skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really depends. When that quote of yours was first being said, essentially the only way for states to expand their power was to invade and occupy more territory. So states that did a lot of that tended to become more powerful, leading to a very warlike normal.

Nowadays, even radically successful wars are very unreliable means for achieving anything, and wars almost never improve a state's economic situation or power. If Germany had not started WW2, but had instead rested on its greater population and industrialization to increasingly dominate regional politics, you'd see a europe like the one we have today, except even more Germany-centric.

Saddam Hussein, Vladimir Putin, and Adolf Hitler are all examples of weak leaders at the helm of fragile states, throwing the dice repeatedly and basically hoping they get a continual role of sixes until their domestic position is secure. Predictably, it basically never works out. There are almost no examples of successful annexations in today's world: gains are typically temporary, and basically never pay for themselves.

So in the world we live in, where war is basically never a sensible strategy for any goal, you can prepare for peace by, you know, preparing for peace - provided that you have no nutso neighbors. In which case, it's worth joining some kind of joint treaty organization. Which is why everybody does this.

PS: A second thing is, it's no use having a ton of outdated equipment. The USSR had a lot of trouble in WW2 because they had been arming up for too long. It's often better to move to a war footing just a few years before things get hairy than it is to keep massive amounts of obsolete weaponry sitting around.
Besides NPR obviously having an American bias, I tried to find a funding source breakdown. Best I could find was from wikipedia:

"ESA is contributing about €300 million, including the launch. The Canadian Space Agency pledged $39 million Canadian in 2007"

Seems ESA contributed about 3%, and CSA .3%. It may just be a biases ommision, but I also wouldnt be surprised if theres some salty feeling about who actually paid for the telescope.
It wouldn't be effective. If a human can watch it a computer can copy it. They'll take it right off the output pins of the display driver chip if they have to.
So what are your credentials in the C++ community to top those from Herb Sutter?
I agree with 2 and 3, but can you explain 1 more?
Well, modern guided bombs can follow moving targets, they have become gravity powered missiles. They're worth the money.
It is literally impossible for all PDFs, since some of them may not have any kind of semantic structure and consist of a set of graph bitmaps laid out at specific coordinates to make up blocks of text.
> nearly every company offers some raises

I've worked at least a dozen jobs. Received exactly 2 raises: one for $0.25, the other $0.33.

> In order to be stuck at minimum you have to additionally have stability issues

Or just not be able to afford a bachelor's degree
1000 true fans is a great article that is well worth reading. It really does go to show that building a community can be a worthwhile task, even if it does take time the long term benefits can be huge.
I don't know renting at reasonable price, doesn't feel more stressful to me than owning.

I could and probably will take a loan for apartment. But if there is market downturn and I lose my job and the value drops I might even lose the place and still have debt left over... Also I'm on hook for any large scale maintenace that housing corporation decides collectively to do. And this can be like half of the value of appartment. Plus as it is corporation I'm possibly also on hook if other shareholders(owners) fail to pay their share...
I'm not sure what you're getting at. Sure, I don't like landlords as a "profession", but on the other hand it is not unaffordable, which was the point in the article. It is a mistake to conflate whether or not it is morally okay to whether or not it is affordable. Even if it were affordable that doesn't mean that it is okay. Then again, in terms of my own life and living situation, I honestly can say I do not mind renting.
Thanks for saving me from the 17 mins reading time
Does it use a central control plane?
I... don't like where those ideas are going. At this point I long for pre-Internet days, where physical media (tapes, CDs, books) achieved the same goal while wasting much less resources than it takes to keep the blockchain that would support the NFTs.

I also think that anything that further solidifies IP enforcement is going to kill the future.

Consider that one of these days, we might progress enough to be able to build something approaching a replicator from Star Trek. The utopian society of the show is built on "too cheap to meter" energy that allows replicators to meet everyone's basic needs (and even fancy whims) for free. But even if we reach a similar level of scientific and technological advancement, we won't be able to realize the utopia part if designs for every replicable goods are owned by a small group of people/companies extracting rent, with technology and law preventing circumvention.
The title of your previous post is better "IdeaOnce: Graphic Designing Platform" The title of this post looks like an add disguised as a question. You can post your stuff here, but if people think you are trying to disguise it, they will write mean comments.

Anyway, IIUC your previous post is about one of the tools in your site and this is about the whole site? The previous post goes to a signup form. It's difficult to get traction with something like that. You should link to a page with info about the tool, and preferably with a version that can be tried for free (it may be a limited version, with a upsell button in the corner).
If I understood OC correctly, and from my own understanding of statitics :

An arbitrary 30% exclusion rate precludes the effectiveness study from giving any useful information either way : 30% is much larger than a 95% CI.

