skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In general: Fully digital and distributed processes. Both in terms of products and consulting services.

While it might seem that we already have all the necessary tools and services at our disposal right now, in my opinion we're not even halfway there yet:

Currently, and to some extent understandably so, the focus is on video conferencing, somehow re-enacting the way the office used to work (only remotely), and restoring at least a semblance of normality.

However, in the long run this won't nearly be enough. We need to adapt and rethink offline processes in order to not just make them work in online, distributed settings but to actually reap the benefits and efficiency gains such settings potentially provide.

This will require an entirely new set of tools and processes.

Maybe, something not unlike the "Agile" movement (hopefully without the "Yeah, we're agile, too. Actually, of course it's same old micromanagement bullshit but now with a cool, buzzwordy label." twist this time around) but for business processes in general.
The BBC is not state-run. It's an independent corporation funded by a specific tax.

Governments have always complained about BBC bias against them since its inception.
I think, he is confusing the figurative meaning with the real punishment. The former is not un-common in Germany even today. And yes, it has - or had - some relation to a certain concept of pedagogy. Cruel, but at times also positively personality-forming.
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This looks awesome, and fully native too it seems! I'm not a fan of the electron style git GUIs that don't really fit into the OS.

In the case of OP, Guitar looks a hell of a lot better on Linux installs. I suppose that's due to QT theming.
So Backblaze B2 costs $0.005/GB per month for storage. Let's see what are my options here, I could prepay 166 years at an unknown company with an unclear record of operations (I see the governing board is full of rather famous people but still -- that's not ops) and financials. Or I could just keep going with a company which has proven over 13 years it is solid both ops and financials wise.
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I'm so fatigued with my job. Opening up my work laptop gives me anxiety. Getting slack notifications gives me anxiety. I'm fatigued with the codebase, I don't care about the product or the customer (banks) and want to be done with it.

On the other hand I'm saving good money and I don't have to deliver to a particularly high level, but even this level of output is an emotional grind.

Feeling stupid because I should be feeling grateful to have a job. Had coworkers furloughed, furloughs at other companies across London, etc. Yet here I am looking to quit?

Facts:

- almost 2 years out of uni, 'Senior' Engineer doing Scala
- London based, under lockdown saving 50-60% of my paycheck
- cheap rent (£650), no dependents, no mortgage, subscriptions: contact lenses, spotify and PAYG phone
- good physical health
- by the time I'll have served out my notice period, I'll have:
- 8 months runway @ £25 a day for groceries and discretionaries,
- 10 months runway @ £15 a day
- got a good amount of social stimulation at my place of residence. Not reliant on virtual happy hours for getting my fix.
- got a software project I'm enthusiastic about. Would be keen to put more time into it.

I think I've already made my decision but it's been good to type this out. Any further input greatly appreciated.
Nope, you are fully missing out on the advances of music production. The sounds producers can create nowdays were not available in 18th century, not even in the 80s. If you consider as music only what you can write down as sheet music you are missing out on so much. Thats why finding new artists, who can make unique sounds, not just melodies, is so rewarding.
I use Duo almost everyday (and so do my friends) and IMO it has the best audio/video quality overall, speciality on sketchy connections.

Glad to see they are still making improvements, but with Google you know that products are simply abandoned from time to time so can't get too attached to it really.
I'm not sure what's going on with your computer (or with mine), but the lowercase t's (which I assume is what you are noticing) look fine on in my Firefox (75.0 on macos 10.14.5).
Netflix's UI is total shit. It is as if they are purposefully trying to keep it that way to hide the fact that most of the movies they have are garbage and the only way to get people to watch those is to give them some odd "compatibility" with your taste rating.
I will address the most important point about education first.

> Which has been very problematic. Education for all is good, but they have enforced Christian education and many other negative things.

How is getting educated becomes problematic verses no education at all. I am taking about basic reading and writing ? Controlling the access to education and maintain the hierarchy of the society is the fundamental idea of the varna system. This is one of the important reason there were very few Nobel laureates and inventions have come from India in correlation with its population. By the way Britishers never had religion as part of education.

> It seems like there are some gaps in your understanding of Hindu and Vedic thought. Yes, you are born according to your past life karma, but the soul (in a body or in the other loka) always have free will – so you chose your karma – you chose to do actions that created future karmas to be resolved. By extension, you chose your birth. This is the full understanding.

This is same as saying you don't choose your varna/caste.This is just another way of saying you are born in to lower caste and have to do the back breaking job because for your sins in the previous birth.

> In the original varna dharma, there isn’t an “easier life” for one caste or another.

A priest life is much easier than a farmer or manual scavenger.

