skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Proof-of-Work alternatives that could distinguish between a human and spoofing attempts is an important problem.

This patent is about this problem but it does not put forward a solution. It's probably an attempt for patent trolling in the unlikely case that a feasible genius solution would be found.
Mountain climbing seems like a bad metaphor because you very much do need to prepare in advance for the whole trek. You won't be able to buy food and a radio once you're already stuck in a cave with no equipment.

I don't do mountain climbing and could be completely wrong though.
No, his case proves nothing of this sort. His father had the same thoughts, and when he quarreled with his son and separated from him, he requested his daughter to "lend" him her son, so that he could give him the same education as Wolfgang's and have another child prodigy [1,2]. He failed miserably...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Anna_Mozart#Leopold's_...

[2] Solomon's biography
I would like to second this. Any tiling window manager could be of great help.
See, regarding the issue at hand, you are most probably right. It is anecdotal as I already said, and especially, simply far too early to judge "permanent" damage. Even with Sars 1, while there are minor lasting damages reported to the lungs in some cases, those seem to heal over time.

The only thing I object to is the aggressiveness with which you bash a concerned person for reading an article on a well respected news site. Telling people they "should stop reading fake news or social media reports" was entirely inappropriate.
Apple takes so long to add cross-platform support despite these services making money with more potential to do so with cross-platform.
icloud.com is unusable. Keychain is available only on Mac and iPhone and restricted to Safari.

I understand they are trying to lock-in users to their platform / devices but there would be more users if cross-platform versions are available making more money for them eventually.

It's not like consumers are buying a Mac or iPhone because Apple Music experience is better, or iCloud experience is better.
In the three-year term, JetBrains IDEA Return On Investment (ROI) is 850%
You'll find nausea and vomiting in just about every discussion about consuming psilocybin mushrooms.
It’s not hard to imagine uses for a global communication network though even if the costs were too high for the average person to get online and the speeds were low.
Its like the advice "set your watch 10 mins behind" so you always reach on time. No shit I know its 10 mins behind every time I see the watch.
For Android I would try to run its emulator on a host machine and make it accessible via network (AFAIK adb works with emulator via TCP connection anyway).
u got it wrong he moved the apps, not uninstalled.
The archaeological record is full of dog poop
> I think I've successfully managed to "beat" procrastination by adopting the pomodoro technique.

Says one of the first commenters. Are you sure what you are doing here now is not procrastination?
"Again, the current worldwide figure is 7%, with two thirds of the known cases still pending."

No. You can not simply calculate the death rate by dividing known deaths by known cases. Those numbers depend on who got tested and on how deaths are being counted, which also varies greatly from country to country. For starters, people who have severe symptoms are more likely to show up at hospitals and get tested. That introduces a huge bias already.

"You're citing that 0.5% figure incorrectly"

No I didn't, read what I wrote. And ALL numbers are projections. Even your calculation is a projection. Your calculation is an extraordinarily simplistic projection. Scientists hopefully make better projections, because they account for more influencing factors.

"The recent results that have shown 50% asymptomatic cases are not conclusive yet, because it's too soon to say that all of those people will never have symptoms"

What makes you so sure? It seems possible to make an estimate of when somebody got infected, especially in those studies of closed communities. After two weeks or so (scientists would determine a more prices number), it would be reasonable to assume they won't develop symptoms.
Does pointing-and-calling focus the mind onto the task by the same mechanism as pair programming should focus it onto the bigger picture?

So far, I've always regarded pair programming as a fad for people who can only think in conversation. But maybe there is a plausible mechanism behind it.
Are we right to place our trust in science? [video]
I don't have information to share on where to look, but some positions to consider relate to a11y. I've met and worked with some consultants in the past that their entire position was dedicated to making websites and apps more accessible - audits and on-going. He also did training for teams to bring them up on best-practice so the dev teams can do this proactively.
I think that's it too. It's another thing that is considered odd/not normal when it is probably a perfectly valid condition/feeling that needs to be handled kindly.

I have come to see it as having a parallel in extrovert/introvert - for many introverts interacting with people is just fine, but it cannot be a marathon - we have to recharge after that. Interaction is very brain energy consuming in such scenarios.

Similarly, procrastination is something similar on a different time scale. I can be intensively 'productive' for a long time (2-3 days or so), but then I have to do nothing or, in some rare cases, something else that does not involve, I am guessing, that part of the brain. Rinse repeat.
I've found that when I procrastinate it's due to the fact when I start a new project I can work on it for days until I realize, why am I doing X when I can do Y? and in this case X could be using a good o'l rest api instead of graphql or a completely new way of fetching data.

