skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this was purely a game and not a fitness gadget I would be interested. I'd be really curious if it was a good boxing game + this stuff to recognize movement from your hand (not these bands though). Would be cheaper too. But anyhow punching big robots/creatures just seems wrong - they seem to be heavy and my hand would just hurt lol. Also, when you use the word gamification it makes it crystal clear your game design knowledge and intentions are very limited. Don't take me wrong, I'm just being plain honest. Games > fitness, and this would make an awesome game. Particularly if it was competitive multiplayer :D (boxing and coop also doesn't seem right to me)
https://actionbutton.org

There are similar sites that you can check. They sometimes give information about where to donate
Once you establish a track record with a clear path forward to perpetual annual yield, whenever you want to sell the property it can be valued based on the projected ongoing yield, even if you don't personally harvest any trees you yourself have planted.

Just trying to provide a middle pathway that compromises between "cash it all out" and "leave it pristine & don't touch anything" :)
I'm reminded of "my phone has 64g of memory". It makes sense to a lay person, that memory would mean storage.

This is inevitable. We either invent new words, or we use existing words from the natural language. The latter will always lead to confusion at some point, because the domain-specific concept doesn't exist in the rest of the world. To represent such a concept, a word would need to deviate from its everyday usage.

I think Rust's "unsafe" is an okay choice; the "vouching" is a feature about memory safety after all.
A good photo background matters a lot
> Thanks for the meaty comment!

Sure! Hope it wasn't too rambly.

> I was expecting a bunch of stuff in the "fancier type system" category and was pleasantly surprised.

Yeah after enough functional programming, one's sense of the new lowest-hanging fruit switches.

> Do you have any references to share to learn more about potential practical uses of categories?

I'm afraid not. I suppose there is plenty of blogs on Haskell and category theory, and N lab for the actual math, but I don't of a resource that zooms out from the neat tricks and tries to discuss broad needs for better programming and architecture.

But I'm relieved to say that where I work, we are working on some things in the vein of things for tracks 2 and 3. It will be open sourced when it's ready, so... stay tuned, I guess?
Life is really hard in most parts of the world and being born in a middle class family is itself a blessing for most when you realize the cruel economic cycles that keep kids of poor people poor.

There was a lot of coverage from India when they imposed their lockdown and the worst affected were the poor again. The crisis itself has a Wikipedia page for it.[1] Quoting from it:

> With factories and workplaces shut down due to the lockdown imposed in the country, millions of migrant workers had to deal with the loss of income, food shortages and uncertainty about their future. Following this, many of them and their families went hungry. Thousands of them then began walking back home, with no means of transport due to the lockdown. More than 300 migrant workers died due to the lockdown, with reasons ranging from starvation, suicides, exhaustion, road and rail accidents, police brutality and denial of timely medical care.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_migrant_workers_during_...
Insightful reply! thanks.

Open sourcing a project, in my opinion, is far from spearheading a world of privacy and security.
Essentially it's a separation of concerns. The content "address" (i.e. how we specify the content that is desired) and the content "location" (i.e. the connections which serve the content associated with an "address") are distinct.

An "address" is also self validating. Hash addressing, where a hash of the data is the address of the data, are use to accomplish this. This is useful in many contexts and an [extra few bits][1] on the the front allow an address to represent much much more.

"location" is by default a distributed hash table enabling the fulling distributed routing of content and by uses [Kademlia][0]. But the software could easily be configured to with fixed values for the hash table mapping any "address" to the same location which happens to be a cloud provider.

Could you elaborate on what you mean by "anyone who keeps their API locked down is unlikely to adopt standard IPFS."?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia
[2]: https://github.com/multiformats/cid#how-does-it-work
Additionally today it was made clear that the current USPS head will not fix what he just broke, just pause the breaking until after the election
> That is, specifically AFAIK, not what it means in Rust. It's well defined there, so there's no need to resort to "the usual understanding". This causes a lot of confusion, but it doesn't need to. If someone is talking about the unsafe keyword in Rust, they're talking about Rust's definition of it and what it entails, or they're using incorrect terminology.

I'd say that Rust is using incorrect terminology, since it is at loggerheads with "the usual understanding" (which should be the default, not something "resorted to"). Rust could have chosen a different word than safe/un-safe, but they didn't.
Adding model minority rhetoric to misery porn isn't going to make things better...
And why should startups solve such "open vista" problems? There are universities, corporations, governments better positioned and resourced to solve them.
I don't like the voice control, but I suppose some people do like, OK, but ensure it will work without Mycroft and without a microphone, too.

Better might be assign a numeric code to each file, and then you can key in those numbers on the remote control to select them. The remote controls they show there isn't very good. Put numbers, play, pause, rewind, fast-forward, stop, previous-track, next-track, high-volume, low-volume, mute, main-menu, and perhaps a few more, rather than what they have there it isn't very good I think.

