skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why exclude the biggest websites?

The problem I see on DDG & Google is having to scroll 5-10 pages of utter SEO nonsense.

"Do you have a question about ____? Many ask about _______. ____ is a common question, here the are we some answer. [sic]".

Just utter garbage pages.

It used to be just with recipes or medical questions, but now it feels like most everything that is a general query.
If it's universal and meaningful (that is: everybody will have that much more money to spend), you can't finance it unless you massively increase taxes (at which point people won't actually be able to spend it, because they'll need it to counteract the increased taxes). You can fund it only by not actually giving it to everybody in terms of real buying power. You might still pay it out but for the median worker their taxes will be raised, so it's only a nominal thing, they can't buy any more stuff.

Essentially then, you have the same idea you have today: those who will rely on UBI are the same people who rely on social benefits today, and those who do not get it are the ones who will have to fund it (with a slightly enlarged soft border between the two). The stigma isn't because people know that you get social benefits (the records aren't public), it's that they don't see you working.

The cut-offs are an issue, but we already have Mini (up to 450€) and Midi Jobs (up to 1300€) where you'll not get any reduction in benefits for 100€ and 20% of whatever you make on top will also not affect your benefits. That's not a perfectly soft threshold, but it's not a hard cut-off either. The thresholds that you lose money at are much higher (e.g. earning just a little bit too much to be eligible for subsidized housing, which is close to the median salary in most states).
Could you not do all your debugging and development on a normal host and only deploy on a unikernel when you are stable? There is already a divide between development and production with debug and release builds the later of which are a massive pain to debug.
You should use the RSS feed of HN, it'll be easier than just checking the site each X hours/minutes.
To all users of unpoly, intercooler / kutty: which one would you recommend for a new e-commerce project? I'm especially concerned by maintainability issues, as well as possible SEO implications.
ETLAs got you covered:

https://wiki.c2.com/?ExtendedThreeLetterAcronym

Although I'd like to see something like XTLAs, for eXtensible Three Letter Acronyms.
I know an EE in the toilet paper manufacturing. The production rate wouldn't change in the time frame you want it to because it is impossible. You'd have to bring in new machines, set them up on the line (the rest of the line has to stop), and trouble shoot any issues - this reduces production in the short term. For any temporary price increase it just isn't going to happen.

So, raising the price on TP does nothing to increase supply in a 1 month time frame and reduces availability to the poorest. Instead, reduce demand with a bidet and limit customer purchases.
Also everyone loves customer service on airlines, the fact that it keeps getting worse is gold plated proof
It's still the best place around.

A lesson that "more tech" ISN'T always the answer.
HP Newquist, The Brain Makers from 1994. It matches my memories of the last AI boom quite well.
I’ve read elsewhere that the wage-earner funds were never very popular, and were actually a break from the tradition of the Social Democrats to only pursue popular policies, often with the support of the Liberals or Center.
I built a simple Chrome extension for my own before. Not sure if that helps though. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-searching/mghf...
How transparent could the deployment target choice be? Could you deploy roughly the same source code to unikernel and non unikernel targets? Also, what exactly are these enormous performance benefits?
> Fast: also yes. Usually about 2x or 3x the run time of C/C++ code, some times even less.

not commenting on the Java part as I believe it's usually faster than that (though not so sure when you see the years of hoops that Minecraft java had to go through to stop being so damn slow all the time...) , but it's kinda frustrating to be fighting for microseconds almost daily and then hear people saying that 2x slower is fast... 2x slower means going from 100fps to 50fps which ... well, gets you fired ?
Please study the actual history of the USSR-- there were multiple genocides of different religions and ethnic groups. Most notable were the pogroms and the death of millions in the Ukraine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691152387/st...
Good point, and that could indicate those unaccounted deaths are skewed towards being covid-19 related. There’s still odd patterns with the covid-19 hotspots, and I’d suspect that the underlying reasons could correlate with higher non-covid-19 death rates. As in older and/or sicker populations.
Does this mean that specificity of commercially available Igg covid tests is actually lower than advertised?
Majority of the giphy usage probably happens on mobile apps —which don’t send referer headers.

Similarly, if you use something like giphy on your Twitter posts, twitter mirrors the gifv image on their servers to avoid leaking user info to Giphy
> A lot of manga and anime take place in school as well, and I'd be surprised if it's just because all the artists know how to draw is schoolchildren.

Besides what the sibling poster said about target audience—these days, a lot of it's down to the fact that many manga/anime are being adapted from commercially-published(!) novels written by high-schoolers.

Yes, Japanese book publishers are signing deals with teenagers these days. I think with the justification that they can better write things their peers want to read. I've got to believe they have sales numbers to back that up.

