skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TL;DR from the abstract of the actual study:

> In a randomized experiment, we find that deactivating Facebook for the four weeks before the 2018 US midterm election (i) reduced online activity, while increasing offline activities such as watching TV alone and socializing with family and friends; (ii) reduced both factual news knowledge and political polarization; (iii) increased subjective well-being; and (iv) caused a large persistent reduction in post-experiment Facebook use. Deactivation reduced post-experiment valuations of Facebook, suggesting that traditional metrics may overstate consumer surplus.
3D Image ≈ Lovecraftian monstrosity. I've seen a few examples of this, and the results are mixed in a rather entertaining way!
It's an objective and trivially verifiable fact that there's a city in this world whose healthcare system was completely overwhelmed, after they built multiple giant hospitals in a week. That doesn't happen in a normal flu season, and that's why we're talking about this.
I hope you kindly email the professor and ask him or her to to their job and grade their course.
Imagine being a landlord, owning a few properties, and experiencing this failure rate. I wouldn't be surprised that this might affect rental prices on a huge scale.

I own just a few rental properties, but I'm constantly fixing things. Just in the last month. Delta faucet that had a plastic mixing valve, broke off. 5 hours to fix. Water damage to the vanity.
While fixing the vale, noticed a year old baseboard heater in the same bathroom, that cover fell off. Exposing wiring. Possibly a deadly situation.

Electric Water Heater, died at 6 years. 7 Hours to replace.
Within the last year, I also replaced a washing machine and dryer. A closet door, so poorly made, the hinge broke out.
A dish washer that works, but the plastic hinge for the detergent broke. A toilet flapper replaced twice. That also has a plastic handle for flushing that also broke.
And this is just one property, in the last 6 months.
Most of these things originally bought at a big name orange department store.

While these appliance manufacturers might profit from selling new appliances. The losses they cause to the economy, are far greater than their profits.

The reliable options are not really available anymore, at the orange store, or the blue store.
The 1.4% apply to the general population. For people over 80, the fatality rate is 15%. There are roughly 13 million people over 80 in the US [1]. If everyone gets infected, a fatality rate of 15% means 2 million deaths in that single bracket alone. With the 1.4% figure it's 4.6 million over the entire US population.

As a comparison, the number of yearly deaths in the US caused by influenza is in the 5 digits. World war 2 killed 3% of the world population over a range of multiple years [2]. If the coronavirus kills only 1% of the current world population, its death toll in absolute numbers will be equal to WW2.

I think at this point, the disease can't be contained, its spread only slowed. Everyone will be exposed to it sooner or later. Fortunately though there are treatments, and there are already candidates for vaccines. The question is only how quickly and how well those treatments can be deployed. The less people have the disease at the same time, the better.

[1]: https://www.populationpyramid.net/united-states-of-america/2...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties
"This concern — that Google might just give up on Stadia at some point and kill the service, as it has done with so many other services over the years — was repeatedly brought up, unprompted, by every person we spoke with for this piece."

That's a terrible reputation for any company to have.

In addition to Stadia, it seems to be killing off Improbable's Spatial OS, which is a back-end system for very large world MMOs. Originally, that had to run on Google Cloud. Three of the first games shut down, partly because the costs for that service are high. Nobody big is using it.
Pandemic Reporting: Crisis Communication (2010)
I'd totally try that if it didn't try to force me to upgrade my OS. Looks interesting though!
The article was singing its praises, meanwhile I was trying to figure out which parts the system did get right...

It's entertaining at least :)
So, if I'm reading this correctly, it becomes illegal to operate a drone of more than 249gm in an area with no signal connectivity, unless you have a satellite uplink on the device to broadcast its location over the internet... Instead of any of the other myriad of standards that could be used to broadcast a location over local radio.
Activist investor seeks to replace Jack Dorsey as Twitter CEO, report says
Doing Art the Geometric Way
We are not game developers, our opinion doesn't count.

edit: I just remembered: I've actually begged people not to make projects dependent on knol or wave. Its unsurprising how those projects ended after they ignored me. What did surprise me were the people who identified the use of those platforms as a failure in judgement and left immediately.
This is great! I would love to remove a dependency on proprietary hardware.

