skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It works in a close animal" is a necessary though far from sufficient condition for "it" working in humans. The point of doing animal trials is to filter out drugs that don't even fulfill that condition. Look at the "in mice" twitter account. How many potential Alzheimer treatments and cures for cancer have been touted in the last decade that proved effective in mice? How many of them turned out to be promising in humans? You need to keep that ratio in mind whenever you feel like conjecturing something.

And keep in mind we're talking here about behavioral differences driven by possibly the most complex organ that diverged the most from other animals'.
Nice and helpful guide.

In this month only I had to give up using firefox because uglyBar and ubuntu because of snaps.

There won't be anywhere to run soon.
> So, the question implied by your casual comment is, what is the purpose of the multitude of sperm?

Rather, I am asking why to expect the number of gametes to be more relevant than the number of viable offspring when considering genetic diversity.

Exactly three of the $big_num of sperm my father’s body created led to offspring. Likewise exactly three of my mother’s eggs. Gamete_father >> Gamete_mother is true, but does not appear important in this specific regard.

I accept the other reasons you give for there being lots of sperm cells, but it’s answering a different question :)
Possibly it is because philosophy is a lot like being bothered by a bug in your code, and you stress and strain to resolve it which provides growth in wisdom after the objective is completed.
My understanding is that Stripe offers UI to sign up for a subscription, but then offers only an API for other subscription actions such as changing from monthly to yearly or cancelling. Someone have a link describing Stripe's comprehensive UI for subscriptions?
I am suggesting trying a software-only alternative to buying another laptop.
What if car_is_empty() function is actually a heavy call to a service that needs error handling, monitoring, logging etc. E.g. log needs to contain what car was that that we omitted.
It's not that easy anymore with functional programming.
Funny how evidence of modern hominid species arriving coincides with extinction of most large animals in any given area. Or oceans suddenly became more acidic with widespread burning of coal. It's almost as if humans can destroy the habitat life relies upon as quickly as natural phenomenon.

Humans can control human behavior. Just because other, uncontrollable risks exist does not mean we should just give up.
I feel like "lost" is a bit of a misnomer here - this spacecraft was of course being tracked still, and it only took a couple seconds of googling to pull up the detailed info on the orbit from Celestrak[1]. There's even a nice visualization available at [2].

1: https://celestrak.com/satcat/tle.php?CATNR=02866

2: https://celestrak.com/cesium/orbit-viz.php?tle=/satcat/tle2....
In looking at some of the other entries about 20.04 on Mr. Custer’s site I’m wondering if it would’ve been simpler to just start with mini.iso to make an actual barebones installation and then install only what is actually desired. If you truly want a lean install then building your own custom mix is possible in Ubuntu and a relatively blank slate is available.
> "Everything that is 10 years old is obsolete. Everything that is 20 years old is archaic.”

Which is not entirely true since some of the best parts of Agile are XP practices that almost everybody does by default now...

Someone once said that the only successful Scrum projects are also doing half of XP (as in, things Scrum doesn't prescribe but are essential anyway). I am still looking for a counterexample.
A growing citizen movement against forced disappearance in Mexico
Probably speaking publicly, and/or writing (a book, or writing for a magazine or something).
I've seen a-million-and-one junior developers screw up for-loops, too, with overly complex code that's hard to understand and debug. That's in no way unique to FP.

I would need at least 3 more pieces of data -- the other (experience_level, programming_style, bug_rate) tuples -- in order to judge whether this constitutes a pattern which is best avoided.
I wasn't talking about your argument that the calculation is finite. I was talking about how N is chosen in the first place.
Not sure in NY, there I tried only ovest and a couple of others so I can’t really judge. In London I tried all the famous ones: Da Michele, 50 Kalò, Sartori, Santa Maria, Santorè, Franco Manca and probably many others that I don’t remember now.
Da Michele I think is a bit overrated. In 50 Kalò I appreciated a lot the extremely fresh and flavourful ingredients but the pizza dough was not the best. Santa Maria, at least the original in Ealing Broadway, is probably more tasty and balanced compared to the others above. Franco Manca has a pretty good price/quality ratio, but it’s not as good as the previous ones. As a matter of personal preference Sartori is the best that I tried in London, just a sliver above all the very nice ones cited before, and also a bit better than his “twin” place Santorè.
I’d like to go back to Napoli and try Sorbillo’s pizza there. In my place in Italy I can’t find a pizza as good as London, for what is worth...
The evidence for the New Deal accomplishing any of those things is virtually non existent. For example, the 1937-38 downturn was nearly as bad as the 1930 one, and the economy wasn’t restored until WW2 started.
Chrome via appimage works great
Outside of software the majority of American's function as modern serfs. I'm an engineer who doesn't work in software and live as a modern serf
Its not that buybacks have a tax advantage, dividendes rather have a tax disadvantage
You say I'm being very charitable. This is what I see:

- President brings scientist on stage to talk about new findings that will help combat COVID-19. Why? Because it's important to show people that progress is being made and we're not in a hopeless situation.

