skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I thought it might be semi automatic by trying to skip actually understanding spoken words but counting syllables or similar to detect accurate timing.

Is there a software that can do that? I have been searching for one, but haven't found any so far?
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Everyone has their own "entry point". Maybe you overdo motivation so you focus on discipline. Maybe you overdo discipline so you focus on motivation.

Both are tools you use to apply to your own exact situation. Person A may vote for Team Motivation, because that works for them. Person B may vote for Team Discipline. That works for them.

The more accurate your self-knowledge and self-awareness, the more effective you can apply the tools (discipline, motivation, etc).
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Trump fires CEO of TVA over replacing US tech workers with H1B workers
What are the psychological principles that drive people to believe in absolutely insane things that can easily be disproven? Why does this even happen? What do these people get from having these beliefs? Why do they do vehemently defend them to the point of fanaticism?

These aren't hypothetical questions. I genuinely do not understand these people or their behavior on any level and I never see any attempt at an explanation anywhere - here, social media, mainstream media, documentaries - you name it.
Exploiting Android Messengers with WebRTC: Part 1
For things like textbooks, I'll start easily but then, when I reach a new point or new chapter, I will rationalized my self to stop it there and call it a done work, when in reality I worked only 30 minutes instead of and hour.

it's like my mind is rationalizing itself to settle for a sub goal.
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The BBC are biased towards the status quo - left-leaning social policies, right-leaning economic policies and a (currently) Conservative government.

The right-wingers get upset about social pieces, the left-wingers get upset about economic and political pieces. But it's not even possible or desirable to be utterly unbiased, so one of our broadcasters being "the voice of the Establishment" doesn't seem like that bad a thing to me. It's not like other broadcasters aren't avaiable.
> customer service

Well honestly, "1-person hobby project" doesn't really have "customer service". Though I work hard to help anyone with honest feature requests and issues, there's still no SLO on any of this.

I have unfortunately hit people scripting for my site directly, which is where I had to rely on Captcha. It's unfortunate but bad actors have honestly ruined so much of the internet...
Is it enough that a few people like this simply turn their backs and walk away to different work? I would think their vacancies would be quickly and easily filled.

Is there really a shortage of people willing and able to do this kind of work for these companies and government agencies? I'm asking because I truly don't know.

And if not, could we think of some other ways people in these positions could exert some influence for change, even if it's only after they leave those jobs?
To add to what the other user has said, it is used at a number of firms, but primarily in early stages of design. It's actually very solid for actual drafting (Rhino originated out of an AutoCAD plugin), and does freeform surface modeling very well. It's the middle piece, bringing the design into a set of drawings, that is the sticking point, and something that Revit automates very well. It's not that Rhino can't do it, it's that it's a very manual process that requires a lot more steps and structured process than most firms are willing to invest. Also, the kind of work you'd use Rhino for doesn't flow well to other downstream CAD or BIM software that architects typically use. Yes, you can easily export linework, but at that point, you might as well keep it in Rhino.

Somewhat unrelated, but Rhino's SDK is really solid and gives a ton of access to the software. It's amazing some of the things that can be done with it, and Rhino as a whole, but at the same time it's producing construction documents that's where the rubber meets the road as far as Architecture is concerned.

Source: Former architecture student and Rhino plugin developer
> Two things - TIOBE is meaningless.

Pick any other language survey of your choice and I guarantee you it will generally agree with the TIOBE.
How Much Things Can Change
>I wonder why this is?

Because they were crooks, same as companies promising to protect your privacy and then selling your data. You will not hear anyone saying American tech companies are fraud.
Well great, if the thief carries a android phone for the first time in history of mankind google would be able to run machine learning algos to predict where the crime is going to be committed. /s

personally I would be more worried about ADT getting google data. plus ADT has tie-ins with many police depts. this could go south really fast from here. Also, google already has fitbit data so google is slowly spreading its tentacles into our life in real world much more so than FB.

honestly I feel like I need to minimize my google usage right-bloody-now. a slightly better web search is not worth all that shit it comes with.
Please let me know if I'm missing an important book.

The list has the top rated books first.

