skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tribe where I currently work and used to live has taken action. There is a 10PM curfew, a ban of gatherings, and no official travel allowed. If you leave the state or go to three of the more populated cities (because they have cases), you are a required to self isolate for 14 days before returning to work. The community college is online only for the summer.

The casino had a very limited reopen with a lot of social distancing rules, but not a whole lot of enthusiasm from workers since most make more on unemployment than working. Basically, opened for the fishing crowd.

I would imagine the two main causes are housing and IHS. Let's face it Indian Health Service is not that good and actively a problem under the best of circumstances. A politician who actually believes in government provided health care could go a long ways to proving it by making IHS work. Search for "don't get sick after June" for a documentary on the subject. They did two very credible attempts to kill a couple of family members and misdiagnosing AIDS without waiting for test results didn't help my friends marriage one bit. I do admit to still being a might bit bitter over having to have three operations to fix a botched root canal.

The second is housing. Housing is scarce on many reservations which means large family groupings. Now, I understand some visitors from DC think its great that families live together like "the old days", but its not great, or cultural, and it sucks. Overcrowding isn't fun and not having access to the normal (e.g. mortgage from bank) with going through the tribe or a special program is really an issue. A former college president lived in his parents basement until he and his wife could afford to buy a house outright (well, a mobile that they moved). Its gotten better in recent years (better federal program), but large crowded houses get infected fairly fast.

The National Guard has been doing mass testing in ND and did do one on the reservation. It looked well organized and they were pushing a lot of people through. I was told later (we had the window blinds to the parking lot closed to avoid any privacy violations) that they had no positives.

I do wonder about the statistical differences between reservations and versus the general population. I am not always confident on the reported statistics.
On what grounds does Trump have to shut it down? He'd have to get through Twitter's armada of lawyers.
Was expecting this to have something to do with the shift away from incandescent bulbs, but apparently not.

(Is it just me, or do the newer, environmentally friendly bulbs seem not to last nearly as long?)
Oh, but it was conmoditized even then. Roman society was suprisingly „modern” on many fields, and their approach to art was no exception. Rich paid the creators to create such art on their properties to increase their value.
> I'm really concerned about Chrome's 'signed exchanges' where they can fake the URL completely.

They're not faking the URL; a signed exchange contains data that can only have come from the original site. It's a secure way of handling caching/CDNs/etc, and it'll be a net improvement for security that allows sites to put less trust in third-party servers and scripts.
Paper Review: Portfolio Construction – Comparing static and dynamic approaches
Don't worry, there will be in the suit for Tom Cruise
All your data is in text format. It's a desktop app, so you don't really lose it, but if for some reason it disappears and your installed app stops working, all your data is already in a directory on your computer.
Make sure to try i.reddit.com in a browser, that's also a good option.
I've recently started using this[0] setting and haven't noticed any limitation to my browsing experience.

[0] https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2020/03/27/firefox-76-will-...
“Vote secrecy” refers to the inability for an attacker to know who you voted for, not that you voted. Checking whether your vote was counted gives you an answer to the latter, not the former. In other words, it’s not possible to prove who you voted for after the fact unless you took pictures (or some other copy).
I don't think that is the case. I just clicked a random course in their curriculum (Convex Optimization) and it links to a Stanford course that requires a login to access the videos.
Exactly. The odds are not what I'd like them to be.
Now if we can just get people to stop saying "Google it" instead of "search it" or something else which doesn't involve being a constant two-legged advertisement for Google, maybe others will start to realize they have options.
I'm sure it's intended to look nice, but that website is so dark I can barely read it. I hope the application ships with a readable theme?

From what I can make out, it seems to draw some inspiration from zettelkasten tools, which looks promising at least.
Nothing is in the first line of defence against Covid - it's a novel virus
But nobody goes from writing 0 words a daily to Nanowrimo and comes out the other end as a "better writer" without having some sense of discipline and writing regularly. Doing anything besides eating and sleeping every day is hard. If you can get to the point where writing 250, or 750, or 2,000 words a day is a given, then you can focus on actually getting better without having to worry about the effort required simply to put words on the page.
What kind of lts term would you expect from python? Django is 3 years, libreoffice I can't find lts, node is 2 years, Linux is 6 years.

Python is supported for ~5 years (closer to 6 in practice) without any promise of an lts release. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0537/#lifespan Would you want more than that?
Many more, better, photos https://interestingengineering.com/stunning-roman-mosaic-flo...
i.e. 'concrete mathematical' proof, a proof constructed from physical references rather than algebraic manipulation
There several problems with mail-in voting systems, including your proposal. On top of my head:

* The tampering envelope is extended to weeks instead of hours.

* There is a non-zero risk of vote secrecy violation.

