skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and I’m saying it’s not possible. Everything these people do and have done is with the blessing of established countries, they simply don’t have the resources to establish viable corporate colonies outside the reach of civilisation.

The primary blocker is that the nations who have nurtured these characters will not take kindly to any assertion of independent sovereignty. They’re funny that way, and tend to start to start wars over such things. $200 billion is a lot of money for a person to posses, but it’s a rounding error in an international conflict.

Best to stick to what they are good at: finding highly profitable niches (through profit and government subsidies) within existing civilisations (which I suspect is what they’re actually planning).
Those are still much better odds than with normal gambling.
True, because you might win a Nobel prize: https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-doctor-who-drank...
This is genuinely shocking. When an institution like the cia is more interested in maintaining its image than its agents..
sad times to be an American.
Non-rhetorically, I'd encourage you to look at which vaccines we're missing and why. Do any of those apply to COVID19?

Early vaccines were made in the scientific equivalents of modern basements and worked adequately well. Influenza vaccines come out each year like clockwork. There are plenty of vaccines which just aren't rocket science, including for virtually all major historical viral diseases which wiped out or crippled large numbers of people.

And then there are ones like AIDS.

With COVID19, as far as I can tell, virtually all reasonable vaccine candidates DID work, and it was mostly a question of how quickly and how well. I'm much more excited about a 95% effective shot than a 60% effective one. The Moderna one was developed, quite literally, overnight. Once Moderna had the sequence, they had a (later proven working) vaccine candidate more-or-less instantly, in January, long before they'd seen the virus live, let alone had a way to check that it worked.

Did you see many /failed/ COVID19 vaccines? I saw a few /worse/ vaccine candidates. A couple failed in some populations (e.g. Sanofi worked well for younger people, but not older). Some didn't have competitive effectiveness (e.g. Merck, presumably, but they didn't release enough to know when I last looked). Some had side effects (UQ/CSL would cause people to fail AIDS tests later). Etc. I think all of these will compete for some of the logistics chains as the winners, so it doesn't make sense to push with /less effective/ vaccines.

My general impression is that COVID19, at least unmutated, is not hard to make effective vaccines for. There are questions about longevity and mutations, but for now, I can see the sticking-peptides-up-nose approach potentially working. I mean, compare that to early vaccine efforts like variolation (which worked), or the whole flu of 1918 vaccine effort (which didn't).

Disclaimer: Not an MD or biologist.
I have also found that most TDD practitioners don't even know about generative tests (QuickCheck and similars), when these kind of tests - when well written - can catch much more subtle bugs than unit tests. Also there is a time where you should invest effort in monitoring and not in testing.

Testing with mutations is certainly interesting but I never had the opportunity to try it.
It would check the arguments and return type of the function. Map takes a function with three arguments, toReadableNumber only takes one, therefore the functions are of a different type. So someNumbers.map(toReadableNumber) would be an error and not execute at all, instead of being a "bad practice" / potential mistake.
That much is obvious. The blog post has an example of something that appears to be non-breaking (at least it would be in many other languages), but actually does break things. Both the library creator and user messed up in the example given, but if you're not intimately familiar with the language, both mistakes seem reasonable.
Yeah probably, it was just what immediately struck my mind.

As far as strange occurrences, I doubt we’ll ever have a satisfactory answer given how much of the market is now run by black boxes.
Right wing is turning into a terrorist organization worldwide. This type of thing should be illegal and political parties should not be doing this. The right has basically denounced common sense and good of the commu by it because it realizes that without fearmongering, fake news and brainwashing, no one is going to vote for them. I'm really sad this is the case. If you censor them, that's against free speech, and if you dont, they do stuff like this.
The Guide to Git I wish I had before I started my current job
https://archive.is/uvFSQ
I've written a lot of high-performance code in C#, and in general I like it. What's really great about C# is that you can write maintainable, idiomatic, managed C# (using the GC etc), that is actually very performant for many cases. The you can dip into unsafe code (unmanaged memory, pointers etc) just for the really performance critical parts where managed code isn't fast enough (e.g. if you need to write/manage a lot of buffers).

There is more "ceremony" involved with unsafe C# code, but things like Span<T> and Memory<T> have made high-perf code so much easier in many cases.

Still, so for something that's basically all highly performance sensitive, something like Rust would be a good choice (I don't actually use Rust yet, but am planning to learn).
What about the damage of not having a functional healthcare system? The only reason that the death rate is so low is because people can get to hospital and get treatment. If we just let the thing rip then hospitals would have to start having policies of not providing care to people with covid-19, or we just say goodbye to the concept of emergency care in general.
In Ruby there’s a similar situation.

