skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is, and I know you will hate to hear this, is that these sorts of anecdotes may or may not mean anything. Symptoms like that have a long history of turning out to be false alarms. That's the reason medical trials have placebos: health is weird and people can cure themselves or make themselves sick from all kinds of ways that logic dictates shouldn't happen, like 'thinking' themselves into it, or just via random chance.

Does COVID-19 cause breathlessness in a tiny percentage of people who caught it? Possibly, it's a respiratory virus after all. Does it cause loss of concentration? Hmm, maybe, who knows. The body works in mysterious ways. But if it can cause that then more or less any symptom at all is fair game.

Seen another way, do people with wifi sensitivity truly feel headaches when wifi is turned on? They certainly believe they do, their suffering seems to be real, yet we know their self-diagnosis cannot possibly be correct ... at least not without significantly rewriting the laws of physics and biology as we know them.

It may be that your wife should lose the Slack group and see a doctor. The risk is that the collection of symptoms she's reporting (which have no known link with respiratory diseases) actually have another cause and COVID is a distraction. It could be an undiagnosed case of something else that needs attention. We know that COVID is being spuriously linked in the media to all kinds of random conditions and symptoms, and especially when in a community of other sufferers, it's possible for incorrect inferences to be made.
That doesn't seem like a good comparison, the burger is not a "bill of materials" it's a final product available directly to customers by the restaurant, consumers would definently care that they are being sold a marked up burger that is available to them for 25% cheaper. If a delivery company charges me 70 dollars to deliver a flat screen tv that's fine, but if they charge me 70 dollars but also markup the price of the TV 25% I'd consider that pretty dishonest and would at least want to know that I have the option to save 25% by managing delivery on my own.
You don't seem to realize that restaurants already pass the costs of delivery to consumer?

Out of a $15 order at a restaurant. There is $5 paying for the food (30% of the price, general practice in the industry). The other $10 are supposed to cover waiters, chefs, service, rent, taxes, profits, etc...

But there is no service and no large rent when doing delivery rather than dine in. The extra money should be enough to cover delivery. Yet restaurants and apps prefer to tack on another $5-10 in delivery fees, easy margin.
Having a private life.
It's a very small sample size but the upper echelons of cartooning seem to attract a disproportionate number of people who get out fairly early and largely drop out of the public eye. (Gary Larson, Bill Watterson, Berkeley Breathed)
1.5B people could depend on water from mountains 30 years from now
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I have read this before and broadly agree with the point—it’s no use trying to curate expertise into AI. But I don’t think modeling p(y|x) or it’s friend p(y, x) is the end we’re looking for either. But, it’s unreasonably effective, so we keep doing it. (I don’t have an answer or an alternative; causality appeals to my intuition, but it’s really clunky and has seemingly not paid off.)
One thing I've always wondered about these delivery/rideshare "experiences": why didn't they just sell the software on a subscription service? Like a shopify or slack or something. Why did they also have to replace the drivers? Aside from being suspicious labor wise, it seems like a bloated way for software engineers to start a business, especially because they don't know how labor works for taxi fleets/ restaurants across the globe. Why not just make the businesses your customers instead of the end users?
When I hear things like, "many will not return for a long time, if ever" I think about forests and how wildfires are ultimately a Good Thing® for clearing out crowded ecosystems and paving the way for new growth.

I'm too ignorant of all the moving parts to confidently make that analogy, but I can't help but wonder if this sort of collapse could be a net positive thing. I think there are opportunities here for all the participants, even if some of the incumbents will not survive.
I'm really not sure if I can attribute Hanlon's razor to this. When you log in, that's by definition hitting the database, and should return your settings. Place that in a cookie/localstorage and it should still know your settings offline.
Yes, it is. I’m sure Jeff understands exactly how these emails make people feel.

If he’s just innocently asking for the other side of the story, he should put together a complete sentence that demonstrates that, rather than sending a single ambiguous character that he knows could be interpreted as “you fucked up, fix this right now or you’re fired!”
There seems to be a bit of confusion here. Idris doesn't provide the same tools and guarantees as Rust does to manage memory, and instead requires that implementations provide a garbage collector.

If you're producing code for a collected language, you can forward on all of the allocations to that language, and if not, you will need to implement one.

Zero-cost abstractions or not, Idris needs a GC from somewhere.
My bad, I missed that part. Hopefully Github will implement this feature.
The irony of using the promotional approach of an awful poverty tax by a startup focused on promoting saving.
I really meant dragging the lines on the input graphs to change parameters.
"The solution is high-resistance individual actions to address a situation with no societal benefit created by a company with more money than you can even begin to visualize."

