skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These protests prove how powerful the mind control of social media can be. It could be that they are using these black people to normalize surveillance and discourage protests on legitimate issues. Why would anyone protest e.g. hyperinflation if it meant they would be compared to antifa.
It won't help with being resource intensive, but there's a good number of electron-based ebook readers around. Alternatively, if you constantly have a browser open, you could use calibre-web and simply open the books in your browser.

FBReader is also available and multiplatform (as FBReaderJ), as are a few other ebook readers.
Seriously, you can't google? And what does Paul or Jessica have to do with the 'VC mindset'?
Yes, I switched teams at work to be on a high-performing team. All the high performing people left the team for one reason or another. I still felt like there were interesting problems to solve, but my outlook became rather depressed for a while.

I don't know whether I should have stayed around after the high-performers left.
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The math progress metric[1] could be a normal seasonal inequity. Most students regress over the summer, unless they have camps or parents with time to continue the focus. Would like to see that in context of the of prior years (though perhaps there isn't enough data from before).

[1] https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_p...
You will. Do the work of breaking this down into snack sizes and just get started
Why ex?
> It’s a big deal and everyone who contributed should be super proud.

Thanks! We actually haven't really analyzed Speedometer (and most other benchmarks) yet with Warp so I expect this number to improve the coming months. The design seems to be holding up well and we're really excited about building on this.
> “ There was no behavior uncovered by the emails that were unfair or destabilizing.“

Yes there was.

> “ It was the false or out-of-context reporting that was destabilizing.“

No it was not.

> “ But this was the intent from the start.”

No it was not.

> “ It turns out information without context is just as bad as outright fabrications.”

This statement has no relationship with the leaked DNC emails.
> [People don't learn] when they read the right answer, or are told they’re doing it wrong
I’m not sure this article considers the big picture.

Let’s assume you are a high income earner at 60k USD as the article points:

How much of this income is made by selling services to lower/middle classes? So long as your labour doesn’t directly serve to top 1%, you will inevitably see your income lowered due to actions taken/not taken by the government. USA literally printed out trillions and gave most of it to the top, this money was in essence taken from lower/middle classes.

I think 60k rate doesn’t show the reality. Reality is, if you don’t make your income by serving to upper classes where most of the stimulus money has flown to, then you will see a direct hit to your income.

This includes most of the software engineers/programmers as well.
What was the new tech in ME ?
Bach was not recognized as a world-class composer until over a hundred years after his death, IIRC.
Agile retrospectives are supposed to include discussion about switching up your process to deal with a problem.

Lean management is about picking a small number of processes that are easy to remember and keep backlogs ('inventory') from becoming a liability. And then sticking with them.

I've heard it argued by a former mentor, and people who write books, that Scrum is/has become a Lean process. I still haven't found a counterargument that I think will convince any of them.

A process that is meant to engage everyone in fixing everything but the sacred cow draws attention to the sacred cow. The dissonance is something that people who spend all day thinking in terms of logic prefer not to look at, and so this makes some people angry, others sad, and everyone uncomfortable.
> Progress happens too slowly to notice, setbacks happen too fast to ignore

Seems to be an answer to a lot of social issues.
Its difficult to throw away your job even if you make good money -- because you naturally take on debts and consumption to match.
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Nowhere in the article did it say that the directory of the NIH call the anecdotal reports "credible". The NIH is conducting a survey, which is the only responsible response given the magnitude of the pandemic. But that is not the same as an endorsement of credibility at all. If testing a hypothesis meant endorsing a hypothesis, then science could never happen.

As for "doctors in France and Hong Kong", there's 10 million physicians worldwide. Pick any theory, and you'll find no shortage of doctors somewhere who endorses it. Despite what public perception, being a physician does not make one a scientist. The reality is that the vast majority of doctors do not understand basic statistics[1].

So yes, I would indeed claim that opinion of statisticians, engineers, physical scientists, economists and other fields with expertise in statistics can in many cases be as relevant, it not more than relevant than physicians. Particularly, in cases like this, when the conclusions are being made off a small signal in a large-scale dataset.

[1] https://medium.com/wintoncentre/why-doctors-are-bad-at-stats...
What perps? The venn diagram of affluent homeowners who own a home surveillance drone with houses that happen to get broken into is infinitesimal. This is about data collection.
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Note that the parent comment isn’t saying it couldn’t be a real phenomenon, just that you need proper studies to distinguish it from people’s general tendency to wrongly attribute causation. Assuming there exists a group of post-covid patients who have prolonged symptoms, it’s in their best interests that there be a proper study, with a robust case definition. Otherwise, we’re unlikely to find any therapeutic interventions that will help these people, because any actual therapeutic benefit may be drowned out by potentially large numbers of other people who have similar symptoms but not the same etiology.

