skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I think it is important to stress the point that the true strength of models like ABMs is that by systematically testing their behaviour for different circumstances and parameterisations can lead the experimenter to new qualitative insights!

To just run some simulation and trust it's output in any even remotely quantitative sense is no more scientific than reading the future from tea leaves!
I do not understand the "what more could this man have done?" line.

Trying very hard to meet the rules for entering a country, but not actually being able to meet them, does not normally give people the right to enter that country.
Why stair at grass when you could stare at deserts, oceans, live animals or at the earth from the ISS?
“I'm not sure I'd want the lifetime of the most expensive component in my car being used to supplement the grid.”

I’d imagine that a service like that would be paid for, indeed. Tesla has talked about setting up a system to orchestrate grid support from car batteries and powerwalls.

As I understand it there is more money to be earnt to maintain grid frequency, than to shift load. I guess with more battery storage on the grid the variability in price at higher frequency will calls being made for seconds and minutes will dip.

There’s storage over the day night cycle but earning once a day will take longer to generate income.

But seasonal variability will be generating income a lot more slowly unless the price goes very high, but there would probably be other problems at that point.
Is he not a male under 40?
My question to you is: how do you know he is doing nothing? Are you working with him and end up doing everything yourself? Or you simply “see” him relaxing all the time? I know people that seems alway on a break and yet deliver more than most!
> it would be trivial for him to actually just get vaccinated

That's not even required. He could have quarantine for 14 days too, but I imagine that would have been way too inconvenient for him. There didn't seem to be any reason why he couldn't of come earlier.
What are those unhappy people going to do? Write a few angry comments in twitter and get their accounts banned? The true reason must be something else.
Mistakes can be fixed if they are small scale i.e. one bad hire stand out at a small company and can be fired much more easily. What you're missing is that for these small companies they are excluding the best candidates with this process. In terms of bad hires at large companies they are harder to notice and large companies have more process that tends to make firing people harder.

This is why these big companies do it, because it is actually quite hard to be fired from someplace like google whereas at these small companies you'll be working directly with the owners.

Also people will do all these take home tests and 5 rounds of algo interviews and CCAT tests ... etc for large well known companies as it is prestigious to work for them. They literally won't do them for small companies. For small companies unknown companies all you'll get is desperate people you are actually filtering out all the decent candidates. I went through this process last year it's very hard to hire as a small unknown company.
ban this dude he whack
Welcome to the Era of the Bossy State
When risking getting caught stealing is more attractive than working then it's safe to say the working opportunities for those people aren't worth almost anything.

People take the easier option. You choose "lock your trains well" despite knowing the answer will be "crack those locks well" because it was the easy answer. The view is simple. Eventually the train will be a rolling mountain of steel protected by an army. Your fishing lure will cost an arm and a leg because protection costs are up. And the thieves will just be relegated to do slave work (the work that shouldn't exist in those conditions but society was too busy locking the train well to bother protecting its most vulnerable members) or starve because those are the only options on the table.
What is really worrisome is a recent flood of cryptoposts in HR top about smth which doesn't matter at all. It starts to look like black PR already. "oh no, nfts!! Oh no, web3!! Oh no, a scam! Memcoins! Ponzi scheme!!"

These money would've ended in some bullshit anyways. We are in the middle of economical crizis. Bitcoin, selfdriving cars, tesla, space tourism or whatever just create a false sense of activity in the market while everything is going down.
If that side effect has 12.6 in a million odds, what are the odds of an active HN user experiencing it?
I’ve read that the magnitude of punishment has less of a deterrent effect on crime compared to the certainty of receiving punishment at all. Softer consequences that you will probably face, as in parts of Europe, are different from harder (on paper) consequences that you will likely escape under a progressive prosecutor in the US. See the Chicago, San Francisco, Milwaukee, and Baltimore DAs for examples of this.

Edit: And don’t confuse American police/law enforcement, who are often harsh to say the least, with the legal arm of the criminal justice system. In many US cities the two are often at odds, as lax prosecutors and DAs release criminals almost as soon as police apprehend them. The Washington DC Chief of Police in particular complained about this recently.
We had a governor selling Obama’s senate seat for a garage sale discount.
The baseline wage for people able-bodied enough to raid a train is $32K/year in Southern California.
There could be issues with capacity, but it would be good.

Tesla trucks whilst nifty have issues, not least the huge road wear from heavy vehicles.
I don't really care if they let him in. That's up to Australia.

But the various levels of government there have made a mess of this.

