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Meta point: I think that this channel illustrates well the transition from personal blogs to youtube videos.

If you go to his projects blog, https://shane.engineer/ you could see very detailed blog posts in the past that go deeply into the engineering, including code snippets. However, he only really go traction when starting to publish youtube videos, specifically youtube video with a clickbait subject (such as a self aiming basketball hoop).

What YouTube provides is a highly competitive environment that provides creators with constant feedback. This allowed him to identify and his niche as he uploaded more videos. With YouTube, the exposure these projects receive is orders of magnitude higher, while empowering its creators to be self sustainable with ads (and sponsors, patreon, and merch) revenue.

At the end of the day, I think it's a positive change, as it allows more people to create high quality content independently, and in a rewarding way (vs volunteering).
Do you have any sense of how people are managing?

I sort of assumed that people _must_ be receiving money because there's no way Americans in the lower deciles of savings would be able to pay their bills consistently without work or stimulus. If there's no stimulus and no work, how are they paying bills? Is it on credit? Was there actually some savings?
> Genuinely curious, how will you get someone to understand what ownership helps avoid without them having experienced the pain on the other side?

This is an eternal debate about Rust. I don't think it's required though. Can you appreciate functions without understanding assembly and calling conventions? I believe the answer is yes :)
Yes, this is working as ultimately intentioned, though of course not according to its ostensible purpose.
How to Find Black Holes
> However, in the real world many people are resistant to the idea of therapy and/or medication as it feels like admitting defeat. Or perhaps they've read cherry-picked horror stories of bad therapists or medication side effects on the internet.

Or, you know, it's a lot of time and money being spent on something that the medical industry has very little success in dealing with.
That's your bubble. I've seen other people's and it's not. Instagram is worse I agree.
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Do you mean literally an ad hominem argument? /pedant
Excellent. If I remember correctly, the linguists sorted into two opposing camps, Lakoff/Johnson on one side, Pinker/Chomsky on the other.

The Pinker argument is that the metaphor aspect is only important during the short period of time when we are first introduced to a new term. Once the term enters our vocabulary, it takes its own unique slot in our minds that is independent of the word origins. Our minds do not have trouble distinguishing between cordless, cellular, and wireless phones once the terms are familiar to us. I'm sure you can find much greater insight than I can provide with a few web searches.
a 1 yen coin has a mass of 1 gram - which can be handy for measuring stuff.
All this drama made me realize that I'm using Twitter just as much as Facebook: not at all.
It happens on a lot of social media where there's a sort by "top" vs "newest". It's a dark pattern and I'm convinced it's both intentional and cargo-culted. I recall having the issue with Facebook about a decade ago when they first rolled out "top" posts in favor of newest.
a video proof that it does work in chrome:
https://twitter.com/kddsky/status/1283764775151960071
:)
It would be ridiculously easy to track down those puts and narrow them to a possible hacker. Authorities would find them in hours.
Some eReaders (avoiding naming names to avoid advertising at you :P) also enable easy book-like reading (i.e. e-ink, no backlight/glare) without ads. I like them because I can have a whole library in the size of one book. And also I admit to a certain degree of anxiety about bending book binding, particularly in paperbacks.
What is the difference between boolean algebra and propositional logic?
Out of interest, with (my instance of!) 1.44, "let i = 257.0; i as u8" casts to 1. "let i = usize::MAX as f64 + 1.0; i as usize" does likewise. If you assign i as an integer DIRECTLY, however, it saturates.

To be honest... struggling to see why you'd do the former, outside of situations where you're happy with saturation, though I haven't thought about it a lot. Agreed that a consistent behaviour is a big help - I can work with "Rust does x in this scenario".
Sure, but it's tough to imagine in today's climate that a majority of voters living only on UBI would vote to maintain or lower the amount of money given directly to them from the top X%.

We already have the issue today but it's not quite so direct.
Just released a stable version of this yesterday.

It's open source, so feel free to pull it and give it a try locally! We have installation instructions on our site[0] for the Docker image.

[0]: https://glitchtip.com/documentation/install
I think it's actually quite simple - unlike instagram, it's showing you videos. Videos can range from 1 to 60 seconds. Videos you like, you'll watch longer (and maybe some bonus for watching to the end). Videos you don't like, you end up skipping really quickly (and since skipping becomes second nature, perhaps you can measure the length and speed of the swipe).

