skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Iphones are by far the most impactful invention of the past 2 decades, to the point where many other globally impactful things like Uber are built entirely on top of them and their clones. I don't think there's any informed way to understand the perspective; it just can't come from anything but blindness about what Silicon Valley has accomplished.
Indeed - failed when I tried in MobileSafari/iOS, worked great from Brave/MacOS.
Wow, where did you find the used Steelcases?

I've been looking for used Aerons, but there's a lot of scare stories about franken-chairs.
I'm loving this group of E-Ink projects. First the newspaper, then the resources for buying the best screen, now this. Thanks for sharing. Especially around the Image API.

I think I'll have to take inspiration from (Copy!) parts of this project myself.
I don't see how whether "we should let them" factors into it. People make their own choices; others haven't the right to tell them whether a risk is allowable.
I'm currently working with realntl on a transition to Eventide from a Rails monolith for a client project. We reached a point where the monolith was getting harder and harder to change. This is inevitable in my experience, no matter how careful you think you are.

Though the transition is still in progress, I can say that the path forward is clear and hopeful. This company had previously explored other "SOA" paths (distributed monolith) and it was clear that those were very problematic. Luckily, we were able to steer them to an actual evented architecture.

As I said, it's still early days for this particular project, but if you're feeling your monolith is getting harder and harder to develop on, you should start looking into evented architectures. Eventide (ruby)/messagedb (postgresql) are awesome technologies and would be the first I'd consider. Eventide also has a nice slack community filled with people that are learning and improving their software design skill both in the large (architecture) and the small (individual classes/etc). It's small, but they're good people.
That selfish act of having children by all your ancestors is the reason you exist.
>Paying out a lot more to the federal government than they receive back does not mean these states are doing well and others poorly.

Sigh.

Even if we look at a list of states by GDP, Illinois, New Jersey, and Massachusetts would still be perennial top 10 states. Even a list of states by GDP per capita, they all still are perennial top 10s. Per capita, I would bet that Massachusetts is number 1? (Maybe NY might edge them out? But I'd definitely bet they're number 1 or 2.)

Listen man, I don't even like Illinois. I hate Chicago. But facts are facts. They make a $#!t ton of money. And not the easy way doing financial engineering like New York. They do it the hard way with a huge diversified economy. Few states are like that. It's just a fact man.

Are you going to say that GDP is not a good indication of what a state produces?
My approach is and was always edge-first. Security begins at connected devices; everything else is an afterthought. The only time you try to secure something primarily at the network level rather than the device level is when it's legacy junk you can't secure otherwise and that you must use.

I am not opposed to network firewalls and such, but they're just defense in depth. If the whole network wouldn't remain secure if it were connected to the Internet with no firewall, it's not secure.

Given that these things are afterthoughts, I am not willing to prioritize them much over efficiency, complexity reduction, and user experience. Afterthoughts should be sacrificed to complexity reduction because complexity negatively impacts security a lot more. Inefficiency and poor UI/UX also have security implications. They increase the amount of "shadow IT" type activity and also seem to make phishing easier. If you secure something in ways that prevent people from getting their work done, they will get their work done insecurely.

Treating NAT as a must-have or should-have rather than the ugly hack you don't want to have increases complexity and negatively harms UI/UX by making P2P stuff not work and making people have to work harder to do simple things. If removing NAT makes you insecure, you were insecure to begin with.

Needless to say I am a fan of the BeyondCorp/deperimeterization approach. Ideally physical networks should be dumb pipes and everything should be virtual. The LAN itself is legacy baggage.
Less gets done means the country gets worse and people get more radicalized trying to improve things. The polarization in the US is likely a direct result of the massive deadlock.

Your strategy is one guaranteed to ruin your country.
I have lived this scenario. I should write it up sometime. Also fun: Sprinklers and failed UPS batteries.
The Next Kindle Better Have USB-C to Avoid a Revolt
No (hence the question mark), I'm seeing 0.04% pop up everywhere but I haven't found the source for the number.

But it seems plausible if the CFR is <0.1% as there are both asymptomatic cases of the flu and people don't always go to the doctor even if they have symptoms. It seems like caring about IFR was rare before this pandemic and the lockdown
I like this one from ChromeOS about boot decisions.

https://www.chromium.org/_/rsrc/1277241373652/chromium-os/ch...
OneDrive differential sync now rolled out to all customers
I don't claim that all the science that isn't actively being applied yet is BS, but this kind of science typically happens within trading firms, tested on real-world data, and is not being published on arXiv.