- President follows up with the scientist with questions about possible therapies that could be developed. He uses words like 'would it be possible to', 'could we somehow', 'and 'it would be interesting to check that.'

To me that's just a natural reading, given the context. Your reading appears to be:

- President brings scientists on stage to talk about findings

- President recommends that people inject themselves with Dettol (motive unclear)

The problem is that's a ridiculously uncharitable interpretation. I mean, is that what you actually believe the president was thinking?

The (hydroxy)chloroquine is example is also a non-issue. Trump correctly pointed out that this was a low-cost, long circulated drug with well understood risks, and that even if we don't yet know for sure if it works, if patients are dying from the virus, it makes sense for doctors to try it. I'm glad he shone a spotlight on it.
The idea that all dev teams within a single FAANG operate in the same manner is also absurd (much less that all dev teams across all FAANGs operate in some identical, optimal fashion).
What startup employees fail to understand about equity
I don't know what you're talking about then. But plenty of comments in this thread did.
Some time ago I realized, while standing in the midst of the Oakland Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment, surrounded by old game boxes, this:

"Most of these games are all marketing."

That is, if you look at the art, and look at the back of the box bullet points, you'll see something like "Go on an epic journey", or "Choose who lives or dies", or "Build an empire to stand the test of time".

To the extent that these games express these things, it's through clever rearrangements of stock tropes: Your typical murderering and looting game protagonist, able only to communicate down the barrel of a gun, is now justified through the plot and given many new backdrops so as to make the journey "epic". A scripted choice is added here and there, but not everywhere, to make "choosing who lives or dies" feel consequential, but without ascribing particular meaning to the choice either(since all choices should be gratifying for marketing purposes). Empire-building is signalled through various reports of legible progress in gaining territory and developing cities and armies, but nothing resembling the actual political structure or dynamics of an empire - the fantasy is simply one of a "rise and further rise".

And so in playing these games, you get an aesthetic impression, but not something with a solid grounding to it that you would spend time thinking about afterwards or relating to your real-world experiences. When a speedrunner sets out to conquer these sorts of games they look for software vulnerabilities that short-circuit the impression of what is going on and attack the underlying data model and logic.

In that way, video games have been pushed through industrialized practice quite a ways away from the natural state of games as a tradition, which is to fully and honestly explore simple concepts. You can't speedrun basketball, because you're playing within the laws of nature and against opponents who do the same. But if you go to market a basketball video game, you are trading on the impression of basketball, not its reality: and so licenses for professional players, superlative simulation techniques, etc. come to the fore.

So as I see it, games like Candy Crush are further extensions of industrialization: The game concept is simply a tool for the marketing framework, which in this case has been designed towards metrics-optimized microtransactions and customer retention. If a particular level is failing to retain players or to induce a purchase, it gets reworked until the metrics line up.

Despite all this, good work in games does tend to shine through. Nintendo's franchises, for example, are all built on "honest explorations" of their basic themes, and the play concepts tend to have something intrinsically interesting going on. And the breakthrough indie hits usually have this quality, too. The games that get buried, in contrast, usually aren't achieving the same degree of cohesiveness and direction - even if they're huge AAA productions.
Keepass as a snap because security right /s. This is an actual piece of software that has a history of being modded by attackers to steal credentials. Why would you put that in a snap?
It is reasonable but it is not necessarily the smartest way of going about things.

The question of whom things are visible to is an important one. Your comment says "management", and yeah that's one common way of thinking about it. But managers are just individuals with their own motivations. It is really "the business" that wants visibility in order to best accomplish its goals. There is an assumption that "management" is better aligned with "the business" than the employees they are paying "exorbitant" salaries to. But that may or may not be true, managers are also just individuals with their own motivations. So to the extent that it is true that managers are better aligned with the business, why is that the case? I see a few things that trend in that direction: compensation that is more tied to the performance of the business (through bonuses or what have you), more visibility into the goals and reasoning for decisions being made by leadership, and a better grounding in the dynamics of the business (what is the strategy, how does its market work, how does it make money). The theory is that because of those things (and probably others I'm not thinking of), the managers are better suited to be representing the interests of the business, whereas the engineers are just tools those managers can use to further those interests.

