skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You don't seem to get it

No, you are only describing a part of what borrowing is about. Your use case is valid, but it is just one of many use cases. Consider the following:

I own a a long-term retirement account, but I need to pay an emergency medical bill and don't have cash at hand. Obviously I don't want to liquidate my savings account, but I can put it up as collateral to go to a bank and get a cash loan. If I'm unable to pay the account may be liquidated. That's an overcolleralized loan. It's useful. The same is happening when you put up your house as collateral, or arguably even your reputation.

The blockchain equivalent of this is the same. You put up one asset as collateral e.g. Bitcoin, and you can get another more liquid asset.

Another use case for this is simply market exposure and hedging. You can put up Bitcoin as collateral, still having exposure, and then use the loan to buy another asset to get exposure to, creating a more complex structured exposure. This has nothing to do with blockchain, it's the same in traditional finance.
OTOH, I got a nail right through one of my Schwalbe Marathons at ~1500km.
I guess I never noticed his because I never zoom or pan notebooks or change the canvas size? I just treat it as a notebook with a page the size of screen. Panning and zooming is something to be avoided on eInk IMO. I didn't even notice the canvas size option. I haven't had any palm zooms or pans just the occasional taps of the back button and I think that has more to do with the fact I'm left handed.

Stroke eraser also works fine. Touch a stroke and the stroke erases. A stroke is 1 line drawn continously, if you lift the pen the stroke ends. Works exactly how I'd expect. It also has a regular eraser and an area eraser that also work fine? Trying Squid for the first time in years I'm not sure what the fuck they are calling a stroke eraser there. I even double checked and it's just as retarded on an LCD tablet. Why would I want a stroke eraser to erase more than the 1 stroke it touched?

I've taken a lot of class notes on the thing and my Note Air and really other than the occasional accidental back outs haven't had the problems you describe. I don't even turn off touch. Besides the bad text recognition I think the Boox Note app works well.
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Ah c'mon that's cheating!

Real Programmers start with Steele and Sussman's Design of a LISP-based microprocessor, and hit the FPGAs before they so much as write 'cons'!
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This.

For whatever reason (personality, genes, whatever), I do not seem to be one who gets caught up in the envy of greener grass.

https://writingexplained.org/idiom-dictionary/grass-is-alway...

I've spent a large part of my life as a high end specialist, consulting, and thus, have had incredibly encompassing exposure to a huge variety of companies.

Whether non-profits, government departments, or corps, it's humans which cause the often ineffectual result, of our loving attempts to being order, and stability to our labourious output.

People are the same everywhere, and thus, so your endeavours will be.

The grass is not greener on the other side.

So what I would say is:

* if you strike out on your own, you can at least move on past things which bore you

* you need true financial independence to achieve this, to become a relaxed garage tinkerer of tech

* right now, we are at a moment of golden opportunity. The markets are down. This is where you buy in. The returns are buying in these times, not in time of feast.

So... maybe this is a good time to reassess. Invest. And plan to retire once you profit?
I started learning Russian when the pandemic started, and I found it to be more concise than the other languages I'm familiar with.

Many phrases omit the verb, the case system precludes the need for connecting words, and also many little words are two or more words in other languages (туда - to there, сюда - to here, etc).
Though this page doesn’t seem to mention it, the Glasgow Haskell Compiler still uses Cmm as its backend [0]. (Cmm is a close relative of C--, though I’m not sure exactly what the differences are.) In fact, if you pass -ddump-cmm to GHC (or any other one of the -ddump-cmm-* options, [1]) you should be able to see the Cmm code output for any given Haskell program. Alas, it doesn’t seem to work in the REPL, though at least -ddump-simpl (dumping the Core intermediate language) does.

[0] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/commentary/rts/cm...

[1] https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/latest/docs/html/users_gui...
But it's not just for the sake of not rolling 7, it's about avoiding only that number to improve Catan. If you can't roll any odd number in the first few rounds, tiles with those number become way less valuable, which changes where you want to place your villages, which affects the entire game.
It is worse than just sensitivity to different fonts, it ends up being sensitive to totally incidental details of the glyphs. In a Latin script, all the letters carry as much information. But this metric would treat a lowercase i as much more efficient than a capital W.
At least in the US, they're generally limited to salaries on the "general schedule", and management gets paid more than technical people, because "it wouldn't be fair" to have subordinates that make more than you. So there's a built-in glass ceiling for tech careers. https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries...
Yes, GHC still uses Cmm as its backend: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/commentary/rts/cm...
Given the original meetings were all about producing a dynamic simulation dashboard which would allow people and politicians to understand the impact of various measures on lives saved...

Typical this turned into a pro cloud puff piece that frankly shows a serious amount of over design for what should be a data filtering/processing step to any reasonable "data scientist". And if I'm having to say a data scientist could do it better you know you got it wrong...
Luckily these days, this type of product is completely obsolete thanks to oauth and a central id provider.

