skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a large placebo component in hifi for many people so you might well (but reading this comment may lessen your experience).
Ted Chiang’s “life cycle of software objects” is also similar to the OP. Basically about how an AI (not strictly an upload) would probably be subjected to all sorts of horrible shit if it was widely available.
This is a new system that replaced a previous one not that long ago. This isn't some crazy old thing running COBAL on a VAX somewhere that nobody understands anymore.
You could lock in the gain by selling at the current price, so that still sounds like tax avoidance. Or possibly leverage, if you think the price will go up more?
>One of the factors in Peabody's problems is that in the Southwest of the USA, where some of their major customers are, continuing to operate already built coal power plants like the San Juan Generating Plant and the now-defunct Navajo Generating Station is no longer economic; solar energy has driven down prices (averaging US$26.58/MWh at the Palo Verde trading hub in 02019 according to this article) well below the coal plants' operating expenses (for example, US$44.90/MWh at the San Juan Generating Plant).

And thank you for providing the context for CA's rolling blackouts.

Drive base load generation off the market for the current darling "renewables", then when the renewables that ARE NOT predictable or consistent do the inevitable and fluctuate, the base load plants are no longer available to fill the gap.

I'd be right there with you celebrating the solar win if solar was able to 100% replace the functionality of those plants. But it can't!

Eliminate the plants but don't replace the functionality and what do you get? Rolling blackouts. A common occurrence in CA. Why visit the 3rd wold when you can just bring it home?!?
Consent to what? Be photographed?

I think the analogy is perfect; she consented to be photographed, but was powerless over the consequences.

Edit: ah sorry, got them confused.
and also picks the wrong people because the training set is polluted by the uncomfortable truths of overpolicing areas creating the bad crime stats
Don't know year but lolla is always in grant park, Chicago.
If you told me I had low tire pressure I wouldn't ask if you're a mechanic. I would look at the tire myself. If I was unable to use a pressure gauge due to a lack of my own expertise, I still wouldn't be in a position to question your observation about the tire based upon your credentials alone. The best counter argument I could mount would be, "It looks full to me" or "I checked the pressure this morning". Dismissing your observation because you are a flight instructor, not a mechanic is exactly what an appeal to authority is.
No, the parent organization is not the Democratic Party.

https://bridgetowermedia.com/
The EU has handled the COVID situation very poorly from the get go and the thrashing of AstraZeneca was shameful. The 'closing' of the Irish border was outright dangerous.

I am surprised the Germans are so much influenced by the misinformation campaign from the European commission.
http://abx.digitalfeed.net/

Do you really hear a difference? My setup is probably really bad and I probably really suck but even 96 bit lame was indistinguishable from lossless to me, except for one part in one song.
Makes me wonder what their partitioning strategy was. I can't imagine a cache that is over 4GB+ that couldn't be partitioned at least a bit further. But good call out, thank you for the correction.
Most Morse is not generated by hand. The human ear tends to be much better at decoding it under sub-optimal conditions though.
I’m not saying that it’s a perfect solution, and yes, using C memory defeats the purpose of memory safety. But it’s a trade-off, as most engineering things are. Rewriting in Rust is also a gigantic trade-off along many many more axes, and Rust isn’t immune to people using `unsafe` in practice either. In both Go and Rust, it’s possible to carefully engineer so as to isolate where sources of memory unsafety are, either through the language or through principled policy and software design.
Thanks, though those numbers may be a bit misleading. It's probably feasible to have very widely portable programs in C99-except-obscure-pragmas. But MSVC in particular seems to be less far along than I thought. Oh well.
> hospital admissions) be the almost singular criterion to influence public policy / restrictive measures?

From a control theory perspective, it's one of the worst measures because it's delayed. Much more efficient to measure cases - then you don't need restricted social life as long.
The bizarre thing is that Western intellectuals will no doubt believe it.

Just like they believed during Soviet Union that gulags were enlightened humanitarian institutions full of happy people.
Well, that's a year old now, isn't it?

And the negative impact of the virus consists of both mortality and virality.
Except for 2020 where it's not even going to reach 100.

https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/mortality.html
Yes, I deliberately tried to exclude the NT family by mentioning "consumer OS" :) BTW, how was Windows 2000 in terms of software (read games) compatibility?
actually I had problems with package managers when piwik rebranded to mamoto (or matomo?). they renamed all their libraries and it messed up our package proxy server because of that
... All of which are researched with proof of concepts. Followed by some small trials. And finalized with one or two actual rewrites of non-critical software.

