skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what happens when you elect utter incompetents to run the federal government, and they cut off funding for public-benefit agencies. The American people are getting exactly what they voted for. Expect things to get much worse.
Your model breaks down. 99.9999999...% of children of congresspeople, professors and NASA workers are not billionaires.
There are probably better ways of exporting energy than making glass.
Better presentation, but laggy: At this writing, no 03/06 data. Johns Hopkins is complete through 03/06:

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594...
Are you familiar with Sami Inkinen?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKC9ZZ66jgc
What would be the point of getting clicks to a bug tracker which he doesn't own?
Well, I did say "a lot" of young people, not all. I have three adult children and I wouldn't say any of them are in the thrall of critical theory, despite having graduated from public universities in California.

By the way, what is an example of critical theory being used by partisans of the Right?
I learned it in a RedCross program; which makes me think it was standard.

I suspect that it was never taught for competition, partly because of its energy efficiency through low performance.

I also wonder if it's more common around lakes and oceans; as it's great for going over waves with minimum energy.
Yes! I should have mentioned that. I mostly use emacsclient as an $EDITOR for git and similar programs in Emacs shell-mode, but you can also use it as a version of Emacs that you can run quickly in a tmux window, if that's what floats your boat!
Loser gets the weekend pager duty shift
Right up until the exact moment you aren't.
Plink: Collaborative Music Generation
> The biggest thing with working from home is that you have to actually WORK.

Quite true. I can be at the office and not get shit done all day and it looks like work. I can be at home, kill it, and even save the company, and it still doesn't really look like work.

Wally would never work from home...
Engine search global market share:

Google 92.54%

so, who cares?
Once word gets around though, it starts to harm you in the long run. I worked for a company where one of the owners seemed to have a world view that everyone is trying to screw you over, so you better screw them over first.

After I left I had a friend ask about the company, because they were about to a deal with them. I gave my honest opinion and suggested they be sure to get any money up front and be very careful to reduce their risk.
Yeah, but it did. It knew where I was, based off of IP I presume.
> "Walmart is not a monopoly."

not if you're definition is that there must be one, and only one, market participant to be a monopolist.

but monopolies, in practice, are defined by market power (and monopsonies, by supplier power). you can control a market without 100% market share. that's the defining feature of a monopoly (market power), not market share.

walmart has both monopolistic and monopsonistic power in the US, despite thousands of small alternatives and a few big ones (like costco, target and amazon, which together form an oligopoly, that individually and collectively have market power).
Who decides who is an asshole? Makes all the difference.
That means that 9 out of 15 didn't inherit their wealth. So, maybe that's not so much the secret after all.
Agreed. Seems like people in Oregon choose to mostly ignore the issue
I think most people would agree that Google founders were nice guys before (and even for some time after) they became ultra rich.
Thanks for expressing what I tried to say in much better english terms.
So I don't know the first thing about aircraft control, but I'm a control engineer by training.

What control scheme do aircraft use today? I always thought it was a form of MPC (well GPC = generalized predictive control) with a state estimator like a linear Kalman filter.
Sami Inkonen and his SO rowed to Hawaii on a keto diet but were fat adapted first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
Richard Feynman on how teachers can make physics a “horrible subject”
There’s an old interview that’s well-circulated at this point in which Richard Feynman answers various questions about physics. I think it’s worth sharing a nugget of gold from that interview, which until today I somehow had personally missed and suspect others haven’t heard before. It’s a statement about how studying physics is ruined by the school approach of a teacher asking students to answer questions about it.

On physics, Feynman said:

"I don't want to take this stuff seriously. I think we should just have fun imagining it and not worry, like there's no teacher that's gonna ask you questions at the end -- otherwise, it's a horrible subject."

This is said at about 7:01 in the following video:

https://youtu.be/P1ww1IXRfTA

Agree? Disagree? Thoughts?

Personally, I deeply enjoy studying physics on my own, but while majoring in it, I often found that I didn't enjoy my coursework nearly as much as I had hoped. So, this statement from Feynman resonates with me.
It's not just Oregon; that's just a number I saw this morning in the local paper, but I suspect it's similar everywhere. The US did not use the advance warning we had to prepare.
Fluff? Where are the 'current per square meter' stats? They claim 'half your electricity from windows' but where's the data?

My windows are not in direct sunlight most of the day and all of the night. Most are never - on the north side, east side, west side.

All of them are never optimally directed at the sun even when fully illuminated.

