skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has also been a thing at many US grocery stores for many years now, but inexplicably, many people don't use them.
My non-medical understanding is that the long term damage threat of the disease is primarily due to to organs dealing with low oxygen for long periods of time. Would you say it's fair to say that an approach which saved more lives by not addressing would probably leave a greater proportion with organ damage?
Have you tried modern consumer routers recently? It's far simpler and faster than eg. a start-up setup wizard of a smartphone.
Clearly you haven't seen the Xbox Live Arcade and its 5000 asset flip Minecraft clones.
Martin Matuška – MfsBSD and Mfslinux
Yeah that and they still don’t have a UI that anybody wants to use or any software that businesses need.

Google had to build their own fleet management system for Macs for crying put loud!

The thought of Macs replacing most Windows machines is going to make me just laugh and laugh and laugh at random times today.
I don’t think these are separate things at all. Being efficient with your work time is great because it lets you spend more time with family, friends, and so on.

Long commutes are really the killer here: it’s super difficult to cook a family dinner if you get off work at 6:00, spend 30-60 minutes commuting home, 30 minutes buying groceries, another 30 minutes cooking, etc. Working from home and then cooking dinner with delivered groceries gives you an extra hour+ with your family.
And the Chromebook has a 13" screen and a keyboard. How does it even really make sense to compare them?

It feels a bit like comparing DSLRs to smartphones. Sure, there's some overlap in function but they're not directly comparable.
I think the reason they aren’t doing loans is because there has been a >20% decrease in real estate value given the slow down in travel and even commuting to work. it’s clear from reit prices. it’s just that the residential market is very high friction and illiquid that we don’t see the price change on Zillow yet.
I am starting to wonder if there is any good way for dealing with this. If you lock down preventatively, you are at risk of hurting the economy, losing a ton of jobs and looking silly if things turn out to be not as bad. If you wait, you are at risk of killing people. It seems only in hindsight there is a clear path that balances all factors. I definitely wouldn’t want to have to make decisions right now. You can pretty much only fail in one way or the other.

I think what we should learn is that we need to put much more effort into vaccines even if they are not profitable immediately but the cost of a pandemic is just so high that it’s worth being on top of things.

In a way we are lucky that this didn’t happen some decades earlier when remote work was much less of an option. When I look at my company there are definitely problems from not being able to access equipment at the office that keep accumulating but overall things are moving along pretty well. Without a 100 megabit connection I would not be able to do much.
Soon you will realize, that the cost of keeping people alive times the growing number of new people on earth will be the thing that will kill us all.

Fuck your third solution.

No one has been promised a long life nor a happy life. The gift of life is imminent, and you should aim for being well and in a good state until you cannot.

Nature is the only religion than you really need to respect and obey. The rest is just for fun.

Let the virus go. Let people go. We cannot act as god, it's unfair for everyone.
Restoring Sense of Touch Using a Sensorimotor Demultiplexing Neural Interface
> He was also serious about the letter O being an acceptable substitute for a zero "0".

Whoa, never heard that one. Did that have any major traction at some point? What was the point?
Macbooks' trackpad are good because of macOS' drivers. On Linux, they suck just as much as any other glass trackpad.
>is literally the justification given for why free and competitive markets are good.

If you think "price that minimizes default" and "lowest economic price" are equivalent, you need to brush up on your Econ 101.
Fwiw both the Vita and the Switch have had homebrew support for a while.
> Hotels (short of the “accommodation” in Chung King Mansions) have never made me feel this way...

That was probably one of my more memorable stays while traveling, it wasn't all bad though. Just not something comparable to other places I've stayed before.
Completely agree on some points. However the promise of POCUS is to make it common and ubiquitous. A cheap portable one changes it from being a tested ordered, and awaited, to a tool anyone with some training can use.

Sure, it will lead to more wrong interpretation, but it also has potential.
Nice job, it looks very simple and useful.

Decisions that involve multiple options and criteria (like comparison shopping) are difficult because of your limited working memory. That's where techniques like these are valuable, especially if you can simplify the UX and explain how the magic happens, which this app does well.

I enjoy using hobby projects to learn new programming languages and frameworks. My favorite one is called "dcidr" which is a similar decision-making app that uses a prioritization/decision matrix under the hood. I've rebuilt it many times since 2001 in PHP, Java, XAML, Ruby, JS, Rust, and so on. It's great fun.

The current version is a PWA that uses Blazor (.NET web assembly) which was awesome to work with, but it's still in preview and the download is pretty huge:

https://dcidr.z20.web.core.windows.net/

Enjoy! There are links in the footer if you want to reach out.
Marc Maron's WTF, interviews of really interesting people.

NYT The Daily, really good interviews on current topics, by a really annoying interviewer.

