skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never left the pandemic and have continued to wear and will continue to wear a surgical grade N95 mask (also stops liquid basically) around anyone that isn't my wife (and she the same) for the rest of our lives.

Masks are the only thing that has the ability to stop this and beautifully also allow for the economy to run full swing. I think the democrats should back off of vaccination goals and just get mask goals perfected.
Zerohedge is not any less reliable than CNN, or NBC these days

Take that for what you will, but...
Thanks, my memory gets a bit fuzzy after a while.
I personally liked the reply further down the stack that said the German order is more useful in context of counting. You put the digit that changes with every count first and the one that stays the same for a while second (or mention it only when it changes). Because you don't typical count methodically like this if the number of things counted is large, this system only obtains for two-digit numbers. This is just a hypothesis, but I thought it was the most interesting answer.
I don't get this attitude, if things are correlated, it should at least make a scientist wonder why. It certainly could be random chance, but correlation can also lead to establishing a causal model or discovering a third variable. If two things keep happening in conjunction, it at least merits further investigation.

It seems like there's this extreme reaction against people behaving like correlation equals causation, but instead of over-emphasizing correlation, it gets dismissed entirely.
> The CronRAT adds a number of tasks to crontab with a curious date specification: 52 23 31 2 3. These lines are syntactically valid, but would generate a run time error when executed. However, this will never happen as they are scheduled to run on February 31st. Instead, the actual malware code is hidden in the task names and is constructed using several layers of compression and base64 decoding.

The actual malware uses the task name from these "never occurring crontab". The invalid date is just a kind of signature.
Thanks for the link. It was an interesting read. Nonetheless, it leans quite heavily on use in the 'course of instruction' which is not the case for sci-hub. The crux of that case seems to be that the University of Delhi had authorised the shop to make the copies, and hence the agency of the shop is rightly moot. AFAIK, no university has endorsed sci-hub (for e.g., by way of posting links to sci-hub on a university or a course page). Should that happen, I guess the ties to this case would be closer.
Starting Strength is a decent place to start for barbell exercise, but it's very much in the spirit of The Strongest Shall Survive: Strength Training for Football[1]. Therefore, if you're not a pubescent male with north of 1,000 ng/dL of testosterone and competitive athletic ambitions you'll probably want to modify the programming. I also hear good things about The Physics of Resistance Exercise, but I've yet to read it.

An important thing about resistance exercise is that it's not just about muscles. It also stimulates the skeletal system to make your bones more dense, strengthens your ligaments and tendons, and perhaps most importantly stimulates the central nervous system. The latter is the likely mechanism for cognitive benefits.

[1] It's arguably the better book, but it's out of print and you're going to be looking at about a couple hundred bucks at least for a copy.
> It is to filter out people who haven't put sufficient thought into incorporating diversity into their teaching practice, no matter who they are. This is important to universities because professors necessarily encounter a diverse classroom.

Please be honest. What happens if they do put "sufficient thought" into it, but come to the wrong conclusions? What if they didn't put any thought into it at all, and just parrot various "diversity is strength" talking points, and their contributions to diversity are limited to ethnocentrism, such as a Latino candidate working with the Latin American Student Organization, helping their co-ethnics?

> Issues of race, gender identity, and sexual orientation are important for a professor to consider so that they may create a safe learning environment for all students.

Those statements require much more than just competence in making a "safe" environment (Isn't that the job of campus security? What kind of safety do you expect professors to provide?). From the open letter of Abigail Thompson, professor of mathematics at UC Davis:

Why is it a political test? Politics are a reflection of how you believe society should be organized. Classical liberals aspire to treat every person as a unique individual, not as a representative of their gender or their ethnic group. The sample rubric dictates that in order to get a high diversity score, a candidate must have actively engaged in promoting different identity groups as part of their professional life.... Requiring candidates to believe that people should be treated differently according to their identity is indeed a political test...The idea of using a political test as a screen for job applicants should send a shiver down our collective spine.... - https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201911/rnoti-p1778.pdf
Ah, that makes more sense. I'm still a bit surprised that iDEAL payment requests ('Tikkie') account for less than 10%.
I’ll drop you an email December 10. Nothing cryptic, that’s the end of the publication period for the trademark.
Charge a price in USD, but accept bitcoins for it?
Actually I read both books years ago and "The Mismeasure of Man" was far more sound in its analysis. In particular the biases in IQ testing were made very clear in Gould's work.

My take on what the Charles Murray crowd (and its antecedents dating back to Francis Galton's Social Darwinism) is that it's just an attempt to justify the social status quo based on 'genetic superiority of the ruling class'. This is merely a replacement for the previous (and completely discredited) religious justification for the social status quo, i.e. priests telling the serfs and slaves that 'The gods have blessed the divine kings'. We also have the economists getting in on the game, telling everyone that gross wealth disparity is the inevitable result of pure econometric theory and so on.

