skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks.

How to abstract "hardware primitives" in a way that can be instantiated to many GPU architectures without performance penalty and be useful for higher-level programming is not so clear. How would you, to take an example from the CPU world, fruitfully abstract the CPU's memory model? As far as I'm aware that's not a solved problem in April 2020, and write papers on this subject are still appearing in top conferences .
That industry seems pretty effective at buying used equipment though. There is a pretty liquid market for it, it doesn't need to be super pretty, and it's all pretty durable.

One factor in survival of those businesses may be how well they exploit their fallen brethren for their own growth.
I like the comparison of compute power volume density to consoles. I think it shows up as a win when you also consider that consoles turn into wind turbines under high load. You simply cannot quietly pull away hundreds of watts from a small area without big fans. 140 mm is just right for this amount of heat. With a clever layout, you don’t need a case much larger than you longest dimensions (set by mobo and GPU, mostly). It’s a fun challenge.
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Distance: Keep listening to music with your friends even from a social distance
A discussion is based on the mutual agreement that we'll try to understand THE POINT on what the other person is trying to say.

When someone fails to do that and proceeds to pick apart minutia I consider that a waste of time - quite interesting that you consider that the highest standard of discussion and sound reasoning.
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W8 but FB "fact checker" who worked at the lab said it can't be because they were cautious https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fPUfcoHW87I and this is from 2019 so it can't possibly be the case for covid-19
Same thing goes for rally drivers (or regular driving or bike riding): you drive to where you look at. If you want to stay on the road, look at the road.
have you tried dot-grid paper? All the benefits of graph paper (easy to draw lines and boxes, and have a straight edge to write along) but the "grid" fades into the background. Come to the dot grid side. We've got better drawings. ;)
I looked into that a bit. Basically everyone was already self-quarantining.

I looked at mobility on sundays (because that isolates it to the private lockdown as ordered on the 23rd and excludes school, shops and work quite a bit):

14.3.: -10% Mobility
21.3.: -46% Mobility
23.3.: ----- official Lockdown -----
29.3.: -55% Mobility

So the bulk of it happened in advance, because people where already isolating themselves during the initial "panic".

Data from here
http://rocs.hu-berlin.de/covid-19-mobility/mobility-monitor/ (I wonder why there is no Sunday dip for the 5th of April though)
I'm a fast typist too (about 600CPM) but I can't draw as fast on a computer as I can on a piece of paper. To me, paper still beats a computer for the initial 'idea' gathering because I like to just write anywhere on the paper and connect lines, circle important things, etc..

A computer is a great tool for documenting important things that I need to keep, but for scheduling my day I just use a notebook. I can browse through them for a couple of days but most pages will not be needed in a few weeks from now.

The important stuff that comes from this I do digitize with a tool like draw.io. Which I hate to use actually, it's not user-friendly to me, but it's what we use at work.
"Another alternative is to treat the 25m as a minimum time in Pomodoro: if you are tired or have reached a natural break point for your task then stop. If you're in the flow continue."

This. The pomodoro technique has helped me greatly, but the time limit is really just about motivation to get started (in my case). It helps by allowing me to tell myself: "You can do this... you can do anything for 35 minutes (the time limit I prefer)."

However, it is very often the case that once the timer expires, I just turn off the alarm and remain focused on my work. Sometimes my session lasts up to an hour or more. And of course, at other times, I finish the task I wanted to work on before the timer expires because the level of focus/flow I was able to achieve enabled me to finish the task more quickly than I thought.

My story is just one, of course, but I highly recommend at least trying the pomodoro method or some variation of it, just to see if you have similar success.
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Because it wasn't "us" who proposed it, but "them", and bam!, it just became partisan. Or maybe someone asked for clarification, no one replied, and now it seems "they" blocked it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Good insights. I've also noticed a cap on my productive output, but I find that it's elastic. I've been putting time into learning to analyze my self-state and predict what kind of day it's going to be. I've gotten good results by choosing to work on productive days and choosing not to work when my reserves are low.
Alternatively, you could just use a modern OS and no longer have to worry about whether or not programs are unsupported.
I don't have links about the HIV gene sequence but in the post I put every primary research article I could find about COVID-19 and HIV or T-Cells.

COVID-19 is bonding to T-cells and killing them, in a way that is similar to HIV but not exactly the same
Everyone's wants and needs are different. Some more fringe that others. This is part of traction and growth. Eventually, you'll be in the sweet spot.

p.s. Prediction: Post-pandemic, lock-down aside, look for Whole Foods to add charging stations. It's not a wait to recharge if you're being productive otherwise.

