skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe you are a student, so let me give you some advice. The working out of the problems is not a meaningless task - understanding the problem solving methods and the underlying structure of the mathematics is important. You are right, engineers in the real world are not expected to do the calculus, they have charts and graphs and rules of thumb, many shortcuts to the "right answer". But the reason we train engineers the math is so they don't make a big mistake and kill somebody. Being able to work the shortcuts alone is not good enough, it's scary, because it means you don't really know what you're doing.
"a monumental loss to US standing in the world"...

I'm sorry, but that has been long gone since trump.

Anyone who served over there knew what was going to happen when the states pulled out, none of this is terribly surprising.

The entire time of occupation, ground level has been saying over and over how much corruption is happening. Just getting peeps in site for more than 8 hours without someone to watch them has been near impossible.

End of the day, this is the expected result when you invade a country and then leave it.
Yeah, bond energy itself is going to be the same regardless of isotope (or at least a negligibly small difference), so my guess is whatever mechanism that is kicking the hydrogen free is relying something more like a kinetic recoil from the photon where the mass is far more relevant. Of course, without being able to take a proper look under the hood at how they're actually storing the hydrogen, this is all rank speculation.
Announced by GitHub itself last week, Wed Aug 11, 2021 [1].

Here is a copy of the video [2], in case the tweet goes away.

[1] https://twitter.com/github/status/1425505817827151872

[2] https://i.imgur.com/eE9moRf.mp4
Allegedly the “government” of Afghanistan (its really just been a sham and a U.S. puppet state for the last 20 years) didn’t want this to happen because they wanted to avoid demoralizing the Afghan army which…subsequently refused to fight anyways. Or at least that’s how I understood some of what Biden said earlier today.

For all we know that was the idea of our own military or intelligence community & now we are conveniently placing the blame for our mistakes on a government that no longer exists
The US military is a bigger fossil fuels user than most developed countries all by itself.
TLDR Low carb/keto diet
This is awesome. I wish something like this existed for Slack!

edit: it does[0]!

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28205333
We're metaphorically traveling in a car that's smoking and making noise, it's not going to get cheaper or easier to fix later.
> Please explain for me how that is so, without diverting into claiming that they're being handed tens of millions of dollars secretly under the table.

There are two aspects to this.

The first is campaign contributions. Recent US Presidential election campaigns have exceeded a billion dollars. House and Senate races have been millions to hundreds of millions, per election. The people "giving" this money are not doing so out of altruism. It's not secret money under the table, it's all open and disclosed, but nobody thinks it has no effect on behavior. At best the representatives are entirely scrupulous and never allow the money to affect their positions, but then the candidates with pro-corporate positions find it easier to raise money, the money allows them to buy more advertising, and the candidates who want to shovel tax dollars into corporate coffers win more elections.

The second is the revolving door. You go serve some time in Congress, do what the corporations want, and when you retire or fail to win re-election because your constituents got fed up with what you were doing, you have a cushy job paying six, seven, eight figures a year waiting for you after. Or that job goes to a member of your family while you're still in office.
If you want to know about California tax law, and you have three options:

A) An article on Investopedia, that has a section about taxes in general, but not about California tax in particular.

B) A comment from someone on HN talking specifically about California tax law.

C) A publication by the California Franchise Tax Board.

Which would you pick?

If you chose B, check out my earlier comment.

If you chose C, check out https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/misc/1004.html

Not sure why you would choose A, as it's neither specific to California taxes, nor is it an authority.
> “19. Obtain new state phone numbers.”

HA! I had to laugh when I saw this. I’d love to see this argued in tax court in the modern day. It would be hysterical.
It turns out California doesn’t really have that high of taxes. States like NY, NJ and MD have higher tax burdens.
I know somebody in NYC who does exactly this. He refuses to take on any clients in California.

This isn’t because NY is a picnic but because it limits his headache to one state.
Doesn't this mostly depend on 3 things?

1. Likelihood of breakthrough infections.

2. Mutation rate.

3. Initial volume of infections.

For instance, if the likelihood of breakthrough infections is low enough to overcome the reproduction rate, the mutation rate is slow enough, and the initial volume of infections low enough, you'd expect that the virus would die out if enough people have had the vaccine, right?

On the other hand, if the likelihood of breakthrough infections were high, mutation rate were high, initial volume of infections high, makes sense that you would expect to see ongoing mutation.

Another way I think this might go is that mutations happen & breakthrough infections happen, but the breakthrough infections further boost immunity, and the severity never re-approaches the original severity of covid.
> Do flu vaccines cause mutations as well?

That is not what I have written, please reread!
I hate to break it to you, but “quality-adjusted life years” [1] is already a standard metric for evaluating medical interventions.

