skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Online/Scaleway is a subsidiary of Iliad, a French telecom operator. Rumor has it (and it's not far-fetched) that they actively encourage heavy upload usage from Scaleway customers to help balance out their peering and/or transit connections to negotiate better deals.
I have also succeeded (first try)..

The password for this account is not gibberish (if you have a QWERTY keyboard).
A triumph of well-administered A/B testing combined with creative innovation in seeking out procedures to test
I think the main problem with advice on 'how to beat procrastination' is the assumption that everyone is the same. Which is not the case, of course, because people have different sleep patterns, different habits, and different reasons to procrastinate.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution, and one trick or tool that works for me wouldn't necessarily work for you. And it can be really hard to find something that works.
AWS is all-in because they acquired Annapurna Labs and are designing their own in-house ARM chips. I'm sure they've found a way to do that cheaper than buying from Intel or AMD. Scaleway is nowhere near the size of Amazon, nor do they own their own in-house chip design studio. Not really an apples to apples comparison.
Facebook/CMU Covid-19 U.S. county-by-county symptom map
I often seem to experience these productivity bursts when I know I have to leave work soon, regardless of time of day.
This is how money creation works in textbooks. Not how it works in real world.

Fractional reserve banking as instrument for money creation has lost it's effectiveness during 2000s. This has not been how major central banks create money a some time and is not likely to come back in foreseeable future either.

Instead of going trough savings accounts, all major central banks use open market operations to create money.
Thank you.

Nevertheless: this is meaningless.

Protocols for counting deaths are different in different countries. Plus they are, in my opinion, absurd.

In Spain only those deaths that a. happen in a hospital and b. were tested positive before death are counted.

Needless to say, testing is scarce and has been for the past two months.

Better source of actual deaths caused by the epidemy in Spain is the following:

Mortality Excess for all Causes Report (in Spanish): https://www.isciii.es/QueHacemos/Servicios/VigilanciaSaludPu...

And still one has to take into account that the Justice administration is collapsed as well (i.e., deaths are not reported timely [note the dark "confidence interval" around the daily death toll in the graph; also read last paragraph in the report]).

Note that this counts deaths by all factors, including health system collapse. (Which, in my opinion, are result of the epidemy, and its mismanagement.)

Similar but different accounting is used in other countries.

It's a mess.
> "this sentence could mean y as well as x so you can’t prove I meant x"

It's interesting that a lot of online debate and media commentary uses the opposite technique:

> "this sentence could—with varying degrees of plausibility—mean bad thing y as well as good thing x, so you can't prove you didn't really mean to say the bad thing." The principle of anti-charity.
This statement is so ridiculous I don’t even know how to respond. Just thinking of the amount of my friends that died, apparently to a troll, so you can sit here and dispense ignorance.
>If Harvard were catered to all students with capable ability and/or drive then we'd have a new class of highly paid professionals.

I doubt that.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140525060607/http://www.cepr.n...

Trends that hit the black community tend to follow in the working class and, later, middle class and wealthy white communities, perhaps under different circumstances but ultimately similar in nature. Compare the crack/cocaine epidemic with the opioid epidemic, for example. While I support the expansion of elite education, I think it's naive to expect it to be a panacea. Someone still has to see enough value in these grads to hire an order to two magnitude mire highly-paid professionals than there were before. Save some other concurrent intervention, what's more likely is that you'll have more highly-educated underemployed workers than ever.
Having kids is definitely a major inconvenience and huge financial burden, that's for sure. If you look it from that perspective, then there are almost only cons and no pros. But if this the only perspective you can look at this, then you are probably not ready to have kids yet.
One thing i'd like to post here:

I started talking ritalin when i tried a degree again with ~22?) and it was day and night to the same year before:

My metal wall of starting/doing was gone.

I'm still struggling with even talking ritalin regularly and there are downsides to it, but i do have the feeling that it is something which helps, something i actually really should talk regularly.

Its like 'i don't need glasses' 'holy shit how was i able to walk around without glasses?' 'Oh no wonder why i had to sit at thefirst row while everyone else had no issue at all reading' 'how did that go so bad suddenly?'
Ah, the parent comment is actually correct here. Dead Cells is a modern release with a released Linux port. Unfortunately, it isn't interacting correctly with the Steam overlay API and the issues haven't been fixed for months. Running the Windows version via Proton, ironically, is a more stable experience for my use-case.
I read it again. They 'developed a framework'. I'm thinking they 'printed' a few microscopic samples in a lab? A real printer could print a car hood, or at least a gear. If they didn't get that far (with all the associated problems of delamination, gaps, vibration defects etc) then they don't have a real 3D printer. The 'art' is in the delivery.
That is what I did. However the secret is then available to all admins. Anyway. Good to know it is scheduled.
Tons of companies already outsource entire departments to 3rd parties like HR, customer support, IT, warehousing, transportation, accounting, janitorial, building maintenance, cafeteria staff, etc. It would basically be the same thing but on steroids.
(BTW, stealth sounds awesome!)
Reminds me of the old witticism “You aren’t stuck in traffic. You are traffic.”
> Keep in mind though that prices are not in any way shape or form set at the state level

Gasoline / Diesel taxes vary pretty widely from state to state. Taking from either end, gas in Alaska is taxed at 14.6 cents per gallon, while California's gas tax is more than quadruple that at 61.2 cents. The gap is even bigger for diesel.

