skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any uses cases for Reed-Solomon at the application level?

My impression was always that error checking was implemented at the hardware level, or else at the OS/driver level.

But just curious if there are some applications I'm missing.
I tried to help the second one ! :)
Many smaller rust belt cities where the factories left the majority of employment is drug dealing. I have to imagine there's a sizable minority in states like California/Colorado/Washington etc with marijuana growers
I've always wondered if some meetings would be better in a text chatroom format. Everyone can express complex and accurate ideas, and everyone has a chance to digest the ideas.

Although, at that point you may as well skip the sycronous nature of meetings and set up a company message board / forum.
I had an operation a few years back and gave up trying to coordinate payment with the Hospital and my insurance. I received so many different bills from so many different departments, often times for amounts like 30.55 or 18.75, small enough that I never understood what they were even for.

I call the hospital and asked if I could just get an itemized list for everything in one place. They refused, saying that's not how it worked, each department was like its own company, so they couldn't combine them into a single bill.

Ultimately I just refused to pay anything. I saved each letter they sent me but never paid another dollar to them. After about ~6 months, they sent all of my charges to my state's department of revenue, which sent me a single itemized bill that I could easily review and digest. I paid it the day I got it.
I made a spread sheet comparing renting to buying a few years ago. The premise was that I wanted to compare my investment in my home vs. paying less to rent and investing the difference in the stock market. The assumptions were something like a 3.5% mortgage rate (30y) and 4% appreciation on my home, vs. a 7% appreciation in the market.

What I found is that on a time horizon of ~7 years, it absolutely makes sense to buy a home. The reason is that when you have a mortgage, you're making a highly leveraged investment. If you buy a house for 100k and put 20k down, then you're 5x leveraged. If you're able to sell the house for 110k. The price has increased 10%, but your ROI is 50%.

There was a definite inflection point after 7 years, however, where the amount of leverage decreases to the point that the higher gains in the market begin to dominate the modest increase in home value.
I'll believe it when I see it. There's a massive difference between thinking about quitting and actually quitting.

People don't like change and there's tons of it happening right now as we transition out of our COVID lifestyles. People are upset, but, I think it's much more likely that people will just moan about it for a while before eventually accepting it rather than actually taking action.
(yeah, totally agree; was quipping about ladder breakers precisely because they're completely irrelevant to any real world scenario.)
>If I have a "no black people" rule or a "no men" rule, some people are permanently excluded and some people are permanently included.

The problem is bigotry is usually based on an immutable feature. While gender is becoming changeable to certain degrees, age and race are not, one can't de-age a person or change their race on a whim. Additionally, claiming that because someone's older disqualifies them from having a full vote in society opens the floodgate every other manner of depersoning seen in human history over the last 200-500 years.
There is a considerable gulf between "someone who competed when they were young" and a world champion. Looking at their rankings, Kamath is/was about 2055 and Anand is about -2753-. He is among a handful of players who have managed to peak above 2800. [0]

As to why people cheat, there are a plethora of reasons. Running a brokerage or hedgefund is whatever, nothing really special to anyone. Being able to defeat someone like Anand -is- an incredible feat to have under one's belt. The thrill of dominating and/or getting key victories in a competitive sport far surpasses things like running a successful business or being rich. Money can't get you that. Business acumen can't get you that. Only your personal knowledge and skill can get you that.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_players_by_peak_...
Most of this is because the cultural tastemakers have long been college educated cosmopolitans, and the modern right has taken an extreme turn that has alienated them. Orange County votes Democrat on the presidential level now!

> Even longtime bastions of the Right like the military, FBI, etc. have been taken over by the Left.

What? What does this even mean?

The idea that the right understands the left better than the right is silly - how many Fox News profiles are there of Whole Foods shopping Democrats in Arlington? Of Black voters in Gwinnett county? Meanwhile, NYTimes did countless stories for four years about rural voters in diners that still like Trump despite the scandal of the week.
What are you talking about - We have tons of coverage of the following countries in our movies: Genovia, Aldovia AND Belgravia
But what matters from the perspective of the American complaining about their healthcare system, though, is if they would be even better off with their same salary but a less fucked up healthcare system.