The opportunity to generate power from accidental/incidental sources is very limited. Its always better to plan a real power installation with all the factors considered. 10x to 100x better.
I like PP when I am working on an established code base making changes. If I'm working on a PoC or something, I spend more time with pencil and paper up front than I do at a keyboard, so PP is out.
I hate that word, self-made. I think of Bezos, Buffet, Gates and all three of them had investment from their parents or had a business relationship made possible by their parents. Of the billionaires I know of, all them came from at least an upper middle class family. Certainly they are a special kind of talent and a big part of their own success, but they were raised by nurturing families with significant resources.
If we are comparing anecdotes, like in this article, DDG is still not good enough for me for certain kinds of queries. My default search engine is DDG, but even today I had to switch to startpage (!s) for some searches. IIRC, these were just some searches related to some themes and features of Ghost (the publishing platform), Hugo (static site generator), etc. In my daily use, I still rely on startpage, and the next level, which is Google (!g), to get to what I need.

Forget about instant answers and similar things. DDG’s index of the web is not as vast as Google’s...or maybe it is but it’s unable to figure out relevance as well as Google does.

I still recommend DDG to people and tell them about a few bang commands. But as of today, DDG is not something I can totally rely on within the scope of its search results.

The new Edge browser from Microsoft uses Bing as the default search engine. It works better than DDG for several cases (for me), but whenever it doesn’t, I miss the bang commands that make the act of performing the same search on another engine so quick and easy.
Sure, one example of the offerings of Yes Bank was inter bank transfers api which allowed you to settle money instantly between accounts at great scale. Beyond that there was virtual bank accounts, virtual UPI IDs, e mandates etc. If you are interested in learning about such solutions please feel free to visit cashfree.com
I agree, but like the Tesla roof tiles, you should buy those windows when you need to replace existing ones.
What are the possible economic effects of COVID-19 on the world economy?
Keep a full paycheck spare and then never have to worry about it again.
Whoa, that’s really cool. I didn’t realize ff8 had such issues, since 7 and 9 have gotten such modern treatment.

Does 8 not support steam workshop? It’d be really interesting to combine this various mods to improve the overall QOL, like the ff7 mod (Ultima?) did with all the visual aspects of the game. Is this doable here?
FWIW, I "got in" to GOOG, MSFT and AMZN. Didn't take any of them.

Sounds like you're deep in the GOOG machinery. Good luck to you bro.
I didn't see the source linked from there, so: https://github.com/ehrenjn/LSystems
> Now I’m starting to have the other problem. If I search for a company, product, person, etc., on DDG it’s the first hit. But on google I just get a wall of ads and videos, and it’s hard to tell where the actual homepage is for the thing I’m looking for.

You should also check out Qwant if you haven't. It's like DDG in this regard, but even "more so".
Well, hover link styling and dynamic HTML in IE3/4 did push the web forward a bit. Not necessarily for the better, but it was influential, and defined some of the things that became standard.

But that was probably a bit earlier, since I was off Windows by '98 or '99.
The media is seeing this as a political propaganda event, watch as this is spun into a major campaign issue, with massive finger pointing
Technologies in “Minority Report”
Thanks for your fear mongering propaganda
Don't touch your face: website watches you to help you avoid Covid-19
Is that necessarily needed? Couldn’t the nerves still control the same muscles?
> A pair works at the speed of its slowest member, so it take at least 8 hours for them to finish the "easy" coding.

Not necessarily. I pair with a guy who's probably 10 times as productive as I am(I really try, but I understand that I'm relatively slow), and he'll ask me to pair with him because I might come up with an idea for something that even he is stuck on. I often do, despite the fact that I'm much slower than he is at implementing things.

So while I do think that it can often be the case that a pair will only work as fast as its slowest member, most likely when tackling a large problem or even doing something tedious, that doesn't mean that there aren't times where a more productive member can value from pairing with a less productive member.

EDIT: This is entirely from my point of view, so it's possible that this person I mentioned feels differently. However, even if they were frustrated by my slow performance, I don't think they'd inquire my assistance on problems if they thought they wouldn't benefit from it.
From the interview:

> Q: You have seven scenarios for the COVID-19 virus. In the first three, the virus is contained to China; in the most extreme, a mild pandemic recurs each year for the foreseeable future. Let’s focus on your fourth scenario. Describe that.

> A: In scenario four, we assume that COVID-19 eventually affects all countries, but this pandemic is a one-time event and its severity is low. For China, we assume a 10% attack rate (10% of all people fall ill) and a 2% case fatality rate (2% of those who are ill subsequently die). We then use an Index of Vulnerability for each country, basically calibrating how much it is like or different from China, to estimate the effects of the virus in other countries. These assumptions are fed into the model to determine the severity of the outbreak in each country.

…

> The loss of real GDP, relative to what would have been the model prediction in 2020 without the virus, is approximately $US2.3 trillion for the world, which is 2% lower than the baseline. Of that, the US economy loses $US420 billion in 2020, or about 2% less than the pre-virus baseline. Of course, if the virus spreads more widely or turns out to be more severe, the costs would be larger.