Do Netflix, YouTube, and other streaming services have open APIs that would allow for 3rd party apps supporting NymphCast, or would we have to depend on the companies supporting NymphCast directly?

There seems to be a chicken and egg problem where apps won't support NymphCast until there's enough mainstream buy-in, but there won't be enough mainstream buy-in until enough apps support it.
It all depends between you and your manager. But as long as you're productive and are not always WFH, I have seen no issues with people taking days to WFH. Some specialists and proven architects negotiated to WFH full time.
I think this is just the way human language generally works being that it is organic and messy. In my field, there are numerous overlapping and even contradictory terms.

I like the added distinction "transpiler" provides as I immediately know what the author means. Or the author could just use the term "compiler" plus another sentence to describe which kind. Transpiler seems like the more efficient way to convey the concept.
It's an asinine argument because it undermines any great thing in the world even when it may be great objectively.
It makes a lot of sense for multiple applications share the same toolkit implemented in a "user interface manager", the same way they all share a "window manager", running locally with the window server. Of course the browser is now a "user interface manager" itself. It also makes a lot of sense to use a web browser as the window manager and user interface manager itself: instead of running it on top of another window system, the web browser should be the window system and window manager.

Simon Schneegans, the author of Gnome Pie, and creator of the Coral Menu and Trace Menu, wrote some interesting thoughts about "Open Pie", and the evolution of Gnome-Pie for Wayland towards being a shared "pie menu user interface manager" that applications use via D-Bus.

Gnome-Pie: Homepage of Gnome-Pie, the slick application launcher for Linux.

http://schneegans.github.io/gnome-pie

Gnome-Pie

https://vimeo.com/30618179

The Trace-Menu

https://vimeo.com/51073078

The Coral-Menu

https://vimeo.com/51072812

OpenPie! Gnome-Pie will die.

http://schneegans.github.io/news/2018/05/31/openpie

>On Wayland, there are at least six major issues which make applications such as Gnome-Pie basically impossible. I have described these issues in one of my previous posts in more detail - here they are listed again:

>No client side window placement - Menus cannot be opened at cursor location

>No global input grabbing - When a menu is opened, you will still be able to Alt-Tab to another application, etc.

>No global key bindings - No global hot-keys from within Gnome-Pie. Only cumbersome configuration in your window manager

>No mouse pointer warping - Leads to problems when menus are opened close to screen edges

>No client side application management - No Alt-Tab window list features

>No sending fake keyboard events - No simulated key strokes or deferred activation anymore

>However, I still believe that many users would benefit from efficient and eye-candy (pie-) menus on Linux. Particularly, the very inspiring article on pie menus by Don Hopkins convinced me, that creating a follow-up project for Gnome-Pie would be a pretty awesome idea.

>"My goals are to enable developers, designers, and users to easily create and edit their own pie menus, and provide free software, tested designs, smart editors, automatic layout, support and guidance to help people come up with fun, easily used, memorable, Fitts-friendly designs." - Don Hopkins

>I got reminded that I once had the idea of OpenPie, a novel architecture for Gnome-Pie. Now I realized that this new architecture can solve at least some of the problems listed above.

>Introducing: OpenPie

>The main component of OpenPie will be a daemon running in the background listening on the D-Bus for incoming menu-open requests. Any application can send such a requests - a menu will pop up, the user is going to make a selection and the OpenPie daemon will report the selected menu item back to the application.

