skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so where is your evidence that the cost-benefit-analysis of covid deaths is in the favour of opening up?

We don't drive above 25mph because there is already cost benefit analysis done, at the governmental transportation department level. The average person assumes this analysis is mostly correct, and thus agree (implicitly) to follow the rules.

How come all of a sudden, people stop believing that such analysis wasn't done for the actions undertaken for lockdown?

How come, conveniently, that people who oppose such lockdown are claiming that their preferred option - that of opening up - is somehow a better trade?
Yes, but a judge should be involve. Because for the Taliban, it's clear cut, but it's not always the case.

And of course, one day, it will be abused.
Not absurd perhaps, but I think being forced to talk with no threat of being punching people is quite refreshing. Yes, some will exploit that, ironically often those that have a problem with anonymity. But they really need to learn to vent in other ways than hitting people, would be a healthy development.
> When nations cut themself off from the global economy, they often think that they've made themselves self-sufficient right up until a foreign power that's been trading the whole time shows up in your capital city with a fleet of gunboats to forcibly open your country to world markets.

Japan still did a lot better for itself than most other places that western gunboats showed up in the high colonial age. Is this not because it had a healthy political economy, and could meet foreign demands while still continuing "national" development?
I live in a blue state, and hospitals are currently setting up tents in parking lots to make room for more COVID patients. ECMO and ventilator capacity is at 100%. This state is far from the top of the list in infection rate.

Things are not going back to normal, no matter how much we act like they are.
As society becomes more wealthy and tackles the big health issues, they move down the list to the next one, and so forth.

When I was growing up seat belts weren't mandatory and oh boy did people protest that change in the law. Not long ago I visited a developing country where nobody even thinks about wearing seatbelts. And I was aghast. How can they not take such a simple precaution. And child seats? They ride on motorbikes with their kids on the front with no helmet!

The answer obviously is there are a lot more things that they worry about than getting into an accident. Things like losing their job and having to beg because there is no safety net. Things like getting sick and affording healthcare.

And as medical treatments advance even further you'll see even more resources thrown at even smaller problems. That's just how it is - we tackle health issues at the margins and as we become more wealthy we're willing to sacrifice more resources to tackle smaller problems.
There are situations where some posts come to front page hours after going out from the new page

It has happened to me a couple of times as well. That is clearly unexplainable.
Chez Scheme, which implements R6RS, is the fastest. See https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/

I would say the reason it beats Chicken and Gambit is that it has a Scheme-specific compiler to machine code that has been worked on for a long time with performance in mind.

Dybvig's talk on Macro Writers' Bill of Rights explains some of the optimizations Chez does: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIEX3tUliHw (Why macro writers? Because the compiler will handle superfluous generated code so macros doesn't have to)

See also The Development of Chez Scheme for the history of it: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.72....
I read the article.

The blogpost starts explaining that they don't do daily standup because they are using a distributed team all over the world which makes it hard to gather the team for a daily standup. To me this makes perfect sense. There are many good ways for a team to be communicating and working. Everything doesn't need to be lean.

but then author carries on and the article becomes very weird:

"If daily stand-ups really are so awful, why do some managers insist on them? Hard truth: it’s because they’re lazy, incompetent managers"

My jaw dropped! That is a very bold statement overly generalizing and not conforming to the fact that there are many competent managers that are not lazy. The author of the article just lost a lot of credibility. If this is how you talk about your colleagues I don't want to work for you nor buy your products.

"Daily stand-ups are not only a waste of time and make software development more expensive, but they demoralise developers and make them want to change jobs."

How can the author generalize like that when you decided against it?

What works for me might not necessarily work for you, and vice versa - to indicate otherwise strikes me as unprofessional, unsympathetic and demotivational.
I'm locked down, and it's not too bad, but why the hell aren't there rapid spit kits everywhere? I think the federal government is a shitshow and do not have anything positive to say about them, but given that they stuffed up, it's going to take some time fix that. I am fully vaccinated, and I would voluntarily keep going with lockdown so that others don't die. If we had persisted with rolling out AZ, between 20 ~100 people would have died from the vaccine nationally (in australia) At the time, given the low death rate from Covid, that was too high. Of course then the federal government stuffed up quarantine too. If NSW opens up, people are going to die, disproportionally they will be Indigenous people, and poorer people who didn't vote Scomo.
Not really interested in that to be honest.
Sorry, this is a commercial project, not open source. In fact, if this fails, we will starve.
Anyway, it is the core of this app that automatically connects the naturally written note-taking into a form that can use Spaced Repetition. It's hard to explain in more detail, but I hope you enjoy the experience of being able to use Spaced Repetition for the content by simply taking notes in outliner form. Anyway, thanks for the compliment.
Well, Thanks.
Nike closes offices for a week to give employees a mental health break
I still have to see a website that looks better than the default browser styles. Just leave your CSS empty (unless required for some functionality) and enjoy the pure, raw, unadulterated look of the internet.
Or 2020, or 2019. Wait, that sounds like Facebook since it's creation.
Or bounded… by the heat death of the universe. I think there’s a point though, if you’re writing a stack machine or something like that where it makes sense, you’d know. But many novice programmers reach for the old while-bool-var construct and set it to false in the loop body (and often reset it to true later. So confusing. )
Just say you are stuck and you are unable to explain, someone then can help you with understanding what's going on. Part of being a professional is to admit it when you don know, so people can help, or not giving you hard work/close deadlines.