For other hilarious takes on this, I always point to the "Nobel Prize Sperm Bank"[1]

[1] https://www.thecut.com/2019/08/what-ever-happened-to-the-mys...
On the contrary, he is betting there won't be as many deaths as expected. It's an optimist position.
I was on call for 5 years at an old job (non IT). Getting paged and yanked out of bed at all hours messes with you in so many ways. Being sleep deprived you turn to high sugar drinks and foods to keep you awake. The sleep deprivation and bad diets causes you to put on weight. Going to bed with the idea you could get paged does terrible things for your anxiety. On top of that all the sleep deprivation changes your personality.

You become highly irritable and it really brings down your mood. Eventually I couldn't deal with it after 5 years and I pretty much walked off the job. I didn't realize the toll it was taking on me and what being on call was doing to me until I was no longer on call.
>Can you say that the same about English?

It's similar but I don't think it qualifies as the same since we do not say "four tens". Forty is a concept in itself, just like suffix -s for plural is a separate concept from singular. Suffixes and prefixes are modifiers. We don't ordinarily say, for example, "many apple", we say "apples".
Yes, iPhones automatically merge two dashes together as well.
It’s too early in the morning for this much materialism, I’m sorry. This article is everything that I see wrong with America and the world right now. The belief that “This thing I buy will bring me happiness.” despite a literal lifetime of discovering that isn’t the case. It is such a weird brain amnesia. Unboxing videos make me ill.
You have in entirely backwords mate.
There were attempts to predict bugs by looking at complexity metrics. As I recall, the research found that when you adjusted for code size, none of the metrics mattered. In other words, just use LOCs as your metric.
I'd translate it as ten before half five, but apart from that, yeah that's 4:20 (inclusive or 16:20).

I think in the UK they use half five as 5:30? Half past five basically. In NL it's half way towards five, maybe the Dutch are forward looking?
Anything else is harder - and for many people, impossibly hard. Always has been this way, likely always will be.
For me personally nothing beats swimming for an hour, twice or more per week.
> With the removal of dislike stats from the YouTube API, our backend will switch to using a combination of scraped dislike stats, estimates extrapolated from extension user data and estimates based on view\like ratios.

In case anyone is wondering, the extension seems to calculate the dislike count from the average rating, which is something that the YouTube API still returns. The average rating is calculated as follows [1]:

(like * 5) + (dislike)

---------------------- * 5

(like + dislike) * 5

If you do some algebra, the dislike count is calculated as (likes * (5 - rating)) / (rating - 1), which is what the author uses in their code [2]. I'm not sure what they mean by using "a combination of scraped dislike stats, estimates extrapolated from extension user data, and estimates based on view\like ratios" because I don't see them explicitly using anything like that in their code. Maybe it's something for the future. Hopefully someone can clarify what they mean by this statement.

[1] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/29663#issuecom...

[2] https://github.com/Anarios/return-youtube-dislike
Not entirely dissimilar to my own pattern generation tool, https://trianglify.io/

How are you doing the color palettes? Is it fully random or using some kind of picker algorithm?
The mildness or severity of symptoms is determined after the period of maximum contagiousness.

What you are talking about sounds nice in theory but it doesn’t really add up based on how this virus works. If anything there is a pretty strong argument the other way… a more contagious version of covid will probably have a higher viral load and this probably lead to higher chance of serious disease be (like delta).
I'll keep living my life as I always have. Death comes for all. I won't be living in fear. But I welcome all you to do as you please. All the fear is mildly amusing to me at this point. Boosters forever.
Why bike? Man up and run everywhere.
It is interesting (read: irritating) to me that YouTube never puts his videos in my algorithmic feed. Every other channel to which I subscribe gets woven in but I had to actually click the bell icon to get notified of new videos for his channel.
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I find it more curious that the languages I know best tend to have special words for 11 and 12 that don't follow the same logic as the rest. Eleven and twelve instead of one-teen, two-teen or something. And that even leads to things like a teenager being age 13+. In German it's the same elf + zwölf and then it continues with dreizehn, vierzehn etc. My guess is that it is somehow related to the fact that a dozen is a thing but I'm curious where it comes from. In French it goes all the way up to 16 (onze, douze, treize, quatorze, quinze, seize) before we end up with dix-sept for 17. French has always been the most peculiar to me as there's stuff like 82 being quatre-vingt-deux (4*20+12). And then there's languages like Vietnamese that happily start with 10+1 from the get go (mười một, mười hai, mười ba). Fascinating stuff :)
I was mystified by the parenthetical in one of the answers: (Please note that "hundred" once meant 120.)

Seemed unlikely, apparently the ground truth has moved more through the ages than I expected. Lo, the "long hundred": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_hundred.
Wouldn't this kind of use go against bing terms of use as they probihit using the results for any kind of machine learning training?

