skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cuomo deliberately ignored credible data

Ummm. Yeah? Politics is certainly not be the main reason why he did it, but are you going to argue that it did not factor into Cuomo's initial, confrontational tone? He (and Newsom) seems to be pretty pleased with the federal government now. Trump aired a clip of Cuomo today during his presser which you will never in a million years see on CNN. You should watch it. They at first botched it in the live stream, but then played it again a little later. Had I not told you about it, you wouldn't even know it exists. Think about that for a second before you read further.

> One could argue that the silly video he aired last week

You people still don't see that he does this on purpose. He's not speaking to you, anything-but-Trump voter. He speaks to his base, and swing voters, and he successfully penetrates the confinement the mainstream press tries (unsuccessfully) to put him into. He really has no other choice.

Look, I'm not a fan of his public speaking skills, and I wish he tweeted less, but I can see that it works 100% of the time. Whether you like it or not, this is why he won, and this is why he's going to win again. You can't deny that whatever it is he's doing is effective, even if you don't understand it.

Shit, the dude maneuvered the DNC into nominating a gaffe-master with dementia and a closet full of extremely damaging skeletons before the real race even starts, while dealing with impeachment (successfully) and then with a country-wide disaster (also, so far, successfully - see the projected vs actual casualty counts).

I agree with WSJ, Trump is rewriting the book on responding to country-wide disasters. This is the biggest disaster the country has ever faced, by any reasonable measure. Instead of responding with centralization and authoritarianism (like pretty much all previous presidents), Trump responds with decentralization and constitutionalism. Even DPA is not used willy-nilly. This is what an experienced manager does: he delegates. It wouldn't even occur to a lawyer to do this. We'd get Stalin-style "prodrazvyorstka" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodrazvyorstka) bullshit with that. It'd all be on manual control, and fucked up beyond any recognition because manual control does not work at this scale.

> inability to ignore political damage from folks like Cuomo

There's punching back (which Trump will do 100% of the time) and being guided by political pressure. Those things are different. Watch what he does, not what he says.
The hackintosh beats my work laptop (mbp 16") in pretty much every way.

Hackintosh geekbench CPU scores: Single 1252, Multi-core 8025

See these geekbench charts: https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks
New, cheaper AirPods could be ready to launch next month
Relatedly, are there challenges or benefits to reading diffs in this model?
I used to use this in college before I switched to Camino!
Do you think this would have the same effect on someone who had a legitimate underlying issue (eg adhd)?

I just ask because its the standard response along with sleep and exercise, and I cant help wonder if it "works" because people without real underlying issues get some marginal benefit, or if it actually works for people with issues.
A...WebM H.264 stream? Again, with feeling. This time, try something that's a thing.
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.

BEVs are nearly 80% efficient already [1], are comparatively widely deployed, and the infrastructure for them exists in everyone's home. For long distance travel, there are far more fast chargers than hydrogen stations, and far more investment in building more of them.

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; FWIW, the EPA rating of the latest, most-efficient version of that car (the Honda Clarity Fuel Cell) is actually 68 MPGe [2], which is much lower than most BEVs. 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.

Hydrogen fuel cells for consumer cars just don't make sense.

1: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/evtech.shtml

2: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=40044

3: https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/noframes/41185.shtml
Why is it a ponzi scheme + pyramide scheme?
The best-selling Hyundai all-categories SUV in the US is the Hyundai Santa Fe and weighs in average 1.8t. The fact that there are lighter SUVs appearing on the market is encouraging, but your affirmation is most likely not true.
I've seen the Spark ads popping up in social media for the last couple of weeks, and while it's not really my thing in terms of guitar playing (I prefer restricting my pedalboard), I can appreciate the effort going into a product like this, especially as a software engineer.

How much work have you put into this so far?
Just because people aren't rioting doesn't mean they are actually complying. And compliance will only decline further as time passes. I'm not endorsing this behavior but it's inevitable.
Marriage Wasn't Built to Survive Quarantine
Responding to your original post:

> Not to make this too political but can't the same logic be applied to the POTUS too? Changed tone and done a decent job using the fed muscle to beef up on ventilators and testing. What am I missing when I hear contradicting analysis around politicians, presumably based on which "side" one is on. We should be consistent in acknowledging that no one (at least in the US) got the severity of this correct.

The same logic does apply to President Trump. But he has not changed his tune. He's done some of the right things under pressure, but then goes and says that he wants to re-open the country by Easter, etc. I don't follow what he says closely (after all, I don't live in the US), but the picture I've gotten about him is that he's inconsistent and not really trustworthy.
No it's absolutely not!!

Epidemics are (more) properly modelled by the Gompertz function[1], and the position of the "transition" between the exponential portion and non-exponential points it the important point.

