skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just to provide an additional data point, I've sought relief from anxiety in meditation, failed, and then found great relief in cognitive-behavioral therapy. You're exactly right in that what's needed sometimes is conventional help from psychologists.

A few years ago, I delved again into meditation, this time more traditional Buddhist ones. I can't say emphatically enough that there is some deep knowledge there. Mindfulness (i.e. cultivating stable attention toward internal & external stimuli) is just the tip of the iceberg.

Like you, I found the expanded sensory stream provided by mindfulness training to be somewhat overwhelming. Imho, what's necessary to work with it fruitfully are: 1) developing the capacity of non-abiding, or not attaching/identifying too much with the flow of mental events, 2) training the unconscious mind to competently manage one's attention & awareness, so that you don't have constantly "pilot" your self.

Two books I've found indispensable are:
The Mind Illuminated - John Yates, and
The Rinzai Zen Way - Meido Moore

Of course, there's no substitute for a good teacher. Just be aware that there are many charlatans & New Age types who aren't so helpful. Good luck!
The economist has several things going for it. For one, being a weekly newspaper they only write about things that are worth knowing about a week later. Second, they’d rather have a longer piece with analysis, generalization, and tying Disparate things together than a simple “this is what happened”

They are also owned by a foundation so are less subject to the vicissitudes of the markets.

The Economist has its limitations, blind spots, specific ideology, and such as well. But it’s well worth the read; I have not missed an issue since early 1985
I have the opposite experience. For example, they had a cover page article a about the global housing bubble in 2005.

https://www.economist.com/special-report/2005/06/16/in-come-...
Good and concrete advice from the chief editor:

"A good rule of thumb is that stories should either be shorter than 400 words or longer than 900. You either have a simple news story or a single observation (in which case go short) or a yarn or a chance to explain something very complicated (in which case go long"
Why would it be any different from the way advertising worked before Facebook and Google?

Vogue subscribers are probably in the market for new designer clothes. People who watch Cesar Milan are probably in the market for pet supplies. Someone driving down a highway is probably in the market for gas and a snack. Someone who searches for “affordable laptop” is probably in the market to buy a new computer.

You don’t need to track someone’s every move to serve them relevant ads.
Once I got the basic concepts of CSS I came to realize that of the trio of HTML, CSS, and JS (and SVG for that matter), CSS is the one you really miss when you have to make something using another system.

The amount of suffering I've endured in Latex, PDF, different native layout systems, or even React Native's slightly restricted version of CSS that would have been resolved by a stylesheet is immense.
Florida's covid data shows that they're testing far fewer kids then the rest of the population [1]. The 30% figure apparently comes from [2] which shows that of the kids that are getting tested, a significantly larger proportion are covid positive than the normal population.

To be blunt, I don't think this is anything new or surprising. Kids are staying home more this summer than ever before, and with limited social interaction they're less exposed to other respiratory illnesses that are circulating in the general population. Hence, those that are coming down ill right now are more likely to have covid than not.

[1] http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_partners/covid19_report_ar...
[2] http://ww11.doh.state.fl.us/comm/_partners/covid19_report_ar...
Around 2000, I worked at Lucent, which was a Sun shop. But I can't remember this font. Was it only used on the console, i.e. in text mode?
I find it to slavishly neoliberal.

That (or in its older guise, free-trade principles) is literally a founding premise of the newspaper:

PROSPECTUS: of a weekly paper, to be published every Saturday, and to be called
THE ECONOMIST, which will contain ... First.—ORIGINAL LEADING ARTICLES, in which free-trade principles will be most rigidly applied to all the important questions of the day—political events—and parliamentary discussions; and particularly to all such as relate immediately to revenue, commerce, and agriculture; or otherwise affect the material interests of the country....

https://www.economist.com/unknown/1843/08/05/prospectus
Notice the page never seems to mention 3rd party clients, the only thing many of us care about.
Anything could happen!
A seemingly normal person goes and dismember his colleague after things doesn’t go his way when he when in for a scam. Why is it not 1st degree murder?
That’s assuming the CCP can steal the necessary IP from their competitors.
Florida is now showing a large spike in daily deaths following the case spike 3 weeks ago: https://cv19.report/?state=FL
This could be great to include on device, the ad profile that's editable there so you're in control and when an affiliated ad network is encountered on a site/platform and with user granted access. A manipulated/curated queue of interests may be shared so recent purchases can be listed to better show relevant ads. Like what if you shared you're looking for phones, or you just bought something so do or don't show more of that?
You could use POP but I don't see why you would.
There’s a field called enterprise journalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_journalism

Wonder if the Bloomberg platform defines enterprise stories like this. It might be different, anyone know?
In my experience this is a truism. Licenses almost never are held by the "top" legal entity in a firm, but fall to subsidiaries. The thing is that oversight not always carries over the boundaries of legal entities. Perhaps dividend arrangement do, but if other parts of the firm are in (regulatory) different markets it often ends the oversight of the regulator.
MUSHes and MOOs are virtual pubs that aren't as fashionable any more as they once were. (Most MUSH-oriented apps are glorified telnet clients, and tend to reproduce the same aesthetics and design flaws/idiosyncrasies.) Real life pubs are real-time, and MUSHes offer a good balance of real-time, networked interaction and persistent objects. This project doesn't handle the real-time aspect and is less like a pub than a blog with a wiki-like editing experience.

