skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. National healthcare systems are maybe the one reason why I said "almost never" and not "never". When your problem is literally and directly, not indirectly, about assigning finite resources where lives are on the line, that's the cases where a model that relates the two is most likely to be useful. And even then most healthcare systems don't even try.

When the effects of sacrificing lives are more disconnected, the model becomes less useful.
In particular, I don't think these sorts of models are useful for making decisions about how to respond to COVID, which is what this article is about.
Good on you that you went to therapy. On the bright side you are probably learning a lot about yourself.
I’ve listened to NPR my entire adult life but now it feels like I’m listening to the liberal version of The 700 Club.
My parents earn together ~90k, just bought a house and travel about 4 weeks a year through all of europe and still support us three kids. So thats not true, at least not if you are living in a smaller city. And for places like Berlin or Munich, 50k a year would be ridicoulously low. CEO in a start-up in Berlin told me a few month ago that they are hiring poeple with literally 2 to 3 coursera courses in machine learning for around 60k, more experienced people rather in the range of 90k. Big corp like Bayer will hire you with a PhD starting around 120k (as analyst without further responsebilites, team managers obviously get more). Given the Copay on Retirement and Health Insurance, that equates to an US salary of around 150k USD. Quite a bit lower than SV, but not as bad as some people want to make it.
on one side, not much has changed on my work situation since I've been working from home since 2018 as a freelancer.

but yeah, some projects that has been agreed on with future client previously is either canceled or pending until further notice. and that has forced me to tighten my family expenses while I'm struggling to find another job or projects.
[Work]: I switched jobs in November 2019 and I've been busy with the transition from SDE to PM. I began working from home in February and I will continue to do so till next year. I had to turn one of the spare bedrooms into an office and discipline myself to stick to a 09:00 to 17:00 work schedule (So far failed 90% of the time. I work till 20:00 everyday).

[Health]: With commute out of the picture, I take long walks at 23:00 every night. Tokyo is a crowded city and the night time walks lets me avoid crowds/people. I escape into the woods and off the beaten path during weekends.

[Finance]: Financially secure for now since my new job is stable. I made the right call at the end of last year. The startup I worked at previously is going through a very rough time right now. The acquisition wasn't favourable, they downsized and pivoted into an entirely different product.

[Play]: Keeping myself busy with gardening and video games.

Overall quality of life hasn't changed. I'm not an extrovert so I'm quite comfortable with the stay home logic.
"Lossy compression" is a succinct description. Humans, constrained by finite time and cognitive resources, cannot understand reality at its full resolution. Narratives are compact maps of the territory.

We're living in a second Gutenberg moment. I think that epistemic ecosystems, like biological ones, have information carrying capacities — the aggregate ability of its members to produce, exchange, and use information. We all live in one or more such ecosystems. Think: liberal university-educated Bay Area millennials in technology and the kind of information they produce and exchange within that ecosystem. When the information carrying capacity is exceeded, the ecosystem becomes unstable (Narrative collapse) and has to stabilise by splitting into smaller ecosystems that can support coherent, authoritative Narratives.

I think it's useful to look at the first Gutenberg moment. The mass production of books caused an information explosion that exceeded the information carrying capacity of the Catholic ecosystem and resulted in its fracture into smaller Catholic and Protestant ecosystems that can exert enough power to control Narratives (new capacities). We can see a similar scaled-up phenomenon today where countless novel virtual communities and ideological factions that don't conform to the traditional Left-Right dichotomy emerge and offer people various new, coherent maps to the vastly expanded information territory.
Frees up a gig or two of disk space. Good.
Is this just because skyscrapers spend a lot of money on marketing, but water treatment plants don't? It's not like one is inherently more interesting than the other.
https://vector.im/

Vector.im already seems to be the parent organization of Riot.im, so it might be confusing.
myself? ok. i've been handling the quarantine well enough because me and my wife don't go out a lot.

