skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole "who's subsidizing who" is a bullshit talking point for both sides.

The net inflows/outflows from any given state aren't that big on a per capita basis. They're small enough that anyone who either wants to not have to be told what to do by big city liberals or doesn't want to be held back by rural conservatives that would consider it a small price to pay for freedom.
I'll be honest, I do find it kinda weird that we have 50 different definitions of "murder" in the US, and a lawyer from the next state over is legally forbidden from helping you out if they haven't also studied for your state.

And I find it equally weird that each separate state gets to define health care regulations, such that separate companies are required in each different state. Lots of duplicated efforts.

There are certainly some functions that are best managed locally, and I suppose there must be some value to the "laboratory of the states" notion (though there are way, way too many variables for any of these experiments to actually be informative).

But in general, yeah, there's a bunch of stuff that I'd just as soon see pushed up rather than down. It would save a lot of headaches. There is surely some stuff that could be pushed down, as well.
This paper, right?

https://academic.oup.com/schizophreniabulletin/article/33/3/...

The only valid conclusion here is that further study is needed.
> I would make it impossible for them to acquire drugs and deal with the consequences of withdrawl.

Depending on the drug and the severity of their addiction, that could kill them. Would you take it that far?
In Spanish we call them "antenas parábolicas".

I knew what a parabólica was as a child, but learnt the root of the word until high school math class.

I had a moment in math class when I thought... "So that's why it's called parabolica".
Paper straws don't work well if you take too long to drink or if you are drinking something thick.
I have bought hundreds of Kindle books. Is there a (legal) way to read them on Kobo?
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Beta becomes latest EVA unicorn with Amazon, Fidelity backing
I'm a novice at security, but shouldn't the correct fix be to force the user to revoke the keys?
I don't think it is an unfortunate narrative. two people wearing masks without valves is twice the reduction in likelihood that either one gives the other covid.
If someone does have covid the mask without the valve will greatly reduce the concentration of virus particles in the air around them. I think that is working as intended!
you'll never get J/K brevity though. Because in opposition to Lisp where control flow is explicit in the syntax, most of the control flow in array languages is implicit. I love lisp too, but for some (rare) use cases it's not the best.
Nerds wetting themselves built the world that business stole from them
ah, I will double check /invited on my next call out ;) thx
The only time "N95" was uttered was last year, when we were being told: 1. Masks aren't needed; 2. Don't buy masks, healthcare workers need them.

It's unfortunate that we didn't go back to talking about proper masks before people started knitting them and making them out of rags and beads. One wonders what difference it might have made.
Very well written, bravo. TOC and reference links makes it even better.
Bless your soul, but what I've learned from the way we handled the pandemic worldwide (and are still handling it) is that information that's readily available and should in theory reach everyone, flows ridiculously slowly, even among specialists and political figures, it's easily corrupted and distorted, and a loud ignorant minority counts as much in the public discourse, as the voices of millions of reasonable people.

I'd say we have more evolving to do. Both biologically and socially. Individually (some) of us are relatively smart. Together we're as dumb as a piece of wood.
That's probably because they are 3D printed prototypes. He says in the link that they're working on creating the molds for injection molding.
Thank you, just learned a bunch from that, unexpected considering how long I've been doing CSS. Cheers.
Sean Carroll is incredible, and his textbook on Spacetime & Geometry was the only reason I understood anything in my graduate-level class on general relativity. There's truly an art to be able to explain incredibly complex topics in an easy(er) to understand way.
Probably Rec Room (https://recroom.com/) or VR Chat (https://hello.vrchat.com/). Both are popular ways to hang out in VR.
If you tell me how something works and it fits within my mental model of the world then I will trust you. I will add this information to my mental model of the world.

If you tell me something works but can't explain how I will consider if the claim is worth evaluating then attempt to understand it myself before accepting it.

If you tell me to trust you with no explanation I will immediately distrust you.
> Feel free to advocate for changing the standard accordingly.

I am, in fact, describing the existing C standard, not advocating for changes. Please refer to Annex L "Analyzability", which defines the terms I used: "bounded undefined behavior" and "critical undefined behavior". Note that this section is conditional... it is not widely adopted. I am advocating for increased adoption of this part of the standard, or barring that, revisions that would make adoption more palatable.

And in general, "If you don't like it, advocate changing the standard" is not a useful or insightful response. It is completely reasonable and normal to complain about something without trying to fix it.
> It annoys the living crap out of me, but in fairness English is whatever people say it is

That's about my position on it. "I'm a descriptivist, but this is just stupid, let's not go there."
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You are also taxed if you use cryptocurrency to directly buy goods or services as well. Based on my understanding, that would include using cryptocurrency to buy a company.
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>got a cold

That's because the cold virus is spread by surfaces, and you likely touched something with it, then scratched your eyes. You can be 80 miles from someone, but if you touch something he touched, you're potentially getting his cold.
That explains a lot of bad decisions with the Corona Virus
Yeah, you should definitely read up on how farming subsidies came about. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_policy_of_the_Uni...