But high-schoolers are still uncreative fiction-writers, writing mostly high-schooler characters in high-school-equivalent settings. I guess the publishers don't complain as long as the books sell.

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Though, honestly, what's really going on here is that everyone is mostly uncreative when writing voluntarily under no particular artistic constraints. Tangential Sturgeon's Law rant about fiction-writing (from the perspective of an editor reading through a slush-pile) follows:

People mistake the advice of "write what you know"[1] for a recommendation to just "write your own life-story, gussied up a bit."

For every one amateur writer who constructs a novel fictional setting, there will be nine writers who will just pastiche together the last three books they read; and 90 more who will won't bother with a novel setting at all.

For every amateur writer who constructs an interesting character "from whole cloth", there will be nine that just re-skin characters from the stories they like, and 90 that just attempt to recapitulate the mostly-mundane people in their own lives.

For each amateur writer who starts with the intent to write a novel conflict/scenario, letting the work define its own genre; there are 999 writers who will instead choose a genre to work in, and then regurgitate exactly the same scenario tropes they've already seen from works in the genre. (Many authors seem to think that scenario tropes are what genre is.)

Professional authors aren't any better on their own, but usually they'll either have a publisher or editor who will push them to work outside their comfort zone; or they'll have written the same thing enough times that they'll finally get bored of it, and enter a more experimental phase.

[1] If you're curious, "write what you know" is supposed to mean "if you want to include X in a story, then go research+experience X. Embed yourself in the world of X, like a gonzo journalist. If you want to write a story focused on a real-world place, you've got to live there for a while; if you want to write a story focused on a certain industry, you've got to have actually worked in that industry for a few years." It's not supposed to hold you back from writing what you don't know; it's supposed to push you to go know it!
Grubless charges 20-30% for just ordering and checkout. In addition restaurants have to opt-in to promotions ($10 off $15) which are then passed on to them.

Delivery fees are on top of that if the restaurants choose to use Grub-less' delivery network. I dont know the breakdown but most I know use their own. Uber-eats is different.
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What You Dislike in Zendesk ???
could you please provide any feedback related to following questions:
- what you dislike most in your current solution. most annoying part.
- any desired feature/requirement that will dramatically improve performance and reduce stress.
- anything else ?
For a more general use case (although probably *nix only, or maybe via WSL) I'd also like to mention tmate, which is a fork of tmux that allows collaboration/sharing: https://tmate.io/
I don't disagree with any of that. But I also don't see what it has to do with my point that our response to any threat is often a matter of policy choices, rather than something predestined. (and of course, sometimes it isn't).

You can see this even with the case of sars-cov-2, where different policy decisions about the response have contributed to (or resulted in?) different impacts around the world. I imagine we will see it going forward too, just as we do with differing responses to terrorism.
If you look at % positive it accounts for increases in testing ability. So are you just testing more, or are you actually finding an increase in cases in your sample of the total population. That is what they're looking at to get a true determination of if the infection rate is increasing, decreasing or flat.
Extracting ROM constants from the 8087 math coprocessor's die
This is a really cool concept, thanks for sharing.

I like the idea, but I'm not too keen on the way that once you select an item, the additional "Move Here" UI pops up for every single item in that view - I can imagine for longer lists, this could alter your frame of view significantly as you get towards the bottom of the list. I didn't clone the repo, though - do you had any considerations about this concern? I wonder what an alternative UI would look like for that piece - I guess a simple, more traditional checkbox wouldn't do the trick because it doesn't signal where you want to move something.
It takes an argument by a lawyer in front of a trier if fact before stripping copyright from source files shows anything. Irrespective of details, the wherewithal to lawyer up is mostly what matters because “fuck you sue me” is a sound legal strategy in so many cases. Or to put it another way, unless you have a lawyer on retainer the odds of bring a ne’erdowell to heel are low and one on retainer is probably saying it’s not worth it if they’re worth their salt. YMMV
That's great; what city is this?
I would be good to edit the title to say this is mobile specific.
The problem with that reasoning is that the stock market is NOT the economy. It’s a secondary market that is more or less necessary depending on your views. Buybacks instead of dividends definitely have set the market in the speculation territory. Sure the US economy can not stay depressed for 20 years, but drawing a causality with stock price is not automatic and is an opinion at this point.
Totally anecdotal:

I know a few people (5-7?) from both high school and undergrad who went to work at Goldman Sachs. 2 in NYC, at least one in both of London and HK. All of them were pretty middle of the road in terms of academic achievement, smarts, leadership etc. The smartest people I know from back then are mostly working at NGOs or academia.

