skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I dare to suggest meditation. We all get X number of ideas/thoughts/images/etc flying through our brain every waking minute. To be able to focus and do "deep work" we need to either break through the noise/clutter on our minds, or meditate/use yoga to teach our mind to be "quieter". I managed that after "a while" with Iyengar yoga (I assume that most types of yoga will do) but I liked this one better for its discipline.

For the question, another simple way is to dedicate "X amount of days". Increase the "5 minutes" to "5 days". 5 minutes can be misleading. 5 days is enough time to (for sure) know if you want to proceed or drop. You can try your period to be fewer or more (days), but definitely NOT a 5-minute-cycle.
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Board games, card games (in a pinch, solitaire's not just a program that ships with Windows), puzzles, puzzle books, music, radio. Writing, drawing, playing music, math. It's not like we had nothing to do before the Internet. We just couldn't watch/read/listen-to anything we wanted on a whim. It took a little planning. There was always plenty to do, you just couldn't go "I suddenly want to watch this movie I've not thought about in years, don't already own on VHS, and no-one I know has it either" then be watching it inside five minutes and without leaving the house. Or easily and quickly answer silly trivia questions ("who was the guy in that one thing?") unless you had the relevant trivia book (remember topic-specific books of trivia?) which meant you had to actually kinda care about the topic (enough to have bought the book) and couldn't just indulge every low-value "hm, I wonder".

[EDIT] oh and top-lists were less available so we were kinda happier with whatever was around, so far as media went. You had to be kind of a nerd for a topic to be exposed to much in the way of rankings or best-of lists (buy relevant magazines and books that contained them). Outside one's actual strong interests the thought "this may not be the best thing in this category I could be experiencing right now, I better go find out what that is" just never came to mind.
It seems obvious that the US could have handled it so much better and cheaper if they had not kept ignoring the situation in China and then Italy (which made Europe wake up)

But even in the situation the US is now, doing something, anything, now. Might still be a lot better than the alternative
Speculating about how the virus works on the internet, especially in the confident kind of tone I'm seeing in this comment section, leads people to take that speculation as fact, repeat it, and then you have misinformation spreading on an ongoing health crisis that people use to inform decisions they make in their lives which affect themselves and others.

I am not a doctor myself, but I am dating one, and helped her prepare for her (likely endless) shift in the COVID-19 unit at the hospital two weekends ago. I was shocked at how much more serious the health effects were than the internet had led me to believe, and I don't use facebook avoid low-quality journalism.
If the IDE broadly reduces the efficiency of developers, and causes developers to waste time contorting their workflow to the IDEs poorly conceived approach to doing things - especially in relation to other IDEs... I'd say that's toxic for the Eclipse brand.
"Approachable" means that it might require some effort from the reader (eg. in worst case scenario, a reader not familiar at all with the domain would have to look up the definition of every word in a sentence and do that recursively a few steps, until he/she gets some domain familiarity by reading the equivalent of a few hundreds pages or less), but you can approach it, and in exchange it gives precise and rich information!

I like Wikipedia as it is, let's not make it into IdiocracyPedia for the sake of accessibility... if you're not lazy and you're willing to put some focus and time into your research you'll be able to understand quite unfamiliar subjects from Wikipedia, there's nothing blocking you, as opposed to eg. lots of academic articles that may contain un-google-able jargon and unexplained/unmentioned domain specific assumptions.
Absolutely. As one of the poorest countries in the world, remittances are crucial to Somalia’s economy.
Don't. Most side projects aren't worth investing heavily in, but you can't tell which is which without trying them. I had started hundreds of programs before Erich Gamma and I programmed together. If I had forced myself to "stick with" one of those early projects, we wouldn't have written JUnit.
Will second this. Saw the name Eclipse and shortcut-ed to will stick with VS code.
You're welcome! And yes, both Theia and OpenVSX can be self-hosted. Please report issues if something is unclear or doesn't seem to work.
I don't get it either; it's a comment section on the internet, not people writing medical scientific papers about the subject.
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Many Thanks. Sorry to be a bother :) Ill have a play around and see what I can get working for my usecase.
The stimulant caffeine is a popular alternative (provided you’re not overly sensitive to it [it can cause heart palpitations and anxiety], and don’t take it too late in the day) — lots of people use it to self-medicate ;)
It's not "mysterious". Myocarditis is a common result of viral infections of any kind, and can persist for weeks after recovering from the virus itself.
Firefox and Safari.

Safari may be proprietary, but its engine remains OSS and you could fork it, which is what Google did.

