skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried DataGrip many times but kept coming back to DBeaver. It's just easier IMHO.
I wasn't assuming, just going by the data and evidence at hand and let's leave it at that. I'm off for a walk, not sure I'm comming back either.
pgAdmin4 is not that bad, I'm using it every day
Totally possible through convergent assembly.
Multithreading is only needed in very few fields. Multiprocessing is way easier and works fine for most. And the majority of programmers still only need to write serial code.
I use Postico and agree it's pretty great overall. There's some odd behavior in the SQL editor that sometimes bites me when I'm pasting from my code editor (VSCode), where whitespace sometimes picks up some kind of invisible character or something that makes the query invalid. I have no idea how to reproduce it but it can really break my flow when I hit it. Other than that I've been pretty pleased with it.

If I didn't already have a Postico license I'd definitely be looking at TablePlus.
You are not alone (motivational video)
I wonder about honey then? Its the product of non-Kosher insects
>[...] Dairy Farmers being asked to dump milk to maintain prices via artificial scarcity

That's not the impression I got from the article. They're dumping milk because the supply chain can't transport any more milk, not because of cartel-like behavior to jack up prices like you suggest.

>the milk supply chain has seen a host of disruptions that are preventing dairy farmers from getting their products to market. [...] Trucking companies that haul dairy products are scrambling to get enough drivers as some who fear the virus have stopped working.
Why was this submitted? To prove Apple does not manipulate the ratings of their listings? :P
Wow, you're right[0].

I guess that means I wont be continuing with the apple eco-system as the phones are simply too unpalatable at this point, as soon as the SE is out of support I'll have to find an alternative. That's distressing.

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/does-apple-watch-work-with-i...
How Zoom Is Coping with Surging Demand - CEO Eric Yuan
Presumptions are not prefaced by "if", hypotheticals are.
There is definitely a genetic component. A very clear example is the obesity rate of Pacific islanders after they were introduced to the western diet. They were genetically isolated while subsisting on a very specific diet for thousands of years. As a result, they no longer thrive on the same diet that Europeans do.
I was a co-founder back in 2012 in India and we were running a e-commerce store. I am currently in h1-b working for big US company. Just wondering if I can use my past experience to move to eb1 instead of eb2 which I am currently petitioned in.
I was on the fence about giving TablePlus a go. Why isn't it awesome on Windows? I'm very interested.
Oh! I initially copied the links from my browser and didn't think about the referral code. Sorry! I fixed it now. Could you please confirm it's fixed now? Thanks!
What's enough?
We have a grocery budget of $500 a month for a family of 5. That's $3.30 per person per day.
Maybe we can make it out of this mess better than how we were when we got in it.
Value inflation I suppose
Super cool. Best of luck, these types of services are very often game-changing.

Okay so one immediate issue I see security-wise though is you're sending security key passwords over email … and from what I gather in your docs, only over email? Either way sending it over email sounds shaky at best.

QOL request: on the institutions page (https://developers.belvo.co/docs/institution), can you add links to the bank sites in question?

I like that you have a postman collection at the ready in your docs, that's nice.

Also your homepage is just … I don't think it's good. Sorry, I know this is probably not useful feedback, but it's a nearly autogenerated landing page for the docs site, it doesn't inspire confidence. I want you guys to succeed so please spend some money on a fresh new homepage if you're not doing that already.

Good luck!!
You probably never saw their scooters parked haphazardly around town (both bird and lime)
Chlorination is an interesting question. On the one hand, the paper says the researchers did tests of actual sewage and found it worked in practice. On the other hand, wikipedia says (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...) chlorine isn't generally added to the water supply in the Netherlands.
Just a Prove
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I wish could be done in South Africa.
> It's just way slower and much more expensive in terms of power consumption.

really depends on what you want to draw. there is still nothing that renders fonts with freetype quality on the GPU and rendering paths / drawings / svg-like stuff is still a pain as the only GPU maker who cares about 2D drawing is NVidia.
If you include Scheme under the heading of Lisp, BiwaScheme is pretty darned good.

https://www.biwascheme.org/
VNC Viewer for iOS 3.9.0 – An Apology
Hi Peter, Thank you for doing this AMA.
I am a student on F1 visa in STEM field, graduating in 2 months. I will be on OPT afterwards. What are some practical immigration paths for recent graduate founders?graduating? Please note that I don't qualify for EB.
Sort of! We'll see if the teams actually keep up the standards of the docs, or if they slide. They've been doing a good job for a while, but it's also pretty varied across the teams.
This is awesome! I can get my rural Iowa country stats with a click!

