skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judging distance / #remotelearning during #COVID19 #pandemic is like asking a NASCAR driver switch to a bicycle in the middle of the Daytona500. To further complicate things, the driver doesn't even know how to ride a bike and the bike he is given is missing the front wheel. That scenario sounds ridiculous but that is exactly what educators, parents, and students had to deal with. No one had any warning and everyone was forced in an unwinnable situation. They did not have any training, resources or guidance. There was no planning or strategy in place. The teachers did their best but only had access to materials explicitly NOT designed for a remote environment. Students woke up one day and were suddenly asked to sit at home with mom/dad while learning from a screen. That isn't a realistic ask if seeing their friends everyday was something some of them did for the past 14 years. Finally, nobody even knew what the actual goal for the past 3 months of learning have been. While it was nobody's fault and all the educators, parents, and students did their very best, saying that remote learning didn't work implies that the medium was at fault. In my NASCAR example it is like saying we should never race in bicycles anymore. The definition of success must reflect the insurmountable odds of the situation. I actually think that if even an ounce of #learning happened during the crisis, it means that remote learning indeed IS VIABLE under normal circumstances. #teachers #distancelearning #coronavirus #schools #educators
And flatpack. So now there's apt, snap, appimage, and flatpack. 4 fucking systems that need to be maintained just to update apps on an OS. Frankly, it's ridiculous and the apps from all those alternate systems all have some issues too. None work as well as apt. I don't understand what is wrong with apt. If they want newer packages provide a repo for newer shit. Problem solved.
1. didn't feel like something that needed to be editorialized, but I guess WSJ disagrees.
EasyPost is a YC company (YC S13)
“In proportion” to what, though? We get the same problem here that one gets with many voting systems: if voting is voluntary, then some groups are more politically active (i.e. vote more) than others, and so some voting blocs (here, subreddits) are over- or under-represented compared to their user-base size.

That’s not a problem with the way the algorithm counts votes. That’s just a mathematical voting-theory problem with comparing votes between disparate populations that are each motivated-to-vote for different reasons, and thus using “one vote” to mean something different within each community.

Or, to put that more simply: “karma” is non-fungible. It works fine to rank posts within a subreddit, but it’s entirely meaningless for ranking posts between different subreddits.

———

But that still ignores the greater issue. Things wouldn’t be “fine” even if some ideal inter-subreddit karma exchange-rate was reached. Keep in mind that some subreddits are “quarantined”, which essentially means that their weighting for appearing in /r/all is forced to 0.

In other words, /r/all isn’t just sorting badly; it also requires a bunch of manual overrides to its computed weights, in order to function.

IMHO, that’s not really a satisfactory algorithm. Maybe it’s practical for serving some purpose (e.g. making money), but that kludge-factor means that it isn’t actually doing what it claims to do: telling you about the activity happening across “all of Reddit.”

A “real” /r/all wouldn’t take quarantines into account. It’d just be the view that any third party would compute by scraping every subreddit, throwing all the posts into a table, and ordering by score descending. And that view is the one I mean when I say “soul-destroying.”

Let me restate my premise: a proper /r/all—one that truly delivers on the use-case it claims to deliver on—is just... not something anyone wants.
Ambient and Nature Sound
Wonderful playlist, with Ambient and Natural Sounds, relaxing, conducts to calm, excellent for studying, meditating. This is also an entrance to the sleep highway. YOU CAN THANK ME LATER! :-)
In the Mission I could occasionally hear foghorns, which made no sense to me. It was generally around first light in the morning. After quite a lot of digging, including making heatmaps of where ships parked, I traced it to Anchorage No 9, which is basically a parking lot for giant ships. You can see it when crossing the Bay Bridge.

More details and maps here: https://www.facebook.com/williamp/posts/10106726609193073
I love gardening too, but I've never done anything that approaches the level of enthusiasm required to tear a butt muscle while gardening.

Dude's in a league of his own. XD
The Bay foghorns are electronic tones; they don’t sound like classic/cartoon foghorns at all.
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I'm Canadian that works in QA, specially in Alberta. If the US is an option, go to work in the US or for a US based company remotely.