This is the sort of thing one says to either feel very, very clever about themselves or because they don't want things fixed. Which is it?
They should charge a fee based on how efficiently the restaurant gets the food to the delivery driver, because having the driver spend 20 minutes parking and waiting in line is probably why delivery is so expensive but that delivery person's wasted time doesn't otherwise cost the restaurant much.

With a normal uber ride you have to walk out to the curb to meet the driver, who does not have to find somewhere to park. If they brought the orders out to the curb like when an uber arrives rather than having drivers park & wait maybe that would make delivery far less expensive.
Sounds dystopian.
Why? It's interesting, you should upvote it.

I mean, obviously what he's telling us is that they've got a stupid broken culture and their intuition about their product is hilariously wrong, but it's still an interesting insight.
That's why you need to adapt your CV accordingly. You change things depending if it's a startup or a big company. Also depending on the role.
> Write a watcher that periodically reports whether you’re actively using a coding-related app (Terminal, VS Code, etc.) to a server you control, and serve a “coding”/“not coding” badge on your profile page; (could even detect which project you’re working on, and display that;)

Sounds like Discord.
Then it seems like a good legal remedy might involve labeling requirements for advertising by third-parties?

This cap... is not that.
Jose Rizal's Animosity Towards the Chinese
Rizal is one of those national heroes we like to know more about. In fact, we could say he was followed like a big-time celebrity today, but for a good reason. He was an important figure during our struggle for national independence back then. His works and books opened our eyes to the abuses of the Spanish colonizers, at the same time teaches us a lesson about our own shortcomings as Filipinos. Yes, he met a bitter end in the rifles of the firing squad, but his death was never seen as senseless.

But as much as we revere him as a hero, Rizal is just an everyday guy just like any of us. He had all the weaknesses of a normal youth. We knew that he gets drunk like any of us (remember that picture of his drunken friends), gets in a fight like any regular guy, and fall in love like the rest of us.

And you would be surprised that Rizal harbors a dislike towards the Chinese.

We knew how Rizal spoke against the Spanish and was not afraid to criticize the Catholic church. But Rizal also dislike the Chinese, up to a point where he refused to buy their products. In fact, we could say that he hated them more than the Spanish colonizers and the Catholic church.
Software development is huge with remote work.
my dimestore mixed metaphor is this:

because WHO is a top of the pyramid standards body (of sorts), they are slow to adopt new lines of thinking. Very waterfall, not agile. When the ISO updates a publication we have a near zero expectation it will be amended any time soon.

WHO follows a similar mechanism, which, prima facie, seems fitting — until it's not — COVID-19 being the glaring counterexample we're living through right here & now.
IMO this is misguided. The reason that restaurants are struggling is because they're unable to provide the value they once did, but they're still bearing a lot of the costs that used to provide it.

All of these restaurants are paying rent on their dining rooms, when they're only using the kitchens. The customer experience, paid for by waiter wages and dining room rent, is now being provided by the delivery companies. The whole customer interaction, from taking the order, to processing the payment to bringing the food to the customer has been taken over by the delivery companies, and that's a huge part of the cost and the value of the meal.

Restaurants can't reasonably expect the delivery companies to just eat all of their substantial costs because the Restaurant has a stranded asset that used to provide that service. Really, it should be the landlords that are taking the hit because all of that prime dining space now has the same value as some tiny cloud kitchen off a back alley.
Yes, and no:

https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes/-/wikis/Frequentl...
Where was our commitment to liberty and freedom for the Black people we made slaves? The Irish we discriminated against? The Japanese we locked up in concentration camps? The natives we killed and stole their land from?

'Liberty' has always applied to a very small culturally white subset of the population. 'Death' came to the rest.
Must everything be about politics?
You're probably right, if the main goal is to earn money. Still, it's also like telling Edison that he should quit looking for a commercially feasible design for an electric light bulb. We need both types of entrepreneurs and people, both the types who persevere in seeing an idea through, even if they're alone in thinking it's a good idea, and the types who "merely" improve on existing ideas and products.
It's a shame the only cheap, small laptops now all seem to be Chromebooks with limited storage and very few ports on them

I still use my 1015PX EEE on a regular basis - the keyboard is flaky (dust under the keys?) but it comes in handy to share network via Ethernet connection to a something without WiFi

No USB 3 and only 2GB of RAM isn't great; although you can browse simple websites reasonably well, and I was surprised streaming live YouTube content in VLC works fine
Then they should cease being in business.
If food delivery services suspend service in Portland tomorrow, I would find it pretty hard to believe it isn't political maneuvering to prevent other localities from doing the same.
I don't think it's old. I actually think OP is a bit young to be a principal engineer assuming that's what comes after senior.
I guess you missed it too, then.

https://journeynorth.org/tm/spring/BBearFacts.html

"Adult male bears quite commonly eat cubs."
Maria Konnikova found enlightenment at the poker tabl
Because cub scouts eat bears?!?
How are you dealing with copyright issues? Do you have a licensing agreement with Adobe?

