skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could write a book on it because there's a lot to it but I'll try to summarise.

Success = Connections x (Niche knowledge + Skills)

For connections:

Given the current state of the world networking is hard but not impossible. However you go about it, you need to build trust with people rather than hard sell them which doesn't work in 2020 (unless what you are selling is a commodity). Note that I said people, you're selling to people - not businesses.

You can shortcut this by leveraging existing contacts, ideally in a niche that you already have knowledge in because you worked in it.

For niche knowledge + skills:

With your connections at first you might need to find ways to cheaply provide value. Build up trust. Grow relationships. Get referred.

You'll make your life easier by specialising in a niche. So for example mine is financial services. A niche in a niche is even better. Again, for example mine is asset management, which sits within financial services.

So now you have your niche in a niche and detailed knowledge of that niche. You know what problems they have (the knowledge), and you can add your skills to solve their problems.

It's not easy, it takes years - but it's possible. Once you have all the elements of the above formula, you can switch your pricing from by the hour to by value.
Flu vaccination is pretty prevalent among seniors.
This is worth it just for `gh repo create`
There might have been updates. I haven't tried in a while - I have to use the Meeting Scheduler in O365 to set up any meetings that I do.
> Lockdown didn't become stricter. People didn't become more compliant; rather the opposite.

> What explanation is there other than the herd immunity thresholds being wrong?

Let's start with sources on those first items before we get to an explanation.

My general understanding is that Sweden recommended certain things but never technically enforced anything, so I'm not sure what "compliance" means.
4 HDD Pi NAS – Big value, little money data storage
There are a few good "un-frak your youtube" extensions as well. I've got mine set to disable autoplay, trending, chat, "related" at the end of video playback, and recommendations. Helps quite a bit.
The Problem of Twelve
"Show me I'm wrong" is not the starting point in the scientific method.
Could be something like people with behaviors consistent with a higher risk of catching/spreading it being already immune by now.
It's something like a lazy eye. It actually tracks along with my other eye, it's just that the vision in there is quite bad. There's no lens in there; I had a catarct removed in the early 1980s before lens transplants.

Then I got a new prescription and was a bit disoriented
at how flat the world seemed, to my mind it was "like
a PlayStation game". What had happened was, my brain
had trained itself to use blurriness as a proxy for
distance (I'm myopic), and the eyeglasses removed that.

That's amazing. It was a bit of an unhelpful adaptation in your case, but it's just absolutely wild how they can adapt!
Lionel Messi wins nine-year fight to trademark his surname
CLI or not, it's centralized/siloed all the same. I'm sticking to Git.
In the Midwest where it’s flat, you build this way and then install a sump pump at one edge to lift the water up and transport it down “slope” (which may be a 1% grade) I’m pretty sure in some of these houses the pump sees the same water multiple times.
It surprised me that the "new" in this documentary was not much different to my modern eye than the "old". Paper blocks were now moved around instead of lead blocks, but fully computerized layout was still relatively far away.
Rails 6 has a totally new code loader that was built specifically to address those issues called Zeitwerk. Some details here if you're interested https://blog.bigbinary.com/2019/10/08/rails-6-introduces-new...
This project was inspired by “The Problem of 12”, the fact that most public companies are increasingly being controlled by a small group of institutional investors: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3247337

There is compelling evidence that this shared ownership can lead to anticompetitive outcomes, such as lower wages and higher prices: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2427345.

My goal is to highlight the extent to which voting power in many competing companies is being concentrated among a small number of institutions, and spark discussion about this problem.

Let me know if you have any suggestions for improvements to the dashboard!
> I recently bought a road bike myself and found the entire sport obnoxiously pretentious, including the guy at the bike shop, who sneered at me because I didn’t know what a “fondo” was.

And that sucks, I'm sorry you had such a bad experience. While I've met many lovely people in the cycling community, I've also run across similar attitudes, myself, from time to time. That's probably because the cycling community reflects people, and people are usually great and sometimes not so much.

But ask yourself: is it good for you, personally, to return that sneering with sneering of your own? Does that make you feel better about yourself or the people around you? What do you gain by stereotyping a huge community based on the poor behaviour of a few individuals?

My suggestion: Assuming you haven't been scared away from the hobby, leave an honest review of that bike shop owner (who legitimately sounds like an ass and isn't someone I'd want representing the cycling community), and then find a better shop.

And if you want to join a cycling club, find one that aligns with your values and beliefs. Cycling clubs are just like people in that they're not all the same.
Or since it's already a while back when headphone jacks were still a thing, plug in your headphones. Although they might take damage from that sound
Port forwarding your local machine is always an option.
What they don't tell you about event sourcing
https://medium.com/@hugo.oliveira.rocha/what-they-dont-tell-you-about-event-sourcing-6afc23c69e9a
His cost is simply too high. If he had the masks already produced when the states were willing to pay $0.30 per mask he would have made out like a bandit but he did not have them.
What's impressive to me is that YouTube Recommendation are so ... stale.