* There is a non-zero risk of voter pressuring.

Coming from a country that earned the right to vote through violent revolt, it is strange how established democracies, especially the US, are cavalier with weakening the voting process: vote on a Tuesday [???], no paper trail voting machines [???], mail-in voting [???].
"fundamental" is very different from "useful". ...and I don't even agree that turbulence is more useful. It's only more useful right now. ...but understanding the building blocks of all matter is probably more useful for humanity in the long run.
And it's not obvious that people want to discover art the same way they want to discover information (obviously not implying that Google can't be used to discover art).
How we achieved 2× faster application run with only 1/3 of the servers
The closest thing in Markdown is probably front-matters. You're right in that Obsidian is not great for structured data right now, and for that purpose Notion or Airtable is much better.
Yeah, that's not what my 4 year AI curriculum looked like. Mine focused more on Expert Systems. Also more logic, more software engineering, more psychology and philosophy. But much less algebra and calculus, less computer systems and parallel computing (though I took them as elective), no compilers (I don't really see the need either, though it's an interesting subject), and clearly not enough machine learning.

I also would have liked to see more robotics. Our neighbouring university had an AI curriculum that focused more on robotics.

If I could design a curriculum like this, I'd keep the focus on software engineering and logic that we had (maybe a bit less logic than we had; they were overdoing it), keep algorithms, keep some philosophy and psychology, but make them more focused on our field and include things about social impact and ethics. Definitely more linear algebra and calculus, some statistics, machine learning, and get some basics for vision processing. After the first two years, you'd get to choose between more focus on vision and robotics, or more focus on logic, statistics and expert systems. Machine learning should be included in both.
They won't even show their own rating anymore.

I assume it's counterproductive to the goal of capturing eyeballs for as long as possible.
Trump can't shut it down.
Have you read The Fold by Peter Clines? This headline sounds like it would come from that universe!
Hong Kong's economic future hangs in the balance
I 100% agree.

I've been tempted to migrate from Typora + Joplin to bear app. Do you think it's worth it?
> It might matter for the court system assigning blame but it doesn’t matter from an economic perspective.

Right. To which I say that anyone that only looks at things from the economic perspective is an immoral hack that should never be listened to.

Every larger issue, dear to either conservatives or progressives alike, can find its roots in and be justified by some moron looking for solutions exclusively via an economic perspective. It's a danger to society, plain and simple.
Political theory: The study of how to maximize the knowledge of decision-makers while minimizing their conflict of interest.
Please improve vSphere's RESTful API
A lot still are. Sinopharm (the two "Institutes of Biological Products") and Sinovac are both developing inactivated virus vaccines for COVID-19:

https://www.who.int/blueprint/priority-diseases/key-action/n...
You made me laugh because people used to describe pixels in terms of mosaic tiles. Now we’ve got to the point where we do the opposite and descrive mosaics in terms of pixels.
That's not been my experience. My recommendations (mostly Anime and Sci-Fi) is vastly different to my wife's (mostly American comedies with a strong emphasis on romcoms). The kids have a children's profile so theirs is vastly different again.

It's fair to say our individual viewing habits are vastly different to the others. Maybe if there was more overlap you might not notice any difference with the recommendations.
> You have to stop after "as much as possible". Adding a "while still" makes it optimization, your value judgment doesn't get to determine what does and does not fit inside the "while still" of minimize.

I'll try to simplify it. Imagine a function with dependent and independent variables. Choosing an independent variable so that the dependent variable is the minimum is minimizing. Imagine the plotting of the equation, we are still trying to be on the curve. That's what "as much as possible" means. You are saying minimizing has to be when that dependent variable is zero. That is only possible if the equation crosses the x axis. For our case, it doesn't because diminishing returns make that impossible. Hence my calling strawman.

> You're splitting extremely fine hairs there

The thing I've been trying to separate is not optimization and minimization because minimization is a particular type of optimization. I'm trying to distinguish what particular variable is given valence while solving the whole system of equations. Because in a case where two of those variables are correlated (user frustration & revenue), picking one over the other chooses different optima for both (optimizing for user frustration vs optimizing for revenue yields different optimum values for their correlated counter-parts; for revenue and user frustration respectively). I want to emphasize, these variables are not independent with respect to each other. So there is no simple "revenue is max and frustration is min" solution for which we could say "youtube should just optimize the whole thing". There is picking to be made and max revenue is picked over min frustration, always.

