skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Go core team intensely dislikes tunables, so Go has very few of these (really the opposite of the JVM).

There is a central issue for GC tunables, but it's mostly where the various concern GC have gone to die so far: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/42430
This is just so weird, I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around it. Last year the US issued two rounds of economic stimulus, with $2T and $2.3T price tags. Our inflation rate for 2020 was 1.23%, below the Fed target of 25. In fact, it's been 1.51% on average since 2008[0].

So why is there now suddenly a huge risk of inflation, even hyper-inflation? What has changed? The current proposal is for $1.9T stimulus bill, less than half of last year's bills, but now we're at risk of inflation running out of control overnight?

I don't get it.

0. https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/2008?amount=1
Walking/running/driving with headphones is likely unwise:

1) you may not hear vehicles, people, animals that pose a risk. If you're in a bad part of town, some bystanders may take you as a target.

2) listening material is a distraction. Whether books-on-tape or music, what you're listening to can effectively distract you. Ergo the occasional earphone user who walks onto an open manhole.

Best to stay in the here-and-now. Earphones are just like drinking or taking drugs as far as safety is concerned.

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It is unwise for at least two reasons:

1) you may not hear vehicles, people, animals that pose a risk. If you're in a bad part of town, some bystanders may take you as a target.

3) beyond that, the listening material is a distraction. Whether books-on-tape or music, what you're listening to can effectively distract you. Ergo the occasional earphone user who walks onto an open manhole.

Best to stay in the here-and-now. IOW earphones are just like drinking or taking drugs as far as safety is concerned.
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> I genuinely feel like listening to Discovery on my discman on the bus in high school helped define who I am as a person.

In high school my backpack had a small zipped pocket at the top specifically designed for a CD player. You ran your headphone cord through a gasket into the pocket, keeping your player safe and convenient. As a loner, it was splendid.

And then you always wished you had a CD player with just a _little_ more buffer so it wouldn't skip when you were running to class.
Janet Yellen: BTC is extremely inefficient and energy it consumes is staggering
OK boomer.

I'm stanning so hard I'm just gonna send it, fam.

Just kidding. I'm old too. Get off my lawn, unless you are playing lawn darts.
For wholesale players: yes. If you're a retailer and you buy an electricity future and then only use half of it across your customer base, you sell the remainder at real time prices. And for generator, selling real time power is the entire business model.

For consumers: no, not generally. Some markets have schemes to sell leftover solar power at real time prices, but I believe these are being phased out. Both grids and markets are by and large not set up yet for full two-way markets between consumers and producers.
Not only the surface; here is one among many describing the magnetotactic sense.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200914112224.h...
We will continue to use beam/otp where it makes sense. In fact some rust runs in BEAM now thanks to Rustler. We wrote a blog about this!

https://blog.discord.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-m...
Not at all: any mistake in the government specifications is the government's problem. If you have requirements and a requirement tracing matrix to deliverables and you deliver what is required, you are good.

But usually in most parts of the world these government contracts are intentionally made ambiguous for so many reasons including corruption and incompetence of the people writing requirements.
Hasn't stopped him from being active on Clubhouse where he has close to 2M followers now.
We are already at some level of community immunity now - from natural immunity and vaccinations - enough that hospitals will not be overwhelmed. What is the justification for continued lockdown and closure of schools? Surely voluntary measures are sufficient at this point?
Yup, I often do this to block out distractions in the city so that I can have a more serene walk even among all the distractions - fewer folks try and talk to you when you're out for a walk with headphones on.
Show HN: I created a Kotlin compiler plugin that simplifies annotations
This is how I view iterators, but with an extra notch in difficulty. You really need to understand the coroutine model to get anywhere -- and the same is true of iterators. Are these leaky abstractions? I generally think of leaks as "pushing", but this is "pulling" -- I'd call 'em sucky abstractions. But I digress.

I just sat down with the tutorial and banged out what I consider to be a holy grail for quality of life. Alas, it's about 50 lines of ugly boilerplate. I'm omitting it, in part because it's untested, but mostly because I'm embarrassed to share that much C++ in a public forum. If anybody close to the C++ standards is listening... please make this boilerplate not suck so hard.

template<typename T>
struct CoroutineIterator {
left for the reader!
hint: start with the ReturnObject5 struct in the article,
and add standard iterator boilerplate
}

//! yields the integers 0 through `stop`, except for `skip`
CoroutineIterator<int> skip_iter(int skip, int stop) {
for(int i=0;i<stop;i++)
if(i != skip)
co_yield i;
}

int main() {
for(auto &i : skip_iter(15, 20)) {
std::cout << i << std::endl;
}
}
There are some genres where that happens, but if you don’t like those genres, you’re out of luck.
Autocorrect: turning simple, obvious mistakes into opaque, irrecoverable mistakes.

