skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still no where near as bad a Linux on the laptop the last time I tried it. I haven't used Linux on a laptop in a decade because it was so bad I swore it off.
Use high quality beans, keep them fresh in a sealed container aways.

Grind for the appropriate brewing technique.

Use an AeroPress or a French Press, use water that has been boiled and just finished dropping past the bubbling point.

Let it steep, and stir.

Drink it black, and get used to it.
"It was clear that the client was going to go forward with their decision regardless of how I acted. How could I be responsible for a foregone conclusion? And if I had no power to change things, then why shouldn’t I take the course of action that lets me keep my job?"

Ah, the beans and noses of consulting... https://archive.uie.com/brainsparks/2011/07/08/beans-and-nos...
Move to Italy or Australia.
Well, I’m not really qualified, but reading the abstract, they took a bunch of pictures of the brains of a small group of people, did some stats analysis where it is all linked, and the pictures seem to suggest that the CD group might feel less, be worse at processing whatever it is they do feel and suck more at moving parts of their body compared to the NCD group because all the feely parts and some of the movey-limb parts have fewer functional connections. Anxiety might be higher, especially if they’re male.

I’ve been drinking coffee since I was 4 years old, so that would suck and maybe explain why I can’t do sports so good.

Not all bad news, the CD group might have more functional connections between the seeing parts of the brain and the movey parts.

Just going to quote this last part, seems like plain enough English:

“In conclusion, higher consumption of coffee and caffeinated products has an impact in brain functional connectivity at rest with implications in emotionality, alertness, and readiness to action.”

So, if you drink a lot of coffee, for like a long time, your fight or flight instincts are probably cranked too high.

I think they probably also want more grant money so that they can take more brain pictures which honestly seems like a cool gig.
Rather obvious idea, until you get drought, and then "matchstick" forests of dried out trees, then forest fires, which release enormous amounts of combustion products into the atmosphere, not just CO2, but benzaldehyde, formaldehyde, particulates, all kinds of nasties.

I love trees, but why not farm saline algae which grows at an astounding rate compared to trees, with the protein genome of duckweeds inserted into the genome ? Extract the protein, feed the world, bury the dried carbon rich byproduct in the desert under sand where it is much less susceptible to combustion . . .
It didn't drop to zero. "Gone" is hyperbole - it was an extremely light flu season, but it wasn't zero or anything like that.

And yes, we test for influenza a lot.
Eastern and Western house mice took parallel evolutionary paths after colonizing
Another: “Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” —-Bill Gates
Seconded. Just finished one less than half an hour ago, in fact, because I'm abstaining for a bit after my second Pfizer shot (apparently alcohol is not ideal for the process). Sometimes low-calorie and/or no-alcohol are desirable traits. When I can I'll still go for a Southern Tier or Allagash product, but Athletic makes some thoroughly decent drinkable beers for a different set of occasions.
>>Small but important correction: nothing can make epidemiological spread non-exponential.

“Exponential with R varying over time” and “not exponential” differ only in interpretation imposed by an observer.

> infection is simply an exponential process

No, in the hyperidealized perfect mixing scenario, its a logistic process, like most other resource constrained processed that look exponential when analyzed over a dhort period.

In the real world, its neither exponential nor even perfectly logistic, even before considering changes to the environment in which the disease spreads (including those induced by the disease, including people’s response to knowledge of it.)
Senior engineers with a proven track record of success will be fine. Mid/junior level engineers will not be so lucky.
I don’t see this in any of the comments but looks like coffee is associated with higher levels of anxiety in males. I skimmed the part about Alzheimer’s and dementia but I think I parsed it as it may help prevent it?
> I don't see why the entertainment industry would be any more important to pay attention to than any other tech-adjacent industry, such as finance, health care, transportation, etc. If anything, the short-term focus on the next title means that the games industry tends to be relatively late adopters of experimental core tech

Um, precisely?