It's really simple, whatever it is, just say it.
Oh wow, never knew that. Huh.
> While all that is true, THE WORLD absolutely has a weird relationship with FEMALE BODIES.

Fixed that for you.
Varies per jurisdiction; some games have "green blood" in Germany, for example.

> Like, one peer reviewed study that demonstrate causality?

Evidence is only weakly relevant to policy.
> When you write code on paper, you have no way to see if your code works. Maybe someday I’ll be able to handwrite code on an e-Ink device and then run it.

I may be living in the future then. :D

https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper

https://mlajtos.mu/posts/new-kind-of-paper-2
Of course they are. How would they know you said "hey Google/Siri" otherwise?
So it sounds good for you, is it felt the same way by everyone?

Not saying it's not, it's just your points come across very first person.
We also have a remote team in different timezones. What we do instead is just the slack version of a "stand-up". Everyone writes whenever they start what they did yesterday as bullet points, what they will do today and if there are any blockers or important reminders. Doesn't take 5min of each ones time, keeps everyone in the loop and helps managers intervene if some other sprint task needs to be prioritized instead. Cost-benefit seems to be fine for us. Sure, you will still get the example mentioned, but that is still low cost after all. You can always reply in threads if something needs more detail.
Since everything is a component in React you could abstract that eg.

const H1 = props => <Text accessibilityRole="heading" accessibilityLevel={1} {...props} />
Asking a team what they want or prefer doesn't always equate to what it actually is they need or prefer. Often it's either peer pressure or a false believe something has value while in reality it doesn't.

Not saying this is the case with your team, but be aware this can happen.
Useful technology like ad growth hacking, conversion optimization, engagement optimization and getting kids to open more loot boxes? Lets face it, the majority of white collar workers including software engineers are there for the money. Who can blame them, when they make twice to thrice as much as a lab virologist or three to six times as much as a school teacher?
This would be sensible because in a democracy the voters are responsible for their conduct. This would make sense. Also external audits of intelligence agencies and their access on information.
Trailerduck is a smart e-bike trailer
Right, of course. That's how most of civilization worked for 3000 years until we invented liberalism in the 01700s: if you pled for mercy for the heretics or argued that we should hear them out, you were a heretic too. It's a major reason progress was so slow. One of the charges against Socrates at his trial was that he claimed that the Sun was not actually divine, but merely natural matter such as a stone, a charge he denied. Hopefully we can find a way to preserve some sort of enclave of liberalism despite the US abandoning it.
Thanks for the additional context, an honor system in regards to potential fines is fascinating.

The only example I can think of is Microsoft and Apple alerting each other’s legal teams when defectors of the other try to sell secrets.
The Egg (2019)
Music startup Roli has filed for administration
> Funny how amazon or google were never investigated for years about the tons of pirated content they host, yet tiny hosting sites are being shut down before they even start.

It's called "pulling up the ladder behind you". The US did it with patents - for tens of decades the US just ignored patent law (read up on why Hollywood was founded). Once they had enough patents, they started rigorously enforcing it around the world so other countries would have to pay a tax for using knowledge.

Most large corporations today are where they are because they were not tightly regulated when small, once they got big they pushed for regulations that were onerous for small companies, hence introducing an artificial barrier that prevents competitors to them from starting off the same way they did.

The "#MeToo" movement looked like much of the same as well - a lot of young men and women in Hollywood got their start from the casting couch. By taking away that option (not that they succeeded, as far as I know) they ensure that there are fewer younger and more attractive competitors.