While the whole “death panel” thing is exaggerated, it is necessary that insurers (incl. single payer governments) have quantitative ways to evaluate different treatments. They won’t throw infinite $$ at every treat that is expected to add a tiny amount to your life.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
Part of the 30 years of experience is knowing when you need permits. That's why I got licensed by the state of NM to install my own solar array, and why I don't bother with permits for domestic plumbing here in NM (mostly).
Europeans learned to live with the bubonic plague, which has never been eradicated, and Native Americans, over time, overcame the smallpox that was introduced among them. The people of today can do the same with Covid. It is the only way.
Yes the delta variant may have originated prior to widespread vaccination, but the dominance of the delta variant (and other VOCs) did coincide with mass vaccination campaigns.

Please see the first source I cited if you're interested in these ideas and want to hear more straight from the experts:

> "The spike protein receptor-binding domain (RBD) of SARS-CoV-2 is the molecular target for many vaccines and antibody-based prophylactics aimed at bringing COVID-19 under control." [1]

> "Such a narrow molecular focus raises the specter of viral immune evasion as a potential failure mode for these biomedical interventions. With the emergence of new strains of SARS-CoV-2 with altered transmissibility and immune evasion potential, a critical question is this: how easily can the virus escape neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) targeting the spike RBD?" [1]

> "Our modeling suggests that SARS-CoV-2 mutants with one or two mildly deleterious mutations are expected to exist in high numbers due to neutral genetic variation, and consequently resistance to vaccines or other prophylactics that rely on one or two antibodies for protection can develop quickly -and repeatedly- under positive selection." [1]

> "The speed at which nAb resistance develops in the population increases substantially as the number of infected individuals increases, suggesting that complementary strategies to prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission that exert specific pressure on other proteins (e.g., antiviral prophylactics) or that do not exert a specific selective pressure on the virus (e.g., high-efficiency air filtration, masking, ultraviolet air purification) are key to reducing the risk of immune escape" [1]

> "Strategies for viral elimination should therefore be diversified across molecular targets and therapeutic modalities" [1]
I think the main problem with trying to be 100% rational is that even if you could predict the outcome of your decisions perfectly, the question of which outcome is "best" is inherently not a rational one. First you need to have some goal in mind, then (maybe) you can apply logic and reason to achieve that goal.

I think a lot of political disagreements aren't really about logical arguments at all, but rather differences in opinion over relative priority of some ideals that are all important. There isn't always an objective right answer.
Case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IHwKJOZZ6U
Absolutely fair point. That's definitely a very different situation. Probably one of the reasons I doubt I could ever live in such a situation, at least until I'm 75 or so :)
You have a lot more faith in the data coming out of China than I do. The CCP has lied from the beginning and attempted (successfully in most cases) to silence the researchers from the Wuhan lab that attempted to report early on.
Math requires less exactness than coding? Lolwut

One wrong sign and instead of cosine u are calculating sine. Chas theory. Dynamic systems sensitive to initial values.

Windows is mostly functional despite lots of bugs.
It seems that macOS support was added to react-native-svg in version 12.1.1 (which is the latest version), it appears they just haven't updated the docs/README yet to reflect that. See https://github.com/react-native-svg/react-native-svg/release...
I kept reading through, waiting for the "and now they will serve food here" part, until about one paragraph before the end.
Those are not mutually exclusive sets. In fact, one is pretty close to a subset of the the other.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_door_(politics)
The problem is none of the other initiatives sell. Reflexive war is easy, unquestioned. In the wake of 9/11 it was unpatriotic to ask whether the war was worthwhile or expansions of executive power such as the Authorization for Use of Military Force were justifiable.

Mention infrastructure, healthcare, or clean energy and suddenly a million special interests pop up and the deficit suddenly starts to matter.
> “Medicare for all”, the single payer universal healthcare system in the US, was projected to cost [...]

Are you American?
U.S. Will Investigate Tesla’s Autopilot over Crashes with Emergency Vehicles
It’s kind of janky, but my current strategy is to parse my code base with libclang and dump a vim script file that adds all of the types, enums, function declarations etc. as literal syntax keywords. I also generate a tag file at the same time.
These are all things you should be doing anyway if you're moving so it's not a particularly high bar to meet.

And as with most things, the burden is on you to the extent that you want to actually prove them wrong. If you don't find yourself going back to California and you're willing to get a nasty letter from them every now and then, it's really a non-issue even if they firmly believe you are/were a California resident. They can't lien property outside of the state. If they put something on your credit report, you can dispute it with the reporting agency (who are much more likely to be reasonable than some FTB bureaucrat). Yes it can be a pain in the ass but I don't think it's nearly as big of a hurdle as TFA is making it out to be.
It sounds like the nature of his business was such that CA thought he didn't have "clients" (plural) but rather a single client spread out over multiple states.
i hit my personal rock bottom at age 5. i never recovered
People challenge orthodoxy and are willing to admit their crazy ideas are wrong all the time.

