skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes stopping terror attacks and keeping the US policy circles informed about ongoing activities in other countries is the same as domestic abuse. Well put! /s
Also a lot of fake profiles put an URL on their images, to scam sites. I don't get why Tinder can't use OCR to detect this. Some profiles also put the URL in a video, which makes it slightly harder to detect, because not all of the URL is in the first frames.
I wonder how many 'small open source projects' really have any value in terms of police reforms, teachers unions, etc...

If you're interested in making a difference I think it's better to look at career resources like https://80000hours.org/ than trying to think of open source software that will, in all honestly, probably make 0 difference.
Missing from this headline "Associated with Large Public Gatherings".

Its worth noting...

- Vaccination is not equal to 100% immunity as some folks appear to think.

- Vaccination means a significant reduced risk of getting COVID.

- Vaccination means that if you get COVID your risk for death is significantly lower.

With Delta variants right now, it is worth noting...

- Variants will continue to mutate as a significant % of people go unvaccinated.

- Variants seem to pose higher risk for all, but vaccination still reduces risk.

- Vaccinated folks with a COVID variant are equally contagious - but possibly for a shorter period of time (early days).

Summary: You're not special. Get a vaccination. We are in this together.

Am not interested in rebutting every issue someone flags with this - its a high-level generalization. Am not a doctor etc. Look to CDC for guidance and authority.
“If the CDC has increased their Delta Ro because of the Ptown cohort, then they are overstating it for the general population. The cohort was 85% male (WaPo and NYT have both failed to mention this). Hello, it was Bear Week.
@apoorva_nyc rightly mentions packed bars, etc., but /1

... everyone is missing the horny bear in the room. Bears go to Ptown to have lots of fun which includes lots of sex. News flash, gay men KISS when they have sex. /2”

https://twitter.com/peterstaley/status/1421215604481142785
I mean, I do have a backlog list, and it is prioritized, but my day-to-day follows a process not a todo list. I keep a daily checklist of priority things to fit in:

Speak politely, two morning chores, answer all messages from my group, workout, read, tinker with something, no coffee (I'm quitting), no drinks (I'm cutting down), meditate, go outside, update the finances, write in my journal.

Each of those is about a 5 minute task or a daily reminder. Read and Tinker often lead to hours-long focus sessions. The key is to show up every day and remove barriers to getting started.

If you want to call that a todo list, that's ok, but I call it a process-oriented checklist because of the way I use it.

I used to be better about keeping a monthly checklist too, but pandemic has removed most the list.
I'm always curious how others "work." I use the Pomodoro technique myself, where I do a minimum of 8 sessions per workday. I try to do 10, but usually, I'm somewhere in between. I do not count meetings.

Every day at work, I show up and do a minimum of 4 straight hours of concentrated and focused work.

I often get told things like: "I'm killing it", "I'm a high producer", etc.

To me, I feel like I'm cheating the system, and I work too little.

What do other people do?
You must be going to different parts of Europe than I have. American cities (not suburbs, the actual cities) are absolutely filthy with trash and litter. European cities feel squeaky clean in comparison.

And what's with all that trash on freeways? I've seen a whole couch casually waiting to biodegrade by the side of the freeway. Discarded bumpers and tyres aren't even worth mentioning anymore there's so many everywhere. Large debris like that gets cleaned up immediately in Europe because it's a hazard.
To stir up controversy. New outlets need any kind of story to stay relavent
I like the premise. I got this impression from the 10 minutes spent skimming the results from my rural area. Some of them just t looked so fake. But maybe setting up the handsome Stan account and testing is the way to go.
The problem seems to be that the trash is getting into the water. Who is dumping laundry detergent bottles into rivers and oceans? Solve that problem. If the bottles switch to some other material, whoever is dumping them now will keep dumping them. Get trash into landfills and the water will be fine.
What you actually need to do is keep your prices the same while everyone else raises their prices and collect all their business, then you can afford to pay your workers more. But the end effect is the same, less work for people.
In many families, summers are typically full of "summer camps" that are actually "themed daycare for older kids". Those were mostly closed as well during the pandemic lockdown phase, and some still haven't come back (in the US, anyway).
I received an email from Bruce that he is in discussions with the Internet Archive and two Universities, so it sounds like the books will end up in a good home and likely digitized.
Oil rises as U.S. supplies tighten and dollar weakens
Is this really worth your time?
> I honestly don't think most people are capable of the nuance you describe.