Therefore, just sprinkle across various videos at first (perhaps most popular videos on the site). Show more of the videos that are watched longer, show less of videos that are watched for a shorter duration. Sprinkle in other analytics you collect (iphone user? says something about wealth and status - what videos do they like? android user? skews younger, poorer, what videos do they like? location data: show protest videos of big cities around you), and you end up with the "beautiful" soup that is Tik Tok.
Tesla, China, the Tech Cold-War
Yes it is a course aimed at undergrad students, in their second year at university.

Of course they won't be able to grasp everything that Rust has to offer, but that is true of any language. I think Rust will expose them to many theoretical and practical CS concepts that they will be glad to have at least heard of during their studies.

In our degree, the first year students learn to program with Python, Racket (or OCaml depending on which teacher they get), C, Prolog, Bash, … Each of these language have way more to offer than what they can grasp. But each of them offers a different approach to programming and help the students to actually learn to program (rather than learning to write Java code, for example).

The course in question is actually called "Advanced programming". I want to experiment with a Rust course in second year as a kind of followup to both the functional programming course (the Racket/OCaml one) and the imperative programming course (the C one) that they have during the first year. If it really doesn't work, we'll change for something else or simply swap back to it being "Advanced C programming" for instance. But first, let's try to make the Rust experiment work. I really think it can benefits our students!
Destroy people with the ugliest and dirtiest tricks imaginable. Then pay them off to stop a civil revolt or mass die off. How about you just stop being mean to people? Walk away, give back instead of chasing endless celebrity? If you want to be Mother Theresa, first join a nunnery. This is battle royal, a free for all on the Serenghetti. You're not fooling anyone.

Let's say a human traffic victim shows up with a fake ID. You have to pay a check, right? Some killer shows up on payday and beats her up, along with a hundred others, and sends the money back to Haiti or the Philippines to smuggle in nerve gas or fentanyl.

Not only does that happen, that's the norm not the exception. Go live in the real world please. See what people really are like.

You don't want to do the right thing.
You don't want to make things better.
You don't want to even have a good time.

You want power, and be the only one who has power. You will do anything because once you stop, you have to be accountable to all your past crimes.

Easiest way to win an election? Push out voters with high standards that make you work. Bring in voters with no standards who vote because they are told.
I posted this in the previous HN convo but reposting:

And this is just state surveillance. There’s a guy who’s building a private surveillance network in San Francisco, with the buy in of the District Attorney and local police departments, and a goal of complete surveillance of city streets.

https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes.c...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/business/camera-surveilla...
No. The government is injecting tons of cash into the market. This props prices up and causes inflation, or at very least avoids deflation.
Mozilla consistently putting Linux last yet claims to pride itself on open source
China has never been a democracy though. It's always been a one party system for thousands of years, CCP is just the current name but it is not that different than what was there before. When you take this into account, it makes sense to consider CCP and China the same thing (ie the one party system in place for thousands of years).

In fact it is quite an improvement at least since Tchang Kaï-Chek (the Mao era was for the most part horrific and worse than what preceded it).
Thanks for this kind note! Would love to chat sometime and hear about your findings working with Snorkel- pros, cons, feature requests, etc. Multi-label is one on our list and under development (see comments below and elsewhere), would be interested to trade notes!
Tech Support. A lot of companies will keep you in phone hell, but complain at them on Twitter gets a response (well, except Apple - they don't give a damn about anything, looking at you Apple Maps).
Abstractions leak, bad interactions occur, you have to refactor, or work around bugs or -worse- design flags in various interfaces, and now the simple thing ain't.
This is why I use StyleBot! I don't customize every page I visit, but it makes a huge difference for sites I view regularly.

Here's my custom Hacker News style: https://i.imgur.com/KbP5VAX.png

And Craigslist: https://i.imgur.com/uTyST6P.png
> Lowering the bar for online publishing is fantastic. I am cheering for them.

> But I hope I don’t find myself groaning when I click on Substack links.

> Medium became a victim of its own success. Too much noise, not enough signal. I wonder how Substack can avoid the same fate.

Isn't this a problem of "network effects"? As the network grows, the quality lowers? To remain high quality you need strong filters which ultimately shrinks the network.

Substack is gonna be exposed to a similar problem as medium, and they may be able to solve it, but I don't expect so, because they aren't building a "magazine" but a "publishing platform".
I would say the prevailing evidence suggests we can continue using them confidently, and the prevailing sentiment suggests we should begin to introduce measures that increase public trust in the validity of voting by mail and our elections in general.
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I downvoted it because it's anecdotal and furthermore not accurate based on my own anecdotal experience. i.e. I'm using my downvote for my anecdotal experience to cancel their anecdotal experience. Likewise I expect downvotes on this comment for being anecdotal as well (except in the circumstance that some of the additional commentary below garners upvotes)

I'm probably one of the people that would be categorized as a techno-libertarian (even though I don't live in SV), but I get downvotes all the time as well.