my family? not really. two deaths because of covid-19. we are in shock because we couldn't even go to the wake/burial.
It's ok in some senses and terrible in others.
Being in a relatively small apartment with a dog, and a fiance also working remotely is a huge pain. There's days where we're both super busy and we feel more like roommates than SOs.
I love my dog, but he's young and needs to get his energy out, and some days the monotony of taking him to the same park for exercise so he's content while we both work really gets to me.
Productivity is hard some days. I've been getting stuff done in general, but there's days where nothing happens. I don't worry for my job, but I feel a sense of guilt like I should be doing more - after all, I have no distractions, right?
I miss visiting my family - window visits are nigh-impossible when with grandparents who are hard of hearing.
Out of curiosity did you switch to decaf or just no coffee at all? I could never tell if it was coffee specifically or just caffeine in general which heightened my anxiety.
As I understood they put up to 1 gram of polystyrene per kg of growth medium. Which is easily achievable concentration when composting biomass contaminated with plastics, or near unregulated landfills.
Understandably if you build a 15B$ machine, your engineers will come up with some clever stuff. The tech you mention is likewise tech that was developed to build the detector. I think he means to ask about actual physics we learned doing LHC experiments, that actually have a tangible real world application.
As before? This just means there are no longer two full copies of every system library on disk.
> Not because "unification gets confused".

I know that, and I know the difference between a red and a green cut. However, I was targeting my explanation towards somebody who is completely unfamiliar with the language.
You are being obtuse. The NYT propose linking his real identity to everything in his blog.
Interesting. GA's have some interesting use cases. We used a GA to optimize assignment of work crews to areas as part of a scheduling optimization, and achieved significant benefits

Steve
We've actually been using feature flags for quite a while for some release tooling related projects. Geo has been used in the past when we migrated to Google Cloud if I remember correctly.
Sure, but then that journalist doesn't know about technology and is biased toward ecology :)

Although, I guess that rather than having experts and non-experts co-writing the article, it would even be better to have experts on all identified topics. So here, it would be both the journalist with a technological background and the one with an ecological background.

It seems a bit unrealistic to have experts on all subjects at hand, though, so I guess mixing non experts could at least be a minimum effort.
The Three Kinds of Tacit Knowledge
The Fastest ISP in America Is Community Owned and Operated
Former Wirecard chief Markus Braun arrested
Ah right, they took the "vector" brand for the company after they renamed the client, forgot about that.
Some highlights of Slate Star Codex over the years (I'm missing archives for two of these, and I'd appreciate anyone linking to archives if you have them):

Mediations on Moloch: https://web.archive.org/web/20200516181754/https://slatestar...

I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200516181754/https://slatestar...

Proving too Much: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/13/proving-too-much/
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They could simply call it "Matrix", and leave the ambiguity resolution for those who care.
We also bought a house last year. We have said how lucky we are. How we would be so miserable if we were still in the small apartment. We also had worked from
Home one or two days a week prior. Having a designated work space definitely helped.

We are also homebodies
There's a bit of OT apocrypha that's a likely source of inspiration for Paradise Regained, Milton's sequel to Paradise Lost. I believe it was the Book of Adam (or something similarly titled). A quick Google search doesn't turn up anything likely and the I lent the volume I had which included this apocryphon to my brother who subsequently lost it at some point later, so I only have 20+ year old memories of the book.

There's a long tradition of retellings and expansions of Biblical stories in both Christianity and Judaism that also contributed a great deal to Paradise Lost.
For many years we went for the tech that made us implement software faster than others. We picked productive languages (clojure/lisp) or languages to express more with less and with less bugs, we wrote frameworks, DSLs and even a few language etc; it worked indeed and we were faster. However, longer term (5+ years) it would be impossible to find people to update/support the code. The win at the start (sometimes a win that would have us win large fortune 1000 projects over the competition) would suffer in the long term from no-one (outside myself and maybe 1 other person) understanding how it works (other people left/went on to other things etc).

So now we just mostly deliver things in old, boring but very standard tech. Using almost written by us and definitely no custom low level stuff like we used to. Because we did all that work before, we know how to optimise for performance everywhere, how to optimise dbs, how to optimise frameworks and webservers. We do everything according to the standards and best practices; now we know that we can get people in 20 years to work on our code. But it is much much slower at the start; so much setup and plumbing. Very boring and tedious. I guess that's the point.
The German venture market (USD 6B) is about the size of a second tier market like Los Angeles. MoneyTree says that SV investment In Q1 of 2020 was about 2X Germany’s total for last year.

