skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yearly revenue is under $2bn though.

I'd like to see more print media do well- the NYT still needs competition. Everyone cries about ads and tracking. Put your money where your mouth is and buy print from a source that you enjoy.
No.

Crop yields are up (30-90%) for every single type of crop in the United States in the past 30 years.

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/cornyl...

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/riceyl...

https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Field_Crops/wwyld....
Oumuamua wasn’t detected until after it passed by the Earth so it’s a hard challenge to detect from far away.
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> What happens if you overflow at runtime? A crash, I assume/hope?

In Ada, if range constraints are broken at runtime, a Constraint_Error is raised (or 'thrown', if you prefer). [0] (That's assuming of course that range checks haven't been disabled, which is an option that Ada compilers offer you.)

> I don't see why the default for Java is to have these really nitty-gritty numeric types

At the risk of retreading our earlier discussion:

I think the short answer is performance. Java has lofty goals of abstraction, yes, but it also aims to be pretty fast. If it didn't, its appeal would diminish considerably, so it's reasonable that they struck a balance like this. Same goes for why primitives aren't objects.

[0] https://learn.adacore.com/courses/Ada_For_The_CPP_Java_Devel...
Same, I thought I'd be cool and learn tmux (after 25 years of Linux/Unix use). After a year I realized it's just easier to learn the keyboard shortcuts of my favorite terminal client and tile the windows.
On a risk-adjusted basis, without an actual edge helping you determine which options to buy, this will not outperform SPY.
Four times more often than the control group.

Over a mean follow-up of 140 days, nearly a third of individuals who were discharged from hospital after acute covid-19 were readmitted (14 060 of 47 780) and more than 1 in 10 (5875) died after discharge, with these events occurring at rates four and eight times greater, respectively, than in the matched control group. Rates of respiratory disease (P<0.001), diabetes (P<0.001), and cardiovascular disease (P<0.001) were also significantly raised in patients with covid-19, with 770 (95% confidence interval 758 to 783), 127 (122 to 132), and 126 (121 to 131) diagnoses per 1000 person years, respectively. Rate ratios were greater for individuals aged less than 70 than for those aged 70 or older, and in ethnic minority groups compared with the white population, with the largest differences seen for respiratory disease (10.5 (95% confidence interval 9.7 to 11.4) for age less than 70 years v 4.6 (4.3 to 4.8) for age ≥70, and 11.4 (9.8 to 13.3) for non-white v 5.2 (5.0 to 5.5) for white individuals).
Both are built in but goal seek is limited in what can be done in the loop, and doesn’t use the in between steps in the seek.

Here’s a simple excel for loop with iterative calculation.

https://access-excel.tips/excel-iterative-calculation/

Here’s an example from chemical engineering of iterative calc.
https://www.aiche.org/chenected/2017/03/excel-tip-6-use-exce...

There’s also an evolutionary and linear solvers for optimization problems, but that’s again something that’s more of an add in.
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it's more the ruling class, that includes both left and right.
I recall a general principle in virology that given a virus found in the wild, the more contagious it is, the less harm or death it causes. (If it killed every host it would have no long-term survivability)
The new Toronto streetcars have AC, replacing the 60s era streetcars.

Now the windows don’t open. Maybe that’s fine for temperature control, but there can be many good reasons to have open windows on public transit.
I agree entirely; this is a dumb case. If decided for Duguid, here's a list of things that would probably have become illegal for businesses to do under TCPA:

1) using caller ID to return a missed call unless you were sure you were calling an existing customer

2) sending a one-time password over SMS, unless you had already validated that the telephone number belonged to your customer

3) using call-center software that automatically connects an operator to the customer's on-file telephone number in order to validate that the number was correct!
As usual, "it depends." Buying calls and puts is often gambling.

However, you can also do rather conservative options trades (writing out-of-the-money calls on stocks you own and want to sell anyway, for example) and bring in extra money.
I think it’s mostly accurate, but you’d probably want to add a few more adjectives like East Coast, Ivy League, pro-Establishment (as in, not “punk”), neoliberal, etc.
I appreciate this response.

I'm using a Microsoft Windows Mobile Mouse 3500. It's not expensive but it's not a weird cheapo device.

Since that's a wireless mouse, let me say: it's not interference. I have used the mouse in metal lockers five stories underground. I have used it next to giant towers of mechanical equipment. Nothing gets worse or better.

1:1 linear takes about three meters to cross a triple-monitor space. I had to move the mouse onto the floor to even try.

None of this happens on my wife's Mac, or if I run linux on this machine. It's some dumb sampling issue with USB and the display driver and the windowing manager. It's definitely FPS, not spatial sampling.

The mouse moves to the right place. The system just doesn't show it moving often enough.