Is there such a better remote control that you can use instead? Instead of up/down/left/right/enter, you can have the numbers and the playback controls.
And how long are you expecting people to avoid the more risky activities? What are the exit criteria?

Obviously there is not going to be a total lockdown in the the US no matter what happens. Regardless of the potential benefits, that option isn't even remotely politically feasible. People simply won't comply, and there aren't enough police to enforce it.
You made some good points.

Interesting fact, it was a Japanese farmers book that started me off on my path towards owning this property.

I too was living in a big city and felt the pull back to nature, then I read a tiny book called "One Straw Revolution" and I was sold on the simpler life.

I guess it's kind of a grass is greener situation as I have recently been missing living in the city with all the services offered there but when I was there I wanted to live in the country.

I think I will take the day off tomorrow (after my chores) and go for a couple hour walk through the bush, maybe it will refresh my attitude if I take a break from the grind.
rootless.h in bash seems to be related to system integrity protection.

Don't know why Apple doesn't just devote 1 engineer to do something like homebrew or macports.

Their ROI just on hardware sales will be very high. Maybe all the unix guys retired or left and there are only round window corner xcode guys left.
Heh, glad I wasn't the only one. When I read that part I thought to myself, "Damn, how did I not know that was a thing".
I put quotes around it because that is the exact wording it uses: https://www.google.com/search?q=will+damage+your+computer.+y.... You may note that among the apps shown there is LibreOffice and somebody’s issue on GitHub saying they were getting it when creating their Electron app.
5+ Years PhD programs are completely unnecessary. After quals, you should do some research and write that up. The research may take a year, it may take two, it depends. Write it up and publish it. Do that again, maybe, it depends.

One of many hiccups is in the submitting and review process. It takes ages. Sure, some areas are less, some are more, but three year long submit/review periods are not unheard of. Reviewers want another experiment, another control, they don't get back to you until February even though you submitted in mid-November, you can forget August as a working month, etc. Unless your PI is well connected, getting published takes forever.

I have a paper that has been in reviewer hell for the last seven years, for example. It's nutters.
There are free VPNs here: https://www.vpngate.net/en/

Video quality is not bad. Good enough to watch Netflix over VPN.
The French use the vigesimal system (base-20). I learned this fact while learning Norwegian, which doesn't use a base-20 system anymore, expect almost everybody above 50y still use the Danish system (also base-20, like French), which was indeed very confusing.

In Spanish it's more or less the same as French when it comes to naming numbers, except more predictable spelling and it's base-10: dos (two), doce (twelve), ocho (eight), dieciocho (eighteen), ochenta (eighty), noventa (nighty), cien (one hundred) and so on.

In the case of e.g dos (two) and veinte (twenty), were there doesn't seem to be any relationship, the root of veinte is "dwi" (dos), but it lost a sound somewhere along the way. Two, dos, duo, dual, double, all share the same indo-european root.
Cloud Repatriation Isn’t a Thing
Of course it can; however, it's not solely caused by corona virus.

Is it verified, conclusively, that those people didn't already have a form of Myocarditis?
>The trackpad feels like it's from 2012. The speakers are very bad. The fans are constantly whirring.

It’s sad because the XPS is beautiful, but these same issues plague every Dell, HP, and basically non-Apple laptop. Even the most premium lineup (Envy, XPS, etc.)

How many years and fancy designs will it take before PC OEMs actually develop an excellent trackpad, not use tinfoil speakers, and use silent fans?
That doesn't seem like a particularly compelling answer. By varying the crop, you can grow things virtually anywhere. In practice though, people want to grow the things they're familiar with. Shade presents a problem with at least three of most important crop families: grasses, pulses, and nightshades. Their wild ancestors preferred sunny, warm environments without a lot of shade.
> Have you ever seriously contemplated death?

Probably deeper and in a more structured way than you, based on the way you're writing. If your "contemplation" in the context of disease management didn't involve risk analysis (that means multiplying probabilities by utilities), you were probably just mentally masturbating rather than coming up with useful insights.

> Suck it up and do some pushups for gods sake.

Thinking that "some pushups" is the same as a real gym routine also says a lot about you and your qualifications to speak about health management.
Heh, think the guy has Venmo? That'd be handy. Yeah maybe I'll try an email tomorrow.
OK, and ABC/SBS?

I understand and it's ridiculous. Just because your business is not profitable shouldn't mean another business should be forced to subsidise it. Unless you have mates that can make laws, that is.
I'm pretty sure the state insurance commissions have something to say about that, too.
That's fine, as long as the user rights are passed along.