[He goes on to describe how OpenPie will use the D-Bus interface, and support new menu types.]
Pizza Effect
Stadia and other streaming/remote services like this big selling point is giving customers access to higher fidelity content, without having to pay for the hardware to render that high fidelity content, and marketing has made a big deal about that supposed feature. It's why they take so much flak for not being able to deliver that fidelity.
This exactly. The fact that internally the TV is pulling the software and content itself is mostly an implementation detail (I say mostly because once you've 'thrown' the video to your TV you can do other things with your phone).

It's less confusing if you don't think too hard about it.
With GraalVM and a bit of exaggeration, it feels like the story only begins.
Well, at least you're likely editing on the desktop. On a phone, reading code listings is PDF all over again.
Fever and shortness of breath are the symptoms of the disease - how else would they figure out who to test?
In the UK collecting personal debt (from individuals not companies) requires a license which you'll lose if you harass people. No doorstepping, no calling employers or family, no 2am calls, nothing like that is permitted.

You maybe won't even need to show up for this bogus nonsense in court. If they've any sense lawyers for a firm that's clearly got a paperwork muddle will cancel the case, because unlike you if they show up with crap the judge may throw the book at them. As officers of the court they have a duty here which a lay person doesn't have to get all their paperwork straight. If they show up and the judge says well this seems like it's not even your customer - they may be in some real trouble. "The computer says" won't work on a judge.
It relates to your claim that Australia, in this case an AU think tank that represents pro-US security status quo funded by US/Japan/Taiwan has no reason to manufacture consent via biased analysis in current geopolitical climate. It does, especially ASPI which has been explicitly criticized by prominent AU political figures as being extremely biased.

>>Former NSW premier Bob Carr has accused it of pumping out a “one-sided, pro-American view of the world”. Veteran foreign editor Tony Walker has slammed its "dystopian worldview" which "leaves little room for viewing China as a potential partner". "It lacks integrity and brings shame to Australia," says retired former DFAT chief and ex-Qantas CEO John Menadue. “I see it as very much the architect of the China threat theory in Australia”, adds ex-ambassador to China turned Beijing-based business consultant Geoff Raby.

Alternatively these figures are themselves incentive to maintain friendly relationship with China. Every faction has their interests.

Also I didn't claim CCP was unbiased, the assertion is that neither is ASPI. Being cognizant the history of western foreign policy and their never ending lies and manipulation as per parent comment to evaluate like with like.
Side note: Can we just appreciate / shake our heads at the "Archives" menu in the footer? I don't know if it's more efficient, or an anti-pattern of footer design.
Kangaroo Rats
Get something like a camlink 4K and just plug your laptop into that. And VLC should be able to fullscreen that video feed just fine. And it's about the size of a USB stick (plus HDMI cable of course) so it's actually portable enough.
I would call that 2.1D the .1 adds parallelax effects
This sounds like a classic case of the Innovator's Dilemma. The ascendance of the personal computer in the 1980s upset many large companies. I was surprised how old some of them were:

1879 - NCR

1886 - Burroughs

1906 - Honeywell

1910 - Sperry

1911 - IBM
> One guy A, tested negative for the flu, he was sick for 6 weeks, he would start to feel better than get sicker.

I really think there's something to this. In my part of So Cal, people have been talking about a "recurrent flu" that keeps getting better and relapsing at about 2-week intervals. Everybody I know has had something like that.

I think we're going to find out that we've already had covid-19, or there's another very nasty bug out there.
Simply throwing money around to enter a new market is not anti-competitive. Throwing money at something unprofitable with the goal that growing user-share will drive future profits is a generally accepted business practice. Unless they come up with some truly outrageous predatory pricing scheme, or try and bundle it to some other Google product to push it, I don't think they'd run into any problems.
CNN-generated images are surprisingly easy to spot for now
When you stop using Facebook, it makes the quality of your life better.
People choose go to escape the world of bloated ORM tools.

SQL sprinkled with a little bit of prudent caching works pretty well in go.
Things that aren't possible on consumer hardware are implausible to be financially viable as an on demand service.

