skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Borrowing from software engineering, you can publish code to a git repository and someone else can make a pull/merge request with a proposal to make fixes/improvements. There's still work involved in reviewing, revising, and merging those proposals, but it can be less work than needing to make every change yourself.

I wonder if academic papers could benefit from a similar process of communal development (though it flies in the face of the dead-tree format of academic papers, but we're talking about Arxiv here, not Elsevier). Even if suggestions don't get merged, having a repository that captures discussion around the central artifact is also useful (such as when a maintainer decides that a feature doesn't belong in a project).
> "The more you move in space, the less you move in time."

Even better IMO: everything is moving at the max speed (c) through spacetime, and accelerating along one dimension means decelerating along other dimensions; for example, stationary objects have 0 speed in spatial dimensions but move at c through time, and photons move at c through space but are stationary along the time dimension.
Except the draconian measures that China put actually worked initially. They lost battle when entire world around them got sick and it did not make sense for China to be isolated.

What did not work is other countries closing their borders immediately the moment it was known that the virus escaped China.

When the numbers of sick are low you can track every individual and preemptively put everybody he spent time with in isolation. This is how we fight other viruses like ebola, successfully, even without vaccines. There still exists no vaccine for ebola. The only real mechanism to prevent it spreading is finding and isolating people.

And, yes, ebola has reservoirs. And no, we are not in constant lockdown due to ebola.
Hard to tell if they are dead or just quiet so they just let them be.
Both observers are just seeing what already happened millions of miles away. Though they see the alien fleet arriving at different times, it's not possible that the aliens are doing different things in different reference frames. They made one decision and then the two people see the results of that decision at different times
Teaching by key-value pair (which is what far too many people default to) is a horrible way to teach

Concepts may need to be presented propositionally, but there [almost] always needs to be a "why" (even if the "why" isn't yet understood) paired with the "what" - the Pythagorean Theorem isn't just about memorizing 3-4-5 right triangles, it's about figuring out the shortest distance between two points, knowing how much fencing you need around your property, and on and on
Eliminating covid was never possible. Are you not aware of how many animal carriers there are or are you suggesting we could've prevented animal transmission somehow?
But the point is that it doesn't work the other way around: not all pet projects become successful projects. In fact, very, very few pet projects ever ship.
> Politicians are the best marketers

They are certainly accomplished liars.
I agree, you do not need concrete and brick but you also need to take into account the local traditions. For ex. building a wood house (framing or CLT) would have cost much more than concrete and bricks and was also much more prone to errors because of the builders lack of experience, at least in my area and country.

Recently in Romania it really took of building houses using CLT (cross-laminated-timber) but it costs so much more than a regular brick and mortar house that few people afford it.

When -15 outside and 20 degrees inside, my house requires 2000W to keep the balance. This kind of simulations are done using PHPP package from PassivHaus Institut.

L.E.
What I wanted to point out, thermal mass can have a huge impact on the house energy footprint.. to give you an example, today and tomorrow will be sunny days and this will drive my interior temp to about 23-24 degrees, this heat will heat-up the masonry and slabs and then give me back the heat in the next days when there will be no sun.
It can be very shallow though. Steve Jobs on consulting - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c4CNB80SRc
Why bother with learning a special "image editing" application ?

Why can't folks make good looking pictures from just code ?

Algorithms implemented in soft synths need to take certain things like aliasing into account and if every musicians had to bother with that, there would be much less EDM for you to enjoy.
I think what the OP means that using Docker you can use tools that give horizontal scaling for free (see: Cloud Run etc.)
I got it now. Yes, Twitter is a walled garden, even if it has large windows to see most of things, there is definitely a wall there.

The tricky part is that if this was published in a static html page it would be less likely that it would reach us (even if the page was linked in the thread). Distribution is hard.

A good compromise I think is keeping the thread but having a link to a blogpost with the same content in the first (or second) tweet.

A Twitter thread formatting tool that also publishes a web version and automatically link to it in the second tweet is a good micro Saas idea if anyone is looking I think.
Unvaccinated but recovered from a prior infection? Doubtful.

The UK paper on Delta seemed to suggest that wasn’t true even for the unvaccinated-never infected as well. Google the Lancet article. Viral loads were similars, infection risk wasn’t that much lower for vaccinated. I think recovery was quicker by a day, maybe.
Women and men used to do computing and mathematics together until man created things like compilers that automated a lot of the tasks women were doing. The man in tech then woke up one day and wondered where all the women went. Now man has done the same thing to himself.
It is not like employees stick around that long either anyway.
Submitter linked to the main page, which is known since 2010. Nothing much changed since.
If he would have linked to the latest news instead, it would be 2021.
Your comment is stupid. But I too instantly become infuriated at the sight of the word. "boop".
excellent post

worth noting that this OP seems like he is still an employee AT a consultancy, so in effect having the 'best of both worlds' - a secure income + wide exposure to client projects. Presumably, there will be internal politics within the consultancy, particularly if he wants to move up in status or responsibility.

