skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
dear Witful:

Dropping user tags and only having essentially 2 hardcoded types of auto-tags - timestamp + people ?

mmmmh. And Where to put the yellow/pink/.. sticky-notes?

Tagging/categorisation is a slow postprocessing - weekly, monthly, yearly.
i keep reorganizing my mails from last 25 years. including pruning. Same for my pictures. Most stay as they were, but some change coordinates sometimes. As i may have changed.

yeah, one may say meetings and notes usualy don't last years.. except when they do because are actualy important. Should i invent DIY tags in title?
Child deaths from Covid-19 in the US as of 6/24 [1]: 336

Child deaths attributed to vaccines [2]: 0. We can break this down further: 3 deaths from blood clots attributed to adenovirus vector vaccine, none in children. 616 reports of myocarditis[3], 393 confirmed, none fatal.

[1]: https://downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP%20and%20CHA%20-%20Chil...

[2]: https://covid-101.org/science/how-many-people-have-died-from...

[3]: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/ad...
Just going through the Mandarin onboarding in Duolingo again, and one of the common errors is that 得 is pronounced de2 in sentences where it should be dei3.

There are also common words like 星期 where the characters are the same in SC/TC, but the tone would be different in a hypothetic Duolingo TC class (xing1qi1 vs xing1qi2), and I don't recall ever hearing "下星期" in Taiwan, it was usually 下禮拜. Erhua such as "小一點兒" is also not something that feels natural in TC.

But I think you are specifically asking about characters where the mapping from SC to TC is not 1:1. This StackOverflow answer has a few examples and a link to an exhaustive list on Wikipedia: https://chinese.stackexchange.com/a/38707

I sometimes read TC clickbait articles, and when they use 后 where it should be 後 that's usually a sign of a crappy machine conversion from SC. 發髮 and 干乾幹 are two more really common character groups that map to a single SC character.

The rabbit hole goes even deeper because the same Unicode character can have typographic differences by region. Just today I learned that Apple's PingFang SC and PingFang TC fonts use a different "roof" on the character 龜, even though it is the same traditional character in both cases. More examples here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant_Chinese_character (but that wouldn't be an issue for a TC Duolingo class)
Arrgh. This is misunderstanding the argument in the OTHER direction.

Cost/benefit analysis isn't about deciding what's "safer" in an absolute sense. It's about how much you get for how much risk you're willing to accept. The risk of one meltdown is real, but not impossible to tolerate in all circumstances.

Is it worth keep a bunch of these reactors around to deploying to urban Mogadishu or wherever to supply an invading military force with power? I argue not. The risk is high, and electricity is cheaply available already.

Is it worth launching one reactor into space if it enables an entirely new capability in solar system exploration? Maybe yes. It's just one launch, you can do it in remote areas. The people directly involved can be made aware of the risks (and are taking significant risks already). I don't have a full whitepaper to hand you on this but my intuition says that this might be OK, yeah.
Congrats, you found a single counterexample, namely the founding father that was by all accounts the worst human being of the bunch, what with the likely raping and impregnation of his slaves and all.

I'm all for replacing TJ statues with ones honoring better human beings.
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I think there is a misunderstanding in this thread about what types of restaurants provide these QR code ordering systems in China.

From my perspective, if I need to use an app to select my dish, applying only the pre-approved customizations, then the experience is no different from ordering delivery. If you live in the US, then perhaps this experience is not unusual, since it's a lot like the experience of visiting a chain restaurant - same menu in every location, same customizations available, same "perky" waitstaff, same supplier of ingredients behind the scenes - it's basically just a more expensive version of fast food. Adding a QR code ordering system to this kind of restaurant is not changing much about the experience other than the speed of ordering.

But in other countries - notably China - there is a whole nother class of restaurants that is both cheaper and more personalized than a chain. And these family-owned restaurants are the ones that are being edged out by more expensive, less culinarily interesting restaurants whose primary appeal appears to be gimmicky apps that provide either the same or less functionality than a food delivery app does.

It might be that these chain restaurants are successful because a lot of people prioritize consistency over everything else. But I feel like in China in particular it is more trend- and status-based. People think it's cool to order on their phones instead of talking to the server, or they think it's classy to eat what the folks in Shanghai are eating instead of the local food from their region.

Personally, I would prefer to see more local restaurants and less chains, not just in China but everywhere in the world. I understand that's an orthogonal issue to QR code ordering, just in China it does appear to be correlated.
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> Municipal broadband is a government handout. It artificially lowers prices.

Government is funded by taxes from the people who live in the municipality. Even if they offer it for "free", everyone in the area gets the benefit of it. This is like roads. Most communities pay for roads out of taxes or bonds levied on the community. None of that is a handout, on top of that, most places will still require you to pay for internet.

