skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The social expectation is that the company insulates the employee from all risk..."

At a cost of 30-50 extra hours per week, what exactly does this mean and what does it get me that I don't already get at my North American job?
I note we didn't get any SARS-CoV-2 vaccines from startups.

Well, kind of except Radvac:

https://radvac.org/vaccine/

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/10/8/radvac-scrut/

But if you had the choice between radvac and Pfizer or AZ, which would you take?
So in your eyes, it's more ethical to infect children with a disease that could kill their parents/grandparents than it is to keep them home?
your blog is very high quality and i've enjoyed it in the past (Metropolis-Hastings post especially).

however there's a problem if everybody is going to do this, if it becomes standard that you want to have a blog in order to promote yourself during a job hunt.

i think this is why search results are cluttered with a proliferation of largely useless "awesome X" GitHub repositories, repetitive bad Medium articles on basic ML topics, and so on.

I hope we don't end up in the world where everyone has to do this... there's certainly a diminishing social utility.
The ventilator thing was kinda scary. Like ventilators I assume are kinda expensive more than just say that the medical system is wonky ...

It was kinda terrifying the idea that we'd run through COVID with hordes of people hooked up to equipment someone came up with by dorking with a 3D printer and some old parts from a vacuum...

It was telling when you didn't see established ventilator makers coming up with their own ad hoc cheap-o designs... much like you didn't see Theranos's competitors make wild claims of their own similar device ... probably for reasons.
Indeed if you use a default dict, you could also emulate imtge pattern more completely.

Happy for it not to have fall-through.

I guess my_dict.get(myvar, default)() would be simple enough.

That said, I never really had a problem not having switch either.
lately since covid and marketshare reality...

I saw many how to for that kind of game wich clearly mimicking
cn|jp games assets :Ð

Is it your own retribution to the (excavators)? :Ð
I agree, Taiwan of all countries arguably handled Covid best.
It seems irresponsible to discuss Covid policies without reference to,
and good understanding of, Taiwan.

I found that people in the West, often simply don't believe me when I tell them that Taiwan didn't lock down at all, and had hardly any Covid deaths. Reactions I have come across have been: "yeah but Taiwan is a dictatorship" and "They are lying about numbers ..." The amount of ignorance is astonishing.

I think it's a psychological problem: most people are perfectly happy to believe that their home countries have somewhat flawed political systems, but find it near impossible to accept that they are orders of magnitude worse than some others.
Which is why I tried to limit my discussion to PoS. Which (I'll repeat myself here) already are being used for NFTs.
Well that's just <insert open source package>'s fault!
Access still exists, although I haven't used it in a long time

Alternatively, you can access Google Sheets with SQL queries, although I guess it probably wouldn't be great, but Google Forms + Sheets?
can you say how much salary? base/yearly RSU/bonus?
The bandwidth available via undersea fiber optic cables is orders of magnitude higher than via satellite. I'm sure governments have backup satellite links but their use would be restricted to top priority traffic if something catastrophic happened to the undersea cables.
Just as was done a generation above with selling off lots in the desert west ...

Barring any international treaties that would probably prevent any such claims, the general rule is that you or a physical representative have to set foot and survey before you can make a claim. And stepping onto Mars in one spot would not be sufficient to claim the whole planet.
Carbon emission is only one of all our ecological concerns. I don't know why people only think about carbon.

You can look for example at River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans [1].

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15611
def switch(match, dictionary, default="no match"):
for key in dictionary.keys():
if match in key:
switch.last_match = key
return dictionary.get(key)
return default

Using “in” rather than “==“ here seems odd to me, is that intentional?

i.e I’d expect switch(‘abc’, {‘a’: 1}, default=“default”) to return “default”, but under this code it’d return 1, no?
> At this point we have enough data. The CDC gives an approximate IFR of 0.7% in the US. That would translate to low 7 digits. Also, it's very heavily weighted to the 70+ population.

..with lockdowns in effect enough to keep hospitalization rates below capacity.

> Strictly speaking from a kid's perspective, it would mostly be the experience of losing a grandparent early. It would be sad (as death almost always is) but probably not life-changing.

And teachers, and looking at how the breakdown of Italian hospitals meant a huge spike in deaths in the 40+ crowd that would have been just fine if they instead had capacity, a ton of dead parents, aunts and uncles to deal with too.
I think these arguments about whether language X “needs” a switch statement are asking the wrong question.

The right question is, “Is language X better for having a switch statement?”

