skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The whole thing is seen as some type of bizarre competition.

Yes, it's somewhat ugly, but I feel that some confirmation bias is unavoidable. At this point, pretty much everybody has experienced substantial downsides of the epidemic (either restricted public life, or increased deaths around them), so it seems only natural to look for data implying that it was all worth it.
Your claim that Fed policy somehow doesn't have an impact on aggregate demand because it goes "to the wealthiest banks and corporations" is laughable for anyone with an elementary understanding of economics.

We're not seeing inflation because there would have been a huge AD collapse and deflation in the absence of Fed action.
Some ideas in general:

The article is about putting a framework & your Apps into a separate thread (calling this one App worker).

Now, with SharedWorkers being fully supported, we can connect multiple main threads to a shared App worker. This way Apps live within the same realm and can directly communicate. They even share the virtual dom, leading to really great possibilities (moving dom nodes from one App to another).

E.g. if you would like to create a multi screen trading App, there is a big potential to speed up things.

On mobile this could also get interesting: imagine a native App with multiple WebViews. Those could as well share code and communicate directly.

Even in case there is just one browser window, the default worker setup (non shared workers) can make an impact.
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The analogy isn't quite correct. The current movement started with BLM and is turning into a referendum on policing, it isn't directly related to economic inequality (although under the hood, it's exactly that).
Why fashion models don't smile
It's still a battle worth fighting. You can't let them have it for free, you still have to put up a fight.
I was frankly surprised that Bangalore has been low given how much tech travel within and outside India happens there. Hopefully things remain manageable as lockdown eases more
> The problem is that the military is basically welfare for small towns and southern states.

When I read comments like these, I get a little bit sad. What is it about the ease of communication that the internet enables that people think its ok to say such things? Is this what bravery is in the 21st century? This is a perversion of honesty and people wonder why there is so much division! Our forbears had it right, it really isn't everything that you think that you should say out loud.
Show HN: A Commodore Amiga Workbench Style Smart Watch with Mod and Say Support
Data scientists at my previous company switched to https://github.com/has2k1/plotnine when we made a big push to python. Bit closer api to ggplot than Altair.
This blogger implies that GPT-3 could be within an order of magnitude of reaching a threshold of data efficiency. The implication is that a GPT model with >1 trillion parameters would begin to see a reduction in data efficiency. I have read all the GPT related papers and I’m frankly not sure what nostalgebraist thinks this would mean, practically speaking. All complex problem domains begin to see a dropoff in data efficiency once the “easy” structure is successfully learned. The lesson here might simply be that GPT type models are close (within an order of magnitude, so “close” is subjective) to being able to learn all the “obvious” regularities in massive language datasets, leaving the increasingly subtle regularities that might require very specific, very difficult-to-reach-through-local-minima-ravines, or very “big” learned abstractions to discover. Since GPT-3 can already do some rather incredible things in the zero-shot case, to say nothing of the few-shot case, this fails to make me feel suddenly dissatisfied with the performance large transformer models.
Actually, both articles are based on the same quotes – just very different interpretations and headlines.
Less talking and more building, please.

Even if Tesla doesn't win the EV war, its legacy will always be getting us into it. Future generations will thank them.
This is rather silly, you could always draw solid colors over someone's face and it works better than blurring. A rather frivolous update, from a software standpoint. The sentiment is nice.
Fixed pie fallacy.

There is not a finite amount of dollars to be held. Bezos holding more money does not make other people poorer. Economies are engines and Bezos is the one shoveling in coal.

Amazon can almost always find employees and it can do so because it pays a lot more than Macy's or 7-11. Workers choose to work at Amazon because it's better than most other no-skill jobs.

The retail giants went out of business because they were taking advantage of their customers and employees. My local department stores went under because they couldn't hire anyone.
It's worth noting that the phrase "shouting fire in a crowded theater" comes from a Supreme Court case in which the government imprisoned socialists for handing out flyers urging people not to submit to the draft during WWI.[1]

It's one of the most infamous decisions in the history of the Supreme Court, at one of the darkest hours in the history of the First Amendment. I think most people would be surprised to learn how far the Wilson administration went to suppress free speech during WWI. I had no idea until I read "The Great Influenza" (about the 1918 pandemic) recently.

As an aside: the Espionage Act comes from that time, and is the law that was used to jail opponents of the draft back then. It's also the law being used to charge Assange today.

1. Schenck v. United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States
Glad you went to wikipedia to get an authoritative source... Go look at what QE did to Japan—it was not inflationary, it was deflationary. Here it is even from a right wing source: https://www.cato.org/cato-journal/winter-2017/japanese-exper...