I'm convinced that with all the chat apps that are popping up, the Slack killer will be the first one to reinvent the MUSH by bolting its most notable features onto the "chat" space.

(When Keybase was still a thing, I thought they might do it by introducing "bot workers"—chat bots implemented in a script bundle that's managed and executed in the client itself—like a browser add-on, but based on Service Workers a la Cloudflare Workers.)
These type of concerns are pretty meaningless IMO. If we're going to speculate about stuff like what might annoy subatomic alien life or somehow creating some kind of quantum echoes or whatever that somehow destroy all consciousness, that brings us to the point of anything at all might happen for any reason at all. For all we know, me lifting my right pinky finger a quarter inch right now will result in the entire planet just winking out of existence.

Such things get into non-falsifiability. Sure, we can never prove true or false the idea that something we aren't even aware of might exist and do catastrophic things for reasons that make no sense to us. But if we take such ideas seriously, how could we ever do anything at all? Considering such ideas can only be either pointless speculation, or a power exercise - it's very good to be the person who decides what activities have an unacceptable risk of causing catastrophically bad things to happen for inscrutable reasons, and what don't.
Prematurely: https://twitter.com/radogado/status/1276862755442737153
I would make of it that these are outliers cherrypicked for the scare value in the headlines. The vast majority of hospitals everywhere are doing fine.

In New York, the hospitals are so far under capacity that they're running TV ads begging people to start coming back in for elective procedures.
This isn't a collection of ways to "build components for the web" though, it's a set of ways to build "web components" the W3C component standard that ships natively in all modern browsers.

Even those these components are built with different libraries, they are all interoperable and require no framework to use them, so I'd say this points to the defragmented future of web development.
Me: Teach me about black holes.

Albert Einstein: A black hole is formed when a star has burnt all of its fuel. There are two ways this can happen. If the mass of the star is less than a certain limit, known as the Chandrasekhar Limit, then it can end in a Type 1a supernova explosion.

When the mass of the star is above that limit, however, it can collapse in on itself. The reason for this is that the star is being pulled in on itself by its own gravity. It is being accelerated due to its own gravity. When a force is applied to something that is being accelerated, its momentum increases. The more massive the object is, the more force it takes to keep it from slowing down.

Me: what is Chandrasekhar Limit?

Albert Einstein: The Chandrasekhar Limit is 1.44 solar masses. An object with a mass less than this limit will not collapse into a black hole. If it is heavier than this limit, then its gravity will not be strong enough to fight against itself and it will collapse into a black hole.

Me: who is Chandrasekhar

Albert Einstein: Chandrasekhar was a scientist who calculated this mass limit.

Me: When did Chandrasekhar die?
Albert Einstein: He died in 1995 at the age of 84.

Me: What is mass limit?
Albert Einstein: Mass limit is the amount of mass that a star can have while being supported by its own gravity. The mass of a star is calculated by multiplying its density by its volume. For example, if you take 1 cubic meter of water and multiply it by 1000 kg/m^3, you will get 1 tonne. That is a metric tonne. It is equivalent to 2200 lbs.

Me: What happens when a star's gravity cannot support it?

Albert Einstein: A black hole is formed when a star's gravity is stronger than the rest of the universe's gravity combined.
> how many people would really take interest in a possibly boring but important scandal? The Catholic Church sex abuse scandal comes to mind.

There's very little that is more attention grabbing than sex scandal. Except sex scandal involving children. Or one involving an large powerful institution around which political and culture war controversy (both internal and external to the institution) is constant, especially on sexual issues.

> It’s impact was global, but it’s not really related to domestic political battles

Yes, it was, especially because the Catholic Church is perpetually engaged in those battles on sexual issues, and because the scandal immediately intersected with the debate on those issues, as well as ongoing internal organizational debates in the institution such as the role of celibacy and homosexuals in the clergy that directly overlapped with the political and culture war issues the Church is regularly engaged in.

