skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Digital Ocean customer here, with tons of AWS experience. Like DO better. Just an anecdote.
What is a “phone brick?”
And so we will synth a new one in a 2 weeks, just like the last one. The important thing is that we have a cold supply distribution chain, readily available production for mRNA synthesis, and emergency authorizations, which will become regular vax authorizations when it is shown to be a new cutting edge technique and a new golden age in fighting viral infections. Go, go ASAP. Get it. It won’t be your last. But it might be the last of viral cancers, covs, hiv…
I suspect that in practice they'll just lie about being vaccinated.
I could comprehend annoyance, but what political gain do you expect them to obtain once you wear your mask in full submission ? At best that you dont get sick, at worst that you dont contaminate other. I really dont see the link between "we must provide an advantage on the job market to black people", a political side we can disagree on, and "wear a mask", something that bring nobody any pleasure nor comfort nor advantage...
Or it could give people who are already suspect of government more reason to avoid the vaccine.

A stranger on the sidewalk is giving away free cookies. If in addition they offer $100 to each person who eats one, does that make me more, or less likely to accept a cookie?
I do this too. It's also a massive usability win for those annoying websites (usually banking or government) that insist upon a full screen pop-up window to hide the navigation controls and URL bar.
1. Never negotiate with terrorist
2. Never negotiate with terrorist
3. Life in prison required sentences for those convicted of these crimes
4. Death penalty for those convicted when hack results in a death (like hospital hack)
5. Zero statute of limitations on these crimes
6. State actors engaged in this get economic death penalty - 100% cut off from world banks, markets.
7. No insurance coverage for companies that suffer these hacks. They need to get their stuff sorted.
Containers via Digital Ocean droplet(s).
>> Me: Only if you learn it.

As someone with a lot of friends and co-workers who are on the info-sec side, the stories I repeatedly hear of how many times they visit the same company year/year and little if anything is done to harden their networks, and impose stricter security on their users is way more common than it should be.

Most, if not all of these networks should be taken offline and siloed, but you know that won't happen now, the genie is out of the bottle. If they did, it would create a much smaller attack surface for critical infrastructure. As it sits now? Doubtful we would go back to that world.
If a "marginal" process improvement increases your conversion rate by a double digit percent, then it's not all that marginal, and it's not a scam.

It's kind of boring to read "our revenue jumped 4% after adding multi-objective optimisation to our existing model", but if you stick a few 4% improvements together and apply them to a big revenue stream, you get a big number.
I made this to help my team with our YC interview
It's coded terribly.

We were running through interview Q's we found online and I thought it'd be best to have us answer them randomly, with a 10 second timer and running for 10 minutes each time - just to add some realism to the simulation.

We've never interviewed before, so we don't know too much about what actual questions will come up. What we have found though is that these questions help us hone our pitch a lot. Regardless of a YC interview, being able to answer these questions confidently will probably benefit your mission.
How many users can you handle on a server and how does it scale horizontally in terms of connections?
What's ironically is that the ads were paid with scam money, so it's like Google is in fact, part of the 'gang'...
Crazy world!
Most part of scams register names that looks like something legit, but, of course, no one seems to care who's buying what they're buying when registering domain names.
I just checked the protondb website for a few games I enjoy these days and it's far from excellent. I will keep the other way around : windows with WSL2.
Even if only one person in the world were vaccinated, why should that one person not get to stop wearing a mask and social distancing?
How long is it going to take Americans to realize that their elites do not play by the same set of rules as everyone else? It’s getting tiresome listening to people talk about current events like we didn’t just all live through the last 4 years of the most cleptocratic behavior of our lifetime. Wake up! Seriously.

I have no solutions to offer, but I’m sick of this repetitive public shock. I’d rather do anything else than witness these feckless conversations repeat themselves over, and over again.

I guess I’d like us all to disconnect from it a bit and find the funny in it. Maybe if we could all take a break from our collective outrage and focus on one thing we might get somewhere.
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Not cynical at all.

There are a ton of factors worth considering, the jobs report and economic outlook at the top of the list IMO. Next are the set of realities that require confronting... such as the facts that vaccination sites are sitting vacant and doses are going to waste, everyone who got a vaccine has at least one dose and everyone who hasn't got one yet probably never will, states like FL and TX "reopening completely" regardless... and honestly, the people at large are pretty much unfazed, at this point, by hospitalization/death numbers that stay flat or trend somewhat downward. And(!), not to mention, the fact that no politician wants to be caught dead approving another round of stimulus checks and paycheck loans.

