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What do you make of Eric Weinstein's recent interview on Lex Fridman's AI podcast (both MIT alumni) specifically the taking back MIT portion:

https://youtu.be/rIAZJNe7YtE?t=6418

I've been conflicted with MIT as an institution ever since the death of Aaron Swartz, it stood by and then participated in what ultimately took the life of a great member of the hacker/tech community, but I understand and accept that so many great minds go there to create some of the greatest innovation the Human Species' is capable of.

It was sad to hear Eric's plight was the same trivial political non-sense and administrative corruption that I encountered in the low tier State Schools I attended, his impact was far greater to say the least of course. Which apparently also the case with Harvard. This seems systemic, and not just a prestige campus based occurrence.

The closest I ever got to MIT was a clim co-lab project I was involved in that was accepted into the finalist rounds in sustainability and presented on campus at the awards.

I couldn't attend the event as I was working on my startup in CO, so I didn't see it from within; but I was told by the project lead that it was a great experience, even if nothing really came of it--there is lots of hand shaking, but ultimately prize winners are given a small token sum, not really even seed money to get a project off the ground so the best thing you can do is network for well endowed collaborative partners and find leads for real funding.
Anyone remember the browsers that made you small amounts of money per hour for using them to surf the web?
Thanks for this question and for everyones answers. I am a software engineer, and have a friend, female, aged 30 from a different department at work who is going blind and afraid to research anything. I think this will help a lot.
> Just because a lockdown is lifted doesn't mean anyone is forced back into leaving home.

Yes it is, without proper economic support. It's go back to work or risk poverty. It's not a fair choice if people can't safely stay home without going broke.

> The problem with the lockdown is it forces the same solution on to every individual. Individuals have different needs, risk factors, priorities, and appetite for risk. People should be able to these make decisions for themselves.

That's framing this as an individual choice when it's a societal issue. If people can do whatever they want, it's just the tragedy of the commons. People will do what's good for them instead of what's good for public health. In this kind of scenario, individualism often just translates to selfishness.
And from the scenario:[0]

> Event 201 simulates an outbreak of a novel zoonotic coronavirus transmitted from bats to pigs to people that eventually becomes efficiently transmissible from person to person, leading to a severe pandemic. The pathogen and the disease it causes are modeled largely on SARS, but it is more transmissible in the community setting by people with mild symptoms.

That's almost exactly what happened. Except for the jump through pigs.

And the "growing number of epidemic events" is arguably caused by increasing human contact with previously isolated habitats, driven by population pressure.[1]

0) https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/scenario.ht...

1) https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-11-billion-p...
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> what sort of argument is that?

It isn't "an argument". It's simply a practical reality which contradicts your false preconceptions.
> Are there blind frontend engineers?

I have zero experience in this area, and don't actually know any blind engineers, but I have two thoughts:
1. A lot of frontend development isn't necessarily tied to the UI itself. especially in more complicated apps, where a lot of the logic is in the frontend.
2. I think a blind developer has an advantage when it comes to building websites that are usable by other visually impaired people. Maybe consider looking into a11y development, if that interests you.
Exact same thing in France with professor Didier Raoult, who has become a folk hero for some and a crank for others (generally split along political lines).
In practice, ADHD is what you have when stimulants make you get better.

If your laundry lists of symptoms (depression, sleep disorders, lack of motivation etc) get better from stimulants, count yourself lucky. Stimulants work right away, if they work at all, and have few and relatively mild side-effects.

Some of the side-effects, like weight loss, are even seen as welcome by many people. Others like having to pee more often and cold hands are relatively easy to deal with.

For comparison, antidepressants take months to show even mild positive effects; and have major side-effects.
mschuster91 is so busy running his airline he doesn't have time to answer pesky questons!
Modern video games are a focus hack that works within the game but does not translate to non-dopamine activities. Meditation would be cleaner, but if you want a game for focus, I would suggest Go (the classic board game). Moreso than I think any other game, it encourages and rewards beneficial human traits like patience and concentration.
That is a description of my 3.5 year old when he hasn’t had enough exercise for a day or two and is tired and/or hungry.

I haven’t spent an appreciable amount of time with a kid who is always completely uninterested in stories of any kind. But I can speculatively imagine a variety of possible causes for that: other distracting stimuli, malnutrition, exposure to toxins, disease, congenital brain abnormality, emotional abuse, ...

Do you have some particular kid in mind?

Or if this is an analogy to problem solving: if someone literally can’t manage to attempt any kind of problem no matter how trivial, then “easily give up when I face a hard problem” would not be an accurate description of the situation.
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Small typo / wrong link on the site -> the link to "covidhge.com" (COVID Human Genetic Effort) near the bottom of the page should be to https://www.covidhge.com/ (right now, it incorrectly links to https://fastgrants.org/covidhge.com )
There are different ways for ADHD to manifest.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/attention-deficit-hyperactivit... has a list of symptoms in adults.

