skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The community is great in and of itself, but it exists explicitly to advance a particular set of beliefs.

No. The community is above the beliefs.

Humans benefit greatly from acting within a group. Yes, it always grows a "here are The Best Practices" division. (It's just a sad side effect.) But one can identify with a smaller and humbler subgroup with the wink-wink approach to rules: switch to the higher levels, seek new goals, etc.

As an atheist, I took me years to notice this minority. Talking with deeply religious people often reveals that stuff they are actively pursuing is not only very interesting, but it's far above what you can achieve just by pondering about some Nietzsche text in your armchair taking mental notes "oh this definitely goes on the top of my todo list now". The group is the magic ingredient to the real-life results.

On this forum, a good analogy is the difference between a huge Agile© event and a small team-only standup meeting.

Disturbingly big part of modern atheism is actually sheer laziness. If I've written my final conclusion "Therefore all religion is useless." it's easy to come up with hundred semi-honest-but-true arguments to reach that conclusion. There is a lot that goes under the radar, like supporting the self-improvement of your children/family and coping with bad problems in your own life, chiefly including suffering and death. Atheism mostly says: better be rich and be able to afford some good professionals.
So far there is no evidence of transmission via food delivery.
This is irritating. If you want to continue using Firefox, you may be able to remove this problem using the Adblocker Ultimate add-on. If you go to the GCP console, and then click on Adblocker, it will show amenu item "Block Element". If you can select the white patch, it will remove it, and keep it removed. It worked for me.
Energy - or rather, the ability to convert it between various forms, like food > kinetic energy - is also a currency that we are born with. If you have grown very old, even having a week on hand will not help you lift a sledge hammer.
> sub-par accomodation with no standards, or potentially sharing it with an awkward host

That's not remotely a good characterization of what AirBnB was offering. Like them or not, they were successful for more than a decade because they were objectively providing a better product than traditional hotels.

Complain about the externalities of their service, sure. But let's not pretend that they didn't make something people want.
they just bring a lot of random people into their own house and spread it there
This is the exact time for groups like these to mobilise (or their leaders to start recruiting).

They exist all the time, however people are much more receptive when they are not occupied, directly observing the weakness of their government (even if unfairly) and are financially unstable.
Age difference in workforce from 1918 flu
Also reports of damage in nervous system, permanent lung damage, etc.
I had one case where I needed to store account data and ended up storing it in a gen server object for each account which pushed its state to all devices logged into that account. It was so easy to build I forgot about it but this 4-hour project would have taken over a week if I had done it in any other language.
I like the taste of coffee but is no impact on my body: I am not more alert, I can go to sleep right after a coffee and I have no problems with sleep.

I usually drink 4 or 5 Nespresso cups. Sometimes 6 or 7.

I can go without anytime, but I would then sometimes miss the taste and the whole "sitting in the hamac/couch with a coffee"
Does xkcd even need attribution? I was sure most readers would recognise the art (if not the comic) :)

Point taken and corrected (noob blogger mistakes!)

Thanks!
I have a hard time empathizing with people’s desire for saving time or being efficient. I feel like all I have is time and I don’t mind helping others out when they need help, filling out useless forms, or waiting in line. Everything sort of have its own beauty. I’m not sure how I got here, but to me time just feels infinite.
RCT is not all of science. RCT is just one (very powerful) tool for making information quantifiable and for making decisions under uncertainty.
Anatomists of Melancholy in the Age of Coronavirus
Statistically not as significant? Or statistically not significant?
Bullet Train Is a Ruby on Rails SaaS-in-a-Box
Ok, I was planning to put a PR on this repo - might be just faster to inform the maintainer directly! :-)

> Audio doesn't work properly, Wifi does neither (expect for the non-TouchBar models, like the one the OP uses)

Wifi has a (pretty stable) proper workaround now, you might want to see this[0].

[0]: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193121#c52
I tried the 13' laptop but after getting used to the extra space around arrow keys on Macbook's for a decade, the tight configuration of keys on the 13 which have PGUP/PGDOWN adjacent to the up/left/right keys ended up annoying the shit out of me.