I would add that senior roles in consultancies of this type inevitably become sales roles - responsibility shifts from delivery (individual contributor does this) to customer acquisition (partner does this), which will come with this its own set of pro's and cons.
At this stage I think they deserve to be scapegoated. A family friend of mine is terminally ill with cancer (and vaccinated), in a lot of pain. She had to give up her hospital bed to a fool who objects to vaccines and got severe covid as a result. That is not ok.
I'd say most of those optimizations are not needed (`@inline`, `@ntuple`, `@inbounds` can also often be dropped).

Vectorization, in the sense of using `.+` etc, does not provide any speedup in Julia, it is only for notational convenience, and is at best the same speed as a loop, often slower.
Possibly the first time I've ever laughed out loud at something in the Guardian:

"“The first time I opened the box, I swiftly concluded that it was way out of my league, and the only way I’d even have a shot at it was if I were for some bizarre reason trapped in my own home for months on end, with nowhere to go and no one to see. Unfortunately, the universe heard me,” Finnemore said."
wow, I pulled up a C++ file in Helix just now -- never used it before -- and the LSP just worked out of the box. Amazing. Setting up LSP is usually quite a pain in editors like this.
Were the slave holdings of the reporters and staff at the Post also mentioned?
You are delusional if you think they won't follow their proven business strategy just because the "coin" gets a new name.
A game should work in single player mode no matter the network quality or censorship by any of the layers in-between.

It's one thing (and annoying enough) if multiplayer servers are shut down after a couple years without opening the source of the server or at least distributing VMware images. But single-player functionality should always work, because why should I otherwise buy a game for 50+ €?!
More bad takes from people who don't understand the point of Bitcoin and its blockchain. It's all so... tiresome.

The fact that the author is comparing to services like Venmo or PayPal really goes to show how much they don't understand about what Bitcoin was built to achieve.

Also goes to show that people like the author should also check their financial privilege: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/check-your-financial-pri...

FYI the author of this ^ article is the Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation. All his articles on that site are worth reading to gain a more global perspective of what Bitcoin is doing outside of the western hemisphere.
Artists' income from art in Ireland is tax exempt up to 50k/year (this used to be a lot looser until someone noticed that _U2_ was benefiting from it), so Ireland has prior experience with determining what is and isn't art for tax purposes, anyway...
The secret on how to become a great consultant:

Take all the blame, distribute all the praise.

Here is the thing, being a consultant is a thankless job, and it needs to be. If a project does not go as planned, the success does not happen. Take the blame. You are an external, it does not matter. They got you into the company to improve the state of the client, to improve them. If it does not happen, you are to blame. And they need someone to blame, so just take it.

If you succeed, spread the praise. You worked with them, it was the right decision that they hired you, so they did great. And you just humble helped them to unlock the potential they already had.

Thing is, in scenario 1, if you deflect blame, they will not hire you again. And they will badmouth you if somebody asks. You you take the blame, they might not hire you again, but they will respect you when somebody asks about you.

In scenario 2, if you take all the praise, they will not feel good about themselves, and will not WOM (word of mouth) you. If you spread the praise, they will feel good about themselves, talk about their success and will so WOM you.

A thankless job. I love it.
I think this is right, in the same way that you can't ever really "prove" anything. (Direct proof relies on firsthand experience, and human perception and memory are infamously faulty. QED. Alternately, even the strongest experimental conclusion can be chalked up to the most extreme of coincidences.)

However, to move forward in life, we must accept certain axioms so that we can be effective and productive. (Prove food is nutritious, prove I won't die in the next 5 minutes, prove my parents are benevolent actors, prove my children are actually mine). At some point, you can litigate anything you want, and the real decision is, what hills are you willing to die on. For me, that's determined strongly by impact to my life, and also partly by interest.

What I'm saying is, don't argue that the flat earthers are wrong. Argue that they are useless because what they are arguing about doesn't matter.
There is a definition of life that comprises any mechanism that controls its own entropy. Maybe there are energy-based interactions that fit this description like systems with no matter involved, or very high-scale/long-term systems.
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>From my point of view serfdom is the (block)chain. Only people with enough stake or those who pays are in control.

