skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"To address the quote: We don't need to simulate the weather in its full apparent complexity, as long as the observed aspects of the weather falls within parameters that makes them plausible but sufficiently unpredictable."

What's the point of a simulation pretending to simulate a complex system when it could have just implemented a simpler system in the first place?

Also, What is "observable"? If you mean "what people [well, simulation subjects] might look at", recall that people do take past data of weather, including data that's not collected at the time (e.g. tree ring data).

Assuming that the simulation can't examine future actions of the simulated people (if you could, why bother with a simulation?), it would need to simulate pretty deeply too, to be "plausible" with everything they might collect in the future. It isn't clear at all that a good simplification exists that would do that more cheaply.
I'm not the one you asked, but personally after I learned Clojure I completely joined the Rich Hickey cult and only sought out Clojure/ClojureScript jobs or jobs where I could decide what language to use myself. I'm now on my third one. It obviously limits your pool of available jobs significantly, but I try to keep up with which companies and organisations are using Clojure in my city and so far it hasn't been an issue at all.
Is that the same thing as ALT-. ?
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This looks really good in the video Ive seen. I like the organic look of the cells and how they stick to each other.

Time for a download.
What the free market does is incentivize the correct degree of stockpiling behaviour, by maximizing profits for those who stockpiled a correct amount of the correct goods. Sufficient stockpiles equates to sufficient supply during emergencies, which is exactly what society needs.

When prices for goods during a crisis are astronomical, that indicates that the market did not work effectively in producing stockpiles, either because there was a general lack of awareness that a particular good could see a spike in demand, or because anti-price-gouging laws prevented profit-motivated individuals from acting on their awareness.

A lack of laws against price-gouging incentivizes the behaviour of identifying potential future demand spikes, and acting on that information, both of which are socially beneficial.
It is our belief that by doing this we'll also be helping adoption. If a browser vendor (any of them) propoes an API, but nobody uses it, why would the rest care to implement it?

The ability to do E2EE is kind of a big deal, even though insertable streams can be used for other things, so we hope other browser vendors join the effort.

There have been other approaches in the past such as PERC [0] and ongoing related ones like MLS [1], this is a relevant topic these days.

[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/perc/documents/
[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mls/about/
> Things geeks say, number 37

> "I liked the Weird Al version better"

https://www.lorebrandcomics.com/number-37.html

Over the last ~3 decades I've had the privilege of hearing several hundred bands perform in a wide variety of style. While this included a lot of very talented musicians and many memorable performances, one of my favorite live events - by far - was seeing Weird Al and his band perform for free at the Santa Clara County Fair.
> It would have been better to rename it.

Maybe. It's worthwhile pointing out that "mv x" with no second argument is an error:

mv: missing destination file operand after 'x'
Try 'mv --help' for more information.

I also don't have the habit of letting people type in my shell, so there's that.

TBH I really don't understand the level of pedantry (and frankly, sheer outrage) in this thread at all. It sucks to be on the receiving end of such disapproval over something so trivial. Let this person do what they want! It's a neat little hack. It also inspired me to see what more I could do with 'read'--something I have ignored for 20 years.
I don't use bash for ideological reasons. I use it to get things done and I much rather prefer this script than having to use curly braces and echo.
There's a couple problems with this:

* deaths are also likely to be under reported (although, I agree, probably still better than the total unknown people who haven't been tested)

* a decreasing number of deaths does nothing to fix the actual problem: the possibility of contagion if we all resume normalish activity

My preferred metric has been 'average increase rate over 7 days', in other words, take the new detected cases any given day, calculate what percentage that is over the total for the last week, then average seven of those.

We'll never get a proper idea of how many people are actually infected until we get proper widespread testing, but at least we can get an idea of how bad cases (those that are likely to get tested) are growing. Another data point to look at is how many ICU units are in an area vs. how many ICU COVID cases there are and how many beds are still available. [1] San Francisco has finally started making those stats available:

[1]https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/San-Francisco-COVID-19-Data...
If you enjoy solving problems, and enjoy zoning out in dream worlds thinking about abstract problems, then I warmly recommend http://azspcs.com/

If you enjoy making pretty things to show others, then I warmly recommend http://ldjam.com/ - the next game-making contest is this weekend! Join in!

The joy is from taking part. Don't discount yourselves and think you can't enter because you are a beginner. Take part! :D
Well, my travel netbook came with Ubuntu pre-installed, then I was left without wlan during 2 months until all bugs fixes on the open source driver that replaced the "bad" working proprietary blob were sorted out.

