skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone's it's good just to butter someone up with an obvious but true bit of praise. It makes them feel better about themselves and they also like you more as a person because you said something nice.

For example, if I told my coworker in a meeting that I was impressed by how smooth her deployment went that morning, even though we both know it wasn't hard to get it right because there wasn't much new, it still makes her feel better about her role at the company and how professional she is, clearly motivational, and maybe later she is more inclined to help me out when I've hit a wall on my project, which makes us both more efficient. It also helps her to know I'm not a jerk, so later if I give her criticism she knows I'm trying to help her because I'm not always just the guy who criticizes, I also say positive remarks.

Clearly it has to be genuine praise, but I'm sure everyone can find one thing to praise in any PR.
> We do not allow anonymous users (i.e., without a Google Account) to join meetings created by individual accounts.

Reminder: it is impossible to get a Google Account without giving your phone number (and thus permitting access your traditional identity information with it: name, street address, et c) to Google, who can then tie it to any existing Google cookies and your IP.

Demanding that your communications partners dox themselves to Google to talk with you is incredibly rude.
> it’s imperative that we remove our political and personal biases and focus on the technology

And then proceeds to use his political and personal bias to write a blog article that actually ignores the technology entirely.

1) Apple and Google should be commended for their approach to contact-tracing. It is opt-in, secure, private and does not provide data to governments or third parties despite a lot of pressure.

2) It is illogical to suggest that Apple or Google could use contract-tracing to invade your privacy. They own the OS. They can do whatever they like and as users we would never know about it. If they wanted to do this they would've done it a decade ago and we likely would've found evidence a decade ago.

3) Spreading FUD about this contact-tracing initiative will literally result in more deaths. I really wish people would be mindful of this and just be careful about what they post.
Don’t feel too bad. I had an interview with them recently and a week later the recruiter told me I was going to get an offer the following Monday. It’s been almost 2 weeks and no word on any offer. I haven't bothered the recruiter though since I don’t want to work there but it’s still kinda strange.
>>"Four men and four women participated in two trials"

My uncle smoked 3 packs a day and lived to 90.

other than that, maybe just getting up and putting strains even for seconds might do the job /trick our body.
Thanks. I still think the wording of the original description isn’t great. If I point at a group of six people sitting at a table and say “three of them are friends”, the natural assumption is that three and only three of them are friends, not that all of them are friends and therefor three of them are friends.

But I suppose I will choose not to die on the hill of slightly misleading language and admit I was just wrong.
Amazons work culture is not warm or friendly. It is cutthroat,stack ranked, bar raising, judgmental, up or out, and chaotic.
Maybe not in a traditional sense, but certainly there are strong social pressures to eat similar things to those around you. Advertising can strongly affect your food choices. Smoking is also not contagious in the sense that it doesn’t immediately give you cancer: it takes years, often decades. Yet we’ve decided to outlaw it in many public places.
My reaction to the various pictures, for what it's worth, was "what a beautiful place - perhaps it needs more blackboards, but I would love to do maths there".
This study used cycling sprints. I wonder if a similar effect would be observed with say, a set of pushups or squats every hour
The idea is that they should have been stockpiling them for decades. We’ve seen 3 major respiratory epidemics in the last few decades and we had a high degree of confidence that we were due for another. Masks were cheap for a very, very long time before the outbreak.
Like Lego and Meccano, but life-size, to build rides
SF hasn’t banned cigarettes, though, which does “explain” it: the ban is not based on rational analysis of public health outcomes.
Also, during the H1N1 scare a vaccine used in Europe caused some people to develop narcolepsy (though perhaps more would have gotten it from the virus itself without a vaccine). It can be hard to determine that something is “safe” quickly.
Open web is dying because of opinionated mods? Then it has already died back in the 90s with forums and IRC. People are going to exert authority on their platforms whether you like it or not.
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I had a function which only failed at 8 or 9 minutes past the hour.

It parsed a string containing the timestamp and "08" or "09" was interpreted as an invalid octal number. Argh.
I wonder if you constantly challenged yourself to see and feel from others perspectives, all the time. Perhaps one day you may understand what it’s like to have that kind of mind. At that point, would your IQ also be around 230?
He could simply change Plasma to use an alternate server.
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Because convincing my org to install mosh-server on a few hundred systems is a non-starter. What I have is a small shim that sits on top of SSH the provides the interesting bits I need at no additional requirement per server. It works for any server running SSH, because it is SSH, so it already works with our key distribution system and expected way of managing servers. Not only that, SSH is well known and extremely well vetted security wise. Mosh has some nice features, but it doesn't really fit the criteria in this situation.
In a good year the flu vaccine is 50% effective, and that’s pretty rare (though getting better). That’s not enough for herd immunity, and flu viruses mutate enough where we also don’t get it from naturally formed antibodies.
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I usually hear people say that he wrote the algebraic one (i.e. the one that I'm saying is invalid). But I also have no idea where he supposedly wrote it so I can't verify it. For me it's more hearsay.

