skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>South Korea has a 2 hour turnaround on tests, in the USA its still 5 days I believe.

Those kinds of inefficiencies don't have to exist. I wish I knew what the bottleneck was there. That time differential is so large that it has to be something pretty braindead that's holding the process up. Like we're still using test kits of type A when we should be using test kits of type B. Or everyone, nationally, is sending tests to a single lab with 2 staffers for evaluation. Etc etc.

The problem is, at once, solved in other places, and at the same time so glaring in our case that there is no way it can be insurmountable. We just have to get our heads out of our butts.
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From my experience most industries use and abuse people even worse. Sure my tech job is stressful but I've seen most other peoples jobs treat them worse AND compensate them for that less.
There's evidence to suggest that this isn't the case.

https://news.osu.edu/gratitude-interventions-dont-help-with-...
For sure the flesh of the fruit acts as a sort of filler. Fruit is more a meal vs confectionery. Whereas refined sugar can be poured on with reckless abandon. The real takeaway is sugar is fine in moderation.
I took the first example from http://www.json.org/example.html and msgpack makes it 304 bytes. a simple gzip on the json is 289 bytes. The larger examples are even more in gzips "favour"

I am not 100% sure why I would choose to use this - maybe for super tiny documents?
I've only had one problem with Catalina and ironically it prevents me from using the feature that I updated for: Sidecar.

Turns out that Sidecar doesn't work if your mac is connected to a VPN, even if you are connected to your iPad via USB with its wireless turned off.
Opposite for me. Coke zero is preferable to diet coke. (Neither are good.)
Chrome extension was broken for several days, that was painful, pulling out my phone for long passphrases on various sites.

While I wish the bitwarden UI could stay over the top a little better, been really appreciating it vs lastpass... it's a bit simpler and less confusing overall. Not quite the same feature set, but that's okay..

I do wish the autofill wasn't two menus deep though. (right-click, bitwarden -> autofill -> list) wish it just expanded autofill (if less than say 5 matches) on the right-click menu.
Here we go, actual data about SSRIs vs the placebo effect: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4172306/

It would be super cool if we all took the time to cite data that back up our assertions instead of just insisting that our ideas are correct.
protonmail did the oddest thing to me the other day. It sent an email to my gmail account to inform me that I had received an email at my protonmail address. I was stunned. The main point of having the protonmail account was to keep google out of my business.

Now I have to find a provider that doesn't leak in the dumbest of ways.
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Buying even 1 week can make a huge difference in the amount of preparation before a pandemic hits. Every extra day means more research into efficient and effective treatments, additional supplies, and even better public awareness.

The China approach shutting everything done can further slow the spread, but at massively increased costs and long term risks of reinfection.
GitHub can delete all issues, comments, and repositories
One of our contributors, catamphetamine (https://github.com/catamphetamine), who has created several open-source repositories we depend on and has submitted a lot of useful information in tickets, has been blocked from GitHub. When GitHub blocks a user, it also seems to destroy every comment, issue, and repository that they have ever created (ever), which means that you lose a lot of use full information. I love GitHub, but I can't afford to lose access to that level of knowledge. Does anyone have a way to backup your tickets or have a safer alternative to GitHub? Also is there any way to get all this information back?
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>I’ve done a lot of research and I think psychiatry is pseudoscience and antidepressants are largely placebo.

Care to link any of them?
I have a hard time believing they are placebo, as they fundamentally alter neurochemistry.
This was written about in a recent FiveThirtyEight article: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-happens-to-your-ma....

HN story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22376248
Isn't this just bagging and boosting?
But friction is dependent on the pressure between the contact patches. More area of contact reduces the pressure per unit of area. So you’d need more pressure on said tires without augmenting mass (because then you’d need yet more friction to accelerate that mass, that’s why wings are a thing, more pressure on the tires without adding mass that you’d have to turn accelerate.

Problem with wings is that they not only add drag but they are not affecting anything at launch. Maybe if you had a big electromagnet under the car and a steel path under the asphalt.
Yup, it always makes me think "TANSTAAFL". I used to be a big soda drinker in my teens; pretty much cut it out as an adult but those calories were probably replaced with beer.

As someone who meal tracks and exercises regularly, I definitely generally feel (calories in)-(calories out) is most of what matters, BUT, once you start doing that, there just isn't much room for junk. You can't really exercise your way out of a tub of ice cream a day. The more you work out, the more (good) fuel you're gonna need, so there's only so much wiggle room for junk.

