skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a lot of problems that are still even unrelated to zoning. For example, San Jose has 25 feet setback rules for houses from the street. Can you imagine how much square footage could be added overnight if people were allowed to build closer to the sidewalks?
I've heard this hypothesis that groups tend to go down in quality for this reason --

1. Group has an average quality.
2. People who have a much higher quality tend to avoid the group (e.g. that discussion is fallacious)
3. People who have lower quality are incentivized to join the group.
4. Eventually, the best performers of the group have less incentive to stay in that community
TIL: "The rat is always right."

//edit: okay, the above is a bit minialistic, so, in full: The article is a good point on how systems have to adapt to actual human (mis-)behaviour, instead of relying on wishful thinking on how humans should behave.
Because car ownership in much cheaper in Berlin and Germany as a whole than in Tokyo so even if public transport would be safe in Berlin as it is in Tokyo, if people are afraid of exposure, the Berliners have private alternatives while people of Tokyo have to shrug it off on take the subway.
Here in India we seem to have a large number of such ridiculously stupid people (perhaps a consequence of having a large number of people in general) but it also becomes a street-cred thing as someone in front of you beats the train at a railway crossing and now you look like a wuss if you just stand there and wait for the train to pass.

This kind of accident is so common I remember the government commissioning a series of funny PSA ads that played on national TV showing people acting recklessly at railway crossings, getting killed and then expressing their regrets from beyond the grave.
Facebook blocks acct comms enabling police to commit murder
Something I was amazed to see as still being a valid proof of birth is a family bible. Not everyone has their birth recorded via a government-issued birth certificate.

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/how-app...
I meant the only time an app should be able to get anything out of the clipboard is when the user specifically uses the OS feature to paste the content. I don't think apps should ever be allowed to access the clipboard on their own.
The discoveries from new fields will probably always have a ripple effect and indirectly improve our understanding of other fields.

Same as software libraries: we do invent new ways of doing the same thing from time to time.

Still, switching to using one of the few top courses by default would be a huge improvement.
Go and edit it!
It's a tough problem to solve.

My co-founder and I worked on our product in this space for two years before we released it, and we still have a huge list of features and ideas that we'd like to integrate.

The problem is that everyone's brains work differently / everyone has a different workflow, which is I think why we're seeing such an explosion of tools in the space. We've tried to address that with our app in a variety of ways, but it is very much an uphill battle.
Internet Archive as version control, I love it. There's some good comments in there, one guy determined it had been like this for a month, yikes. Peer review anybody? Or maybe they only have one web dev and he's a junior so the seniors dont inspect it as harshly.
Compared to a PC, copying and pasting on a phone is physically laborious. Switching to the app, selecting the text, switching back, possibly fiddle with the cursor position and then finally pasting by waiting for the phone to interpret a long press as a paste command. It all sucks.

It would be nice if I could enter copy/paste mode, and when in that mode I had a mouse cursor that I could move by holding my finger above the screen (so I can see the cursor), and basically use my finger like a virtual mouse during the cut/paste operation.
Well rich ppl are dying. And as a general rule that decides where focus goes and what the narrative will be.
imagine an interface{} that can be annotated to say "you can only assign values ofItypes A, B and C to it. E.g. interface(A,B,C){}

Since it's an interface{} it has no behaviour, the only thing you can do is a type assert / type switch.

By extension, you could add some methods: interface(A,B,C){Foo(bool) int}
This fails statically unless A, B, and C implement said interface.
If they do, then this interface has exactly the same semantics as the normal Go interfaces, except that only types A, B and C can be assigned to it (and not type D even if it implements Foo(bool) int
>my main point stands: it's quite different from what people in other countries call

You never made that point...sorry
Great that this is in the works.

Do you know about its workings?
Removing parking minimums means that all the new residents still have cars and park on the street, thus making it impossible for my friends and family to find parking when they come to visit.
Perhaps M. Bernoulli has read the WHO April report which recommended that masks be worn, noticed the sentence

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 decided not to boss people around without some evidence that it is effective
Where do you draw the line? Should we also throw all sales people in jail that use most of the same techniques during negotiation?
One of the truly astonishing parts of this report is that the pilots do not actually appear to have been in direct contact with the tower controller at any point during the initial, gear-up landing.

If you read the report, it seems they were in contact with the approach controller who contacted the tower for landing clearance on their behalf.
> we have a pretty good idea how the collective atoms that make up the gasoline will function.

Yes, and that idea is based on theories assuming things are probabilistic. Thus bringing us back to my second paragraph. That falsely assuming things are probabilistic works very well in practice. But it may break down under certain conditions, and there may be loopholes.

