skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note to self: Remember whenever you think "Good,fast,cheap; pick 2", it frames your choices as either "produce something not-good" or "produce something and take your time or hire lots of people". You are again regressing to your ivory-tower-inventor tendency, you spend too long perfecting and the perfecting gets worse and worse. Instead it's "fast+cheap, fast+cheap, fast+cheap" to minimize the time between customer-hypothesis and customer-trial. You do that until you achieve "good enough". This is the surest and most economical way to achieve "good". This is agile.
Now he’s saying he was being sarcastic. Bullshit.
omg, is it true!
finally!!
i have to get a new lenovo in soon, and this is really good news!
I will skip the windows backshis :)
> 1) It acts as if a single person speaks for #Masks4All. But #Masks4All is a hashtag, not a person.

The article is referring to Jeremy Howard who set up Masks 4 All, and coordinated a little bit of research around the effectiveness of masks.

https://masks4all.co/in-the-media/

https://www.fast.ai/2020/04/13/masks-summary/

His messaging is a bit frustrating because he misrepresents the science, he says stuff that's anti-science, and he's pretty dogmatic.
Good luck with your search! I am not a hiring manager but in my experience being involved I would agree that a gap isn't a deal breaker at all. In fact as long as you are upfront and show that you've improved from it that could be a positive too!

One important thing for me is to be aware of what you don't have to share to interviewers! Try to answer questions fully and honestly but don't be afraid to keep your medical specifics private
Just restore the i386 architecture:

dpkg --add-architecture i386

and you'll be able to install the i386 packages required.

This also applies to (and is required by) Wine.
Its kinda ironic that their offices lead out to Salesforce Park
Were Plymouth Prowlers customizable to the level that the other post was talking about? I thought they were just weird looking, but not with really any body customization options.

Also, those don't hit the 1940's-50's future chic look. They are solidly a 1990's product. They're like the Chumbawumba (sp?) of cars.
> Manufacturers are obsessed with shoving some half-baked proprietary hardware on their higher end laptops, rendering them unusable for anyone but Windows users.

Tell me about it, I just fought a whole afternoon against Dell EFI/Legacy BIOS's take on nvme drive management and... well... anything standard I can read on EFI or BIOS is useless because each hardware vendor seems to add special cases.
That isn't how the Electoral College works these days. It varies by state, but generally each candidate chooses their own slate of Electors who are loyal to the candidate, and upon winning a plurality of votes, that candidate's entire slate of Electors are made, by state law, the Electors for that state.

It's important to note that in no possible way can Electors be considered elected representatives. This often isn't even public information available prior to the election, and your ballot contains none of the names of these Electors. Your vote for presidential candidate A, is really a vote for presidential candidate A's slate of chosen and loyal Electors.

This is in contrast to Federalist 68, which describes a system whereby non-politicians chosen by the people from among the people, at a state level, are to become the Electors for that state. The intent was to make the College both a deliberative body, and external to state politics.

In practice, Federalist 68's vision of how the Electoral College would work never happened. Early on in the country's history the president was indirectly chosen by state legislatures choosing the Electors.

In any case, what we have today are arguably the absolute worst people possible chosen to be Electors: party loyalists. In most states they are even required by law to be non-deliberative, i.e. not vote their conscience but strictly for the candidate who selected them. Since none of the details of how the Electors are chosen or the process they use to make decisions is constitutional law, the states can change how it works.
No that's easily derivable from public information about his businesses and the performance of index funds over time. The most knowing how much he spent could tell us is whether he would have been able to spend more or less than he did.
> Am I mis-reading this? The article keeps claiming there is no difference but the way I read it the compiler(s) are transforming mul/div to shifts. i.e. it very likely is faster on the hardware but it won't matter for this particular toolchain because of the conversion.

There is no difference... because of the conversion.
I've been looking at moving to Austin and love board games. Unfortunately with everything canceled I can't currently use Meetup to check out the scene. Would you mind talking a little bit about what the board game scene is normally like in the area?
I'm not sure what contact-tracers do (seriously, I don't know, and I'd love a description of what this job entails), but I assume they'd need PPE and tests, both of which are generally unavailable due to insufficient manufacturing capability, supply chain issues and bureaucratic blunders.

> We're spending $2+T on keeping everyone afloat in the US.

I think it's best to consider this as less "money to help fight the pandemic", and more as "money to save everyone from starvation", or alternatively "money to have a country to save from the pandemic".

> I'm already volunteering ~70% of my time on FindTheMasks.com.

