skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This will just be temporary but I am sure that this will create a negative impact during and after the pandemic.
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It's easy to hit because the incentives work out that way. If the incentives were adjusted through higher tax for higher weight, I wonder if this trend could be reverted.
This sounds somewhat ominous. You’ve given me the idea for a scary movie about a group of teens joining a WhatsApp group on an Internet forum now all destined to be haunted forever :-) In all seriousness, good luck with your application. What are you building?
For $0/year I can run Linux and ovirt.
It feels like we’re splitting hairs a little. In the context of my comment on the parent, profit and revenue are the same thing. After all, if you share 100% of your profit in another sense your company makes no profit at the end of the year.

The point is: once your livelihood depends on being part of an organisation, your judgement about that org can’t be completely impartial.
Spot on. Well, let's take this part by part. What problems exist with the current search:

1) It is centralized

2) Your data is being used without your approval

3) Companies like Cambridge Analytica build on the semantics field and use it for economics, politics and other purposes. The fact that a semantics field is closed, leads to magnitudes of problems in almost all the fields of your life

4) You cannot search for anything freely. The internet was originally intended for the search of scientific papers, today this is not available. You might say. Hey, i don't nee it. Then its a bit hard to argue. You might not. But the reality is that its the most valuable database we have as humans, our knowledge, which is today projected not by scientific research, but by Wikipedia (owned by alphabet) and by companies like Cambridge Analytica, who build on the semantical field

5) Results aren't provable. At all. There is no proof for any root results - blockchain solves this

6) There are no incentives

7) Knowledge graphs are owed to 90% by one company, which means that the answers you're searching for. The knowledge you're acquiring today is 90% follows a black-box principle and has in it what you are lead to believe etc, etc, etc.

TBH, there are about 100 reasons why search should be changed and is crazy underlooked by a lot of people as a problem

This is the very tip of the iceberg. And Im glad you bring this up
I talk to Siri casually when I request her the few times a week I do.

FWIW I say please & thank you too, and am opted-in to "Improve Siri" which Apple really ought to known to make opt-in from the start.

I also have type-to-Siri (in accessibility settings) for things like "What's playing?".
Meh. If you have two coins that are nominally worth the same but one is actually worth more - because it can, in a pinch, be melted down for a valuable resource - I wouldn't call this the bad driving out the good.

Of course the point that bad behavior may give a higher fitness score is still true.

I also like the idea of lemon market's in this context:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
In short and very simplified: if the customer cannot tell the good products from the bad products he will not pay the price of the good products and so the good products disappear.
Anno 1800 might float your boat? Or any of the previous games in the Anno series for that matter. The campaign does very much have a story and specific objectives, but the interesting bit is the regular sandbox game:

Turn off pirates and competitors, and either turn off or ignore NPC quests. (There's no penalty to ignoring them, but they sometimes can be useful if you need money.) You'll still have incidents like fires, industrial explosions, disease, and riots, but those are influenced by factors you control, and with well-placed fire stations, hospitals, and police stations you can very much contain them so they're a non-issue.
OK, let's stick with modern examples. We already had Warren Buffett.

Some very rich tech people: Bill Gates, 3 children; Larry Ellison, 2 children; Jeff Bezos, 4 children; Mark Zuckerberg, 2 children. (I just picked some rich tech people and checked whether they had children; no deliberate cherry-picking here.)

The most recent Nobel prize in physics went to Jim Peebles (3 children), Michel Mayor (3 children), and Didier Queloz (haven't been able to find out, so maybe none?).

I'm not going to spend ages looking up stats for every area of human achievement, and maybe it turns out that all these people had children after achieving success (lots of us non-outliers, after all, wait to have children until we're reasonably secure financially), but at any rate it certainly doesn't seem as if highly successful people are unusually likely not to have children at all.
>These people destroy teams and institutions, precisely because most people don't know how to deal with them and most advice about good communication pretends they don't exist.

Aye. Do you(or anyone) have any resources/reading suggestions on how to be effective with this category of interaction? Particularly when it is coming from someone in a position of relative power? Another variant that seems distinct from straight narcissism—although it may be related or just a different manifestation—are people who, for lack of a more graceful way of saying it, only hear what they want to hear.
I had to look up NeWS because I was bewildered at how Sun was writing PostScript by hand to create a whole GUI. Wikipedia has a nice summary comparing it to Display PostScript used in the NeXT:

"Sun Microsystems took another approach, creating NeWS. Instead of DPS's concept of allowing PS to interact with C programs, NeWS instead extended PS into a language suitable for running the entire GUI of a computer. Sun added a number of new commands for timers, mouse control, interrupts and other systems needed for interactivity, and added data structures and language elements to allow it to be completely object oriented internally. A complete GUI, three in fact, were written in NeWS and provided for a time on their workstations. However, the ongoing efforts to standardize the X11 system led to its introduction and widespread use on Sun systems, and NeWS never became widely used."