Very few control structures are strictly necessary because it is almost always possible to achieve the same thing in a different way. For example, in C, you could rewrite this:

while (x < 10) {
// ... some code ...
}

To this:

goto test;
begin:
// ... some code ...
test:
if (x < 10) {
goto begin;
}

The fact is, there are important differences between a map full of objects and a switch statement. One IMPORTANT difference is that if the switch branches contain references to variables the outer scope, then to convert the switch into a map, you have to construct the object at least once each time you enter that scope, and the cost of constructing it is proportional to the number of branches. Similarly, if you use a chain of if/else statements, then the cost of finding a branch selected uniformly is proportional to the number of branches.

With a switch statement, there is normally some kind of assumption that the compiler is capable of optimizing a subset of these use cases—often a well-known or well-understood subset, and that the switch is fast—perhaps similar to a dictionary lookup or table lookup—yet without the cost of constructing a closure for each branch. Even a novice compiler developer can figure out how to make their compiler generate a table for integers or strings.

“I’ll just make this control structure out of lambdas” is something that’s theoretically sound, but which may require a much more sophisticated set of optimizations to get similar performance out of.

This is not a hypothetical concern—if you want to implement a lexical analyzer or parser, you often want to build it out of big switch statements, especially if the switch statements can be transformed at compile-time into table lookups or something similarly fast. The cost of parsing data, in my experience, can often be a significant fraction of the runtime of the entire program.

(If your response is, “Well, why write a parser in Python if you want it to be fast?”, then, well, keep in mind that CPython is not the only Python, and there are many reasons why you would want to write a parser in Python otherwise.)
Too bad it seems impossible to contract to get good academic writing done. Otherwise more companies would publish.
The top bid is currently quoted at 0.015. Which currency is this? Why don’t they specify this?

I see a dollar equivalent, but I don’t see how they translate from the 0.015 figure.

EDIT: Never mind. Apparently, the symbol Ξ refers to the Ether cryptocurrency.
Are things really that different than they were before though? I still chat with my neighbors, doctors etc etc... everyone is just as friendly as before. I think it’s just our main connection to the outside world has been doomscrolling... I don’t think the people in this world are that different. They are good, caring, loving... despite what some would have us believe.
How much of this is caused by remote learning? Kids tend to spend long periods out of school with no ill effects during holidays. They even do a lot of homework without a severe mental health crisis (we presume). The difference could be that they have control over their time. The remote learning experience seems to be needlessly regimented. My own children have repurposed tools for remote learning to keep in touch with their friends: they probably socialize more now than they did pre-pandemic.

He would scream and cry multiple times per hour on Zoom,” she said. “It was all really scary and not in keeping with his personality.

The fact that children are being tethered to Zoom for hours in regimented routines is really disturbing. Adults can push back, kids don’t have the authority to do so. Our boss tried a group “good morning” routine as a sly way to do a roll-call when we went remote-first, but a limited number of people took the bait, and she quickly learned to trust us.
I'm going to take a guess and say that the OP is referring to languages that implement the Hindley-Miner algorithm. According to Wikipedia:
"Some languages that include type inference include C++11, C# (starting with version 3.0), Chapel, Clean, Crystal, D, F#,[1] FreeBASIC, Go, Haskell, Java (starting with version 10), Julia,[2] Kotlin, ML, Nim, OCaml, Opa, RPython, Rust, Scala, Swift,[3] TypeScript,[4] Vala, Dart,[5] and Visual Basic (starting with version 9.0)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_inference#Types_in_progra...
> Bitcoin is holding pretty strong after 12ish years, you can't deny facts.

Speculators have kept money in, but that’s in part because there is no value other than that social consensus, and all of that energy has stayed inside the speculative community. Within far less time the web was transforming unrelated industries (news, investing, shopping, dating, travel, etc.) but if Bitcoin stopped operating tomorrow almost no business outside of the blockchain world would notice because they don’t use it for anything which matters.
> It's far more competitive when applying for roles with high visibility or companies with high brand recognition.

The work is also often terrible. The companies know they are desirable and know they can treat their people like shit and get away with it because they've got a queue of suckers happy to replace anyone who has had enough and quit.
Thank you for sharing! I enjoyed your writing and feel sorry for the mediocre feedback you get from your teachers.
I setup a stripe atlas account long time back and they gave me a Delaware inc for $500.

It was an impulse decision and i Haven't had much user for it except a few recurring subscriptions that are enough to pay for $25/mo that svb charges + $500 Delaware annual franchise charges + $300 that greenback charges annually.

Let's say if instead of doing that i used your services, are there any cost saving? Just asking since you guys are already here.

P.s. I'm a solo founder with no employee in US and at the time I setup the account the only option was inc.
Ask yourself, what's the bigger trauma for you. Your partner dies of COVID-19, you can't see your parents for a year.
> The problem with NFTs is digital "products" by their nature cannot claim originality.

