skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This largely only really true on Android. iOS at least lets you install content blockers that work with Safari as well as any embedded web browsers within apps. The only place I typically see ads on iOS is in free to play games, and in those cases that's usually a pretty good incentive to play something else.
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FINALLY some good news in 2020! Looking forward to this one very much!
Will we though? Or more likely we’ll never hear about stats from these four state prisons again?
Right? Might as well open it up to the public. Brazilians hueing it up in their satellite is really the least of their problems. If a bunch of civilians can cobble together enough equipment to use the satellite, gotta wonder what nation states with real resources can manage.

So how insecure is this stuff, really? Radio security seems to be based on "authorities really, really don't want you to do this".
Sure, but better (less wasteful) to just give people money than employ them in busywork.
The table settings might be nicer, but it's still a chowline of people asses-to-elbows.

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/B5D6CE/breakfast-buffet-served-onb...
You can self isolate without quarantine measures in effect so your point isn't that strong to me and you are ignoring that one of the biggest destabilising forces in history is economic downturn. US-China relations have been bad for a while now and both sides are throwing blame at each other as a populist policy (China has a US origin story allegedly). If this pushes the economy in to a global depression who knows what will happen s few years down the road. Taiwan, Korea, plenty of places that could erupt if things become politically unstable - both in the US and China.
With due respect, if you're in your late 40s and have been in the same job for "decades", then you don't have any personal experience with the hiring ageism common in our industry.

And I totally agree with and live by the 3 points you made (except the 3rd, in some circumstances). But that's the problem with ageism. If you look like you're over 40, then it doesn't matter if you follow that advice or not, younger companies will often still hold your age against you.
I’m not convinced there’s any adequate oversight with the PPP program though at all. Massive moral hazard problem with owners gaming it long enough to have it forgiven or declare bankruptcy after spending it recklessly and then laying people off after the minimum 8 week period anyway. I’m sure there’s also a massive fraud problem with people just spinning up fake companies and payroll statements to get free money.

Banks have zero incentive to monitor these companies because it’s all guaranteed by the government and they’ve all been overpaid for doing simple paperwork.
Ouch. I can write programs in LabVIEW in a few hours that would take me weeks in another language.

I can also write programs in LabVIEW in a few weeks that would take weeks in another language. And I can write programs in LabVIEW in many months that would take weeks in another language.

The largest maker of a bad language is that it doesn't matter how long you work on it, you just get less and less productive and your program actually goes nowhere.
"Put a loop on the capital O so it doesn’t look like a zero"

I do no put loops on O's, but to this day I have a habit of writing a stroke (in forward slash direction) inside zero.
An asymptomatic presentation would not include a chest x-ray. People with visible lung lesions and 60% oxygenation levels doe not exhibit any symptoms. The body's warning system is wired to C02 concentrations, and C02 gets evacuated so people report feeling fine while they have significant lung damage.
Surprised no one mentioned askjeeves.com I really liked that site
I've got an idea...quit FB. Solved.
I wonder how much truth there is in this cartoon. Can anybody point me to actual state-of-the-art software for genetic research?
Great info, thanks. I'd love to see that blog post.

I similarly got fed up with it after a bunch of investigation. I also have a speculative suspicion that the reason overlays aren't supported is that they were artificially omitted from the GeForce driver to support Nvidia's Quadro price discrimination. Ugh.
It all depends on how big that 10% is contributing to the GDP. Let's assume the least profitable employees are effected the most and thus have to absorb the largest unemployment hit. Than the percentage of the economy actually effected has to be a fraction of of the increase in unemployment.
> Amnesty International campaign against this and are currently calling for the release of ICE detainees.

Virus aside, when are they not?
I have wasted so much time on this game. It's so simple, but so fun.
I vaguely recall reading something similar.

What does it prove though? We already know that cellular components are the same or similar across all life.
Golang functional utility library with syntactic sugar
>Some of those videos also do wifi website loading comparisons and the 6s is about the same speed.

That's not surprising as 80% of the time the phone's waiting for the network, so the benchmark basically turns into a latency/speed test and any performance difference gets buried.

>What do you spend time waiting for on your phone? I dont spend much time waiting fo my phone on my SE daily driver, do you? App loading time is still the most common thing I can think of. What else would you suggest they test?

