skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note that that Bloomberg headline was a quite poor representation of the article; he was relatively impressed by remote work but didn't seem interested in permanently shifting the company in that direction.
I find it highly effective for retention and understanding to talk with someone about what I'm reading, as I'm reading it. If I just read a chapter from a book on Austrian Economics about how profit/loss signals in a market allocate resources more efficiently than a planning board, I'll bring it up with my friend next time we talk. As they ask questions I'm forced to deepen my own understanding of the topic by answering them.
From what I can tell, tech IS a meritocracy. As long as you have the money and/or connections to get into the tech scene.
I am not aware of any definitive evidence either way on whether lockdowns are good or bad for physical health.

They are clearly bad for people's mental health (except adolescents) and are horrible for the economy. However for physical health we have a variety of effects. Positive ones include reduced car accidents and communicable diseases of all kinds. Negative ones include more suicides and less preventive care. I don't know how they balance out.

Do you have any data on that?
> What I don't get is vaping. Wasn't the cause traced down to THC/CBD additives that weren't even sold by the major brands? They seemed to fold too fast for something that arguably was not their product. I must be missing something.

We don't know the long-term effect of vaping because 1) its a recent hype 2) its difficult to clinically trace vapers and get meaningful statistics.

We do know that vaping is more healthy than smoking, regarding carcinogens / cancer.

When I went to a store which sells magazines, tobacco, etc the other day (has an embedded post office) they had a lot of commercials for vaping. I know tobacco commercials are illegal here, so I'm not so sure about this. I guess its good business for them.
But it IS a blatant lie. If the OP can provide any evidence of a student's caste listed on a notice board in a college, I'll eat my hat.
It's incredibly doubtful, but I still wonder if they are also going to have some kind of Internet Explorer compatibility mode. If so, this could be beneficial for web devs that use Linux, but still have to support a userbase that is stuck with IE.
Break them up. There should be more competition in this industry.
Lockscreen and Authentication Improvements in Android 11
See, I don't think that's possible. VSCode only has 10 or so employees full time. I don't think they could make a good text editor with this kind of dev speed on 3 different platforms natively.

Sublime is great but it updates once every other blue moon for a reason.
> With little time to observe use in the wild … the reasonable approach was to not over-constrain.

Given a new language feature and limited time to observe actual use, IMHO the reasonable approach would be to constrain it as tightly as possible. It's much easier to relax constraints to enable new uses later than it is to reign in inadvisable uses of an underconstrained interface. For example, if the original Range interface had simply consisted of two private, immutable fields with Copy + PartialOrd constraints and an implementation of the IntoIterator trait then it would be trivial to add setters (or public fields), an internal Iterator implementation, and looser type constraints later on if these were deemed necessary. Going the other way, however, breaks programs that have come to depend on these dubious features.
Thanks for speaking openly! Can I ask you for your opinion? I have come to believe that the justice system itself is the root of the problem, namely that it is so expensive and slow that it doesn't provide justice. Trials used to take days, and now they take months or years. They used to cost hundreds, now tens of thousands, or more. It is only within such a moribund system that lobbying can be successful! If trials were fast and cheap, people might still try to lobby, but the feedback loop would be fast and accurate.
http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2011/12/climategate-email-warm...

Of course this will be downvoted to oblivion, to punish me for pointing it out. Because it's now an ideological debate.
One example within a couple of weeks of now means that statistically it's more unlikely to be unusual
>Mozilla's "include my site in the public results" (including vulnerabilities) by default doesn't seem very privacy respecting.

Then don't use it.

Or check the click-box. Which is what I did.

That said, your Internet-facing IP address isn't private. In fact, it has to be public in order to route traffic to/from you.

I'd note that the shodan.io site had information about my IP address, even though I'd never used it or requested a scan. What's more, I'm included in that database without any opportunity to opt out as the Mozilla site provides.

