skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The Soviets had no beef with Japan, to them it was a land grab,

didn't this:

a) radically shift power balance in the region
b) revert losses from imperial war with japan in early 1900s
And then you'll leave the station and stop/go/hills/regen further "flexes" a similar dedicated powercapacitor bank onboard (separate from the Li/Co/Mn/Ni long term reservoir which is expected to contain thousands of cycles whereas capacitors are tested in the millions).

If you're highway bound often this may mean faster decay of battery throughout the decade because of which side gets cycled.
I'm absolutely in this boat. I don't drive enough to justify a 45k expense (after options), but if I were driving more I absolutely would. Considering I live in a city with almost no public transportation, it's basically guaranteed if I can't walk to work anymore.
I wonder if people have dramatically different sensations to artificial sweeteners like they do foods such as Cilantro or Grapefruit.
I wonder if it'd be feasible to make a Java VM that runs on nothing but a GPU, without any assistance of the CPU except for bootstrapping the system.
It sounds like you are looking for a SSO solution, not a central password manager. My company uses Okta - it is mildly annoying if you only have a small number of apps, but the friction becomes worth the trouble when you have dozens.

I also am curious that you have a 4:1 ratio of services to employees. I've only seen that many services at enterprise-scale companies. I'm sure you have your reasons, but every IT department I've ever been a part of would be actively looking to reduce that number by finding more robust solutions that solve multiple problems instead of 100 different solutions.
Most people aren't going to want to sign-up without knowing more. The intro sentence doesn't do enough. You need to demonstrate the purpose of the product and the value proposition to the customer (i.e. your users).

No one is going to contribute their e-mail and their time for free. No one does anything for free, really.

I have no idea what I'm getting into by signing up. Make it more clear and I'd be tempted!
I've done this in a team in the past and we just put the encrypted keepass database in a private github repo. It mostly works out fine, the only pain in the butt is everyone needs to ensure that they pull down their repo and make sure its all up to date before they add anything to it.
Good point. But I would totally watch "The FLOPs are Right". :)
Yes that seems to be the trade-off.

See their specs page[0] for energy density. 236 Wh/Liter compared to 250-730 Wh/Liter in Li-ion.

They would probably make arguments about cooling requirements damaging that value for Li-ion at pack scale however.

[0] https://kurt.energy/products/products_cells/
1/n where n is the current number of cashiers in a given store
The “graphical abstract” wonderfully distills the study design and results.

https://marlin-prod.literatumonline.com/cms/attachment/a9753...

I hope more papers do this. Is it required by Cell?
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That's up to the voters. They often have other priorities.
All numbers are made up, some are useful
"Why does your goal of trying to limit their "manipulation" have more validity than their goal of limiting yours?"

Because Scientology's views aren't held in good faith and claims about society should be assumed to be pretexts used to justify the quoted excuse for predatory behavior. Scientology has a history of fraud, kidnapping, extortion, and other extreme exploitation and don't deserve any benefit of the doubt. Their views do have less validity since they're known bad actors.
It wasn't failed isolation procedures like the title implies. He likely infected people before he was quarantined. We also don't even know that he was patient zero--he was just the first one diagnosed.
> I hope Amazon comes up with an awesome way to help the cashiers this technology replaces.

I'm not sure why this should be on Amazon. It's on all of us to better train people to have the jobs of the future. Our education system hasn't really changed in 100+ years. It needs to.
I think it depends on the application.

When I drink diet soda, I find that aspartame works better than splenda... and I haven't found a stevia-based soda yet that doesn't taste absolutely disqusting.

When I make a pitcher of Kool-Aid, I find that 8 packets of stevia produce a result that's better than any other sweetener I've tried (including sugar).

Taste is subjective, and varies from individual to individual, of course.
The fact that almost every modern use of OOP consists of objects with numerous methods all with differing behavior essentially contradicts what you've stated.

This concept is not OOP.
I would suggest bitwarden, it's fully open source.
I switched to it from Mozilla, mostly because of the sharing.
There have been studies where mice were fed a diet of various natural and non-caloric sweeteners. The mice were monitored for blood sugar levels and cholesterol as well as other measures. The mice who ate all three of the most popular artificial sweeteners had worse outcomes on several measures. There is some additional evidence that the effect is largely due to the sweeteners' effect on the composition of gut bacteria. I can't tell you if this holds up (or if it holds for humans) but aspartame does not seem to be harmless in these studies.

Popular coverage: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/artificial-sweete...

2: https://www.businessinsider.com/artificial-sweeteners-aspart...

Link to one actual study: https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/2/367
Please leave Matt Damon out of this.
Yep, and in my case since I buy groceries on Amazon and don't purchase foods that don't fit my macros, I'd have an even harder time. e.g. I couldn't tell you offhand with certainty how much bread or any particular brand of cereal costs.
I don't know about honey but for fruits, the theory is raw versus processed.