The mouse isn't a first-class citizen. Nothing on windows is a first-class citizen. You get what you get and can't get upset.

It makes me miss BeOS.
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I'm struglling with burnout. Read lots of blog posts on how to deal with it, but I want to know your tips or tricks on this subject. Worth to mention that I'm programmer and for now I wont be able to change my job.

Thank you
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I had a similar problem with StitchFix way back when; after finding out about my profession they truly pigeonholed me into a generic software engineer's fashion, almost caricature-esque.

I switched to
Bombfell and I had been very happy until my cancellation.(canceled cause I wanted to explore fashion myself)
If you've never been in a place intentionally built like this, chances are you've still experienced the effect in the shape of a brick house. Especially in the spring, when the sun is strong but before it's warm, it'll sometimes be enough to cover most or all of overnight heating requirements.
Yes, and the mRNA vaccines were 100% effective at preventing severe reactions and hospitalizations as well as 100% effective at preventing death. That's a significant difference. Would I take the J&J over nothing, of course. If they offered me a choice I would take an mRNA vaccine.

There's nothing wrong with saying X is much better than Y, Y is much better than nothing.

I get from a public health standpoint you may want to blur the difference so people take the first available dose because there is a huge value to herd immunity, and a society with 100% J&J shots is going to be safer - probably even for the vaccinated given herd immunity - than 20% with mRNA shots. But I won't pretend they are equal while doing so.

Meanwhile, the 72% vs. 66% was when the world had variants not seen in the US. They're here now. I think it more likely that the vaccine has less efficacy against the variants than the vaccines have special "efficacy +" modes that are geoblocked.
The article seems pretty clear that the story is about how productivity is worse _than it would have been_ without the global heating that industrialisation has incurred.
Say I do accept this analogy. For some people, getting a free piano would be life-changing. Composers, Song Writers, aspiring musicians...

Some people would look at a free piano as “that would be nice to have because it’s free”.

Clunky free software that needs TLC, but is valuable may still be worth it to the people who care.

So you can make this comparison, but I don’t like the attitude.
The Articles of Confederation were designed to give limited power to a weak federal government and more power to stronger state governments. It was a disaster, then we tried again - the other way - with the Constitution.

The Constitution puts limits on the power of government, the goal isn't a limited federal government.
The economic victims were the businesses that voluntarily closed and their employees, and the ones in the few regions where business closures were enforced. The businesses that horsed around and didn't close were mostly fine, but contributed to a public health disaster.

Hopefully the lesson learned in 2020 is that actual lockdowns work (see the countries that actually did them), but if you're too timid to enforce lockdowns (like the USA), then don't send mixed messages and do it half way. We could have 1. done a lockdown and gotten on with life after a very short period of economic hardship, or 2. ignored it and let a whole bunch of people die. Somehow our government managed to pick a worse option: 3. implement unenforced and unevenly enforced measures, which both craters the economy long term AND lets a whole bunch of people die. Great work, USA.
Brilliant! Thanks for drawing attention to this "feature".

The world is a small place indeed.
Your information is out of date
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-29/pfizer-mo...
The talking head in the video was right - it’s probably a collector’s item.
I don't see any Microsoft Coffee boxes for sale on eBay.
Been using Tmux for around 6 months. I frequently use prefix + [ shortcut but always thought of it as "Scroll mode", never realized that its called "Copy mode" nor that one could copy text using keyboard.
I've heard that some people complaining about rattling just have (LOL warning) "junk in their frunk." :)

I am still a little gun-shy about Tesla after my friends' awful experience, but it's been a while. The model 3 is the best somewhat affordable long-range EV in the US market in many ways.
Why is AI hard and Physics simple?
Abstract:

We discuss why AI is hard and why physics is simple. We discuss how physical
intuition and the approach of theoretical physics can be brought to bear on the
field of artificial intelligence and specifically machine learning. We suggest that
the underlying project of machine learning and the underlying project of physics
are strongly coupled through the principle of sparsity, and we call upon theoretical
physicists to work on AI as physicists. As a first step in that direction, we discuss
an upcoming book on the principles of deep learning theory that attempts to realize
this approach.
I'm pretty sure they were vandalizing caves long before they were writing cuneiform. Though it's debatable whether those illustrations counts that as "history" since it's more like a powerpoint than a memo.
I wonder what difference satellite internet like Starlink will make in future situations like this.
What does a brokerage/exchange going public have to do with the top of crypto currencies????

Crypto is here to stay. There's plenty of exciting projects like filecoin for decentralized storage, cardano for 3rd gen smart contracts, and more exciting projects that are coming online.

I hate when people treat cryptocurrencies and stocks as just something you buy and sell.

