skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, you could handwave the "mass societal pushback" and change it to "cheering societal acceptance" and then fudge away the costs associated, but that's simply not what is going to happen.

You have to account for greenpeace and all the organized opposition. You have to account for the politics

That's why you need to go off of concrete material historical reality - if you're free to apply counterfactuals as you please than practically any conclusion is permissible because we can tweak and modify whatever we need.

Just like the "business as usual" advocates are hypothesizing a globally deployable massive carbon sucking technology to somehow exist in the future without a shred of evidence that it's at all plausible. It's extremely dubious gambling with the future of society.

Reality overrides counterfactual hypotheticals every time. When ambitious next-generation nuclear is ready to go, then there's a possible opening but right now it's simply not there.
Most of the evidence suggests that PCR specificity is very high - there are not many false positives. [0] Even if there were lots of false positives, the recent spike in cases in the UK can't be attributed to that because there is no reason the errors would be temporally correlated.

The concern over PCR cycle is that you will detect people who are not spreading the disease, but those people had the virus at some point. I'd like more evidence about this societal DoS - contact tracing doesn't take medical resources and unmitigated spread consumes more medical resources, mean discretionary income (in the US at least) is higher than before the pandemic.

> Are there any theories on the root cause of specific people being "super spreaders"?

Yes, there are quite a few papers on the fact that the large majority of Covid-19 spread is by a very small percentage of the people who are infected, moreso than other diseases.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7457918/
And yet at this very moment, Germany is 10x the CO2 output of France (36g vs 390g), after spending 500 billion euros.
What's the best time tracker for programmers?
I would start with Arduino. It's the most common platform for this type of thing. There are plenty of online resources. Adafruit is a good combined resource and store. At minimum, you'll need:

The lights: maybe this is a good start https://www.adafruit.com/product/1461

An Arduino: https://www.adafruit.com/product/3345

A wifi or ethernet shield (a shield stacks on the Arduino board and add a function): https://www.adafruit.com/product/2971

A power supply: https://www.adafruit.com/product/658

You may also want a soldering iron and a nice case if this is a permanent project.

You could start with a raspberry pi, which will have a lower investment, but the Arduino's simplicity is great for learning.
As another ex-Amazon... there's a whole bunch of NIH going on there too. The way I saw it, it tended to be split three ways:

1) NIH. Almost always the problems that need solved are interesting, and engineers are naturally chomping at the bit to solve them. Added bonus you can potentially make a name for yourself. This happens way more than it should, in cases that don't meet the other two ways I saw. Solving problems that have already been solved very effectively and efficiently, in a mature low friction fashion.

2) It doesn't scale to needs. A lot of software just doesn't scale to the requirements of the platform. It's hard to understate just how much traffic and work a lot of Amazon infrastructure has to handle. Most software doesn't scale that well because it's not run in so big an environment. We're using some well known commercial software at my current employers (because it works, has a good reputation, and did everything we need), that is experiencing major scaling issues because we're literally orders of magnitude larger than any of their other customers. We're seeing stuff they've never had to deal with before. We're not even close to Amazon's scale for this particular type of software.

3) Need to control the entire software stack, have the ability to drastically modify it to meet the changing demands placed on it. A lot of public software is written to meet one need, and it rarely changes that drastically over time. That's not what the consumers want, even though needs change over time. Change your software too much and you'll lose your existing users that fundamentally need what the software is providing. You can see the boom and fall of it all with so many projects. Take a look at what's happened with Chef and Puppet, for a quick off-the-top-of-my-head example.
If you're referring to Stakhanovite, they were just propaganda workers supported by the communist party with the best tools, hence why the increased productivity.
They were meant to motivate / allow the communist regime to extort more work out of workers.
I couldn't believe that a "work day" was ever 2 hours, so I looked it up.

https://www.lovemoney.com/gallerylist/84600/how-many-hours-d...

That says 3-5, and it was a long time ago.
For me it has to be the right kind of junk. There's junk, like in a junkyard, and then there's a toxic waste dump. Stick with the junkyard. The stronger a show's resemblance to your current reality, the more likely you'll find someone in it with whom to compare yourself. So right off the bat, so-called "reality" TV is off the table. Anything where you're able to forget about "you" and be transported into someone else's world, is good. That takes good writing, i.e. yes, an actual script. Old stuff works too - anything so old that you can't possibly imagine yourself in that milieu, that helps. We watch old Columbo episodes from the 70s on network TV on Sunday nights. Granted we are then bombarded with ads for Sono Bello, Consumer Cellular, and every drug on the market (and then ads for the lawyers suing the makers of last year's drugs), and anything else an advertiser has deemed likely to appeal to the demographic that cares about Columbo or the 70s... and all those ads in themselves are an assault on your self-esteem, so just mute that shit or do chores.

