skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone had any luck with 9front, etc.? By which I mean, has it been a fun and interesting experience? I've been tempted so many times, but the whole thing is pretty intimidating.
Does this mean it might come to vr?
Weird verb choice, subserves. I would have used effects or facilitates.
Why "LSF tax"?
Man 2020
Yep, I suggest you read it.

Suppression. Here the aim is to reduce the reproduction number (the average number of secondary cases each case generates), R, to below 1 and hence to reduce case numbers to low levels or (as for SARS or Ebola) eliminate human-to-human transmission. The main challenge of this approach is that NPIs (and drugs, if available) need to be maintained – at least intermittently - for as long as the virus is circulating in the human population, or until a vaccine becomes available. In the
3 case of COVID-19, it will be at least a 12-18 months before a vaccine is available . Furthermore, there
is no guarantee that initial vaccines will have high efficacy.

That’s the current UK strategy and they don’t have exponential growth.
The flu has vaccines, and anti-viral treatments. If it did not the reaction to it might be very similar to how we're being told to respond to COVID-19. These are not comparable things because the options for combating them are drastically different.
How to break everything by fuzz testing
Pre-MS acquisition you used to be able to use Cycle Cloud's software for ~free without support. Unfortunately it went all-Azure-only post-acquisition.
As a point of comparison, Germany already has a right to work part-time: if you've been with a company for more than 6 months and the company has more than 15 employees, you can ask to reduce your hours and the burden of proof is on the employer show that it cannot be accommodated if they want to deny it.

This seems similar, and it's probably far easier to organise. It's not for everybody, obviously. But among my acquaintances, I'm getting the impression that those who work at home usually do so for good reasons, such as childcare.

I do remember a few instances where people discovered they tended to slack off or otherwise be unproductive. Every single one of them also became miserable and decided to go back to the office.
https://archive.md/Ke60c
I had a very mathy explanation of Spinodal Decomposition in my graduate work. I wonder if there's a more intuitive explanation than just "that's how the energy landscape works".
I receive plenty (and expected) downvotes any time I mention fighting 'the man/machine'...this is simply NOT the audience for such content. Indeed, there are few places on the interwebs where this is even welcome. It is still a struggle even in the venues the discussion is welcome, especially if you're 'a Boomer' or GenX'r...we are just the wrong tribe at present.
I think the question that you're trying to ask is answered in part by the publication "COVID-19 – exploring the implications of long-term condition type and extent of multimorbidity on years of life lost:" [1]

TL;DR: more than a decade of life-time lost on average per victim that dies of novel coronavirus.

[1] https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/5-75/v1
https://archive.md/Qlutx
I can see that this tool in turn leverages ios_system, but neither A-shell nor the ios_system github repository appear to present an exhaustive list of the available commands. This seems like an obvious first step in improving documentation.
I think this intuition is correct in a frame of reference attached to the planet; in that frame there is only a change of direction.

In the frame of reference of the solar system, this local change of direction becomes a change of speed, so it can give you a an energy boost.
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If you are an expert reading this considering writing a blog - whatever you do, please don't start publishing on a paywalled medium like Medium.
You forgot about the manufacturers who pay for specific product placement. Sometimes the store workers will only have a vague idea because the supplier has been given full responsibility for shelf layout.
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The software that sucks the least is the software that nobody uses. Which, it seems, is what suckless is going for.
Persuasive essays aren't shoved everywhere you go in an attempt to separate you from your money, usually via deceit, at least in the US. Just look at how they all have asterisks and fine print unable to be read. Also I can choose not to read an essay, it's harder to tune out all advertising.
Michael Moore Presents: Planet of the Humans
Aside from understanding the license, you have to remember to look for the license.

For example, Stack Overflow content is very nonintuitively licensed CC-BY-SA, so if you copy and paste code from Stack Overflow (who doesn't?) it's essentially the same as including GPL code. Apparently there was a movement to MIT-license the code (as opposed to the textual content) that failed for some reason, so this is now a ticking time bomb. (And if you try to sell your company, the acquirer will find that code in diligence.)

Even worse, ruby-forum.com is CC-BY-NC-SA, so you can't use code from there for commercial purposes in the first place, never mind the copyleft aspect.
Sounds like the only misleading happening here was peoples understanding of how science works. Just because something is not confirmed doesn't mean it's not true.

Tweet reportedly said:

> There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from #COVID19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection.