The one thing that all the GS people had in common is that they cared a lot about having a high salary. The kind of guys who like to buy expensive champagne at the club, is embarrassed if they don't make it to Bali for spring break. That kind of thing. Absolutely no moral judgement on my part, this is just what I noticed.
I mean, just because someone made a crate with std in the name doesn't make it another standard library. The actual standard library is still useful in async, as only the things that does IO or otherwise needs to sleep requires special handling.
Misleading title. But I agree that the message that asks me to connect is more annoying than being useful
This is how I have been feeling lately as well
I mean, we're talking about advice for running a startup here—an entrepreneur would be an idiot to not do everything possible to give themselves multiple independent avenues to success (e.g. do multiple forms of inbound advertising; attempt product-market fit with multiple markets; etc.)
I always struggle with the question.

I have no firm direction in which I want to go. In fact I don't even see anything exciting in this industry on the horizon.
Oof, I just looked at the formatting of this post and realized I rendered the list wrong. Here's the non-eyebleed version:

- Class inheritance is the biggest one. Kay himself mentions inheritance appearing only in the later versions of Xerox's Smalltalk. No need to really elaborate. Implement interfaces, compose behavior and don't inherit. He has posted some more of his thoughts on this exact topic.[2]

- Java was a giant industry-harming one. Now multiple generations of programmers have been brought up to think that the definition of an object is to write a class (which is not an essential characteristic), declare internal state and then write accessors and mutators for every one of them. We might as well write COBOL. But, having tried to solve problems in Java, I get why it's done. The OO is so weak and awful that I'd rather just crank out slightly-safer C in Java than jump through the horrific hoops. (Just as an aside, I find it sad that Sun had the teams that developed both Java and Self. Self used prototypes instead of classes, which influenced Javascript, but also had a killer JIT that made it super fast and a ground-breaking generational garbage collector. Sun ended up cannibalizing the Self team to assist with Java, and some of the features of the JVM were ports of work that had originally been done for the Self VM.)

- C++ was kind of a mistake, because it introduced the interminable "public" and "private" and now the endless litany of stupid access modifiers. They were needed because C++ had this need to be compatible with C and do dynamic dispatch and have some semblance of type safety (though C is only weakly typed) and have it run (and compile) before the heat death of the universe. C++ isn't as horrible as what came after it though IMO (i.e. Java).

- Xerox horribly mismanaging Smalltalk was another mistake. Xerox was smart enough to realize that Smalltalk was insanely valuable, but instead of realizing that it should be a loss leader/free drugs, they decided to lock it away in the high tower and then let everyone else pillage their research that could be commercialized (GUIs on the desktop, laser printers, Ethernet, among many others). This literally led Apple to develop Objective-C.
Switch to Phabricator which is open source and you won't look back. JIRA truly is a crappy product designed to sell to managers who they wine and dine in order to sell, not based on how good or fast it is.
The market’s.
In work in medical devices so we have to do a lot of documentation. In order to stay “lean” we have only a few tech writers so at every project the engineers have to figure what docs to produce and then push them through various review processes. This takes a lot of time so the most senior engineers are spending way more time on the documentation process than they do thinking about technology. The tech almost feels like a side effect.

And in every project there is a ton of discussion about what regulatory process to use. Instead of figuring this out beforehand usually it holds up the whole development process for a long time. It can be really frustrating.
UK lockdown causing 'serious mental illness in first-time patients'
Swiggy (a deliver app in India) has very nice bot feature for handling most of the queries.

You don't have to type but select from bunch of choices and then the bot automatically does the needful.

Examples

Report an item is missing from the order. The bot pops ups the list - asks the user to select which item is missing - refunds automatically.

for most use cases I would rather have the bot do the work for me than having to talk to a rep.
Yes, radon is pretty hilarious and spreads in very unexpected ways. Completely wrapping sources of radon like uranium or thorium minerals (or these bracelets containing some of that), only holds back the diffusion process for some time unless the shielding is really thick and very dense. That's why radon accumulates so well in household cellars, it penetrates concrete walls easily.

If you look closely in thought emporiums video (link below), the thick clouds - representing each the full paths of individual alpha particles (from the point of decay until full absorption in the air) - don't originate right at the surface of his shielding materials (paper, chicken skin... whatever). Instead, the alpha particle clouds stand by themselves in free space and can only really stem from radon that decided to decay at those positions somewhere outside of the shielding (transforming to "solid" polonium in that process and sticking itself to the next closest lump of molecules/dust). If the alpha particles would penetrate the shieldings (which they can't because of too much material/density), we would see clouds stemming directly from the shielding surfaces which I don't see happening:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7TwBUxxIC0&feature=youtu.be...
You may find and like my comment there, maybe it helps to fight some misconceptions about natural radioactivity. ;-)
I keep one at the bottom of the page so that users know not to scroll any further.