Perhaps WF already does?
Did Microsoft really file this or is it some kind of 4chan prank? Embedded microchips monitoring brain wave activity and releasing rewards for viewing advertisements (one of the many examples from the document). These seems too “out there.”

I really hope this is fake.
All of us have dealt with those kinds.

1. Overzealous ActionJockeys, who would just do shit - bothered only about local maxima ("I did mine! His thing is not yet done!" or "My code is superb; others' is total poop") Few variants are BrilliantJerk, who is supersmart but nobody wants to work with him. Also on same lines are some appreciation junkies and hero-role-playing characters , who always want to "save the day" - the LastMinuteHero types; but they'll never ever train others to hold their own as that could pose a peril to their heroism.

2. Dr AnalysisParalysis and his gang of bikeshedders. Could spend a week to choose the color of a button and while doing so earn a PhD in color theory.

3. Clueless Jimmy who just does what the leads ask him to do. He's a sure shot follower (in the lead-follow-or-get-outta-way kind) who just does NOT want to know the big picture.

4. Albatross managers. They come, they scream, they poop and fly away. Caw-caw caw Ca-caw!

5. IndifferentManagement - Anything goes as long as money comes in timely.

"All doers, no talkers" is just absolute peak Silicon Valley - may be the does should talk often and properly, to do things well. And do it well.

Collaboration over competition - it's 2020 FFS!

One approach is building a team that actively prohibits bad characters (like those listed above) and empower them by treating them like adults, and things would just work? But very few would do it - cause "the SV prophets said otherwise! "
I use #2 (blocking distractions by editing the /etc/hosts) and it does work. Mostly because it's already a reflex strategy to go on these websites. Stuck on a problem? Check Hacker News or Reddit for a short-term dopamine trigger.

But just adding the 127.0.0.1 to the 3-5 most frequented websites is enough to stop me from reading them. It's like now I have to consciously decide: "Do you REALLY want to check this website?"

It would be similar to Netflix not jumping to the next episode during a binge watch, but rather pushing you to their homepage after an episode.

You "break the default" in a way.
This is the one thing that cannot be emphasized enough. Smart kids simply don't fit into modern society. Any kid who's ever tried to point out errors in the text book to their teachers can probably attest to that; teachers prefer silent and obedient kids and don't care much for that one odd-ball who whines about X or Y being wrong in the 10 year-old textbooks you need to use anyway.
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I'm happy that it works for you, but If I started to lock my phone in a safe and throw away the key, next thing I'd learn to pick the safe every five minnutes.
> People choose what to work on. Better they ship what they want than not ship what you want.

Among many drawbacks to this idea, it puts a hard cap on your organization size. Building large companies with hard to build products requires getting hundreds of engineers moving in the same direction, i.e. someone telling someone else what to make.
I am a totally blind software engineer. Was also not born blind, but our difference is, I am already blind when I became a software engineer.

However, I made a career shift a few years back due to my frustrations to inaccessible work tools, plus the company where I worked before is not that inclusive. I was disheartened, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise because the interesting world of digital accessibility opened up for me.

Just thinking.. maybe we can collaborate. From someone who was once sighted and became blind in a not so very young age, maybe we can collaborate. I am very willing to teach you the ropes. not being a software engineer of course. I believe you’re already an expert in that. But more of learning how to be comfortable with being blind while growing in the tech world.

Hope to chat with you soon.
I created a dedicated linux user for remote work. Other than the fact that I do not have to install the same software twice its almost like owning two computers that are isolated from each other.
I think it’s cultural. Based on the lack of popularity of quality foods, I would say a large portion of people don’t care or can’t afford to care about cooking or high quality food.

Although, that has changed a little bit in the last decade or so with “foodies” and taking pictures of your food/cooking becoming a thing.

I remember being a kid, and going out to restaurants was not something we looked forward to as American restaurants were bland tasting with garlic (probably powdered crap) being the most exotic spice in the restaurant’s ingredients. Maybe it was different for richer people or in SF/NYC.