How can they then write that the tweet is misleading? Bloomberg News et al that reported "WHO Warns You May Catch Coronavirus More Than Once" and similar should be the ones shamed for misinformation here, not WHO.
I've been flagging all the "here's a random wikipedia page" low-effort posts, I recommend people do the same.
How to Block and Remediate Emotet
Contextualise (https://contextualise.dev/). Been working on semantic knowledge management applications for years and this application is the culmination of that effort (and, still far from perfect and still unfinished, for that matter). But still... satisfied all the same.
If you're more interested in the story than the gameplay then "Detroit: Become Human" is probably for you.
That’s ok for me - I only consider my iPhone a data capture device (at which it is excellent), not a general-purpose computer (at which it is... hobbled).

I only use apps for which I can get data out of the walled garden and into a sane Linux environment. Ironically, considering the generally oppressive lockdown of the iOS environment, the prevalent use of SQLite databases means you can frequently get a good machine-readable extract.

The weak link is iTunes. I know that one day they will kill it and make backups totally opaque, and that will be the end of me using iDevices.
This should be surprising to no one really flu and other respiratory illnesses have been known to increase stroke likelihood and severity considerably (upto 40% in the first 15 days), it also increases the likelihood of other cardiovascular conditions including cervical artery (CAD) and neck artery raptures..

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190130075757.h...

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.59...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5899905/
Yes you caught me lying. "Something" was taught. How clever of you. /s
Wave-particle duality (of e.g. light)
But in a world where you're continuously deploying on a cadence that's incredibly quick, how do things differ? I contend the batch and online worlds start to get pretty blurry at this stage. We're not in a world where bragging about uptime on our webserver in years is a thing any more.

I was routinely using Condor in semi-conductor R&D and running batches of jobs where each job was running for many days -- that's probably far longer than any single instance of a service exists at Google in this day and age, right?

None of the batch stuff does the networking management though. No port mapping, no service discovery registration, no load balancer integration, etc. That's Kubernetes sugar they lack. But...has never struck me as overly hard to add, especially if you use Condor's Docker runner facilities.

Edit: I should say that I don't _really_ think you could swap out Kubernetes for Condor. Not easily. But it's always been in my long list of weekend projects to see what running an cluster of online services would be like on Condor. I don't think it'd be awful or all that hard.

The other killer Condor tech is their database technology. the double-evaluation approach of ClassAd is so fantastic for non-homogenous environments. Where loads have needs and computational nodes have needs and everyone can end up mostly happy.
Agree, steal() instead of telepad() would be a good idea.
We've put a different, less subservient phrase from the article in the title above.

The submitted title was "A hypothesis that self-face-touching subserves self-smelling", which I assume was an admirable attempt to make the title less baity by using representative language from the text.
Personally, I think this problem is inevitable as organization scales. So, if you don't want to fall into that, remedy is simple: don't scale. As in, you can scale in terms of revenue and user amount, but avoid reinvesting it into hiring more and more people. (Classic examples of companies that achieved that, at least to some extent and at a certain moment, are Instagram and Whatsapp, but there are many more less famous ones).

I guess, when you're on the rocket part of the hockey stick it seems that you can solve anything by hiring more people. A lot of leaders kind of forget what they sacrifice when they do that.
What alternatives do you recommend? I'm starting to write, and Medium seems like the best option to me because how else am I going to get readers?
Many of my friends have been using VR to socialize since before the pandemic.

But they chose that because they could be their fursona, first and foremost.
Jack Ma: The billionaire trying to stop coronavirus (and fix China's reputation)
If you don't read the source, how can you claim such moral superiority? Whatever security issues, nefarious code, etc., are almost assuredly hidden down in the weeds where you're not looking. You think other programmers don't glance at the structure? Of course they do.
Know These Job Skills Required to Succeed Post Coronavirus Pandemic
WFH may not work for everyone but what this situation has taught me as an employer, is to actively encourage WFH more. I have some staff who commute an hour each way. We are an IT services firm, so don't all have to be in the office all the time.
It is actually more complicated than that. It proposes the use of one of the reserved IP flag bits to indicated whether the packet includes "IPv4+" addresses and then re-use of the already used DF and MF flag bits to indicated whether the source or destination addresses are "IPv4+" Since these flags are already used for packet fragmentation IPv4+ packets could not be fragmented so it also requires implementing a path mtu discovery protocol for udp since current path mtu discovery using ICMP is broken.
We have a very well studied incident, with all the actions of all the people involved studied by the minute. We have all the protocols in English as well. Veryfied and cross verified. Many hours of video and audio recordings. Interviews and accounts of participants.

And yet these guys distort the facts to sqeeze in an anti-Soviet agenda.

People volonteered to die there knowing the danger because they were preventing greater harm to others. And these series just diminishes their heroism. Smears both professionals, soldiers, miners and all the Soviet people.

Because USSR is evil, gloomy, vodka drinking gulag with psychopats in any post higher than a janitor. That's the basic impression these series try to give you.
> the client is asking for an ML solution

In other words, nobody has an idea how it will work.
ML doesn't generate essential data for you, or solve problems which you cannot reasonably describe a solution for.
probably going to get flagged.

wish there was a away to assess the impact individual actions/choices have on the planet.

