skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> shut everything down and people get the message that this is serious

the Pajama Class say this and then wonder why their "messaging" doesn't go over well with anyone who's not able to log into zoom and chat it up with their comfortable, salaried, urban-elitist compatriots
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Introduction to Psychological Science Lectures by Steven Pinker
https://syndromictrends.com/metric/panel/rp/percent_positivi...

Unless I'm reading that chart wrong it seems like flu went away but viruses that cause cold like symptoms stuck around.

If masks/etc was super effective wouldn't you expect those to go down with influenza?
Structural editing of HTML and React’s JSX a la paredit.
And you, in reply, use "off the reservation"? I'm not sure you're in a position to cast the first stone...
Maybe all their preconceived notions cause a mental barrier for some older folks in adopting new technology?

I've observed this as well. The hardest part are the basic concepts. Examples:

- The idea of a "settings menu" itself is somewhat of an alien concept and mostly limited to devices with screens.

- Not all UI elements have obvious meanings if you aren't already used to them.

- The input device itself might be unfamiliar (mouse, keyboard, touchscreen) and the user's brain might be busy trying to understand how to interact with the device at all, let alone do useful things with it.

- Some users never learned the "why" or even the "what" of existing devices, only the "how" -- they don't understand concepts like "applications", they just follow very specific steps that someone laid out for accomplishing specific tasks. This makes it very difficult to discover functionality or adapt to a different UI, because they don't know what anything actually is in the first place.
I have multiple parts of my side-business and various hobbies, but I seem to have fallen into the pattern of only focusing on ONE thing.

I only have one goal that my subconscious mind and my energy is focused on. I deal with the other parts if an email comes up or I have an appointment, but outside of that specific time I don't think about it.

This seems pretty limiting, but I notice that this is very strongly my pattern...
I usually have one main big project (currently https://getgumball.com) and a couple of smaller fun ones (currently https://cashbox.gift and http://listorama.io/).

But I have a list of 10+ other projects I'd love to work on that I constantly have to force myself not to. That's really a challenge to keep the focus on 2-3 max, like a lot of other creative people, I'm always tempted to try new ideas and projects, and it can quickly become an issue (never finishing the projects already started).
The "backdoor" is a program running on Linux. It's not a modification to any system component. "will run arbitrary binaries" is not an issue with lack of trustworthiness. (The way it came onto that system might be, but we don't know anything about that)
Facebook contributes a ton to the Linux and Python communities as well, by this logic you shouldn’t use either.

Thinking that infrastructure engineers have direct influence over the product is wrong. Instead they work at Facebook because it is a good means to being paid lots of money to contribute to open source.

Btw, getting out of us vs. them mentality will form a healthier community and result in more positive changes. You can call Facebook on shit without generalizing against the employees who work there.
Navalny Calls Putin a 'Naked, Thieving King'
Should masks be worn outdoors?
> it's roots took place ... from the black community

> origins from the black community

gotta give credit to the engineers who pioneered electronic music synthesis, like Robert Moog, or the Japanese who created Korg synthesizers in the article.

Influences for any technology, project, art, etc come from a large web of sources. Racial gatekeeping and attribution is close-minded.

Let the people enjoy techno without guilt.
Personally I use jstar (a configuration of Joe) because in the 80's I used WordStar and I like using the same key combos. :)

But that's for small editing tasks. For coding I use VSCode or a JetBrains product.
"Yes. You should always be working on business problems while you are sleeping under your desk. That's why we pay you the big bucks salary... so your hourly rate is less than a retail store cashier's and your soul is ours... forever! Hahahah."

> Exercise.

Test coverage and typing doesn't count. )': Must. Paump. Zie. Iiron because Hanz und Franz zays zo.

> Keyboards.

We only buy dishwasher-compatible keyboards now and have a dedicated dishwasher for them. The cleaning people collect them every Friday night. https://youtu.be/pgnF42ZoRSw
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> So you predicate your argument on economic feasibility and then throw up "space mining"?!?!

Absolutely. I'm a long-term thinker.

From the long-term perspective the living Earth is incredibly valuable:
the only source of biomass in the known Universe. In contrast,
whatever minerals are down there on the sea floor are as common as dirt
in our local neighborhood (Sol and its planets and asteroids, etc.)

It just doesn't make any sense to burn up our planet for short-term
gains.

What's the rush?

> I do want to get there, but even with all the Elon fanboi-ing in the
world, we're not gonna get there in our lifetimes. At least 75-100 years
out before it starts to make economic sense given current technology and
risk/reward.