That's the beauty of it. Yes, the digital good by its nature is infinitely replicable [0], but everyone knows and (hopefully) understands that, and that is not what it is being sold with the NFT. The NFT, as I understand it, represents a totally new type of "ownership" that has no analogue in previously established forms of ownership. The closest thing to NFTs are securities, where the value of the security is almost always speculative in nature. NFTs just take this to its teleological end. Yes, an artist or John Cleese can go ahead and mint another Brooklyn Bridge token, but doing this would degrade their reputation and make their future work less valuable and attractive to buyers, just like a company that keeps minting stock indiscriminately is going to have a harder time selling that stock. John Cleese selling a token is actually very cool in my opinion, because he didn't have to call Goldman Sachs to make it happen. I see a future where we have premier blockchains where all the top assets will be traded. Someone selling farts [1] and such will not be on those blockchains (unless those farts become highly regarded, which they might), and the blockchain itself will be a sort of crypto-artistic expression. I think this is just the beginning.

[0] https://twitter.com/_Lord_Enki_/status/1372976176411578369

[1] https://nypost.com/2021/03/18/nyc-man-sells-fart-for-85-cash...
To each their own :) I don't find the analytic project compelling, generally. Good thing there's lots of room!

> also has a translatable meaning

Yes. My point is that everything is "translatable." There is nothing that cannot be translated.

> There is no such thing as "species" in nature. It's a classification created by people.

Yes, this is a fantastic example, and actually pretty close to my favorite French guy's heart. Maybe you've got some continental in you after all. ;) (I think you're arguing that a continental person would argue that species don't exist, but many at least wouldn't. They would exactly argue that it's a system created by people, that is sometimes useful, and sometimes not.)
Why won’t you be able to see these people the same way again? Your comment seems like you are prejudging people without providing a reason to do so.
Interesting claims. How do you know FL economy and kids depression is doing so much better than CA?
Cowsay vs. Dinosay
Even easier would be to use a CMS, I prefer Processwire but many others also have great form builders and generic list/calendar/etc views.
A few years ago I went to a coding bootcamp. I had very mixed feelings at the experience.

It was 'run' by the local university, but really was just a package deal they bought from another company.

I gave the university some feedback that they have all the resources at the university to do WAY better than these commercial bootcamps... but the folks involved bought the package deal and are invested in it.

It's sad, the university IMO could do better, if they tried.

Meanwhile the traditional unversity system does work, but is a huge time investment, and the bootcamp system works 'kinda' for some folks ... but fails most IMO.
Technological productivity has been increasing, but social productivity seems to be declining. Compare the 2020 Presidential debates to JFK vs Nixon's debate, for instance. I don't think that ghostwriting is to blame though.
I'm interested in what people with greater knowledge/insight/intellect than myself think of the following.

I think total reforestation is implausible but the native reforestation of most of the earths fresh waterways is plausible using the Miyawaki forest establishment method ( that achieves 10x growth rates and natural strata levels) and localised cuttings. By staggering the establishment of native plantings 20 meters either sides of creek and river beds so there is effectively a 50m wide native forest over most waterways you can delay the capital outlay which causes a positive net present value for existing landholders to finance the planting and enhance their balance sheet. By setting aside the planting corridor to regenerate while the miyawaki plots are gradually planted the soil regenerates so the the forest establishment can be sped up over a period of time.

Because there is a positive ROI with carbon credits at current prices and the work is fairly interesting and healthy the planting projects work economically and ecologically.

The ecological benefits are that native forests have a five degree celsius cooling effect. Cooler streams mean higher oxygenisation levels which means higher nitrogen utilisation levels and a healthier pH. Cooler streams also means cooler rivers which means cooler estuaries with more sealife means and sea grasses and colder coastal sea surface temperatures and less algal blooms. Native flora corridors along fresh waterways allows native fauna highways so that biodiversity is more resilient.

The economic benefits are improved hydro-logical flow through pasture and cropland so less phosphates and nitrogen flow through the soil and the soil retains moisture better as the 20 m rich native humus barrier either side of the fresh waterway slows the hydro-logical water flow into the creek. Native forests negatively ionise the air so the growth rate of the pastures and crops along the waterways should be higher with less fertiliser applied. Also rural employment opportunities are retreating globally as wealth accumulates with knowledge into cities and the localised forest design and planting employment funded via carbon credits would provide interesting educative yet non-stressful employment opportunities and achieve a higher return on investment for most landholders than commodity production. We have 10 billion people coming on board to feed, population growth slows with great nutrition so great nutrition is the anti-dote to long-term pollution. People won't go backwards so planting fresh waterways in locally designed fast growing native forestry using the Miyawaki method or better wherever there is a positive ROI at current carbon credits prices makes intuitive sense to me.
We’ll have full-bore match in 3.10, what’s the hubbub?
> Thing is I am desperate to have a tablet with decent capabilities (and at about $500 price point) that is not a consumer device