As long as that seems to be true, you'll see people complaining about it, and they'll have a valid reason for their complaints.
So maybe a dumb question but how can this possibly be true without landlords losing their shirt? If it is cheaper to rent the building then to own it? They only thing I can think is this not and apples to apples comparison i.e. maybe the average rental was 900sqft apartment vs 1300sqft condo or something.
* 79% Sinovac

* 18% Pfizer

* 2% Oxford/AstraZeneca

* 1% CanSino

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-vaccine-doses-by-ma...

Sinovac has been recently approved by the WHO for emergency use

https://www.who.int/news/item/01-06-2021-who-validates-sinov...
Your commentary so far has not exactly demonstrated a clear understanding of monetization.
Reality Winner's attorney: Winner has been released from prison
Sift has a longer list of logos on their landing page, though I’d imagine even at this point that Stripe has more data. Sift got hit hard being unprepared for CCPA, I wonder what Stripe’s position would be. I’m naive but it strikes me that if Stripe were to offer a cheaper version of this product that does not transactions but for UGC, then Sift might have trouble retaining customers.

I’m also impressed that Stripe called this “Identity” instead of something more like “Trust and Safety.” The current name makes it sound more like Okta or something but that’s not the case. At least today. Perhaps they want this to grow to overtake stuff like Experian.
Do you mean background matting that removes the background of an image? Perhaps something like this https://github.com/senguptaumd/Background-Matting

Yes! We definitely want to allow people to try on clothes from their closet. This will involve digitizing your own closet which is something we are working on to make it easy for everybody.

For shopify, we have plans on releasing that in the near future. We do have an app on IOS https://apps.apple.com/us/app/style-space/id1535818149 that pulls garments from different websites for you to visualize different looks.

Right now we are working with platforms with larger SKUs. We will support smaller merchants with our shopify plugin.
I could get a 60k USD a year remote thing but I would be out of the system (I mean, now I am an Argentinian employee with all the rights it entails). For 60k, it is not worth it. For 100k it would be worth to solve all the issues associated with getting money from abroad (maybe make a corporation somewhere?). Anyway, I am listening to 100k+ offers.
BPI isn't an impartial source of information. They are essentially a think tank / lobby group for incumbent banks. See their about page: https://bpi.com/about-us
Good point but even if you get the perspective from the right, you’re still in the Overton window that was decided for you by the media.
I know you're being sarcastic but you know what has happened? All these exchanges issued their own tokens that is backed by NOTHING and have their own tokenomics. One of the reasons people assigned value to those tokens was the more you owned the larger discount you got in trading fees. In same cases better savings rate.

What's funny is it started the same way your clever little remark did but it didn't end the same way.

I think the really sad part here is you think that revisiting an old problem will lead us to the exact same old solution despite decades of advancement.
> Why not add a permission system so users can opt in/out of providing this sort of information to bots?

The bots provide a function for the "server" and the server operator. That's like saying "Why not just provide a system for users to opt out of ChanServ/NickServ".
I remember the first time I went to the movie theatre by myself. It was definitely an unfamiliar experience, but in the end I did rather enjoy it. Later in life I found myself travelling for work so you get in the habit of, and really appreciate doing things on your own.

Maybe a way to approach it is to decide that you are going to an event by yourself. Invite some friends. If they say they'll come, great. If they cancel, back to the original plan.
The point is that in the US, there are not exceptions to our constitutional rights, but the government itself routinely engages in unconstitutional and illegal covert surveillance of citizens.

We already have the rights you discuss enshrined in our founding document, but the government just... ignores it.

At this point the only real solution is well-applied cryptography.
Objects are always treated as a reference, primitives as a value.
To say they're immutable requires a bit more of a context - immutable in what sense? You can reassign a different value to a variable that stores a primitive, so it's not like variables that store them are immutable.