Maybe it isn't an area that we should be concerned about? I mean, you don't see this type of benchmarks in laptop/desktop reviews. You might see it in SSD reviews, but that's because there's literally nothing else to test in terms of real life workloads. Of all the reasons to pick one phone over the other, shaving 15s off each day isn't one of them.
It’s not entirely true that context can’t help disambiguate mathematical notation. The situations in which it’s common to use a lowercase omega are quite distinct from those where it’s common to use a lowercase w. Even if both appear in the same formula, they will tend to have very different roles. Good notational choices also try to avoid these ambiguities. You probably shouldn’t use v and nu at the same time, even in typeset math.
In the worst cases of cable/broadcast advertising, at least the content creators could dictate when the ads should be played. Sites like YouTube, just decided by algorithms when to place an ad based on time so you get ads in the middle of sentences. The streaming apps for cable channels also include ads just like watching it live. In these formats, they make it where you cannot skip ahead past the ad breaks, so it's even worse on streaming
I that because of the hype cycle, or is that because they have distribution and creative partnerships with other distributors?
Reminds me of a clever exploit. The code for the OS is backdoor free, but the running OS has a backdoor. Once the running OS compiles a new OS from code it installs the backdoor. This way, no matter how much the code is inspected, backdoor is never discovered. However, each fresh version of the OS still has the backdoor. The exploit is always part of the running system information even though it is never in the static codebase. No reason why our biological information system cannot have an analogous aspect if our vastly inferior human designed systems can. (Also makes me wonder about the claim that the bazaar improves security. Maybe it only provides the appearance of greater security.)
Random side-comment - high school is probably the time to do it too. I'm in the middle of teaching my kids how to read/write (the older one) and recognize letters (younger one). I reflexively crossed the "z" when writing out the alphabet the other day and thought to myself, "should I be teaching this?" I decided to erase it and write how they normally see it.

I started crossing z's and doing a few of the other tips (some taught, some natural) in this page when it became necessary. But the pedantic in me really wanted to instill it in my kids from the get-go. I suppose experience (going through the problems of mixing up symbols) is the best teacher for the mathematical handwriting solution.
yep, ctrl+r is better suited for such cases or whenever you have to match a command other than starting characters

and I think there are some fuzzy matching options (like fzf) that can be added to ctrl+r
color tree seems to embody a lot of the things you’ve mentioned. it uses a zui to edit lisp code. i hope the author finishes it soon! http://colortree.app
Visual programming doesn't just mean boxes and lines. It could mean anything other than plain text.
You cannot eat UBI.
As if hedge funds only trade stocks. As if LIBOR was the only thing ever fixed.
Yes. I have a condition that’s been associated with increased mortality from covid-19 infections.

If I’m weak and can’t survive so be it. Rather me die than everyone else slowly waste away to famine.
Isn’t this all very tainted that people on a cruise ship confined with people that have it are receiving naturally higher and repeat exposure to active virus than anywhere else?
The US doesn't have the highest per capita numbers. You do understand that the US population is much higher than individual European nations, right?

Your entire point is ignorant and flawed. Please explain to me how other countries with higher per capita infections screwed up, since your poor grasp of the US federalist system is binding you to proper expectations of what the US Federal government is responsible for.
I would think they'd be less infectious simply because they don't have symptoms that make them more so, namely coughing and sneezing and the like.
Instructions:
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Demonoid and Mininova :D.
Do you have the link?
I think it would be fairly clear to me whether I like it within a week. Since it’s not a hugely expensive subscription, paying for one month isn’t really the problem either.
Somehow people will find a way. If we can't have a universal browser, maybe the answer is to make a browser for every web service. We can make custom apps that pretend to be the official ones while interfacing with the company's servers.

Whatever it takes to maintain control.
HBO also demands a higher fee than something like HGTV or A&E. The one that kills me is ESPN. It is the most expensive channel for a cable operator to carry, and it is also known as a must carry.
The most maddening for me was using letter pairs such as u and v, or zeta and xi, that are just handwriting death traps. No matter how good you are, you're going to screw up once, and kiss your derivation goodbye.

Plus, as good an idea as it sounds, telling my hands to make the same letter the same way twice is hopeless.
WebLiero strives to be as accurate to the original as possible, and from what I can tell recreates the physics, objects, and particles systems using the same general structures as the original. It derives its physics constants and other gameplay data, including weapons definitions, from the original game and optionally can swap definitions from a selection of the original Liero's mods. Similarly new custom mods can be created, see my other comment in this thread.

It is worth mentioning that officially Liero has been recreated and is an open source project. So the details of the physics engine are now public. The code for v1.36 is a modern rewrite of v1.33, of which the source code has been lost. See https://liero.be/ for more history.
Roundabouts could replace most, although not all, instances of traffic lights. They're so pleasant to use.
This is a port of the original Liero, so 100% accurate physics.
A party leader manipulated by his own party, during a campaign. Now that's election manipulation!