Sadly, when I do have my soda-or-two a month, because I DO calorie count, I've finally given in and started having something like Coke Zero, but I should probably stop lying to myself, just have the real thing, and track it for the calories it has :)
Is there any comparison of the tooling/performance/etc of MessagePack, BSON, Protobuffers, Flatbuffers, and plain JSON?
As a human person, temperature relative to my body is more useful than the boiling point of water at ~100 kpa.

Anyways, in Titan's atmosphere water boils at ~110 C, so much for "100 = boiling water".
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I'd often though that a rail or even cable should be strung to the top of Mt Everest, you'd make a fortune off of it shuttling tourists up and down all day.
Another one, which creates backups on locally connected backup pool — https://github.com/reconquest/zeus
I know what you mean. I've been there.

And yet, from my own experience and the little I have read, the bigger problem is that there is no anticipation of fun. Thinking of fun activities does not bring me joy when depressed. Doing them brings lesser joy, but there is still joy, however little.
I don't think your atmosphere comparison is valid. The moon has absolutely no atmosphere. Mars' is 1% of earth. That's still a lot of _something_. aerobraking, and easy access to unlimited CO2 is incredibly valuable. Delta-v to mars is less than the moon so the extra solar panels required is not that big of an issue. The moon will probably only be a research outpost because of its gravity and slow rotation. Mars on the other hand will most likely transition to nuclear eventually to sustain a city/colony and industry
If i'm remembering the previous ARM announcements correctly, you probably already have an ARM instance somewhere in your stack - they were going to be transitioning a lot of stuff like ELBs over to these processors.
Msgpack is a different encoding, not quite the same as compression. What happens if you do both?
the closest I can think of was the famous floating point error that caused Intel to recall lots of parts[1]. Even that didn't render the CPUs useless for most users, only some scientific and business use cases really had problems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
Everyone knows what I meant by supercapictor. Instantly charged, large storage "batteries".
He never said. Nietzsche wrote very aphoristically, and it's often up to the reader to make sense of it.

For me, this saying resonates because I've found that when I think of suicide I feel better because it makes me think that after my death I won't have any more of the troubles that plague me in life. It'll be a relief. In a way, it's hope.

It also, I think, for a time gives me the feeling of control over my life.

The trick, though, is not to actually act on one's intention. I guess I'm pretty good at procrastinating, which has hurt me a lot in many other aspects of life, but it's good in this one sense.
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Maybe where you want to have a human debug or see what is happening (like in localStorage, or cookies). But if you're going to transfer a significant amount of data between front and back-end, for example, that can save money on a cloud service.

You can easily make a function wrapper that uses JSON in a dev environment and MessagePack in Production, for example.
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> And the Chrome assholes removed the password export (or at least I could not for the life of me get it to work at the time)

Chrome Settings > Passwords > "Export passwords..." (under the three-dots menu).

Not sure when you last checked but the option has been available since at least Chrome 66, which was released almost two years ago: https://www.ghacks.net/2018/04/18/google-chrome-66-password-...

I distinctly recall the option to manually import passwords being harder to find (solution is to either import them from another browser or enable a flag to import passwords from a CSV file).

Ironically Firefox currently still lacks the native ability to manually export passwords, relying on add-ons or third-party tools: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/technology/personaltech/f...
Why were they blocked?
I know that. But a TV documentary would reach far more people, especially in the demographic most at risk.
Has anyone ever had this work?
2 cents: Get off / moderate your social media, news media, TV show service intake - stop giving in to the comparison game that you can never win. When you play this game, you are living vicariously through the lives of others instead of realizing the incredible opportunity you have in each moment to maximize your own potential and be the best version of yourself.

For a long time a source of my discontent in life came from comparing my small steps towards big goals to the empires and platforms of the top performers in the same field. It made me feel irrelevant and like my efforts were pointless. I got out of that trap by taking extreme ownership of my actions and what I create, and I started viewing my progress solely relative to who I was yesterday, rather than to external benchmarks. I forget the exact quote, but it's similar to something like: "the best way to improve something is to start measuring it." and this really crystallized for me when I read a blog post by James Clear: "The Domino Effect." Momentum is important in our behavior - harnessing it to your own benefit becomes like a super power once you can appreciate how useful it is.
Diversity efforts are often looked at as just a numbers game. Get that ratio of men and women to 50/50 and everything will sort itself out.

In reality, it's a critical mass problem. To better serve and manage a diverse workforce, you need diversity in management. It's the same from a product prospective; it's a lot easier to understand a diverse user base if your team is also diverse.

