skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As with all things it totally depends on the scale you're at.

Redis is an extremely reliable service. I've never "lost" data with Redis.
I think there's a huge gulf of space between being "so detached" and calling 2-4 times a week.
I think that's because during a crisis people flock to USD for safety, now that it seems to be under control, people are selling those USD again.
- Stripe Atlas

- Mercury bank for bank accounts and other legal stuff.
Recently I’ve discovered the world of Django (late to the party I know). It’s so nice to work with a well-developed web framework for once.
> in a normal company salespeople might lose their jobs for saying that.

Quite a few times over my career I have had a salesperson (not from Amazon) recommend a competitor over their own product. In every single case my respect for the salesperson shot way up. In at least two cases I can recall this helped them close a sale.

A smart salesperson does not do everything possible to push their company's products... a smart salesperson solves their customers' problems.
It starts out talking about a shooting.... Can this article start out any worse or any more political? Then trys to blame and suggest Trump is racist. WTF. This is another hit piece from MSM. This is garbage writing on a whole new level :-/

The author has a history of writing for liberal/MSM. Why would anyone believe a word from MSM? Author makes a bold statement in the title, but does not back it up. This is an opinion piece, not facts.

Why are people STILL trusting news from MSM is going to be truthful... Even after RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA?
Question is: How far will you go, fully playable level?
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This could be an app.
While this looks like something that might be interesting, the landing page has too little information to deduce what it is and how it compares to other similar tools. Having a screenshot, or a small demo video demonstrating how you use the tool would do wonders here.

As a separate note, Cmd + Space is used by Spotlight out of the box on macOS and is probably not a shortcut many people would like to give up. Using something else as your default shortcut and making it configurable might be a better approach.
Programming for games for machine learning or what?
I recommend reading the entire paper, but here are the aforementioned six:

1. Using the words “science,” “scientific,” “scientifically,” “scientist,” etc., honorifically, as generic terms of epistemic praise.

2. Adopting the manners, the trappings, the technical terminology, etc., of the sciences, irrespective of their real usefulness.

3. A preoccupation with demarcation, i.e., with drawing a sharp line between genuine science, the real thing, and “pseudo-scientific” imposters.

4. A corresponding preoccupation with identifying the “scientific method,” presumed to explain how the sciences have been so successful.

5. Looking to the sciences for answers to questions beyond their scope.

6. Denying or denigrating the legitimacy or the worth of other kinds of inquiry besides the scientific, or the value of human activities other than inquiry, such as poetry or art.
> the whole Wayland thing is in a weird spot right now too

You can still use X though, speaking from experience Nvidia drivers don't work at all on Wayland.

Furthermore this is a great resource which will certainly be useful to OP

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2019/03/15/linux...
Small, local, and diverse are antifragile qualities - farms with all their eggs in one basket are suffering, and those with optionality and flexibility are thriving. Like many things in life.
This font looked perfect on Firefox on Android, but when I read it on my desktop (Firefox on Linux) it looks wrong. It seems as though the scale is wrong, and the character 'o' gets a white line though it.
A boycott is when you avoid an organisation in protest at something; I am exercising what I think is a rational consumer choice. I don’t believe that my action (or inaction) will have any impact on Tesla, nor do I want or need it to.

e.g. if you don’t like brand X Milk Chocolate and vow never to buy it, you’re not boycotting brand X but rather just exercising your right as a consumer.
We are still waiting for the surge of inflation you inflation hawks complained about in 2008 when this was all last done...

https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-infl...
You are vastly underestimating how many customers and employees will simply refuse to go to a restaurant or bar due to health risks.

You are also discounting the number of these businesses that have already permanently closed.

This was an industry already operating on razor thin margins, even a temporary 10% drop in demand will cause many more to shudder their doors.
Virus hunters rely on faxes, paper records as more states reopen
Am I the only one that finds AWS' pricing structure as a whole too risky to use? Why use a service that can charge me a lot of money without being up front about it?
While a modest fraction of people trade individual stocks, a lot of Americans have some type of 401k, pension, or retirement account that is tied to the stock market.

This pegs it at 50% of private sector workers and 80% of public sector workers.
https://www.pensionrights.org/publications/statistic/how-man...

Additionally, in many cases, couples may just have one person with access or contributions to the market - but this still leaves them exposed (for good and bad) to the market.
I'd contest that second point. I'm actually one of those people that builds the parts that make accelerators (accelerator physics PhD student). There's a lot more interesting accelerator tech outside of the energy frontier.

