skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd love to agree with this article, but I don't think it holds much water.

* Washington schools closed very late. My friends' schools in Indianapolis had already been closed a week.

* Barely any of the volunteer WFH was taken, at least among my group at Microsoft. Maybe 10% participation.

* Volunteer child removal from school was spotty, maybe 25%, not enough to make a huge difference.

While I like most of how our governor has managed it, and I like science, I have a hard time saying that it's more than marginally responsible for the NYC - SEA disparity. In fact as the article alludes, many of the decisions were driven by factors beyond the need to minimize covid deaths, like providing school lunches for families who couldn't afford them. So coming to the conclusion that these decisions are responsible for the disparity is disingenuous.

All the other points in the article, including luck, carry a lot more weight. NYC is the city that never sleeps. SEA is the city where if one person is Sleepless then they make a bestselling movie about it....

The other things really that might make a difference, that few have mentioned is that

* The first hit of the virus was ripping through a life care center. That put people naturally on edge.

* Knicks and Nets both had long homestands during the beginning of the outbreak, whereas let's just say the Sonics have been on a rather long road trip.
I never got why people were so upset about the filtering after the character got the sunglasses.
they ran smack into the common failure mode of building up a large audience and then trying to use that as leverage for user-hostile monetisation tactics.
I think it would go a long way in establishing trust if they release the source code, even if you can't perfectly prove that the binaries are built from it. They would have to be outright lying if that wasn't the case.
Avogadro constant - I can accept the number, if someone can show me how, over a hundred years ago, without having every really seen a molecule, this number could be derived. Obviously no one ever sat there and counted them but I find it hard to believe, they could have decided this without being able to see it.
Should Twitter release an easy static site generator of sorts and host those user blogs for free so users can post about each others blogs on regular Twitter? Keeps people on Twitter.
So last week in Australia I wanted to stock pile some number of my favorite pens. Amazon - yeah, you'll get it some 3 weeks later. Local Officeworks - no problem, we'll bring 'em pens tomorrow. And they did. So I dunno, I usually buy stuff on Amazon that I can't get locally.
Nuclear Engine for IBM System i (2011)
Parable of the Broken Window
> The network is a boon and bane.

Couldn't agree more. Some good info gets distributed that way, but so does even more crap. It does tax people's ability to filter.

> Twitter has an atrocious UI.

Sure, twitter.com has a terrible UI, but there are many other UIs available that are better

> there are a lot of us (dozens of us!) that won't touch Twitter with a ten foot pole.

There are a lot of us who do use Twitter too. I'm connected to probably over a hundred fellow developers, sysadmins, computer scientists, etc. One step away through them are thousands, and we do learn from each other every day. (More so than here, that's for damn sure.) Avoiding Twitter means missing out on that, just like using only Twitter would mean missing out on blog content. It's a high price to pay for fashion, and people who avoid or dump on Twitter for that reason seem to outnumber those who do so out of genuine principle by a large margin.
Wow, Ossia looks very cool - I've wondered if there was something like a "visual OSC-aware API tool" and there definitely is.

The linked article for this thread would be much more meaningful if it mentioned a) specific visual programming languages found to be lacking and b) domains where the visual models map directly to the underlying processes being modeled. As you note, electronic music processes/devices like modular synths, recording studios, and electric guitar rigs are ripe for modeling with boxes/wires in node-based systems.
Thanks for this. I keep meaning to get more involved with the IndieWeb folks, just RSVP'd to one of their upcoming events.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=uHeTQLNFTgU

This comes close -- It shows the jittery thermal motion of this tiny machinery, instead of nice smooth glides.
Similar idea https://schemaverse.com/
A while back, I overheard a coworker of mine was complaining about a cousin that was couch-surfing his way through relatives, not getting a job, just playing video games all day and moving on to a different relative or friend after getting kicked out of the last place he stayed.

The coworker and the person he was talking to were both very confused by how anyone could ever want to live that way. I had a very different reaction: if I had been aware that this was an option when I was 22, I totally would have done that, but I just never considered it as a possibility.

Even almost 20 years later it still sounds like a great life, other than the soul-crushing guilt and shame I would feel...
King Promise – Sisa (Changed) (Prod. By Guilty Beatz) – Ghanamotion.com
> so, I stated

>> So, if want to accept the usual situation for viruses...

You're saying that we should assume "normal situation" in the face of evidence that your assumptions do not hold. Anything you say based on this faulty assumption is hardly worth consideration.