That said I'm a happy Firefox user.
One difference with other athletes is that, as with gymnasts, dancers have to start really early in their childhood (because they peak earlier than other sports, due to the kind of preferred body type), so you are asking a sacrifice to a 9-12 year old that in most sports is not required until 13-18 or whatever, at an age where many things are decided for them by their parents instead of by them.
This is not Tesla, but Seat has already done it : https://www.seat.com/company/news/company/from-making-cars-t...

Less techie, more down to earth, they used wipe motors.
Whichever most convenient way to obtain a full restriction-free PDF of a book. Fetched one by one through various channels in my case. Very few are in the public domain, if any. BTW one can do the same with academic publications, device manuals, or whatever else content available in PDF.
Speculation is fine; this guy died from self-medicating. There is a difference. We shouldn't resort to censoring to protect stupid people.
Ooh, thanks for the links. I'll check these out.
Sounds like that's what they did:

The cleanup diffs I’d written that afternoon mostly just annotated clearly-intentional fallthroughs
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Sure, but those people know a bunch of things we don't, and are not speculating on an internet message board for thousands of random people to read.
I agree. But one comment worth considering: does it take longer to retool an assembly line to make a new verified part, or to come up with a new design based on existing verified parts?

My money is on the former and they'd be better retooling some of the line _if_ there was an off-the-shelf set of designs to work from.

That said, there's room for all sorts of approaches. I just don't see this one reasonably panning out or being used.
key phrase was 'IF'. I typically do not apply type info, as I care about its logical purpose when debugging. Most modern IDE will tell you the type when you hover over them.
The whole point of this project is not to use up supplies needed to build ventilator but to compliment the ventilators they are already building by using Tesla parts.

This is fundamentally a logistics project. Plus, they have access to Medtronic engineers, and as long as the FDA approve the devices, I have no problem with it.
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Here's how I tell people how my experience of Nashua has changed: "When I was young, we used to tell people how to get to our house by saying at one point, 'Turn right where the cows are. You'll go over an old stone bridge and then through some narrow curves on a few hills. Then turn right at..."

Then it turned into "Turn right where the cows used to be."

Then it became "Turn right at the ____ subdivision."

When I was young I did a lot of bicycling and running. In early high school (1980s) a friend and I used to ride our bikes as far as we could in the morning, and then try to find our way back without asking for directions. We found all kinds of old back roads and small cemeteries and old stone walls and other remnants of old New England. Now when I go back and go for a run or a drive it's endless subdivisions. I don't resent that at all, I know things grow and change. But it's certainly part of why I don't miss Nashua much except for nostalgia.
Counterpoint: code is scripture; types are religion.
The medical literature is itself a shot in the dark right now.

For instance it is good that hydrochloroquone is being trialled, I might want it myself, but it is notorious that antiparasite and antibiotic drugs kill viruses in vitro but kill patients if they do anything at all in vivo.

The truth will out but it will take a while.
M-Pesa is a great project. Back in 2016 my team and I tried to replicate M-Pesa in Mexico for bank the unbanked people in rural areas, financial assistance and give them a type of basic income. Only Cisco México and Susie Wee supported us, the government wasn't interested in implementing that.

Here is a short description of the project:https://mundocontact.com/dinero-movil-ganador-del-solutions-...
Cybersecurity! I just started on Hack The Box. I am not sure if I want to go all the way for OSCP. Regardless, it is really fun and I've always wanted to learn how to "hack".
> If this fails, the patient can die.

In the current situation, I doubt anybody will give any regard to your sentiment. Though, I myself will.

> The smarter idea is to ramp up existing proven designs, not reinvent the wheel and basically do a publicity stunt about your engineering talent.

This is what China did. Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V, and knockoff ventilators began to fly off assembly lines in less than a month.

P.S. In other news, A VERY BIG THING that no news seem to be reporting. China has effectively banned nearly every medical export as of April 1 through enforcement of impossible to comply paperwork:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3077953/coro...

A man I know, who works at a medical clothing, and bedding factory, says that even such basic things that should not require any certification are now banned for export.
I've looked at Dhall before, and never come away with a desire to try it. It's interesting, and definitely has a lot of the right ideas. I'm not convinced functions are necessary.

Also, any language without an official browser JavaScript implementation obviously wasn't created to solve the same problems I'm interested in.
You could be having panic attacks; based on the fact you've got numbers, it sounds to me like you're actively monitoring your own blood saturation, which already implies you may be worrying too much about things like that. Don't underestimate the effects of worry and stress. If it's temporary and you don't have other symptoms then you probably don't have the virus.
Good to know! I've been willing to try using GCP more for my projects. Now I have yet another reason :)
> Maybe we should stockpile machines that can rapidly ramp up production of millions of face masks per day in preparation for the next pandemic.

Unfortunately that is not how machinery works, you would need personnel to maintain them, and also switch them on periodically, and repair them otherwise your stockpile of machines won't work anymore in - say - three to five years of stockage.