Food got so stupidly cheap it makes no sense to grow it in the US anymore. So farmers demanded that people in cities pay for their lifestyles out of our taxes. And then they go around being entitled about it.

I've had enough of farm welfare queens. Get farmers off of welfare and let us import food from places that can grow it competitively. If we can't make up the other 85% from somewhere else, that's great, then US farmers will show that they can grow food at a reasonable place without welfare.

These hateful people that survive on the welfare handouts from cityfolk and then turn around and vote for Republican idiots like Trump have gone too far. Time to cut them off.
It is always about power.

No reason to make it so complicated.
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Almost certainly the answer is one can be implemented more efficiently than the other using a particular API on a particular platform.
> English students across the world are often "taught" a ton of nonsense grammatical rules that simply don't exist, or that are simplifications which don't always apply.

Hard disagree - I don't think your experience as an EFL teacher is relevant to places where english is an official language and is taught from their equivalent of K-12, like India (and many former colonies). EFL courses are far shorter, and not taught to similar depth - some former colonies use the same examination boards as UK students, so it's a far-cry from EFL.

English speakers in those places do not make mistakes that "native" speakers make, like writing "I should of done that" or say "on accident" because it's the opposite of "on purpose" - they simply accept that the rules don't make any sense. I'm not sayin they are better or perfect: they have their own class of mistakes they are prone to.
No, our orthography is terrible. We should let it slip towards rationality in any of the tiny ways it tries.
> WASM can't even talk to the DOM API directly

For now. It's planned.
It's almost like different situations are different. Violence has been a part of Oregonian state politics for a long time and as recently as within the last 12 months (1). I certainly do not condone nor support the violence of the far-right in the place where I've spent the majority of my life.

I would love to learn about your perspective though. What deep issues do you think require violence in this situation? Do you support their right to leave the state violently if the state legislature doesn't let them? What level of insurrection do you think is okay? Are they just allowed to defend themselves within their county or are they justified attacking the state government outside of their lands?

I'm excited to hear your response. I'm sure you're trying to add to the conversation and I can't wait to learn from you.

(1) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/01/oregon-state...
I remember reading recently about a "Firefox bug" caused by a buggy "portability" patch of one of their dependencies.

Accepting 'portability patch' isn't free..
Fun story time. I had a manager who used to work for Microsoft. Apparently he had to talk to a bunch of people before he could get Office to install properly when not running as Admin. This is pre-Vista release but it shows that even Microsoft didn't always write their software in way that was the best for their own OS.
I haven't tried it yet, but Venmo allows you to split certain payments, like ones made on Seamless for example.

https://help.venmo.com/hc/en-us/articles/217532327-Splitting...
Hey everyone, I am one of the authors of the paper described in this article. We used reinforcement learning and recurrent neural networks to learn a controller which can ascend and descend stairs without any vision-based perception, meaning that it must rely entirely on proprioception to walk. This is the first time (to our knowledge) that a human-sized bipedal robot has been able to climb real-world stairs blind to the world, and we're pretty excited about the results of this research.

Here's a link to the Arxiv submission: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08328

And here's the accompanying video:
https://youtu.be/MPhEmC6b6XU

And an uninterrupted five-minute video of a test on an outdoor staircase:
https://youtu.be/nuhHiKEtaZQ

Happy to answer any questions the HN crowd may have!
The VAST majority of mask wearing I have seen in California has been average cloth-covers. I have only seen a handful of people out of thousands actually wearing N95 masks, so perhaps N95 is highly effective at stopping viruses, but I see basically nobody wearing that. Stores, offices, buildings, all are completely fine with you wearing a bandana over your face. There is effectively no point in even mandating mask laws unless you actually mandate the TYPE of mask that must be used. The coffee filters people are wearing over their face will do close to nothing, if not even make everything worse for their own personal health (lung issues, bacterial infections, etc.)
This is breathtakingly well-written and also terrifying.

Unfortunately this is but one version: it’s also not uncommon for children and grandchildren to milk their elders dry financially, particularly when the elders are a bit addled. If those elders leave unpaid bills to a nursing home, why shouldn’t those children be held responsible?
It’s rough out there.
Indeed this is the money paragraph:

"The effectiveness of masks, however, is still under debate. Compared to N95/FFP2 respirators which have very low particle penetration rates (around ~5%), surgical and similar masks exhibit higher and more variable penetration rates (around ~30-70%) (2, 3). Given the large number of particles emitted upon respiration and especially upon sneezing or coughing (4), the number of respiratory particles that may penetrate masks is substantial, which is one of the main reasons leading to doubts about their efficacy in preventing infections. Moreover, randomized clinical trials show inconsistent or inconclusive results, with some studies reporting only a marginal benefit or no effect of mask use (5, 6). Thus, surgical and similar masks are often considered to be ineffective. On the other hand, observational data show that regions or facilities with a higher percentage of the population wearing masks have better control of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (7–9). So how to explain these contrasting results and apparent inconsistencies?

