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Global problems need social science
I'm currently trying to do the same, I'm sick of running out of ram on my MBP. What software/setups do you find indispensable to move to Windows? I'm not a first time Windows-only user, but first time to do full development work. For what it's worth I already use VSCode, I'm doing FE Development, and I use Docker a lot. I'm kind of unsure due to having to lose my Mac-specific tools such as Maccy (Clipboard Manager) and Alfred (Quick Launcher).
This rings true so deeply. Best piece I’ve read in ages. I wish more governments, tech entrepreneurs and (hard) scientists understood the importance and power of the social and behavioral sciences.

"Environmental issues are not just technical challenges that can be solved with a new invention. To tackle climate change we will need insight from psychology and sociology.

[...] In diverse cases, social factors — cultural norms, educational understanding, kin and social networks, power dynamics, or simply the layout of a building — must be accounted for before policy can succeed."

and then this:

"Blind faith in data science without an understanding of what data are missing, or how algorithms can exacerbate existing biases, can lead to policy failure. In a democracy, expert advice must be balanced with considerations such as public opinion, financial costs and political demands. Still, without the humanities and social sciences, hard science and technology can do little to resolve complex societal challenges. Wise governments will find ways to incorporate that insight."
>This is easy to say with retrospect. How many other major protests in history would you have compromised had you known there would be violence?

>Any embedded provocateur could easily kill any protest.

But this wasn't a provocateur, promptly disavowed by the protestor leaders. It was concerted, intentional, premeditated violence. This was known, or at least expected, beforehand.
Verifying a DKIM-Signature by Hand
> fantasy robodeaths

They're not a fantasy, they've occurred. The reason we can count them on one hand is because few cars currently drive autonomously and there is a fail-safe human at the wheel who (most of the time) is paying attention to the road.

Even if autonomous cars are better than human drivers they will still inevitably strike and kill pedestrians and vehicle occupants; they are not a magical solution to vehicle collisions.
A lot of people in this thread thinking they are Terrence Tao, Karl Frederick Gauss, Leonhard Euler, John Von Neumann, etc. Nope you don’t have the faintest idea of what it means to be exceptionally gifted. These people are close to a different species or race of men entirely.
The NHS used to have two books available in print and as PDF.

They've now put all of that on a website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/

PDFs are still available, but check the information is still correct:

https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Preg...

https://www.publichealth.hscni.net/publications/birth-five

https://www.bfwh.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Birth2Fiv...

My one bit of advice is to just relax and enjoy it. There's so much pressure put on parents about things that are micro-optimisations (eg breast feeding is best, but some people can't make it work even with support and those people should not feel guilty about formula feeding: their child is not suffering as a result), and some people are weirdly judgmental about this stuff.
Ah, Wikipedia also says that volume elsewhere in the article.

The linked Forgotten Weapons goes in to detail about the rubber seals, which the projectile pierces through when the weapon is fired.

The rubber partially reseals, but after a dozen shots or so the weapon degrades to the performance of a normal silenced pistol.

This probably explains the discrepancy. It is indeed very quiet, and my interpretation of the quote is wrong.
Our older one goes to school himself from first grade on. The second is about to start school. Each one getting to school safely is not the problem. Getting them to school safely if they walk together is a problem.
Which is enabled by VC funding, which IMO makes them complicit on a systemic level. It's arguable whether you can blame a particular investor for Uber's thoroughly rotten and antisocial business model - but once you see more of such startups getting funded left and right, it's fair to ask the question, "why such business model is even a possible option".
> If you prepare for it, then you are acting as if you think it will happen.

That isn't the case. Preparation isn't a binary state either - people can be more or less prepared for an occurrence. The estimated likelihood of an event changes how much time and effort should be spent preparing to it.

There is a big difference in how people behave if they thing there is a 0%, 0.05% or 98% chance of being mugged when they go outside for example. The 0.05% case would rationally start avoiding people late at night or not carrying valuables. The 98% person would not go outside.
_I for one, am enjoying working from home, so far. I wake up without an alarm clock._

This changes overtime IMO. I've worked from home for years now, initially it's a blessing, in-time it can be a curse.

If you WFH and want to be productive you _must_ learn to plan your day and that usually involved some type of discipline.
Make your own face shield
No I haven't, but I've failed to convince you, it seems.

It does make a difference because the chip designer doesn't know or doesn't care how the chip is going to be packaged and where the pins are going to be placed on the package.

