skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, I feel this exact mindset has backfired heavily.

The difference between the 'black death hysteria' and the 'invisibility' of the disease on the ground has only emboldened conspiracy theorists, republicans and idiots.

While Trump certainly made it worse, the medical community is to blame as well.

The death estimates (with or without lockdown) from the highly influential ICL study turned out to be completely bogus. The mixed messaging on masks, ventilators and spread via surfaces were all major missteps. The right wing support of Hydroxychloriquine, the disgraced study opposing it printed by respected medical and journalistic outlets and then its eventual disappearance into obscurity was another major blow to the establishment's credibility.

Breeding resentment among those abiding is never a good idea. Adding even more rules for those who aren't is even worse. The moral and practical choices are almost never the same. If the US had found a middle ground lockdown, that everyone was willing to follow, maybe it would have worked out better.

To be clear, if I was a dictator, the lockdown would have been far more severe. But, the US is the country of freedom, where neither the central or the state govts. have much power to enforce anything. They have to negotiate with the citizens,

Covid cases in the US far exceed those of nations where the lockdown requirements (at least those imposed by NE states) are far less stringent. Clearly, the severity of lockdowns was not the problem. It was the complete inability of the experts to get a vast section of the country onboard.

(It is also possible we are arguing the same thing from different points. In Boston, where I stay, I haven't seen a single person without a mask for weeks, everyone socially distances, we have readily available free testing and I getting a bit annoyed at gyms being closed in all capacities despite the per-capita rate being about as low and everyone doing their due diligence.)
At lest in the US federal government jobs don’t pay unusually well. Only 80 people made over 300k in 2018, but their almost entirely in healthcare. https://www.federalpay.org/employees/top-100 Senior government employees tend to get a vast pay bump when they move to private sector positions. That and power are the incentives to handing out the jobs not direct pay.

By comparison thousands of people at federal contacting companies are making over 1 Million per year. Further those companies pull in billions in profits.
> The cost to replace a single person in a company doesn't always allow for that replacement to be anywhere.

You're doing the sleight of hand, but on an even more localized level: a single company hiring a single person.

We're talking about aggregates here
the idea that people do not treat their children as other people seems so bizarre to me.

I get it, kids can be annoying and drive you mad, but giving them appropriate responsible (this depends on the age ofcourse) and discourse seems like one if not the major task you have as a parent.
why there is something at all, i think we can never know. but yeah, likewise. it seems energy/things existing for infinity is the only thing that makes sense, and something coming from nothing is impossible. i think a part of us wants there to be a beginning but there really can't be.
Yes totally recommend it. I am convinced that communication is the root cause for strife in all relationships, love or otherwise.
I'm sorry you're going through this. You're absolutely right that working harder is not the solution.

My advice would be to talk to the team or HR about your negative experiences.

If that doesn't help update your resume/portfolio and start finding a new job. (while you're still employed)
Please don't stay too long in such a toxic environment - it's not worth it.
I don't know you but I don't think you will have a hard time getting a new job.

You can get rid of the imposter syndrome with the help of a cognitive behavioral therapy.

I wish you all the best.
That's a low effort comment which doesn't address the issue. Which specific criteria do you think we ought to follow? Why are bars considered safe but gyms aren't? Are Tokyo residents wearing masks in bars?

Again there is no political possibility of a future strict lockdown in the US. So for better or worse it has already been avoided.
Viemo = Vimeo. I was thrown off at the start until I realized that's the platform the author meant.
Are they asking management to pull out of the USA?

Which has conducted illegal wars, and pulled out of nuclear talks with Iran.
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> In EVERY other country you can buy masks, and they were strongly encouraged, that prevented YOU from getting sick.

What? I’m East Asian from a country known for mask wearing and this is definitely not how mask wearing is treated. It’s definitely to protect other people from you!
Say the governor finally appoints a chief engineer who manages to drive the project to completion - by working 18 hours a day, ignoring his (or her?) family and ruining his health.

What's in it for him?

Recognition? Nope. He'll be blamed in problems with minorities, unions, views from someone's mansion and for all other deadly sins somehow related to the construction. A railroad built on time and within the budget? Come on, folks, it's just his job!

Money? Nope. Government jobs don't pay that well.

Interesting engineering project? Again, nope. It will be a political fight, PR project, bookkeeping exercise, endless lawsuits - whatever, but not the engineering project.

Why bother?
Just because you and your friends weren't tested, doesn't mean the statistics are invalid. The link above was from random antibody testing and has a high confidence interval.