And BTW you would also need to have a huge stockage of spare parts, as in the same three to five years the current model (the machines that actually running in production) will be release/model Mark V, and they have different parts from the Mark I you have stocked ...
How much of all of that clean room conditions is truly necessary? I ask not to be combative or to just support Tesla, but I know the US has a habit of only accepting the absolute best medical equipment, whereas hospitals make do with good but not great equipment and are able to save lives and save money. There is a risk, but there is also the issue of peopling dying because of no ventilator. So what's better? Having no ventilator, or having an one that gets the job done but isn't made with "medical grade" equipment.
Guess what? ALL discussion about treatments for Covid-19 is speculation.

That a Darwin award winner and his insane, political activist wife, neither of whom had Covid-19, ingested toxic chemicals (probably after indulging in mind altering chemicals) is not very good evidence that discussion on Hacker News should be curtailed in any way.
Haven't checked my F-Pace now that you've mentioned it.
It's sitting a lot during this quarantine
> That's worth enduring a bad boss for.

A bad boss will absolutely give you burnout, and that lasts for years. You are of course correct, but at the same time I would never ask this of someone and I wouldn't subject myself to it either. Bad bosses will destroy your quality of life in the medium-long term.
Not really - if Microsoft is unhappy with how Google is handling Blink they can just fork, just like Google forked WebKit - there is a sufficient number of big players competing in this area - having a shared open source rendering engine is a good thing.

I like Mozilla because of Rust efforts and I recently tried switching on OSX since Chrome is a CPU hog and I was looking in to alternatives - Firefox was the most unstable experience I had in years - I had a news site consistently crash the browser tab which also caused audio in other tabs to get screwed up, occasional redraw issues (flickering when resize), developer settings that are trivial to find in chrome (disable localhost CORS with SSL) - just a subpar experience.
Ah, that's too bad. You can use two CSS selectors to make the two columns go under then main one on small screens, though it's a bit more involved than I can remember off the top of my head.
There’s definitely some danger in people downplaying this virus, I totally agree. But I don’t see that happening in this comment section. I see people discussing how the virus might work, and trying to explain why these examples have been observed.
What happens when you play video games?

For me video games are fun and easy to focus on day after day.

I realized that this is because video games have done a very good job of defining a goal --> FTL (my current favorite) == get to the final sector and destroy the rebel flagship. The goal is clear and you 100% know when you're done.

I've learned that I used to be really bad at defining goals. I'd say things like... 'I want to make an XYZ sort of thing'... but that's not a great goal. It's kinda vague... have you 'made' the thing when you put down 10 lines of code as a prototype? When will you be done?

If the goal is unclear I feel -->
1. like I might be signing up for an everlasting slog
2. like I'm not really sure how to win

So I find that I need 'delivery' goals --> 'my app is in the app store' or 'my article was published'. When you work for someone else this is the kind of goal they give (when will you ship XYZ) and you probably always make those.

Hope this helps!
You are correct, my mistake. Thank you for the clarification.
Wow that seems very prosecutable. Doesn't Zoom know who attended each meeting?
No.

There's clearly a virus spreading. It sends some people to hospital. Quite a few viruses do that.

Unlike those, this virus is different in one key way - governments have decreed that any death where the virus is present is counted as a "virus death", and have decreed mass testing to find infections. Consider a virus that is not really dangerous but highly infectious, like any common cold or flu. Then many people will turn up at hospital with it, but in reality their problem is something else. With our current data that would look like hospitals being flooded in a way never seen before, but it'd be a data artifact, not something real.

As for countries having to build makeshift hospitals, two things:

1. Local overloads happen during bad flu seasons too. You can find many reports in the past about wards being converted, tents being constructed to hold patients on the streets from earlier flu pandemics. Arguably making quick hospitals to handle that sort of bad flu season should be a more common practice.

2. No country anywhere is experiencing general overload. Even in Italy, a few days ago a politician was publicly asking why they're sending patients to Germany when in nearby Veneto there are hospitals that are 2/3rds empty.

Projections of mass death requiring everyone to shelter-in-place are based on the belief that everywhere will "go Bergamo" simultaneously at once. That isn't happening, it's not even close to happening.

Go investigate and you can find stories of deserted hospitals all over the world right now. They've been cleared out in anticipation of an imminent surge that isn't appearing. That's why Germany and Switzerland can take in patients from neighbouring countries - not only are there no makeshift hospitals but hospitals need financial bailouts because they've having to pay so many staff who are basically idled, like many other businesses.

Clearly there's a huge mismatch between the global view and a small number of local hotspots, and our understanding of what's happening is heavily coloured by the press.
"maybe you already got what you came for."