> [Do not] Use data received from the Search APIs as part of any machine learning or similar algorithmic activity. Do not use this data to train, evaluate, or improve new or existing services that you or third parties might offer.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/bi...

Note: I'm partly asking this because some time ago I was thinking of setting up a little bit similar thing and I decided it would go against bing api terms.
The iPod used Firewire because it would have taken ages to sync using USB 1.x.
I was on a team that had lost a lot of it's members. We worked hard to keep up and were on track to meet deadlines. Some time went by, we were working nights and weekends and every time we asked we were assured that they were hiring but "couldn't find the right person". At the same time, every week we would hear about a new hire in management. They were magically able to find some new hires as soon as deadlines started to slip, had we not worked those nights and weekends I am certain that they would've found someone to hire much earlier (the first guy they did hire said the process took three months, they were clearly dragging their feet). Too bad I learned that lesson after already spending the day of my daughters birth in long meetings about testing environments.

Why would they pay for something they can get for free?
I tend to disagree. I think we have it wrong when we think of infected or not. I think the reality of it is many slight exposures over periods of time where people's bodies have higher immunity and lower immunity towards things. For example if I am breathing covid at a rate of 5% of everyone else and I don't get "infected" but I get a few particles that replicate but don't take hold - I probably will get labeled one of the "asymptomic" folks. Compare that to someone that get's a mouth full of it - will probably get sick because of the viral load.

When there's a crap-ton of it in the air, even without a mask say at a public park where you're standing far away from someone - someone's covid particles are probably being inhaled - again, since the virus is now "everywhere" it offers a chance for more people to get that slight infection that doesn't take hold. And I say slight because while there's a lot, it's spread over a a large area due to wind, so it's like getting a 1% infection instead of the 100% indoor infection.
Your 1) only matters if transmission is related to symptoms. If the virus is transmissible for a while before the symptoms like Covid, symptom severity matters less (pre-symptom R-value gains outweigh post-symptom R-value losses). Reductively, if you’ve already infected your social circle pre-symptoms, what happens next is much less relevant to the virus’ lifecycle.
I believe it is impossible for the government to be honest with the public in anyway. Too many competing interest trying to "manage" the public response from too many angles like Stock Market, Politics, Panic, etc.

They are simply incapable of giving the public the unvarnished truth, as such I think we the public need to be looking to non-governmental sources for the actual truth. This becomes a problem because historically that has been the role of journalism sadly today journalists have the exact same competing interests thus are also incapable of telling the public the truth.

I dont know the solution, but truth is the causality of the current age of information.
>[...] and the amount that the small oil wells produce is too low to justify the cost.

>If it were for me I'd force oil well operators to [....]

Maybe it's too costly for a reason? Building power lines or pipelines to the middle of nowhere has economic and environmental costs as well, so top down legislation forcing every single well to do it might result in worse overall outcomes. For instance, the resources it takes to construct a pipeline/power line to the nearest town might be more than the electricity/methane that can be generated from the well.
> if your shit breaks, you fix it

What if you're drunk?
You should check out Barbell Medicine. They have a great beginner / restart template [0]. It’s a couple of doctors and an extended team that cut through a lot of the bro science that surrounds fitness and, specifically, strength training. Their content is great and they have a book in the works.

[0] https://www.barbellmedicine.com/blog/returning-to-the-gym/
I like to use glyphs from Stargate which chevrons lock onto when a Stargate is being dialled.
Not quite

Even if BTC and every other POW cryptocurrency converted this afternoon to 100% renewable energy use (and we ignore the carbon cost of manufacturing the hardware), it is STILL a huge climate problem.

Why?

1) Because that ~1% of total energy consumption is being squandered on maintaining the cryptocurrency instead of any other use. Thus, it prevents those clean energy sources from displacing CO2-generating sources which would otherwise be taken offline.

2) Even if the BTC energy is entirely derived from some power source that could not be used by others, perhaps all geothermal generation on a remote volcanic island, it will still add net heat to the atmospheric system. and, of course, we still have the energy use and CO2 spewage of fabricating and moving the mining equipment into location.

So, no, this problem is NOT taking care of itself.
Agree to disagree I guess, but I have read a lot of things on Twitter that I found interesting and useful (amongst a lot of crap, obviously), and this I didn't like.
This is really cool! Feels very chill.

If I had one suggestion, some parameter sliders would be fun. Modify the speed over the land/height of the mountains/variance in mountain height.

Well done and thanks for sharing.
>The new legislation will introduce a complaints mechanism, so that if somebody thinks they are being defamed, bullied or attacked on social media, they will be able to require the platform to take the material down.