And to this day, the OpenGL and video hardware decoding capabilities are castrated by the open source version of the AMD driver, that did not considered worthwhile to support Brazos APUs to the same level that fxglr had.

So much for coming pre-installed.
Or I just use this script which is much more intuitive and convenient.
I've been using this extension for long time and it has changed my relationship to video content. I still prefer text to skim through and read at my own pace, but having keyboard shortcuts for video that work across all pages changes the game.

Long talks no longer seem daunting because speeding up and rewinding becomes like a second nature. I use the speed step of 0.1x and rewind step of 3 seconds for fine control, the default values were too imprecise. Maybe I should start slowing down songs I enjoy?
That feeling of not having mastery of your tools is part of the problem.
Exactly.

IT is the far west. There are few educational requirements, and hiring laws specific to our craft. It's a very young field, unlike medicine or architecture, and we just beginning to establish professional standards on the job.

The fact most people see it as magic and can't evaluate it at all doesn't help.

Anecdotally, I've seen many programmers that can't code.

Remember that 2 dev projects out of 3 fail, for a clusters of reasons. And when it doesn't, there is sometimes a few hard kernel of devs that are doing most of the important part of the job, fixing other's mess on the fly, or just plainly doing it for them.

So those bad programmers can go from failure to failure, and never be blamed for it.

But honestly, it it weren't that way, I couldn't have entered the field. I've been given my chance more than once, and I've screwed up many times, before even becoming a decent professional.
Yes. It's also the same as Alt-_
Couldn't watch it outside of the US but it's also on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/riseofthecentaur
That is not really true.

Yes, our Firefox support has not been great, but we are working on making it better: https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/4758

> Desktop sharing? Chrome plugin.

This was a browser limiation, which is no longer needed since about 2 years ago.

> Desktop client? Chromium/Electron.

You need to ue it! Use the browser, or the mobile apps.
To put this in perspective, it has happened before along similar lines in different produce types.

For example, almost all of the vineyards in Europe were wiped out in the 19th century [1]. This is why the oldest vineyards in the world are somewhere in South America. (I think Chile?)

Today, as we all know, France is still the most important wine producing country. South Africa has 100k hectares of wine; France has 100k hectares of merlot.

Yes, people can do more to handle these diseases, but often the simplest way is with a lot of poison, which many people also don't like. Tuta absoluta wiped out 1/2 of the yearly Egyptian tomato crop few years ago and yet it's pretty similar to what we call aartappelmot and unfortunately the way to handle it is with a lot of poison.

By the way, this is why I emphasise that policy is not the main issue in agriculture. The issue is efficiency and efficacy. For example, I am working on building a system that improves time of application of pesticides. (Before getting there, there are some lower hanging fruit to pick.) It's a major problem for farmers of all sizes as the people selling the pesticides actually have an incentive to get you to buy more and more. But the key is to apply at the right stage of the particular pest's life cycle. And as someone who likes mathematics, it's satisfying work due to the inherent complexity of agriculture.

[1] I think this is the one we're looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_French_Wine_Blight
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I think older people are more worried about those they are taking care of than themselves. At least it's true in my case.
This article is full of opinions, and brings no facts to the table. The author does not mention his experience interviewing or hiring people, and the whole piece reads more like a rant.

> When an accountant is in an interview, they're not asked to multiply on-the-spot in their head what 485 x 761 equals because "you have to be good at math to be an accountant"

This is an ignorant statement. Accountats don't have to multiply things in their head day to day. Yet developers do need to code, day to day.

I'm a hiring manager and the reason people code on interviews is - well, after joining a company, the first few months they _will_ spend a good chunk of their time coding. And the companies I worked at, who dropped the coding interview always regretted it, through mishires. People who could code, but were not very good at it. E.g. their code was sloppy, incorrect and they needed considerable mentoring and coaching to write code that worked. As senior developers.

The other reason is to even the odds. 70% of people I've seen hired did not have public Github profiles or code they could show. The people who complain about "why can't they just look at my portfolio" and (potentially rightfully) conclude that they're amazing developers don't realize that this approach would result in more bias for hiring this group of people. Good luck maintaining a fair hiring bar this way or hire diverse candidates.

This is why the coding test exists in most places. It's to test for something that you're expected to do from day one and to even the bar that people need to jump through, for everyone.

I'd love to hear what OP suggests to replace the coding tests with - a chat about past projects, then make an offer? And what do you do with the people who don't have these things to show?
This is brilliant. Just tried with few friends. Few features request.

-Dark mode or minimal light

-fading control options if not using for long time
Slightly related: http://nicolas.thiery.name/Talks/2018-10-08-CategoriesPyData...