> Municipal broadband expands the role of government. It's an extra program for the municipality to manage.

This isn't necessarily bad, and requires voters be more involved in local politics to ensure that infrastructure in general is being kept up.

> Expanding government programs is a tax on residents, even if they don't benefit from broadband access.

This repeats the first point, but, yes it's a tax, but to say that not everyone benefits? This past year showed how important it was for every student to have broadband access to attend remote learning. Seems hard to argue at this point that not everyone would benefit.

> Municipal broadband is hostile to business. Companies cannot reasonably compete with a service that the government pumps money into.

To ISPs possibly, but not all businesses. Counter point, municipal broadband will benefit many businesses by ensuring that they have high-quality fast internet, that allows them to keep in better touch with their customers. This is pro-business, not anti.
"I put my database on the internet without a password. People used it. HACKERS!!!!!"
> they're entirely in bad faith as none stand up to any real scrutiny

The expansion of the role of government bit is not nothing. Yes, there is a cozy relationship between the federal government, many state governments and ISPs. But municipal broadband makes it much easier for e.g. the Louisville police department to influence how much of what type of information is collected on whom, and under what circumstances it may be shared.

I support municipal broadband. Any competition is good competition. But it's disingenuous to write off the concerns so quickly.
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Even that's tricky in some markets. Plus I don't want my current job to fire me if they find out I'm looking.
Another way to look at it : if an "AI" can predict what you would code next, it means your program is probably not that innovative, and was already created somewhere.
On the flip side, I don't always take my wallet with me. It seems a lot easier to go phone only (especially in China) than wallet only.
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The public needs to decide how to allocate public space: for roads, bus lanes, bike paths, or sidewalks. Even if everyone was magically given EVs tomorrow, cities would still be choked with traffic, fights for parking, and dead pedestrians run over by distracted drivers.

Since the 1950's, car centric thinking has dominated US transportation planning. Go to a US city meeting and experience the struggle to simply install a 3ft bike lane on a 4 lane road. You may recoil at restrictions being placed on cars but it's well past time for it to happen.
it really doesn't do that, its intent is to prevent freedom of travel to the unvaccinated. Most people I know that are not vaccinated are very open about it and they can be; as there are currently very few if any prohibition on where they can go. The purpose of the vaccine passport is to end that freedom.
I'm guessing you didn't read the link you pasted as well. Note the correction at the top of the page.

It is clear that I'm correct. The vaccines are still in phase 3 clinical trials, as reported by clinicaltrials.gov, the source of truth for such questions.

Estimated Study Completion Date literally means the date that the Phase 3 trial study is estimated to be completed, at which point FDA goes through the process of approving or not approving the treatment.

The vaccines have been released due to an EUA (Emergency Use Authorization). I'm guessing you're not aware of this, even though it's clearly elucidated even in your own link.

It seems you think that the actual, you know, "study" part of Phase 3 trials is just some unnecessary bureaucratic technicality thing? As someone well acquainted with the world of pharma, I assure you it is not. It seems you think they just jab the 40k or so participants, watch them a few minutes, and then the Phase 3 trial is completed save for some paperwork. I assure you, that is not the case.

Phase 3 serves a very specific, important purpose: Identifying any long-term safety issues with medical treatments prior to their authorization for widespread adoption in the USA. The reason Phase 3 exists is because it has very often been the case that promising treatments turned out to not be so promising after long-term study.

One of the foundational, bedrock principles of bioethics is "informed consent". That is, the people undergoing medical treatment, especially experimental medical treatment, must have full information about the risks and potential benefits of treatment. You are spreading misinformation which may lead others to misunderstand the current state of the covid vaccines. They are not through phase 3 trials. According to every other situation when treatments not approved through the normal FDA process are administered, they are called "experimental" (e.g., my grandma, prior to her death, was given the option to take drugs that were currently in phase 3 of FDA trials for treating her ailment, and she was told, accurately, that she could elect this experimental drug, which often is authorized for terminal patients--but they are given INFORMED consent--i.e., told they are experimental and the safety risks are not fully understood).

Please, please stop violating bedrock principles of bioethics. These vaccines are still not through phase 3 trials. This is just a plain fact and you shouldn't lie to people to increase their likelihood of taking these vaccines.
What mRNA is good for, and what it maybe isn’t
> Jesus became known as our Saviour because of His (...) resurrection

There is no evidence for this except what is told in the Bible. Which is the whole point, you are one of those irrational people who are holding onto an irrational asset (Religion). That asset has value to you since others are holding the same asset, if there were no others in the world who believed in the Bible then you wouldn't believe either. So shorting Bible belief could seem rational, it is bound to die sooner or later, but likely it wont die in the next 10 years.