Not to mention that what gets invested in is mostly food delivery, shops and not particularly technical businesses (which are a very large investment sector in the US but aren’t considered “startups”. What gets written up in, say, Gründerszene are companies like the one that would tell you where to get your car repaired.
Allegedly he will be released on 5 million Euro bail at 5 pm CET.
I know her book, and i think quantum theory is NOT beautiful nor is the string/M-Theory beautiful, she's for sure is partially right because everyone want's to find a Einstein equation, but she also has a big blind spot for the dirty stuff that is the quantum-theory.
Does the NUC support hardware acceleration? Otherwise you could just use a Pi 4 for this and run all your cameras through gstreamer, which supports the ops you want - I think you can even do PiP. One thing I don't know though, are you going to have to decode the streams, overlay and then encode again?

You could also look at getting a Jetson Nano which is a bit beefier, and you can offload some of this stuff onto CUDA.

Easy to try the opencv route, but you need to be a bit careful on ARM (make sure you compile yourself with all the optimisation flags on).
> What I find a little bit surprising with this is that the behavior of a library can be changed outside of its view. E.g. if the library requires to always run in an evented mode (because it needs to spawn many small tasks), then the application developer settings things into threaded mode might prevent the library from working properly.

In that case you would add in such library a line like this:

if (!std.io.is_async) @compileError("LIB doesn't support blocking mode");

> I'm really curious on how Zigs approach will work out in any bigger applications where libraries from various parties would get used.

That's an open question. In general Zig is more like C than C++ also when it comes to expectations from libraries. We'll see where this will get us.
- not wanting to do something (regardless of the perceived value of that something) is not always bad. Resources like time and energy are finite. Failure is costly and things like accelerated aging and burnout are real.

It's a certainly a signal, but it's not end-all be all signal that tells you something accurate all the time.

I want to make a case against having a "growth mindset". And against fighting procrastination. And any other self improvement stuff.

Because it is self-sabotaging behaviors. So much stuff is built around doing things that you don't want to do but is good for you, or even you feel happy about after you finished.

Exercise, for example. I know that I fallen off the wagon. The trick is to get back up again and keep trying different approaches. Even the same approaches.

- why would you necessarily do what somebody else says you should? Who benefits? For an HN related thing in particular: who benefits from everybody getting into programming and working after work to learn one more tech tool?

Programming is cool. Learning yet another tech tool is pointless without fundamentals.

- "self improvement" in general seems to me to be pushed by life coaches and the like with zero evidence that it actually does anything. I perceive it as a snake oil product.

People want to self improve. That isn't a bad thing. Of course, we want evidence of what works, but you can't have that without the prerequisite investment in the science, and sometime we have to do things by feel and experience rather than rigorous systematic testing.
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It meets all my requirements:
- Local notifications. (Connection to Internet not required)
- No dependency on Google calendar
- Ability to repeat tasks on a daily / weekly monthly basis

Thank you developing this app @alexbaker!
I’m angry.

I got screwed over by a re-org that went against previous (unwritten) company policy, and now I’m just angry every time I see the exec talk about how well they treat their employees.

I’m still not sure what to do about it. I had really liked the duties I had there, but it sounds like the role I enjoyed no longer exists.
Are you implying it's a claim I've made? Because it isn't.

On the contrary, my claim is that if you take the world as a whole there has never been more permissive attitude towards open debate than today. But even in the so-called free world... Compare the treatment of JK Rowling got to the treatment MLK got.
> left-wing social movements explicitly reject science (and Enlightenment values in general) as a tool of the oppressor

I have not seen this, at least on a large scale. Are there specific events you are referencing?
Can anyone come up with a reason this would be preferable to having just the index cached for the linker and handing out mapped memory / open files instead? What's the benefit here over essentially ld.so.cache with bells and whistles?
The US thing scares me way more. Not in a surprised way, the worlds superpower has been in freefall for some time now, I hope it does what it has been good at throughout its history and reinvents itself into something better. If not, we're all in for a world of hurt.
Fantastic. I've moved to a consistent sleep schedule for the first time in a decade, where my weekday and weekend wake times are only different by an hour or so (vs. 4 hours pre-covid). I've bought back a good chunk of my life from commute. The pace of life is slower and more leisurely now.

The major downside is I can't lift anymore having no access to a gym, and I know I've lost noticeable muscle mass as a result. I'm running now, but it's just not the same.
Reading some of the comments in this thread, it's amazing that the scientific study of climate and the atmosphere has become a matter of political identity.
There is a brief explanation buried a little further down
The point stands. Who are you to dictate what is and is not ok for others to sacrifice in order to get what they want? Just because their values don't align with yours doesn't make them wrong.
Interesting to note that the very same tool can be used to optimize the 'worst' maps as well.
Why do you care about invisible internet points? Create an alt-account and use it in good faith.