I ended up going with a 15' XPS and installing Ubuntu. The annoying part was the wifi card which sometimes Ubuntu would stop finding, so I'd have to re-install the drivers. For simplicity sake, I didn't bother having hybrid graphics since the only time I really needed the video card was simulations or computer gaming (which I did with booting in Windows).
> Any mental gymnastics used to support affirmative action in business or schooling should also apply to sports.

Wealth disparities obviously lead to differences in academic achievement, I am not sure it is anywhere near so clear cut for things like the NBA.

I find the whole undercurrent of your comment somewhat unsettling, as if the NBA is to Black people what college is to Asian people.
Thanks! That does sound much better!
I had an idea which is basically this:

Social media companies know which videos/tweets/statuses you’ve looked at. If it’s known you viewed content which is a conspiracy theory then they could, at a later date, show you a rebuttal from a trusted source. This could be targeted based on the specific content you viewed.

I was imagining it as a more modern version of the “right of reply” rules that broadcast TV in the UK has.

Would something like this be workable?
Influencing a coin flip is certainly possible. If you can reliably flip it the same way each time it's not hard to get 5-10 heads in a row, with a little practice.
At least some of the Ahold Delhaize subsidiaries (Food Lion, Hannaford, Giant, Stop&Shop) have handheld scanner kiosks you can checkout when you enter. I know Giant and Stop&Shop also offer a smartphone app that operates the same way as the kiosk units using your smartphone camera to scan.

I've seen the kiosk system at Kroger in the midwest.

Sam's Club offers a mobile app scanner.

Perhaps it's just the places I frequent, but I've gotten to the point where I take them for granted. Keep an eye out for a kiosk that seems to be a kind of fnord. Check if your nearby groceries have a smartphone app that offers scanning via your phone if you're comfortable with that. The ones I've used worked fine, but I tend not to use the phone apps because I have a chronically low smartphone battery and storage space.
If you cite numbers from Cuomo’s presentation why did you leave out his estimate of a mortality rate of circa 0.5% [1]?

[edit] also these rates are heavily skewed against 70+ years old and people with existing conditions. The risk to a random warehouse worker is really immaterial.

[1] https://youtu.be/TisDYYWJgBA?t=967
I don't have a clear image of how Docker behaves on Mac, but I had wasted a whole day trying to make it work on Windows WSL.

I'd suggest you virtualize a normal Linux host on your machine (under VMware for example) and run Docker there.
Alphabet Synthesis Machine
There is so much you learn from others by implicit body language. For example, the junior learns from the senior's "your work today was okay" body language vs "your work today was goo" body language. The senior can't always verbalize these thoughts, because the words often can have outsized and unwanted impact on people that body language does not.
Hopefully we will one day be able to abort anyone with an IQ below 110.
The capabilities of Docker and similar technologies all stem from LXC which depends on the capabilities of the Linux kernel.
> The fact that this had to go to court is somewhat laughable.

It sounds like you are unfamiliar with admission law, as negative discrimination without quotas is explicitly legal as of now.
I'm from India and built a business over a DM during the lockdown
Covid-19 Forecasts by Superforecasters
> Before becoming a father, ... I never thought I’d have to discourage gleeful littering ...

One thing that occurred to me awhile back was that, before civilization, littering wasn't possible because everything was something nature had a way to deal with. At some point we invented littering. I think it might have been "The Gods Must be Crazy" that clued me in.
Huh, didn’t know “alright” wasn’t universally hunky-dory. In Australian English it’s a common word and that’s how it’s spelled, and I believe “all right” would be considered actively wrong.
I'd say you're also born with energy if you're born with time.
> the common denominator to the most destructive responders is poor education and poor critical thinking skills

smart, highly educated people believe dumb stuff too.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/mind/smart-people...
>My Language is the best (Or, your language sucks)

>No, it is not. Both Church and Turing proved that.

