skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd extend this to regular vacations too. I've worked a lot in both Europe and the USA. In Europe everyone had to know other people's knowledge as people were regularly out of the office. In the US it was easier to rely on someone as people rarely were out for a week and if they were they usually were local and on call.
Raft is not easy to implement. People think it is. But that’s only because they have implemented the happy paths, which are hard enough to get right as it is.
People associate fasting with mental disorder (anorexia, bulimia) and religion, but it is a great way to optimize your body's metabolism. The key to intermittent fasting isn't eating less, it's eating the same amount but in more concentrated intervals.

> A man I know in his early 50s said he had lost 12 pounds in about two months on what he calls the 7-11 diet: He eats nothing from 7 p.m. until 11 a.m. the next morning, every day.

To add to this anecdata, I did this for two months and lost around 20 fatty pounds. I wasn't large before, but I am noticeably leaner now. Maybe we'd be healthier if we took just 3 months out of a year for 16 hour intermittent fasting.
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> wrong way to frame this

this is the reality of how businesses operate.

> product pricing and labor aren’t that tightly correlated.

If you're the staff accountant, sure. You're technically correct.

If you're the CFO and I'm trying to convince you we need to spend $1M on user research instead of $100K, you can be sure this is taken into account when modeling monetization strategies to recoup R&D costs.
> The total number of cases in each country indicates otherwise.

The number of cases in the US is wrong. We know it's wrong because if it was right, we wouldn't have cases stemming from unknown sources.

> Currently compared to every other country on Earth, we have quarantined it the best.

No. We've put our collective heads in the sand, and hidden from testing any significant number of people.

> It WILL spread across America, it's just a matter of time.

This is the outcome of a bad quarantine.

> You are speculating that the CDC will not be able to handle it.

The CDC has already mishandled it. They created red tape making the criteria for administering testing very narrow. They coerced medical establishments to only use their test kits, rather than being able to pick from known working kits proven elsewhere in the world. Then, the kits they issued were flawed, and they forbade medical professionals from administering them. They have literally done nothing right yet. Have you seen their official webpage on Covid-19? It doesn't even describe the common chain of symptoms; instead it has multiple bullet points about Covid-19 Stigma... You get better and more complete information from reddit.
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Might be this one: https://github.com/ajakubek/core-latency
Leaving this earlier recording of a similar talk with Masayuki Uemura here: https://youtu.be/A53gdHXwxHg?t=2686
> Instead of perpetually trying to identify bots, Pick the 20% of your users who you are pretty sure are actually humans.

Note that reCAPTCHA thinks you’re a bot if you block analytics…
No. The current survival stats involve 20% of those infected ending up in ICU. If this was to become a pandemic that would require millions of respirators to maintain that survival rate. Think about that and what "condition" you would accept for a respirator.
Running the test is simple but getting good primers nowadays is easy because they can be bought and arrive 24 hours later. If the sequence is published, then even the lab manager can get them.
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That works for ops but not really for R&D. Your code will wait for 2 weeks, only running systems won’t.
It might also be able to be argued that those countries refuse to allow production that includes all those chemicals, so we offload that production to other countries that aren’t so strict, suggesting that we ourselves and our wants are a major source of their production and that all these advanced countries are doing a great job contributing to pollution, just through a middle man.
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NDT = Non-destructive Testing

PE = Professional Engineer

ASME BPVC = American Society of Mechanical Engineers Boiler & Pressure Vessel Code.
So a wing only aircraft of 8m wingspan is able to sustainly fly? What does a loss of 1, -1, -90000 translate to or is this a relative value. Did you find out if this matches real world experiments?
How many users who block GA are also going to not be honest about the OS or browser they claim to be? I suspect that number is going to be a much higher percentage than of those who don't block GA...

I'd imagine most users who block GA/ads on desktop would also want to on mobile, but can't just because it's so difficult to set up an adblocker on mobile.

A HOSTS file or blocking DNS server will easily do that, my whole network in fact has GA and a bunch of other crap blocked this way. On the other hand, setting up a MITM proxy/VPN is much much harder on mobile. However I am surprised at the 0% for Android and 17% for iOS blocking GA --- I was expecting it to be the opposite, with the former being historically much less of a walled-garden than the latter.

On the other hand, perhaps everyone who blocks GA and uses Android is in the aforementioned situation of not saying that they're using Android --- they may be reporting a Linux or some other user-agent.
Or that companies that could do the job with lower pollution at greater cost domestically are outcompetes by companies that do not have to worry about pollution. For example, China’s cheaper but polluting processing of rare earths drove everyone else outside of China out of business.