My strong and sincere thanks for the hard work you do!
The article states that the window manager eliminates tearing. Haven't tested it yet myself.
@skyde SwimOS apps are interconnected graphs of Web Agents (stateful objects that persist relevant state locally). They subscribe to peers via streaming links to receive event updates in real-time. You can read more about Web Agents here (https://github.com/swimos/swim) and here https://www.swimos.org/concepts/agents/
> Treat them as the enemy combatants

I'm surprised NSO Group employees and their families and affiliates aren't being treated as, at the very least, potentially-adversarial intelligence assets.
That's actually not true at all the shelf space at grocery store are often paid for by the name brands. "Slotting fees" etc. Often if the product doesn't sell Safeway returns it to get the money back.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/718711109
https://www.vox.com/2016/11/22/13707022/grocery-store-slotti...
Are SMR drives actually more likely to loose data than CMR drives? I was under the impression they had performance issues, but were reliable with regard to data integrity.
> How likely is it that R packages, written by specialists (or grad students) whose main focus is often not programming but some other discipline, in a language full of "quirks," are going to be really reliable?

Do you have the data to back that up or is just a question that you don't have an answer to?

I think the statement brush off the high quality R packages that already in the ecosystem that is not in anywhere else. The author of element of statistic learning created glmnet package which took python years to even have ported. There are many other packages out there that Python does not have.

I am not going to argue it's the prettiest language.

But there are tons of packages and many found no where else in other language ecosystem.

If you're going to say just use rest/rpc then it just defeat the purpose of your initial argument.

And just look at springer or, gosh the other publisher escaped my mind right now, but these publishers have book on statistical subjects with R packages accompany the book.

It may be ugly but the packages are maintain by expert in the field of statistic and they may not be programmer. But they do dog food their package and use dataset to see the results. Likewise just read up on the Ranger Rpackage paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.04409.pdf). They test their output with the other randomforest package.

And it's silly to point this argument at just R when the same happen to Python. The bootstrap function in SciKit-Learn for the longest time didn't even really do bootstrap. The linear regression function automatically does shrinkage with no option to turn off.

No language is perfect. But I believe R have a place and especially in statistic. Many many wonderful expert statistician are maintain and creating R packages (eg Dr. Frank E. Harrell Jr. ) Many R packages have accompanying paper publish here https://www.jstatsoft.org/index
One caution on this; they've a pretty low rate of testing, certainly lower than most of the rest of Western Europe.
This phenomenon is sadly not exclusive to Japan.

In Argentina nurses and health care personnel have been abused by their neighbors. In one case, a nurse was harassed and threatened until she was forced to leave the apartment she was renting (yes, she filed a complaint with the law).

Unfortunately fear drives some people to get very nasty, even against people who could save them. Or maybe they always were nasty.
Mystery of India's lower death rates seems to defy coronavirus trend
Shrimp+Creole
You don't need to host a site. The data format to send data into Google Analytics is an open API (called the Measurement Protocol). You can just ping Google's servers directly with the appropriate payload, which include crafted URL parameters.
Where exactly is the problem with my strategy? I'm also a manager of a small team. My main goals are to make sure everyone is not idle, not burned out, and not missing deadlines.

My boss's goal is to try and get everyone to work every waking hour so we can deliver faster. My job is primarily to keep the peace between the executives and the workers. When I fail the workers, it looks like unpaid overtime. When I fail the executives, it looks like undelivered features.

I think the actual purpose of agile, from a developer's perspective, is to create more time to deliver quality engineering work product. From an executive's perspective, agile exists to squeeze developers into completing tickets faster. As a manager, it's my job to keep both parties as satisfied as possible. If engineers have enough time to build and executives get enough deliverables, then the company succeeds.

What's your strategy?
There was a really interesting freaknomics podcast discussing remote work. There was some study on a large sales company in China that experimented with half of employees working remotely and half not. At the end they found that remote workers were more productive in terms of sales numbers (less time on commute, office socializing) but they got promoted at lower rates (less facetime with superiors, not on peoples' radars)
> What's wrong with the comment support?

Comments are simply ignored. You can't read them. You might want to read a commented config file in, make a change to a setting and then write that out. You can't do that. But you can write comments using the 'allow_no_value=True' hack, as long as long as you put it in a section.

> You can't have comments at the end of a line

You can. You need to use ';' for inline comments and you must proceed it with whitespace. Are your users ready for that?
> To all the people jeering for Agile's demise, please provide a superior alternative.

Give individuals ownership over different parts and then let them self organize, that is all you need if you hire competent people. I'll never work at a place which doesn't work like that again.
Speaking as a programmer, R is deeply unintuitive, but...that's for an experienced programmer's intuition. I believe it is, if not intuitive, then at least less unintuitive for someone with a background other than programming (like, say, statistics).

The typical programmer's boggled response to R, somewhat like their response to SQL or CSS, is that most of the languages they look at are descended from C, and anything that is not looks weird. Rather like someone who knows only Indo-European languages encountering a non-IE language for the first time.

