skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Historically mathematics was part of accounting, both in Ancient China where it was used to calculate taxes, in Egypt and in Babylon. People used numbers to keep count and then developed advanced techniques to do sophisticated things like split non-rectangular land in equal parts.

It wasn't until much later, and only in a tiny part of the world called Europe, that physics started using mathematical models. Even at that time and in that place, there were other disciplines making advanced use of mathematics and leading to exciting discoveries, starting from Economics. Jacobi who developed utility theory around the time of Newton.

Mathematics was never a subdiscipline of physics. Important parts of mathematics were developed to support models of physics, but claiming that the parts should not exist is intellectually dishonest.
> I suppose you could say statistics is less "empirical" than ML in the sense that it is axiom-based, whether that is a normality assumption of predictions about a regression line or stock prices following a Wiener process. By contrast, ML is less rationalist by simply reflecting data.

I don't think that's true (or maybe I misunderstood?), I guess your comment "simply reflecting data" means fitting data with a very flexible function (curve)? There are very flexible distributions to fit almost any kind of data e.g https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_distribution or with a composition of them, but as a practitioner you still need to interpret the model and check if it does represent the underlying process well. Both statistical inference and ML are getting there using different methods.
There is a merge request that has gone stale which has support for the USG but it only does about 200mbps as the Octeon hardware has a proprietary hardware acelllerator.
Educational spending has continued to increase since 2011:

>"Expenditures of educational institutions were an esti-mated $1.3 trillion for the 2016–17 school year (table106.20 and figure 2). Elementary and secondary schools spent 57 percent of this total ($759 billion), and degree-granting postsecondary institutions spent the remaining 43percent ($583 billion)."

https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2018/2018070.pdf

Total US Military budget was 619.5BB for 2017.

https://defense360.csis.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Analy...

Educational spending was a little more than double military spending.
what is RSI?
True. This opinion is controversial, but I do feel if the United States doesn't invest in military tech R&D, someone else is going to do it.

And that someone else is an authoritarian, one-party state that has a completely different set of values from the West.

Of course, military efficiency can be made better, but it's super important to keep tabs on the 'enemy,' so to speak. We're in an arms race, whether we like it or not.
> There’s a thing called HTML5+CSS+JS. You could have built that static page

The web platform itself is a framework that consumes static HTML and CSS and calls into your JS. Preferring a higher-level framework for web apps when that is available is no different than preferring a higher level language even though ASM is available for local apps.
Exactly what bitcoin is backed by is something of a mystery for economist to debate. Much of it is people speculating, but I don't see anything unreasonable with saying much of the value, at least pre-speculation, is from its use to carry out illegal transactions. There is some use in other areas so I wouldn't say it was ever entirely the case, but I don't see what's wrong with arguing it was a major factor and is still somewhat of a factor. I do expect between speculation and alt coins better made for hiding activity it is a small and shrinking factor now, but I could be wrong.
Highly recommended. Comes naturally to...many people in the tech space, but it's still a great filter for life, including for explaining why apparently-competent people can be under-achievers, and why political propositions can be fatally flawed.
I believe, could be very wrong, that its only on color printers and uses the Yellow color to print dots too small to see with the eye.
Write the best tests possible. Believe it or not, the other work is tedious too.
https://www.prevention.com/life/a20434535/how-being-selfish-...
> But it might just as well have to do mainly with culture.

Absolutely not. Fertility rates have been going down steadily for decades in every developed nation - when children are no longer a requirement to have someone that will care for you once you reach old age, fertility rates start to drop.
If computing ability were to become as cheap and low-power as human/animal brains, you could have the full capacities of a present day dentist contained in the area of a present day powered tooth. Just make the bristles freely moving, add some hard pieces for plaque and you have a thing that could use that intelligence.

Which is to say, sure, today "AI" is just a marketing term but that's 'cause they don't have it, not because real intelligence isn't something that would be very useful in many, seemingly trivial places.
How Bellingcat Unmasked Putin’s Assassins
Yes. It's a plain old subscription in the same way that using a card linked to your iPhone or Android phone to pay for a subscription through their app stores is a plain old subscription.

That is, it comes with lots of advantages through being part of an ecosystem that people may already be part of or at least have some trust in because it is well known. Additionally it's already associated with helping people and projects in a way that may not be purely transactional, which fits how some people feel about their projects (thus the option to donate as discussed here).

Just because two models can be boiled down to essentially the same thing doesn't always mean they will perform equally as well. Sometimes the small distinctions and details are very important.
$15 is pretty pricey for fast food.
Valisure is an amazing company. I purchase all of my prescription and OTC medications from them (except for one which they do not carry).
My dear Seneca,what you are watching is, in the word of Herr Spengler, "Der Untergang des Abendlandes". China will rule the world, their Confucian worldview is extremely pragmatic and has zero time for all this nonsense.
It's a shining example of snark, condescension, and second guessing someone's use case. Better culture starts elsewhere.
What compute capacity? The compute device is in the headset, it's a self-contained unit and runs off of a 15W USB charger, with 2 hours of internal battery.
Depends how you define direct threat. The threats changed after WW2 for technological, industrial and economic reasons.