Raw means lots of fibre which acts as a natural limiter.

More like coca leaves vs. cocaine.

A teaspoon of granulated sugar is the equivalent of a stick or more of sugar cane. Everyone can eat 10 spoons of sugar daily no sweat.

Eat a stick of sugar cane and you won't do it any time soon.
I may be naive, but some of the responses to COVID 19 seem overblown.
Swine flu caused over 10,000 US deaths and the response seemed nowhere as dramatic, especially with regards to the press.
Is novel Coronavirus that much worse? Or is social media and the press driving it to new levels?
“I Don’t Think the Virus Can Be Stopped Anymore”, Says Harvard Epidemiologist
I can report the same behaviour of an office of a pharmaceutical firm here in Berlin.
As you are somebody who is responsible for stewarding the ActivityPub specification, I am seriously disappointed by this dismissive attitude.
To me, the animation does not help, and especially the meaningless x-axis 'early containment measures/time' doesn't make any sense.

I understand the point, but I think a few static graphs, or a 3d rendition, could convey it much more clearly.
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Maybe technology is to blame but in a different way. Its well accepted now that a person will be offered two different prices for a product or service depending on a wide number of factors.

Included but not limited to: New/repeat customer, country of connection, device used to connect, previous purchasing or even searching habits.

You can test this in the UK by searching for a holiday. Do it once on an android phone using your normal account and then do it again via a macbook as a guest of the site.
I agree, but I think it made people mad cause it suggested that an outside source does this for free. No for the proposal before signing a contract.
Ok, get that, but it looks like hand washing isn't enough, and step 2 (lock everything up) is a bit drastic, so how?
Articles like this one give content marketing a bad name. It’s disappointingly lacking in details. It’s main purpose is to sell a product, not to inform, and it shows. Let me give you a summary of 90% of its contents:

- Research who will use your product and how it will be used.

- Start with paper and pencil sketches. It’s faster than other methods.

- Turn those sketches into digital mockups. Fill in details.

- Have someone else look at your stuff.

The few other comments on this thread already provide more insight into the UI design process. I wish more content marketers spent more time on the content part.
Trinet is a great existing option for smaller companies, particularly if you need other benefits as well
Myki offline is worth considering as it has 2FA and shared access across your team - https://myki.com/teams/
OOP as realized by the languages in common use is a bit of a disaster.

What was originally conceived as message passing[1] is actually implemented by OO languages as passing around pointers to objects that have mutable state, so in effect, every object is potentially part of global shared state.

Inheritance is a confused mess of "is-a" semantics, type system behavior, and code/state sharing in a set of subclasses.

I'm often somewhat amazed that we can build working large-scale systems at all in these languages given their weaknesses and the knowledge/skill level of the average programmer.

One source for what OOP was meant to be is https://wiki.c2.com/?AlanKaysDefinitionOfObjectOriented. That article links to others, and you can follow quite a rabbit trail of "what OOP is" threads.
Interesting! Government(-backed) UBI is the ultimate goal. But how to make it happen?

First, why has it not happened already? All the data indicate that it's good. A no-brainer, then? Well,
- It's expensive
- Governments vest financial power in businesses, not in themselves.

End results?
1) A very oiled mechanism for income concentration, no questions asked
2) No mechanism for income distribution (!)
3) Blaming the government for not providing UBI already
4) No UBI, be it voluntary or government
5) Many people, who in fact want to contribute towards it, cannot.

Why not start by creating that mechanism for income distribution, then?

A quote about Sam Altman[1]:

«Altman suggests researching Universal Basic Income. (Y Combinator has already begun work on a UBI project in Oakland.) “We should set a goal of eliminating poverty in the country,” Altman writes on his website. “I’m not yet sure what a reasonable timeframe for this goal is, but I do feel a moral obligation to figure out how to do it.” Unions aren’t working, Altman says, and wages are stagnant, so we need something better, even though he isn’t sure what that is yet.»

Some examples of people who would like to contribute, yet cannot:
- Nick Hanauer[2,3]
- Letter for a wealth tax[4], not exactly on income but on wealth, yet indicative of the supply
- The Giving Pledge[5]
- Yusaku Maezawa[6]
- Andrew Yang[7,8] has just brought together donors who are pledging millions for UBI
- Patriotic Millionaires[9]
- The World Economic Forum @ Davos is also "on the topic"[10]
- Resource Generation[11]
- Wealth for Common Good[12] – the project seems inactive, yet meaningful

References:
[1] https://theoutline.com/post/2063/sam-altman-united-slate?zd=...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBx2Y5HhplI
[4] https://medium.com/@letterforawealthtax/an-open-letter-to-th...
[5] https://givingpledge.org/
[6] https://www.businessinsider.com/japanese-billionaire-maezawa...
[7] https://twitter.com/thrubi_org/status/1235700880940429314
[8] https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1235625855570804736
[9] https://patrioticmillionaires.org/
[10] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/01/davos-leaders-agree-w...
[11] https://resourcegeneration.org/what-we-do/#our-methods
[12] https://wealthforcommongood.org/
Same treatments as usual for pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and sepsis.
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worth looking at Myki, offline, 2FA and shared access to the team https://myki.com/teams/
How does a guitarist get more "productive" in terms of speed and quality? Practice.

