skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't understand why their isn't more of an uproar, especially when the stock is so low to begin with, and housing is our biggest expense.

When in doubt, think money.

It's always money.
And there are algorithms that rely on this, like this[1] branchless axis-aligned bounding box intersection test.

It exploits the division by zero sign logic of IEEE-754, so that the min/max operations used also handles the edge cases where the ray is parallel to an axis.

[1]: https://tavianator.com/2011/ray_box.html
Faster than Light: Warp Drive (2013)
Cool thank you, I will have a look :)
Exactly! Somewhere along the line we started being taught things like context clues and other study traps. No amount of technique can possibly replace proper vocabulary building. I spent a lot of time in the dictionary in my younger years but it’s paid off massively in my ability to study and assimilate new things.
> US is already blocking them from exporting to China

Which works until China invades Taiwan. Then what?
I'll fully admit I'm not as well versed in web programming as it's not my specialty, but aren't serverless functions (e.g. AWS Lambda) essentially the same concept?

I understand that they can solve the problem of horizontal scale as they are spawning a container rather than just a process, but surely if you started with CGI scripts it would be easier to move if you needed to at a later date.
- Significantly higher mortality than immediate neighbors

- Economy suffered the same as neighbors, and the government was quick to help big companies like Volvo (which immediately paid dividends to shareholders), but small businesses couldn't get their voices heard (even not-so-small businesses like airports)

Alternative history re-writers already hail this as the greatest achievement ever.
>We need immigration

Who is this "we"?
A long time ago I implemented a similar (less flexible) thing for C, also as a sort of goofy learning experience:

https://github.com/mgraczyk/fast_check_once/blob/master/fast...

There's something really appealing about replacing code at runtime to "hack" the bypass normal behavior of the language. For testing/mocking this can even be useful.
You're supposed to tax non reproducible assets that are an essential part of daily life. Land is pretty much the number one priority to tax.
> It might be just me, but I think reading hard sci-fi is much more educational and memorable, not to mention entertaining, than non fiction.

Memorable and entertaining seem very likely, but I think one has to be extremely careful with one's sci-fi that what one remembers is real science rather than just what makes for good fiction—there's often a tension, and even a very scientifically literate author can, and probably should, opt for the one that makes for good fiction.
It's a very cool idea, but I think it would be most useful if applied to things like phones. I suspect most people pressed for passwords, are using a GUI system.
I think they benefit from their relatively low pop density.
While many people might point out that Sweden did in fact have more deaths, the verdict on that is still out.

They are getting far fewer cases and deaths than many other areas now, and have been for many weeks.

Couple that with the not-lost social interactions and economy etc, and the fact that this was always (more or less) every country’s pandemic plan before we changed our mind for covid, and it becomes a troubling indicator that our entire response may have been irrational.
Facebook releases shelved content transparency report
The Datasette Ecosystem
> It's amazing technology

Serious question, what part of this technology is amazing? Its just sounds trained against audio labeled as gun shots. How is this any different then detecting faces in images or whatever?
IH-35 has been under continuous construction since .. the 90's?

Hindsight being what it is .. they should have built a new 8-lane highway a few miles to the West rather than attempting to widen it multiple times (with all the bridge replacements needed) through towns like Temple and Waco. But as the Texas Central Railroad has found, you can't just eminent-domain land in Texas for large infrastructure projects.
Deaths/infection is no more concerning for children for Covid than it is for influenza.

The only people ineligible for the vaccine are the immunocompromised (whom we have never gone to such lengths to protect as mandating masks or flu shots) and children under 12, who are not at serious risk from Covid infection.
I don't really know much about CodeSpaces but yeah, if it is always run in a service provided by the GitHub ecosystem, you can probably run it. I don't know how useful that is. Also, it says you can fork it. It does not say you can modify it.
>But why would one ask the people this directly?

It's a little thing called democracy and the population having their say in decisions that affect them.

It's not very popular these days, because experts with private interests and corporate agendas know better.
The infosec meltdown sure seems to indicate programming’s foundations are crumbled. All of the unsafe C library code underlying nearly ever modern system is unsafe at any speed.
I'm a liberal, but social media should be a common carrier.

We can't amplify only approved thoughts. If we do, we'll wake up in a world where many of the things we think and feel are wrongthink and used against us.

Edit: We're not done improving the world. Putting control structures in place now will freeze progress and make us slide backwards.
> where the vast bulk of the money is going—-healthcare workers

Any credible source for this?

Most of the cost is actually going to those who profit from the system without contributing any actual health care. That is, very much not the actual healthcare workers.

