skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Is that manipulation of his preferences for good skateboarding shoes, the ad making him impulsive and changing his desires and making him buy a worse product?

In your example, yes.

>Or is the ad informing him he can buy access to a spirit that will accompany him on his self selected journey and help his own desires?

No.

One shoe is better for its purpose, the other has stronger associations with positive ideas and feelings.

The quality of the shoe you buy is the necessary determinant of how well it will perform.

Conversely, the brand you buy from is not necessary to having certain thoughts, feelings, dreams, aspirations, etc.

The notion that buying X product with Y association in some way supports Y is exactly the deception. Flowery language about buying access/hope/a way of life is romanticizing the deception.
> Folks don't develop immunity to this virus. They can get re-infected immediately after recovering.

This is an extraordinary claim without evidence.

There's a few case reports of "reinfection", but they are rare. In all cases A) symptoms were mild, and B) researchers were unable to culture SARS-CoV-2 from them. Many viral illnesses have people shed virus again a few times after "recovering", and this seems no different.

A bigger concern is, humans seem to lose antibodies to coronaviruses with time-- this is how we get the common cold again and again. But infections after the first time seem to be less severe, thanks to longer-lived immunity from memory t-cells, etc. And at least for SARS-COV-1, immunity lasted quite a bit longer than typical for other human coronaviruses, with decent antibody titers at 3 years (no followup past then).
Some of the TC39 proposals might be worth looking at. The ES spec too.

If you really want to go all out, you could write a simple JS interpreter. Probably don't want to go full spec compliant but you could implement a decent subset. Especially if you skip the parsing step with Acorn https://github.com/acornjs/acorn
> The result is that we do very few joins in MySQL

What is the point of using a RDBMS if you never do queries?
> It seems like the vast majority of photons would just fly through the universe without interacting with anything, unless there are other ways for photons to interact with matter besides being absorbed.

Maybe someone who actually knows will chime in, but afaik:

- Most light doesn't have a fixed frequency. If it did, it would have a fixed momentum, but then you would have no idea where it is! Instead it is some superposition of many frequencies. That could be part of the story.

- Light could be stopped by something other than absorption into an individual atom. Metals don't have discrete spectra.
> suppress voting by low income and minority voters

Are you implying that having an ID, such as a drivers license, is out of reach of either low income or minority citizens?

That seems classist and/or racist.

Are there any studies supporting the idea that either of those two groups of citizens don't have ID?
Agreed it's not very promising.

Tried any of the other boot modes (safe mode[0])? Startup disk selector[1]? recovery mode[2]?

[0] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202796
[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314
Figured it was something like that :)

No way everyone can click through every link in every article they read. Glad we were jointly able to bring something interesting from the article to people's attention.
I’m personally a dig in the docs kinda person, but I’ve worked with plenty of people who prefer a tutorial with a teacher and projects.
I definitely wouldn't consider the first video 'advanced' material (an excellent talk btw), JavaScript event loop is something beginners should know about and intermediate developers know very well.
> "Consumer welfare" is also an outdated concept. Anti-features are deliberately engineered to weaken products. The goal of a producer is not to increase 'consumer welfare'. It is to SELL product. If that means damaging the consumer with a product designed to fall apart, then so be it. The advertising is there to convince the consumer to re-purchase the nearly identical product by attaching perceived value. Modern advertising even convinces consumers to throw away perfectly functional products by creating false perceptions of inadequacy or danger.

So basically, "modern" advertising is as beneficial as a viral infection, so it really ought to be criminalized or regulated into nonexistence.
The paper uses the word 'information' throughout as some kind of agnostic store of pure facts, as if you could break down any product into a black and white description of its fundamental reality and/or benefits.

I spent several years at a respected branding firm whose primary methodology boiled down to '16 ways to poke the lizard brain.' Even if your mind mistakenly believes that it makes rational choices, there's a section of that methodology that knows just how to appeal to you.

Someone said it better than me - human psychology can't handle how good we've become at manipulating it. Advertising is the primary driver behind this, but it only exists because reality unfolds through an array of complex sensory inputs that are mostly made up of subconscious impulses.
> advertising just moves demand around. It doesn't generate it

I’ve seen ads for products I would have never bought, because I never knew they existed, and wound up better for it.
(I could be wrong,) but I thought one of the points of stored procedures was that the query plan is precompiled?
Actually, having read the Engadget end of things, I can see exactly what the professor is saying in his blog post.

The potential energy capture from any rain-related technique is trivial, negligible is a better word. The article sounds completely clueless to anyone who understands the energy flow involved. The fact that it was written should be a professional embarrassment for that author.

The fact that the original paper was treated with any respect is yet another level of embarrassment. A high school science project sounds more believable.

None of the original ink / bits should have been wasted. But I suppose some sort of nanoscale power supply could be some potential use, so maybe, maybe, there's some redeeming value.

