skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We’ve wrapped fiber around ground wire in the past. Though here they’re doing it around the conductor. Also their robot is an advancement and pretty cool. But when I’ve worked in the power industry in the past the guys who had experimented with this stuff wound up really hating it for the difficulties it adds to maintenance and the like. So this may be cool but I wouldn’t be surprised to see it rarely used in actual practice. Strikes me a lot like project loon and all these other things where people are trying invent unnecessary shortcuts. If you really want to get internet to people with a reasonable bandwidth/coverage/and cost trade off start building large towers dotted across the continent and use wireless access, or wait for star link.
I like the 2-minute task idea. It reminds me of the 1-pushup micro habit. Once you get down to do one pushup, you end up doing more.
Let's Write an IPython Extension the Hard Way
Do you know of a news agency with a better record with data science?

Propublica is the gold standard in this space as far as I know. (538 is a close second in my book, but they’re narrowly focused on politics and sports).

I suggest browsing their homepage to see what I mean. Well over fifty percent of the stories are backed by datasets they gathered themselves, and a good chunk of the remaining ones are about problems with lack of government transparency that directly impacted them:

https://www.propublica.org/

If you are a data scientist, you might be interested in other data sets they curate. These are mostly useful for social scientists, journalists and policy makers:

https://www.propublica.org/datastore/

Disclaimer: I’ve donated to them in the past.
But if you had been designing web pages since 1995 and still didn't know who Tim Berners-Lee is, then maybe it makes you look un-observant.
We do seem to be in a secular upswing in semiconductor demand, while TSMC remains the last foundry standing at the 7nm node. It seems like Samsung and Intel alternatives are bit too captive (internally competitive) for a large mobile phone producer. I don't think it's about actual 5G chips themselves, it's about ARM processors and mobile SoCs.

It's doubtful to me that UMC and Global Foundries will catch up, but I do wonder at the long term effects. There are many billions of Yuan to spend on solving this problem. In the past they could get enough of the right people to move to China as they did with OLED.
Just the fact that it uses all kinds of w3c tech is enough to make it bloated and overengineered imo.
I think Apple is pushing for the same thing that helped NodeJS get really popular: using the same language across your entire stack. In a perfect world Apple can have their devs use Swift to build an iOS/macOS app or help out with server-side code also written in Swift. For a company their size it could really pay off. I think Google had the same vision with Go but ultimately failed (imo).

As an iOS developer I'm really excited to use Swift more and more outside of app development.

edit: to clarify a bit more, I think Apple's vision is a lot more than just being able to build a small web app in Swift. They really want to build _everything_ with it.
But it's only the price of a coffee! /s

Noteably Cloudflare have a similar VPN which is completely free and purports to be privacy-conscious too, though it's only for mobile at the moment.
Kodiak Robotics Journey – Self-Driving Trucks
My company made some of our progress in the self-driving space public - thought I would share in case anyone finds it interesting. (We are hiring)
August will be brutal if unemployment stimulus ends. I don’t think Washington understands the dire nature of the situation.
The article isn't denying a biochemical basis on emotional regulation. It's saying that building the language of treatment around that framework is harmful, because it stigmatizes sufferers (even by simply making them fear the stigma), increases anxiety, and tends to act against recovery. It's an article about the best way to practice psychiatry.
You can easily judge Trump by watching his speeches and reading his tweets. The man is not well, to put it mildly. No journalists required.
The Democratic party made the correct bet that they could use their media apparatus to discredit progressive candidates, get away with cheating in Iowa, and use Obama to get the other moderates to concede with promises of internal advancement. It was corrupt and repugnant, but a strategically sound approach to make sure they're headed on the ticket by a center right leader (which their donor base demands).
It has been available from Apple for at least a decade.
> Assuming an MSYS2 installation is present in C:\msys64

Wow, really? Hardcoded paths in 2020?
it's not the same data though. if you default to on, you get the data from people who tend to leave the defaults the way they are. if you default to off, you only get data from people who will read the text in the installer and decide to change an option away from the defaults.
Somehow I've managed to avoid most political/argumentative content on YouTube and this solution wouldn't make sense for me.

Would I get videos about how bikes suck?

What people who complain about "filter bubbles" mean is that they're sad that traditional media's hold over what people watch is weakening but that's a good thing. I don't need more people telling me that "orange man bad".
Letters from the Dark World of React Boilerplate
Ages ago when I did basic PC support we had a "attaboy" system.

The thing about it was nobody liked it because attaboys were random. They had nothing to do with doing a good job or anything, they showed up randomly.

Most of the time "attaboys" showed up for doing the absolute most basic thing that is part of the job. You do it every day... but randomly an "attaboy" shows up, because by the roll of the dice you helped a nice person, that's it.

