skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One big advantage viruses have in terms of being a mechanism for variation is that they can replicate themselves and cause the same variation to occur in many individuals within a population. If that variation causes those individuals to be unable or unwilling to mate with the uninfected, those individuals can still mate with each other. Specific mutations are vastly less likely to be present in even two individuals within a given population.

So, even if most of the modifications that viruses make are deleterious, as you say, if a virus comes along that confers some advantage, it is much more likely that the resulting change will be in play in the descendants. A beneficial mutation on the other hand would have to somehow be happening in some sort of Genghis Khan creature with scores of offspring to have the same reach as a beneficial virus. So you can see the probable relative importance of these two bases of variation.
The web does not imply a GC.

Most multimedia in the web is hardware accelerated, SIMD accelerated via plugins or uses Wasm.

Any other way would be a huge waste on resources or simply impossible to do for high resolutions.
HN is not representative.
Living computer is great
If every participant were acting in good faith, it wouldn't be a problem.
US politics are making me seriously anxious. Will I have to leave if I want my kids to grow up in a healthy democracy? Where would we go? Will there be violence before/after the election or transfer of power?

More than anything, I don't have much of a sense of hope for something better. Maybe things go ok and "the bleeding stops", but it'll still be a long, difficult slog to start fixing all that's broken.

Oh, yeah, and there's also a deadly pandemic on the loose.
>> Decisions have to be made
> In general, I disagree.

You can check the data. Lets take for example 3 similar Mediterranean countries - Spain, Italy and Greece.

First 2 waited with restrictions till >1000 confirmed infected.
3rd executed restrictions when there was only 65 confirmed cases.

Result. First 2 tens of thousands dead, 3rd <200.

There is clear patterns - earlier countries did implement testing facilities and applied restrictions - faster they got the spread under control with lower causalities.
Not really... philosophical zombies behave indistinguishably from "conscious" humans, we just don't believe them when they say they have internal experiences just like real people.
2,996 people are confirmed to have died in the 9/11 terrorist attack, and look at how the country reacted. Compare that to today where more than that die (just from coronavirus) every day. There’s now over five million dead people who are believed to have died from it.

Not to get too off topic, but it’s very concerning that a very substantial portion of the (US) population is convinced it’s some kind of “hoax” being used for political gain.
Some places make you dread going to grocery stores. Even club stores that require membership are bad. The experience has been nothing short of a nightmare off late, even prior to these pandemic times.

Costco & Whole Food stores have especially declined in overall shopper experience. Clueless store staff, shoddy inventory levels, incompetent employees who cant be bothered to educate themselves on elementary details, rude and crass shoppers, shoppers who dont return their carts to the corrals, thinning variety of offerings, long lines at checkout, lack of adequate number of self checkout terminals .... the list goes on.

I recall even 3-4 years things weren't so bad at these two very different stores. Now they're almost uniformly bad.

I just wish they had large refrigerated silos outside the store in the parking lot, where they could let you pick up your online orders like Walmart does.
It can't be true that there are no precedents for this in intellectual property law. Sure, Internet fan fiction is a modern phenomenon, but there are plenty of examples where multiple authors draw from the same folk sources. For example, I'm pretty sure I'm allowed to make an adaptation of Snow White, the famous story told by the Brothers Grimm among others, and ignore letters from Disney's lawyers. But if I call my supporting cast Happy, Grumpy, Sleepy, Dopey, Sneezy, Bashful and Doc, Disney will win in court. Of course there are grey areas and Disney could overreach, or I could be scared out of staging a legitimate production, but I refuse to believe there is no precedent at all here.
This will be toothless. The federal executive has to regulatory power around social media whatsoever, as far as I know, so this is going to be something along the lines of “hereby directs the secretary of commerce to produce a report on social media censorship”

It will do nothing and produce nothing.
Congrats on V2 and everyone involved!
How? Data-driven ad systems are built specifically to target people who have a high probability of conversion. The perfect person for such a system is one that would constantly (i.e. impulsively) buy or convert.
More like 70% to 90%, just the city of Rome got up to 750k-1M people let alone all the other cities in the empire. A great deal of this was due to Egyptian farmers ability to grow multiple crops per year on the same land. Fishing was similarly extremely productive in terms of labor to food production.
outlook.com is indeed the worst. Got a pointer how to make this whitelist happen @outlook? Got SPF and DKIM setup since I started my personal mailserver, but still piggybacking of my old University's open relay (on campus) to get my mail to land in outlook inboxes...
It's bollocks. JavaScript is the only GC system of any widespread use that doesn't allow programmers weakrefs. JVM languages all have it, .net has it, SmallTalk, various collectors for C++, Cocoa (ARC as well as the briefly-viable GC), even ActionScript had it. Very few universes were torn asunder.
Unfortunately, I saw a fair amount of users here gleefully sharing said person's twitter. Rather than address the issue with twitter or make a stronger argument, they'd rather paint a target and start a witch hunt themselves.

