skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah seriously. Also they've messed with the podcast app so much I can't use it anymore. They only promote those that pay them basically. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find "new" podcasts? It's virtually non-existent on their app. 7 years ago, you could filter by new and you had a larger variety of categories. Now, if they aren't doing an ad ready 10 times per 1 hour episode, it's not at the top page.
It requires finding a supplier who has the exact or comparable part. Joe's has them although they're used but they do have long lives.
If you are using absolute paths, I found this easier to get used to:

hash -d b=/home/me/bin

Then you call foo as:

~b/foo

I have an array of these defined to my most used directories.
That's some really complex mess. How much do these chemists get paid?
This is a crisis, not a normal time. Fixing this system will make the difference between real people getting unemployment checks or nothing. That's worth enduring a bad boss for.
Of course, I'm talking for plebs :-)
Economic Carnage
To which someone got paid for somewhere along the line to go "hey lets curate this!"
No. Lots of states have very strict limits on the amount of money they can borrow in their constitutions.
CISA – update Google Chrome, high-rated security vulnerabilities found
Interesting. If you don't mind me asking; how did you make contact with the first few teams? Was the early exposure from sharing parts of the project through social platforms or directly reaching out to the teams?
It means that the Harvard / Chicago driven models that ripped the CCCP apart cannot apply, since there are no more internal market models to be penetrated.

Yep.

HN: Dumb Money. Rip their faces off.
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you are a eunuch nigger cattle. stay docile and mindless for the WHO
Person 151 is not a non-person, they're just a member of another group, who's leadership will include the other groups within the 150 monkey-sphere hence the basis of hierarchical human societies.

The dumbest thing about most "preppers" is that they invariably develop absurd ideas about how their fortress will beat back the hordes they imagine to descend (sound familiar?) yet pay basically no attention to their local council, who would be the nearest level of organization and planning continuance which would allow a practical response if the larger systems failed.

This isn't even speculative: the current the COVID-19 response in America has required local councils and city boards to coordinate, particularly in the absence of any clear direction at a Federal and frequently State level.
I assume that every state unemployment compensation dept. has the same basic set of requirements as New Jersey with a slightly different set of business rules. Here's a crazy idea: all 50 states could cooperate and hire a company to develop a flexible, secure, modern system that's easier and cheaper to maintain.
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HN is very Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general-hostile so I'm not going to debate about how bad it is or isn't for the environment or set up a strawman with gold mining. However, I'll say this: in a world where Bitcoin did not exist, I don't really think that power plant would have remained idle.
Why doesn't China's firewall block traffic like this?
For what it's worth, several of Bose's customers are continuing to refuse to believe this report's conclusion (in several instances, in an aggressively rude/accusatory way).

https://community.bose.com/t5/Around-On-Ear-Headphones/Bose-...
FYI: hCAPTCHA don’t pay us. We pay them.

ReCAPTCHA decided to start charging for their service (which they have every right to do, but it was a surprise). Just to use ReCAPTCHA on our Free customers would have cost us $10M+/year, which was untenable. We’d been concerned about the privacy issues around using a Google service for some time, and this was the kick in the butt we needed to move off of them.

hCAPTCHA has been incredibly responsive so far to improving their service, something even at our scale we had a tough time getting from the ReCAPTCHA team.

Ultimately, we’re working toward entirely eliminating visual/audio CAPTCHAs. But, until then, we are enjoying working with the hCAPTCHA team.
Thank! It’s exciting and scary at the same time. I’ve had some small projects that have also made small amounts of money, but never anything to possibly turn into a business
I wasn't arguing against deadlifting. I was arguing that the correct strength training recommendation for general population is a baseline that optimizes for useful amount of strength, protective amount of muscle and minimal amount of injury. And for me that level is shockingly low, i.e the NASA low BW multiplier prescription. Everything beyond that is basically for enthusiasts with elevated injury risk over a long enough time scale. There's nothing wrong with enjoying lifting as a hobby so long as it's understood that training for strength past a certain point is the opposite of exercising for health. See my Barbell Medicine endorsement above, I mentioned that strength training, i.e. deadlifts is a good rehabilitation tool that's often under-prescribed as medical incentives doesn't align with cheap gym memberships. Though ironically for me, deadlifts is the best rehab for deadlift injuries.