In the meantime if you went the extra mile for someone, never would any sort of attaboy would show up. In fact you might even get complaints from those folks.

For the support team watching some manager trot out an "attaboy" for no apparent reason as if it was a merit type thing was kinda demoralizing.
Its a metaphor that helps people understand the way something complicated works.

If you take offense to this, im sorry, but you have a chemical imbalance.

Depression can feel like your whole world is upside down, an imbalance in the way your head works is a perfectly apt metaphor for how your brain works in this state.

These ideas arent mutually exclusive either. Context matters, I wouldnt point at jane and say, this is the one i was telling you about, the one with the imbalanced brain.

I would say, this is jane, the one going through some depression as of late.

If someone says well whats depression? Then maybe it would make sense to explain how depression works, maybe then it would come up.
There are tons of DIY video that didn't really feature the person's face, or isn't really necessary.
I'll 3rd the Dictator's Handbook.

Also the 48 Laws of Power. Once you start seeing things through that lens, the world looks like both a darker, meaner, but at times surprisingly nicer, place.
We could try taxing the rich a bit more. They're doing just fine.
We have that choice too. It might make an impact, but I see the politics and the manager's opinion to be way more important.
If we were farming sustainably (only grass fed etc.) we wouldn't be able to produce as much meat as we do today. Which implies that on average everybody would eat less meat. Much less.
or for people not wanting to watch videos. if a video is a supplemental part of a well written blog, then so be it. however, the video tends to be replacing the well written blog while leaving out the finer details the blog once provided.
You will surely find a larger percentage of narcissists being very vocal on twitter (but also on other platforms like instagram or facebook and even youtube). Amongst them there are a lot of genuine regular (as in non-narcissists attention seekers) people who use those communication channels.

Until the incentives of social media change these tendencies keep up or get even worse.
Coming from a military background, I can confidently say that promotions at that level are more the end of a political process than a true assessment of skills...
Maybe a dumb question, but I just don't see - from a pure haircutting perspective, how is the scissor approach better than a flowbee? i.e., why not just have regular electric clippers inside the vacuum channel?
Your devices are huge compared to what I use: ARM Cortex M0+ and M4 microcontrollers with anywhere from 8kB to 1MB of flash, and 4kB-128kB of RAM.

I really hope that more enlightened vendors (hi Nordic Semiconductor) will start supporting Rust on their platforms.
There’s a view that ADHD is badly named, because many ADHD people have incredible focus (at times), and many are not hyperactive in the least. It’s more of an issue about emotional dysregulation, which can be exceptionally painful for those who suffer.
There's a good argument that technology, specifically control of fire, probably made us human in the first place by allowing us access to cooked food, which we became physically dependent on. Our biology was probably significantly influenced by early technology.
It doesn't. It promotes the truth people want to see, a platform can only flag obvious false information but that will always piss people off. Imagine if all the creationism videos suddenly get flagged as false news, I'd cackle, but YouTube would be lynched.
The blanket eviction moratorium has expired in NYC. You can now be brought to court for failure to pay, but if you can prove financial hardship they can't kick you out. This is a fairly substantial burden. I'm afraid what will happen since people can't afford rent let alone legal representation.
> If you stick a tiger in a small cage it doesn’t breed — that is an objective observation rather than a moral critique. Huxleys argument is of the same nature — that society is becoming a cage to natural impulse and instinct.

That's a false analogy because it uses things that aren't related to each other in the same way. The society=>cage analogy isn't an objective observation, it is your opinion, and also an essentialism.

Furthermore, the objective functional effect of a cage on tiger breeding has no demonstrable comparison to human existence in society, except in your attempt to essentialize it that way.
Personally my problem is that it's not just the topic I'm interested in, it's also the presentation (therefore the channel), and sometimes I watch videos outside my usual channels because I have some specific interest. The recommendations then go ham for those one-off channels and other channels I've never heard of. I refuse to even watch the unheard of channels because I know there are videos on the channels I DO watch that I haven't watched yet and I want those recommended, 9/10 unknown channels I end up not liking and watching them makes even more noise. I don't watch anything politically sensitive but I can see how this system ends up in dangerous territory.
R6rs scheme's (or even better Racket's) macro system. Recently similar systems have been making their way into other languages, but the AST-like syntax of lisps make it a fair bit easier to use.

Other than that? Delimited continuations. Guile-fibers, a parallel concurrent ML (which I would describe as a generalisation of go's concurrency model) for guile scheme is implemented using them as a scheme-only library. No low level voodoo. Just straight forward scheme.
For now they've only infiltrated and stole data.

But theoretically, they could also seriously disrupt IT operations virtually overnight: wipe servers, brick (expensive) lab machines, mess with door locks, cleanroom HVAC tech, corrupt sensors to render data worthless...
Are you saying that the law requires you to advertise the minus-tax amount? You can't work out what the hotel tax would be and include it in the price?

