skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've honestly never understood why these sorts of posts (even for those larger companies with services everyone relies on) get so much traction on HN. I can very easily tell for myself when a site is down, and it's not hard to find most companies' service status page. Sure, if a few days later we get an interesting/detailed post-mortem from the company, I'd find that interesting, but "X is down" does not tickle me intellectually at all, and just wastes a slot on the front page. The inevitable speculation as to whether it was a bad deploy, a bad configuration update, a DDoS attack, whatever, is just not really interesting, though I guess (IMO unfortunately) enough people here find it interesting.

Of course, I'm here commenting, so somehow I got enticed to click through to the comments, so who knows what that says about me...
I think that may have been true in the early days of QM, but I do not think that is the main viewpoint anymore. The ontic reality of QM is the wavefunction. The measurement problem we currently do not understand, but it is an active area of scientific research.
My best bet on getting into a flow when I am working or learning is having a routine that puts me in a state of mind that I am showing up to something instead of sitting through whatever I am going to do.

That means you're probably not going to experience any flow when you're just starting on something.

Anecdotally, I find it a very transferrable skill, which, once acquired from one subject or activity, would boost your capability to apply in another.

I suppose that's why meditation and yoga have been all over the place these days, as it goes along the same line of logic. On that note, perhaps just mediate and do yoga.
The public interest outweighs the safeguards of HIPAA. But it's likely not automatic - up to POTUS to waive their HIPAA rights.
Per year version https://colin-scott.github.io/personal_website/research/inte...
What magnitude of irradiance is required?

If the required power is,say, 500w continues, or more, that's going to get quite expensive to run.

For example, where I live running a 500w device 24/7 is going to add an extra $1100 a year to the power bill.
In France, it’s illegal to pay ransoms too. So somebody impersonated a Minister, video-called a bunch of rich people saying somebody was kidnapped and asked them to pay the ransom since the government couldn’t.

They bilked a bunch of rich people out of 55 mln EUR:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-51842898

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/how-scammers-used-a-sil...
What countries are actually following a strategy to reach herd immunity by having "enough" people fall ill and hopefully recover (having "recovered" does not preclude persisting damages btw!)?

Most countries are rather waiting for a vaccine to become available and try to minimize the number of sick and dead in the meantime without interfering with economy too much.

(54.4k was number of newly confirmed cases on friday 10/2 by the John-Hopkins University btw. I'm aware that the US has inadequate testing [0] and that the real number is going to be a lot higher than this.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-testing#the-positive-...
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The Power of a Link
Hi all, just want to provide some more information on ADHD in general if people are interested.

http://russellbarkley.org/factsheets.html

The above link is a collection of PDFs summarizing key points on ADHD by Russel Barkley, generally considered by many in the ADHD community to be the 'god' of ADHD research.
I think this doesn’t disprove the theory I’ve set out that people who know more languages than the average local population are likely to have other markers correlated with lower Alzheimer’s risk.
Step Dad got a 286 in 1989. Spent lots of time on that DOS machine.

Linux in University and then again on/off during my last 20 years in my industry. Though I wonk at a windows place now I try not to think about it too much. The rest of the place and how awesome it is more than makes up for a poopy OS.

Linux at home finally a year and a half ago when my disposable income was up to the challenge of buying a state of the art machine. Wish I had done it earlier. It's a blast.
> You know what I want? Schemas.

I can see this work perfectly fine in typed languages like C#: `NestedText.Deserialize<T>("nestedtext")` where the deserialize method handles the actual mapping of nested text objects to `T` by providing the deserializer a class / classes that handles the string -> scalar(s) mapping for the given T. That would, sort of, function as a Schema.

I think the only thing, from glancing over the project, that would need to be supported to make this really useful is nested lists/dictionaries. I don't see how this can be done but maybe I'm missing it.
HIPAA rights can be waived away by the patient. Presumably the president would be willing to waive those rights in order to be forthcoming with the US people.
This video was posted an hour ago: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13125258335050588...

It shows Trump as alert and well. "Very concerning" and "not on a clear path to a full recovery" are scary phrases, but they are relative terms. So do consider how they can describe two very different realities: mild symptoms of a potentially catastrophic illness, or severe symptoms of an individual "at death's door". Given the gulf between those scenarios, I would not advise extensive divining from that statement by Meadows.
iPhone v1.0 was a toy when placed against any Symbian phone.

Calling devices with touch screens, C++, Java (ME + Symbian extensions), Flash, Python and a Web Runtime a feature phone.

Not only it is rediculous, it proves how little you understand Nokia's offering before iPhone was even an idea.