Then I stop working because I did realize I can use something else that will be smarter and more efficient in the long run, So then my mind goes: OK! lets start working on that, and there the endless cycle begins.
Because when I start working on the thing that will make the first thing better I also realize a day or two in, that this is stupid and I need to get back to the original thing but I can't do it because X is not as efficient as Y would have been. Then I try to think of something else for Y.
So in a sense I'm stuck in a cycle where I try to improve and get my self to write less code before the project even has taken off in a meaningful way.
It's just like in devops when people try to scale something before you have the users... which doesn't even make sense. And I'm guilty of that as well.
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AI is a nebulous term though.
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What boosted my productivity was thinking about and realizing that procrastination is a choice you make.

Anything you do, you choose to do so. Even the things that seem like you have no choice. You do.

You dont HAVE to eat. The consequence is that at some point your body doesnt get what it needs but you have the power to choose to not to eat.

You dont have to work on your project. But each choice has a consequence nonetheless.

So in short. What worked for me is realizing that EVERYTHING is a choice. You have to think back from the consequence and then choose what happens if you do something now vs you do something later
CO2 shortage threatens US food and water supply
I'm glad he wrote about this. I haven't paid much attention to building PCs in the last decade.

With that said, I'm sticking with my full tower format. It's bigger and heavier by far, but it's easy to do maintenance on, and the cats can climb and jump on it without doing any damage.
> ..."beat" procrastination by adopting the pomodoro technique.

There are six steps in the original technique:

1. Decide on the task to be done.

2. Set the pomodoro timer (traditionally to 25 minutes).

3. Work on the task.

4. End work when the timer rings and put a checkmark on a piece of paper.

5. If you have fewer than four checkmarks, take a short break (3–5 minutes), then go to step 2.

6. After four pomodoros, take a longer break (15–30 minutes), reset your checkmark count to zero, then go to step 1.

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
It’s been popping up briefly on major news channels. Was front page of Bloomberg yesterday
The thing with bread in Europe is that, in many countries, you can get quite good bread at a random cafe or shop at a train station selling sandwiches. You can get extremely good bread in the US but you have to seek it out and I'm pretty sure it gets harder once you get out of major cities, especially on the coasts.
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Any mobile or desktop app you use specifically for this that you'd recommend?
Anything's better than today's proof-of-waste cryptocurrencies.
20 years deep into a '2-year' mission: How ESA keeps Cluster flying
I have seen it said in another thread that UBSan detects this.

If you aren't already using all the sanitizers that come with your {CLang, GCC} compiler, you should! They are great!

UBSan detects everything that can be detected without metadata. It would be its job to find this, since this is a simple mask to apply and test at each pointer access.

UBSan cannot detect if memory is initialized or if a pointer is valid, because these questions cannot be answered locally, looking only at the instruction doing the access. You need metadata for this. The sanitizers that maintain the metadata to answer these questions are respectively MSan and ASan. Their heavy instrumentations are incompatible, so you can only use one at a time.
Zoom’s security woes were no secret to business partners like Dropbox
More details about this, if you can?
By what metric will it turn out to be a mistake? I think there are better alternative to the course taken, but a universal, indefinite lockdown is neither appropriate nor feasible. What would you prefer - and again by what standard and which metrics?
Is the argument you're making that we're trying to compare:

1) masks decrease the spread of disease by decreasing your germy breath from spreading and by decreasing you from breathing someone else's germy breath

2) masks increase the spread of disease by causing you to touch your mask with your germy hand, which increases the chance that germs can spread from your hand to your mouth?

and that the benefits of (1) do not outweigh the downsides of (2)?

I think that could be easily proven by showing that it's very unlikely to spread germs through the air but very likely to spread germs via touch.
Maybe he's taking his pomodoro break?
Yes they do. I vacation in Costa Rica a few times a year (my parents have a house there so we stay at the same place) and there was a cat that wandered the area. She was an outdoor cat, but liked easy to obtain people food and/or cat food if people had it.

Every time I would go down there, she would kill birds, usually right near me. I could sit on the patio and I'd hear a scuffle and next thing I know there she is with a bird in her mouth. She'd present it to me by leaving it at my feet for a bit, then she'd pick it up and either play with it for a bit or just start eating it. She'd eat the thing whole: feathers, beak, bones and all. Sometimes this would happen multiple times in a week (and if we weren't around when she did it, she'd leave it out until we saw it, then eat it). I can only imagine how many she'd get when we weren't around.
I'm gonna read that one, later.
And most of them either rely on SSH+rsync, syncthing, or something along those lines - in other words, tools that will sync the files reliably, even on bad links...eventually. Never have I seen a backend that's built for editing...the remote-mount abstraction mostly works, but leaks specifically in these edge cases.
I used to think that eventually you should reach a flow with whatever you're doing and for this, taking a break after a pomodoro seems not effective ...
Is there any paper describing the concepts behind this project ? Is this seems very similar in its goals from the OTP architecture (from a distance), i’m curious to understand more about the first principles that guides the design.
I can't comment on the whole talk, since I only watched a little segment of it, but yes, for MIT to be a force of good in the world, it would need to be taken back by the nerds. I'd love to see that happen.