That is one way of doing it, probably the most common way, and it definitely seems like management visibility into work is extremely important in such a setup. But another way might be to align the engineers with the business in the same way managers are: pay bonuses based on the performance of the business, give them visibility into goals and decisions, teach them about the strategy of the business and the dynamics of how it makes money. That is, give the engineers ownership in the same way management has ownership, and trust them to make decisions that are in the interest of the business.

To put this another way: if you trust managers to make decisions about trade-offs that are in the best interest of the business, why can't you trust engineers as well? Are the engineers dumber or shiftier than the managers such that they can't be trusted with this?
What paradise is really depends on your point of view, doesn’t it?
Sure, that all sounds about right.

To rephrase my point: including an unsafe mode is an option when designing a language. Your original comment appeared be suggesting that it was a necessity, and that one could not write a Hello World program in a language that lacks an unsafe mode. Which is not the case, of course. JavaScript, for instance.
Yeah, I think it's definitely worth remembering that the people and organisations making millions/billions of dollars and 'changing the world' are in the news because it's rare. Most musicians don't reach number 1, most film stars and YouTubers don't become millionaires, most startups don't become the next Facebook and most games on Steam or app stores just get buried.

A combination of press coverage and social media has basically convinced an increasingly large percentage of the population than the outliers are the norm.
For people wondering what this is (not a super descriptive title, my apologies!) it's about the new audio social app called "Clubhouse"
> you'd be right, and it's the same thing.

It's not the same thing. It's not "bidding", even if it's called that because the lowest or highest or middling bid doesn't necessarily get the work. I know, I know, it sounds like another "you're doing Agile wrong", but Agile already fucked it up by saying "bidding", so we get these wild stories of how companies have their laziest incompetents in charge of trying to make improvements to process.

> You just ask someone else until you get the answer you want to hear (instead of the one you need to hear).

Otherwise you will only have the most jr or senior people working on everything. The system of bidding just doesn't work, which is why it's not bidding in a practical sense.

You ask why people put down their estimates by describing what they know about the work. This is an opportunity to transfer some cursory knowledge and reinforce pain points. At a very progressive "Agile" company (we would invite speakers and A/B tested various practices across teams), I notoriously inflated/deflated all estimates by bringing up edge cases and/or constraining objectives. Story grooming aside, there are always people trying to over-engineer and estimation is another gate to prevent that.

Agile was a good try to create software process, but it's incomplete at best. The idea that it would evolve is laughably naiive (https://app.spectator.co.uk/2020/04/22/the-illusion-of-certa...). Companies want S&Ps, not sauce that they have to mix themselves.
Unfortunately, it seems like I remembered correctly, at least for Chromium: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22972856
https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/transcr...

>Now we need to go and look in families to find those people who may be sick and remove
them and isolate them in a safe and dignified manner so that's what I was saying previously;
the transition from movement restrictions and shut-downs

I believe unlawfully removing people from their homes and restricting their movement is against the constitutions of several countries, mine for sure. According to this transcript directly from the WHO, this is what they advocate and recommend. Speaking out against this falls under directly contradicting the WHO.
Yeah, most geostationary communications birds use analog transponders, even to this day. There's a lot of fancy command and control, but the actual payload is just analog RF circuitry, even using tube-based power amplifiers.

I have no idea about these older satellites, but on modern stuff there's a separate Telemetry, Command, and Control (TT&C) link. Maybe this bird is only transmitting telemetry though?
Pipelines like this tend to come in two flavors:

1. Long, unreadable, and undebuggable (since you can't step through them)

2. Ones you wish could have just been a Python list comprehension:

return [f"car-#{n}" for n in range (1,6) if car_is_empty(n)]
It's just silly, irrelevant, distracting and adolescent IMHO
I think we can assume that climate scientists are aware of chaos theory, considering their field was one of the first to recognize the value in modeling things as dynamic non-linear systems.

While there are large error margins due to that non-linearity, literally all of our evidence (including causative models, e.g. grade school greenhouse science experiments) indicates bad things. Those may not come to pass, or they may not be human related -- nothing is certain -- but there's precious little evidence in the other direction.

Outcomes may vary, you are right. Yet nearly all available evidence suggests we should accept AGW as the most likely situation, while accepting there may be other, more accurate predictions. We should change our behavior only once new evidence comes in indicating a different conclusion.
This is not wrong, but maybe fairly obvious, and why the unwinding strategies require contract tracing to test for pre-symptomatic infection.

The article asserts that additional testing capacity is required for prophylactic testing, but that statement is both true and false. We will probably need ~20x testing capacity for just contact tracing to get R0<1. At that point, prophylactic testing (say every 3-5 days) of health/elderly care workers would be a marginal increase.
Perhaps project managers who aren't good at their jobs.

I've reported to two different directors since moving into management. Both were very clear that they'd rather hear about problems early. And both have been nothing but reasonable when I've reported problems. Of course, the entire team needs to be reasonable for this to work, from the product managers to project managers to individual contributors.