This is absolutely ridiculous on so many levels. The "standard" here is that if someone thinks they are being defamed, bullied or attacked?! What that simply means that in practice anyone can get anything they don't like erased off of the internet. This law isn't just an attack on free speech, its the complete obliteration of free speech and open discourse all together.
It wouldn't be a Stack Exchange site if the question and asker were not insulted.
Try French... 95? Quatre vingt quinze. That's four times twenty fifteen.

German at least makes some kind of sense.
I recommend the heaviest book you can find, and pick it up often!
I interviewed at Brex, and they required getting online within 5 minutes of being paged. (I did not get the offer, but I would not have accepted the offer after learning that.) Where I currently work the response time is "ideally within 15 minutes", which is a lot more manageable, since plenty of places I like to go are within 15 minutes of my house. My job pays more than average because of on-call, it's 1 week out of 6, and there's probably an average of 1 call out of business hours per week (mode is 0).
Shameless opportunity to share one of my favourite youtube videos from the last few years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhx-26GfCBU

TL;DW Oulu, Finland is as cold and snowy as any population center in Canada. Plenty of people bike there year round. The issue is municipal infrastructure, not climate.
There is a huge spike in active cases right before and after Dec 11th. More cases = more deaths.
Fortunately nobody's going to use the reverse variant when dictating phone numbers.
At least at Google, oncall shifts aren't set in stone. If you need to swap with a coworker (even for a few hours), you can. Devs should not be holding 15-minute (much less 5-minute) pagers; if your system is really that critical, you should be working to onboard an SRE team.

> these on call rotations aren't skills.

Troubleshooting live production issues is a skill.

Triaging incidents to prioritize actions to minimize user harm is a skill.

Assessing tradeoffs of mitigation strategies is a skill.

The very tangible scenario of being woken up in the middle of the night builds empathy with your devops / SRE organization (which can manifest itself in designing more resilient systems, engaging in less risky behavior, improving documentation for the next oncaller, etc).

Oncall isn't for everyone, and it's certainly not worthwhile if you don't take away any lessons from it. But devs are ultimately the closest ones to their code, and they should take advantage of the opportunity to understand how it behaves in production.

> Ask yourself.. what's next? What are you looking to do after 25 years of being on call? Will you still enjoy it?

I've had bad weeks of oncall as well as quiet weeks. If it ever gets to a point where bad weeks are much more frequent, and nobody's doing anything about it, then yeah, I won't want to do it anymore. But as long as it's still providing value beyond humans providing blood / sweat / tears, and as long as we're actually trying to make things better, I don't mind holding a pager a few weeks a year.
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This looks like a cool project and I look forward to trying it later.

General comment: one reason that the R package ecosystem often feels creaky and brittle, I think, is that a lot of packages (like this one) are pretty far afield from R’s original intended uses of statistics and visualization. Here, we see the use of integers to denote pitches strung together as a vector to generate a sequence. That’s not precisely a misuse, but it’s definitely misaligned with the original vision, and trying to build things on top of that misaligned infrastructure is a potential vector of packages’ breaking and general irreproducibility.
Starting Strength has a really comprehensive explanation of the main lifts: squats, press, bench press, power cleans and deadlift. It explains the mechanics behind a good lift and gives a little bit of advice about programming.

It was one of the first books I ever read about fitness and it influenced all the workouts I did after it. IMHO strenght training makes going to the gym a lot more fun, as you can compete with yourself.
Very close to Polish.
>because energy is fungible

no it's not. A watt that's in the middle of south dakota, with no power lines in sight, is worth much less than a watt in southern california and is connected to the power grid.
...framed in a financial context.
Wild, just got done listening to Coding Blocks podcast episode on data structure primitives where they go in depth on floating point, fixed point, binary floating point, and more. Great listen! See around 54min mark - https://www.codingblocks.net/podcast/data-structures-primiti...
No it is not. Because your signal is the truth for you.
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https://archive.md/wip/0EPC4

It's just a summary of the news. There's zero new information or analysis.
No, Persian has words that are vaguely derived from the basic numerals.
>If you want a cushy 9-5 job, go work for a code factory like HCL, TCS and whatnot. That way you can build crap and wash your hands after handling it to the customer.

You got it backwards: if you want a crappy quality of life (or have no life and you only identify with the company that sees you as a replaceable cog), and crappy products and customer service from a company that doesn't care (to plan right, to hire accordingly, to treat its staff right) go on call and overwork, producing sleep-derived crap.

Craftsmen and artisans take their time and have boundaries.

"Feature factories", startups, and mass market crap companies forego 9-to-5 and indoctrinate naive employees that they do something important by doing so.

>In a startup environment, you gotta build your shit and maintain it to. It's an environment that's not for everyone.

Yes. It's for starry-eyed naive youngsters right off the bus. The kind of people to believe they're "changing the world" by building a Facebook or Groupon.
Yeah, you're right.
We should make a test or something...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29370245