Mostly though it just takes time to build a life, and a you, that you love enough that you win most of those comparisons to celebrities. Think about how most celebs are basically slaves in various ways: slaves to public opinion, to the Hollywood social hierarchy, to the crappy contracts under which most of them are laboring, and especially to the fear of not being famous/loved/accepted tomorrow, of being replaced by one of the thousands of others who (maybe just as tragically) would jump at the chance to have that person's shitty contract and precarious perch on the ladder of fame. Slaves to the empty holes in their souls that they have been filling with the quest for fame probably their whole lives. Ah, but to the extent that you spend time on social media, seeking approval from strangers, you are (or your avatar is) kind of a micro-celebrity and would tend to be plagued by all those same problems! So yeah, that ruins it. All the more reason to get the hell off of there, ideally permanently!
It always comes down to resources. In my experience an underdeveloped or funded NIH project happens far more often than most tech teams would admit. That said, when it’s only lean on vendors and no invention is happening then it’s basically an expanded IT department and will be eventually treated as such.
First off, I do generally regard non-expert opinions on complex subjects as ridiculous (see Gell-Mann amnesia on why that is). But AOC helped me in that by not reading her own proposal, and allowing "cow farts" to figure prominently in it. That just invites ridicule.

As to why I did not address the merits: it's not a serious proposal, so there's really nothing to address as it presents no details for how to get from point A to point B, how much it will cost, how it will (or will not) help domestic industry, what the electricity will cost when all is said and done, how that will affect the standard of living, etc.

It's a "hope" and, as they say in the military, hope is not a strategy. This is sort of like "addressing" a poem - a completely meaningless endeavor.
1) Russia and Iran enjoy a very close relationship.

2) Russia uses its propaganda apparatus to undermine any sanctions regimen used by the liberal west against illiberal powers in its circle of allies.

3) Russia's propaganda apparatus extends to the comment sections of any prominent website on the English-speaking internet.

It's not really a secret.
- https://weworkremotely.com
- https://remote.com/search

There are probably a lot others, but these are the ones I know of
Relatable, so here's my advice for side-projects (take it or leave it):

- Build what you're interested in, not what other people on the social feeds are doing.

- Things that were built for fun can end up making money. So why not aim to build for fun first!

- Build pointless things! (like this). They're great to express yourself and they're much easier to finish and release (less pressure).

- You don't need to finish anything!! But if you really want to finish that side-project, try a pointless project to boost your morale.

- Divide and conquer - Large side-projects can be overwhelming. Divide that MMO game into smaller projects which are easier to finish.

Maybe this is all pretty evident to most people... but it doesn't hurt to see it written explicitly.
I’m not throwing shade but I’m genuinely curious what the infrastructure cost per user is when comparing Europe and US and Canada. Surely it might be part of the problem.
Depends what you class as junk I guess. I'd say there's junk like sitcoms and the latest marvel tv series or whatever, you don't learn anything from it but you can relax and have a good time, and then there's absolute trash reality tv about celebrities and making fun of poor people. Junk tv is fine in reasonable amounts. Trash tv is on the same level as social media.
Hey my friend,

I give you a point cuz yeah...

I now calling that the vanishing ideaz...

takes notes... or let them go...
Jaron Lanier Fixes the Internet – Data Dignity
> The hard part is actually proving a message existed after some point in time.

It's interesting that we think about this exactly opposite!

It has been possible since a long time (relative to the existence of the internet) to prove something existed after some point in time by cryptographically tying a news headline to your message. That's what Satoshi used if I'm not mistaken[1], or at least I remember this being used before blockchain.

If you want to do it the other way around, you needed a trusted third party up until Bitcoin came around and there was a method that did not rely on a single third party.

One issue I see with blockchains is that they require a running and ongoing service to prevent backdating. A witness also works, but is just moving the problem (it can be a solution, but it's not a general solution that works in every situation). To me it still seems that the easy way around is the one that is solvable with an ordinary newspaper.

Edit: I see in your GitHub bio (sorry for the stalking, I was curious about your age since you seem to consider blockchain to be the more generally available than newspapers, whereas to (perhaps older) me, newspapers are the generally available method and blockchain novel) that you describe yourself as a "Applied Cryptography Consultant (what the cool kids call 'blockchain tech')". I suppose that explains why we see this as opposite.

[1] Also looked up the newspaper that Satoshi used. Wikipedia says: `Embedded in the coinbase transaction of [the genesis] block was the text: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks"` https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto
Most people this thread talk about effects. That’s just part of the story.

