skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Today, people prefer to live in smaller spaces and want walkable developments rather than relying on vehicular transit. This project caters to these needs."

This is a broad statement, that clearly isn't true. If it was true, then the suburbs would not exist. Housing prices show that there is clearly a desire by people to not living in smaller spaces. After the pandemic, I tend to think a lot of people will be re-thinking their dense living conditions. This really smells like a put up job by a hopeful developer
Stonehenge predates Celtic presence in Great Britain by at least a thousand years.
We do not actually know that. That is the point.
Anything one does can be construed as a "political act", making the whole concept pointless.
BMW wants to sell subscriptions to in-car features
That's disingenuous and not relevant to the conversation here. Please take the charitable view of what someone's saying when you reply to them.
Mask effectiveness determines how much of the economy we have to abandon and redesign and how much we can restart before it falls apart. Personally I don't have a lot of hope that modest reductions with loose cloth masks change many outcomes; viral load is extremely nonlinear.
I'll never apply to Toptal again and I advice anyone from doing so, your hiring process is flawed and the way you treat your employees says a lot about the company.
So many of these teachers have become unqualified to teach remote classes since they can't adapt to virtual engagement to help students succeed. They don't answer emails, don't chat, leaving students lost. You get more from a youtube video in many cases. Remote teaching has made these teachers lazy IMO.
This is more about level of preparation / past experience than age per se. The OP describes a “bright, self-motivated child in their late teens who is into maths” and is a few years ahead of their peers. The mentioned book might seem a bit easy or elementary for this particular kid. The two Berkeley Math Circle books might be better. https://mathcircle.berkeley.edu/books

You are right that a book aimed at well prepared Russian 12-year-olds in an extracurricular math circle might be fine for 16-year-old average American students.
There's a good gift, a bad gift, and a book though
If working from home becomes the default then wages will fall because employers will be able to select employees who live anywhere. Working in a physical office constrains the labor supply to workers who live nearby (or are able to relocate).
I would like to see more discussion around, if the initial viral load is related to the severity of the infection[1].

If yes, then in theory, a mask could provide large benefits, even in absence of a perfect seal around the face.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/3ArEA7tHDXQxE6PED/taking-ini...
Most of the replacement terms are more accurate or more precise.
I was just talking to a friend about how 1 part water plus 1 part ethanol becomes 1.92 parts solution.

This raised a question for me that I have yet to research/answer. Maybe one of you knows... if the above solution is 50% ABV, what happens if I add one more part alcohol to the solution? Is it now 66.6% ABV? More? Less? How does ABV take into account the fact that this solution is packed together tighter than its constituent parts?
I don't think so? I did a lot of tax work for VITA and met a lot of parents. Mostly low income and low-middle income got full scholarships and grants but if you're middle class it highly depends on the institution. The larger schools with huge private endowment do cover a lot but a public school like any in the UC system? Nah. It's basically all loans which have to be paid back.

*My knowledge is limited to California in the United States. I know there exists programs in Georgia and other places that do cover full rides but I think they are anomalous and not the rule.
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Fluids flow through the path of least resistance.

A loose-fitting mask is uttterly worthless, as the air you are breathing does NOT go through the cloth. (Of course, even if it did, it wouldn't 'filter' out a virus.)

Sneezing and coughing? That's not what the masks are for. If you are sneezing through your mask -- and continuing to wear it -- you're a sick pig. And, if you claim you carry around enough masks to change it whenever you sneeze, you're a liar.

Looose-fitting masks are nothing more than a virtue-signaling placebo
Search for office ergonomic setup. There are a lot of large and small things you can do, like get a split keyboard so your hands can be further apart.

There are hacks you can try, like buy a product designed to support your posture, or just get yourself in good posture and have someone put tape up and down your back, so that when you begin to slouch you'll feel the tape pull.
I fully support your critical thinking about masks.

There's conclusive evidence that masks help on a micro level by stopping droplets.

It's possible that masks also increase aggregate infection rate by requiring a population uneducated in mask usage to apply a potential plague vector directly to their faces.

It will be shocking if science does come back in the future and indicates that mask usage reduces the chance of spreading covid BUT INCREASES ones chance of contracting it.

Mask usage is important and many people don't know how to use a mask properly. If someone puts a cloth mask on backwards they're inhaling a virus that stays on surfaces for days.

Masks may also increase the chance of infection by causing people to put their hands near their face more often to adjust or don the mask.

Even in the most recent World Health Organization report:

"At the present
time, the widespread use of masks by healthy people in the
community setting is not yet supported by high quality or
direct scientific evidence and there are potential benefits and
harms to consider "

Additionally Sweden had no mask laws and its infection rate has stabilized while place with mask laws like Cali and Washington have skyrocketing rates of infection.