Build things you want to use. Or build things other people want to use. Do practice problems online (LeetCode, Project Euler, etc.). Read more documentation.

Pick a tech stack that you want to become an expert on (preferably an employable one), and start learning. Buy the books.

It sounds like you're feeling a lack of confidence in your knowledge and abilities, and the only way to improve those is to continue learning and improving.

One other consideration is: do you spend a significant amount of time on repeated processes? Perhaps during development you're 1) logging into your database, 2) dropping some tables, 3) re-running some tests that populate the database, 4) viewing the results. Can you automate such processes? Can you put together a few scripts or utilities that make you more efficient? Can you find boilerplate or scaffolding that gets you 20-30% of the way there rather than starting from scratch?
Hi, I'm Will, the creator of Unbounded. I co-founded the security company Cambia, later acquired by Tripwire, Inc.

Unbounded is a schemaless, serverless, NoSQL cloud database accessible from the frontend that you query with JavaScript.

If you can code it, it's a valid query.

Store any JSON data with no limitations on primary key names, property names or embedded objects. Map, reduce, and receive query results to your webhooks.
Free tier for life.

Getting started with Unbounded:

How to store data remotely in a react web app:

https://medium.com/@will.a.weisser/storing-data-remotely-in-...

Creating a Zero-Setup Microservice:

https://medium.com/@will.a.weisser/create-a-zero-setup-micro...

Part 2: Searching and Updating with JavaScript

https://medium.com/@will.a.weisser/unbounded-microservice-pa...

Unbounded was conceived as an elegant solution to the problems introduced by managing massive contact lists for an enterprise CRM platform, while being carefully designed to reduce developer friction.

For example, one reason we use JavaScript as a query language is because it's likely a language you're already familiar with, instead of forcing you to learn yet another quirky dialect of SQL.

Unbounded is more than a database, it’s a turnkey way to create a data transformation pipeline that can scale, without setting up servers, lambda functions, message queues, task processors, “Glue,” etc.

You send us JavaScript, and we'll execute it against your data in parallel, writing the results back to disk or sending them to you via S3 or webhooks, while queuing and retrying any failures. At the same time, you can still execute queries directly to pull out records like you would in a DBMS.

I'll be here to answer questions all day long!
If someone made a decent browser plugin and mobile app with vault as a backend then it'd be fantastic for human consumption. As it is now, it's for machine consumption.
My big idea for Venus, assuming infinite power, would be to shoot a series of big asteroids past it and use the gravity/inertia drag to make it spin faster.

Then, when Venus is spinning fast enough, collide the asteroids together to give Venus a moon and tides.

While all that is going on, use some sort of huge electromagnet to spin Venus' internal heavy core to provide a strong magnetic field to deflect nasty stuff from the Sun and elsewhere.

Also build a shield to stop all sunlight reaching Venus, thus freezing the atmosphere onto the surface. That makes reprocessing the crust into something Earth-like much easier.

Comets could then be used to provide oceans.

Shouldn't take more than a few tens of thousands of years! Seems like something a few humans, downloaded into robots, could do.

Mars would remain a scientific research station like Antarctica, assuming that life is found there. I'd treat Europa and anywhere else with life the same way.
This is great and all, but misses the problem when containment doesn't happen soon enough. I feel like people look at China and South Korea and say "oh it peters out" but miss the need for extreme interventions to make that happen. We still don't know how this turns out if everyone puts their head in the sand like the U.S. is intent on doing with minimal testing and uneven regional containment.

Seems to me like a typical measuring problem of having one hard metric so everyone argues about it's implication rather than focusing on where the number comes from.
From what I understand (correct me if I'm wrong) - Some people who can survive the virus might need to use a nebuliser.. but what if medical care is overburdened at that time? Then even they will die from difficulty in breathing. This is why slowing the spread is important.
Such issues featured prominently in the Yalta conference, where the starting point for the discussions and negotiations was the de jure status quo ante. And if Bornholm ws not de jure Danish territory, there would be no issue here (or, at least, a different one - if it had been German, I imagine it might have become part of the DDR.)
Yes, to be exempt from tails is basically the definition of their business.
It's endlessly frustrating to me that animated graphs are published as GIFs/videos (see r/dataisbeautiful on reddit for lots of examples). In this particular one, I can't read the annotations before they disappear, and the whole graph resets before I've figured out what anything means.