Le Show, Harry Shearer. Some people here will like his skepticism of IoT (and some people here will not).

Radiolab.

Science Weekly, The Guardian.

Hidden Brain.

Freakonomics Radio.

Marketplace.
There are multiple ways to get into grad school. One way is to just apply. Another way is to individually get to know the professors, express your interest, and stand out. Professors have substantial pull if there is someone they specifically want.
Thanks for the comment.
I do have a large family I take care of them as single source of income. I found I have to make a conscious effort to ensure I spend time with them. Since I have done that my quality of life improved greatly while still maintaining a hefty work schedule. A couple years back I audited how much time I was spending with my family/kids. It was embarrassing.
Besides our normal routines I made the effort to take them to each of their extra curricular activities. 6 days a week 3 kids. I spend individual time with them each week and we go on vacation 3-5 times a year. I’m learning to have my cake and eat it too. But the family life is a conscious effort I have to make to avoid the (I wish I slowed down). Not a day that goes by I don’t love what I do and my life. Given the above I hope I don’t regret it. Time will tell.
SAT scoring was a lot different 20 years ago :)
Harvard professor rides 170x return in Moderna stock to become a billionaire
If macbooks and ipads were one product, people would buy that one product instead of both, halving Apple's profits on them. ;)
Bandwidth vs. Latency – The World is Curved (2010)
It was very long, but it wasn't all an advertisement. He spent a good deal of time talking about the potential prospects of the app, issues it may encounter (even with some suggestions), and similar apps that have come up in the past that didn't quite make the cut. That's a lot more in-depth than most product reviews go.
Lots of people are born with wealth. In fact that biggest factor in how much wealth you have is how much you are born with.
As others have said it’s part of Yerba Buena island, essentially a landfill project built initially for Golden Gate International Exposition (Worlds Fair like) as a celebration of the recently opened Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. It sits between the two sections of the Bay Bridge between Oakland and San Francisco. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_International_Ex...

It was used by the Navy during the war and up to 1997. After that management, and I think now ownership, of the island was transferred to SF. It’s been used as lower cost housing for the City, as well as other things. I saw a recording of Battle Bots there once for example. If anyone watched the show OA, the psychotherapy ward scenes (season two I think) were filmed in one of the cool looking buildings there.

I had friends who lived there after college, I’d say it feels very isolated. Before the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge opened, the only way on or off Yerba Buena and Treasure Island was by car or bus (Bus to SF, car in either direction). Today there is a foot/bicycle path across the Oakland side. There is a plan, yet to be funded, for the western span to get a foot/cycle path connected to SF. https://mtc.ca.gov/our-work/plans-projects/bicycle-pedestria...
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>I think a business that sells something for a small markup but makes it up in volume does something like this.

Define a "small markup".
Can Innovation Policy Restore Inclusive Prosperity in America? [pdf]
The idea that time is fungible is misleading. I can only drink coffee using my before noon time, or else I take away from the utility of my night time. I’m less productive in the time immediately after a big meal. I can only smell the roses for 30 or so consecutive seconds, and then need a break.
Don't take it personally, it is not about race or personalities. It is about Harvard officials wanting to have a final say on who gets in. In other words, it is about corruption
For a fun way to say it, I work in the Rock and Roll business, seriously entertainment.

You are right accessibility is not supported by those 2 frameworks and that's an issue.

One of the applications I wrote simulate a LED protocol and so you just need to launch it and then use it over the network from a server.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6i-5tD8y40
Not only. Some of us just always type like that. In my case, I almost never use Word, so this change is not going to affect me.
Leisure

--

What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

No time to stand beneath the boughs
And stare as long as sheep or cows.

No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass.

No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.

No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.

No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.

A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.

- W.H.Davies (1871-1940)
Some older typewriters had no 1 or 0 keys: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/3huau8/t...
Telegram's new randomly animated emojis (dice, darts)
Yeah I don't get it either. Without macOS, a MacBook doesn't make any sense IMHO
I just listed to the Stephen Wolfram episode - gotta say, I had some preconceptions about Stephen but I loved their discussion.
> - Customer service is not free of charge after used the up free quota.

Oh yeah, that definitely won't make companies just wait until you're in the paid period before giving you service.
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This is a key punctuation difference between North American and UK English. In NA, we use the dot here, but not in the UK. Actually, I’ve started to adopt the UK convention, because I think it looks neater.
Hah I was interested in something similar at one point. The PL community is pretty small, if you go to one of these Haskell hackathons you'll meet plenty of them. There used to be one held at Penn (Hack-phi) but that may have ended. Boston Haskell hackathon is still going I believe, and there's many meetups in NY. So going to these places and meet tons of people is one way to secure your own uck. And I echo what the other person has said, your narrow focus on niche topic may have put you in a harder category. Admission officers have very specific buckets they put you in, in this category you may have been competing against math wizes from abroad.
I can answer that. Apple already has macOS running on ARM, and has had for years.