That is exactly what the person you are replying to is saying ("they always break into some other curve at some point.").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gompertz_function
I'm going to take a stab at responding to this, to see whether it's the insufferable tone of the writing that bothers me, or something else.

If we assume the author is part of a team that makes software and has users, to "ship" for him or her is another way of saying "deliver a product that our customers will find valuable enough to use" and hopefully pay for. Do the people who use this software depend on it for any important purpose, or would its failure be inconsequential?

Maybe I'm wrong with the assumption that the author wants to make a product people would pay for, since they lead with "we want a team of self-managing people who ship code." It doesn't say we want to make a business. It begs the question of Why? We ship to what end? Would it be less impressive to say, We just like to write software and want everyone to leave us alone?

Why write an article and observe that your process creates too many half-baked features but do nothing to reflect on that and reduce waste?

Why make the ridiculous claim that you don't value people who aren't programmers? What goal, if any, would such a statement help you reach? Why are we shipping so often (...customer feedback...?) if we don't care about anyone?

And of course the pithy final line.

So no, it's not just the tone that bothers me. It's the dismissive and plainly antagonistic approach to software development that says the creator is the only one with any worth.

I'd be interested to know how the author might reflect on this piece today.
Why does this keep happening? Browsers sell their soul to just be another coat of paint on top of WebKit. I honestly don't get it. If you're working on a web browser as a personal or open source project, switching to WebKit is basically just replacing the entire project that you've worked on, and then writing your name on WebKit. There's not much more to a browser than a rendering engine. There really isn't a killer feature that Chrome won't just absorb anwyay. So why on earth would you decide to throw away your years of effort, and solely try to differentiate yourself based on slight variations in how your back button looks or your bookmarks work!?
Hey, nomad. I'm glad I'm your kind of crazy. I am a madman, and I'm happy to have the chance to openly speak with people in-depth.

https://philosopher.life/#Find%20The%20Others
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Getting Started With Dgraph and GraphQL+
I find the hard dependency on Github a bit disconcerting.

Why not self host?

What happens if https://github.com/simonw/til drops away?

Love your work Simon.
It's going to require better citations than that to label Fauci "anti-mask."

Your source possibly supports "ambivalently-mask," but even that would be debatable.

His comments seem fair given the situation and knowledge at the time, as well as the political balance he was striking with his public comments.
This reads like it's out of an Ayn Rand novel. I was unschooled for all but five boring years of my childhood. Maybe they are pissed that homeschoolers are much more likely to get into Ivy Leagues than mediocre legacy candidates. Few modern systems are more teleological, evidence lacking and abusive than the education system. The only thing that matters are engaged mentors and low student ratios. That applies to everyone, school, homeschooling or otherwise. If we can't find a way to have more engaged mentors and lower ratios, school will continue to destroy value and waste everyone's most impactful years.
The lesson with climate, just as it is being shown with COVID, is that dramatic action to address the problem (“flatten the curve”) with almost incomprehensible direct costs does not pay off.

Surely the lesson from Covid-19 is "early intervention works". Compare for eg the number of deaths in Japan/Australia/South Korea with Italy/US/UK.
I can't believe it still exists!
The number of tests done so far is about 4 million. Aren't you surprised to find we didn't have 4 million cotton swabs? Barely 1 swab per 100 people?

For reference, Q-tips come in packages of 500 for about $5 at your local pharmacy. They sell around 20 billion per year. Test swabs are somewhat more special and individually wrapped, but 4 million shouldn't cost a lot.
Head of Postal Workers Union Says Postal Service Could Be Dead in Three Months
Presumably because doing anything else is just impossible in this day and age.

There are only two-and-a-half actively-maintained rendering engines in existence: Gecko, and Chromium/Webkit. There's a reason for that. A single person isn't going to be able to maintain their own.
On your site you have the brk reports back to 1965, but I think all are availalbe from public sources.

Here is 57 though 2012. If I'm mistaken and this looks like its from one of the books let me know and I'll take it down.

https://send.firefox.com/download/9a64844c1321c00c/#aKJwkyJh...

Thanks for the share that is the subject of the post.

Edit for clarity: Early ones are Buffett Partnership, NOT brk.
This may sound flippant but it’s deadly serious:

Just Do It.

Put your head down and do the work and stop not doing it.

I spoke to my counselor once about going to the gym and I was expecting to hear him talk about emotional issues that might be preventing me going etc and he said: “there are some things in life that you simply have to take action on. Going to the gym is one.”

Nothing more fancy to it that that.