Game programming is hardware-bound and short-term focused. Consequently, if Rust is generally superior to C/C++, it will spread very quickly. This would be especially true in games that have a much higher networking component (where the memory and security guarantees start to matter more than just the raw engine performance).

Rust is a systems programming language. It is meant to extract efficiency/performance out of hardware. If that isn't your raison d'être, then using a systems programming language of any flavor is counterproductive.

So, the problem is that Rust doesn't really compete in "general programming"--it competes mostly in "systems programming". And it has to displace competitors that are mostly "good enough". And it can be done piecemeal so that you don't have to port entire codebases all at once.

None of that is a recipe for fast change. And THAT'S PERFECTLY OKAY.

Now, all that having been said, the wildcard in all of this is WASM. Rust support for WASM has been stellar when everybody else's has been hot garbage. WASM could be the thing that lets Rust break out of just the "systems programming" niche. That's a big hypothetical, though.
Too bad companies do have policies about this as it implies discouragement of taking sick days. Perhaps the CDC has some guidelines that help such as "stay home if you have had a fever in the last 48hours".
Walter Shao is a qnap employee, and probably not related to the fraudsters.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIEH0Db0XVc
I used to think there was no way the coffee out in the west coast could be substantially better than what we have in NYC.

Then I went to Seattle and SF in the same month, and discovered how wrong I was. Those places may be pits right now just like NYC, but they definitely win in the coffee department.
It's unlikely. Most of the major "uber infectious" influenza strains don't emerge via ordinary mutation (antigenic drift) but the reassortment of two viral genomes that have infected the same host (antigenic shift). Given pigs and wild birds aren't social distancing, there's no reason to believe there's a distinctly high amount of additional pressure one way or the other.
Inverted became inferior to me once I found out how to create negative pressure with the plunger on top of a cup. Same taste and process but without the flip.
Seconded, though beware the upgrade-itis from watching too much of it...
Well covid wouldn’t be expected to increase coffee consumption so the supply was ok. As someone into baking before all this- the amount of 5lb flour sacks and tiny yeast packets for $1.50 is there only
to satisfy only frivolous occasional bakers. How do I know? Because it you were serious about baking you would buy this yeast and flour for pennies on the dollar in bulk at somewhere like Costco.
I'm following his twitter account just to catch the instructable he's promised to write.
It sure does seem like two more steps complicated than lat/long with the only advantage that it's easier to say to someone else. Maybe if you're on a marine radio in a storm it's better? But with a smart phone, surely pressing the 'send gps coords' button is easier.
I totally agree with you. That said, there are people who disagree with both of us and believe that it is reasonable for people to use IP-address-based authorization schemes--which, for avoidance of doubt, might simply be "I am behind a firewall (but all the IP addresses behind my firewall are public addresses, and so cannot be disallowed for this purpose by IETF CIDR)"--and so keep insisting that you should not be able to use a script on a website to "port scan" behind someone's firewall and attack their other half-protected file servers, computers, and printers. This is then why a mechanism actually does exist to say "send a request without cookies"... but it is only for a GET and, this being the key limitation, the script isn't allowed to see the value of what was returned or even if it succeeded or failed (although I can't for the life of my find any documentation on this right now despite swearing I was just trying to use this last week before realizing the response body limitation). Otherwise, this whole thing always feels like some half-assed attempt at DRM :/.
Peet’s coffee is, IMHO, better than most generic supermarket coffee but it’s not one you’d find in my cupboard. I prefer a lighter roast, usually with a pour over. Mayorga has a seasonal Rio Coco that is a good all around roast.

Regarding whiskey, getting to the stage of sipping on anything Islay takes a while, but there’s a whole lifetime to get there. Along the way there’s plenty of more approachable single malts, rye whiskeys, bourbons, and so much more.
Australia? Do we have good coffee?
Certainly not yelling, but I’m looking for clarity. Right now it feels like the “explainability” concept is a bit nebulous, even within the NIST document.

