skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I don't know what you are arguing:
We have a lot of evidence on the effectiveness of masks in relationship to preventing droplet infection.

We don't have so much about COVID 19. On the community level it looks promising for me, the papers are flawed but coming out.

What I am missing ... where is the other side of the coin. All models are wrong but some are useful. The particle simulations are wrong, but pretty useful (and I don't see why COVID should behave differently). What model do you base your assumption that masks don't work?
Is there research that supports your claims?
All science is bad science :) Some is useful.

> survey responses (= bad data)?
So any research based on survey responses is bad? It's a standard method in policy research. What data would you use to show the community effect of mask wearing?

I'm usually listening critically to experts in a field (not to dentists or surgeons), it seems people who claim masks don't work are not virologists and have not worked with the virus (COVID19):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Drosten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Ciesek

Both strong in the pro mask camp. Are there virologists working on COVID 19 (in the lab) that are on your side of the argument?
Earth and Beyond was really incredible and was the first to implement trading as a profession (e.g. buy tons of an item in one place, sell it at another for profit and xp). EVE took things to a wholly new level with trading though.
I have early payment penalties on my mortgage. Would love it if there weren’t. I’m in Canada.
To those here riffing on the theme of “this misrepresents the volume and beneficiaries of the transactions involved” - you’re not wrong. Accurate representation of public info like this is a top organisational problem for our species at the moment.

But I do think you miss the point, so aptly put by Mr Eisenhower:

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.”

In a strictly limited sense, I’d rather get my cross of iron at 66% off than for the full $6.4T. Better yet would be universal healthcare, enough homes to go round, clean, sustainable energy production systems, and bridges that keep on bridging.
I guess this kind of retort would help you in a pub quiz.
I played all those any others you recommend?
Is that what we want t tell all the revolutionaries around the world?

Would the taleban take your words to heart?
I use slices all the time, but very rarely need to delete out of the middle of them. So it seems like a bit of an edge case to me.
> Except the visitor, which can be useful in pretty much any system with polymorphism

In principle, yes. In practice, I've almost never seen the visitor pattern used outside of programming languages. Maybe once or twice in UI frameworks.

> methods and techniques maybe. These words don't mean the same thing, a pattern is much more general than a technique !

What's your definition of a "pattern" and why wouldn't the things I list fit in it?
Why is there no programmatic access to the Start menu pin list? (2003)
I always hated how they did that.
A below transition fullness the insertion process takes N kicks with exponentially decreasing probability (for some constants depending on the fullness level and number of hash functions). E.g. 1/2^n kicks.

Not something you can really describe as wildly erratic.

If latency is particularly critical in your application, you could couple the hash table with a small "stash" map and perform a constant maximum number of kicks per insert, and when you reach the limit stick the current straggler in the map to be continued on the next insertion. As long as the constant maximum is well above the average the map will stay empty most of the time.
No, you don't.

You might in a state of nature, but the US has laws against prepayment penalties for mortgages. (Well, against the mortgage originator charging prepayment penalties.) You don't owe interest until it accrues.
What else do your tools/scripts do? Does losslesscut work with streaming video or only downloaded files?
No, not all statistics are intuitive, definitely a reason why there's statistics, and then engineering statistics in most colleges.

However, the simpler parts/beginning of either course... really do seem like they should be intuitive to anybody who made it with a D through middle school math. Basic applied ratios and such. Like the fact near 5 billion covid vaccines have been administered worldwide now and there are still people vehemently arguing about the horrible things that are going to happen to them specifically if they get a vaccine...
Most people wouldn't say that. If I buy a $500K home with a $400K mortgage and the mortgage ends up costing me $600K over the next 30 years, I don't know anyone who'd claim that I spent $700K. Most would say I spent $500K; a few would say I spent $100K and borrowed $400K.

Among various things that could happen: I might pay off the $400K next year and pay a grand total of $411K in interest. I might sell the house for $700K and book a $200K profit on my $100K cash. I might lose my job, get foreclosed upon, and then be out $100K plus whatever payments I've already made. I might have had $500K in cash to begin with, but wanted to invest $400K in Ethereum, see it moon for a 20x return, and make a cool $8M profit on top of the house. Or I could carry the mortgage to term, and then I really will have spent $700K.
> squander it on things like new cars or electronics instead of paying off debt or investing for retirement

this is a big flaw in UBI as i see it (and probably a feature of it depending on who you are)
Details about the telephone equipment used by president Biden
It's not really related to Linux or the OS at all, just some text in /etc/motd or similar.

"Audit" in this case is the more generic term relating to the company responsibilities to audit systems with sensitive data.

