skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's simply not that effective, it has a very small treatment effect and isn't a great tool, but it's certainly much more justifiable than hydroxychloroquine, which took much of the oxygen out of the room when POTUS and the GOP hyped it FAR beyond its statistically shown merits.
CapitalOne also offers virtual numbers but only from a browser extension called Eno
Only if you ignore context. The point is they have an evolutionary history of land-living. Fish don't. Nobody is trying to say they secretly sprout legs and spend most of their time on land.
Geany is "native" on Linux, FWIW.
Technology in law – a 10k feet overview of legaltech
On principle I agree with you, it should be easy for me to reflash the firmware on my oven or car because they’re both running software.

In practice I think there’s a significant difference between the restrictions on smartphone software vs entertainment system software making your point part of a slightly different (but related and important) conversation.
Looks like it's archived?

https://github.com/facebookarchive/Flicks

via

https://gizmodo.com/facebook-invented-a-new-unit-of-time-182...
Yeah but not anymore. There is a higher jewish population at harvard (~28%) than non-jewish whites (~22%) despite non-jewish whites making up 60% of the population of the US and jews making up less than 2% of the population. No skin off my nose since I went to a mormon school in Utah.

There is clearly an anti-white, anti-asian agenda at these top schools now.
My favorite website feature is when a button masquerades as a link via javascript so that CTRL+click doesn't open it in a new tab like I intended.
“Spaghetti code“ doesn’t imply “buggy”, so I think is a decent description. Evolution found a good local optimum, but I think that the optimal design would be quite a bit better than what we have now.

A classical example is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve. Nobody in his right mind would design a nerve running from your brain to your larynx that way.
This. I've always been most fascinated by industrial machinery and process engineering more so than the end result of it. It's that piece that represents the Golden egg of industry; and like it or not, the capability to keep the people of your country employed making widget X, receiving paychecks, etc is valuable. Incredibly so. Possibly even more valuable than the money it makes as the know-how it takes to have formulated that process stand-up is nearly impossible to codify, and closer to a luck based emergent outcome than anything you can plan for. Similar, if you'll excuse the long-jump analogy to how all the enzymatic processes our cells must undergo to live and thrive are all based on a fundamentally chaotic process; diffusion.
That estimate wasn't particularly well-received, and the facts on the ground make it look especially dubious. NYC has has 17k deaths, for instance, mostly in April and early May. If you assume that _everyone_ in NYC has been infected, that would be an IFR of 0.2%. An antibody survey in late April found a prevalence of about 25% in New York City, which, assuming it's accurate (huge assumption, obviously) would indicate a rate of about 0.8%.
Resetting chrome isn't much of a solution if the underlying problem is botnet affiliation (trojan, rootkit, etc). Should be reasonably easy to shut down all applications and services, and inspect the traffic going through the router for suspicious domains. If you only have a windows machine connected there should only be Microsoft traffic and maybe the router manufacturer. Anything else, and it's probably malicious.
What happens when one is working on something that is neither of the two things in your last sentence?
Tesla's Cybertruck Terafactory poised to get incentive package from Texas
We haven't seen this movie before, this is much more promising with much larger sample sizes. PLUS, this EXACT study (RECOVERY) found that HCQ was not effective for severe patients. While I believe in peer review and publication, these are Oxford University researchers using sample size of over 2000 COVID patients in the treatment arm, so it's FAR beyond "this movie before" where HCQ studies with a couple dozen patients were hyping far beyond the statistical merit.
If you are interested in the topic read - Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

> Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/647492.Ordinary_Men

https://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Men-Reserve-Battalion-Soluti...

> The first mass murder takes place in a Polish town called Jozefow. The commander of the unit was teary-eyed and choked up when he gave the order to his men. Accounts hold that he even gave them a way out, stating that if any man didn’t think they were up for the challenge (of murdering thousands of Jews on that day), they were free to step down. About twelve men (among hundreds) decided to step down and opt out of the killing.

> Ultimately, these bakers, salesmen, and police officers were directly responsible for the deaths of 38,000 men, women and children through mass-shootings, and another 45,200 through collecting people from the ghettos and forcing them onto trains for Treblinka (a Nazi extermination camp).

> Browning offers up a variety of reasons that these ordinary men participated in genocide, some more pertinent than others. Among those reasons are deference to authority, psychological need for conformity, fear of a brutal regime, fear of looking “weak” in front of other members of the battalion, detachment from the people they were killing, and indoctrination via the Nazi propaganda machine. None of these individual reasons would have been enough to drive ordinary men to mass murder, but altogether, the reasons became enough for many of them.

