skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I say ban all single-use plastic.

The alternatives are worse. They use much more energy, and you can't go outside without seeing how bad global warming is now, and how devastating it soon will be.

We need to forget plastics recycling entirely, and spend all that effort on redirecting trash to landfills.
Safari doesn't exist for 80% of the world.
Say what you will about Amazon culture in general (I’ve never worked there)… but one of their leadership principals is Dive Deep

> Leaders operate at all levels, stay connected to the details, audit frequently, and are skeptical when metrics and anecdote differ. No task is beneath them.

IMO this particular trait correlates well with a need for less process / project management software. I really believe if more people did this companies would be better off.

Note: this isn’t the same thing as micromanaging but I understand why some people think it is.
> Additionally, XUL was a steaming pile of shit, and there was no saving it. Multithreading was only possible by ripping out XUL.

Being hostile to people who ask nicely about getting some necessary features into the new API however, that is optional.

Same goes for extracting all the money from Firefox and sacking important dev teams while continuing less important charity work.
If there is still demand for their services, other more successful franchises will step in.
Who said these people aren’t working? I see a lot of people retraining, pivoting, and taking care of others. That’s work. Just because it doesn’t pay doesn’t mean it isn’t work or valuable. Being a stay at home parent doesn’t pay, but it’s clearly valuable.

Employment is a means to an end: basic survival. We do it because we’re forced to by forced scarcity. There may be virtue in work, but there’s no inherent virtue in employment.
yes but depending on the state / size of your company, you can reallocate people in emergency mode, work more yourself (if you're the boss), ask for loans at the bank, you can absorb a lot more than a single individual can
> Covid outbreaks are not a good thing, not sure why you would claim that?

Lol, here I can walk you through it.

Sentence number #1 of the Twitter post:

"NEW: people worry when they hear "40% of hospitalisations are fully vaxxed", but this chart shows that's actually good news."

I can change my reply from its actually a good thing to its actually good news if that will help you.

> Again, I'm no sure what your point is. Given that we have 80% effective vaccines, what should we do, use them or not?

Whoa, 80 percent effective? Sorry friend, they are 93% effective. My point is it would be much better if they actually stopped the spread of the virus. Up until now this was solely blamed on the unvaccinated. If the vaccines were better, we wouldn't have to blame the vaccinated as well now.

By all means use them, except now it's less of a "help the herd! for the greater good!" thing and more of a selfish thing. Definitely get vaccinated if you haven't previously had the infection though.

> FYI, No point in linking to The Daily Mail UK, it is not in any sense a serious publication. Wikipedia wont take it, we shouldn't either.

Says the one who used Twitter as a source? Dude you are cracking me up. Here's the video from the Daily Mail article on Twitter (because I know how much you like it):

https://mobile.twitter.com/ciclbh/status/1420734568861155331
I'm not saying anything about experts. I'm saying that the concept that you should get the vaccines for others looks like it's moot. That means the only consideration you should have about getting the vaccine is if you want the extra protection for yourself.
Meditation is very much doing nothing.
I like the term “data driven algorithm“. It makes it clear to everyone involved that what we’re doing is just adjusting an algorithm based on the data we have. No-one in their right minds would confuse that with building a true “A.I.”.
One-Thousand Year-Old Plants
How about hollywood starts making GOOD content again?
I do mise-en-place (preparation) and use TeuxDeux as my todo list. It’s so super simple but such an effective tool, so limiting it’s not getting in my way.

I tried everything else, every tool, every technique - nothing works for me. I can’t even use JIRA at work, I put things in TeuxDeux or on a paper list, otherwise I will forget what I need to do.

I always wondered if other people had similar challenges. Maybe I am too simple for tech productivity tools.
I appreciate that. Thanks! Will do.
Mirror Networking – open-source Networking for Unity
> One group (sunglasses) is simply much rarer so my algorithm may globally perform better on the overall set by accepting lower recall on the rarer subgroup (allowing for higher precision on the much larger group).

I see what you mean. Well then my answer is still the same. If you have an unbalanced input data, this is what is causing the bias at the classifier level - not the classifier model/algorithm in itself.
From some research I've done, charging to 90% vs 100% roughly doubles lifespan, 80% vs 90% doubles it again, and it has less and less impact below 80%.

Discharging to 20% vs 0% doesn't seem to have as much of an impact, but still noticeable.

So 20-80% or something like that is a good cycle range to use.

Heat is also a big factor, well insulated batteries with active liquid cooling or similar should help a lot. With good insulation you can control the temperature of the batteries better on hot days because the ambient heat isn't warming them up as much. It's also useful in the winter to keep them warm.