Of course, the irony of claiming that this fact check is censorship while they go out of their way to harass and censor an individual I hope isn't lost on anyone.
I don't understand the point you were making in the original post then.

> What you don't want is to interview for a React job with only a cursory/tutorial knowledge of it, and try to fall back to "well I'm an expert at 10 other languages, it's all easy"

Of course I would expect someone who claimed professional experience with React to have more than "a cursory/tutorial knowledge of it". In the post that started this chain, though, you said

> Decades of experience in C/Java is not going to work at a React shop. Either learn (and be opinionated about!) frameworks built in the last 5 years, or stick to somewhere within your expertise

I take that (in combination with the above) to mean that you somehow need to get a job where you can use React in order to get a job where you use React. I'm not sure what the point of that advice is, then. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding something here.
Are you suggesting the President is incapable of other forms of communication?
They aren't selling at a discount, which is why it astounds me anyone pays for it!

https://slickdeals.net/article/buying-guide/imperfect-produc...
I got a job after 18 months of looking

I'm doing some bullshit specialty software i hate but that I happen to know pretty well

The lesson there, to me, is think about specializing. Why?

Because...why not?

Outside of that

My advice to older folks looking for IT work is

It is not going to happen -- think about stocking shelves or anything you can

Once you come to terms with the situation, then you can get real about what is really required to get a job

A miracle and tons of hard work of the type you don't want to do

I've seen lots of good advice on here that I think is pretty good

Like

Look younger
Act younger
Dress younger
Be younger

Reach out on LinkedIn and other places -- it won't help but I think it is important to check the boxes -- it's a pretty good way to quickly get to rock bottom shame or shamelessness -- completely remove your ego from the equation

Even busted my ass for an AWS cert -- worthless

I've started losing weight and people are noticing

I figure each 10 lbs you lose takes off a year or two of age

What would I do if I got shitcanned tomorrow?

I would probably become an 'out' specialist in this particular software I know

I _hate_ this gd software

But a job is a job

There have also been sites that claimed to specialize in helping to hire older workers

I figure it was just a scam but I would also check it out

I did occasionally get play from startups that I was actually interested in -- by writing authentic-ish notes of interest

But yeah nobody but the 1%ers are getting jobs in this market

And that is some weird mix of the geniuses, connected, etc.

Nobody else getting hired -- I don't care if you are 25 yo or 75 yo -- not happening
I'd be happy to speak with them. It is a sad state of affairs, but in my book, a disaster of epic proportions is a large percent of the world population dying. It is a disaster of such proportions that entire nations collapse. It is a economic depression that lasts for generations. What we are going through right now is like a hangnail compared to your entire foot being ripped off. It is scary for the people most affected, but hardly a disaster of epic proportions.
I really don't know the answer to this so I'm not trying to trick you, really just trying to see how far Section 230 goes.

If a Twitter user posts child porn (which is an example of an illegal act in the US), and Twitter knows that it is on the platform and does not remove the content, do you know if Twitter would therefore become liable for the content?

(Again, this is more exploring Section 230, not about the specific controversy du jour.)
That’s actually not what I said. I’m saying there were lockdowns in the most important regions (Miami-Dade for example), that people behaved as though there were lockdowns in at risk areas (nursing homes), and that people are still behaving with lockdown-style precautions. All of these things produced a flatter curve, and have also to a certain extent done so in Sweden where people followed many (not all) lockdown precautions without official government decree.

Just because the government didn’t say things were locked down doesn’t mean they weren’t in practice. Look at Sweden’s GDP losses, restaurant attendance, movie attendance, you’ll find they haven’t avoided massive economic damage. In exchange they also have a pretty high death rate.

These things are complicated, but it’s pretty clear lockdown behavior cuts infection spread. It’s also pretty clear people are terrified of getting sick, so they’ll adopt the behavior to a certain degree regardless of decree. This means issuing a decree or not doesn’t make you avoid economic pain, but a decree might make it easier to guide the right actions and give pretext to minimize economic pain via external support.
I've used at least a few GUIs that automatically generated a log of commands corresponding to your GUI actions, which you could observe, replay, or copy into a script. The only one I can think of right now is the Active Directory Administrative Center [0], with its "history viewer" that shows the PowerShell command equivalent of everything you do. I think another one was SQL-related. Anyway, this is one way you can "reify" a GUI that happens to correspond to an equivalently powerful CLI.