I do wonder if they will try and stimulate the retail/hospitality industries though as one more nudge undercover as a COVID measure rather than economic austerity.
One need only go back about 80 years to find horrific abuses by public health officials in both Europe and America (e.g. involuntary sterilization, to say nothing of Nazi experimentation). What I find strange is that Europeans have such a short memory regarding these things…
A handful of people on the internet do not make the vast majority of people or organizations. Look at the messaging coming from the President today, in line with the CDC. WA state is set to be fully open by June 30th at the latest based on current trends combined with the CDC guidance.
Absolutely. Fouling and breaking the rules does not make you a better football player just because the referee did not notice. You won, but you're not smart, you're a cheater. Playing by the rules requires more effort - you need to be smarter to win.

I find it really weird that you even ask.
In some ways he is the Donald Trump of Silicon valley. Just like many Americans failed to understand Trump, many in tech fail to understand Musk.
Tesla used induction motors and even got funding from Toyota to develop them as a rare earth free design. But permanent magnet motors can be more efficient, and newer Tesla motors use permanent magnets. (Unless I’m very much mistaken, Tesla’s PM motor has no windings in the rotor.)

There are plenty of motor designs with neither slip rings nor brushes. I don’t see what’s special about this supposedly new design.
Unmatched in the land of Java. AFAICT from the examples it looks comparable to LPeg in usage and feature set. Unsurprisingly, its based on PEGs according to the documentation.

AFAICT, Autumn seems to support some kinds of memoization as a performance enhancement, and has a utility routine to synthesize left-associative rules. But LPeg has match-time captures which let you build context-sensitive grammars inline, such as for ubiquitous TLV (tag-value-length) formats. In terms of sheer utility the latter is far more powerful, IMO.

Nonetheless, Autumn is definitely one of the better parser combinators I've seen. Both Autumn and LPeg stand out because of how easy they make it to specify inline transformations. Most parser combinators make it easy to match and generate an AST, but you're literally given a raw match tree that you then need to transform into a data structure usable in your program. Not difficult, but neither is hand-rolling a parser. The point of combinators is to make this stuff easier and more declarative. Autumn (AFAICT) and LPeg actually help to simplify the other 50% of the work, not just the first 50%.
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There is a worryingly large constituency, mostly on Twitter, who believe that any unjust death at all is damning evidence that all of our institutions and economic systems must be destroyed and rebuilt. Of course unjust death is tragic, but it's not an excuse to throw out all of society and start over again. I think many of these people saw mask mandates as that "rebuilding society" step, and to get rid of it so quickly (despite it being like a year) is evidence that the state "learned nothing", so to say. I even saw someone say something like "I can't believe the anti-maskers won" which so succinctly ties up the stupid reality of our political atmosphere: you can't do anything, anything at all without it being seen as a goal attempt into the other side's net.

I really do believe that a large amount of people do want 0.000% risk, and they'd be happy to wear masks until 2030 to guarantee it.

As for myself, I'm fully vaccinated but will continue to wear masks to make other people feel comfortable. But even before being vaccinated I didn't care too much if people wore masks around me and I certainly won't care now.
You are making a strong point for further lockdowns.

Traffic accidents decrease, other accidental fatalities decreases, the number of people who catch covid decrease in a lockdown.
Do they have plans to extend business to the EU? Buying one from here is not feasible considering toll fees, VAT additions and all that.
Can anyone offer guidance to one who has recovered from the actual Covid infection why they would receive the vaccine?

Edit: This recent caveat included

Lasting immunity found after recovery from Covid-19
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27125728
It somehow always irks me when VCs talk about "spaces" in reference to markets and how "spaces" are "crowded", and how that limits their thought into what's possible.

To me a market isn't a space that can be occupied in the same sense of occupying a finite physical space.
And rationing can address that problem. These complex issues are never so simple.
Perhaps I'm incorrectly assuming auth providers don't expose an API for exporting all that data. Such an API would seem to be a fairly attractive attack vector.
I’m also fine with it not matching exactly. In fact, I have only ever accepted offers where it doesn’t match exactly. :) But, one thing to keep in mind is that the value of a time investment in a company naturally goes down over time as the company grows larger, and as the company is able to pay more competitively. Investors will get a larger stake because of when they put the money in, all up front. Devs typically won’t get the same stock compensation dollar for dollar, only because the time investment is spread out. My time during the third year might be measured against a company with a much higher valuation than my first year there.
Linode is great. Wonderful options, reliable, excellent tools. Been using them for almost a decade.

It's hard to beat Netlify and Vercel for static content. They make it easy and you'll be up and running in seconds.

I know you said Clojure, but it's worth mentioning: if you do choose to make a JavaScript/TypeScript backend, Vercel + Next.js's API routes is a great option. With that combination you'll have a GitHub integrated CI/CD build (if you need it) and serverless functions behind a custom domain with SSL in minutes.
VMs: hetzner, ovh, digital ocean, vultr, linode

PaaS: heroku, render
> Autumn is a parser combinator framework written in Java that can be seen as an extensible superset of PEG. Autumn’s set of built-in parsers can be extended by the user2 using arbitrary Java code.