(How this is implemented in SageMath.)
The biggest problem why extremely cheap food prices are needed is that there is a ton of people that are on minimum wage or below who would not be able to survive otherwise.

If that is to change and ag products be priced in a way that allows fair wages to farm employees and proper treatment to animals, then wages have to be raised across the board and wealth taken from the rich elites and redistributed to the poor.
Does it have to be PHP? No offence but you’d get so much more from learning Python and the barrier to entry really isn’t that high.

The hardest hurdle initially is to set up a “virtual environment” which means you have a project by project collection of all the packages you need instead of installing everything globally.

Setting up virtual environments used to be a pain. Today it’s so easy:

1. Make sure you have Python 3.8 installed. There’s installers for Mac and Win.
2. Create a folder for your new project.
2. Inside that folder, use your console or terminal to write: python3 -m venv p_env
3. You now have a virtual env, all your stuff will be stored in that p_env folder.
4. Activate it with another command: source p_env/bin/activate
5. It’s now activated and you can use “pip” to install packages like Django a great web framework.

By the way go check out Django and go through the tutorial. It’s very fun and will get you going with a CRUD in no time.
your comment will get downvoted but this article will never get flagged.
Yes, easier and also it's not building a socialist economy that would end in just another starvation.
Both questions are answered on their website and their extensive handbook. If you’re seriously interested, have a read.
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> I have decent experience with PHP/MySQL from past

Let's be honest: you don't have any experience with php or mysql anymore. 12 years ago was the era of php 5 with some remnants of 4. Php 7 and the ecosystem are a lot better nowadays (composer, Symfony etc.). For database people tend to use Postgres when they can but even MySQL added lot of good things with JSON, CTE, window functions.

You may want to start learning from scratch.

"Hello world" is still those letters in a .php file uploaded to a host tho.
> Actually there are a lot of posts(pics, videos) on China social media from doctors showing they were lack of PPE, and using even plastic bags.

Agreed. But, that still wouldn't stop the CCP from trying to deny that it happened or continues to take place, just as they're actively lying about the death count in just Wuhan as many locals reported that crematoriums were running 24/7 and urns were being delivered by the truckload daily for the families of the dead [1].

I don't think we'll ever truly know the death count from all of this on Mainland China, mainly because the CCP are trying to spin the optics away from their culpability in trying to cover it up and the censorship to do so while trying to change the narrative to suit their ends.

1: https://www.businessinsider.com/wuhan-residents-say-chinese-...
On a side note, this is mind-blowing: https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2561#p3742...
> Imagine for instance the stereotypical Frankston junkie.

I'd like to see data comparing minimum wage to drug abuse, but there's a few problems with trying to make that correlation. E.g., social welfare measures would largely factor in here, but I imagine that both minimum wage and welfare measures typically go hand in hand. But by naive comparison, just this wiki article seems to show that opiates abuse is about 5 times greater in the US vs Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_prevalenc...
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Yup, readline's yank-last-arg command Alt-. or Alt-_ (see https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Commands-...) is the best off-the-shelf solution that still gives the ability to interactively edit the filename. To minimize the total number of key strokes I would suggest:

mv foo.txt
↑
Alt-.

That is: intentionally run mv with only one argument (the command fails but is recorded in the history), Up arrow to recall the last command, and Alt-dot (pastes the last argument).

This is literally replacing an entire shell script with two key strokes (Up, Alt-.)
I totally agree with this. Another problem are some programs where shortcuts seem to bind to some hardware codes of keys instead of what your layout says, so that shortcuts aren't what they say they are, e.g ctrl+[ would be at ctrl-å instead of ctrl+altGr+9 on a swedish keyboard (which I guess couldn't work because altGr is the same as ctrl+alt, or is that not true?)

In my situation I write in english, swedish, danish and sometimes icelandic as well as in programming languages.
My solution has been to create my own keyboard layout that I call Nordic Programmer which is the US keyboard but by pressing altGr I have åäö letters where they are supposed to be, and øæ next to them. and then on altGr+eyuioadt i have éýúíóáðþ for icelandic. All of them are capitalized by adding shift. This was pretty easy to learn to use and makes me not have to switch keyboard all the time.
It is not truly nordic I guess, because it prioritizes swedish which is the keyboard I learned growing up.
> I was able to get kleenex and paper towels saturday because the grocery store is now limiting people to one purchase per day.

Maybe, but depending on where you are, you might be 3 weeks into this and demand is subsiding.
Current politicians don't care about anything 5+ years in the future. The youth very well does, see e.g. Fridays for future movement.