(Edit) Another example of reification is the Google Cloud Console, where you can go through a webpage for a complicated operation like creating a VM, but instead of pressing Save, you can click a link to see the equivalent gcloud CLI command and HTTP API request. I've used this a lot to script bulk operations after generating one outline for a request.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-...
The "no leverage" will still be true. It's just that they won't be able to pretend any longer.

On the other hand, they didn't have enough leverage to change things when they signed the Joint Declaration, and the people who signed it are no longer in power. So maybe they'll just act like it's no change, because they knew it all along.
The simple answer is: don't write your own software license, because if you're not a lawyer (or if you're a lawyer not specialized in this area of law), you'll get it wrong.
I've been "meaning" to switch off of Gmail for years, with all of the issues with Google. I switched to Firefox/Safari a couple years ago, then DDG a year ago..

Finally, a week ago, I switched my email to fastmail. Bought a new domain for 10 years explicitly for that purpose.

I'm slowly migrating everything to them... Every day or two I think of something else that needs to be migrated, and do it. I don't feel a need to rush because I just have them both simultaneously.

I have to say though, Fastmail feels better than Gmail in every way. The UI is fast and snappy, looks clean (with a few themes), includes a calendar and notes. The first month is free, so I figured I'd try it before I decided to go all in. After about 20 minutes I was sold and bought a year subscription...

They have this really cool feature with subdomain forwarding so you can organize things into folders automatically. As I've been migrating emails, I've been giving each service it's own unique email address. Eg `amazon@stores.domain.com` will automatically add the email to my "stores" folder, and I'll see it came from Amazon. I can put unlimited anything before the @ sign, which will be really nice for signing up for one-off forums. If they sell my email address or send spam, I'll know exactly who did it and can just block that address.

They also have a bunch of other features for organization like the "+ addressing" that Gmail has. I definitely recommend checking them out though. I feel so good having an email that won't get shut down
No, they did that. A pity, because even the original AWS S3 bucket is still up.
I didn't know it was this close to production finally, thank Jebus!
It helps that Intel is rudderless in a sea of one-trick-pony MBA finance schemes and squandered an impressive multiyear technology advantage.

Last time with Netburst Intel still had some talent (Core and successors started in Israel IIRC), but I keep reading about how all the "old guard" engineers that knew their stuff inside and out are retiring, and Intel isn't hiring or rewarding talent, and their corporate culture has collapsed into infighting and backstabbing.

Intel always had the Microsoft problem of launching things outside of the core x86 CPUs, from graphics cards to XPoint to the flash-on-motherboard cache, completely being flatfooted in ARM and mobile CPUs, but at least they always executed on their core moneymaker.

Now, they've not only lost their lead in process, they've fallen behind. I imagine their patent portfolio will be valuable for decades, but Intel just seems like a zombie company stumbling forward on inertia.

But AMD was dead a decade ago, so what do I know. Maybe Intel will hire an engineering CEO again.
Just wait until the hyperinflation begins...
I’m curious what you would call this situation then?
You could have five times the accuracy by simply flipping a coin to answer any yes or no question, compared to the level of accuracy in the “reproducibility crisis”. I don’t think this can be explained by “selection bias”, and, if it can, and I do believe that could also qualify the entire industry as “fake science”, if the industry cannot even get close to as accurate as a coin toss.
I could easily see this used to reliably decide the rate of opening / closing businesses and public places on a local scale if automated and implemented on a large scale. Thanks for sharing!
That seems to me to be mostly limited to automated tools, or checklist level evaluation?

The good/dangerous bugs require creativity and deep system knowledge to find, which is hard to trust that an unknown person has.
I disagree. $50 for note taking app only is expensive compared to something like Google Docs which does much more functionality and includes cloud storage.

The product is applicable to anyone who needs a knowledge base so it’s $50/employee and that adds up quickly.

While the developer is free to charge whatever they like, I don’t like the trend of these products priced based on people thinking $50 isn’t that much and that spiraling into what should be a one time fee to every piece of software being $50/year forever.

This reminds me of the 4 hour workweek where there’s a plan to create recurring streams of revenue for little to no work.