Battery thermals is something Tesla seems to realize is important at least, it seems like many other electric cars don't really do active thermals, and that results in hot batteries just from parking outside on a hot day.
Italian phonology is clear - approximants like /j/ and /w/ always appear in diphthongs, unless in very rare occurrences; i.e. ài, èi, éi, òi, ói, ùi; àu, èu, éu -> /aj/, /εj/, /ej/, /ɔj/, /oj/, /uj/; /aw/, / εw/, /ew/.

For instance, piede is /'pjede/, while tuorlo is /'tworlo/.

IPA in Italian dictionaries is very rare, but the only examples I found specify /'pjeta/. Italian pronunciation has never been standardized by anyone, so pronunciation may vary, but unless my knowledge of phonology is completely wrong there's an appoximant in "pietà", like in pieno /'pjeno/ and piano /'pjano/.

To avoid i to switch to /j/ there needs to be a "iato", which splits words onto two separate syllables. For instance, mormorio is /mormo'rio/, not /mormo'rjo/. In this case, the word gets split in syllables as mor-mo-RI-o, and the i doesn't become an approximant. Pietà is pie-TÀ, not pi-e-TÀ, because the ie is in a diphthong, so it's /je/.
> But try disabling browser extensions and see if that fixes it

Isn’t this the problem? Why do I have to disable something in Firefox to make it work for a google product.
Wait. What is your point exactly? The people in the first video are paid actors...or something?

Also, a question to everyone who come across this.

Do you think the people in the first video, who took part in trials and suffered injuries, deserve medical/financial support from the government or the companies who did the trials?
This does not meet the Ministry of Truth's propaganda level.

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ITP is part of Epiphany nowadays too: https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2020/09/16/epiphany-3-38-...

And it is part of WebKit's code base, not separately as only part of Safari. Consider Safari as just a UI layer.
I know of one specifically for the Government centric case. Inspector General gets moved under the Legislative and is blessed with absolute unfettered access to classified information. A timer is started on declassification the first time the Office is asked a question. Executive gets a limited number of "not yets", judiciary gets an "F you, declassify it button" in cases involving Executive privilege.

Checks and Balances.
failed in the house - womp womp, they dont' actually give a crap
Baidu used to have their own browser, but almost nobody used it, so they discontinued it eventually.

The third most popular browser globally is Edge: https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
This post is off-topic as this is Covid News, not Hacker News.

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> People hate bitcoin because they don’t understand what it is and perceive it as being somewhat of a threat. It’s not.

For those paying higher prices for electricity or GPUs it's rational to see Bitcoin as a threat.
The problem was people pretending to be web developers but only testing in IE.

Being IE only made life a lot easier.

Same today. Some people think it is OK to test only in Chrome. That lets one get away with a lot of bad habits.

Dealing with different browsers is part of what makes one a competent web developer.
As a VP does that $4 difference really mean anything to you?
This becomes a reinforcing problem as we purchase cheap solutions in the quick fix option, ones that are more likely to break, be more difficult to repair, and more likely to let us to another quick fix.
Nah, more of the same super hero garbage please, uhg.
We have gone far into the metaphor. I think you're mixing up the issue of destructive consumption (destruction of resources that future people cannot inherit and use) with growth in differential control of resources between capital owners and those without capital.

I upvoted because I sympathise with your view, although I think you portray it using a metaphor that's more of an appeal to emotions than setting out solid principles.

My take on it is we are setting up future labour to be increasingly indentured to future capital, due to obligation structures being cultivated in the present that have long-lasting structural consequences. Of which the widespread housing crisis may be the most obvious to ordinary people, for now.

That's not new. It is in fact what capitalism is all about. It wouldn't be called capital if there wasn't some kind of long-lasting obligation structure. To an extent it works rather well to collectively enrich. However, it can get out of hand.

I agree that we should complain about the scale of it and be concerned about hegemony and corporatism taking over the world. I favour keeping with "We hold these truths to be self-evident" and human rights near the top of the values scale.
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Craig Murray is being jailed because he allegedly helped reveal the identities of individuals through his reporting. There's nothing indicating his reporting revealed any more information about those identities than reporters from the BBC and other outlets. In fact, surveys show those other reporters did far more to help people identify those individuals.

But they're not being jailed. Craig Murray has been singled out. Nothing ethical about that.
> Understanding it's "just a sum" doesn't help at all with finding the antiderivative

No, but you can still integrate computationally (difference method).
I also do ~4 hours of concentrated work first thing in the morning. As my day progresses, my head gets filled with all kinds of shit (good and bad), and it's really detrimental to not just focus but overall output.

In the morning, my mind is fresh and more-or-less distraction free and I feel hyper-focused even without caffeine. Also, by doing a lot in the morning, motivation stacks up and "wins" convert into more "wins" throughout the day

After that long session, I'll usually take an hour break. I try to make sure the last half hour of the break isn't filled with any instantly gratifying content (reddit, yt, etc) so my mind isn't chasing another hit of dopamine when I resume my work. Anecdotally, I feel like this helps me

Whenever I loath doing a task, I tell myself to do it for 5 minutes and if I still don't feel like doing it, then I can do something else. It's a pretty common technique and works wonderfully for me. Something about my pride and not wanting to give up after 5 minutes helps me power through
There were many notable people who were exposed as to exposing that we all should be lockdown while breaking the rules themselves. It is quite frustrating when I live in an area where almost everyone followed the rules.