They are saying the system is not subject to governance type controls for either PCI or Sarbanes-Oxley. Which is ironic given what was leaked out of it. And yeah, that probably means they told cybersecurity auditors this system wasn't subject to rules associated with PCI and/or Sarbox.
I don't think you can call material sources renewable, well unless we talk wood, leather or whale fat I guess.

But in general metals can be recycled quite well and often are recycled due to their price. Also even if you finely shredded it and mixed it with other stuff the resulting mix would still most likely have higher grade than regular ore & mining it would thus be economicaly viable.
$6.4T into renewables and storage over the past 20 years would have decarbonized the US grid several time over, accelerated the tech curve drastically, nearly completely transitioned us to EVs, and we'd probably have decarbonized a good chunk of industry that is hard to decarbonize now.

We'd have cheaper energy than we do today, and cheaper energy forever. We could have been looking at current levels of climate change, instead of the far far bigger changes that we are now going to experience.

And why did we spend so much on these countries? It all comes back to oil and the fear of losing access to oil to power the economy.

We really should never forgive those who work for the fossil fuel industry for putting us on this timeline with their active deceipt, lies, and massive propaganda campaign. There should be no forgiveness for what they have cost us.
Berlin’s referendum and the housing costs fury
I don’t think we evolved to think about statistics in an intuitive manner. I think we tended to think more causally and with computationally less intensive heuristics. Asking most people about the birthday problem veridical paradox is a quick way to illustrate this.

I would also argue it’s why humans are bad at estimating risks regarding low probability events. See: spacecraft mishaps that seem obvious in hindsight
No, you deal with slices all the time. You just recognize the idiom.

You can restructure it if you don't need to preserve order:

a[i] = a[len(a)-1]
a = a[:len(a)-1]

In general* Go does not hide complexity from you. It's a blessing and a curse.

*: because the Internet is a nitpicky place.
How much is also taxed on the employer payroll side?
The guidelines are quite clear that "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" is allowed.
Moving Avoids California Tax? Not So Fast
Having your entire income taxed at the top marginal tax rate is like running a marathon with no legs.
Funneling money from US taxpayers to US corporations at unprecedented speeds

I would say that the fabricated wars started by Bush/Cheney have been very successful and had great return on investment
You need to add sales tax and property tax possibly. Sales tax is approximately 9%. Property tax is about 1% of inflation adjusted value of the property.
Yes, I think this is the hard (maybe impossible) balance for an MMO like this. Eve Online is so slow, while EV was extremely fast paced. You'd have to find something in the middle to really make it work.
Like watching TV over internet? dozens of players with different ff/rew/pause/resume/seek behavior
Does there exist an app/website/program that implements this technique for learning languages, combined with actual lesson plans? I understand you can use the SuperMemo software or something like Anki to learn languages, but you need to decide what you want to learn and put it into the program. What I'd like is something like Duolingo with an existing set of lessons and a progression, but that makes use of this reminder timing. (Duolingo does do reminders to practice old material, but it's clearly not advanced. It regularly has me practicing stuff that is far below my level and is effectively known forever.)
> more than the average monthly rent for an apartment

Sure so you get, in a good case, 3 months' rent out of it and then you still need to eat. Yes it helps, yes it would be great in addition to other social benefits, but a UBI it is not unless I have a wrong impression of what a UBI is supposed to be.
I'd replace the word patriotism with jingoism. A certain amount of pride in your country seems reasonable.
Same bro
Oh, good to know, thanks!
> Yeah so how many total insertions (as part of the rehashing) do you expect to have to do to achieve 99% occupancy? Wouldn't it be even worse than

It depends on your bucket sizes and how many hashes you use.

If you attempt 99% occupancy with 2 hashes and 4 entries per bucket, then you are going to be doing a LOT of kicking. 92% with that geometry, OTOH, is fine and will end up with just a couple kicks per insert on average.
We made a mpeg-ish encoder and decoder at uni, and it was surprisingly simple.

Keyframes were just jpegs. Then for intraframes, you first found the motion vectors for each 8x8 block, then generated the predicted intraframe from the keyframe and motion vector. Then you subtracted the prediction off the keyframe. The resulting "prediction error image" was then simply jpeg encoded as the intraframe, and appended to the output after the motion vectors.

Decoding was reverse, reconstruct the predicted intraframe from the previous keyframe and motion vectors, and add back the prediction error image.

Might be glossing over something as it was over a decade ago but should be about the gist of it.

We played with different algorithms for finding motion vectors and such, including accelerating it with GPGPU.