When you see a doctor for 15 minutes and get charged $300-$400, the vast majority of that money does not go to the actual doctor. It's the overhead people, the administrators and the insurance company who are taking most of the money.
Showing up for the interview, participating in good faith, likely other employer-favouring bullshit.
Those web frameworks are lower level and have an embedded HTTP server designed to process things in parallel. It's in the standard library in golang or nodejs for example.
Seeing as you need ASML people to run these effectively, maintain them, repair them - I'm guessing we will see a massive global semiconductor shortage if China invades that makes this year look like a cakewalk.
Risk increase == cost increase.
> No Platforming and censoring opposing voices only leads them to thrive underground.

Frustratingly, the article offers no evidence for this claim.

I understand the argument that censorship and deplatforming are bad because they are morally wrong - that it doesn't matter the effect they have because they are inherently bad tools to use.

But I don't really understand the argument that they're bad because they're ineffective. When you drive something underground, it thrives less than it would on the surface, no?

We have plenty of examples of censorship being effective. Take opposition to the US invasions of Iraq, for instance. Anyone who opposed it - even the Dixie Chicks, famously - was deplatformed and attacked in the media. There was no reasonable debate about whether it was a good idea. And it turned out it was not a good idea, and there were no WMDs, and it was a quagmire. But because opposition was pushed underground, it had no political power.

Or take another superpower. The PRC has no moral objection to censorship. And certainly there are non-moribund underground dissident political and religious movements, coded ways of referencing 4 June 1989, etc. But could any argument be made that the PRC has made a tactical mistake in pushing these movements underground, that they're thriving because they were underground and would be less successful above ground?
I gathered the bit about microservices from

> I try to extend the simplicity of golang all the way to the network architecture.
> Rendering it revenue-neutral would lead to misallocation.

Rendering ownership of land revenue-neutral does not imply rendering all economic activity on said land revenue-neural. In fact it does the opposite, ensuring that the returns to labor and capital are allocated justly.

> When the scope of "improvements" is properly understood to include all human activity relating to the land—not just obvious things like builidngs but everything done to deliberately or incidentally increase the value of the land—there is no "unimproved" value left to tax.

Sure there is. All natural resources on that land, which existed before humans ever set foot on it, comprise the unimproved value of land. There is also the value of location arising from the community (infrastructure, proximity to labor, proximity to customers) which is not attributable to any improvements upon the land.
> end of the day, hydrogen is always going to cost more than the energy source that was used to produce it.

What your failing to account for is a.) the fact that Hydrogen (and Oxygen) used with fuel cells is effectively a battery, and b.) all batteries use more energy to charge than the amount of retractable energy, c.) we accept these energy losses (costs) in the battery charging process because we need batteries for most mobile applications (not subways & similar though, these are connected to the grid).

H2 and other batteries (including oil itself) are a means of making energy portable so that you don't have to plug into the grid. If we could pluge everything into the grid, then yes you're correct, H2 energy storage would only be useful for back up grid or grid buffer energy storage.

For stationary applications, it doesn't make much sense to have batteries (H2 or Electric, or otherwise) since, as you state, you can just connect to the electric grid and avoid battery charging losses (unless your worried about grid instanility). However, for mobile applications (cars, ships, planes, etc), now you need to consider how to store energy off of the grid in a manner that is COMPACT and LIGHT, because these factors greatly effect vehicle transport efficiency.

Oild is still king in terms of volumetric energy desnity and specific (mass) energy desnity. An energy capacity equivalent Li-ion battery is still relatively much heavier and takes up more space (meaning your vehicle will be less energy efficient). H2 storage has the potential to exceed oil in terms of volumetric/specific energy density, but it's not there just yet.*

*Note that, the other component in the energy storage race isn't just the storage media, but the energy conversion efficiency of devices that use these media. For example, most common fuel cells are roughly 50% efficient in terms of the energy usage, but if you can make a fuel cell 90% efficient, then that makes the use of H2 as a battery, much more competitive. The same is true about oil burnjng engine efficiencies. Electric batteries and motors are very efficient at converting energy, however, electric batteries are currently much less energy dense than H2 or oil systems.

Oil is effectively a battery that has been charged naturally by the sun (as with most mined chemical energy storage). If you create oil in a lab, you are storing the reaction energy for later use, just like charging any battery.

When you charge a battery, because batteries follow the laws of thermodynamics, you always invest more energy to charge that you get out of them. Mined oil is cheap energy because it's already "charged". However, if you were to capture the waste emissions from the atmosphere and recombine them, the energy lost in the recombination would be far greater than that which you can extract when you burn it again.

If someone had a way to economically capture oild emissions, then recombine the into oil - and if this process is cheaper that liberating H2 from water.
Vim It Up
Does their employment have any positive influence on Healthcare outcome? Protection rackets do have a positive influence on mafia members' financial outcomes, nobody's questioning that.
Nearly 90% of Sweden lives in high population density urban environments.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/455935/urbanization-in-s...
> The landlord suddenly woke up with a house in his name? He might be in the red as house prices / interest rates varies from person to person. No one knows.