This gives them two things:

1. Leverage on pricing with Intel;

2. The ability to ship ARM macs whenever they are ready.

So the next thing is, "what's the definition of 'ready'?" Opinions about that vary. I side wth tthe popular speculation that the 'problem' with macOS on ARM is not macOS, but all the legacy apps that need to be recompiled or run in some kind of emulation or need some other magic solution to "just work."

It's easy to ask every developer to recompile, but people have lots of shareware apps, unsupported old apps, enterprise apps, and apps from developers who aren't making enough money to justify putting a lot of work into supporting a new chip.

So for now, we have this weird situation where phones and tablets have enormous amounts of computing power but require less power and thus provide longer battery life for a given mass... Mostly to support computational photography.

p.s. Completely spitballing here, but I wonder if their hesitation to ship with an emulator—as they did when they made the PowerPC -> Intel switch—is because on a mobile device, emulation might be a heat source and power hog. With desktops, they didn't have the same concern about power draw or heat.
It seems appropriate to mention The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi, a whirlwind sf novel where a large part of the story involves a city where the currency literally is Time. (When a person runs out of Time, they are transformed into a Quiet, mutely doing the necessary work to keep the city running, until they have earned enough Time to be restored to themselves.)
>but some other model that better ensures the institution will serve the public interest

Your social concerns are completely detached from reality if you're shedding tears over people with jumbo loans that are unable to refinance their million dollar mortgages from 4% to 2%. It's theatre.

I appreciate your white-collar, anti-capitalist rant, though. Unfortunately, when SHTF, the truly down trodden might even consider people like this part of the problem. I don't think they'll buy the idea that "we're all on the same team!".

>It may come as a shock to some people, but capitalism isn't an immutable law of nature. There are such things as alternatives.

You're right, we should put our non-elite, galaxy brain politicians, the Trumps and Pelosis and Bidens and Bush's of the world, in charge of controlling the money supply.
> Long commutes are really the killer here

They are, but you are on HN so it's safe to assume you have other options, so why do you commute?
I do not, but could be persuaded
Yeah, that’s why I can’t really understand fellows not willing to pay a tenner or two for any service, content or product that will make them spare hours and even days of their uniquely precious time!
Is it possible to create an artificial antibody in lab that can stimulate the immune system?
Yes, VMs are a thing, I think we all know that
I don’t use them because I just assume it’s going to be a personal information harvest fest, and it won’t work as advertised anyway. Like most other software-driven things these days.
> Most of the regulation of prior permission paperwork submit is abolished. Whether somebody meets the regulation standard will be evaluated after it was done.

I’m not convinced this one would optimize for time unless it’s also optimizing for items falling through the cracks. If non-conformity is actually being caught it means the work has to be done twice to bring it in line with regulation after the fact.

Recent example: Boeing Starliner was not meeting requirements but oversight seemed inadequate ultimately requiring a multi-million dollar re-do once the gaps were caught after it was supposedly finished

Edit: down votes are fine but please extend the courtesy of explaining so as to add to the conversation
How? Where? Would love to know how to get access to this.
I think I came off wrong. I group together things and hyper-organize them to maximize my output and minimize the time I spend on doing things for growth/maintenance.
I meditate daily, find room for some reading, picked up gardening recently. Anything I can streamline I do that to maximize my return as time is a valuable commodity.
I don't think this will always be the case. Applications like Bitwig Studio have both traditional and touch interfaces. It's only a change in GUI. I can see most applications in the future having "responsive" gui layouts like how web designers deal with screen sizes, but for touch interfaces.
The barrier is the mental cost of context switching. You find your item, scan it, and then have to go check your list to remember which item it was you needed. You also need to find the barcode while the regular checkout has both a bottom and side scanner, so you just pass the item over and most of the time it will catch the item.
Testing isn't the only way.

Some people just advocate for isolating the elderly and having everyone else mingle.

The life expectancy loss from just letting it run its course would be less than a tenth of the life expectancy difference between the second and third wealth quartiles in the USA. And if we aren't worried about that difference, then why are we imposing a quality of life reduction that's much larger than the quality of life difference between those two quartiles for a much smaller gain in life expectancy? (similarly the economic costs of bringing the lowest quartile up a year or two would be much lower than the cost of this lockdown)
You are really overstating how many people like that are out there. Compare the sheer number of hotel bookings to AirBnB bookings, even factoring out business travel.

