skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you walk by a group of people in the park and they’re infected
>This has never been documented in the entire history of SARS-CoV2

This seems like something at risk of being a self fulfilling prophecy. How would something like that be documented? You can't do contact tracing on random people you walk past in the park. Even the contact tracing apps, sparsely used as they are, generally require a 15 minute contact period to "count". We've assumed that it can't happen, but we have no way of knowing if it did happen.

(Anecdata, accompany with 0.36g sodium chloride: I was speaking to someone over the weekend who claims they can pinpoint to a 20-minute window when they got infected (on the basis that they could not have caught it from anyone else that day) and they reckon that they got it from walking down an extremely densely crowded alleyway. Due to a testing screwup, this person isn't even documented as having had Covid at all. Of course, they may be mistaken, but nevertheless it goes to show that just because something happened, doesn't mean it will be recorded.)
If you're not actively driving, you might as well just hold the device in your hand?
Unlike most other learning platforms, Kolibri supports users that don't necessarily have fast or consistent internet access.

While it can be hosted in the cloud, it is designed to run on a local network so that the experience is fast and responsive, and is specific for the needs in places with limited internet. Content and data can be synced to other locations as-needed.

See also https://kolibri.readthedocs.io/
>"Corn" still refers to multiple cereals in British English; what Americans call "corn" is "maize". Or so it used to be; perhaps it is changing?

In the UK, there are some exceptions, where it specifically refers to maize: cornflakes, corn on the cob, sweetcorn, and cornflour.
Years? It will all happen in the next 24 months IMO. If you haven’t started yet you’re already running late!
I also think it would be interesting to see how small, or how fast, you could make a standard 486 by applying modern manufacturing.
My top level being that it's a VCS (like Git) specialized for binaries; with commands baked in to prevent the slowdown that often comes with large git repositories.
Mars has oxygen, water, carbon, sunlight, and completely untouched mineral resources. Mars is the one place in the solar system besides Earth where it's possible to grow plants on natural sunlight.

Radiation on Mars is actually not that bad[1], it's comparable to the radiation levels in Ramsar, Iran, where people live happily to a normal age without elevated cancer rates. The perchlorates in Martian soil won't be hard to deal with either[2].

[1] https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/omg-space-is-f...

[2] https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2020/04/20/even-the-dirt-...
The best way to understand hydrogen is Liebreich Hydrogen Ladder:
https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/liebreich-oil...

The best use cases for hydrogen are fertilser or in hydrocracking. We currently use primarily natural gas to produce hydrogen.

Urban or commuter cars are one of the worst use case for hydrogen. Electricity and batteries are way better.
Serious question: I haven't done the research but I've always felt that in abstracts like Chess and Go that a larger part of the skill is in "reading the board". Humans are leveraging our pattern matching but we can get tired or miss even one little thing. The AI never misses, ever. I've always wondered how a human would do against an AI if the human was given a list of the top 50 potential moves in a randomized order to consider before making their move. Would the human be on more level playing field in terms of reading?
Good catch. Weighting by common n-grams would probably fix this, at the cost of a much larger database.
> Markets are designed to reward people who take risk

Markets can be (and often have been) designed to reward whoever or whatever the designers wish. Free markets aren't designed to reward anyone in particular, and that's their beauty. Free markets facilitate exchange. Who and what they reward should be a result of participants' actions, not the design of the market itself.
I watch Newshour semi-regularly, and it's better than most news in the US. I think in recent years the tone has rubbed me the wrong way... like every news outlet here, it sounds like Judy is talking to a bunch of five year olds. Which she basically is.
One of my "favorite" examples is Docker's CMD Dockerfile instruction. I often build static Go binaries and deploy them on a "scratch" base image, which just means there's nothing there but the kernel and your app. But when I set `CMD "/bin/app"` or whatever, it will throw an error complaining that `/bin/sh` doesn't exist. Apparently `CMD "/bin/app"` compiles to `/bin/sh -c /bin/app` or whatever and instead to get it to work properly, you have to make it an array: `CMD [ "/bin/app" ]`. I only run into this once every ~9 months so I tend to forget the details, apologies if this description isn't quite correct.
Hey, if it stops people from killing themselves and the people around them, I am all for it.
Built on PHP, over-engineered, and terrible out-of-the-box UI. I wouldn't personally recommend Moodle, unless you had no other option. It takes all of my energy to resist suggesting you just write your own LMS from scratch instead of using Moodle...
Look into Polkadot and Internet Computer (ICP). They are both aiming for fee less blockchain usage for the end user.
I toured a upper elementary school a couple weeks ago where they were building a remote learning system inside Roblox. I thought that was pretty cool (a little over ambitious for Dallas ISD though).

My son was all about it obvious haha.

