy of study, is it worth that much sacrifice? Also, if the ants talk, exchanging messages would make more sense for study.
Exactly.

E.g, a possible example immutable scenario that doesn't violate anything (with each number representing a discrete period of time)

1. An old man appears and says hi to me and disappear.
2. 20 years pass.
3. I obtain a time machine.
4. I travel back in time and return (in my absence from this time period, I'm at time step 1 saying hi to myself)

The key being that we tend to see this as:

1a. Nothing happens.
1b.An old man appears and says hi to me and disappear.
2. 20 years pass.
3. I obtain a time machine.
4. I travel back in time and return (in my absence from this time period, I'm at time step 1b saying hi to myself).

At which point 1b looks like a change from 1a, so we conclude there's mutability. But if the universe is immutable, then 1a never existed in the first place. I always, immutably had will have (sorry, I could not resist) travelled back in time to greet myself

And that removes e.g. the grandfather paradox, because a static, immutable representation of it that is consistent with our other rules (not having people spontaneously come into existence, for example) isn't possible.
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Someone managed 640x480 pixel doubled DVI bitbanging: https://github.com/Wren6991/picodvi
Of all the potential Fermi outcomes, I find the “uninterested aliens” to be the silliest.

More likely is the universe is massive, and the aliens have already visited. Millions or billions of years ago.
>> I don't see a way how airline could have influenced that.

Perhaps they could maintain sufficient de-icing capacity/equipment? I'm in Canada. De-icing is a normal part of flying in the winter. If there is a line/delay for de-icing, it is because the airlines chose not to buy enough.

Fyi, de-icing is also a lie told to many passengers as cover for other things. A plane must takeoff within a fixed time after de-icing fluid is applied. So an aircraft wont even line up for it until absolutely every other problem/delay is solved. If they are talking about de-icing delays, and the engines are not yet running, they are covering for something.
@amelius: there's a bunch of RPi-based laptops, but at those price points you might as well go with a T60.

https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/articles/the-best-raspberry-pi...

A 7" display + case + mini Bluetooth keyboard could be a good middle ground, too.
In Thai language, the word for orange and the color for orange are the same. Tan and sugar are also the same word, which makes sense because raw sugar is a tan color. Raw sugar is what is commonly sold as sugar Thailand.
On most legacy airlines and probably many others, international flights also tend to include announcements in English which means this can happen in three languages even when flying to places that only speak one language each. However, I've had many flights not include the local language of one place, which is arguably worse, although a flight attendant would likely be able to provide a translation. The ideal (as mentioned) for me is to just limit the content of the announcements by excluding connections and other bits that can easily be found in the airport.
It's a violation of bodily sovereignty in ways those others arent.

We regard our bodies as our own possessions, and something like a vaccination is a potentially irreversible change to our body (etc.).

This is not an argument to say bodily sovereignty shouldn't be "ignored" here, only that it is a different case.

EDIT: anyone want to explain the downvote?
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Truly a heap of metrics that eat out the time of middle management, and consequently of the people down the hierarchical pyramid. It over-allocates resources towards resource management itself rather than towards products themselves

You mean, it provides lots of avenues for the management class to provide cushy jobs for each other, at the expense of the real workers. Most organisations could ditch most of their middle management without skipping a beat.
"Computer science could be called the post-Turing decline in the study of formal systems." (Dijkstra, I think.)

"Calling it Computer Science is like calling surgery 'knife science'." (Also Dijkstra, I think.)

"Artificial Intelligence is when the machine wakes up and asks, 'Hey, what's in it for me?'."

"There are two hard problems in computers: naming, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors." (Funny 'cause it's true.)