There is a chilling effect happening, and people need to be able to make unpopular arguments -- again, in good faith.
According to https://www.propublica.org/supporters ProPublica gets funding from:

Abrams Foundation, Altman Foundation, Arnold Ventures, Barr
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Have you tried any apps designed for grocery lists? In my house we use AnyList and it's excellent. One of my favorite features is the Amazon Echo integration. If I'm making something in the kitchen and realize that we are low on eggs, I can just say "alexa, add eggs" and it adds eggs to my shopping list in the correct category. If eggs are already on the list it will tell me and ask if I really do want to add it again.

Even without the smart speaker integration, it's core functionality is really good. Almost anything I add to the list it correctly auto-categorizes it.
And since you can already run windows 10 on arm
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/arm/
I is only a matter of time before we get Windows Server on arm.
Though I guess you can run SQL Server on Linux on ARM already I think, though I am not entirely sure about that.
The WFH novelty has worn off and now it just sucks. Living in an apt that feels like a prison. I realize my only real friends I see are colleagues so now I see no one except for family. At the same time I really wish I had some time by myself away from the family. School holidays are making this worse as kids have nothing to do and I'm too busy working to help. Putting on weight, losing fitness. Can't visit extended family because they're all in other countries. Uncle diagnosed with terminal cancer, can't see him either. My employer is slowly failing. I wanted a new job this year but have put it off until the job market recovers.

The worst thing is it looks like it'll be like this for another year, ugh.
It's fair to claim Rowling's opinions are bad and it's also fair to say she was dumb to express them. But it seems like a non sequitur to point those things out when someone produces her as an example of someone being attacked for expressing their controversial opinions.

If you want an example of a current person with a true belief that is not accepted by their society that seems by definition hard to produce. Especially to an anonymous member of the society.
If there is an actual customer, try to get the scale of users/data the system is expecting. A system handling 1/1k/10M things every day will be quite different and need different solutions.

Problems arise when people reach for the Cool Tools and start building Webscale things that can handle 100M operations every second. ...but the customer only needs the system to handle 4 users who type in everything crap by hand. But hey, it has a clustered database and Kafka and Kubernetes and looks REALLY good on your Resumé.

When the scale is determined, I personally like the mantra of "Make it work first, then make it pretty". First build an MVP (or an ugly Viable Product), that proves your plan actually works, then you can iterate over it to make the implementation cleaner or faster or have better UX.

If you get stuck making everything super-generic and able to handle all possible cases, you'll spend time bikeshedding and never get anything deployed. Just Repeat Yourself with wild abandon and copy/paste stuff all over until your Gizmo actually works. You can spend time figuring out which parts are actually possible to make generic later.
It was funny (a sad funny!) to read this post since the summer festival I'm going to miss the most was the one put on by the local Portuguese/Azoran community.

Hopefully it is ready for next year: http://feastoftheblessedsacramentcom.ning.com/
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Contrapoint, research shows that coffee seems to act as a fairly effective antidepressant[1].

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/000486741560313...
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Scott in his open thread a few weeks ago [0], posted a brief request for help by Steve Hsu, an MSU professor who endorses research into using genetic modification to increase human intelligence and blogs on scientific racism [1].

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20200617034621/https://slatestar...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hsu
My company did a round of layoffs as quickly as possible last March. I managed to get my team through that, and am still trying to help the people I had to let go find new positions on the side. I've seen the impact I've had, legitimately keeping my people sane.

One of my devs actually caught the virus, and broke down to me in the hospital when he tried to explain why he might not be able to come back to work, ever.

I know I have had an impact.

But now that we're through the looking glass, and the adrenaline has worn off, and this is just the new day to day normal, its just frigging hard.
The initial experience to get AWS icons loaded was a little strange. I saw all the Azure icons loaded by default, and when I searched for something like "S3" I got a message that said "No records found. Did you try adjusting your icon preferences from the 'user preferences and settings' menu?", but I couldn't find that menu.

I eventually saw the "Add/remove icons" option at the bottom of the screen, and figured out how to turn on the AWS icons, but then I got stuck in that menu. I had to refresh the page to get out of it.