> But everything I've read about ADHD doesn't sound like a me at all.

If the symptoms listed there don't match, you probably don't have a ADHD, I guess.
But all too many (which doesn't mean a multitude), will not look past a hit, especially if they are running with out much of a safety net.

I think of at meat processing plant in South Dakota that had a large outbreak, and why, when a plant was still able to run, management didn't take drastic measures to ensure that employees wouldn't get sick and bring about a full stoppage. Same thing is Halle I gotta at hospitals and other places too, all around the country.
Thanks for posting this. That is hilarious
If it was a full door, the ejectee couldn't conserve enough momentum to fall into the horse trough.

(there's one more thing I remember about westerns besides folks going through saloon doors or windows - the f-troop lookout tower falling over)
> I'm personally looking forward to wearing a mask long after this pandemic has passed, to defend my privacy against ubiquitous facial recognition.

I'm not sure I would "look forward" to that, if you mean that in the colloquial sense.
EVs still have enormous CO2 lifecycle footprints, to the point that they're not really a solution to road traffic CO2 emissions. How does the lifetime footprint compare to hydrogen based cars?
The original link above is saying that there was a website for every state started at the same time by the same person (by looking at whois info):

https://www.reddit.com/r/maryland/comments/g3niq3/i_simply_c...

Many of these so-called grassroots movements are not spontaneous.
> Tap water in the Pacific Northwest

It can vary a fair bit, but I agree. Some places in the PNW get river water that is great, but then there's Portland, which draws from Bull Run, and that's really some great water right there.

For cheese produced on industrial scale, we even have a good source for that -- Tillamook cheese is pretty good.
Hum, I see. Yes, the maintainers of ClojureScript believe the bundle sizes would be too big if you always had to include the compiler with the APP. (also because the Google Closure compiler JS implementation is not as full featured as the Java one)

But it sounds in your case, maybe that can be removed before shipping? But used while developing?
tl;dr: Role play a robot.

Try to block "thinking". Every time you catch yourself "thinking about" instead of doing, stop thinking and do something related to the task. Remove all distractions. Put your phone in another room, close your e-mail and do the smallest thing you can do to move your task forward, don't "think about", just do it, as if tou were a robot. Once you get tired, be satisfied with your progress and relax (release your thinking from prison, Now it is allowed to come in). Practice "I must do this" in other areas of your life as well, without thinking, until you develop grip.
TraitsUI: Traits-capable windowing framework (PyQt, wxPython, PySide, PyQt5)
I got diagnosed with ADHD as an adult.

I also had sleep issues, but never bad enough to seek help for them. Fortunately, the ADHD meds fixed the sleep issues, too.

Have you tried taking some L-Tryptophan in the evening? For some people it works wonders for sleep and mood. L-Tryptophan is an essential amino acid that you can buy over-the-counter. Your body needs it to make melatonin and serotonin amongst other things.
Ugly dependency graph? The Mediator Design Pattern is the solution for you
You might also want to consider the possibility that you’re a lazy person who doesn’t have great potential. This is the conclusion I came to about myself and it has actually made my life a lot easier. No more stressing about not achieving anything, etc.
iCab Mobile is also one of the only truly unique iOS browsers. Was the only way to reliably download multiple files for years on iOS, and today still is the closest to having browser add-ons in iOS. Supported uploading files long before Safari too. Its custom zoom levels made many web apps usable on the original non-pro iPad screen sizes as you could fake a higher resolution screen (and you could change your user agent if websites refused to show their desktop version). You can tweak iCab's interface quite a bit too, which makes it a great way to make an internet appliance of sorts to show a single website without having extra toolbars and stuff.

It's not my default browser, but is a great tool to keep around!
> It's not much of a blind spot. Fuel cells are worse for consumer cars than batteries, both in environmental terms and in terms of convenience. A BEV can recharge at home using existing standard outlets (a 240v 30A or 50A dryer outlet for good performance, or even a 120v regular outlet will do if you're willing to wait a while); good luck refilling a fuel cell.

And if you don't have a garage? Or park on the street? You're just hand-waving away a very consumer hostile problem. You have to assume that there will eventually be a hydrogen refueling network, at which point refueling is just 5 minutes for 300-400 miles of range.

> Also, most independent real-world tests I've seen of hydrogen cells reported much lower efficiency in practice than claimed — often between 30-40%. The only tank-to-wheel 60% claim I could find was a statement by Honda of their own car;

I doubt those tests you claim really exist. Hyundai claims their car also gets 60% efficiency [1].

> In fact, the battery-based version of the same exact car, the Honda Clarity EV, has an EPA rating of 114 MPGe [3], which is nearly 70% more efficient.