> Your natural abilities are the way that you choose your caste. One person has no interest or ability for the spiritual life, but they are good at business. Your natural abilities are chosen based on past karma, which you also chose.

Not true. Its very explicit. Even if it assumed true, once education is denied and fathers occupation is enforced on the children's for all the generation's how does one will have the time to find out and grow their natural abilities ?

> A person of the priest caste would offer equal respect to the worker caste

If education is not restricted based on religion, then one does not have to seek privilege or validity based on birth.

> The authority should be by one’s own volition and the community.

The enforcement is not by community its by the kings as preached by the vedas. The kings enforce varna system by denying education, owning property based on the caste or enforce fathers occupation over their childrens. Naturally kings have the incentive to avoid competition and hold on to their power.
Unfortuntaley, that seems to be the case. By which point all of us might be in for a world of pain if we are nt extremely lucky.
In the early 90s, I lived in a US apartment complex and went to schools with a lot of recent Russian migrants.

Three times a week all the Russian kids were rounded up for "Russian Math," taught by, Arkady... my friend Mike's Dad. They followed the Russian/Soviet curriculum, which was 2-3 years ahead of the school's.

I think we focus a lot of educational systems, because these are matters of policy which can be critiqued and maybe changed. But, I think culture plays a big role.

My mother has PHD in physics, so its not like I'm from an anti-math culture. But, the Russian take was a different level. Being mathematical was very important to them, and they made it happen.

A good example for this is language learning. In some schools/places/countries/communities, language learning is culturally important and culturally supported. In those places schooling works, and kids graduate with strong language abilities. In other places, it isn't, and kids generally don't progress regardless of what classes they are in.

Europe is like a lab for this. Most Dutch kids graduate with native-level english, and often a 3rd and 4th language. In Italy, kids have almost no english. Modern young-people Dutch borrows a lot of English. They watch English TV. English is part of the culture, so the schooling works.
Can't you? I have just been using the lightning class as a wrapper, with my normal model on self.model or something like this. Same for the dataloaders.
>What is the use case for 'seeing all information at once'.

Projects can be messy and sometime you really need a bird's view of what's going on with all those branches\merges etc.
https://www.skype.com/en/free-conference-call/ has had web video calling with no sign up for years now, although they were terrible at advertising it, because when they re-told everyone last week it was reported by almost every tech site as a new feature
It's not just a joke, it has a serious purpose.

From the article
> it does seem to prove his point: That the Scientific Journal of Research & Reviews is among dozens of "predatory journals" that publish low-quality or unreviewed papers, often for an exorbitant fee.
At Oxford, for instance, social life mostly happens at colleges. The way things are set up, you simply do not get to spend that much time with your course-mates - you do not interact with them during lectures, and then everyone goes back to their colleges.

And social life in colleges is (sadly) dominated by drinking at the college bar, drinking in clubs, and dinners in the dining hall, where everyone seems to sit according to some unofficial hierarchy (with being in the top sports team in a popular sport seemingly correlated with being near the top of that hierarchy). Inter-college and Oxford vs Cambridge competitions in all kinds of sports (but primarily rowing) are a massive part of college life. The university rewards athletes with awards of blues and half-blues, drawings on college walls celebrating sports victories, prominent mentions in college publications etc. Academics, on the other hand, are not given nearly as much attention - you would almost never know how good someone is doing in their studies, especially since they are probably studying a completely different subject to you.

It would be common to go and support your college sports team in, say, rowing; whereas nobody really cared so much about academic competition between colleges. Those academic victories were never really mentioned or celebrated.
Fun fact about fortran: its creator (John Backus) was fond of functional programming, but that was after the fortran creation.
Total Covid-19 Mortality in Italy: Excess Mortality and Age Dependence
In my experience, it's like being sabotaged. If one has a previous interest in the subject but is forced to complete all the same courses it gets very very tedious. Akin to being forced to fill middle school worksheets - you can do it, but it takes time and is just mind-numbing.
Interestingly there was another site with an identical concept posted a number of years ago, which had a very simple website (teal background and virtually unstyled text IIRC). I remember it causing comments to be skeptical partly for the barebones site alone. Looking at Permanent.org's archive.org results it doesn't appear to be the same site though which makes me wonder how many other sites have tried this.
Code can be improved from a visual point of view
Fairly certain endowments arent just bank accounts without stipulations. 1m for athletics, 1m for research, 1m for infectious diseases, etc. Not 40b to do whatever you want, there are strict rules on how these funds can be used and what they can be used for. That said, I dont agree with them getting financial assistance from the government.
Yea, goes into this further down the article:
"a Harvard spokesman emailed a list of bullet points about restrictions on endowment spending. The short version: The endowment is made up of more than 13,000 separate funds. The “overwhelming majority” of those are restricted to spending designated by donors, like professorships and scholarships"
I can't speak for China, but in India there has not been a historically large amount of attention paid to writing textbooks in mathematics and physics. During high school, the students who seek challenging problems often fall back to Russian text books, especially in physics. More recently there has been a push by some Indian authors, so you will find some challenging texts by Indian authors, but still nowhere close to say Krotov or Irodov for physics.
THC vape cartridges are very common in Spain and UK.
Rising CO2 causes more than climate crisis– may harm our ability to think
> We suggest that planets in the Really Habitable Zone be early targets for the JWST, because by the time that thing finally launches we're all going to need a drink.