It's never been clear to me why someone would want this.
This is logical and nothing new. As a country we faced the same issue in the start of the 1900s when the railroads abused their monopoly access power and created the concept of the "common carrier" to level the playing field. Let's stop pretending tech monopolies are something new or unique. We have dealt with them before (AT&T) and should use the same tools. These companies are now utilities, should be subject to FTC and other rules on common carriers and have their returns subject to regulatory oversight. Just like 90% of the rest of the economy. Time to level the playing field, and be fair to all. Tech companies wanting special exemption from rules is not right.
I thought the most important question of the vaccine is how effective are they on preventing severe infection. I believe all vaccines managed to achieve 100% on preventing severe infection/death.
Doesn't the phrase "add color" go back at least to the century-old idea of a "color" commentator (who operates opposite the "play-by-play" commentator) of sports radio and later sports TV? I'd be pretty surprised if this wasn't used for things outside of sports before MBAs started using. And if the MBAs invented the turn of phrase, I'd say it's clever and evocative!

This seems very different than mere business euphemism like "realize negative gains".
I've been thinking about euthanasia lately. Last night, my Aunt passed away.

She has been suffering from early-onset Alzhemier's disease. A little over two weeks ago, she was admitted to the hospital because she lost the ability to swallow. Because of her deteriorating condition, they decided to send her to hospice care without life support. For two weeks, she had no food or water, save for the tiny amount in the morphine and atropine syringes they have her. No IV drip. Neither the medical staff nor my family expected she would survive that long. Two weeks of death by starvation and dehydration was horrible to witness.

Almost a decade ago, suicide impacted my family, so I had a lot of reservations about self-imposed euthanasia. Now, after seeing what it was like for my aunt, I'm not so sure anymore. We tried to visit her every day and play her the music that she wrote and loved (she was a musician). They say hearing is the last sense to go, so hopefully maybe that meant something to her, and she did respond after the first few days, but for two whole weeks... It seems excessive, and I wouldn't blame someone for pre-empting that.
I agree, rust is so much easier once you've passed that learning curve.

Not having to worry if this random reference you're using has been overwritten somewhere else in the code is absolutely refreshing.

It allows me to bring back the mental map of my code and the variables to the exact scope I'm writing in.

This is an underrated feature of rust. Especially for newer devs who do not have that mental map of the code yet, and are worried that any small change they make might cause cascading failures. That's just something you don't think about in Rust.
...which would then either work or fail. But not cause massive problems otherwise. That's what Phase 3 is all about - testing effectiveness, not avoiding side effects.
The machine vision on iNaturalist is great, but it's not necessarily adequate for distinguishing between insect species -- there can be details that are difficult to photograph, let alone identify from a casual user's photograph.

And we still need training data (i.e. identified by the expert taxonomists) for future work.
There's a lot of territory between what one wishes to happen at work, and what actually happens at work.
Stolen buckets maybe.
Actually Texas makes a great argument for more, smaller and distributed reactors.

Micro molten salt reactors make a lot of sense if looked at rationally. Can burn what we currently call "waste" too.
> We’re not human doings. We’re human beings. Personally, I suspect that my telic transformations come from a place of fear. The fear of not doing enough, comes from the fear of not being enough. Confusing identity and achievement becomes a slippery slope that robs me from the present and the beauty and love that surround me.

> So I’ll heed Pascal’s advice – and ditch the AirPods during my next beach walk.

but the author is advocating against that. That was just an example of how people try to make everything productive. It is actually in favor of atelic activities.
The root cause is increased wealth inequality. "Capital" is assets that are invested by their owner instead of just immediately consumed. So, the amount of capital that exists is variable, depending on the preference of asset owners, which is a function of the rates of return they can expect, as well as the utility of consumption. So its backwards to to say "rates of return go down because there's too much capital" - what's really happening is that a lot of assets are held by people who are so rich that the marginal utility of additional consumption to them is essentially zero, which in turn means that they are willing to invest their assets until the rate of return is also close to zero.
> Vaporization basically ties everything to the stack, and prevents values stored on the heap from becoming dissociated with it.

So if some code somewhere hands me a list that contains references to some heap data, how do you track this? For example, say at some point in the program I have a reference called "refs" that happens to be bound to a list of references to some objects a, b, and c. Then I do:

refs = drop_first refs

so that refs is now [b, c]. We lost/dropped/gave up a. How do we know how a was tied to the stack? How many other references might point at the object previously referenced by a? Can we collect that object now? Is this the case where reference counting kicks in? In which case, the category of "closure references" is probably more general than I thought.
This is quite a simplistic view of capitalism. Consider the Moloch effect[1] where rational choices in environments with hard coordination problems can lead to degenerating incentives.