And just to illustrate, a rational belief is belief in something like newtons laws of physics. Although they aren't 100% correct they are still useful for solving many problems so they will likely survive as long as humanity exists. The main difference is that the laws of physics has value even if you are the only person believing in them. Similarly Amazon stock has value even if nobody else wants to buy them. But bitcoins just like the Bible has no value if others doesn't believe in them.
it doesn't sound like the author really has a concept of how 'far beyond' chemists go as a matter of course. The study, classification, exploration and exploitation of emergent phenomena is built into the way chemists do things.
NAT traversal is an impossible problem in practice in the general case (boo symmetric NATs), and the best-effort version is a solved problem since at least 2003 with the STUN protocol[1] which is part of WebRTC, and there are STUN implementations available in many languages[2].

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3489
[2]: For instance, Rust: https://github.com/webrtc-rs/stun & Go:https://github.com/pion/stun, and see this HN comment listing a few WebRTC implementations (which include STUN): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26739253
Taking that quote at face value, it is shallow and needlessly binary. It’s shallow because it is a truism (paraphrasing, you cannot write bug free software). It is needlessly binary because there is such a thing as the size of your trusted computing base.
Good point. The best case scenario is that you can make a decent living for a single person on $17/hr. The more realistic scenarios are uglier.

Point being: we need to stop thinking of $15/hr as a high hourly wage.
Poker can be considered work. If you actually truly learn to play it, it teaches you a lot about people, emotions, thinking ahead several steps, probability, and risk and reward.
Dark mode everything. Code editor in dark mode + OS theme in dark mode + DarkReader extension on your browser.

I don't know if the risks of an operation to remove them are worth it...

Also it can vary a lot, you can have more at some times and less at other times. They can end up falling down out of the field of view with time and things get better.

I also heard being well hydrated helps but I couldn't really make that correlation from my personal experience
The type of work and policies could be a huge driver. I absolutely hate my job. If I would something similar in pay/benefits/etc I would quit today.
This just in! There is more rock on/in Earth with greater mass than trees and animals on Earth!
EU countries approve landmark climate change law
One or a few years is to short. 25 is about right. Most movies are based on books that are several years old.
Choosing to profit off of it is choosing to let some people die if they can’t afford it. Doesn’t seem like a clearly good thing to me.
not recently, most of the buffet's around me closed permanently due to covid, while we did allow indoor dinning, their was a ban of self service food.

A few converted to carry out only, and have not gone back to buffet style.

There are still a few open of course but no where near as many, and the ones that survived seems to be of lesser quality
> Knowing what you want to work on doesn't mean you'll be able to. Most people have to spend a lot of their time working on things they don't want to, especially early on. But if you know what you want to do, you at least know what direction to nudge your life in.

This is the hardest part for me. The stuff I dream about, my deepest “deep interest,” I don’t think I could make a meaningful dent in without substantial capital. And I didn’t come from a background with any kind of money. In my early twenties I spent years, largely wasted, chasing these dreams with the idea that I could find a less capital-intensive path or somehow get someone to invest in me. Eventually I realized it just wasn’t going to happen, and I needed to find an alternate interest that could feed me and my family.

At this point I see it as, if my alternate career pays off then perhaps I can circle back to my dreams in (hopefully early) “retirement,” when I have enough resources that I could live for a long time without income - or, better, enough capital to invest directly, but that seems unlikely.

Until then, I just do my best to enjoy the challenges of my alternate career path.
Okay, but nobody is going to become anywhere close to Messi without working hard. That's the point. Do you think someone could become Messi by putting in barely any practice or effort? You might get into a team, but you won't be a Messi lol. Be honest with yourself.

Obviously luck plays a role, but most people (>90% I'll bet) who are successful in the end get there due to hard work.

I could sit on my butt and do nothing all day, and suddenly my doge coin are worth a million bucks. I basically don't know anyone IRL who got mega rich off these things. I know a lot more people IRL who are mega rich because they work hard to this day.
Confirmed this is also trivial with Django, have done it to my crud, and even have a view that parses my url router for views and return an openapi definition with a swagger ui.
Black holes devouring neutron stars have been detected for the first time
It should be drawn where it's safe to draw it based on current knowledge.

I don't believe that it's firmly established that natural immunity is as good as 2 shots or natural immunity + 1 shot.

We bought more than enough doses to vaccinate everyone and downsides are small.

Consider a population of 10 million with natural immunity. Let us suppose that vaccination with Pfizer will kill between 0 and 1.

Suppose that 1% would fall ill and 1% of those die. That is 1000 preventable deaths.

