skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well there you go making up statistics again.

The state of California did not create COVID-19, and it’s not responsible for ensuring that you live your life free from the risk of personal harm. Aside from being an entirely impossible task, it has never been the role of government to reduce your risk of harm to zero. The role of government in this context is generally agreed to be setting minimum standards. The state of California decided those standards could not be met when the outbreak began, and required large numbers of people to remain at home. Those people were entitled to unemployment benefits. It has now decided that in some circumstances it is safe to return to work. If it is safe for you to return to work, according to the standards set by the CA EDD, and you have a place of work to return to, your choice is to return to a safe place of work, or sacrifice your entitlement to unemployment benefits. If you do not have a safe place of work to return to, you don’t have to make any decision at all.

If you believe that people are being forced to return to unsafe working environments, then state your case. Because so far the only case you’ve put forward to support that theory is statistics that you literally just made up.
Interesting that they'd allow you to make photographs while they were towing classified hardware around.
> Why is it that a macroscopic object, made entirely of electrons, protons, etc. when interacting with an electron means that a measurement occurs, but somehow when a single electron interacts with that same electron we can just use the Schrödinger equation?

The way I understand it is that particles are fuzzy, but if they interact with sharper things they get less fuzzy themselves. Naturally large amounts of interacting particles (macroscopic objects) are way sharper than single isolated particles. So measurement is just theoretical concept that relates to system physically getting immensely less fuzzy to a point we can safely assume for the sake of easier calculations that it's not fuzzy at all. You can still describe such sharp system with Schrödinger equation, it still works even after measurement, but you don't do that since there are easier ways like Newtons mechanics. There's no artificial cutoff. There are just many orders of magnitude difference of how sharp things become through interaction.

You can see that experimental scientists managed to make pretty large systems to display quantum superposition if they are properly isolated from interaction with way larger systems that could knock them out of superposition.

As for consciousness my opinion is that it's just some specific algorithm that has some evolutionary utility for some animals. It's fairly good for modelling self, environment and the future. It's not in any way pinnacle of development. It's gradual like human has more consciousness than dog, and dog more than a hamster, but not to the point of absurd, that single electron or even single neuron has some amount of consciousness. Just the same as you shouldn't think that single electron or even neuron has some intrinsic ability to perform sorting or image recognition. You need hardware, and yes, more powerful hardware yields stronger results, but you still need to have at least rudimentary versions of correct algorithm running on that hardware before you can actually say it does the thing.
I've been hosting my own instance of Tiny Tiny RSS ever since Google Reader shut down. Highly recommended.

https://tt-rss.org/
I just tried to search for my city on BeWelcome to check it out. When I search from the landing page, I get a CSRF token error. When I then try to search again from the search page, I get a 404 /search/map not found. It seems they still have some way to go..
> I’m not exaggerating

He said, exaggerating.
My favorite (and only) podcasting app. I hope someone who works at Google reads this and flag it internally.

This quote really sums up how ridiculous Google is being:

> What Google is asking of Podcast Addict would be comparable to Google asking a web browser app to remove references to all the websites and social media posts that reference the coronavirus unless the reference comes from an official government entity or public health organization.
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If you don't mind me asking, how much RAM did you have before, and what did you upgrade to?

I recently got a new PC myself and decided to go for 16GB, my previous one (about a decade old) had 8GB and I didn't feel I really hit the limit, but wanted to be future proof. Because as you said, a lot of 'modern' applications are taking up a lot of memory.
Why the Tests Are Randomly Failing
"Hurrah for the Blackshirts" was actually a piece in the Daily Mail

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rothermere_-_Hurrah_...
The article says: The Düsseldorf newspaper Handelsblatt said Kelber, previously a Social Democrat (SPD) federal parliamentarian, was reacting to complaints from citizens about the use of WhatsApp by unnamed federal authorities.

It seems some „authorities” used it as a citizen communication channel for official contact.
There are certain sections where calculator use is not permitted, however.
I don't like this. Podcasts operate on open standards, anyone can launch an RSS feed which can then be played on any app.

Banning this app is like banning web browsers because the allow access "questionable" websites or banning search engines because they index such sites.

I hate how much (dis/mis)information is being spread about COVID-19, but banning an entire podcast app leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I don't understand why the EU members aren't working on such projects together. For instance, it doesn't make sense for an EU country to develop its own Linux distro (as Germany has tried to do in the past). If anything, there should be an EU-wide Linux distro that is used by all EU members' institutions, including government agencies, local agencies, schools, etc.

It's not just about the development costs and time/R&D spent on that particular variant, but also the fact that training gets much cheaper in the long term if government employees across the EU nations know how to use the same system. Same for any other open source project, including messengers.

