skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of the things you've noted are true, but the flip side is that that there seems to be a "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" (or worse, flat out pandemic denialism) mentality that takes hold instead of thinking about whether it would be possible to push for some of the most obvious policies that have been shown to be the most effective (eg, enforcing testing and quarantine for all travelers, improved science communication around a respiratory pandemic). Also, it's been 10+ months, so to the degree that developed countries like the US lack sufficient PPE manufacturing, it's certainly not down to resources or capabilities (or anything besides political will in the US considering the DPA could be invoked at any time).

Also, most countries still seem to be ignoring the best/cheapest way to control spread via rapid testing and isolation. This has been not only modeled extensively at this point [1][2], but also proven to be effective by sports leagues (NBA, MLB) and Universities (look at where UIUC has kept their numbers vs the state: https://go.illinois.edu/COVIDTestingData )

[1] Larremore, Daniel B, Bryan Wilder, Evan Lester, Soraya Shehata, James M Burke, James A Hay, Milind Tambe, Michael J Mina, and Roy Parker. “Test Sensitivity Is Secondary to Frequency and Turnaround Time for COVID-19 Surveillance.” Preprint. Infectious Diseases (except HIV/AIDS), June 25, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.22.20136309.

[2] Atkeson, Andrew, Michael C. Droste, Michael Mina, and James H. Stock. “Economic Benefits of COVID-19 Screening Tests.” National Bureau of Economic Research, November 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.3386/w28031.
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Imagine Linus Torwalds 15 years ago sitting and thinking "so whats the next big new thing after svn?" Would be funny isnt it?
This goes well beyond industry and service.
We’re just trying to coexist. Why bring warfare into it?
We produce more plastic than earth’s biomass : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/09/human-ma...

Human-made materials now outweigh Earth’s entire biomass – study

[..] The giant human footprint stamped across the world in 2020 is greater than the impact on the planet of all other living things, research suggests.
The amount of plastic alone is greater in mass than all land animals and marine creatures combined, the study estimates.
While human beings might believe in “the immensity of the globe and the seeming infinity of the natural world”, the researchers say they wanted to provide an objective and rigorous measure of the reality of the balance between man and nature.[..]

[..] Their research shows that human activity including production of concrete, metal, plastic, bricks and asphalt has brought the world to a crossover point where human-made mass – driven mostly by enhanced consumption and urban development – exceeds the overall living biomass on Earth.
On average, every person in the world is responsible for the creation of human-made matter equal to more than their bodyweight each week, the paper published in Nature says.
The research found that the stamp of humanity has been increasing in size rapidly since the beginning of the 20th century, doubling every 20 years.
The researchers support a proposal to name the current epoch as Anthropocene, reflecting the abrupt and considerable impact of human activity.[..]

Way past carrying capacity we are..
Actually RAM is not the issue. Most samplers only load the attack portion of samples into RAM anyway. SSDs are so fast now, we can stream the rest without issue. The problem has always been CPU-related as we have to set a low buffer size to minimize latency. The previous Mac minis we've worked with struggled with some of the more high-CPU plugins (VSTs as well as FX), so we had to compromise in many cases. I did some testing with an M1 MacBook Air, and it blew the old Mac minis away in terms of performance and stability. Very much looking forward to see how the M1 will be used in these live production situations.
"That means I spend less time using google, and that in theory means less money for google."

In practice, losing customers means less money for Google. Pinterest is a large Google customer. As individual users, we are very tiny bits of a very large target, but we are not customers.
>advances that push society forward can come from multiple areas

dumb question: what "advances that push society forward" has come from the humanities, in the past century?
Differential Dataflow and McSherry’s commercial SQL Driver implementation at Materialize:

- https://github.com/TimelyDataflow/differential-dataflow/
- https://materialize.com/
> Figma is a product born of necessity and lack of vision from Sketch slipping on collaboration and implementation tools. But using web browser as a platform for design product has clear limitations. Figma is implementation tool - not creative tool. The best product will be something like Sketch with traditional license and multi-platform base with cloud based collaboration as a service.

I am curious about this point you’ve made. Can you help me understand this better?

