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Ask HN: Internet/Video games ruined my ability to enjoy crafty hobbies. What do?
How can I know if I'm getting bored of an hobby because I genuinely don't like it or because its my inability to deal with instant gratification? I've tried writing (I have an idea for a book that I think its cool) but after writing for more than 15 to 20 minutes, I get bored of it. I like playing guitar, and I have tried creating music, but I get bored of it: I much rather play other people's music. I like to read, but I cannot read longer than 30/40 minutes. I tried drawing, but since I don't know how to draw and I'm following along tutorials, I'm not creating anything of my own so I get bored of it quickly as well.

On the other hand, put me playing rocket league with friends (or even alone), or watching a TV show, or running/biking/soccer, and I can do that just fine without getting bored

How do I change this? Any strategies that I can follow? Or is it just a matter of grinding/pushing through it?
The surprising thing here is that the often quoted flu death number isn't an actual count it is a statistical estimate based off the must lower recorded count. Not surprising in retrospect but not obvious when people trot that number out.
> I think a big part of the conversation now is "how much was lockdown, and how much was bad projections?"

With all due respect: That's not a conversation among any serious academics. It's a conversation happening among political actors in political contexts (c.f. Tucker Carlson floating this two nights ago).

It's just not correct. And as you phrase it, it doesn't even make sense. "Projections" don't cause a change in R0. If you want to argue that this happened for some other reason than lockdowns you need to have a reason. And there are none that make sense.

(I mean, maybe it's herd immunity. In that case, why did the infection curves in different US states at very different death counts all bend the same way at roughly the same time after lockdown? Maybe it's weather: likewise, also the fact that the early China outbreak with similar behavior happened in the middle of winter. Maybe it's a mutant strain: nope, no particular evidence for specific ones having different behavior.)

If you want to have a conversation, you need to come to the table with a working theory. Social isolation has been known for centuries to work exactly the way it has here. It's a very attractive hypothesis, and is going to be difficult to disprove.
Thanks to the cloud, everyone has access to 10G/25G/100G.

It shouldn't be taken for granted that a CPU bottleneck exists, although from Netflix's work we know that serving >100G from one server is CPU-intensive.
Ok, we've made the title say temporary above. I don't know how to squeeze registered scientists in there.
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Indian here and I loved it. Death to jar sauce! I have been clamoring for no-nonsense cooking tips for ages...too many chefs take themselves too seriously. The video is a little jarring I must admit, but he looks like he is having fun!
My first thought is that this perspective is conflating Capitalism with a Free Market.

Free Markets are about competition and consumer rights.

Capitalism - from what I've read - is about a minority having the decision making power with regards to capital allocation.

So the USA has a free market system ran by capitalists. I would argue that IP laws can be favorable from the perspective of Capitalism but not the Free Market.

The capitalists own the patents and have the wealth to _incentivize_ the law makers to make IP protection laws.
40% of D&D Players Are 25 or Younger
I think it would depend what sort of penetration you're after.

It was not possible to work with robots in/around the reactor in the immediate aftermath of the accident -- the robots would fail due to exposure to the radiation. It's quite possible that technology still hasn't advanced far enough to allow for the in-depth exploration that would be required to achieve anything like the linked example.

I'd be curious to know if anyone knows more about recent attempts and the state of the art of hardening robots, drones, computers, etc. against radiation.
> We have identified chloroquine as an effective antiviral agent for SARS-CoV in cell culture conditions, as evidenced by its inhibitory effect when the drug was added prior to infection or after the initiation and establishment of infection. The fact that chloroquine exerts an antiviral effect during pre- and post-infection conditions suggest that it is likely to have both prophylactic and therapeutic advantages.

This is in vitro, but other studies and anecdotes are showing in vivo efficacy of hydroxychloroquine.
Congress and its BS. Who cares what Bezos says to Congress? Sick of Congress and its pointless theatrics. Bezos will show up with 800 lawyers and say nothing.