Wikipedia... lol that isn’t allowed for a high school paper. You really showed me.
You can but it looks bad and is distracting, a good blur doesn't distract from the rest of the photo and looking good enough people are more likely to actually use it which is also important. You can also build a blur that discards enough information that it's not reversible and it /looks/ like they did that, Signal has been pretty thoughtful about security so far so I doubt they missed the research about simple blurs being insufficient to defeat facial recognition.
Why? People are still eating meat, they are still heating/cooling their poorly insulated houses, they are still buying consumer goods on Amazon, they are still driving huge cars to the supermarket.

The only real difference is the air conditioning is in the home office rather than the real office.

We haven't changed our lifestyles that much.
> I've seen far too many smirks

This reminds me of the "it's easy to be a weirdo now" thread from yesterday. (i.e. no it isn't, we just moved the window a bit)

> no way i'm getting someone to facilitate my keyboard fetish

That's demeaning to yourself. Ergonomics is important and a keyboard is a work tool. It's like saying that a basketball player has a "shoe fetish" for insisting on using a shoe that is not the same model as his teammates'.

> Only Apple has the power to re-educate the world's typing habits

What do you mean, that Apple should sell Colemak keyboards? I agree there, but it's a bit of a chicken and egg situation.
If that's what they'll pay with no union, think about what they'd pay with one.
> development is 'fear driven development' for quite a while now.

Do you have examples of fear-driven and non-fear development approaches? And what flavors of "non-fear" development are possible?
I don't live in one of the US hotspots, yet I personally know a person who had COVID (and lived), and have multiple friends who have had relatives die from COVID.

I have a feeling as things open up, more people are going to have my experience.
> Add to this an existing culture of using face masks and gloves in public (i.e. supplies of those things were already in place), and you've got a very different scenario compared to most of Europe for example.

This is a big one. Around these parts wearing a mask means people assume you're sick or immunocompromised.
The main difference is the introduction of qsql (SQL-ish statements can be treated as expressions) and some utility functions that are defined in K. QSQL is mostly for business analyst folks, and is just syntax sugar over the K-native `?` and `!` functions (which is more powerful than qsql).
There’s no problem with capitalism.

The problem is rich people aren’t willing to share the wealth with less fortunate.

Socialism is a dirty word in the USA but it’s really just about taking care of everyone. Rich people - to generalize - aren’t ok with people getting free or minimal cost health care education housing and a financial safety net. But in general terms the rich fight against this.

People get mad when you .... the rich... can have houses and cars and holidays and all the good things, but no one fights to ensure the less fortunate can own houses, that they aren’t bankrupted when they get sick, that they don’t have to work till they’re 78 even assuming they can get work.

That’s why the pitchforks will one day come. Because the rich want all for us, none for you.
The Elektron Digitone is a fantastic sounding, modern hardware FM synth with great workflow once you learn it. Highly recommended.
Why Are Robots Useful in Fighting Coronavirus?
As a new developer, I think I fall into this trap a lot! I always don't want to touch other people's methods or introduce bugs, so I only make tiny, tiny little changes before thoroughly testing everything. It really slows me down.
So this is an example of "Anxiety Driven Development", the current post on the top of the front page, right?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23415922
Other people are reporting the same thing:

https://www.hypernode.com/blog/performance/huawei-aspiegelbo...
Why don’t you google it instead of calling me an idiot. It’s not even slightly controversial, so all you jumping on this attack just reveal your actual ignorance on the subject. QE has led to deflation in Japan, not inflation.

Try reading this and you’ll get it: https://www.economyandmarkets.com/economy/central-banks/japa...
"Every extension of mankind, especially technological extensions, have the effect of amputating or modifying some other extension." - Marshall McLuhan

I don't deny our new super powers, but you have to take a break to let the perceptual system reset (eyes, feeling, smell, intuition). This is what is getting amputated. We don't realize it because we are stuffing our visual channel with information.

Much of this gives the impression we are powerful, but it's just overloading the circuitry. It's like primitive humans getting sudden access to salt sugar and fat and just gorging themselves.
To be fair, if this paper holds up then he's going to be the center of a scientific controversy which will increase citations, or it's going to become a required cite in pretty much every fMRI paper, which will increase citations.

So from a career perspective, this is actually pretty good (and wonderful work, even if it wasn't going to be good for his career).
Worst approaches? In what way? Certainly not in outcome. Just in your mind?
They provide little value yet where deemed essential workers. F off with that bs man.

The lowest paid people are the people who deliver the last Mile of service, without Them, McDonald’s doesn’t serve a billion burgers. Amazon doesn’t ship its groceries. Safeway doesn’t have stocked shelves.

Police has existed to destroy unions and the country as a whole Also discourages unionizing. We’ve taken a tool these people had to fight for better wages away.

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Not mentioned: the dead salmon study of 2009 that outed a bunch of fMRI studies as using incorrect statistics, and which went on to win an ignoble prize.