Trade agreements will eventually have to capture externalities like pollution to ensure fairness. Otherwise, capitalism will simply not work when different companies get to play by different rules based on their location.
Is there a free server-side analytics service that’s not a pain to set up?
I’m using Netlify, but enabling analytics is 9$/site/month, so I tell myself that GA is just fine.
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everyone who understands how google is tracking them across the web hates it
Root users like myself use tools like AdAway to managing hosts blocking. This will help cover a lot of ads in apps as well. You also have alternative WebView implementations like Bromite (although I wish it were easier to install and worked on Android 10) that can give you ad blocking in apps using web views too.

This is also missing the part where you can run Android without the Play Store using microG and F-Droid + Aurora. It's not a huge number, but there are still a lot of people blocking ads in one form or another--even if it's as simple as using Firefox or Brave for basic browsing.
We work on https://usecodeflow.com, which is a way to capture the way code logically flows (especially used for new-hires to learn a new codebase). Feel free to email me in my profile if you want to chat!
Twitch moderators get paid? That is news to me. Where do I sign up!
You were comparing her by proxy with yourself

>”that I tend to get attention for all the wrong reasons routed in my gender.”

You’re clearly trying to imply the merit for her would be the fact she’s a black female, why even bother trying to imply otherwise
Why do I keep reading the advice that it's important not to touch your face? How is the skin of the hands different from the skin of the face?
I’m not sure I understand your point. It’s you who requests those resources, nobody pushes that data towards you. Are we debating adblockers? Because that is a different topic than server side log analysis and I agree that we should be picky about what we process (but it’s a thin line, you are using resources from the owner of that service though).
Really? I tested this the other day and with the required tip, i ended up paying basically the same. I was actually pretty annoyed by the fact (I have a 2 years old, so eating at the restaurant takes some parenting effort)
> Flutter is not going anywhere given that it powers all of Fuschias UI

That's assuming Fuschia ever becomes a priority. So far, there is no reason to believe it will even launch, let alone be a priority.
On the implications of the Covid-19 WA2 genome sequence
The net is full of unidentified bots scraping content or looking for vulnerabilities (contact forms , wordpress logins, etc). On many occasions I had traffic issues and had to check logs and these were very hard to block, because they ignore the robots file, don’t advertise themselves in the User Agent and use a large pool of IPs.
Nothing. If you wanted money why were you moderating Reddit when you knew you weren’t going to get any?
Call me stuffy, but somehow I think that, for example, Ms Office managed to have more user-friendly UX (Clippy and performance aside) back when they had 0 telemetry.
This isn't about who likes what, it's about inconsistent reasoning.

If Google creating a language is reason to believe it will die, why does that apply to Dart and not Go?

This assumes you've observed the much higher popularity for Go and lack of it for Dart here on HN (and most elsewhere).
We record screencast videos demonstrating how to do a process. New people can watch those videos to learn how to do it.

If we find a better way to do something then we make a new video.

There's a team member who transcribes videos into google docs for people who like to read and search in google drive.

It's pretty simple and it works wonders for an international team.
I think we'd just reply that they're close enough to count as the same thing for HN purposes. "Don't be snarky" is nice and short.
Sorry, wasn’t clear enough..I’ve been programming with RSI for some time. Tried the usual stuff and it doesn’t work for me - the level of pain is unsustainable. Now looking for a career switch - something where the nature of the tasks is more amenable to voice input or there is just less computer use altogether. But ideally don’t want to start from scratch.
> this is the reality of how businesses operate.

It's the reality of how a subset of industry operates, which doesnt make it less wrong.
Sounds like you don’t have kids.
Your website doesn't mention pricing at all before asking me to provide my github details. I dont know if the service will be free or I will be asked to pay until I provide my github credentials. My suggestion would be to add some info in the FAQs section.
In italy we used to joke over how people will stsrt buying rifles to shoot down drones and get the packages...
It's Quillette, after all. That's what they're there for.
The face is where all the mucous membranes are located (tear ducts, nasal passages, etc.). These are weak spots through which pathogens are more likely to successfully infect the body.
It's less to do with crazy unlikely scenarios, and more to do with the fact that you die without water in days.
That article is relatively sensible, and it also mentions why the writer advocates storing some water, or at least getting a filter, even though they suspect water service will continue to operate.