FWIW, I’m an ER doc and see lot’s of covid and post-covid patients, as well as working with lots of staff who have had it - for most people, the after-effects last longer than a bad flu, but not as long as, say, after getting a bacterial pneumonia. But it’s certainly plausible that covid could cause prolonged symptoms (3-6 months) in some patients.

So the way to “take these patients seriously” is not to assume their prolonged symptoms must be due to covid, but to consider that they might be due to covid...and then use that to motivate a study that actually investigates the phenomenon.
Why would someone in Bach's era needed to have recognized him as a world-class composer? If his music appealed to them personally they would know, and if they were a "record label," the fact that it wasn't popular at the time is all they would need to know.
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How would such a law protect you against a copyright lawsuit where the rights holder claims you looked at leaked sources?
I think pypy might be a simple way to get around that, iirc it's pretty self-contained and doesn't need to integrate much. I ran it from /opt for a while, but ~/.local should work too.
I have read that the proposed solution included China giving up claim on Arunachal Pradesh(de facto Indian territory, South Tibet as per PRC) and India giving up claim on Aksai Chin(de facto Chinese territory, part of Ladakh as per India). Not sure why it was not pursued. Maybe India's relations with Pakistan were a factor.
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There is more to it. Those with insecure jobs are in precarious positions or already lost them. While those with secure jobs (like most people in here) are enjoying their WFH.
Nope, not proud. Russia is definitely fucked up. Just bringing up an interesting fact, I do seriously wonder though, why these dietary restriction aren’t generally known in Russia, and it is interesting that the dogs do handle it. I even know one family that specifically makes an very onion based dish for their dog as a treat because she likes it so much, with no ill effect.

For the record, I avoid giving my dog anything that is considered in-appropriate by American standards.
Well those costs are mainly related to adding support for another memory standard, but i'm suggesting ECC become the standard with non-ECC being dropped. The BIOS/testing cost would be unaffected, they would just be testing only ECC memory.

Realistically the mainstream CPU manufacturers have ECC solutions, so including them in the mainstream processors shouldn't be a huge issue, it's just a market segmentation ploy to exclude the feature from the consumer processor designs.
It’s a shame to see tribalistic downvoting on this. It’s just stating facts that render the parent comment fundamentally inaccurate. There’s nothing to downvote, there’s no possible angle of interpretation or disagreement.

Downvoting this is equivalent to saying “Assange is bad no matter what the facts or evidence shows.”
> Command+, to bring up preferences is surefire, does linux/windows have the same yet?

I just tried this in macOS (Catalina), in Chrome while I happened to be looking at a design page in figma.com and nothing happened.

Not so surefire I guess. To be fair - I assume the web page was capturing that shortcut. It worked on the new tab page.

The point though is that this is an app thing, not a macOS thing. If every app on Windows and Linux decided to use the same exact shortcut for opening preferences, then we'd have that. On macOS, Apple does not strictly enforce Cmd+, for opening preferences - any macOS app can use that for whatever they want.

> Word and like jumps in Windows also felt backwards to me...

Jumping words is done with Ctrl+left/right arrow in Windows and Linux. On macOS it's Option+left/right arrow. On all systems, it can be combined with Shift to highlight the word.

> Support for Alt+Dpad(+Shift) and Command+Dpad(+Shift) is important IMO. As well as Double/Triple-click+Drag: it should select additional units not letters.

Not sure what this means, but on my Linux desktops I have absolute freedom to make my keyboard and mouse to do just about anything I can dream of. Meanwhile, in macOS I am often told that if I am not loving the way that Apple has chosen for me to behave, then I must be expecting the wrong thing...
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Great comment. People also used to use only a few pieces of software in any given day (or week, even!) e.g. email, web browser, and word processor.

Now, our computer ("phone") is with us everywhere we go and we'll use dozens of complex applications per day, connected by dozens of APIs, networks, protocols, and hardware features. It's a miracle any of it works sometimes! Thank you to everyone for making this stuff seem like magic; my twelve-year-old self would be amazed at how well it works.

I do feel like there are more UI bugs as we optimize for certain metrics over others. Timing updates has become far more complicated, so we get weird UI refreshes as new data comes in, stale caches, missed notifications, etc. Turning it off and on again often works, surprisingly (probably because devs start with clean environments often, so that's the functional baseline).