This community is a lot more diverse than just the techno-libertarian crowd. There's no lack of people in opposition to the techno-libertarianism as well downvoting the techno-libertarian comments and upvoting those in opposition to the techno-libertarian comments.

Basically I downvoted this comment for presenting the situation as one where only their views are getting downvoted excessively because they believe themselves to be in the minority when my experience clearly falsifies the assumption that it's only non-techno-libertarian comments being downvoted.

Furthermore, HNers tend to downvote comments that speculate on why things are being downvoted. The truth is that you have absolutely zero knowledge into why a comment was downvoted unless someone replies to say they downvoted and explains exactly why they did so like I just did. Anything other than that is pure baseless speculation and that doesn't get you very far in a community that prefers statements based on evidence.

Also, complaining about downvotes is known to get you downvoted because it's generally been observed to contribute negatively to the quality of discussion. You shouldn't complain about downvotes and instead you should add a comment where you argue your point better and try to gain karma with a new better comment than complaining about downvotes on a previous one that didn't succeed.
For a while, I could use uBlock to delete all those unwanted columns. It was effortless and permanent. I wrote up the instructions here:

https://josh.works/take-back-your-attention

But a year ago or so, Twitter redesigned the front-end. Now the class names constantly change, and my CSS Selector knowledge isn't good enough to write flexible-enough rules to keep these unwanted elements blocked.

:(

I'd pay someone to pair with me on writing good uBlock rules that make these deletions permanent.

I'd also like to remove all re-tweets and all instances of "so-and-so liked this tweet". uBlock consistently removes all advertisements from the timeline, so... small win.

If you read this and wanna be involved, shoot me an email: joshthompson@hey.com

I'd of course publish what we come up with so others could use it!
Is this an interview question? I think we would want to know the stack to give you a useful answer. There are many ways to achieve this.
Not sure what version they got. I think the public is on the upper side here, losing a bit of privacy and gaining more transparency. Results differ between countries:

https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/body-worn-cameras-what-e...
So YouTube feeds their users the things they want to consume. Interesting...
My hunch is the people losing their jobs weren't the ones likely to be participating in the stock market in the first place.
What is your configuration
People are coasting on tiny savings, eviction freezes, not paying bills, and moving in with their friends or families. Or at least my friends anyway.

The fall/winter is going to be an absolute disaster because you can’t fix anything about the economy without getting the pandemic under control, which a large percentage of our leaders in the US have decided they have no obligation to do.
To be honest, there's a study out there that says the average employee will their out their employer for $500... I wonder what the skew would be on tech companies.... 10k? 30k?
my bad, that was supposed to be average living wage, with living wage being the concept of a just-above-subsistence income. The 'average' part of that phrase is important because a basic living in one region can be quite a comfortable living in another, or for someone not needing to factor rent into their cost of living, but it helps if I don't miss the other key word out :)
I’m amazed by his cleverness. Playing dumb to get one up on his captors. I also really liked how he took steps to protect his senior after his release.
Nevertheless, Germany's per capita CO2 emission per year is 9.44 tons [1], Japan's is 9.70 tons [2] and the US's is 15.52 tons [3] in 2016. Sorry, I couldn't find a more recent source. All that despite, Germany is shutting down nuclear and it has already reduced its usage of brown coal (Braunkohle) and stone coal (Steinkohle) in the last 10 years [4]. So, please explain how the US with higher relience on nuclear is faring better?

The valid criticism from many including the green party in Germany is, the shutdown of coal plant could go faster. But it already started.

[1]: https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/germany-co2-emis...
[2]: https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/japan-co2-emissi...
[3]: https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/us-co2-emissions...
[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_phase-out#/media...
Yes, but you have to see it in the historical context. Not that long ago, mental sickness was caused by various demons, curses and so on. Things change a lot faster now, but it is still taking a while. Hell, being gay was a mental sickness was only 30 years ago.

In other words, it is not useless. It may seem obvious now, but it is not useless.
"The concept of “mental health” in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress."

I think that contemporary society puts a lot of pressure and expectations on people at a young age. I suspect this is not a very healthy way to find your way in the world. Some people conform, some people follow the rules of the game, some people rebel to the rules, some are not even aware of the game. A little compassion and empathy would go along way, rather than treating each other as automata.

