skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It would just make me more worn down and exhausted when I leave the office

Only if you're working harder. Generally when people talk about productivity-boosts they mean working smarter. That may mean stopping doing things that are just making things needlessly difficult.

The example in the article is a good one:

> I would write all my code for a new feature up front and then test all of the code collectively

Knowing that this is a bad approach is an important lesson - doing things that way creates frustration and wasted effort, and likely harms quality, with no upside.

Another example might be with organisation skill: if you're working in self-made chaos, it's more tiring, more frustrating, and it's less productive and harms quality.
> https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Roasting

> Roasted foods get drier and browned on the outside by initially exposing it to a high temperature. This keeps most of the moisture from being cooked out of the food.

This is scientifically wrong I believe.

This is a common problem with attempts at axioms of cooking online like cooking.stackexchange.com it just can't be crowd source using known methods. It's mostly incorrect information.

Solve this and you will allow a lot of great wikis happen, but most topics are stuck here.

Roughly Maths->Physics->Chemistry are ok, then it starts to fail Biology ->
> Are you actually trying to argue that smooth scrolling is hard, and specifically because of the display size?

What I'm arguing is that the problems have little to do with one another, and I'm guessing so do the means. That's like saying building a viaduct is easy because the pyramids exist.
As you say, someone else has already given Chevron that money. Buying Chevron shares from “some other gambler” does not give Chevron money.
Do you know of models of utilitarianism that maintain strict lines of cause and consequence?

What bothers me about some utilitarian perspectives is the lumping outcomes together of outcomes, based on vague definitions of benefit and harm, instead of keeping the effects strongly tied to their causes.

If you take that approach joining a company, you better know how much of the company money passes through you, and you better spend it very ethically and keep track of the development of the ethics of the company.

"Knowing a tree by its fruits" and all.

AFAICT it's the philosophical blind spot that got us parallel construction (an illegal US police practice), manufacturing evidence based on desired convictions, to reach a desired monetary, political or personal end.

There's also a New Age concept for it, it's called "spiritual bypass". "If only I'm spiritual enough, I can do whatever I want", or "if the Lord wanted my garden to bloom he'd water it, I did my part praying".

In psychological terms it's called "rationalization". I don't think it's an avoidable abuse as long as you don't do your own bookkeeping.
There are probably a dozen people looking into it right now - demand > supply = a good business, able to set price.

The vinyl record supply will be back to normal in no time.
Oh I blamed everyone, from USPS and the county level politicians - to the astrologists screwing around with the tz database... Also, and I hope this doesn't offend any surviving perl monks, having only perl at my disposal made it that much more unpleasant. I never touched perl after that project wound down, but I do wonder to what degree that experience influenced my subsequent shift to porting AIX software...
Indiana was certainly involved. I'm sure I've got a copy of a backup of a copy that would contain those old scripts, but I'm no joke starting to get a little upset just thinking about how much time was needlessly wasted on such a stupid problem.
>The mortality rate of 2%

As a reminder, don't mix this rate with case fatality (or lethality) rate, which is counted on ended cases and is about 30%. This is your real chance when you're infected.
Programming Bitcoin Cash (BCH) with the NBitcoin .NET Library and C#
In the US roughly half present of the population died. It killed roughly ~5% of the world's population.

btw. I did not say WWII was the single cause for high mortality. Hygiene, malnutrition etc. contributed. And the virus itself had higher mortality rate than usual, but not as much as previously thought.
I have qBittorrent installed. For me searching "bitt" displays only "Battle.net", which is not even a valid match. hilarious.
If you underreporting deaths without underreporting infections doesn't work. You can underreport deaths, sure. But you have to consider the underreporting of cases as well. And all these cases have bias towards being less severe. Also, the underreporting of infections is kind of systematic. So in order to increase mortality by underreporting both, infections and deaths, the mortality rate of unreported cases has to be higher than the rate for reported cases. Which is unlikely, severe cases have a tendency to show up at hospitals.

So unless you believe authorities are getting with hiding hundreds of deaths at hospitals being under international scrutiny, while simultaneously hiding the fact that dead people pile up at their homes, this theory seems kind of unlikely. Especially since international numbers outside of mainland China are more or less in line.
Just because somebody tries to phrase it in a polite way doesn't make it any less of a demand.
>“Soon, my colleagues started to complement the experiment by adding some LEGO trees on top of the structure,” recounts Michael. “I had to write a message asking them not to do so.”

Proving yet again, that given ANYTHING that is efficient engineers will eventually try to improve it.
Just a note - looking at Wox, the official repo seems to be unmaintained, there's appears to be an active fork here however: https://github.com/jjw24/Wox/
The problem with e.g. DCTs is that it can't do 0.x seconds consistently. It can only do that if they are switching from an odd to an even gear or vice versa where the target gear has been pre-selected. If the wrong target gear is pre-selected, it takes 1.x seconds. There are extra delays from where you'd want the gear to be engaged to the TCU noticing that it needs to be engaged to the gear actually being engaged. The former delays were quite dominant, esp. in older implementations (I don't know how much progress has been made).