By the way I wouldn't hold it against him if he did write the proof that way. I'm pretty certain all the logic/model theory that comes into play came long after his death. The surreal numbers certainly did.
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It's difficult for us to believe any country's officially reported test numbers because ours (and most European ones) are known to be at least order of magnitude below the actual number of infections.
Thank you cderivan for your in depth review / usage of the product and your valuable feedback.

This is our initial version. So we have added the most used widget to this. As you said, we have donuts, switch and widgets for publishing messages ( managing devices) which will be enabled in the subsequent release of the Bevywise IoT Dashboard.

We have done a demo setup for the currently available widgets here at http://iotdashboard.mqttserver.com/

Look forward to revert back to you with the next version !!
As a guitarist and hobbyist bedroom producer for 15+ years, here's what I think is happening to the guitar market: the middle is falling out.

Cheap guitars were previously way too expensive. I'm talking about things like the no-name starter packs you'd get from Frys, or even the equivalents from Squire. They were riding on lack of competition and brand clout, and they'd been disrupted by companies that are happy to sell guitars of similar quality for half the price. It has never been more affordable to start playing guitar. I think that's great.

The high-end guitar market has some fascinating and innovative entrants. Strandberg stands out as king here. They build absolutely stunning guitars and IMO they've got an impressive adoption rate for something so expensive (2-3K). There are a surprisingly large number of high end guitar manufacturers targeting this market.

The 500-850$ market feels like it's got a ton of options, but it's flooded with noise. Some dead wood needs to burn off, I think.

I think amp companies are at much greater risk. First, the processing you can get out of the box now is just unreal. $100 for a preamp, and something like neural/toneforge (or even impulse responses + free amp sims) will get tones that compete with very expensive gear. A distant second but interesting: millenials are all broke and living in apartments / cities. You can't really have a giant loud amp in that environment. If you're not gigging, you no longer need to own one at all.

> Is the garage band going away, to be replaced with the bedroom producer?

At least partially, and for the best: the demand for being in a garage band should fall. Lots of people were in only in bands because they couldn't self-serve across as many instruments as they'd like. That's much easier now for a bunch of reasons.

There's a middle ground too. I see a lot of "bedroom bands" – with bedroom production but the multi-member aspect of a garage band.

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Another random thought: guitars are one of those products that strongly requires showrooming. Buying a guitar without feeling and hearing it is tough. This is one of the few things keeping guitar center alive. If a company figures out how to be warby parker for guitars, letting me pick five and mail four back, they could stand to make a bunch of money. This pairs really well with all the up and coming guitar brands trying to break into the market via youtubers.
> First, `1/1-R_0`. This is exactly what Wikipedia says: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity#Mechanics

I have no expertise in this area, but Wikipedia does not say:

1/(1 - R_0)

It's:

1 - (1/R_0)

Which makes much more sense to me on a math footing. You should probably fix that in your article so it doesn't confuse other pedants like myself.
> Do you still think it's a good argument that people shouldn't obtain any more programming skill than the most rudimentary level, because it would be a waste of time?

...if programming isn't their comparative advantage, then yes. A project manager, or a salesman, should not spend their time learning to code. It's not the most valuable thing they could be doing to increase their ability to do their own job.

> I think clear communication will probably help you write better, clearer, more concise code.

You realize that communication occurs in a specific language, and the problem is often more to do with lack of knowledge of the language the communication is occurring in, right?

Someone might be extremely eloquent in e.g. Spanish, but that doesn't mean they're going to be able to communicate effectively in English. But that also doesn't mean that they aren't going to be able to write good, clear, concise code. They already know how to communicate well; they already have the meta-skill that results in both good writing and good code. They just don't have the specific skill of arranging powerful, pithy words of English to concisely represent a complex concept.
Yep. If they paid out the value of those pensions upon retirement at the cost of a similar annuity and an estimate for the health care costs, people would probably be more angry than they are now, as they don't realize just how generous these are.

To buy an annuity at age 55 worth $100k / year with guaranteed health, dental, long term care, etc. for an employee who's estimated to live another 30 years would cost a few million dollars. A quick Google search shows that the media 401k balance at 55 - 65 in the US is under $75k. The amount of non-guaranteed dividends, cap gains, and withdrawals made to ensure it lasts 30 years would probably not even cover the cost of Obamacare from 55 to 65 when they're eligible for Medicare.
PG’s Viaweb was a “no-code” startup for making web stores, that eventually became Yahoo Stores, before “no-code” was a thing, in the late 90s
I'm confused. "Hourly 4s sprints" sounds like one 4 second sprint every hour but the second paragraph of the summary says

> Purpose

> This study determined if the interruption of prolonged sitting (i.e.; 8-h of inactivity) with hourly cycling sprints of only 4-s duration each (i.e.; 4-s x 5 per h x 8-h = 160-s per day; SPRINTS) improves PPL. The 4-s sprints employed an inertial load ergometer and were followed by 45-s of seated rest.