I just think that those still enamoured by it haven’t been burned yet. There is very little [effective] recourse when your AirBnB takes a turn for the worse. There are enough horror stories out there. I personally think the value to risk ratio is way off for them these days. It isn’t cheap anymore and that makes it way less appealing.
Some thoughts I wanted to get out:

I think we need Outcome Driven Development- we define a metric measured in say graphite, we link a ticket to that asserting the ticket will make the metric change this way or that, and we commit code to make the metric change

so we start a process of defining what we want, implementing how to measure it (there could be a null metric and the ticket is to make it not null) and then measuring our success of changing the metric

this will have organisational impacts as well - no one should take a ticket without authority span to impact that metric

this will start in the direction of software as literacy or the developer anarchy
Relatively few people will starve "to death". But a significant number of people are already not getting enough food before the crisis: https://www.rt.com/usa/314881-usa-households-not-enough-food...

If food prices increase, and people lose jobs, more people will suffer food insecurity. This problem is MUCH worse in poorer countries for obvious reasons.
Sounds like a promising strategy to manage patients, assuming the hospital has the necessary negative pressure rooms, etc. Especially since ventilators don’t even seem to be very effective. We’ve been seeing stories last few days that the large majority (88%) of folks put on ventilators in NYC, end up dying.
The spanish flu killed working age people. The case fatality rate for Italian health care workers (frequently tested so should be a good proxy for IFR) is sitting around 0,35%. When you adjust for age (those under 60) you end up with <0.1%. When you look at data based on cfr, serology, etc it all paints a picture of stratified risks based on age. The best gift my age group can give is build herd immunity.

Given most deaths in Canada are in long term care homes (up to 80% in Quebec), this gives us a clear target to improve.
honest answer? we have absolutely no idea, and whether or not we like it (mostly we don't like it), we're in the process of finding out.
> A neat corollary to this is that Asianness is associated with a lack of social capital. Hence the insistence on not being Asian that you face in Central and Western Asia.

Can you elaborate on that a bit? I am from Central Asia. Kazakhstan, to be exact. I am not sure Kazakhs deny they are Asians. In America, I am "some sort of Chinese person" which I am totally cool with as I don't expect an average person (anywhere in the world) to be worldly.
This is great!

In re: time is money, it's even worse than that: attention is money.

The quality of time varies with the "self-remembrance" if you will.

- - - -

Take time to "pop the 'why?' stack. In practice many of us are "yak
shaving" and wasting a lot of time and effort on "low-leverage" actions.

> yak shaving

> [MIT AI Lab, after 2000: orig. probably from a Ren & Stimpy episode.]
Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve
a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion
later, solves the real problem you're working on.

~http://catb.org/jargon/html/Y/yak-shaving.html

- - - -

The most metal programmers I know type hella fast. One guy in our
office, we would play hangman and the only way to beat him was to figure
out the word before he did, because the millisecond his brain "got it"
you would hear a small explosion as he typed the word on his clicky
keyboard in a single motion. If you figured out the word at the same
time as he did he won. SOB could also write bug-free C++ by the page. At speed.

Another guy I knew had a tiling WM and only used terminals. A vim man,
he could type slightly faster then the system could respond, emitting a
single stream of characters that flowed smoothly from vim to wm to
shell and back again, his locus of attention flying around too
fast to follow even if you knew what he was doing (editing and
recompiling or whatever.)

- - - -

(Ooooo... Major points off for deep linking to XKCD without attribution.
Bad pool. It's probably one of the most important and useful
XKCD comicS. "Here’s an old comic..." ah, that's cold blooded.)

Other than that, this is the best general advice for programmers that
I've seen for a while. Yay!
Thanks, I'll check out Outco. Scheduled an info session with them next week.

One other thing that did make me hesitate Interview Kickstart though were that they seemed to be for generalist SWE only, not frontend. The person I spoke with said FEE would have the same interview problems/track as any other SWE, but my personal experience over the past two years has shown me this is usually not the case.

Also would be concerned about what IK/Outco considers a "success". I'm only targeting a relatively small subset of companies (FAANG, obviously, plus others at similar level). So my definition of success (aforementioned companies) vs. theirs (any company?) might be different. A question to ask during the info session I suppose.
I meant in general, for society. Personally I have a 10 minute bike commute to a private office because I prefer to have a little bit of space between work and home.
I'm on the hunt for my next laptop and I'd really like to have a rock solid portable that runs Linux, but my past experience with Dell indicates inferior hardware and construction to Mac.

I looked at the 2020 Macbook Air (the $~1300 model), and it seems to offer the same or better specs (depending how much you value the display) for the price. Are we at the point where we must pay a premium NOT to run OSX, or am I missing something? I don't love the direction OSX has headed, but I'm still content enough running it and using Linux remotely where needed.
Ah, cool. I would be more concerned if you were developing an application that was actually used by the musicians. I find it ironic that "blind musician" is such a stereotype, but many applications and plugins targeted at musicians are inaccessible.