Salesforce LMS (trailheads) is really good and although not open source they are planning or already have released it as a product.
That is one point of view. I've also read others who say that they prefer the right because it means that there isn't a gas pump right next to their car door--which means they have to carefully open their door so they don't ding it.

I probably prefer left but don't have a strong opinion.
ctrl-f "luck" - phrase not found

what a liar.
I agree with you canvas is actually very good at what it is supposed to do. I had to work with blackboard previously and I still have nightmares. Also regarding innovation in this space. I think we've actually seen quite a lot of movement in this space. Over the last 5-10 years many university moved from proprietary solutions like blackboard or custom solutions on top of some cms to open source solutions with open interfaces. There is a whole community of plugins and extensions and consultants writing oss extensions.
Or throttle ip4 traffic giving priority to ip6, and things will fix themselves.
I hope someone more knowledgeable also answers, but you could for example try lighter roasts and reducing the amount of coffee to water ratio (You might be using too much grounds).
Every single app that uses notifications needing to run in the background is not a scalable solution..

Even correctly behaving apps will consume much more power and network with this scheme.
“Hey siri navigate home”

Pretty simple.
Follow Lefteris on Twitter
https://twitter.com/lefterisjp?s=21

Then look for people with .ETH to their name. A lot of them are technical and Ethereum Foundation members.
As popular is it has become on Twitter and other social media to react to a piece by manufacturing quotes, it's against the rules here.
Goodhart's Law: Endgame
New Design for Churches
This comes right after the FDA approves a new small pox drug[1] and bill gates warns about a small pox "terror attack"[2]. Suspicious....

[1] https://www.fda.gov/drugs/news-events-human-drugs/fda-approv...

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bill-gates-smallp...
There is an associated presentation on manyclangs at LLVM dev meeting. I think they presented yesterday?

Unfortunately it won't be uploaded until later but it will show up on the llvm YouTube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/LLVMPROJ
"This house has never been built this way before." That implies someone's already designed how it's going to be built?

What I often see in software that you're expected to give estimates on the spot before there's a design. You're expected to be the designer and implementor, and you're expected to say how long it'll take before you've started designing.

"I need features X, Y and Z" isn't a design.

And if you think other engineering disciplines are different, please go ask an EE how long it'll take -- or what it'll cost -- to make a board with a 2 GHz SoC and 8GB of LPDDR4 and PCIe. (That's not a design, and if you don't get laughed at, you'll learn that the answer depends massively on the design)
https://twitter.com/lefterisjp?s=21
DuckDuckGo Wants to Stop Apps from Tracking You on Android
Does it make a sense to turn it into fuse fs, with transparent deduplication?
How to Pose for Pictures: 10 Easy Poses That’ll Give You Photos
Moodle is good until you realize that the documentation on it is garbage.
Why I am no longer driven
The design of a house doesn't change every 3 weeks while it is getting built.

House construction is usually only started after a massive amount of detailed design and planning is done. This is priced in. This is almost never true for software.

Even with the above houses often take longer to build than expected and unforeseen issues can arise. Even the weather can screw things up.

The amount of unexpected issues that can come up in software is huge. Everything from a bug on a library that you use to differences in the exact machine that the software will run on vs where it was developed.
I'm not an ops guy, but I know it was a constant source of trouble in our team and a large challenge to keep it running smoothly. For us it took 2-3 experienced engineers something like 2 years to have a stable and smoothly running production environment at scale.

If you start from scratch today things may have gotten better. You might want to look at https://github.com/overhangio/tutor, I know Régis has been hard at work making it easier to run Open edX.
This author must live on the internet and never have to go to the local pool, fly on a jet (“it’ll be 3 am when we arrive!!”), or do anything in the physical space. The number of local times transactions outweighs the number of remote transactions, within a locale, by far.
Apple’s Self Service Repair Program Must Live Up to Its Promises
You don't need to discuss everything.

The the oh-so-common 2 hour+ full team meeting scoping session, where half the team dosen't care what the other half is talking about since it's irrelevant to them - it tires everyone
out and produces very little value for the impression of "we're now aligned".

Things only need to discussed if, when and only by as many people as required, everything else can be followed up later, it's really okay. Personally, I've always found things like 3 amigos to be much more time effective.
So incredibly true. I used to be staunchly in the "estimates are empty promises made by business people" camp. The last couple of years I've worked in an environment where both engineering and product understand that estimates are not created out of thin air and they have real consequences on both sides of the coin.

Our estimates have become far more accurate not only because we all understand that they _are_ estimates but because engineering is able to creatively come up with solutions that meet the business needs, not just the outlined "requirements." Most importantly, any potential shifts in our estimates are communicated every week and we have built in float time to account for these shifts. We haven't missed an estimated date in over a year.
NFTs are actually useful as there are tens of thousands of digital artists who can now sell their art in a liquid global marketplace for digital art.