Another part is the level/gain of each instrument during each part of the piece. Remixing the levels can completely change a song. You can get a small taste of this by experimenting with extreme EQ levels on a parametric EQ.

Take one of your favorite song and change the EQ levels to emphasize different sections.

Sometimes an original release vs a “2019 remaster” (or similar year)has such differences and you can hear parts of a piece differently than before, almost like hearing new layers that were always there but not emphasized.
> just implement adapters for the top five competitors in your market

Is there anything to prevent the export file format from shifting regularly? You know, for ongoing product improvement reasons, naturally.
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How much does it cost you and what's the average speed?
I've found the wayland server to be a great experience with intel—the only weird bits I've seen is full-screen noise on firefox and poor support for high dpi, the latter of which is even shittier under X11. The server is really very usable nowadays.

AMD's ok if you have the room for the discrete card, but I wish they would invest more in integrated on-board chips.
Metered paywall-- but the dot trick works.

I have a lot of authors in my social circle. It's true. I don't think they're usually as destructive as Steinbeck was to his family, but it's a rough road. They experience everything at high intensity-- you have to, to be able to write compelling fiction. Getting the accolades and money is about your only shot at making that hypersensitive existence "worth it", so to speak.

Negative reviews hit these people harder than you'd expect, it's true. If the reviewer's right, then there's cause for regret. If the reviewer's wrong, it means he didn't see the work as worth taking seriously. If you're not sure, then you start to question whether you know anything about your own writing. You can end up giving far too much rent-free mental real estate to someone who got bored on page 27 and wrote a shitty DNF review. And you can't respond, either; authors who respond to reviews (positive or negative) in the public end up regretting it. There's just no good that comes out of it.

Most of the authors I know end up envying the more visual artists, who can display their talents more easily. A painting is either ugly or beautiful and it's visible within a few seconds, even though it may take longer to pick up the subtleties. With a novel, you have to convince people to put hours of time into reading something they might end up hating. In traditional publishing, even getting read by someone of any importance at all takes monumental effort (that has very little to do with actual writing).
Could the pandemic leave markets more concentrated?
Zoom and Gloom
The idea that the worst men face is being called names is a bit rediculous. The worst is having the swat team called to your home repeatedly and the phone ringing with death threats.

It may be true that women get harassed more frequently, but if you really get targeted, your gender doesn't seem to matter all that much.
This, but I want to emphasize: “fought” is literal here, at least in terms of employers’ response. The reality is that the notion that we even get to decide whether to rest on weekends or labor is entirely owed to the fact that people who came before us got literally killed to pave the way.
As another post stated, there's some baggage associated with the idea of uniformed "service".

There are many people who forego more lucrative careers (in a monetary sense) as a private contractor because of the idea of service. In other words, they feel they are serving a higher purpose in the military and would be selling out to go to a defense contractor. Ironically, these careers in the military are the ones with the largest retention incentives due to this very reason.
Yeah, am a Rust beginner but very proficient in Python, and despite having being warned of Rust community's zealotry, I haven't found interacting with them anything but pleasant.

The documentation is great. Various channels to interact with the community have always been polite and helpful.

Heck, one would think that the author of a leading book on the language popping up everywhere to give helpful answers/clarifications would be seen as welcome and not in-your-face-activism.
Phones are smart enough to know that shared networks are mobile behind the scenes and treat them as metered data too. You have to go into the wifi settings to disable that feature and force it as unmetered (how that works and whether you can even do it depends on the phone vendor...)
By ridiculing the platform in this comment of yours, you contradict your previous comment that you have no opinion on it due to your lack of credentials.
Lots of software developers are expected to do 60 hour weeks too. There are also thousands of lifestyle doctors that just work a few days a week.
i never said it cannot happen. the fact that there are a few videos of this happening somewhere doesnt refute my point that the probability is still nearly zero; if this was not the case, people would not be allowed to fill their own tanks due to the enormous liability.

i'm certain more fires happen from people plugging in frayed cables into 120vac outlets without first checking the whole length of the cable, but i would not tell everyone to perform this thorough investigation before plugging in every device.
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If your takeaway is that we're on track to solve energy storage with lithium ion batteries, then you have severely misinterpreted the situation.

Remember 300 GWh is global battery production. 4.5 TWh is 9 hours of storage for just the United States. Furthermore, actually using this quantity of batteries would entail ceasing the use of lithium ion batteries for electric vehicles and electronics - not a realistic option. Furthermore batteries only last a few hundred to a thousand cycles, depending on depth of discharge. These batteries need to be replaced every 3-5 years if they're being used for diurnal use (cycled 365 times a year), not 15. If you produce 300 GWh of batter every year and hook it up to the grid you'll only reach 0.9 or 1.5TWh of battery storage - the first batteries you add will have worn out before 15 years. This can be extended if you reduce depth of discharge. But that entails building an over-capacity of storage. E.g. if you're only withdrawing or storing half the energy you can increase the lifespan, but then you need to build 2 TWh for every 1 TWh of actual storage that can be used.