I understand that showing prices without the sales tax is commonplace in the USA. I find that practice quite dodgy and "everyone does it" is a poor excuse.
The Molecules’ Marathon
I can relate. I've received many slack DMs from my peers telling me how great I'm doing on such-and-such project, and I'm grateful for their compliments, but at the end of the day, it does nothing for me, they're just empty words. My manager is left in the dark about what I'm doing.
You are correct - I moved and thought the store in the new area was a ripoff before realizing that food prices are up everywhere. I buy a fair amount of Indian groceries and the prices of many staples is up ~25-30%.
Why don't we....
1. Allow pharmacies to test for COVID (currently illegal in California)
2. Make COVID testing mandatory every 2 weeks via a statewide digital system (like jury duty). California could then partner will pharmacies to allow wider spread testing. We could even create jobs by hiring and training those who are unemployed to administer the actual tests.
3. Make it mandatory that every business/person use the statewide system to scan people to ensure they have been tested recently. That, combined with temperature checks at the door will serve to catch any issues quickly; as well as providing REAL TIME feed back to the state about possible infections and outbreaks

It seems to me that pandemics are the new normal. We aren't going to have a vaccine ready for every virus within 1-2 years; so it seems prudent for us to invest in a good system now with a virus that isn't as deadly.

What does everyone else think? I really would like to create a thread and have some of the best minds (yes that's you) work on a real solution. Let's plan it and build it!
My recipe for using twitter in psychologically sustainable way:

1) Follow only people you have met in person, or otherwise directly corresponded with. I make very few exceptions to this.

2) Disable all retweets. Twitter doesn't make this easy, but there are tools that do it in bulk.

3) Make sure you're looking at 'latest tweets' mode, so that you only see the content you chose with (1) and (2). Twitter very frustratingly will put you back in 'top tweets' mode periodically, so you'll have to keep an eye on this. It feels like this happens about every 2 weeks but I haven't measured.

With this setup, nearly all of the viral BS drops away. I only see tweets in which a person I have some relationship with has taken the time to actually type something. 'quote tweets' are still problematic, but it's not nearly as bad.
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Humans have proven time and time again that we are very good at optimizing for specific metrics, and apparently generally very poor at choosing the right metrics to target.

School is a prime example, in my opinion - there is so much I "learned" in school that I'll never remember, because I didn't take a proper approach to learning - I just optimized for grades. I had a 4.7 GPA and could hardly tell you a thing about US history or recite a lick of Spanish, because I simply did not care about anything but getting the A so I could get into the college I cared about.

In the work environment, I can see a lot of parallels to this. If I'm competing with my coworkers, my incentive is to outwork and outshine them. A common thing I see is when a coworker does a bit of innovative work - it's almost guaranteed some other coworker will intercede before a chance at applause is given to discuss its obvious flaws, the plethora of alternatives out there, etc., leading the developer to feel like their implementation was not good. (For the record, I'm not talking about general criticism - I'm talking about the general pattern of not celebrating someone's achievements and then discussing how to continue improving, but rather a "why did you even do this" mentality).
Obviously, because students pay full and complete attention in high school history class. And remember what they learned for the rest of their lives. /s

Also this doesn't help the majority of the population that is older than high school age.

Propaganda is done because it works.
But there's no other commonly-used word for it!
The fact that this is not discussed more, or that congress and the president have already "moved on" is so frustrating.

The president should be making distributing this aid, and fixing the unemployment benefits mess his priority for these people. Instead he's doing a photo op with cans of beans in the Oval Office, and another photo op down the street with a bible he holds like an alien artifact
How's your career? Did this have an impact?

Mine is ruined and this might have contributed a little. I'll never be more than an intermediate developer and I'm worried about being fired/laid off.
Why even unused data needs to be valid in Rust
Interestingly enough, it looks like that does not in fact change how the check works https://godbolt.org/z/rdxrh1

Here's an example of how when it can detect it, it does the right thing: https://godbolt.org/z/hPqf69

I am not an expert in these hints, maybe someone else knows!
* Pattern matching with totality checking. Warn us if a cased is missed.

* Higher-kinded types. Can a List<Int> and a Stream<Int> both be considered a T<Int> ?

* Differentiate between functions with and without effects.
Agreed, Mozilla seems to be a force for good on the Internet and a reliable and diverse revenue stream is really important to keep that going.
I made a habit out of emailing complete strangers from the internet who wrote content or technology I really appreciated with a short "thank you" or "this is really cool".

To my surprise when I first started doing this, the majority of them reply back with a genuine thanks.
If foundations of geopolitics is anything real, then pitting the US vs China would be the ultimate best outcome. The book believes China is the true threat to Russia and "must, to the maximum degree possible, be dismantled".