Edit to add:

I think this whole thing is very related to pseudo random number generators and keystretching. Maybe computability theory too. If you have a 1gig file generated from a 128bit seed, then the apparent uncertainty (1gig) is much higher than the actual uncertainty (128bit). But since it's so very hard to undo the prng, it will behave very closely to something with 1gig of actual uncertainty.

Edit to add again:

A fun thought experiment is someone "encrypting" chemical energy into heat, putting the key in a box, only to later go back and decrypt it back into chemical energy.
Straight up plagiarizes The Beatles here: https://www.gwern.net/GPT-3#dr.-seuss-oh-the-places-youll-go

"
There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.
Nothing you can see that isn’t shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be.
"
I agree, the most useful thing these tools can provide is fast data entry and robust search for most users. That’s the focus of the tool I’m building, https://NoteBrook.com . Reach out if you want to be in on the beta, it has been delayed a bit as I’ve been refining the search and editor experience of the alpha version and building super fast apps on every platform, but it should be launching in the next week or two!
Did they have the same inclusion criteria? The people in the treatment group probably have to sign a conformity form, this implicitly exclude people that is too wasted to even hold a pen and that probably have a worse prognosis than the average. Did they include people with more than 90 years old? People with a recent previous heart attack? Small children (parents are annoying)?

Without the same inclusion criteria it's not a control group but a unrelated bunch of guys.
Any idea where to get the lecture videos for CS144?
Best practices for governments reporting Covid-19 testing data
I think this problem has been solved by computers already. If someone sends me a meeting invite for a particular time, the calendar program converts the invite to my time zone automatically.
This dude got famous after a zoning fight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Heemeyer
PWDB – New Generation of Password Mass-Analysis
I’m not aware of any digital distribution platforms that automate the Bandcamp process and take a cut of that revenue, though I wouldn’t be surprised if that was happening somewhere. Which distributors are doing this?

It should also be said that plenty of labels are operating Bandcamp pages, where they can take a cut of digital sales and then pay (or not pay...) artists. It can make sense for artists who are trying leverage the resources of a larger organization. IMO it’s something bands should negotiate aggressively since Bandcamp might be their best (possibly their only!) shot at recouping their expenses or selling merch.
In general, there were two possible paths - not lock down at all, or lock down and do it right. The current divided US was unable to do anything because of political gamesmanship and poor federal leadership. Proper lockdowns work - Germany, France, etc, are proving that it is possible. Most weaker states are struggling, which is not a surprise.

> You sacrifice the 99.5% for the 0.5%.(If not handled perfectly sacrifices 100%)

This is a slippery slope - let's say your a small minority. You could always argue "well they're just a small group of people, who cares, it's not most so they can suffer." It's a very dangerous mentality.

> Suicides, drug addictions, home abuse and more are all side effects of attempting to save the oldest, obese, and sickest population, who otherwise can self quarentine.(My only counter point is that the 0.5% can be called into work, and lose unemployment money.)

These may follow a quarantine but they are not necessarily caused by it. If a proper safety net existed in the US, I'm sure most of these numbers would decrease. The US on the whole is worse for drug addiction than most first world nations.

The fact is, even if the US KNEW what to do - it wouldn't be able to execute it. Poor leadership, political infighting, marketing to the extreme post stage capitalism is finally burning the US out.
I'm not sure what other "subsidies" you are talking about, but the mortgage interest deduction has nothing to do with the type of construction or zoning. Neither are FHA loan programs.
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Transcript (by dtolnay on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/hkaxgl/react_core_tea...):

Q: This is a question that I haven't heard of before: is React going to be rewritten in Rust? Is that just a rumor? What's all of this?
Andrew Clark: Well if we do rewrite it in Rust, we would do it in such a way that you would not notice it.

Q: That's sneaky!