Their current implementation is more proof of concept, but they are useful and they are being used daily by at least a few hundred thousand people.
This is my experience as well. Working with dynamic languages soured my experience with programming so far that I stopped doing projects of my own when I was in jobs requiring them. Sounds like hyperbole, but it's something I didn't realise until several years later, after having recovered the joy of programming (which happened because I moved jobs and started using a static language again).

I guess that in part it's a matter of mentality or personal style (I know that I think mostly in terms of guarantees, invariants and so on, which is why types are so useful to me; I feel like other people think more in terms of operations when they program, and maybe dynamic programming suits them more). But there are some huge advantages as well. The tooling is far better (like the incremental compilation in Eclipse, also available in IntelliJ but turned off by default IIRC, which highlights compilation error while you are still writing the code); there are fewer unit tests required because there are fewer things that can go wrong, since a lot of them can be enforced by the type system; most important of all, reading someone else's code is far easier because mandatory documentation, in the form of type names, is all over the place (yep, not a fan of type inference either). And there are more and more advantages.

I just don't see myself working on even a moderately sized code base in a dynamic language. The pain is too real; I have been there.
"SUV" is a marketting term that came into common use in the 80's in America.

There is no commonly agreed-upon definition of an SUV, and usage of the term varies between countries. Thus, it is "a loose term that traditionally covers a broad range of vehicles with four-wheel drive."

As such I am happy to claim, given there is no formal definition of what is and what isnt an SUV; that they dont exist at all, if only wishing made it so.

If one wants to claim they do indeed exist - there are plenty of examples from the 1940s and 1950's. “Sport utility vehicle” appeared for the first time in 1974 in the brochure of the first-generation Cherokee. So by the measure of marketing material, they have not been around 50 years, they have been around 47 years.
I would guess it’s a way to quickly bisect on compiler versions.
This is a very wordy article with a lot of non sequitur. A lot of big claims about surveillance states and behavior modification, but then the only practical examples are things like people installing doorbell cams to catch package thieves instead of “the prying eye of their neighbors” or traffic cameras catching red light runners.

The article then veers toward complaints about “cancel culture”, albeit with very flowery language:

> Used to purge public life of these individuals, social media enables the construction and enforcement of intellectual and political orthodoxy.

Is it really surveillance if people are responding to public social media posts that someone deliberately uploads to a website for the purpose of public discussion?

I read the whole article but struggled to get anything useful out of it. The author’s entire premise seems to be built on a “good old days” vision of the past that has been idealized as a sort of utopia where everyone behaved well because their neighbors were constantly watching them, which is an ironic premise for an article that also complains about cancel culture on social media:

> Omnipresent surveillance, a technical fix for social disorder, is a surrogate for the communities a post-Enlightenment world has destroyed.
That much RAM on a 33Mhz 386DX would run OS/2 very comfortably, and you could actually use all of it. Or very early Linux distributions, of course. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of them!
Interesting. I wonder if this can also be [ab]used to, say, deliver deltas of programs, so that you can have faster updates, but maybe it doesn't make sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_delta_compression
Facebook Sent Me Down a Centrist Rabbit Hole
Astonishingly accessible with a little knowledge of French:

“Il li demande coment se contient il? / Mauuoisement li quiens Bertram ad dit / Tun frere n’ad ne pain ne ble ne vin / Garison nule dont il puisse garir / Mais ke de sang li lessai plein Bacin,”

“He asks him, ‘How goes it with him?’ / ‘Badly,’ said Count Bertram. / ‘Your brother has neither bread nor corn nor wine; / He has no supplies with which to save himself, / Except for one basinful of blood, which I left him.’”

TIL: garrison <> supply
Is it still alive? Interested in using it in our project. Have tried multi select and it works like a charm! It took 10 mins to style it with Tailwind to match our project styles. If Vueform library has the same flexibility and options - it has no competitors.
Bragging of he's business success when whole world is forced to take these waxxes.
Oh please get the f out of here..
Furthermore, there's no way it would be a gig of text.

War and Peace is about three megabytes uncompressed.

So, even if you shipped all the translations, I doubt you'd have a full gigabyte's worth. Especially not if you compressed them while at rest.
If I understand, in essence the relevant control/surveillance surface is whatever the agent is.

If that's a head of household, then you surveil him - and the principals (individuals in the family/household) preserve privacy.

If every individual has agency, then every individual tends to get surveilled.

If you think about this from a marketing/sales POV, you want to understand the primary purchaser, not necessarily anyone else.
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if you select domains which don't align so closely with the buzzwords of the day and accept a more modest paycheck you may find more success in your search for a dream job

Personally I’ve found the opposite, a lot of the domains I’m interested in are interested in people who are… not me. Conversely I’m mildly confident with a little bit of investment I could get some blockchain startup to hire me.
> PHP gets you job offers customizing Drupal and Wordpress websites

I get that there's a lot of legacy PHP sites, that you could end up finding yourself working on.
But there are still plenty of new Drupal and Wordpress sites being built.