Maybe this is a semantic critique, but the assertion that prices are not set at the state level seems a naive one. They're not "set" at the federal level either, but taxes bear on the price significantly at both levels, though more uniformly at the latter.
No, you mis-read. chaorace said that Windows EXEs running in Proton gives them better results than running the Linux binary that the game developer ships ("native"). AnIdiotOnTheNet stated that Windows APIs are more stable and better documented than Linux APIs.

As a long-time Linux dev (see my profile), I have also found this to be true. Linux userland APIs are unstable and change all the time. Some transitions that come to mind that have affected me personally: ALSA->pulse; libudev->libudev2->systemd; gstreamer 0.10->1.0. All of those changes required modifications to my software, and the backwards-compat tools that are provided are buggy and insufficient. Meanwhile, you can still write and run winmm[1] applications on Windows 10, and they will work in almost all cases. It's simply the case that the win32 API is more stable than Linux userland APIs, so it's entirely plausible that games will run better in Wine, which shares that stable ABI, than they will on Linux, especially as time goes on and Linux userland shifts yet again.

[1] winmm dates to the Windows 3.x days!
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Start with the UN declaration of human rights.

You no longer have the right of assembly(article 20), nor freedom if movement(article 13) there is good reasons why this is restricted doing an pandemic but it's still an restriction of an fundamental right.

The us constitution without post 1965 caselaw and amendments is not defining an modern democracy as and modern civics almost universally equate the term democracy with the UN Charter of Human Rights.

Of cause you could use the old definition where any system of voting(even one where only 10% of the public have the right to vote) is an democracy but that would be pointless in an modern context.
>Seems like quite a few people built PCs because Apple's desktops have been atrophied

Some people maybe, but most people who build PCs were usually never part of Apple's customer base to begin with.
Is anyone aware a way to identify this window of potential high productivity using a Fitbit/Apple Watch or other device that measure physical body characteristics like heart rate, temperature, etc?

I find that on some days my productivity window comes and goes and is wasted during times I have a meeting, or need to deal with something urgent but simple and then my brain is fried when I need to tackle a complex creative task. Knowing with some certainty that the window has arrived might help more actively block out other things.
What that says to me is, the tools and processes are fine. Getting people to use them is the challenge.
If you like Tartine, you’ll probably like “the midwife and the baker”. For me, it’s a close call between the two (depends on the specific variety). You can get their stuff at some stores/farmers markets and the bakery itself in Mountain View (no storefront yet).

Manresa is good too. But I find something missing from them vs the other two bakeries (nitpicking here though).
As a data point, here in the semi-rural Midwest I'm paying $1.60/gal. I'd guess if I took a road trip to the res it'd be close to $1, though probably not less.
The title doesn’t do it justice once I saw it.

These aren’t simply tool tips. They are actions.
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My TIL for today is that I learnt what TIL stands for. How useless.
Thank you for this. Been using Alfred for years and didn't know text selection could be fed to workflows.
There are many cases where accommodating weird corner cases would be expensive, and would only be useful for some kinds of program. Requiring that all implementations intended for all kinds of task handle corner cases that won't be relevant for most kinds of tasks would needlessly degrade efficiency. The problem is that there's no way for programs to specify which corner cases they do or don't need.
I'm guessing there will be a mix of people who had a bad taste because their companies weren't really setup for remote work and they don't have the ability to get out of the house, and some people who find that they are more productive working from home, are able to use the extra hour or two in their day to get other things done, find that the documentation enforced by remote work provides a ton of benefits to their team, etc. To be fair, remote work isn't for everyone and for outgoing people in particular they need to learn how to get in an appropriate level of social interaction (bad right now of course); but as noted by this survey a large portion of remote workers won't even consider going back to work in a co-located office.
Both are correct. Some native ports run better under Proton because the port sucks, but I recently saw a video where they compared Doom Eternal with Proton vs running native on Windows, and the Proton version ran better than the Windows version running natively.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-XnlUMfkjM
Clichés have this issue. They are the fruit of deep introspection by generations, but the end result feels so small that it can be easily ignored.