Capitalism is not the same as free market; capitalism is rather a system where your economic power is mainly determinated by the amount of capital you have (money, investments, means of productions...) rather than class, bloodline, titles, popularity, or legislative regulations[2].

Capitalism is linked to free market in that they work well together: free markets want enterpreneuers to be compete for efficient capital gains and people with capital like how their economical power is only bounded by their capital (with the potential of an exponential growth). Apart from this ether can exist without the other.

This is how supporters would like them to work together, but there can be a lot of bugs and traps on the way.

[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/

[2]: This last one would be the characteristic of planned markets
But that does seem to imply that 2 weeks post the first shot (assuming the second shot will be given soon after), folks are pretty much at maximum immunity.
Streamlit for Python and PowerBI. Great tools
"Execute it step by step,"

These are not imperative programs or well organized data. They are NN's we can't fathom how to debug them just yet.

Also, they should tag 100 years onto the timeline, I don't think we're going to be truly making useful images soon.
Unpleasant indeed, I'm delighted to hear your whole approach reduces that risk! Seems like you have far better approach, congrats!!
Isn't job hopping the norm in the tech industry too? I can't imagine staying at a company for 28 years.
But no one knows what the payload will do. I thought the title was fine.
Could this have been Satoshi’s Twitter account?
Yes, a lot of people would identify as a "black" person, but their skin colour would probably more accurately be called "brown". Personally I think the more correct term is African-American, but people choose to be offended by "black" when used in words even though it relates more to the colour than a skin colour like you said.

Overall I think the logic of opposing words like "blacklist" just falls apart logically in multiple areas and I think your explanation is a good example of why.
> Since we're on the topic, shouldn't this (hospital admissions) be the almost singular criterion to influence public policy / restrictive measures?

Given the high correlation between COVID# cases (or %Positive) and hospitalizations, why not just use COVID# and "gain" 2 weeks of information?

Hospitalizations are weeks delayed from COVID# or %Positive spikes. Its a slow moving disease: taking 5 to 14 days before people feel sick, and then a week or two AFTER that before people decide to go to the hospital.

As such, if you see a spike of hospitalization, you're already 3-weeks late to the results (ie: hospital spikes are associated with infections that occurred 3+ weeks ago).

In contrast, watching COVID# or %Positive numbers gets you much closer to the ~5-14 day period where symptoms appear (and thanks to contact tracing, some people may test themselves before symptoms arrive: gaining a few precious days in the information war). Hospitalizations and Deaths are strongly correlated (with a few weeks delay). So you're effectively gaining a week-or-two worth of information.

Its better to be only 1-2 weeks behind (watching COVID#), rather than being 3-4 weeks behind (watching Hospitalization#).
Indeed, thank you!
Seriously, the hostility toward this article is unnerving.
So in that case, you're willing to say that under current conditions in the US, mask wearing and restrictions on things like dining are pointless, right? If "lockdown" can only be expected to produce results in its strongest form and we can't do that, that seems like the logical conclusion.
I loved my mini-disc player. They somehow felt more futuristic than than the better alternatives. It's too bad there was virtually no support for them in the US.
That's called an annectdote.

https://www.kpcnews.com/covid-19/article_8ab408ad-8fb0-5f74-...

Overall, the average hospital stay for COVID-19 for all ages is 22.4 days, just over three weeks. The length of stay is slightly longer, 23.5 days, for regular hospital admissions and shorter for ICU patients at 16 days, likely because ICU patients go on to die in the hospital.

That's based over thousands of patients.

> Patients in their 50s, who make up the third largest group of hospitalizations at 17.8% of all admissions, have, to date, had the longest average hospital stays at 27.5 days on average.

> Older patients have slightly lower average stays than middle-aged Hoosiers — again, likely because they are more prone to die in care than younger patients

> The average stays for patients in their 30s is 16.4 days
"ping me" does have a useful connotation, though, like "touch base" or "give a heads-up" it suggests a pretty minimal communication, just to let someone know that something has or will occur. Making a distinction between a short notice that can be followed up on if needed, vs. a more detailed memo or report.
One reason would be that doing that would require switching over to cgo, at which point you deal with the PITA that is an FFI, and the PITA that is cgo (it's easy to enable but it drastically alters your "game plan").

And here the cache is essentially the entirety of the micro-service:

> [The service's] sole purpose is to keep track of which channels and messages you have read.

so it's a giant map of (user, object) -> read flag or something along those lines. The DB commit and service input would be very light, and not really your main concern.
The terminology is based on how the malware spreads. Worms actively exploit holes in network programs (e.g. emailing themselves to your contacts), trojans disguise themselves as something useful (e.g. a pirated game). True viruses spread by injecting copies of themselves into innocent files in such a way that opening the file triggers the payload.