That's 5 per hour not 1 or once every 12 minutes
> But then you see some people testing positive again, and it's reasonable to want to know why.

I have been following the statements of experts ever since this myth made headlines.

And despite what the headlines said, the opinions of experts has always been clear. That being that these "reinfections" were the result of dead virus material being detected.

So, no it is not reasonable to have ever believed this, if you had listened to the experts.
This was a very unpleasant experience.

Read through the documentation... awful documentation, but the project looks cool.

Looked for the source... no source, that's weird, isn't this Github?

Found the binary... crashes without Combine.framework. That's funny... nothing about requirements in the docs...

Looked through the comments... couldn't get the source ready for "Launch Day"? Nor, apparently, any of the above.
So what is the point of a launch day?

Maybe I'll try a sample app at the Bazaar... It says it's for sharing, right? So I can see some demos there... Nope.

Got 234 upvotes at this point, though, so people seem to be finding something worthwhile here. Wish I knew what it was.
There's no supposedly for me using compression. I just checked - it consistently takes 3x longer to launch an xterm without compression than with compression (15 vs 45s!).
Apple's and Google's efforts are for more privacy preserving than ANY goverment efforts would ever be.

Speaking as someone who has worked with govt.

Seriously, this care around privacy DOES NOT EXIST with govt agencies.
He can, by re-releasing it with minor modifications to use another domain?
No, it's fine. The whole thing is opt-in, my dude. That's enough to okay it. I can get riled up for compulsory location tracing but:

A. No one is going to use this opt-in shite

B. I don't care if I can just not care
Aren't cgroups / containers a very close equivalent? In either case, it's namespacing, of a tree of userspace processes to make them invisible from the rest of the userspace.
> I get the apps want to present their own UI for the photos.

If it were up to me and my 100k photo library, none of those apps would pass App Store validation because they are inevitably a miserable experience. Even the OS photo picker isn't 100% jank-free on that number of photos but it at least works effectively unlike everyone who implements their own (takes 30s to appear, photos in random* order, albums in random* order, smart* albums missing, extraneous albums, etc.)

> I hate that apps either get permission to read all photos or none

I thought they had introduced a "get a single photo for this app without photos permission" picker (I'm pretty sure I've used it in apps!) but I can't find any indication I'm not wildly hallucinating. But that would be a great thing.
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I've been on the internet since I had a 2400 baud modem ie. pre-Netscape.

It is far more open now than it has ever been. Anyone can launch their own web app/site for a few dollars a month. Anyone can affordably build and scale the next Facebook, Google, Youtube on cloud technologies.

And people are far more free to find platforms where they can say what the want and do what they want e.g. Tor.

Instead people are more entitled. They deserve for their content to be on the websites they like. They deserve the huge amounts of traffic that they had no help in creating. They deserve to be featured in algorithms that ruin the reputation of the website. They deserve to spread their propaganda.
> This study determined if the interruption of prolonged sitting (i.e.; 8-h of inactivity) with hourly cycling sprints of only 4-s duration each (i.e.; 4-s x 5 per h x 8-h = 160-s per day; SPRINTS) improves PPL. The 4-s sprints employed an inertial load ergometer and were followed by 45-s of seated rest.

So you would need to take a 5 x (4-s sprint + 45-s rest) = 245 seconds exercise break from work every hour and in return you could get the following results?

> No differences (p>0.05) between interventions were found for plasma insulin or glucose AUC. However, SPRINTS displayed a 31% (408±119 vs. 593±88 mg/dL/6h; p=0.009) decrease in plasma triglyceride incremental AUC and a 43% increase in whole body fat oxidation (P=0.001) when compared to SIT.

Does "whole body fat oxidation" mean that the an average male calorie burn of 2500 per day would be multiplied with 1,43 to 3575 calories per day?
Surely it can store files in a working folder of its own, and keep a reference to the original file. The other files don't need to live side-by-side
Nice article, I think you’ve gotten a lot right, and i think analyses like this get down to the point where we can have a rational discussion. Here are some counterpoints:

1. Looking at NYC, the fatality rate is roughly 0.5%. This is based on a 20% positive antibody sample, which is getting large enough that the false positives aren’t overwhelming the data any longer.

2. If we take that as a given, then if 100% of the population becomes infected, we will have 1.5 million deaths. If we assume something more like 60%, then just one million people will die. If we lower the mortality rate to 0.3%, then maybe we are more like 750,000. I have a hard time believing it will be much lower, considering that 0.1% of NYC’s population has already died from covid-19

3. Additionally, if we give up on social distancing, then those people will die in a large wave, overwhelming our hospitals.