But not the way the paper or the article tried to spin it.
could '2' be a column name?

... meaning 'order by 2' would order it by the values in the column named '2', but which wasn't selected.
If Andromeda Were Brighter, This is What You’d See (2014)
So yeah, the tweet is misleading..?
Well, discussing your worries might be best done with a professional. Interest is subjective. Herd mentality is hardly a justification of scope limitation, quite the opposite. We should dig in the places nobody else does, turn over the stones left untouched. Propriety is often just an abject affront to inquiry.
A lot of people miss that herd immunity is likely the only reasonable path. Some models show decay to low case counts in a few weeks, but I'm not buying it.

Here in the SF Bay Area, I'm seeing a 40% decay weekly in hospital admissions. If you assume infections outnumber hospital admissions by 20x, it's going to be months before we reach the low case counts (1 per million) needed for contact tracing and suppression efforts amid semi-normal activities. And that's assuming we keep the 40% decay rate, and don't encounter subpopulations with higher Rt's that keep the virus circulating much longer or even growing.
I did. We're two days away from matching the top end estimates for 2019 flu deaths[1]

And that's with an estimated ~1/30th of the infections.

Based off the most liberal estimates of deaths directly related to the financial crisis, we're many multiples higher (est: 10,000+)[2] and a couple of day from being par with both direct, and indirect deaths related to stress and financial strife (assuming all the cancer patience died, which they did not) [3].

We're moving towards what you're suggesting, now that most countries have a serious testing infrastructure in place. Randomized testing, plus regular testing of the medial professionals tied with social distancing is what our near future hold. Most things open up to a limited extent, and we'll move from there.
[1] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...
[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-27796628
[3] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/economic-do...
You're right, and the article does agree with you.

But this is not a story hyping a potential cure. It's a story about how our front line healthcare workers are trying everything they can in an effort to find something that works and sharing whatever they get a glimpse of having potential.

The collaborative effort is impressive. And we're lucky to have the tech to share information so quickly. That has it's drawbacks too. For example, I won't expect to see any Pepcid on the shelves already.
Somewhat joking, but surprised nobody has brought it up yet: https://xkcd.com/2030/
> I've been through three full-fledged "agile transformations" in my career. I hate agile so much. I hate it because it encourages dogmatic behavior instead of rational behavior.

I'm going through that right now, in fact for the past two years our team has been transforming into agile. Although when I say team, it's more the developers that are forced to work in an agile way. The business is still very much waterfall, but for them it's okay. If they want to throw a new story into the sprint, they'll just call it being "flexible", and adjusting to business requirements. It's not because they can't plan two weeks in advance.

There's also way to much time spend on story points, I always assumed these were estimates, to get a sense of how much can be achieved, if a story runs over, so be it. However here, these are seen as deadlines, a 3-point story shouldn't take longer than a day or two. Our "scrum master" is constantly asking wether we can achieve all our stories this sprint, what's the point of even estimating if you're going to do that. And recently, we now have to plan our two week sprint, day by day, committing to 2 week plan before the sprint even starts. There's nothing agile about that to me.
I found these two videos very helpful in understanding the quantum nature of light after being stuck in the same spot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcqZHYo7ONs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzRCDLre1b4
(Watch those in order, because they're a collaboration between two YouTubers)
For folks missing the historical reference, IBM provided machines and support to the Nazis to "census" Jews.
My understanding is that this is even feasible without location information if you use an approximate filter (e.g., a Cuckoo Filter [1]), which they propose in DP-3T (II).

With 20 bits/key such filters yield a false positive rate (FPR) of 0.001%. Meaning for 100,000 new cases per day worldwide, you would only need to download 0.24 MiB.

Note that the FPR applies to each lookup. That is, if you have collected say 100 tokens on a given day, the overall probability of a false positive will be 0.01% (assuming independence). With each extra bit per key you can roughly halve that probability. So in practice size won't be an issue.

[1] https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dga/papers/cuckoo-conext2014.pdf
>> Unfalsifiable claims like this one tend to have a bit of baggage like eternal punishment.

> Here's something that is falsifiable and true: the teen suicide rates in the oppressive and orthodox 1950s were much lower than they are in the "liberated" times today. I cannot and will not claim that this can be reduced to belief in a higher power

You don't need to. Whether or not a result can be attributed to a belief has no bearing on whether the belief itself is true.
If employees work on the weekends, just feed them + pay them a premium, and give them an equivalent amount of days off later in the week/month.