These graphs would really benefit from proper content aware controls (i.e. not just play/pause and a timeline, something aware of the key timeline points of the content). GIF/video is obviously used because it's so easily embeddable, but IMO the format makes most of these graphs essentially incomprehensible.
I understand what you are saying but part of security is making it easy enough that people will use it, but hard enough it isn't easy to break for bad actors. People are lazy in general, if you tell 25 engineers at a startup they have to use two different tools just too handle credentials, the compliance rate of using 2fa will drop to nil, making accounts easier to hack. Don't get me wrong, it isn't like 2fa is so secure, it has been shown to be hackable for sure, especially when using SMS devices; but if done properly it can add a level of extra effort for a bad guy and if that extra effort is easy for engineers to use they'll do it. 1Password makes it this way.

From a corporate standpoint, I don't want people using their personal devices for SMS OTP (2fa) because then if they leave, are disgruntled or get tragically hit by a bus I am locked out of a potentially important service/account. I had this happen on three accounts in the past year where one took me 3 days to recover the ability to access it, another I never could recover and we had to work around it and a third that was absolutely critical but took close to two weeks all said (lots of waiting). That is insane, and all because people used their own personal devices (or similar) for SMS 2fa.

There are other devices you can use, and some enterprises do use hardware keys in addition to the password which works well and the more sensitive the system the more inconvenience people will tolerate and understand.

For me it boils down to 1Password works good for a reasonable price which helps startups and small companies. I also don't think using 1Password is just a tool and you still need a good password refresh cycle and to stop reuse etc. This way if a backup at 1Password was somehow compromised or stored improperly at your company or at 1Password at least you'd be insulated better.

It definitely does provide a single point of access that if compromised in a way which bypasses all their security a lot of companies will be hurting.
I like sweet things in my coffee. I also like not being overweight. Hence, sucralose in my coffee and 1000mg daily of metformin (taken for life extension purposes, second order effect is lowering blood sugar level). The right answer need not be "abstain from what you enjoy" if we can hack together a solution from diet and engineered compounds.
I'm fairly sure they can't do that after the trial has started.

Basically, yeah, if you admit to the attorneys at the beginning (during "jury selection") that you'd do this, then yes, they'd use this to make sure you don't get on the jury, because you're obviously biased.

But if you lie or keep your mouth shut and get on the jury, and then during deliberations you bring this up only among other jury members that you don't believe anything the CIA says, I don't see how they can boot you from the jury at that point. Most likely, it would result in a mistrial due to hung jury.
It's unfortunate that "quality time" has come to have similar meaning to "Kodak moments". Quality time is just time spent being comfortable. It's when your soul gets some rest, and you look up at the end of the day and think "Wow! Night time already!". Whether you spent that time collecting butterflies, blasting aliens, or looking at clouds, is irrelevant.

It's nice to spend quality time with people you care about, because those times together are a slow bonding process.
Sounds like the perfect study for 23andme (they did a cilantro study [1]).

[1] https://blog.23andme.com/23andme-research/the-genetics-of-ci...
Sounds like a variant to 'starve the beast' to me.
So is this similar to Firebase?
There’s an important bit in this that depends on age. If you’re young and healthy, in addition to being less likely to die from the disease, you’re also less likely to acquire the disease (exposure level being held equal). If you’re older, you’re more likely to acquire the disease.

This implies the disease will spread much faster in areas with more old people, because more people are vulnerable to it and they are more likely to become infectious themselves. A similar statement could be made for how well integrated the older generations are in a given society.

I don’t live there and have no particular horse in this race, but I would predict the Bay Area will not look like Italy right now for this reason.

Edit: do be careful though. The takeaway is not that young people can ignore this.
> especially the meaningless x-axis 'early containment measures/time' doesn't make any sense.

The horizontal axis is labelled only 'Time', in the same font and relative location as the vertical axis label.

'Early containment measures' is labelling the animation (or specifically the black arrow that points in the direction it's animated) of the area under the 'sick curve', indicating what it is that causes that change.
Aaaand I completely missed the point of this post, sorry. Was just arguing against someone about this now I'm jumping at shadows.
you mean eggs can't be ethical right? That's not specific to free range eggs.
- work from home voluntarily if you can

- don't go to unnecessary crowded events if you can

- start meal prep for medium term food storage (~1 month) if possible

- wear face masks if you have them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt_coalescing
Google drive seems to work fine here. I believe there's also a plugin for it rather than save to the folder and deal with the rare save conflicts.

(This with 2 factor passphrase and key file, btw)
Do you have a better source saying otherwise? Thordarson seems like an expert in this field.
Testing is ramping up pretty quickly now. I think we're going to see a major shift in the next couple weeks with an explosion of newly-detected cases.