I'm not saying that all companies do it this way, and that there is no "resume building" or "magpie-ing" by some engineers in many companies. But it is perfectly possible to state a thesis "Rust is better for our X and Y and probably for Z". and to then research and prove that thesis.
I will say that the sum of my misdeeds throughout my life doesn't compare to depriving a single person of a single day of their freedom. It's something I think about when I think of politicians who passed unjust laws, or prosecutors who pursued marijuana convictions, or judges that condemned the innocent.

But now I've learned that that could, in fact, be a potential problem in the future...
> 2) these kind of activities are more enjoyable if you're _really_ present for them. I spent the rest of the day without my AirPods in, and I wish I did that more often.

I guess it depends on what you mean by present. I've done many 3-10 hour hikes and being "present" usually just meant, "God, how many fucking thousands of feet more do I have to climb? My body hates all of this."
Well, they could just be released then...
Australian here. The reasons are quite simple from our perspective: socialised health care, closing international and state borders where required, having leadership that provides consistent and sensible advice, and accepting that along with rights we have responsibilities.

In countries that have had serious COVID issues such as the UK and USA we see little to none of the above. As an example there was a discussion I watched where someone from California went for a road trip to neighbouring states despite the local authorities asking interstate visitors to stay away. When challenged about visiting states asking people to stay away, their reply was basically, "I don't believe I'm doing anything wrong, and you can't legally stop me." This attitude was prevalent from the top down.

One big issue in the USA is the number of people who simply can't afford to stay home from work, and whose multiple jobs require being present in a building with lots of visitors. In Australia we've had a number of "flare ups" where people involved in the quarantine program have ended up with COVID and spread it to the community because they are the lowest paid workers in the country and need three jobs to keep food on the table (or as a security guard they had multiple shifts moving between sites). As much of a joke as our hotel quarantine has been, it's at least something we can do to limit the community transmission of COVID-19.

There's nothing magical about Asia/Oceania countries managing COVID well. You just have to accept that COVID-19 is real, the medical authorities what they're talking about, and personal liberties sometimes need to be curtailed for the benefit of everyone.

At the personal level, wear a mask in public, keep your hands clean, avoid unnecessary travel, stay away from people. Sometimes you have to exercise your responsibilities instead of your rights.

At the corporate/national level, pay (poor) people to stay home, shut borders where required to prevent community transmission. Lock down neighbourhoods with high community transmission. Make sure testing is free and widely available.

If you believe "the economy" is more important than the people, you're not going to handle pandemics particularly well.
Not a chance. We are going hard on rust in 2021 after some very successful projects in 2019 and 2020. our engineers have ramped up on the language - and we have good support internally (both in terms of tools, but also knowledge) to see its success.

Once you've passed the learning curve - imo, rust is far easier and more productive to write than go - especially if you know how to leverage the type system to build idiomatic code and apis that are very hard to use incorrectly. Every piece of rust code we have shipped to production so far has gone perfectly thanks to the really powerful compile time checks and guarantees of the language. I can't say the same for our experiences with go.

Our reasons go well beyond "oh the gc in go has given us problems" but more like "go as a language has willingly ignored and has rejected advances in programming languages". You can pry those algebraic data types, enums, borrow checker, and compile time memory management/safety, etc... from my cold dead hands.

And for network programming - I've been incredibly delighted with the power and flexibility of rusts futures combined with tokio. The fact that you can just drop a future to cancel it, as opposed to having to thread around a ctx which may or may not work has been amazing.
"...can actually cause the virus to evolve to be more deadly overall"

That is wildly speculative. Pathogens do not evolve inevitably towards maximum lethality.
Thanks. Sadly we just heard she will not make it and is being moved to Hospice.
Is there an "approved" diagnostic tool that one should use to figure out whether your mac has the virus, or is vulnerable to it and needs patching?
Those aren't even jargon, they're just words a well-educated person would know.
Go's tooling is pretty nice. I was talking about better tooling for Rust. Maybe JetBrains will make a Rust-specific IDE.

So far though rust-analyzer >>>>> JetBrains' plugin
Whats the main issue Germans have with vaccine? decreased effectiveness? I worry the same thing will happen in the US once the Johnson & Johnson vaccine is approved and is readily available, ie. people refusing that vaccine as its not as effective as the moderna/pfizer vaccines.
I think you’re right about social media having consumed all of the content but the curation you mention used to be there before and was perhaps less of a losing battle. Now instead of just maintaining a list or fed of interesting groups, pages and people you also have to fight algorithms deployed by these closed platforms to monetize your attention. That and the constant flood of obnoxious people that you need to block our filter out.

It doesn’t have to be this way, we just need to break up these overgrown giants.
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Hey, my neighbor had a small home built plane that was powered by an old 2 cylinder generator engine. Maybe you should sell yours as generator engines too?