Folks don't develop immunity to this virus. They can get re-infected immediately after recovering. Herd immunity is a phenomenon observed elsewhere, but not here.
My reading of the article is that Muddy Waters first performed some quiet investigation, then established a short position with respect to NMC, then subsequently sent out a vague tweet concerning a report Muddy Waters would release the next day; certain market participants suspected NMC would be implicated in the teased report and sent the shares a-crashing.
Sounds like you could benefit from enabling the category tabs feature in gmail, at least it will separate few categories for you
Another vote for Blink. I’ve used it for over a year with very few issues. They consistently push out bug fixes and add well thought out features. It’s a joy.
If experimenters disprove Many Worlds, they've also disproved Copenhagen. These are exactly the same equations after all.

Theoreticians choose very different mindsets about the same equations, which (they say) somehow create them grounds to form various new hypotheses. As far as I know neither approach was very fruitful so far in terms of new science, so people try multitude of others.

What I've meant to say above, I have much trouble using Copenhagen to understand Bell's experiment. MWI fits the bill here for me.
If you look at the bigger picture it's hard to imagine this wouldn't be the case.

Not trying to start a generational food fight but realistically the world has changed since the boomers grew up. The US is facing major great power rivalry from China, we're much more internationalized (I read in the economist that only ~5% of US citizens had passports around 1990), and probably something almost nobody is talking about, the financial condition of the country is vastly different today -- our national debt just passed 100% of GDP, our state and local governments are financially stretched, GDP growth has slowed down, and environmental causes are consuming more attention, and money.

It'a almost unfathomable how much debt the US piled up at every level, from households to state and local to federal, over the past 50 years. It's a double-whammy: they weren't properly funding pensions/infrastructure/etc then, and now we have to both keep these things in good repair, AND make up for all the debt that's been accumulated (both financial and otherwise) by them not doing it over last generation.

The decline of manufacturing EMPLOYMENT (not value created) is also a big part of this. There used to be this demand for high school graduates where you could just walk into a place and get a job. Nowadays, that's a lot harder to do. Just look at how many hours of work is required to afford the basic necessities of life (food, healthcare, shelter), it's gone up a lot. Not going to pontificate on why that is, but I think it's worth acknowledging as being true.

Kind of hard to see how things wouldn't be more stressed, and stressful, today than 40-50 years ago.
Hmm...

This is old research, which seems to be a recreation of the work of Sutcu et al. among others.

I did my masters thesis on this.
Despite how toxic it is, Twitter is very simple: get account, follow a few people, and you get a text field where you can write stuff, hit "Publish", and you can reach your audience. Even a senile old man who wonders if injecting disinfectant might be worthwhile can use it.

Forcing people to register a domain and choose a template is "too much work" compared to that.
"To avoid tracking, some people I know take a different approach which is to turn Airplane Mode on until they actually want to make a call. I wonder how long it will be before Airplane Mode in phones is disabled by mandate."

Carry your phone in a container made out of conductive material and while the phone is in it you won't be tracked by it.

Of course, all bets are off when you take it out.

Even simpler solution: turn off your phone and maybe take out your phone's battery (if you're lucky enough to have a phone with a removable battery) when not using it.
A combination of low quality blogspam being posted there and the irritating paywall model.
Spread the word of your personal self-hosted blog on social media. Post about things that gets picked up by indexers like Bing or Google so that people searching the web can find your blog. Come to terms with the fact that nobody reads your blog and that's okay. Not everyone is entitled to readers or has opinions worth reading about.
Both are like a multiplayer game of snakes?
Diversification (a.k.a. How to Survive a Crash)
This is also why a public user registry would be a really good thing if it were figured out how to do it well and also give people privacy. That our social lives and online conversations are beholden to advertisers above all else is not the ideal end state of things. Can’t wait for something better to come along.
The reason is that tech leadership is doing what I described. Making clear to involved stakeholders that this is not normal and can't be expected every time. As parent commenter has seen, it doesn't happen automatically.
There is a comic (maybe SMBC) that covers the whole commonly false belief surrounding qubits.
Flipcode! The good old days of me trying to render a BSP map. There's a tutorial about it there which I tried to follow. Obviously it didn't work out.

Shortly after it was closed down.
> They quickly get tired of answering clarifying questions about it and ask developers to "just figure it out."

This one. I'm primarily familiar with the "internal customer" scenario, and so it becomes uncomfortable to have to go back and forth clarifying details that are crucial to the development of the solution but seem trivial or even entirely inconsequential to the 'customer'.

It highlights the size of the knowledge gap between 'customer', who's been doing their process for years and 'developer' who's just finished a project for a completely different aspect of the company and is therefore a blank slate as far as this new project.

Another poster mentioned sitting with the people that actually do the process. I can't see a good solution being possible without this - one way or another. That's the role of the Business Analyst isn't it? The translator between requester / user and developer.
Diagnosis: bored.

See other comments on interest. I'll address your thoughts. You're speaking casually, but your exaggerations can be dangerous when you're vulnerable:

> nothing sticks.