> that mental illnesses are ‘just like’ other chronic physical ailments, such as ‘heart disease or diabetes’

I would argue that in most cases chronic ailments (including mental illness) are not a consequence of "the way a person is made", but their lifestyle. Many people with chronic ailments accept the medication as a solution and don't make the necessary changes in their lives. I think making mental illness comparable to chronic illness made people think of it as something that can be addresses with just a pill.
The model I use for making sense of Twitter is that most of the blue check dialogue is just bringing the people-fighting-on-cable-news dynamic to the internet. Personalities on both sides of every debate have a symbiotic relationship where they have inane arguments because that's what gets boosted and gives them more visibility.

Which is fine, if you treat it as entertainment, but people think they're following the news and instead they're watching a wrestling match.
I was only using Pakistan and Romania since they were in the original example. The important bit was to not optimize a proxy for a thing without recognizing that it's a proxy and may lead to undesirable conclusions or actions.
I usually get asked this and my standard reply is that I don't prefer not to get into discussions about specifics here, but I'm happy to share info via email, and I also host a Discord group where people interested can discus and share their own experiences with different techniques.

So, please feel free to email me (address is in my profile).

Edit: the reason I’m reticent about getting into details here is that I’ve learned from years of experience that discussions on HN about unconventional health approaches can (a) easily devolve into futile arguments with motivated skeptics, and (b) be unconducive to sharing the material with sufficient detail and caution, given that some people seeking this kind of info are at risk.

And whilst there are some materials around to point to, they’re not very specific about techniques, whereas I’ve done extensive experimentation with different techniques and documentation of my learnings, including tracking of physiological indicators, and can present/explain it in a way that is more palatable to HN-types who are genuinely interested.

But if anyone wants to read published authors on the topic, try Gabor Mate, Bruce Lipton, John Sarno and Bessel Van Der Kolk as starting points.
If a space probe discovered some vast alien structure clearly acting fulfilling some strange purpose by some opaque means... would we not usefully describe it as a machine?
All you need for algotrading is to query an api. Rust would be a poor choice for that anyways, like using a semi truck to carry your bike around.
I have no data to back this up, but I would guess with interest rates at record lows and massive amounts of stimulus money with nowhere to go, getting a personal loan is rather easy right now...
Some societies believe it is acceptable to judge people based on their appearance. Arguably, most people do it instinctively. It is just that in America it was deemed illegal. I know there's an epidemic of plastic surgery taking place in some Asian cultures - people getting cosmetic surgery so that they can be employable.

Right or wrong, that is how some societies are functioning.
Our industry has created this mess thanks to that stupid crackin “book” and process designed by someone who never actually worked as a software engineer or released and maintained an actual product.

When I “cracked” my Google interview and got the job, I joined a team I never met. Of course we all could code , since we “cracked it”, but did I enjoy the team dynamics or team culture? Nice people but if they were a 10 person startup I wouldn’t choose them or would they have been successful.

None of the social dynamics which are important to teams was there or even fostered, acknowledged.

You just did a transfer and kept fishing.

Why, b/c Google just believe coding skills are all that mattered.

Yet they matter, but so do other things.
Nobel Laureates, Ethicists, and Volunteers Agree on Covid-19 Challenge Trials
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Senator Wants Answer from Dorsey on Twitter Breach That Appears to Be Inside Job
It's just a metaphor. Because the way it works can be viewed as

inputs (sensors, environment, external chemicals) + current state ---> outputs (behavior) + new state

kinda like computers or robots, in a deterministic manner (except it is practically impossible to recreate the exact same inputs, or the exact same state). You don't have to take it too literally, people who read it generally understand what it means.
This is a great example of how voting by mail needs to be made even more secure so that all voters trust that elections are valid.
I'm always a little surprised by these sorts of views of Twitter. In my areas, nearly everyone is there. Twitter is full of Academics, and often the most successful ones are the heaviest users.
Please remember to vote based on candidates’ record not FB/Youtube ads
But producing and using cement would still emit CO2. That is part of the chemical reaction when it is mixed at a building site.
I know several people who had been furloughed, including my 69 yr old mother and the extra $600 has been a godsend to them. I dont even understand where we would be as a country if that legislation had not passed considering 1 in 3 homeowner/renters missed their payments last month.
> at the end of the day, dissipating heat is a function of the radiator fin area and air movement, the water is just a working fluid to move the heat to the radiator fin

...in a fluid-recycling system (as all consumer PC cooling is.)

Water cooling is a lot more efficient than air cooling, in a fluid exchange system. Like if your HPC data-center is on the ocean, and you can just pump in cold ocean water, "spend" it by heating it up, and then pump the hot water to an outtake far-enough away that it's not heating up your intake water.

(An even-denser fluid would work even better, but we don't have oceans of even-denser fluids laying about.)