And just to be clear, I have no connection to Mozilla (or any of the other sites I mentioned). In fact, I'd never looked at Mozilla Observatory before I started poking around for the comment to which you replied and included it only because it had an SSH scanner.
Thoughts on the Pythagorean Theorem
25 years is life, so perhaps someone died.
From Wikipedia:

Twin studies of adult individuals have found a heritability of IQ between 57% and 73%[6] with the most recent studies showing heritability for IQ as high as 80%[7] IQ goes from being weakly correlated with genetics, for children, to being strongly correlated with genetics for late teens and adults.
Why use React for a blog where 99% of the content is static?
JetBrains is and always has been amazing, but I like VS Code mainly because I'm accustomed to Visual Studio which is a huge bloated mess, especially inside a VM. For me it's quite an improvement. I mainly do C# back end stuff, so YMMV. I'm sure C# is a first class language for VS Code.
It's known that there were "greenhouse periods" in the distant past where substantially all the glaciers melted, so whatever homeostasis mechanisms might exist can't be strong enough to prevent that scenario.
You do realize that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of colleges in India, right?
I'm having trouble reading sarcasm. Are you joking? Or is there a complaint in there somewhere?
This is huge. I've felt like an outsider for years here because the gov uses a lot of online forms in PDF.
Obesity prevalence rates as of 2016: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/...

United States: 36%

France: 22%

Canada: 29%

Germany: 22%

Adiposity is the Crucial Enhancer of COVID-19: https://cardiologyres.org/index.php/Cardiologyres/article/vi...

If governments were serious about protecting their populations then they would have put more funding into reducing obesity. No matter what pandemic control measures are taken, many of us are eventually going to get infected. So we all ought to be doing whatever it takes to cut body fat down to healthy levels. Our lives may literally depend on it.
Its biggest weakness is its biggest strength.

People said a UI based on web tech was backwards and slow. Turns out it os at least fast enough and enables cloud IDEs that can run in the browser.
I pay for a personal subscription to the JetBrains suite, use IntelliJ and PyCharm all day, and have also used Visual Studio all day in the recent past. The combination of modern IDEs with modern hardware is pretty awesome. My use of Emacs fluctuates depending on the job, language, environment, etc. but I've mostly used it for Org mode and a scratch pad since I signed up for JetBrains.

That said, I tried Nova from Panic (https://nova.app/) the other day, and the native app performance makes a noticeable difference. I know it's doing less, but I can still search the codebase quickly and the resource use is like 10% of other IDEs.
See the linked video, it is already on the specific moment they talk about it.
I disliked Rubymine because it tried to do too much. And it didn't work well with my docker stuff. Which ultimately made a lot of it useless.

My VScode is tweaked to the languages I need and I can use one editor to switch between them.

And the linting and formatting just works.
Former ABC (Australia) bureau chief tells story of fleeing China for first time
Github and Azure integration.
Aside from the bar being set at completely different levels ("making the world a better place" vs building fancy web apps) I guess graduating from X means being spun off as an Alphabet subsidiary, while successful Area 120 projects may see closer integration with Google's core products.
For those that like Vim, but also like some of the features that VS Code offers, but do not like VS Code itself and/or its Vim integrations or emulations, I must heartily recommend coc.nvim [0]. It's like using a modern IDE, minus the bloat and anti-features which make most of them (including, of course, VS Code) painful to use.

[0] - https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim
Auto Tab Discard works great for me as well. Would love to see something like this built-in, though.

I've also found cutting the content process limit in half to significantly improve performance. Combined with the above add-on my machine doesn't start swapping or become non-performant even with lots of sites open.
Now I know you are lying! The Qing dynasty was far larger than China is today; in fact, it included Bhutan: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_Qing_dynasty_...
All of those named books are specifically excellent, it turns out. Read them. The first may well change your view of your place in the world, and the third may well change your understanding of human history.
Well, here's the thing - so much previously accepted history was a complete crock. The (extreme) contrarian reports are what stand out, but even if they are only correct a small % of the time, they provide an impetus for history to become more accurate.