Masks have become a religious war and most people accept it without question and have never looked a single shred of research from legitimate sources that aren't news media based.

I personally think it gives people the feeling of power over a powerless situation.

I just hate to see laws forcing people to do something backed by weak science and I hope this isn't like Thalidomide or Lead paint where experts validated something based on weak science that turned out to be wrong.
Agreed. Pointing out that there's not much data supporting masks has become so political that you get downvoted just for saying it. I've been dismayed by the number of scientists I know who seem to have given up their skepticism on the topic.

If we can't have a rational scientific discussion about facts, we're back to the dark ages.
Typically, in the Ivy League / Stanford, a one-child family with annual income of over $150k to $200k (depending on the school) will pay full tuition. Really. And incomes of less than $65k-ish get you a free ride. Details vary.
For what it’s worth, thus seems correct in my experience. I expected people to just throw on masks and behave “normally,” but the opposite seems to have happened - it serves as a reminder of the seriousness of the situation.
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Oh, I had thought that you had stopped. Sorry! I meant to take the last word. Please, go on; what is the uncomfortable inquiry? You really haven't asked any questions, although trying to throw shade on Wikipedia is a cute distraction.
> It just hardly seems like much of an inconvenience.

It's not (for the vast majority of people the vast majority of the time) but the benefit is to other people not you and well acting in other peoples self interest seems to be seen as weakness in parts of the world (including sadly mine).

FWIW I always wear either a mask or a bandana over my mouth/nose when I'm out and about these days not because I expect it to protect me but because it might protect someone else.

I expect my opinion is swayed by my best friend having Cystic Fibrosis for which Covid19 is essentially a death sentence and a mother who has chronic health issues.

From my perspective alongside all the other advice wearing a mask seems sensible.

Same reason I wear heavy duty motorcycle gear and a helmet when I ride my motorbike - I don't plan for the crash but as the saying goes, you don't wear it for the ride, you wear it for the slide.
Also check out r/investing or r/wallstreetbets, lots of free opinions on what's happening in the world.
As an Asian American. I find Yellowstone national park offensive and oppressive.
* you knew it was being tracked

* you otherwise liked the job

All I was saying is that these two are very likely mutually exclusive.

Sure, it's hypothetically possible that I have a micromanage-y boss who only tracks my commit times and nothing else. But really? That's the same boss who's going to mentally think you're "not a team player" because you left an hour early for your son's birthday party. That's the same boss who's going to obsessively tracks how many vacation days you "accrued" and insist on you coming in when you're sick if you don't have any left. Let's not kid ourselves.
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11,000-year-old mine in underwater cave surprises archaeologists
Not only are you not alone, that's both the default view of many (most?) programmers and the stated claim of many closeted racists who want to detract from incremental steps by referencing orthogonal issues and derailing conversations.
As opposed to which... What? Colleges used to manufacture knowledge.
If they like calculus and can stand proofs, I’d recommend a Course of Pure Mathematics by Hardy. It totally blew my mind when I was that age, to see how everything was “connected” by proofs, starting with real numbers. Despite being proof heavy, I found the writing style singularly legible and comprehensible.
Were you dealing with BASIC or QuickBasic or VisualBasic?

Also, consider that it may not be the language but the fact that most BASIC programmers tend not to know much about programming...?
Chaos by James Gleick is also a good intro to some chaos maths and a great bio read, with the stories of Feigenbaum wrestling with the new ideas.
I think the problem with G. H. is that he gets way too specific.

I think his core theory is plausible (civilization existed before our current evidence suggests, and that it was wiped out by some sort of cataclysm - he suggests a meteor event IIRC).

This would explain a lot of weird coincidences in the development of disparate human cultures (see sibling comments for examples)

My problem with him is that a lot of things he claims as hard evidence are pretty weak, but he talks like his theory is essentially proven.

His ideas can spawn a lot of fun thought experiments in any case.
Fort St. Vrain ran the reactor cooling pumps off of process steam, but had lots of problems with steam leaking through the bearings and contaminating the coolant. Electric pumps don't have that problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_St._Vrain_Generating_Stat...

Running some kind of heat engine off decay heat should be possible, but it would be very different from the primary turbines, (You probably couldn't use it during normal operating temperatures, but it'd still have to be connected to the coolant circuit) have to be nuclear rated, (expensive!) and only be used in an accident scenario where you lose external power and the diesel generators are then destroyed, or run out of fuel.
Oh you mean like Clinton?
Somewhat related.

How far are we on having wireless earpods/earphones streaming music directly from the satellites? No phones or internet required.
I’ve gone from a 750 square foot apartment (single), to a 3000 square foot house (married with a step child and then divorced), back to a 2300 square foot apartment (Married two stepchildren), back to a 3100 square foot house (married one son had moved out by then). I will never live in an apartment or any other attached dwelling again.