You could also say that building a site with these tools as akin to "customising", as a lot of what you're doing is configuration rather than coding (but I would say sometimes JS + NPM is pretty similar).
There are still opportunities to push yourself with coding, with some fairly complex Drupal sites being built.
I used Evolution for years, and it worked really well.

Anymore I just keep Outlook web open in a web browser though. Not because Evolution is lacking, I just didn't really see the point in setting it up anymore.
I don't think it's because of being tired.

A few hypotheses come to mind:

1. Walking on your toes vs. on your heels

2. What happens if you slip

3. Lean

If you're facing into the stairs, your toes are gripping the next step. Maybe the extra degree of freedom from your ankle makes it easier to get a steady foothold. Whereas if you're facing away, on narrow steps, your toe may be off the step. If you try to balance on level ground on the balls of your feet vs. on your heels, you can tell heels are harder.

If you're going up and you slip, your moving foot just slides onto the same step as your static foot. If you're going down and you slip, your feet are now separated by 2 steps instead of just 1.

All things that move across ground move best if they lean into the direction they're walking. If you're walking down stairs, leaning forward means leaning away from the stairs. Going up, you're just leaning into the stairs as if you're rock climbing. Also it's likely our bodies are just better at leaning forward safely than backwards.

I heard a quote somewhere that "If you go down facing it, it's a ladder. If you go down facing away, it's stairs." Some narrow stairs might be better treated as just strange ladders. 2 of the possible causes would be mitigated.
In the big numbers being in a rich family, in the right social group/culture and in the right country could influence a lot if you become (or continue to be) rich. And that is not an evenly distributed chance, nor requires very high IQ.

Having/seeing the right opportunity in the right moment in the right place, while having the right contacts, may give you a hand up, and again, that is not chance, nor specially being far above average in intelligence.

Another non random factor is your "cultural" intelligence (as opposed of genetic one). How you learn, what you learn and at which age (and more factors, like food, family and friends) affects your intelligence or at least some flavor of smartness. And this could be partially attributed to inherited wealth too.

And not every activity you get into will give you equal opportunities of becoming rich, starting with a somewhat common baseline. If you apply your big intelligence to theoretical mathematics or quantum physics you may have less chances to become rich than if you apply your average one in the field of finance. And you must again be in the right country/social class to even try that.

If you use chance to decide why some people in the right country/social class/education/etc got uber rich and the others just rich, you may have a point. but it is not even for all the world.
You folks would then surely take great comfort, or so I've heard, when I assure you, by Jove, that I did find ample evidence to support my position, yet it is too voluminous to be drawn out here at length within the narrow confines of this commentary box.
Reliability for a $1k touch screen phone expected to be obviated by new technology in a couple years (back in 2007 to 2012) is of different importance than reliability for a $30k+ vehicle competing with other vehicles that do their job for 20+ years and 300k+ miles.
> Moreover; Web 1.0 is still right here. It didn't go anywhere. Its as easy as its always been to publish a static site with just HTML.

That's a really, really good point. Web1 has become commoditized and thus invisible. Web2 might follow a similar path.
I think people may be traumatised by what happened to Perl or Cobol. They don't want to become obsolete. In reality what happened to Perl isn't the norm imo.
I think the worst for this is probably just about any C++ compiler when you make a mistake trying to use a template. You can easily get an error message that is several kilobytes and dozens of lines long.
Amusingly, the existence of title insurance demonstrates exactly the problem with NFTs that I was talking about. If somehow I manage to go through the steps of selling a house I'm not authorized to sell (whether by fraud or otherwise), typically the buyer doesn't get to keep the house, because our court system has people in it who can examine a whole situation and unwind it. Buyers get title insurance to protect against that kind of thing, so they can get their money back.

With NFTs you'd need title insurance in the exact opposite direction. You'd need to insure your title to make sure that a fraudulent and irreversible NFT transaction didn't irrevocably transfer ownership of your house and leave you boned.

And also, the bar I set was "better than a database" not "better than a poorly drawn JPEG".
Being constructive - I would absolutely love to see a world where we could get this sort of information for real in real time (or lets just say, as of 1 hour ago or 5 minutes ago).

Potentially some of the data points are possible with current technology - I am looking at the 'number of tweets' as a point.
The disease is not a black swan. The global reaction to it certainly is.
One of the authors here, thanks for the feedback. We've tried to improve it here: https://github.com/elfshaker/elfshaker/pull/59
They have had very little mortality since vaccination [1].

https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-m...
I kind of wish I had my 1990 beige box, even though it was a hunk of junk even for the time.
I Left Google and Gmail for Twos
The shaky launch of Africa's first e-currency in Nigeria