With the standard numbering, two consecutive pins are always placed next to eachother no matter the package, and the chip designer can use this information to optimize the placement of related pins.

This is not true with the alternative numbering "by column", where pin 4 and 5 are close on most packages, but far away on a DIP 8 package.
I would hope they go a long way towards reducing your responsibility if you follow one and then run into a legal problem because of it.
It's unrealistic I'll gather a bigger readership without much effort. For comparison: I have 6 twitter followers I think...
Ask HN: How did you get good at regexes?
Just wondering...are there countries/states/regions showing some kind of baked in immunity to it or unique environment that reduces replication rate or whatever?

Can economies compete if one is operating under quarantine conditions and another doesn't have too? Anyone know any past examples of that?
> I think the same is true for cryptocurrencies but I would like to keep those out of the discussion, if possible.

A bit strange to exclude the one and only answer to your question.
Why don't we run it on every change?
The trick is to post the proposed edit on the talk page first, then make it after a few days if nobody objects. If your edit is reverted, you can point out that the user didn't raise any concerns on talk. Reverts are very much supposed to be a last resort measure, the primary way of shaping a wiki article is via discussion/deliberation on the talk page. Also very handy for edits that you know to be controversial.
It is interesting that science is considered as "making new stuff". In the classic distinction it's the opposite: Art (and artisanship and crafts) is creating new stuff, while science (natural philosophy) is about studying and understanding the existing natural world.
Did he put tape on the home button for us not to steal his fingerprints ?
As well as Ingemar Stenmark...
The interesting follow up question to that quote would be finding out which one he thinks he is himself.

I suspect he thinks it’s the former, when, of course, it’s the latter.
A lab that reads and writes our dreams
Aren't you basically describing Khan Academy?

It has good education material - including exercises - that you go through at your own pace, and is organised as a tree of learning.

Last time I looked it didn't go into university level subjects though.
This is a long shot - but are you running on battery while this is happening? Had some weird issues that worked themselves out by plugging in the charger. Probably had to do with power savings and cpu throttling.
As @cel pointed out further down the tree [1] that's not entirely correct any longer.
Especially the "100% tied to node.js" part has not been for a while. There are now alternative implementations for Rust and Go.

Now, the feed format is indeed a practical problem if you try to make a client from scratch and it is annoying. Luckily, using one of the already existing libraries will handle this for you.

Changing that feed format for everyone is not possible, simply because there's already an existing social network built on the old ones that we very much want to preserve since we actually... well... hang out there.
Changing feed format thus involves adding a new feed format and making sure other clients can handle and link together both. At the benefit of abstracting away the feed format, and being able to iterate on them.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22912075
Niantic Names Board Member Megan Quinn as COO
Really well captured. It's like we all want to have nice things, without having to make them ourselves.

I'm not in US but in Europe, and I feel like many countries are like a 50-year 100M LOC codebase with fragile dependencies on module boundaries. The inertia is massive and refactoring even a small part of it requires enormous effort, and there will always be people unhappy about any change and a maze of laws making stuff difficult.

You need to really think big and have that inner energy to persuade people to change anything. Most people (me including) just don't have, most of the time, enough mental energy for thinking big about the world around after doing their 8h of busywork and 2h in commute to make ends meet.

Most people at their (non-tech) works are not told to think big either; hell, they are probably discouraged to, and are told to juggle an infinite backlog of low-impact "JIRA tickets" and keep the status quo.
Open Data · Issue #14 · PublicHealthEngland/coronavirus-dashboard
I'd have thought C++ was the poster-perversion for this. The community wants users to admit they can't develop software at all.
That helps with social distancing. It's not a bad thing given the circumstances.
Matlab should be in the Hysterical, Psychopath, Masochist and Sadist categories. Worst time I've ever had writing something non trivial was in Matlab. I once ran into a bug in their GC that was apparently 5+ years old and had to time line to fix. For context this was about 8 years ago and I was asked to do it in Matlab for a neuroscience lab I was working for. I would have chosen C++ or Python and interfaced with the C++ binaries.

Edit: Misread the above post. He said Matlib not Matlab. Not sure if that was a type or just referring to the plotting library, but my feelings towards Matlab still stand!
The equivalent feed for the UK Parliament has been running since 2014 at https://www.twitter.com/parliamentedits
Because HISTCONTROL=ignoredups only deduplicates sequential commands, and having my own script allows specification of the blacklist in a non-redundant way between zsh and bash.