Not literally true that "nothing" sticks, since you later mention things you recall.

> I fail to understand, fail to recognize patterns

There's partial understanding and levels of understanding. You can notice progress by comparing your present understanding with before.

> am too slow to understand simple concepts

Here you admit you do gain understanding, but dismiss it. What is the threshold for fast enough?

> and never retain anything.

Again, not literally true that "nothing" is retained.

> Occasionally understand the individual concepts of something but then her completely lost when they're all combined in some applied method.

Again, you admit understanding, but dismiss it because of difficulty in the next step. Also, "completely" lost is not literally true.

---

These casual exaggerations are dangerous when you start to believe them, because they aren't literally true. Changing them won't solve the problem completely, but you'll see it more clearly and that helps to solve it! Advice:

notice what you _have_
retained/understood/applied
(especially in contrast with before)

[But the real problem is boredom]
not quantum computers per se but I had my aha moment when I saw quantum computing as "linear algebra with probability coefficients". It's mostly working on superpositioned qubits while doing the calculation and then making them (with linear transformations) as likely as possible to collapse on the solution (when "measured").
A policy against contacting mail recipients? They're already allowed to knock on the doors of our homes to deliver something that doesn't fit through the letterbox, or requires a signature...
Perhaps too high expectation if bad reviews?
These two issues are orthogonal. But thank you for taking the time to do your usual Québec bashing which you always seem to love doing when you get the chance.
Ah, right. This makes a lot of sense. Thank you!
> And then have 0 people read your blog because it’s on your random domain.

Well, the same thing could be said of most tweets written by a random person. Building an audience rarely happens overnight. These things take time, be it on twitter or your blog. It is still better to own your content (and maybe syndicate it elsewhere, like on Twitter) regardless of whether you have an audience or not.

But now blogs discoverability needs to be solved again.
> Why would the people want the government to fight a business that they could voluntarily avoid, without any government intervention whatsoever?

In my case, I am willing to pay more to the local shop if everybody is doing it. If Im the only one, the benefit is lost but I personally pay the cost.

You can see it as a community agreement. When I travel with friends we agree to pay each one a lunch, it is way faster than to pay individually. But, I agree to do it because all of us agree. If Im the only one, the it is problematic.
That's fine, then stay at home. You're a liability to the rest of us. It's fair if you don't want to use it, but then you cannot go anywhere near any other person, because you're putting everyone at risk.
It's satire. Gave me a chuckle. Stumbled upon it as I was trying to look up details on that system IBM sold in the 80s/90s that was heavily shielded and weighed a (not literal) ton, for high security environments where even EMI transmissions were considered a risk.
You're missing the point.

If I break both of your legs, that's serious. You're not dead.

If you catch AIDS, that's pretty serious. You're also not dead for a pretty long time.

If I poke your eyes out, that's serious. You're also not dead.

You've redefined a serious medical problem at one which kills you. COVID19 disables far more people than it kills. We don't know how many more, and we won't know for quite a while. With lung damage, most doctors believe the damage is permanent, but some believe people will recover in a decade or two. With other organ damage, we're just speculating.
One would have though the recent developments in bringing extinct species back [0] would have made it plain. In that case they inject the DNA into some other species ovum. You don't end up with some hybrid - you get whatever the DNA programmed.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2013/04/species-...
It's misleading because there is no evidence either way. It's just not been studied yet (in humans, at least -- it's been studied in other animals).

Pretty much everyone equates "there's no evidence for X" to "X is wrong" in their mind. Maybe they are committing a logical fallacy, but the point of WHO's tweets is to provide accurate information to people. They can't just say "well, what we said is technically correct, so it's people's fault for not understanding!"

A responsible way of conveying the same information would be "Whether people who have recovered from the virus are protected from a second infection is currently unknown". This way it doesn't seem to take a stance either way.
Cool product. Which SaaS companies use you?
"Being critical of those in power is a keystone to democracy."

That may be so for an ideal democracy but with our far-from-perfect ones where the power imbalance inevitably favors the incumbents, precious little ever changes.
I think, like most things, this is dependent on circumstances. Planned weekend work (downtime needed, pre-planned release, or timing with external factors) isn't always a failure.

Separate but related, an engineering team that is able to coordinate aggressive cycles on a regular basis, with built-in time to recover, is probably more productive over the long term than one that can't.
If we have zero other information about the app other than the creator, that’s the only reasonable thing to base our options on. Aka, if all you know is the software is written by a malware company, would you run it?