Also Masters of Death: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust is a good detailed telling of logic of events that lead to invention of extermination camps (it was easier on the consience of Einsatztruppen)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16891.Masters_of_Death

PS. Also reading president Weizsäcker's speech kep in mind that Germany and Austria actively opposed justice upon perpetrators of Holocaust and other war crimes in the East.
Personally, I was lucky because I was already on a "no-gym" mentality before COVID-19. I use a full-body bodyweight routine twice a week, and once a week I train with a sandbag. I run 6 days a week. I also train with a personal trainer once a week. I'm 38, live in the USA and work from home as a software developer.

Bodyweight training: I use the routine and progressions from startbodyweight.com.

Sandbag training: I started out shouldering a 60 lb sandbag. I now shoulder a 150 lb sandbag and use an 80 lb bag for supplemental exercises (zercher squats, clean and press). Some days just a few sets of shouldering is enough. Making one or two bags is pretty cheap. Ross Enamait has a very good video/ebook you can buy that covers construction, exercise ideas and technique.

Running: I also suffered from shin pain/fatigue from running, but stopped before they progressed to full-blown shin splints. I missed running however, so I took the COVID period as a time to learn how to run barefoot. If you go this route you MUST read a book on proper technique (I read the Ken Bob book) and practice your form a lot before doing anything more than 5-minute runs. That being said, I don't think going barefoot is a requirement for learning how to run pain-free, I think the important bit is spending a bunch of time focused on learning a pain-free running technique and then building up slowly.

I'm still in the volume-building phase so I measure my running by time, not distance. I don't track my speed. I run at an intentionally "easy" pace--I only breathe through my nose and stay focused on keeping my feet happy. Three days are very short "recovery" runs. I add 10 minutes to my total weekly time if/when I felt good after the previous week. I also incorporate a warm-up and post-run routine from https://coachjayjohnson.com/samvidoes/.

Personal trainer: has been very valuable for double-checking technique, fixing minor pains and adding some creative movements that I occasionally incorporate. Shop around for a trainer that can work with your goals.

Don't forget about diet and sleep! My recovery and enthusiasm for these activities are very directly impacted by how well I'm sleeping and eating.
Mac support in games is less important now than ever before. Services such as Shadow are how I game on my Mac now.
Try edge in android, inbuilt adblocker and uses less battery
In the end fetch was supposed to supersede all these libraries. Unfortunately in cases like this seems like Node.js, and JavaScripts's lack of standard library really shows. Every developer will use whatever either they encounter first because they don't feel like learning a new shiny library or whatever is the most comfortable and maybe not right. NPM has its positives - discoveriblity being one for sure but also its drawbacks - million ways of accomplishing the same thing.

Axios after fetch being standard everywhere starts to feel like jQuery after document.querySelectorAll being available everywhere.
Two rings for 1 for Saturn rings? That's a steal! ;-)
How many are there anyway?
> No, I’m pretty sure it’s just rest mass. The gravitational force doesn’t change based on your kinetic energy.

The energy-momentum tensor (a.k.a. stress-energy tensor) is what determines spacetime curvature, and it depends on both rest mass, kinetic energy, momentum, pressure, and shear stress.
Users also shouldn’t be tricked into paying for the python interpreter, but the one apple recommends and integrates into their apps costs $10.
In fact I'd say it is quite the opposite.

Let's not forget that clergy was originally a ruling class, and as such, had access to higher education and enough time to think and do research. And even today, with a few exceptions, they are far from being brainwashed cultists.

Not only they have a better than average level of scientific education, they also have a surprisingly open mind. Fitting for people who spend a good part of their life studying, even if most of it is about the Bible.
To be fair, ARM has a ton of cruft too.
There are many good arguments in this thread and I honestly appreciate to see the many perspectives, also this one.

But I can't get behind that argument. If all you sell is 20-25 million, to possibly lose 5 million of that is huge. Think about how much they would have to save with the processor move (or how much performance they'd have to gain to make up for it in new sales) to make it worth it. Also, the effort will be huge to make the transition work.

All while there is the easy alternative to just use AMD processors if they wanted a performance boost?

I mean, I'm happy about this. It will probably further cement Linux as the only relevant gaming OS next to Windows. But I'm still surprised. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, if it happens.
Interesting idea. Given the disappearance of RSS feeds in many places perhaps there's demand for a service that converts email newsletters to an RSS feed (receive the email, publish it via RSS). Could be a new feature for an exiting RSS service.

Essentially convert email newsletters en mass for customers to subscribe to.
A post-mortem examiner just gave me the report on this 'startups' failure, and this time, it read:

COVID-19 and working from home killed the Bodega store. As a result, business dropped 90%, no restocking and no-one used it.

So they weren't pandemic-proof or government-shutdown proof. Also, why on earth do you need 'AI' in a vending machine?
The Black Lives Matter protests have spawned a number of interesting conversations with my kids. One is on the difference between "fault" and "responsibility". They are similar: both imply an obligation to make amends or otherwise fix a problem.