Well, have you heard of that old fashioned thing called feudalism? You know, with a certain land owning class?

Now, the US didn't have feudalism, but let's say that due to family, someone in your distant past managed to get lucky and buy a ton of very valuable land. Or buy very cheap properties. At this point, your family is practically a lighter version of landed gentry.

You'd be making each year a ton more than the property cost to build 60-80-whatever years ago, property taxes generally aren't that high, if the location is good people will live there even if the living conditions are crap (for example from lack of maintenance), etc.

> Let's create laws to transfer wealth from certain individuals to other individuals that fits our profile. That's good for "society".

Ummm... that's how taxes work. We generally transfer wealth from "certain individuals" (generally the well off, that can afford to have some of their wealth transferred), to "other individuals that fit our profile" (generally poor people, those without housing, etc.).

And yeah, in case that was not a rhetorical comment, yes, it's good for society. It's literally how modern societies are built.

Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.
Or do the deed in those convenient 5-8 hour blocks of sleep where you don't use your phone
The trail of devastation left by this process, in financial and human terms, when medical systems go awry or vendors to state judicial systems wrongly convict innocent people.
> The point is that there’s no magic bullet here. There’s no mustache twirling trillionare villain that we can shut down and get the UK’s spending numbers.

Yes there is actually. If there was political will to do it, simply cutting off the insurance companies out of the loop will bring costs nearly in line with the rest of the developed world. The insurance companies provide no value (they're not doctors), all they do is add their overhead to profit from the work of the doctors and nurses.
I played with Dokan in its early days. It was promising, but I found it a little buggy. (Not sure if that remained true once it matured more)
Haha, -0. After spending literal years of my life dealing with that little encoding nuisance, in everything from the V8 TurboFan JIT, to WebAssembly, to adding floating point to Virgil, I just gotta say, that little turd is so not worth it. I've read a lot of different justifications for it (it's a limit, it represents approaching 0 from the negatives, some algorithms need it, etc), I have to admit, I just don't buy it. It's an encoding artifact that's produced so much accidental complexity that, in my book, has been far more trouble than it's been worth.

Change my mind.
America pays the price for its short sighted hubris chasing profits and thinking we could turn China into a liberal democracy if we threw enough money at them
This is a much more complex text representation.

Mandating tab separated columns with a consistent quoting for embedded spaces would be a net benefit. And it would match today's tools well.
It's easier than you think! I picked up command line debugging in a couple days when working with software that was extremely difficult to printf debug.
Alternatively, stop pretending this industry is a precious snowflake and conduct reasonable-duration, non-exploitative interviews like everyone else in the history of modern employment.
It's really not. The cost of production was too high compared to other markets which reduced demand. Which is exactly what happens with all government projects.
If you're going to quote that, you should add the directly relevant information from the other side:

* "But that death rate is lower than the average for the European Union as a whole (1,684), and well below those of France, Spain, Italy and the UK"

* Dr Bhatt concedes "it worked for Sweden"

* Dr Bhatt is "one of the team at Imperial College who pushed the UK's lockdown strategy"

That last detail is important. Of course he has to say it couldn't have worked in the UK. If he said anything else, that would become the story. What's remarkable is that someone in his position is conceding as much as he has.
It's more of charging availability anxiety.

Typical EV user case involves a homeowner with a charger in the garage. Worse comes to worst, you can always plug the car overnight.

But someone like a student, who lives in a rental, might experience difficulty keeping their car consistently charged.

Even when public chargers are nominally available, they might be inoperable, used by others, or just taken up by a non-EV taking up a convenient parking spot (which, according to EV owner groups, happens frequently).
Good managers think leadership is about competently serving their team
A lot of people think what we did was part of some plan but nope. If you go back and read various pandemic plans you’ll see we did basically the exact opposite of what they recommended.
Tomahawk time for the fabs
That is a very classically liberal point of view, in fact.
Given this audience, I bet some commentary on how you built the sqlite database, and (related to that) how one can tell how stale the information in it is would be interesting

My go to for this kind of all-in-one IAM reference is https://github.com/widdix/complete-aws-iam-reference -> https://iam.cloudonaut.io/ although I guess they stopped paying attention to the issues and PRs in light of their new "use the AWS docs" banner

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Toward that end, I have *long* wanted to be able to rebuild the AWS docs locally, to fix some rendering pet peeves of mine, and it became a raging fire recently when they stopped making the PDF of cfn-ug (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/), so if someone has some local tooling for that, I (and others: https://github.com/awsdocs/amazon-ec2-user-guide/issues/101) would value knowing about it
It Rained at the Summit of Greenland. That’s Never Happened Before
You are right, fastcgi supports multiplexing. It seems that it's not implemented very often though.
even hard sci-fi is going to make concessions for the sake of the story. I really don't understand how something that has no obligation to be factual can be more educational..
Without generics, you'd have N functions instead of 1. Are you sure N times the complexity of non-generic function is less than 1 time the complexity of a generic function?
> The reality is that when "fingerprint evidence" is brought to court that it's not foolproof

No evidence is foolproof. My entire point is that the issue isn't with “fingerprints” or the knowledge that juries and judges bring extrinsically (which was the explicit claim made upthread), but with the expert testimony that contextualizes fingerprints.