I disagree with this but even if one assumes this to be the case, I'd much rather prefer a monetary system subject to the control of free market forces rather than the modern monetary system which is subject to a small group of unelected and unaccountable technocrats operating under the feeble assumption of central bank independence and whose power is extended through coercion and not voluntary association.
How do I get a pdf out for my Sony A4 ereader ? Libgen?
Haskell MOOC Course from University of Helsinki
Modern codes have moved back to 2x4, then they put continuous foam on the outside of that to make the total the width of a.2x6 wall. Wood is not a great insulator and you have to have some
At this time, I have a local copy split across a Windows and a Mac. Both are backed up to Backblaze Personal plan. When someone from my immediate family wants to view an album, they have to download it. Not ideal at all, but that's our process today.

I don't use Google Photos for privacy concerns.

Now that I use Tailscale, I could consider setting up a NAT at home and make files easily viewable using NextCloud, but I worry I won't backup properly to Backblaze B2. Need to figure out how to schedule backups before I make the switch.
To frustrate those who legally purchased the game? It doesn't stop piracy, it makes the pirate version higher quality.
It may be a good product idea to build a box PC with redundant hard drives and ZFS set up in paranoia mode to scrub every so often in order to refresh the data it guards, and configure it with safe defaults such that it works as a vault(not having provisions to run Docker etc.). Want to access photos, hook it up with an ethernet cable and access it like this... Once done, leave it in the closet with power supply. I wonder how many would buy such a box..
What I love the most about being in a consultance-esque role:

-Networking. I talk to more people daily than my CS colleagues do in a week.
-I still have time to program in the evening. A lot of work I do is kind of "shallow", talking about tech instead of making it. At 6PM my brain is still capable of a few hours of programming. When I get maybe get a good 4, 5 hours of coding out of my brain per day. I used to use these ours at my job, now I use these hours building my own thing with a few friends
Sure, but not all houses are built for "you" to live in perpetually.

You build a house according to the minimal requirements of your local codes/norms.

If you next year go to another city you may either sell the house or rent it (at average market value).

You build a "passive house".

If you next year go to another city you may either sell the house or rent it.

Do you believe you can easily get 30% more rent or sale price because it is passive?
I looked at his employer's job openings. Lost me at "online personality assessment".
Come on, the alternative to taxpayers subsidising artists isn't that artists face a choice between death or revolt. It's that artists get a different source of income (which may require stopping being an artist).
I did a consulting stint in the CNCF and cloud native space for a while(5 yrs). My company was aquired and things really started to be about butts in seats and being billable all the time.

I had a manager I could reach out to but I maybe talked with them once or twice a year. While being able to continue personal development sounds nice on paper, and believe me, the company touted training time and ability to disconnect from customers, I never found the chance to pursue those goals. It was all about being onsite with the customer to bring in those $$ as billable time.

I loved my customers and consider many good friends to this day. However, the toil continued to burn in, not to mention the 100% travel; my personal life began to take a hit.

I got out of consulting and work as an engineer now. It was a valuable experience, and I worked with some really cool customers. But my personal life comes first and I now expect a certain level of support from my workplace now.

I do miss the network I made as a consultant, and a certain amount of travel is nice. Being able to drive innovation through digital transformation in a 60+ yr old organization leaves a good feeling of purpose. I wish there was some sort of happpy medium.
The fact that China has a couple cities of several million on lockdown right now and still seeing rising cases is pretty much proof it didn’t work?
He gets paid millions per quarter to deal with issues like this and to stop them from happening which he is not doing.

If he wasn't an executive he would have been fired a long time ago.
Do like I (and the author of the article seems to do) do:

Work for a consulting company.

Company have sales, accounting and a lawyer.

I have all the benefits described in the article.
Long time ago I was debugging an application and realised MySQL would let me put anything in a column that was supposed to be numeric. It didn't even check the length constraint.
Moving insulation outside the frame also helps reduce the effect of thermal bridging although with timber that's not so important as it is with steel.
> There is no other conceivable reason why someone would not want people to have at least the option of taking custody over their own money

You're attacking a straw man here. The author doesn't argue for eliminating the blockchain or crypto assets.

His thesis is that blockchain hasn't gained significant traction (for anything other than speculation, especially as people panic about USD inflation) because people don't want to decentralize trust. They inherently like institutions and want institutions they can trust.

> in a form more useful than physical cash

Literally the whole point of the article is to argue that Bitcoin (and other crypto "currency") is less useful than cash and less appealing to consumers. He is also arguing that this is inherent to the technology itself and will never change.