Okay, but doesn't that make it even more imperative that we take good care
of the Earth, since we can't yet leave?

> Obviously it does make economic sense...

Only in the short-term, and only if the consequences can be ignored by
the folks making money from it.

> the best way to determine the ecologic impact is to do trials.

Strong disagree. Both on principle, and on practical grounds.
IANAOceanologist, but it seems to me that we know there will be impacts.
This is not a scientific expedition, it's a prelude to destruction.

Oklahoma has earthquakes now. Is it due to fracking? We don't actually
know in any official or scientific sense. How could we
determine that they are a result of fracking or not? The folks doing the
fracking insist that it's not them.

We know there are going to be impacts that affect the entire planet.
The question is "How bad would the destruction be?" And the answer is
"Don't destroy life for money."
>It goads people in the Rust community to pretend to think Facebook is well-meaning company.

As someone who already views the Facebook brand as a toxic waste dump this won't do anything to change my mind.

If they want to sponsor Rust more power to them. It's not as if it's going to change anything for the average user.
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Agency life - anywhere between 5 and 50 things from dev, to code review to project managing. Just depends what’s in the pipeline that week.

Takes some practice to be able to flip between different platforms and languages quickly but you get used to it
Already got a stack of records from Cari and Jasper. Particularly love Cari’s Agent Orange stuff.

I’ve not knowingly come across Boris before though. Pretty sure I’d have heard some of his records play but looking at his discography I think he might have started making a name for himself around the same time I hung up my own DJ headphones so he’s not a name that’s immediately recognisable for me.

I did recently hook my decks up again but not yet had a chance to play anything.
Is that in Europe? I didn't think CCS was very strong in the US, most charger are J1772.
I mean the first one is possible. I think it has been thought of though, we do random testing sometimes and at least some covid samples are also tested for flu.

The second just seems wrong. Like it could have been true a year ago, but it really would be known by now and there really isn't any reason it would be inconvenient for any sort of narrative. Diseases that weaken your immune system enough for some other disease to be killing loads of people are still worrying and big deals. We would still be calling for lock downs regardless of if covid is directly or indirectly causing extra deaths
There are mountains of evidence. It gets overlooked because of the momentum of dogma and the entangling of politics, dogma and research grants/funding. And it’s spread out over many, many individual topics and issues. It doesn’t lend itself to a comment or a single literature review.

I will explain exactly how you can see for yourself. You only have to do one thing. Simply try to understand for yourself the biological underpinnings of human disease. Try to understand it for yourself. This will involve cracking open a biochemistry textbook. It’s not a trivial matter.

It started for me when I got to a certain age and said to myself, gee, I’m getting to the age where I should understand heart disease. So I googled heart disease. And I kept going down the rabbit hole. Luckily I already had a background in biology and chemistry. Believe it or not, that single decision ultimately unraveled into the opinion expressed in my original comment.

I am looking forward to what you find. Happy trails.
I don’t think it was 1%.
It was less blatant. As another poster mentioned, the politics was part of the narrative. The GamerGate debacle was a big shifting point, where video games have become another cultural battlefield. I'm not picking on one side or the other, I just want to enjoy my video games in peace without people calling each other SJWs or racists or sexists.

Just as an example, there was a huge kerfuffle in Battlefield a few years ago because they added black and female playable characters. They proceeded to shove it in everyone's face so we could be in awe of how progressive they are, and then the counterparty threw a huge fit about how those people would not have been combatants in WWI. I don't particularly care either way about the change, because it doesn't impact my gameplay. I do care that for a while the entire community focused in on this one aspect that has almost nothing to do with the game itself. It makes me dislike both sides, because they're both getting in the way of the game.
I’m not the OP, but the rest of the paragraph that the quote above was linked to reads as follows (note the last 3 words in the quote):

* This rate could translate into a significant proportion of false-positive results daily due to the current low prevalence of the virus in the UK population, adversely affecting the positive predictive value of the test.2 Considering that the UK National Health Service employs 1·1 million health-care workers, many of whom have been exposed to COVID-19 at the peak of the first wave, the potential disruption to health and social services due to false positives could be considerable.*
"busybox vi" is another option in these situations when that's available. It will happily run in a blank chroot.