If the federal government controls immigration, the state government and Tennis Australia should not be issuing visas and waivers. If they do issue them, you can't blame people for travelling. And I'd be pretty pissed if I had travelled to aus, and was then refused entry despite having a visa from one government because another one didn't like it!?
That's a great way to be up to date with how to talk for people a bit out of the loop. My hope is that this will end up as a "no one can be fired for following Microsoft Word suggestions". I've always struggled to find an up-to-date authoritative source about changes in the way we're supposed to speak in the last ~20 years.
I also work from home; I just asked around in the general chat.

As I instinctively was already blaming out IT dept for breaking Firefox for some security theater reason I was glad I found the real issue quickly, otherwise I might just have accidentally dropped my laptop out the window
It's possible to enter Japan if you're Japanese or resident. The 3/6/10 days forced hotel quarantine is a PITA but the worst is that using public transportation is forbidden so one has either to pay huge amount of money to move with a private transportation (a friend paid 250 USD for a Osaka-Kyoto ride) or organize with a friend. I'm still in the organizing phase...
I mean... you probably shouldn't ignore the thing that kills the most people, to deal with something that kills less people than that. And yes, we basically do the calculation (deaths vs convenience) all the time.. look at speed limits for cars, they're just a calculation of traffic deaths per year vs time losses due to lower speed limits.. a few deaths is ok, because everyone can get to work faster, but a lot of deaths is not ok.

Especially now, with vaccines... if someone doesn't want to vaccinate, who exactly are they endangering (except others, who also chose not to vaccinate)? Thinking the vaccinated won't get in contact with omicron from other vaccinated people who got infected is stupid, but we still don't let unvaccinated people go to the bar, while I can go there, even infected (and with omicron, i could be infected right now, but noone tests us, the vaccinated ones).
> he has some cardiac problem but who knows

He doesn't. He want's to avoid them. For males under 40 the risk for getting myocarditis is higher than for getting it from covid. That has been discussed on HN.
> All data, all computer files, are fundamentally just numbers.

That's a misconception.

To get a data-representation for stuff (like numbers, documents, songs, videos, pictures, text, etc.), we have to encode it. Then if we want to retrieve the thing, we'd have to decode it. It's not a number until decoded as such -- and you can't skip the need to decode data as a number because there're different ways to do it.

I appreciate that you're mostly just trying to object to laws restricting data, it's just that the bit about data-being-numbers may detract from it by starting with a misstatement.

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If it helps break the mental-association: even if we assume that all data should be read as unsigned binary-integers, are they big-endian or little-endian? For example, is "1000" 8 or 1?

Or, say a computer has unordered-storage for stuff like [bags](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(abstract_data_type)#Multi... ) (which are actually used in software, e.g. [in C#](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.collectio... )). Then, what number would such data be, if the data itself fundamentally lacks a [total-ordering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_order )?

Or, if we insist that unsigned binary-integers are the fundamental encoding, then how could non-terminating numbers be stored, e.g. 1/3 or pi? Or even just non-integers or negative-integers, e.g. 1/2 or -1? Or, if we argue that data for those numbers isn't numbers until decoded as such, then why should we say that other data is numbers before decoding?

(Not that each point would need to be addressed, just, different thought-experiments that might help break out of the misconception.)

It might be more helpful to see binary-sequences as trivially decode-able as unsigned-binary-integers, rather than actually being unsigned-binary-integers.
I've seen how tricky participating in society with a cheap android phone can get. Your memory runs out all the time when you try to have apps critical for everyday life, and your privacy is sold to highest bidder. Everything takes more time and is less reliable.

Until we as a society can honestly look at what reasonable amount of well being in information societies looks like, it's tricky to tell those with less what is reasonable to expect of quality of life.

Yes, mimetic desire is a real power too. Is that really what's at play here?

Who has the right to draw the line between basic well being and an utopia?
I entered France from Canada a month ago. They didn't check any documents other than my passport (pretty sure they didn't check it either, just flipped to an empty page and stamped it). Vaccination wasn't required. Negative PCR test wasn't required. The only requirement was a declaration that I didn't knowingly have COVID or any symptoms (which they never checked).
I have bad ADHD. I basically can't code or do anything mentally tedious without pills. No matter how much sugar, caffeine etc I take, my brain doesn't want to. I have gone months without, exercised properly and tried low sugar diets etc, tried everything, nothing worked. I made some tiny gains, as do everyone, how you treat yourself still matters for handicapped people. But then I got those pills, and now I can happily code many hours per day, my handicap is gone, it changed my whole life, without it I would never have gotten a good software job etc.