Lastly, it is probably far more lucrative for a technology based business to use their most valuable minds for the Next Thing, rather than iterating on the current thing. Incremental revenue improvements just don't cut it in a capital-driven world; everyone is trying to escape the local maxima to find billion/trillion dollar businesses.
Ouch. That was not an intended one. Those colourful overlays are just android stickers. I didn't expect them to be translucent. . :( I fixed it. I would kindly request you to modify / remove the link part please . :(
weev went to jail for adding 1 to a number on a URL... They can do anything they want to you if they decide to...
I don't remember health officials supporting anti-mask protests, not sure why you think its relevant.
Does anyone have any idea of the SLAM architecture running onboard these systems?
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The catastrophy that is the Russian economy and social systems have led to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths over the years and has put million in misery. This is because the liberalization process was incredibly corrupt and catastrophic.

Life expectancy and GNP per capita (accounting for inflation) still haven't recovered from under the Soviet Union.
There were many influential policy decisions at the Federal level that pushed for defunding public programs, such as cutting federal grants/loan forgiveness for teacher training
How much do PhD students make ?

are US citizens incentivized enough to go the PhD route vs a foreign student whose only path to the US is the PhD program?
The syntax was in emails before Markdown. I will loudly declare that it was invented in emails so that somebody will add the immediate predecessor, and so on until we end up at an original source.
"What is a startup? A scheme to milk future generations of Americans for cash that will let them be immune from the failure of this system in the future."

I've worked for two startups. Both really did want to change the world in good ways. Yes, we wanted to get rich (in neither case were we exactly successful, although they weren't failures in that regard either), but "milking future generations for cash" didn't come into it at all. Making something people wanted did.

There are plenty of scammers in the startup space, but that is hardly the definition.
That's fair, and I get the branding distinction. Maybe I just think it's played out and there needs some new way to communicate that. When I someone emails me about working at a startup I think "No, I don't want to humor your get rich quick scheme by working for lottery tickets. Nor do I want to work for organized crime like Uber, or commit fraud like Theranos, or destroy civilization itself like Facebook." To me the word communicates a kind of tech savvy used car salesman vibe. I understand that there are Enrons and cigarette companies, so "businesses" aren't immune to this either. Maybe I'm just skeptical of human endeavor.
Interesting argument.

Secrets can be stolen, but they're not missing after.

Spies steal secrets, not copyright infringement them :)
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tbh as much as I’d love to tell myself it isn’t - and I use my iOS (and now WatchOS) dev career to justify it - but the Apple Watch kind of fits neatly for me in this would-be category. It’s more cool and interesting than it is functional.
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huh?? If you're me. who am i???
Sounds like a challenge! Time to write JavaScript that's even more questionable.
Oh, I fully expect CTRL-Q to close my browser window (with all the tabs) when I mistype CTRL-W. That doesn't make it any good.

Do you know at all times what element has the focus? An error there can be of high consequence. (Even though browsers do make an effort to refill forms on page forward, it doesn't always work.)

It is a very bad shortcut, and there's always an alternative one anyway, because it's not always available.
We're obviously "speaking different languages" here :).

I don't disagree at all with what you're saying about the scale and nature of wartime production. I get it, and we're totally on the same page there.

> creating a few factories required to make PPE on shore is nothing

Creating the factories is straightforward, as is hiring and training the workers. Expensive, sure, but that's not the problem. The problem is that there is a single material used in N95 masks for which we have limited sources and for which expanding the manufacturing capacity is very slow.

From https://www.cbsnews.com/news/n95-mask-shortage-melt-blown-fi...

> Even established companies are having trouble boosting production because they can't simply buy more machines, according to Dave Rousse, president of INDA, the Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry.

> "There are only five or six companies across the globe that make these machines, and they're not inexpensive. These are sizable machines, a lot of technology, a lot of air handling, a lot of electronics, a lot of precision moving parts," Rousse said. "Normally it's nine to 12 months before you could get a machine delivery."

My understanding is that even if you can obtain the tooling, they're very difficult to keep operating - there are lots of variables to tweak and every batch has to be independently tested to verify that they meet the filtration standards. If they don't, that material ends up being used as "dust masks" and such. I would expect that means that training machine operators would be both time-consuming and expensive as well.

The bottom line of my point here is that the problem we're facing isn't one of resource allocation or of commitment to a goal - it's the tooling required to scale production significantly is slow to produce, and we don't know how to make it faster. The problem that needs to be solved isn't mask design, it's improving the production and testing equipment necessary to make the filtration media.
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Reading is obviously an add-on. Are you using the content server view? Locally, on linux it just calls whatever program I specify to read. I'm partial to fbreader, on linux and android.

I do use the web content viewer some, but mostly I just browse and download the books I want to my device.