The user manual is here: https://github.com/norswap/autumn/blob/master/doc/README.md
I’ve been using Vultr for a couple side projects and really like it.

Check out Low End Box for other recommendations.
Sorry what shock? Seeing someone calculate the number or marketcap change is fun, like a leaderboard.
Yeah, so you'd use an initrd as "your" environment, run your programs, pivot_root (or the modern equivalent) and then pass execution to your guest's environment, which can have its own init.

I say it will eventually be rewritten as a shell script (minus the stats, which will be replaced by a monitoring agent) because people messing with embedded Linux often try writing their own compiled init to bundle with an initrd. It eventually becomes a hassle, so they either make their own feature-filled init replacement, or they go back to a shell script. Most go for the shell script.

I mean, it's a DSL for composing programs. It's too powerful for what you need to do, but all its other advantages (portability, flexibility, simplicity, tracing, environment passing, universal language, rapid development, cheaper support, yadda yadda) make it a win over time. The only reason I can see not to use a shell script is if speed is your highest priority.
You basically described all or most technological innovation. It’s not specific to machine learning.
Yes, I want the virus eliminated.
> Why can't they just have a .dropboxignore file?

Seriously though, this can't possibly be THAT much more difficult than fragile attributes on a filesystem node. If someone at Dropbox is reading: please, I beg of you.
Hopefully they're careful with vaccines. There are people who don't like being told what to do and will ignore the government out of spite (mostly rural Republicans and libertarians). Doubling down on telling people they have to get vaccinated won't work for the same reason. Not that this is telling people what to do; you just have to be careful with policy so it doesn't backfire.

Biden appointing Fauci as his chief medical advisor was a mistake because Fauci has been politicized. Democrats will get the shot regardless, so finding a new face would have sent a signal to Republicans.
Allowing people to buy cars in bitcoin and telling people might be.
I meant people in positions of power who make rules that other people have to follow, more so than random people on the Internet just giving their opinions. For example, I predict it will take a lot longer for mask mandates to go away than it did for them to appear when the CDC first said so.
Also had the same experience. Couldn't stand the unresponsiveness and clunkiness. Ended up moving to Bookmark OS
So this is interesting because right now the search rankings are a steaming heap of crud because of what seems like daily algo changes.

It's gotten to the point where spam sites with out of date articles are now ranking number 1. Yet everyone else is being thrown around page 2+. Google is inevitably only concerned about Ad spend so this instability of rankings forces you into their ad spending machine.

Organic results in the last few months have been a cesspit and so by the looks of it we are now in a full stream of shit with Google. Ads are scams, organic results are not what they should be due to endless 'algo updates'.

What's the solution? I ponder this daily. Without Google and Facebook targeting, starting a successful, long lasting business just got hard again.
Sorry, but again - so would everyone on Earth, to the same extent. And if some on Earth would be unwilling to share resources and information with each other, they would have even less reason to trust Mars.
With that logic, the compulsion to send your kids to school in the USA is on shaky ground.
> How long until coastal and urban counties reach 95%?

Literally never. I am hoping for 60%.
Google should commit to donating all funds received from ads that are later detected as scams to charity.
I’m curious. Does the CDC say the same for people who have had Covid itself? I was not able to read the post (paywalled). Or people who test positive for antibodies?
There are many people expressing anger and outrage at his manipulative tweets. :shrugs:
Same. Linux support would have me aggressively clicking to reserve a spot on the wait list.
and we all thought the proof was in the pudding
I mean all the exercising and fretting about “clean food” versus “processed food,” pollution, etc. We don’t do all that.

The difference in child mortality obviously isn’t about “healthy living”—its access to clean water, basic prenatal care and post-delivery care, etc. The difference in life expectancy between Bangladesh and the US at age 60 is just 4 years.
You can also start with LightSail if you plan to extend it with other AWS features in the future (such as S3). It's a direct competition to Digital Ocean, Linode etc but on Amazon's infrastructure.
My statement wasn't quite accurate. It was previous attempts at mRNA treatments that failed due to too many bad effects from the delivery mechanism.

Some companies gave up on mRNA then. Those that wanted to continue switched to trying to develop mRNA vaccines instead of mRNA treatments for non-viral conditions. Vaccines would require lower doses, which they hoped would reduce the problems with side effects.

Experimental mRNA vaccines were developed for a few viral diseases, but not had gotten through trials and been licensed for use in humans.

Some links to sources are in the history section of the Wikipedia article on RNA vaccines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_vaccine#History
This is completely unreasonable. We've never been able to eradicate any disease that affects humans other than smallpox, and not for lack of trying.
The CDC has no authority regarding the masking of either vaccinated or unvaccinated people. Its guidelines may influence state response, but they do not supercede or even augment them. Yet they have been treated as supreme authority by many, as you well point out.