I am someone who has switched from Sketch to Figma and I believe Figma is far superior for my use cases in nearly every way. Also, I believe that Figma’s free tier is excellent for casual users or those without a license from their company (between jobs). For me, Figma has been a breath of fresh air and the recent auto layout improvements have taken it to the next level. I work full time as a product designer.
Thanks. I didn't originally write it as something to be shared, but I guess I should from now on. I definitely have a lot more thoughts about it, so might do a follow up in the future. Regarding union rules, synthesizes are fine but there are some "house minimum" requirements so usually there are 2-3 keyboardists and then other acoustic musicians as well.
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I've made this mistake - I thought I was alternating between paracetamol and ibuprofen preparations, but I'd accidentally used a paracetamol-containing version of the second product. Fortunately it was a manageable acute/one-off dose for my body weight (8g/24hrs - the A and E doctor ran a blood paracetamol level test as a precaution, but they didn't expect any issues), but it's an easy mistake to make.
I'm seeing comments asking "why a separate file?" I watched a video last night from the creator of the language (at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhTXDklRLME) where he addresses it.

At 12:20 minute mark he basically says he doesn't like annotations, and calls the separate file a compromise several times.
At 19:46, he admits it's hard to maintain separate files.
At 20:57 he says annotations are not DRY, would change the language, and aren't necessary for performance (points to V8/Chrome). At 23:10 he says no to annotations because he thinks one day the tools will be smart enough to give you the same guarantees/diagnostics without them, so at 24:50 he concludes that he doesn't want to have to remove annotations when that comes to pass.

(don't shoot the messenger! I don't necessarily agree with these conclusions...)

(edit: tried to make the summary clearer)
This is a very little-known feature. I work in accessibility and have had an iPhone since day 1. But the only reason I know about this very well-hidden trick is that an Apple employee told me!
In some majors.
I'm not your target audience - I achieved my (extremely modest - would't count by your standards) entrenpreneurial goals the first time, but found I didn't like it.

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I realize you're talking about people in terms of networking etc, and money in terms of fancy MBA tricks, but... if you don't like people or money, it will be hard to be an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurial success is measured in money. And the only way to get money is to get people to give it to you.

So, it's really about people - their problems, their needs, how much pain that causes, how they do things now, what alternatives they know about, what they can adopt, how difficult that will be.

This is real marketing (not the "advertising" it's sometimes thought to be).

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You mean Antonio Salieri, presented as Mozart's rival?

I think that zone is ideal for entrepreneurs, because you are smart enough to solve problems, while still dumb enough to feel them as problems worth solving - i.e. you can identify with the struggles of ordinary folk (I think geniuses don't really quite believe that other people find things so difficult.)

On the other hand, there's an argument that genius is not something you are (e.g. high IQ), but something you do. There are acts of genius, not geniuses. And all these acts of genius took a lot of time and effort (perhaps somewhat hidden, as preparation before and application afterwards). It helps to be smart, but maybe will and physical constitution are more important.

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Finally, the choice of problem is crucial. There must be a gap in the market - going back to the people part. There must be something to discover.

Einstein was smart and hardworking, but after general relativity, he didn't discover anything of note... which seems to have been because there was nothing of note left to discover in that area, with the available data. At least, nothing as significant has been discovered since him, and university physics departments have shrunk.
As an external monitor for coding and reading documentation.
Form factor is most important. After that, price. Then third is probably the cooling situation, though we can install some extra fans if needed. Better I/O doesn't really matter here as we only need 2-3 USB ports, Ethernet, and display.
Game theory. Even the basic Prisoner's Dilemma calls for it. If a nation cannot field a credible threat then defection is the dominant strategy for underdogs. Lately that does not mean Economic underdogs but rather ideological under dogs.
macrofab.com - full pcb etching and routing with component assembly for SMBs or hobbyists. Although this technology exists to an extent today, I think eventually "2 day delivery" of fully assembled customed circuits + the ability to instantly scale up will enable a lot of new hardware innovation.
I had a similar realisation when I started my IT career. I handled it by keeping my work and ambition separate. But not distinctly apart. Started my career in 2007, I was assigned to a Java maintenance project, while I had interest in databases and data warehousing which was lucrative during that period. So I tried to gain knowledge in that space during my personal time. During a meet the topic came for discussion that's when I volunteered to do a proof of concept.

It worked for me. Idea is to achieve the thing that you want to do, without losing what you already have. Career is a journey and not a destination, and never make money the driving light.

It may sound philosophical but this worked for me. Hopefully it will work for you as well.
There is a version of Nyquil without it. Nyquil Cough, I think. Also has HFCS instead of sucralose like some of the others (tastes less gross). Seems much harder to find, though. I've only seen it in cherry, so if you want it, probably avoid anything berry.
What’s a great design tool in your opinion? (UI/UX and ignoring collaboration features)
No time like the present:

- COVID weakened economy; high stress levels.

- Contested election causing high political turmoil, weakness in leadership.

- Government and telecoms just suffered a massive hack, which would have revealed details about sites like this.

- Other countries are under their own pressures and timelines, eg to retake Taiwan.