Also, I don't follow the spirit of your comment. The United Nations came out of WW2. And the US is a key member of those coalitions against any malevolent regimes.

Just how it works. A direct threat isn't a thing anymore of relevance when you're a member of a coalition.
The map is not the terrain. A VR walk through isn't as valuable if the layout of the target area changes. Same with troop locations and routes. Any training or planning use will still come down to quality of intelligence.

In general, it seems very unlikely that all of this will work coordinated in battlefield conditions. It would be like pulling off an AR MMORPG, except everyone is carrying their Xbox on their back and running around randomly
Sorry for yanking your chain.

I tried to be absurd enough in my initial post to make it clear. When that failed, my reaction was to add more absurdity. It's not the first time this has failed. I should have known better when imitating a group that defies parody, like crypto aherents.
Sounds like good news.

There's also this bit at the end:

> Optimal immunity to SARS-Cov-2 likely requires strong multivalent T-cell responses in addition to neutralizing antibodies and other responses to protect against current SARS-CoV-2 strains and emerging variants, the authors indicate. They stress the importance of monitoring the breadth, magnitude and durability of the anti-SARS-CoV-2 T-cell responses in recovered and vaccinated individuals as part of any assessment to determine if booster vaccinations are needed.

I haven't heard a lot of discussion around that, but it seems pretty logical to me that we'll continue to see substantial numbers of new variants for this virus, and thus there's a good chance we'll eventually need booster vaccinations to maintain immunity, unless (until?) we could get the whole planet vaccinated and eradicate the disease.

But since eradication seems highly unlikely, I'm hoping that we'll find the basic vaccines we've come up with so far can be modified to target new variants much in the way we come up with a new flu shot every year and don't have to go through the same full approval and manufacturing ramp-up process.
All that Stallman stands for is freedom and open source software. Take that nonsense disinformation of yours elsewhere.
Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count
The funny thing is they actually closed (or are closing) all of their physical stores this past year.
> I’m not sure how the insurance company gets that data though in your example.

AIUI, they can get customers' FLoC cohort when customers visit their site to pay bills (or do anything else), and see prospective customers' FLoC cohort when issuing quotes online.

Who knows what they'll be able to learn from that? I certainly don't, but I expect them to try, and that worries me.
that isn't (fortunately) for you to decide ;-)
What people need is Maslow. What they want is cigarettes, sex, and to watch people who might die doing tricks for cheap laughs. People did things for entertainment to forget the horrors of war, and to earn a crust.

"Rome, open city" and "Les Enfants du Paradis" come to mind. The article mentions Rosselini who made "Germany year zero" as well.
definition of a bubble: people buy to sell
>* I would have to pay with my credit card, instead of cash-by-mail. (Great privacy improvement! /s)

Do you download your configurations from the Mullvad website over Tor via their onion service 100% of the time?

Do you connect to Tor before connecting to Mullvad in your VPN client?
Enhanced insulin signalling ameliorates C9orf72 ALS in a fly model
The JEDI contract was lot more competitive, AWS was technically on par or ahead of Azure, and they looked likely to be the front runners.

Facebook/Occulus likely may not have been technically eligible- Holo lens and Occulus Rift are quite different platforms[1], or less likely Facebook was not interested in the deal[2].

[1] Typical for enterprise contracts, vendors make sure the specs are custom fit for their products before the requirement becomes public, dictating the specs is most desirable way to win a deal as vendor.

[2] Given the size of deal unlikely FB was not interested, perhaps their B2G/B2M sales is not as strong as Microsoft to be able to win a deal this size.
They all promise to reduce your data engineering budget. The problem is that building a data connector is a one-time platform problem per data source. Once it’s solved; it’s solved. None of them solve the problem of ETL design and data warehousing design.
As another armchair psychologist with an ex-girlfriend that was just like that, I can confirm.
It totally depends on how authentication would be handled for the headset device. If it's handled like it is for radios, where fills are added on a regular cycle and anyone can pick up and use the device, it's probably fine. If it's made unique-soldier-dependent, I don't think it's a good idea.
because eventually someone gets left holding the parcel when the music stops, and that someone is usually you, me, and the rest of the taxpayers
You’re saying that it is possible for a cryptographic system to be insecure. I’m saying that it’s impossible for human counting to be secure.

Protocol: Alice and Bob send their votes to Eve. Eve wins. The end.
Oh I agree, but during the Trump years he (and even W. Bush) were lionized as these "class act" figures just because they didn't tweet recklessly, as if there's any class to their foreign policy.
The existence of "bad" people using a concept poorly to validate their priors doesn't reflect on the concept's validity.
> I am confused by the story: isn't the person who made the big bucks here a person who "mainly does songwriting"?