Andrew Clark: Because if we did, it would be the internals, you know. I mean maybe there's a future (in some distant future) you could write components in Rust, but that's not what-- when people alude to that, that's usually not what they mean. They mean the internals might be rewritten in Rust. Currently they're written in Flow-flavored JavaScript. So unless you're a contributor (which you know we care about those as well) if we did rewrite in Rust it probably wouldn't affect most people who are listening right now. I don't know if we want to say anything more about that. But that's not happening tomorrow or the next day. Maybe next year or the year after that.
Sebastian Markbåge: In general there's growing support for Rust within Facebook projects. So for example the Relay compiler work is currently being done in Rust and they've had great success with that. There's React Native internals (I think there was a question actually I can answer that at the same time about Swift in React Native) and the current big project for React Native, codenamed Fabric, is C++ and so you can expect most things in React Native to be going more to C++ to share a codebase and also because of performance especially on the Android side. So you can share the code between them. So I see less of the Swift taking over on iOS and more C++ taking over on iOS just so we can also share it with Android. But there's a lot of interest on the people writing this in C++ because they see Rust and they see all the features to be able to take advantage of that. And there's also interest in Facebook in general to be using Rust for native apps. But there's a lot that goes into that to making sure it works in practice. There's a lot of build tooling, there's a lot of need to set up with the ecosystem. Rust isn't particulary well tested on ARM. And once you start writing in Rust you have to now download the whole standard library; that can make your apps larger than equivalent C++. And the same thing applies to the web: once you start writing in Rust it wouldn't be Rust the standard Rust you see because the standard library would be way too big for us to include with the React release. So I think there's a lot of momentum in this space but there's also a lot of work left to do to make that infrastructure actually work well. But it's exciting if it does.

Q: I saw in the Stack Overflow State of the Developer survey that Rust is the "most loved" language and it's been winning and climbing in the ranks for quite a few years now so I'll be curious to see where it goes as a language and as more and more people adopt it for sure.
I think you're absolutely right. Some people seem to have forgotten that the plan was never to completely stop by the spread of infection (impossible) but to slow it down so the health system isn't overwhelmed. It's a global pandemic, there's gonna be suffering and death no matter what actions we take - mitigation is our only option.

The sad part is our incompetent government was supposed to get their act together in the meantime (more testing, etc), which hasn't happened.
Hybrid Identity by Sandeep Kumar Seeram
That's a good point. I think we need to have a better understanding about how the brain works before we can properly answer that question. At this point there's a lot we don't understand about the brain, and psychology for that matter, it's basically a black box that we can observe through a microscope or other imaging system but we don't really understand what's happening.

An ant only has around 250,000 neurons, yet they're still more intelligent than the most advanced "AI" we've managed to produce.

An ant may not be able to paint a painting or write a novel, but I think most people agree they qualify as an intelligent being.
Reading between the lines, what I gather happened is that the WHO learned about the outbreak and started to work with China before China notified the WHO through the formal notification procedure, at which point there was no longer any point in practice of using that procedure.

China may have tried to downplay the problem at first (and maybe not only at first) but this is a political game by US politicians.

To insist on referring to the "Chinese Communist Party" instead of the "Chinese government" is also a transparent rhetorical trick.
How do you organize your notes? Do you have one big file for everything, one file for one note, one file for argument, or something else? Do you keep a date on your notes?

Maybe you can share a bit about how you organize your written down knowledge?
Even the OS data -- at least what I can see in Aurora -- might not be as complete as where someone has taken an interest in a new development, such as one near here. The OpenData building shapes are a good start, but they appear to have been auto-generated, and usually need correcting from up-to-date satellite imagery, if not a survey.
You can have a discussion about X, as long as you recognize that the discussion is going to be flawed without anybody from X there.

Sometimes this is a necessity. In history class we learn about ancient Sumerians without inviting them to the discussion, because they have all been dead for a long time. So we make do.

Certainly, if we had the chance, we'd love to have them there.

(A useful thought experiment: what if a bunch of ancient Sumerians fell out of a time machine and were available for discussion? Would we not think poorly of people who wanted to discuss ancient Sumerians did so without the Sumerians, who were standing like... right outside the room?)

Can a bunch of e.g. men sit around and have a meaningful discussion about women? It... really depends. Certainly a group of male gynecologists could usefully discuss some procedure, although the history of gynecology also certainly suggests that for many years the profession surely suffered from a lack of female perspective. Men can usefully discuss gender relations, because they are a part of the group that experiences gender relations, although again this discussion will be a lot weaker if it involves exclusively male perspectives. A room full of men can probably not very usefully discuss issues highly specific to women, unless they were indirectly drawing upon female experiences (e.g., two men could certainly learn from a discussion about an article written by a female author about childbirth or male-on-female sexual assault, etc)
I'm only 28 so I don't know all the answers... but I think you can be a sort of "relaxed ambitious" where you are very content with your life as it is, and any drive to achieve is driven by curiosity moreso than pure ambition of power or ambition of other peoples' approval.
drag&drop GUI builders still exist today.
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Based on their "risk stratification requirements" it's unclear whether the majority of "non-HCQ" patients were (d) over 60 with pre-existing conditions or (e) under 60 with no symptoms, as those seem to be the two groups excluded from the study. My initial hypothesis, that the paper doesn't mention once anywhere, would be that they were unable to treat significantly more older people with pre-existing conditions, leading to the obvious result of those people being more likely to die.
I just drove past this with my kids on I40 three days ago. Didn't know about it! How disappointing.
Not a good idea. One course to rule them all in a field creates a risk of massive amounts of people learning bad information and reinforcing it through sheer majority. Better for people to learn the same information in different ways and from different sources.
The real problem with the world right now isn't Covid but the looming threat of climate change

Densely populated cities may not be good for disease prevention but they are much more efficient in terms of carbon cost per capita
I would argue that what the author said is somewhat true, in that life can be roughly separated from nonlife by the observation that organisms do appear to tend toward less entropy in a universe where everything else seemingly does the opposite.