As someone who frequently starts projects and doesn't finish them, I've wondered if the part I enjoy about the project is the dreaming about what could be. That little rush you get when a new idea is upon you and it's all you can think about for x days. Doing the initial research and formulating a plan.

This is a dopamine rush for me. The feeling of being laser focused for those few days is invigorating. The start of something new, the potential for life changing work.

It usually stops there. Maybe that's what I came for.
Thank you for your comment, very much appreciated. I want to read the article but it's not written in English.
No official browser JS implementation is a non-starter for me.
> But the real issue is that no business is managed to handle the tail risk (the rare, low-likelihood events with disastrous consequenses).

There is an entire industry devoted to this. It's what made Warren Buffet rich.
> Sony made several portable gaming devices...
The market didn’t really care for them.

Except for the PSP, which sold 81 million units.
I have been contemplating a similar change. The dynamic for me is interesting. When I go deep into tech studies or projects I eventually feel a what-is-the-point energy take over. When I go deep into exploring the mental/emotional/spiritual my engineering creator brain will eventually agitate.

Figuring out how to express both has been a decades long puzzle. A puzzle which has not been very productive for my career. I have recently considered turning all tech into a hobby and getting a Masters in Social Work.
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You might look at why Moab is "Closed" and San Juan county in CO is "locals only".

Those places don't have a medical system in place to work with this pandemic, and adding people-- especially people who have been traveling-- puts stress on a small and possibly fragile system.

That seems slightly irresponsible to me. Among several other reasons, that's why I'm locked down in Texas with a friend instead of returning to Durango and the apartment I've been renting for the last year.
Exactly. “Fork it and compete” is as FOSS as you can get. Any time I complain about how some FOSS works, I’m constantly told that it’s open source and if I don’t like it I should fork it and fix it. That’s just how open source works.
I love Alaska. I live in Sitka, which is a small town on the side of an island. We have about 10k people, but our town is a 14-mile by 1/2 mile strip of land on a 100-mile long island that's almost entirely wilderness. I like that we're a big enough town to have a thriving community - good educational opportunities, a variety of work available, an impressive arts community. But you can walk into the woods anywhere at the edge of town and immediately find yourself in actual wilderness. Subsistence is also a way of life for most people - almost everyone has a freezer with fish and wild game that they caught themselves.

The virus is going to have a serious impact here, like so many places. So many people depend on the summer tourism season to make a living. There are charter fishing operations, tour operations, retail operations. Those people and businesses will make almost nothing this year. And when this is over, how long will it take people to be able to afford summer travel again?
Don't mess with pet meds no matter how tempting it may be. We have horses so we have phenylbutazone which is tempting to use instead of aspirin, ivermectin which you might be tempted to use instead of otc parental for roundworms, also a huge jar of thyroid hormone that might help you lose weight.

I stay away.
This man was killed because he drank fish tank cleaner. Frankly, I don’t believe his death is causally linked to certain people speculating that hydroxychlorouine might be an effective treatment.
But how long will an FDA approval take? Are they likely to take shortcuts because it's an emergency?

I mean personally I wouldn't object to them lowering requirements temporarily because we're in a crisis situation, but I hope they won't give permanent approval for all of the hacked ventilators that a lot of companies seem to be producing right now - once the pressure is off, stop using the temporary ones until they've been pulled through the FDA wringer thoroughly.
This is a very good point. I incorporated the fact that they have access to Medtronic engineers into my post, or at least they have Elon Musk who can talk to their engineers.
In terms of how this should be done, clojure and edn shine here and prove the point rather strongly that solutions like ymal are unnecessary at best and deeply limiting at worst.

Yaml is the poster boy for easy but not simply.
Yes, I used to go really heavy on it. Had to quit it almost entirely, for both heart palpitations and anxiety.
GA is cool

Population size 1024 took only 52 generations to get from random gibberish to "Helln, woqld!"

Then over 6000 generations to arrive to "Hello, world!", which seems not very efficient.

As every member of population is evaluated for fitness every generation, we performed 6M evaluations.

If same task was bruteforced (all combinations of 13 length from alphabet of 89 letters 89^13 variants) it would take much more than 6M.
could check out:
https://www.cortex.dev/
I would not count on it. There are other coronaviruses and we don't have vaccines for them. Of course I'm hopeful, but not ready to count the chicken here.
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Currently hacking up a prototype of a puppet-like system for automating host setup.

So far I can parse a configuration file, apply rules, handle (manually specified) dependencies, and configure triggers to run on rule-actions.

Not a bad state to be in for a few hours work. Of course the big decision is if I continue, and write modules for doing more than I have right now. I suspect the rational answer should be "no". But I kinda like the existing implementation, and being go it is trivial to install/deploy.

https://github.com/skx/marionette/
Implementing Base64 in Rust