Of course, any real-life language, whether R or CSS or SQL or C or anything else, has plenty of actual defects to complain about. Like, for example, "=" meaning "change the thing on my left to be the same as what's on my right". But if it's the same defects that you're used to, you don't see them as much.
No, 70% isn't nearly enough. A single contamination event (like a cough) is in the neighborhood of a million virus particles to stop.

Think about hand sanitizers: some advertise 99.9% reduction, which is "millions become thousands", bare-minimum levels of actually reducing risk of infection from an exposure. 70% is like "millions become fewer millions"
In my experience, religions are happy to hand out pre-baked sets of objectives. Live a life like X. Stay away from Y. Put your money in Z. If you have trouble deciding what direction you want to go, religion can point you somewhere and surround you with a community that will encourage you to keep moving that way.

For some people, that’s really valuable. You see this especially with people who’s prior independent experience didn’t work out very well. Maybe they grew up in an abusive home and want instructions on breaking the cycle and raising their family better. Maybe there was criminal behavior, substance abuse, relationship or career stagnation. For many people, a pre-packaged world view from Religion X can be a big step up from their prior experience, ESPECIALLY when it comes with a supportive community.

The problem, of course, is two fold.

First, life isn’t one-size-fits-all. Eventually the pre-packaged beliefs will be sub-optimal for your personal situation. The better religious communities are flexible enough to accommodate this. The uglier ones lock you down or cut you out.

Second, the pre-packaged beliefs usually assert their own universal and exclusive validity. Even if the one you pick happens to be correct about this, it encourages toxic behaviors that will isolate you from non-community members. And of course the claim is preposterous on its face; The interchangeability of religions undercuts their claims to universal truth.

So, to summarize: Religion is a reasonable place to get a default world view and community, especially if you’re existing beliefs/community aren’t serving you well. Long term they are suboptimal because they don’t adapt to your personal circumstances very well.
The website is actually a really nice demo of what’s possible with this. https://eruda.liriliri.io/
Also, the 4 person South Korean study was very clear in their conclusion:

https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2764367/effectiveness-sur...

> In conclusion, both surgical and cotton masks seem to be ineffective in preventing the dissemination of SARS–CoV-2 from the coughs of patients with COVID-19 to the environment and external mask surface.
Shia LaBeouf – Just Do It (Make Your Dreams Come True) [Ultimate Remix] [video]
I agree that having a fbi google analytics would be a gaffe
IMO the version on the Nintendo Entertainment System (yes, the really old Nintendo) is the best Monopoly, because it plays by vanilla rules and takes care of all the bookkeeping, auction-running, and setup for you. Plays fast. Few enough buttons even non-gamers or kids new to gaming can keep up.

Plus I think you can play it multiplayer online with modern emulators, which is relevant to the current situation.

I wouldn't consider entirely replacing most board games with a video game version but for Monopoly I'd make an exception. Play the one on the NES.

[EDIT] a crucial factor might be that there's no hidden or secret information in Monopoly, so it converts to all-playing-on-one-screen better than a lot of board games would.
Dyson Covid-19 ventilators are 'no longer required'
That is a great point, I've always found the true test for friendship is after I left the environment made us close.

This applies not just work friends, but college friends, activity friends and church friends.

Not everyone wanted to stay in touch, and I don't want to stay in touch with everyone. The few occasions where the desire to stay in touch is mutual, I cherish those connections for as long as they last, hopefully for a lifetime.
Can't you do an arithmetic shift-right? That takes the sign into account.
If you can't view the site with your adblocker then you're using a bad adblocker. uBlock Origin doesn't have any problems.
Public sentiment alone isn't sufficient to push a country into closing down. The work done by Patrick may or may not have contributed to the authorities deciding to go ahead with the lockdown.
The lens in your eye is also pretty opaque to UV light, which is why you can't see UV light at all. There probably is some effect, but it will be very minor.
Heavy? It runs reasonably well on a raspberry pi 3. Not sure why anyone would be using less than that as a desktop in this day and age.

For a smaller embedded headless device, ssh in via terminal.
Most things are still running, at least in my specific niche within the industry, because nearly everything is in Taiwan.
Show HN: Phrassed.com – a decentralized anarchistic chat app
What kind of pizza stone do you use? I have a green egg, but have never made pizza in it.
> It’s sadly not uncommon for businesses to promise various services and then unilaterally change their minds. While I’m sure that there are some exceptions, most TOS have a ton of “we reserve the right to change our minds whenever for whatever reason, without warning”

I was under the impression that one party cannot unilaterally modify the terms of a contract without offering consideration to the other party, and the consideration can't be "we will continue to perform according to the terms of the contract".
Now the cryptominer JS scripts can REALLY get some performance while you are on their site!