Presumably, launching a major infrastructure attack coupled to insurrections would provide enough distraction that China could invade Taiwan or Russia could invade Ukraine.

The US may not be able to respond.
I have been thinking of daisy chaining 4 or 5 firewalls together for perfect security.
MainStage doesn't run on Windows, and it's the software all the shows use. Even shows that use Ableton Live for playback sometimes use MainStage as a frontend software controller hooked up via IAC.
Branching is more of an art. With the kind of flexibility git provides, one can get lost in the convention to follow. I have found this useful For a small team working on app development -

https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
An ad? For what? Don't think too much. It's pretty easy to understand.

1. We use Macs because we need MainStage for these shows.
2. Mac mini fits the form factor.
3. Faster Mac mini means we can do cooler stuff.

Easy.
Here's the patch series presented more nicely. Lacks the intro email, though: https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mips/list/?series...
Lux perpetua luceat ei. I studied with Reggie during several of the summer sessions in Rome starting in 1998, and dedicated my edition+translation of a 16th-century treatise to him. He really transformed Latin into a living language for those lucky enough to study with him, and his courses leveled up one's fluency like nothing I've ever seen at university or elsewhere. What a force of nature. He used to say that if he became pope (ha!) He would take the name Leo, and would roar like a lion against the docile corrupters he encountered every day in the Vatican. I'm glad and honestly a little surprised he lived this long, because in those days wandering around Rome 20 years ago, he was really not taking care of his health at all. Used to claim he slept 2 hours a night, sitting in his cell in the dark watching tv and eating potato chips in his underwear into the wee hours of the morning. The world will never see another one like him.
Yeah, it'll be a while before VSTs get caught up. I did some testing with MainStage concerts using Apple's built-in stuff and my wife's M1 MacBook Air performed just as well if not better than my $4000 MacBook Pro. This is why I'm so excited for Apple Silicon computers for this sort of work.
> that reason is a well rounded, robust society

That goal is not achieved by subsidizing college education in which students get to pick whatever major they want and have only a smattering of courses outside their major.

According to the people who structured the US public education system, secondary school (middle school and high school) was supposed to serve this goal, not college. And the US does provide free secondary education to all, in which the basic curriculum is dictated by the government and, while students do have some choice in what courses to take, their choices are much more limited than in college and they are unavoidably exposed to a much wider variety of subject matter.
To fix it, you can change cell U1 from

=iferror(regexextract(text(HOUR(A1),"##"),"^\d"),"0")

to

=iferror(regexextract(text(HOUR(A1),"00"),"^\d"),"0")

The ## text format uses only as many digits as needed, while the 00 format pads to 0 digits.
My last Apple laptop switched off the WiFi everytime I stick the USB in it. And I still remember one of the Air models that placed cooler right on the cap inside, not related to any heating part like CPU or whatever.

I've switched to Thinkpad x270 with Ubuntu 20 on it after 13 years of MacBooks and I'm so happy with it! Lenovo is cool!
None in the form factor/price range we need. Mac mini is unique.
Agreed on MacroFab, though I think CircuitHub takes that concept to the next level by having project cloning and forking built in.
The purpose was to both incentivize invention, but also require detailed specs of that invention to be given to the public. In exchange the inventor gets exclusive rights for a limited time.

If trade secrets cause knowledge to be held from the public and then ultimately lost that would be worse.

Whether that’s still relevant today I don’t know. In cases with massive research R&D like drug discovery they still seem really important.

In that case a trade secret wouldn’t be enough to justify up front investment if the drug can be copied and sold as a generic for cheap along side it.
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Well ...

- Mediocrity is normal, by definition. Half of software development teams are below average (or the median if you want to be technically correct).

- 95% of software jobs are web, CRUD, or mobile/desktop apps being developed in a team environment in an office.

That being said, doing technically interesting stuff is possible but it requires you to seek out the tiny percentage of jobs that meet that requirement. Being a solo software developer is possible, but you're now your own business guy, marketer, product manager, etc. Both paths are a hard road and not as easy money as following the mainstream. The question for you is, how bad do you want it?
Ah, I understand now. Thanks for helping!
You're "countering" an assertion that was not made.
As an alternative, Sorbet supports inline typing, separate files via .rbi (for typing external libs, etc), and I believe will support reading in .rbs files as well: https://sorbet.org/blog/2020/07/30/ruby-3-rbs-sorbet

It has some limitations (arguably good - it's harder to do shady metaprogramming if you want type safety) but I've found it very productive and useful in my large code base.
Well, I was going to say that, given the amount and types of coverage Windows and macOS get around here over the past many years, I would have thought the evidence pointed quite to the contrary. But you have 10x the karma I do, so maybe you're more in tune with what's going on.
I am in agreement that full automation is not around the corner. Having said that, AI is still a wild card. And I mean AGI.