Yes there is a quite an element to theatre to the whole thing, which makes sensible discussion about the issue impossible. Which I believe is somewhat by design.
the environment does not rely on trust. When you make a transaction you make a transaction without needing to trust anyone.

Exchanges are needed only in the world where you need to transform bitcoins into other currencies.

Relying on programmers, api, etc: if you want to go down that rabbit hole, you can literally take the code and verify it yourself. It’s out in the open and it’s backed by cryptographically sound primitives.

Bitcoin has failed as money? Most coiners?
Where is this coming from? Do you have anything to support these assertions?
The article argues that English spelling inconsistencies were heavily driven by the printing press appearing in a period of overall spelling turmoil in English, due to the displacement of written English from ~1066 to 1300s.

As (basically) a native english speaker, does anyone know of how this works analogously in other European languages?

How consistent was French or German spelling around 1450?
I wonder how significant the booming stock market is? Maybe people are neglecting to work because their Tesla stock is up some absurd amount over 5 years or whatever. Same for crypto. But when these people start treating such capital gains as disposeable income then it will cause inflation.
I’d be interesting to study how people read Latex compiler errors, which I find to be unhelpful and an extreme case of bad error messages. I think part of the problem is an extensive use of macros, which expand out into gibberish with little line number information. I personally just bisect my commits rather than read the logs.
100x +1. The whole field of query optimization has been devoted to improvement of efficiency and speed of database systems for decades. [1] Academic results are studied quite closely in industry. Also, "academic" includes people like Mike Stonebraker and Andy Pavlo. They aren't exactly slouches regarding issues of performance.

More generally, major waves of performance innovation in the IT field have been driven by advances in storage, compression, vectorization, virtualization, etc. Academic results have led to entirely new products like Vertica (from C-Store [2]) or VMware (from the Disco system [3]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Query_optimization

[2] https://w6113.github.io/files/papers/cstore-vldb05.pdf

[3] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~15712/papers/bugnion97.pdf

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fwiw, I’m going to check out your service. The article’s conclusions are philosophical and introspective, but it does give the practical finding that calendar time blocking is a more effective method than simple todo lists. So trying out the latter is an actionable item. Doing a guided meditation session to emphasize with my future self would be another step- wonder if that’s the future of meditation/wellness/productivity lifehack fads.
I’m not sure what country you’re basing this on, but in the US the 2020 election felt like a repudiation of the more liberalized COVID-19 policies of the Trump administration.
Do you understand that most peoppe on welfare and/or section 8 housing also are required to work shitty jobs in order to receive those “handouts”?

Very few people leave poverty in the usa because of many factors that have nothing to do with welfare.
> This climate change is going to be the next big depression of our age.

On the contrary. It is government policies against climate changes that are destroying prosperity.

You won't be able to travel because climatist taxes and legislative policies will make your trip three times more expensive or simply prohibited.
This is a bit too reductionist for my liking.

Imagine, as a kind of empathetic thought exercise, that instead of someone taking handouts and playing Xbox all day, they were taking handouts and then doing online coursework to try and learn a new skill to make themselves more employable in the future. Does that still imply a lack of self-respect?

We're all effectively taking handouts to some degree or another just by participating in collective society. It's just a question of how much we're contributing back, and how. I try not to judge people too aggressively in terms of how they are contributing back; they may be doing so in ways that I cannot see.
A business has no right to exist.

If you want staff, pay the rate or close.

Or automate/improve your processes.

We need businesses in an economy, not any particular business.
For quite a while I have not used any project management or todo-lists at all. I usually have a project or few that I need to progress and I just keep them in my head. Sometimes I book some appointments with some other people which gives me a deadline to make some progress. For some crucial chores I may do a temporary todo-list of maybe three trivial items.

Not sure how optimal this is, but I've managed to stay employed and get most important things done. A plus side is that this has a sort of automatic priorization and pruning: I just forget some of the things or projects or ideas, and probably there's a (negative) correlation between importance and forgetting.

Perhaps people are on average a bit too preoccupied with planning and "tasking up" and managing and measuring things to do. I've found its often more trouble than it's worth. Also in anything more complicated the plan usually collapses quite rapidly, and having a strict task-structure etc may well cause people to keep the wrong course for too long.
Another possibility you didn't mention is that many creators aren't creating as much value as they think they're worth.
What is a good CP/M emulator?
We've switched many of our family's Friday night pizza nights to "make pizza at home". Can I afford $4 more? Of course. Do I see the same level of value in a ~50% more expensive pizza? Of course not.