I've been sick twice during this time. Thought it had to be COVID, but two PCR tests and an antibody test all came back negative. Maybe the tests are flawed, sure, but it's far more likely I just had something else.
I don't think you'll ever fomd the uniformity of MacOS since there is not one single company behind the distros and all the packages they use. I really like Pop_OS! By System76 because it works great out of the box and has a really pretty look and feel if you like Gnome. It has some smart options enabled and applications installed by default, it uses the apt package manager which is really easy and has fairly good packages, and it's quite beginner friendly in general. With any Linux distro you have the freedom of doing whatever you want:) Another distro that you should consider is Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop if you prefere a Windows-ish look. I wouldn't look too far because otherwise you'll just get stuck distro hopping and never settling.
Offline-first apps with Yjs: Leveraging y-WebRTC and garbage collection (part 5)
The proofreading for this article is atrocious.
UX vs. Service Design
To add on to this, America is particularly cruel in this regard since so many benefits are tied to employment. It's incredibly risky to drop a job to free up time to gain education or even look for another job.

Employers hold all the cards. They know it. They probably lobbied the government to gain this advantage. Workers are powerless against their bosses, but at least we can vote in more sympathetic government representatives.
I like the idea of PeerTube, but every time I try to play a video, it buffers to the point of being unwatchable.
Interesting...

I work in a corporate lab, and it is typical for our teams to have >3 PhDs from different fields solving problems. We acknowledge internally that there aren’t many interesting problems left to be solved by single PhD teams.
KeePass can support that too. If it sees more than one match when auto typing it'll prompt you to choose.
Yes, I have experienced both the "quasi direct line" and the "just a startup" side. Things are different. And it does make sense that things are this way. :-)
Bitwarden is 100% open source. You can run your own server. There is no vendor lock in.
Your point makes totally sense. Though I also like to be able to bring up (and destroy) my servers, with a single command, when needed. Going through the same ui every time is a little annoying.
>best password managers in existence right now

I am using 1Password with a standalone licence (sunk cost, so 'free' doesn't matter much. Also, C$70 is essentially free when it comes to securing my digital life). I sync a vault with a few co-workers via Dropbox and this is sufficient for us, no need for 1Password.com 'cloud' yet.

We like the UI, and to our knowledge 1Password has the best track record for security, with extensive and continuous testing and no major fuck-ups yet.

What advantages to switching to KeePassXC or Bitwarden are there for us?
The technical University of Eindhoven (the Netherlands) announced they'd only hire women from a certain point in time on and they did for months. Then a judge called them back. In their defense, it was needed, almost all professors were male so I understand how they came to this action. Generally I think it is better to stimulate people to hire outside their comfort-zone and build heterogeneous teams in all dimensions.
Discoverability for that is hell, though. If you don't already know about it from a friend, finding out your app isn't a virtual paperweight requires going down a knowledgebase rabbit hole:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24217116
The look and feel ('uniformity') is more a matter of what desktop environment you want to run rather than Distro (though that can matter too). Choices include:

* Gnome
* KDE/Plasma
* xfce
* Elementary (but to muddy the waters a bit, is also a distro around their DE) - This will probably be the closest to MacOS in terms of L&F
* Budgie
* Enlightenment
* And others (more niche (low ram etc))
* Plain ol' X11

A lot of distros are opinionated and ship with a default DE (eg Ubuntu/Gnome) but you can generally can install what ever you want. Some (Arch, Gentoo) are not opinionated and let you configure it as you see fit.

If you've never installed Linux, I would start with Ubuntu as there are lots of guides on it. Ubuntu is derrived from Debian.

If you're comfortable with the command line and making more choices Arch is a nice distro (and really isn't any harder than Ubuntu, just different - the arch wiki is very good for docs).

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Yes but you are not allowed to be happy. Living in fear is still mandatory.
Sorry I think my initial comment comes out as a bit irrespectful to you. Made it on my mobile and didn't have the patience to fully elaborate, I should have updated it, can't now.
The problem is, shareholders can do something cooperatives cannot - they can operate at a substantial loss, effectively indefinitely, with the knowledge that they can get their profit by selling the share.

Amazon, for instance, ran at a net loss for much of its history. I don't know how a workers cooperative would manage this.

Secondly, in capitalism, capital is concentrated among a small number of people, who are often friends. Shareholders therefore often help with raising further capital, since they are always from the capitalist class. So a worker's cooperative won't be as good at raising funds.
> The most incredible event imaginable occurred in the most impossible circumstance.

Think of time as "it prevents everything happening at once". Before there was time, nothing prevented everything happening at once, without space nothing prevented everything happening in the same place, so everything happened at once and in the same place. That everything happening made so much noise that it created space and time in a very big bang.
A dispute about this is exactly what is described in the article.
This was Renault's model for the Zoe (most successful EV in Europe) since 2014.