As a side note, what this specific paper here did is neither novel not innovative, so it's very fair to criticize it. A3C is 4 years old, and they just take it and run it on some data. It's like downloading a convnet and running it on MNIST. There have been hundreds of papers on RL + Trading. I see them in my arXiv emails every other day and they all do the same thing.
If we kept a common market, and common currency, you would see lots of failed states like we’ve seen with Greece in the EU.
that's a good one thanks!
One aspect which does not fit too much it the fact that the farmer cuts the plants to eat them and the rancher kills the animals.
Uber or Airbnb don't kill the users, they keep them alive and extract a part of the value created.

I think I got it thanks to you tough: milking cows.

Does it work?
Too harsh?
>Layoffs are mounting

We just fired our cleaning crew this morning and cut hours for the entire shop floor. We are a mid-size, midwestern diesel repair shop similar to Western Truck Exchange. I used to just do valve work and major overhauls, now I carry garbage to the dumpster and fix the copiers in the front office too.

>alternative work is limited

non-existant out here really, but the real thing no one seems to be covering is crime seems up. We had two break-ins this month, one stole all our nitrile gloves, another took our air conditioner and a tool box.

>the unemployment systems in many states are either broken or running out of funding.

LOL this is a massive understatement. I applied a month ago for limited unemployment and got a voice message telling me the system was overloaded after I had completed the 40 minute call. the next day the line didnt even answer and the website was still down two weeks later. I finally stood in line for an hour at the unemployment office to be told I had to call the number "when it comes back up." Oh, those Trump Bucks? the $1200? Not me or a single person ive talked to has gotten that money.

>the federal governments indicated desire to let blue states go bankrupt

Just the blue ones? I'm in a red one and so far its starting to feel like we're all up shits creek. The local Sheriff wanted us to do oil changes on their patrol cars because we're part of a city contract for fire truck maintenance and they dont have the budget for regular service anymore. the motor pool for the county just cancelled their snow plow rebuilds, the county schools cancelled their bus maintenance and wanted to know if we would buy about 15 of them. The local water company asked if we could do their pump house generator maintenance on a net 120 or a payment plan.

>a depression.

I remember living out of my truck during the 2008 financial "downturn" and freezing all through November. I think the government may be vastly over-estimating the social credit they have with the people of this great nation if they think another round of "austerity" is going to sit right with us while all the banks get bailouts and the rich get richer.
> It’s not that these other things don’t matter but all the “other stuff” shouldn’t take priority...

Totally agree with you; I think the sentiment behind "I could do that in a weekend" is that shipping the core functionality can be done quickly, and iterating on the "other things" can be done after launch in many cases. Not everything has to be as robust as possible on day one. Google didn't have BigTable, MapReduce, and Borg the day the search bar went live. Shipping features is my favorite part of the job, it'd be great to have those wins as often as possible and cross other bridges when we come to them.
> this falls roughly under the same category as intelligent design debate: the claim is so exceptional that it's a priori unlikely to be found true

No. As the person you're responding to pointed out: "The viruses that cause colds, many of which are also coronaviruses, are pretty adept at hitting people throughout their life."
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> PBotC [...] when the new edition

No idea, sorry.

> favorite books on how things work at that scale

I've found the bionumbers database[1] very helpful. Google scholar and sci-hub for primary and secondary literature. But books... I'd welcome suggestions. I'm afraid I mostly look at related books to be inspired by things taught badly.

The bionumbers folks did a "Cell Biology by the Numbers" book... the draft is online[2].

Ha, they've done a Covid-19 by the numbers flyer[3].

If you ever encounter something nice -- paper, video, text, or whatever, or even discussion of what that might look like -- I'd love to hear of it. Sorry I can't be of more help.

[1] https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/search.aspx [2] http://book.bionumbers.org/ [3] http://book.bionumbers.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/SARS-C...
> but they also need to have a lot more sovereignty over things like (in this case) being able to close their borders to neighbouring states

Commerce Clause of the US Constitution stands in a way. It (the Commerce Clause) has been a bedrock of the federal government pushing through progressive policies onto the states.
Inkplate may be what you’re looking for, though it isn’t shipping yet: https://www.crowdsupply.com/e-radionica/inkplate-6
There are many more coronaviruses in the wild and we will continue to see pandemics until unsanitary practices like wet markets with exotic animal products are outlawed.