While blocks, procs, and lambdas all have arity metadata, only lambdas check for the argument count when called. The other two drop excess arguments and fill missing arguments with nil.
I don't think we can excuse it by citing the nature of source-to-source compilers. Other languages like Haxe, Elm, ReasonML, ClojureScript etc that target JS don't suffer from this.
Got it now. Thanks very much <3
Mindfactory is one of the biggest sellers of hardware in Germany. They always have a budget GFX card for around 50 EUR on their starting page, but recently they have replaced it every week or so with an older and worse model at the same price. Right now they're featuring the 7-year-old GT710! Two years ago, I'd have thought this could only happen in case of total economic collapse.
That sounds like "street dealer" propaganda. There are a lot of actors whose income source is threatened who are parroting unsubstantiated claims about legal products.

It's a very simple plant to grow ideally. For a large industrial operation that is under no concern for law enforcement, run as a normal business, it's pretty easy and cheap to do things as optimally as possible.
Take a depressed person who wants to commit suicide, but is too depressed to do it. Put thing on an anti-depressant that raises their mood and improves them over the course of a few weeks. There risk for a period in there where a patient has not exited self-harm territory, but now has energy to do things - including self-harm.

The drug isn't causing suicide. It's just unfortunately taking a patient through a risky period.

Many people do not understand that anti-depressants don't work instantaneously. They take time. That is where the risk comes from.
Please don’t make out like my comment is some black and white anti lockdown comment. It’s not. It’s not saying let’s not lockdown. It’s saying there are serious consequences on the other end. That many people who still have their livelihoods and happiness dismiss as “misinformation”
You probably wouldn't allow Comcast to filter out all catholic content for subscribers even though the internet hadn't been thought of when the religion was founded.
I think a more important lesson before you get anywhere near this one in that logic chain is:

Don't attempt to code for every possible future.
Well the issue mentioned is that map calls the callback function with up to three arguments[1].

A type check could prevent this because it would require map to take a reference to a function with three parameters, or the compiler would complain inside the map implementation.

Similarly, passing it a function with only one parameter would be a type violation and the compiler would complain.

Now in a language with type checking, you could still potentially run afoul.

Say the map function was overloaded with one variant for one-parameter callbacks, one variant for two-parameter callbacks etc. Then the compiler might figure out it could use the second overload if the "toReadableNumber" function got changed to take the extra "base" parameter.

So again you end up with the numbers getting converted with a variable base.

Though, IMHO, having such an overloaded map function is inviting trouble and is a very poor design.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Definitely, but if you start treating religion as a mental illness like OP suggested, you ought to also consider flat earthers and conspiracy theorists the same. And what is the line between a conspiracy theory in the usual sense and simply a yet-unproven theory that a conspiracy actually exists? That the government is spying on us all the time might've sounded like a conspiracy theory before Snowden, so should all the people who believed it have been committed to mental hospitals? Obviously this is a slippery slope argument in and of itself, but it illustrates the possibilities for abuse.

But yes, religion seems to be a bit of a get-out-of-jail-free card these days - people and organizations get away with a lot of shady stuff under the disguise of religion and something really needs to be done about it.
He's not really Doing Science in the manner you are describing, nor is that the intent as far as I can tell. The aim is not to contribute to the body of knowledge but to inatead to experiment (yes, it is literally LARPing, but that's a perfectly fine hobby) and hopefully reduce chance of getting covid.
No. Homebrew should use C++ and C++ is beautiful than that bogus Rust. I'm willing to war with Rust Cultists. Billion dollars would be spent on Ads in coming weeks. I will start from YouTube to show how cool is C++
Samsung Pitches $17B Chip Plant in Texas – Manufacturing Business Technology
Current 2020 automotive microcontrollers are nowhere near 7nm. 65nm and 40nm is where it's at right now.
Drug legalization, Snowden/Assange pardon, de-classifying stuff, congressional term limits...

For Trump, being anti-establishment was always about catchy slogans "drain the swamp" and irrelevant "own the media" stunts like skipping the White House Correspondents' dinner.
Wsl2 sometime corrupt .zsh_history and Git (insider build fix)
Gives a chance for people who own stock in companies that don't trade on the stock market, to sell that stock.
This isn't true. Aging is now more of a concern at 16/7nm to the point there's extra margin specially for it. But all that margin does is delay the impact beyond the realistic lifetime of the chip (normally approx 10 years for consumer stuff). Sometimes you can't afford the extra timing margin and you have to use extra anti-aging circuitry instead.

https://semiengineering.com/chip-aging-becomes-design-proble...
> I also believe in most other _dynamic_ languages this is allowed

Most definitely not. It's not allowed in Python, it's not allowed in Ruby, it's not allowed in any Lisp I know of[0], … it is allowed in PHP, which is about what I'd expect from that[1]. In most dynamic languages the arity is not a suggestion[2].