- my mortgage is $2200 a month - soon to be $2600 when I refinance to a 15 year.

- we have a separate guest suite with a bathroom for when my parents visit or if they have to ever move in with us.

- a separate room that is now a study/studio for my wife’s online fitness classes

- a bedroom converted to an office now that I work from home hopefully for the rest of my career.

- a bedroom that we converted to a cardio room with a treadmill, elliptical, stationary bike and weights.

- a bedroom for my son

- a master suite for us.

- a decent size family room and kitchen.

Especially with Covid, this has been a lifesaver. I can’t imagine being stuck in an apartment right now.

Even before my recent job change to working remotely for $BigTech and was just making an average salary for a software architect locally (east coast). The house was only 2x household income. In other words, any run of the mill developer could have afforded it.
It's not the case. It would be true to say that no one pays full price unless they have a lot of money. Harvard, not unrepresentative of other top U.S. schools in this regard, says that 55% of their students receive financial aid [1]. I infer that 45% are paying the full price of around $80,000 per year [2]. (Some of these 45% are doubtless funded partly by non-Harvard scholarships.)

Playing with Harvard's "Net Price Calculator" [3] makes clear that non-millionaires, let alone non-billionaires, may be asked to pay full price. A lot depends on the number of children, the number in college, and accumulated wealth (excluding retirement accounts and home equity).

Harvard students who receive federal financial aid pay (or their families pay) around $15,500 per year on average [4], which suggests that the distribution of payments may be bimodal: a lot of families pay $80,000 per year, and a lot pay a lot less.

[1] https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid

[2] https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/how-aid-works

[3] https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculat...

[4] https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?166027-Harvard-Unive...
When I'm doing construction, I often wear a form-fitting N95 mask (for dust protection) and safety glasses.

The top of the mask, and the nose-bridge of the safety glasses, compete for the same location on the bridge of my nose.

If I layer them so that the mask touches my skin, and the eye glasses rest on the mask, I have no problem with fogging.

If I layer them the other way: the eye glasses' bridge directly on my skin, and the top of the mask resting on the eye glasses' bridge, I get fog.

Maybe you're experiencing this?

I usually avoid this simply by putting my eye glasses on after my mask is in place.
Haha i can relate to you i actually worked for two big banks as SE
> check out ... r/wallstreetbets

Don't. At least not for anything other than the memes.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/07/11000-yea...
This is why baking instructions are done with weight, not volume.
TL; DR: an article that basically explains a few tweets from Musk with more words, from a Tesla-cheerleading site. I wish I can learn what "RNA microfactories" are, but the way search works now googling that terms just gives me a billion website with this same news story (hooray).

But OK, 1 article actually explains what Musk meant by the phrase: https://www.pharmalive.com/tesla-to-build-mobile-rna-microfa...
I do like org-roam, but wonder if it's over-engineered. The main thing you need is backlinks, and you can get that without all the complexity of an additional package and sqlite dbs.

(defun buffer-backlinks ()
(interactive)
(rg (buffer-name) "*.org" org-directory))
(add-to-list 'org-mode-hook 'buffer-backlinks)

Net effect of that tiny elisp snippet is what when I open an org file, I get a buffer beside it (powered by ripgrep/rg) with names + context snippets of all the other files in my org dir that link to it.
Honestly I think the average IQ on WSB is pretty high, you just have to learn to sift through the junk. There are plenty of gold nuggets to be found.

Also the memes are great. What's the point in life if you aren't having fun?
Hegel (b. 1770) is purported to have used a version of Zettelkasten, as described by Hegel's sister: "He approached his reading as follows: Everything that seemed remarkable to him he wrote on a separate sheet of paper, which he identified at the top by a general label under which the particular content had to be subsumed. In the center of the upper edge he then wrote in large letters—not infrequently using Fraktur letters—the keyword of the article. These pages he ordered alphabetically ... and thus could by means of this simple method use his excerpts at any moment. "
The Trump administration has hired Anduril Tech to build a virtual border wall
His piece challenging Frank Partnoy’s fear mongering comparison between CDO’s and CLO’s is great.

https://nathantankus.substack.com/p/worst-case-scenario-or-i...
Serious question: does anyone know when/why that subreddit became what is is today? I used to follow it in the early 2010s and it actually provided some reasonable insights.
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Tankus has been studying economics full time for twelve years! He's earned it. His posts used to be not good but he's paid his dues.
Its actually 16 out of 300 odd that were installed properly. But the goal was to prove this is a good way to monitor
I can tell you for sure that Robinhood hasn't contributed positively the quality of content.
NoCopy Compiler Plugin for Kotlin
A Kotlin compiler plugin that removes the `copy` method from data classes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kotlin/comments/hjoyxx/nocopy_compi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/hj3yq8/nocopy_c...
Universities, in their current incarnation, offer a poor return on investment.