American Kingpin by Nick Bilton

The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff

Mastering Ethereum by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin

Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

The Bitcoin Standard by Saifedean Ammous

Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper

The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Creating the Twentieth Century by Vaclav Smil

Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier

Blockchain Bubble or Revolution by Neel Mehta

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital by Carlota Perez

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Arvind Narayanan

Bitcoin Billionaires by Ben Mezrich

Inventing Bitcoin by Yan Pritzker

The Little Bitcoin Book by Bitcoin Collective

Serious Cryptography by Jean-Philippe Aumasson

An Altcoin Trader's Handbook by Nik Patel

Programming Bitcoin by Jimmy Song

The Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth

Bitcoin by Knut Svanholm

Bitcoin & Black America by Isaiah Jackson

The Basics of Bitcoins and Blockchains by Antony Lewis

Mastering Monero by SerHack

Grokking Bitcoin by Kalle Rosenbaum

Why Buy Bitcoin by Andy Edstrom

The Book of Satoshi by Phil Champagne

This Book Will Save You Time by Misir Mahmudov

Bitcoin by Knut Svanholm

Cryptocurrency Investing For Dummies by Kiana Danial

The Dreams of Reason by Heinz R. Pagels

21 Lessons by Gigi

Bitcoin Clarity by Kiara Bickers

Rethinking Money by Bernard Lietaer

From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond by John H. Clippinger

The Bitcoin Revolution by Dominick Barbato

How Money Got Free by Brian Patrick Eha

Handbook of Digital Currency by David LEE Kuo Chuen

Blockchain Technology Explained by Alan T. Norman

Cryptoassets by Chris Burniske

Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain by David Gerard

Blockchain Basics by Daniel Drescher

Code by Lawrence Lessig

Blockchain and the Law by Primavera De Filippi

Blockchain by Mark Gates

Bitcoin by Dominic Frisby

The Starfish and the Spider by Ori Brafman

The Age of Cryptocurrency by Paul Vigna

The Heretic's Guide to Global Finance by Brett Scott

Bitcoin For Dummies by Prypto

The Truth Machine by Paul Vigna

Blockchain Revolution by Don Tapscott

Digital Cash by Finn Brunton

Blockchain by Melanie Swan

Introducing Ethereum and Solidity by Chris Dannen

Building Blockchain Projects by Narayan Prusty

Investing in Ethereum by Oscar Flynt

Bitcoin and Blockchain Security by Ghassan Karame
We actually recently changed our jobs page! Here's the right link: https://jobs.lever.co/coalitioninc
Gas flaring hits highest level in a decade – little incentive to end polluting
Nobody has time to do that for every topic that is relevant to the life of a citizen. They need trusted sources of general news. The New York Times is a better approximation of that than most publications.
FTA: "The surge in Central Valley cases has taken a particular toll on farmworkers, in part because they often live in close quarters, share transportation to job sites and have little access to healthcare."
He does, starting at the section that begins:

> Possibly even worse is the fact that so much academic writing is kept behind vastly more costly paywalls.
I'm not posing that this is the preferred or only way of creating a product roadmap. (I used this image because it's familiar with people when they think about product roadmaps).

I think a roadmap should be created based on the audience that's consuming it. So the answer in many cases is, "It depends."
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I suspect that, for any given location, the current outcome is some combination of government preparation/policy, people's behavior, luck, density, isolation, and previous number of infections/deaths.

With the benefit of hindsight, it's very easy to cherry-pick factors that can be used to explain why one country seems to be doing well or poorly. But then you have to explain why the country next door seemed to do so differently.
One would be, some are using the new-style enums (with the unhelpful syntax "enum class") while some are using the old-style enums.
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Also, it looks like it got the width of a smartphone, line are wrapped when i got a 24" monitor, i hate it.
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First is arbitrary. We could use binary encoded using swallows mentioned in Monty Python.

But I digress :)
> people can get infected further away than with larger droplets

Minor nitpick, you can think of aerosol transmission as plume of virus particles. Technically you can get infected long after the carrier has left a closed room, at which point the concept of being "further away" stops applying.
I worked at a place from 2006-2010 that had a lot of C++ code written in the mid-90s (some was even from the early 90s). Templates were not allowed (so no stl) and they used their own container classes that were written in the early-to-mid 90s. We used a version of gcc that was at least 5 years old during the time I was there.
Sadly, this is very true. Yeah Julia is fast, but not as fast as python and matlab in the REPL and quick analysis work. I can get going with data analysis and plotting far faster for exploratory work due to the zero precompilation overhead in those languages, where as in Julia this overhead is brutal. Julia people will probably down-vote this, but sadly, as an interactive language this is it's Achilles heel. I have to explain to people why the code is taking so long to show up due to JIT et al., and non-experts don't understand that this is just an initial overhead.
Yup. I have all of my windows open right now, it’s summer. Co2 tends to be around 500. Even outdoor city air in my location is more like 450, though of course my meter could be biased high.
My pixel 3a is by far the best phone I have ever owned (across both iOS and Android).

Comparing the 4a to this it looks like a bunch of solid incremental improvements across the board.

Huge fan of basically everything here. Price, screen size, phone size.