Base salary is much higher in the US. To give you an idea: at year 8 of my career my salary is technically $52,000 Canadian per year. I've had people in the Seattle telling me that number should be nearer to $100,000 USD. And my $51,000 Canadian translates to $34,000 USD when the conversation rate is considered. The difference grows when you consider that the US typically has a lower tax rate then Canada and that many US employers are usually willing to provides benefits that would cover services that normally the government would be paying for.

That said, I'm only speaking as someone that works in QA and the city I live in does not have as strong a tech industry as those in British Columbia, Ontario, or Quebec.
Nit: generally these get detached and moved, not removed.
Again, I'm not questioning that. Mathematically, does "tell people to use masks" imply "less new cases"? E.g., what if people decide to spend 5x more time with other people on average due to a mask requirement making them feel safe? That could easily cause more cases.
Payoneer issues pre-paid MasterCard plastic via Wirecard (the UK branch), if I’m not mistaken.
Building a Django and Vue.js Application with AWS CDK and Gitlab CI
I guess I am dumb, but I can't understand how to use the tools :( Maybe an instructions page will help
That feature is what I was talking about. However, alternates seem to be more-or-less commonplace for usual ligatures or, lately, for gimmicks like symbols in ‘programming fonts’—but pretty rarely employed for variety and randomness. Whenever I see a ‘handwritten’ font, I spot identical characters even in short runs of text.

As far as I (vaguely) know, alternates aren't intended to produce true randomness. So instead I would throw in sheer quantity of alternate glyphs, to put identical ones further apart and shuffle other ones more.

With the method from the posted article, producing the characters doesn't seem to take much effort. And the characters there aren't joined, so no need for traditional ligatures. Lastly, with a large number of alternates, kerning would add a lot of work—but then again, you don't really kern when writing with a pen, do you?
Nothing stopping any user from creating posts related to an aspect of the content on any of those ADs, but it’s obvious allowing comments for ADs would potentially cause unneeded overhead for the advertiser; clearly if any YC advertisers want to post on HN, they’re free to do so within the guidelines on HN.

HN doesn’t block negative posts about YC companies.
I have one. Id rather not talk about it
I've found that music can have a profound effect on my productivity. If I'm trying to get 'into the zone', the best music to listen to is music that I'm already highly familiar with -- ideally, music that I've listened to while being in the zone in the past.

My theory is that, the same way a particular smell can bring back a feeling from our childhood, a song can bring back the feeling of being productive, and our minds more easily fall back into that state.
Somewhat related but more generally about estimation:
Hubbard, How to Measure Anything
https://www.amazon.com/How-Measure-Anything-Intangibles-Busi...
> It apologized for doing it's job badly and publishing materially false statements as fact.

Does that mean they'll also be apologising for The 1619 Project?
Hosting: Wordpress, Github

Support: RedHat

Dual License: Qt/Nokia, BerkeleyDB/Oracle, MongoDB

Trojans/Spyware: Android, Chromium
I will work for you for free for a month
If you've got visa-sponsoring position or a remote position to offer then I'm willing to work for free for a month so you can gauge my skills.

I can do Java, Go, C, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, Bash, React, Angular, etc.

Contact me at emin71886@gmail.com if you can possibly hire me.
I second the vote for NVC.
Were just there last fall, and yeah, it's incredibly loud, both going over the bridge, and from the viewpoint, and.. well, pretty much all over I imagine. I will say, I didn't notice it from the city side, though -- perhaps because of the way the city curves away from the bridge, or because you're "underneath" the sound rather than above it.
You do understand that them being extensions means they are not part of GNOME.
I recently got feedback that I speak at too low level and with too much emotion/passion.

Still digesting it. I think it is a variant of what I’ve heard before, which is that I leap from A to C assuming everyone understands that A and C both connect to B.

It’s frustrating because that’s the style I enjoy for receiving information. When someone makes a jump like that, it intrigues me especially when I don’t see the connection. It triggers easy questions when needed.