Full paper (open access): https://cama.crawford.anu.edu.au/publication/cama-working-pa...
And then you’re at risk of getting snared by someone who made up the incident or is reporting in bad faith (singling the accused out for behavior the accuser and everyone else does).
It's not that easy to accept only your own changes though. You can accept all changes, or reject all changes, but accepting only your own and rejecting others, at least in Word, takes specific effort.
this is the reason you include md5sum or sha1 checksum when you send the binary releases. plus it helps with version tracking.
this is most likely not true.
i keep trying ddg every now and then - last attempt was ~ 6 months ago - and every time i have to return to google search with renewed appreciation. i have no idea why it's so bad - i think my queries should be very easy because most of the time i google referential material (e.g. information on a widely used api) and not something obscure.
Being forced to pair program all the time blows (IMHO). It's just too rigid. I was recently paired with another guy way below my ability. Great for him, not so great for me. PP is amazing when you and a co-worker decide to pair because it's the perfect approach for a problem you're trying to solve, or because one of you needs help figuring something out.
I imagine that if you were searching from a Polish IP, Google would infer that you meant the movie, not the city. For anyone in the United States, however, I'd expect the city to be the more common search.
>Once word gets around though, it starts to harm you in the long run.

Does it? It seems to have worked for the president of the USA just fine and that was his exact tactic in all of his business "deals".
From The Godfather Part II: "Hyman Roth always makes money for his partners. One by one, our old friends are gone. Death, natural or not, prison, deported. Hyman Roth is the only one left, because he always made money for his partners."
"Century 21" for me gives me three ads.

1. Reali (Google Play app)
2. century21.com
3. Redfin (Google Play app)

These three ads take up the entire screen of my phone, with official results below this wall.

One observation is that while one of the ads was for exactly what I was searching for, they had to pay for that placement. I imagine other companies might not bid high enough for their own names in the search results.
I am not sure. Looking at the CDC website [1], it looks like they extrapolate cases for the flu. They seem to estimate that roughly half of the people contaminated with the flu do not see a doctor (I would have guessed the numbers would be even lower, I had the flu a couple of times, it didn't even cross my mind to see a doctor).

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/how-cdc-estimates.htm
Amiga Next Generation
I literally do this with google all the time though (my girlfriend like us to celebrate N * 100 anniversaries). Every hundred days or so I go to google and type "500 days after [date]" or something to that effect and it works. It was the first thing I tried, it works reliably every time, and it's google providing the result in the results page, which is better than a link to a website that would do it for me.

What query did you do on google that didn't give you so good results?
I love duckduckgo, but for some reason my home ip address (new-to-me but fixed) seems to be banned on at least one server, and I have to flush my dns cache often to be able to reach duckduckgo.com . I've tried reaching out to info@duckduckgo.com but only got a generic "thanks for the feedback response", and I don't have twitter. Is anyone from duckduckgo reading this?
Project zero remains oddly silent.
It's a "necessary but not sufficient" type of condition.
> A lot of people will give in just to keep the peace.

IME it works only if the party is the only way in town and negotiation is only on scope and price (i.e., the other party cannot take their business elsewhere). Otherwise they get known as "assholes not to deal with" which is a very hard thing to shake off. My 2c.
"I have zero calories before 5PM"

Did you mean after 5PM?

Other than weight loss, do you feel any differently (body, mind)? I have started IF last fall. Similar diet - low carb, higher protein. I also had considerable weight loss, but no impact on blood quality.
> Signal doesn't know who sent most messages between friends.

Why not? They know which device sent the message (because Signal were sent it) and they know which device received it (because Signal sent it). I know that they have some really clever ways to forget the sender information and still route the messages, but we really don't know that they actually do forget it.

> They explicitly promise not to, but I guess if you want to you could believe that Signal is the problem and we shouldn't worry about Facebook.

I think Facebook is a far greater problem, but I also worry that Signal is a problem too. It's not either/or but both/and.
As much bad rap as Google gets, they actually provide a lot of resources for someone looking for work. With Internet access, you can get email, a phone number, document editor, 15GB of storage with file sync, and probably many many more. However, unless you are savvy enough to go into your account and disable a bunch of stuff, they're going to use that data to track you.
That is quite fun, might be the highlight of my morning!

Thanks for sharing!
I've been running Arch Linux on my 3900X with no major issues. It took a couple of updates before the temperature sensing worked, but right now everything works perfectly.
Well Congress is the ones who actually pass the budget so no?
Connections are still useful. Consider Zuckerberg, he didn't inherit his wealth from his parents, but the connections he inherited from his father, a prominent dentist in Westchester County, certainly helped.
I almost hate to ask, but... how reliable is this number? I mean, the US government has been pulling information that they used to provide, attempting to suppress bad news information, things like that. Can we believe this number?
Yep and I'll add my experience at UNC was stellar where we allowed users to self-service AD via Grouper[0] and then Ping sourced information from there. It was integrated with AWS IAM and several other services, too.