I don't doubt BEVs are more efficient. It's likely just irrelevant as we build out an insane about of renewable wind and solar. Right now, the problem is we are producing too much, not too little, renewable energy. The goal is to use that nearly free electricity to make hydrogen [2].

1. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1119347_2019-hyundai-ne...

2. https://www.governing.com/next/Americas-Largest-Municipal-Ut...
Why not every hour or even half-hour?

Provided that you can run multiple builds in parallel but each of them has somehow limited parallelization.
One thing that you and others arguing in the same way seem to neglect is that there is a huge economical cost to a significant fraction of your society dying. This is not an either or situation. I want to see your economic models that the economy would have been fine with 0.5-1% of the population dying within a short period (actually everywhere the health system got overloaded the rate was significantly higher). Let's not even talk about the loss in confidence in the government because they failed to react.
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The feeling can feel similar which is probably why a lot of people think they are just lazy. But ADHD is more of a reduced / lack of self-drive combined with a self-regulation + internal prioritization problem. Maybe a bit like laziness but the feeling is multiplied.

I of course have moments when I feel lazy and just don't want to do anything, but then there are the other moments when I want to do something, work on a project, practice a hobby but just don't. There is this disconnect, it's hard to explain

Best to look at other key ADHD symptoms as well like emotional regulation, rejection sensitve dysphoria, focus, (mental) hyperactivity (= your brain can't just chill), the need to constantly do something, impulsiveness (like with money), etc etc etc.

It's of course a spectrum and some people are worse in x while other people suffer more on y.

Best to talk to a doc if it affects your life. Could be ADHD, could be something else. It's very common though so admitting that there might be a problem is the first step to getting better
This reminds me of schools early on who wanted to give all their students ipads.

Hello? fundamentals go much further than tech magic bullets.

For instance, the chinese took people's temperatures.
To my taste, Kerrygold is genuinely better: color, flavor, texture, and quality of the Maillard reaction in fried foods.

That's most of what I get, I've picked up other butters that have the same shade and haven't been disappointed.
I live in Australia and the diversity of bush-tucker is absolutely amazing! Tons of strange tomatoes (bush-tomatoes), of course kangaroo meat, quandong, kakadu fruit, kutjera, bunya nut etc. Except for kangaroo meat you can't get these in the supermarket here either, there's no industry growing them on a large scale due to cultural and sometimes religious reasons.

Pascoe's Dark Emu or Gammage's Biggest Estate on Earth (less fought about) are good reads in that area.
I had this butter once at a restaurant not long after this article was originally published. I was excited to try it and while the color was indeed distinctive, just as the photos show, I did not notice it being noticeably better than other nice butters you get at very good restaurants (this particular one had 2 Michelin stars).

If they say it's the world's best, I'll believe them. I definitely do not have the most refined palate. I love the smell of great coffee but don't really taste the difference.
I have worked closely with Nicolas Pitre, a kernel engineer who is blind and is one of the most amazing people I've worked with. I'm happy to put you in touch with him if you like -- my email is in my profile.
Acme's sour batard is my favorite. Never had Tartine's.
Even if other countries are missing some deaths (most are), these charts look still very different. Sweden 1200 deaths vs Finland&Norway at 80-150: https://images.app.goo.gl/krLeDxnBHCdQ9817A
Japan and Singapore also have prevalent mask wearing, but are seeing a resurgence in cases.
I should clarify, in production projects, materials may end up being a much greater overall part of the process, especially if the production is heavily automated. However, 3D printing of tool steels seems like it is aimed at lower volume parts where the automation will be lower, so paying a machinist to load/unload, finish, debur etc might be a relatively larger portion of the time.

For us hobbyists, the CAD time is free, so it tends to cost less :)
I used to use Desktops[1] when I still used Windows. I’m not sure whether windows supports full screen apps these days so it will be slightly different experience.

[1]: https://superuser.com/a/177046
You got me curious.

I just put some news interview on YouTube at 2x.

It is fun how even the accents are easily recognizable.

Anyway, this is in Spanish. My guess by reading the comments is Spanish is a much easier language to listen at a faster speed.
Where are the companies that try to make their employees better? As someone who is an employed software developer, but has never been confused for a rockstar coding ninja, things like this hit me emotionally when I read them.

This might not be the smartest thing to put onto the internet, but I'm not someone who comes in guns a-blazing and ships dozens of features my first week. Or do I ever get to a high velocity. Would I like to? Sure. But that's not where I am at now.

So, a lot of companies talk like this. I suspect this is like baseball before Moneyball -- what if you can get people who are undervalued and make them better? What companies are doing that? Or even, how does one do that on their own?
Speaking as a Californian, dams on the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers have reduced our salmon migrations to only 5% of their pre-dam-building norms.