"Pull up the ladder behind you" is an old and viable strategy that applies almost anywhere there is competition, and the intention is to reduce competition by making sure that future competition cannot use the same easy channels to success that the ladder-puller did.
Maybe the tone is fully representative. One could start to wonder what kind of people would be attracted to working on linters. 'Now I get to tell everybody what is good or bad'.
> I have no way of saying this constructively.

That should have been a clue.

> You’re very wrong.

No, I'm not. The very first sentence in the WP article you cite:

"In Finnish history, Finland under Swedish rule refers to the historical period when the bulk of the area that later came to constitute Finland *was an integral part of Sweden."*

Integral parts of countries are not "colonies". That was exactly my point: What is now Finland was an integral part of Sweden, like any other. Calling it a colony is exactly like calling the current region of Dalecarlia a colony of Sweden, or calling Ostrobothnia or Päijät-Häme colonies of Finland. It's absurd on the face of it.

Are you saying it would be correct in a future where they are independent countries to retroactively say Ostrobothnia-now and Päijät-Häme-now were "colonies of Finland" back in the twentieth century? If not, then Finland wasn't a "colony of Sweden" either.

The rest of the article is liberally sprinkled with

A) Tendentious phrasing like "Finland was annexed as part of the Western Christian domain" ("annexed" to a religion?), and

B) Grammatical mistakes typical of Finnish-speakers with a bad grounding in Germanic languages like Swedish and English.

So... No. If you think the bigoted view on history some parts of that WP article espouses are to be taken seriously, it is you who are wrong.
You've misunderstood my point I think. How a disease presents is different issue than the complexity of faces. A photo of a face has more information encoded than an x-ray image. This lack of information is part of the problem that I think more data doesn't solve and why humans are able to identify cancer. We have better image recognition 'software'. And that's my point, better algos, not more data
> The government is made up from persons in the "public." If the public cannot be trusted to act in the public good, the government cannot be trusted to do so either either.

that's a false equivalency.

An action on the part of the gov't does not equate to the "average" action of the general population. The very fact that there must be gov't mandated laws against stealing is evidence of this - otherwise, people would steal and loot!

Plenty of people opposed to the draft in war, and yet it must be done in the public good. The only saving grace, because of western democracy, is that any gov't who continue to flounder the power granted to them, would (ostensibly) get voted out. This doesn't happen in an authoritarian gov't - like china for example.

But people who claim mistrust of the public institutions are destroying that mechanism - leading to the very last US election, where some people are de-legitimizing the outcome because they believe that some "authoritarian" entity is forcing it upon them.

I dont know whether these people are stupid, or brainwashed by something.
Bonus point: everything gets documented for future references if needed. Also, when I am on holidays but still have that itch to check how the team is doing, I just check that channel.
gitless has the --partial flag that allows you to commit parts of files interactively.

And your workflow of gradually building up an index of (parts of) files can be achieved by partial/amendable commits. You simply iteratively/interactively add files and partial files to your latest commit until you're done. Instead of building up the index and then committing it, you just build up the commit directly.

This also means you can interact with the "in progress commit" in the same way as with all other commits.

There is no need for having an index to realize what you want.

Another minor point: Your workflow _is_ a power user workflow in my world. Out of twenty people that have reason to use git, one has use for this workflow.

It seems we roughly agree that there is a lot of scope for improving git though. I looked at magit and it looks nice. It exposes all the moving parts in a user interface. I would prefer to just have fewer moving parts, but if they are there it's sensible to make them obvious (and it puts to rest the idea that all you need to understand is that the git data structure is a DAG...)
Scary that this is available to almost anyone now!
There are PS/2 to USB converters but who knows what latency they add.
Tmpfs inode corruption: introducing inode64
Depends on your definition of "engine". XNA was a set of APIs and tools for game development. Game engines are also a set of APIs and tools for game development, although usually a bit more integrated than XNA. But before Unity and Unreal Engine became the "default engines" the term was used much more losely, often only for the runtime parts, not the authoring tools.
>High price in these kind of events rarely increases availability - after all, it takes time to increase production or ship more.

If something is an issue for just 1-2 days maybe. If it's more then it seems that should be enough to get at least some express shipments if there was profit to be made.
Make it Anki compatible importable so you can easily import customers
Maybe you want something async like https://geekbot.com/
Designing Aero Snap (2009)
> If you read the literature, it is argued that for this to work it is absolutely forbidden for project managers to join these meetings. This is, however, a utopian view.