The problem is that outside the field of mathematics, challenging the orthodoxy worked up an angry mob and they probably torched the person's house before it could be worked out.
Yeah, agree. It would be tricky. I'm hoping that by 'enhancing' the immune system you lean into its natural self-regulation equilibrium system and avoid that mostly--but then again autoimmune disorders seemingly emerge from those stasis systems going haywire, maybe without external poking...so it would be tricky for sure.

I guess the intuition is that the human immune system is an incredibly sophisticated, evolving capability that over time, and over the mass population, can respond to become resilient against a wide array of pathogens.

So if you could somehow capture the best of that (like, for illustration, take the immune system of the healthiest, most resilient person, 30 generations from now in the future) and convey that benefit to many other people, that would be truly awesome.

Sort of like an idea of training an AI, more iterations are better, the immune system of any one person at any one point in time, might not be so great, but the best immune system of the population after encountering many pathogens, is going to be really great.

How can we short circuit that "natural training" process and enhance the immune system? But I agree that attempts to do so might run the risk of creating or exacerbating autoimmune diseases...But I still think it's worth it.
Why would an Electron frame allow them to track you more easily than a native desktop app that has access to your whole (userspace) system?
Lobbying is only so much effective as the benefits outweigh the damage to a politician. In our tight election cycles the marginal differences are important, I would believe that politicians would jump to grab as much votes as possible to tilt the balance only even slightly. Maybe there is actually more support for large military spending than it appears to you?
If I recall correctly, keto was developed pre manufactured insulin for just that reason
My employer withheld California tax on restricted stock grants for me exactly as described here when I moved out of California years ago.

Other states even have forms for you to submit this calculation to them, see for example New York's IT203-F Schedule B. But you still have to apportion the income between states like this whether there's a form to do it on or not.
> Apparently USA voters do think the spending is adequate

I'm not sure how well the federal government reflects the will of the people, given how campaigns are funded here, using means which are illegal in most other countries. Not to mention the gerrymandering, where politicians are choosing voters instead of the other way around. I don't know if the federal government was originally meant to be responsive to the people. That's why there's no facility for the people to directly propose amendments or vote on referendums at the federal level, like there is in other more democratic countries. For a long time state legislators elected members of congress and the president, not the people.

You mentioned U.S. voters... Perhaps it is a good idea to have a national referendum before launching a war. Democracy is a good thing, right? I believe other countries would do this, Switzerland for example. Maybe even go one better, and have a GoFundMe to pay for it. And volunteer soldiers to fight. It would then be interesting to see how many people want to waste their money and lives halfway across the world killing people who just want to be left alone, but are in the way of someone over here making more money.
...has been found to achieve some degree of remission in 1 out of 5 people with diabetes, for 2 years.
As far as "belief" goes, you're the one on the side of belief here.

All the data and numbers show the risk is incredibly low for someone like you (provided you don't have an auto-immune disease)
Here in Ontario with our single payer system the health care budget sits at around $60B a year, for a population of ~14M, or per-capita about $4.6k (CAD) per person.

If you extrapolate that out to a nation of 328 million, that's about $1.5T CAD / $1.1T USD a year.

For a larger population comparison, let's use the UK. NHS budget for 2018 was 114B UKP, or ~$158B USD. For a population of about 66 million people, that works out to about $2.4k USD per person per year and about a $775B USD/year budget.

$3.8T a year on health should pay for universal on demand health care for 100% of the population. Crazy that it's not.
That's actually a really interesting point. South Korea was actually steamrolled by the north, because the US made sure they had no independent way of defending themselves. The US pulled in the UNSC to fight on their own in Korea, while the Soviets had built up a strong local military in the North. Taiwan is now incapable to protect its own borders. They even had a nuclear weapons program in response to mainland China which the CIA infiltrated and shut down. Another example of a local military that was just steamrolled by an insurgency was the Iraqi military.

The US has a pretty good track record when it comes to building insurgencies though, remember that the Taliban were built and trained by ISI and the CIA. Iran had islamic groups that the Shah used to silence opposition forces. There's no way their training and equipment wasn't done in coordination with their US partners given how much of a puppet the Shah was. Or take a look at a lot of the groups that were part of the opposition in Syria.