It doesn't seem like they are to me either, but I hope that's something that can change. I think a lot of what's going on right now is a fad and everyone's going to wake up in the morning with a bad hangover at some point.
Here is Kotlin https://github.com/decentralized-hse/collab-edit

libron will be released, yes.
The US had problems with littering that were mostly quashed with some public efforts in the middle to later periods of the last century. Our beaches are mostly clean and our forests and wild places are too. Not pristine and littering still happens but so do efforts to cleaning it up like “adopt a highway”.
Tesla autopilot thinks moon is traffic light
I bet you're within an order of magnitude. Good calculations.
> we should be helping developing nations to better manage their plastic waste so that it doesn’t end up in waterways

>>I don't know why you say that like it's easy

Are they saying that like it's easy? How should it be said? Your tone is so defensive...
> The court order Murray broke applies to everybody.

It clearly doesn't as two surveys showed those who claim they were able to identify individuals from the reporting of the case, said they were able to do so from reports from the BBC and other corporate media. None of those reporters are facing jail.

Again, what Jonathan Cook is pointing out is exactly the opposite of what you claim. The court order does not apply to everybody: "Murray's writings appear to have had very little impact on the identification of any of the accusers. Among named individual journalists, Dani Garavelli, who wrote about the trial for Scotland on Sunday and the London Review of Books, was cited 15 times more often by respondents than Murray as helping them to identify Salmond's accusers."
Yep! I use RememberTheMilk, and while I still have tasks that are years old, I find it generally helpful. I like the confidence of being able to mentally unburden myself of remembering things (even if I usually still do) and sometimes find myself creating tasks just to check them off, because I've done them but hadn't added them to the list-- why not feel good about your accomplishments?

The reality is, many tasks, people simply don't want to do!
This is a story because it is showing something is wrong. This data implies that the vaccine isn’t effective enough to drop precautions. Vaccinated people need to know that and guidelines need to be adjusted, lest they become bigger spreaders than the unvaccinated, as this data is implying.

At the very least, this data needs to be very carefully followed up on.
My mistake, it says OT was used, thank you for correcting me.
That book is a great read AND the market for selling that scrap is excellent today.
I was about to recommend the exact same thing. Epoxy granite is used by some world class machine tool builders.

I think an interesting modern take on the Gingery machine, would be a homebuilt machine tool; built from epoxy-concrete. Linear rails, servos, fly-by-wire controls with force feedback.

Machine form factor would be a la Mazak Integrex but much smaller and fits in a two car garage. Total envelope would be 8"x8"x8"; high spindle speeds w/ low depth of cuts. That should compensate for the total lack of stiffness :)
There is a huge difference between seeing a piece of "trash" like a soda bottle or two every couple acres of sand and a beach "covered" in trash. In my life I have only seen one "beach" "covered" in trash in person and that was Race Point at Fishers Island New York. It is where much of the water exchange with the open ocean and the eastern end of long island sound occurs so it stands to reason that stuff would collect there. A mile away there is a pristine sand beach. At race point there was also a lot of drift wood when I visited including whole tree trunks that had washed up. Much of the human created waste was old, including metal debries like very old very rusted rifle bullet casings presumeably from soliders at the now abandoned pre world war two fort behind the beach. Who knows the beach may have been the fort's dump.
Shh, better keep a low profile or people will start saying "Mikey can fix anything" and bring you stuff that is wrecked a lot worse than an alien ship :)

Seems to me you would have a likely ability to build a uniquely better-than-average robot with a background like that.
Voting for Greece. Nude wrestling on Mount Olympus every 4 years. Back to basics, everyone should be content.
Ok, a little digging shows Japan has a much larger littering problem than I thought it did.

That said, Asia really does have a much larger issue here than the rest of the world. 90% of plastic pollution comes from “Asia: the Yangtze; Indus; Yellow; Hai He; Ganges; Pearl; Amur; Mekong; and two in Africa – the Nile and the Niger.”

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluti...
This is the CDC
Oh I've definitely seen acceptance go up in my circles in the last couple of years. Maybe it depends on who you know or where you are.
No, that is correct.

There are ways to avoid locks, but the stdlib implemtation doesn't do it. There are probably a bunch of crates that implemented concurrent BTrees, though.
> I fear the man who has nothing left to lose.

Does taking away a man's Twitter account really mean he has nothing left to lose?

I will grant you that if (or when) big platforms collude together to prevent millions of people from buying and selling, that will lead to some desperate people deciding they need to resort to violence to survive, but that's not what we've seen so far and it's not the stated goal of the big platforms.

The existing violence we saw was not a reaction to people being censored, but instead arguably a result of lies about the election spreading unimpeded due to a lack of censorship. To argue that it was censorship that triggered the problem (and that a few people losing their social media accounts justifies an insurrection) is the tail dangerously wagging the dog.

Don't get me wrong, though, I'm not pro-censorship, and I wouldn't trust big platforms to decide what the truth is, or what "dangerous ideas" need to be hidden from people. I'm just pointing out that the argument of "If you do this (technically legal) thing, you will be met with violence" is not automatically a moral or decisive one, even if it is correct.
> It has become axiomatic to say that the world is becoming like science fiction. [...]