Everybody should know a little ed though, it's not that hard.
Does GraphQL have a way to disable features? If so, it seems the sane way to go about implementing it for a set of data would be to enable the bare minimum features, and enable anything needed specifically after reviewing and researching what it allowed and how it interacted with other other features. If you can't, that seems like a very dangerous tool to use.
Fair, but even still AD only gives you a piece of the puzzle when it comes to authorization. You still have to do all the modeling and implementation inside your app and map it to however that's stored in AD.
Full time job, and 1 - 2 side projects that never really get finished. My goal is to make something I can eventually turn into my own business, but I found my self encountering two main pieces of conflict: 1. None of the ideas are ever really good enough or directed enough towards a specific niche to be successful, and 2. I find I am usually happier when make myself take breaks instead of working on projects on the evenings and weekends, but I'm not sure how I can eventually have my own business if I don't.
I wouldn’t say so. A language like Haskell is successful, even if their motto is “avoid success at all costs.” Books have been written about the language, and the ecosystem and community are thriving. Even still, few corporate sponsors exist.
If only Apple hadn't glued the batteries to the top case in this model. Maybe it's possible to just pry them off, but for the trouble I'd rather just pay Apple for the new top case with new batteries attached.
To answer the second question: get revenue with a good growth.
My biggest problem isn't procrastination per se, but that I often find that I have little control over where my focus is directed. If I'm not focused on something, it takes me (often, literally) exponentially more time and effort to accomplish it. As a result of that, I optimize first for curating focus on the things that matter by putting myself in places (mentally and physically) where those things are the most interesting presence and likely to "naturally" draw my focus.

I've spoken to many counselors, psychologists, and psychiatrists about this, and while some have been supportive of my approach none have seemed to really understand the importance of exploiting my "natural" focus over overriding it via willpower. Of all places, I recently found that a lot of people on TikTok with self-professed ADHD describe very similar challenges and coping mechanisms.

In short, ADHD seems to not be a deficiency in the ability to focus. Indeed, it comes with the ability and tendency to engage in extreme focus for long periods. The problem is that I don't get to consciously choose the target of that focus, and that it's extremely difficult to break it once I'm focused on the wrong thing.
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Why do you have some features on ios but not android? Why isn't this on your website.

Maybe I am old (possible), weird (probable), and out touch (definitely). But I couldn't imagine the case where I am planning on doing research for travel and I would go to an app over a website. For looking at data, typing things in, comparing prices, etc. A phone app really is the worst form factor for that.

I am not sure how big your company is, or how its done. But your product owners are dropping the ball in my opinion. I backed out of the website as soon as I found I couldn't do anything from the website.
Heating things up can be prohibitively expensive.

Otherwise we could simply heat CO2 until it cracks into C and O2.
Some cities have their own (not really official AFAIK) codes that represent "any airport in this city", such as "NYC" meaning LGA, JFK, EWR, and maybe also HPN and/or SWF. I think these are mostly created by app/site developers but I could be wrong.
I believe I understand their reasoning significantly better than they understand mine. I don't think it's even close to being symmetric. As I said, the left's policies are shallower and easier to understand...when you question as to how a certain policy would ever actually work, the left usually tries to change the subject and call me a bigot insurrectionist (as the leftist crowd behind them cheers "yeah shutup you insurrectionist!"). All without ever discussing the initial question of how something would actually work. Look at AOC's green new deal BS and question-dodging as a perfect example. Then how she relies on sensationalist fluff (shallow-topic) banter as protection....without ever answering any of the initial questions. And then she honestly believes she's a savior sent from above. To me, the levels of tunnel-vision dissolution and lack of grade-school logic is astonishing.

This all leads me to the question if this is all being stirred up on purpose (via the media) as a type of psychological warfare against America. The emotions being purposely poked by the media (race issues, gun rights, etc) don't seem to be purely a ratings grab. But the insane thing about this situation is that the left is so caught up in shallow issues that they label me as a "conspiracy theorist"...I feel like I'm trying to warn the people on the roof of the skyscraper in Independence Day right before it gets blown up by the aliens.
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Outside of my day job I've got the following:
1. Old boat (1993) - which always wants/needs something. Currently about to rebuild the 350 V8 and switch from carb to EFI.
2. House - slowly just remodeling with a mix of my own DIY (framing/finish carpentry) and me contracting certain jobs out (e.g. drywall tape/float). This is a never ending stream of projects. But I do enjoy learning about the various engineering facets of home building.
3. Side-Hustle - been noodling on a speaker idea for the past few years. Almost ready to build a prototype.

4. And then there are my three kids aged 5-9. They take the bulk of my time which honestly I love about 85% of the time!? :)
I used to work on 2 or 3 at a time but as a challenge for 2021 I've been laser focused on one project and it's paying off.

If you're curious it's https://thumbnail.ai/
They already have local exec before they install this, and it's a user land persistence kit, so no.
They'll be hacking each other and fighting with knives and silverware when your back is turned.