Apparently they have stopped offering that option last year, though. [1]

[1] https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/renault-ends-bat...
Primarily cache hits with no state.
> Companies don't pay your equal to the value you provide, they pay you as little as possible.

this should be rather obvious, extraction of wealth through employment are one of the basics concepts in capitalism.
But that's the whole issue. Policy versus practice.

I'm usually hard pressed to find people who disagree with the thought of "we should try to hire people other than white men in a white men dominated profession".

The issue comes when the unspoken (OP's "off the record") enforcement of this is willful hate towards those people.
I agree. There are several distros (especially something like Elementary OS) that are pretty darn easy to pick up as a Windows user. I set up my very non-technical grandma up with Elementary OS and she loved it.

I don't think the obstacles to adoption are based on the merits of Linux (or lack thereof). The obstacles are institutional. Businesses don't want to adopt Linux because that's a risk, and most people know Windows/Microsoft Office. Average people don't want to take a risk (installing Linux/buying a Linux box) with a device that is a decent-sized investment for most people.
I'm retired. Nobody has to put up with my sour ass.
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Scientific approach to the matter is actually simple: its scientifically impossible to research state before the big bang because no information from before original singularity is available. This makes question non-scientific.

We have wiggle room for planck epoch because that time was after singularity, meaning that we have information from that time (however little of it is left).

Closest we got to science here is by extending the time and space axis across the diagrams point of origin. This is where idea of singularity being in heart of higher level universe black hole (or past universe’s collapse) comes from. Its inpossible to verify black hole idea due to deletion of information, but collapse/crunch should be observable in distant future of the universe. Perhaps dark energy still has some tricks up its sleeve?
I don’t think this article was suggesting any solutions, so the second paragraph seems like a straw man argument. (I mean it’s literally a Wikipedia page.)
I wonder how people did this before us? pandemics have happened before and while education certainl wasn't universal as it is now, it still happened?
The 3kb demoscene example is just to open a window, not a full, self-contained 64k demo in 3kb. Is the program basically calling the Win API through unsafe functions? I am trying to learn Rust, and I am wondering how it might actually be used here or more beneficial than C in this case if it is all done "unsafe"? I am still comparing Zig and Rust to see which I am going to go with. I don't think I'll ever give up C though.
The value provided by _the labour_ of an engineer in SFO is almost definitely not 2x what an engineer in SLC provides. There's value in a company having 200 engineers in SFO compared to 200 engineers in SLC, largely marketing related.

To engineers, of course, this all has a naked emperor vibe, but on the business side our industry is largely about fake it till you make it. And being able to afford engineering offices and staff in SFO signals "we've made it", independently of whether that's true.
I'm no cryptographic expert, but I always liked the simple design of the kdbx files. So simple that I can understand it and see tat there are no (obvious, assuming the underlying algorithms are called correctly) problems:

The whole database is a single big xml document which is then encrypted with a normal symmetrical encryption method (most of the time AES). And that is already the core of it.
There are a few additional things (A user-chosen key-derivation-function is used to increase the brute-force time and there is a header in the binary format with such things as keepass version, which algorithms are used for encrypting and a checksum...).

But in comparison to other cloud-based password managers it's a nice feeling to intuitively "know" whats happening under the hood.
Doesn't make sense - everyone I know is paid far more than minimum wage necessary to sustain life.

If it were a true law then everyone would be on literal subsistence wages - they aren't. The illusion of this law is that people spend all their money, so their lifestyle costs (typically) exactly match their wage. This is independent of the wage.
Thoughts on Rust vs. OCaml
Or having to pay Red Hat for support to get access to their KB, get updates, and pay separate licenses if you want any of their premium software offerings. Or having to shell out for console dev kits and game engines. And the embedded software world is even worse.

The exception is being able realistically develop for a platform without little/no expense. People really are spoiled by FOSS tooling.
Unfortunately, the US legal system has inadvertently legalized all wars/conflicts the military happens to be a part of.

This is a consequence of so many things...
Would it be illegal without the clear terms allowing it in the context of a bug bounty program?
If it's interpreted as permissible to threaten someone with prison if they don't do community service, then a constitutional prohibition of convicts being forced to work is nugatory. And if it's interpreted as impermissible then you just banned community service.
Not the artist, but...

That is most certainly done on purpose and as part of the installation: you have to be present at -this- specific location to consume something that is 'at a random other location'.

Lovely construct, I like the tension between the limited (viewer location) vs unlimited (camera location).
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Perhaps. But second-guessing people's statements based on what you imagine their inner thoughts are is a risky venture at best.
True, good point. Perhaps people just don't have an awareness of the process when they are new to drawing because we see people put pencil to paper and a drawing comes out - the process is completely internal to the artist, not visible to an audience.
Phone costs/profits are baked into most plan pricing. If you have such a plan and are paying for your phone outright, you're paying twice for a large chunk of it.
> 6. Depth estimation

At least indoors, this was already handled pretty well 10 years ago by Kinect, and there are many somewhat robust approaches based on binocular vision. Not sure if this qualifies as "very much an open problem".