We are all connected. Love thy neighbor. Consciousness is an illusion. Yadda yadda. Boooring.

We hear them so much that we become numb and don't give them a second thought. Yeah, we are all connected. So what? I have more important things to do. And we do, of course. The rent is due, COVID-19, wars, and so on.

Then, at some point in people's lives, we stop and ask: why? What's the point in all of this? We get so lost in the day to day that it's hard to see the forest from the trees.

Psychedelics give you a different perspective. It's like going for a ride in your inner self. You might come out now just knowing these clichés, but feeling them. This difference is immense [1].

The same can be done via spirituality and meditation, but there are very few (if any) ways to experience these things as intensely and as quickly as with psychedelics. The challenge is applying these insights in your life, otherwise it's just a fun trip.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/world/americas/a-hallucin...
My one year old daughter is a survivor of bacterial meningitis, she had to have a bilateral craniotomy to help get the infection under control. This left her with moderate brain sesquale. She is with us today, she has cortical visual impairment. While my daughter situation is a little different. These comments give me so much hope. Thank you. It really means the world after a tough weekend.
Thanks yes they're selling direct to consumer now due to the emergency.
At a certain point, a mob with the guillotine will.
AV Linux for multimedia content creators
I've been suspicious of user-led development (e.g. open source), expecially Linux. Its popular to put in new features; less so to test, endure backward compatibility, control user experience. So it doesn't get done (much) in Linux.

My cohort have a phrase they attribute to me: Linux is not ready until they get the 'Have Disk' dialog.
I live in area with lots of natural disasters and store fuel on site. It’s already full, but thinking about buying another tank to take advantage of the prices
Comment betrays adherence to the incorrect assumption that Lisp code is always made of nested lists, which are traversed to bring about slow interpretation.
I do. It’s a good way to determine who to do business with if you have ethics.
Perfect dark mode doesn’t have a toggle; it uses the prefers-color-scheme CSS media query to key off your OS theme preference. At that point, there's no problem with Gatsby or Next.
> Or is it still mostly a Mac market...

When has the Mac occupied the most of any market?

Most programmers don't run a Mac. Never have. The vast majority of programmers are on Windows with Mac as a distant second and Linux third.
I can give anecdote from St Louis region, which has ~40-50% of Missouri's population. Gas prices here are around $1.60
I was not arguing that this is the "best it can get", just that there is no structural answer to these challenges. There's no way to setup our institutions such that they cannot be influenced by interest groups, so the only thing to do is be vigilant and fight the good fight.

If you look at the whole range of regulatory capture we see, it's not just billionaires who have managed to get what they want, it's all sorts of interest groups who have succeeded in enshrining the interests of incumbents into law.

Good for you for being riled up about the concentration of capital, but addressing that is nowhere near a magic bullet for addressing regulatory capture.
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Here's the thing. These masks are meant to be used and then disposed of. In a hospital, under normal conditions, there is a protocol to follow in their use. But the overwhelming majority of people are not going to be using them properly. Instead, they're going to end up wearing their very own little petri dishes on their face.

Originally, we were told masks wouldn't help. Now, we're told they will. Obviously, the science here isn't settled. Mask use is more political than anything.

Here's an article: "Cloth masks – dangerous to your health?"

https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/health/cloth-masks-–-dange...

And then there's this:

"Sweeping mask recommendations—as many have proposed—will not reduce SARS-CoV-2 transmission, as evidenced by the widespread practice of wearing such masks in Hubei province, China, before and during its mass COVID-19 transmission experience earlier this year."

And, further on down:

"[An experimental study] seeking a reason for the failure of cloth masks required for the public in stopping the 1918 influenza pandemic, found that the number of cloth layers needed to achieve acceptable efficiency made them difficult to breathe through and caused leakage around the mask."

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/04/commenta...
I hesitate to predict how this will play out long-term. I can imagine some companies, rather than expanding, shifting at least in part to partial WFH--even if not full remote--with an office that is oriented towards conference rooms and at least partly unassigned seating. Maybe co-located teams agree to come in on certain days.
Typically I work remote 3-5 days a week.

There is a lot of talk about remote work and COVID-19 and for me remote work in the age of COVID-19 ... it has been terrible. Mostly because I have kids, and my wife and I are both trying to work remote, and attend to the kids schooling ... it's a terrible combination for getting anything done on a 'regular' schedule.