As expected, travel work and retail is down a third.
The data shows the median net worth is around 100k. I'm very suspicious of claims about what the average American can afford based on surveys. Often they ask people how they would pay for something, and if the answer is "credit cards" they interpret it as that they can't afford it, which is plainly nonsense.

Edit: took a look at your source.

>“The survey shows that a very significant minority of American households apparently don’t have the resources to pay for an unexpected expense of around $1,000,” says Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America.

Interesting how this morphed into the claim that a majority of Americans can't afford a $500 expense.
Sadly that is already multiple years old (2, at this point) which makes it only 1 year younger than the iPhone SE (And the SE is actually more powerful based on benchmarks).

I don't want to go into "who supports hardware longer" or "how long phones last" but I don't think this is a true successor.
SNAP is not intended to cover the cost of a recipient's entire food needs. The S stands for "supplemental".

You can argue that is should cover a recipient's entire food needs but it seems a little misguided to criticize the program for failing to meet an objective it doesn't have. Furthermore, federal programs have to be careful not to do things outside their mandate less they run into territory where they don't have political support and lose funding. SNAP probably couldn't get away with providing the full cost of food even if they were able to.
And yet, it's the basis of a fable I heard as a kid in the 90s, where a girl tricks a ruler into giving her one grain of rice on the first day, two on the second, four on the third, doubling each day for a month. It almost induces a famine until she gifts it all back.
>in light of the sudden downvote withoutcomment, you kinda feel

I have felt similarly in the past, in similar situations. Play it through though, in a variety of cases, and we see why it's not just allowed, but a good thing.
Open source tool to build synthetic data
This is a great open source tool to generate synthetic data to train ml / ai models to preserve privacy in user and sensitive data. https://github.com/gretelai/gretel-synthetics
I use it every day in the form of Emacs, and I'm slowly learning it because I find it a fascinating language. (I'm a sysadmin/devops by trade/experience, moving into team lead territory, so I'm not a coder by any stretch of the imagination)
As stated in the linked article, Google location history is disabled by default.
Just to be clear, they are talking about surgical-type masks, similar to the cloth masks people are making.

They are NOT talking about N95 "masks". There is constant confusion in the press and elsewhere between these two.

One protects others (surgical mask), and one protects others AND the wearer (N95).

Vox proposed that we call N95s by their technical term, "respirators", and other masks "masks", but then I suppose people will start confusing "respirators" and "ventilators"
I’m sure you can’t just “read the algorithms”, they’re not all designed as a bunch of long human interpretable strings that get concatenated together like some massive regex.
I think you're overstating your position.

If all of those people had to flip a hardware switch every time they wanted to use their phones, they'd complain about it.
Smart-Working with Microsoft Teams
SNAP is a SUPPLEMENTAL program. It's not intended to pay 100% of your food bill.
mrustc has implemented a significant portion of the language, without a formal spec. It's at least advanced enough to compile the compiler. The biggest feature missing is borrowcheck.
> Curious why this post was flagged? Not sure what rule is violated.

I suppose because it's a political tangent.
>At least in a lot of european countries, income tax isn't even the most lucrative tax for the government.

Can you provide a few examples? What other revenue streams do those governments have?
It’s possible with the 5 minute Abbott machines that are starting to be distributed
Based on public statements by YC partners, appears possible the YC S20 batch will be 100% remote; as it relates to YC interaction with the batch.

As it relates to US immigration matters — what, if any, impact might this have on the S20 batch that prior non-remote batches were not subject to?
>[widgets] should compile to a standard format, most likely WASM, and then you can use any language (...) to interface with those widgets or components.

Or be based on a standard canvas-level API that would be easy to support in most languages (à la OpenGL, but much easier to use for 2D, and more complete (windowing, user events, text, images, etc.), or like P0267R0 but not confined to a particular language).
Why doesn't CLJS count?
Open source low cost, low resource, quick deployment ventilator
If Apple had done nothing, then that same user's phone would randomly start switching off at non-0 battery levels (the un-throttled behavior) when brownouts occurred. Wouldn't the same user still come to the same conclusion, that their phone has some problem and needs to be replaced?

In general, the mobile phone industry has done a pretty good job encouraging their userbase to forget that their batteries are replaceable, so I don't think that most users would consider that as a remediation step off the top of their head.

I think it's plain that the best solution would be informing the user of the problem and letting them choose between behaviors (or, you know, replace the battery), but between slow usage and random shutdowns, I would personally choose the former.

I wonder if there have been any studies on how many users, once the toggle had been added, switched it from the (default) throttling behavior to the shutdown behavior? I'd be curious to see if I'm in the minority there.
> we have an vending machine where you can pay with a credit card

> I have no real world use for this kind of card

Seems to me that he does.
I wrote a large package of macros for a niche assembler using M4. It has some sophisticated things like a code generator for non-infix expressions. M4 was a blessing and a curse. It is very powerful and saved me from implementing my own macro language but debugging is not for the faint of heart once you get into anything complicated.

https://github.com/kevinpt/opbasm/blob/master/opbasm/picobla...