Nokia not only is alive, it owns Bell Labs nowadays.
I don't think it's anything quite so clever. More like "keep telling them I'm fine regardless of what happens."
Unless you say something like “look it’s airborne but that fact shall not be admissible into any future lawsuits on any topic” (and have certainty that that will stand up to review), I’m not sure you can fully equate to the current “it’s not been declared to be airborne transmissible.”
> assumptions need to be made

No, this is false. Science is simply the process of seeking the best explanations for the observed data. It just turns out that the best explanation is some kind of external objective reality governed by natural laws. But it didn't have to turn out that way, and science certainly does not presuppose that it will or would turn out that it. It just happens that it does turn out that way.
English is effectively half-French, like French was half-Latin, which in turn was half-Greek. Europeans basically moved from a language to its immediate cousin, for more than 2000 years.

Han might be half-something too but it's definitely not something anybody ever spoke in Europe, South-America, or Africa. Europeans will likely never speak Chinese in numbers comparable to modern-day English.
> for example the natural gas infrastructure, it's not like you could haul it around in trucks

In most of the US that is, in fact, how gas is supplied to homes. Each home has their own tank. Only denser areas have gas pipelines to the home.
End the torture: What's the make/model of the microwave?
> Isn't this generally highjacked by the timber industry to protect valuable "product?"

At least in some cases, the main restriction is environmental protections laws and liability concerns. You want to start a controlled burn? What's the risk? What species live in the area? Are any endangered? Are you sure? Will anyone be hurt during this blaze? Have you filed the environmental impact statement, risk mitigation plan, incident management documents, and obtained approval from all relevant agencies? How much smoke will it generate? What's going to be IN the smoke? What do you mean you don't know the exact contents of the smoke; how can you get a permit for emitting smoke without knowing what in it? Etc.

In California in particular, controlled burns need approval from the local Air District, and they have to give approval on the day. It's not unheard of for a planned, approved burn to be shut down at the last minute because the day is a bit too smoggy already. There's always someone willing to pop up and argue against the controlled burn; local residents worried about safety, or even the American Lung Association worried about smoke inhalation. Also, the people in charge of starting burns can be held liable if they go wrong, but will not be held liable if they opt not to start a burn, and then disaster ensues.

It's possible the timber industry is somewhere behind that, but we seem quite capable of hamstringing ourselves "honestly" too, so I'm not sure.

In any case, yes. California burns around 20k acres per year, but needs to be burning more like 1m acres per year, AND needs to burn a 20m acre backlog. Everyone is in agreement that this needs to happen, but (just like so many other Californian problems) there's no obvious path forward. The system is setup at every level to stop this, and it has enormous inertia. Experts hope than in a few years, they might be able to get up to as high as 40k acres per year...which won't even be a noticeable improvement. There's no single villain causing an otherwise functioning system to fail; the system is the problem.

I found this article quite interesting: https://massivesci.com/articles/megafire-california-climate-...
I suppose it depends on the domain and the job. But I do think a resume looks better with accomplishments that refer to business value rather than technical details. For example “Saved $200,000/yr by developing a more efficient inventory management system” vs. “Wrote 30,000 lines of Javascript code and made 325 git commits.”

As a former hiring manager I would shy away from programmers who only wanted to code and didn’t seem to care about the business. That could indicate immaturity and inexperience, or an autism spectrum condition, but it most often indicates someone who puts their own technical interests above their job. It would make me wonder how well that person would fit with a team, and the overall organization.

When personal tech interests and the job mesh well everyone is happy.

As a freelancer I see extreme examples of this: programmers who tell the customer how they should run their business and try to fit requirements into their preferred tech “stack.” They want to rewrite everything their own way, disregarding cost, risk, and any larger considerations of the business so they can do things their own way.
No.

There’s no clean async abstraction later; once you pick a side, you’re stuck with crates that support it.

Some popular crates let you pick using flags which one you want when you add them... but, tldr: no.

It’s not ideal, but it’s very flexible.

Given they weren’t sure exactly what the async runtime should look like, and the strong backwards compatibility promise, they opted for “get something people can use for now”.

...of course, the python packaging story shows this is a stupid idea in the long run, and I believe the plan is to consolidate into a single “std” async runtime eventually.

...but for now, in your situation, you’re basically screwed I’m afraid. Fork the crate and migrate it yourself is probably the only real solution.

The downside is that doing that usually unearths dependencies that are also using the wrong runtime, etc.

For now: Pick one, stick with it.
Waning is the natural course for any language. It takes a Miracle to avoid that fate. COBOL, FORTRAN, C, C++, Java, Javascript (and maybe Python?) each got a Miracle. Other languages didn't. Go and/or Rust might get one, but odds don't favor it.

Miracles are not awarded on merit, so when a language that got one is usable, it's like another miracle.
GET OUTSIDE.

Get a hobby that involves the real world, preferably around trees, animals, or other people.