Both DCTs and converter transmissions require far more maintenance than manual transmissions (e.g. DCT requires oil change every 60k, overhaul after 180k).

Changing gears on a manual transmission arguably takes more time, at least when the DCT has guessed correctly, but it doesn't matter nearly as much, because you, as the driver, are able to initiate the process in advance, because you have more information than the TCU, which approximately only has a tuple of (vehicle speed, engine RPM, current gear, gas pedal position, brake pedal position, D/S mode) to guess which gear to switch to soon.

Also, automatics still mean you have to know and understand gears, unless you live in a very flat piece of land, or don't care about fuel consumption and wear.
Go elsewhere your talents won't be appreciated at any of those racist companies. These companies hire based on skin color.
I think you're taking the analogy of "vote with your wallet" a bit too far. It's not actual voting, or democratic, it just means that whoever has the most money decides. It's not really comparable to a political system of voting (and if you think it does seem suspiciously similar, that probably means that political system is broken).

> I vote for what I think is best.

Maybe you're an exception, but if you're talking about "vote with your wallet", then the vast majority will actually vote what they think is best for their wallets.

I mean, if you're going to let money decide, then expect the outcome to benefit money.
Most classic albums released first on vinyl were released before the loudness wars, most CD (re)releases were during or after the loudness wars. That may explain much of the impression that vinyl sounds better.
I agree with you on your general statement about how self interests may be the cause for wars.

I also must tell you that your perception of Israel is simply false. Describing Israel as "an ethno-religious nation-state far similar to saudi arabia than the US" is wrong, and implies that your familiarity with Israel is not high.

Most of the population in Israel is secular. In fact, in many areas, Israel is more liberal than the US (and other western countries as well), for example in the areas of abortion, women, gay and human rights. Is Israel perfect? of course not, but none of the western states are.

Edit: better phrasing
Good catch, so if you type "bitto" then hit backspace to "bitt", it works, but hit backspace again ("bit") and it'll disappear (it even shows me "Notepad", because why not)!
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Fraud protection
Mandatory link to movie about patent trolls and software:

mentioned here:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngreathouse/2019/11/08/this-...

movie here:
https://www.thepatentscam.com/

I learned a lot despite already knowing a lot.
It has to be for some people in some aspect, otherwise there wouldn't be any demand?
Sure, you know because of China. And the internet says so. I always shocked when someone, especially on this forum, brings up stuff like that.
This sounds as fake as "marketing-speak".

There's nothing wrong with asking "Please do <something>" in the English language, it's plenty polite.
Cost to defend yourself is not much south of one million US.
Here's the thing: I've built, back in 2005, a full-text search for 60 GB of small-text data that would typically return results in under 15ms. This was using 100% Microsoft-native technology, like C# and SQL.

How much data does the Start Menu search have to index, total? A few 100KB? Something like that. This is assuming a fresh install, no documents, no third party apps.

A modern CPU can simply brute force through that amount of data and perform nearly arbitrary subtext matching, without any fancy indexing techniques, in something like a handful of microseconds. Even in an absolute worst-case of cross-process pointer chasing out into uncached main memory, you're talking a few tens of milliseconds, max.

Yet, a fresh install of any version of Windows, including Server editions, simply flat out fails to find control panel items or shortcuts even if their names are typed exactly. Many hours later it'll find some of them, not necessarily all. Days later, perhaps it'll reach a 100% match, but that's certainly not guaranteed.

For me, often having to use freshly installed Windows VMs, I see a nearly 100% failure rate for this component.

It's just absurd that this passed QA.
It's not marketing speak. It's getting off on the right foot by saying you like the person's work. Then it's asking more carefully if they've considered it before, in case they have and decided against or weren't able to. Then it's saying you'd appreciate it rather than you require it.

Just saying 'please do X' sounds like an email I'd get from a German who doesn't know English very well. It's grammatically correct but it's really all wrong.
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Qwant has their own index (or atleast parts) IIRC.
Python is just about the worst major programming language to write high-performance code in. The only slower major language is Ruby.

If you're using Python to invoke highly-optimised native-code, then your performance will be excellent (as shown by the various Python numerical libraries), but performance-sensitive code shouldn't run in the Python interpreter.

As others have said, Python also lacks true multithreading (its threads are capable of concurrency but not parallelism, on account of the GIL), but you do have the option of just running a bunch of Python processes in parallel. I imagine that's a workable solution at least some of the time, but I've never explored this, so I don't know how good the library support is.