And I will never understand the appeal of a diner.
There's always more people willing to tell you what to code than the people who can code. You are not mentoring anything if you can't step in and do the job yourself.
The medical profession used to be well versed in reuse of hygiene materials. Many hospitals here (UK) had their own laundry with presumably industrial size autoclaves and an incinerator for actual disposable biohazards.
As disposable bedding and scrubs don't seem to be widely used it doesn't seem too much of a stretch to make other PPE reusable if the facility to sterilise is there.
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OP indeed does seem to be making a fairly anti-planning case. Banning anyone telling anyone else what they should be making is very anti-planning.
Humans are not rational (for the most part).
What are the alternatives for offline-first databases? I have a project in the back of my head where clients to a simple central database would be frequently offline and I had GUN in my notes for doing that.
they are being required to prefund for 75 years.... no govt body has that requirement

does the military cover itself with revenues? why is that okay but a public service like the mail is not?
I use a separate GPU for my linux host and the windows VM.

I am 99.9% sure you can not passthru a GPU to a VM that is being used by the host.

edit: I think I misunderstood your question.
The GPU that gets passed thru to the VM, never gets initialized by the host system during boot. So, if you want to change which GPU you want to passthru to the VM, you will have to reboot to allow your host to use the other GPU (and not init the on you want passed thru to the VM).

I would suggest you look at a youtube video where they run thru setting this up, so you get a better idea of what this entails!
You assume that all these people have AC current. I know for a fact that at least half a dozen american in West Virginia (lincoln county) get there only electricity with solar panels.
Yes, they can access their emails thanks to the public library, but how much longer this public service will stay open?
The point is that "every morning" general goods are of lower quality.

i.e., the corporate, generic supermarket in Europe is better than the corporate, generic supermarket in the USA.

I think this is a reasonable assertion, but there's significant regional variation between and within countries/states.
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The Personal Self Driving Robot to reduce COVID-19 spreading
Good day everyone,

I am a part of a team based in The Netherlands that has personal self driving robots (PSDR). The robots will be able to carry about 10kgs worth of groceries or medicine and deliver it.

We came up with the idea to deliver supplies and medicine to people who are vulnerable to COVID-19 for EVERYONE, not only the big corporations. The goal is to reduce the spread, but also making sure everyone still manages to get the supplies they need for daily consumption.

This is how it works:
We will provide the software for FREE (for personal use only). The software is based on deep learning for autonomous driving.
We will provide you a FREE extended guide on how to build the robot yourself.
You will order the parts (local) and build the robot. (Everybody can do it)

Do you know any friends or family who might be interested in building this Personal Self-Driving Robot?

Please comment below or email: psdr@ofoundation.nl
For more information go to our website:https://ofoundation.nl/personal-self-driving-robot/

The PSDR is for personal use only.
They probably get their money and food from petty crime? Like some of my family at some point. Would be nice if that could be avoided by giving them some money instead of them taking it from random shops. We should bare the burden together.
That does sound pretty worrying!
At the top level, yes. The incentives at various points in the organization are significantly more complicated though.

The relationship between what engineers want and making money is less strong than most would care to admit, for example.
Considering that Socrates himself maintained that he knew nothing, I'll take that as a compliment.
Have people switched back to using PCs for development, especially since they're staying at home with the covid-19 lockdown? Or is it still mostly a Mac market, despite having to fork over nearly three grand for an eight core workstation?
Yes, good candidates. Come back to "block chain" and "version control" every other year, that would be just about right.
What has somewhat worked for me is Focusmate. You make a video call to a stranger, and you both commit to 50 minutes of work. I guess you could do that with a workmate or a friend, if you dare be honest in needing that kind of basic childlish psychological support. Actually, I have almost picked a habit of doing the same commitment alone, which is nice. :-)

Even that does not work, if you are tired, exhausted, depressed, sad, angry, desperate and lost. Fix that first.
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That requires quite a bit of discipline to keep with the "just one game". Or, I'm just too addicted to video games, but I don't see that working for me.

Work time is for work, and after work I can game. If I need a break during work I'd rather just read hackernews for a bit. Less addictive :P
French here, having homeschooled my kids some years ago.

In France education is mandatory until 16yo. But you can choose to do it at home as long as you tell it to the city and Education nationale (which is state school administration)

Never heard of a year exam (apart from the mandatory ones around 11 and 17 yo) but you (in theory, sometimes they don’t) get a yearly visit from an Education nationale inspector to check if you are doing right and the kids are not left too behind the cursus.

They have the power to force your kids back to school, but I’ve never heard it happens to anyone in our (close) community
That's a model not based on reality but on theory exercises with a set of axioms that get handpicked to support an a priori assumption, regardless of reality or evidence.

People on purely ideological grounds killed off, for instance, the USPS savings system, which was a profitable banking arm.

