skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly I think it is hard job to get an accurate reporting giving the scale of the problem. We are talking about a single digit accuracy at the scale of 10k+. Even in H1N1 outbreaks, the medical visits and death tolls in the US was estimated with a wide band. That being said, the death of un-confirmed patients could be intentionally ignored to make the problem look not so big. But this is not a unique thing to authoritarian governments.
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> Actually it ends up being my problem. I don't want multiple versions of the same thing.

Then don't make AMP, mobile-optimized web pages, RSS, Apple News, Facebook Instant Articles, etc.

If you want wide distribution, you have to support multiple formats. At least AMP, like RSS and mobile-optimized pages, is open, meaning that anybody can (and many link aggregators do) consume it.
I don't know if this counts as low enough tech, but I disabled the equivalent of "auto advance to next episode" on my Netflix and Prime Video subscriptions.

This means that watching the next episode of a show has to be a conscious choice on my part as opposed to the inertia of just letting it happen. Just the small added friction of having to hunt down the remote control and hit "Play" gives me a few seconds to (albeit involuntarily) reflect on whether I really need to watch the next episode, or if I could really be doing other hobbies / chores around the flat.

The result has been a notable decrease in binge-watching, a cleaner and more organised home, more/better sleep, and the subsequent improved health that follows the aforesaid.
You're re missing the point. Look at the map, the blue region is the extent in 100 years.

What do you think happens in that 100 years? I assume this would be a near linear progression. That means current waterfront has about 10-20 years, not 100.
Yeah. That alone would keep me from applying.
Software dev, and many if most jobs these days, are not labourers.

A labourer is someone with no special skill or trade. Stacking shelves is a labourer job: the only requirement is physical strength.

Software devs are generally highly skilled professionals like perhaps lawyers.
In fairness, the programmers you are talking about are not (laborers). They would own non trivial amounts of stock making them members of the capital class. Yes, they do work, but so do lots of members of the capital class.

A programmer who is not also a landlord, nor a member of the capital class, is very unlikely to have more, or even as much, wealth as a typical landlord in their area. A pure laborer is pretty much at the bottom of the wealth pyramid. That can change if you pay the laborer enough to start buying real estate in their area for example. But that would turn those laborers into landlords.
I still love groovy, it doesn’t need to evolve that much to be useful for the things it’s good at, like parsing unstructured data and making boilerplate free pojos.
I bought this inexpensive one from amazon and my life has never been the same. Once you go bidet there's no going back.

https://www.amazon.com/Astor-Non-Electric-Mechanical-Attachm...
Google is the Valve of the internet space.

Like Valve they have created products that took over the whole space.

They have a tendency to completely drop things when they don't pick up traction early enough. (artifact, everything Google)

There used to be a Halo around both companies in the 2000s, that was slowly eroded in the 2010s.

They suck at communicating.

They create good products that never see the light of day again (Portal, l4D,Half Life) because their main product (steam, ads) makes so much more money.

________

GCP has the same problem as Artifact, where Google bull headedly tries to enter a different type of product/business model (b2b, instead of b2c) without adopting any of the cultural must-haves of a b2c company. (customer before product, service, reliability over speed)

Tensorflowv2 is failing due to a similar kind of stubbornness.

_______________

The scary thing is, if Google manages to pull off the culture change (unlikely), I can see them sweeping both AWS and Azure in the cloud space.
I work hard to make sure that all of my Javascript is also valid Typescript.
The advice that I was given when I temporarily took a team lead position is to overcommunicate everything. Build good relationships with the people you report to and your peers and (hopefully) you can lean on them and ask questions as you learn and adapt to this new role
I don't think Scala is a good comparison. Due to the fact that it has a large surface area and there is a lot of magic in places, it's harder to learn than Kotlin. Also, Scala suffers from C++ syndrome, where a team of developers that all nominally know the same language can actually know somewhat incompatible subsets of it.

I think the Typescript/Javascript comparison is more apt, and at this point I'm pretty sure that Typescript will win.
Conversely, it's a convenient tool for obfuscation. You can trigger plausible false positives all over, while also making sure that there's nothing of immediate use with binwalk left.
What science gets wrong about free will
> "...etching a full-color photograph of a family into the refrigerator door; or proposing with a gold engagement ring that matches the color of your fiancee’s blue eyes."

Yeah... they should have stopped at car colors.
A proactive approach to e-scooter safety
Great absolute clarity on what is expected of you by your manager. Tech lead roles have a mix of manager-light bits and your manager may have very specific ideas as to what the role ‘looks like’ or ‘feels like’. You need that info to succeed.
That's Interesting!. I didn't thought it that way

What I had in mind is this:

Server stores H(H(pw || bFixedPub) || bFixedPriv) , bFixedPub , bFixedPriv
Server sends bFixedPub
Client sends H(pw || bFixedPub)

bFixedPub and bFixedPriv are unique per password.
I like how they reference this post alongside their Reddit posts but as of now it's just people commenting saying the author has it wrong. Awkward.
I'd say reading books and spending time with friends and family are the main low tech that shouldn't be replaced by the digital version.

