skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look up Aave it’s Open Source, I was surprised at first but it seems to work. Also flash loans are an interesting new financial tool previously not available for individuals.
What we've heard/read about Softbank and companies like WeWork definitely sounds like they were turning what should have been smaller investments into larger ones, because they needed to find a home for so much capital.
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Sure, if you get a chance.
The video is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sdtOpE_3aQ.
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> Spanish Flu epidemic that cities with successful lockdowns suffered less economically

You realize that during no time when the Spanish Flu was around did they lockdown for 11 months right? The lockdowns you are taking about there are small, localized events. Not huge ones that affected large regions and had year long durations.

The only reason we were able to keep this lockdown afloat is because privileged people like you and me get to work from home and have zoom. Had Covid hit even two decades ago, we wouldn't be doing any of this at all. We'd have sucked it up and got on with our lives as best we could.

> There's no vaccine required to be immune to facts.

You are arguing morality, something which science can help guide but cannot dictate. Science doesn't tell us to lockdown for a year. Society does. Science might provide insight as to what effects a year long lockdown might have (hint: science hasn't a clue... we have no priors to this at all). Science cannot tell us to lockdown. It cannot even tell us to wear masks. That too is a values thing and is guided by what society values.

Even if lockdowns worked and were proven so by a bunch of statistically valid random studies (which don't exist, by the way)... it is still upon a well informed society to decide if it is worth doing (note: I don't think most people are well informed about covid at all... the average person overestimates their risk of covid death by about 1000x).
You can do loans with no collateral at all if you use flash loans.
This is blessed.
+1

Not sure why you got down-voted. Yes, the government PR somehow completely failed on the vaccination part. But then, this is really in line with most of it's actions over the last 12 months. Seeing how the current "lockdown" turns out, it's a miracle we got it right in March 2020.

For me, what I find even worse than the vaccination PR disaster is the seemingly total lack of efficiency on the public health front. Reports from the field still are delayed 3-4 days. That's stuff that could have been fixed with appropriate software within a couple of months. Also there still seems to be no concerted effort to collect a statistically sound random sample to learn about the real infection rates.
> Erasing a copy that only diverged from the scan for a few hours would have more in common with blacking out from drinking and losing some memory than dying.

I get where you're coming from, and it opens up crazy questions. Waking up every morning, in what sense am I the same person who went to sleep? What's the difference between a teleporter and a copier that kills the original? What if you keep the original around for a couple minutes and torture them before killing them?

If we ever get to the point where these are practical ethics questions instead of star trek episodes, it's going to be a hell of a ride. I certainly see it more like dying than getting black out drunk.

What would you do if one of your copies changes their mind and doesn't want to "die?"
If the property owner has a button to override the cut-off and turn the power back on then that should satisfy any legal requirements related to unilateral disconnection of power. The disconnect should happen on the customer's side anyway. The power company just needs to provide accurate information about the current price in a form that can be used by an automated switch. Important circuits could be placed on a separate panel with a higher cut-off point.
Is Clubhouse Fading Out?
The idea is pretty awesome, but my eyes nearly rolled out of my head from the needless condescension at the beginning.
Any memories of your interactions with him that you wouldn't mind sharing?
It’s not unreasonable to expect a candidate to groom their public profile before using it as part of a job application. If they have some bad, old code they’re not proud of, why not make it private temporarily?
Some things are done on purpose so that you consciously know how expensive of an operation you are doing. In languages like Python, it's easy to abuse convenient operations that do a ton of computation. Then you have to spent time with valgrind or something similar and figure out what the heck is causing the code to be so slow.
Stuxnet for example, didn't really seem to do anything useful. Unless you happened to have a very specific version of industrial control software installed.

No obvious payload is actually the worst kind of malware to deal with, because you have no idea if Matthew in accounting had the specific key on his machine that installed a second stage that you know nothing about and can't detect.
TIL! Really appreciate the detailed reply. The Bracovirus tidbit is particularly interesting - it's nuts how aggressively optimizing evolution is.
Where I live in Germany, rock climbing is heavily restricted during nesting season. It's a shame that those birds were disturbed, I hope they found a different soaked place.
Not an expert, but my sense is that it's at least in part due to widespread cheap/commodity consumer cameras becoming a thing between the planning of Curiosity and the planning of Perseverance. In earlier missions, cameras were usually big and bulky and designed specifically for their respective research functions, and if you're designing something from scratch, you design it to maximize research utility first, and sending home cool videos is probably a secondary consideration. So I'm not sure many of these could do video (because it's probably not that useful for studying rocks that don't move), and a lot of them didn't even capture a spectrum range exactly matching the visible range (I think some of them included parts of the near-IR range, etc.), so a lot of the images from earlier missions that were released to the public had color that was faked/recreated in post-processing.