It's pretty simple.
Actually, iOS app icons are not superellipses but a 16-part Bézier curve.
What is your favorite landing page?
And why do you like it? Would love to hear opinions and picks that are not based on empirical effectiveness. Rather inspiration/preference/taste...
Your DVDs don't have unskippable anti-piracy ads and ads for movies that released decades ago?
> and I didn't want to spend my mental energy doing research on fucking mattresses

Ironically it should be reverse: you send a lot of time on the mattress, it directly affects quality of your sleep and consequently health and quality of life.
Rejecting the spirit doesn’t mean it’s a lie or deception, you haven’t disproved it for the teenager and if we study his behaviour he will act as if his Nike’s are more uplifting.

Nike (née Kay) used to be the Greek goddess of victory. Nike the shoe brand is the updated copywritten form of that spirit that has been a part of humanity since forever. It’s not brand related despite the commercial rules, but the spirits are real.

Teacups can be bought with a gold trim that does nothing for performance and yet is seen as higher quality. You can’t divorce the mind from qualitative judgements.

There are qualitative ranks of fictional stories. You can judge the quality of spirit something embodies. We reject a lot of soulless, dispassionate product because it may be functionally viable or performant, but looks like it belongs in the soviet era (ugly concrete, hard unfriendly edges, ect). The US military puts high value on making sure it's equipment looks the part as well as plays the part, because of the impact it has on judgement.
> That's if you're using the merge or squash options. There's an enforceable rebase option in GitHub which preserves the original commits.

A rebase by definition doesn't preserve the original commits (whereas a merge does). But I'm talking about what the workflow for reviewing the PR looks like, before you approve it for merge (in any form) - that's the usual time for review, no?
These two podcasts are tech/career podcast.

"Developer Tea" (hosted by Jonathan Cutrell) - because being a great developer is not just write code.

"Frontend Happy Hour" (https://twitter.com/frontendhh) - I like the way they do it, before they start, they will pick a word, and if you say that word, you need to drink. cheers!
Eloquent is more of a fundamentals focused book, whereas Allongé is an excellent object-oriented foray, mixed with functional tidbits and examples. Allongé shows that you can get the best of both worlds, object and functional, by applying the right technique in the correct places.
That’s a slightly different curve, and I believe the corner radius for that is defined to be 39.
MSX Computers – Scrolling, Sprites, and Stereotypes
Proof never proves it only implies. People are just bad at weighing how much proof there is and how heavily it implies something. Nuance is inconvenient in policy discussion and public discourse.

Science also doesn't seek disproof. It uses both example and counter example to confirm or deny or increase how much one confirms or denies.
Can you call c# from C? If so, then you can just use any C fuzzing library, and have it call your C# code. I do this with C++ and Objective-C using clang's libfuzzer. You write a single C function that takes a pointer to a buffer and a length and pass it to whomever you want. I just write a C wrapper that calls my Objective-C or C++ functions with the data.
>> Advertising remains useful to firms only as a tool for persuading consumers to purchase advertised products.

Wow, didn't realize this was NOT the only use of advertising (the other stated intent was provide consumers information, according to article).
That's 100% what they're doing. I imagine most their money is in people who aren't re-evaluating the subscription month to month, and just need some drip of new content to keep justifying inertia.
The way you can tell is to run the build and inspect the build log. Usually it prints out if it downloads something.

I think it's pretty common that stuff is being downloaded during the build phase, mostly from java package hosts like mvn, jitpack, etc. There are checks in f-droid to ensure those hosts are on a whitelist of FLOSS-policy repos but the checks don't prevent any custom build logic of downloading stuff via http, cloning git repos, etc. Also while maven central does not, some of these hosts also allow takedowns of published artifacts, at least jitpack allows it and it's on the whitelist (also jitpack's policy isn't FLOSS only, only requiring that the package is on public github, which still allows for nonfree "source available" software AND jitpack doesn't have any policy about downloaded binaries during its build).
How do you avoid burnout as a remote worker?
"It's 2020" is not an argument. Show us a better system that stays anonymous, I don't care which year is it. All I can find so far is examples of technologies going wrong for voting.
Also, OP is acting like covid trashing the stock market is really affecting all companies equally, lots of tech companies are getting crazy rise
A partial answer is that big fully connected neural networks _are_ pretty much untrainable. Neural networks only became successful once programmers started constraining the space they were optimizing over pretty radically (like requiring convolutional layers if you know you are trying to detect something local).
oooh that's really cool!

haha so you have to pretend not to screen watch on a game where everybody is using different screens lmao

yo dawg I heard you like multiplayer, so I put co-op in your co-op so you can screen watch while you ping watch
How to design compact antenna without those math voodoo.
Unfortunately, I don't even get to the point where I can pick which disk to boot from. When I hit the power button nothing happens.
There's always some concern that the math models correctly reflect reality. That's why there's a 50% safety factor, and it's backed up by the engineers' experience that things "look right", bench testing, and flight testing. (In early flight test, they'll tape strain gauges all over the place to see if the math predictions of the stress matches reality.)
>The quality of the shoe you buy is the necessary determinant of how well it will perform.