Have we figured out which foreign power did that?
Most software has some bugs. No one asks for a refund. They apply the same reasonable expectation that the people who funded the study did. Whoops mistakes happen.
What happened to Trove?
I signed up for that based on your involvement. Hope you're doing OK.
I never used Napster, but this sounds really interesting. Could you explain how browsing the filesystem of the user works in more detail??
A control group, using same program but with a constant radius circle, should have revealed the error quite quickly no?
Probably just means someone with a @google.com email downloaded and is maybe paying for it.
The title did seem clickbaity at first, and I was like eff this... but the content does deliver on it..
Running two startups and a no profit.. i am going to be honest, i am guilty of the “desire to be liked” sins mentioned in this blog piece.
Not a site per say but a big piece of infrastructure. Before there was Steam there was Sierra's website which hosted half life updates, and World Opponent Network, a matchmaking service from Sierra who eventually got acquired by Valve. You would access WON through the half life game. Using it for online play was downright hilarious, especially because everyone was playing on dedicated servers with manual patching. A new version of the HL server / client would drop on Sierra and you would have to get in line and wait for hours at File Planet or Major Geeks or another mirror in order to download it. For like two weeks you would be getting version conflict errors because 50% of servers / clients would patch quickly and the other 50% wouldn't. Searching for a server was pretty much like using grep, there was no friends list or chat, it was amazing hahaha.
Somewhat. The economic part of the crisis is that people aren't working to create valuable things and experiences. How the support to keep people fed and sheltered is handled is critically important but it is trying to spread the burden of the crisis rather than providing an opportunity to mitigate it.

If people are banned from working the crisis isn't avoidable in any real sense.
Just been thinking about the why of this. I think comes down to the details. It's those little details, the real weeds, where the complexity lies that makes system implementations difficult. And, generally, management doesn't want to know, and often don't have the technical knowledge to understand those very details, no matter how well or deeply they're explained.

The other side of that coin is the fact that on the technical knowledge side, if they know the details they have to consider, there's a kind of hubris that blinds them to the actual effort required to cater to those details. Not maliciously, but just by the fact it's considered a known rather than unknown it just may not get the pre-project attention necessary to determine time and effort required, and so it gets under-estimated.

I think what I'm trying to say is that the tension between good, fast, and cheap is the fundamental reason, in my experience. Management tends to want all three, and so that's what's catered to to get the thing kicked off.

Yes, it's irrational. Almost by necessity.
On the flip side, the writing has an increasingly rare property that the whole article (essay?) is divided into sections with proper titles. More often than not, I lose patience and give up on most articles these days, simply because there are no visual markers when scrolling through. I have no way to know where to stop and scan a few lines as I scroll through ... it's all just a continuous torrent of words and sentences.
Unless your plan to deal with mortality in at-risk populations is to simply deny them medical care, then any plan which involves ignoring these populations and their use of extremely limited (in terms of the total population) medical resources is going to kill far more then the number implied by current COVID-19 mortality rates.

The estimate of 1% mortality is with medical intervention. The estimate of hospitalization rates ranges from 5% to 15% (sometimes higher). If you get a disease serious enough to require hospitalization, and there are no hospital beds/nurses/ventilators etc. available, then it is very likely you will die.

But of course it's worse then that: because hospital resources are generally somewhat fungible - at least for ICU/surgical treatment. So not only does your mortality shoot up to ~5% at least, literally every other treatable but potentially life endangering condition (say appendicitis - which occurs at a rate 1.1 per 1000 people per year, or an estimate of 300,000ish cases yearly in the US) has now become, quite likely, untreatable - and thus lethal (appendicitis will definitely kill you, untreated).

Lots of people seem really latched onto that 1% number or whatever they imagine it to be, without any actual consideration of the context of what that figure is actually all about, or you know, an explanation things are "not that bad" yet hospitals can't get PPE, and ventilator triage is in progress, and local morgue capacity has been overwhelmed.
Except these are mostly part-time or irregular workers.

It’s like all the convenience store and restaurant staff suddenly being halved.
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Have you considered the possibility that internally Google's Autopilot was available even before Microsoft's paper?
Seeing the off the beaten path countryside is the one thing I miss about not using cars. I have a license, but only really learned to drive comfortably in my home area.

But the bulk of work and vacations are fine. For work I’m usually in denser cities or can use Uber/taxis. For vacation, I also generally go to places with train infrastructure, or to a specific destination where a car isn’t needed.
Try opening 10 tabs at random intervals. It enhances the unknown.
Don't forget about art. That and human connections are what make life worth living.
Engineers open door to big new library of tiny nanoparticles
It's interesting that this jibes with conventional wisdom. Since nearly the very beginning of when people started looking at graphs of case counts, my colleagues and acquaintances (mostly scientists) assumed a ratio of roughly 10x. Folks would look at any graph and automatically bump it up by an order of magnitude.
Or Jerry Jones wasn't as lucky as Homer. Don't judge intelligence on outcomes, money is just a proxy for success which is a proxy for how smart a person is perceived. Drawing causal relationships on 2nd order effects is inferior and goes against Occam.
But facebook hates free speech.
Russia is objectively no longer a superpower but a shell of its past self.