I understand the importance of unified messaging, please don't get me wrong. But the media has acted as the mouthpiece of the state for years, and this is yet another example of that.

Why might this be harmful? Can you conceive of why such marriage between the state and the press may not be in the best interest of the people?
Why wouldn’t the CDC publish guidance once it is ready, which the media can than report on? The mere coordination (and normalcy thereof) is exactly why people view these policies (gatekeeping) as nefarious.
Death is.
That strikes me as sbsurd.

Sure, the table has mostly metals but there are a lot of gases.
And how would you even login to your email using that method :)
Then you get a black market... it's almost a cobra effect.
Digital Ocean, Linode, OVH

Used all of them and liked all of them

Digital Ocean is a bit better on UI but pricing wise Linode was the best (until they removed their lowest priced plans)
This broadly oversells their similarities.

Not only is the analogy questionable with board members, but it also carries the implication that they are essentially the same sorts of organizations. They are not.

If you really want to carry this analogy out further, you probably need to expand it so one is a traditional startup and the other a charitable non-profit, or something of the sort. Even if you did have the same people in charge (which again, questionably applicable here), the goals, transparency, and measures of success vary so wildly that I'm not sure it means that much.
I don’t understand this. Does the hypothetical low risk person hypothetically work from home and rarely go out.. forever? If no, when/what is the trigger that changes this behavior?
Wait the guy is talking about getting promoted, the team doesnt matter at all for that.

When you talk to the bosses in promotion mode, you dont say we or what does it even mean ? That you want them to pay a pizza to the team ?

No you feel you re not at the pay level you desire, you alone, while probably the rest of the team is, so you must show why paying you more will provide an advatage to the bosses, the team, maybe even the company.

If you re not in promotion mode, promote your good colleagues. Use their name, not the team name, if you want to accomplish anything.

Doing good work is entirely unimportant when discussing salary. What matters is who is doing the good work, precisely.
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The English language isn't sovereign to scientific terms, the science community is. If you pulled out a dictionary definition of "policy" in the reinforcement learning community, you would be ridiculed. These terms have clear and agreed upon definitions.
With 1 out of 5 you were extremely unlucky. For the most part proton works exactly like described: You click on play and the game does run. In the other cases where there are fixes to be applied that's most of the time just setting a simple start parameter directly in Steam.

You also should consider that on Windows in practice there are many issues, ranging from drivers and OS updates critically breaking performance (happened just now again), middleware stopping to work, and many older games that run perfectly fine on Linux not running at all on Windows anymore. It always depends on your game selection of course, but I for example also removed my dual boot Windows installation to exclusively game on Linux a few years ago now because it got way too annoying dealing with all the breakage and incompatibility on that platform.
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Why are so many people complaining about musks “180” on Bitcoin?

A recent study has shown that Bitcoin uses more than 2000x more energy per transaction than the likes of Dogecoin.

We all knew that Bitcoin was a power hog, but did we really appreciate how much compared to other PoW blockchains?

I certainly didn’t. Maybe musk didn’t either, and now he does and has changed his position.
Please also note it is unnecessary to do any additional analysis to describe the example cited as a "lie." We know it was a deliberate lie because the then head of the CDC has said so [1] - unless he was lying about claiming he was lying there's not much doubt in that case. The CDC lie when it suits them isn't something that's really debatable.

Does it matter that they lied? This is the proposition that can be debated sensibly and rationally - but will likely be overwhelmed with emotion.

In my own observation there seems to be rather a lot of people who have almost no faith in their fellow humans and believe the only way "people" believe a thing and will act is because they have been told to believe it by someone. Misinformation takes all the blame in this paradigm. The populations is dominated by people who have outsourced their critical thinking.

It may be true, I don't know. But it seems to me to be really quite worrying if a population has to be told lies to get them to do the right thing or lies have to be censored because people will not be able to assess competing evidence and reject bullshit. Does it have to be this way? Was it always? Is it fixable? Is it really a thing at all? I have no answers there.

It's my observation that even in the service of "good", the debt to the truth always comes due and the interest rate is super steep. Many will disagree.

[1] Lack of PPE for medical professionals in the front line of pandemic response is the justification. This may well be a very good justification.
Everything's pretty much a plasma when it's burning at millions of degrees.
I think this stems from the perception that the US federal government is monolithic, secretive, and imperceptible. The reality is that it's wildly diverse, staffed by "everyday" Americans, takes place almost entirely in the open, and very knowable (even if there is complexity -- just like computers). In the same way that many modern humans have grown distant from "nature," Americans have grown distant from our own government. I knew few Americans who truly believe our government is of the people, by the people, for the people. It's sad. :(
It should be noted that TFA has nothing to do with Neuralink, this is university research.