LOL.
Why the encryption?

If I store data with my family there's two kinds: the kind I encrypt because I don't want anyone else to access it and the kind that I don't encrypt because of I want them to be able to access it. Adding a fallible model with several people holding access might end up leaving your data inaccessible...
I think OP's comment focuses on the average outcome and your comment is about the education process. I think both are right. While there are stark differences in the process, the average outcome is probably not much different. Students not in the US can do harder problems in their final exams but how much of that comes from actual understanding of math. How much is retained a day or a month after the exams? This is about the average student, mind you. From my short talks with math educators in the US and in a Soviet-like system, I got the impression that the average math student is a mess in math in both cases.

There are probably more people on the long tail of math talent here so it's understandable their impressions on the two systems are much different. OP's comment also talked about the pipeline for gifted kids and he concurred that the Soviet style is effective for training those students.
I'm having flashbacks to middle school when this was a (childish and easy, I thought, because we were 12 or whatever, not 6) exercise in a maths lesson.

I vividly recall facetiously making this point, that for all we knew it was the 'number machine' (as I think the teacher called them) that responded 'as described for the inputs shown, and zero for all others', or something; that 'it sure looks like 2x, but we can't possibly know for all numbers'.

If I'd been told the machines were linear I would have learnt something (probably, hard to recall one's knowledge at a specific time) and shut up. Alas, I was sent out...
He wanted poorer, minority kids to have a chance at a good education and high standards as well? Wasn't very shocking, though the title was incendiary.
That is definitely not the reason why they don't go on sale. Sales are a good business practice and they usually result in higher sales. They don't go on sale simply because they want to be fair to their customers. They've said many times that they are financially well off and that they don't need the large amount of money that a sale can bring in.
Your language of choice - Clojure according to your HN bio - works on a product where important parts (e.g. Generics and the Java collection framework) were done by academia. One of the most popular compilers (LLVM) was done in academia (and still is in parts!). Most of the optimizations compilers use were done by academia.

Your work stands on the work of countless academic researchers and you run around "What did academia EVER do for us?" - the Monty Python sketch about Romans comes to mind.
I studied Engineering for a period in France at the time (undergraduate) I was very impressed at the level of rigour and abilities of my French peers. However this does not seem to link well with actual abilities as a practising Engineer. For instance French engineers are not particularily coveted.
Really nice. I tried to get Windows look and feel in the headers for the Yazz code editor, but maybe I should have used this CSS lib instead. Great Job!

https://yazz.com/app/homepage.html
I guess it costs me nothing to try this. Lets see how permanent it is after 1-2 years.
You'd think they'd force every android phone to have it, and then bake it into the dialer. It's doing the whatsapp thing of using your phone number as your account, because people realised most people can't sign into accounts to save their life.

Android dialer should have Start Voice Call, Start Video Call, and Start Group Call, where only the first one uses ye olde voice network
Unless I'm missing something - it only shows you a hunk, without much (or any) context. It's relatively fast to stage hunk like this, but you are doing it like blindly.
I think the question was whether the virus causes permanent damage in patients without pneumonia.

Edit: From the translated article, apparently yes:

> All of them were not severe cases, their illnesses were five to six weeks ago and they are considered to have recovered. But they can no longer dive. "The damage to the lungs is irreversible"
And i guess the next logical step after would be to implement an API, and allow people to create a physical bell to interface - ring your bell at home, 200 bells ring around the world :)
Young and healthy people are dying, but I think it's important to have some numbers for context. Italy publishes bi weekly full reports on it's deaths, here is April 20ths: https://www.epicentro.iss.it/en/coronavirus/bollettino/Repor...

It's not unfair to state that this disease, is much, much more dangerous for the 65+ age group. That being said I don't agree with the grandparent OP.
If you're using a modern machine, then you probably are using Secure Boot. For better or worse, Secure Boot requires Microsoft[+] to sign your binaries and they have certain requirements which you cannot break or they will revoke the signature. One of these requirements is that you cannot have a signed binary load unsigned code into ring-0.