> 9. Scene understanding

The mentioned example is not the best one - anticipation of collisions has been a feature in cars for many years now (usually some warning system, sometimes with automatic emergency breaking). But it's a very constrained problem; more generic scene understanding is of course still very difficult.
Right? It's really hypocritical for any American company to be talking about these kinds of things.
Elementary OS ... maybe. Or Endless linux ...

But in fact, there are not real alternatives.

How to compare OSX which is operating system/environment and Linux which is OS kernel.
This is possible, because we don't have another set of rating agencies. Will have to learn from mistakes and fix what we have.
You have to assume a 10% mistake rate in all large projects.
Math.min(Math.max(num, min), max)
I hope this doesn’t sound insensitive, but I find that condition fascinating (if “condition” is even the right word - seems more like just a different mode of thinking) because I can’t even begin to imagine what it would be like.
I recently picked up a foil board to go with my other windsurf gear, and the sail is absolutely a confounding effect

I've read some on the subject, and got a book by a famous boat designer, Kotaro Horiuchi, which describes the actions of the float controllers you are talking about as well as other aspects. Foil boats have to be fairly lightweight at the moment, which is why the america's cup boats are designed the way they are.

I've also seen those e-foil surfboards but have never tried them as the price point seems absurd.

My board (and all the foils I see on surf gear) just have enhanced static stability based on some combination of dihedral, a fuselage, and a negative lift rear wing, very similar to an airplane. That's because it's down to a shift of body weight, sailing forces, etc.

It's become all the rage in the last 2-3 years with things still not quite standardized. I had to drill out my foil-approved board to get larger M10 bolts in there.
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> Once you accept that fact, the other primary requirement is building up objects from primitives. You can render a human standing in almost any posture just using ovals, rectangles, trapezoids, etc.

There are neat examples[1] of this in art history, and the highly regarded drawing instructor Robert Beverly Hale wrote books[2] emphasizing simple volumes as the basis for understanding and communicating the forms of the human figure.

There are a few other basic systems that are involved in "classical" drawing; perspective is one of these; organizing values is another. Basic artistic anatomy goes a long way if you're going to draw faces and figures. But the bottom line is, yes, drawing is a teachable skill. And, like programming, it takes years to learn well (I have been programming and drawing most days for the last thirty years and am definitely still learning).

[1] Cambiaso, is a classic example, e.g. http://www.blockprojekt.de/cubic-drawing-by-luca-cambiaso
[2] See, for example, his "Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters"
I think we might be able to do without a minimum wage if we had a livable basic income. If people can afford to say no to a job, I think the negotiation balance will be much improved, and the labour market might become a lot more free.

How high a basic income would have to be for this to happen, I don't know. But I think with sufficient BI, crappy jobs will have to pay a lot more to attract people, whereas fun, interesting jobs might have more employees competing for them. That would be the sign of a healthy free market at work, I think.
Super thanks! Makes me happy that people see that :)
The Flight Simulator Story, Part 1: The Beginning of SubLogic
That works when you have one container. When you have 200 and fifty databases and four identical environments (prod, qa, staging, dev) and so on it becomes a lot more error prone. These systems exist for those use cases.

Granted even with one container and a single DB I found terraform useful as I don't have to fiddle with whatever DB, container, etc. settings there are every time. I also prefer to not have to memorize or figure out a UI I use once every other month. Too many UIs across too many things.
To move 1.300kg of vehicle to transport 100-500kg of meat is not a prospect that makes sense. I also doubt the boat will handle well with 5 adults.

Show me an electric (or dead-trees powered for that matter) boat made for one person that can foil or at least plane and maybe I'll be interested.

For reference I made this bike which weighs the same as the person it transports and has batteries that last 10 years for $300 at almost the same range/speed, the bike including everything is $3.000 so 100x cheaper:

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=&sl=auto&tl=en&u=h...
YouTube’s unassailable feature is discovery.

Would be great to see competition in video hosting though.
Doesn't look like my project meets the eligibility requirements yet, too new. So I'll just share here for anyone interested.

Luanalysis - An IDE for statically typed Lua development.
https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis
This is something I'll really want to look into. Right now we are using mentioned "dead-simple" method ;-)
> Apparently T-cells will "remember" an infection after a person is exposed

That is not a "huge development". The basic workings of the immune system have been known for decades. I used to think this was common knowledge.
Of course there is an issue when people miss the point and do stupid shit. That doesn’t mean we should stop trying to improve representation in one of if not the most fast growing, wealth-providing career fields. I’m utterly baffled by this argument that a case of one company missing the point means IBM shouldn’t even try.