skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has begun resembling the real world, just like any platform that gets too many users. But I doubt if you ask things like open ended debate questions you are not willing to see 1-2 ad answers, as long as there are other high quality answers. Many people are on quora posting high quality answers. Some examples:
1. Cliff Click
2. John Romero
It depends on whether you mean the American public or British public. In the UK Asian usually means the Indian subcontinent, but in the US it's East Asia. Has to do with where each region historically had most of their Asian immigration from.
Your last sentence is so true.

For those who don't know what I'm talking about, retailers sell their purchases info to Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. who can then combine your email inbox and browing history with your purchase data.

About as "1984" as you can get.
At this point all our personal interests are to stay virus free as long as possible, given what we don't know might kill us. I really don't care why he's speculating about the things he is. Many of the things we postulate may be proven wrong simply by waiting long enough to get more data - i.e. it's not always necessary to formulate a test for disproving an idea, sometimes they evaporate on their own. (Software features for example frequently meet their ends this way).

I just found out about Covid Toes. What will come tomorrow?

And now, a shameless plug for a next-day delivered PPE from Amazon built from a full faced snorkel, a vacuum filter and a 3D printed adapter I designed: https://3dprint.nih.gov/discover/3dpx-013899. There's a video too, which shows a bit cheaper version's assembly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wydRpFpQD4I

I haven't been into an indoor shared space without it on for almost 3 weeks. You probably shouldn't use Gorilla Tape on it, because it might off gas something. Try surgical tape.
I'm pretty confident that nobody in the world, no matter how they perceive race, would consider Jerry Yang and Sundar Pichai to be the same race.
My god! Being unable to use snaps when you have “non-standard” home directory is ridiculous. What’s even more ridiculous is a response from snap developers - they marked this issue as “Won’t Fix”.

Dear snap developers, don’t make false assumptions that every user in Linux has to have home directory as /home/username just because standard Ubuntu installer does this. Only thing that you should care about here is $HOME
No revolt needed. Economic natural selection will run its course. States can make their own choices. Talent can do the same. This does assume that states will compete to attract the top tier of creative professionals who can work from home, create high-value digital businesses with remote workers and an industrial tax base.

Unless there are walls between states, top talent can and will move.
And for what? Bluetooth does not help to sufficiently trace airflow. It doesn’t recognize walls. The data will be highly unreliable.

Nonetheless, people will be forced to use it because social and work pressure let’s them do so.

Infections will rise again though because people and politicians assume it is safe enough.

So it’s only use is for the Big Brother watching you.

If Apple and Google can’t manage to keep their platform privacy conscious, this may even set an the end to the smartphone era. An old Nokia is waiting in the drawer already.
the point of the public masks is to limit the wearer spreading droplets.
How to use AI to destroy my childhood game?
Or, it may have been like how orchestral directors are completely motivated to recruit the best musicians. And, they will strongly tell you and themselves that gender, ethnicity, etc... are irrelevant. All that matters is how well you play. And yet, somehow if the people selecting the recruits are cut off from information that let's them determine the gender of the recruits, suddenly female musicians are selected at a much higher rate by the same directors!

I would be amazed if 1925 Harvard physically cut of their recruiters from knowing which students were Jewish.
Cool prototype !

I've been pondering the idea if software can help us to make decisions in the way you have shown here for a while. If you (or anyone else) would like to have an exchange about it, my email is in my profile.
Whoa this is fantastic.

Another idea: it might be too touchy of a subject but a little tool that helps resolve conflict between two parties is something I’ve always wanted to see.

Just a simple tool to help move forward on a decision. Objectivity-as-a-service for consensus building (though whether consensus building is always the right tool is a separate debate.)

In fact after typing all this I feel like Help Me Decide Please could just as easily be used by two people, as an effective tool. Help us decide! I’ll try and see how it works!
The Best CPUs Ever Made
To answer 1.), the data is not sampled to prove its there. Instead, the miner must provide a continua; cryptographic proof (called proof of replication) to prove he has stored the data over a given period of time.
https://filecoin.io/blog/filecoin-proof-system/
after reading yesterday’s posts here:

that’d be a nice play project for phoenix and liveview!
> I can't even decide what to put in the choices list. Man.