[0] https://www.internet2.edu/products-services/trust-identity/g...
> Most of the billionaires are assholes and/or criminals with a couple of noteworthy exceptions. So maybe not being an asshole will get you ahead in the middle but it won't get you all the way to the top of the foodchain.

Or did they become assholes along the way/once they got there?
And yet, the Greek root word we derive the word “technique” from encompasses both skill and creativity! See https://www.etymonline.com/word/technique
pure gold buddy, thanks for this
You are wrong.

You can hide content, except where the sender is mirroring it. You can hide your DNS lookup by using a DNS aggregator (are you?), unless you are using 1.1.1.1 or something, where the business model is harvesting. But unless you route everything through a foreign VPN, the phone company knows what site you asked for a connection to.

And who owns that VPN, and what is their real business model? The bigger they are, the more their customer list is worth.
I agree. I think this is why self driving cars will be difficult for society to accept. It's an odd topic because most people would never want to drive their own plane, yet willingly get on airplanes with some % chance they will crash.

The notion that there is some % of cars that will crash seems more palatable when you're the one driving rather than some robot. Or maybe that's just because I pretend I'm a better driver than the self driving cars. This sort of "I could do it better..." psychology is probably what drives these behaviors.

I can't build a better drug; .'. I trust that medical professionals will keep me safe.
I can't fly the plane in a safer manner; .'. I trust that pilots will keep me safe.
I might be able to drive in a safer manner; .'. I don't trust a self driving car.
Regarding feedback: "Please be on time" is not a very valuable encouragement. It's obvious. Of course one should be on time.

The next sentence should have been, "What is preventing you from being on time?" Or something like it.
Some writer and artists would use the following:

Hold a key in one of your hands and hang your hand down by your side while you let yourself fall asleep while sitting in a chair (honestly this first part sounds the most difficult).

When you fall asleep—or rather the trance-like borderlands between awake and sleep— you should naturally drop the key (or whatever metallic, noise-making object) which should spring you back awake retaining some of that state you just fell into, or any insights sprung into mind during that state.

I'm sure everyone's had mornings where they woke up after dreaming but without feeling quite awake—it's related to that feeling that they'd chase.

Maybe someone has a link on hand to a better write-up about it. I don't.
To clarify, a mandated reporter is a person who has to disclose child abuse if a child is in danger. I think this is an important protection for children. These are the same standards any psychologist, therapist, school, pediatrician etc. are held to. All those service providers are mandated reporters.
I am not so sure about that. When I was consultant I had several clients that were a complete pain to deal with but they also had a lot of money to spend so it was worth it in the end. When I read business biographies I get the impression that a lot of successful people/companies like Gates, Jobs, Ellison or Walmart are really hard to do business with. They will exploit you as soon as you make the slightest mistake but if you play everything right you can make good money.
I'm surprised by that. I guess I shouldn't make the assumption that a privacy-centered search engine isn't going to look at your location data.
My experience with pair programming in ML modeling:

- ML involves making lot of assumptions. That created some fatigue in me, and it helped to have someone giving out their thoughts actively. Even when not aligned on a common view point, simply going by one's approach first based on ease-of-implementation sounds practical. we could try other ideas always right..

- Creating bugs became more apparent. i.e., every software bug is someone's creation, and pair programmer would actively think about what's going on, makes the code less buggy

- Software architectures and designs are easy to justify at the end, because you've one more already on board, at least to some extent. If the person isn't aligned with the other's thinking, its very easy to pin point the item. Usual management style is, someone with different eyes (managers, tech leads) review once its gotten to some place.

- What was mild inconvenience was: my pair programmer was Vim guy, I'd like sublime text. Our style of thinking was also different. It made few things better, but ultimately you are asking someone to push their approach onto you. Some adjustment needed.. but okay. I'd prefer reading papers in depth before finding a common theme to implement, they'd prefer jumping into code, and then tweaking and hacking. My motivation/internal agenda is to write novel work, they'd want to simply get best numbers out. Aligning on something at this high level I thought has pros and cons..

- Overall, pair programming really helped me see myself. Its like getting active feedback, but not in the formal feedbacks designed in companies. If both like to some extent doing it together, its a good way to grow as a person and engineer.

- In workplaces there persons would not say I don't like pair programming with this person, unless do/die situation, at least in small companies. This pushes everyone to learn some people skills to see how things are going on.. I felt some discomfort at this aspect, but okay.

- I always had some insecurity about whether I am good enough for my goals or current project. I admired how many things are done by my pair programmer, and that made me feel whether they like working with me. It was always running on the back of my head. I think this dragged my personal contributions..

I'd always suggest someone try pair programming, see how it goes.