The law says the songwriter is entitled to songwriting royalties.

In practice, famous artists' managers negotiate with poor unknown songwriters to take a percentage of the songwriters royalty by pretending that the artist co-wrote or wholly wrote the song.

This is made possible by supply and demand, and asymmetrical market access.

Famous artists can sell millions of recordings, even if the songs aren't so great. They have long queues of songwriters trying to offer them material for that reason.

Great unknown songwriters can't sell great songs unless they are recorded by someone famous or connected, because nobody will hear them.

To resolve these dynamics and make deals, mangers since ancient times have made talented unknown songwriters offers they can't refuse: Give away a percentage of the songwriting royalty (by crediting an artist for co-writing or writing the melody or the lyric) in exchange for jumping ahead of other talented unknown songwriters in the queue to get to market.
Have you considered running a SOCKS proxy outside of Mullvad (ie on a Raspberry Pi or in the cloud?)

You could then use Firefox Multi-Account Containers to bind a container to the SOCKS proxy, and whenever you need to access a site that doesn’t support a VPN you can just open it with in said container.
The fears over deflation are mostly just hand waving without much support from real world data. As a prime example consider computers. How much computing capacity could you purchase for $1000 in 2001 versus today? The deflation in that market has been huge, and yet customers keep buying new computers.
> The map is not the terrain.

Where did I say it was?

Let the recce give me a 3d sketch map of the target area as they understand it and let me walk around in it. Better than them trying to describe it and me imagining it!
Comcast doesn't care about customer name, address, or phone number... they only look at your IP address...

Because the last 2 times I asked for credits, they sent it to the wrong account even if I gave them the correct name, address and phone number... once they even sent a technician to the wrong address because I was using their connection when I asked for support.
There's a rule of thumb literally for years. If it's Python - we are seeng a ML. If it's PowerPoint - ladies and gentlemen, let me present to you an AI.
He's not arguing that the ACLU stands for nothing, I don't think. He's arguing that it's shifted towards being a general-purpose progressive activism group, standing up for whichever causes are trendy in progressive circles and ignoring causes that aren't, rather than prioritizing based on the underlying principles of civil liberties they're nominally protecting.
Another recent study [1], discussed on This Week in Virology [2], also found T-cell immunity to be robust against mutations. However, there seems to be an open question of how well natural T cells, trained on the whole virus, will compare to T cells trained on vaccines that only have the spike protein or some other subset.

[1]: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.27.433180v1
[2]: https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-736/
the problem is insanely cheap VC money
Not a good post for HN, this will end up in uninformative flamewar.
It is basically three thing, Pre iOS 7, Post iOS 7 Music, and Apple Music.

Pre iOS7 was done under a person who understands and is passionate about Music. Steve Jobs.

iOS 7 was the first major UI redesign Apple had with iOS, all lead by Jony Ive. Going from Hardware Industrial Design to everything "Design". Throwing out everything that Apple UX, UI, HID had over the years. Basically Jony Ive hated Skeuomorphic design ( Previously Lead by Scott Forstall ) so much he throw everything out. Not sure if he just hated Scott or the design. Or possibly both. But it took Apple years to finally walk back on all those decisions. ( The same to Apple Store, but that is another story )

Apple Music was initially just Beats. The whole App design was about that stupid "Next Song" they keep promoting, also from Beats. It was Jimmy Iovine's idea that the computer / iPhone would magically know your mood and play the next song. And somehow Eddy Cue was sold into it. If you ignore the marketing crap, what Jimmy Iovine wanted was for people to discover new music. By either using AI, curated playlist or Apple Radio. For a long time Apple Music doesn't even have repeat the same song button. And the whole UI was designed for you to "discover" music. As a true music nerd this may have been OK, for normally user this is just stuffing random piece of music in front of their face. It wasn't until a few years later they finally accepted defeat and accept the fact the users knows what they want to listen. And what song or artist they are looking for, as well as repeating the same god damn song hundreds of time.

That is how we arrived at today's Apple Music UX. Which might have been OK for any other company and consumer / user. But in my view, still a bloody pile of crap. Instead they are so focused on the social justice aspect and keep telling the media how Apple's paid out to music labels are 10% higher than Spotify. And continue to push Free Trial hoping to push for higher services revenue.
WHO recommends between 70%-80%.

I'd just keep the everclear 151 as is, since as you recognize already is at 75%.

(From what I understand, too high doesn't destroy the rna, and too low can't penetrate the lipid layer).
Ask HN: How to build an online review platform?
Hello. I would like to create an online review platform around a niche industry. Something similar to Capterra (https://www.capterra.com) would be nice, but I don't need anything that fancy. Good SEO capabilities would be great though (I guess this obvious, no?).