"Fault" means you are responsible because you caused the problem. You break it, you fix it.

But as we get older and take on a greater share of the burdens and rewards of social connections and community, we become responsible for things that are not our fault. If my stove breaks, I am responsible for fixing it. I didn't break it—stuff just breaks on its own sometimes—but I own it, and ownership comes with that responsibility.

I see many people who, maybe from a lack of maturity, don't understand you can carry responsibility without fault. I think part of the pushback against Black Lives Matter is that when you tell white Americans that they are now responsible for systemic racism and the injustices of America's past, they hear that as "you should feel guilty for these". They get angry because they don't think it's fair that they should feel bad for something that isn't their fault.

Black Lives Matter is not about saying that most white people today personally caused most of the problems black people face (though there are certainly a minor of awful racist people who do). It's about acknowledging that having ownership of all of the many many benefits of being a white American today comes with some responsibilities as well. If life is a videogame, it's like we're playing the game in easy mode and we spawned with a bunch of free loot. It's not our fault that others didn't spawn so lucky, but we do have the loot and it carries the responsibility that we use it to help lift up others.

Our privilege is not supposed to be a source of guilt or shame, but a duty and opportunity to use it to help others.
> rejected by most mainstream economists

The mainstream econ record is lately not one to be boasting about.

>The major proponents are politicians.

Incorrect, You'll find the major proponents are academics at University of Kansas City Missouri, The Levy Institute and Bard College in NY.
Speaking of Martian cities, shouldn't SpaceX start working on their Mars base already? I assume it will need years of testing on Earth before it's ready to launch.
The amount of up-selling is showing me as a paying customer is pretty egregious. Multiple prompts to upgrade to a more expensive plan. Multiple disabled checkboxes and additional prompts about features I can't use because I am only giving ~$120/year.
How about using Typescript? That still seems like a huge improvement, especially because you can implement it incrementally (aka for parts of code where type checking is vitally important).

I'm using it now at my work and I'm surprised how much info I'm getting compared to whatever JS is throwing at me.
The problem with spaghetti code is that decently intelligent people are forced to work with it and they would be vastly more productive if it weren't spaghetti.

No such advantage with our bodies, as they are only "worked on" by probabilistic processes.
Feasible Sustainable Living Ideas for Modern Society
Colleges can look at both weighted and unweighted GPA.
Nah, there's plenty of sex-positive Twitter accounts that share a lot of porn in the most social way, to the actual living people that follow them, have conversions about it and sometime even meet up in real life.
> For some context: the article only interviews quantum gravity researchers, so it has that particular slant.

I would go even further: Natalie Wolchover only interviewed string theorists and quantum field theorists. They all assume that gravity in some way or another will just be yet another quantum field theory.

There is not a single piece of evidence for this, though. Personally, I also don't think it is a particularly promising approach. As Hawking so eloquently put it:

> But I believe [gravity] is distinctively different, because it shapes the arena in which it acts, unlike other fields which act in a fixed spacetime background.

(Hawking in Hawking & Penrose: The Nature of Space and Time, chapter 1)
I just use SoX for processing audio data, and then pass the result to LAME if I want an MP3. Each format has so many different options for encoding and metadata anyway. It’s not like video, where the sheer amount of data discourages you from working uncompressed.

Sure, there hasn’t been a new release since 2015… but would that be necessary? It’s not missing any features I want.
RHEL 6 will be EOLd this November. That's the last supported version of RHEL that has this issue. Ubuntu 13.04, RHEL 7 and later don't suffer from this issue.

I'd say almost everyone reading these comments is on a platform that does not suffer from this issue.
>it is that ego sabotages your efforts to put in the time

Sure, but what I'm saying that that statement is almost meaningless in the grand scheme of things. Is not letting your ego get in the way a necessary part of getting to mastery? Absolutely. But no matter how much you change your thought process, or analyze the problem, you still need to eat the proverbial whale.

Think of all the people who've ever played basketball and have had any aspirations of joining the NBA. For the vast, vast majority of them, they just were never going to be good enough. They didn't have the talent. It didn't matter how much they practiced, how much they got their ego out of the way, how badly they wanted it. Only about 3,000 people have ever played in the NBA.

Now, I'm not saying you need to be in the NBA to be a "successful" basketball player, or whatever you want to call the equivalent of that for programming. What I'm saying is that everyone has ceilings for how good they can become at something. Maybe on the relative scale, the best you can ever be is a pretty good programmer, and that's it. No shame in that!