I suspect people's remote work during COVID-19 experiences are pretty wide ranging.
So what happened to these guys? I was networking supercomputers at a major oil company way back when this article was written, and it's worth noting that $200 worth of Raspberry Pi and SD card today is roughly equivalent to the supercomputers and disk farms of the early '90s!
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Those who kinda like downsizing, but don't want to be limited to ITX and SFF parts

Heres Raijintek Thetis [0]. Takes full size ATX motherboards, GPUs, CPU coolers and power supplies. Dimensions 210×360×366 mm (27.7L), smaller than most mATX cases and rivaling some ITX.

I keep looking at it, trying to find an excuse to build a new system, but waiting for next gen Ryzen.

[0] https://www.raijintek.com/en/products_detail.php?ProductID=5...
What dialog is that?
Why aren't people filling up big tanks? I don't get it.
I really wish sites would stop doing this.
Be careful of the companies that advertise remote as a “benefit” of the job.

They’re usually looking to discount your salary by 30-50% by some arbitrary cost of living factor.

You bring the same value - whether that’s delivered from New York City or Des Moines Iowa.
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This is more than a rabbit warren Sarah...

A quote from a peer reviewed paper by Shi Zhengli the 'Chinese Bat Lady' on how she combined SARS and HIV

"we investigated the receptor usage of the SL-CoV S by combining a human immunodeficiency virus-based pseudovirus system with cell lines expressing the ACE2 molecules of human, civet, or horseshoe bat"

https://project-evidence.github.io/#%28part._p1%29
I think the main problem with playing games on linux is that the anticheats for the games can't run properly on linux
May I ask what is in the feed for optimized milk production?
is this controversial? the existence of cheap cross-country flights makes it much easier for people to move to the best location for their profession and fly back home to see everyone for easter and christmas (or whatever your big two holidays are).
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I bought some 6 gallon jugs about 18 months ago, but you'll spend more on the jug than what you'll save.

(I use them to store ethanol-free gas for my power tools. I buy the gas at an airport about 25 minutes away from my house, and at $6 a gallon, it's "worth it" to make a trip about once a season.)
This is a long yet fascinating read on how poets hacked libel laws to push their ideas.

For example:

But now, go search all Europe round

Among the savage monsters crown’d,

With vice polluting every throne

(I mean all kings except our own).

Thanks to the last line, the poet could claim plausible deniability.

Even better: due to semantic evolutions, the mere "imagining" that before meant plotting made thought crimes an attack on monarchy.

Therefore, by saying the poet was attacking the king, the prosecutors would be guilty themselves of such "imagining".
Two modern equivalents of this kind of thing are the use of euphemisms to bypass Chinese censorship: https://chinadigitaltimes.net/space/Main_Page and the ever-mutating set of "dog whistles" used by the far right ("fourteen words" etc.)

The historical background of the 1700s I'm a bit vague on, but it was crucial for the development of Parliamentary government in the UK through a long series of succession crises from the civil war onwards that only really ended with the childless death of the younger Charles Stuart in 1788.

Essentially there were two incompatible criteria for English monarchs to be publicly accepted: "not Catholic" and "not foreign".
Plus you can sell at a profit when prices rise, although you'll need a lot of storage capacity if you hope to earn anything remotely substantial.
Actually that's wrong, in the morning I convinced myself that given a sequence of code points which forms a valid Unicode character (an extended grapheme cluster), any non-empty prefix of it also forms a valid Unicode character.
They are and do. The tanks are full.
Cruise ship employee salaries definitely do not start at $50,000/year. More like $5,000: https://www.businessinsider.com/cruise-ship-workers-reveal-h...

I’m sure they wouldn’t be able to remain profitable if they had to raise labor costs by more than 10x.
> The Gang Solves the Gas Crisis
Remote work will never been an absolute thing. It depends on context, personal habits/preferences and most importantly: experience doing it over time.

I personally cannot work from home. COVID has made it worse as kids are home BUT even if I had the whole house to myself, I just cannot work from home. I NEED a dedicated office outside my house (yes I already have an office room in my house). Reason is simple. I don't have the discipline to work from home. I get distracted too easily. So I m not a good candidate for WFH. Do I want the flexibility when needed ? Of course. But do I WANT to work from home all the time ? Hell no.

I would say the future of work is not just remote. The future of work is "employers allowing more flexibility in work location" but as an employer myself, I am personally not in favor of 100% remote. That's me I know but sorry, not everyone is cut out for remote work.
Because gasoline goes bad eventually.

As far as oil: some are. Often times in the form of huge tankers floating off the coast.
In other news: local restaurants are dumping alcoholic drinks out 'the back door' for a song. Because, dated.

Don't get used to low prices. It's gonna change.
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I'm glad that the article acknowledges procrastination as an emotional issue, not an organisational one. Reading Getting Things Done or using a new Todo list app does not do anything for procrastination. The slight bump is just down to novelty.
It's much more fun and easy to tear apart someone else's argument than to build your own.
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