And as a manager, nothing annoys me more than an employee who tells me everything is fine then misses a deliverable. Tell me you're having problems so we can find a solution. Please. That's why I'm paid what I'm paid.
"come state" :)
Somebody wrote a macro for the simple cases: https://llogiq.github.io/2019/05/18/momo.html
The largest iceberg may have just begun its death march
>In my experience "agile" was a loose rebranding of ideas that had been around for a long while (see all the other non-waterfall approaches that predate it) and "Agile" (i.e. the manifesto) was just one attempt at one of these sort of methodologies.

You are correct. The Agile term was probably marketed to the management types as a some breakthrough methodology to _finally_ control the budget for software development. Then it took a life of it's own as many things do.
I got interested in rf spectrum in 2014 and haven’t looked back. There’s just so much fascinating stuff out there.
They are making a calculation that a global run on masks would hurt efforts to contain spread due to shortages for medical professionals confronting the virus everyday, as opposed to general public confrontation which is more sporadic.

Should they just come out and say that? Probably. Would it be effective? No people are irrational in crisis and their words wouldn't prevent the above scenario.

They made a calculated choice with their language which is misleading, but necessarily so. You can disagree with it, but it's far from "spreading misinformation for political reasons".
Chromium from Debian, as a DEB package, on Ubuntu:

https://github.com/cies/kubuntu-setup/tree/master/chromium
Another way I like to phrase this thought (without getting into the details about whether Aristotle and Nietzsche agree or disagree), is that morality is a system of rules for making decisions. Turing machines and computation more generally allow for the implementation of arbitrary decision procedures. However, if you want that those decision procedures to be consistent, you need something else, namely a set of axioms. Goedel, Turing, Church, etc. have proved (more or less) that there is no set of axioms that gives universally true answers for all decisions, so there can be no provably objective system of morality. Thus, we must choose our axioms, if we do not, we usually choose implicitly (which I think is related to Nietzsche's abhorrence of slave morality). Aristotle represents a set of axioms that are practically applicable to many human relations, representing a pretty good default, if you have to choose one. Nietzsche says, (to use the words of another) 'choose again.'
They only control their inefficiency around an increasing trajectory
I disagree. It's unreasonable to doubt that at this point.
One of the satellites found by this sleuth:

> Transit 5B5 was a US Navy navigation satellite launched by a Thor Able Star rocket. It carried a nuclear power source.

Wait what? Nuclear powered satellites? How do they safely dispose of these??
Well by "wiki" it means to me that it saves history of changes and manage user access etc. That probably requires more complicated file setup than just markdown files.

If you want just markdown > website with some administration to edit you can use pretty much any flat file CMS. Kirby CMS is highend but you need buy license. Grav is ok open-source option but i don't like the admin part too much but its atleast active. You can find many more https://github.com/ahadb/flat-file-cms but flatfile cms often becomes pet project that people stop maintain so watch out for activity.
What about the option of slowing the spread or flattening the curve so it doesn't overwhelm the healthcare system?
but they pollute you as you are forced to breath in some CO2 from exhaled #smartfox
We already subsidize tons of essentially valueless jobs, from propping up the coal and oil industries when they can’t compete in the free market, to paying farmers to plant corn for ethanol that no one needs. Those subsidized industries actively harm the planet. Why not subsidize equivalent jobs that work to reduce harm to the environment instead?
Salt in liquid water is just elemental sodium ions and chlorine ions, each surrounded by h2o.

A speck of elemental sodium is not dangerous.

A hunk of elemental sodium could be (depending on how you handle it!)
And have begun collecting sales tax which only shows up after you've legally committed to buying the item.

All on purpose, all user-hostile actions to take.
> I don't get to vote on whether or not a major employer offers better pay for physical labor.

Found a company, and pay more for physical labor. Not only will that directly cause it, you will influence the market. Only buy products from companies that pay what you believe are fair wages, if you're unwilling to found a company yourself.

> I don't get to vote on whether or not for-profit schools exist.

No, but you can found a non-profit school, or donate to them (I do!).

> I don't get to vote on whether or not employers will (consciously or not) discriminate against job applicants who look poor or don't speak eloquently as a result of low-quality education.

Again, you can hire whoever you want (within legal confines) at your own company.

You are not helpless. What you aren't able to do in the US is just force other people to do what you want. Put in the work, create something and show that the approach you believe in is viable, or even superior. Be the change you want to see.
Just to be clear, that's about the original SARS, not the novel coronavirus (COVID-19 / SARS-CoV-2). I don't know of any studies about the effects of temperature and humidity on how long the current virus survives on surfaces.