My best gym pull is 660 @ 185. My observations in powerlifting is that injuries in squats/deadlifts doesn't start to mount until "enthusiasts" start trying grinding past their intermediate plateau because they're motivated but also reckless. This typically occurs between 2x-2.5x BW. Sometimes it's hot headed kids on stupid programs who thinks they're invincible, and sometimes it's just diligent trainees who misgrooves one rep on a 90% topset after 5 years of training. It's not a question about poor form but high statistical likelihood when regularly dealing with heavy weights over many reps for many years. The heavier one lifts relative to whatever individual genetics allow, the more catastrophic a misgroved rep becomes. It's simple leverages. Force/stress from 405lb vs 225lb on a misgrooved moment-arm doesn't scale proportionally to load. 1/3 of lifters about above novice skill experience lower back injury of some sort (see stronger by science link I posted) which makes heavy training not something I would endorse for people just looking for to exercise for health.

>we shouldn't be walking around either for fear of tripping.

My endorsement is the minimum amount strength train necessary so a trip doesn't shatter your hips (particularly older populations), which is very low but sufficient bar.
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To be fair organic chemistry is its own beast and far messier than normal chemistry classes.
Lets go down that list shall we?

Denmark - shutdown everything march 14th, same week that the US started shutting down, not sure what we could emulate there except more trust in government? I live in a large very liberal city that has voted blue for the last 40 years and we still have our mayor pleading daily with ppl to follow SIP orders.

Norway - See Denmark. They have a slightly stronger federal government then the US and thus were able to use that power in ways that our Fed could not.

Singapore - Whatever they were trying before it all failed and they are now doing a lock down that's actually stricter than ours, also the stuff they implemented initially was draconian and would never fly here, and didn't work there in any case.

New Zealand - An island the size of New Jersey with almost half as many people (5 million), they still have 1000 cases. Not a lot the US could emulate from there. Only reason NJ has so many cases now is because of its proximity to NY and a certain demographic that still refuses to listen to SIP orders (See Bnei Brak for another ex., I'm pretty ashamed).

Taiwan - If you looked at what they were doing to contain this you would know why it's not practical here. 1) they have a national citizen db. 2) That db can be cross referenced with their national healthcare system, 3) which is also cross referenced with everyone at every point of entry. 4) They also used cell phone data to track people's whereabouts. Not a single one of those things is remotely possible in the US. Some are outright unconstitutional others would require bills to be passed and 3-5 years of preparation. If you think the patriot act is wrong... well the fed being able to unilaterally cross-ref different db's and track law-abiding citizens wouldn't pass muster either.
Unfortunately, they already know this.
I just reread your comment, and I think you should look at other options if you don't care about noise canceling. Pretty much all NC headphones sacrifice a lot to make the NC work well, so they don't sound fantastic. As for recommending general wireless closed back headphones, that depends a lot on what your tone preferences are. The pair I have that most of my non-headphone-geek friends prefer are the vmoda crossfades. Specifically I have the crossfade 1, but there have been a couple of newer versions since then which I haven't tried.
Yes, same video.
Fortunately costco had/has the old version before they sold their souls to Bezos. Why people want Amazon listening to anything is beyond me.
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It works great. I didn’t know that all Bluetooth headphones don’t do that.
Everytime I see COBOL, I always think of Newman from Jurassic Park and imagine that is a stereotypical COBOL programmer haha!

If you see any bosses with a weird scarf, back away cause they may spit corona-acid in your face!
Unrelated to this, the Bose aviation headset has been sold out and unavailable in most of the world for about a year now.
Video clip of gov: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlJqlWSPJeI
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The problem is connections to other people using those services as information sources. For example, there is some genuinely valuable stuff on HN, so I stay, but a lot of noise leaks in as well, and it’s non-trivial to separate. (And people vary on what they consider signal.)
How many articles/tweets can you read about social distancing, washing your hands? Or one more article about others not doing those things? Ugh.
At seven hundred freaking degrees, fluorine starts to dissociate into monoatomic radicals, thereby losing its gentle and forgiving nature.

Gentle and Forgiving nature...
I just don't write any code to avoid the sneer!
Each vote matters equally but bigger shareholders get more votes. By the same token, bigger shareholders get punished more by dilution.
Rust can't import C++ libraries, for many of the same reasons that C programs can't import C++ libraries.
It's helpful to filter out links to large content and downloadable assets from being traversed. For example, I assume you wouldn't care about downloading videos, images, and other assets that would otherwise use a large amount of data transfer and increase costs.

If the file type isn't clear, the response headers would still include the Content-Length for non-chunked downloads, and the Content-Disposition header may contain the file name with extension for assets meant to be downloaded rather than displayed on a page. Response headers can be parsed prior to downloading the entire body.
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@harrisonjackson mentioned they use poclet with zapier to forward things to slack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22782082
Reminds me of a joke about conspiracy theories: "How do you know if a conspiracy theorist is right?" "They haven't found the body."
This is what happens when you have typical business moron-types get elected roles that treat complicated systems as though it's construction work.