Even for Google, it will never affordable to spin up giant clusters of servers for one person playing a video game.

The basic premise of Stadia being able to match and surpass a high end desktop gaming machine makes no sense. The cloud isn't magic, and it takes people thinking it is magic to buy the pitch. Stadia reminds me of SimCity 2013 promising it had to be online based because of all the magic cloud power they needed to make it work, which was almost immediately proven to be utter bullshit.

There's no way to offer the power of a $1,000 GPU without your own $1,000 GPU, and their promise of 4k at 60 FPS takes a very serious amount of specialized gaming hardware.
I'm surprised there's any emphasis on Windows in a CS course. I'm a C#/cloud dev and I use Windows as my daily driver, but we were allowed to use any OS we wanted. Only catch was that for some courses our final projects had to run on the school's Linux server, which we could SSH into and compile and run our code on.
Then throw a hidden input field with a CSRF token in your form and your done.

Not sure what the big deal is here.
I already own a Chromecast Ultra. Why would I want to pay for another one? I have no idea why I can't buy a controller by itself for $69.

It will be interesting to see how they treat paying customers when they inevitably shut this thing down.
To complicate things, DOS has an EOF character (ASCII 26, ^Z), which is used by some text file reading and writing routines to indicate the end of a text file. (Confusingly, other routines might behave more like the Unix behavior described in this article.)

Also, Unix terminal drivers commonly treat the EOT (end-of-transmission, ASCII 4, ^D) character specially and generate an EOF condition in response to a user input containing EOT. This creates an especially challenging situation for beginners to understand because, while EOF is not a character, there is a character at another layer that sometimes causes an EOF condition—yet that character itself is neither EOF, nor equivalent to EOF, nor guaranteed to cause EOF in every circumstance. (Also, the EOT character's behavior in this regard can be changed with the stty command, and it can be input as an ordinary character from a terminal by first escaping it with ^V...)
1) Microsoft has no incentive to cut a deal with or assist Google since they have their own online gaming service.

2) Google would be highly unenthusiastic about using Windows both culturally and because of the need to hire large numbers of engineers with deep Windows expertise.
WildDuck API exposes database structures from MongoDB, IMAP API is more like a proxy in front of any IMAP server.

WildDuck is pretty much coupled with MongoDB. IMAP is not very easily abstractable and keeping the result scalable at the same time. Largest WildDuck cluster in production manages 20TB (~20k accounts) of email by now with no special config or modifications - making it scalable was the main goal from the start and supporting arbitrary storage would not have helped.
Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge constructs a very good description of such a world. I see it coming more and more to life with each passing year. If you've not read it, definitely worth a read.
One really bad physical monitor. At 16 pixels per degree, you're at one third of a plain old 96 dpi reference screen.

Imagine if those nice 24 inch monitors had a resolution of 700x400. You can have n of them, but that is not going to make it good. And your field of view is pretty small at the same time.

Edit: Oh, that's a Vive Pro. Reduce everything 30% more for a Vive.
Sounds a lot like a mild version of indentured servitude. Cheap labor for the university.
So what now? CA is a closed shop state, the students can't cancel their membership and join a new one. So they strike without the support of their union, their union gets sued by UC, and now their union is countersuing for a cost of living adjustment as of three days ago. If all pans out, taking this wildcat strike was exactly the right move to make.

https://uaw2865.org/uc-student-worker-union-files-unfair-lab...
Guns don't kill people, you're right. But they sure do make it a lot easier. Unless you're a ninja, I can run from a knife.