As such, that resulting numbers have no teleological value. A decision can't be made either way.

> What makes you think this period was so special it would not be effective to present a comparison between the vaccines?

TLDR : it says nothing because too many things varied during that interval which are interdependent time-wise. The starting assumptions are not valid at the end. This is whay the israelis only study short windows of time.

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Discussion:

The study covers only the US during the selected period. The vaccination rates varied , from 25% to 50% (https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-st...). Delta variant was at less than 20% early june, it is 100% now (https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#variant-proportion...).

If you are going by the latest numbers from Israel (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262423v...) which leads US and UK by two months in regards to the Delta variant, effectiveness drops dramatically for delta (~65% for avg. hospitalization endpoint, 42% for infection endpoint in men, 53% for women). Vaccinated people can be infected and retransmit the virus five times more.

The Delta has a R0 value (numb. of people a sick person infects) of 6 to 9 regardless of vaccinal status (depending on the study), whereas the other variants had a R0 value with the vaccine which dropped to 1,2-1,6. One is highly exponential in all cases, the other far from quadratic with proper protective measures.

Antibody Ct dissapears after six months, also according to the latest Israeli numbers (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.29.21262798v...).

Consequently, the study treats the data as an ergodic process, whereas it is clearly non-ergodic :

- transmissions can be represented as a graph

- previous situation influences future situation depending on varying antibody titers

- vaccination occurence itself changes the opportunity for transmission

- transmission of different variants depends on encountering differing vaccinal statuses, at different times

In conclusion, all the relevant variables have varied too much, and the basic mathematical pressupposition is wrong, whereas the study treats it mathematically as a snapshot uin time.

It is completely wrong because of the underlying data: Vaccination rate changes dramatically, in relation to the most prevalent variant at any given time, with an immune response to each variant is extremely different, a different points in time for each vaccine, which itself drops over time.

Add to that the above-mentionned exclusion of 30% of the measured population...

The israelis on the other hand study shorter 1-2 month windows. It is also far from perfect, but a much closer to a snapshot, so you can disregard the nature of the process which is measured and some notable value remains in regards to making a decision.
Mila Kunis has an NFT project where only token holders can view the associated episodes of a cartoon and upon NFT resale, a percent of the proceeds gets remitted back to the project creators [1].

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/k78kay/mila-kunis-stoner-cat...
Why use a Blockchain? MySQL will work just fine.
In other words, everybody is incompetent except the country completely caught off guard in this situation?

Sorry I just don’t buy the incompetence argument.

What is going on here is geopolitical calculus. The US doesn’t care about France that much anymore. I think we all want to cling to the past, but the world is changing. Alliances come and go, things change. France and the EU have lost a lot of status with the US and I don’t think the US views them as willing partners in the US’s approach to contain China.
Come on, no offence, but you sound like astroturfing.

I have no idea how you may be aware of a company's internal information, but the greek article you linked does _not_ mention rating system names.

Also, but when using e-food there's no way to actually rate delivery people, only restaurants (like you claim above with "Negative reviews from customers...").
We use barium sulfate for enemas and swallow studies. I don’t know if that means all barium is safe though. It’s certainly not like gadolinium.
I think Johnson would have liked to have the UK ambassador recalled too. As it is it just makes the UK look a bit irrelevant.
The final guide to web scraping with Node.js
I'm a bit on the fence here. Yes, arts degree is far not the wisest solution but not having a CS degree is not the end of the world. It will however dramatically slow you down in the job market(unless you are truly exceptional). Which goes for anyone reading this: you are better off having a CS degree than not, so unless you have some life circumstances which prevent you from getting it(which some employers would be willing to understand and turn a blind eye), you should do it. I've personally given the green light on hiring people without a CS degree on two occasions and on both occasions it was a good call. However, seeing that someone doesn't have a degree raises less flags than someone having a degree in a completely different field: degrees are expensive, even if the education in your country is free - you still need to invest 4+ years of your life. The fact that you have one and are looking elsewhere might look like someone who simply whats to deep dive into an industry for the larger paycheck and nothing else: There are individuals which are motivated only by money and have 0 interest in anything beyond that. I'm not going into the "romance and passion for your work" type of thing - that's all bullshit. Yet you have to an absurdly curious individual in order to have any value in the IT industry. An example would be one of the people I picked at an old job without a degree. He had only done small, unfinished personal projects on github. 3 years later I had full confidence in him to give him any task. Telling him "hey we are going to experiment with X, wanna give it a shot?" resulted in him reading the entire documentation of X, buying books and literally not going to sleep with days. You can't imagine how many people with masters degrees in cs have been unable to answer a simple question like "what's heap and stack and how do they differ". My advice: don't shoot for the stars(yet) - look for a very entry level job(yes, django, rails, even php) and prepare yourself for a lot of surprises. I remember coming out of university, thinking I'm on top of the world and half way through my first day at my first serious job as a software engineer feeling like I was dropped on another planet. It took me at least 4-5 months to start feeling somewhat comfortable. With this in mind, your jump would be magnitudes larger and slower.
Depends how regularly someone drinks I think. That's when people may develop a metabolic dependence on alcohol, and withdrawal can be deadly.