The other big thing is taking time off from smartphones.

I haven't written more than maybe a page a month on paper in years, I never buy incandescent bulbs, I don't want a film camera or a record player. There's very few appliances I wouldn't chose the smart version of.

But nothing is going to replace planting things in the garden, lighting a campfire, or reading a book(Although e readers are just fine now).

In general, I'm not a fan of low tech. Man-made items done without silicon tend to be heavy, delicate, and hard to use compared to the digital ones, and things made of modern materials.

Things that actively involve living beings very closely, like clothes and food, are sometimes but not always better off low tech.

Things that are, or should be be, mostly hands off, like the insulation material in a house, the network stack in a computer, or a power plant, should usually be as high tech as possible.
For me it really depends on what I do want to do from my notes.
Usually, if my notes are personal, if i do not want to read it later (ex: taking notes to stay focus), if my notes have to be avaliable anytime or if it's more convinient, i take my notes on paper.
On my computer, I only take notes for "serious" texts I want to write.
There is no easy way to mix text and drawings on computer, it's always longer than going with pen&paper.
Do you cut meat? Vegetables?
More like less-tech but my phone is on permanent-silent mode. I miss calls, but see exactly who called and can return the call or text as needed.
It's particularly interesting to look at the mobility statistics of asian americans (many of whom are also immigrants) as a category: http://www.equality-of-opportunity.org/assets/documents/race....

If you look at table 1 on page 56, you can see that for white americans, the probability of a child ending up in the top quantile of income where a parent is in the bottom quantile of income is 11% (about half the probability one would except of there was zero correlation between child and parent incomes). For Asian Americans its almost 27%. A white child born in the bottom quantile is about 2.5 times more likely to stay in the bottom quantile (28%) than to rise to the top quantile (12%). An asian child born in the bottom quantile is about 1.5 times more likely to rise to the top quantile (27%) than to stay in the bottom quantile (12%).
Lol, OK dude. Rabiner is still a classic and useful textbook on this topic, and it was published in 1978.
I use a typewriter and write letters. It's distraction free and produces a hard copy. I use a cast iron pan daily and use a French Press/Aeropress to make my coffee. I use candles for soothing light.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. This sounds like someone who did not know how to use AWS and trying to treat an EC2 virt like an email server circa 1998. Can someone explain why anyone would want to do a setup like described in the article?
Common with Korean food!
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I’m surprised this doesn’t violate HIPPA or CCPA.

Every time you visit the doctor, the hospital tells experian (by querying the experian system) and then experian resells this information for profit.
I'm a fan of Hayek on this - I believe the market is one of the most incredible things every created by humanity, phenomenally complex and information rich, and it stands to reason that there is no way a group of people can ever hope to come close to the market's capability of communicating information about desires from people to producers.

And the best practical evidence we have is that every significant attempt at communism has produced dreadful outcomes, up to and including actual genocide. Communism can only work when every country in the world is Communist, because otherwise people will always want to leave for the Capitalist country where things are better. Draw your own conclusions about where highly visible activists really want to take the world.
To be fair, it seems Memorystore instance is not the same gb-for-gb as Elasticache, since Memorystore gives you extra memory overhead, and on aws you have to manage it yourself. Memorystore also has free network egress/ingress. There is also a RedisLabs offering on Google Cloud with integrated billing.

Disclaimer: I work at Google Cloud.
That's super situational and really depends on the keyword you rank on. Can't give you the numbers, but yeah, the high CPC keywords are usually the bread-winners.
A trip to Japan will change a man. Suddenly you realize how barbaric toilet paper is.
Again,

When I introduce Mr. X to an audience, I may choose a distinguishing characteristic.

To claim that the 'distinguishing' or 'characteristic', or 'essential character' of Shah of Iran was "tyranny" or "brutality" is egregious. Historical facts simply do not reflect that.
John Adams said something similar, though he meant it in the opposite way: "I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain."

Relatedly, Michael Hopf: "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times."
I’m just waiting for experion to get hacked again and all this info to be public.
There are around ~700 programming languages in the world
When Dorothy Parker got fired from Vanity Fair
Who brought me here?! And why :)
I mean sure that's better, but now Apple is tracking you instead and you got ripped off $340 for it
I strongly suspect Instagram has enough data, in the posts/photos, to distinguish each separate install. And thus also, enough data to profile each "sub-persona" separately, if they wanted to, or otherwise limit the behavior if they didn't like it. (And their logs are probably extensive enough for them to do this retrospectively.)