This is not true, a simple check - are you writing in assembler/C? Why not? They are the fastest languages and both are perfectly complete from Church and Turing standpoint. But of course, there are thousands of other criteria that make the difference.
the whole point of being racist is not accepting other cultures and thinking yours is the "right" one. basically you're saying their culture is different that's why they don't fit. which unfortunately is true when you make a bias system.
When comparing careers, I'm amazed how little people mention free time. You see people saying things like "I did blah to move from $X thousand a year to $Y thousand a year" but it's rare anyone mentions how much free time they have like "I earn $X thousand a year and have Y days off".

I understand more money now could mean you'll have more free time later, but earning a lot with no time for your own personal growth doesn't sound great to me. I'd rather take a pay cut for substantially more time off.
Why have the period perform double duty?

I've seen sentences like "The machine can lift a maximum of 3 lbs.."

Why would you treat "3 lbs." as anything other than a regular word?
Ask HN: Do aesthetics influence your choice of preferred programming language?
I was talking to a friend about different programming languages and why I seem to like some over others. For example, I could never really get into Rust. The topic of aesthetics/style came up and it made me realize that the way a programming language looks might very well influence how much I like them. For example, I prefer the way TypeScript reads over Elm, I prefer the way Go reads over Rust. There is no real rationale that I can think of other than the fact that it just looks "right"/"better" to me.
Of course, the things that I make also play a big part in it. I don't write a lot of code that needs such high performance that a language like Rust would be necessary. But even if I did, I prefer the way Zig reads for example.
What are your opinions? How much does this play a part in your selection/preference for your "favorite" language(s)?
I should clarify that this talks merely about the language, not it's tooling or ecosystem, as that's a different matter entirely.
It was. HID is a depressingly complicated specification though, and split the keyboard protocol in half: there is a "boot" protocol, which is designed to be simpler for firmware to implement, and a full event protocol. The latter looks exactly like you'd expect such a thing to look like, with arbitrary up/down events reportable independently for as many keys as you want to declare.

But the boot protocol has a six key limit, so that's what many devices support.
If you're serious about typing ditch the QWERTY layout and learn something that's actually optimized for the language of your choice it's so naive to attempt mastery of a broken paradigm without ever questioning that paradigm as in the case of the broken and arbitrary key layout from 1873
I agree that schools should have a "-10 Asian" line rather a "character" line where Asians are deemed to have poor character.

Now action.

Here is how we can use EXISTING LAW to fix this. First, cause schools to send admissions scores with full details to students (via a regulation, policy, or an admissions employees union). Next have students stipulate that all materials they receive will be published -- effectively making the school sending it an act of publication.

Now argue that an improperly low "character" score is "defamatory" and "harms" the applicant.

You have now met the burden of proof for libel in Pennsylvania https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/LI/consCheck.cfm?...
While I can't reproduce it at-will I've definitely had occasional input problems in competitive shooter games with 6KRO + 125Hz. A depress would be processed "too late" to accidentally fall into the next window and affect movement then (e.g.: jump in wrong direction).

Yes, the key combination probably doesn't go over 6 keys at once and I don't always have ~8-16ms presses but switching over to NKRO + 1000Hz (which are coupled on QMK) would stop this from happening.
> You can bet your bottom dollar that the engineers building the system will have brought up the fact that something can/should be a user preference/have a power-user shortcut/etc etc during early stages of design & development

As a developer, I’ve come to respect the curse of dimensionality w.r.t. testing and quality control: every binary option doubles the number of possible user configurations, and thus the testing load. In a very concrete sense configurability leads to more buggy code, and I usually err on the side of reliability.
YouTube video that goes along with the post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ItNYnBDEU

Contract: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bg_1m1C05YqTJzp5MBZMhlRE...
Ouch. Thanks for the correction.
If I order a collectors item XBox controller, is that an IT or high tech item? (Maybe I’m using it for Skype with patients)

What about a kid’s “computer” toy, or a fart noise button?