In your rant about Nero, you hint at this: even if the more ancient writers are more correct, there is great value in the recent re-telling. Otherwise, the incorrectness in the Nero story would never be less wrong.

Also, I strongly disagree with your assessment of the overall situation - I think modern scholars are much more likely to be rigorous. Have you ever read 1491? In the "Numbers from Nowhere" section, it details how bad the methodology was in early indigenous population estimates... That kind of lazy/biased/incompetent historical research appears all too common, when evaluating older historians' methodologies.
I meant laws which bend to corporate expectations. A more appropriate phrase would be regulatory capture.
If that link does not work, just click on the "what does shodan know" link on this site. http://dwerp.io

Turns out the port my DVR was on was in their DB.. Guessing I was owned at one point.
It's not generally used to assess your own attack surface - it's mainly used to assess the attack surface of others using their search syntax. It's a Google of vulnerable systems.
People living large on convenient, abundant, and cheap energy derived from fossil fuels largely want to doubt climate change.

The oil industry doesn't even need to make an effort to convince the public to keep using their products. It doesn't take anything to enable the masses to continue living lives they're already deeply entrenched in and thoroughly enjoying.

Frankly I'm surprised they've wasted so much money on the propaganda. The energy density of e.g. gasoline is quite a moat by itself. Perhaps it's more a liability issue?
A million students and counting have learned Linux
Yes, it was pretty impactful for me at that age. If someone is worried about GMO, they will stop eating it. I don't see that with climate change activist. I don't see any change in most of these peoples lifestyle. Over that when they oppose nuclear it makes me think what's going on.

I am a big believer in polluting less and using as much as you need. Live in small houses, use cooling only above 40 degree centigrade and heating below 0 degree. Walk more have less children.
Which IDE? If you mean Visual Studio, that's a Windows only product and it's really only good for Windows specific development like C# and MSVC. If you do C# or C++ development on Windows or XBox then you're likely already using Visual Studio and the community edition is a free product for individual use or open source products.

If you mean some future IDE that MS is working on that they plan to evolve VS Code into, I don't see MS trying to sell macOS or Linux users a proprietary dev environment or toolchain. It's certainly possible but your post doesn't provide any justification for that position.
What comes with Adobe Reader?

I have it on my work computer and haven't noticed anything I would rate as particularly obnoxious, but I don't use it much.
the electron overhead is fixed. if it has problems with large repos it wouldn't be due to electron. it would be due to vscode itself or some extension you are suing.
I think this is very dependent on one's area, and other factors. For me, Twitter has been important professionally. Also, I work remotely and have very little direct contact with people in the major tech cities.
Nah, just re-asserting how "important" this is to Apple and Google, better let others do the work for free, while aspiring to be future employees, or not.
I plan on voting by remote ballot, but dropping it off at a ballot drop box.
I open a new window for each project, so I don't share this pain.
One of the things that struck me in Tokyo was that high-rise construction (and there’s a lot of it) uniformly had sound barriers constructed around it. It looked like just plywood with a canvas cover in most cases, so nothing heavy or fancy. And then, prominently displayed at the top of the barrier, was a digital decibel meter, with the limit clearly painted alongside.

After being driven from no less than three apartments by jackhammers and construction, American arguments against noise regulation fall flat to me.
Lossless compression of English short messages
Making Tea in Polythene Bag
Yeah, It does not scan all ports, just a select thousand or so, and 51820 does not seem to be among them
> Wild conspiracy theories help cover up actual conspiracy and malfeasance.

I'm not sure what you mean here. Do you believe the principal actors in the publicly known and acknowledged aspects of MKULTRA were not held to account because of 'wild conspiracy theories' which had little traction outside fringe newsletters in the 1970s when MKULTRA came to some semblance of public light? Do you believe the general public would be more aware and educated about these abuses if not for the existence of those theories?