Now the standard question to ask before buying any tool is. Do you support single sign on or do we need $complicatedprovisioningtool from your friends across the street? Ok. Bye.

Oauth isn’t perfect either, especially when it comes to propagating changes to a user. But it sure is a lot better than all these unique identity management tools doing even bigger mistakes over the rest api.
Is being rich a “negative” thing now?

It’s just a completely worthless observation, take the pointless virtue signaling somewhere else.
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There are lots of solutions already, but most solutions have too many ads or they process on server(privacy concern).

Webutils convert all images on client using webassembly.
It's interesting, but flawed. Pixels don't matter, the cardinality of the set of characters does.

You could replace every kanji with a minimal visual entropy version and make a "more efficient" language by the pixel complexity metric. Sure, it'd be hard to read.

Information theory applied to linguistics is pretty well trodden ground. Some of the earliest applications of information theory was answering questions like this correctly.

Importantly, languages do not evolve to be "maximally efficient" in the bits per second sense. They evolved to be maximally effective. You'll find that the difference between entropy and word length (written or spoken) is almost entirely spent on channel coding. When you lose characters, or parts of characters, or words, or phonemes, the meaning can be recovered. If you were running at entropy a lost character would make the entire message nonsense.

Edit: the same goes for visual entropy too. The "most efficient" language is the one I just made up: where the language with the largest cardinality of words (I'll pick Kanji) has each character mapped to a unique bitmap of noise. Easier to just leave the characters as they are and let the computer do that part ;)
Very cool. In what language did you write it to produce wasm bytecode?
This is unique as a single page guide to Rust.

It reads like a diff, and is very effective, I'd say, for any programmer.
The 7s can be replaced with 0s to fill in some of the gaps and allow for odd number rolls.
This is an excellent amount of statements lacking either facts or data. I’m also curious why:

> Soros-funded

Is even relevant? You mentioned it twice as though it changes any elements of your argument.
Yeah, no denying other factors but repairing that electron microscope is no walk in the park and it prob enables others to do it even cheaper given the walkthrough style tutorial. I'm just replying to a pretty flippant characterisation (see top comment) and not ignorant about other issues relating to circumstances and location like you mention.
Congratulations, you just made the distinction between synthetic and analytical languages.
According to marcan’s Twitter, Apple actually broke the ARM spec in ways most companies are literally not allowed to do. Part of the deal is likely that Apple was not allowed to call their chips ARM.
Everyone made mistakes immediately before WW2. Some in the West even liked Hitler. Stalin sought support from the West and was denied; partially the reason for the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. The British also made mistakes, and let's not forget the French.

None of this detracts from the fact the Soviet Union was ome of the biggest victims in WW2 and that they were traumatized by this.
> people and monsters

monsters?
>I think you mean Opportunity cost?

No, I'd say the gp is talking more about "hidden TCO" (Total Cost of Ownership).

Opportunity Cost is about finite time which forces the choice of one action to come at the expense of other alternative actions.

Hidden TCO is being ignorant of auxiliary costs of the base products (accessories, maintenance, etc.) An extreme example of that is a "free puppy" can become one of the most expensive items to own especially when you're uneducated about the true TCO of dogs. I.e. In addition to obvious vet bills, going on a vacation now means you have to pay for a dog sitter which you didn't initially account for. Owning recreational boats is another example of hidden TCO.
If you want to show a senior level of understanding coding discussions, please understand that you always should write with a scientific mindset.

This means: not only say "x is good" or "x is bad" without explanation like a little child - but also deliver the source of your knowledge or the proof.

Then your contributions will be seen as mature additions to collective wisdom.
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or there's http://www.imagemagick.org/
> flood them in winter so the neighborhood kids could skate on them. Imagine doing that in the current litigation-heavy climate.

Plenty of folks still set up neighborhood rinks just like this here in New England!
I would guess the market would be pretty fragmented, with only so much demand for each chip. Right now, for example, some people buy FPGA based replacements for Commodore 64 "SID" chips, because the originals do fail. Some amount of purists might prefer a "real" chip. But how many? There are also simpler chips in this space that are in demand. Old Kaypros have a couple of custom gate array chips that are hard to replicate, for example.

Or maybe the retro chip synthesizer crowd would buy a product, but again...how many?
The government was tracking key health metrics and sharing them at the point Dom was talking about using his iPhone. For instance on the same date, the government did it's first daily briefing and shared infection and death metrics with the public (see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51901818).

Tracking key health metrics and sharing those metrics with the public doesn't mean that there is modelling about the extent to which infections would spread - although we also know that the imperial modelling was released a day later, so while he may have been using his iPhone to make predictions there were also academic teams modelling this that were collaborating with the government at the time (see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/196234/covid-19-imperial-res...).