Picking up on me using words "optimize" vs "minimize" for two different variables appears to me as further strawmanning. I don't ascribe malintent, but what we have been discussing has been irrelevant to the conclusion of the original post from the beginning.
If they have to take their gloves off to get the TouchID to work, then that's kind of a bummer. Don't know how well FaceID works while wearing the helmets either.
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Yeah. Independent mechanics are a mixed bag. Dealerships aren't -- they're all bad.
They're making their money, the US probably will never slap them with any meaningful antitrust lawsuits, and they also see China as a long term investment, so there's no reason to see them as self-immolating. Maybe they're doing so for people in the know, like those of us on HN, but most of the world doesn't see it the way you do. To most of the world, Google is still that innovative company with the friendly looking logo that makes gadgets.
Thanks. I think that first link is what the previous poster was talking about. It references a photo of a 'native symbol' (probably the state flag) turned into a swastika and that's what the first link is about. Apparently the context is a bit different than listed above:

"A protest in Farmington organized to support local businesses has sparked outrage after a protester turned a New Mexico flag into a symbol that represents hate.

One of the organizers says this was all put on to support the small businesses in their area, as San Juan County remains on tight restrictions because of the high number of COVID cases in the county. “If the big box stores can open, and they were open 100 percent right away. Why can’t all businesses open safely? That’s kind of how it started, was just to help our local businesses, at least open a tiny bit,” said Shannon Carter.

Carter, family members, and friends who own small businesses organized the protest. She says several hundred people showed up and it was a good, peaceful protest.

San Juan County Sheriff Shane Ferrari was also there, taking pictures with attendees, however, he has said it was simply to keep the peace. But it was a man holding the New Mexico flag turned into a swastika, that’s been raising eyebrows. The sign says, “what’s next concentration camps?”"

So, apparently not a white supremacist march but an anti-lockdown march whereby some asshole decided to compare the lockdown to Nazi contentration camps. This would be why it didn't turn up in my searches.

edit: probably the original image for reference: https://www.krqe.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2020/05/far...
Until you forget it again. I'd like to never worry about the boilerplate class of problems again (CRUD, auth, auditing, filtering, pagination, etc.). That's what I'm working toward.
The AMP site is unusable far more often than not. My phone has had a 100 Mbps connection for years, yet opening webpages is slow because I need to manually mess with the page so that I can get a working webpage.

I'll take +250 ms load time over fiddling with the page for 5 seconds and then having to reload it anyway.
> In your opinion, is it acceptable to have grown for the first 10 years of your career, hit a personal snag (burnout, parental healthcare, medical condition) and then reluctantly chosen to coast on your career and skills for 10 years?

God I hope not- that what I've been doing, lol. But seriously though, if you've spent 10 years growing as a developer, you're probably at the level of a senior dev. Those soft skills are also interviewed for- we don't just ask technical questions.

I've been on interview loops where at the end, we've said "This person's soft skills are out of the park good, but they're technical skills lacked. Are there other roles we could consider this person for, like a project manager?" because soft skills are king. I've also been on loops where we said "This person's technical skills are out of the park, but there are too many worrying signs in our soft-skills questions to go forward".

> does this mean you wouldn't hire a 60-year-old who planned to retire in a few years

Hasn't happened to me yet. Most folks with 30+ years in the industry aren't looking for junior level dev jobs.
> Disinformation campaigns will be costly.

Then the rich most likely win, whether they are right or wrong.

And given How wrong Trump is on many things (including what he himself has said in the past) that is not going to be a good thing. Yes there will be popular gatherings where many people put in a bit to counteract disinformation from small groups of well funded individuals (or just one well funded individual) but those things take with organised orchestration or luck (often both) to be successful, more so than the actions of smaller groups or individuals.

While this would reduce individual knuckle-draggers shouting from the rooftops because they feel slighted, and would reduce knee-jerk reactions somewhat, it wouldn't shift the balance of power significantly at all at the top end, it would just change how score is kept.

> If the information is useful and worth reading ... if the information is garbage or incorrect

This has exactly the same problem as the current situation: how do the people who currently believe (and propagate) misinformation behave any differently under this scheme? They might not forward the misinformation as much due to the cost, but that same will happen with provable facts because the cost is universal so the current balance probably wouldn't be upset.
I tried out Obsidian in the closed beta and also Roam Research before ending up learning org-roam as part of org-mode in emacs.

I won't deny there is a heck of a learning curve with org-mode but once you make the jump I doubt you'll ever look back.
You can use the community for support. Then make people pay a premium for paid human support.
On the calendar, but in warmer climates (I'm in Houston) the perceived Spring/Summer starts sooner.
Would be nice to see a live example, I can't tell from the website what this actually does or how it would be useful to me
It doesn't say whether these people are working or not, and whether they were working before quarantine. If you were a housewife before quarantine I can't imagine things seem much different. But if, like my brother, you were a mechanic and now you're stuck at home with no real ability to practise your skills then it would feel very different. I am working at home every day and feel absolutely no different in terms of time.
What fashion?
I love it. The next level of this hack would be integrating it with the Rust/AVR work and building pseudo-threads with memory and thread safety on the platform (for no reason other than to do it).
Have you looked into Zettlr(.com)? It ticks most of your boxes. Plain old markdown. And it's actually open source and a pretty decent community, so there's a good chance to get features in.
I have ~50 docker containers running with various stuff I am working on. I am sure that contributes quite a bit.