A page without decoration of some sort at the bottom looks naked, bottomless, and what better decorator to use than the one used by every single site out there?
I don’t disagree if the language is OO such that classes have reasonable functionality contained within them. But searching through many many functions because very disorienting. Just my $0.02 of course
That’s technically accurate, but doesn’t account for how many more serious diagnosis begin from routine care or how afraid people are of covid-19 they’ll still not go in even when they normally would. A local hospital put out a PSA that yes they were in fact open, safe, and that people should come in for medical issues. They indicated worries that people were suffering more serious issues due to fear of the pandemic.
The First Movie Kiss
You should double check the rules, and this is a pain in the ass and potentially problematic given that it will be harder to find a tenant during a pandemic, but if you rent for four years you should be able to do a 1031 exchange and avoid cap gains. You move out, and rent your existing home for at least 2 years, then do a 1031 for the new house, then rent that one for at least 2 years. If the old and new property are rented for at least 2 years, i believe there is a safe harbor that deems them investment properties for purposes of a 1031 exchange.

You still have the problem of much higher property taxes due to prop 13 though.
so languages like self and javascript which, even in the modern forms, have no real classes are not oo to you?

i mean, the fact that you can use class style syntax do define object constructors in javascript and tho result is fairly coherent, seems to suggest that classes are not inherent to oo.

also, the fact that it's called “object oriented” not “classical”.

other examples of non-oo with strict encapsulation includes haskell, where if you lack the constructor, you can only use it according to the public api. it also uses single dispatch for typeclasses.

complex inheritance rare in oo - mostly only single inheritance is supported - and most oo design advocates pretty much say “don't use inheritance”. so it doesn't seem like it's intrinsic.
Also, why does alcohol easily kill microorganisms but doesn't destroy skin cells?
Very cool story! Given that the exciting part of your retirement is learning and making things, I'm curious to hear why you decided not to try starting another business that would allow you to develop your skills in a similar way and also create money as a bonus.

It sounds like your first business was particularly soul-crushing, but do you view this as an inevitable quality in any for-profit activity? Or is it more that with any business there will always be lots of annoying tasks to do that you'd rather not spend time on, whereas your retirement is characterized by total freedom in what you learn and make?
Golang doesn't really have a sync context. It has one color because everything is async. The `go` operation is not comparable to `await`, rather it is comparable to spawning.
This is the common theme, in California the number was 50% at one point.

Most explanations I’ve seen is the fatality rate increase with age from a small factional percentage to 10% in those in their 70s and 80s.

That combined with the proximity of people at a nursing home make it especially deadly.
Creative California plan to avoid post-pandemic evictions
History will look back at how one of the most prosperous nations in the world's history (modern America) had millions of people living without decent access to housing and healthcare.

I don't know what the right model is for sure, and whether it is the Swedish one, but whatever it is, it isn't what we're doing now.
Phabricator is amazing and fast compared to JIRA, and better yet is open source and can be quickly tested in Docker or deployed using their official Helm chart.
One nice theory I've seen floated - which I believe has happened in some places - is for several local restaurants to split the cost of building & running a combined web store and/or app. If word gets around enough that this is a faster or cheaper overall experience, people will migrate. The only catch there is if the stores want to also continue taking GH/DD/UE orders, in which case the menus and branding might have to be different.

In the long run, I honestly think kitchen-only setups optimized for efficiency & food safety will grab a big share of the market. They can experiment with vertical integration, and avoid all the hassles & limitations of sit-down dining. They will be able to more, better, faster and cheaper. It might be hard to copy & paste the entire thing from one city to another, but the core functions should be quite portable.
Is it possible that delivery itself is actually inherently expensive?
Some general advice on the topic:

https://www.askamanager.org/2013/04/how-to-answer-where-do-y...
How AI can help us make judges less biased (2019)
Can someone link to a study that shows this is the case for virusses also?

The example listed in the article, Staphylococcus Aureus, is a species of bacteria.

Last time I had this discussion they linked to a study that said that for viruses, higher concentrations are better.

(Epidemiologic Background of Hand Hygiene and Evaluation of the Most Important Agents for Scrubs and Rubs
Günter Kampf and Axel Kramer)
Yes, they don't discuss the model itself. Perhaps unsurprisingly, given that their credentials are in software:

> First though, a few words on our credentials. I am David Richards, founder and chief executive of WANdisco, a global leader in Big Data software that is jointly headquartered in Silicon Valley and Sheffield. My co-author is Dr Konstantin ‘Cos’ Boudnik, vice-president of architecture at WANdisco, author of 17 US patents in distributed computing and a veteran developer of the Apache Hadoop framework that allows computers to solve problems using vast amounts of data.
Phabricator is free, better interface and way faster. Plus they have a Docker image and official Helm chart for deployment on Kubernetes.