France built its own Riot-based end-to-end encrypted messenger, but they should open it up to the whole EU and then the whole EU should contribute to it and used it for its government workers. There should also be severe penalties for any EU member that tries to backdoor it, etc (even if the code is open source, it could still happen as a backdoor could be hidden within "badly written code", too):

https://matrix.org/blog/2018/04/26/matrix-and-riot-confirmed...
> I keep wondering if maybe the definition most people are using for "consciousness" just doesn't match mine

I think this is true, when we talk about consciousness we talk about it as if consciousness has the ability to control the body and speak and that our thoughts are controlled by our consciousness. I think illusionist arguments are very strong here against that. We can change how someone thinks or acts based off of physical stuff (like lead poisoning someone) therefore those things must mostly be physical.

I have come to the conclusion that conciseness probably is only an experiential thing. It might not be able to control anything but there is something fundamental there experiencing something. We cant know that the world is real: we could a brain in a jar, or in the matrix, or on a massive DMT trip right now. But we can know "I think therefore I am", probably better written I experience therefore I am. It seems very strange to throw out the one thing we know to be true, that we are having a conscious experience, in favour of something we don't know to be true, that the world is real and causing that experience.
It's a great podcast app which gives the user a ton of freedom and tweaking possibilities, but it's also set and forget.

If this is the first time you hear about it, the safest place to obtain it is the author's Google Drive:
https://twitter.com/PodcastAddict/status/1262047866614247425
> In order to get the app restored, Google is asking Guillemane to remove references to COVID-19 and keywords related to COVID-19 from the app.

So is this a metadata issue, or a content issue?
I've seen so many of these posts saying, Google removes this or that from the store. But until now I did not realize how criminal this is. I know the Dev. Super guy, addresses help questions from thousands of users personally all without the jaded condescending that many maintainers effuse.
Wow, obviously an oversight. Pretty sure Google does not want search tools to be responsible for the content of the results they surface...
> Open-core, have an open-source core and a premium version with more features (these suck)

Out of genuine curiosity, are there some egregious examples that merits (these suck), or is it more of a blanket statement?

I would love to avoid making those mistakes.
> He argues that people should be given the tools to help protect themselves but that the government should leave it up to individuals to decide how they manage this.

Ok, but he was systematically minimizing threat constantly and all the time. When you purposefully feed people wrong information, latch yourself on every cherry-picked outlier study that everything is fine, you cant then turn around and say "it is all just about people making own decisions". That is just not true, because you are simultaneously manipulating people into decision that benefits you.

Also, Elon Musk did not advocate for setup where people who dont want to work keep unemployment benefits and people who do want to work can take their place either. None of that.

> Being forced to stay quarantined, to stop his life's work, probably drives him insane.

You know, when stay at home mom goes crazy after being suddenly all the time at home, she does not get that much of epical benefit of doubt. Seriously, some level of control over your emotional reaction could be expected from rich entrepreneurs too. And consequences are limited to husband and close family. Who typically tells her to stop the crap and she tries to figure out how to keep herself sane.
> I don't agree with Mr.Thiel but his logic is "if we don't do it,someone will".

In his interview with Dave Rubin he explained it differently (or at least I understood it differently) - he said that if they don't do it - it being prevent terrorist attacks - with technology + current assaults on civil liberties (i.e. the PATRIOT Act), then after new terrorist attacks, even more legislation will be passed, eroding civil liberties even further. He based this on US political response in wake of the 9/11 attacks.
Proof
[ my public key: https://keybase.io/mrj4s0n; my proof: https://keybase.io/mrj4s0n/sigs/HPrBsTdPl9WBzm9dPVgBPGp9XCozzHaRIqw-YxFBKSU ]
And all that for a couple hundred $$$ annually you would probably have to pay had you added your wife to your insurance?

How is that even legal?
Real-time tracking of self-reported symptoms to predict potential Covid-19
I asked a friend about this stat last year. He was a graduate student at Stanford, and was surprised. A few days later, he came back saying that it appears that a big chunk of the non-faculty staff are researchers.

I'm not sure I believe that's the whole story, but I kind of want to see a more detailed breakdown to be sure it's not just a matter of silly categories for reasonable jobs.
I've always dreamt of having a post of mine read in court.

Hi judge!
Elon Musk:

> Kids are essentially immune, but elderly with existing conditions are vulnerable. Family gatherings with close contact between kids & grandparents probably most risky.

That's just an outright false statement.

And just an "Actually" on the rest of your comment, we all know about flattening the curve and people are pretty sick and tired of hearing about how this is all really just flattening the curve. We know. Public health officials know. You don't need to tell us, the lockdowns were openly stated as flattening the curve from the beginning as were the plans for reopening. Plans that according to Elon Musk are fascism, a man who operates factories in the US and China and decided the US is the one that has a fascist government.
Not really an OSS dev, although I'm in the middle of building a library.