There's nothing outside hard facts in any of what Tom O'Neill has printed, so you can save your charges that I am "making shit up" or "chasing phantoms." The idea that he is exploring connections to the other historical events I mentioned is so far just rumor, but rumor to which O'Neill himself has lent some credence on his own Twitter page:
https://twitter.com/chaosmansonbook/status/12990091441424179...
https://twitter.com/chaosmansonbook/status/12990005775952486...

Everyone already knows the standard narrative line that "MKULTRA was a temporary, discontinued, and largely unsuccessful program, which like COINTELPRO was ended (we promise!) when documentary evidence of it was brought to light." I don't see how informed, fact-based speculation that there may be more to it than that does anything to 'cover up' or absolve the people involved.
The question is also to consider when and at what price. A Amiga 2000 had indeed quite the extension possibilities, but they were expensive. An Amiga 500 was a whole other story. The expandibility was limited and only in later times was it possible to add a lot of RAM and disks, etc. and RAM it needed a lot, much more than than Atari, but the Ataris didn't need as much memory, but they were also less greedy with it.
Sadly, all too much of modern life has become about wasting your own time, and money, to mitigate screwups made by completely unaccountable third parties.
Bringing in a virtuous point in irrelevant occasions is virtue signalling. By the way I can't stand people who litter, and I picked up 3 pieces of litter already today.
How on earth would you navigate any reasonably sized Java or .NET project in Notepad++?

That would be so far beyond impractical you wouldn't last an afternoon.
Until it was so abruptly pruned, I did not appreciate the breadth of diversity, in modalities of contact and communication, of which my life was woven. So many physical spaces and patterns of use, richly balancing access and privacy, contact and distance.

Likely there is a long tail of imaginative online spaces... but if asked, I'd not know what to suggest to someone to explore for them.

Have we sufficient imagination here?

Is there a page of collective murmured audio, anonymous and yet conveying a multitude of lives in progress? Is there a page where people wander by, to discuss what they're puzzled by, in front of a virtual whiteboard? Are there gatherings, where you can wander among spoken conversations, listening for keywords of interest?

Tech constrains. And yet, physical space is itself so very constraining. We've fleshed out physical constraints into social poetry. Though with it's impacts on inclusion and squandered opportunities, it's so often a poetry steeped in loss and harm. Are we exploring the social poetry potential within current tech constraints? Are there art projects of online sociality? How might one search for such?

The article reminded me there is a vast richness to the physical social world. And the digital social world, at least mine, now, has rather less. But that doesn't seem necessitated by available tech.
DigitalOcean Networking Issues (22nd Sept 2020) - LON1 Region
Please ban this whole subject, as it's no longer possible to have a constructive discussion about it. Few people want to get downvoted for pointing out undisputed, inconvenient facts.
A reminder that CISCO allowed official caste discrimination in the US among their Indian workers until recently: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/tech/cisco-lawsuit-caste-disc...
Ah ok, I get your meaning now. Yeah, it saves the need for the line in source code, but doesn't affect the generated code either way (you still need to include React somehow if using it, or whatever alternative if not)
I mostly mean pausing and playing when taking them out or switching devices. Currently when watching YouTube videos the audio just starts playing on speaker. Will try out these options and see if that fixes it.
To my mind VS Code (and not only VS Code, vim and other editors also) not only competes with editors, but with IDEs as well. It's interesting that he doesn't mention JetBrains at all. I'm curious to see if there is a trend of people migrating from it (or not?) and why.

> GitHub’s Codespaces also run VS Code as a web app, this time by spinning up an ad hoc development environment.

This probably can be the first time we'll see people use online code platform for real.
Voodoo wins plagiarism lawsuit against Zynga-owned Rollic Games
A couple of years ago Asana stole our slogan, now Google.