What stack/tools should I be looking into?

Note: Last time I built and hosted a website Dreamweaver and Geocities were popular. So it's been a while. In case it helps, I know Python (for data science, though) and have dabbled in Hugo (the static site generator).

Looking forward to your replies!
The PVS-21 is technically an AR night vision system, especially with the optional HUD video module so you already have battle tested AR systems used by infantrymen.

For tanks etc. AR is very useful and is already implemented at least outside of the US, Elbit has a version of their F-35 helmet for tanks and armored vehicles and the Israelis seem to be happy with the situational awareness they gain.
Nowhere is it said this was mandated.
That’s your assumption not supported by evidence.

So let’s run through it.
Cisco writes white paper supporting LE back door access.
LE/IC use hard coded back doors as revealed in the Snowden and Vault7 leaks.
You’re saying it never happened, ever.
Maybe you’re right (you’re not) but you spoke so firmly!
Do you know something I don’t?
Ah yes, that's been rectified now =D
Of course I do.
Repetitive strain injury.

I've found that hand sanitizer triggers it. Sounds weird, but I'm pretty sure, as I went on and off sanitizer about 4 times during this pandemic and I noticed the symptom come and go every time.
Thank you for writing this, I enjoyed reading it and largely agree.
From my time spent in Berlin it almost seemed like there were more people speaking English than German. Perhaps it's just what my ear picked up as a non-German speaker though.
> FDIC insurance doesn't cover this because it's a 'neo-bank' and the underlying bank didn't fail.

where does it say that
> But since eradication seems highly unlikely, I'm hoping that we'll find the basic vaccines we've come up with so far can be modified to target new variants

My understanding is that one of the major benefits of mRNA vaccines is how easy they are to both design and produce (although storage and transportation is a challenge). It seems likely we might need yearly boosters, and I think the mRNA vaccines will be up to the task.
And even if ESNI was ubiquitous, a malicious exit would simply perform a reverse DNS lookup and have very high certainty about which sites you’re visiting.
I think there is a flaw in the logic.

Life forms spontaneously. Just because this life evolves into higher beings who can also create above life in lab, the fundamental fact that life formed spontaneously is not affected in any way.
Nothing of value has been added by having a "feminist" point of view. People (men and women) have been doing archeology for a long time, and the experience of girls and women have been studied (You could argue the extent of course) by countless scholars.

I suppose I dont belong to the enlightened crowd when I dont understand quotes like these:

> “Is e=mc2 a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us. What seems to me to indicate the possible sexed nature of the equation is not directly its uses by nuclear weapons, rather it is having privileged what goes the fastest.”
The approach of removing unnecessary parts from a genome to find the minimum brings to mind Muntzing. In the 1940s, Earl Muntz was a TV seller who reduced manufacturing costs by cutting out unnecessary components. He walked around the lab with diagonal cutters and snipped out components until the TV stopped working. He'd put the last component back and have a new lower-cost design. The TVs only worked in high-signal areas, but were much cheaper than the competition and sold a ton.

https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/boards/article...
I am incredibly relieved.
Well, it was basically the only book out at that time. I remember a few others in the 1990s - Compiler Design in C; Holub, and later after I graduated Modern Compiler Implementation in C; Appel).

Hey something cool I found while googling - Holub's book is available as a free download from the author! (https://holub.com/compiler/)

The Dragon Book has flaws but it is also the case where the pioneer catches all the arrows. But the OP asked about unsubstantiated criticisms of the book so I added in the one I remember from my courses - mostly too much on parsing, not enough on everything else. The 2nd compiler course I took didn't even use a textbook, Dragon book or otherwise; it was a handful of papers and a semester-long project on SSA and associated documentation.
Honestly, I went through a similar experience in my career around 30. I was mostly self taught and been writing code in academia where my peers were also self-taught scientists who were even worse programmers than I was. It was at my first interview at a real software company where I realized just how far behind the curve I was.

Fortunately I was in a position to take a break from work to focus on learning new skills. I built a few demo apps which were enough to land me a dev position at a small agency where there wasn't a concept of junior or senior devs, but where the others were better enough than me that I could learn quickly from them.

Now that you're in such a position you'll see that maybe you didn't learn as much as you could have in those 10 years, but just by spending years getting exposed to real software development issues you will be able to rapidly assimilate better practices.
Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction: an oscillatory chemical reaction
LFTRs in 5 minutes – Thorium Reactors (2012)
I like the wehi videos because they take effort to make the molecular motions appear to be random, a result of stuff blundering about: https://youtu.be/7Hk9jct2ozY
If it's legit, why does it matter? Presumably that person's song took off and they were able to forecast that they'd make $X, which was worth the move to WA.
> you can't really bootstrap a Facebook replacement today

why not?