"what question should I ask? and what should the answers be?"
> upstart [...] failed shit they've come out with?

upstart was pretty good. It just lost the popularity contest with systemd. I'm not sure if there's really anything serious to complain here about.
You're still in the vast minority of people in the US. Even my 65+ year old parents have smart phones.
Yes. OBS offers it. Teams and Zoom have guesswork-based imitations.
Hopefully some point where the commons aren't tragic.
>A passage in this book by a second grader in Buenos Aires, Argentina, reads: “Mr. Brown, owner of the building, gave us a wonderful present. Eighty sprouts of trees. Our teachers explain to us how we must plant them. Let’s get to work! In a few years we will walk in the shadow of beautiful paradises. But—I say to my mother—when these trees are grown, I will not be in school anymore. That is indeed true—said my mother—but it is also nice to sow things so that others can enjoy them.”

Such poetry makes me want to read the rest of this notebook.
> I don't know much about 3rd world countries other than my recent trip to Africa

Thank you for stepping out of your comfort zone and actually visiting a non-touristy place.

It is unclear what the definition of a 3rd world country is. It has different meanings depending on cultural context. see also https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/third-world.asp

> your advice looks like its written for an American, not someone who lives in a 3rd world country.

My advice was written for someone with a university CS degree, years of experience in his profession, and an actual job offer that might still be honored. That goes a long way, especially in impoverished countries, where your odds of success are even more tied to the wealth of the family you were born in.

> that the world is a competitive place but a criminal one

Whether that's true or not, it's out of his control.

> There is no meritocracy in this world, only passports.

I agree. But a passport is a pre-existing resource, something you don't have a lot of control over. You can try to immigrate to another country, but that takes a long term plan again.

> Make the best of what you have in some cases can be translated to: try to fucking survive

That's true again. Families in Africa, who don't have a son with a CS degree,
often pressure their strongest, smartest son, the future of the family, to embark on a very dangerous journey to Europe. The risk of dying along the way is fairly high, but the upside is huge for the whole family.

The person I responded to was worried about a job offer. He might need to work for less money in a job he hates again. It's all relative.

> I don't think everyone perceives life to be a game

My bad, I should have used an actual subject: career. And a career has many characteristics of a strategy game. Accepting the job offer was probably a good career move and it might still happen. It's not withdrawn yet. Even if it is, I can't think of a situation where it would help to stop doing the best you can.

> But since I see that you were downvoted I decided to take the time to explain how your comment seems to be missing the mark to me personally.

Appreciate that. It's interesting how people fill in context based on their own experiences and come up with assumptions. While it's true I'm currently based in the US, I wasn't born with this privilege.

Like many others in this thread, I posted some universal best practices you can apply in pretty much every part of the world to deal with inevitable setbacks. It worked for me in the past 2 recessions and I expect it to work again for this one. The person I responded to seemed to be in distress and I think building some resilience skills helps with that.
The most reliable way to get an interview at Google is to pass round 1 in Google code jam. So you need to first do the preliminary round, then get top 1000 in any of the round 1 competitions. That sounds harder than it is, I managed to do it without having taken algorithms courses after a few months of practicing.

https://codingcompetitions.withgoogle.com/codejam/schedule

If you don't have time to wait for the one next year then when you talk with Google recruiters they care a lot more about your chances to pass the interview than anything else, since they get evaluated by how well you do there. So selling your ability to pass these kinds of questions is a good idea, put everything related to algorithms etc on there. Did you do well in some competition? Have you solved some particularly hard problems? Did you build something impressive? Things like that.

Also be clear that you are open for relocation, specifically to the large hubs like London and Zurich since there are more jobs there. Otherwise the recruiter might look for jobs at your location and see no openings. This almost happened to one of my friends, but he managed to say that he would be fine working in Zurich instead and he got the job and now works there.
How self-righteous are The Verge's writings about this...
Because in start-ups, the tech world, and programming we have to weigh morality and society benefits sometimes.
Ubuntu, no. Snap, seemingly yes.
I appreciate your passion, but please review these helpful links. The evidence is pretty overwhelming.

* https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

* https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/global-temperature/
Are there any studies, or even computer models, which attempt to estimate the efficacy of contact tracing in a pandemic which already has double-digit prevalence?

> Some public health leaders and infectious disease doctors are questioning the timing of this launch. Galea said contact tracing is usually more effective at the beginning of an epidemic, before a disease like the coronavirus has spread.

> “I don’t know that it’s too late, it’s certainly late,” he says. “Had we had the tests and were we organized enough to do contact tracing right up front, it would have potentially taken us down a very different path in this epidemic.”