So, yeah, worst possible example, even if one grants that you might have a generally valid point.
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and for more of a focus on Bell Labs, with a good chapter abuot Shannon, The Idea Factory is a wonderful read
I've never heard of this as a viable economic way of storing solar power. Don't those aluminum forges have to run 24/7 and starting/stopping them is a huge pain in the ass?
> It’s almost like they’re continuing to pretend that their giant journalistic screwup doesn’t exist

It's exactly like. They did not publish a retraction because they stand behind what they wrote. But as long as they keep it short...
Not only that, but we are (were?) in a race to the bottom, ever declining return on ads, so more ads must be delivered, more tracking must be done, creating more friction (ad-overload)
I too believe ads can function responsibly, ads have run in newspapers for a century, so a equilibrium can exist.
> Why can't there be a way for me to tell the ad-world what I'm in the market for

Because there's no money in that. What's the value in selling you something that you've already decided you want to buy? Advertisers are trying to get into your head and manipulate your perception to make you open your wallet where you otherwise wouldn't have. And when you do decide to purchase a product, that it's the advertiser's brand which you think of first.
I ran a Twitter app for 9 years that they crippled, crippled, then eventually killed with policies. It went from “@ev loves your app,” to “your app is against our terms of service” in that time. My Twitter days are done.
So basically if i write some D code now it'll keep working (assuming no OS ABI changes) and compiling in 20 years from today? I'm ok with very minor changes due to compiler bugs or whatever.

I wonder what that complain was about then.
While I believe Apple making the right choice, perhaps they could also find a way to help app developers make money, without ads.

Perhaps one of the reasons developer include ads and tracking is that recurring revenue is a problem for small developments shops.
Today's top-end full frame cameras have better resolution than 35mm film. Even with 4000 dpi drum scans it's hard to go much beyond like 25 megapixels of effective resolution. You can easily get 50 mp full frame digital nowadays - although the lenses to drive that are another problem.

Medium and large format can get more because it's more film area, albeit not as much as you think in practice. It takes specific equipment and good technique, and often you are limited by the shallower depth of field or diffraction. IMO however it is much easier to achieve "reasonable" results comparable with modern full frame digital on MF/LF, because you don't need everything to be insanely high-resolution and perfectly aligned, the larger film area means that you can get good resolution out of "basic" equipment that is doing 2000-3000 dpi compared to the 4000 dpi of a drum scan that is necessary to max out 35mm.

Film also has very different technical characteristics from digital. It has an exponential "shoulder" to the exposure curve that tends to make it resistant to over-exposure, where with digital if it's overexposed it's just gone, clipped to white. It also has very different aesthetics, it just looks different (because each film stock has different exposure characteristics).

Also, some film stocks have unique frequency response curves - the astrophotography community is mourning the loss of Technical Pan film because it was perfect for photographing the hydrogen-alpha emissions of stars. It turns out that this film was developed for the National Reconnaissance Office for satellite surveillance and since they've moved to digital it's no longer being produced.
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I thought google stopped mining emails with the advent of GDPR
Yep. I still don't understand how this didn't completely blew up. That was a gigantic story that basically turned out to be complete BS, I haven't read anything by Bloomberg since.
These are extreme percentages at these young age groups. Now to compare these numbers internationally we certainly need to know the cofactors.
Are these all obese or diabetic, or are these healthy teenagers? If they were healthy, it points to a different virus strain. If obese, it points to the well-known national sugar problem.

Also it could point to less exposure to common cold antibodies, this is the south. Common cold antibodies are believed to be the cause for the low IFR percentages worldwide.
> No, they don't, or they wouldn't have new cases, even without even somewhat looser mandatory controls than other places.

That's not what herd immunity means.

The Herd immunity threshold is attained when the R factor drops below 1, assuming otherwise uninhibited spread. The threshold for herd immunity for COVID-19 has been estimated at 50-80%, but that is assuming an R0 that is likely overestimated.

Given that spread is still mitigated by certain interventions, and since we don't know the impact of those interventions on R, nor do we know R0, we don't know if we have herd immunity. However, we do have R below one in many European countries.
I called this a few months ago. I just today moved into a new house on five acres in the country, and my old house in the suburbs is now worth about 50k more than in January (going by comps).

The people with jobs that let them afford houses weren't laid off, they're working remotely. The people who were laid off were food service / retail who didn't buy houses anyway.
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Sure but I have a feeling the no-so-obvious flaws of city living (rapid spread of disease, potential for riots) has really lit a fire under people thinking about moving.
Why on Earth should the Pareto optimality of the advertising business matter to anyone not in the advertising business? That is an extremely alien concern to me.
I heard it also affects the kind of men women find attractive.
Why let innocence get in the way of chasing people down? That's the argument police unions have been making for years. Whenever society wants to improve and decriminalize something, it can't because the fucking cops want to have easy arrest targets. Fuck them. At least now we can stop pretending we don't live in a police state.
I feel this is going to be a trend going forward with the big name text editor + ide syntax themes.

For another example, look at Monokai which also released a paid “Pro” version. https://monokai.pro
Looks like the opposite
> Fixed price deliverables are usually more expensive due to bidders pricing risk.