Imagine having to discipline your appliances after they blame each other for starting it.
Ideally one.
you put an ipad in front of my 80 year old grandma and she'll have NO idea how to use it. Even after training her and walking her through using it multiple times. She just won't remember.

This device is basic and captures all the needs. I think the only other cool feature would be a way to receive voice chats back and play them to her
I think that's an evenhanded writeup of the situation, but I also think the author should have mentioned in the article that he is himself a member of the technical advisory board whose actions he's reporting on (if https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/about/technical-advisory-... is up to date).
"It's that the freedom to choose needs to be equal, and the playing field needs to be level, so that who is and who isn't in 'field a' is, in fact based on merit and not arbitrary classification at birth such as gender and ethnicity."

This seems to imply that it is not equal now. Is there any basis to support that?
There seems to be a lot of people very focused on keeping a lot of tabs open in their browser. For me, I browse the web, hit CTRL+D for a site that I would like to visit again later, and then close all my tabs automatically by simply quitting the browser. Why do people hoard URLs in the tabstrip? I guess that's how people use the web+browsers now, and my approach is very unique and unpopular.

I know for me I have several Firefox profiles for different things, and doing cumbersome things like creating a new Firefox profile for task `x` is too much for people, but splitting sessions up is a big win both for privacy and productivity. If I'm in a browser tailor made for email, there is a better chance I will focus only on email and not trying to do something else.

Compartmenting your browsing like this is good for privacy because secrets can't spill over into other sites since your more sensitive browsing is done in a separate session, insulated from work email, and cookies can't correlate activity, and build a profile of you. Bonus points if you do all your political browsing in things like the Tor Browser Bundle or use privacy-aware browsers like Brave or Firefox. But that's just me!
Assuming good faith, the business decided that mobile apps were more valuable to their customers so they've spent their (inherently limited) resources improving the mobile apps. Assuming bad faith it's because they want to get whatever data they can off of you while using the mobile app. But due to Apple more clearly exposing what permissions an app uses, that is not quite the concern it used to be.
Yeah, for quick edits I prefer nano. Might just be because I grew up with edit on DOS, and Out of the vi, emacs and nano it was the closest and I just stuck with it.

Any programming I do is in Jetbrain IDEs.

But I saw a comment here long ago that says it's worth learning vim keybinds, even if you never use vim. Because you can be sure, no matter what IDE or editor you end up using, someone has created a vim keybinds plugin. You can have the same keybinds across everything.

I've never gotten around to learning though.
> Schools have been surprisingly rare causes of COVID outbreaks

I can clearly remember that multiple countries closed schools within weeks of the first reopening because the virus was spreading there like wildfire, in the age group with the highest rate of asymptomatic(aka invisible until it's too late) cases.
Maybe that's where Alexa picked up her habits.
You're setting up a strawman of statistics. You're describing a small part of a large field. Stats has been more than what you're describing for longer than ML has been a phrase.

The only real useful definition these days is that stats is learning from data that happens in the stats department and ML is learning from data that happens in the CS department.
There are a bunch of contributing factors (most schools, indoor public places, and workplaces encouraging or requiring masks, and many workplaces remote), but one thing that I'd expect to help with flu much more than it does with COVID-19 is sick people staying home.

Asymptomatic spread is a much larger risk with COVID-19 compared to the flu. A simple behavior change of "If I feel sick, I don't go to work/school/grocery shopping" isn't enough to stop COVID, but could cut flu spread a ton by itself.
If I dropped by a UMN researcher's office and asked for 30 minutes of their time for something they consider unimportant, they could reasonably reply, "no, I'm too busy with research". Likewise, a kernel developer should not be forced to unwittingly waste their time. The "malice" here is that the researchers may consider their time more valuable than others. Incompetence is a separate thing.

Lastly, kernel developers are naturally going to trust computer scientists at major universities. The researchers know this (subconsciously or not) and took advantage of it. Patches from smith@joeschmoe.com will automatically get more scrutiny.
If I'm just doing DB schema documentation, and I don't need to integrate that documentation into broader technical documentation, schemaspy is the tool I reach for.

http://schemaspy.org/

My impression is that the maintainers are Oracle-centric (I don't interact with the project with any regularity, so this could be mistaken), but I use this with PostgreSQL and have been quite pleased.
U.S. Labor Secretary throws support behind classifying gig workers as employees
Honestly at that point, unless your fstab is really big, I'd just `cat /etc/fstab` and then `cat >/etc/fstab <<EOF` and very carefully retype it (I mean take a backup first of course).