So this is an interesting social behavior – perhaps a hint to new potential features/apps? – but probably not an actual escape from "Instagram tracking" via a "flood" of "random data", as the author/presenter has spun it.
> Your choices are to keep the OAR as 4:3 so that you have ~240 pixels of pillar bars on the left and right of the image (for HD), or crop into the image to make it full frame.

That's not true. You could keep the original aspect ratio and simply let the player decide. That way you aren't removing any information, and you aren't encoding redundant black bars into the video.

The YouTube player is perfectly capable of filling all available space it is given.
Invest in a pair of proper kitchen shears, particularly curved ones. Those are very helpful in dealing with animal bones (both de-boning, as in removing the bone from a chicken thigh, or cutting through bone, like cutting out the back bone from a chicken so that it can be spatchcocked).
"Private hospitals are now consulting a secret medical credit score from Experian before you even see a doctor. As a patient you do not have access to this score, nor can you see how it is generated. All you know is that you may be denied care, or receive different care, because of it."

Could we classify 'not being able to afford, either time wise, emotional labor wise, or money wise, to deal with the messed up medical billing system' as a pre-existing condition?
Hello! I did a Show HN recently as I wrote a book on exactly this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22033129

There's a lot of interesting discussion on that thread that might be useful to you as well.
Can we call it a cartel market instead of private markets?

The various healthcare leaders use their wealth to strengthen their position through laws.

Most sectors cannot operate like US medical, they are their own beast.
As they say, the first step is recognizing that you have a problem. It's wonderfully adult of you to consider it. The cool thing is that you're going to find out that not only do you have this problem, you likely have more than just these issues. Because you've opened up with yourself, you have the awesome opportunity to be a lot better person.

Personally, I have issue with being myopic (focus to easily on a singular task) and somewhat asperger/autistic (hard time recognizing emotional cues). Like you, I've had trouble with interacting with people.

The first thing I can suggest is finding a few people with whom you can confide your position, are supportive with wanting to see you be a better person, and willing to give you guidance. THEN TRUST THEM when they say you've done something not so well. If you're in a relationship, hopefully your SO will be willing to help. At work, maybe your boss or colleague will be willing to observe you and help you on your journey.

There are four stages of dealing with things:

* unconscious incompetent - You have a problem and don't know you have one.
* conscious incompetent - You recognize you have a problem, but don't know how to solve it.
* unconscious competent - You make an effort and happen to do better, but you're uncertain what it was that made a difference.
* conscious competent - You consistently do better because you know what to do in situations.

Notice that in the last one, I didn't say that you _understand_ why what you did makes a difference. If you truly are a narcissist, it means that the social aspects of your mind are weakly wired. I am that way, so even today I have trouble recognizing cues. But, I'm honest with people about it. My friends and colleagues know this about me. I tell them, "Just FYI, I have a hard time picking up cues. Please, just be very direct with me because I really want to help and see people are happy." My myopic natural can also be a feature: I'm willing to dig down into problems and really understand why something isn't working right. It doesn't bother me to laser focus on a difficult problem. Long ago I was taught that every personality trait can be positive or negative depending on how it is used. Learn how to be better and use what you can do for better things.

Finally, find a _good_ therapist. A good one will be interested in you and want to help you find out who you are and what you can be. A good one will ask a questions of you, but they will be questions you likely have never asked about yourself and should have answers.

You're on the right track.
> One thing to understand, from a meditative pov, society and its industry is unconscious Ego dynamics. Its full of projection, and mostly people playing out unresolved trauma.

Not sure about meditative pov's, sounds rather like psychoanalysis, but this simple model has a lot of truth behind it. However we should note not everyone is trapped in an immature emotional state. There's plenty of grown-ups and cooler heads out there too. Academia is a rather solitary field, people can avoid talking to each other most of the time if they want. So the immature can still thrive. And of course if they can keep it together till they get tenured, we're stuck with them. Industry is often different. If someone can't work well with others there is mounting pressure to get rid of them.

I don't know that a collective of engineers and software developers would behave quite so primitively. Defense lawyers, for example, try to keep them off juries because they are often impossible to sway out of their analytical opinions using emotional appeals.
Eclipse CLP (no relation to the IDE ;) has good built-in support and can also interface to many external solvers. It's open source.

https://eclipseclp.org/
2011 with a disabled AMD GPU as a daily driver here. CPU passmark at 6000 so why not with a SSD.
Check out SEO guides by Backlinko - some of the best stuff I've read.
It's odd that we've reached the point where this comment is the odd one out, despite being (I imagine) the way the that the vast majority of people live.
It’s content marketing all the way down…
It's not as low-tech as some of the examples here, but I'll say that an e-reader with Pocket sync functionality has dramatically improved my life.