There's actually a vast amount of people and effort underneath blockchain projects that are trying to solve very hard problems. Just as stocks are an actual part of a company where people work hard to solve problems and create value in the economy.
I wrote the code for this in late 1993 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KoUyFhddIs&t=102 . You can find the C + assembly source code in https://archive.scene.org/mirrors/hornet/code/effects/land/i...

Yep, we used a lookup table with built-in levels of detail. Since rays always sample the terrain at the same Z distances from the camera, the lookup was trivial. Rendering vertical lines had additional benefits back then, including faster use of paged VGA video modes and, as described, doing circular projection to avoid deformations on the sides of the screen.
> Things were different back in 1996. … Microsoft had a reputation, deserved or not, as more of an imitator than an innovator.

Perhaps not too different, apparently.
> Established entities always prefer regulations, as it makes it harder for new competitors to join the market.

Depends on the regulations.

Comcast opposed Net Neutrality, for example. Goldman Sachs didn't like the Volcker Rule. Devon Energy pushed for weaker regulations on methane venting and flaring.
Yes and at Google each individual employee can raise concerns. Not some "org head" who may ask softball questions because his promotion is directly controlled by the CEO. I can't believe you're comparing this cherry picked gathering to a setting where literally anyone can go up and ask a question.

And then you justify leadership standing their ground. Ha. So Microsoft leadership is all benevelant, never wrong. There's a reason 99/100 make the move from Microsoft to G.
ICOs were much less regulated, but I don't think this significantly helped honest people to raise money. Scam to honest company ratio was simply to high in such an environment.
Venezuela’s problems are due to US aggression and sanctions, not its fiat currency.
NYT calling for more regulation as usual.

Deregulation sounds inspiring in theory
https://youtu.be/qXBswFfh6AY but, in practice:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/opinion/leonh...
The reason is the city is loud enough and after a hard day of work you don't want to jump on the streetcar to hear the deafening of the city because someone wants the window open.

The other reason is someone will open the window but not close it and when the AC turns on all the cold air just goes out the window.
what I find to be even more astonishing: "and about one in eight had died", so 1/8 of those who were in hospital for covid AND discharged afterwards, died within 4 months. We also had another article in the guardian that said that 1 million of people in the UK suffer from long covid ("Symptoms vary but include fatigue, muscle pain and difficulty concentrating."): https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/01/long-covid-s...
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> Why must every part of the world be regulated into safety for the common man?

The common man will end up demanding something more extreme when they lose.
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> Positive values are a particular case of signed values, you can still use signed ints to store positive values.

And yet Java's lack of unsigned integers is considered a major example of its (numerous) design errors.

> No need to enforce your semantics through type, and especially not when the values of the type are trivially particular cases of the values of another type.

Of course not, there's no need for any type at all, you can do everything with just the humble byte.

> The same thing for positive numbers

No?

> You can and should do everything with signed integers

You really should not. If a value should not have negative values, then making it so it can not have negative values is strictly better than the alternative. Making invalid values impossible makes software clearer and more reliable.

> except bitfields, of course.

There's no more justification for that than for the other things you object to.
This is something I discussed with a friend recently. I talked about how the key to unlocked more potential for AI was to stop sandboxing it away from the world and let the AI start interacting with it. And the immediate pushback to that is that that would cause immediate chaos. Can you imagine AI-driven cars that out of nowhere decide to brake-check just to see what happens?

Kids are often an unpleasant annoyance in restaurants, and many people that don't like that annoyance try to convince restaurants and lawmakers to ban them from restaurants. The problem with those ideas is that by banning kids from restaurants, you are just going to create annoying adults in restaurants over time. Kids are annoying in restaurants, but they are also learning how to interact with the world. If you don't find a way to let them explore boundaries, they never learn, and they'll become obnoxious restaurant patrons even as fully grown adults.

Which kind of goes back to ethical AI. You can't unleash unbounded AI on the world, or else you'll cause chaos. And you can't sandbox AI, or it will never truly learn. What are you supposed to do then? I don't know, but the answer isn't firing the ethical AI department because you don't want them criticizing your ad empire ;)
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Anyone who purchases options is indeed gambling. I mean, you're not getting anything in return for your money like when you purchase shares to build equity. When you buy an option, if you're wrong you literally lose all your money.

Now, I know you're gonna say you can lose all your money when you buy shares, but no -- that very rarely, if ever, happens. If you buy a dividend stock than it's even better as a long-term investment.

The only parties options trading isn't "literally gambling" for are the ones selling the options like market makers (Citadel). They know people like to gamble and they're happy to take the other side of the trade because it's free money when they hedge properly (sounds like a casino, doesn't it?).