Do the work. Take action.
So what was the problem with the masks? The thread calls it "The dollar sign is exalted above the health sign" but why was this a money tradeoff? Due to the cost of the masks?
My https://til.simonwillison.net/til site acts as a sort of off-site backup - but I should probably run a cron somewhere which pulls my repos. I have a Digital Ocean box I could do that on. Good idea!
I wish Bartholet had written TFA, rather than subjecting us to this ham-handed repetitive "Bartholet argues" formulation. If this were an essay written by an academic, we could hold its reason and argumentation to some sort of standard. Like this, the reader is just supposed to assume that the sole source for TFA is just correct about everything.

It seems unsurprising that a professor of child protective servicing would be in favor of increased interference by child protective services.
I think Adblock is a feature that disproves that hypothesis. If google continues to neuter ad blocking as they have with the changes to plugin architecture then it will open itself up to competition.

Things outside the web rendering engine also prevent more widespread adoption of alternative browsers as well. Google's WildVine DRM is an example. That doesn't ship with chromium.
ADHD can be exacerbated by low energy. Some psychiatrists recommend eating sugar to help maintain focus.

As for the other stuff, if I cut those out I get miserable and more easily bored. Better to use them as carrots; "if I do 45 minutes of coding I can play 1 game of Rocket League."
How is copying clipboard better than a keylogger?

Why would they choose that?
Sorry to be blunt but this is BS.
Keeping a cat indoors is simply cruel. Cats need space.

A house cat has a hunting ground around their home with a radius of 500m average. Male house cats can have up three times that even.

If you absolutely want to have a cat and live in the inner city either get an old cat that (unfortunately) grew up indoors already or don't get a cat at all.
Restaurant equipment is durable goods, as in they don't buy it every year, and once all those restaurants go bust, there is going to be a new wave of restaurants to replace them, and they will actually buy replacement equipment. I'd go long the manufacturers and suppliers.

Find a way short the loans originated by financing companies to pay for restaurant equipment, but ones that that won't be bought by the fed.

It's a Matthew effect. Think of a pareto distribution with a 45deg line bisecting the curve. Everyone on the left hand side grows, and everyone on the tail side is fucked. Only question for a stock is, which side of the curve is it on? The fed is bailing out the banks and the credit markets that have almost all of the exposure to that tail, so don't fight the fed by shorting banks. Auto companies turn low interest rates into higher interest loan collateral with depreciating value, major airlines operate as a corporate welfare programs, so neither of these would be easy choices.

On a normal scale of legitimacy, there is still probably %15 of companies in the market that at varying degrees are based on outright fraud. Find and short that instead of taking flyers.
>please don't complain about downvotes.

shouldn't people just not downvote if this is against the rules? since you're so hands on can't you reach out directly to that person and admonish them not to downvote for this? criticizing me for being upset is like criticizing someone that points out ... being persecuted.

but it's decorum above all again. i swear this place is a country club. and what exactly is wrong with leaving a testament to how goofy people's sensibilities are (such as it is that there was in fact someone that came along and had their feathers ruffled by an archive.md link).
> FYI, 80% is already being hit by real world normal electrolysis reactions.

Not in a fuel-cell running in reverse in a car, though, which is what the GP was referring to.

> especially considering that green hydrogen is around $2-3/kg today

More like $3-7 per kg today [1]. And as that article (which is less than 1 month old) points out, producing green hydrogen would require an absolutely massive buildout of renewables, which would better be put to direct use without the conversion penalty to hydrogen. Hydrogen energy storage will still have its niche applications on the margins, but it is unlikely to catch up to the cost and availability advantages of batteries for cars in places where the existing electric grid reaches.

1. https://www.rechargenews.com/transition/a-wake-up-call-on-gr...
I’ve noticed that whenever NY Gov Cuomo says the curve is flattening it has the same effect as Gillian saying the words “smooth sailing”. I think Cuomo really needs to stop trying to characterize trends based on one day’s data. He sounds like a youtube “How To Beat Baccarat” video - bet you could learn to master his strategy get a cool t-shirt for only $29.95.
Unfortunately, this is fueling a lot of far fetched conspiracy theories that I expect to gain more steam over the next couple years. I'm afraid the anti vaxxers will latch onto things like this as soon as they start resurfacing.
Virtually no one manually types in a wallet address. You copy/paste it.

> Once inside, the malware executed a malicious script that starts an infinite loop to capture a user’s clipboard data—with the goal of redirecting all potential cryptocurrency transactions to their wallet address.

Sounds like they were replacing the pasted addresses with their own when you paste it in the "transfer currency to..." fields.
I was wondering when the long knives would come out for homeschooling now that so many people are giving it a try, even if by force.

Who, having been a product of public schools, defends our current system and it’s incumbency?

I love how the graphic shows a homeschooled kid locked up. The reality is you could spend 2 hours homeschooling a day and accomplish more than 8 hours at a public school, and your child can go out and be free. The ones stuck in regimented school hours are truly the ones behind bars.