It's basic logic that less guns equals less gun violence. I also want less grenades and rocket launchers, because I'd rather not have them used around me.
That's a persistent myth; the team that launched the Xbox was an entirely different set of people in a different division from the team that worked on the Dreamcast collaboration with Sega.
ScottishPower (its all one word in their name) are a nightmare. They pulled the same shit as Enron did (turning off generation at peak times to drive up the price to turn back on the same generation). As recently as 2015 they were banned from taking on new retail customers because they ignored too many regulator instructions, broke rules and were generally shit at customer services. They're notorious for unlawful cold calling, aggressive sales techniques and billing randomly. They set the bailiffs on people who are not even their customers and who went through all the correct steps to prove they owed nothing.
I did turn the offer down because I didn't feel comfortable with it. I may not be 100% for this strike, but I would not want to be apart of that. I really appreciate your responses here as it is illuminating many things I hadn't originally considered. The TA's clearly have way too many responsibilities for the pay they receive. I just feel like undergraduates are really getting screwed when there has to be other methods... Of course, I have never considered them so what good is it for me to say that lol.
Static types are the new religion, like OOP was in the 90s.

Types solve 2% of programming errors. They lead to coupling for the sake of the compiler, and make code harder to change, harder to write, and often needlessly constrain the utility of the code where they're applied.

But they do make the IDE code-completion go, so there's that.
What are your thoughts on this story:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/fayko1/my_covid19_stor...
A couple more that I use often:

* imgcat: you can view images without leaving your terminal. Somehow this works even across SSH connections…

* Python scripting API: basically AppleScript for iTerm except it lets you touch pretty much everything and it's not soul-crushing to write. I have mine switch between themes based on the system appearance (which changes based on the time of day).
The Bessemer Process - Steel is cheap enough that you can make buildings, vehicles, and bridges out of it. Notably things like boilers and trains.

The isolation of elements and the development of the periodic table - All of modern chemistry comes from this. Synthetic materials, modern metallurgy.

Plastics - Used basically everywhere.

Semiconductors - Basis of computing
> At home we would put our phones into a docking station for more processing power and to connect to a giant physical screen and sound system.

I feel like we got so close to that with Continuum on Windows Phone, but it was far enough away that it never took off. Drop your phone into a USB-C dock, and you'd get 1080p/1200p video out with a Windows 10-esque UI (desktop, Start menu), keyboard/mouse support, plus an additional USB-A. In practice though, the limitations (range of available apps for WP was mediocre, you couldn't run apps side-by-side on the monitor, some apps didn't implement a full screen UI) made it frustrating.
Depends on the course. For a large 300 person bio lecture, it will be the professor lecturing and the TA leading a quiz/homework section with like 30 people. For smaller classes with only 30 people, it's probably going to be a TA lecturing.
When I occasionally want a second screen, the 13" iPad does the trick nicely. If it's a PDF, I'll usually use an iOS reader, if it's a terminal or website I'll usually treat it as a second monitor.
Scala-JS 1.0 Released
The prof would have to just go through the stack themselves then.
This is actually a really good idea!
One major point for old/past users- a hello wolrd pre-zip is now a measly 7kb.

Modules are coming too.

Feel free to discuss and compare other compile-to-js Lang's like fable, bucklescript et al.
Starting one is fairly risky. A better question might be, how many people would join an established one.
It is absolutely not a responsibility of businesses to effect social change. Get politics out of business and business out of politics.
Thread spawning should only become a problem for very high concurrent client counts (ie, large N). How many concurrent clients did this program have?

When I ran benchmarks to compare a thread-per-client model to a single-threaded, event-based one, the single-threaded throughput was around 2 to 3 times higher for as few as 1000 clients.
You can have free speech, but it is an authoritarian system.
I have see a dry bug. It happens when you deduplicate code which isn’t an exact duplicate, but only appears to be.

For instance, one piece of code is supposed to do the same thing as another, but in context it caused a side effect that some other part of the code was inadvertently relying on.
PlatformIO plugin for VSCode. There's a bit of a learning curve, especially for folder structuring requirements, but overall it makes you stay organized in a consistent and repeatable way. It's also great if you're working with more than just Arduino framework (Espressif, Kendryte, STM32), as you can keep your code modular and easily apply it to different microcontrollers.