Heather is absolutely right that promotions are largely based on politics and having a strong communication style, which inherently limits talent at the managerial level.
It also supports binary data in strings, unlike JSON. This means no more slow base64 encoding/decoding.
Sugar in your coffee ain't gonna make you overweight.

Have real sugar, don't take sketchy drugs, live a generally healthy balanced life.
The Martian (2015)

Also called "competency porn", it shows the challenges of building a colony on Mars.
The poles.
do they make contest on who has the largest online pics collection ?
In Norwegian we have a proverb, "Smaken er som baken" which roughly translates to "The taste is like the butt", and it is implied that they are all different :)

I know people who prefer Zero or Diet to regular, but not many.
It's partially accurate, but it's mostly misinterpreted.

"No better than placebo" sounds like the drugs don't work at all, but that's not true. Placebo is unreasonably effective at treating depression, and strangely enough placebo is getting more effective over time: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/straight-talk/201803...

Take a look at the response chart for placebo vs. SSRI some time and it will become very clear. Placebo treatment is literally so effective that it's difficult for actual antidepressants to significantly separate from placebo. That doesn't mean they work, though.

So why don't we just give everyone placebo? Ignoring the moral issues, active treatments are still superior to placebo and the results tend to last much longer than placebo. And for the most severely depressed patients, active treatments perform much better than placebo.

The placebo effect cuts both ways. If someone goes into an SSRI trial convinced that SSRIs are a garbage conspiracy pushed by Big Pharma after reading anti-psychiatry posts on the internet, they are much less likely to see depression remission.
Is there anything else where you do see a purpose that needs doing? Maybe folding laundry, cleaning the kitchen, etc. That usually makes you feel more comfortable at home.

Whatever it is, you can start small. Fold one pair of socks. Clean one dish. Vacuum one room.

I think a lot of people don't see any purpose in making a bed.
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My mother-in-law gave both of her kids these mop things that she was really excited about, and she was surprised when we didn't understand what the big deal was. Turns out she had been seeing ads for them on Facebook for months, and assumed we had two. It was a very enlightening experience for all of us: she got an introduction to targeted advertising, and we realized that not everyone understands how today's advertising market works.
The "Try!" demo fails with large JSON submissions with an exception in jQuery:

Uncaught RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded

I'm curious to see the savings difference and hoped to with "Try!" but it'll have to wait.
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And it’s also the closest planet to all other planets! Perfect spot for a space port.
Intel has already had so many flaws and vulnerabilities that I think nothing will change. People would prefer to ignore the problem and do nothing because they don't want their businesses to implode.
Obligatory Cap'n Proto[1] reference whenever serialization format discussions crop up.

[1] https://capnproto.org/index.html
That would be in the Seattle area.

Total cases within the US -- actual, not "confirmed", likely represents a ~2 week lag. Based on reported cases, the US has seen about an 85x growth rate over 2 weeks. That would give ~150k cases presently in the US. Reported is now 640 cases, 26 deaths.
protobuf can do nullable values, but you have to ask for them as primitives are the default. e.g. StringValue (nullable) vs string (not)
Her (2013)

No guns, teleportation or colorful explosions, but a really in-depth exploration of (disembodied) artificial intelligence.
Lots of languages _already_ compile to SPIR-V - GLSL and HLSL for a start. Why add _another_ syntax?
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If you want to transfer a significant amount of data and don'
t need readability, using protobufs makes even more sense, since the key names do not go as string on the wire, so the data should be much smaller.
So, SXSW was forced to shutdown? By whom? Did they lose the money that was paid them? How?

Even if they said, hey, we're trying to get X refund for Y site and facilities... we're expecting to be able to give refunds of Z% of your deposit amounts (expect at least 50-80%. I would think most reasonable businesses would accept that. A total forfeiture, someone is making money off of this and definitely not doing anything to earn it.
Travel bans: In the days when I traveled for work, I would occasionally catch a train back to Washington, DC, from New York. I would see a bunch of guys in suits get off in Wilmington, Delaware. Had you asked me, I was traveling. Had you asked them, they were commuting.

The commuter rail lines to Washington extend to Havre de Grace in the northeast and Spotsylvania in the south. Those are getting pretty close to Wilmington and Richmond commuter territory.
gzip is very slow. I don't know why anyone would still use it today.
For those of you considering alternate instance types remember that it it is important to do scientific benchmarks.

I just completed a us-west to us-east migration for a client because after a lengthy benchmark session we learned that the instances we really needed for our specific workload could not be AMD based. I tried a handful of AMD boxes and sent them through the ringer, but the Intel boxes always came out on top. The cost of these is significantly lower in us-east, hence the migration.