There is an Anti-Trust division in the DoJ. What is their job? Why are they snoozing?
One of the problems I have to deal with is bot traffic, and more search engines is going to mean more bot traffic. Probably every SaaS company is thinking about that on some level.

Maybe if we want to break the oligopoly we need an alternative to polling and scanning to report changes to our websites. I knew a company that was thinking along those lines but they flamed out even before Google became dominant, and I don't know if anyone has asked that question since.
NixOS's rollbacks make the updating safer than Windows or regular Linux distros.
Quarantine doesn't suck for everyone, apparently
If the intention was to artificially reduce performance for testing their code, it would have made sense also to run it with just memory module (50% bandwidth loss) and to underclock memory.
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This statement is misleading. Firstly, for context here's the paragraph you ought to be referring to:

> This experiment also includes the data collection tool Cliqz uses to build its recommendation engine. Users who receive a version of Firefox with Cliqz will have their browsing activity sent to Cliqz servers, including the URLs of pages they visit. Cliqz uses several techniques to attempt to remove sensitive information from this browsing data before it is sent from Firefox. Cliqz does not build browsing profiles for individual users and discards the user's IP address once the data is collected. Cliqz's code is available for public review and a description of these techniques can be found here.

This section is a horrible write up of what happened. Over the years, among a lot of other privacy tech (e.g. [0][1][2]), we developed a privacy-preserving data collection framework we call Human Web [3]. The gist of it is simple: Users contribute data. There's no way to link any two messages with one another making it impossible to build profiles out of the data. In fact, most of the URLs are dropped thanks to these strict checks. Mozilla, Princeton University and Red Pen Team have audited the approach. The code is open-sourced [4]. Feel free to audit it, and also please feel free to use it in your projects. If you are genuinely interested in the approach, please read [3] and let's discuss details.

Here's the bigger issue. We have created an unhealthy, and wrong narrative around privacy vs data collection. It's a false dichotomy. We also wrote at length about this here [5]. Data from people, is not the same as personal data. Record linkage here is key, and we prevent it - even at a network level [6].

If you are interested to read more about the Firefox Integration (and the context in which it happened), read this: https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-11/the-pivot-that-excited-...

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[0] Adblocker (fastest there is):
https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-20/not-all-adblockers-are-...

[1] Algorithmic anti-tracking (first and only):
https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-19/blocking-tracking-witho...

[2] Anti-Phishing:
https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-21/anti-phishing-with-priv...

[3] Human Web:
https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-03/human-web-collecting-da...

[4]: Human Web Code:
https://github.com/cliqz-oss/browser-core/tree/master/module...

[5]: Is Data Collection Evil:
https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-02/is-data-collection-evil...

[6]: HPN: https://www.0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-04/human-web-proxy-network...
Gatekeeping much?
The BackRub name offered some.. er.. "unique" marketing copy opportunities ;-)

For a "happy ending" to your search, try "I'm feeling lucky" on BackRub.com today!
Microsoft: We Used Rust over Go for WebAssembly on Kubernetes App
I've been wanting to try retrofitting new guts for my Kensington SlimBlade trackball, particularly making it poll and process at 1000Hz rather than 125, since now all of my monitors refresh faster than it does. I've switched to a Logitech G Pro primarily because of the marked difference in responsiveness.

The one thing that might be difficult is doing the scroll detection, since the SlimBlade produces scroll events when you rotate the ball about the vertical axis. Maybe I could get one of those kendryte thingies to do realtime inferencing on a model to discriminate scrolling from pointing.
Fun trick regarding the nesting depth, I believe that if you click on the comment permalink itself, it will still let you reply. Regardless, no worries :)

I was totally forgetting rerun-if-changed! This is indeed a barrier in the general case. I think that it doesn't affect this crate, but I am not 100% sure. Regardless, thank you!
Actually! I worked a job where the desks were shared by two teams. We'd push our keyboard and mice behind the monitor at the end of the day. Each team was in two days a week, interleaved, and both teams were remote Friday. This way we were all remote 3 days a week, but if for any reason cross team pairing needed to happen (it never happened) there was always Friday.