When a degree was scarce, it was valuable. As was when a degree guaranteed a certain level of knowledge and skill.

But that really isn't the case nowadays. The vast majority of degree programs exist simply to collect tuition dollars, and the students that undertake these programs would be better-served by a vocational or professional education system.

The standard counter-argument here is that you gain social skills in university... but the same is true when you join the workforce.

Germany gets this one right, by the way.

That is not to say that the idea of a university has outlived its utility! We need spaces where curious minds can seek answers from and challenge themselves against well-practiced experts. That's part of how you set a country up for future success.

But that's not what we have now, not from my experience in the United States. What we need are Schools of Athens, but what we have are Temples of Amun.

So it's not all that surprising that, in the information age, curious people look to both the cost of a degree, and to the legions of unemployed graduates, and figure they can do better.
It's a troll account made just to stink up this specific thread, report it and move on.
I agree, based on this:

My high-school aged son was taking two in-person community college classes this last semester.

When the SIP hit, his Spanish class just "ended". Nothing online, nothing from his teacher, it was just over. His math teacher worked diligently to keep things going, and I could see the adaptations the math teacher attempted to evolve his efforts with the unexpected conditions.

If the CC is only online in the fall, we'll find something else for him. I don't think v1.0 of online CC is worth spending my money on, based on the v0.9 beta.
It's worse than that actually, as in some cases the single underscore is actually meaningful (see the SO question linked in [1]). My recommendation is always to use a double underscore for throwaway variables, particularly since dropping into an interactive terminal can be really useful in some particularly hairy debugging situations (there's a great pycon talk about when it's a good idea to do gross things like that during debugging [2]).

Guietta looks interesting, but at a certain point if you're going to go with a visual representation of your gui to automatically generate it, you might as well go the whole docopt-style way and just have the whole gui defined in a docstring. That give you flexibility to have your own DSL as well (or jinja2 templates, or whatever), if you so decide, instead of needing to shoehorn python lists into the job. Plus that way you could actually modify the layout spacing, without much increase in complexity.

That being said, my usual recommendation for "I need a simple python GUI" is Toga [3]. The only downside is that Windows support is lagging behind MacOS and Linux, but it's not that far behind, so for simple stuff that should be reasonably acceptable.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5893163/what-is-the-purp...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAcfPzxB3dk

[3] https://toga.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
A practical case on why we need the humanities
I started keeping a hosted tiddlywiki since this new round of zettelkasten rebirth (also, digital garden).

Additionally I started taking notes on Left https://100r.co/site/left.html
That sub is for the lulz; it’s not a serious analysis of the market. The best description I’ve heard of it was “a jackass for finance, made all the funnier because you realize that people actually got hurt”
If I had to guess, Robingood and the burst of the cryptocurrency bubble
Idk, it's basically been the same thing for as long as I've been following it, and I started around 2017. The only thing that's really changed is the number of subscribers has exploded.

Here's the front page of WSB from 2016: https://web.archive.org/web/20160706011305/reddit.com/r/wall...
Masks have always been controversial, but I think what we have seen in terms of outcomes in the NY/NJ/CT area shows that they likely have some effect.

Usually the studies that knock masks compare them against people following good hand washing protocol. Mask vs. person with good hygiene is different than the typical slob you find on the street.
4chan with a Bloomberg terminal.
Most public transportation is partially subsidized in the US. Car owners are paying taxes to support public transportation via income tax, sales tax and/or a gas tax.
I actually taught QBasic for a 100-level class at a college. It was very interesting to see how close it actually was to the "grown-up" languages they used for the Comp Sci curriculum.
This is somewhat circular, but: when your team decides to rewrite a component in a more complicated or more obscure (at least at Shopify) language to increase throughput rather than spinning up more instances of the current solution, then you're talking about a component that's even more critical than the other critical components.
Why not use FM radio? https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002HMH0ZC
See, I do agree on paradox of tolerance, I just think we differ on the best way of resolving that paradox. Freedom of speech != freedom from social consequences. I'm not suggesting racists should get a free pass, just that advocating for it to not get you fined/locked up by the government. WDYT?

Edit: On my "derived from free speech" remark - I believe that's the case because freedom of speech is how we keep the government in check. The minute they can decide Nazi imagery is unacceptable, they have legal standing to do the exact same to whichever political party or marginalised group they dislike. Too dangerous imo.
Not radiated material because mostly fusion explosion with a small fission spark so if you really wanted a clean "catch" you would just leave out the area where the charge was placed.
I was kicking around the idea of trying to turn empty retail spots into co-working locations.

This work be a good halfway spot between the burbs and the congested downtowns where co-working spots typically exist. Plus you have access to amenities and you can take a walk, hangout in the main area in winter.

Thoughts?
We actually DO know that