US after Cold War and before 2008 will be remembered as a very special country by history. China or the post great recession US can only imagine that power and influence, they can't match it.
what.cd

It was truly the Library of Alexandria of music. Cataloging standards were high and you could find even obscure releases in perfect quality in multiple formats (CD rips, multiple vinyl rips). Now I use Spotify and it frustrates me that songs will disappear without notice because their license expired and that I can't find most foreign music I previously listened to. The audio quality isn't comparable, either.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intentional_programming
I am looking at the breakdown here of the 2 Trillion billion. Note that this excludes the phase 3.5 which was passed yesterday which includes another $484 billion for small businesses:

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-anatomy-of-the-2-trilli...

The 2 trillion bill included:

$425 for large corporations = 25% of the money
$377 for small businesses = 20% of the money (originally excluding the another $484 billion)

$377 + $484 from yesterday = $861 billion for small businesses which is more than double the money for large corporations. Also the large corporations includes $58 billion for airline industry.

I don't see how this is a bad thing at all? Also considering the large corporation includes companies which operate cruise industry, airline industry, travel etc which employs millions of people, should they not be given help?

$861 billion for small businesses and $425 for large is very fair.
The surrogate escape issue was fixed in 3.7 and you shouldn't use LANG=C as a locale, you should use LANG=utf-8. Python doesn't have bad unicode handling, the system does when you set LANG=C.

And no, for people who actually have to use unicode, python2 didn't do unicode anything like "right". Python2 did unicode "right" for the people with LANG=C and ASCII. Those people are generally wrong.

Even pallets notes

>Misconfigured environments can currently cause a wide range of Unicode problems

The keyword there is misconfigured. Your system is misconfigured. Fix it (by making your locale correct). Then the problems go away.
Excellent highlight! Wonder where Sir Bellevile is and if he can chime in on his real experience. Something tells me, he must have had a lot of “fuck yous” and “i love yous”
Every rapist should be hanged
No, because giving people a job means giving them a structured and social life, as well as a place in society and the feeling they contribute to it. This is very different from just giving people unemployment money, that then fuels a particular lifestyle that is hard to get out of (I have few friends that get trapped into this at some point).
No insight into Japan, but the US in particular should be aggressively shoveling money at business payroll as well. Some reasons why:

First is to keep workers out of state unemployment insurance programs. These differ per state, but are often deliberately miserly and/or burdensome so that they motivate recipients to go find a new job. But we don't want the unemployed to hit the bricks. Payroll support is then a more easily-administered form of federal UI. (Plus state UI is written in COBOL, they will literally crash.)

Also, retaining workers will help to ensure a V-shaped economic recovery. Once the health crisis ends, retained workers can just go back to work. But layoffs followed by rehires means more retraining (not retaining), and a slower recovery.

The point is that we literally cannot pinch pennies now: anything we "save" will hit us twice as hard as a new entitlement cost, or a cost to the states, or in reduced tax revenue, or whatnot.

Money is a fiction; the real risk is mouldering factories and disused skills. If a year from now the US is trillions more in debt, and prices are 2% higher, YET we are healthy and working and productive, we will have been successful in countering the health and economic crisis. We should be so lucky.
It seems clear we all miss websites. There aren’t any websites anymore, just companies and YouTube channels and Instagrammers and Twitter and all that other new crap I am too old for.
One reason is that early on when the curves looked pretty much exponential, folks were trying to pin down how bad it could get, and when. This was when the worst case scenario was for nearly the entire population to get it. I'm not quite sure we're completely out of that woods yet.
It's possible but I highly doubt it. We're talking 10+ years (2007) since Microsoft made it public via the research paper.
The mythical person-delight-hour
Most of the time when I see more complication on top of cloudformation, what you really want is terraform.
>The unemployment benefit extension and hack (unemployment + $600) was the real critical mistake that we'll spend a long time fixing.

What was the alternative? Existing unemployment benefits are insufficient for households to pay bills and the PP program at best would have saved a small portion of the overall jobs lost.
Yep, companies are losing the ability to pay employees all over the US right now. Stay at home orders are almost certainly the right thing to do - the government needs to make it easy to do them.
What.cd
I hope they succeed.
The $600/wk benefit that the Feds added was precisely to make unemployment sufficiently generous that people would not be motivated to go find a new job right now.
You can still do that in Soulseek, i love browsing people’s cataogs for inspiration
> Prisons are much worse. Chow line with men almost
> heel to toe. Commissary line. Med line. Recycled
> air. Big crowds in small spaces.

How could the prison be much worse than the cruise ship you just described?