Yes, any model is limited by the data used to build it. Relying on that isn’t particularly helpful, just like saying there are unknown unknowns, while true, isn’t helpful. What helps regarding uncertainty, however, is that it can be explicitly defined. Defining uncertainty in parameters is part of the effort; the parameters can be defined within uncertainty as well rather than assuming a point estimated parameter is gospel. That’s one way that helps explain why one model has different uncertainty than another. Some statistical methods, like Bayesian inference, require you to define these assumptions mathematically. All models require assumptions but there’s a world of difference between a black box and one that requires explicitly and mathematically defining them.
Not every vulnerability will be exploited, most hacks use very simple exploits if at all. 80 percent of security can be achieved with 20 percent of the work
That's what I'm saying is wrong. Note that the instructions are RISC style i.e. some fairly large instructions decode into a pretty small number of micro-operations, which implies said "RISC" operations are actually quite bulky.

Issue-width isn't everything, but ARM chips are really showing the limitations of x86.
I can also pipe the script into a file and read it: it’s much easier to vet a simple shell script than an rpm or whatever anyways. But, my point just is that the vast majority are going to trust the package they downloaded to be safe: most people installing Minecraft on Linux from a .rpm they downloaded from Mojang aren’t going to audit the RPM, they’re just going to install it, maybe even with (it’s been a while since I’ve used RPMs, so my syntax is probably off here):

rpm -ip https://mojang.com/Minecraft-launcher.rpm

Which has all the same problems as curl | sh

The checksums don’t really matter here: if I can compromise the package, I can also compromise the checksums.
So following the philosophy that person say to follow. Letting a company waste 1 billion means that this money has the opportunity to go to a place where it can do more good?
People don't inhale 1 or 0 covid particles they inhale n particles where reducing the value of n makes transmission less likely. Keeping more of your spit to yourself reduces chance of transmission even if masks are imperfect.
Some technology has trouble scaling coming and going. Like FPGA. If you are going to make something with FPGA but will sell more than 10,000 units you will be dramatically cheaper with ASIC. Each application that is is developed on FPGA will sell a small number of units so multiply that by a small number of applications and that is a small number.

Similarly there is not a market for that many large distributed systems.

What there is an endless market for is new applications from the medium to small side. For instance there is the resurgence of "low code", "no code", and many participants who feel underserved with current technology compared to what Google gets.

See this guy

https://www.servethehome.com/

as a transitional figure between "modern data centers" and "buy any 1 liter PC off ebay and see what happens".

The Baltimore Police Department keeps track of incident reports in a big Lotus Notes database, so do many 3-letter and more-letter agencies in the area south of there. Lotus Notes had some algorithms for merging changes that people make to "objects" with a very JSON-like structure that meant people built amazing things in the 1990s. (e.g. 10 years ahead of Salesforce.com!)

It must have been patents that kept the technology out of other products but it seems those must be expired by now.
Finance is performance heavy in very, very, very narrow points--and NO programming language cuts it in that spot. Those firms use custom silicon.

The vast majority of "programming" in finance is finding something to model that is relevant. And that's Python, R, Julia, etc.--all the exploratory tools. Nobody in that space has even heard of Rust.
I can definitely see the academic appeal:

"This is your brain"

"This is your brain on high altitude Yirgacheffe"

"This is your brain after a Jamaican blue mountain medium roast long macchiato served with a croissant and the wifi password"

"Sir, please stop flirting with the wait staff"
There's a reason a lot of epidemiologists I know, myself included, are fond of the phrase "fecal patina"
Only if one allows their ego to get in the way of the search for abstract truth does this become “distasteful”.