Nothing is ever going to replace fiat if it's deflationary, and no one is going to "invest" (i.e. buy and keep) a digital fiat replacement unless it's deflationary. It's a catch-22 that digital assets can't solve.
Heh. I came here to say this.
So, some of it may be an assumption that:

- Some beneficiaries would otherwise be on jobseekers' allowance (208 eur/week)

- Many beneficiaries would not be full-time, and might be mixing this with a part-time job

- Many beneficiaries will drop out of the programme and get a normal job
https://theconversation.com/your-unvaccinated-friend-is-roug...

Research from Australia suggests otherwise. 20x.
Damn. This was very poetic. Great response. True diplomat.
Some points to consider:

- ebola is transmitted via physical contact (with bodily fluids), not vapour in the air

- ebola tends to be contagious only once symptoms appear, not for several days before

Those two points alone make the two completely incomparable in terms of containment.
That's basically the argument I use for masking. The severity of infection appears to be correlated with initial viral load. It seems unlikely that I'll be able to avoid getting COVID, but when I do get it, I want it to be as light as possible.
No one closed their borders as China did. And afaik no one closed their borders when we knew it escaped but just days & weeks later. Europe never really closed any borders for business travel and good transport, etc.

I don't think we can compare any measures against China.
we've steadily moved away from serfdom under centralized government and banking for centuries.

yet suddenly because of the actions of a couple private companies, we're going to suddenly go back to serfdom? This makes no sense.

it's impossible to go back to serfdom - the economy is too large and diverse and people are too literate.

sorry, but this is just a doomer fantasy at best
Number 1 annoyed me most when I was in consulting and was one of the main reasons I quit. You can always give recommendations but have no leverage whatsoever if all advise is ignored and the work you did for months just lands in some archive. And even if that's clear from the start (and the work is just to tick some boxes), you might not be able to afford to lose that client by refusing the work. Working for months knowing that the output will be looked at once and discarded was too frustrating to me, no matter the perks and other advantages the job had.

All of that can happen as an employee, but usually you have some leverage via management or your internal network to either get results into action or stop projects if it's clear they don't make sense (one of the reasons they're then given to consultants instead if management insists they're done).
I did not hear a single consultant telling me how great it is to be one, when a collective announcement by the director was made that due to financial problems not a single consultant contract would be extended this year. This would help the company to get into financial stability again, and would prevent to fire anyone in the company.

I'm happy I'm not a consultant. I value job security, and therefore a financially secure life, over any of the benefits this consultant has.
AAA development slog like what is apparently happening with D4 rarely bodes well for fun. Dev work apparently began in 2014 and it's not likely to be released until 2023 at the earliest.
Considering how easy the workaround for Ordering by NULLS LAST is (asking for ordered non-null values, then for null values) I wonder why postgres doesn't do that optimization internally. At first glance it seems like you could trivially rewrite any ORDER BY x NULLS LAST query that can't use an index into two queries that can use the index, and then UNION them together.

Maybe one of these things that are so easy to work around that nobody has prioritized fixing them.
> but there's no incentive to do the hard work to correct mistakes if your paper is already on arxiv and people are already citing it

Peer reviewing is essential, of course. But note that in most journals reviewers are not getting paid. They have even less incentives to find mistakes in your work than you are. I have no idea how such an utterly broken system emerged, where journals siphon billions of tax money exploiting the work of scientists.
I've done both sides of the coin as well and Ian's points definitely resonate. There are downsides (IMO) though :-

1. Pressure to do things quickly, which you may not fully understand. Consultancy sales don't always sell entirely realistic things, and being asked to deliver what they sold can be .... stressful.

2. If you're a one-person band, you're not just a consultant, you're sales+marketing+accountancy+delivery.

3. You often don't get to see how things develop in the longer term. This was partly down to the industry I was in (pentesting) but holds true for a lot of consultancy
> CO2 levels inside a building can have a stimulating effect on the body, which kind of destroys the purpose of a relaxation of a home

Citation really needed.
China lockdown did nothing as is made entirely apparent by how they reopened their country and never had to lock down again. Lockdowns don't give immunity so obviously they either have bad reporting or they acquired immunity naturally.

Just watch some videos of china's reopening parties. There were raves and celebrations with hundreds sometimes thousands of people packed indoors in close quarters. Covid doesn't care how strict you were a month ago.
The only redeeming feature for me is that the scope is so limited... to some number of artists... because an unbounded program would just be an incentive for all unemployed people to lie about being artists... By limiting the numbers means you have to have a crtierion whereby people are accepted. Another program I like is apparently India pays chess. grand masters a bit of a living stipend so they can focus on their chess? I think such things can be better uses of money than the typical wasteful expenditure of government programs... in this case the money goes to people most likely to use it in good ways or people who have shown merit. To become a chess GM is exceptional. Just like being a serious artist as a lifestyle.
a) Never said they would
b) Same question as before, how is it more dystopian than what we have now?