It is, but you can't have any joe schmoe off the street coming in and learn how to pour concrete in a day. This is something that requires practice and problem solving skills. And years of it.
In research? Usually not much and thats if you can even manage to find a job. But Chemical engineers are usually well paid and can easily get a job out of college. Though maybe that is changing since the oil industry is usually a big part of the job market. And with most of the energy sector currently on the brink of collapse...
My local news has done something similar with storm pins. Storm pins is an app people used to post pictures and videos of interesting weather events, and, gas and water during a hurricane.

They've enabled things like toilet paper and sanitizer in the app. It's been pretty good.
Yes, there's a difference between pushing electrons on paper and making compounds behave in the lab as they do on paper.

Scaleup from lab to pilot plant to production is another different beast.
Very funny writing style while being incredibly informative. Read from top to bottom with glee. I had a feeling organic synthesis was difficult but not this difficult.

Missed a trick not titling it:

“(1OO)OMG we made one gram...” :)
If only this were usable. I’ve been trying for weeks now and either havent been able to get a time slot or anything actually in stock despite the website saying.
Hotels. Parking. Restaurants. Not sound?
also https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets
I use hypothesis (https://web.hypothes.is/) to annotate/bookmark/comment anything on the web. It has a well documented api so you might be able to squeeze some other features out of it quite easily. The only issue I have with it right now is that it doesn't archive pages. I've been looking into ways to integrate existing page snapshotting tools with it but haven't settled on anything yet.
The inimitable Martin Poliakoff demonstrates it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtWp45Eewtw
"JFK and the Unspeakable" suggests that JFK had signaled his intentions to scale down the Cold War, withdraw from Vietnam, and reign in or disband the CIA after the Bay of Pigs disaster, and was killed by rogue elements in the CIA, probably in concert with military-industrial business interests and organized crime organizations who didn't like the Kennedys shining a light on their own misdeeds either.

There's a reference to this in Scorcese's recent movie "The Irishman": "if they can get a president, they can get a president of a union."
Global population is 7.8B. Scandinavia's population is 25-26M (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark). So your point applies to countries with 0.33% of humanity, which is not representative at all. Maybe add a few tiny countries or city-states and I would be surprised if their aggregative population crosses 2% of the overall global population.

So I believe GP's point still stands - humanity has not learned the lesson from thousands of years of its history.
Apple news and google news shovel the Ks at me, along with brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. I’ve tried instructing both to stop suggesting them to me but they won’t.

I don’t use either anymore, but the forces are out there. I wanted some of those feeds but couldn’t control it. And so I did make a choice about the sources, but those are very popular news platforms that promise customization.
You might be interested in https://www.tonebase.co/piano

Try one of the free lessons to see how is the player.

(disclaimer: I work there)
If they don't have grants, $0. If they work in a lab for someone who has a grant, $0, but with credit on the papers (that's why there's 35 authors on the paper, 1 person got paid, the rest got name credit in the hopes that they get noticed by a commercial company wanting to monetize this process, so in the future they get their own gig). If they work in a commercial lab, maybe they make a little.
Normative.
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Although very interesting, this article isn't a great introduction because a critical part of the picture is missing - the availability of the inputs.

Sticking to simple stuff; mines produce iron at a rate measured in thousand-tonnes per hour with yields of potentially sub-30% compared to volume of earth moved. Ammonia and many acids are presumably measured in tonnes or kilograms produced per day. Low yields make the process-oriented sad, but what matters is absolute ability to produce; not yield.

All that doesn't take anything away from this article; it just makes it hard to interpret what 'royal pain to synthesize' means in practice. The process isn't basic chemistry; but that isn't really saying much.
In Iran there is a tradition that runs to the present day of swinging heavy clubs, often to chanting, called zirkhuneh (house of strength).

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pahlevani_and_zoorkhaneh_ritua...
That's absolutely terrifying.
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Not electing the guy who probably helped plot the assassination to the office of POTUS would have been a start. There's a whole lot of daylight between "he wasn't killed by a lone gunman" and actually taking some minimal steps to identify and oppose the people responsible.
I actually find the Sonys to have the better ANC. They have some additional sensor to adjust the frequencies that they filter on depending on if you're walking, waiting etc. All for almost $200 less than the Bose.

I'll level with you, 700s have the best microphone in the this class. But sound, ease of use, features, and sound quality goes to the Sony, not to mention than the Sony's can be found on sale for half the price of the the Bose.

If you're a big user of wireless, Bose doesn't support LDAC which is arguably the best codec for sound quality wirelessly.

Right now in the audio community, Sonys are the the consensus recommendation unless you expect to take many calls on them.
Why not sneer proactively ahead of time?
Looks good. How are updates for it, or can it be flashed with a stock ROM?
A year after the Sonys came out they made the NCH 700, which beat the sonys in microphone performance.