My specific interests for instance are how we can build university scale light and matter sources for atomic physics. It requires the same types of advances that will power future colliders, but enables different types of research.
Maybe I'm sensitive, but it comes across as judgemental. 'Call mom' - I can almost feel the condescending do-gooder smile from here.
What about Krita?
Companies on the NASDAQ like Amazon are doing tremendously well.
You know they say that if you go to prison the longer you stay... more and more people start abandoning you just because of time. I'm talking about over a period of 10-20 years. Eventually contact is lost because everyone moves on.

First your girlfriend stops visiting, then your wife, then your kids.

They say the one connection that stays constant are your parents. If you're in jail for 20 years your parents will love you till the day you die and that love never fades. No one will ever love you as much as your parents.

The connection is one way unfortunately. Children will never love their parents as much as their parents love them.

As bad as your relationship is with your parents. Once they're gone, you're pretty much alone.
It's intent. I went to a boarding school, kids lived in 'houses' with housemasters. They were pretty good, not as dickensian as it sounds.

Depending on the housemaster, and provided you didn't make a habit of it you could call them wankers or more, occasionally get away with calling them a cunt. All relaxed.

But if you intended to offend then far lighter swear words would be taken much more seriously. You could get into trouble just for using the word 'bloody' if it was not meant in jest. Odd, but it worked in my view.
Great story.

Ridiculous that MX records were assigned to a defensively held domain name. Just asking for edge cases. Lucky this one didn’t have security consequences.
Before going to shop, write a shopping list at home. When you are at the shop, you can still put something extra in your cart, but generally be in the "I am following the list" mindset, instead of "I am looking around and see if something catches my attention" mindset.

Before writing the shopping list, decide what meals do you want to eat in the following days; then put the ingredients in the list. Otherwise you might end up with too much breakfast stuff, and not enough cooking-material stuff. (Or with cooking-material stuff that you don't know how to put together.)

Before even that... if you are not a skilled cook, you could make a list of all meals you can cook, and put it on your fridge. So when you are out of ideas, just look at the list and pick something you haven't cooked recently. You will get greater variety, and you will keep practicing all you have learned.
Talk to your Mother before it’s too late. I lost mine last summer and today is heartbreaking. All of the times I could’ve spoken to her, or made a difference in her life, are flashing before my eyes today, and it’s a sad go. You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.
But there is a place where you are correct. Atmospheric density does put an upper limit on payload density. Mars can slow down objects the size of cars or large trucks. But for very large things the heat shield needed to create enough drags becomes huge.

Think the scene from "2010: The Year We Made Contact" where very large spacecraft aerocaptures in Jupiter's atmosphere. That probably wouldn't be possible at mars, not without hitting the ground. Or 'Independence Day'. Those giant spacecraft arriving at earth surrounded by fire could not possibly have aerocaptured/braked in earth's atmosphere.
I've been using O&O's shutup10 (https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10) as the first step after a fresh install for years. Anything better, or is this still a good solution?
This works if you're close enough to the rich farmer's markets and suburban customers around NYC. Vermont cheese makers, which also once supplied the restaurants of New York and Boston, have had a different experience. This comes from an email newsletter published by someone on the Vermont Cheese Council (who urged recipients to spread the word, so I am sharing it here):

As restaurants in NYC and Boston started closing their doors, specialty cheese shops and wholesales distributers that sold artisan local cheeses started simultaneously seeing 50% drops in sales overnight. I started calling cheesemakers around Vermont to learn how the situation was impacting them. My job took a turn, shifting from trying to support best practices for makers in Vermont to trying to ensure that as many makers as can are able to get through the COVID-19 impact without shuttering their businesses.

I try to call a few cheesemakers every day to see how they are doing, and we’re facing a range of challenges. Some are trying to reduce cheese production, so that production doesn’t exceed demand. This means reducing incoming milk quantities, which means diverting milk produced by dairy animals to another buyer (since those animals keep producing milk every day!) or, in some cases, selling animals off. Others are facing stock issues: Limited aging spaces – meaning that if they continue to make cheese and can’t sell it, eventually their aging spaces will fill, and their animals will still continue to make milk … and they will be back to the previously expressed need to reduce incoming milk.

Alongside the production challenges, there are other issues. The gooey, runny, high moisture texture that makes camembert-style cheeses a delight to enjoy also comes with a short shelf life. These cheeses often need to be eaten fairly quickly when they are ripe, or they will quickly deteriorate in quality beyond where one would want to eat or sell them. For those makers who focus on making these softer cheeses – they have inventory that is sitting in aging cellars without its usual consumer audience.