I guess that the simpliest explanation would be by code:

let x = 4

let z = x

z = w

// x is still 4

let x = { b: 3 }

let z = x

z.b = 2

// x is { b: 2 }, because x and z hold reference to the same object
Thanks dang, I appreciate the insightful reply - I get what you're saying and can understand the nuance.
I wonder if you could bend the wording as an excuse to seize somebody’s crypto assets for the duration of the investigation and after
This is already a thing, large investors like Fidelity do exactly this.

e.g. Fidelity has a significant investment in SpaceX through a handful of their mutual funds, which you can then purchase and basically invest in SpaceX indirectly.
It is likely that the "clean" environment will not be used often. Therefore, it will not be very plausible.
Yes, annually.
Not counting appreciation.

It's pretty rare to see an e7 offer though.
The tech stack has something to do with it. Stripe has such high velocity because of Ruby on Rails.
So once everything is taken over is the plan to make this into some alternative to parlar, but with all the chat rooms seeded with the history of the groups before the takeover ?
Goals goals goals. The implicit assumption is that your goal is to develop something specific over time. You want to get stronger, you want to get bigger, you want to increase your endurance, for example.

Since those specific goals are so common, they fade into the background. But if your goals are more or less one or more of those goals, then yes, do the same set of exercises 50-100 times (progressing weights/intensity/etc). That will stimulate improvements. Doing a bunch of different things every time is 100% better than sitting on the couch, but won't allow you to progress very much. You'll essentially only be progressing e.g. strength when you happen to overlap some motion with the right amount of increase to cause improvement.

But something that you'll do is better than a perfect thing that you'll get bored of and stop doing. Existence is the primary predicate and all that.

Incidentally, Starting Strength (the book) talks about this somewhat. He distinguishes between 'training' and 'exercising'. Training is about progressive overload. Exercise is about moving your body. If you want to change your body, you'll want to train.
CarTax.com? Good jerb marketing team!
I would love to go visit Ireland and some point, it is supposed to be a beautiful country and I am a history buff, there are so many interesting places to see.

I guess it will have to wait until this law is struck down, if ever.
> I have found that I'm unable to formulate well-thought responses in real time. In conversation, one might consider me unintelligent (hopefully wrongly), due to my lack of input into discussions.

I have the exact same issue, everything is always put so clearly and eloquently in my head, but when it comes out it all just fucks up, probably contributing to me sounding like an idiot.
Honest question: restructure it how?

The link to a succinct explanation would be much appreciated.
Sure, but that's not a smart contract, it's a "court system" (except much worse, because it's unaccountable), whereas the whole purpose of smart contracts was to replace courts. The other problem is the assets still need be deposited somewhere in advance, which defeats the purpose of a whole lot of financial operations including most types of loans.
The other big problem is that there are important issues that neither side covers, except that is, until it is too late.
Another intel 125WTDP 200W cpu.
How We Raised $3M without Leaving the House
It should be noted that Trump supporters literally stopped a vote that would culminate America's biggest democratic event in 4 years, they tore down the American flag on the capitol and replaced it with a Trump flag. Some 5 people died and hundreds were arrested. It's not an exaggeration or hyperbole to say that that Trump, his administration and his followers "assaulted democracy".
Interestingly Mormons are 2% of the US population (twice the Muslim %), and I can't think of a single openly Mormon character in any TV show I've ever seen.
I had some fun with this. I was pretty proud of myself that I managed to get a 17 step proof (18, including the final refl) of (a+b)^2 = a^2 + b^2 + 2*a*b, without resorting to the simp or repeat tactics. [0] That seems to be the current known record, and I doubt it can be much shorter.

If you restrict yourself to not using simp, it feels a lot like programming in a macro assembly language, IMO. I'd like to try this for something more closely resembling real work sometime, except that I'd use some of the higher level tactics to make it less like assembler and more like Prolog or SQL.