Here's one hypothetical scenario that might be intuitive, not from the article... Say, you live in a dense part of the city, and there's suddenly a lot of confirmed cases around you, so your family decides to stay home for a week, to wait&see how this plays out and what government help arrives. All your city utilities work, but much of the city water utility workers can't afford to live in the city, or otherwise have to stay home, and the remaining workers can't keep up with the ordinary day-to-day level of repairs and maintenance. A pipe fractures, brown water comes out your faucet, and now you have to decide whether to venture out to try to find a store open that has bottled water, and possibly bring the virus back to your family, or stay in and hope water will be fixed and known-safe within 3 days. Ordinary bottle water is $1-$2 a gallon, off-the-shelf from the local store, and some insurance and peace of mind against a very bad and not-too-unlikely situation.
This breaks several of the site guidelines. Would you please stop doing that on HN? You've been doing it a lot lately (to pick just one of many: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22450681) and it's not ok. We need senior users like you to set good examples, not bad ones.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If large company, making everything - docs, discussions, code etc. searchable through a single box.
There is nothing at all "certain" about AGI or the economic impacts thereof. This is completely speculative and based on zero hard data.
You might have a point if Apple did not control the only App store for iOS devices.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22449561.
Coronavirus may have circulated 'unnoticed for weeks' in Italy, say researchers
Isn't a tuple just a const List? Also there is a set union function: https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/dart-core/Set/union.html
At G you can regularly fly business. If you save the company money you can use the credits for upgrades in your next business related trip. I found that I am way more productive when I am flying half way across the world and am well rested in the flight.
A very sizable portion of bot traffic does not identify itself as such. I don’t know if it’s a majority now, but it could be.
"...someone recently explained to me how great it is that, instead of using data to make decisions, we use political connections, and that the idea of making decisions based on data is a myth anyway; no one does that." -- from https://danluu.com/wat/

Sorry, your comment just reminded me of that. Are surveys perfect? No, but they have their uses, and plenty of companies find real value by making use of them.
This is helpful, thanks for sharing.
I only read fiction ebooks. With nonfiction I’m flipping back and forth to notes etc and it just sucks.
I engaged the comment with a comment of my own out of respect, not hostility. If I really desired to shut the discussion down, I would not have added to it. I would have flagged it and downvoted it.

I appear to be the highest ranked openly female member on Hacker News. I appear to be the only openly female member to have ever spent time on the leader board.

I was homeless for nearly six years. I hit the leader board about a month after getting back into housing. So I got most of that karma while homeless -- while I was extremely dirt poor and something of a social outcast.

I'm sympathetic to the OPs frustrations. I left the comment out of a desire to be supportive.

I realized I was taking a chance and the odds were fairly high that it would be wildly misunderstood to be the exact opposite of my intentions. I did it anyway because I felt it mattered.

I don't really intend to engage you further.
You don't even need root, you can have an ad blocker as VPN (AdGuard, Blokada).
> this will be combined with a 32bit userland, for the reason mentioned above. - the amount of work needed to update all the libraries that talk to the GPU.
https://archive.md/4I0Lm
What a stupid point. Then there must be no special things in the world. Because if something truly is special, more people will like it. When it becomes popular enough you'd say "Oh it's just a numbers game". What a specious argument.
That page has 30 papers so it is basically a (hopefully unintentional) "go fuck yourself".
More specifically, POSIX explicitly defines a day as having precisely 86400 seconds. This makes calendar arithmetic trivial, including into the future, which would otherwise be impossible as leap seconds aren't predictable. Any program with a leap day bug is almost certainly not making use of Unix timestamps.

The corollary is that for the most commonly used APIs a Unix second isn't the same thing as an SI second. A Unix second is effectively defined in terms of the civil calendar, not as a fixed quantum of physical time.

Technically this doesn't preclude Unix date-time strings from displaying a 60th second. (And maybe some do.) But it would require unnecessary extra work, introduce inconsistencies (i.e. a generated string for a future date-time that happened to be a leap second would show :59 today but :60 at the moment of the leap second), and invite bugs.
"His exact motive is not known, but knowing Aaron..."

@danielpyon you knew him?
Or just boil it at home.
Absurd comparison. A subcompact is just not designed to tow a large load. But no one tries to keep you from modifying it. Apple purposely restricts your freedom.
One way is to define a project dictionary/glossary.

Shameless plug: I'm working on a tool to help teams define/share the internal jargon that always seems to develop whenever humans work together: https://jargonaut.net
First step is to track your sleep with an Oura or Fitbit or other device. These devices are not going to be as accurate as an EEG used in a sleep study, and they are good enough, even if they usually cannot tell the difference between fiddling with your phone in bed and light sleep. Maybe you can survive on less sleep. But the first step is to figure out your baseline.
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This felt very close to right wing propaganda. Had to stop reading about 2/3 of the way in.
The most interesting point made is that secular societies still have a clerisy (or clergy? What's the difference?). People who are powerful but not rich; deriving their power from moral authority; and highly dogmatic.