The leadership is overrun by brand-focused, power-seeking, money-grubbing sleaze-balls. That's drifted down, taking over some parts of the Institute, and leaving others okay-ish. But if left unchecked, it will take over the whole thing and ruin it.

We definitely still need a place in the world where nerds can do their thing.

It's hard for me to express how much less visible MIT was when I went there, and how much higher the quality of the research was as well. When I applied, scientists respected it, but popular audiences confused MIT with ITT. A highly-branded high-dollar MIT of the type we have today brings in the wrong sorts of people. Nerds have no chance of competing with them for power, and they have no chance of competing with nerds for intellectual curiosity.

But I think the time for taking back MIT may have passed.

Aaron Swartz is far from the worst thing that happened at MIT; things like that now happen regularly. MIT "wised up" to the use of NDAs and non-disparage agreements in protecting its branding.
FreshRSS looks great too, the main differences might be the mobile client (seems missing in FreshRSS) and the possibility of using SQLite as a database (not advertised for TT-RSS). Thanks for the link!
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It is a shame the cryptocurrency phenomenon has been and gone, with just these quirky stories popping up now and again.

Imagine if the hype was in full swing now. Blockchain technology would be delivering us from the global lockdown, probably making early adopters rich along the way. HN would be full of stories about how blockchain startups would be solving the pandemic. People stuck at home could be playing the crypto markets 24/7 earning themselves vast imaginary fortunes that would 'pay' for the vaccines to be 'developed'.
But not just mushrooms - also from psilocin prodrugs like 4-Aco-DMT (also psilocybin is such a prodrug):

https://www.reddit.com/r/researchchemicals/comments/51sbpf/h...

Just google "4 aco dmt nausea" and you'll find more reports than Anne Jones can read in a week.

If you want to learn more about the reasons then serotonin receptors and their distribution in your body would be a place to start your investigation.
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Well, for one thing, people were saying the same about Singapore, but the number of cases there has grown exponentially. A pandemic isn't over in a few months, we have to look at it over years.

For example: behavioural scientists tell us that people will only stand one major lockdown; using that lockdown early to keep deaths to a minimum initially may not be the best strategy. So thinking about the long-term is essential.

Not saying you're wrong that South Korea has a good track record to this point. I am saying you're wrong to extrapolate that out to the likely arrival of a vaccine programme in 2021.
We Focus on Trivial Things: The Bikeshed Effect
How to make time for things that matter
Can somebody please explain this expression: "I'm not kidding I went HAM researching this"
> all the ingredients necessary exist in the soil the mushroom is grown in

I can't speak for mushrooms, but for plants, the vast majority of the mass actually comes from carbon in the air (breathes in CO2, takes the carbon, breathes out O2) and obviously water.
Disable internet. It takes 2 clicks. You can always get it back, it doesn't go anywhere. Do this for your workstation.

Use a laptop to browse stackexchange. Set email to sync every hour, unless your job is to answer emails as they come. Checking once an hour is enough.
It's moving the apps out of sight, not uninstalling them. I've done this, and found that if I just idly pick up my phone I have to consciously decide what I'm going to waste time on, and often that bit of friction is enough to make using the phone less rewarding.

I've also set the new tab page in my browsers to be blank and found that useful in the same way.
That is still work, and an intrusion on what should be free time but no longer is.
The journey from scientific breakthrough to a life-changing cystic fibrosis drug
Why was the title of this submission changed to the more uninteresting “Remote Work Report” from the original “The Remote Work Report by GitLab: The Future of Work is Remote”?
People may know the best decision and not make it: study
John Ioannidis: Covid-19 Death Rate Same as Seasonal Flu (April 17th)
If the long build time for static typing programming language is the concerns perhaps you can try have look at D programming language since it is optimized for fast compilation [1].

Around last year someone even managed to speed up its compilation time even further and it is also featured in Hacker News but cannot find the link now.

I think in the future most of the static typing programming languages will be mainly based on Single Static Assignment (SSA) technique then the compilation could really fly.

[1]https://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/increasing-compiler-speed-by-ove...

[2]https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/papers/ssafun.pdf
How exactly would blockchain solve a medical problem? It's not like blockchain has died. All major currencies are alive and so are the speculators. What is stopping cryptocurrencies from solving something which they could solve in there "full swing" days?
I usually don't even have a PC when remote, it's an Android phone. And when I do, it's a ~2005 x86 netbook - good enough for a thin client, not powerful enough to run the dev stack (which is x64 anyway).
What an awful article.