Is that really true if the mind is what makes it so?

Product advertising convinces you that you can do a thing, so you succeed. Emotions are much more powerful than rational thought and in the case of the shoe, can be a catalyst for a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Performance is almost never purely mechanical with products that interface directly with the human body.
All the things you reference serve a purpose for the user. There's a whole field about how to design them, etc.

Ads are not designed or deployed to serve the user. Are you seriously saying the average ad you see is optimized to provide you useful information? When did you last see a Tide commercial cite the studies that showed it cleans the best?

Ads are designed, bought, placed and engineered to interrupt your thought process and direct it elsewhere, then present information that's optimized to make you remember and select that product. Sometimes (in proportion, rarely) that information happens to be useful, but it was still presented in via psychosocial dark patterns.
I may have an incorrect take on the virtue concept, vis-a-vis Stoicism, but felt it was more to do with reducing man's conflict with nature, learning to live within his and its means, as 'virtue'...not the 'just be great to one another' type of virtue. While there is a strong current of social interactions in Stoicism, it mainly lies with treating others as equals on this journey, and not manufacturing enemies out of thin air.
I have had a few polite conversations head south in a hurry, with absolutely no malice in my words, that were simply manifestations of the listeners over-reactive imaginations. Hell, I once became someone's enemy, simply by NOT responding at all, or even acknowledging his presence. These were revelatory examples for me, because I had to retrace what could have transpired in my words or tone to evoke such a response, arriving at the conclusion: People can and will manufacture their own barriers and enemies, out of thin air, in order to cope with some dissonance they perceive. Sometimes, the problem is not you.
WebAssembly, Wasmer And Embedding Wasmer in C program
Been seeing increasing instances of a Huawei crawler user agent in my sites’ logs. Huawei Search coming soon?
Oh my that facepalm dreadful. Thank you! That gives me a new high-water mark for misleading biomolecular visualization computer graphics content. Snagged a copy.

When most everything is unmoving, it's "obvious"... well no, not to students, but... there's no pretense of doing anything other than stitching together an extremely selective set of "snapshots", to tell a completely bogus narrative of smooth motion.

Here it seems something like a Maya "jiggle all the things" option has been turned on. Making it sort of kind of look like you're being shown more realistic motion. But you're so not. It's the same bogus smooth narrative, now with a bit of utterly bogus jiggle. Those kinesin legs still aren't flailing around randomly. Nor only probabilistically making forward progress. And the thing it's towing still isn't randomly exploring the entire bloody space it can reach given the tether, between each and every "step". It still looks like a donkey towing a barge, rather than frog clinging to rope holding a balloon in a hurricane.

And given that the big vacuole or whatever should be flailing at the timescale defined by the kinesin feet, consider all those many much smaller proteins scattered about, just hanging out, in place, with a tiny bit of jiggle. Wow - you can't even rationalize that as being selective in "snapshots" - those proteins should just be blurs and gone.

And that's just the bogosity of motions, there's also... Oh well.

So compared with older renders, these new jiggles made it even harder to recognize that all the motion shown is bogus. And not satisfied with the old bogus motion, we've added even more. Which I suggest is dreadful from the standpoint of creating and reinforcing widespread student misconceptions. Sigh.
About 15 years ago I participated in a study of wavefront lenses(I think it was by Zeiss). The glasses were single prescription and they were hands down the best glasses I've ever owned. Great vision and low chromatic aberation.

I've never seen the tech offered for single prescription lenses since then. I really wish they continued with the technology.
Does Blink support mouse TUIs, like tmux and micro?
CRIU can use two mechanisms to detect page changes. One is the soft-dirty kernel feature which is mainlined and can be accessed via /proc/PID/pagemap [1]. The other is userfaultfd which is only partially merged in the newest kernel. userfaultfd lacks write detection which the article mentioned. My understanding is that using pagemap requires the entire process to be frozen while it is scanned for memory changes and the memory is copied while uffd allows for a more streaming/on-demand approach that doesn't require stopping the entire process.

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/soft-dirty.txt
Yes, I think that's critical. Anyone can understand the security of paper ballots. And if there is fraud, people can understand that too. There have been incidents of ballot boxes hidden, and when it came to light the public could understand what happened and what a reasonable remedy would be. But if there's a hack of an e-voting system, how's a normal person supposed to understand it?

The system has to be comprehensible to voters.
Agreed. I certainly appreciate Apple's stance on privacy lately, but it doesn't seem reasonable for a corporation (particularly one based in a different country!) to be willing or capable of forcing the government's hand.
> The argument that easy access to product information online eliminates any consumer benefit of advertising misses a key point.

> I only do research online for products that I care deeply about.

Honestly, it seems backwards to start your research with a product. It seems more sensible to start with a need/problem, and then search for products that meet that need.