Another one I run into is assumed consensus. I make a statement without saying that it is a team consensus, and people outside the team assume the opposite, that I’m going rogue or something.

Then there is dismissive agreement, something I both do and dislike when done to me. Basically “yeah but that’s not what I want to focus on”.

I’m intrigued by the Amazon style of memo writing and reading in advance of meetings, as I think a lot of communication issues can be solved by making clear why we are sitting in a room talking right now, and ensuring everyone has the same background information.
I wrote a toy app when learning iOS that took the items in a todo list and showed you two at a time. You’d swipe the less important one off the screen. It built a hierarchy and you’d end up with the “most important” item to focus on. It remembered previous choices (or you could start over) to make finding the next item quickly, with just a few more choices.

It connected with the Reminders app and the Wunderlist API. I wonder if I could revive it with more services…
I have been receiving emails from HDFC bank intended for someone else. And I've never even been to India.

Its all sorts of email like OTP and statements and other stuff.

The email always comes from noreply@hdfcbank.net, so I haven't been able to report about it either.
The Lancet affair set a really bad precedent and now I find myself distrusting every study on HCQ. The mortality differed by 2.2% which translates to ~30 extra deaths in the treatment vs. the control. Given the stakes here, Oxford should publish the data and protocols.

Can any Biostatisticians comment on the sample sizes and power analysis?

"‘A total of 1542 patients were randomised to hydroxychloroquine and compared with 3132 patients randomized to usual care alone. There was no significant difference in the primary endpoint of 28-day mortality (25.7% hydroxychloroquine vs. 23.5% usual care; hazard ratio 1.11 [95% confidence interval 0.98-1.26]; p=0.10). There was also no evidence of beneficial effects on hospital stay duration or other outcomes."

Source: https://www.recoverytrial.net/files/hcq-recovery-statement-0...
I agree. Also, liquid surfaced walls are probably required for any pulsed fusion approach, which at a given average power/area will have much higher instantaneous power/area. This drives one toward LINUS-like approaches.
You're trying to come up with a homemade ORAM. All I'll say is that this problem is harder than it seems.
If you ask around I'm sure you can get an invite.
No wonder Oxford University shut down Hydroxychloroquine RECOVERY trial today. $750M was on the line.
cried a little and called the charter company. Spent the day swimming at the anchorage waiting for them to show up with a new charged battery (the old ones were so discharged they couldn't even be charged by a fresh one)
I really hope it does!
Yup, you can all the miracles in the console, BUT reread the parent comment

> I find gnome to be pretty configurable. The opinionated defaults aren’t so bad because you can just replace the environment if you dislike it

IT'S NOT CONFIGURABLE. You can hack your way around their "opinionated defaults" which are for MacOS user from USA.

Take a look at the KDE's settings for this case
https://i.stack.imgur.com/ukKmp.png

There is no reason to google, install some tool and mess with it.
You might also appreciate the Wave Organ: https://www.exploratorium.edu/visit/wave-organ
What an uncharitable interpretation of their comment :)
Alternative: we could shoot the person trying to steal our phone, and NOT be tracked by IMEI.

For the "more reasonable" HNers...how about an opt-out of the feature?
The libsixel website lists several that support it. Xterm can support this in VT430 emulation mode, but support needs to be enabled at compile time.
This. Once people realize that 5G needs to be INSTALLED EVERYWHERE they are going ask why we are building all of this... especially when 4G was fast enough for nearly everything.

It seems that the most cost effective method is to use direct line of sight wireless transceiver using whatever which then does the last mile to 4G.

This whole 5G push is a solution looking for a problem.
I have something similar. So imagine you have johnsmith.com as a domain name. And then someone with the same name gets johnasmith.com (there's an a in there for a middle initial). And they use john@johnasmith.com but they and probably others keep missing the "A" in the middle since it's easy to miss. I have email for my domain forwarded to me and the amount of email I get is staggering.