I'm pretty sure ultimately, all alcohol must be metabolized. But people who drink more frequently will metabolize more quickly.
That will stop people from using bitorrent
Even digital video created with low-resolution cameras will eventually be viewable in 4K, 8K and beyond because AI upscaling technology is just so great. See Anime4K for examples.

https://github.com/bloc97/Anime4K

Yes it "guesses" what the missing information is and populates it. Similar approaches will work for live action media too.

And successive video frames encode so much extra resolution that a single frame doesn't capture, so there's a lot of information to pull from.
They started 8 years after HGP (which was a 13 year long project), used data from HGP, and only ever sequenced a mouse genome.
and who controls the database?
The degree doesn't really matter that much, formal work experience is key. They want to see prove that you can do the work. The degree wont really matter that much for most companies.

And no, pet projects don't count. I don't think most companies even looked at my Github account. While having done some hobby projects is better than nothing, those projects don't tel anything about how you can work in a team. And yes, soft skills are way more important that coding skills, the later you can always learn on the job but if you not a good cultural fit, that will be difficult.

So just get some job. Sounds difficult? Apply for some jobs that might not use your preferred tech but might be desperate to hire people. Join that shitty start up that is sure to fail. Or if you really can't get anything, find some friend to found a start up together. (And yes you need a friend or well at least someone else, if the start up only consists of you, nobody will be impressed.) You only need to work part time on the start up while you do some non tech related work for money.

Don't get suckered in, that is only a temporary measure. After roughly six months to a year, you will have gained proper work experience and will find the job market to be way easier.

So nothing failed, you just need to hustle for a bit to get back on track.
Why do people keep acting like this phenomenon is confusing?

Like gee maybe people are really into mini Jpegs now. Or wow I guess if people really like spending buy-a-house money on a Twitter avatar this will be a thriving sector of the economy.

I mean people really like gambling.

Actually they fucking love it. Like they’ll build an entire city in the middle of an uninhabitable desert just to do it. They’ll give up their kids future for it. People making $7.25 an hour will spend hundreds of dollars a week on scratch off lottery tickets in order to participate in it.

An endless demand for new ways to gamble is the least fucking confusing cultural development to ever happen.

Put people in a prison and they’ll do it with cigarettes. Give a bunch of construction workers a lunch break and they’ll bet on which pigeon is gonna to take off first. Hand a group of people a round ball or a deck of cards and they’ll figure out how to do it.

Beanie babies, little ceramic figures, baseball cards, coins. The desire for people to speculate on synthetically created scarcity is boundless, spanning generations.

Speculation is common to every culture in every era of human history.

NFT’s are a gambling fad, an extension of the more general crypto gambling fad. People will do it until it’s banned, matures, or gets replaced by the next gambling craze.
This. Currently NFTs are a tool for monetizing social capital.
> upon NFT resale, a percent of the proceeds gets remitted back to the project creators

I'd rather have more ways to restore the First Sale Doctrine for digital goods, rather than debasing it further.
The costs and schedule blew out. It’s been a big problem for Australia and surely the French knew that.

Australia should probably have informed them in a better way though.
What’s the purpose? You still need a centralised store for your unencrypted video. Why would this be preferable to having a database?
Who controls the unencrypted video?
Slightly off topic, but I built a web service to create NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain without the need to set up a wallet and buy Ether beforehand. You pay the gas fee on in USD, the service takes care of everything: https://nuftu.com
Thanks. I don't think motivation is what I need, I have it in droves, I think my wires are just fried right now with no way to recharge, it is tough to do anything.

I am thinking of doing a mechanical engineering degree but it is rough to have worked 15 years in the startup industry with nothing to show for it, all equity turned to dust, opportunity cost etc. Could have had a house and a family at this point.

Good luck in your journey, it's great you finished and so quickly too!
>One day the VP eng just showed up at my desk and started chatting, I didn't really know why. Turns out he was interested in knowing why it was so stable

Kudos to him, he paid attention, and noticed something that was stable. Usually something has to be broken to get attention at that level. Can't imagine leadership at most places thinking "hmm, this project we did several years ago had been running without bugs, let me go bring best practices from this developer."
The era of infantry has passed and yet we still have infantry.
They could, but why would they? Right now, they can lock content behind a subscription, remove listed content, edit and re-release content, and pretty much do whatever they want. You don't buy a movie, you buy the limited right to watch what goes as the current iteration of a video file for a certain amount of time. You can't resell your purchase, so everyone has to pay full price to the sellers.