This cut office costs in half and increased productivity. It was quite good.

Speaking of remote, I've worked two jobs which were semi full remote, where we'd come in if we wanted to collaborate, on average 2 days a month. Both scenarios would save the company money on office costs.

One company, we had a full dedicated office, where we'd find a space we wanted to work in. It was normally abandoned there, except the CEO, SFO, and CTO was often there every day. We'd find an empty office room and close the door having privacy. It was quite nice. The advantage of this was our office space was tiny, compared to how many people we employed. Likewise, when we wanted to come to the office the environment was always fantastic.

Another company I worked at used those shared office spaces with a pay as you go plan. Eg, if you reserve a meeting room, they charge the company for it. We'd go there and find some desks we'd like and go at it, or reserve a meeting room if we wanted. The company would pay for it, so I'm not sure the price, but the environment was good with a café and great outdoor collab spaces. I'm sure it saved the company a lot of money.

So yah, partial remote and full remote do save companies money. They increase productivity and reduce office space costs. However, both of these are quite different than shelter in place, where those who would benefit from coming into the office can't. Shelter in place is less productive and far more frustrating than proper remote.
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IP norms are a small reason among many related reasons why China will outgrow US/EU/Japan.

In China, everything is for the collective, the nation, the 100-year plan.

In the West everything is for the self. We're happy to tear each other apart for the chance at getting some individual gains.

I think it's pretty clear which of these cultures wins out in the long term.
Better explanation:

Physical IP is the CPU design at the transistor level.

Logical IP is a spec document saying how the processor should work, plus a bit of pseudo code and maybe a simulator or two.
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This is an interesting strategy, has anything like this been done before?

Current monetary policy only thinks about how to get more spending power into the hands of a consumer(lower interest rates, tax cuts, stimulus checks), but now we're seeing the state try to get consumers to spend more by giving them more time to spend what they have.

I wonder why they would resort to this tactic, can't they just print more money?
To my amateur eyes, normally the method for dealing with 'time series' is really just finding ways to turn a non-stationary distribution into a stationary distribution, where you can then apply classic statistical methods on them. So you're just finding ways to factor out the time component in the data so you can use the standard non-time sensitive regression models on the transformed data.

It seems like it's very challenging to either have time as a first-class component in the model or somehow treat the data points as not independent. Indeed most models require independence so often it seems like we try to force the data to look that way by smoothing and transformations. You can assume this anytime an algorithm is asking you to provide 'Stationarity'. It just seems like trying to look for the keys (prediction) where the streetlight is (model distributions with nice calculation properties).
If only it wasn't for all those young, old or sick people /s
I sometimes imagine how my city would look like if there were no car lanes and pavement but grass and trees along the middle of the "road". Then I remember I can't physically be outside 6 months of the year due to asthma and allergies so I have to use the car
I have been developing a POC using dgraph for the last several months. I can't really comment on its robustness at production load since it was only used for local development.

But I can comment that getting the "right syntax" was at times extremely frustrating. It has a lot of "there is just one way to do it, and you have to spend a month reading our code to find it" kind of thing going on. It is definitely "beta" software in that regard, and the ease of use of its query language (languages) is abysmal. The documentation is also extremely confusing and incomplete, to say the least. Needs a lot more examples and a lot more "ways to skin a cat" than currently documented.

On a good note, the support provided via discuss.dgraph.io is really good, even though there are so many people struggling to make it do simple things - that support forum will likely be a place where the answer can be found, or someone can answer (rather quickly) with some help.
Are you referring to the multiple CCXs as different "NUMA" nodes? Because they aren't, they still share the same memory controller. There isn't a shared cache, true, and that does have performance implications but that doesn't make it NUMA.

If you can point to anything to support your NUMA claim that'd be highly interesting, but all the block charts & teardowns I can find show it's clearly UMA.
Yes, there's definitely a kind of complexity that _doesn't_ stem from the problem domain, and it can often be eliminated.