I think part of it is them removing certain content from the recommendations. I would be happy with a chronological order of all videos from all my subscriptions. Perhaps with groups of subscriptions, so I can make a group of comedians, a group of nerds, a group of girls dancing, etc.

The real problem is that youtube is still so much better than everyone else at just playing videos. How has it been 10 years and there is still no real competition in the realm of usability. Even most paid services are not as good. I think a bunch of the streaming services should pool their resources and come up with a good open source player with libraries for all the major frontends and backends. Instead of all of them poorly reinventing the wheel over and over.
I couldn’t manage to make the player work on iOS. Sad day after seeing your comment.
Not only was the driver sleeping, the car was exceeding the speed limit by 40 km/h (25 mph).
We need to get rid of invasive technology like anti-cheating software. Many of these things are actually implemented as kernel drivers that are designed to take over the machine and monitor everything users do. That's the only way they can even hope to prevent cheating and it's not even guaranteed.

Lots of games will start working again on Linux if we get rid of this stuff. Online gaming with random people is just like networking with random people: you never know who is going to be a malicious actor. People should play only with those they personally know and trust.
FWIW - I remember reading about the founder of Baremetrics being able to buy Baremetrics.com via this service. Impressive because Baremetrics (which used to be on baremetrics.io) had received a $500K funding by the time he wanted to buy the .com for his company name. GoDaddy seems to have brokered the deal for $616.

Source - https://baremetrics.com/blog/scored-baremetrics-dot-com
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-always-online-and-th...

We tell archive.org about the URI, they crawl it. They handle robots.txt.
I'd been using `hub create` for several years now...
> I can send invites, just DM me on twitter

Seems like DM is closed.
Thanks for the great article!
Not by default, definitely. Unless you count via WSL, but WSL isn't installed by default either.
When was your house built?
Besides the other great advice here, I always try to make my kids question their reality and develop some critical thinking. I will sometimes say things that don't sense, give answers that are obviously wrong, etc., in order to check if they are really thinking about what I'm saying. My oldest got pretty good at catching these things, so now I'm going to more subtle things, and he is also started catching things that don't come from me: he recently found a plot hole in one of his books.

Also, video games are really good at making them interested in numbers, calculations, etc.
If Twitter had been around back then, would claiming that Nariyah lied when she falsely testified that Iraq took babies out of incubators and left them to die [1], or that the Holodomor happened [2], also cause them to ban you? Not the only times the official line turned out false, so it worries me when bans expand from ridiculous claims and hate, to plausible claims as well.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial_of_the_Holodomor -- Soviet propaganda denied the famine and suppressed information about it from its very beginning until the 1980s. It was also circulated by some Western journalists and intellectuals. It was echoed at the time of the famine by some prominent Western journalists, including The New York Times' Walter Duranty and Louis Fischer.
And here I would have thought the folks known in pop culture for raping and pillaging would have kept a much purer bloodline.
When I was doing consulting for small websites, data work and programming through craigslist, much like the original article. I charged $35/h with a minimum one hour charge. This was 6 or 7 years ago and at the time, I wasn't really thinking about making it full time work.

I did a lot of research before hand on average rates for the type of work I was doing and my experience level, checked out other ads things like that.

I chose my rate because it was higher than the spammy looking cheap ads but was on the lower end for consulting rates.

I got a decent amount of work. I had one customer specifically tell me he chose me after finding out my rate because I charged more than the people with the cheap ads that had done poor quality work.

I never had anyone quibble about the rates. Luckily, my customers were mostly business owners and stuff.

I got some tine tracking software that also helped keep work stuff seperate from hone stuff. If I clocked in, I was working, I kept a list of tasks. In the end though, nobody really asked to see or check, they just wanted the bill.

Don't be afraid to charge a rate you feel is reasonable for your work ans don't feel bad when you hand over that invoice.
I'm genuinely worried about Apple now. It seemed to me that, for the most part, they had avoided the "change for change's sake" mentality that is rampant in the tech industry. Moving Bedtime to Health is clearly that. Sure, it could have easily lived in Health just as much as it could live in the Clock app. I can't think if a real reason to move it wholesale, though. Other apps can share data with the Health app, why not Clock?

All because some PM at Apple thought, "I gotta change something or they won't think I'm doing anything."
At last! What I've always wanted.
Unfortunately for psychologists, establishing causality within a structural equations framework is really hard (regardless of the common claims that SEM is causal in nature).