FYI, there are git repos of solutions out there, but, IMO, you get a lot more out of it by doing the proofs yourself. My initial proof of (a+b)^2 = a^2 + b^2 + 2 * a * b was something like 27 statements long. Shortening it to 17 was a fun challenge I'd hate to have cheated myself out of. But, then, I'm the kind of dog who literally would spend hours simplifying a proof for a linear algebra exercise in grad school down from a full paragraph to 2 lines. :P

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[0]: In fact, the proof is literally just 17 simple rw statements, followed by refl. Using rw ← $THEOREM to get rid of parenthesis was a key tactic, as was using $two_eq_succ_one* to get numbers you can deal with using previous theorems.
Educational Youtubers
Financial decision, more like.

They are using it to force developers who don’t need the App Store to use the App Store. Thus, Apple can force them to pay their tax.
Wonderful, soon the standard way to access the web will be user --> Apple/Google proxy --> Cloudflare --> website.
"I assert diplomatic immunity "
This looks great! The demo currently shows front poses only, can it also do other poses? Instead of a virtual fitting room, could you use this to generate product images with models? Would the pricing be different since you're delivering a set number of images (generated once) instead of a widget that generates different combinations?

Also, what's the smallest store you're willing to work with (min # of SKU)?
Did you include closing fees?

Those can take a big chunk out of the appreciation when you sell and buy, and could make a difference of not breaking even for an additional year or two.
Interesting. I'll add my email. I have been working on an open-source, self-hosted recipe/calorie tracker dealy that my spouse and I have been using for macro tracking during weight training. Haven't put much effort in to "advertising" it but we have been using it quite successfully for a few months now.

https://github.com/kcal-app/kcal

EDIT: side note -- when signing up for the email the MailChimp landing page has a "return to site" button that points to "https://sites.cx/" (which is an NXDOMAIN for me).
not sure what you could do with the information, but i suppose it would enable tracking of html copies... 'hey look someone just opened an html copy that was made by someone else'
As a non-american, it's not getting better, it's just getting weird. Like this parallel fantasy reality that americans have come up with and convinced themselves that it's what the world outside looks like, that actually has nothing to do with anywhere on earth.
We're still insanely early. Given bitcoin's monetary properties, a $1T market cap is ridiculously small.
I built something similar to this (for internal use) around Go, except instead of a local program, it turns the command line program into a web app which then runs in the cloud. So now, if we need a new internal tool it’s just a few lines of console code, and bam, the devs can run it on the cli and pipe to/from it, and customer support or whoever can use it on a (still pretty ugly) web UI.

I didn’t use direct capture of stdout because it’s useful to have first class support in the web UI for other types of data, like tables, where you want sort/filter/save to csv. Colors are simple if you interpret those ascii control codes. I did some long polling with incremental data fetch so huge and/or long-running commands work efficiently. Works a treat. Totally worth the investment.
I tried this for a while and then gave up and read no news whatsoever. For important issues, I’ll hear about it from friends and family in person. In the few situations where I wanted to learn more, it was such a slog to search and filter through garbage to find even the most simple facts (eg, what’s contained in recent us covid stimulus package) it’s just reinforced my decision that putting in routine work just to keep up on events isn’t worth it.

Rage makes more ad money than facts.
Any one else questioning the study methodology? They just compared the average rent payment vs the average mortgage payment?

The average home owner is better off than the average renter so they're buying nicer places. The study made no effort to correct for this. Seems like their conclusions is a given.
Advanced Data Protection Control: A Human-Centric and Enforceable Privacy Spec
It's difficult to read this article as anything other than another threat made by managers who want office work to stay the same. I mean where did the younger employees get the idea that their career won't be treated well if they WFH? From their managers of course.
There's an online form where you upload your info, they verify your income level (duration does not matter), and that's it (at least in NY). I don't think any government healthcare programs cover care outside that government's country, do they? I suppose the EU ones cover care in other EU countries but that's the only case I can think of.
> You don't need to be employed or in social programs, you can just pay money

If there are different pricing tiers based on employment status, then the healthcare system is contingent on employment by definition. It's commendable that the American and European healthcare systems aren't contingent on pre-existing conditions, but that's a distinct issue.
This is one of those 'true but' statements. I think it's actively harmful to provide it to beginners who don't have the context to understand what that means. Vanishingly few beginners are running a routine long enough or hard enough to suffer from this problem.
Your salary is measured in dollars, but inflation affects your salary as well. When companies charge more for products, where do you think (some of) that extra money goes?