Stuff like over-abstracting, insane default values, duplicated state that needs to be synchronized (e.g in React components) or just overly-repetitive code, for example.
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The docked bikes in my city have way better build quality and maintenance standards than the undocked ones. They're both heavy but the undocked ones have chains falling off, broken shifters, etc. I expect it makes sense that these get less investment as they are easier to steal.
I would like to know how that came to happen.
Do you think it’s legitimate to take covid single worst week, compare to a week of flu and extrapolate our 9 to 44x worse?

Do you think there will be 10-30 million covid deaths this year?
Automatic Labs is owned by SiriusXM (market cap $25B).
Do you think that Automatic needed to have a cloud service? Their primary use case seems to have been uploading mileage data to a variety of expense reporting systems. I don't see any reason that has to go from the OBDII dongle through the now-discontinued Automatic servers, and only then pass to the actual endpoint.

These IoT devices (and especially the phones and PCs that typically act as intermediaries) are abundantly capable of storing the configuration data and doing the API calls necessary to communicate with online services.

Is it just about the control?
Interesting point - I think the Ted Chiang novella 'The Lifecycle of Software Objects' also include AI pets that develop to the point that they start asking their owners that they be incorporated so they may be given basic rights.
The report states the work was funded by Dgraph and conducted in line with their ethics policy.
If the motor is in the hub, then I can believe wear on the chain and cassette is minimal. And if you use brakes very sparingly, they could also last for a long time. I'm interested in the brand of your pads, I need those! I have to change mine every 1000 kilometres.
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Cautionary factor with those benchmarks: peak performance and sustained performance aren’t the same and Intel’s desktop and server chips have historically done much better in regards to sustained performance.

I’ve tried using an iPad Pro as a computing platform to run some of my code (mostly for fun but also it makes for a more interesting demo) and this is quite noticeable.

I think part of up this is simply because of Intel’s design approach, and also because Apple’s target is devices that can run quickly and then go to sleep to save power/heat.

Not to imply that Apple couldn’t design for that but it isn’t a mobile use case that they have been shooting for to date, and I suspect the current, publicly released chips would not be appropriate for a laptop much less an iMac.
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Why does "think of the children" work but "senators want to look into your bedroom" doesn't?
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But once you have the URL, you will be able to raid everyone who had those blocks.

You could make an argument that “they didn’t know”, but it doesn’t mean they will not be able to prove that you were an associate in crime.
I sent an email to their support team asking if they had plans to open source their apps and they said, "there are no plans".
I feel like this is the sort of statement that the SEC (not to mention the board) would frown on.
Automattic probably derived from "Matt" (The name of the founder) so probably better to keep using the brand.
It's not universal but the people who complain about not liking "social mores" tend to be on the racist, nazi, hate speech spectrum. I'm okay with twitter not giving a platform to people that want to kill people of my religious or sexual persuasion. The behaviors of big companies aren't perfect and they have a lot of conflicts. In the case of this article, the things in the piece in the atlantic he mentions seem both terrible and destructive and also over-reactions by the authors (all the lying facebook posts about covid-19 is no big deal, it's a democratic conspiracy to take our guns, it's going to be solved by applying some drug that is untested for it) do cause damage.
Yikes.

So the bigger question then is what happens when they change this? Or go away. Also, have you seen what "Additionally, different hard limits apply for each plan." means on their pricing page[1]? Domain limits, maximum files, etc? What those might mean when you scale beyond expectation?

I don't mean to discourage. But big vendors pull the rug out from under people all the time, sometimes ruining a business because there's no viable alternative.

Make sure your eggs can be put in different baskets if need be.

[1] https://vercel.com/docs/v2/platform/limits
Mine usually last 1000 km. What brand are yours?
> no way would I spend more than a 2 or 3 hundred dollars on something that will get stolen within 3 years.

I'd neither, but a friend of mine did. He got his bike insured (replacement value), for a pretty reasonable amount, considering. And AFAIK most people with expensive bikes do, which is probably also the reason police is not too keen on acting.