I've talked with the guy via e-mail and he is nice and all so I used to forward them to him but he's never gotten many of them fixed after I asked multiple times so I've stopped.

There is another guy with the same name as me with a similar gmail as mine and I've gotten pretty sensitive emails for him from lawyers, bill collectors, etc. I generally let the senders know in those cases but the rest I ignore.

So yeah, many times it's ineptitude.

I'm kind of surprised in this case, though, why so many restaurants send out food without a credit card or some other method to pay in advance. 9 years ago when it started most just took it on faith and sent food out but pretty much everyone requires pre-payment nowadays.
Just took a look - most of the point-to-point are short-distance low cost flights. Which fly A320 and 737, not 787 nor A380. When you look at connections involving distances where one would use a long-range plane, it's pretty much always with a hub at one end - at least that's what cursory glance shows me.

non-low cost airlines will schedule intra-european flights through hubs as well, the hub you will fly through depends on airline used (so Lufthansa will put your through MUC or FRA, LOT will do everything through Warsaw with few long-range flights from Cracow, BA will do Gatwick and Heathrow depending on the flights, etc.)
Out of curiosity, did you make those apps paid or chose to show ads within app UI?
Former listening trainer here. I discovered though training a great many people that a key listening problem is that people's attention wanders away and then back, and as a consequence they miss a lot of what has been said but are not aware this has happened. I found this was common even among professional psychotherapists.

Also the easiest way to improve your listening skills is reflective listening. That is where you simply say back to the person the key ideas they expressed to you.
I've been told by at least two patent lawyers that "and" and "or" are essentially synonymous. If you want to specify "xor" it's good to say "either a foo or a bar but not both a foo and a bar". But why be so specific? "One or both of a foo and a bar" could have broader coverage, presents the opportunity to mislead the competition, and (IANAL) seems to be just as sound even if "both" is actually infeasible.
Interesting. But if the direct conversion works, then the magnetic field removes most of their kinetic energy from the charged particles before they get to the walls. All it gets is the x-rays. There has to be some radius where that's no longer a problem. Each pulse in this design would be about 300 kWh; offhand I don't know what percentage is x-rays.

If it's too hard to maintain vacuum, then reverting to a plain ol' thermal cooling could be a backup plan.
For how much of SF? I live about a mile from the bridge, and it was no worse than the foghorns.
Awesome! That's like the ideal situation right there. I'm an American that moved to Canada back in 2002 and worked as a contractor for my US employer for more than 4 years. The yearly tax stuff drove me insane.
That's a fair point, I guess it depends on your use case. The risk, however, is that the powers that be at HashiCorp one day decide to abandon Nomad once they realize it will never be a profit centre for them.
In what scenario would this work better than sqlite?
The Spies Who Launched America’s Industrial Revolution
Thanks! Let me know if you've got any questions or you need tips on how to fix any of the problems it finds.
From the link posted by the OP:

Exercises

1. Complete vimtutor
livin' the dream. I also live in Victoria and used to work in the US for much higher salary. I've thought about this... I do love it here!
Didn't know that was a thing. Is it a function of your karma?
What's the huge difference? Coroutines? Boilerplate reduction? I guess there are some minor type system improvements, but its not like you're getting dependent types or anything like that.
That said, I guess there are some wealthier countries doing even worse than Germany, like Italy (their sole unicorn was just 100% fraud.) Still, Germany surprises me.
I had the same situation happen in Portugal with the water company. They limited the IBAN field to Portuguese length, I edited the input's code and submitted it that way. It worked.
The point is that these tools are not standalone. They're meant as an instruction aid for teachers and learning tools for students in the Montessori environment. These people will know immediately how to use them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_organ
And yet he is not before a court.

Another maxim that is under threat: "Innocent until proven Guilty"

So it was specifically not forbidden and it showed nothing other than quite a few people are very susceptible to propaganda and marketing rather than actually reading and understanding the "rules" for themselves. But thanks for demonstrating precisely the problem highlighted by the original article.
Ah, I misremembered. The push-ret trick was for things like emulating JP(BC) or pushing multiple addresses to indirectly call a few functions in a row. There was an indirect jump but no indirect call.
I love it, but I can also understand why it could be unbearable for others.
Isn't this probably trivial for the maintainer of the email list to clean up?
The article is incredibly misleading. Python Enums are way more powerful than what is showcased there.