(This was even more clearly the problem with fiber evidence when the FBI crime lab was presenting pure bunk expert testimony in virtually every case.)
Elaborate, because it sounds like a strawman.
Is there really huge influx of immigrants wanting to be farmers or living in rural villages with little connection to their own culture? What I have understood is that even refugees prefer bigger cities, with more modern work and communities from their own culture...
I sometimes wonder if government really wants to end DUI's.

I know it sounds crazy.

I just see the amount of money marginal dui's bring into counties.

I might buy a vechicle that didn't let me drive if over .08%.

I would love to be able to drive after 10:30 pm, without a cop tailing me, looking for a marginal dui.

(In Marin County, don't drive through here after 10:30 pm. Cops gave literally nothing to do, except look for marginal dui's. There used to be a app called Trapster, but it was never implemented properly. You might get a pass on a pull over if you look wealthy though. Wealthy Ross/Kentfield guys never seem to get any "fishing" pullovers. No--I have never had a dui. I just know how these cops operate. I'm getting tired of poor people being singled out too. I mentioned my county, because I know a few of you guys live here.)
Does that also apply to outright lies, threats and defamation in mass social media - assuming I do not want to hear those?

And, am I obliged to listen and/or give a thoughtful response to anything I do not want to hear?
I would not buy the business for the exact same reasons you listed in the cons.

What if, after the deal, you make a decision that he wouldn't have made? Or if turns out your skills as an entrepreneur are not what he, or you, thought they would be? That's not something I'd want to discuss with my father-in-law...

Why don't you propose to become a partner? So you can taste what is like to be on his shoes, he can mentor you not only on the industry but, most importantly, on how he prefers to run it. Then if all goes well, you'll buy his part and he could retire or pursue other ventures.
There is also a thread here https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/p8vt6e/vim_use... with very interesting tips
The cleverest of thieves just rob criminals
Maybe? You'd likely need to be full time to get equity, though. I'm personally not familiar with spring boot, but it sounds like a framework for implementing REST services? I'm mainly an embedded developer.
Your reaction is the joke
GitLab employee here. I'm really excited about Build Cloud for macOS beta. If you want to get in on that beta, let me know either here on olearycrew on the bird site.
When Sweden decided for no lock-downs, we knew very little about the virus. It was effectively a jump into the unknown.

Even if the decision proves beneficial, it was an error, in the knowledge context of March 2020.
Sadly, 1984 seems more guidebook than warning in our day.
I suspect their equipment is susceptible to vibrations on a regular 747. I bet most of what makes their 747's special is dampening. Also, packing and unpacking the equipment increases the chance of things going wrong.
Jinja + SQL = ♡
All it takes is someone figuring out how to do the same thing without all the specialized parts or bulk. That's the main cost. This is the way of tech: it starts expensive, full of specialized parts that only a few suppliers produce, then someone figures out how to do it cheaper.

At $1B a pop + 50% for lifetime maintenance, the incentive is there.
> The university also cited another tweet in which she used the word ‘coconut’. Now she is suing the university for breaching her right to free speech. Isn’t it funny how the woke left suddenly supports free speech whenever its free speech is under attack...

Whatever it is that has attracted the critics attention to the author for them to resort to name calling and ad hominems which are also racist, they have now realised that they have to see themselves out.

Very ironic for the Twitter account of the Race Trust.

> The real shame is that Khanom or the Race Trust did not try to challenge my politics or arguments. .... These attacks haven’t persuaded me to alter my worldview...

To resort to ad hominems probably means that they can't challenge the author or change his mind with convincing and logical arguments. They have done an own goal and proved the author's point once again.

EDIT: You do realise that they deleted their Twitter account? That's why I said 'they have to see themselves out.' Also I don't see 'name calling' or 'ad hominems' as a useful way of a convincing someone else since that is not an argument [0]. Instead, that was the first own goal.

Now the second own goal by the 'Race Trust' is in the main argument that the author makes which is cancel-culture which he disagrees with. This issue has now transcended into real life and the university cancelled the author of the tweet.

Regardless of the viewpoints of the 'Race Trust', such cancellations just makes the situation even worse than it was before.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
yes, thanks for pointing that out!
Why don't you use the golang http server instead?