Says a claim is axiomatic, and then immediately proceeds to justify the claim.

Either this author doesn't know what "axiomatic" means, or the same sort of thing that happened to "literally" is now happening to "axiomatic".
Works pretty nicely for me. Also, a great idea to play pictionary in this by drawing on this and chatting in the same room in a normal Matrix client. (and prob many other more productive uses)
Cocaine triggers a dopamine response (simplified, I dated someone with an addiction). Is that a positive impact? Moderation is important, as in reflection as to why you’re enjoying something and if it's healthy.
If vaccines don't stop transmission, then the only reason to get a vaccine is to protect yourself from severe symptoms. That contradicts what I've often been hearing that you should get the vaccine for the benefit of others. When the only effect the vaccine will have is on yourself, it becomes a personal question rather than a societal one.
40 hours? data entry and first level phone tech support maybe
I love this classic journalistic style. No editorializing, simply stating collected facts - and actually following up on information, and then reaching out to all parties for comment, and publishing it, whether it fits "the narrative" or not. I know pop journalism will never go back to this style, but I wish we could make it popular so that people don't lull themselves into seeking entertainment over information.
This is something that is very difficult to see at a distance: Just like in politics, it's very easy to get an unrepresentative picture of the world online.

I am a Spaniard who was fortunate to qualify to a US visa, so I was able to come over. I have many friends who went into CS, but didn't have the chances to come over as I did. As far as Spain goes, what I am able to make in the American Midwest pays for an entire team of developers in my hometown, who don't get more vacations than I do, and often work far longer hours.

And it's not just Spain. A local company here has started a Polish development center, because despite the language barriers, and the time difference, it's hard to pass up a total cost per employee of about 1/4th the equivalent developer in Missouri, and those Missouri developers get a month of vacation, and nobody works more than 40 hours a week.

If the concern is just places with bad work/life balance, we can find them on both sides of the Atlantic. My brother in Spain works 60 hour weeks more often than not, just like some people I know at very large online retailers. Those kind of situations can happen anywhere: But in some cases someone gets to choose it because they like the RSUs that come with it, and in others, it's just that the local market really is that bad.

So if I were you, I'd look in detail, as a generalization on work life balance might be very different than you think once you are on the ground. Take a look at "The trimodal nature of the European software market". There really are very few jobs in the top tier, the second tier is quite a bit worse than the US's second tier, for similar work/life balance, and the third tier is so far from the US, you might as well be comparing working conditions of Software developers with Uber drivers.
That measure is wrong, it was designed to make USA look better. Read this part about the measure, it misses government subsidised healthcare etc:

> Household final consumption expenditure (HFCE) is not an exhaustive measure of the goods and services consumed by households. The general government and non-profit institutions serving households (NPISH) often provide goods and services to households for their individual consumption free of charge or at reduced prices. Examples are health services provided by governments or reimbursed by a social security fund, education services, the part of service provided by public museums, concert halls, operas, swimming pools that is not financed by entrance fees, aid for social housing etc. By adding the general government's and NPISHs' individual consumption expenditure to household final consumption expenditure one receives the actual final consumption of households.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_final_consumption_ex...

Edit: Also another way to interpret that value is that is how much households has to spend to uphold decent way of life in that country. So it is really expensive to live in America so people have to work hard to survive. Of course you can't say for sure what is true, but if an American has to spend 50% more to live the same quality of life as a German person then of course he will be less willing to take vacation instead of the money.
> Am not interested in rebutting every issue someone flags with this - its a high-level generalization. Am not a doctor etc. Look to CDC for guidance and authority.

I understand, but you have a glaring bit of misinformation:

> - Variants will continue to mutate as a significant % of people go unvaccinated.

The virus mutates in vaccinated people as well. If the entire population was vaccinated, we would still get new variants, mutating enough to defeat vaccines.
The worst is when they say "experts say" and then just say whatever their own opinion was.

Sure, you can find "experts" to say anything. I'm more interested in who exactly you're talking about, or what data you're referring to. "Experts say" is just such a lazy and often misleading statement.

I've seen way too more articles that claimed "experts said" something which was NOT at all the consensus opinion.
How many developers do you think a browser engine needs? How much do they cost?

But also, the answer to your question is at https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2019/mozilla-fdn-201... and https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2019/mozilla-2019-fo... (the 2020 numbers are not up yet because the audit starts when the tax return is filed and lasts for several months, so isn't completed yet).

Just for comparison, last I checked Chrome's marketing budget was estimated to be in the ballpark of Mozilla's total budget.

Disclaimer: used to work for Mozilla.
> Critically, the study found that vaccinated individuals carried as much virus in their noses as unvaccinated individuals, strongly suggesting that vaccinated people could spread the virus to one another.