Genetically coded beings are orderly structures with far fewer microstates than their molecular constituents would likely contain otherwise. And we tend to make copies of ourselves, giving order to otherwise chaotic matter.

I think there's a profoundness in there, somewhere. Such a definition also solves the virus conundrum!
Global E-WASTE MONITOR 2020 Report [pdf]
No.

The death rate would be far, far higher, perhaps an order of magnitude, because hospitals would be overrun.

Even if the Covid patients had a low death rate at the hospital, millions more would be refused treatment, millions more than that would die because Covid patients took up all the beds.
In the US I would suspect trump's H1b freeze to push up the market value for any engineer, especially the middle standard deviation skill-wise.
Tech Media vs. VCs: unpacking their July/2020 spat
Note-taking seems to be a hot topic lately. I used Apple Notes for a long time because it was very lightweight and minimalist, but recent releases of macOS have been very buggy, so I decided to review all the options. I wrote this up at https://davidmytton.blog/the-best-note-taking-apps-for-mac-m... which has become one of the most trafficked post on my blog in the last few months!

The key for me is a) plain text files I can manage myself i.e. no database or mandatory custom sync; b) markdown.

Apps will come and go. You might decide to switch platforms and maybe a new editor will come along sometime. This means you want a format that can be opened by anything (plain text) but with lightweight markup that the editor can parse to make it look nice, but you can also parse with your eyes and get a reasonable sense of the document structure (markdown).

Then it's all about search. There's no point making notes if you can't find them. This is where something more than Markdown - that allows you to link notes - is handy. It's what is appearing more and more in the likes of Roam, Obsidian, etc.

I ultimately chose iA Writer on macOS because it is lightweight and really nicely designed, plus has good native support for Markdown. I sync using OneDrive but you can use anything because they're all individual files. iA Writer is also native, and I find most Electron apps to be slow and/or buggy. There are exceptions e.g. VS Code, but I prefer native where possible.
Wits: Windows Inspection Tool Set in Tcl/Tk
Here's the Vue PR with the changes necessary: https://github.com/vuejs/vue-next/pull/1483
I must agree reading those copypasta, "300 red scares" and "300 confirmed scoots" had me close to tears.
Could someone enlighten me what is the biggest advantage or this and similar tools over libreoffice writer? I've been using it extensively for years for technical documentation, have hundreds of bitrot-free documents, and am extensively using:

* tables (2 or 3 columns depending on type, often using sort by column 1 or column 1+2 to keep relevant information grouped);

* preset formatting for different styles (snippets, commands);

* navigation using ToC (on a sideway navigation pane which is always visible);

* auto-generating anki flashcards from the content with no modifications;

* inserting external media;

I've used different methods to keep a single synchronized copy depending on work tech restrictions, i.e. nfs over ssh, sshfs, vpn via vm. Nowadays working from home I just keep everything locally.

What are the selling points to drop all that and move to something else?
What would your response be if someone came along and said "binary" is not an appropriate word for compiled artefacts because some people do not identify as a man or a woman?

What would your response be if someone came along and said we should rename the HTML <div> element because "div" is a schoolyard insult implying low intelligence?

What would your response be if someone came along and said we should stop referring to mobile phones as "cells" because people are unjustly confined to prison cells due to structural racism?

I do not believe I am, or others who agree with me are, arguing that we should not change language where it is problematic the issue is we do not agree that the use of these words in context are an issue at all.
I'm scratching my head trying to understand what the author is trying to say.

It feels like he doesn't like the idea of entropy for political and ideological reasons. Reminds me of Soviet support for Lamarckianism.

I take his point about misapplying scientific theories to socio-economic policies, and entropic thinking certainly can be misapplied in domains where it doesn't make sense ... but is that our problem today? Entropy is not part of the cultural and mainstream consciousness like Darwinism is. If anything, we don't take the idea of entropy seriously enough.
I have heard it also between friends when one of them is too nice and the other one pushes continously to do whatever he/she wants.
And cares so much that Somebody Else needs to donate to them.