Really fun project, and assuming you use an existing jpeg library, not at all big or difficult.
It's not sci-fi or fantasy, but I'd highly recommend Persepolis. A graphic novel about an Iranian woman growing up during the overthrow of the Shah in Iran, the Islamic Revolution, and the effects of their war with Iraq. It's very readable, has humor, but also talks about quite a few atrocities that happened (without really showing it, a lot of it is her talking to her family about what they've seen or certain people in her life leaving and never coming back, presumably because something terrible happened to them). It was eventually made into an animated movie also, but I liked the comic a lot better.

You might want to give it a read yourself before reading it with your kids, though, to make sure you think it's appropriate. But personally I could see myself introducing it to my kid when they turned like.... 10 or 11 probably, if/when I have one. It should be noted the woman is telling her story from the ages of 6 to 14 in the first book, so she had no choice but to be exposed to these things at a very young age.
I think of this when people say we can't afford to mitigate climate change.
There are three orders of magnitude between the number you quoted and one billion. Also note that at the billionaire scale, there are cost effective ways to avoid taxes such that one’s effective rate is less than that of a typical hundred-thousandaire.
Per the US BLS and Federal Reserve, the median discretionary household income is $1000 per month. That is after all ordinary expenses, not just necessary ones.

There is a significant percentage of the US that has no discretionary income in any meaningful sense, and that is something we should be concerned about, but it is nowhere near 50%.
If you call them, they ask you to fill out a report online. If you fill out a report online, they don't appear to do anything with it.

Also, we're not in California. We reported to our local PD, who did call us to get additional information, but obviously isn't going to spend a lot of time on something they can't do anything about. Oakland PD could presumably visit the apartment and see who's there or something.

Most of the things you're supposed to do revolve around documenting things (which allowing a police report does), so that when these accounts get reported on credit reports later, you can contest them and they'll be dropped. But in the mean time, there's nothing to be done about a fraudulent lease.
Yeah, well Dummit and Foote is huge. It would take forever to get everything down.

Great job on your exams though!
Syniverse Set to Merge with M3-Brigade SPAC
Which companies use Haskell for HFT?
I know someone who works at a HFT company that switched away from Haskell specifically for performance reasons.
I bet you are going to be so happy to hear about https://maplibre.org then.
Python FastApi – A CRUD router builder for SQLAlchemy schema
Right, you 'owe the full amount of accrued interest'... Which is not as much as the amount that would've accrued if held to term. I think this is rather beside the point anyway!
Sounds like they integrated some of the r4s improvements here.

Their metal cases are worth the extra coin. Solid.
No, I don't think so. The headline is "all remaining" production. No doubt Apple already has what they want. Probably AMD too. Apple is a longtime huge customer. Intel has to get in the back of the line.
Well, apparently they become economic superpowers because that is what all powerful nations with monetary sovereignty and fiat money have been doing under the guise of government debt.

Hyperinflation largely happens in countries where the money wasn't really worth much to begin with because it's value was pegged to the price of gold or other currencies. Or because most of the economy functioned on foreign currency and the government borrowed in foreign currency. In this case printing more money to service foreign debt or imports can quickly spiral out of control because as soon as the trust in the local currency erodes it essentially doesn't matter anymore if you have 100 or 100T of it. It's worthless paper.
If I find a simple clear bug in code I can easily fix it. If I feel something odd on a painting it is not easy to even tell IF something is wrong, then what is wrong, then how to fix it.
The Storm is quite infamous because it launched at the same time as the iPhone 3G.

Curious why you bought it instead of the iPhone.
Regarding perpetual war, I'm not sure that was inevitable. Without massive corruption, incompetent leadership, and Russia providing weapons to the Taliban things might not have been so bleak.
He's only 7 years older than Musk.
The benefits come primarily from avoiding extra work spilling arguments to/from the stack on function calls. If you are making lots and lots of function calls, particularly to small functions that can't be inlined, there could certainly be much bigger improvements.
You might be right. What are the costs of bitumen/asphalt and oil on the ground over so much area?
How do you add dependencies and in Go? I'm still confused. I use the VSCode extension and the code I wrote that uses external packages gets deleted when I save my file even though the package is installed
Freelancer was so close… that’s the closest anyone had come by they made it clunky due to no native joystick implementation
At the time, it was much better for email if your backend was Exchange.
DHH gives us a video preview of how Rails 7 will work without Webpack by default
Whether a business is local means little to me if the local owner is a spendthrift who mistreats or pays his employees poorly. For example, when I was a kid, the local video shop owner would hire high school kids at minimum wage and keep them on payroll right underneath the statutory limit for certain workplace protections before firing them. Should I reward that asshole just because he's local?
On the contrary, I think the settlements should result in shares transferred and board seats added

Instead of just cash

Then management gets replaced
It def convinced me. I wrote c++ for almost 10 year before switching to Go. Even after c++11 have come out it was still night and day. Anecdotally the team i left at google rewrote some of my stuff from c++ in Go that I didn’t get to at the time
The article was published 3 hours ago. AOC was tweeting 6 hours ago and retweeting others 20 hours ago.