I am perfectly willing to change my opinion if given more information, but until then...
I learned JS with this book back when it was ES5 - looks like the new edition is updated for ES6
Wouldn't intent matter, with false advertising? If the advertiser fully believed in what they were advertising, only to later discover it didn't do what they said it did, is that false advertising?
What? Not every person who uses X infinite scrolling app is a "scroll zombie". I took scroll zombie as that person you know who wakes up, starts scrolling, scrolls all day, then falls asleep scrolling at night but somehow has the balls to say they don't have time to do anything. Social media/phone addicts if you will.
Yoneda lemma
Yeah I mean people are tired of being locked in all day, it might not be prudent behavior but it makes sense.

And I agree, people I know are going nuts.
Nah, a good protocol with strong privacy is needed before any implementations are allowed. This must be one of the few times I'm glad Apple is so restrictive, the current COVID-19 trackers have been horrendous: https://twitter.com/xssfox/status/1251118830962663424
PL/SQL and T-SQL are the names of the stored procedure languages - postgres' on of those is PL/PGSQL.

All three have variations from ANSI SQL in their non-sproc SQL too, oracle's far worse than the other two, but pg and SQL Server document where they deviate pretty damn well.

There definitely were ANSI examples in there, "ORDER BY 2" is in ANSI (and IIRC plenty of pre-ANSI dialects as well) for a start, I'm too tired (and/or lazy) to go back and look for others, sorry.
Poor analogy.

Quora took an existing database practice that already has a name (sharding) and decided to refer to it by the name of another existing database practice (partitioning).

For your analogy to make sense, we'd have to use two established titles with very specific meanings.

"Here at Quora, we have medical doctors. Internally, we refer to them as nurses."
I've never used Pihole. Does it offer anything substantial over something like NextDNS?
The coronavirus pandemic is getting the total attention’ of the Gates Foundation
I've used Atlassian's Fisheye and Gerrit, plus GitHub and GitLab. And I played with Phabricator briefly. I haven't found any useful IDE integration.

IMO, none of them is great. In fact, none of them is even good.

I haven't tried anything with VSCode.
My wife is a therapist, her suggestion is to go call up the largest local University and talk to folks in their psych department for recommendations.

They're usually much more science driven and grounded.
> The first thing to note is that in Japan, housing isn’t an investment. It’s a place to live.

Fixing this can be a major obstacle in countries with inadequate pension systems. In countries where dependency on rising property values is the chief or sole form of retirement planing for vast numbers of people, fixing a broken housing market becomes dependent on fixing the retirement system.

And when land values are consistently propped up by government to a greater degree than other investments, it moves people even more into land speculation as their retirement investment because of its artificial safety.
How much power can we expect from rainfall?
If you're adding everything up, please don't omit the costs of long-term disability from COVID19-related lung damage. That swings the numbers completely.

If it were just 3.6% of the US population dying, I would understand the economic versus public health argument. It comes down to values at that point: how much is a human life worth?

But that changes completely when you consider how many people we'll either need to support for decades, or who will have lower economic output. Those costs get astronomical, and at least by my ballpark estimates, align public health with economic outcomes completely.
You could consider talking more about what you are interested in, what makes you happy, and less about the problems with your current situation. If you have even a little bit of energy that you can put towards something which you care about more than what you're working on now, you can start to move your life in a new direction. Eventually you'll start to take some risks that you are not brave enough to take now, but you need to be positive. Don't worry about making drastic changes now, they can come when you're ready.

Complex problems are good if you care about them. A smart person working on it is a good sign. You just need to find a small way to contribute or even just to learn, you don't need to take over the world. Just do one small thing towards finding what you care about.

In short, don't worry about changing your current routine and job, try to find something you really care about and work more on that in your free time. Trust your gut.
>Mobo makers are hiding behind their QVL rather than making a functioning product.

How do you go from, "one particular mobo from one manufacturer is bad" to "all mobo makers are bad" and you attribute some sneaky malicious motive behind this.

That's too much anecdote and emotional spin for me.
Flat wings can and do fly just fine, they are just a bit less efficient. The teardrop shape and camber/cupping underneath just make the winds more efficient at slicing through the air without creating as much turbulence and drag.
I sense a frustration with status quo. As always it's a spectrum of causes. Job, or purpose may just be one. Important one, no doubt, but sometimes not the decisive one. Young hearts are movable, so are their minds, given enough interest either from within or from outside.

Being you, I'd first try to figure out how much money I need to feel comfortable. Then ask if I can afford to be less comfortable and for how long. Then I'd look if anyone else depends on me for their comfort.

Finally, I'd try to imagine what I'd do in my free time should I forget about all of the above. AND for how long would I be ready to stay oblivious in that.

If I see myself making money while doing that thing that I imagined, I try to write it down and later figure out a plan to make that happen... eventually.

Meanwhile, I'd take some rest and solve something approacheable. This will sure be a booster, to start believing that you've got that thing that you think matters in life. And you can make it better!
Maybe some kind of device that corrupts Bluetooth signal frequencies