I miss Sun. They were fun.
You don’t have to be that Linux savvy to manage virtual machines with Cockpit.
Trump could've federalized the national guard if he wanted to make it ugly.

Congressional Research Service: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/LSB10121.pdf

Disobeying the commander-in-chief isn't taken too lightly. FYI.
Are you debating honestly? Because the article describes how these websites are linked to very few or a single entity. You can not be multiple local entities if you were created by a single central entity, that's a contradiction.
Sure there could be the case that there a multiple local groups who the band together and form a federation or other central organisation. But we are talking about a timescale of a few days, bringing many independent groups together within that time is completely unrealistic.
Given the security track-record of those languages, I sure hope not.
I'm not sure what has changed but I've experienced of late DDG participating in a similar style of result padding/query ignoring which has been publicly brought up in Reddit feedback (and I've certainly complained about using their own feedback form). Seemingly arbitrarily even double quoted strings I've observed being ignored which is not how it was even six months ago.

I still continue to use it though since as some here have already mentioned Google's results because worse a few years ago and DDG was lean and good enough to switch. I do hope they'd consider more such feedback.
Yep, me for sure, I love it.
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When did you try it? They added a new version of the tutorial in 0.17 (the one that has the little robot that talks to you), but decided to get rid of it as it's too much hand holding and doesn't really reflect the actual game.
The PlayStation was quite great: a straight forward to use machine with unparalleled (for its time) 3D capabilities. It took several years for PCs to catch up with its capabilities (the first two generations of 3D accelerators for PCs were crap, generally speaking).

It's quite amazing what developers were able to push with its hardware. There are some games running at constant 60 fps in high resolutions such as 512x240.

I think a "hidden champion" of the Playstation is the sound processor, the SPU, though. It can mix a massive 24 voices of CD-quality audio in realtime while adding effects like reverb. And the hardware support for ADPCM allows you to store huge amounts of audio data in its 512K of memory.
Ok, this is a bit of a offtopic rant, but this project seems to be aiming ‘suckless’[0].

For me and a lot of users, that means that this project probably won’t be useful for a lot of non-ASCII users, especially for CJK users like me. I’m pretty sure CJK support will not get implemented or postponed to the future until one day the maintainer decided the project is too ‘complex’ and not ‘suckless’.

Yes, I know that this is an open source project and I don’t need to use this… but it just makes me sad to see essential features for some people will be removed as the name of ‘complexity’. IMHO, this attitude of trying to rewrite complex projects into simpler ones without careful planning of how the new projects will handle complexity makes more inconsistent, divisioned ecosystems.

Quoting the suckless philosophy[0]:

> Code complexity is the mother of bloated, hard to use, and totally inconsistent software.

> Ingenious ideas are simple. Ingenious software is simple. Simplicity is the heart of the Unix philosophy.

UNIX could be simple, because it was targeted for a very small group of people, mostly always using ASCII. Trying to cater to a large group of people will always be complex. And trying to cater to a large group of people is NOT the definition of ‘bloated’.

[0]: https://www.suckless.org/philosophy/
for example that j.k. rowling crime novel written under a pseudonym was discovered by just a random astute person who commented somewhere(maybe on the amazon reviews) that it felt like j.k. rowling wrote it.

it would be cool to try this method and see if it could detect anything.
It was inspired by James Bond's Lotus Esprit submarine after all
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I worked for Sun until the early 2000's. It was a nice place to work. I liked the openness internally, regardless of what team/country you were working in.

I don't know where you could work these days that has the same kind of atmosphere.
Could you give an example? I understand if you don't want to though.
Student in playground: Hey, they just hit me! That's outrageous! They just envy my amazing openness, freedom and independence.

Teacher: But I was watching, and I saw you hit 85 other students in the playground today!

Student: Sure...you can go on for days about that. Thats a bigger debate and question about my position in the school, etc.. etc... But your general point can be classified as "what aboutism", which is really just a distraction from the core question...
On the cheap side, I got old Lenovo m93p - USFF with 8GB RAM, i5 (2 cores, 4 threads) with 4 USB 3.0 ports, which is just enough for lightweight VMs, some test containers and ZFS mirror for backups / NAS. Whole package with 2x2TB disks was around 350$.
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You sure ? I have the XPS 15 7590 with OLED 4k. You can snap your fingers and watch the battery drain... Sure it looks crisp and all, but it comes for a heavy price.
I wish they did the X-1 with AMD.
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That explains Discord.
Wouldn't that be a reflection of the world's bias rather than Google's bias?
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money is just a tool.