And of course its another way to do unique profiling of users.
Scale and performance and the primary benefits of the SwimOS architecture. We've run the entire traffic.swim.ai application (monitoring real-time events from traffic infrastructure) for the City of Palo Alto, CA on a Raspberry Pi, for demo purposes. Most apps we use SwimOS for are at the scale millions/events/second and distributed across many machines.
Show HN: Bring social cues into your team's Slack with a virtual office
I have some experience with this having been part of Precision Nutrition for seven years and counting. We wrote the platform as a remote team, and DID find it very helpful to have a series of important brainstorming sessions in person. At the time we did this the state of the art for video conference tech was pretty lousy. These days we're 100% remote except for a few in person meetings throughout the years -- the vast majority of which are entirely social in nature.
Philosopher kings are mentioned in Republic, which didn't necessarily represent Socrates' views.

Generally I think he believed that someone with the relevant skills should run things as opposed to anybody and everybody (as in a true democracy) in the same way you wouldn't just want anybody attending to your healthcare, but a physician.
Software is like gardening

https://blog.codinghorror.com/tending-your-software-garden/

The reality is that your ability to break things down depends on experience. I’ve built so many landing pages, for example, that I can tell you an exact breakdown of tasks. Been a part of so many SaaSes, I can tell you exactly what non-core features you’ll need, when, and how much work they are. I can also predict where you’ll hiccup.

But ask me to build something new that’s never been done before (at least by me) and the most I can do is shrug and guess. Maybe give you a rough sketch of an outline of subtasks.
> Everyone wants you to have 5-8 years of experience doing exactly what they’re hiring for and don’t seem willing to train if you have 60-80% of the qualifications.

This is a big worry for me. I'm leaning towards switching to a loosely related disciple in a few years, but with programming domains. However, when I research jobs in domains in looking at, a vast majority explicitly want at least a couple years in that exact domain, but most want upwards of 5 years.
I haven't investigated Python, but for Node it uses a tool node2nix that fetches the metadata for the entire dependency tree and constructs a Nix expression for each one, such that each expression represents the source for that specific dependency. It then takes the top-level package and makes a call to `nodeEnv.buildNodePackage`, which contains the source for that top-level package and declares the entire recursive dependency tree. buildeNodePackage itself rebuilds the entire node_modules folder from the declared dependencies and reconstructs the lockfile. And then it asks npm to rebuild the package.

The end result is this bypasses npm's downloading and managing of node_modules, does it all in a fully declarative fashion, and then hands control over to npm to build the package. Also, each dependency's source is cached independently by Nix, so if multiple packages use the exact same dependency, it doesn't have to be redownloaded (unlike Rust where the entire dependency tree is vendored separately per package).
Thanks! We've had ~200 odd signups so far, hopefully some will find it useful. If you have specific improvements, would love to hear them.
> ...some Google employee has already refactored the code around the bug. Then you have to be fast enough to get your updated patch applied before someone else has reorganized the code again...

For what it's worth, this is how it work's if you're a Google employee too.
Youtube only seems to be taking an active 'censorship' approach

Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky wrote an entire book about 'censorship' that's not technically censorship, titled Manufacturing Consent. Rather, what happens in the industrialized west uses soft influence and economic power to achieve the same ends. Media in such a "propaganda model" of operation does technically disseminate information, but does it in such a way as to reduce visibility, reduce emotional impact, and economically discourage.

Actually, the power to engage in a "propaganda model" of operation enjoyed by YouTube is in many ways much more immediate and absolute than that exercised by the western governments in the 20th century.
What are the more realistic alternatives?
Totally agree. I believe Agile works well in environments with shallow tech stacks, but it has worked terribly in my experience in product companies that build hardware, FPGA dev, embedded software, and other disciplines that can't deliver on two week increments or increments that align well with other disciplines.
System76 exists. I don't know what your requirements are, and I haven't used them so I won't swear by them.

Were I in the market for a new laptop, I would want their Lemur Pro. Open firmware, good specs, decent price. They have a variety of laptops and desktops as well.
Dehydrated yeast will work, but getting the amounts right is more difficult in my experience. I can cut a paper-thin sliver from a yeast cube easier than than I can count the right number of grains of dehydrated yeast.
I don't like it one bit. I'm going to switch to reading my github notifications through email. Not because email is any good, but because this new UI is even worse.

As for the "Done" button, I'm still confused. It's distinct from "mask as read" -- that is a separate option still available under the dropdown. So what's the difference between that and "done?" I have no idea. Maybe it marks the related issue/PR as permanently done so I'll never receive a notification for it again? Again -- no idea.
> You can't move boxes remotely.

You just made me envision a robot warehouse where humans drive the forklifts remotely to move items around.