Which is exactly the issue at hand: `Array#map` was (stupidly) defined as calling its callback with 3 parameters. The last 2 are useless 99.99% of the time (and in better language you'd compose them in if and only if you needed them), as a result it's almost universal that you'd pass single-parameter callbacks which works… until it doesn't because the callback now takes 2+ parameters and starts taking in account the previously ignored garbage `Array#map` feeds it. The average JS developer likely doesn't even know Array#map callbacks receive 3 parameters, and usually aren't going to think about it: in 99% of cases it's has no relevance whatsoever.

[0] but most lisps make significant uses of variable-arity functions, which is a very different and much more formal proposition

[1] PHP's one saving grace being that HoFs have historically not been much of a thing, though I have not tracked how it's used these days

[2] as long as it's present at all AFAIK in Perl functions don't have formal parameters lists
Possible but costly. The US lacks a single information system regarding criminal history. There are private investigators, other private companies in the business of "record retrieval", but the results are not 100% accurate.
Why should SEC be investigating naked shorting right now, without any evidence of naked shorting happening?
Where do you see that the shortages only affect 7nm parts? Because they don't, a wide range is impacted.
Unsound type system was a sacrifice made for easy migration from javascript.
I wonder how many pieces he looted were unreturned loot from the Napoleonic conquest? Seems like it'd be a perfect topic for an old style History Channel documentary.
Indeed, that could also have been the point.

Although it of course seemed quite strange at the time that they would publicly announce that they had closed their positions, unless they wanted the price to drop... heh, it was a mess.

In a sense it was the perfect combination of "limited knowledge" (because only a select few had access to Short Interest estimates) and "limited understanding" (because people thought an unchanging level of Short Interest would necessarily imply that no shorts had closed their positions -- when in reality it was much more likely that new, quite reasonable shorts had instantly taken their place).

Ironically though, I think there could have still been a larger squeeze simply because there still was plenty of shorted stock and people continued to buy, not understanding that their main "opponent" had already tapped out.
The GitHub repo contains more details on how the algorithm works: https://github.com/AnonGit90210/RamanujanMachine

> We have continued fractions which are generated by polynomials. What does that mean? object of the type: a(0)+b(1)/(a(1)+b(2)/...)) where a,b are polynomials with integer coefficients. This is the RHS. On the LHS we have a function of some constant, either rational or ULCD. A ULCD function is of the type f(const)=(u/const + const/l + c)/d while a rational function is the ratio of two polynomials. We seek for a match between some LHS function on a constant to a continued fraction. To do this, we enumerate over the coefficients of a,b and those of the rational func on the LHS/the ulcd parameters. They're all integers. We actually don't compare between the LHS to a continued fraction, but to a continued fraction after we applied some function to it, e.g. contfrac^2, sqrt(contfrac), 1/contfrac etc. In order to enhance the algorithm's complexity, we first enumerate over the parameters of the RHS, saving the results to a hashtable, then enumerate over the LHS and look for a match in the table. This is a TMTO (time-memory tradeoff), it's called MITM (meet in the middle), you can look it up if it's not clear. We first find matches, then filter redundant results (discussed later on), filter only continued fractions that converge fastly, find how fast they are converging, and how many iterations we should calculate to get the desired precision. We calculate them to that precision, and filter again.

This doesn't seems that complicated, but at the same time probably gives no mathematical insights as to how to derive those formulaes. I can see how this would look pointless to some people.
Asp Net Core 5 Rest API Authentication with JWT Step by Step
Interest rates have gone down though. Presumably you sell your house and break the current 3.5% mortgage. Then buy a bigger / more expensive house and lock in at 1.5%. Overall your monthly payments remain similar.
If my life depended on having a self-driving car ready in a year to drive me to California, I'd have a self-driving car ready in a year. It could drive me to California with perhaps only a 25% chance of an accident.

I mean, it might be driving with the emergency blinkers on the whole time, at 10 miles per hour, and flashing the horn, or crazy stuff like that, but making a basic self-driving car just isn't out-of-scope for an amateur.

DARPA urban challenge was 2007, and 6 cars finished an urban course, with the fastest averaging 14MPH, and most developed mostly by students, with professor support. Today, I can get a lot of that stuff CoTS, open source, or read papers about what they did.

I couldn't sell millions of self-driving cars, because of edge cases, manufacturing, or what not, but it's not fundamentally different from biohacking. Technology moves forward.

Disclaimer: I'm not an MD, biologist, or similar, but I am pretty good at all the stuff that goes into a self-driving car. I'm not claiming a /typical serious amateur/ could build one. I'm claiming /I/ could build one.
> Idaho is going the other way

Which is great, for the following reason: a really good way to actually know the value of something is conducting A/B experiments.