Edit: Someone else mentioned 'mpi4py' which seems to be a Python library for multi-process work.
Have you considered maybe giving them test phones with the configurations they're supposed to support instead of "scolding" them like misbehaving children because they're apparently working with the phones they have but supposed to magically support phones they don't?
More and more traditional banks are getting rid of these fees too.

Mastercard rates are very good (typically better than Transferwise's), and Visa has been catching up as well.
I never mentioned everything, I never said shutup was a search engine.. Not everything in this thread is related to "everything", some things are related to windows dailing home to ms hq.

dang: I'm done with this bullshit, it's ok to delete my account.
Contrary to popular opinion, most of Switzerland's population does not live in the mountains.
What resources do you recommended on learning about routers and router security?
I'm looking to read up on routers and in-depth guides on how they work.

Has anyone got any recommendations on resources?
Crabs in a bucket.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_mentality
Vinyl records are perhaps one of the best examples of commodity fetishism; in fact, they perfectly illustrate Mark Fisher's notion of "lost futures" (by way of Derrida's hauntology). Even the discussion and detailed analysis of vinyl (so as to justify its supposed acoustic superiority) is to miss the forest for the trees.

Of course the rabid capitalists on this forum would fall over themselves to exploit this for financial gain. There may even be quite a few who see this sociopathy as a badge of honour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8ibrfXvpQ
From what I understand it is for fraud protection. If you steal a credit card you likely do not know what the billing zip code is.

According to this blog[0] they also collect the data for "marketing purposes".

[0]:https://blogs.creditcards.com/2014/05/zip-codes-gas-station-...
The municipal bond market looks to satellites to help assess climate risk
It would be useful for the user to be linked to a vetted and official store app if the name matches and the user does not have it installed already. Although there are privacy considerations about sending search terms to the Internet, so a list of store apps could be cached on the local machine instead.
Bats can carry rabies, but overall mosquitos are a lot more dangerous. I'll take the bats any day.
Do you have a source for that 8-22% of population died, which seems an extremely large, unrealistic number?

E.g. https://www.quora.com/Which-country-was-most-affected-by-the... cites some resource which shows an estimate of 2.3 M people dead in Europe, and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4634693/ shows an estimate of 2.6 M excess deaths in Europe i.e. 1.1% of population.

The vast majority of the worldwide deaths from Spanish flu were in Asia; the region with most deaths was India.
> For banks, the $91.2 billion in fees they earn on credit-card portfolios is now more than the interest they charge on the loans

That really surprises me, given how high CC interest rates are and how many people carry a balance.
I downvoted both this post and the one above because it's completely off topic.
Light is not a strong attractant for mosquitos. A CO2-emitting zapper works better.
HN should use this algo to detect the blatant upvote-hacking going on in this post :)
OneWeb: London startup launches first big batch of satellites
I understand that solar panels are hardy, but these kinds of icy conditions even impact things such as asphalt - literal rock. I find it somewhat difficult believe that there's no wear and treat associated with icy weather, but I can't find any information on it. It's all promotional material that assuages all worries.
Resolved how? I don't see any mention of that in the thread.
Very good articles about Elixir and Erlang

https://www.theerlangelist.com/
If you split the bonuses between the team evenly then outperformers will go to another company that will offer them personal incentive which will be bigger that way.
The launch of Sputnik 1 by the USSR was the single most important driver of U.S. developing its own space activities. Makes sense to commemorate that.
I dunno if you’ve seen any of the undercover videos from the hospitals? It’s entirely possible there are hundreds of deaths that haven’t been recorded. Many deaths are being recorded with viral pneumonia as death as they don’t have enough test kits to verify and are therefore not attributed to this coronavirus.
Discovering Li Wenliang's original posts (the actual first warnings) doesn't seem like much of an AI breakthrough, especially when the technology used was essentially Google Alert on keywords. Maybe the real story is that their search engine picked up the story even while Chinese censorship was kicking in. Here's a report about how the censorship aspect is still occurring: https://nationalpost.com/news/world/chinese-government-censo...

This so-called AI article seems like a shameful way to steal credit from whom credit is actually due.
that's a bullshit comparison based on a bad premise - you think the price is right is driven by consumers wishing they owned the product, rather than the fact that is a game easily played along at home with friends or family. Save for the final showcase items, they're bidding the cost of eggs half the time. this comment is out of touch as fuck.
According to DuckDuckGo,

> To do that, DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from multiple partners, though most commonly from Bing (and none from Google).