Simian Inmunodeficiency Virus (SIV) could jump to humans, becoming HIV, through the manipulation of raw meat from infected apes.

We have immunity or at least some control over diseases coming from more common species of cattle.
This is Boeing we're talking about here... They won't be allowed to go bankrupt - they're a national symbol of the USA, and will get a bottemless-bailout well before bankrupcy.
Pretty sure they will have pictures of Florida beaches and the reopen protests beside pictures of the SF Spanish Flu reopening and think we didn’t learn a thing in 100 years.
So, uh... anyone else notice that a Supermutant apparently fell into one of the single-shell underground storage tanks? I needed that laugh!
Bernie isn't trying to solve a problem, more correct it. Why fault the people for trying to correct a problem that's more to their advantage when hospitals, to this day, still haven't tried to correct the problem of expenses. One shouldn't have to forego their home to pay for small surgical procedures. When people try to correct these things we get replies like yours saying you shouldn't correct them but leave them to the system to correct them. We have to realize the "system" won't inherently do these things, we the people as part of the system have to take measures to look out for ourselves also because the system won't do it for us.
> [...] for a mix of fun, profit and self development.

Assuming you actually enjoy programming, fun and self development will likely come rather naturally as you build and break, find problems and develop solutions. If you have people looking at your products, even if they're just friends, learning to listen to their problems and solve them will also take you far.

Profit, on the other hand, is more difficult because that has far less to do with technology than it does with marketing and business. You could know every language, paradigm, framework, API, methodology, whatever and you'll not make a dime unless people see value in what you're building. Thus, if you actually have a real profit motive consider spreading your time between learning web development and business development.

> [...] how valuable would a back-end education be (node/express or ruby on rails), even if I end up going the baas route?

Even if you go the BaaS route you'll likely need some degree of backend knowledge to either a) have the BaaS do the right thing in the first place or b) actually understand the limitations of your BaaS, why those may be, and effectively evaluate alternatives.

In most cases, a BaaS will provide you easier ways of doing things like creating your own APIs or performing database operations. But at some level - even if basic - you need to understand your own APIs and how you're storing/retrieving data. You don't need to go particularly deep on any given topic (plenty of time for that) but you should be comfortable being able to explain your front- and back-end architecture to a fellow web developer.

> My product ideas are run of the mill Reddit for dogs, news aggregator, to-do list app type stuff

These are great starter projects; don't get discouraged because they are "run of the mill" because - as a developer - the value of novelty lags behind the value of productivity. A mediocre implementation of a mediocre concept showcases more progress as a developer than an amazing concept that doesn't exist.
Makes total sense.
Similar here and I leased a car once. Never again. Always used. There was a poster higher up the thread who flips cars that knows what they are talking about. You don't have to be at that level but just some common sense and research gets you a solid, clean used vehicle that you can depend on for years if you don't care about any ego shit and you take care of it. This and houses are our biggest impediments to real wealth as North Americans. We dump so much of our earned wealth that could be used to save and invest in our futures instead padding the pockets of car salesmen and banks.
Yes definitely. Most electrical planes currently in the process of certification are hardly using the latest & greatest in terms of battery technology. The reason for this is not that the technology is not there but that resetting the process of certifying the airplane and batteries extends the time to market by years and everybody is scrambling to get certified now so they can start fulfilling orders. Like with EVs, demand is not a problem for any of these manufacturers.

This is true for Bye's eflyers, the Eviation Alice, the Pipistrel models, etc. These have modest but usable ranges (currently advertised) and are far enough in the development process that they might hit the market in some modest numbers in the next few years. But that's with battery technology of basically a few years ago. There's obvious room for improvement by simply updating the battery technology. 2-3x over the next decade is not an unreasonable expectation; the biggest hurdle is certification.

The real thing to look for with electrical planes is range & operational cost. Yes it's annoying to not be able to fly 5 ours straight. But 2 hours is still pretty good. This would require doubling the power/kg for this plane, which sounds like it should be feasible; if not now than maybe in a few years. Also, turning a 100$ hamburger into a 5$ latte flight is going to be quite literally be the difference between being able afford to fly or not at all for a lot of people. GA flight is a really expensive hobby currently.

I think what will happen is the experimental market exploding pretty soon. There's a critical mass of technology coming on the market and it's going to be very tempting for people to start building kit planes they can actually afford to fly. There are some fine examples of some daredevils on youtube flying some DYI contraptions already.
I didn't mean it as a completely blanket statement, hence why I said "generally". In my experience it's a lot harder to manage a contract between a db schema and multiple codebases over managing versioned contracts between APIs.