Exercise. Anything, walks, runs, jogs, swimming, hikes, biking. Anything that gets you OUTSIDE.
I don’t want US getting into personal lives either.

I also think given half a chance China will remove US as a super power, or any power of any kind.
Those are key points in the article, but I didn't read them in the way you did. This article is largely about many research groups coming together to build a more nuanced understanding of our impact on the environment over the past thousands of years.

It also suggests the prevailing views of climate change are simplistic. We, even in much more "primitive" times, have been mucking up the earth to our benefit. It's bound to happen, of course. All that energy must come from somewhere.

I don't think the article suggests that the situation we're in now isn't happening. The article reads almost breathless—in on the knowledge that we're in a dire situation. Do we really need more reasons to illustrate our impact on the environment?

It also speaks to our strange compulsion to believe in the duality of human and nature. How do you get the public to recognize that there is no such thing, only one symbiotic whole? I hope we can figure out how to work together.
Have you tried using page queries? Page queries can accept arguments passed in via the createPage API. Here's some (admittedly hard to find) documentation about it: https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/page-query/#how-to-add-query-v...

The basic idea is your page context just contains identifiers for the content you need to display on the page and then the page query uses those identifiers to query for just those objects and request all the properties of those objects that the page needs.
Something that's not tied to any cloud, entirely self contained and happy to run reliably forever.
If we’re going to go back and forth on whether Twitter was right to do this, can we at least all get on the same page that this is 100% pure civility politics, and in a political climate where a couple hundred thousand citizens died on account of malicious incompetence worrying about this issue is mere political theatre.

For liberals, Trump cannot simultaneously be a thread to the entire US democratic political project and someone you hope recovers quickly from COVID-19.

Only in the TV-set world of political theatre does that kind of civility fetishism make any sense.

The West Wing’s particular kind of liberal fetishisation of a respectable Republican opposition comes to mind here.

Maybe we would be better off if it was totally socially shameful to wish even the most hideous people ill health, but in the face of the real, material crises faced by the USA, getting sucked into a beat up over this particular issue is farcical.
I had a similar problem working with an managed file transfer service. Lots of small files would get bogged down by these sorts of issues. The other side of the connection wouldn’t change their config, so I implemented a proxy that maintained session state on our side.
> The last new therapy was atomoxetine, which is almost 20 years old now and not seen as terribly efficacious.

I think it's more that it doesn't work for as many people as does stimulant medication. But while it works on fewer people, for those that it does work on (myself and my partner included), it's very effective.
While I understand the frustration, the reality is we shouldn’t be making fun of either. Just because the end result of something is inarguably “stupid” does not mean that any of the things that went into it are “stupid.” To do the Hacker News thing and make a bad analogy to computer science topics in a totally irrelevant thread, this is how I view a lot of stuff people complain about these days (think JavaScript, or Electron apps.) Real life is hard.

To be a bit more concrete, consider the following: if you have a system where people are not encouraged to follow the rules as written, they will work against the spirit of what is written as well as what is actually written. If you have a system where people are discouraged from not following the rules, they may still engage in things that do not follow the spirit or written rules, but there is some accountability. But you can also try to work around what’s written to follow the intent as well, and I think that is where you get weird, counterintuitive, “stupid” results that can still “make sense” (as opposed to clearly corrupt cases where it is “stupid” and also does not make sense.)

I think people, especially literal minded as many here are, prefer concrete rules. But the knock-on effect is that its not easy to simply proclaim they’re made up any time it’s inconvenient, and it really shouldn’t be. Perhaps, in fact in my opinion, definitely, the “escape hatches“ for when rules don’t work out practically are broken, but I still do prefer having rigid standards, especially for health.

Hopefully, although it is probably not going to happen, organizations can have some postmortem-style reflections on what went wrong, so that hopefully next time we can be better prepared. History loves repeating though, so, you know.
Biodiesel is a nearly drop-in replacement for No. 2 diesel. It's not carbon-free in current form, but neither is hydrogen, and there are viable carbon-neutral biofuel cycles, albeit ones that are substantially more land-intensive than modal contemporary practices.
While I agree with your sentiment, and do the same, `select!` is not more than looping through a couple of `try_recv` calls. So in the spirit of the author, a few lines of boilerplate vs a new dependency.
I always wondered just how much UV-C do you need to effectively kill the virus (power vs duct diameter and air speed).... because, instead of traditional masks, you could take a small fan, blow air into a pipe with a UV-C bulb inside, and pump the sterilized air to the human... basically something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzGrh2io9Ds&app=desktop
That's a big presumption.
It depends on the country.

In many countries, wealthier students receive more instruction in a foreign language and have access to full immersion programs.
As a user, you will eventually be limited by the decision that developers/maintainers decide on.

Want to run your program, but I only support something for hardware that supports full client virtualization, which your system doesn't have? Oh well.