I'm a civil engineer. When we decide to buy, for example, protection side fences for a road, we calculate how many people will pass the road, how many will die with and without and how much cost the fence. If the price per life is bigger than target, lets say, we spend 5M$ to save 1 life, we Don't put the fence.

What you should do is to put a price to lifes, and then put a price to goods, and then make simulation to see how much goods are produced and lifes are taken in 2years range scenarios. Take in to account soft and harder measures, risk of second waves, asymmetrical lockdown by regions and ages and genders, inmunology ID, Testing, night work options to reduce contact... Anything!

Let the doctors do, let the engineers simulate, and let the best option execute as planned
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I'm in a similar boat to you as I'm about your age, also have Ushers (type II, which is what I'm assuming you have), and programming features heavily in my work (although I'm not in SWE).

I'd interested to chat with you; you can drop me an email at (awwoof) (hotmail) (com)
To be honest, I am not very up to date with assistive technologies. I think my plan is basically pick stuff up when I find it useful.

Also, on a lighter note, while it's impossible to tell what the future holds, in my experience many people retain good central vision into their 50s (although that might be a self selecting sample). RP is also a key research area (easy to administer things to the eyes) so it's always possible there will be a treatment at some point. Obviously you still have to prepare for the worst, but it's not necessarily an absolute. It's very que sera sera.
Online demos of what you can build with your auto-generated app shell here:

https://neomjs.github.io/pages/
The best communication system I've ever used was the Clear-Com party line intercom in my high school's auditorium. The thing was older than me by at least 10 years. Hand assembled circuit boards in steel chassis. But:

- The headsets were comfortable and practical. I have not seen anything sold for office or even gaming use begin to approach the ergonomics. Plantronic, Logitech, none of it.

- Every headset had foldback, so even the big sound-isolating cans felt natural to speak into. I've spent several hours messing with virtual sound cards trying to make this work with Zoom and never managed it.

- The signal was so clear, and the mics were so good, that as long as you enunciated you could speak just a hair above a whisper and be reliably understood. I remember analog PSTN voice, and this was 10x better. Might have to do with less aggressive EQ.

- Full duplex, no gating. Absolutely no problem with multiple people speaking at the same time. At very busy parts of the show we might intentionally have two simultaneous interactions on the same channel. It was a bit of work to unpack in your brain, but no harder than it would have been in person.

- Obviously no noticeable latency (basic fitness for purpose - these things are for calling cues).

- There was a little bit of analog hum + background noise from each station, so when someone opened their mic you would notice, but it wasn't disruptive. When the channel was busy, this sort of substituted for body language and you'd be invited to speak at the first opportunity.

- Physical switch to open and close the mic. I know Zoom has spacebar PTT, but one button press latch on/off is also important.

It's absolutely astounding to me just how much better these systems are than their nearest alternatives 30+ years later. If I ever control a tech office, particularly with an operations component, I'll seriously consider installing one.
The problem with Windows 10 is that it doesn't have consistent UI across applications from MS, bundled with system. Heck, there is even 3 or 4 different styles for context menu. They are trying to roll out Fluent Design for what, 3 years now? New control panel is also kinda laughable functionality wise. And I write it as W10 user.
The ideal cycle you want is focus, rest, focus. It's an energy trap if you get tired from focusing but your rest activity doesn't refresh you back into focus mode.

In my experience, it's not that you replace energy traps with energy recovery - you instead create plans that allow for more focus, rest, focus cycles throughout the day.

If your work drains you completely when you go home, maybe you can try to create some plans for how to approach work holistically, sparing some energy for life outside of work.

For instance, create a plan that ends the work day with a lot of energy to spare by adding in a lot more rest cycles, including naps (laying down with eyes closed also restores energy) and walks. I also find creative outlets like writing or music quite restful, and as others have mentioned, a surprisingly lot of things restore energy - you just have to discover and note them down.
It's interesting, I've noted that bad products tend to drive out good products. This happens with all sorts of products: food, software, etc. A lot of the time, the products are even from the same company: they come out with a good product, the market laps it up; and then begins a process of degradation as they make the product worse for no discernible reason.