(Yes I'm kidding. I know. I'll stop trying to trick thermodynamics.)
Thanks. And yeah, "mostly gone" also offers a lot of wiggle room.
>that is, it infects and spreads without user interaction

My understanding was that viruses that spread without interaction are called worms. Both trojans and worms are viruses.
There hasn't been a genuine 'lockdown' anywhere in the united states with the possible exception of NYC in the first month of the pandemic. Otherwise we've basically done the bare minimum and even in places with strict policies you have people working retail, no real travel restrictions, etc.
I'd suggest caching the result of a query that could return multiple pages, if consistency is truly important. Otherwise, I don't think it really matters which option you choose, as long as you document the behavior.

Edit: obviously the proper impl totally depends on your app. If the result set is enormous, caching doesn't make sense. If it's rapidly changing, pagination probably doesn't make sense. etc, etc.
I guess a better headline would be "Start with a killer application." For aviation it might have been USPS delivering mail by air. Levi's making jeans for miners.
I am not sure how software bug is the exclusive enabler since it is plausible as well for administration bug to occur with pen and paper along with the compliant warden.
>You may need to store energy to bridge daily intermittency,

And the greatest intermittency is nighttime. Happens every day. Chemical batteries are not cost effective even if we had the resources.

But sure, continue to just hand wave that off.
Introducing C or C++ into an org with no expertise in them feels much riskier than introducing Rust. All three are difficult languages but at least with Rust you have Cargo and memory safety by default. I’ve seen smart folks burn days just setting up dependency resolution and builds for C++ stacks. Experts don’t have that problem but a team that has never used it professionally very well might.
That seems more like problem with the reservation system that does not allow to specify which vaccines one accepts, so younger people who would accept AstraZeneca could be scheduled for the shots that are available because other people rejected them.
> The extreme majority of humans are mimics, they essentially never create or do anything creative or original. They are incapable of that (cue the outrage at such a statement, even though it's true).

Of course people are going to be outraged over the statement. You're playing a semantic game where you came up with your own definition of creativity that excludes what most people do, and then not actually defining it or justifying it. If you used a more common definition of creative you'd have no argument to make.

Novelty isn't the only thing that makes something creative, a string of randomly generated numbers is always novel but wouldn't be considered creative. Creativity requires novelty conveyed through recognizable patterns, which means some amount of mimicry has to be involved.
The private prison contracts I've seen published have the state pay a fixed amount for up to a certain number of prisoners, say 97% of the capacity of the facility, plus a per prisoner amount for each prisoner over that fixed amount.

The numbers I've been able to find suggest that Arizona's overall state prison population is well below capacity, suggesting that it is likely that the private prisons are operating in the fixed price range of their contracts.

If that is the case the prison company make more money when a prisoner is released than they do when the prisoner is retained.
Thanks! I am actually as we speak tryng to write an Autohotkey script whcih would help to lanch it even faster. As soon as I have it I will add it to the README
> Go produces a statically linked binary and C# requires a runtime be installed

Not true since .NET Core 3.

$ dotnet publish --self-contained --runtime osx.11.0-x64 -p:PublishSingleFile=true
People Who Wear Spectacles Are About Three Times Less Likely to Catch Covid-19
I’m sorry that you haven’t followed the topic carefully but it’s hardly a logical fallacy to say that not doing what epidemiologists recommended doesn’t mean following their advice wouldn’t have worked, especially when you can look at countries like Australia which did a harder lockdown and have seen the predicted benefits.
The main issue seems to be that it is British. There is a strong anti-British sentiment in NL as well since Brexit.
> In C#, the new async/await mechanism […]

C# grew the `await` operator in C# 5.0, released in August of 2012. Go altogether hit 1.0 on 2012-03-28. If the one is new, the other is new.
>So you're including mining for solar/wind but not nuclear?

We have hundreds of years of "waste" that could be burned before we would ever need to mine anything. Only thing stopping it is a gross combination of politics and fear :p
An incomplete list of complaints about real code
Ok, so you're saying that you are a "consciousness program running on meat".

I doubt that.
While I don't agree with Peterson (I think he's a pseudo intellect looking for power grab from the conservative side like Malcom X described) I do agree with Malcom X's accurate analysis and its frightening how much of it rings true

I will have to read/watch more documentaries on Malcom X. It's sad that many African American youth have abandoned the warnings of MLK to not descend into violence and break bad because he knew that would be used as tools for oppression.

Also I don't disagree with BLM in it's entirety I do think it started out of good faith but its evolved into something totally unbecoming.

They are fighting each other for power and prestige, and the one that is the football in the game is the Negro, 20 million black people. A political football, a political pawn, an economic football, and economic pawn. A social football, a social pawn. The liberal elements of whites are those who have perfected the art of selling themselves to the Negro as a friend of the Negro. Getting sympathy of the Negro, getting the allegiance of the Negro, and getting the mind of the Negro. Then the Negro sides with the white liberal, and the white liberal use the Negro against the white conservative.