For the record, https://www.paymoapp.com (work management) was the first to use Work better, together. Really annoying that they don't do at least a bit of research.
It has the rendering engine of a browser and that also has some advantages in rendering capabilities. Browsers are really good at rendering rich text, it's what they were designed for, and a native editor can't beat that.

There's the occasional big text file that I have to open, in which case Vim would do a better job. But usually VS Code has no performance issues for me.
Sometimes Idea finds duplicated code without your interaction and suggests to extract it into method. I don't always like it, but it's an interesting feature.
I felt a bit manipulated to be directed to their app at the end of a video to discover it costs money. The way it was worded didn't set up that expectation.

Maybe I'm wrong, did anyone else have that experience?
Yup. When the Portuguese ruled Goa and surrounding parts of India, they were happy to keep caste prejudices -- for example, for a long time they only allowed Christian converts of Brahmin origin to become priests.

Similarly, other Catholics attempted to integrate the caste system into Christianity in India (see the Malabar rites controversy), and had two different "castes" of priests, one acting as Brahmin's and ministering to higher castes, and one acting as Hindu priests from lower castes (pandarams), ministering to everyone else.
But don't candidates for Google jobs have to jump through several tedious rounds of interview? How likely is it that there's going to be a snobby Indian in each of those rounds who gets to veto a candidate?
I hope wxSwift project will be resurrected.
So because China is worse, the US is ok? How is that relevant? It’s also not dozens, not even in Japan alone (see links below).

The US military also didn’t punish for crimes against civilians on Okinawa much of the time and if it did, the punishment was relatively minor. This isn’t how assault, rape and murder are treated in the US.

http://www.uchinanchu.org/history/list_of_crimes.htm

https://apjjf.org/2018/03/Mitchell.html
The implication is that, inherently, higher caste individuals were more gifted than lower castes, and that breeding over the years selected for those traits.

You're confusing inherent trait with sociologically applied traits. In other words, there is no reason to assume there would be selective reproduction for ANY single trait in any of the castes, because your birth into those castes is random and meaningless.

Unless the first two people to make new babies in the highest castes were inherently better than everyone else. Which I firmly believe is false.
To suggest anything "steady" between the end of GT c. 9000 BP and Vinca c. 7700 bp requires willful ignorance of the magnitude of 1300 years.

And to suggest Shimao is somehow unsurprising flies in the face of a century of sinology, which offers no hint of any large-scale organization anywhere in China, never mind there. Erlitou postdates Shimao by four centuries.
By that interpretation any profit making is rent seeking.

A landlord is not “rent seeking” just by charging rent. For instance they are providing value in the form of risk arbitrage in most cases.

The only case a landlord is purely rent seeking in the economic sense is if they only captured the difference in value of their properties due to external factors.
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Tesla 2020 Annual Shareholder Meeting and Battery Day – Live
We'll need a retrospective to know if propaganda has really gotten worse, probably.

Doubt peddling has been around for a while. The tactic itself is quite basic. Bring your own expert to contradict the majority opinion and create a dichotomy. But, I think it only worked because a partisanship preexisted.

There was already a pro-environment and pro-business side. Once it descends into political poop throwing, the content is somewhat irrelevant. It's just content. It needs to have a certain form, maybe credentials... it's a hurdle though. What matters is political backing, not the content of the arguments.

These days, we don't even need merchants of doubt anymore. A room full of oil execs crafting weasel words and uncertainty seems quaint at this point. The newer, "flood the zone with shit" variety of propaganda seems more powerful to me. It's more visceral and emotional. There's no need for consistency and you can stack unrelated "arguments" an way you want. Climate change is overstated. Climate change is natural. Climate change is a hoax. Climate change is cover for a pedovore conspiracy. Climate scientists are paid more than doctors. No one has to stand behind any of these claims, and the only reason to moderate them is to appeal to moderates. You can reach weirdos with weird claims and extremist with extremist ones.

On the whole, it's proving more capable of having effect without a priori political support. Probably much more dangerous.
OpenAI should really change its name by now.
Thanks, very cool!