After all, part of Zen Budhism is accepting who you are and your limitations.
German Guilt is in someways the modern day equivalent of the "Dolchstosslegende" after WWI. It either something to frown upon, for the right, as Germany didn't do anything wrong, the Russians would have attacked anyway, blabla. Or to pay of by becoming an idealistic pacifist society, going along with everything just to pay back on the world in general.

Both points are wrong so. And lately it is mostly used by the right to attack any non-nationalistic policy. Weizsaecker called that out, didn't he? With the passage of individual guilt and accepting legacy.
Casey Handmer argues [0] that
The best solution is an “air mattress” structure where anchor cables are spaced throughout the structure to resist the pressure load.

The anchor cables can scale linearly with area just like the pressure does, while a perimeter wall anchor scales with radius and therefore sets a limit on enclosure size.

The cable anchor approach also lets you build arbitrarily high ceilings, like kilometers up hypothetically.

I really wish someone would build one of these on Earth. It would actually be easier because you’d just set the pressure high enough to resist wind loads. You could make an incredibly gigantic greenhouse in some otherwise inhospitable climate

[0]: https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/11/28/domes-are-very...
I’ve been working my way through this for the last few days and I am undecided whether it is too generic to be of practical use or not.
This is my main issue with using something like Syncthing. I have several computers that I use daily - a Windows machine for some work and most of my music, a Linux box as my daily driver, and my Andriod phone/tablets for watching videos and interacting with the physical world.

All of these are synced through Dropbox, and I have the confidence that 1) my files are backed up on a server that I don't own 2) the software will be updated and continue to work across all the disparate machines I currently own and will own in the future.

I don't doubt that Syncthing will work on Linux super-well, but Windows, Android, and IOS can be picky and not play well with open source. It scares me off a bit from using it.
As many as 6B Earth-like planets in our galaxy, according to new estimates
Yes, Impostor Syndrome Is Real: Here's How to Deal with It
I've lived in places where people hide in their homes with the furnace for four months out of the year. I've lived in places where people hide in their homes with the A/C for three months out of the year. I've lived in places where it rains 24x7 for two months out of the year.

Each of these places has a stereotype. Each are amazing the vast majority of the year. Pick your poison for the rest of the year.
I agree with you but what I'm trying to explain is that complaining about a topic instead of trying to implement a democratic system to do so is the same as ignoring other people's opinion because they weren't loud enough.

If they want their opinion to be taken seriously, they should setup democratic vote among employees to collect votes anonymously about the issue at hand.

Proceeding otherwise is simply trying to convince colleagues but also removes the possibility for other employees to have their voices heard anonymously.
I don’t like being given the choice of owning my phone or being able to talk to my friends (iMessage.) That’s actually a pretty big deal.
> I totally disagree that closed source works with OSes

You might be right, I only rarely leave Linux.
Project Covalence
Are there any laws about SAT score requirements for school admission? Because if there aren't then the administrators are not obligated by any rules/laws for objective measures. If that's the case then they are free currently as well. No law means no actual requirement to abide by any rules that reduces freedom in their decision making process.
Interesting. Thanks for making an actual counter-argument. I have to admit I have a little trouble believing the cultural connotations around college could have changed that much in the time since I graduated from HS (2007), but I'll take your word for it -- I don't have any current connections to kids that age myself.
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thank you very much for the detailed response!

much to chew on here, it really does seem like a very interesting class of models. from the papers it sounds like in practice clipping weights to a small set works okay, so the constant factors shouldn't be too bad.

i may have to sit down and try to implement these...
3DES is still military grade.
There's a section in the article about it: "In the beginning (or: why we're not WebRTC)"
> but not if that same trick would shave 75% off a similar go- or c project.

The question does apply to Go, but not C — because the way to reduce compile time for C projects is to just not compile libraries & modules when you don't need to. That's the return from having a stable ABI.

(C++ might be the most interesting in this regard because there's both things - linked / ABI'd libraries as well as header-only "libraries")

[edit: "has" as in "is actually actively used" - of course you can create C-ABI libraries with Go and Rust too, but it's a rather rare practice]
Hasn't this been the case for Ivies for generations? Maybe in the 20th century they moved away from the stereotype of East Coast prestige and old money to something more meritocratic, but that's probably been a few decades at best.
> I doubt it was your age.

Wish I could share your confidence, but I have run face-first into this phenomenon.

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We are an unpopular bunch. It used to get me quite upset, but I’ve learned to make it quite clear that I am no youngster; right up front. Avoids stuff like what I mentioned.
Better diversity "brings economic as well as cultural benefits,"

Is that actually true? When I looked into it a bit further the results seemed mixed, on the economic part at least.
As for sound, I don’t think audiophile quality is necessary...

Given you'll need about 10Mbps upstream for 60fps 3K video it seems a little unreasonable not to add on a 320Kpbs (or more) audio stream.

It could make this useful for things like streaming music concerts.