Using NFTs or other cryptographic DRM would be hugely beneficial to consumers, but what's the point of helping the consumers? It'll only cut into costs because NFTs require some kind of cryptocoin network to do a bunch of calculations, which is expensive to run and wastes enormous amounts of electricity.

A simple RSA signature could be used to license a file to your computer and some DRM comes pretty close to that. If the industry wanted to give you ownership, they already could've done it before the NFT speculators set up the current hype.
I just think it’s a way for people to show off their wealth. An NFT is pretty much a joke, “here’s the original” doesn’t really mean shit when I can quite literally have an exact and indistinguishable copy of the work. It honestly feels like insanity to me. Like, I can right now go set my avatar to the exact same Ape picture Curry purchased. It’s not even a replica, or recreation, it is literally the same exact image.

The only real world analogy we kind of have is if we could freely “duplicate” physical goods with the press of a button. Would the Mona Lisa be valuable if DaVinci could have made 1000s of EXACT copies? I’m gonna say no, but that’s exactly where we are. It’s cute someone says they own something like an NFT, or that it’s the original, but it’s nothing more than an illusion of uniqueness.

Edited: slight wording tweak for clarity.
And who the fuck cares except for some crypto nerds?
Australia did not want nuclear subs so the design of the French subs had to be modified to accommodate classic propulsion, hence the extra complexity.

Now Australia says it wants nuclear subs and is going for a new deal that's even more expensive.

My opinion is that all this emphasis on cost and problems with the French deal is just a smoke screen.

For the French the commercial aspect is not the most important aspect, actually. They have been much more seriously and deeply shafted and that will have a lasting impact.
MinimalClock: A macOS screen saver written in Swift
Ahead of prediction!

https://xkcd.com/2014/
There must be a safer way to do this - a kernel module and custom ioctls, or what is it?
You assume that the only errors a program can encounter are logic errors. Logic errors are really the easiest class of error to fix. Here are examples of other errors that can bring down stable systems:

1) An API returns a list of items. In a new version of the API, the data structure used to generate the response list is changed from a list to a set, invalidating any implicit assumptions about response ordering. This happened to a service I worked on where there was an implicit assumption by callers that the results were ordered by date. This was true prior to using a set.

2) Resource leaks exposed by failure conditions. A network outage might cause infrequently tested code paths to leaks resources. In Go, I’ve seen this happen with network requests not tied to a context. This is an interesting case because the fact that an error occurs causes the leak even though the success path works correctly.

3) Missing back offs. A dependency may return errors in the case where a dependency becomes overloaded. This can cause a backup in something like an ingestion job. Without adequate back offs, the dependency may never be able to recover.

There are plenty more examples where simply handling every error case is not sufficient for stability.

As a question to you: why is this system more stable than other systems you write? Can’t you apply your error handling philosophy to everything?
> You are surely aware that France and the UK have nukes.

Only few hundreds, of which much less are deployed, given Vanguard, and Triomphant frequent port calls.
So it’s a bad metric, because if you used it to measure your imaginary unrealistic state, it would fail? If you want to argue that it’s a poor choice, argue from something that’s a little closer to reality.
There was an attempt.

Pebbles have nothing to do with the discussion of human consumption and what constitutes waste.
That's How You Get a Dystopia
Artists directly making money from their art without intermediaries taking huge cuts (and with resales giving them a percentage on top of it) is absolutely not going to kill the future, it's just going to incentivize better creation of art. Scarcity makes economic sense for various kinds of art and there are many fields that have been destroyed by the Internet (i.e. music). It's only natural for the solution to also come from it in this manner.
Although you may be right, OpenSea (the NFT Marketplace used in the article) does lazy minting. Of course, one can still not make any money if no one buys the NFT.

The author writes about it here:

> There's a bit of nuance to how OpenSea does things. They do so-called lazy minting. While you may need to pay an initial gas fee to list a new collection, each NFT listing does not require any fees. This works because the NFT is not actually minted yet. It gets officially minted once the buyer pays the gas fees to mint the artwork on the blockchain.
I use ChucK all the time since forever. And in completely different contexts. Generating blips for UI handlers or random audio data to test an FFT implementation. It really is the easiest music programming language to grok, and the built in concurrency primitives are awesome ;)

I wonder if its possible today to port the RTAudio lib ChucK is based on to the Web Audio API. Can we possibly see a ChucK.js for use in browser?