I could even chew or wash my hands or sit in a noisy cafe without the other people in the call hearing it.

The audio quality might be better with the Sonys, but at least they answered to the Sonys in a timely way. I had no bad experience with those yet and used them for almost a year already. No idea about customer support.

I know this thread is about the QC model, but I wanted to throw this in here. IMHO bose is not behind at all.
There may be modest layoffs in some specific targeted teams. But the giant tech companies are still hiring right now too. I'm still hearing from their recruiters.
I bought a palm pre when I was in infantry school and learned a week later I'd be assigned to a unit in Okinawa Japan where the phone wouldn't work. Cool device though.
There is a fork/spoon here, which supports 9.4+: https://github.com/credativ/pg_checksums

It is also available as a Debian package for the above versions via apt.postgresql.org.
I remember my father's palm Vx
> If you're making that kind of money, you have a lot better options than working on some ancient COBOL system that processes unemployment claims.

There's more to life than money and tech. I'm sure there are plenty of people who would be happy to work on a boring tech stack in helping to address possibly the largest public crisis many of us will see in our lifetimes vs. working with the new fad of the week in pursuit of selling ads marginally more efficiently.
> We're designed to weather this kind of storm because "zero revenue" is the default state.

Yeaaaaaah, about that...

https://sivers.org/startnow
XM4 are rumored to come at least in September of 2020 since the XM3 are not listed on the IFA website, but other Sony products have been listed.

I really hope they decide on launching since everybody thought they were launching September 2019 :(
This crisis is hitting medical practices incredibly hard, given that all non-emergency procedures are canceled (by law where I live). You seem to be implying by saying "cosmetic surgery" that it's just personal, cash-pay procedures, but that's totally wrong. Primary care, pediatrics, radiology, sports medicine, dermatology, on and on - they're all getting killed by this.
The author has helpfully open-sourced the scripts as well, some of which are quite helpful like this one to convert dates to unix time and back: https://github.com/brandon-rhodes/homedir/blob/master/bin/%2...

Agree with the commit message; I've probably spent way too much time the past decade firing up a python prompt or using an online epoch converter to do this.
This article really reinforces my choice to drop ochem in college. It's funny how deciphering assembly code seems downright mundane compared to this jargon. Like, I get how given the process you could recreate things, or you could devise possible reactions based on electron shells and bonding tendencies, but how do researchers even figure out how to make these reactions happen? Especially when they require -100C, or +5atm of pressure.
The physical buttons was the exact reason why I bought a pair of QC 35 II's even though Sony WH-1000XM3's were available and Bose QC700 had just been introduced.

I own a pair of Monster iSport Freedom 2's which have a touch control for volume and skipping, and oh boy is touch control a bad idea on headphones. For example when wearing the headphones under a hood, while outside in the rain, it sometimes registers rain as a touch action, so your volume or song changes suddenly. Also the touch control accurancy isn't very stellar indoor either.

So based on my experience, I gladly take physical buttons over touch controls, since for me touch controls are more like a gimmick than good usability.
Oh boy, time to update uMatrix rules.
I really hope this recession will bust AirBnB. It would lower the rents all over the world...
What is the implication here? Is it that the number of pneumonia deaths is the real indication of covids prevalance?
I got the WH-1000MX3 for travel. It makes the otherwise oppressive cabin noise of airplanes bearable. I've had other noise-cancelling headphones before, but none that were capable of making a long flight tolerable.

On a recent flight I only found out that there was some kid crying to whole way at the end of the flight when I took the headphones off.

But its sound quality in general is nothing like a good pair of headphones. I also have the Sennheiser HD-800 and it's a totally different league, but only in a quiet room. My perception of its quality improved when I moved to a quieter apartment with no road noise coming in from outside.
A semi-random example to prove the point: https://www.nuclearphynance.com/Show%20Post.aspx?PostIDKey=1...
This makes me think that you could use the Treendly site recently posted (discovers trends on the Internet) as a blacklist. :]
Interesting that while Snow blamed germs, 'authorities' later blamed 'miasma' instead and ignored Snow. Once again, we learn from history that...
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Not exactly on topic but might be interesting: I recently did some consulting work for a government agency in a small country with a national ID/certificate scheme that is used both in GOV, NGO and COM. One of my suggestions was for a webhook like scheme to notify sites/services that a person has been moved from the national registry to the registry of deceased, specifically to trigger automatic cancellations and the like. Their ID scheme also handles power of attorney so the service could be notified about that also.
We are not standing on the shoulders of COBOL. We are standing on the shoulders of ALGOL and LISP. Those languages influenced everything that came after in every field of computing. COBOL has had little influence outside of its silo.

We should absolutely respect the history of our field, but the mere fact that COBOL is old doesn't make it an important part of history.