Do you view that as misleading/incorrect?
It is definitely the case for Czech banks. GP's Equa has about 2.5 % in fact. Worse, there's basically no banks that have under 2 %.
Apple unhappy with apps that secretly record screen using Glassbox tech
The one case where the kragle is necessary.
CDC and WHO Offers to Help China Have Been Ignored for Weeks
1.5 gal/(m²s) or 1.58 µm/s

Sort-of related: https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/
A friend went to a talk from a large swiss bank and there was also this question, why they did not go faster forward. The answer was pretty short. Why kill a cashcow.
I think drugs are a big use case. They cost tons of money to develop, but once approved are incredibly easy for anyone to duplicate (Generics). Being able to recoup your investment is incentive.

Of course they don’t work perfectly, as drugs off patent sometimes don’t see price reductions, but generally prices come down once off patent.
What hardware are you installing it on?
While on the topic, I always hope that HW manufacturers could start being explicit about what is _supported_ and what is "supported".

We have this problem with CPU manufacturers stating that something is supported, when it is instead emulated (hello checks on CPUID). Disk drives acknowledge writes before they actually write the data to the disk (hello layers of unreliable fsyncs). Network cards claim that packet have been shipped while they never left the circular buffer (hello bufferbloat).

Please HW manufacturers, stop lying to us.
No, there are no models needed for that, just some desire to actually investigate things.

Though there were for the general housing bubble:

> In July 2001, Paul McCulley, an economist at Pimco, the giant bond fund, predicted that the Federal Reserve would simply replace one bubble with another. "There is room," he wrote, "for the Fed to create a bubble in housing prices, if necessary, to sustain American hedonism. And I think the Fed has the will to do so, even though political correctness would demand that Mr. Greenspan deny any such thing."

> As Mr. McCulley predicted, interest rate cuts led to soaring home prices, which led in turn not just to a construction boom but to high consumer spending, because homeowners used mortgage refinancing to go deeper into debt. All of this created jobs to make up for those lost when the stock bubble burst.

> Now the question is what can replace the housing bubble. [...]

> But although the housing boom has lasted longer than anyone could have imagined, the economy would still be in big trouble if it came to an end.

* https://archive.is/0xZDj

* https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/27/opinion/running-out-of-bu...

And then 2007-8 happened.
Can’t link to original article on TechCrunch and peers because of new “guce advertising” redirects e.g.:

https://guce.advertising.com/collectIdentifiers?sessionId=xx...

The App Analyst posts on e.g. Air Canada collecting card details via Glassbox are good:

https://theappanalyst.com/aircanada.html
Thanks, I just learned something.
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Undercover videos. Played to much Plague Inc. lately? As long as numbers from the epicenter in Wuhan don't deviate to much from international WHO numbers I will not go by "it is possible that...". I don't argue the situation in Wuhan is horrible. But taking some individual cases from area hit worst and build some BS theories out of that, going against every expert opinion out there, is just conspiracy theory shit. And spreading panic.
Thanks for that explanation; I read documents about the PS4 arch and those things seemed to be far more mainstream than how you explain it. Any good documents about those details or could I only know this if I was a PS4 (licensed) dev?
> Their options start (and very nearly end) at "sending you a polite request".

They can send much nastier things too. When you get to state-level actions, the law, or at least the repercussions for breaking it gets a lot iffier.
Stopping the Press: NYT Journalist Targeted by Saudi-Linked Pegasus Spyware
If you want to see an example of what file search could be like, use the program 'everything'. I have no idea how microsoft creates something so terrible in the first place, let one leaves it that way.
CD is way overrated. Terrible, even.

Like, if you compare film to digital photography, but film was represented by ISO160 monochromatic Kodak, and all the digital photographic technology was represented by a 640x480 prototype camera from 2001, instead of a RED or even a yesteryear phone, then it’ll be immediately obvious that analog far outperforms digital full stop.

That’s how vinyl remains “superior”. CD is terrible, not digital quantization playback in general, but because it represents “digital” somehow anyway, analog wins.
Save your development time by building the MVP product of Uber
Seconded. Not to mention how amazingly fast the iMac Pro is in general.

Still thinking of buying Alfred but I'm undecided. Have you tried it?
How do you resist working when you shouldn't?
I've got a weekend to myself and I'm struggling not to fire up Xcode and work on the app I'm trying to finish. I know if I work now, I'll pay for it it later in the week. I'm trying to keep burnout at bay so I need to protect my down-time.

What do you do when you don't have any plans and your laptop is calling you?

I know, I know; leave the house, go for a walk. But how can that compete with the allure of PRODUCTIVITY! PROGRESS! GETTING THINGS DONE!
I wish this had stayed up. I really liked the databases course and wanted to do the networking, compilers, algorithms, automata courses by end of this year.

EdX - the platform to which they are porting will have limited access to everything when you audit. I think now they even revoke access if you're just auditing the courses.

The feel free quality MOOCs are hard to find nowadays.

Is there a way to save the pages/courses locally? I think the videos are available on archive/youtube, but not the assignments which form an important part of the courses.