Internet cannot possibly be a basic right because you can't get it without coercing someone to pay for it (in the process you would violate another person's rights).

So the bottom line is the article is just a call for higher taxes or more deficit spending. I am against both or any combination of the two.

If you need it, pay for it like everyone else does and stop lining telcos' pickets with free taxpayer money.
I've stumbled over the same thing in this video of a "veteran pilot" flying a WW2 aircraft. Notice how he's pointing at the various dials and gears from time to time. I think the first time this might be because he's explaining to the viewer what's going on, but even after that when the motor is running or in the air he's doing a left-to-right sweep through the cockpit from time to time, pointing at things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1F_UJaaP1A

I don't know how common this is in aviation, but I had to think immediately of the Japanese railway workers.

PS: the same thing can be seen in this (admittedly silly and slightly outdated) aircraft carrier operation video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFqlwAWuMTg
Astrology and the influence of the stars in May 2020
>>> The Future of Work Is Remote
Yes, in the sub-segment of economy where Gitlab is applicable it's true. It's been true for a long time, even before the Covid-19 virus.
But for a large segment of the economy it isn't.
I need a hair cut, but all barber shops are closed. Can Gitlab help?
I want to go out for a dinner, I'm tired of take-outs. Can Gitlab help? A telecommuting hostess, followed by a telecommuting waitress, followed by a ...
I've been working remotely for the last several years, but it has it's place. It won't fundamentally change what was already happening, except perhaps accelerating the trend.
I don't really find mental fuel to be a thing[1]. In fact, I find the opposite. The more discipline I instill, the more discipline I have. Each block of discipline makes the next that much easier. That includes discipline over procrastination.

[1] Of course there is general fatigue, but this is different from only being able to focus on something for a couple of hours/day or not being able to start something at all.
This looks fascinating, but unfortunately none of the videos will play for me. Does this happen for anyone else?
According to the study, fatality rate is estimated to be 0.12-0.2% (i.e. 1 or 2 people out of 1,000 infected die).

This submission flagged in only 10 minutes since publication.
Work from Home with Kids
With cows that go "mu" instead of "moo", and chickens that go "clo-clo" instead of "cluck-cluck"?
I don't understand your running in production comment in this context, nor actually your stop being a cheapskate aimed at me.
Indeed it's just my personal experience, but there's a fact that you seem to have missed: the distance that fingers must walk to type the same text is higher in qwerty than in dvorak, that's the whole point of dvorak and others such as bepo. So, typing in Qwerty is more physical work than typing Dvorak. There are ways to calculate that pretty accurately.

I don't have proof that less finger distance means less hand work means less pain, so maybe you're right, maybe it's just a coincidence.

Or maybe less finger distance means less work which means less tension accumulated in the muscles and then indeed less pain.

Nonetheless, I changed "fixed my RSI" by "fixed my RSI problems" thanks to your feedback, which should clear out the misunderstanding.
Pretty good advice i think as long as we backtrack, i specially could relate to it since i love climbing mountains.
My worry is more that there will be an exploit for Android that will collect all those Bluetooth IDs and geolocations and upload them somewhere that somebody could use nefariously.

Not saying that telcos have shown any moral high ground with location data, even Google has this level of location tracking enabled for a considerable amount of people. I'm most worried about an Elasticsearch instance cropping up where somebody's bluetooth ID can be used to see how they get to work, etc. Faraday cage bag for phone seems like a reasonable solution.
> At the moment the mechanism for increased risk is as plausible as the mechanism for decreased risk.

It does not seem to me. There is like no study that shows masks increase risk of spreading infection and I have seen multiple that show it takes it at least somehow down. (I am lazy to search it down again. In pretty much all these discussions someone linked.)

> Masks are uncomfortable and people need to adjust them during the day -- this is an increase in face touching, and masks are by definition contaminated.

Even if this was true, you are still less likely to infect others if you are asymptomatic. It is not just about you. And as someone who was wearing mask for multiple weeks (they were mandated here), it is not some kind of horrible uncomfortable.

> The only point of wearing masks is when you cannot socially distance yourself from other people. That's why masks are being pushed so hard now -- to end the lockdowns and get people back into work.

You are also meeting people in stores, in public transport, when walking on the street anywhere. Even in lockdown, people still need to eat. Sure you don't need mask when you are alone in the forrest. You dont need to wash hands there either and can touch your face as much as you like (at least not due to coronavirus).

When I am alone in my house with supplies, I dont need to do anything special and I can touch my face as much as I want. All other measures apply only when you are in space shared with other people.
Too preposterous, perhaps?
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