The takeaway is that even vaccinated people should wear masks.
As a British person visiting the US a few years ago, I was invited to watch a televised game of Baseball. The game would stop for what I thought was a random amount of time, asking my host what the hell they were doing - it turns out they were stopping due to the commercials within the TV broadcast. Honestly don't know how you guys put up with that level of advertising...it would drive me mad.

In the UK I've not watched a TV commercial in years (there are none on the BBC, Netflix, Prime or Disney+). All major sports events that are of importance are on the BBC. These are all paid-for subscriptions. I assume to watch Baseball on TV you would have to subscribe to cable? And to have ads on top of your paid subscription just seems greedy.
The Matrix imagines that future very vividly. I'd have to wonder what we were optimising for to arrive at that solution.
Impossible since it came from the new world.
I have held this view for most of my life. But now I kind of see them as complementary to each other.

At the end of a workday, a spacex or Tesla employee will likely sit down and watch stupid tiktok videos or Netflix or any number of things the rest of us do (or just sleep).

The point is that we need both these things and they do complement each other.

The way I think of it though, is more about scarcity of talent.

The idea that a really smart human being (a finite quantity) can either help build a better renewable energy system or a better video compression pipeline, that feels more obvious. One is using their talents to help humanity. The other is using their talents to help a company’s bottom line but doesn’t actually add to the pleasure of the audience or the enjoyment of humanity like the actual content does. And the cost of having a slightly less efficient video processing pipeline or subtitles software, is negligible compared to the cost of taking another five years to build better toilets, ways to recycle plastic, or use drones to plant trees.

So it’s less about whether the companies are useful. It’s more about where we most need our best and brightest talents used.

It’s that gross misallocation of talent at places like Facebook, Netflix, and Apple that bothers me.
Strongly agree. Has been my experience as well.
> Of all our environmental problems, atmospheric CO2 is the biggest one, right?

We honestly don't know how bad micro-plastic is. Our experience with asbestos, another fibre that can penetrate cells, suggests "very bad" is on the list of potentials. We do know that it's in literally everything from dirt to water to air, and that it has circled the globe and got to places no human sets foot.

Like soil depletion and loss of insects, it's on the list of problems which aren't trendy to focus on right now, but might end up being really serious.
Is this a joke comment? I'm starting to lose the ability to see sarcasm I think. Why would you have expected them to have been busy in the last six months?
That sounds semi-similar to the “Seinfeld System,” a method that highlights daily streaks.

https://jamesclear.com/stop-procrastinating-seinfeld-strateg...
Are yogurt containers considered single-use? What would they use instead?
I think it was beach handball
That study isn't as powerful as what I mentioned. That is a longitudinal study of children who were exposed to lead, and their life outcomes. The study I want to mention was of children, all of whom were exposed to lead, but only some of whom were treated for it, based on a threshold of blood lead concentration. Figure 4 in this paper is particularly compelling. They show a strong correlation between blood lead levels and violent criminal behavior in later life, but the intervention group, who were exposed to lead but received treatments for it, had much lower rates of crime.

You should read it to see if you think they didn't control for socioeconomic factors well enough. Section II and Table 1 in particular. https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/app.20160056
I suggest using polished engraved silicon - judging by the looks of an exposed microchip die, it should be beautiful.
I’m curious why people think vaccinations will solve the mutated variants problem. We’ve been told from the very beginning that the vaccines only reduce symptoms and only marginally prevent you from getting COVID in the first place. If people are still getting it, why would there be any less of a chance for SARS-cov-2 to mutate? In fact, if the vaccines specifically only target spike, that would, if anything cause a selective pressure for the virus to mutate it’s spike protein.
How CUE wins
Are you sure?

Those states that cut people off unemployment didn’t see a boost in employment rates. Sooo now what?
Exercism: Code Practice and Mentorship for Everyone
> a fact which is proven by how dominant web is over native software despite it's many shortcomings.

I wish it was, perhaps may be by numbers i.e. websites vs native software but if we take mobile ecosystem, native applications rule and many of the web pages are just landing pages for those mobile apps.

Smartphones are the first computers for majority of the world and significant population among them would have never opened a browser to enter an URL but perhaps would have used WhatsApp to click a link and opened it in built-in browser.

Even in web, mobile visitors has long overtaken desktop but again how much of it is organic i.e. direct or search when compared to those from social media, chat apps which again are likely to be native apps(and opened in built-in browser).

After a decade of developing mobile(native) apps for all major platforms I've quit native mobile app development and have started to focus my efforts back on web; My audience are intentionally those who wouldn't mind using a web application but I still occasionally receive questions from a new user like 'Is there an app for this'.

I strongly believe that until the duopoly in mobile ecosystem is fixed, Web is under serious threat.