First, rudimentary/basic enums are as simple as instance variables on a class and allow super-helpful IDE "auto-completion" that doesn't necessitate the use of magic-strings to at least "set" the enum. I've been using this ridiculously simple trick since 2.5 ten years ago. Magic-strings are bad, and even worse when you have a disparate code-base in a dynamically typed language. Example:

class MyEnum(object):
Pass = 1
Fail = 2

my_value = MyEnum. <-- at this point, the IDE gives you code-completion.

Second, real Enums added as a language-feature along with type-hinting are almost 100% on-par with statically typed languages. See:

class MyEnum(Enum):
Pass = 1
Fail = 2

def my_func(did_they_pass: MyEnum):
if did_they_pass.Something: # IDE / type-checker will go nuts here.
print("Something")

Edit: Forgot the main point. Switch/case uses are only a small sub-set of the uses of Enums. So even basic/crappy enums are better than magic strings in a dynamically-typed language. Also, please don't use "list of strings" for enums in Python, there are much better ways to do that sort of thing that preclude unnecessary bugs popping up.
Its a form of economic reparations. When it comes to all the forms of racism blacks have experienced over the past few centuries I find it funny that this is what offends people, "subsidized deliveries".
Clojure Code Smells
That reminds me of certain kinds of medieval script. I had a professor in college whose dissertation made use of 12th century medical texts as primary sources. She told us about some of the frustrations with reading it.

Calligraphic letterforms of the time use this basic form called a “minnum” (possibly not the correct spelling), possibly so called because the word “minimum” can be written in lowercase using them exclusively. I think you know where I might be going here.

At one point, she went to her advisor for help, and he says in his broad, Scottish accent “Diane, count yer minna!” We all got a kick out of it.

Edit: minimum -> minnum
Same thing with Yahoo for me. My last name is too short for gmail, though.

My last name also happens to be shared with the name of a large multi-national manufacturer. For some bizarre reason I get semi-regular emails looking for support help from customers of theirs in Iran. No other countries, just Iran. I also get e-mails from people that work for the company in India with photos of their company picnic. This happens about every other year although it's possible I've missed a few. I don't really use the account anymore.

They at least seem to throw a nice company picnic.
"This guy" openly and vulnerably writes about his struggles with something that it's not socially acceptable to be bad at. The fact that he's a minor celebrity in IT likely makes that harder to do, not easier. He posted the article to HN himself and is likely to read your comment. I think you're mostly right in your observations but maybe it'd be nice if you try to practice some of what you preach, wrt how you write it.
It depends on wind speed and direction. The wind around the bridge varies a great deal: https://wind.willyweather.com/ca/marin-county/golden-gate-br...
I started many unsuccessful side projects, making me almost no or no money at all. The latest one (WunderFlix) is different though. It starts making a modest amount of money. But since I never made any money with the other projects I still don't like to talk about it.

But, now that you've asked... I always wanted to have an app that can help me creating short films of my kids with my iPhone. I searched the App Store and found many, but they were all so complicated to use. I wanted simplicity. After all, I have kids, and thus no time to fiddle around with a complicated and long process to create the films. Since I could not find the app I was looking for, I decided to create it myself :-)

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/wunderflix/id1484705777

[2] https://www.wunderflix.com
Yogis and fitness instructors I've spoken to see Gumroad as being too "techie" and the few that have tried it felt it was more geared towards selling online assets, rather than live classes.

For now it's very basic, but I'm working on a few features that are specifically geared to helping live class creators sell more easily, primarily calendar integration, support for multiple classes being sold, and support for monthly subscriptions to all classes from an instructor.
I'm going to hazard a guess that defining or teaching critical theory on HN is like talking to a brick wall.

I commend you for trying, though.