‘We’ will soon be 10 billion.. and there will be more UTism..’Us Vs Them’ism ...than ‘we are in this together’ when resource scarcity sets in..

I remember reading sometime ago that every time there was a drought or famine, war always followed. This was true of tribes in Africa after years of drought as it is also true for the latest Syrian War.

Wars are data points. If we make each small or big war or tribal clash or even invading hordes or footnote battles as individual data points, I would hazard a guess that a famine or drought or some natural disaster or resource scarcity event would be clustered around the data points.

Resources are not evenly distributed around the world. Sadly, I see very few possibilities for a happy endings for us.

We can delay it. One way to do it is to make natural resources as currency. The wealth of a nation is its natural resource(including Human Resources) rather than frok speculative markets based upon consumption. In fact, consumption patterns that outstrip regeneration of resources would make a country poor rather than wealthy. It’s a way to flip our system.

Other changes would also be required, of course. But the thought isn’t well formed yet. I will revisit this when I have given it more thought. Cheers!
You don’t use wood for light... wood burns at too low a temperature to be good for illumination, since radiant energy goes as temperature ^4, so in general lamps are based on a wicked oil, which burns hotter, and produces far less smoke. I think the numbers may be a little high, though, for the price of oil.
They do, but there’s a trade off. If you go the trade secret route you don’t have exclusive rights.

If someone else figures out how to build or reverse engineer your invention they can do so. If an employee leaks the secret you can go after them, but can’t stop others from using it.
Only listened to the first part of the first episode, has a bit of a world-police vibe to it
My experience with the little guy and patents are second hand: my uncle is the literal bearded guy tinkering in his garage... until he invented a new sprinkler head which he promp tly patented. This was a massive win for everyone involved: he didn't need to raise enough capital to build a factory, on the other hand the factory who eventually bought it became one of the world leaders in the field and sold many millions of it without fronting the cost for the R&D process. So yes, sometimes the patent system works.
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I was a big fan of Delphi.Would be interested in a python IDE that could build phone apps from them.
> to feel good about yourself.

And that’s about all it’s good for.
https://www.livescience.com/64104-how-do-squirrels-find-buri...

This article seems to suggest otherwise.
The keyword here is "limited" time, ideally more limited than it is now for inventions that don't take off fast enough. Maybe the original inventor doesn't have the skills to perfect it and is just sitting on the patent.
So GSheets are turing complete, for all your 1 Hz computing needs?
My wife is for all intents and purposes the opposite of yours and always complains about me and our kids being afraid of nothing.

Her life, and so in some respects also mine, revolves around overcoming her own fears, so it's really interesting to read your opposite experience, thanks for sharing!
Ha, I usually use a C->JVM compiler as my example of why the C standard has some ridiculous parts, but this works too!
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It seems like what most people in your position do is try to get as rich as possible doing a job they may dislike/hate until they can retire and then start doing whatever they love. Often, they may not reach whatever they feel is the appropriate amount of money to retire and they keep wasting time doing what they hate and end up falling out of their passions. Now imagine how it is for people who don't have the ability or credentials to get a six figure and beyond job to build up their wealth and retire. You could read this and think about how privileged you are that you have the opportunity to do something like that. Or, you could go the opposite route and take a big risk toward doing what you really want to do and hoping for the best. There is a middle ground somewhere there as well. I'm not qualified to give any concrete or actionable advice beyond this. I really wish there was a better way. Not just for people like you, but for everyone who doesn't wish to waste their life working.
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Mammoth ivory is actually not as expensive as you might expect, that’s about as good as you can get
I wish you the very best.
I think the argument isn’t that you can’t study what you want, but that you personally will be on the hook for paying for the privilege, now or later.

Rather than Society, through increased wages, paying you to study (after a suitable employment lag).

If your major is your passion, and you don’t need certification, then there is no better time to be an autodidact and skip all the bills. Online books, free online lectures and content exploiting modern production values...sheesh.

If the profession requires the certification, then they need to pony up the extra money for your wages to pay off the debt, or accept the fact that it will be an wealthy-class playground.
This is a very pragmatic list and the items entirely achievable.
> though they seem to have ditched it in Windows 10

Nope, it's still there. It may require being joined to an AD Domain with the relevant setting toggled, though.
Don't blame the Americans for what that fool of a premier J Kennedy has done. Alberta could have clamped down the 3rd wave like BC has. Instead JK followed the right ringers wish and let everyone continue to gather.
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