What about a fidget spinner? A stress relief toy for autistic kids? A fidget spinner incorrectly marketed for autistic kids?

They have 10’s of millions of items, and for each one where their answer is different than the court’s, they get fined $100,000 * number of times they ship it.

Of course they can’t open the warehouse under these terms. Perhaps elected officials need to step in and pass a law that will invalidate this ruling.
Financially unstable, scared, lookng for something they can control and blame.

Yup, prime time for these arseholes.
> most affirmative action admits come from very wealthy families

You can link a source here, as I'm skeptical that this is actually true. That said, many minority students at elite institutions were already attending elite high schools on scholarship - so there is a kernel of truth there.
Unless you pay with cash at the grocery store, they are already harvesting it. I’m surprised they are not selling it to the health insurance companies to monitor your habits.
M.2 vs. SATA vs. PCIe (NVMe) SSDs
I just came off of the YouTube comments section, arguing with people who angrily defend the "Herd immunity" solution with the usual biased and paranoid "bad gov/stupid followers" rhetoric. Reminding them that "Idiocracy" is real... because it is. I can see why the people of "Elysium" left this tragic place.
Harvard does do affirmative action based on family income, it's just that people throw much less of a hissy fit over it.
It looks like FUZE is on sale for $20:
https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/fuze4-nintendo-switch/
you may want to look at https://github.com/romkatv/zsh-bin. roman also has some tooling which helps when ssh-ing to remote servers without zsh.
Well educated and critical thinkers will easily “turn off” their “critical” thinking when it comes to subjects as politics and religion. Like most of us, people seek confirmation of their biases in whatever form that takes on.

These groups remind me of the cults of ancient Egypt, which seems to be a part of history ready to repeat itself.
You're a scholar and a gentleman! Well met!

("Does xkcd even need attribution?" Sir? https://xkcd.com/1053/ would you forego the delight of being the one who introduced somebody to XKCD? (^_^) <3 )
The perfect Seinfeld game already exists: http://www.pippinbarr.com/games/thejuniormint/
I know a 5G conspiracy theorist who is an electrical engineering graduate, admittedly from a low ranked school.

I've manually sent him better information. He of all people should be able to understand it. He doesn't process it and continues to cheer people burning down towers.
Ah yeah that's probably it. I just read an AMA where Jerry was more thoughtful and basically said people pitching ideas didn't realise how much effort they put into finding good premises.
Contracts will vary based on local laws. This should clarify which locations its intended to work within.
I didn’t say it was necessarily, or even probably, different. I was pointing out (because you chose not to for some reason) that you were citing a study from a decade ago about a different virus.
You said that they should admit 10x. Presumably that would mean 50% rather than 5%. I think quality would go down, you said it wouldn't. Seems clear cut to me.
Wolfram's New Theory of Everything Unites Quantum Mechanics, Relativity and More
> I can insist that there is skill in coin toss too.

There is a detailed analysis in 10.3 "How to cheat at coin and die tossing" of E.T. Jaynes's Probability Theory.
You're right that power consumption is predictable. But looking at some great-parent posts I'd assume we're still talking about using nuclear as backup for renewable sources.
In this case, often the renewable power production is the bigger variable factor in my opinion, and it's less predictable than usage patterns.
Why the balcony is back and bigger than ever
There's no easy way to explain why Git is powerful.

It's hard to conceptualise things like branching for non-dev's (or beginners). Even the name "branch" implies similarities to a tree branch, but branches from a tree don't merge back into the tree so the analogy kind of falls apart.

One of the biggest advantages of git is the diff and merge algorithms, merging in changes from multiple different sources is relatively easy. This is only really possible with "text" files, compiled documents like word and excel are much hard to negotiate merging.

Basically, if you can make the concepts of Git easy to understand, make merging work with other files, then it can be applied everywhere.
> the virus is marginally more lethal than the common flu

That's simply not true, and I don't understand how people keep repeating it. If you take the current New York study as the best available evidence, you get a symptomatic infection fatality rate of somewhere between 0.5% and 1.5%. That's an order of magnitude more dangerous than the flu.
I agree in priciple but it's only by having money through success that we're able to enjoy those more meaningful aspects of life.