"It's better to just solve whatever problem you're facing in the simplest possible way."

I completely agree with this, but I dont beleive that syncronizing deployments across multiple services is ever simple - have been in this situation at a past company where it would take an entire week every 3 months to do a deployment
Very simple answer: blue states have bigger budgets so the % of aid they receive from the government seems smaller.

The Federalist has done an analysis of federal aid per resident:

>Against a national average of $1,935 in intergovernmental spending per American, red states receive just $1,879. Blue states get considerably more, at $2,124 per resident. Purple states see the least of their money returned to them per capita, at just $1,770. Measured in this way, the blue states are getting quite a bit more than the red or purple.

https://thefederalist.com/2017/11/17/red-states-tax-takers-b...
Boeing's market is global, and it does not matter if you can fly within USA if flights are shut down everywhere else - in the coming year any USA domestic airline will be able to get cheap planes from other airlines instead of buying new ones from Boeing.

If global demand for flights is down even 20% then this means that the global demand for new planes is close to zero.
I would add that charitable donations can often be accompanied by strong obligations that hampers the efficiency of that aide - if a donation is made that requires none of the benefits to the homeless goes to people with a past history of drug use then resources need to be diverted to investigate the recipients and ensure that the accounting works out. Sometimes these obligations are burdensome enough that organizations will stop servicing portions of the population altogether or even refund a donation.

Chartiable donations can also come with requirements around evangelism which I personally find aborrent and, as has otherwise been pointed out, yes it's an absolute reduction in take home but abuse of the system is rife and the income reduction mechanic makes this really attractive to some folks if they're hit with a particularly hard year.

In Canada I've actually been pleased to discover that your retirement is mechanically a charity - investing into an RRSP (registered retirement savings plan) counts as a direct income reduction which can mean that swing years when options may be cashed out or other windfalls happen - can be put profitably towards your own future well being while also ensuring you don't become a burden later in life.
> We just need for the reps to stop running the nation into the ground when it's their turn

If you think that is what the Republicans are doing each time it's their turn, not sure there is much hope in changing that pattern.

After all, they clearly think they are not running the nation into the ground when it's their turn.
Lots of fun!

Could be interesting to let 'rooms' upload their own new sounds, for a dynamically expanding, community-specific audio reactions.

Also, to make each button have alternate 'just for me' or 'for everyone' options – so you can learn what an icon does, without triggering it for everyone. (The button motions/activations that accompany each activation could also be different, in animation or coloring, based on whether they've been triggered remotely or by the current user.)

Thanks!
If you want to use the javascript components, rather than just the styles, you need the react library version. There are various other UI libraries as well that require you use the react conversion library, which sadly lag behind the vanilla js versions.

Fair enough if you love react then this is acceptable. But it pushes the definition of a library, when just using react means that other libraries need to conform to react to properly work with it.

React does some things nicely. But it's not "It's just a library. Drop it into your existing project. And you're done."
His unwillingness to not solve the state's pension problems should be applauded. the amount of unfunded liabilities is in the hundreds of billions of dollars and approaching a trillion if it has not passed that already. This all happened because the number of public servants who are pulling in over 100k has skyrocketed... 100k+ in retirement.. with millions past 50k! Think about that 50k in pay plus medical.

These pensions and their medical side are the reason why the ACA did not touch golden medical plans because the vast majority are in this area along with certain other larger private pension systems. By the way, the House silently dropped that provision entirely from the ACA in 2019 so they any taxation of them is gone.

My favorite story to fall back on is provided below... and there are other states worse off. This type of largess should never have been allowed nor should the tax payer bail them out. People bemoan the pay of executives at private companies, well guess who is right up there in many cases.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamandrzejewski/2018/10/26/ill...
Maybe they're scared and taking rash actions.
Comte's Law of Three Stages
> Cheap self-help porn targeted at overachievers.

Pretty much my thoughts on this. I’m bipolar and is this article is just bad.

There multiple types of depression with various causes and different treatments. I’ve had just about all of them.

Any person can burn out or find life pointless simply by grinding away at life without taking care of themselves.

A good book on cognitive behavioral therapy is going to fix a lot more problems than articles like this.
It's all hard work. The primitives of containerization are in the kernel, but executing and managing them, especially securely, takes a fair amount of trial and error to do it right.