GPL software can be used for any purpose, you just have to pass along the rights you were provided if you redistribute it.
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Neil Gaiman's The Sandman has three episodes dedicated to Shakespeare (and one features his son Hamnet). This is a good analysis of how isolation and genius in art relates, in the context of Shakespeare in The Sandman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhA0GVi_N4E
Yet Canada doesn't really have two dominant parties. Neither provincially, nor federally.

For example, the Conservative Party of Canada:

- formed from a merger between Progressive Conservative Party
- and the Canadian Alliance

Of which, the "Canadian Alliance" appeared entirely from grass roots.

It started with the Reform Party, where the PC party lost all but two seats, but the new "Reform" party obtained significant seats:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Canadian_federal_election

Which then morphed into the Alliance Party:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Canadian_federal_election

Which then, after the merger, with what was left of the PCs, formed the minority:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Canadian_federal_election

And then formed the government:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Canadian_federal_election

It should be noted that the merger between the older PC party, and the reform/alliance party was with the Alliance party at massive strength, in the House of Commons with a respectable number of seats, and 100% in charge of the future of the merged party.

My point here is ; the willingness for people to embrace new parties, new ideas, and vote for people .. not parties, helps with real political renewal in Canada.

Further, while some provinces aren't, most are MORE dynamic than the federal level at party change. Take Quebec, which has had new parties appear and then even form governments, in a period of two election cycles.

FPTP does NOT mean 2 parties. At all.
Some people complain about the system, some people take action and improve their lives however they can.

Sure, "we" should fix the system, but good luck waiting around for that to happen.
A drawing teacher put it like this: "Draw what's there, not set-pieces". (meaning the reusable furniture components in theaters)
Out in force, I see.

Reporting threats of violence disproportionately affects people who threaten violence, and coddles literally everyone who does not. You would change that, how?
Antitrust law has more done to slash R&D budgets than anything else in the last 100 years. Look at Bell Labs. Your entire thesis is manifestly wrong.
I'm not saying this is the case but as chess podcast can be racist. It's presented by people.
Setup up a virtual call centre in under 30 mins using AWS Connect
How much help even $100 would be some of these places, if only it could get there

In a sense, that's the whole problem. The unsolved thing that humanitarian organizations spend their entire selves trying to figure out. So it's not dumb to think about, but it's also never so simple as we wish.
> Isn't it sad that as a society, it has come down to schools to provide security to children, as opposed to their own family.

It hasn't. Families _are_ the primary way we provide security for children. No family is perfect but most keep their kids safe. Some don't, all over the world, so we have checks and balances. People trained to fill that role are called "mandated reporters". Teachers are arguably the most important mandated reporters because they spend so much time with the kids every weekday.

And even well-meaning, financially secure parents can miss things like the need for speech therapy. Teachers know what's developmentally normal, know what resources are available, etc.

> I think the root cause is the fragmented family system in the US. Marriages and divorces happen so much that the ultimate sufferers are the children.

How do the stats compare in some other country that doesn't have as much divorce?
They made half of a good point though
I know boxing is the "Sweet Science", and a quick search seems to indicate that "Gay Science"[1] comes from Nietzsche, and seems to refer to... poetry or song?

A better translation from the original German is probably "Joyful Science", though.

Not sure if that's where the parent was going, but I learned something new today.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gay_Science
No, the novel coronavirus is a virus, and a disease, and is not a statistic/agenda/debate. But, there can (and should, and is) be many statistics, agendas, debates, about a corona virus, hopefully.
Yeah i find the best way to ramp down is to eat some food. Usually I'm only angry because I'm actually hungry. It's the same for my wife.
You're not even engaging with the parent's point.

This logic does not work. You must make a choice to balance risks, because EVERYTHING has risks. Aggregate economic ruin kills people.

By your logic, you shouldn't be able to sell cars, food, practice medicine, go for a walk, run, play sports, do ANYTHING AT ALL because all of these things could injure or kill you or others.
You can’t calculate sharpe for a portfolio that includes private investments (PE or VC). Even if you trust the marks - big if - the returns are reported quarterly or at best monthly, and the marks are often unchanged creating a fake effect of a “zero vol” investment
Paying 4% of an initial investment would over time become a relatively worthless amount of money due to inflation. You could get about that return by just buying a ETF or mutual fund that focuses on dividends without having to give up the value of your principal (which would also grow over time).
Seems odd there is no controller for EC2 or even planned on the roadmap https://github.com/aws/aws-controllers-k8s/projects/1
> "The other way to frame minimum wage is that it makes it illegal to work unless you can produce $X value per hour."

Wages are a cost to a company. There are other costs to a company. Companies also return a profit to the owners. If a company's costs are too high, they my not return a profit; they may not be able to pay their creditors.