There’s no claim of fundamental status here, merely a desire to standardize aspects of what is very much an artisanal process.
The geopolitics of the chips that make your tech work
I've always been more of a Caroso fan, especially his second treatise. I've even learned Alegrezza d'amore from both his first and second works and did them back to back :)

Then again, Petit Riens is my favorite danes of Pesaro's... I call it mosh pit riens given how rowdy it can be!
Regarding masks I don't think you can really compare what is happening in Japan to America. People screaming and getting kicked out of stores and airplanes. The reasoning is different also, I imagine in Japan it's mostly about laziness but in America it's more about freedom and not being told what to do.

Of course in the ideal world only the people that are correct would think for themselves or everyone would be correct all the time. But it doesn't work that way, usually people that think for themselves are wrong. When a culture has more people willing to go against the grain sometimes they will be right and make things better but more often they will be wrong and make things worse.
How about using some service to convert Grandma's speech to text, sending it as text to gkid, then gkid replies to it by "quoting it" (you long press the message, & then type reply, reply shows the original message too). Then printer prints both messages as bubbles or like paragraphs.
Wombats also feature in Patrick O'Brian's naval novels, where Stephen Maturin, much to the irritation of Jack Aubry, carries a hold-full of them back towards Britain, but has to off-load them at Cape Town, for reasons. They are mentioned in several of the books in the series which, as it happens, I am currently rereading.
This. Norovirus considers most hand sanitizer people use a threat in the same tone we commend 6 year old t-ball players for their "Good hustle".
Organic whole beans. Grind them yourself, and experiment with how fine or coarse you like it. I use a Hario v60 and pour over ice, which is called “flash chilling”. Serve with ice. This method tends to extract the flavor really well in my experience.
I was vegetarian for a while, and stopped because it turned out I wasn't willing to go without meat. Had really good meat substitutes existed at the time, things might very well have panned out differently, and I'd still be a vegetarian to this day.

Lots of people try and fail to become vegetarians because they don't find the substitutes acceptable. If you consider it a purely personal issue it probably doesn't matter, but if you're interested in lowering global animal product consumption, then I think ideological purity is the more morally questionable position than trying to develop a product that can convince the world to take up veganism.
There’s a whole art to coffee making. People have mentioned the grind and the strategy for brewing, but the freshness of the beans is a big deal. Look for brands with a “roast date” instead of a “best by” date. Also i personally think pour overs (hario or chemex) are the way to go. With good, fresh beans, the right grind, water that is not too hot, a well bloomed and timed pour... you really can start to taste the notes in coffee similar to the way you do in wine. There is no bitterness (that usually means the coffee was burnt).
I've worked at coding bootcamps in the past... Most camps are closer to 50% job to not job ratio now. Most camps that have tried to scale quickly have failed. It's not easy to scale education.
> As the heat denatures some of the proteins in coffee, doing it cold extracts all the flavours without damage.

Isn't it already roasted at this point?
Dramatical Effect of LSE Instructions for PostgreSQL on Graviton2 Instances
Addendum: "Wrong" is also wrong. More nuanced would be to say that for an introduction to architecture (i.e. for an engineer to draw a trend line with a fat pen on a graph), this is the kind of detail that actually matters when it comes to intuition-building, so it's misleading.
The HP Gen10Plus Microserver might do what you're after [0].

I've been running the Gen 7 since January 2013 with Ubuntu 16.04 then 20.04. It's travelled between New Zealand, Australia and South Korea multiple times. The Russian BIOS enabled hotplug and took the speed restriction off the CD-ROM SATA port.

I run a Sandisk SSD (purchased 2014) in the Cd rom bay and 3x 8GB WD Red (CMR) drives. The fourth bay I use for transferring or backing up other drives. I used Mdadm for software RAID as the "hardware RAID" needed special drivers and it was too hard at the time.

I haven't played with the Gen10Plus yet but it'll probably be the direction I head instead of a NAS. They come with Xeon processors and 4 ethernet ports!