Adobe is saying all Flash downloads will be completely removed from their website at the end of 2020, and I assume no one else has the legal right to distribute binaries.
I've discovered in large, long-lived Java codebases that it's common to Greenspun expressiveness and malleability back into the language through heavy reliance on things like Spring, stringly typed mechanisms, and dynamic code generation.

The impact on maintainability is about what you'd expect. Maybe, on an abstract level, the software isn't as complex as what you can do in Ruby, but the verbosity of the language brings its own maintenance challenges. I can't speak to Ruby specifically, but, in practice, I haven't found that I'm all that much more afraid to change things in a large Python codebase than a large Java one.

I'm now coming to think that the real challenge is dynamicism in general, regardless of whether it's built into the language or implemented as a library solution. So, if Java has an advantage here, it's simply that it tends to discourage people from overdoing it by making it awkward to do.
If you look at the CrashPlan drive reports, that doesn't seem to be their experience (and I don't know of a current, larger, public hard drive reliability report).

It seems that newer models trend with priors from that brand, with some outliers.
At this point in the App Store cycle, most app developers I know would aggressively "review flush". It sounds like the OP wasn't familiar with the growth strategies common at the time.

If your star average goes below 4.5, put out a quickie point release. That would reset the reviews, and the review prompt would drive a 5 star instantly.

IIRC, I'd also divide all the users into buckets, and stage out review prompts by week. You never want negative reviews stacked alongside each other in the review list. Multiple negative reviews is the kiss of death for conversion - rank drop could happen fast.

By staggering review prompts, you'd get positive reviews rolling in every single week, with a surge up front.

Obviously, that doesn't mean _ignore_ the negative reviews. Those are generally critical product failures. That necessitates response. We'd group and measure review categories, and reach out to affected users to see how they felt about potential and shipped solutions. Product quality is step one on good reviews.

None of that means setting your business on fire because of negative reviews. At the same time it's a critical signal to be dealt with, there's an immediate business problem of minimizing or eliminating the impact of negative reviews.

They're two different swim lanes requiring two different processes.
Surely one can comment on an example of communication even if the person it came from should be morally judged only on their great sins? It's inherently valuable to talk about examples of communication, especially from a leadership angle - and so conversely this conversation is not exclusively a judgement of a famous person.
At least in Coke’s case, defensibility comes from the fact that making cola is hard due to regulation and supply chains. Coke is grandfathered into being allowed to import coca leaves (they now remove the cocaine) and buys up alot of the worlds vanilla supply. There is a reason even Pepsi can't replicate the flavor. You still have a great point about the value of Coke’s branding / marketing.
Where is that micrometer mounted? The problem you're going to have (which I'm sure you're aware of) is that if it's after the freeze bath, you're miles away from where the thickness is actually determined. If the speed of the rollers makes the filament go through the bath at 1m/s (say) and the bath is 2m long, you can't react to any deviation in the temperature of the plastic as it leaves the nozzle (for instance) any sooner than 2 seconds later, and any drift has had that long to cause a problem. That way lies an oscillating system, unless you're quite careful.

The way you've posed the system, my gut feeling is that your problems are going to come down to reaction time. Once a problem manifests in the system, how quickly can you a) detect it; b) react; and c) have that reaction take effect?

There are three things I'd look at. The first is to make sure the entire path of the plastic until it has set is tightly temperature-controlled. You can't have breezes varying the temperature of the plastic before it enters the bath, so you want a PID-controlled warming tube to control its descent into the bath. Similarly you need to control the temperature, depth, and turbidity of the bath so that the length of time the plastic is less-than-fully-solid is tightly controlled. If you do that, you've got a chance that you've controlled the physics of the filament well enough that quick deviations will be damped out, and slow drifts get picked up by the micrometer.

The second is mounting the micrometer as close to where the filament enters the bath as you can get it. That's the point that's as close as you can get to where the plastic's frozen and the thickness is determined, so there's as little lag as possible between where you're measuring and where you're having an effect. That will let the system react to much faster deviations than it would be able to otherwise.