It needn't be very much of a difference just 1/100th of 1% to vastly outweigh the risk of a very safe vaccine.
For myself, it's because it's physically prohibitive to have competing roads but it is possible in most cases to have competing internet providers.

In general I am of the opinion that fostering competition results in the best internet. That said I disagree with the GOP here; for some rural areas it's hard to get companies to run cable without some guarantees. Outright banning them hurts rural communities.
It would be a pathological situation and I do not see how it could be beneficial short or long term. As a society we should make sure that the brightest people get appropriate knowledge and become as productive as possible, as it is in our interest. Smart people is one of the biggest resource the society has. It would be a waste not to use it to the fullest extent possible.
‘…deploying shrimp decoy off the starboard bow…’ X-)
not ideal but does it really matter
We are using a scheme based on this premise as part of Orchid, a decentralized market for Internet resources such as bandwidth.

https://github.com/OrchidTechnologies/orchid

In the current end-user client--which you can currently download from the iOS/Android/Mac application stores--we use this to pay for VPN service "as you go" in rather small units (the size of these chunks in our case feels limited by bandwidth overhead of sending signatures and CPU usage for signing tickets, as opposed to by the reasonable size of a transfer).

https://www.orchid.com/download
I could say the same about novels and be just as correct.

You’ve never made friends through a shared interest in games, or even through the games themselves? You’ve never been enthralled with the story of a game, and been left richer afterwards? You’ve missed out, and you’ve missed out through snobbery.
Same here in Europe. That's probably a good thing for them as it looks very US focused for now (as many products are), so providing a lesser service to users outside their currently active markets prevents bad user experience & bad reviews. I won't hold my breath waiting for it to hit Scandinavia.
What about stone/brick dry laid or with mortar? A lot of roman stuff is around, but there was so much to start with it could easily be selection bias.
Do you find that you give fewer/zero presentations now with your current occupation?

I ask because it seems like many of us still need to give presentations even outside of academia.

Hopefully, you're in a position where it's no longer affecting your health.

Also, was it the size of the audience? For example, are you comfortable presenting to a smallish group (e.g., < 10 people)?

In grad school, I used to memorize my talks (complete with pauses, "ums...", "uhhs...", etc.). I did this because I was paranoid that I would forget specific details. It took a while, but eventually I got comfortable with making presentation errors. I think my presentations got better as a result, too.
I was one of them and I am still certain that his statement wasn't meant to be interpreted as him literally rewriting every sentence 10-20 times.

That being said this is a great article and the interview you linked is pretty great as well. I'll have to check out the book that recommended the technique of viewing the code zoomed out in a word processor.

I've read quite a lot in my life but I haven't checked out Wodehouse yet. I'm pretty impressed by his work ethic and his general approach. Do you have any recommendations for a Wodehouse novel?

When asked how long it takes to write a novel:

>Well, in the old days I used to rely on it being about three months, but now it might take any length of time. I forget exactly how long Bachelors Anonymous took, but it must have been six or seven months.

I had so much trouble writing papers in college that I couldn't imagine writing four novels a year at his peak. For me I end up spending 95% of my time thinking about what I should write and whether or not my ideas are bad.
The generous interpretation is that they need a way to give people something free while avoiding giving bots/spammers something free. You could point to CAPTCHA as a way to do this anonymously, but as far as I can tell, CAPTCHA has largely been broken by successful machine learning algos (most of the web scraping services I have seen offer "free CAPTCHA defeat" as a perk of buying their service).
It's the writing not the subjects. Wodehouse is hugely admired by other writers. I bet if you'd have asked each writer you name whether they thought they were better prose writers than Wodehouse, they'd say no. George Orwell was friends with Wodehouse and a great admirer. John Le Carre often named Wodehouse as one of his most important influences.
Yes, I understand that, but that is only for the bank, society still has to pay for the 999 of 1000 transactions that the bank saved. Who pays for those, why would they be cheaper given that they are essentially money again.
Placebo-controlled studies that verify that the benefits actually outweigh the risk can be counted into those foundations.

Speculative scenarios based on predictive factors that you could just fudge until the result looks "right" to you, those are the essentially quackery.
Government employees tend to vote Democrat.
Well, cut down, and grazed the rest to oblivion to turn the islands in to meat factories.
Unfortunately, in ML "public data" typically means available to the public. Even if it's pirated, like much of the data available in the Books3 dataset, which is a big part of some other very prominent datasets.
It’s basically identical to other real world studies which have shown 89-91% effectiveness in the general population against the prevailing mixture of variants this winter and spring in the US and the UK. Which is in turn only slightly lower than the reported 94-95% effectiveness in the clinical trial environment last summer. Long story short it’ll be a long time before the mRNA vaccines aren’t effective.
Honestly I rely on input type=date nowadays
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