I think the new rovers still have these specialty cameras, but now that there are decently good mass-market cameras from the cellphone/consumer-electronics industry that cost $5 apiece and weigh a couple of grams, it seems like there's no reason not to throw a few of those onboard as well.

I would speculate, also, that video compression might be part of the story. Processors on these vehicles tend to be specialized radiation-hardened chips that are modified versions of several-generations-old general-purpose processors. I think Curiosity's was a rad-hardened 200MHz PowerPC chip, for example. I would bet that those chips just weren't up to the task of compressing high-quality video enough to make it practical to send, given the bandwidth constraints of transmitting from Mars to Earth.
Another related aspect to consider is that it's really not very hard for the wealthy to create an inheritance-like legal vehicle even without special cases like trusts.

Should it be legal to contract with someone that you will give them $1B now, and they will provide each of your descendants at least $X/year (or guaranteed job, housing, etc.) for the next 50 years? If this kind of contract remains legal — and I don't see how you could make it illegal without stomping on a lot of contract principles — then the only thing we're really changing is the timing and quantity of taxation.

Allowing inheritance makes intergenerational economic development possible for far more than the ultra-rich (who could already do it anyway). That doesn't mean taxation policy shouldn't be considered, of course.
Academic Corruption: Emasculated Culture
It is hypothesized that Burial made a little guest appearance at a James Blake boiler room set: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8idi7PcsbU

It definitely looks like him, but who knows.
I've noticed this kind of reply on rust threads often. Someone says something like:

> Rust moves many potential program problems from runtime to compile time; it has a high bar to meet, but once you meet it the program is rock solid

And then somebody replies with:

> Oh my favorite language doesn't make me do all that work up front, therefore easier (TM). Why Rust so hard?

But the reply misses the point: Make no mistake, you're still paying the cost (with FASTCASHNOW-interest rates), but the cost is just smeared out over days or weeks as you fix, debug, and tune it during use. You may choose whether to do that work up front or while the program is in active use, but avoiding the work is not a choice.
I need a bit more clarification to

> .. risk of anaphylactic shock with allergy drops is incredibly low. The literature cites that risk as 1/billion or 1/100 million which is thankfully very low. Indeed, in 30 years of using allergy drops there has never been a documented reaction that caused a death.

Can you point me to the specific literature? The reason I am asking as the Asthma & Allergy Foundation of USA states 1 in 50 for anaphylaxis (not the allergy drops). That discrepancy is an incredibly large number. (https://www.aafa.org/anaphylaxis-in-america/)
In case anyone else is wondering who the surrogate mother was, it was a domestic ferret:

> This work builds upon recent advancements in cloning processes developed by ViaGen Pets & Equine, which successfully created embryos from the frozen cell line and implanted them into a domestic ferret surrogate.

More informative article: https://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/pressrel/2021/02182021-...
It looks like Brave browser blocks our HIPAA-compliant scheduling software, Cogsworth. I'll look into this.

Thanks for flagging it!
Not that have any kind of mainstream usage.
Agreed on second point. The reward needs to be given today to incentivize future behavior. If market participants don't believe they will be rewarded they won't change their behavior.
It's simpler if it's normalized like with JSONAPI, but all of the apps I've worked on use an E(T)L process where the transformation step normalizes the data before saving it to our cache.
Pyomo
Sure but why do you care about the person having a picture... It's Github, look at the code, it's what it's there for.
Hi there, Bucky!
In languages with reasonable number types (i.e. not JS), the parsers are typically able to produce integers, or even BigDecimal, out of a JSON number, without going through double.
It didn't have priority until now. Everything costs time and money and adds more complexity, more parts that can cause a failure. While videos are nice, they don't have such scientific value as another scientific instrument that could have been on board instead.
Why no? It's at least worth to add something, even if it's a photo of a walrus. Pretty much anything to show you give a crap about the page is good.
Very welcome improvements in Code Review department. Really like the explicit Viewed checkbox (even though I noticed that the bolding in the sidebar with the file tree tried to solve the same problem) and really nice with the suggestions.

My two top wishlist leftover items in that regard are

1. Marking whether a comment requests changes or not. This is of course straight out of GitHub, but I think their flow better matches what I found to be happening a in a lot of changes. I see such states for a Code review of a MR: Changes approved, Reviewer requests changes, reviewer leaves feedback (like "nice implementation", "good refactor", "minor: maybe you can refactor this?"). The last one is the most blurry in the GitLab approach since the way we can solve it is by starting a comment thread that is not resolved and approving a MR at the same time but it feels clunky. Maybe they can take a page out of GitHub's book.