I wonder if there's any analysis why the US has been so good at building and training insurgency groups, but so bad at making local armies to protect their own territorial borders.
Project CARRYALL (2014)
Does it feel good to be this needlessly hostile to random people on the internet?
There are a few half-finished and seemingly abandoned ports to linux. React-native for Windows/macOS is being developed by Microsoft to support their Office teams (afaik, some screens in Office for mobile are react-native, and they want to use it on the real desktop version as well). Unfortunately since Office isn't available for linux, Microsoft isn't doing a port as well.
I imagine it isn't stupidity. It allows the CEO to say "Not my idea to lay off all these grey hairs!" And then do a company wide meeting where they "lament the loss of so many of our wonderful colleagues." It was probably the CEO's idea or at least approved directly by then, but that one level of separation helps a lot.
Afghanistan spends 3x as much as the US, relative to the size of their economy. Look where it got them.
But these are actual services provided rather than pure R&D.
Only now realized Pico-8 isn’t open source, or even free?

I was sincerely considering picking it up, but it actually surprised the shit out of me to find that it had a license cost.

I’d rather just dev for a SEGA genesis or equivalent and have the benefit of running it on real hardware. There’s certainly a fantastic, enormous and open-source-focused world and community behind that.
Did you see the EVO remake in the works?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cosmicfrontier/cosmic-f...

It will ship the Override scenario (Peter Cartwright was the original creator) but plans to support the data files from all three games if you have them. Other additions include a ship garage to swap between owned ships, lua scripting, and plug-in namespacing to avoid ID conflicts.
Do you think we should have had fewer moral qualms about systemic child rape by many of the Afghan leaders?

.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacha_bazi?wprov=sfla1
The money spent on the military does trickle down to create a set of jobs and funds some research work.

That said, it doesn't seem like the best capital allocation. Spending so much human capital, time and effort on trying to put together metal objects which either shoot bullets or blow up isn't the most useful endeavor esp. when there is not much competition to necessitate the efforts.
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China didn’t really achieve Zero Covid if they exported it to the rest of the world. They may have stamped out some local outbreaks.
I want to be very clear that I’m a supporter of unions, but there are consequences when unchecked and I think they’re hurting themselves in the long run.

To answer your question: I don’t know for sure, because every union is different.

It looks like the east coast is represented by https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Longshoremen%2... which suffered from organized crime in the past and the west is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Longshore_and_...

Which is more like what I described: The West Coast union apparently has tens of thousands of applicants for a single job, so clearly there is great demand to get in.

It may be that I mixed the two: East coast cannot handle the ships, even if it could go through the canal.

West coast, which can handle said cargo ships, has a strong union that is keeping the headcount artificially low.
Archive.org still has copies.
If only we had a Federal Editors' Project right about now.
Recklessly polluting a shared and vital resource like the oceans is an act of war. If the US wasn’t busy squandering unimaginable amounts of resources in backwaters like Afghanistan, we could be wielding our military might towards genuinely virtuous ends like putting a stop to this criminality.

We certainly shouldn’t let ourselves be held hostage and paying them “protection money”
> And for that situation you can always break out http://p3rl.org/App::staticperl.

Why do you link to p3rl.org? And, more importantly, why do you link to something that doesn't exist?
I interpreted your comment as claiming all government debt is foreign, which seems surprising. Is domestic debt not a thing?
Haha, well that might be too obvious a reference? Stepping on people's taboos or prudishness? Some euphemism can be helpful :)

You know, it's like association with something that is positive, a peak experience, as well as connoting maybe something a little fun and naughty, but nevertheless something we all share. Like poop, but with a good valence.
My Ohio Scientific C2-4P (4K RAM) had a really great 6502 monitor in ROM that was fast and easy to use.
It would have spread even faster without vaccination (it is considerably more infectious than other prevalent variants).
Pick it up and walk out. Depending on the store they might not even try to confront you. Depending on the city misdemeanor shoplifting might not be prosecuted at all.
So trade away something that produces 70% of the nation's food, for something that produces none?
Just to clarify: That is not my concern.
I recall these studies:

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-13887909

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46363869
Oof, I have no desire to spark a language war. Every language has its warts for sure.

It seems strange to not provide slice.erase as a primitive operation, and instead to recommend implementing it in terms of append. Usually removing from a vector does not require allocation. Still it may be for the best with upcoming generics, fewer builtins is good.
"They might want to teach independent thoughts to their own kids but other than that they have zero incentive to promote independent thoughts to their customers because it's profit and power that feeds their family."

This point is about the only bright spot in an otherwise grim perspective. Just about everyone, and that appears to include Putin, wants to do well by their kids education-wise. The rest can fuck off and die, but the self-preservation in the sense of preserving genes by teaching the ability to think critically is important enough that at least there is a chance that spiral will hit a bump here and there.