[1] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/scicurious-brain/ignobe...
It's true that there isn't much of market and I've had good decafs. However, one issue is that the process that removes caffeine is expensive, so it's really hard to find African decaf for example. I could only find Colombian and I know there's also Mexican. Only one roaster from England had Ethiopian.

Another issue is that decaf tastes like a stronger roast while I like very light roasts. So, yeah, I went back to regular coffee.
Haha. I guess that's what real people who work at my bank would say. But I'm not sure they possess general purpose intelligence either.
Hmm, I've seen current USA riot footage where the police seemingly got spooked (by an umbrella), and proceeded to gas a couple of hundred peaceful protestors.

Some riots and current outbreaks have certainly been caused by police.

In other incidents riot police have been filmed purposefully and willfully attacking already subdued members of the public; looking around first to check for observers of course! One of the cases the policeman put a weapon in the have of a subdued arrestee as a precursor to beating them.

These sorts of actions inflame the public and cause ongoing rioting.

It's been interesting witnessing quite measured, in relative terms, vigilante justice against some rioters too.
Is there a difference in Portugal between being laid off (for economic reasons) and being fired (for underperforming or misconduct)? I got the impression, perhaps mistaken, that the choice for some of the workers referenced in the article was get fired or take this meager deal.
Try hanging out in the non-rich areas of town and you will immediately understand how the wealthy have been attacking society.
I'm sorry, this is like pulling a single line out of a book and using it to bolster a specific argument. In other words, there's loads of context that's missing. Your video has less than 10 seconds of context. What happened just before the video starts? What happened 15 minutes before?
Go’s WaitGroup == JavaScript’s PromiseAll?
Students who pass who can't code aren't the ones doing the coding (clear or unclear) in my experience. When doing homework, these students focus on higher level concepts and let the people who love coding do the actual coding.

This is based on my actual experience at university, not a random guess. It's never a case of "teachers weren't strict about working code", it's a case of "student didn't focus on coding, let others do it". Note that in proper CS (as opposed to a "coding school" or bootcamp) this is semi-acceptable, since CS is much more than just coding.

I do find it puzzling, because how can you study CS if you don't enjoy coding? But surprisingly enough, a lot of people who study CS don't actually love coding. Some actually love maths.
Ask HN: What do you use for a company wide documentation tool?
I currently work at a company where I've built a marketing automation tool focused on local businesses. I'm trying to make sure all staff are trained on how to use it so that support can be provided to our clients and sales have an understanding of what they are selling.

Right now we are trying to use the new Google Sites (and Google Docs) for internal documentation. The documentation contains guides for setting up and managing accounts within the application and is all internally focused.

Use do use Zendesk Guide (Their knowledge base solution) for our client guides along with some videos clients can watch to learn how to use the app.

Confluence is a possible solution that I've looked into, however, most staff bailed using Jira and are using Asana to manage tasks because Jira was too confusing for them. So Confluence would be too difficult for them to use.

What I'm curious about is what everyone is using for a company-wide internal "wiki" that most staff find "easy" to use and maintain.

On a side note, any suggestions on getting people to adopt a solution would be helpful as well.
Persistence between alternate shells is pretty nifty though. I think that's the main gimmick.
It was a cheap thing to do out of caution. But I guess, it's not in the culture to "over"-react. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it comes back to bite you.
Original publication by Cloudflare: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cyberattacks-since-the-murder-of...
The author's blog is incredibly good. I'm binging some articles right now :)
When I didn't get any output, I ran it in Ubuntu 18 on a Linode VPS. But I tried to generate different formats: do, qcow, vmware.
Germany hands out cash for electric cars as part of new stimulus splurge
It doesn't hold because people get the money via loans at low interest rates and then spend more.

Fed policy has a clear impact on AD.
Dude, you can't even spell. I'm not going to take what you're saying as intelligent when you can't even spell essential.
Local R is on the upswing again
The excess mortality rates definitely lie, unless you believe that the coronavirus is bringing dead people back to life in Finland.
>I consider this line of thinking to be on the same level as face tattoos and social media posts about meals multiple times a week.

You're mad at people for succumbing to a dark pattern in tech that they themselves don't completely understand, but are going off on people who post pictures of their food or have tattoos like it affects you in any way?

>Good, fuck those people, I probably don't want to associate with them anyhow.