It took 20 years, for instance, of foot dragging after the stamp was tied to inflation to keep it good forever and not lose value. That was part of the original bill but killed off to make things more broken by people who run on "government is broken"... Yes, you're the one breaking it.

People on pure fundamentalist ideology grounds have aggressively redefined the post office to force it to be unprofitable. The free market fundies have been yelling the "Communist" cry about usps since the 1950s, stabbing it at every opportunity.

It's also not a fair analysis because fedex and ups get subsidies, tax breaks, and other kinds of assistance on the million dollar scale all the time, many times a year. They aren't free agents in the slightest. And unlike usps, they aren't being administered by people who want them to crash and explode.

Many other industrial countries can do this at profit (Canada for instance), but of course, we are told we can't look at that either. It's such crazy time eating nonsense. They bark back that we dare ruffle the robes of the high priestess...pearl clutching is what they turn to.

"We could fix it but then we wouldn't show how broken government is .. durr durr" knock it off already.

These ideological fundies are con artists, a 21st century version of a street hustler who hide behind optics and theater. It's a huge criminal violation of the public trust
Q: "How do I overcome mental laziness?"

A: Do the thing you feel you're suppose to do, and not the thing that you're currently doing.

It really is that simple. While you have spent the time writing about how not to be mentally lazy and reading comments on possible answers, you've could've
- knocked out a chapter or two in a certification book
- built that module you've pushed aside
- pursue working on a weakness that you feel is holding you back

Fortunately/unfortunately, the onus falls on you to reach your goals (whatever it may be). So, just do it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsQAXx_ao0
I was lucky that I was living in Australia at the time where adult ADHD seems to be taken more serious by shrinks than in most other parts of the world. I also splurged and saw the shrink privately.

So the diagnosis process was mostly answering lots of questions and filling out some questionnaires.
"Stuck on a problem? Check Hacker News or Reddit for a short-term dopamine trigger"

This sucks and it is absolutely true, but to me it's more about boredom, you know that monkey job you absolutely need to do but is terribly boring to the sleep inducing level?

That immediately makes me search for some other thing to focys, fighting it is very hard, I don't smoke but I think this is the closest that comes to my mind when I feel the "rush".
That's the thing, though. We see these long, essay-like Twitter threads all the time because although it may not have been built with this use case in mind, people publish where they know the eyeballs are. And if the eyeballs are on Twitter, that's where people are going to publish, irrespective of how terrible the platform is for longer writing.

I know the character limit is a part of Twitter's ethos, but given that it is now a place where important information of longer character lengths is published, and given that it's a nightmare to read (or write) a thread of two dozen tweets, I really wish they'd consider giving some sort of better-suited home for this kind of content. Maybe they leave tweets at the current character length, but introduce some new product where longer stuff can be posted.
> As we now know only too well, Sars-Cov-2 is far more of a menace, because it can cause severe acute respiratory syndrome in some patients, which may lead to between 1% and 7% mortality.

Wrong. See the newest study from Dr. Ioannidis here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22922812 (spoiler: fatality rate is estimated to be 0.12-0.2%).
I'm submitting this because it's a useful review of apps in development for the UK government, and I thought people here would want to know what problems need to be avoided.
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> I read once that the cows are grass fed

I'm not ignorant to the way much livestock in the world is treated/fed/etc. and I'm aware of the US corn lobby, for example. But coming from Ireland I'm still constantly surprised at how unusual people seem to find grass-fed cattle.

"Grass-fed" isn't a term we use / recognise here, because... it's implicit. Kerrygold is the mass-produced, big-brand butter, and yes it is grass fed. Just like everything else.

That said, this makes me curious about the other listed brands. I'm assuming grass-fed is the norm (northern-?)Europe-wide, so most of the above (being French???) should also be?
I remember!
When we got our cats from a breeder 15+ years ago we had to sign a contract that included a number of restrictions including that they'd be kept indoors - which we were actually fine with when we lived in city (they are utterly gorgeous pedigree Burmese).

We moved to a house with a fairly large garden in the country about 3 years ago and we gradually let them out - initially on leads, then supervised and now the one remaining one will go out occasionally when it is warm for a 'hunt' (he has never caught anything other than spiders and even then he doesn't know what to do with them) or to clamber along the walls and have a sleep in the sun.
If you're pointing out the argument fallacies, you should at least name the negative effects and provide some argument/proof.
I would say almost all modern protests are like that - driven by specific politicians and their media colleagues.