It's also not clear what a 'data system' is in this context - there was clearly an effort to very quickly put something in place to capture data (because it couldn't wait a few weeks/months), but a more robust analytics system will inevitably take more than a few weeks to put in place if not already in place pre-pandemic (a lot of this is about how NHS trusts are structured in the UK, which operate fairly independently). It's not clear to me how quickly is realistic to implement what Dom thought was suitable in terms of a 'data system', particularly as I'm not particularly clear on his requirements (he seems to want an element of forecasting built into this system for instance?), so without knowing what the requirements are can we be confident that what he wanted to build was possible to build, test and implement in his expected timeline?

So I don't think there is a clear contradiction here (and in fact, I think the evidence points to the fact that the statement in the article is probably correct).
I am quite confident that almost nobody could have blazed this trail, even with the same support network. The resilience, ingenuity and practical skill required is outrageous.
Yes but Cummings deliberately asked questions which are fundamentally unknowable and went with report9 which claimed to be all knowing...

> "and to share those metrics with the public"
Given stats on how many patients were in ICU didn't officially exist so you couldnt request them with an FOI request I'll let you work out how true this is.
They wanted to control the data to craft a narrative to justify the report9 claims we'd have plague bodies in the streets because this is the end of days...
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The word lists are in the Javascript for the page.
What funny is that if you rent a car once a month for $150, people will say something like "WOW, THAT'S SO EXPENSIVE, YOU SHOULD BUY A CAR INSTEAD". Except that insurances alone on a car would cost me $150 per month.

People prefer owning and bleeding money where the cost gets spread over time than to pay a smaller amount in lump sums when they need the service.
Ranch is a wonderful library. Also, since I'm self learning erlang and elixir and don't have senior level colleagues for feedback, i learned a bunch about erlang program design reading this developers code.

Now that I'm thinking about reading erlang code, i just realized that erlang is a remarkabky easy language to read because of common system design principles governed by the otp standard. And what a treat that is, since the code i write id prefer to be optimized for the read-path. After all, code is written once and read many.
I've followed this project for a while. And while it truly is an impressive feat, I just wonder how did he afford all this equipment.

I'm 24 and a physics PhD student, and just afforded my first soldering iron. I lack the space, let alone the equipment to attempt anything close to this.

What a lucky, talented guy!
Not necessarily. One of the problems with high density is how to handle peak loads, like for rush hour.

There's a limit to how many people can be on a metro, grocery store, etc. There's also a hard limit on how much you can scale the infrastructure before residents start choosing transportation options, that make the issue worse (like cars).

The infrastructure also have to support a significant increase in garbage creation and resupplies for stores. If one of the main traffic arteries are blocked, the spillover to alternative routes might exceed the capacity and create delays, which are incredibly expensive.

A lower density neighborhood, might not use the infrastructure as close to its maximum capacity on a day to day basis, but that creates redundancy for when a road is closed for maintenance and significantly lowers the risk of expensive delays.

As with everything, there's several trade-offs between the options, and I think it's hard to give a definitive answer on what has the lowest emission, etc in a cradle to grave analysis. My personal preference is to take all such estimates with a significant "milage may vary" disclaimer
Planes don't fly that fast. The body of the aircraft would tend to shield the signals though.
I'm curious how human multiplayer works with webassembly. I assume it uses websockets, but how does the code hook into it? How does the original code compile?
Why having steak instead of slow cooked meats then?
You eyeball the statements? Thats 100% unreliable, I'll just wait for your sugar to go down while you do that.

Migration that is not automatic is not an option.
Fixed to politicians. Freudian slip and a half there...
This doesn't just apply to new technology but also social/political/economic ideas too. I would have liked to see levels beyond 5 (i.e. the part where reality catches back up, the hype collapses, the backlash starts, etc)
Not sure how you can say that.

int a[4];
a[2]=2;
a[6]=3;

"Ignore the situation": emit the code the code for a[6]=3; in the same way you emitted the code for a[2]=2. You've ignored the fact that this is UB.

"Assume the situation cannot occur": don't know, but according to the UB extremists the compiler can now do anything it wants to do, including not emitting any code for this fragment at all (which appears to happen) or formatting your hard disk (which doesn't, last I checked).

Assuming that a[6]=3 does not occur, despite the fact that it is written right there, would also allow putting a into registers, which "ignoring the situation" would not.
My list would be, in order of precedence:

* Objective

* Analytical

* Humble

* Focused

People who qualify according to that list are perceived as more intelligent irrespective of actual intelligence confirming selective biases from others.
Yes, Imagemagick is great and I love it.

But most people are not comfortable using CLI or someone may just not want to install it for one off conversion. Also webapp works on smartphones, tablets or anything with browser, while Imagemagick does not.