The details of the piece don't have quite enough support given how contraversial they are. That doesn't mean the author is wrong though. Worth more exploration and discussion.
No, that's a different guy.
Has that ever happened? Seems like the stars would have to align for that kind of white collar crime to happen (financial employee who is also a highly experienced programmer who is also highly unethical)
But that's okay! People are allowed to make stupid decisions. Can we stop treating non-technical users like children please?
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A good investment is goal driven. Vague (Human capital) goals are no good. In lieu of specific goals or outcomes I assume you are talking about life in general.

1. Health: a)Physical- stay fit by exercising daily,eat healthy(this is a broad topic), lead a active life even if through hobbies. B) mental - meditate and become self aware. Understand what activity and people contribute to positive state and what to negative states. Practice gratitude and honesty with yourself and others.

2) relationships: do hobbies with friends and family. Build bonds by seeking out experiences.
We use a software solution: http://bloomfire.com
It's kind of a hybrid between a knowledge repo, search engine and internal social platform. Their customer service is fantastic and they're continuously improving on the product.
Would you please stop posting in the flamewar style to HN? You've been doing it a lot lately, and it's really not what this site is for. What we want here is curious conversation, which generally requires stepping away from the keyboard when feeling provoked, even if other people are doing or saying bad things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
They use wishful thinking. Body composition scales are crap, don't trust their numbers. Most just run a little current through your legs and then guess some numbers. The error bars on that are so huge that it's basically meaningless to compare between people. The have limited utility for comparing your body composition to your past self.
Analytics should be one of your sources. Server logs is another. I know of a company that has a whatsapp group for people who've contacted them via support, and one more for "fans". Each of these bring novel perspectives, and its up to the org to extract signal out of them.
It is crucial that the organizational culture reward employees for making this happen.

When you think about it, a lot of corporate cultures reward the opposite -- employees hoarding key knowledge so they can use it to their advantage.

To do this, avoid creating a culture that fosters rivalries. I know it's controversial to say this, as many business people seem to think that brutal rivalries are what leads to over the top effort.

Instead, think about the knowledge as processes, and figure out how to best codify and execute those processes.

If you arrive at a step in the process that appears to be something that can only be done by one person, or by a person who is leaving, that is a clue that someone is withholding information or trying to use it to his/her advantage. Nothing is that complicated, just break it down into simpler steps.

Then, when it comes to onboarding, introduce whichever processes make the most sense for the new hire, and encourage him/her to view them both as an example of excellence but also as something that can be improved. Doing this helps the new hire understand the design perspective behind the processes, which is preferable to following them by rote (which is surprisingly common even among otherwise bright people).

It sounds from the question that you have a bit of drama going on, so you may actually want to sketch out the processes as you think they are and then incentivize the team to make them all precise.
Well, on the bright side, this was the first Starship that flew.
> Repeated failure to predict at the expected probability of your error bars would falsify the model. (i.e. commit to what your model is, then run it with now known inputs after the fact)

That doesn't help if you are not gathering the correct proxy data to represent the actual physical system. For example, CMIP6 includes particle forcing while CMIP5 & before did not. The global & solar electric circuits are not considered. Are xrays, which have a large variance with solar cycles, included in CMIP6? I don't think the Birkeland Current is considered.

What also doesn't help is adjusting historical measurements such as temperature. It's like changing the rules mid-game, which indicates that past observations are mutable to fit the models. Also note the incomplete data, as modern satellite observations span a tiny window compared to Earth's lifespan. The solar system travels through different parts of the Galaxy, crossing the Galactic Current Sheet at times, passing through ionized dust, among other phenomena.

> Sadly, our ability to experiment repeatedly in the same conditions with the environment is deeply limited, in a way much akin to astronomy.

We can experiment with ions, plasma, & high voltages applied to plasma. Note the Birkeland Current between Sun & the Earth, ions being ejected from the Sun, XRay emission varying wildly with solar activity, cosmic rays, etc. There's also a Birkeland current sheet in the solar system & a galactic current sheet.

One of the major issues is that the standard model does not consider plasma & electricity, in light of recent observations of the prevalence of Plasma in space, effectively blinding large parts of the astronomical theory to it's impact. This led to a legacy of ad hoc, non-observable (thus non-falsifiable) inventions such as "dark matter", "dark energy", "black holes", "neutron stars", "the big bang", "space/time", "magnetic line snapping", "parallel universes", "11 dimension space" & whatever other mathematical patches are used to fit the observations. Note inconsistencies with the assertion that redshift equals distance with observations such as examples of a Quasar with a high redshift being connected to a Galaxy with a low redshift.

Point is climate science is built on a tower of assumptions built on assumptions where some of the foundational pieces are called into question. Ad hoc tweaking of observational data & ad hoc tweaking of models to fit the transformed observed measurements makes it easy to doubt the accuracy, predictive ability, & knowledge of applicable boundary conditions of the model. It sounds like a tough job to get it right.