Reading your rant, I have no idea what your problem or requirements actually are. Why not buy $350 Surface Go tablets and put together a Linux image that runs on it?
C R E D I T R E P A I R
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A command-line tool/library for generating regular expressions
grex is a library as well as a command-line utility that is meant to simplify the often complicated and tedious task of creating regular expressions. It does so by automatically generating a single regular expression from user-provided test cases. The resulting expression is guaranteed to match the test cases which it was generated from. This project has started as a Rust port of the JavaScript tool regexgen written by Devon Govett.
It's not always easy to discover interface commonality. But when you do and it's a good abstraction, there are definitely benefits over scattering ifs and switches throughout your code.
In addition to the sibling comment, the replication crisis shows that this mechanic isn't working as well as you hope it would.
In your example at least the recipient is alive, but in fact I wonder if one could argue that with machine learning models training on web data, a meme can now perform an entire reproductive cycle without a human in the loop.
> Do you think nobody wants the bragging rights of owning that?

It would be nice to believe that eventually we evolve beyond bragging about being an idiot.

> I certainly do

...
hindenburgs declares it will be the age of zepplins once again
If your Christmas lights used the same amount of electricity as the whole town? Maybe.

Thankfully we have an amazing new technology called Light Emitting Diodes so we don't have to worry about that theoretical problem.
That or the results were accurate, but like Theranos their results were just from ... running the tests through their competitor's machines ;)
FWIW it's definitely a term I've heard in the same context in multiple FAANG companies. You want to be able to show people what you've done.
What holds true for software also holds true for companies: there is no problem that can’t be solved with indirection. You want to profit from illegal stuff but not be responsible? Let an intermediary do it for you.

If I buy a product extremely cheap, I also will be liable if it was a stolen product. Why is the same not true for Amazon?
> "I love this concept, I just really want one with an e-ink screen instead."

How close would a hand-crank mechanism be to driving an e-ink tablet for a useful amount of time? A quick look at a clockwork crank-wind-up torch shows it has 300mAh battery and 30hrs of blinking SOS LED on a full charge, and they claim 1min of winding gives it 2hrs of blinking LED, so roughly 20mAh per minute of winding. How much computing can one do in 20mAh?

"Clockwork radio" and no-battery crystal radios must be quite low power, and one approach for e-ink screens is to only update a small changed area of screen at once. The FireBeetle ESP32 can deep-sleep on 0.011mA [1] and reference is at 39mA. Maybe 1min of clowkwork winding could drive it at reference power for 30 mins, and half-power for an hour?

What kind of computing UX/UI/OS could there be with primarily audio feedback[2] using a low power earphone, e-Ink style screen updated only on demand?

I carried on this thought to "treadle powered computer" thinking of a flywheel, and found someone has built one: https://scoraigwind.co.uk/2010/07/treadle-powered-computer/ which seems to be generating around 6 Watts and running a laptop.

[1] https://diyi0t.com/reduce-the-esp32-power-consumption/

[2] http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/ - EMACSPEAK computing interface for the blind. Also ref the classic `ed` editor which doesn't print unless you ask, because it was from the days of printing on paper
You have a scale for comparing absolute rates, which is the gist of what the parent is talking about, I think.
Yeah I'm not sure I'm in the mood to have my vaccine ... disrupted.
Sure, but then your users will flock to an alternative that doesn't charge them money. Maybe the alternative is propped up by government funding or funding by some giant corporation or maybe they're based outside of GDPR jurisdiction or maybe they just don't care about the laws. Whatever it is, you're getting outcompeted.

And if every alternative charges money, then that means you're shutting out a large portion of people. For example, I can't pay for anything online right now. It doesn't matter whether it costs $5 or just a single cent - I have no way to pay. It'll be sorted eventually, but even then paying for anything online for me will be a 5-10 minute process. Not exactly something I'm willing to do for almost anything. And a lot of people in the world are in a similar position - credit cards aren't as accessible in most of the world compared to the US. If services like paypal don't accept bank transfers from your country, then they don't help either.
> For modern graphic arts, the value has always come from being part of a serialized limited edition.

The value to whom? To the artist the actual negative is clearly the most valuable to own. Original Ansel Adams negatives are actually very very valuable.

Things, actual things, have value because they are physical, and the closer to the original the more value they have. Negatives have the most value, prints have less value, and a digital jpeg of an Ansel Adams photo has almost no value. I know, I "own" several.