Not to knock AMD, but in the presented configuration from AWS the comparative Intel<>AMD instance types vary greatly. There is also no compute-heavy instance type from AMD at this time (AFAIK please correct me).

For reference our workload is network (outside AWS), Compute and RAM heavy. The c5.2xlarge seems to be the sweet spot as far as cost/performance.

So if you’re considering Graviton, make sure to design and run some real benchmarks. For us (in the AMD scenario) things looked real good on paper but after benchmarking the performance was not there.
You should repost this, the font looks really nice.
Too add to tokenization problems, for example, I have seen something about selling a portion of you home's equity. This, to me, seems like a way to extract wealth from those who are desperate and end up like the subprime debacle
It is probably a typo, but Mars doesn't have enough atmosphere to corrode things more than on Earth.

If you need 50km long dredge, then it is a viable project in future, just like now it is with space elevator. Apparently that type of dredge will be needed to extract materials from gas planets(and 50km might not be enough), so that dredge will have to be developed anyway.

The most logical solution to make habitable world would be to bombard Venus with comets and small planets. They all have enough materials to stabilize Venus atmosphere and teraform it and also calculated bombarding can cause Venus to change axis and rotation.
That is true for so many diseases, like anything related to obesity, diet, exercise and smoking. Doctors are too ready to prescribe pills instead of an exercise regimen or diet.

I wonder if doing studies on specific exercise regimes and diets would give doctors more confidence to prescribe them as cures. The problem is there is so much less money to be made for a certain industry.
The website immediately asks for access to my camera and microphone. When I decline it shows an error and black screen. I think it should display some help, anything, what the website/app is about without asking for camera access.
Interesting. What exactly does the `--no-remote` command do? I couldn't find any real detailed info about from a quick search.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Lin...
I fail to see the use case too. If you want a compact wire format, there are numerous options (protobufs, avro, thrift, etc) and their size is achieved by storing the data in a compact binary format and the schema separately.

With MessagePack the schema is embedded alongside the data, exactly like JSON. So it's just binary instead of text encoding, which saves some space, but as you pointed out, standard text compression algorithms are going to likely perform similar or superior.
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I've never heard of sweetening orange juice. Do you not find it sweet enough on its own?
We use the whiteboard feature on Zoom. I prefer a wacom tablet and others prefer an ipad with a stylus. Not sure if both of those violate your goal. The thing is: it is hard to draw with a touch pad, it is hard to draw with a mouse, it is hard to draw with limited surface real estate.

Pretty much anything that you can get a shared "doodle" board will work. There are online cooperative doodling programs that can be leveraged. Just remember to do screen grabs before you toss what y'all drew :)
I think that hybrid buses have been doing this for a long time. They have big supercapacitors on the roof which buffer the rapid charge from regenerative braking and use it to recharge the battery or provide energy for acceleration.

The problem I've always seen with supercapacitors is that their leakage current usually seems to increase as their ESR drops. So as they gain the ability to charge/discharge quickly, they lose the ability to hold charge over time.

I wonder if there are ways to mitigate that, but there are other problems like poor handling of high temperatures and mechanical vibrations / shocks; both are difficult tradeoffs for automotive parts.

They are proven solutions for buffering energy in EVs, but it's harder to justify the cost/weight in light passenger vehicles. That's why hybrid solutions like this are exciting.

These look cool - does anyone know if they have two or four dielectric layers? I can't quite tell from the article. IIRC Supercapacitors use four while traditional capacitors use two, and I feel like the self-discharge/ESR tradeoffs of supercapacitors might have a lot to do with the finnicky EDLC technology. If they've managed to make traditionally-structured capacitors with the Farad ratings of supercapacitors, that would be very cool.
I used to care about that but once the JSON gets at all complex, it's nice to switch to pretty formatting of it. At that point, a dev tool in the browser could do the same for this format so I don't think that is as pressing (for me and I suspect most people).
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Personally, I don't want to micromanage "containers" as a user. I truly don't understand why this is considered a nice feature. Who wants to micromanage anything?

What I want is for every web page to run in its own container by default. Zero configuration.

If it wants to access anything outside of its allowed domain hiearchy (like call an external API), I'd like the browser to ask for permission on its behalf. "Github.com would like to share data with Microsoft.com. Allow/Deny?"

There could be some kind of trust standard so that Github.com can prove that they are the same legal entity as Microsoft.com and is therefore authorized to share information without asking. Or perhaps something simpler that is DNS-based, like with email.