You know, blue bubbles may in fact feel the same way about you.
How deliciously wonderful.. we humans can still have some mystery about us.. i find this to be great news.
I’ve often thought that pair programming and daily stand ups work because they align with our natural social behavior. This could be fear or anxiety driven but it doesn’t have to be. Do scientists have a non-intrusive and accurate mechanism to continuously monitor the endocrine/nervous system response over hours/days? Working on a software project is often an emotional roller coaster ride.
We are really seing the chickens comming home to roost with regards to globalisation politics of the last few decades. When the wealth growth only happens in the top few percent this is inevitable.
Can you share the source, or the derivation, of the figure for lower bound on extracting CO2? I've had trouble finding the relevant information before. I just searched again and found this:

https://keith.seas.harvard.edu/files/tkg/files/116.cherry.he...
>Sweden's path has been conventional. The attention is coming from nations that executed extreme and even revolutionary policies of universal home arrest, "shutting" an entire nation like a coffee shop, and sending a 30%+ of the workers onto unemployment.

As opposed to abusing the situation to rebalance a ponzi scheme pension system? After all, most of the people dying have stopped contributing taxes, so nothing of value was lost. Right?

Another thing to note is that most countries didn't just cause a huge number of people to lose their jobs with no plan, only US did that (because it's a 3rd world country). Normal people use the QE money to keep everyone safe and healthy until the danger passes. Which it does, if you take proper measures and close down travel from red zones.

Viruses don't become benign just because people aren't in the mood to deal with them anymore.
> So are you saying it's entirely binary?

I'm stating the exact opposite: that crudely abusing statistics to pretend that people over 40 don't count for nothing because they will die in a few years is abhorrent, and downplays the real impact of the whole covid death wave.
Agreed.

Anxiety can also be expressed as a realization that what's being worked on is useless, adds negative value, or just personally unfulfilling or unimportant. Cops firing teargas at peaceful protesters a few blocks away has cause me a good deal of that flavor of anxiety, which I don't think is necessarily a negative outcome. Do you have any insights along those lines?
> Especially not considering countries have been opening up for ~3 weeks now, moving more towards the model Sweden has had since day one, and so far no effect on infections or hospitalizations have been observed.

This did not happen automatically. This happens because those countries first got infections under control, and put systems in place to keep them under control.
They could be using the old HR blackmail trick from the book where if you agree to leave they promise to give you an awesome letter of recommendation whereas if you let them fire you for underperforming reasons they'll give you a iffy sounding letter of recommendation.
it is just sad to see the same tactics(people being bullied into "mutual agreement") used now as in 90s in Eastern Europe.

that is good enough reason to not use their product at all.

I am sure there is plenty of capable competitors.
Right, but that was a hypothetical. They're not going to shut down, and you're not going to take your shot at them using a passive-sensor anti-radiation missile. You'll use a passive-sensor infrared or an actively guided radar missile.

(And an AWACS plane isn't without other countermeasures.)
I've been using Workman for 5 years now and it has been wonderful for reduced stress. The difference between QWERTY and workman has been so dramatic that I haven't needed to take any additional steps at managing forearm/wrist stress.

People seem to pontificate about micro-optimizations but the fact is that you're reducing your overall motion of typing by more than half. An ergo keyboard is another way to do that but you still have awkward motions.

Everyone has different sized hands. My fingers are a bit short for my average size. It works well for me.
I can only imagine. As if _where we are_ is a living thing as well.

I remember at the time there was a bend in the road where you'd face the beautiful Himalaya across the valley, but if you looked down the near embankment you'd see where all the bajillions of plastic water bottles were disposed of for a town that didn't (yet?) have a plan for them. Only tourists such as myself drank them.
Sounds evil-ish, but how about gasoline tax paying for electric car recharge? Electric cars being very expensive to buy is a problem though. You'd end up subsidising those who are already wealthy.
Sounds like the employees should go to court, then.
Queries on Rails
Enpass.io, currently, as it allows me to keep my password vault on my own server, and it also allows me to access my passwords from anywhere the app is installed.

I moved to Enpass from Lastpass.
Maybe cruise ships or other ships as well.
It is, however, extracted from their parents. To post a quote about envy when the discussion is not based in envy but in concern for the welfare of the most vulnerable in society is the upsetting part.
Yea dude it's supposed to be a fun learning experience. We got into software so we wouldn't have to work, not to be driven and crunched to death by self serving management culture.

Look at all the early software pioneers do they look like they were suffering from constant anxiety vis how productive they have been for decades?
Agreed that it won't help there. But communities are different; the ones that are proposing community policing are ones where they know that they will get better treatment from their own community members than they will from outsiders.

The same solutions will not be applied universally across the US because the challenges are very different for different communities. Many Black communities that are asking for community policing will benefit; doing community policing in white spaces is not guaranteed to make them any safer for Black people, but I don't know if that's being called for. And honesty I'm not sure it makes them less safe, either, when you look at what happened to Treyvom Martin and Ahmed Aubrey's cases (and all the others that do not get media attention).
Eliminate minimum wage like Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and Norway. Then you will see the roads paved in gold my friends.
A Scalable and Cloud-Native Hyperparameter Tuning System