No, it's not. It works for our team. We don't have the PO in our daily. If he likes, he can join as a guest, but he is not part of it. We, as engineers, use the daily to discuss the work for the next 24 hours - if there is anything to discuss. It works pretty well for us.
yeah deplatformming makes me think of Walter Cronkite. One side wants it their way, and that will be the way it is.
This is bunk. I’m Portuguese and I start by joining the thumb with my pinky, brush it through the other fingers, then raise my thumb as “5”. Nobody I know does that, it’s a personal trait.
Push down a little bit
Yeah, this is definitely a form of light where an incandescent lightbulb is not a great option.
https://cryptopanic.com/
That is the most manipulative ad I have ever seen, straight out of some brainwashing manual.

Any goverment should stay clear from using propaganda. This comes down to means and ends and the elitist thought that "we" know better than "them" where "them" are the unwashed masses. The citizens must be treated like responsible human beings and given the information and clear instructions on what is expected of them, not an emotion charged movie clip.
Isn't literally every deepfake detection technique just an oracle that you can use to train a better deepfake creator?
The article is not representative of the community, quite the opposite.

In fact, the community is embracing "black" these days, the python equivalent of gofmt, exactly because we have better things to do than arguing over PEP 8.
> If you think a terrorist blowing up a market full of kids and women is cool

I don't think they meant it as "cool", but it's usually more complex than that. Most terrorists have a cause and reasons for joining it sometimes it's brainwashing by a local trusted person ( e.g. priest or whatever), sometimes it's directly suffering against something and wanting to fight back - e.g. the IRA, the Chechen's against Russia, and many people against the US. When your market was bombed, and your wife, kid and neighbors got exploded because someone is playing empire, is it really that insane to want to blow up their wife and kids in retaliation, to bring the fight to them? I don't consider it so, even if it remains despicable and wrong.

However, a billionaire that knowingly sacrificed even hundreds of civilians purely out of greed, is worse. They weren't brainwashed to believe there will be virgins as reward, they knew killing people ( either through negligence or overworking or marketing drugs) will get them money and they do it. There are no mitigating circumstances, no excuses. Of course that doesn't mean they should all be executed. Making them pay hefty taxes and better regulating the ways they made their money is a better way to deal with the issue. (However i understand how a person could look at the current situation, decide it's hopeless and think violence is the only possible way forward)
Why I downvoted:

It sounds like you're talking about a non-toxic organisation. I believe the author is talking about what they've experienced in toxic organisations. I guess the problem is that everyone brings different experiences to the table, and a burned child fears fire.

In the context of toxic organisations where stand ups are a top down mandated micro management tool, I find your comment about intellect and disinterest a bit unfair.
I went for a ULX3S to try and learn spinalHDL. I find it much easier to understand than vanilla verilog, however it still is a steep learning curve...
As an engineering manager I tried to replace daily stand up meetings with a “drop a couple of lines in the team chat daily”. I think it worked great and a lot of more relevant information was brought forward and lead to more productive co-operation between team members.

However, some team members thought this was “wrong” and “not how agile should work” so eventually after continuing complaining I had to reinstate/allow these stand-ups again…
Get rid of 'price gouging protection' and simple economics will make businesses put back in supply redundancy.

The issue today is it's more profitable to sell at rock bottom prices 95% of the time and be out of stock 5% of the time, then it is to sell at a higher price always (to pay for the buffer).

Selling at rock bottom prices 95% of the time and high prices 5% of the time (to pay for the buffer) is best, but currently illegal.
A lot of time can be wasted with poor debounce implementations. Cherry switches claims <8ms bounce IIRC, but you only need to debounce one of the edges. So as soon as you see the key start bouncing, you know it is activated, so you can immediately register the press, then do debounce. That way you only delay the registration of the release. By using a shift register you can also minimize it to the actual bounce time, not a predetermined delay. I (personally) don't know of any commercial keyboards that implements it this way, but given that their software is closed source, it is very possible that some do use this algorithm.
In today's world of online work, I feel the stand-up is losing it's value. As Jason Fried (37signals, Basecamp) quite well stated many years ago: to embrace a fully decentralized online way of working, is to embrace asynchronous communication.

The idea we need to "come together" to "talk about what we're doing" is invalidated if we can do this much better and more effectively when allowing for a decentralized and documentend working environment.

Why I prefer collaborating with designers who use tools such as Figma, is the fact I can annotate their work, not expecting an immediate response, but allowing them to handle my comment in an appropriate manner, when they seem fit, how they seem fit.

Almost nothing these days need an acute response.
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Because Windows 10 remotes as bitmaps, not as GDI commands, and also because you need a 3D accelerator card for rendering to be fast.