The approach outlined in the paper is close to [Directed Acyclic Graphs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph) and Pearl's approach to causality (see [this comment](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24506593) for more info).

The basic issue with these approaches is that the structural model needs to be well specified in order to get to an unbiased estimate of the causal effect that you want to estimate. By well-specified, I mean that you have measured all possible variables impacting the relationship of interest and that you have specified the correct relationships among the variables (no controls for mediators or no colliders, as the paper outlines). If you believe that, SEM can give you unbiased estimates of the coefficient of interest.

On the other hand, if the model is misspecified, coefficients will be biased and it is difficult to figure out where the bias is. Bollen (1989) pretty much says that any coefficient could be biased in a misspecified model.

(Micro) Economists have addressed this issues by moving away from a regression framework and towards experimental and quasi-experimental methods. The same methods are not really used outside of microeconomics, as far as I can tell.

SEM is a little bit more common (at least with developmental psychologists that I know of) and that framework doesn't really work well with even basic quasi-experimental methods (e.g., diff-in-diff).
I don't think it's as simple as that. Since people are not literally screaming fire in a theatre who defines what is analogous? We used to be able to practice political descent freely. In times passed it was quite ok to have and share openly an opinion that medication is a scam (this is certainly not a new idea).

It is broadly understood it's not ok to incite violence, but much of what is being labelled as damaging speech is only labelled as such because of the broad platform it's being spoken from.
If you want to build each individual piece without licensing from Siemens/Dassault, then yes this would compare to a moonshot.

Parasolid, the CAD kernel owned by Siemens, is more than 30 years old at this point. The same amount of effort has gone into many of the other building blocks as well. OPENCASCADE is a FOSS CAD kernel but doesn't work well for real CAD, and support is hard to come by for companies building on it.

Most startups tend to license these tools instead of building them, but that comes at a large cost that must be pushed down to customers, hence the $$$$ cost of CAD today.
> Statistics on desktop OS usage reflect OEM preloading, marketing, and momentum of familiarity, not anything inherent to the operating systems or environments.

Yeah, Linux Desktop evangelists have been saying that forever and yet, as I mentioned, even a lot of people like me who both are capable of and have reasons to desire a different OS find Linux Desktop too broken to deal with.

The community chooses the narrative that protects their ego.

> Anecdotally with friends and family, Fedora has been "normie"-friendly since 2007 or so

Anecdotally I know a lot of people who do some kind of work with their computers and are programmers and general nerds who hate Linux Desktops because they are so broken.
Show HN: Turn Google Sheets into a live data workbench for CRM data
Take the fire out of the picture and PG&E have total responsibility for maintaining this infrastructure and keeping it safe. They can't blame it on the geography of the area.

Put the fire back in and, yes, they still have significant responsibility. The same way that someone setting off a firework or lighting up a barbecue in the brush or holding a gender reveal party is held responsible. They don't get off easier because they're a big business and it's tough for them. Their CEO and shareholders can live with a smaller return to properly take care of their equipment.

It has nothing to do with stopping all fires, or making them responsible for reducing them. It's holding them to account for causing one.
There are still more than enough deserts that we could fill with solar panels.
https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ + globalization.

Money creation favors people closer to the the printer. People that can take a loan at 2% - which are generally wealthy people already. In the meantime working class has to compete with cheaper labor from poorer countries, while the capital owning class is pocketing the difference and enjoys cheaper goods.

Before capital owners had to pay a decent wage to workers in USA. The products made in US were more expensive, but the workers were compensated well so generally could afford it.

Now manufactured goods are cheaper, so people can still afford TVs and phones, but their purchasing power is lower in respect to things like services, housing.

This BTW. benefits software engineers that can plug themselves into high margin, low-labor operating capital, enjoy higher wages and rather easily join the capital class themselves.

Fundamentally labor increases profits linearly and capital increases profits exponentially. Without something to bridge the gap, exponential function will always eventually overtake the linear one. This happened many times before, and unfortunately the bridging was usually very destructive (wars & revolutions).
> If I tell you to kill someone and tell you I will kill you if you don't follow through, then I am still only using words.

No you're not, you're using violence. The violence travels back in time to compel action on the part of the recipient in order to prevent your anticipated violent action. If there was no expectation on the part of the recipient of any negative consequences from not following your order, the order itself wouldn't cause them to do it and there would be no harm.