Note, those pills aren't really "stimulants", they help you focus they don't make you stressed out or high like sugar or caffeine does, they just help you get into the "zone". Maybe they do get you high to some degree and that is why some use them as a drug, but they don't really have that effect in the dosages you take them for ADHD, the feeling I'd call it is "a kid on Christmas eve", that makes it hard to sleep since you want to do so many things, not like caffeine at all. The dosage which made a night and day difference for me felt like nothing to a normal person.

So at least give it a try. Worst case it doesn't help much, best case it changes your life.
It was bloody naive of Djoko to even think that he would be eligible for entry into Australia, Victoria, and the Tournament, all with the same muddy paperwork. Whatever assurances he got from one party (A state representative, a tournament representative) obviously doesn't carry over to the next instance.

If he's allowed to play in the tournament but not enter the country, then he's out of luck. Same thing if he's allowed to enter the country but not the state or the tournament.
So the ones who choose Bench trial are more likely to be innocent?
"mistakes were made"
Drawing and recording a line path following the movement of the pointer is an extremely simple interaction exercise, and one of the first you learn when programming games or in the demoscene. The sad thing is that, once the base logic is created, the platforms we use make it quite difficult and a lot of effort to transform it into a finished deliverable product.

This project is an interesting effect, but it would be great if doing such effort were simply the natural way to use the available tools.
I don’t see anybody arguing that people doing this shouldn’t get charged.

I do read people (rightfully, IMO) claiming that societal changes can significantly decrease the number of people doing this.

I don’t believe USA has so many people in prison because its population _is_ more criminal than that of other countries.
It's not that simple. Look at Sweden. We have all those things and delivery companies have stopped delivering to certain areas due to their trucks being robbed.

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/skane/malmobon-sylvias-adr...

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/uppsala/postnord-stoppar-p...
Yeah, I don't know what's more cringeworthy, that Microsoft is rolling out this idiotic unfeature or that someone greenlighted this embarassment of an article.

I feel old.
So how did he win his first court challenge? Why aren't those institutions being scrutinized? Where's the proof he faked his documents and why isn't that alone cause for Australia's institutions to not have issued a visa?

Why did it take a last-minute act from a minister to revoke his visa?
You can download just the audio with

--extract-audio --audio-format mp3
> Sounds like communism. No cause can be considered greater than freedom.

Are you a 10 year old American from the Cold War? What you're saying is so comprehensively stupid I'm not entirely certain you're a real human.

No, that's not what communism is. If you want to know what it really is, go read "Das Kapital" and the "Communist Manifesto", you might learn a thing or two.

As for freedom... it's subjective. Absolute freedom is obviously incompatible with living in a society with other humans. And as we've seen time and again, most people value many things over freedom. Just look at Singapore and Rwanda, people there are happy with the prosperity and stability even if they're really not free on a lot of levels.
He can take Biontech/Pfizer and not Moderna (which is also the recommendation in some countries for younger people)
You want loopTapApp.score = Infinity*Infinity, yours is 0 because ^ is XOR na anything XORed with itself is zero
Search on discogs for that label.
We right now use astrology so it will be an improvement
> to strengthen the bond in the cases where its true

You mean when the parental relationship is compatible with the wishes of the potential step father. Knowing that the child isn't yours can be useful in either direction. Either you know it from the start and accept it from the start, or you refuse it from the start. This idea that we shouldn't bear bad news and hide them, hoping to profit off the confusion, is a horrible way to run a society. Learn to deal with the bad news. (ignoring them is how situations escalate and get way worse than they should be)
Having the community police its members can only be done with the proper external incentives to that community. The times in history where clans or family managed their own delinquents where also times where the clan or family as a whole was called to pay for the damage.

What we have here is not a sudden lapse in morals - it's a result of, rather on purpose, individualism. Since the community has nothing to lose or gain, the community just stands aside and looks.

As an aside, this reminds me of gypsy villages in Romania - places where lines of concern between insiders and outsiders are so sharply drawn, that from the outside it looks like complete lawlessness. It's not - it's lawless only if you're an outsider, and that village doesn't care about you.

Social mechanisms can be pretty complex (and fascinating). TBH, rather than trying to figure them out, it might be easier in cases like that to just throw manpower (and cameras) at the problem. But long term - this is where it's very much worth it to have cops work with/as social workers and get embedded in their communities. That this got to where it got speaks volumes about police and citizens there being in a purely adversarial context - otherwise the first old lady to meet a cop 6 months ago would have told him what's going on and who's started it.
I make a lot of animations in python using matplotlib (and moviepy for editing)[1]. It works pretty well for data based stuff but requires a lot of trial and error and tricks to get the feel right.

There's definitely space for a python based simple motion graphics package.