My dad ran his own very small business. I am familiar with a business not making a profit for a period of time. I am familiar with workers who are not profitable to employ.

It is a reduction to absurdity to state that minimum wage "makes it illegal to work unless you can produce $X value per hour."

There are interesting, non-absurd discussions about the effects of minimum wage, but this is not one of them.
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Well precisely, it doesn’t actually matter. I’ll let you into a secret: there isn’t even really a dice.

The point is more to get people to think about the difference between aggregate average mortality, vs the individual prognosis of one unlucky COVID patient.

This winds up being a trolley-problem kind of reframing of a moral argument. Philosophically, should you change your behavior between the following two scenarios:

- a group of 100 people all have a 1 in 100 chance of dying of a disease

- a group of 100 people contain one person who will definitely die if they get the disease

?

Does your answer change if you are the one person?
The point is that using macros for constants is frowned upon in modern codebases, just like all other use cases for macros that break type safety and the one definition rule.
> there are millions and millions of professionals using macOS to do work every single day.

Speaking for myself, every time I've used a Mac for work it's because I had to, being that it was what the employer issued.

Could I have made a stink to be issued something else? Sure, but that is trading problems for problems. Have I used worse OSs? Yes, but that doesn't mean I should be grateful for what I find negative about the Mac OS.

I'm not going to be buying myself a Mac as I'm more productive using a different OS, but it's fine if millions of others do. Just factor in that there's employers with IT decisions out there too.
You could also consider

https://www.givedirectly.org/

although the circumstances they allow you to help with might not be the exact ones that first attracted your interest and concern.

Edit: although I think they do share, and allow people to act on, something pretty much like your intuition:

> How much help even $100 would be some of these places, if only it could get there.
Local Officials in China Hid Coronavirus Dangers from Beijing, US Agencies Find
Context:

========

>> Due to the closure of buses (Public Transport closure) due to Corona epidemic , Shobharam took his son off his bicycle at 12 o'clock on Monday night.

There are many stories like this where in one mother drove 1400 km in her motorcycle/scooter to get her son from a place where he was stuck.

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/telangana/a-mothers-p...

In normal times, these people would have traveled by buses or trains.

One more:

A five-year old flies alone to be with his parents:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/parenting/tod...
The average price of groceries is up 13% since January and saw a 2.6% spike in a single month.

So congrats on your local coffee place taking the hit, expect the price to change.
I have 2 kids. One is 4 and the other is 8. I agree that most 5 years probably cannot sit through 30 minutes of a zoom meeting.

When the lockdowns first in started in March, my 4 year old, who was 3 at the time, could barely last 15 minutes before wandering off. She has gotten better since then. She can now last 45 minutes online with her teacher, but I don’t think it’s the norm. My wife still needs to sit with her to make sure she focuses on the teacher.

I think that a lot of these parents that have young children that cannot focus online should be looking on building a small co-op for learning. Partner with 2 or 3 other trusted families and hire a teacher or share responsibilities in teaching the kids. Covid is dangerous taking some risk should be considered.
It wasn't a medical exam. This was a school exam; I didn't get all the context, but probably a placement/entrance exam.
I just read through it. It's basically a summary of quite a lot of change happening to quite a lot of products that they ship as Elastic. Each of those products has their own set of release notes; which you probably should be reading if you use those products.

But the executive summary for an ELK user like you:

- Kibana just got faster (finally). I know some people in that team and they completed some internal javascript refactoring that gets rid of the annoyingly long page loads. So, this is a relatively big improvement for a 7.9.

- Elastic Agent is a new thing that can get a lot of data
into dashboards quickly. That might be relevant for you if you have a (no doubt) lovingly handcrafted logstash ingestion pipeline and matching dashboards. Also, setting up half a dozen elastic different beat agents to achieve the same was definitely a bit of a devops burden. Sounds like something I might give a try next time I set up new infrastructure.

- You can now self host Elastic Cloud in your own AWS infrastructure. This may be relevant for you if you were self hosting some home grown setup on premise (or in aws) or are using the fully managed cloud solution. Kind of a big deal for more advanced setups as a lot of companies get themselves into trouble with getting their homegrown devops for this right.

- A lot of updates to Elastic products neither you nor me use. The workplace search thing sounds interesting though. Wasn't really on my horizon so far.
The original reduction plan as detailed in a presentation from May called for nearly 1,000 sorting machines to be dismantled. It's hard to say how much of that plan has been completed (we'll likely find out more next Monday during the Congressional hearings) but it's absolutely that order of magnitude.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7035434-USPS-Equipme...
> Worker coops using the license would be free use

How is a worker co-op using the licensed software for commercial purposes different from, say, a corporation?