Battery size could be a touch bigger, as my 3a has the best battery life I just wish for about 10% more for edge cases.
Usually the freelancer one spends little time near the top. Earlier today I was surprised to see it in the top four results. It's on the fifth page (!) now though.
They are essential, what do you think severe alcoholics would do without a supply of alcohol? Severe alcoholics are the ones that would potentially die from withdrawal.

Edit: This is what happens when you don’t consider alcohol essential: https://allafrica.com/stories/202006020490.html
DHH: EU should do to US what the US did to China (Tik Tok)
I've heard it called the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, but not sure if it's caught on.

> Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect works as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story-and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read with renewed interest as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about far-off Palestine than it was about the story you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.

> - Michael Crichton, Why Speculate (26 April 2002)

From Wikiquote Murray Gell-Mann https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann

Edit: Remove markdown formatting.
Write a mini-Redis in Rust: learn async programming with Tokio
Up front: I am not a virologist; I am not saying these things are true, I am saying this is my understanding of this discussion. I am also not saying that Sars-Cov-2 can spread by small dry particles.

I think there a 3 distinct things going on, at least.

Large Wet Particles (droplets): easily caught by masks, fall quickly (3-6 feet), make surfaces infectious, cause infection by touch.

Small Wet Particles (aerosol type 1): Hang in the air for at least 30 minutes. Infectious if breathed in. Mask is less effective (but not ineffective)

Small Dry Particles (aerosol type 2): Hang in the air for 12 hours. Infectious if breathed in. Infectious by touch. Mask is less effective (but not ineffective). Most viruses are not viable as dry particles.
Virgin Galactic reveals initial vehicle design for high speed travel
"At either end of the social spectrum there lies a leisure class."

What you described is also true for skiing, scuba diving, mountain diving and any number of other outdoor pursuits.
Did the 1968 H3N2 pandemic paralyze the economy for years?
> How can you say this when Nazis famously "pioneered" and promulgated things like Phrenology and Eugenics?

They...didn't. Phrenology was was developed at the end of the 18th century and scientifically discredited by the mid-19th century; the Nazis may have adopted it, but that's proof that they weren't motivated by anything like scientific rationalism. Eugenics is overtly ideological (and, again, not pioneered by the Nazis, having become a widespread ideology before they existed), though it relies on scientific results (but even those who take your ideological stance of rejecting objective facts have no problem adopting the results of science that they see as useful for advancing their ideology, so there's nothing surprising about a group who does that adopting an ideological program relying on technology for it's implementation.)

But the reason I can say that Italian Fascism and German Naziism expressly adopted your Nietzschean view is because both said they did, and praised Nietzche for presenting it.
Better Online Book Discovery? No Longer Just a Fairy Tale
I trust ADT less. ADT is the Comcast of security systems. Google might at least improve their technology.
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Yes. The Cold War and the resulting pro-business/anti-government ethos that pervades America creates a situation in which people blame each other for everything that goes wrong instead of blaming their leaders or the ruling class. When they lose their job, they don’t consider that in most countries they would have either not lost their job or they would have began receiving a healthy sustenance from the government.
I think this was pretty much the topic of one of his books
Thanks for the info! I'll take a closer look at the Dactyl, although at first glance it doesn't look very stable.
PG's essay that article is talking about: http://paulgraham.com/conformism.html (disclosure: I thought it was good).

The current affairs article was extremely tedious, whatever good point they might have made was hurt by its self-assured hostile tone and personal attacks (basically an example of the kind of thing PG's essay was talking about).

There are a few essays that get into the weeds and give more explicit examples of problems (something PG probably avoided because of the issues he talks about, but it seems he was also attacked for avoiding them anyway).

Some that give more direct examples/arguments:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread...

https://newdiscourses.com/2020/07/woke-wont-debate-you-heres...

https://quillette.com/2020/07/30/think-cancel-culture-doesnt...

Also:
https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-...

Some others recently:
https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/andrew-sullivan-see-...
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Rust 1.45.2
Any precautionary control of physical appearance and conduct gets a reaction in America.

If a school demands a dress code, people go nuts. It's immediately suspected to be unfair, overly broad, racist, sexist, and ableist, probably invented by perverts who think too much about adolescent sexuality. If you tell them the dress code is a courtesy to others, kids and parents will get in your face and protest it. [0]

Masks solve a (big) problem in some (limited) situations -- mostly close contact. But the rules are written to be over-inclusive and inconsistent. It's a protection against the chance you're infected and don't know it. Some municipalities are demanding them outdoors, in sparsely-populated areas, and indoors with your family. You don't get to present your body how you want, and your communication is stifled.

Masks are a dress code for the face. I wear them. But some people are going to get angry.

[0] https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2018/9/13/17847542/students-wa...