Here, we develop a quantitative model of airborne virus exposure that can explain these contrasting results and provide a basis for quantifying the efficacy of face masks. "

So they are left with a conundrum that places which use surgical masks seem to be better off, whereas randomized control studies of surgical masks show little to no benefit. This is what they try to explain with a mathematical model.
Valid criticism. I'm now building a job board and would like feedback on the search and filtering.

https://www.arbeitnow.com/
I'm my state we have a choice now and I still wear one most places except the gym. That's where my comfort vs risk threshold crosses. On that note one thing that's odd that I've observed in mixed mask rooms is that I don't like exposing my face to people who aren't exposing theirs. It's like my smile, a sign of peace, can't be reciprocated so I'm making myself vulnerable at their expense. I'll don a mask in mixed mask rooms not because of conformity per se, but what feels like defensiveness. My simian brain is thinking "you don't know if these are friendlies." I'm looking forward to any future psychological studies that explain this phenomenon.
Absolutely not, but we have tools at our disposal for that as well (Methadone comes to mind).
I think the reason they think it's subsidizing the rich enclaves is because they believe the rich enclaves aren't really working - they're just generating revenue from information advantage. We're just building systems of control and making money from it. Compare that to them cleaning out a grain cart or chopping up a 300 pound pig. What is work? And why did I make nearly $300 today vs them who will make $300 for that pig that they had to raise for 6 months?
It wasn't so much that builds with support for it were behind paywall, more that the latest build which supported BOTW more were.

BOTW would still play just worse, then they'd release the next version on patreon and make the last one free.

Now it just runs well.
Can confirm. Had a Garmin/Palm handheld (iQue 3200 or sth) with Garmin mapping software for Windows to prepare/preload map tiles onto SD cards, plus a complex setup involving VirtualPC and NoMachine NX to make it run on my PowerBook.
So one can make a model out of thin air and not validate it, and then write a paper about it claiming to have the holy grail? That's Science in 2021?
SimuLand: Understand adversary tradecraft and improve detection strategies
I don’t see it as sad at all.

There’s a certain philosophy of government and system of laws that most residents of Idaho and eastern Oregon would prefer to live under. There is a different and fundamentally incompatible philosophy of government and system of laws that most residents of the Portland metropolitan area would prefer to live under. If the goal of a democracy is to enable the largest number of people to live under the laws and philosophy of government they prefer, this is a move in the right direction.

The only alternative is for two increasingly polarized parties to try and impose their preferences on the other half of the country. That rubs me as very weird and anti-freedom compared to just embracing federalism.
Not only that, but our own cells are similar to fungal cells, which is one reason that it's so difficult to create antifungal medication that isn't also toxic to humans.
This reminds me of how Steve Jobs would talk about the need for liberal arts influence in technology. I feel like so much of this blockchain and cryptocurrency stuff is made purely looking at the tech, with either no thought to the actual incentives involved, or a total misunderstanding of them.
Tree shaking works poorly, but is also thankfully not that important, unless you're terrible with managing dependencies.

Why? Because the initial parser is relatively cheap. This makes all of the code available, even if a stray eval() calls something unexpected.

The real resource expense comes when it's time to JIT a hotspot. But a hotspot is by definition code you use for sure. And code you use a lot.

JS engines use tracing JIT. Tracing allows JIT compilers to see how code runs in practice, and compile THAT to machine language. How it's organized on the file system etc is entirely irrelevant.

So basically in a trace JIT system, code that isn't hot is interpreted, and code that is hot is JIT-ted (and code that's very hot, gets JIT-ted with higher optimization).

Interpreting is the new "tree shaking". It saves the compiler a lot of work, but also it won't crash your app (unlike bad tree shaking).
> And it already causes price hike for SSD we will soon see something similar to chip shortage.

Nah. The expected ROI on a given TiB of storage is halved with each doubling of Netspace[0][1]. The current return is ~$1.50/TiB/Day. As the expected return declines, farming CHIA will become less attractive than other crypto 'investment' opportunities, and the whales will turn their attention elsewhere.

I'm guessing that netspace starts to level out after another doubling or two--assuming the exchange rate remains the same.