2. Personal slack notifications. I would love to have first-party support for the notification system around MR, MR Comments, Being assigned, pipeline failing that messages me privately on slack. Jira recently had a revamp in their slack app and all notification moved there and overall I welcomed these changes since the only other way it seems to be email which speaks for itself - limited interactivity and it's becoming less of a notification medium anyway. [1]

[1]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/17958
A huge percentage of hip-hop and electronic music is essentially this, sampling and remixing segments of other songs.

Old school DJs since forever have been known to keep absolutely massive libraries of records going back to the beginning of sound recording, and to actually listen to them constantly - always searching for new and interesting sounds that can be used in new music.

I always found this aspect and type of music production so interesting - at this point in human history, more sounds and music have been made than almost anyone can listen to and appreciate on their own, so in a way DJs and remix artists are like archeologists, digging through a century of recordings to uncover, polish, and present a rare gem of sound in a new setting.
Thanks for checking it out! I could never guarantee that tho as Call a Dev is mostly self-service from the standpoint of the question asker and the question answerer. I wanted to reduced friction as much as possible for both sides of the equation.

If you're willing to pay more money for more guarantee you should check out codementor.io
Haha, you're speaking my language. Kid A was just as high impact as Discovery. What a beautiful album.

I agree. Those songs are so deeply ingrained in me that if I heard 100ms of them I could probably tell you which song I heard. I can barely remember how to pour myself a glass of water some days, but that music is deep in my brain.
If curious, past threads:

Recreating Daft Punk's Da Funk with Overtone and Leipzig - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11446223 - April 2016 (98 comments)

Aerodynamic by Daft-Punk in 100 lines of code with Sonic Pi - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11033953 - Feb 2016 (69 comments)

Daft Punk Lego Minifig raytraced in your browser. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7550736 - April 2014 (2 comments)

Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” explained using music theory - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7491174 - March 2014 (1 comment)

How Daft Punk Created One of Their Most Famous Samples - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7011035 - Jan 2014 (94 comments)

Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer's Biggest Hit - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5996054 - July 2013 (82 comments)

Desire for Daft Punk's iconic helmets creates cottage industry - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5770913 - May 2013 (12 comments)

Anatomy of a Mashup: Definitive Daft Punk visualised - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595277 - May 2011 (13 comments)

Guy crafts a Daft Punk helmet in 17 months - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1539509 - July 2010 (22 comments)
Interestingly today, I was posting an answer, and I added some polite wordage to the bottom of what was a fairly dry post to offer the [clearly new] user some encouragement. I'm also a committer/developer on the project in question.

I was edited several times by non-contributors removing my desire to be polite. What bothers me is that these words are being attributed to me without my usual polite demeanor.

StackOverflow was pretty awesome at one point in time, but I'm not providing free answers on the site anymore.
Hobby projects can show a diversity of interests that might be hard to compress into a short CV.
I strongly suspect that they just chose a different creative direction, somewhat more ballad-y. But their latest live-esq album "Woman Worldwide" (styled "WWW") from 2018 shows that they still can make incredible dance/disco electronic music of the same caliber and energy as 2007's 'Cross', but they chose to pursue gentler sounds in their studio albums.

It makes me suspect that their live shows are much more true to their 2007 energy than their studio albums might lead you to believe.
I consider to be very convincing the theory that most of our capacity for reasoning actually revolves around the modeling of other humans' thought processes. Together with language (which allows us to 'groom' many people at once, where individuals from other ape species have to groom each other one by one. Grooming as in 'interact to bond and build cooperative associations') it has allowed for incredible cooperative achievements.

So; monkey systems -> other humans, albeit flippantly.
It depends. It’s possible to provide a mechanism to switch versions but as it very often is: there are dragons.
I remember when New Horizons flew by Pluto in 2015 taking pictures with a 1 MP camera. At that time I had an 8 MP camera on my phone, but remembered that in 2006 when New Horizons launched, the iPhone didn't even exist.
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As soon as the "ecological collapse" stops, extensive speciation will occur. Nature always wins. There's a lot to be hopeful about even when it seems like there might not be.
This was my impression too. It's literally just chopping the sample, no?
yea it really is
The big advantage of getting to zero is that after the initial severe lockdown life gets mostly back to normal.
> Neither does a 1 day on-site interview process.

That seems to be jumping the gun. You don't normally get an onsite immediately, you usually have to go through much shorter screens, the first of which may only be an hour max. So you don't necessarily waste a lot of time on any one company unless you go deep into the process, and you're probably going to be screened out early by lot of them. The take home assignments are generally supposed to be replacements for technical screens, but they invariably take a much longer amount of time.