More charitably, it's possible that the author wrote this article over a course of several days and didn't notice.
I spent an hour arguing about taxes with someone until I realized that they didn't understand how marginal taxes worked. I bet you dollars to donuts that if you start talking about taxes in a room full of upper-middle class people, one will tell you about people choosing not to earn more money so they don't get "bumped" into a higher tax rate.
The US failed to create the cultural change that would allow Afghanistan to be a westernised democracy. That’d take decades of building schools and hospitals and teaching every kid those western values until there is nobody who remembers the Taliban.

Sadly, it looks like this was never the plan. At least, some people profited from weapon sales.
The US prints two kinds of money: 1) dollars, which are subject to inflation and decrease in value over time, and 2) bonds, which accumulate in dollar value over time, usually in front of inflation.

So because we spent bonds instead of spending dollars, we can not take their dollar value as the cost, because that's most definitely not what we printed for these.
We gave them cellphones and modern life. Their girls were allowed into schools thanks to our troops, and their women entered US-chartered universities with the hopes and dreams of becoming productive adults.

This is all likely lost as the Taliban takes over again, but I don't think providing that dream was worthless (however fleeting it was for those people, I know we've changed their lives for the better).
Depends on how sophisticated the company one is subscribed is. Let's take Netflix for an example. As a service to you to not miss out and get your account suspended, they will assume you have "forgotten" to update the service with your new card information. Surely, you wouldn't get a new card and not update them, right? So, again, as a service for you, they will contact card issuers to see if you have a new number and automatically start billing that new card. All without you having to lift a finger.
> Go should be understood as a replacement for C and C++.

I think Go is a good replacement for the things people used C and C++ for twenty years ago, but less of a replacement for the things people use C and C++ for today.

Back then, C/C++ was your default "write big server program that needs to go relatively fast" language, and Go is targeting that. But in the meantime, Java got fast enough and hardware got cheap enough that Python, Ruby, and JavaScript have also eaten into that domain.

Today, I see C and C++ used primarily for embedded work and games. I don't see Go as being a great fit for either of those.
T-Mobile Investigating Claims of Data Breach
No apps.
Forget MMO; I'd be happy to play a game of Endless Sky with a friend in the same way we play a game of Civ. It seems well-suited to it.
Absolutely, it's a good reminder that there is a lot of behind the scenes bullshit at play in this world.

The world was screwed on this deal and while it's an absolutely humanitarian rights disaster and tragedy what's happening in Afghanistan, maybe the current Administration has worked out that it would be better to spend the money elsewhere, hopefully on tackling climate change.
Pedestrians can block normal cars too. If someone stands in the crosswalk a driver is basically unable to move forward. There's no circumstance where it is considered acceptable to hit a pedestrian, no matter how difficult the predestrian is being (unless you are some psychopath, like many GOP representatives are given the pro-vehicular-manslaughter laws they've proposed).

Or for a more familiar circumstance, parking lots involve a complex negotiation where pedestrians have complete priority. People figure it out, though it's not always easy. Pedestrians could cause trouble with regular drivers.

Less generously I could see fines being used to pressure or punish people who do not go out of their way to create an optimal environment for self-driving cars. People who loiter too close to the curb. Any traffic calming measure that might be misrecognized. Things that people who hang out on sidewalks do now, but also people who are seen as a nuisance (there being a significant overlap between those two already).
Well, making returns painful leads to less returns, to a certain logic. But it surely also leads to less sales, so I'm not sure which effect is greater.
Didn’t know that. Next step is to get it supported by a couple major distros.
There's no shortage of metal, that's the point. Open your mind.
The first place I ever encountered it was at Microsoft. You'd start the interview day with the recruiter, have a series of interviews and conclude back at the recruiter at the end of the "loop."

(A single "no hire" and you'd not get hired.)
Spaced repetition, just with a very long space.
I think this equally applies to languages that are more geared to REPL and/or scripting development (e.g. script languages and/or functional languages). Not just Clojure.

OO requires a bit of boilerplate and structure up front IMO, at least the Java/C++ variety. IMO the structure typically has to be re-invented each project as well. i.e. what factories, interfaces, parts will I need?
I added the geohash() function and am delighted that it eventually got found.