If Idaho keeps cannabis illegal, we'll be able to actually measure what effects good or bad that has on society, including tax opportunity costs.
Hi! Could you please extend the meaning of word "global-scale" a bit? Does this only mean that users will connect to the nearest server or there are more tricks on backend to scale PUB/SUB? You are writing that "messages are optimized for speed across our global network" – could you also elaborate more what do you mean saying this?
The end of the privacy of digital correspondence
Have you read the link? This is not about dismissing the genuine plight of people affected by the lockdown. This is about actual, literal, disinformation being spread.

We need to weigh the consequences of restrictions against the consequences of not having those restrictions, and this kind of disinformation is simply trying to tip the scales by diluting the factual basis on which we all make that assessment with lies.
Next you'll tell me they put the sweets (candy) at the counter in the shops (stores) for the customers ... seriously.
I am looking forward to Neuralink so much. I hope it could help with severe ADHD without the side effects of stimulants (of which I need large dosages).
That may be for the static type system but you could still check and signal an error at runtime instead of silently ignoring it.
Agreed. Considering how effective drones are in the Middle East, I'm wondering if they might be useful here? We could use them to keep an eye on right wing domestic terrorists at a very low cost. If we see that they are planning another insurrection, we could hit them with a few missiles. If we're worried about collateral damage we could use those missiles with blades from Israel.

Either that or round them up in camps. Maybe re-education through labor? We could take care of the infrastructure issues at the same time and don't have to worry about OSHA regulations!
There is a big difference between legitimate arguments about the risks involved in lockdown vs not locking down and entirely false claims about hospital admissions being at normal levels, PCR testing not working and the purpose of the lockdown being to make it 'easier for us to control' being spread by groups mentioned at this link.

The fact the rich, educated and connected people discussed in the article are seeking to exploit the discontent felt by ordinary people impoverished by being unable to work and lonely in their personal lives makes them worse, not better.
Mathematical physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf has got you covered:

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-subtle-art-of-the-mathema...
> the effects propagate from one manufacturer to another, while everyone runs to get enough stock to avoid having to close.

Sounds a lot like the bullwhip effect, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect
One does not preclude the other. Governments should be obliged to cover 100% of the damage caused to businesses and employees by their measures. Instead of having businesses foot the government bills.
What would be hard right if not the nationalist brexit party

Compared to what? The Brexit Party has several ex-members of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Any update is going to be backwards incompatible to some extent, even a change to the version number can cause and has caused breakage in software that has buggy version checks. Because of that, taking backwards compatibility as an absolute is not useful, and instead we generally limit it to where the old version was being used correctly in supported ways. Whether calling a function with more arguments than it is specified to take is supported will depend on who is maintaining that function, but unless documented I would assume it isn't.
Yeah in the mobile space - the whole x86 translation layer they implemented with custom hardware though would have blown the tops off the best engineers at Microsoft who work on their ARM Surface products.

I'm pretty interested to see what's in store for Apple during this transition
Honestly, I don't know the first thing about the situation over there, so I wanted to make sure it didn't sound like I was blaming the oppressed people for being opressed and not fighting for their freedom hard enough.

But if there are indeed large parts of the population that supoort this kind of oppression, then that might actually support the argument for not doing business with them. In that case, not only do you anger the victims to revolt, but also maybe force the oppressors to reconsider if oppressing whatever group of people is worth losing access to so much of modern technology over.

Of course, the possibility is that the oppressors just lash out and make things worse for the victims, or find other ways of hurting them, but despite that possibility, I'd still argue it's more moral for G&A to refuse their demands and leave the country if they have to.
What data on myself I collect and why (2020)
I really don't get why some people hate the "lesswrong rationalists" so much. Such people seem to use rhetorical flushes that stretch credibility a fair bit. For inatance, the parent comment is both stating this is Darwin Award worthy and that at the same level as anti-vaxxers, frauds, etc.

Given Covid's lethality, comparing not taking a vaccine at all to making a batch following expert instructions (in addition to taking the standard mass produced vaccine) seems unreasonable to me.
Not including TypeScript.
Ok. So what would constitute as hard/far left?

Under your definitions' it seems like being a nationalist (believing in the nation-state and sovereignty) & white supremacy are synonymous — which obviously they are not, unless you are suggesting all nationalists are racist or something.
No, that's likely true wherever he buried them. Outskirts probably means a fair distance from where the actual dumping happened, so if someone stumbled upon it they'd think it fell out of a truck or something and ignore it.
I agree with the article you linked.
Mathematical knowledge is about compression. Most if not all of these formulae are just specializations of known formulae. So the value of this approach is questionable. Generating these forms can possibly be done in a much simpler way.
And wildly successful at that. At least I can use typescript with my existing codebase. Rewriting everything in haxe isn’t exactly appealing.
People have more power when they form a group. And some will promote any conviction as long as it tips the scales in their favor. It's A/B testing driven politics.
And RHEL is still a thing, and RHEL 8 will be supported until 2029.