I've been looking into the very same question, IMO:

1. Build a software that you can use as a magnet lead for your services

2. Build PRO/Enterprise version that you will charge for.

3. Become a very know individual in your field and get donations (very hard)

4. Provide services related to the project.

5. Offer paid version of the project, like Ghost I guess.

6. Get hired by a company to continue your work.

Personally, I don't think donations work that well. If you are gonna put a price tag on something, people are gonna pay for it if they need it. Also worth remembering that most of the projects aren't gonna earn you anything. No one is gonna donate to you for the nth existing JS lib you crafted.
Trustroots has a nice map-based interface, but lacks references and meetups. BeWelcome is my preferred option, and is open-source and has excellent financial transparency.
This. VSCode isn't Vim and vice versa.
Wow, I've tried a number of tactics but this didn't occur to me. Did you manage to gain some traction for your projects? Have your teammates found the time they need to work on open source stuff in reality or does it go out the window when deadlines loom?
I suspect you are European.
It’s a tyrannical anti-trust issue.
Stay afloat doing this crisis –.Blog
Try here (starting on page 39). Whether it answers your question - I have no idea. It was part of the research commissioned by the Inquiry to inform its work. The Inquiry's terms or reference were to review options for local government funding streams; LVT was one option among many.

[Links to PDF] https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/en/archive/20070411120...
There is a dead comment that not so nicely stated that large companies are the biggest funders to open source. This doesn't seem too far off... anyone have any data?
Same thing here. I'm in Flemish Brabant, very close to the Antwerp border. Google Maps geoip puts me even more north. I have an English browser and OS (granted, with some Belgian regional settings). Yet a lot of web sites choose to show their French version as default.

And to top it off the language switch is often hidden away in some bottom corner so it takes you way too long to find it.

Give me back my old internet!
If you think about it, then it’s clear that in free society healthcare will capture all excess money. Essentially you can spend unlimited money on life extension, and people are genetically pre-disposed to fear death. There are some nuances, but essentially healthcare is only going to grow and will continue to be and become overly-dominant sector of US economy. Ironically, if it’s de-regulated, it will capture excess money more effeciently.
The editor that most closest to IDE.
There's a setting for language preference that is set in the browser, and transmitted in every request header. This is the thing that we're talking about.
Except in this take, I'd still prefer the Empire to the Rebels. Star Wars tells its story through the lens of the Rebel propaganda.
I think a socially good deed would be to take the original tweet https://twitter.com/PodcastAddict/status/1261671685477941253... and respond to it tweeting @FTC , @kenpaxtontx (who is behind the antimonopoly case). Google will reinstate the app soon, but it should help building the antimonopoly case against this evil machine.
This is like Google banning the YouTube app from the play store for having videos about covid that aren't from government sources. Insane stuff.
Doing more stuff means you have less time for work. If you really like work and want to spend all your time doing it why have kids, pets, relationships, hobbies..?

In my case having children has made me more interested in my career. I need to provide for them and set a good example to an extent. Previously my focus was on whitewater kayaking, spending time with friends and travelling. I can't really do those things now anyway so it makes sense to spend more time on my career, but while the children are awake and I'm there I prioritize them.

You may want to think about the kind of companies you work for. If everyone else in your company has kids and family responsibility their priorities will be more aligned to yours. I found this out to my cost and would be unlikely to work with a small focused start up in the near future.
Please don’t forget that the suggestion that these jobs “3x more dangerous”, or that by returning to work you’re subjecting yourself to a 1% chance of death from COVID-19, are just complete fabrications invented by pmiller2. So far he is yet to voice a single concern about the actual conditions of people currently returning to work in CA, or any reason at all why it might be unsafe for them to do so.
This is my first comment in HN. This is the best productive podcast app ever. The developer is also so helpful with any kind of bugs I reported. I hope this is resolved quickly.
I am a physicist but I think most of the questions around colonising other planets belong to biologists. Why send a world ship when you can send 20,000 frozen embryos? Or enough biological precursors for that, a database of genes and an AI smart enough to engineer humans to survive on this new world with different gravity/atmosphere/light etc? Why maroon people on a barren world with no other life when a machine in orbit can seed it with life but by bit for 10000 years and only print humans when there is a lush biosphere?
4. Centralized logging is the basics in any company. A container simply logs to stdout (kubernetes) and a fluentd/logstash agent can forward it.

7. Sadly if existing software can't run in kubernetes, this severely limit the benefits of having kubernetes, why use something that can't be used? If the jobs already have service discovery, they might be better off running on hostNetwork or whatever allow them to work as is.
It is indeed a perk for an introvert like me, but having to chose between empathy for another human and my discomfort, I prefer the former.