[0] https://buy.hpe.com/au/en/servers/proliant-microserver/proli...
We have extensive sentinel surveillance systems and reporting physicians that, you correctly guess, are used to inform population-level estimates. Flu surveillance is probably the most comprehensive and robust disease reporting system we have in the U.S. outside the things that are mandatory reports (and even likely some of those).
I think you could find someone on codementor.io
We will be lucky if we can normalize washing your hands more and staying home when you are sick. The idea that we are going to react to flu with fanatical zeal and need to prepare to resist public health measures is a fantasy promoted by those who are preparing to fight a war that exists only in their own heads.
Anyone else skeptical about the whole flu has disappeared fiasco?

If the same covid PCR test existed a few years back most flu/cold would have been classified as Covid.
What? I paid less than 10K for my bootcamp. One semester of tuition at my shitty college cost more than that. The later didnt prepare me for a job.
I got sick 4 times in 2019 and am normally sickly for about 90 days a year. Sick 0 times since Feb 2020 and almost no "feeling shitty" days. The major change was hand washing, face masks, no bars, no gym, no movie theaters, and no travel.

For the first time in my life I feel unstoppable.
Your math is whack. 8/10 coin flips being a 1% chance?
These frivolous bakers would love to become serious bakers. The shortage of baking ingredients caused by the shutdown just means that people really like to bake if they have the time and energy.
Oculus Will Sell You a Quest 2 That Doesn't Need Facebook for an Extra $500
The math isn’t adding up on forests and CO2 reductions
I use synology because I tried many alternatives, and none worked out of the box.

I finally got one (SmartOS; I also tried FreeNAS) working, but I used the intel chip with a timebomb clock line for the build.

Then, I gave up. 4 hours after the synology was home, I was much farther along than I’d gotten in a month on the other machine.

I’d definitely pay a premium for a supported open source + hardware NAS combo that supported docker, vm’s and offsite client-side encrypted backup (with dedupe/compression) out of the box. Also, I want it to draw < 10W, excluding disks.

Until then, synology wins, and isn’t a hobby project.
> children without symptoms are forced to wear masks even as they run and play

Well, yeah, they can be asymptomatic, spread their sickness to other kids, who then take it home to their parents and grandparents.
> The regime then was high fertility and high mortality. Now, it's low and low, and both the fertility and mortality declines have strong economic, institutional and cultural drivers.

Everything in life is on average 50% genetics, and nature has a way of weeding out those who have a lower propensity to reproduce. I wouldn't worry at all about population declines in and of themselves.

All over the world, we have transitioned from more traditional societies to more liberated societies that are failing to reproduce. That collapse in fertility goes lockstep with modernism. As a fun fact: there were studies that in 19th C France those postal codes in which large numbers of Diderot's encyclopedia were sold saw rapid fertility drops. Something about modernism is incompatible with human reproduction, so either we will evolve to thrive in the more liberal societies, or the future will belong to those subpopulations that reject modernity, whether orthodox jews in Israel or Amish in the US, or more fundamentalist islamic groups in the middle east, which have already taken over the dead carcasses of modern secular societies that thrived in the 60s and 70s. So either modernism will die or people will evolve to have more kids in modernist societies, but in either case, population will be increasing again in the future, which belongs, as the old saw goes, to those who show up. Eventually there will be a harmonization where our environment is suitable for reproduction.
We do. Well, parts of us do, especially those parts with an Italian-identifying community. Australian-trained baristas are in demand globally as a consequence.
Washington state has a tax funded state paid sick leave program for anyone who has worked at least n hours in the prior year and paid into it.
i use a burr grinder, temperature controlled kettle, weigh the beans and the water, and use a pour-over method with a decent paper filter.

but in my experience, freshness is the biggest factor to good coffee--mainly being freshly (and adequately) roasted, but also freshly ground before use. everything else seems to be relatively marginal after that.

edit: i buy locally roasted coffee that's delivered to my door for about the price of starbucks or peets ( <=$1/oz ). that's been the biggest difference.