... So to summarize the situation, it’s like this: Imagine we had a three lane highway going into NYC with cheese instead of cars, then two lanes closed down. We have … a massive cheese traffic jam. We (Vermont Cheese) would normally sell hundreds of thousands of pounds of cheese from our mid- and smaller-sized makers over the next four months…and currently we are selling around half (or perhaps less than that) compared to what we’d normally sell. On other words, we have a BIG cheese traffic jam – one that will grow to likely be hundreds of thousands of pounds of cheese if people don’t buy it – or if makers don’t stop making it (and again - the milking animals will keep producing milk ...).

Online sales can only go so far. Some people won't order online, and certain produce and dairy products are not suited to UPS deliveries, especially when the temperature rises. Unless more distant producers can make the long round trip to the NYC and/or work out wider grocery distribution, they're going to suffer.
You mean too many choices e.g food or go to work; speed up or slow down; stay afternoon or go home. Well in those cases stressful choices like this always happen just go through them and ponder important stuff

If you mean too many choices like choose between 100 frameworks or flavours then in that case you could try just going with simple, popular or preference
Just look at the absolute total number of monthly deaths this year (regardless of the reason), month-to-month, and compare it the to past years.
Unless you have another explanation about why specifically this year we have this great spike from February, then it is the COVID, either directly or indirectly.

Dont forget that testing for COVID is basically impossible for an asymptomatic person here in the US.

Adding a source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronav...
P&G shed 20%. Its fundamentals have not changed at all.
You don't seem to understand VALVE is an outlier because they have so much power, for the rest of the AAA game industry, dedicated servers largely have been under attack. Because client-server and drm ridden software allows them to put in game stores. They don't want people to have dedicated servers if it interferes with their microtransaction business model. AKA in game stores means further eroding software ownership.

You don't grasp the reason quake champions is a server locked game is because of gamers buying client-server coded software.

You're a corporate fanboy. You don't grasp the reason Doom 2016 and no level editor is specifically because of the last 15 years of the war on PC game ownerhsip that began with mmo's in the late 90's.

That all those "MMO/freetoplay" games on steam would have been boxed products with lan/server exe's in a former era, of the public had not taken them up to begin with, valve would have never come up with STEAM. Steam was a direct reaction to ultima online.

Valves long term plan was to remove ownership from his customers, and valve no longer needs to produce games because their long term agenda was making money, they want to be the middleman that skims money from every game sold.
Yes, but the goal of social distancing and everything has not been to drastically change the number of people that are ultimately infected, just to slow down the rate of spread. The disease is out there now. If you haven't gotten it already, you very likely will eventually.
Can you remap this monstrosity out of the way (or making another control key or something more useful)? I always remap control and caps keys on my keyboards, which is a pretty minor one-time regedit incantation.
This is the very best article I have read on the lockdown: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/seattles-leade...

The positive is that Washington state acted early and the Bay Area followed quickly which resulted in lower hospitalization and deaths. Tech’s quick move to WFH probably helped slow the spread. This was driven by the Washington state health officials who worked with Microsoft. Bay Area tech companies quickly copied WFH.

The negative is that health officials manipulated the public like they were children: “ Constantine told me, “Jeff recognized what he was asking for was impractical. He said if we advised social distancing right away there would be zero acceptance. And so the question was: What can we say today so that people will be ready to hear what we need to say tomorrow?” In e-mails and phone calls, the men began playing a game: What was the most extreme advice they could give that people wouldn’t scoff at? Considering what would likely be happening four days from then, what would they regret not having said?”

Since the initial lockdown, it’s been more of the same. Slogans have changed: flatten the curve turns into prevent the health care system from being overrun which turns into driven by data. Lockdowns get extended: May 4 turns into June 1st and maybe beyond.

Takeaways:
1. Health care officials were right to initially lock down.
2. Health care officials and government don’t respect the public.
3. This dynamic is coming home to roost.
4. Health care officials think this is going to last a long time.
Do you have a friend or family member, who is capable of understanding your ideas, who you trust, that you could talk to about your ideas?

I don't have many people like this, but I have one friend who is, who is very patient and will always talk to me and listen too. He is pretty opinionated too, which can actually help me a lot sometimes to get some biases that help get things moving - it pushes me to decide. And he genuinely seems to want to help me also, without anything in return.

So I guess what I'm saying is, "phone a trustworthy, opinionated friend"?
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Not sure why I was downvoted. I'm simply relaying my perspective.

> Is calling your mother several times per week typical on your country?
Yes :-)

My family is half European half South American. I call them almost every other day. On a busy week, perhaps I'll only call during the weekend.

My Taiwanese wife calls her mom every day.
Not to defend her, but to defend listening to her...

Often the people in a position to give the most important feedback are _not_ in a position to give feedback gently and tactfully.

So if you want to really know the world, you need to have a check in your mind that lets you take tactless feedback.