Yes, it will cause me anxiety to talk to someone, and go pickup an order. But if I was to avoid that and use an app, I'd be dipping my hand into their pockets and stealing money for a middleman. So I end up calling my preferred restaurant and picking it up myself.
Direct payments are better for this very reason. They also become bonuses for those working. Banks and broken state systems have really caused problems getting stimulus out as expected.

Lots of people calling for temp UBI like Cuban [1]. It was obvious from the beginning we needed this.

With everything we learned from the Great Recession 'bailouts/stimulus' we should have expected this and just not gone the bank route or unemployment alone. Direct payments takes pressure off everything, unemployment, state budgets, individuals, mortgage/rent, small business, demand from purchasing power etc.

[1] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/mark-cuban-says-families-s...
> Basically, why is consciousness always attached to the same physical body? Why can't I ever wake up in someone else's consciousness? How does "my" consciousness know to come back into "my" brain whenever I lose it (through sleep or injury, etc).

Maybe it's not attached to the brain, but rather produced/created by your brain?

> The answer that I lean toward is that there is no such thing as you or me.

I agree that there is no self. But that is different from consciousness.
I would simply say that the OP should reverse the question:
"in which cases can an electron app suffice for a desktop application" and not presume the death of desktop apps.

It's a very web-dev-centric view to imagine that this model is right for everything and will eat all software.
There are clear performance and efficiency tradeoffs.

If you KNOW the constituent bits of the software stack of an electron style app, you will be horrified at what you are doing in the name of being 'normal cool and popular'.

It would be considered extremely bad engineering if you whiteboarded the actual layers and proposed it sans the singular justification of "there are lots of JS devs and this is considered easier than QT which requires a bunch of picky expensive C++ devs'

More's the pity that the eventual use case is not first priority in such a decision making process.

"Background communication channel that should be kept open while the users main productivity software is afforded the computers resources for actual work"
that would suggest that Slack would be better written as a native or near-native app. Hello, McFly...
Everlywell gains first FDA authorization for a standalone, at-home, Covid-19
COVID-19 is the terrorism of this generation. It's the anything goes, doesn't matter how fair, as long as it's because COVID.
Yandex Browser has been serving me up random websites in Russian for years now. I don't know what algorithm it's using to do so. My system language, browser language and Yandex profile language are all set to UK English and I'm located in the UK. So it's quite a feat of getting it completely wrong, for the browser to still think I might want to see the Russian versions of so many sites!
No, Alameda County has always been vague about the dates.

As late as Sunday (today/yesterday), Alameda County hedged and did not give an specific date, only saying "early this week" (https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/17/sighs-of-relief-and-h...)

On Friday they said sometime next week (did not specify early or not) (https://www.kron4.com/news/contra-costa-alameda-counties-hol...).

May 8th, they said sometime mid-May (https://abc7news.com/when-california-is-going-to-reopen-stag...)

Finally, at the end of April, Alameda County (and the rest of the Bay Area) extended the lockdowns to expire May 31st, not May 15th, as you stated.
Such excessive writing only occurs amongst very few people, them who feel their job is 'culture'. I've heard far too much of it about shakespeare, and I think it undeserved. He's not that great. Emperor/clothes etc.

I've really not heard anything similar about newton though.

Don't confuse those very few who surf their own hyperbole with the average brit (I'm one).
If what Big Tech does violates no law, personal rights, nor any contractual agreement with users, it is not rational to believe users can hold Big Tech accountable. Sure, they can debate and complain. The online forums and messaging platforms they use to debate and voice their complaints are run by Big Tech. It achieves nothing really. Maybe it makes users feel better to vent. Big Tech knows how to deal with the whining. The threat of having to change their behaviour is negligible.

If there was a possibility they could be sued for this behaviour, then the threat might become non-negigible. The "legal sense" matters because it is a threat the company's management would take seriously. The threat of "people complaining about us on the internet" is not a serious one. It costs very little, often nothing, to make it go away.
In theory, repair and creating something anew are equivalent processes; at the detail level, they both involve the same act of tearing out old pieces and inserting fresh ones. So I sometimes wonder what is it that eventually makes killing and starting over preferable to maintenance? Maybe we should address that somehow, as redoing things from scratch seem unnecessarily wasteful.
It's about the power dynamic. You're talking about someone who isn't from the area, who doesn't know anyone nearby, and who is supposed to sleep at your place. If you are aggressively flirting with them, they may be forced into the impression that either they sleep with you or they sleep on the street. And that would definitely be assault
What is going on with Google? We had PushBullet being threatened with removal over vague problems just a few days ago.

I don't buy the "evil monopoly" narrative as what does this accomplish for Google?