The rest of your comment has some interesting hypotheses (Cantillon effect, inflation encouraging bad investment) but in practice, you have to make measurements to see whether those effects actually happen. I haven't seen any empirical evidence for the Cantillon effect, and empirically we have evidence that a small amount of inflation does not decrease output (and can increase output in some cases).

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0304-3932(9...

> It's no big deal for those involved in fed policy making as they are usually the first to see it coming

Even if this is true, the amount of money owned by the people controlling the Fed is miniscule.
All I remember about Freenode is those interrupting messages to donate to one of the admins circa 2002.
It’s quite hard to reason with a political movement in which half don’t believe the guy that got 51% of the vote and 306 electoral votes isn’t the president, to the extent of sympathizing with an attack on the electoral vote count and “auditing” the ballots repeatedly. A majority of the house republicans caucus effectively voted to bypass the will of the people during the electoral vote count - makes the Democratic objections in 00, 04 look mild.

The Democrats didn’t spend early 2017 storming the capitol or recounting Wisconsin for the fourth time. HRC never said she’d be reinstated by August.
Modern day snipers, yes. WW1 snipers were in front trenches and sniped at the opposite trench, a couple of hundreds of meters away if so far.
Oh, it's a lateral (vs rear) delt raise. That would have helped.
On Android you:

1. Swipe the notification halfway to reveal the buttons
2. Tap the options button
3. Flip the switch that shows up

On SMS you:

1. Tap reply on the notification
2. Type STOP (4 taps or one swipe)
3. Hit send

There's no difference in complexity, if anything SMS is more complicated and less discoverable.
This is just semantics. If you have to pay more because of your employment status, then the system in question is contingent on employment for all useful purposes.
In 1997 e-commerce was just starting to take hold.

By 2000, E-commerce was huge.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble
it's just 12 notes, ignore the letters. I wrote this program to help me understand scales and modes better.

#define TRUE 1
#define FALSE !TRUE

void print_key();
void show_scale();
double power();

char notes[13][3]={"A ","A#","B ","C ","C#","D ","D#","E ","F ","F#","G ","G#","A "};
char scale_name[8][12]={"Ion(M)","Dor","Phryg","Lyd","Mixolyd","Aeol(m)","Locr"};
int scale[16]={2,2,1,2,2,2,1,2,2,1,2,2,2,1};

int main()
{
int key=3,i,its;

printf("\nWelcome to Scale Printer.\n\n");

do
{
print_key(key); printf("\n");
for(i=0;i<=6;i++)
{
show_scale(key,i,scale_name[i]);
printf("\n");
}
key = (key + 7) % 12;
its++;
printf("\n");
} while(its<12);
return 0;
}

void print_key(int key)
{
int i;
printf("Key of %s\t:",notes[key]);
for (i=0;i<13;i++) printf("%s ",notes[(key+i) % 12]);
}

void show_scale(int key,int mode,char \*modename)
{
int i,j,scale_note;

scale_note=key;

printf("%s of %s\t:",modename,notes[key]);
for(i=0;i<8;i++)
{
printf("%s",notes[scale_note]);
scale_note = (scale_note + scale[i+mode]) % 12;
printf(" ");
for(j=1;j < scale[i+mode];j++) printf(" ");
}
}
human disorders linked to the brain (realizing things are seriously messed up)
This is kind of terrible as it relies on an authentication barrier as opposed to a cryptographic one. No one can reasonably call this E2EE.

I really would have expected better security engineering from Apple, wow. Not that it matters, since barely anything of value is E2EE to begin with.

Thanks for the sources.