The only group of people that have the luxury of prioritizing those more meaningful things are those with enough assets that they can do whatever they want. Everyone else has to try to keep up.
thank you!

this is why i was drawn to smilebasic since i heard of it. plus nintendo is such a good platform already.

i see people talking about the arduinos, raspberry pis, and all these micro devices for which you have to pick additional components among myriads and you will be very lucky if 10 more people have the same setup that you have.

these people are missing an important point about platform and sharing here.

i also love pico-8 and all the fantasy computers. they somehow just don't feel real. and they have a different sharing problem.
Daniel is legit.

I followed his journey after I discovered him via the sponsored tweet on AWS.

He stood as an inspiration & I've used few of his techniques to get to where I'm now - https://twitter.com/Thenakedpoet2/status/1253285273250566145
And this is why I'm perfectly at ease with the likes of facebook and youtube squashing these dickheads.

It's not censorship or a free speech violation, it carries no legal penalties and they are free to shout elsewhere. Private platforms are under no obligation to propagate this crap, indeed (as with more traditional media) it seems to me more of a moral obligation not to allow such webs of lies and fantasy to propagate.
Five times worse than the flu is “marginally” more?
Cool. I had an idea like this a while back (as a dev I know exactly what ideas are worth) where I would finally learn Elixir and LiveView by building something similar but more like a CB network where you could only connect with people within a certain distance of you. The level of effort and the possibility for trolling left it on the shelf though.
I heard on Reddit that Medicare pays 3x more for intubation. Can anyone find a source?
Ah thanks, I wasn't really keeping much track of laptops back then.
I remember watching a TED video where the speaker mentioned that Google experimented with this kind of manipulation on people consuming content that was deemed radicalizing.
The case for ending the Covid-19 pandemic with mass testing
It's also apparently a college sport. From one of my favorite Metafilter comments:

One chilly night in the fall of 2004, I chanced to find myself upon the streets of Toronto. I represented one half of the august top-rated debate team from a small upstate NY liberal arts school ([cough] named after a man shot by Aaron Burr), recovering from a day in which we had arrived at a debate tournament and discovered, 11 minutes before the commencement of Round 1, that we would be competing using a format heretofore unknown to us. A lot of hemming and hawing ensued, before we ultimately turned to face the task awaiting us, and swaggered to the podium to stare down the fate bearing down on us like a hawk on a rabbit. The night was not kind to us, and by 11PM, we had succeeded in drowning our sorrows in a heretofore unimagined selection of Labatt's higher-gravity options available at the corner pub.

Which is when we were wholly taken aback to encounter none other than Syracuse University's internationally ranked (!!) team of rock-paper-scissors players, fresh off their top-32 finish in that year's invitation-only (!!!) tournament. I admit I was skeptical as to the provenance of their accolades, but a quick glance at the large medallions hanging off two team members' necks was enough to assuage any doubts; these were our fellow Upstate New Yorkers, and they had come to win RoShamBo rounds and chew bubblegum, and they were all out of bubblegum.

Naturally, we did what any self-respecting half-in-the-bag Americans would do upon meeting so-called champions of the rock-paper-scissors arena on the streets of a foreign nation, and challenged them to a duel on the spot. We proceeded to go a spectacular 0-24 against our fellow countrymen, before realizing that maybe there's more to the metagame than we had previously considered. It's only now, 15 years later, upon reading this description of the algorithm, that I have come to understand the instrument of our demise.

https://www.metafilter.com/181225/Iocaine-Powder#7714208
> I personally ask for a 25% deposit on all projects (not monthly retainer clients).

I think you have to be a bit sensible about this one. I've worked for Salesforce and Warner Bros and I think it highly unlikely you would get the finance department to go along with this.
No public API docs for either platform it seems?
Dangers of Age Segregation Exposed