As secondary goal would be the disruption of the US which also has been propping China up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics#Con...
> If you want to see a "default" youtube homepage for your IP's location, incognito is enough.

I personally find that unpersonalized homepage rather offensive. It often considers small countries near a large one as a part of it as the borders are unclear for its algorithms. The same happens with things like Google Play.
I disagree- the time and money spent on things could be spent on a weekend long (possibly free online) course in first aid, cooking, hygiene and other basic home skills.
Why is it that people default to a class in highschool as the solution to our societal problems?

Poor financial literacy = HS tax class

Misinformation on social media = HS propaganda class

Teens can't deal with their emotions = HS yoga class

Also we read Animal Farm and we talked about propaganda in history classes. Another class just for Facebook is not the solution.
Everyone seems to think the stock market going up is always an indicator of an increase in value of those stocks. But there are at least two reasons the price of an asset can increase. One is the asset gains value. The other is the currency loses value. I don't see how anyone can look at the US economy right now, outside of the stock market, and come to the conclusion that more value is being created or profit being made. The unemployment numbers alone tell us there's less being produced, less work being accomplished.
But would that make much sense? I mean I guess if you have a simple metric you could just show whatever is at the other end of the spectrum, but after I watched 20 cat videos, what would even be opposite content of that?

I'd really like to know how their recommendations even work for starters. It currently just seems some simple "more of the same" stuff. Could they not just look at the last 100 videos I watched, then find 1000 users who watched as many of those as possible and look for common videos in their history that I haven't seen yet. Maybe even make sure those videos have as few tags in common with my 100 videos as possible to help discover really new content. Really I have so many ideas I'd try if I had such a huge source of information available, instead YouTube feels like the dumbest "more of the same" algorithm they could come up with.
Installing MSYS2 to run a bash script is like deploying an A-10 Warthog to light the fuse for one of those fountain fireworks.
+1

A good example of this is rock-paper-scissors. Imagine playing against someone with a non-random strategy.
Real prices lag behind deflation. Short term deflation is really only visible in market/financial metrics/prices.

But your other point is probably more correct - supply/demand swings in the short term affect the prices you see more than deflation/inflation.

Technically a gallon of milk should go up in price like 6-10 cents a year, which you might not notice.
For 99.9% of projects, a "cargo build" and you're done.
Not likely. Accessibility is required by law, no way twitter’s legal would be down with arguing “yes well you see we had to make it inaccessible because people were using accessibility labels to block the sidebar with trending topics from showing up on their page”
That was an awesome video, I've been wanting to make something similar since I have been cutting my own hair. I am super envious of his workshop! Some of his designs are super neat like that "hair finger grabber". I love how its a cam mechanism.
Transforming Nigeria's informal retail supply chain
After experiencing this myself I’m beginning to think the best performance management system is one that is as “holistic” and loosely defined as possible. Probably doesn’t work at scale (since every director will be happy to spend as much of the company’s money as possible to retain employees) but seems to be better than OKR/tenure/stack ranked bullshit, even with the potential confounding variables like nepotism
> It became office politics and groups of mutual admiration clubs

Right, the incentive problem is especially hard here, because "compliments" and "praise" by definition involve unverified info, so it's really easy for the whole thing to devolve into a popularity contest, and you can only avoid this by discouraging it. OTOH it might still be possible to reward employees for praise of coworkers that involves some amount of verifiability. It's not that everything is going to be verified after-the-fact, but the possibility has to be real so that everyone's behavior is kept in line.
Disclaimer, I am the primary engineer of a commercial eye tracking system.

Tools like these popup every now and then are a nice tool for rough estimation of gaze. Fixation tracking is a large complicated issue that usually requires some sort of calibration to get more precise results. By sidestepping the calibration problem, much higher subject compliance can be achieved since you don't have a grad student barking confusing order at you. The downside to this is the noise you see in the tracking results. For those interested a product that produces similar results is
pupil labs ambient gaze tracking "Core" research headset[0].
[0] https://pupil-labs.com/products/core/
DDR5 Memory Specification Released
Binging with Babish didn't even show his face until he was popular: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJHA_jMfCvEnv-3kRjTCQXw

He basically popularized a whole genre of "here are my rolled-up sleeved forearms doing things" video framing.
Because Mozilla is an organization worth supporting: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto

As one example: Without Firefox, there would effectively be a single browser renderer in the market: Chrome
I use https://tokimeki-unfollow.glitch.me/. You have to unfollow one-by-one, but I think you could get a pretty decent pace going if you really tried.

I think the hardest thing here is that you mention "political accounts", and "political" means something different to everyone. So I think this will inevitably be a manual process.
The painstaking, hyper-granular process behind Amazon’s artful Undone
U.S. FBI is leading an inquiry into the Twitter hack
This is the VPN to recommend to friends and family.