When you think about the cobalt,aluminum, co2, all the various minerals which how do you know the true impact.

How would you even move forward?

What happens when the pyramid scheme runs out?
No, Chrome just hides the "www." part, not sure about Firefox.
Building the Indo-European Telegraph Line 150 years ago
Excess deaths in New York City: 19,200.

Population of New York City: 8.4 million.

19,200 / 8.4 million 0.22% dead.

20% infection rate = IFR of ~1.1%

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
Where Is Kim Jong Un?
Avoiding relationships is one of the dumbest ways to fight dissatisfaction.
Makes you wonder what other hidden environmental factors might be affecting us.
Drag a marker with a constant radial velocity (from your perspective) across a spinning disk. It'll trace out a curved line, so from the perspective of an observer on the disk, an acceleration must have been present.

The full 3d Coriolis force is more complicated than that (eg accounting for the Eötvös effect): The spinning disk example only gets you to the -2vω term (where v denotes radial velocity and ω angular velocity).
Despite what the other comments are saying, I think this article strikes a perfect tone, and is showing how we as a society can look at the heroes of our past and see them holistically - accolades and flaws together.

In the past there were two kinds of Feynman articles:

1) Glowing, without reservation, and notably ignoring some of his sexist views, statements, and actions

2) Conflicted and accusatory - tainting a wonderful educator and brilliant innovator as irredeemable. Someone who we should stop worshipping because of his problematic points of view.

The truth is both. And this article acknowledges and leans into it. We should strive to celebrate the best of Feynman, and apply his joy and wonder of science into our lives. But we should be aware of his more prickly and selfish aspects, and seek to not fall into the same trappings.

I think this article is great, and is a good template for approaching other flawed legends.
There's a lot of good stuff on gamasutra in general
As the part of the CARES laws feds backstopped hospital expenses associated with COVID-19 treatment. As soon as the emergency was declared administrators knew at some point it would be paid.
Spin aka intrinsic angular momentum
In this post and most of the comments here, people assume you have a binary choice:

1. You can put your book online for free and sacrifice extrinsic reward (money) for greater intrinsic reward (popularity, impact on the world).

2. You can maximize your financial income by only selling the book.

I thought I was making that choice when I decided to put "Game Programming Patterns" online for free, but that's not actually how it turned out. I have made much more money from the book than I would have if I'd gone with a traditional publisher and not put the book online for free. The model I have now is something like the classic marketing funnel. To make the most money from a thing, you need to have as many people go through this series of steps as possible:

1. Know that the product exists.

2. Decide to want it.

3. Be just willing to pay the price to acquire it. (Anything less and you're leaving money on the table.)

4. Keep as much of that money for yourself as possible. (In other words, reduce costs.)

For technical books, most people don't get past step 1. Putting the book online dramatically improves that. Of the people who do, many stop at step 2. There are so many articles out there, it's easy to convince yourself you don't need a acquire a whole book. Again, putting the book online helps: you can try before you buy.

Step 3 is the interesting one. Putting the book online for free obviously leaves, like, all money on the table. But what I have found is that there a self-selected market segmentation seems to come into play. Many people do read the book for free, but some choose to pay anyway.

Step 4 is the dirty secret of the big technical book publishers. They take an embarrassingly large chunk of each sale. That could maybe be justified in the old days of publishing when you needed to run a whole printing press and maintain relationships with independent book publishers and all that. But, frankly, they do not do enough to justify how much they take. Self-publishing fixes that, at the expense of having to do more of the work and management yourself. I had to find a freelance copy editor, and typeset and design the cover. But I effectively "got paid" to do that work at a much better rate than it would have cost me to "pay" a publisher to do that by giving them the lion's share of each sale.

I don't want to generalize too much from my one single data point, but it seemed that for me, the increased widening of the first two steps and the greater share at step 4 more than compensated for the money left on the table for some readers at step 3. It was a clear enough signal that I'm taking the same approach with my second book. And, equally importantly, I really liked the subjective experience of it being my book and being able to put it out into the world exactly the way I wanted to.
This is a massive problem in my experience; even if I report the ads spreading malware to Google they don't ever take them down.
Blogs never left, as a technical matter.

Go to Wordpress and get your dog-gone blog on.
The announcement provides a short overview, there is a help page that describes the process in more detail [0]. It' only for american companies at this time, but I imagine that it won't get less complicated when it's rolled out for 180 countries with different corporate and legal systems...

The document states that you have to show that you are an authorized representative of the company. I am not that familiar with US law, but in many countries that means one of the signatories of the company, usually someone like the CEO or the CFO.