FYI, the web viewer seems to work offline, it caches the files locally. If you haven't tried it, it's super nice. I have a 1TB time4vps storage server, and I sync my library to that server and run a headless calibre server with simple authentication to prevent crawlers.
Firefox was born as the light outsider from Mozilla once all non browsing functions were scrapped out.
I feel similarly, except it's the thing I wish was _easier_ to learn! <3
I wish there was a little bit more data on this last chart. How are they measuring 'math progress' here? It looks like the data comes from "online usage data from Zearn math", but how is progress being measured? Does a +53% increase mean that average classroom scores (tests and quizzes?) increased by 53% over where they were before covid? Does it mean the class as a whole covered 53% more of the topics than they would have otherwise? It's unclear to me.

Whatever the measurement, I find it just as interesting that there was such a large increase over pre-covid for the high income zipcodes. My assumption would have been a decrease in the low-income zipcodes (due to access to technology resources for e-learning, more friction in adjusting to staying at home, economic woes effecting low income families more, etc), but the high-income zipcodes to stay roughly the same. It looks like (for math at least) that e-learning is working out great when you have access to the technology, much better than regular in-person school (assuming what they're measuring as 'progress' is actually meaningful to begin with).
I used to work at radio shack. The rug behind the counter was very efficient at providing static electricity and whenever we touched the barcode scanning wand - zap. So I got a package of 2kv high voltage capacitors and held one lead while touching the other lead to the wand while rubbing my shoes on the carpet, thereby charging the capacitor. I left the charged capacitor on the POS terminal keyboard for the asshole I worked with to discover. Of course he fell right into my trap and picked up the capacitor. It was pretty funny to me, but not to him. This jerk would often steal my sales and talk down to me, he had it coming.
An ant can implement if/else.

This is something a bit more than that; they knew that they saw a light and could remember afterwards that that had happened.
This is the express goal of both political parties in the post-Clinton era.

While some democratic leaders have gained applause for “believing in science,” very few have done anything beyond this acknowledgement to provide the material supports needed to stop the spread of the disease. Instead, they’ve bowed to the demands of business and real estate leaders that bankroll their campaigns that people “get back to work.” They have the perfect foil in Trump because they can serve their donor class by washing their hands of the problem and pointing at him.
yep and without federal help the states are struggling

the unemployment benefits come from state funds as well
Given the downvotes on imgabe’s comments, it seems that understanding is sufficiently uncommon / extreme and easily corrected by rereading, so as to render this additional data point too much of an outlier to factor it into any conclusions.

Nobody disputes it’s possible to have the same understanding, it’s just not reasonable, and not realistic to claim it as a function of the way the point was initially written.
Anecdotes are data.

The state of liberal science.
The content view is pretty usable for reading, especially if you're on a locked down device that can't install a an e-reader app.
An Intel GMA 950 can handle accelerating browsers. It's less about raw power and more about just being able to efficiently split up the workload to get the page rendered and visible in as little time as possible.
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I don't have an opinion how bad the situation is, it's clearly not good. But it's not yet as bad as in spring.
How do you measure that it's now in EU at higher level than in the spring? By cases sure, because clearly we got better at testing by now, a lot of people had it in spring that was not tested. I think much better comparison point (at the very moment) is deaths per million people [1], see the link.

[1]: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS...
ah my bad!! I get the confusion. It is a arc lighter for gas stoves. :/
Although I hate domain squatters I can’t see what the precise problem is. This company has a domain name in .io. space but wants one in .com. space. Not an unreasonable wish but it feels like a stretch to be a right IMHO.

There was some stuff about unreasonable claims made by the squatter and that doesn’t sound good but as this is a trying of tweets rather than a paragraph of text it was hard to follow.
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While you’re not wrong, I think no one should have to explain themselves for wanting to stay compliant with the law.
No, I don't think so. Nobody will get a hydrogen car just for trips.

People will get an EV and trade off the price of the battery versus the time it takes to fast-charge it.
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I'm the founder of Cobalt Robotics [1]. We develop "security" robots for commercial spaces -- though ours are wheeled, have a screen for 2-way video chats, etc.

Turns out that security is a euphemism for "observation & reporting." Use cases span a host of shared services: Traditional Security, Employee Health & Safety, Facilities Management (e.g. leaks & spills), Customer Service, and others. Breaking & Enterings do happen, but they are rare. Facilities incidents such as the ones you mentioned are vastly more common.

[1] https://www.cobaltrobotics.com/
Wouldn't a remote controlled drone over the internet fulfill those purposes? Would be relatively cheap to get working.
Chrome made this intentional change about four years ago. Prior to that, backspace had the described behavior.