There's also an investment differential. Every hour that a candidate has to spend in an interview is also an hour the employer has to spend in the interview. Whereas an employer can send you off with a take home project for an indefinite number of hours while they sit back and do nothing. Are they going to spend the same amount of time reviewing the project as the candidate did writing it? Extremely doubtful.
If you are making a risk evaluation based on the generic term someone else uses to describe a threat, you've already lost.

The genie is out of the bottle and there is no putting it back - virus, malware, worm, trojan, etc. are all interchangeable marketing terms now.
Silver is crazy expensive compared to copper, and the tradeoff isn't worth 6%. Also, 3d-printing pure copper is relatively new, and I'm not sure there is as much of a business case for 3d-printing silver (from the perspective of the companies making these metal AM machines), since the demand is lower because of the cost. Lastly, there are actually some loss mechanisms in the motor where the lower resistivity of silver would actually hurt you (proximity effect from flux crossing through the stator conductors, producing eddy currents).

We want to start simple with cooling, hence the water/glycol. There certainly could be some opportunity to use something different (maybe with certain fuel cells and liquid hydrogen already onboard?). Regardless, the thermal resistance from hotspot to coolant is dominated by conduction resistances inside the motor, and is less a function of the convection resistance from the housing to the coolant.

We will be sending out a newsletter occasionally, there should be a link at the bottom of our website.

Thanks for the questions!
Negative reinforcement is defined by taking away an adverse stimulus. A positive attribute (like credibility) does not count as adverse.

Taking something good away is negative punishment. You are removing something they want, to reduce (punish) the behaviour (not reinforce it). Classic case is taking a kid's toys away when he won't behave.

Of course, these things are mixed. If receiving bad comments online is hurtful, then that is positive punishment. The removal of credibility is an added sting.

Positive reinforcement is correct in that example yes.

I've been involved in dog training where some people are really into this, while others twist the concepts to suit them, so getting it right is a bit of a personal peeve.
>People would ship games they called toolboxes.

The term was "toolkits". While most probably followed the convention due to Alexis Janson's 1994 Super Tool Kit, or STK - which utilized hex editing to unlock far more color variants than the engine itself offered - there were actually earlier, based on using in-world interactions to get a more limited set of color variants - such as "Tim's Toolkit" from 1992.
Interesting reference to adulthood.

> ... The moment you graduated from a pencil or ballpoint, to a pen you knew you were no longer a child ...

When I was growing up, we started with pencil, moved to fountain pens (the one with the cartridges & tiny glass balls), then graduated to ballpoint.

A cultural difference.
$1/min seems like a very arbitrary threshold. That means, that you as a developer, need to be making no more than $60/hr for your expertise. Following Indeeds hourly to salary conversion that means that if you make over $124,800/yr then you are actively losing value for each minute you spend in this ecosystem.

That may be as intended. In certain states you may never make more than that, in others you may (almost) always make more than that.
I like that orthagonal suggests that they definitely intersect, but go in two different directions. Unrelated is too harsh in most of the situations you'd use orthagonal.
is there a version of this that says "Dont ascribe to incompetence what is more likely caused by greed"? I'm tired of seeing comments like this that imply that any accusation of greed or malice is unfounded when in todays world, particularly in an industry like private prisons, greed is often the most likely cause.
Right now devs are verified through S/O and it seems to fit the bill nicely because then you can vet the person's history of answering questions.
If you liked that, here's a fun video about building The Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up from the original samples:

https://youtu.be/Lo67bWkNEiE

(fun fact, I originally found this video on another video hosting service before Youtube became the all-encompassing behemoth it is today)
That was my exact thought reading this.

I used to write some crazy spaghetti code as an untrained student working in a lab. Coding would go really quickly at first, but as I kept adding on to accommodate new requirements it became a huge kludgy mess.

Recently (after quite a few years of software engineering experience) I helped a researcher friend to build some software. He was following along with my commits and asked why I kept changing the organization and naming of the code, pulling things out into classes, deleting stuff that he thought might be needed later, etc. He spends only a small part of his time writing code, so he's never realized how much time it actually saves to keep things organized and well-factored.
But it would be contaminated, toxic and dangerous for the rover (it would contaminate or damage the instruments). Not worth it.
I'm sure the intent is that it be fertile (so they've chosen their methods and so on with that in mind), but it's still to young to know.
Except you have to bring your own platform too! BYOPaaS?
There's an architecture for compilers that I've been wanting for years where a keystroke change to the sourcecode results in an incremental change to the AST, and then the compiler can consume that AST delta to generate a binary patch to the compiled executable.

Would tree-sitter be able to be used for that? (What I want is to feed tree-sitter a stream of keystroke changes and get out a stream of minimal AST changes as a result).