Global daily energy consumption is 60TWh. If we want to provide 12 hours of storage then this amounts to 30 TWh. If this is cycled daily, a battery with a life of 2,000 cycles (which is very, very good) then we'd need to be contributing 5.5 TWh of batteries to grid storage every year. Most lithium ion battery production is expected to be dedicated to electric vehicles, with grid storage making up only ~10% of produced lithium ion batteries [1].

And 12 hours of storage is likely only enough to get us to ~80% renewables. 100% renewables is estimated to require 3 weeks of storage [2].

We're not anywhere close to solving grid storage with lithium ion batteries, even if we assume its exponential growth will be sustained.

1. https://energycentral.com/c/ec/world-battery-production

2. https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2018/03/01/12-hours-energy-stora...
Yeah. I hate it ;).

I already have enough trouble trying to explain to new people the difference between C and Rust enums. The phrase "C style" just confuses things more, IMHO.

Admittedly this may be a failure of communication on my part.
This doesn't apply if you want to run CUDA-dependent software. I've generally gone for Nvidia for my personal machine since Torch has behaved oddly on AMD cards in the past.

It's true that Nvidia doesn't support Wayland properly, but that's not really an issue in my opinion. Wayland still has its own problems that mean switching from X11 isn't viable yet.
Assuming that two people in a relationship agree with each other's politics is a good way to make an ass out of yourself. Causing trouble at work because you dislike the politics of somebody's spouse is totally over the line and you've said nothing to make me question that.
> The words on paper (or any other medium) are protected under copyright. The story isn't.

That's the opposite of what you're claiming in the rest of your post.

> However the physical hardware (i.e. the thing whose representation is your digital design files) is not protected by copyright.

That's absurd; if you can copy the physical layout then you can copy the design, so copyright protection for the design would be meaningless.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/firecracker-open-sou...
> process terabytes of csv data every day

All stored on NVMe SSDs? Because unless you have really fast IO the CSV parser isn’t going to be the bottleneck.
well i guess i won't be moving my music to spotify: i'm on google play music right now, and so i'm in the market.
There seems to be a lot of "no data available".
This is clever. At the time we needed this machine anyway (this is way before "Cloud computing" was really a thing) but a few years earlier it would have been a good choice.

We actually had most of the bloom filter code you'd need because we used a lot of Bloom Filters in that project. One of the very common queries that system had was "Hey do we know about random thing X?" for which the answer would often (but not always) be "No". So Bloom Filters enabled the system to be able to say definitively "Nope, I know nothing about X" a good fraction of the time without any further work. This actually hurt us in some third party benchmarks we ran for boasting, but helped in our real use case.
Did you read the same post I read? One of the harassers asserted that she must have traded sexual favors for a CS degree. Do you seriously believe that a male engineer would be sexualized and discredited that aggressively?

Please take some time to reflect. Look up statistics on sexual assault and violence against women. This is not an attempt to bait clicks, its an attempt to stand up against systemic attack.
Yaaaassss! Spotify has such a good recommendation system! I loved every new artist I discovered through Spotify. I only wish they’d let me port all that over to Apple Music. Oh well. Fingers crossed, I guess.
I have a legacy Telstra plan that allows unlimited data, it's truly unlimited.
It's relatively small in terms of advertising dollars and a pretty different kind of advertising that relies a lot on the parasocial relationship they have with their audience. Random websites have much looser relationships with their audience.
On average, if you’ve got enough money to pay to not see ads you’re exactly the kind of person who people will pay handsomely to show ads to.
There's a ton of interest in virus. Just look how many clinical trials are being done.

Media doesn't need to publish those because it's too hard to read and provides 0 value for an average person.

Meanwhile information how to prevent spread is obviously the utmost important.
The very fact that we can't tell shows that this isn't any significant innovation. Even the part about handing out dev kits doesn't actually show anything - using an off-the-shelf ARM would create the same impact.

They're designing CPUs - something that many companies have done and many companies will do. Big whoop.
South Australia: https://opennem.org.au/energy/sa1/

Wind/Solar/Gas, with low emissions intensity and (as of September 2020) the lowest power prices in Australia.
It was 'on the farm' on 'your own terms' before the industrialized revolutions, may have included some Sunday work.

But the number of hours worked rose quite a lot during the Industrial revolution in the mines and factories, this was 'peak work'.

Some data points [1].

[1] http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/worktime/hours_w...
This kills the autist.