One example is when you hurt someone... a person you hurt is almost never going to be in a position to gently, calmly say what happened in a fair, generous way. That kind of feedback almost always comes with barbs, or inflations that accompany a person trying to talk to someone who hurt them.

If you ignore tactless feedback, you will mostly never be able to understand the people you hurt.

Another category like this is feedback about norms. People who are well versed in norms and good at operating within them generally won’t be the people who can see outside of those same norms. The people who can see alternatives to norms, who can give feedback on where they work and don’t work, often will not be able to give that feedback in a way that conforms to other norms.

So if you ignore tactless feedback, you will mostly never be able to understand broken norms.

If you can separate the content of the message from how it’s delivered you can dramatically increase your access to understanding.
My $0.02, we're going to see bifurcation that the market hasn't fully priced in. Not a good time to be in broad ETFs.

Highly likely: Coronavirus is going to be circulating until the end of 2021 (based on transmissibility & vaccine timeline). We'll have better therapeutics to blunt the symptoms.

But steps required to (intermittently) re-suppress transmission (NYC is ~20% exposed? So at minimum 1-2 more spike repeats) are going to continue to harm the economy over that period.

There is no version of social distancing or lockdown that permits normal brick and mortar economic activity (and therefore normal employment levels).

And there is nothing shy of those that dent infection spread once it gets going in an urban center.

50/50: Government stimulus cannot replace normal market demand over that period (i.e. "V-shaped recovery").

Firms and industries that can adapt (curbside pickup, work from home, pivot to online delivery) and are deemed essential do fine by cannibalizing their peers.

Eventually, the demand destruction will hit the markets. You can't sell product to people who are unemployed and have no disposable income.

Consequently, adaptive companies are going to survive & maybe thrive. Everyone else looks pretty economically grim under likely scenarios.
Balmer period/Balmer era
Samy is my hero. (same guy)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_(computer_worm)
The USA also had the longest period of economic growth in history after 2008.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/02/this-is-now-the-longest-us-e...
Superconducting magnets were in use well before their use in HEP colliders.

FPGA computing was in use in industry well before it was in use in HEP colliders.

Particle detectors have existed for more than 100 years. When was the first collider built?

Seriously, this is one of the issues I take with HEP advocates claiming that their field yielded all of these advances. Works well with politicians they have to lobby for funding their stuff. Doesn't work so well with other physicists.

HEP has utility, as all science does. Investment in it generally turns out useful items, even if the science is esoteric, and not applicable to problems in the world now.

However, and this is the crux of the problem, we have many items of significant priority. Which means we have to triage our expenditures. Is HEP and collider physics one of these high priorities right now?

In short, no. It shouldn't be.
Two petabytes, according to PC Gamer.
125 people can be a lot too, when you consider only 12 astronauts have walked on the Moon. So while the math might blow to pieces the fake Moon landing conspiracy, it doesn't for related ones.
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Yeah, the cultural presumption seems to be that if you don't call your mother you are a callous bastard who does not care about the person who brought you into this world and nurtured you.

The sad fact is that since that relationship is so special, the callous negligence and other pathologies parted by the mother into the relationship are so many times more destructive.

And this is not about the stereotypical sitcom mom who is overbearing or judgemental.

Think about substance abuse, suicide attempts and the like.

Nothing gives you a jolt like finding your mom in her bed OD's with sleeping pills and plastic bags wrapped under her bottom not to soil the sheets. Even though if the mom survives something will be irreparably broken inside the child.

Don't push people about their relationships to their parents. There are lots of sad, sad stories there.
How’s it going? Everything good? Health’s good? Sleeping well? Wearing masks when going out (recent addition)? Done in three to five minutes if there’s nothing else to complain about.

I don’t call 4 times a week, but twice aren’t awkward, and once is a given.
Because many Americans can’t even pay their current bills or save literally a single dollar. So fractional shares are irrelevant unless they are free.
She's dead. I needed another reminder today, thanks. On a tech site.
I think it also helps to think of it in a community or society sense too. If a community has a small number of neurodiversity they are better for it, but if everyone had it then there would be problems. For example depression could be thought of as a kind of introspection and are good at noticing negative things, having that kind of person in a group noticing problems and prompting change would be useful. Those with ADHD would be better noticing/finding things, again not great at things like sitting through boring meetings but useful to a community. Even most pre modern societies had a role like that of a shaman or a spiritual leader who was often schizophrenic, and this again would be useful to the community on the whole.

So my theory is that some of our evolution is not at the individual level but the societal.
Faith in humanity: buy stocks. No faith in humanity: buy gold.

Large cap stocks are to some degree an international investment.

REITs: well they are down, maybe more of an opportunity if only because the good stocks are so high.