"Which will attain self-awareness first, Wolfram or Wolfram Alpha?" (A little mean-spirited, perhaps, but funny. I respect Dr. Wolfram, I suspect he's one of the people that, a thousand years from now, folks will still be talking about when you and I are long forgotten.)
GDP is an excellent example, I think. Basically, it measures the total flow of wealth inside a country. If everyone behaves rationally this is a good proxy for wealth as a whole. But what happens if the government would setup a group of companies that trade immaterial or trivial products amongst each other at absurd prices? The faster that group trades, the higher the GDP. A metric has become a goal.
It's also not true that the only time ants come into contact with humans is when they're being observed. Even if aliens were uninterested in us, it wouldn't necessarily mean we'd expect not to see any signs of alien life.

In the same way an ant might stumble across a human building or notice a human above the grass, you would think if life was so prevalent in our galaxy that there would be some sign of their technology.
Are you referring to the music that's (mostly?) Steve Allen's piano playing? Yeah, totally.

I also never knew that Steve Allen was so good at piano. Before watching that video, all I knew about him was that he'd had a popular TV show.
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She was gay, an alcoholic, suffered from lifelong clinical depression and had a tough upbringing, not really a combination that will produce an easy person given her times. But she gave us Tom Ripley and, incredibly, made us root for him somehow. That's a rare talent.
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In the movies it usually doesn't end well for us. Maybe we stay below the radar for now.
> just exploring possibilities and being imaginative, I think it’s pretty cool.

I completly agree with that, but I believe you can do that without being disingenuous, as Carl Sagan did.

> since he’s not wrong or right

This is what is written on the back of his book:
"Harvard’s top astronomer, showed it was not an asteroid; it was moving too fast along a strange orbit, and left no trail of gas or debris in its wake. There was only one conceivable explanation: the object was a piece of advanced technology created by a distant alien civilization."

How is that not wrong? It is even worse than wrong since he is very aware of the other potential explanations, it's straigh up lying.
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Classic HN comment.
Yeah, $10/mo, + the time needed to setup everything + the time to maintain it + the security holes to patch yourself + the downtime because the instance rebooted for some reasons + the monitoring of the service + all the time wasted because you could have simply lived your life and paid the reasonable fees for the service in the first place.
Hiring is hard.

Graduating from college is a clear indicator that someone was able to at least commit and follow through with something and should have at minimal basic knowledge in a given area.
This is hilarious. Even when it can't find the location, the error message is funny.

Putting Bernie on top of Mt.Blanc is quite good.
They can't require things that have a direct impact on the employee's private life, so contraceptives and anti-psychotic drugs are out.

They can't require things that have unknown medical impact, so random pills out.

(However, some food items can be mandatory. For example if you're a sporter, you can be required by your employer to take certain supplements.)
> deaths of patients who have died in hospitals in England

Not including deaths of patients who died outwith hospitals.
>Also, in classical languages there is a color that is used to describe rust, e.g. "rubigo" in Latin.

Such a weird way to have Rust, Ruby and Go in one sentence
What direction is that? The direction of correct software?
I thought the punchline was going to be, you know you're a programmer if you get hung up by the second sentence. How can he "[put] the frog *back* in his pocket." the first time after finding it by the road?
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We are doing some work in this domain to make security questionnaires less of pain à la at https://securitypalhq.com/. Would love to get your inputs or on ways if we could help you out.
Only if you consider conserving the energy sum of all possible spatial locations to be the rule we need to keep.

If instead the rule is that we need to conserve the energy sum of all possible locations in space-time, then no law is broken.
> barring new physics

Our understanding of physics changes constantly!
I think some countries require that the terms of employment be somewhat related to the nature of the work. Contraceptives might be banned by that. (IANAL, just someone who's had this explained by a lawyer.)

In a fully remote company, where you never meet customers, vendors or other employees, requiring vaccination might be viewed by a court as unrelated to the work. If you're supposed to meet customers or other employees and there's a pandemic going on, though...
If you do drop me a DM - having "fun" fighting conversion to pdf etc - the plan is eventually to self publish and then actually have a book in our hands written by "us"

:-)
PyCharm/intellij display the “code” part of f-strings similar to how a variable declaration or function call would be. I’m sure it’s possible for any other editors out there to apply some nicer formatting to f-strings as well.
>And again the cruise missiles are pilotless aircraft in everything but name.