Reading long form articles on an offline device with no incoming notifications, no games, no podcasts etc has been a great boon to my ability to focus and really dig into what I'm reading. Plus these days, getting any kind of screen-off time is valuable.
So, where do we buy our medical credit reports?
Google phones push you hard in their UI wizards to enable auto-unlock when on "known wifi" networks.
This seems counter to almost every CS hiring job talk I have attended.

The professors almost always seem to be receptive of people who lay down the basics for everyone in the room, and then systematically place their work using this newly situated academic landscape.

I mean, how is a databases professor supposed to understand a SOTA CNN, if they don't understand CNNs to begin with.

Maybe OP was simply stuck in the wrong (or right) kind of toxic workplace.
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Don't assume what motivated you as an engineer applies to others.
Not sure it qualifies as low enough tech but: a power socket with a timer. I would put my laundry in the washing machine and set the socket to turn on at 7:30. It would finish at about 9:00, I'd hang the laundry to dry then leave for work.
I hiked across the Alps, alone, on foot and camping in the wild for 3 months. I had no phone with me (no GPS) and just paper maps, and a pen to keep notes on paper. It was the best time I ever had my whole life. I thought I might get lonely but being in the flow of walking every day actually created some kind of an internal dialogue in my head which never made me feel lonely. I met others who were on a similar trail but they all looked and talked like they needed to achieve some kind of a "goal" by posting shit on Insta and none of them would do it without GPS. Since I didn't grow up with all that nonsense and have been using Tech since I turned 20 - I really appreciated being "bored" again after so many years of being distracted. Paper and pen (and your ability to walk) are all you really need. Tech is what makes things complex and as soon as you remove all of it is an empowering experience unlike nothing else.
Well that's terrifying
It happens. If they add older GA tracking code in other JS and don't try / catch it will throw an exception when GA is blocked.

When I find a site with this problem I go elsewhere.
Don’t post an explanation for why that account only comments on articles about China and tries to paint the CCP and Huawei in a favorable light? Don’t you think a real account would sometimes talk about something else?
Well this is why you disable the "Ok Google" / "Hey Google" hotword or "Listen for Hey Siri" or always listening features and congrats you are immune to this attack. Job done for your phones.

Perhaps a more interesting experiment would be to try this on Alexa, HomePods and Google Home devices.
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So absolutely happy to be Canadian.
That was my first thought—then I recalled, "no that was Equifax, wasn't it?"

Sadly, no. It's been all of them, including Experian. This seems flat-out mad to me.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/01/experian-ha...
Tubeless bike tires. Lower tire pressures improve comfort, reliability, and traction even on the roads.
You could always just blame QA
The best guides out there are the ones from HubSpot.
Not necessarily. Both Android and iOS allow voice assistants to interact with phones for certain activities even without unlocking the phones. Typical scenario: someone puts a phone on the table and does something else (typing on a computer), not paying attention to the screen.
Nope, that exact link has been posted 22 times on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.alchemistowl.org...
I just bought some, and found that delivery to Denmark was free (!).

(Or else their website was broken. It took 6 tries before my credit card was accepted, possibly because of the Øs in "København Ø".)
Can’t they just build it all in React? /s
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Oh my! I've wanted this for a while now. Which reader do you use?
I have tried and failed to follow the GTD philosophy many times. After a while, I too went with a simple checklist. I can indent that list with sub-tasks, but that's it.

Mark as checked if it's completed. Leave as it is if it's not and come back to it the next day. Kinda refreshing.
This might not be a good way to present yourself while job hunting because it does not express respect for other people. Good luck.
Stretch ~15 minutes a day. You don't need a special routine or a bunch of research. Stretch whatever is sore/stiff. If you can't think of anything start by touching your toes. Think of it as general maintenance on your joints. The effort compounds and starts to feel really good after a few months.
A few good resources for this. The different positions of "Technical Lead", "CTO", "Engineering Manager" all vary from company to company so I'm not sure what your new role will entail.

1. https://pragprog.com/book/jsengman/become-an-effective-softw..., which had a good conversation here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22033129).

2. https://managinghumans.com/ by Michael Lopes

3. https://leadingsnowflakes.com/, which also has a good weekly newsletter - http://softwareleadweekly.com/.

4. https://www.udemy.com/course/practical-leadership/

5. https://tomdemarco.com/Books/deadline.html - quite old now, but it's still hugely insightful.

May I wish you the best of luck. It's an exciting and really difficult challenge, but can be hugely rewarding in the end.
I suspect the hotel would attract conference groups focused on gaming and tech.
France, Denmark, Finland and Sweden all qualify for most American definitions of the term "Socialist".
The US has about twice as many homeless people per capita as Italy.
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