Michael Breen's notes are indispensable documentation on how to make effective use of the language.
Yes. And October usually does see a big change, I just don't see it becoming current by then.
When a person talks or sneezes they'll send out a range of different particle sizes which travel different distances and take different amounts of time to fall out of the air.

Larger particles called droplets carry most of the virus load from any particular sneeze and are what cause most infections that don't involve hand to face contact. They send to only go 2 meters in talking and sneezes into an elbow but they can go further in an uncovered sneeze. A surgical mask should be generally protective against these getting into your mouth or nose but your eyes are still vulnerable to being infected this way.

There are also smaller particles called aerosols that linger in the air for longer but don't travel very quickly. A much smaller fraction of the virus particles in a typical infected person's exhalations end up in these. In this case a surgical mask will only stop 4/5 or so of the particles you would otherwise breath in - better than nothing but not to be relied upon. In dealing with Coronavirus patients doctors and nurses usually rely on something called an N95 mask that's guaranteed to stop 95% of any sized non-oil particle and in practice seems to stop something like 99% of particles like a coronavirus. These are especially important for medical professionals because some procedures, like the intubations many Covid-19 patients need to survive, tend to cause way more aerosols than normal.

In terms of protecting others surgical masks seem to be a bit less protective with aerosol transmission for outgoing air than incoming air. I would guess because potitive pressure causes surgical masks to puff out a bit and leak more while negative pressure improves the seal. In the one study I've read on the matter it was a 1/3 difference which is noticable but they still make a big difference. More importantly surgical masks seem to stop outbound droplet transmission. On the outbound side the fact that someone's eyes aren't covered will also be irrelevant and someone wearing a mask won't have their droplets land on surfaces causing later hand to face transmission.

Wearing a home made mask is a lot like a surgical masks but a bit less likely to stop aerosols.

For the overall result, Ian Lipkin in a recent interview mentioned a study done in Beijing where they found that people who regularly wore masks were 70% less likely to get SARS in the original outbreak. That's nice but isn't anything like being invincible so measures like social distancing are still important.

If you've got a N95 masks then please give it to someone who's going to be doing things like intubation where it's aerosol stopping power is critically important and just wear a normal cloth mask otherwise. Remember that if your mask stopped some incoming virus particles those particles will still be on the outside of the mask and treat that danger with respect.
Place a log-periodic tooth antenna on the patient. Hook it up to a wide-band signal analyzer. Perform reiki. If no signal is read, electromagnetic energy in the frequency range of the antenna is likely ruled out. Repeat the measurement with identical touch that is non-reiki. No difference means that reiki does not use that energy band.

Repeat with photovoltaic cells, microphones, night-vision sensors, capacitative sensors, inductive sensors, magnetism sensors, etc.

My hypothesis is that reiki is 100% placebo effect, no difference will ever be measured between otherwise identical reiki and non-reiki movements, and the most effective investigation of reiki would be measuring the brain states of patients who think they are receiving treatments.

Activating the placebo effect is good. If we can study it enough, we might even be able to do it without any bunkum.
I had a read through this and I couldn't really tell if there was something novel here?

I understand that perturbations and generating new examples from labelled examples is a pretty normal park of the process when you only have a limited number of examples available.
Hmmm I wonder if anyone has done a teardown of the MacBook to show how these microphone disconnect mechanisms work.
I don't have any Mac devices or emulators or I would give it a try.
"Yes transactions are paused on the weekend. Thats like google would do a break on the weekend."

This is correct. The correct response to payment and settlement "pauses" for silly things like weekends and holidays is derision. Contempt. Ridicule.

These settlement timelines are based literally on horse and buggy schedules from the 1800s. They have no place in our modern workflow.
Insurance Death Spiral
AWS RDS supports Postgres 12
AFL Mutations (2014)
I think a physical shutter is superior, if only for peace of mind. If the lens is covered, nothing else matters.
"food insecure at least some time during the year" includes people who at some point during the year didn't like the food they had available ("reduced desirability"). For example, someone could be getting their food from Meal Hubs and still be counted as food insecure.

If you surveyed specifically on whether people had access to fresh produce you'd get a much lower number.
When it's good we call it self-interest. When it's bad we call it cronyism.

We define capitalism in terms of markets because we would rather not discuss the more fundamental question of who owns what.