My question for Norwegians: Have you seen similar environmental impacts on their native fisheries and ecosystems due to your large-scale hydroelectric constructions?
I'm sure you aren't implying that conspiracy is just an imaginary concept that has never been actually a thing in history.

The scenario of Event 201 simulation is pretty similar to what has unfolded just a few months later. This is just an objective observation. As far as a conspiracy, having a test-run simulation before the live campaign, that isn't a far-fetched idea.

There are even stranger coincidences: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Crowne
It was big news that Tom Hanks got Covid-19. In this film he was called Lance Corona. In one scene a guy in a Dracula/bat costume says that Larry Crowne/Lance Corona "maybe he got the flu". Obviously just another coincidence, right? What would be good recommendation for a threshold where one would decide on dismissing/considering coincidences/correlations?
I actually built a little webapp for this recently: https://todayilearned.co

For tracking and sharing of personal TILs

Also as an iOS app
Is there any evidence of this common claim that obscure languages "may contain some of the most critical solutions to the problems we face as humans"? What kind of problems is he talking about there? Has it ever happened before?

Does it need to? If a language interest a community, then it's reason enough to learn it.

Anyway, if you're a deaf person, a sign language is going to be a hell lot more useful than a spoken language, since the deaf can effectively communicate in say...ASL, as opposed to spoken English. They do still need to learn English, if only to interact with the larger community.

And ASL is interesting because you can some ideas communicate ideas more effectively than you could do through spoken words. ASL has a lot of opportunity for iconicity.

I learned it because I am curious about the language with no practical application in mind, but hopefully one day in the future, I will use it to communicate with the deaf and that will be one of the coolest way I will ever help a person.
I recently started, come join me! https://todayilearned.co

@littke on twitter
Here in the UK you get stations ending in any decimal. Other countries have different schemes. It’s a thing when you import a car from Japan for example, the FM bands are different so you have to swap the radio or buy a little band expander box to fudge it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_broadcasting
Three spaces vs one space is punctuation?
Another interesting note about the FM frequencies is stations from 88 MHz to 92 MHz are the non-commercial part. That's why you'll find a lot of NPR and religious stations at that part of the dial rather than the other end.

(Looked up after many hours of road tripping through states with very few radio stations)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-commercial_educational_sta...
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Regarding the positive correlation bit, I hate to bring it up because it's almost a meme, but this is a prime example of people not understanding correlation and causation. This is why we need domain experts and not some people twiddling with numbers and saying "aha".
Thus begins the decline of hacker news into mainstream clickbait. Mark my words.
A strategy to lift the lockdowns while keeping infection rates low
I know I'm not helping you with your original question but I hope this can be well received anyway. Have you looked into or tried extreme diet interventions in the way of recovery? Red light or other type of light therapy?
If you haven't even started the curve (as many of these states haven't), then you're not flattening it by using stay at home for a short time then relaxing it.

IMO loosening restrictions without really aggressive testing and case tracing is going to undo lots of good work by other states by allowing the virus to spread, but time will tell.
A century after the first airplane was 2003.

Air power was already militarily important by 1916.

You might better have cited the laser, which took three decades to find heavy use, or microwave technology, worked out around 1890 but not used much until the 1940s.
> It’s not a “meme” that we don’t have a coronavirus vaccine.

I was referring to the idea that is going around that "we don’t have any coronavirus vaccines" is somehow significant and means it is especially hard to make one.

> Regarding ventilators

I think the NY Times article is good, but it's important to note that this is evolving and treatments are changing. But saying "some doctors say they're trying to keep patients off ventilators as long as possible, and turning to other techniques instead" is very different to "ventilators have proven to be basically lethal to COVID patients".
AllAdvantage? (probably showing my age here)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllAdvantage
It’s time for another Erlang purge.
Something I've always wondered is where the channel "names" come from. The ones that are usually 4-6 characters, seemingly random, often starting with K or W for some reason. Like KVUE or W2XMN or KLTY.
its more interesting that FM stations have channel numbers, which are basically not used by anyone except the FCC.
Far, far, better for bread and cheese at least. Which I suspect means you haven't found where those are? (Cheeseboard in Berkeley, Cowgirl Creamery in the Ferry Building, Acme bread, Tartine as previously mentioned - some of these closed at the moment of course)

[I'm a cheese and bread snob from Switzerland FWIW - I could be somewhat convinced that the wholewheat bread choices are not perfect though]
If anyone is interested in amateur radio in the US, don't let the current situation dissuade you. There is at least one VEC now offering completely remote exams - I just took both my Technician and General exams with GLAARG completely remote.
I'm watching Italy/Spain with great interest at this point as both are loosening restrictions (after going through the same sort of hell as New York). If they don't see a new bump up in a few weeks for them, it means prevalence is far higher than we think in those countries (good news for them).