Compare the scenario where you threaten to kill someone if they don't kill someone else while enacting a play. The threat of violence isn't really there, even though the words are identical. Clearly the words aren't the source of the crime.
Don’t worry, OP left out the plot twist where they got a huge payday from that job. Their siblings forgave them and they’re now living it up in a sweet mansion in Hawaii.
The countries in the nuclear club represent a significant fraction of the world's energy consumption. Even if they were the only ones to eliminate the use of carbon-based energy via nuclear, it would be a good start.
The tree-sky transitions are a probem. Perhaps you should try to help the generator and add an automatic tree-sky region.
I spent a week trying to do this by hunting down disparate blog posts that all used a different ML framework or GPT2 finetuning tool. I didn't understand what you were supposed to do and ended up with gibberish output instead. For example, isn't the dataset supposed to be specifically formatted to separate significant blocks of text, with something like <!endoftext>? The OP doesn't mention anything about this.

It's these kinds of things that make me doubt myself at every turn when doing this "finetuning" thing. I wish there was a clearer tutorial for people only interested in retraining GPT2 to generate different kinds of text, alongside a description of how each step works at an intuitive level. A lot of times the author starts right off with "okay let's start finetuning" without really defining what "finetuning" is or does. I just want to understand the scope of knowledge needed to know how to use my own text corpus as the input source without needing to become an expert in ML. (Maybe this activity isn't for me if that's how I'm going to think about it?)

If anything, I wish Talk to Transformer still existed as a downloadable model. I have yet to find another model that generates text like it did. At the end of the day I just sigh and look at all the random article and comment and adventure generators other people have succeeded in making without "getting" it.
I've been using Emacs for a decade and still have never had to write a single package of my own. Every time I have a good idea, someone else has already implemented it.
Seconding Gandi. I spent the past year transferring my domains over (as registrations lapsed with Route53, which is a Gandi frontend with fewer features).

Their interface is very clean, their business model is no-nonsense, and I dig the managed DNSSEC.
Since 2018 it is also the most profitable entertainment product of all time, overtaking movies such as "Star Wars" and "Gone With the Wind" (adjusted for inflation). [1]

1. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-violent-videogame-has...
That's true in so far as the developer is also not a user of the software, or associated softwares in the space. Which happens more often than random.
C'mon.. it's one google search away. https://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/registrars/msg...

Lots of instances of it, I won't bother listing all of it here as I'm on a phone.
I was struggling to get past this first comment where the poster says:

> I have had various commercial, home-use and free licenses with Autodesk since about 1990.

If you've been using a product for 30 years and never paid for it, it's really hard to complain.

I'm not a big fan of Autodesk for various reasons, but if you are a hobbyist, there are affordable alternatives. If they need the more advanced features Autodesk offers versus competition, you can pay for them.
The IMAX system, at least in my Cinema City venue, uses polarization. I've also tried Real 3D cinemas but that didn't work.

>May I ask what your eye condition is?

I don't know if it's neurological but I just don't register depth w/o forcing it. I have astigmatism and short-sightedness.
Labeling someone as transgender who says they are not isn't.

https://variety.com/2017/biz/news/richard-simmons-transgende...
I just described a modern strategy that includes tactical quarantine and isolation! What we have done instead (spew absurd panic from every mainstream institution for the better part of a year, while sending kids home from school and COVID patients into nursing homes) is a disgrace.

More about the modern strategy that we could have used instead: https://youtu.be/VK0Wtjh3HVA
How many people do people under 20 infect?

How many of those secondary infections die? How many of them stay sick for months?

There was a case right before schools opened in Georgia, I believe, of a kid who caught COVID at football practice. He's fine, but both of his parents died in a week.

Fortunately, he now no longer needs to worry about COVID. Unfortunately, he's now an orphan.
Beyond playing games, can you use them for anything else? How hard is it to program them?
> The scp protocol is outdated, inflexible and not readily fixed. We recommend the use of more modern protocols like sftp and rsync for file transfer instead.
Man who hunts two rabbits starves.
One possibility is that better air circulation in closed rooms due to open windows, higher vitamin D levels, and people meeting others outdoors rather than indoors more often have been contributing factors. These ameliorating factors would play less of a role in Southern countries like Spain or Italy, since they were already present in spring in those regions and so all infections took place in spite of them.

Covid could be "lightly seasonal", so-to-say, though by far too infectious to be as seasonal as influenza. This is speculation, of course, unless it's backed up with studies.

By the way, maybe I'm mistaken about this, but it seems to me that any increase of the number of immunized people will statistically decrease the R-value even long before herd-immunity is reached. Together with the measures and heightened awareness this might also explain the data.
This just happened to me today with Epik, another old-timey registrar. Added a .com to their shopping cart yesterday, then went to pay for it this morning — no need, it's been registered during the night to someone in Japan. Not a super great domain either, just a brand extension for our company.

Feels like either they or some other party are looking at the stream of purchase intent to do this. Awful practice.