My point is that it makes sense that you are able to show that you have the right to act on the company's behalf in this matter. I just think that since the company trusts you with it's credit card and there already are systems in place to authorize expenditures, it would be logical to tie the proof that you represent the company to the card in this case.

[0] https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/9703665#700
Static website (Hugo/Jekyll) that you host yourself and share on Twitter, relevant subreddits, and Hacker News?
> ads for HIV treatment

To entirely ignore the broader point of your post: The HIV drug ads I see are about prevention, not treatment. Along the lines of "If you're at increased risk for HIV (you're a man who has sex with men), then you should take our new variety of PrEP, and reduce your risk of infection."
No, the laws of orbital mechanics are time reversible.
"Complexity" is more-or-less a pejorative, so of course they don't say they want that.

Ask them if they want "sophistication" instead. It can often mean the same thing as complexity.

I'd like, for instance, my dictation software (such as dictating text messages on my phone) to get it right. I don't want to constantly have to edit it when it makes what you might call "dumb mistakes." (my current biggest gripe, Android constantly inserts the word "oh" at random places while I am dictating, for no apparent reason)

When I ask it for directions, I don't want it to give me directions that are dangerous to follow (they finally corrected the one that told me I should cross 4 lanes of traffic on a busy interstate -- 280 south from 101 to Alemany in San Francisco -- to get from entrance to exit in 800 feet, when there is another exit I can take that is safe and takes about the same time to get to my destination).

To do it right, it needs sophistication in the extreme. You can also call that complexity. But I want it, thanks.
We still completely suppress the vote in DC and among felons etc. While the relative magnitude of disenfranchised has decreased that’s about it.

So, if your argument is we where something other than a representative democracy that’s fine. But, you’re making a semantic argument.
Congratulations, you just created a secondary market
TL;DR: Deaths from COVID-19 represent a substantial burden in terms of per-person years of life lost, more than a decade [..]".

This is relevant to answer the often voiced concern that people dying of coronavirus are merely dying "with" coronavirus (i.e. would have died anyway) and not "of" coronavirus.
Contextualise, a (personal and collaborative) semantic knowledge management tool: https://contextualise.dev/.
It's hard to sell air, until you compress it and put it in a tank. And it's hard to sell sand, until you put it in a bag. So the air and sand is free, but then it varies: Open core, dual licenses, packed with proprietary software, license clause's, etc.
Why not just ask for a license fee? And why can't something be open source when it's not free as in free beer? So yes, what I mean is there are open source software that is not free as in libre, and there are open source software that are not free as in free beer. So why can't this software be called open source, when the source is... open? Open source comes with many advantages, not just that it's free as in free beer but also that you can fix issues yourself, and it makes it easier to create plugins, mods, etc.
Not likely, but the problem requires context that Google isn't going to share.

In the past few years we've seen bad actors basically automate their process. They expect to be banned. They spin up an account, run scams and malware, get blacklisted, rinse and repeat with a new domain, account, and just enough changes to beat the automated filters within an hour later.

What this does is add a ton of friction to that game. It doesn't even have to be perfect to make a huge difference, it just needs to be difficult to rotate at scale.
That's why it is so critical to keep them from it.

In 10 seconds, it would be a crime to disagree with the left -- just like they've succeeded in doing online and in places like Europe.

These days, each election is potentially the last one.
This is one reasone that keeps me on Apple's Mail.app: open multiple windows for different mailboxes / folders / smart mailboxes and drag & drop at will between them.

Keep a window for specific smart folders if there are special keywords / people you want to give priority. Tuck it in a corner of the screen without taking up lots of realestate.

To be fair, Apple really screwed that workflow in 10.15 by disallowing customization of columns like they used to have since 10.0. But still, the multi-window organization is so much more flexible than the all-in-one-window setup. (For those concerned with tidiness, a window manager takes care of that problem.)
I disagree. I worked for a couple of big-six consulting firms, and my experience at the last one was that they could be pretty clueless and lazy about determining what the customer really needed.

I spent a goodly amount of time preparing a questionnaire about the client's business needs and purposes for doing ad-hoc database queries. None of the questions were leading or simply offered up a feature. They required some thought and would yield useful information.

The project manager was baffled by it. NO! he said, clearly flummoxed by this divergence from what apparently was his (and perhaps the firm's) lazy, half-assed approach: Look up all the available products for the customer's task, put all of the features they claim to offer in a big list with checkboxes next to them, and hand it to the client. This is exactly what I was told to do, in the rebuke I got for doing it right.

I referred to this as the grocery-list approach. Of COURSE the client is going to create an imaginary need for most of the features and check them off. Who wouldn't?

Another great example is "customizable UI." How many thousands of man-years of work have been wasted on this boondoggle?