Now you replace the football with other minorities and you have our modern North American political landscape and the whole Carlsen's #MoveForEquality virtue signaling, banning the user of "master" in github and real estate, the whole "amen and awomen" thing, professor getting chased out because Chinese filler word he used sounded like the N word and non-Chinese American students
found it offensive, going to another country as American and demanding the same values and morals from the locals while not bothering to take the time to learn the customs (the constant shaming and review bombing of Japanese Only or Koreans Only establishments in those respective countries because they had unruly foreign patrons who re fuse to learn the language and respect their customs) are all turning North America into something of a foolery. It's being destroyed from within with its cancel culture, placing the individual above society, echo chambers. It's like watching an American remake of the Cultural Revolution that took place in Mao's China.

The virtue signaling industrial complex in North America is getting insane in North America. It is big business and in fact its destroying and moving us away from progress.

I think that one day where everything returns to normal is a distant future and its better off living in another country where they don't tolerate the vilification of critical thinkers.
> If items get returned twice while iterating, then I know something got added.

Fair point. I agree, that's a nice side effect. But what if you're looking at page 1, and an item is removed from that page? Then you'll never see the first item at page 2, because it's now the last on page 1.

> Then if I want a slice from 300-8000th items, I can type exactly that in the URL.

That's a nice feature. But it can put a lot of load on your backend if you paginate over 10 of thousands of items.
Why would the malware use S3? Won't AWS just boot them off if they recognize malware? And report their payment details to the authorities?
It's a cost/benefit analysis. They'll be taken to court by a few inmates, have to pay them or settle out of court and bill the government for their stays. Since everything is a matter of money, what the company will do is what brings them the most profit after they paid their legal bills.

It seems keeping inmates longer pays better than releasing them on time.
Yup this makes me wonder why do companies go for relatively newer languages compared to old ones such as Java,C++ or C as they have been matured and has been widely used
> Where is the opposite point the western "free press" saying, maybe China is not committing Genocide?

For example, you are saing it here, on English-speaking website located in USA. And you are not scared of possible consequences for you and your family.

I am pretty sure there are many better examples, but this one is here and now, and hard to deny.
Capitalism needs competition, yet capitalists hate it. There is an ongoing shift to more and more resources being dedicated to protecting the returns on existing assets instead of creating new assets. When there is no longer a realistic choice of whether or not to pay a fee, it starts to look very similar to a tax.
The results would be interesting if you could also combine this with the Qattara Depression sea project in terms of climate impact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qattara_Depression_Project
Why we are still using PBKDF2-SHA256 despite being aware of its limitations
To be fair, they probably ship one of the best and most optimized Electron app out there.

I still don’t like Electron, but Discord is doing a good job with it. Even their React-Native mobile apps feel decently snappy (where usually large React-Native apps are buggy and slow as fuck).
I agree with you, i'm not using Go myself, i tried it many times but i always hit a roadblock, it's interesting because i hit the same kind of issues with ZIG

Simple on paper, but what's the experience as a result? some are okay with it, some love the restrictions and limitations, but i personally don't enjoy them

But again, i can understand the choices and the benefits
In marine use, as a former ship driver (naval, not commercial, so needs could vary), I would prefer a larger number of small engines I can vector rather than one or two larger engines. It removes the need for tugs from both the maneuverability standpoint since you have vectoring and the safety standpoint since you could have redundant systems.
...I'm literally responding to you dismissing the question of whether one should view blocking distributing child pornography as being a restriction on free speech by saying (paraphrased) "there are laws against distributing child pornography, so it must not be a restriction on free speech."

I was merely pointing out that, if we want to have a discussion about what types of speech should and shouldn't be allowed, we need to be clear with ourselves and each other about what actually constitutes speech, and restrictions thereupon.

I'm having a hard time telling where you're reading in my post a suggestion that (e.g.), because criticism of the Thai monarchy is strictly prohibited in Thailand, we should technologically restrict such speech in the US.
Fame is probably great for people who really have their shit together and are confident in themselves, like Jerry Seinfeld. For people who don't have their shit together, it can magnify and provoke even your most minor weaknesses. If you aren't confident in yourself, you can end up maladjusted, surrounded by the distortion field of fame. Elon Musk would probably have continued to be a cooky, but fairly level headed dude. But now he's richer than Bezos and the power has corrupted him. Who's to tell you what's wrong when you make exponentially more money than even the 1%?

I like Jerry Seinfeld, but he (or at least the persona he plays in public) has this habit of being unable to put himself in other's shoes.
It isn't called the Sony Walkman for no reason, FWIW.