I think the amount of time put into this product doesn’t warrant that price. Even though I think it’s a really neat product.
How to run sprints remotely to release at a faster cadence
Algorithms provide more performance gain than hardware in many cases (2018)
So true, I constantly wonder why cities are not sending masks to everyone. It's cheap compared to the alternative of spreading the virus.

Making the wearing of masks a political issue has been a disaster
That is an awesome connection and very grateful for it (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html)

However it's also way off the mark because it doesn't treat the professional dress from a technologist standpoint but rather a socio-cultural one and doesn't go into the history of the shirt and tie (notice I didn't say suit and tie) as a communication medium

There's enough information here for a whole volume but whatever it's worth humans require signals to communicate and in the absence of something definite they'll use anything at hand

The traditional professional dress deals with social communication concerns we're no longer even aware of let alone leveraging to advantage and it's a pity to watch a whole generation of would-be professionals on a level the world has never seen in its billion year history lose the thread as it were and bring their shabby hand me downs to the arena when they could stand on the side of tradition and button up like their ancestors in the arts and sciences did for centuries before them
Possibly that people from underprivileged backgrounds are unlikely to have high speed and reliable network services, that using image mapping makes a website unusable by the vision impaired, and that making a website such that it's layout changes after loading can prevent navigation by systems for people with physical disabilities?

While in most forms of engineering, a lack of ethics can demonstrably lead to death (and AI is no exception when you look at proposed use cases in military and law enforcement) even web developers work on things that are for the public good.
None of your "actual disasters" have actually happened.

For most living Americans, I think you can make a fair argument that this is the biggest disaster in their lifetime. Though I'm open to give other candidates a fair hearing.

Keep in mind that this one is far from over yet!
Did you watch the video? The iPhone went back and retroactively inserted errors into its transcribed text.
> They should.

That's an insane statement. YouTube should shutdown because they're successful?

What, do you think a monopoly is a bad thing? The market place decided YouTube was the better platform and continued to pile on (sure, they had market timing too.)

If you can suggest something better than YouTube do let me know.
I'm afraid you are infringing on Ms. Cain's copyright with your comment; only she could possibly be so knowledgeable about canine reproduction as to make such a joke.
Why not just use subtitles? I can't stand dubbed live action content (anime is a little better though), so I stick with subs exclusively.
Well, just off the top of my head:

* The PRC government right now

* Pretty much any government behind the iron curtain during the cold war

* The Catholic church over much of its history

...

I mean, come on. Pick any reasonably competent totalitarian regime and you'll find that one of core pillars of the support structure is precisely "control over public discourse".

So maybe in context putting a fact check link under a tweet doesn't sound so bad?
I initially got very frustrated with Gatsby. Most new web frameworks makes things easier and faster. Gatsby is not about making a website easier to make. Its about making really fast websites easier to make. Its complicated: you need to use GraphQL to load an image, and you need to choose the right query based on what component you're using.

Eventually, I embraced the complexity, and the plugin system really helps.

Oh, but I still hate the 'theme' feature. I prefer the old 'starter' way.
> It's unbelievable how much the US populace has been gaslit by liberal media if you _still_ don't know it. This refers to "fine people on both sides" comment deliberately taken out of context.

> Direct quote, you can easily find a full transcript and see for yourself. Yet you didn't even know this existed. You're being lied to every day and you don't even know it.

You are assuming I'm being misled because I¨m not up to date on the latest "controversy" to hit PragerU.

I watched the whole press briefing when it happened, I'm very aware of what Trump said. And your direct quote is as much a direct quote as that which you suggest was unfair. Both are low on context.

The problem (in full context) was his multiple use of "both sides" referring to both good people as well as bad.

Whether he explicitly referred to neo-nazis or not is trying to divert the focus away from the fact that only people on one side was killed, only people on one side the night before chanted "jews will not replace us" and "blood and soil", and only people on one side were sporting a flag that symbolizes slavery.

I'm not glossing over the fact that there were violence on the other side, as there always will be.

But what the narrative cast by "charlottesville hoax" is sidestepping is that one side wouldn't be there if there wasn't for the need to stand up to (some portion) literal nazis.

Repeatedly uttering the words "both/all sides" in any context at that press conference is indefensible.
This is not specific to a phone model. It works reasonably well on the venerable Nexus line of phones too. Any android device that uses gboard. I still won't actually use it for anything, but it works within a limited vocabulary. It's still not what I would call generally useful, although I'm sure it is very helpful for those with disabilities.
I wonder if the people who had those "no more brain fog" had an underlying condition in the first place, like vitamin/mineral deficiency, anemia, etc. These problems are rarely checked in the first place.