So (ignoring whether these features are useful or good) in order to be able to run Linux on modern hardware these types of features are necessary. And I'm sure you'd be just as annoyed if you couldn't run Ubuntu on a machine that was less than 6-8 years old.

> I wasted a few hours when that Ubuntu thing happened to figure out where that switch was and didn't find it.

It's a shame you didn't manage to find it, because it's pretty trivial to create your own signing keys and enroll them in the MOK. You can then use those to sign your kernels. You just need the sbsign package.

If you want to just turn it all off, it's even more trivial -- go into your BIOS and disable Secure Boot.

I would hope someone who wishes to do some kernel development would be able to overcome this fairly minor hurdle.

[+] Technically it's whoever owns the keys that the manufacturer has approved to run software on the machine. On basically all modern machines that list is just "Microsoft" but you can enroll your own keys or remove Microsoft's keys if you want.
Yeah but this system is taking a huge toll on the teachers. Our maths teacher had to basically give two different courses within one class, because the gap was so big.
In my case it was first two semesters. Being forced to write what are basically hello worlds what you wrote six years ago was so asinine.
> if anyone misread my quotes as personal opinion, they're not.

The way they are written, then simply ending them with yours "Been watching the studies closely though!" and pointing afterwards "mild symptoms recovered at home have permanent lung damage and divers cannot dive anymore." the message could still not be expected to be considered seriously. The whole message did in fact give an impression of agreement with the quotes, basically as if only those who have bigger risk should have problem with it.

And it's provably not true, as we are aware that even the younger doctors died, starting from:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51409801

Note the date of the article: February 7, 2020

Young? Check. Not fat? Check.

And after all that happened everywhere there are still posts like this all doesn't exist.
I'm not a huge fan of their "What We Do" page if I'm honest.

Aside from the title the first thing you read is "The Democratization of Permanence" - from my probably dumb, mostly mainstream with a bit of tech self this just screams "You're gonna need your thinking cap on for this one"

Can't you just say "we host files and it costs like 50 bucks a year" or whatever you actually do? Once you've done that you can whip out your thesaurus and put whatever you want on the page, just answer the question first.
For a non-road-trip version of this idea, check out Zendo: http://www.koryheath.com/zendo/

You don’t have to use the official Looney pyramids, of course, but those work really well. Just enough variations to be really interesting.

There’s an older game that uses playing cards, Eleusis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleusis_(card_game)
Open-source spaced-repetition site for developers
Nice app, just bought it. One feature request - when using touchpad there should be some key to activate annotation/drawing. It's hard to draw on touchpad while pressing it.
Surveys suggesting undercount of coronavirus infections may be unreliable
Full title: Total COVID-19 Mortality in Italy: Excess Mortality and Age Dependence through Time-Series Analysis.

tl;dr

estimated fatalities from excess mortality in Italy: 52,000 ± 2000. Population fatality Rate: 0.22% in Lombardia (0.57% in the most affected towns) which put a lower bound on the IFR. Infection rate probably 60-70% in the most affected towns and herd immunity should now be present.
I've heard about this, it seems to be an American phenomenon. I taught applied mathematics at a UK Russel group university for 10 years, I started each course with "You do not need any books for this course, the lectures suffice; if you want to read around the subject I would recommend [2 or 3 Dover editions at £10-15] or [a couple of classics I was sure were in the library]". Most other lecturers did the same.
I have started using lazygit, a CUI, or console user interface. It runs in my terminal window but gives me the same broader perspective a GUI does. Looking at the screenshots of Guitar, which look amazing, I realize with lazygit I get 95% of the benefit of a GUI but in a package that does not disturb my workflow.

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

There are edge cases that lazygit does not handle well, but it is a simple matter to type "q", bop back to the terminal and run whatever git command and get on with life.
The unbelievable developers ego
How hot will Earth get by 2100?
Of course theoretical physics of this sort will be an affront to many.

Practically speaking though, broad speculation aside, it seems reasonable to desire to just simulate, and brute force something as simple as the first 10^-150s of the universe.

Only when you must account for the language that has been constructed in the past 350 years of coarse observation does it seem like madness.

When they move forward with this, and the results of their computing displays an independently generated imprint of the cosmic background radiation, the results will be undeniable.

It likely will escape language for decades, but if they run the simulation at this granularity and come to an exact match it will reveal either that our theories are exact and precise, or where we have missed phenomena.

Bravo, from an (at least) inspirational grounds though.
An always visible scroll bar or indicator is conceptually simpler than one that disappears randomly.

Knowing that a view is scrollable and there's more content to see is absolutely not an obscure edge case but a basic accessibility feature.

Relevant past discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20951580

Also relevant, what happens when the user doesn't realize more content is available: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21353920