While we roll out the red carpet for the most invasive dragnet ever created, do we have any scientific reason to think it will be effective?
that’s a false equivalence. every driver has the ability to refrain from texting, talking on the phone, eating their breakfast, doing their makeup, reading the paper (yes, i’ve seen this), etc. and instead focus on scanning the road and their mirrors while actively controlling their car.
""flatten the curve - just extend the time until everyone gets it" (obvious problem, exponential growth can't work that way)"

Huh? One goal is to flatten the curve so that we don't have exponential growth. Another is to flatten the curve so much that, even if might still be exponential growth, the growth is slow enough for our health care systems to absorb the peak.
It's not broken. People prefer not to use snap and want to remove it. But overall snap works, and apps installed via snap work.
A very recent Yale study suggests promises for saliva-based detection:

“While saliva has shown promise for SARS-CoV-2 detection, very few studies have directly compared it to the current gold standard, nasopharyngeal (NP) swab. So, we compared NP and saliva samples from COVID-19 patients and self-collected samples from asymptomatic healthcare workers”

“COVID-19 patients: SARS-CoV-2 detection from saliva is comparable to (or better than!) NP swabs and more consistent over time ...”

“Plus, the detection of SARS-CoV-2 from the saliva of two asymptomatic healthcare workers (...and counting!) who tested negative from their NP swabs suggests that saliva could be a viable alternative for identifying mild or subclinical infections.”

https://twitter.com/awyllie13/status/1252996627217801218?s=2...
> the probability of being infected is not linear

Correct, it's not. But it is roughly linear in the limit of small numbers of people with a small constant probability of becoming infected per interaction. (This assumption becomes problematic when you see "clustering" of highly social people with other highly social people.)

To be specific, if P is the probability of becoming infected when interacting with a single person, then the probability of becoming infected after interacting with N people is 1-(1-P)^N = NP - O(N^2 P^2). It's easy to see that the limiting infection probability is 1 in this simplified model, and that if N*P < 1 you're looking at close-to-linear growth.
White dude here:

I went to a mostly black high school. My best friend had lower GPA, and lower SAT scores by 190 points. He and I were looking forward to attending same college. We applied to same major. He was admitted. I was wait listed. Ironically, my family was much poorer (trailer park) than his, and he felt much worse about it than I did. He assumed it was due to him being black, but no way to know for sure. I just made a point of visiting him a lot from the state school a few hours away.

Instead of dwelling on it, make the most of the college you DO attend. Remember that in the long run, your work and passions define your success far more than the institution you attend as a dumb 20 year old.

Race based affirmative action is silly, but I tell my son and daughter, who are mixed race (half Asian, white), that they need to focus on what they CAN control, rather than what they can't.

In the meantime, policies in the federal government designed to help descendants of slaves brought to US from Africa are benefiting wealthy people whose highly educated parents came here from Nigeria, because the policies don't differentiate beyond a superficial level. Simultaneously, my good friend whose family came here as barely literate refugees from Cambodia is lumped in same category as an Asian kid whose dad is a surgeon.

It's as idiotic as it is well meaning. Just remember that life will always be unfair, and that anger isn't an ideal way to handle it. You're going to dominate no matter how much these elitist morons try to hold you down.
> Asian American culture leads to personalities which are not considered leadership-worthy in WASP culture.

On the face of it, there is no way to tell if this is the actual cause of a phenomenon or merely a rationalization for an irrational bias.

One might invoke Occam's razor at this point, and say that the simplest explanation - that it is the actual cause, not a rationalization for something else - is the most probable one, but:

"The same is true for people from most cultures -- African immigrants, Eastern European immigrants, and most other types of immigrants behave in ways which are too foreign."

- the more one advances this point, the more clearly it becomes obvious that foreign-ness is the one common factor in all the cases.

Based on your last paragraph, I think we are both making essentially the same point.
Stay at home as much as you can beats any amount of masks.

Go look at how New Zealand has done.
Not sure how I’m demanding, just pointing out some differences between how different groups tackle this
This Nice Alphabet

That's Newly Arrived:

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How would one disable Bluetooth?
> My ECs were weaker

Honestly, I'm not convinced it helps. I think it's just an incredibly racist thing that colleges say to quietly justify their policies. My grades weren't the best (my high school was well known for not having grade inflation) I got good math scores and even better verbal scores (750/800), produced and directed a full-length play, captained the chess team (which included successfully petitioning the democratic student assembly for a funds allocation for the team, and rallying the team to defeat the regional powerhouse science and tech high school), and couldn't get into good Tech-ey schools that were claiming to "want more interesting candidates. I guess aside from great test scores, I didn't directly have anything to show technically at the time of application, but I did wind up getting a 3rd place in my division at the ISEF the week after getting a rejection from MIT.