We need a maximum age for politicians, and mandate ethnic, gender and age diversity in politics. Additionally we have to incentivize long-term thinking and disincentivize short term optimization. As long as we are in capitalism, an idea would be a 2 million dollar bonus to be paid out 20 years after a politician retires - which is only valid if the decisions this politician took during their time in office had a quantifiably positive impact for general society.
> Being able to visit friends and family is a hell of a step up over having zero face-to-face interactions with any other humans though.

Sure, if your friends and family all have antibodies.

Otherwise you have to fear for their safety. You could just be running around spreading it to all your loved ones.

Having antibodies doesn't suddenly turn you and your appendages into magical virus-free objects.
I can't speak to any of that, but you don't need 8x8 in order to run Jitsi.

Jitsi is the same project it was when it was run by an independdent company. It's the same project it was when Atlassian acquired it, and continues to be the same project now at 8x8.

It's Apache 2 licensed, and you are more than welcome to use it without dealing with 8x8 at all.

Disclaimer: I'm a Fellow Jitster at 8x8.
Recruitment for accountants etc often includes a technical skills component, I don't know why he thinks it doesn't.
There is a table here that shows what you're calculating by hand:

https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus#the-growth-rate-of-co...
Propaganda is not about what's true and not true, but about what's amplified and not amplified. I'm sure literally every word of this moving piece about a brave Chinese doctor overcoming adversity to help heal her countrymen is true.

I suspect an article in Western-style media might have been a little less quick to let the government off the hook though:

> The main problem wasn’t poor preparation, but the sudden influx of patients that would have overwhelmed a stockpile even 10 times the size available

That sentence is probably true, but it also doesn't mention the ham-fisted approach by authorities at the beginning which exacerbated the problem.
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The "insertable streams" API is currenly only available in Chrome.
I'm still in it after 10 years... self-taught at 12, did some "proggies" for AOL--mostly did programming for fun, eventually at 18, I quit, and would not return until I had to.. at 26. I just wasn't interested in it. Wanted nothing to do with computers... went off to college, studied psychology, lived in another country, taught English, came back home... no one was hiring, except a company that needed the skills I learned when I was 12.

Although he was a tyrant boss that I couldn't stand, he taught me what I would need to know to go on and stay focused on the "task at hand" when it came to programming. I started getting into web design and development at the time as well, and made the switch. Been at it ever since.

I used to be a gamer in high school. I'd skip school to stay home and play Asheron's Call. I was so addicted to the game that I was the first to max out on the server of Harvestgain. Had a whole bunch of people come watch the fireworks. It was awesome. Anyways, it was a year after high school and I had been playing that game for 5 years, before realizing that I was just "wasting my life away" playing video games, which is what escalated a push for me to go to college and kind of taught me a valuable lesson: what if I could monetize something I enjoy doing? Programming = being creative, coming up with new ideas, making them a reality, etc.

I work for the media, I freelance for a few companies, started a blog, and started my own business ( https://notetoservices.com ), developing web apps for a variety of different purposes. So I tend to just keep myself busy, coming up with new ideas, and a lot of ideas stem off of other ideas, some free, some monetized. Keeps things... joyful.
I love it! But it must be breaching copyright/terms etc...
if no one is shopping because they're all cutting back on non-essential spending, brand advertising is useless. You'd want to do the brand advertising right at the cusp of recovery so that your brand is on the minds of shoppers when they finally get back to work and have money to spend.
Try side projects

I don't think more programming is a solution to being burnt out on programming.
It's well-known that corona viruses wipe out ICU staff, so there's really nothing to hide.

It was reported with SARS-1 (2002/2003) in Toronto and S. Korea, and probably China.

IIRC, with SARS-2, it was a major concern in Italian and US hospitals.
Good luck! Are there any examples of this idea in action? I didnt find any references on the page.

I think this idea has potential: take the bash shell as an example - it is a terrible programming language with one redeeming feature, execution tracing (set -x). Whenever i have to work with an unknown bash script i can turn on that option and see what it is doing. I think such a level of transparency is a first step towards the ideal of malleable systems.
> People whose labor is worth less than the minimum wage become unemployable

Or you get into the awkward situation the US is in with immigrants working farming, janitorial, etc. jobs off the books with no protections.
To be fair, a coding interview would address the "can he code at all" question, but not what you mentioned: sloppiness, incorrect coding and needing mentoring
This paper by two federal reserve economists argues that that "Pandemics Depress the Economy" more than the measures to stop them. It's a false dichotomy. The alternative to "Stay at home" is not a thriving economy, but a depressed one.
https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2020/03/fight-...
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Papers.cfm?abstract_id=3561560