Oh, you wanted to run that Snap, but the cache is invalidated or cleaned, and no internet connection? Oh well. Sucks to be you.

Oh crap, you need to do that one final fix real quick in that one program, but oops! I just force pushed out a functionality breaking security update! Sorry bout it!

It may not seem so important from the casual user perspective, because you may not sample different configurations or distribution channels as devs/maintainers/admins, but you'll hit it one day, and you'll be as pissy as we are. Why doesn't this shit just work?

And the answer is, because it isn't magic, and it has to get to you somehow. Again, I hedge on the side of being deliverable with the simplest set of abstractions possible, and I'm old enough to remember when complex things actually came with manuals; so I prefer that delivery and understanding the ins and outs of the tool. You don't get that with FlatPak or Snap without cracking open the container which is far beyond most average computer users, and I place value on people being able to easily learn how to program, utilize, or reason about computers better, something that no container will ever teach you; especially given that in order to understand them you need to already be pretty deeply immersed in the mechanics of computing.

On the other hand, a zipped workspace with some tooling, READMEs and documentation can make for hours of discovery and familiarization with system fundamentals.

It's an approachability thing, and we've totally lost touch with it as a modern industry in my opinion.
Yes, I sort of meta-agree with this in that the raw list of numbers regularly appearing on top of on nerd forums tends to generate more confusion than enlightenment. I have a comment downthread about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24675039

Maybe the list should link the SO answer and similar descriptions of macro-manifestations of seemingly nano-things!
We should celebrate the move from traditionalism to innovation. Prioritizing tradition over rational thought held our species back for millennia.
Telegram is used by enough furries that the Telegram Twitter account jokes about it, and a lot of furries are in tech.
>Also, it will be interesting how Apples market share develops, as th AS could make the Macs much more attractive. Both from the performance and price and of course, because of the iOS compatibility.

Apple's pricing strategy over the past few years has been to reduce the entry-level costs of their devices thus increasing their marketshare, ecosystem lock-in and services revenue. It's the strategy they've employed with the entry level iPad, iPhone SE and Apple Watch SE, and I fully expect them to bring to same strategy to the Mac, now that they no longer have to pay Intel's profit margins.

We'll very likely see a MacBook in the $700 price range in the upcoming months. That would put the price of Apple's entry-level MacBook right around the that of an average notebook computer in the United States, while providing far better performance than their competitors in that price range (see A14 benchmarks). This would naturally provide Apple with a big marketshare boost in the consumer notebook space.

Ultimately nobody but Apple knows exactly what their pricing strategy will be with Apple Silicon based notebooks. However, if I were competing with Apple in this space, I'd be tremendously concerned.
In UK atm, there was a markedly slow startup / refresh but looks like it's working (well, i guess - all my contacts are asleep, lol).
If I'm not mistaken, speaking two languages in Spain is quite common. The country has multiple languages besides Spanish [1]. So I guess it doesn't correlate with much aside from the geographic region.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Spain
A bunch of people use telegram bots as a means of alerting themselves/other users (instead of emails and/or sms messages).

The production server might have a 150 load, with swap 99% full and 0 disk space left right now, and you wouldn't get any alerts from the monitoring software, because telegram is down, and it has "never happened before".
Following the events outage is usually a pretty interesting drama, to me.
Some of the comments on your second link say their VPN is also down. I wonder if it's some outage in a popular datacentre or backbone.
Or maybe just not being a native English speaker.
To stay focused on technology issues...

Can someone’s health condition be signed and verified?

Is it okay for it to be normalized to real time?

Health outcomes are nonlinear. Even if it were reduced to a number, could people interpret it correctly?

Is he more likely to recover better if his medical condition is disclosed? Is it ethical to spend medical resources on concerns that do not improve his outcome? Can technology ameliorate that?

By the way, most doctors would agree paperwork, billing and insurance unethically harm patient outcomes.
Yeah, it really only requires one to think one or two steps beyond the immediate act to see how horrible white collar crime is.

In a country full of uninsured citizens and underfed children, exactly how do people find billions in wage theft to be a minor crime? Only by thoughtlessness, I’d say.
1000 Strikes Across the US
>I don't mind the callout that you need to use unsafe for recursive structures

You don't, really. Recursion is not the important part. The ownership model is hierarchical. If your structure is a directed tree with all links (pointers) flowing out from the root, it can easily be built. As soon have you have cycles or multiple parents, you'll need either unsafe or some ownership extension like shared ownership (Rc/Arc).

Singly linked list => Easy

Tree => Easy

Tree with backreferences => probably best to use unsafe

Graph => probably needs unsafe for best performance
Using the framework... I find the only way to learn a language is to build something with it .

Unity does a lot of hand holding in this regard