True viruses are rare these days because the infection vector is passive and relatively slow: an infected file must be transferred by user action to another computer, for example by sharing an infected file via floppy disk.
I mean those benchmarks are mostly web server related. And it's pretty common in web servers to trigger the same code path over and over again all the time. There's a reason why people are not rewriting their java web server application in something native to get more performance out of it.
It's an unfortunate consequence of our biology. We're not thinking machines, we reproduction machines. Thinking was never even tacked-on, it just was just a side-effect from our (quite amazing) capability to abstract and model the systems around us to make predictions about them. The monkey systems around us.

So, all in all it's not surprising that we lack the necessary algorithms to correctly deal with the dangers that come from being a species that found the ultimate exploits in the game of life.
Thanks for taking a look! A couple have connected their S/O accounts so far. Launched it today so not much action yet.

Do you use codementor as a mentor or as a mentee?
If you don't like it, why are you bothering?
Oops I did get my letters mixed up. How embarrassing. Looks like my age is showing- I'm on the cusp of two, aka "Gen Xillennnial"
Not sure if a troll given I address this in the OP. You can't just upload images. Internal dissections, DNA sequences, imaging at SEM scale, all of these are not rare requirements, they are the norm. Specimens have to be meticulously collected, preserved, and vouchered in Natural History collections as part of this process (Science should be replicable to some degree).

It's a wonderful aspiration to live in a society where anyone will have the free time to "level-up" to a taxonomists level of experience by making, literally, millions of observations, then "power-up" with their free access to SEMs, sequencers, high-powered microscopes and lighting, digital imaging systems (etc.) then "farm for $" to get access to travel and gear then gain "clan-clout" to navigate collecting policies and permitting, etc. etc. Something to strive for, but sadly not a reality anytime soon.
Ham Sandwich Development
What? I have never in my life heard of a damn cookie being called racist. That is insane. I am not going to be caution in the least with using that anaology. I am using a cookie to talk about how ridiculous things are and you're telling me a cookie is offensive. That is insane.
Separate question. I was responding to a question about the value of things as measured in currency.

$1 is worth $1, tautologically. If you happen to believe $1 has no worth, just send me all your dollars. I can use them. I'll send you a loaf of bread, which you can eat to sustain life.
"Implement the law" in a software product is as utopian as replacing judges with computers that "implement the law". Now does it makes sense why it is not possible?
Yes, it's beyond annoying how the biggest intermittency - nighttime - is hand waved off by solar advocates.
previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22238335
how they plan on veeeery carefully extricating themselves from this situation

I think war usually follows... Someone who knows monetary history better please comment.
That solves the problem of items added concurrently (by deduplicating them) but that doesn't solve the problem of removed items.
I feel like this is something that drones/100% automated ops can really help with.

Power satellites (basically giant solar arrays transmitting power) are also interesting (https://www.geekwire.com/2020/space-force-will-test-solar-po...).

We could have these complex automated systems to make electric aircraft much more viable, which is cool in theory.
I think that needs to be specified even further, because although this seems to surprise many people on this site, the vast majority of programming jobs do not require you to be "constantly contactable if something breaks". I have been a dev for almost 10 years now and never had a job that required anything to this level of "ability to be contacted", and neither have none of the people in my social circles. I genuinely feel bad for the people who end up stuck in jobs where this is the case, and in that way perhaps I would be more privileged than the GP
I imagine "fairly rapidly" means a few months rather than a few weeks, in which case delaying the second dose from 4 weeks to 8 weeks won't cause any dramatic dips (this is all conjecture though).
I am disappointed that ‘actionable’ doesn't present the original meaning — providing cause to take legal action — given how well it typically fits corpspeak in place of the intended one.
1. It may not be their bucket. Getting someone's credentials and uploading to S3 means the wrong party would be assigned blame/responsibility.

2. It may be their bucket, but with false credentials. Stolen CC and faked contact information.
Source on the 40%?

Quick search yields

> “Between 10% and 15% of those vaccinated may have side-effects from this vaccination, but it is only a feverish state, fevers, nausea and within 12 hours it goes away.”

https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-europe-as...
In New York City they are much more concerned with revoking Trump’s ice skating rink concession then getting people vaccinated. Either people can’t figure out how to schedule an appointment (each site has its own system) or they don’t show up. Walk-ins are turned away. So you’ll have a crew of people set up to vaccinate thousands and five people will get their shot.

I have a suspicion they are trying to make the vaccine desirable by making it faux scarce - Tom Hanks get it, crooked CEO gets it, but you little people don’t get it yet. I’m not falling for it.