Anyone who buys options is literally gambling.
That’s awesome, good work.
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Twitter people aren't stupid. The stupid people are those who care a little too much about what 1 person on twitter has to say about some topic.
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And who will pick the winners?
Wouldn't that preclude investment until a company went public?
Yes, recent studies show that vaccination greatly reduces transmission.

Also, there is often a confusion where scientist say "we do not know (yet)" and it gets interpreted as "it does not". This happened wrt to vaccines reducing transmission and it also is happeing wrt the protection duration. Scientists say "we don't know whether immunity lasts longer than six months" and you will see people talking how immunity only lasts six months.
Citadel is essentially a casino
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I'd buy the NFT.
NYT says Penny stocks are filled with fraud.

This is a factual claim, but your response is not to say that the NYT has the facts wrong, but instead to imply they shouldn't report on facts and imply they have a secret agenda for doing so.
It's an easy product to sell. They gamified the lottery. Complete with a faster turnaround time, higher frequency, and stronger dopamine hits. The winners are more visible too.
Not mutually exclusive, “corpos” are a major force behind the anti-rms drama.
Historical evidence that we’ve done all the good April Fools’ pranks, and we can just stop doing them now.

Please.

Please, I beg of you, PR teams, let us be free of corporate April Fools’ pranks. Make the world a better place.
Comma usage, pedophilia endorsement, it's all basically the same.
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Oh, I see. Apple has done that since the original iPhone too, and I believe iPod before it. I thought you meant they used a hardware key.
The first episode of the Amazon Prime comedy "Upload" has a humorous/shocking scene of this.
If this happened in 2021 someone would be in prison or fired at best.

That said, this is a hilarious story and reminds me of the things people used to do in the early days of the internet in terms of trolling and such. Unfortunately, after groups like the GN*A and others successfully trolled the world several times, nation states figured it out and started trolling to actually control the narrative of the internet!

And here we are today.
See also: why JavaScript is the way it is.
Why is crop yield an indicator of productivity? Does any research exist that correlates yield with productivity?
On one hand, rising carbon levels in the atmosphere make plants grow faster, on the other, changing weather patterns, drought, frost, cause crop damage.
About #2, a random news anchor used to tell the same story every other one would, so that they corroborated each other. But it's a very far fetched conclusion that the story was true, and very often it wasn't, it was just the propaganda all of them were paid to repeat.
I feel for the poor staff in those retail stores trying to work out what this product was that wasn't scanning while you've got a customer at your register getting more annoyed by the second.
It stops when folks stop focusing on a singular angle to create arguments in bad faith. There’s a thousand examples of behavior that shouldn’t be tolerated that at some point in the last 200 years, society tolerated. Likewise, there’s a thousand examples of behavior that wasn’t tolerated by society that we by and large think should be tolerated.

But instead of talking about the merits of the behavior, folks want to throw out the “tolerance” card.

You want that to stop? Then stop.
It’s sad that a company can’t accept negative PR and show them that they do indeed support their employee’s actions. I think it has more to do with how all organizations want to feel professional instead of nerdy and fun.
What about moving the website instead: http://bewe.me/
Arguably one reason causality research in the machine learning community hasn't boomed is there is no framework/ease of access to quickly code up the current heuristics/patterns/graph models like you can do with a deep learning idea using pytorch. Deep learning has reached today's stage because of early frameworks like Theano and Caffe. Access to beginners in a field is crucial for SOTA development which although feels a little counter-intuitive is nevertheless true. If you search for causality you get a bunch of books and papers from Pearl and Scholkopf which are fun for reading but what do I do something actionable with that quickly.
The article is about much simpler forms of causality though, like what happens when you hit a ball with a bat. Learning enough about causality to handle everyday physics would be an important advance.
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This is definitely true. For singles and DINKS it is still manageable, you can get by with a 1 or 2 bedroom place. However once you have a baby or a couple of kids, your space requirements balloon, and with that, the costs.

Say we have two parents who both need an office each, a room per kid, it all adds up very quickly. $$$ that would have been spent by the employer are now spent by the employee.
This sounds like a such an awesome experience for the people who pulled it off.
I bought ISO 8601-1:2019 and 8601-2:2019
> The offender here was whoever put Duguid's phone number into FB's database.

Without reading further into the details of this case than what's given in TFA, I would go so far as to say that there probably wasn't an "offender" in any strict sense. Most likely what happened is that someone entered their own number in connection to their own account, then they got a new number and never bothered updating Facebook, then the number got recycled and assigned to Duguid so he got the alert. That's what happened to me when I first got the number that I have now -- it had, from what I could piece together, belonged to a young woman from a couple towns over who had apparently up and moved halfway across the country and gotten a new number without bothering to tell anybody at all. It was an annoyance to be sure but never once did I think of blaming the callers/texters.