My dad wanted me to ask a family friend (carpooled with his kids to elementary school) for assistance who happened to be the chief of the house science appropriations committee. I told my dad not to bother calling in for a favor. That's not a decision I regret as that person wound up being the architect of the PATRIOT act.

Anyways I wound up at UChicago. Don't count them out if they take you off the waitlist. Their theoretical math program is top notch and their CS program at least is well known for having a good OS theory class.
I could see it being important to get the message out that people shouldn't remove their mask to talk to someone. That might be an easy mistake for the very medically-unsavvy.
All the more reason why extensive testing, allowing them to go back to work safely, would be great!
“That’s great! But who are the Chefs?”

https://youtu.be/m9zQLSS9LHw
No but if the case is legit and strong they can probably get an injunction from the ITC.
You opened the door to this avenue of discussion by implying or suggesting by omission or dismissal that no successful implementation currently exists. The existence and purported demonstration of work of Sia is not yet proven. I’ve never heard of Sia before now, and I will research it now that I know that it’s a thing to study. But I digress.

It’s contrary to parliamentary procedure and rules of debate to make a statement in order to back up your own point and not admit counterexamples and discussion of said statement and it’s implications as well as it’s intent and factual basis in the current reality we all share, regardless of which parts of it are presently up for debate.

You would have us not be informed about relevant contextual information regarding a point you yourself brought up, just so we don’t derail a discussion you yourself are replying to? We’re all valid commenters with valid comments provided we have something relevant to say.
Is APL Dead?
The Constitution actually has a framework for this. For individual liberties, any limits must pass “strict scrutiny”. Warrants must not be general, but must be particular in the persons and places to be searched.

So in short, IANAL, but I doubt the government could ever require such an app be built. However, there’s nothing short of market forces stopping the major tech companies from building the dragnet and deploying it in an OS update to billions of devices completely voluntarily.

...Unless, perhaps, there’s a privacy or data protection framework that might happen to apply but which doesn’t get immediately waived for this application?
>Americans have rights and can't be bombed by the US military.

I assume this is the statement that you said sarcastically.

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/middleeast/07yemen....
I can't figure out what you are trying to say, particularly about plumbers. You seem to be disagreeing with me about something, but your link supports them being essential, which is what I wrote.

There is a division between people whose jobs are secure right now and those who are (or soon will be) out of work.

There is also a division between people who can work remotely and people who have to be at a job site in person.

My point, or one of them, is that these are independent of each other, so all together there are four types of people/jobs.
And where can I find the OBS implementation of this work?
> Having a consistent WordPress configuration with dedicated IT support would enable many more of these experts to easily post and update material more frequently

I think it's worth a try! Kudos to the author. Information strategies are a great thing to examine and bring forward toward the next big worldwide disaster.

But the part above made me wonder. I used to set up a lot of blogs for people who were experts at the top of their respective fields. They seemed to "get" blogging. That part was nice--they knew what they needed to do.

The "doing" is hard though. Blogging isn't just writing, and it's not just writing online. It's more than that. It's a bunch of questions like "is anybody reading this, and if so how can I tell." It's also "do I get to block people, and if so how does that work." And "why do people have to go digging through here to see my best stuff." And even learning to link your articles to one another, consistently, and to good effect, can take years.

The questions alone can quickly overwhelm IT support because at the beginning, they morph into feature requests at the drop of a hat. And the unanswered feature request becomes yet another reason not to blog. So the IT support also needs to be clever enough and empowered enough to say, "here's the part where instead of supporting you by changing your blog header or sidebar or whatever, we provide training in what is expected of you." Maybe an institution like the author is thinking of could do that.

I would also expect at least a _little_ bit of new, never-before-seen tech that adds a bit more community visibility and pressure to get writing, for example. You have to put in the consistent practice to find your blogging feet, otherwise it's yet one more new and weird form of writing with which to come to grips every time you sit down. But overall, blogging can be upgraded in many technical ways and improved over time--it's not stuck at all and that un-stuckness could potentially be leveraged to provide even better results from "standard blogging" than what the author is expecting.
> "flatten the curve - just extend the time until everyone gets it" (obvious problem, exponential growth can't work that way)

Just to nitpick a little here, it's more like "flatten the curve - stretch the time while everyone gets it, so we don't overwhelm hospitals". Even with exponential growth, you would rather deal with it over a longer period than have a massive spike where all services are overwhelmed.