2 Windows 10 machines make a LOT of phone-home queries.
I don't get it either. This is by far the most productive i've ever been at work and on personal projects. I don't miss spending 60+ minutes in my car 5x a week to sit in a cube with headphones on or sit in a meeting where we all look at a shared screen on our laptops... I start my workday when I wake up and finish working at the same time i'd normally be arriving home after my drive.
If that's the case, maybe the government should buy them out at market price and then it can do whatever it wants.
The same happens on a mac.
I'm surprised GE stuck around in a commodity business for so long. Lighting is something we'll always need but the prices are so low these days that I wonder what their margins are.

Also, not sure what's next after LEDs.
Same as EoS, network effects can be a component of a flywheel, but aren't necessarily equivalent to the entire flywheel itself. Network effects simply mean that the value of the service increases the more people who use it, whereas a flywheel represents the entire positive feedback loop that may be driven by individual components like network effects, EoS, etc.

Marketers know very well what network effects and economies of scale are, and the concept of a flywheel is distinct from either. You can have a flywheel without EoS or network effects, and you can have EoS or network effects without having a flywheel.

Also, it's somewhat pointless to debate what the "original" meaning of flywheel is. Language evolves and changes, and people from one field borrow terminology from others when creating helpful analogies. Terms like "funnel" and "flywheel" are hardly the first to receive such treatment, and they won't be the last.
I suppose the analogue of Jenner's cowpox innoculations would be infecting people with coronaviruses other than SARS-CoV-2 and hoping that the cross-immunity is helpful.

There is evidence for such cross-immunity, but not strong enough for this to be a strategy you'd bet on.
That's not going away until we robotize everything. We no longer hunt, all the genetic material for hunting left in us is now just an artefact, we no longer ride horses for transportation, we no longer loose contact from our friends and families for prolonged periods, we no longer do many many things. I think we no longer eat meat too - I mean sure we eat meat but for most of us meat is this thing in the supermarket and we don't have an intuitive understanding from where it is coming from.

Something like that needs to hapen with robotics before we no longer have people who do the undesirable jobs.

There's this movie "Downsizing" about people getting miniaturized and live lavish lives as their material needs get smaller. It's not a very good movie but what stike me in the move was that even in that kind of society they needed to have miniaturized people for the labour that no one wants to do and they had to have slums and so on so that the society works. I find this very realistic because even though we have rich countries and poor countries, we still have to have income gradient everywhere so that some people will do the jobs that others don't want to do.

I don't think that this will go away without eliminating the need for near slave labour.
>> when DuckDuckGo doesn't quite deliver

Which is 90% of the time when you are looking for IT questions. Unfortunately. I am hoping they are going to get better, it would be so good to finally stop google search.
UX Architect vs. UX Analyst vs. UX Designer
Lots of trial and error probably. From the article:

> A note on the commune website said diggers finally made the discovery "after decades of failed attempts".

Also "scholars first found evidence of a Roman villa there more than a century ago", so they knew it must be there somewhere (I guess from old texts), but didn't know where exactly to look for it.
My LED bulbs last forever. As in, I've never had one fail since I started using them.
Wow, I never realized this.

Make sure the Search field isn't focused, it is by default on launch.
This is not a junior consideration and it's not unrealistic that firebase ends in say, the next 60 days which in terms of porting your entire application is essentially today. You're right to weigh this as a concern in evaluating approaches and everyone should, regardless of experience.

All PaaS providers work hard to couple you to their platform not (necessarily) for nefarious reasons, but because that's how abstractions work. You need to be continuously vigilant and aware of when and how you are tied, do a cost/benefit analysis and have risk mitigations for things like your original thought, so good for you.
The part that stood out to me is:

> Doctors sought to monopolize the simple treatment by convincing the public that the procedure could only be done by a trained professional. The procedure was now preceded by a severe bloodletting, in which the patient was bled, often to faintness, in order to 'purify' the blood and prevent fever. Doctors also began to favour deep incisions [versus superficial scratches], which also discouraged amateurs.
There are plenty of disruptive ubuntu upgrade issues, for example for almost 5 years (through 12.04 to 16.04!) if you installed on LVM volumes your /boot partition never cleaned up old vmlinuz and initrd images, causing dpkg-reconfigure to fail, leaving dpkg completely broken.

Operating systems are hard.