Public education is extremely important, but that doesn’t mean public schools aren’t cruel babysitting centers where teachers spend time focusing on the 10% of the troubled students which consume 90% of the resources. It’s a challenge to even suspend disruptive and violent students these days[1].

The idea that it’s important and it needs serious reform can and do coexist.

1. https://edsource.org/2019/california-to-ban-pushing-students...
Sweden is already above the US deaths per capita rate, still growing where we have peaked, and much higher than their neighbor nations in both cases and deaths.

Also note that Sweden isn't exactly "not locked down" anyway. They didn't institute the hard rules in the same way that, say, Missouri did. Yet the population did it anyway, because they watch the news and see other areas shutting down. So restaurants are open, but empty. Theaters are closed. People are working from home. (Schools are open, which is one difference from most US states). Sweden is absolutely not unaffected economically.

Also recognize that Sweden, like other nations in scandanavia, had a much smaller and somewhat later outbreak vs. the ones we saw elsewhere in Europe. They had warning that the Italians didn't.

So it's a spectrum thing. They chose to accept some lessser economic impact (how much less isn't really measured yet) at the cost of some number of deaths vs. similar data in Norway and Finland. The policy you are arguing for via "open up the economy" almost certainly doesn't look like Sweden.
Not just Japanese, but East (and North) Asian in general. In fact, because of the genetic similarities, and of course lack of samples, a lot of DNA profiling lumps Indigenous Americans and East Asians in one group.

I have Native American ancestry, and was doing research on our history and was shocked to see the grouping, but also not so shocked, as it makes sense.
I bet there is more people who tried and immediately succeeded.
Asking for personal decency toward another human being is a banning offense here?
On the days that you turn your monitor off, how do you do email? Do you also have a speech synthesis plugin for your aerc email client? Or do you use it with a generic screen reader for terminals? If the latter, which screen reader?

I've found that, counter-intuitively, a fully accessible GUI program with a good GUI screen reader is easier to use than a screen-oriented terminal program with a screen reader. The trouble with the latter is that the user has to understand visual concepts like highlighting, the meaning of special characters, etc.

Of course, an application or plugin that's tailor-made for doing a particular task with speech output is better than either of those other choices -- as long as you don't have to use an application that's overall inferior (e.g. using the Emacs/W3 web browser with Emacspeak as opposed to a mainstream browser).
I'm not positive about this but keylogger actions have been picked up by anti-virus before. You might be able to decrease the chance you're caught as well by using this method. And what the other comment below me said about copying and pasting wallet details. This is actually an interesting attack against password manager usage. There are a lot of websites I use that autofill doesn't work correctly.
Laziness and/or apathy are value judgments; they offer no useful insight into behaviour unless you believe that sin is a real thing.
We were already discussing this in the cousin thread.

As feedback, I would feel safer if you used the name "1918 Pandemic" rather than naming viruses where they might have came from. I have personally seen and been targeted by daily overt acts of aggression (in San Francisco, no less) because of these kinds of false associations.
As has been made clear by subsequent comments, projektfu was just repeating words they had heard previously, without having any idea what they referred to, as Eliza or a scarlet macaw might do. It's not useful to project an intent onto their words to refer to anything in particular. Presumably projektfu is, unlike Eliza, a human with mental processes who is capable of forming intents, including intents to emit utterances that refer to objective or consensus reality; but such an enterprise requires efforts that were not made in this case, such as reading the six lines of text at the top of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_in_a_crowded_theater and basing their comments on them†.

Moreover, I think this is true of most rhetorical devices in general, and that is part of what the podcast is criticizing. They are not attempts to collaboratively consider the evidence in order to arrive at shared conclusions informed by the knowledge of all parties; they are attempts to influence whatever conclusions may arise, by hook or by crook, to benefit the interests of the utterer, and whether either the utterances or the conclusions happen to be objectively true or false is none of the utterer's concern.

I consider this contemptible, and I try to engage in it as little as I can manage.

† Incidentally, this page explains that Schenck was not specifically overturned until Brandenburg in 1969 (although the Brandenburg decision doesn't mention Schenck), but the Supreme Court's progressively broader reading of the First Amendment was already protecting antiwar and anticapitalist activism by the 1950s, for example in Gibson (1946), Estep (1946), Dickinson (1953), and Yates (1957).
You need to get a small win of some sort. It doesn't matter what. Just aim at the smallest win you can get on the work. If you fail at that, aim for a smaller win. There will be at least a tiny win you can manage. You will feel better. Then double down.
Apple definitely has blind employees both working in accessibility and in other groups.

I only mention that to say don't discount yourself even if you're blind (or deaf, etc). There are plenty of engineering teams at Apple that would be happy to have you.