4. I would love to see a plan that keeps seniors safe and lets everyone else out. So far, that plan is not forthcoming. It’s hard to see how we keep them safe if their family living with them and their caregivers are all infected. So far, we’ve done a piss poor job of keeping them safe in senior living facilities, even with a lockdown.

5. On the comment that the same number of people will die with a flattened curve - that’s only true if hospitals don’t get overwhelmed, which may well still happen. Additionally, it turns out that the herd immunity point, where transmission drops below 1, is actually a function of the base transmission rate. We can actually reach herd immunity at a lower infection percentage if we are socially distanced, and thus avoid some of the deaths.

Ultimately, I think we will find ways to back off the lockdown, but health departments will be on the look-out and will be titrating the degree of lockdown as cases rise and fall. It’s hard to see e.g. restaurants getting back to anything close to full occupancy any time in the next year, and most of them don’t make enough profit per table to operate half-full (or less).

EDIT: additional point to add: yes, it seems that covid deaths will be heavily weighted to seniors. But so is mortality in general. Let’s roughly assume that the mortality rate for covid is 0.08% for 25-35 year olds. Guess what? The average annual mortality for 25-35 year olds is around 0.08%, so it will roughly DOUBLE if covid sweeps through the entire population this year. Covid could easily become the single largest killer of young adults this year.
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It's a shame that it only works for glucose curves. Imagine if someone could generalize it :-)
"Be careful" as "know which number is bigger than the other"

You're right, people should know that 50mg is bigger than 40mg/25mg (at least for a safe prolonged daily limit - single dosage limit might be higher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc_toxicity ). It's kindergarden level math and still it seems people have trouble with it.

I'm not being ironic, it seems that's a common problem. Maybe explains why the situation got to the point it got.
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This is really an introduction to the implementation of continuous delivery in your organization. In order to implement this topic, you still need to seriously consider the following techniques that are necessary for the proper functioning of the entire implementation pipeline:

- trunk based development
- feature flags
- zero-downtime deployment
- continuous inspection

This is a necessary minimum to keep the whole process in good shape.
Look at how effective it is. Even still in this thread.
> whereas the experimental group sprinted five times

Per hour.
> in the decade since Steve Jobs died, Apple has added a watch to their lineup, and changed virtually nothing else

The Watch is incredibly popular, AirPods are a runaway hit, the iPad Pro is killing it, the new Mac Pro is awesome, Apple Music took off, Apple Pay/Card is super popular....

I genuinely don't know why you say they haven't done anything.

If anything it's incredible that the company manages to stay true to itself time and time again. That's a testament to the strength of the culture Steve left behind.
Not only the Open web is dying, the Intranet web is also dying

https://blog.chromium.org/2019/10/no-more-mixed-messages-abo...

Since Chrome v80 they forced <video> <img> content to switch to HTTPS, if the page itself is served https. Is it really a good idea? So for Intranet URLs with customize TLDs, you have exactly three choices:

1. Turn off the upgrade-insecure-requests or CSP crap in browser config completely. This voids all the security features browser-wide.

2. Install a company wide root cert. Yeah because enabling the company to MITM all TLS traffic is more secure than streaming videos over http in a company LAN.

3. Train the end-users to click "trust certs with invalid Common Name". That's will teach them.

Did I miss something here? What kind of Web do we live in these days?
I find it odd that the article's topic is literally "the surge of people taking a shot at building a business with no code products", but the author then goes on to be really surprised that so many people in this group are trying to build a business compared with "developers in general".

Well if you interview developers who represent their startup product i guess you might end up with similar figures of "wants to be an entrepreneur"?

It's missing the point that devs might have a number of incentives in building tools outside of a business scope, but when someone sets out to build a product even when it's not their job & passion "anyway", it pretty damn sure aims to make money
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Laravel LiveWire looks like a good middle ground for enabling more dynamic user interfaces from a server application:

https://laravel-livewire.com/

There are similar projects for Phoenix/Elixir and Django:

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view

https://github.com/edelvalle/reactor/blob/master/README.md
This move is mainly about taking existing pedestrian spaces, and making them available for bars and restaurants. The city has a lot of parks and plazas, that are often used to host outdoor events and festivals - which won't be happening this year. Since last year part of the main street (Gedimino Pr.) has been pedestrian only during weekends, so already restaurants have been able to use that for seating, and this extends that.

We usually have warm summers and long days (it's still light at 11pm in the middle of June), so it's very popular to sit outside where available. My only complaint is that people are allowed to smoke in these areas (with no seperation). For a bar I understand, but eating at a restaurant when someone is smoking next to you is not very pleasant.
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