When capitalism produces spectacular exaggerations of human cruelty, it has been corrupted. When a socialist system produces it, it is intrinsic.
For context, VNC Viewer iOS Version 3.9.0 released yesterday April 2, 2020 and is still the current version on the app store. This is the changelog:

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>The term "organic" is especially dangerous, because of its connotation to organic vs. inorganic chemistry and the loss of information when converting between the technical definitions and cultural perceptions.

In the United States, "organic" in the context of food is not a cultural perception, it is an FDA-regulated certified word with a very strict definition and penalties for misuse.

https://www.ams.usda.gov/about-ams/programs-offices/national...
I don't think SNAP is supposed to always cover 100% of food expenses. If you're near the cutoff point for benefits, you get some allowance, but you're expected to cover some of the food cost from your income. You would of course use your SNAP benefits first, since they are not fungible, so it is not surprising that you would run out before the end of the month. This does not mean that such households are unable to afford food for the remainder of the month, it just means that they have to pay for it themselves.

I just went and put some really sad numbers into a calculator and it told me I qualified for $500/mo in benefits for a family of three. This is definitely sufficient to provide three nutritious meals per day for three people anywhere in the country.
I think we do. The problem is that people often believe things based on perception and snap judgement, which are often wrong. And once somebody has some "knowledge" even if gained through unreliable means, displacing that "knowledge" is rather difficult.

It's an artifact from evolving in a world where snap judgments were often the difference between life and death, and the person who assumed the rustle in bushes was just the wind, but it was actually a tiger, did not live to propagate. However, the paranoid person who thought it was a tiger every time the wind rustled the bushes, did survive to propagate.

Our current political system is pretty good evidence of people believing strongly enough in ideology to destroy the lives of others. I think they really do believe the stuff, and that's why it's so dangerous.
> Suzuki and other Japanese companies well known for how they treat employments as long-term relationships.

There are many, many contexts and scenarios where this exact same sentence can be said in a highly negative way. In this instance it is great, but I can assure you that many Japanese workers experience the dark side of this mindset (e.g., stay in the office as long as possible; don't "shirk duties" by taking time for yourself; god help you if you're a woman; etc.).

I have no doubt this is not everyone's experience, but it's also not uncommon.
They're still backlit LED LCD screens with relatively low brightness and no local dimming AFAIK. They're HDR in the same way lower-end LG TVs of the past few years have been HDR, I suppose.
Trial drug blocks early stages of COVID19 in engineered human tissues
Thanks for doing this, Peter. I'm currently based in Bangladesh but planning to incorporate my B2B startup as a Delaware C-Corp in order to be able to process recurring payments from international customers. I had two questions:

1) What are your thoughts on services such as Stripe Atlas, Clerky and others? Which one would you recommend (if any)?

2) After I complete incorporation, what are my options for moving to the United States at some point in the future, preferably later this year?
Legally, yes, but if the company was going to go the PERM application route, that process could be derailed by layoffs by the company and/or overall unemployment.
Thank you for taking the time for writing this.

I agree with you, subtle energy is not physical. I have written about it in other comments ... and like you, I feel fatigued about having to explain this all the time.

Since you took the time to write about it, I will try my best to write it here too:

I do not mean that the idea of subtle energy is a useful metaphor. Subtle energy is real. Subtle energy is not the same as the physical energy described in physics.

What I mean by "real" is not the same "real" as in a definitive, physical manner. That gets into the areas beyond "extraordinary". If you already find the idea of "subtle energy is real" is ridiculous, I don't really see the point in continuing down this line of discussion.

One of the characteristics about subtle energy that is not described by physical energy is that subtle energy carries information, among them, emotions, concepts, awareness, sentience, etc. It will move and change based upon the information it carries.

Consciousness (another problematic term) can experience and sense subtle energy, but it is in turn, affected by it.

In other words, the physical description of science is a useful metaphor for describing subtle energy. Unfortunately, you are right in that many people would borrow from authority implied by using scientific terms to lend validity to these claims. That is harmful, not just in the sense that people will take action on it and do stupid things. It is also harmful in the sense that it assumes the scientific method can describe everything ... and I don't think it is capable of the adequately exploring subtle energy or consciousness. (But there are people who are trying; more props to them).

There is no "energy gland". I get annoyed when I read up claims like that. Rather, consciousness is generating and receiving subtle energy. There may be such a thing as subtle anatomy -- non-physical structures that can transceive subtle energy; but they are a part of the makeup of consciousness. "Gland" is not really a useful metaphor to describe them, because it is more useful the distinguish the physical gland, and the consciousness of that particular gland.

I have serious doubts that this stuff can ever by objectively explored. I doubt any mechanistic form of technology can really measure it.

I started qualifying the term "energy" with "subtle energy". People are then free to agree or disagree, even reject the whole notion of "subtle energy".