Third, I'd make that bath as short as possible. The length of filament hanging in the bath will act like a spring, so when the rollers speed up to try to thin the filament out, that acceleration will be blunted as the filament lifts up into a shallower catenary. You can compensate for this in the control system, but it's better not to have to. In fact, if you could get rid of the need for a bath by instead rolling the filament immediately onto a chilled metal roller close to the extruder die, that might open up other possibilities, but that ends up baking stresses into the filament which you might not want to deal with.
Solar minimal will reduce temp. Not increase. This is not the issue.
I'm a developer that spends 90% of my time in the web world and can say without doubt that the world will be better off without Flash in it today.

But I was also a teenage developer fooling around with code back in the late 90s and Flash was just mindblowing back then, from both the perspective of a developer (the UI for creating interactive animated content is still without rival, IMO) and as a consumer: vector animated 'videos' that used a fraction of the bandwidth of real videos. Weebl was/is a genius, and folks like him created an entirely new aesthetic with Flash that entered the mainstream... I think his videos aired on MTV at one point?! It was fascinating to watch. Even separately from that, Flash was the first to bring things like streaming live video and webcam access to browsers.

I'll always be nostalgic for that era of the internet, and Flash is what allowed it to happen. We're all better off with open standards and multiple browser implementations, but I wish it was still just as easy to be so creative.
One reason: If you send a flush command to a consumer grade hd, it returns before the flush is done. This makes it look nicer on older HD benchmarking software. Enterprise hds return when the flush is complete, so databases acknowledge a commit only when it was actually succesfull.
"The problem with CNCF and why istio was not transferred to that org is that CNCF acts as a mediator, so any decision around trademark takes soo much time and effort because CNCF has to get the blessing of everyone or build something neutral (like the k8s certification), and it's in their best interest that things are complicated as they can make money out of that."

This article paints a more accurate picture of the situation where Google broke its promises to its partners, you should ask them why they did that: https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/09/ibm_oracle_cncf_prote...

Also, I believe people have been asking Istio to develop a conformance program for years and moving it to CNCF which had a track record of building one of the most successful open source conformance programs seemed reasonable: https://github.com/cncf/k8s-conformance

If not CNCF, there are other fantastic open source foundations like the ASF, EF, OSI, SPI and so on that could have helped.
Isn't the 10% cap making the end game of monopoly and higher prices impossible though?
A Spotter's Guide to Good Retrospectives
Skeleton of extinct dolphin suggests parallel evolution among whales
Don’t Create Chaos
I've pondered variations of this many times. If you ignore complexity some truly fascinating formulas can be had. You can for example create tons of value out of thin air by having traders express an interest in items if they are sold below x. A baseball card could have an infinite number of partial owners and automatically change "hands". Some just want to trade them and are not interested in physically holding onto them (if not worried) while others just want to stick the postal stamps in books and show off. If you are for whatever reason unable to send it to the new 51% owner on his request you automatically refund the entire item at market value.
Notion, Roam, and the Future of Doing Work
Yelp also provides DDG results.
Intel has already turned over Thunderbolt license-free for USB4 integration so this is not really a surprise.
(Relatively new) Tor developer here.

Yes, unfortunately some sites and such "protection" services block Tor IP addresses to mitigate abuse. While just blocking exit nodes would be sufficient (though still an overly blunt instrument), some carelessly block Tor relays as well.

In the case of Onion Services, unlike running a Tor relay or exit node, you are using Tor as a client, much the same as when you use the Tor Browser. Your IP is not on any such global list of "Tor IPs". Your ISP (or VPN, if applicable), can see that you're using Tor (unless you use a bridge), but this doesn't get you on these sort of block lists.

On a side-note, if you're thinking of running a Tor relay from home to help contribute to the Tor network, but don't want to risk getting your IP address blocked, consider running a bridge instead. https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/
3. Write an integration to the local cemetery, and after funeral is successfully detected serve "alive/dead" badge on the profile page.
> Or it simply disappears.

Worse. Because when you then search the "software store", and install chromium, all your bookmarks, history, forms and other state is lost. At least the "apt package" migrates that for users.
Getting the government involved is exactly the right solution here, and they could implement a rule to keep things fair at near 0 cost. Our particular government being incompetent is mostly due sabotage by people who stand to gain from its continued incompetence.
"With less than five months before a presidential election, it confounds the auditors as to why Facebook has failed to grasp the urgency.”

If "failed to grasp" is really "chose to delay", then the only reasonable conclusion to be drawn is that Zuckerberg is trying to help Trump win the election.

Facebook is the world's most dangerous drug cartel. Their drug destroys democracy.
> Would love to know what he's been doing since

Not working under constant deadline pressure. It can scar a person, especially a creative one.
Apparently it's a pretty complicated, holistic system of pulling just the main text.

FF uses this for its reader view: https://github.com/mozilla/readability
Pulsar vs. Kafka – Part 1