No you mean drones not missiles, an aircraft is not made to explode, one exception:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokosuka_MXY-7_Ohka
As I already wrote: That's exactly what I am worried about.
I do believe that tech-companies are not the right instance to make those decisions.

But: There is noone else, who is able to control the growing beast of social networks that they created.
And in parts they can not control it either. There are too many languages used, that no employee or AI understands.

In the end we are darned to watch and hope they make the correct decisions.
I found Sir Terry to be great with various mannerisms and speech patterns he devised for his characters. Just this small detail can add so much memorability to a character who may have been relatively minor otherwise. Like Inigo Skimmer's regular "mmh-mmph" in The Fifth Elephant which could be a sarcastic snigger or a nervous laugh and to some degree it is left up to the imagination of the reader to interpret it based. It somehow makes the character relatable and realistic.
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Valve and five game publishers fined millions for geo-blocking Steam games in EU
at least two reasons come to mind: simplified bootstrapping and being a testcase and a source for feature requests for the language itself (especially important early on when there are few large codebases in that language).
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I am developer who has worked for about 5 years. I started with java, spring boot and worked for 2.5 years and later shifted to React and JS and wroked for 2.5 years. I can write mobile app also.

Now I am trying to work in the decentralized products like ethereum in rust.
I can nearly work on any language but I am not relly good in any single one. I can go through the code base and can start working on them irrespective of the language.

Should I just pick one thing and continue working on it? or Should I keep on experimenting.
This is a great example of a doc built on weasel word arguments.

All qualitative until it can’t avoid quantitative metrics like “many”
I seem to recall in the late 80s and early 90s the idea of submarines being able to launch surface to air missiles being discussed. If you're a sub and a helicopter is dipping a sonar, you know exactly where the helo is but you cannot shoot at it, even if you surfaced. The idea, as I recall, was to release some buoyant device that, when it surfaced, would launch 1 to 4 SAMs that would go into active seek mode and then lock in on whatever flying object they found. Lots of things can go wrong with this idea... which is probably why nothing has been in the military media about it.
Much of *Ops deals with the art of state management against an existing black-box base, which is not a bad skill to have as regards test-driven development. The big step is to take ownership of that base: storage, memory, exception handling and instrumentation are your next areas of investigation. Then you can move on to API and client development.
For me, the COVID isn't as much of an issue as its restrictions. To travel internationally right now you have to get a test for most countries (which needs to be done 2 days before flight and costs a lot of money), make sure to have the results on time, and even then, when you arrive you are likely to get quarantined for weeks. Or you get quarantined when you return back from your trip.
Yes. Or don't need to visit "in person" to see what's going on (or visited in the past thousands of years and has seen "enough" for now).
This. And to add my own expansion to this, the number of ants studied by humans is effectively zero.

First, out of all the ant biomass, humans have only seen a very, very tiny amount. Ants are so numerous, and so ubiquitous, Google claims 10 billion billion. Yet this number seems incredibly low, for apparently (wikipedia) some ant colonies have 100s of millions of workers.

Regardless, as a human, can you imagine trying to visit each ant colony? How about if you lived just as long as an ant, or thereabouts? Say, a few years?

How about ant colonies which appear, die off? And how about the fact that ants have been around since the dinosaurs, and our modern civilisation has been around for a few hundred?

And how about if you are a researcher? Let's say you stand back, and watch the ants. Do the ants even notice? Especially the main colony?

Or are you looking at a few out of endless numbers? What do they report when they get back. Do you even need to be near the ant colony to watching them?

And after you've looked at 100 ant colonies, do you need to look at another 1000? Million? We keep discovering subtle branches of insects, so why would a.. I dunno, being comprised of energy, find different (after the first 1000) in a species with a bunch of meaty limbs?
Spent trying to parse old encoded documents. Spent a month doing a deep dive into internals of bytes and formats.

Finally just wrote code to loop through all possible encodings and ways to change encodings.
Wait until a match against a known string was found.

Proper encodings found in a few minutes.