[1] An example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abo7NZZ8VHs
I agree. Semantic data would mean that others can easily understand the meaning of the data. In the semantic web this would be by using ontologies, which define the types of things and relations between these types of things. But just having your schema visible doesn't mean anyone understands it straight away, they would still need to make an effort to understand the schema of that specific application. And the schema is probably unique to that application. The end result is pretty much the same as for example exposing your database as a GraphQL endpoint. Take "The Graph" a web3 project exposing data of many different blockchain projects as GraphQL endpoints. It's nice, but I still need to make an effort to understand the meaning of each property in each endpoint. And a "transaction" in one project is not linked to the meaning of a "transaction" in another. A bit off topic, but ironically I therefor don't find the name 'The Graph' to be all that accurate.

Point in case: YES to at least remembering that web3 is (also) the Semantic Web. But no, this solution is not semantic data.
Reading this it seems like the company's objective isn't to hire someone but to find every possible reason not to hire them.
> defunding police

Police budgets are, by and large, still increasing in the US.
During my PhD (and even in my jobs since) I have always been the “non-parametric guy”, the one who’s not good at math so left to figure out the models that don’t have any theory behind them. We were trying to estimate locations using Point Spread Function modeling and my boss was known for being the last theory guy in a field that’s pretty much given up on ground-up modeling of the PSFs for estimation. The reason was while we understood the Factors influencing the PSF it was just computationally expensive and there were too many factors (for many of which we wouldn’t know the parameters anyway). So non parametric estimation became a better alternative at least to get initial estimates.

This is no different from alphafold. It’s an acknowledgment that we know the the theory, we now just want a computational shortcut that allows us to move on to more important problems that have been blocked by not being able to predict protein structures from sequences quickly.

This type of non parametric (or in modern parlance ML) thinking is a great new adjunct method of thinking but this has not and probably won’t fully replace hypothesis based research. The author is clearly a science writer but doesn’t look like has actual science experience so they’ve just went and wrote whatever made sense to them. It’s an interesting problem anyway so anything that provokes discussion is a good thing.
Imo the comment you’re replying to is a kind of progressive left-wing university faculty lounge flavor of upper middle class politics and is not representative of the vast majority of Americans (but is overrepresented online).

I’d suspect most Americans (across the political spectrum) would see these train robberies and think “these people should go to jail”, rather than moralizing about why it’s not their fault.
Your change of dying from the vaccine is very low, indeed.

But, if you have no comorbidity, your chance of dying from the covid is extremely low too...

You must also take this into account in your comparison
I think this is probably reversed in the caae of HN.

To me it feels like 10% of people write posts, but it's the 1% that checks and votes on 'fresh' which decide what the remaining 90% see.

And this is before any moderation takes place (shadowbans, rate limiting, visibility limiting, etc)
If Bayern or PSG cheated or broke the rules somehow, nobody would complain. Nobody cries over Serie A titles while Juventus were in Serie B for the Calciopoli scandal.
How pure does your program have to be to be rust for you? How few libraries in C or C++ must it call? The developers are writing all their code in rust, so it is in rust…
I think the sticking point here was that he was given approval by the Victorian government which failed to communicate with the federal government. Arguably you can frame it as his fault that he did not get an assurance from the federal government, but a reasonable person would not expect the state government to have failed to secure the required assurances from the federal government.
He should consider himself lucky he wasn’t jailed for forging a positive PCR test before being deported.
If they track indices, how would they index new elements upon deletion of old ones? They need to maintain a hashset of free indices?
Multiple Sclerosis Is Likely Caused by a Virus
Twitter home made me miserable
What is the "magic" behind LoFi music? It is so different than the music that I listen but I really enjoy it. Do you know anyone who finds LoFi annoying?
Arresting dealers / busting drug rings is one of the few policing activities that directly leads to MORE crime.

What happens when you bust a drug ring and arrest some big players? You immediately create a power vacuum, which leads to a turf war where other players (in the gang or between gangs) start jockeying for power, spreading their mayhem across the area.

The only solution here is legalization, treatment, and general social welfare.
> Why crime us going up?

It’s not. The long term trend in property crime in the US is down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States
And if they try, the US will do what it did with Ukraine: absolutely nothing.
It looks like a good read, but it's a bit long for my attention span. Can anyone provide a TLDR?
> Buying an NFT allows me to...show off I guess?

And buying some other piece of shit for millions doesn't, right? What's the difference? Why nfts are so important?
With our current lead times, basically a year from now.
Me too :)
I was one of the young student in 1995 downloading Linux in plenty of 1.44M floppy disks (7 for GCC, I remember).
Nice to Know Slackware is still here with us in 2022!