In addition, I can do it in such a way that the most recent invocation is deleted last. I can also use regexes.

See https://github.com/naggie/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/clean... for more reasoning.
If a build takes 4 hours it argues that a build on that system is a pretty expensive operation, unless changes are very infrequent, which in most systems is not the case, a build run on every change would seem to be highly problematic.
Great ideas thanks
Waking up without an alarm clock doesn't imply lack of discipline. Unless I'm going out or going to bed very late I usually don't need an alarm. I'd just wake up at the same time every day.
You mean CA99, not I5 (unless you're thinking about the segment inside LA county).
> Also, is Lawrence Lessig still active?

He hosts https://equalcitizens.us/anotherway/
You make a good point that too many current humans have the same problem, or lack motivation, but the silver platter/out of touch barb wasn't necessary.

> banging out kids at an unbelievable rate

That's not actually helpful. Some stats would be good. I did a quick search for number of offspring for the yanomami but found nothing.
Noooo.... that 90's style annoyed me to no end as it was just as cookie-cutter copy as the current crop of vector art. For some reason there was one thing which made is especially annoying: the fact that nearly every person in those illustration was wearing a neck tie, often flying out at odd angles, often garishly coloured. Oversized besuited- and -tied figurines flying over hills and dales, I can still see them...

The original illustrator who launched the style and all the others who copied it probably thought it made the figures look like 'professionals' but for me it just made them look like the superfluous managers who, like veritable parasites, had hooked themselves into the system and started extracting nourishment. Maybe the fact that I worked at a big telco which had created a separate business unit for that new-fangled internet thing had something to do with it? We were placed in a different building and had as little contact as possible with the mothership to make sure its stifling culture would not hinder us in making a place for ourselves on the 'net. When it became clear that the 'net was where it was at those manager-types started flooding in - and the early developer types started flooding out, me amongst them.
Doist founder Amir Salihefendic explains why his remote team doesn’t try to do
I wasn’t brave enough to jump on with a stranger after checking out Focusmate. There are heaps of videos such as this: https://youtu.be/cPTRA1gIWak on YouTube. I found this really handy and got a productive session out of it. Would be even better with live stream.
Debian debug symbol packages are pretty nice [0].

But if you want a repository for your own debug symbols, multitude of symbol versions and ease of use then you're out of luck.

[0]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebugPackage
Atlassian vs. Amazon – Location Bnagalore India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagant_M1895

It pushes the cylinder forward against the barrel and the casing is longer than the bullet, entering the barrel to form a seal.
Yeah in and out of Wuhan. I came across the term "Wuhan Lung" a couple of weeks before CNY and it was affecting people as far away as in Thailand and a family friend caught it in Dubai around Jan 6th (and has since been tested for antibodies)
I think it is overly generous to refer to repeated hesitation and an inability to take responsibility as "decentralization."
That’s actually what makes it useful. Anyone can exhaustively describe a thing. Only good communicators can select down to their audience, assume things, and then generalize at a level that provides broad meaning.

The strength is in being able to select the first eigenvalues.

After all, the only real thing is the thing itself. A textual description of the thing is not the thing, Cecil’s lost his pipe. So then it falls to you to describe the thing well. To a man standing in front of ten cars, if you say, “the black one” he knows which one. If you say, “it is a motor vehicle made by Mercedes, noted for their three point logo, that is currently painted black” you have more data but not more information.

All the capable people generalize. That is where predictive strength comes from.
Tor Project lays off a third of its staff
> do you think all the human rights, union, indigenous, etc groups control which protests Antifa shows up at? Should they have to self-regulate their protests so no one shows up wearing all-black is allowed to participate?

Of course they should self-regulate - or at least make it very clear when the presence of violently-inclined groups isn't welcome to the organizers. Because the alternative is that the government will regulate those protests instead, which would be a lot worse.
No I'm told the procurement staff of the NHS themselves are also very slow and very inflexible/unagile
I did not mention Bromite at all, what are you talking about?

There is no FUD here, let me write down some facts for you:

* users install Kiwi which does not contain all the security fixes of upstream stable Chromium (v81); this is been going on for several months now

* users do the same for Bromite and the Bromite SystemWebView

I warn everyone equally about this problem, nobody should run an outdated browser because of all the security issues, look at 2019 alone here: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-1224...