Correct, that’s the only way the vendor takes on the risk really. That was my point.

> Or the project owner don’t have the political power to not accept a deliverable and tell the vendor to go pound it.

Yeah I agree... but if you have 100m to hand out and the in org politics where you can’t tell a vendor to go pound it, there are real structural issues in your co preventing you delivering systems.
I think his point was more well-intentioned. If writers wanted to quickly get an issue out to print (or publish), they could make it easily readable at <400 words. But if it's a tell-all, he gives them full authority to make it a long piece. If it's a particularly boring subject then maybe the writers will start making those stories shorter? In that case, the important details would still be there, just not as well explained. I don't think this restricts their journalism at all.
This is extremely rare in the US judicial system, and prosectors tend not to like take cases where the victim or a key witness is no longer willing to testify.

Yes, judges and lawyers for both parties in a case can legally compel witnesses to show up and testify, but doing so tends to damage the credibility of the witness, which can be fatal for their testimony.
> Technically, you do have everything you need. And with a decade of work under your belt using those things, you can build some amazing and good robust systems. It's also easy to build total junk that nobody can understand but you.

This is what’s beautiful about the frontend. It’s “magic” and underneath in code speak it may be ugly but the work speaks for itself. Arguably that is only if you own it and maintain it.

> Lots of folks learn the language minimally, piecemeal, on an "as needed basis," and end up wasting a lot of time because they aren't aware of the larger features and how they can be fit together.

The way I see it, learning about all the ingredients in a recipe will not teach you how to cook. In css techniques are unearthed by a small handful of css artisans and it’s not about learning css itself in 99% of the cases. It’s about digging and finding the best ideas on GitHub, stack and codepen. And hacker news.
That's what I meant though. Neither parts needs to use crates.io.
What have comparable homes sold for in your area recently?
Not least because while they claim they weren't doing proper oversight of Wirecard they still somehow managed to find time to litigate against various market participants and newspapers trying to blow the whistle (including the FT), banned short selling, etc.
Your state has utterly failed to ramp up testing to get to the recommended < 5% positive test rate that would have allowed contact tracing to function. Testing only symptomatic people is not in any way virtuous.
How about Firefox's Facebook Container? Does it stop this.
The other thing that make combating it hard is it has a relatively low death rate, especially for people without preexisting conditions, when compared to big, scary viruses like Ebola, and a lot of cases have relatively minor symptoms.

If death rates were 1/10 of what they are (which really means a less severe virus overall), there's a good chance most countries would have let it run its course.
I think with the drastically increasing number of cases, they are prioritizing testing for those that are vulnerable to severe disease.
They probably tested sick kids, and kids that were known to be exposed.

Here is one possible interpretation of the story:

The authors tested 100 kids in a COVID ward. Only, 33% had the disease, so the hospital is drastically over reporting COVID cases. This means actual death rates could be 3x higher than thought.

Here’s another:

We randomly tested all kids in Flordia, and 1/3 had coronavirus. This implies there are over 10x more coronavirus cases in Florida than previously thought, so the hospitalization rate and death rates in Florida are less than 10% was previously thought.

As written, the story tells us almost nothing. The most likely explanation is that the underlying study was studying some unrelated aspect of Coronavirus, and that this story is a mixture of sloppy reporting and clickbait.
Without knowing how they sampled the population, you can’t infer anything about Coronavirus infection rates from the provided data.
'Functioning' React app by describing requirements to GPT-3
Private Pilots have always been able to fly into major airports.
>Obviously you wouldn't use React for just a counter

You probably shouldn't, but there are a lot of people who reach for a React component to do anything on the web.
You nailed it.

Random testing would give a much better idea of how common Covid is at the moment.
Some bloggers (well gruber at least) still bring this up any time they newly cite Bloomberg. It does defy explanation that the publication has not been able to offer proof of the claims from that article or simply rescind it.
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My son have to have testing at the hospital. He had to get tested (It was negative). I think this is a large portion of kids who get tested.

You can't get a kid under 12 tested where I live except for these situations.
Mr. Polazzo?
Facebook, LimkedIn et al maintain profiles of people who don’t have accounts.

If you subsequently make an account, as soon as they can connect the two you’ll start seeing stuff in your feed based on what they already know about you. Though that’s not the reason they do it, it’s for advertising.
And did the guy really think he wouldn't be recognized just bc of the mask? Obviously detectives are going to have co-workers look over surveillance videos...they'd probably be able to identify the "man in the suit" pretty quickly
Edit: D'oh, I misread it, sorry.

You misread this post. The left panel has all the different popular libraries and frameworks that can be used to build a web component, including things like React, Svelte, Vue, etc.
I didn't say anything about the strength of the idea. Her Stanford credentials are irrelevant. It's still an ad.