Case in point, I can't count how many times I've been to a grocery shop looking for a packaged food product I've come to really like, only to find that it is no longer stocked, or that it has been replaced by an objectively inferior product. This seems to rarely happen with mediocre items
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Which makes it better than the 3D you yearn for. You can't do as high-quality and as stylistically consistent graphics with real-time 3D rendering; the computing power simply isn't there.
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Since a coronavirus isn't an influenza virus, I don't see what it matters whether Australia or New Zealand were in flu season. Moreover, it's now flu season and people are tiring of the social distancing measures and new cases per day are extremely low.

Australians and New Zealanders can rightly be annoyed that the responses were not excellent - but the responses were basically adequate. They were just enough and a little bit late - compared to europe which was too little too late.

If diverse countries like Taiwan, South Korea, Malaysia and Vietnam were capable of mounting competent responses (during the Taiwanese/South Korean flu season), there is no reason to say that Australia/New Zealand were somehow incapable. It's far more likely that we were "lucky" because our timezone and flight time was too far apart to become part of the conversations that lead to social suicide, so our leaders made basically competent responses.
It's pretty awkward to wear only one ear of my Bose headphones, but with earbuds it works great. Apple's are the least bad solution I've ever found for voice calls.
This can also be phrased as a choice between one side that is trying to cause the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, and one that is not.

I don't care if the first group does it out of ignorance, or simple disregard for human life. They are free to play Russian roulette with their own lives. They have no moral right to do so with the lives of their neighbours.
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If you know that it doesn't work for you then obviously that's simply a fact.

I thought you were making a more general statement that this doesn't work because it doesn't make sense (anyone using it would just adjust their timings).
If you just want network between them, you should actually be able to connect them directly with a thunderbolt cable, no need for Ethernet in between.
Don't forget that Taiwan handled covid-19 the best of all, and they are a democracy. The whole "democracy has failed to handle covid-19" narrative falls apart once you stop cherrypicking
A teacher friend of mine says that a few of her students are doing better now, because they don't have the same distractions - like associating with friends - as before.

That doesn't seem to be an X or Y framing. Rather, what little I know of McGregor's models is that they assume a workforce environment ... and school isn't a workforce.
Those plots are spectacularly bad.
I would argue that the best NeWS interface toolkit wasn't even built by Sun - HyperNeWS|HyperLook:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20182294

Edit: Writing PostScript by hand was actually rather good fun - it's actually quite a nice language.
More than racism on the part of google[1] I would attribute that to it being an hard problem with too many dimensions. About three years ago if you searched "white actors" google would give two full pages of only black people (I have no idea whether the actor part was correct).

Many interpreted this along tribal lines, but likely it is that there is constant tuning and lots of complex constraints.

[1] not to say that you implied the reason was racism, but often it is attributed to something along those lines
I think if you were visiting a personal tailor, or perhaps talking to a shop assistant, you might get something akin to that.

T: I think pink would look good on you, and it's very fashionable right now.

You: Just bring me some yellow shirts to try.

T: Oh, I got these, and brought this pink one anyway; try it!

But, of course Google isn't making fashion suggestions. But then, ... the tailor might also be just trying to shift excess stock or be on a bonus for selling that particular high-cost shirt.
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And now I'm imagining pluggable, modular "avatar fonts". Who would you like to be today?
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Do you know if it's possible in KVM to create separate virtual subnetwork managed by KVM (like: adding VMs to that network, reading their IPs) which is accessible from parent network?

I got home network and wanted KVM to control which VM gets which IP, but I couldn't make them accessible from outside - without static IPs on VM side. When I use virtual bridge, KVM cannot set the IPs, but at least they are accessible from my home network.
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Good! I have a potential job that I am quite interested in taking, so I may not end up applying after all, but should that fall through I'll be applying.
Electron solves a very important problem. It efficiently prevents those pesky Linux users from using your software. Most electron apps simply do not work with Wine.
Somewhat related example: requiring unanimity in parliament is what drove Poland to it's fall: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberum_veto
Eating and sleeping sure as hell are tedious and wearisome, since they're basic maintenance tasks that you have to do if you want to function, taking time and attention away from the things you're interested in doing.

(Yes, I enjoy a tasty meal and a good night's sleep. But I'd much prefer to just live without having to sleep or eat at all. Or, eat a pill and recharge in a base station for 20 minutes.)
All that the antibody studies have shown is that antibody studies grossly overestimate the number of people that have COVID-19.

If the studies are accurate, only 1/600 affected people die... Which means that every single man, woman, and child in NYC has already been infected, and that the death rate will drop to zero tomorrow. I find that rather difficult to believe.
They don't benchmark apps, but test on a set of standard workloads and algorithms.

https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench5-cpu-workloads.pdf