Imagemagick is ofcourse lot more feature rich and fast. If anyone is already comfortable using Imagemagick, webapp is not for them.
Yeah, IAM software suck quite a lot. The bigger the company, the worst it is.
I speak both a 'most efficient' language (Arabic) and a 'least efficient' (Malay).

My take ia that while Arabic is a very concise language, the learning curve is really steep. Verbs has to be conjugated to accommodate pronouns as well as tense. So in order to say 'I ate', the root word akala has to be conjugated to akaltu. Sometimes the conjugation becomes so complex that it hardly looks like its root word.

Malay meanwhile, while seemingly less efficient, is much more straight forward. There is no need to conjugate verbs. Instead to say 'I ate', you say saya (I) sudah (already) makan (eat). It's very accessible to beginners.

I think it's also interesting to see how complex a language can get in order to become efficient. Like can you combine more than pronouns and tenses in a single word to make it more efficient.
An equivalent size droplet of molten steel wouldn't take your hand off, unless the burn gets infected later.

Also, molten steel radiates IR and glows obviously, so you can usually tell when it's about, and doesn't stay molten and remain a silent, persistent danger.
The key to running Wordpress securely is usually to set the file permissions correctly and protect all admin routes. Basically, don’t expose any write endpoints to the internet.

And the easiest way is to use as few third party plugins/themes as possible.

Base Wordpress is pretty secure if you put the admin panel behind a VPN and don’t install any plugins.
> e.g. filter/map means that 1 line of Scala/Swift/Rust/Java etc code = 10 of Go.

Honestly, fuck this noise. I hope this never makes its way to Go. Densely packing logic is not inherently better. I've done enough Scala/Rust/Java reviews and those are frustrating and tiresome.
> Firstly, I find it pretty surprising that the author would want to remove the drivetrain.

The Author is arguing for replacing the chain with power wires, by generating power from pedaling and feeding it into the motor (with efficiency losses of 5%). So the power split from "human" power vs. battery power will barely change, with the benefit of less mechanical parts. It would thus also work just like a conventional E-Bike when the battery is empty (with 5% less efficiency).

> The second idea in the article which made me double-take is the idea of removing direct mechanical brakes from the bike

Many E-Scooters already use an electrical break (in addition to a mechanical one on the rear wheel), like the Ninebot E22. In my experience, I had less issues with using the front motor to break than many mechanical breaks on my previous bikes even though the communication seems kinda iffy (a bidirectional UART).

I wouldn't want to remove all mechanical breaks, but replacing the one on the rear wheel with an electric, primary one seems like a good idea.
Fascinating story that highlights the issues with privatised transport systems (or worse: mixed private/public). Reminds me of the clusterfuck that is the British rail network.

That said, the Northern and Central tube lines (London) are often crowded/hellish like this and are public, I dread to think how awful the tube would become if privatised!
Total Comp here, but in the subcontinent it also stands for something vulgar, so clarification or avoiding it is probably best.
> in his parents' garage

Yeah, sure thing.
But frankly we're very similar in this regard, and given we might get dropped from H24 we're not in a good position tech or science wise heading into a recovery...

We'll no doubt award yet more govt projects to the tech oligarchs of the west and praise students for using their toys...
I hate my job. I stick with it because it seems that nothing better exists. All the other job postings seem terrible. One thing I will do is post to other positions internally. Sometimes just being on a new team will give you a very brief period of hope that the work or tech is interesting, or that the political environment is more friendly. Sadly, this fades quickly. Every team I've been on violates company performance management policies.
Simulation is much appreciated, even if I would use a different method (but I didn’t have the time, so I’ll accept yours)

We do not have efficacy data from 20 countries. E.g. israeli data which I am intimately familiar with is incredibly biased to show vaccine efficiency. Official data touted based on observational data showed 95% efficiency, while at the same time airport data which is the only place with unbiased testing showed about 60%.

(That data is biased by demographics, but not by sampling).

As you said, there’s no statistically significant RCT data showing vaccines are dangerous, but also no RCT data showing they are effective in preventing severe disease. Statistical significance cuts both ways.
Economists don't believe in their own theories. I see people simply declare the market free when it is clear that it is not or people claim Says Law is infallible when it actually can be used to predict the exact opposite of what it is usually lazily abused for.

For example people use says law to argue saving does not create unemployment but says law can also be interpreted as saving is impossible over the long run and therefore unemployment shouldn't happen either.
The marathon plus's are quite a bit more durable IME. And my sister and brother in law literally cycled fron UK -> singapore without a single puncture between them.
this doesn't make sense to me, wasm is running inside a javascript runtime, so it is already ten thousand feet above the hardware, right? Now we want to run another layer on top of that, what could possibly go wrong?