[0]https://www.chiaexplorer.com/charts/netspace
[1]https://www.chiaexplorer.com/charts/xchTib
It doesn't work because of externalities. Like, you live in a city state, that's great, but the rural county that your water comes from decided to elect Trump as their leader-for-life and he decided that all water should now contain uranium and lead to ward off COVID-25. Good luck living!
There's a fun and vibrant plotter art community clustered around the AxiDraw and similar low cost at-home plotters. Lots of fun stuff, including several image converters like this.

Just yesterday I was playing with the Flow Imager plugin for VPype. Similar trick of using line density, but in this case it's using a randomized curved flowfield for texture. The fun thing is the experimental "flow along image edges" feature where you get some lines tracing edges in the original picture. https://github.com/serycjon/vpype-flow-imager
While this is true, eusociality is fairly distinctive. The part where most of the colony can't breed is what really stands out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusociality

This does make individual hymenopterans less like individuals of other species, which are in competition with others of the same gametes for the privilege of breeding and the survival of their offspring.

Hymenopterans are more individual than slime molds: they're multicellular, have their own organs, and so on. But less individual than any other form of multicellular animal life. It isn't altruistic, in a Darwinian sense, for a drone to give its life for the colony, because it isn't able to breed, the only way it can pass on its genome is by protecting the queen.

I'm pretty confident what was meant is "than more individualistic animals".
How should a doctor know how to treat you if you don't tell them what caused the problems? Doctors don't just hear you list a bunch of things you are "feeling" as symptoms and then output a pill to take. They need to look at your overall health, wellbeing, symptoms, medicine you are taking, diet, etc.

You can't just show up to a hospital with crack or heroin withdrawl and be like "I don't feel well, please help me". They are going to ask why you don't feel well.
A few years ago I went on vacation for a week with a half-dozen friends in an Airbnb and spent the entire time miserably sick with some kind of respiratory illness. I was similarly determined not to get anyone else sick (and I was sick from the start, so avoided any asymptomatic period). I was fastidious about distancing and sanitizing, and any time I needed to cough I'd step outside of the house. Nobody else got sick. Is the sample size here large enough to determine anything? No idea, but I like the anecdote.
DARPA Digital Tutor: Four Months to Total Technical Expertise?
I really like the "Optimizations That Didn't Work" section. This type of information should be shared more often.
I really want to play the Doom RPGs again, I've never gotten them to work in emulator.

Maybe I should try again with the GC off.
Here:

https://www.brookings.edu/research/why-the-2005-social-secur...

It wasn't sold as a push to repeal Social Security, because that polls extremely badly, but that's what it was.
Yes. Keys compromised? Suspect compromise? Rotate. I think a good policy is to get in the habit of rotation.
I will certainly try this, but besides the debugger connection it seems more like a PR stunt, to be honest.
After you've learned the basics on how to fret a note and use a pick, I'd highly recommend Rock Smith. It's basically Guitar Hero/Rock Band, except you plug in a real guitar. It gamifies learning guitar, so it doesn't feel like homework. It doesn't just have you play songs, it also has mini-games that get you to practice specific techniques such as sliding, hammer-ons/pull-offs, string skipping, and proper note fretting.

The difficulty adjusts dynamically. When you first start playing, it doesn't make you play all the notes. Over time, as your scores get better, it introduces more notes until eventually you're playing the song as-written.

If you explore this route, then I'd highly recommend the PC version (Distributed on Steam) over the console version, especially if your home theater setup has any sort of audio latency. I bought the console version at first, and my stereo has about 200 ms of latency, which made it incredibly distracting when I'd strum a note, but I wouldn't hear it until 200ms later. My PC, on the other hand, has zero latency, or at least, the latency is noticeable at all.
Working down from the conclusion to find the necessary assumptions is the standard approach to COVID-related questions.
> One guy had to dismantle a building he erected (he's a builder) because he maxed out on "how much roof" he can have.

Please tell me what part of the country this is so I can avoid it.
Any quality would decrease, and some people value that, so in that argument the wealth of the nation would increase.

Most all the income and productivity gains from globalization and go to the wealthy, so if they lost billions of dollars, it is true that the nation would be less “”wealthy””…
Why do you think diversity is important in any way? It is more of a meme than a proven scientific truth. It is much easier to function in an homogenous group of people and there are countless of examples for homogenous groups doing things and being a huge success.

Silicon valley was mainly straight white males, countless of music and dance styles was invented by African Americans, Japanese came with Nintedo and Anime and many other good things. These were all homogenous groups working together without too much friction to bring some good to this world.

So don't try too hard to "diversify" things, there is not much benefit in it, it is just a political meme.
> The Digital Tutor students outperformed traditionally taught students and field experts in solving IT problems on the final assessment. They did not merely meet the goal of being as good after 16 weeks as experts in the field, but they actually outperformed them. This is a ridiculously positive outcome, and we need to look closely to see what parts of this story are believable and make some conjectures for why this happened and some bets about whether it will replicate.