More facts:

* the current version of Kiwi, in Play Store and in source form, still is not up to date and covering the security issues fixed by upstream Chromium

* Kiwi was not open source until now and its repository was plain lying about it (https://web.archive.org/web/20190719191635/https://github.co...), making people think it was open source while you published only a few unusable patches

* even now there is no commit history making the source code unusable and unauditable

* you included trackers at some point in Kiwi and visits were going to some search server of yours

Did I miss anything? I am glad you decided to open source it but it does not change the above facts.
The natural consequence of our last 50+ years of ever increasing economic growth is the lifestyle we had until a couple of months ago.

The push to improve economic output every year has as the effect that people have left very little time for themselves, that they have created smog hells in cities around the world.

I would argue that this environment we created is the antidote, where productivity has not gone up based on what you expect from the amount of hours worked. People keep putting more effort in but the output is not moving much.

I would expect that after some time of stabilizing (and articles like this show its already happening) that people will be more productive and be competitive with those that just keep chugging on.

It is easy to see on an individual level: you can try to put in 80 hour weeks, but a competitor that gets plenty of sleep and is happy doing his job just might outcompete you anyway.

I think the same can be seen on a larger scale, and probably with larger difference as well.

An economy where people are able to work in clean air, with much less pressure and much less feeling of being a consumer will end up being more productive even though a lot of people are working from home.

Because, remember, the main reason a lot of jobs are lost is not because productivity went down. It is because money is not spend. And money not spend is left available to be spend on other things. This will re-balance itself.
Show HN: Sync your Airtable bases to your clients
They did what's the equivalent of selling $10 bills for $1. No surprise customers like it, they get decent service priced at well below the market rate. For a while, that is, because it's only a way for them to leverage VC money to kill off local competitors. Once that's done, Uber's service tends to degrade, and it eventually will even more so, once their money runs out.
The central "alien" in the novel Blindsight (by Peter Watts) is, quite specifically, not this human-in-a-mask trope. One of the key points I remember (possibly not-quite-accurately) is that the various attempts that humanity makes to communicate with the alien could be construed by the alien to be attacks: bombarding it with the kinds of signals that we use to communicate.

It's a memorable point, making it plain that normality in our sphere of experience is something that's evolved through many needles' eyes over millions of years. Different human cultures can't even relate to each other very well, and we share 5-nines of that evolutionary history.
Since you're looking for free or low cost, how about self hosting?

Gotify allows push notifications to Android.

NodeRED can expose an API and trigger actions such as SMS through plugins.
>GOP put party win before a nation by agreeing to nominate an unfit individual for office. They failed as gatekeepers.

Why do we want corrupt politicians as "gatekeepers" to anything? The Democrats did a fine job "gatekeeping" Sanders from the 2016 and 2020 nomination, to what end?

By the way, nothing will ever get done in the US until the bitter partisanship ceases. Most of what both parties do is political theatre.
I recall a study of 'primitive' people of the Amazon, vs the 'modern' Japanese farmer. The primitives spend 3-4 hours a day foraging, and the rest at leisure. The farmer spent 10-hour days with 4 or 5 holidays per year. And lived in simple wooden huts as well.

Depending on the environment, ancient people's lives didn't have to be nasty, brutish and short. Leave that to the modern overcrowded slum.
Sculpt OS Release 20.02
It is proven that a very large portion of the population gets a thrill or some type of desirable chemical reaction in their brain when they purchase something for a “reduced” price. People like to feel that they’re special and got something that maybe someone else didn’t, or that “they” beat the system.

Most obvious recent example is to search online for JC Penney’s pricing strategy fail, where a prominent Apple executive had the same exact thought you did, and completely alienated the JC Penney shoppers who actually like seeing a price tag say $100 and then get surprised with various discounts at the cash register and see it be $20.
I wonder if the ungoogleable syntax hurts language adoption.
There's an initialism for it, used by the people who know about the feature to describe the people who didn't: RTFM.
The UI and UX are serendipitous and feels almost joyous just to click and scroll. Well done.

I see this app was done in Flutter. What was the motivation to choose Flutter over React Native or SwiftUI?
I like most of PG's musings, but I agree that they often pertain to a very thin slice of reality. If we conducted a taste test comparing randomly selected ideas/excerpts from PG and senior engineers who comment on HN, I doubt most people would be able to tell the difference.

Most people in science and engineering can think of equally (if not more) clever and thought-provoking sentences, but PG's carry more weight because of who he is. We still live in a world where thought-leading is dominated by who has the most attention.
But aren't they running the risk of computers treating these as octal numbers instead?
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