skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like the technology industry as it stands promotes over-engineering and encourages it. There are a lot of developers out there that built their entire careers working on (or designing) over-engineered balls of mud and thus will bring that way of thinking into any new role they join, thus spreading the problem to their next company (if they don't have this problem already). There can't be "accountability" when nobody considers this behaviour a problem to begin with and actually hires based on how many over-engineered things you delivered in the past.

At a previous employer I remember they had someone build a React front-end which talks to a GraphQL proxy which itself talks to a REST-based API and seemed proud of his creation. There was absolutely no reason why the front-end couldn't talk to the REST-based API directly (it was on the same domain, and the front-end already had a valid auth token), but now there's one extra moving part in the system that can (and did) fail.

At another place they for some reason decided that they needed React despite only a single page of the application actually needed to be "real time". 9 months later they still didn't even have a functional registration form and then it took them over a day for the basic feature of displaying the QR code for two-factor auth enrolment. The same signup form would take me less than a day to do in its entirety using "boring" HTML pages and forms (which our framework already had lots of helpers for, so the backend code for it would've been around 100 lines).
It's actually very similar to the UI you get if you go through the business section of Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/b2b/info/amazon-business?layout=landi...
I guess Elixir is a good choice.
Just can advise a couple of good video courses in addition to books.
1. https://pragmaticstudio.com/unpacked-multi-player-bingo-with....
2. https://codestool.coding-gnome.com/courses/elixir-for-progra....
In [2] Dave Thomas, author of a Programming Elixir book, goes through creation of online game too.
Peter Norvig has provided some good examples here: https://github.com/norvig/pytudes

In general, he has some examples of good idiomatic python on his site as well: https://norvig.com/
Like with any cult, the victim get double abused, evicted and the people remaining justify why it had to be so. This is the normal behaviour.

You really have to work within the system, and in the end, become the same system.
Doubling each week is not how it happens... as a higher percentage of people have or have had the virus, the growth rate decreases because there are less people available to infect. That is why infection percentage is an s shaped curve.
https://codeberg.org/codeberg/org/src/branch/master/Imprint....
Delivery estimates are very much an underpromise, overdeliver thing, so that makes sense.
Why no Chinese politician has contracted Corona? Did they understand the risk from day 1?

Heck, none of their other cities were impacted by it but the disease has made its way to London, NYC, and all the major other cities.
So to change a configuration option I need to recompile the project?
So compared to gitlab and sourcehut (my other favorite options for free github alternatives), this is librejs complaint (sourcehut has this, don't think gitlab does), and has a github-like UI. It seems to be pushing the privacy angle and is hosted in the EU. Any other big reasons to prefer this over gitlab/sourcehut/self-hosted?
The fact that this can now be run in a browser on a laptop rather than a high end gaming rig is indeed amazing.
I think you made a good saving of the initial investment and still managed to to publish your content which is mission accomplished. In fact you're likely to be consumed from IG.

I also tend to go to the path of least resistance and do things in batches and the simplest way possible but concentrate on the most important aspect of it, the content. In the end this is the winner solution for me, if I were to take the long road I would most likely stumble upon details that are not important. If they are important there's a possibility to fix one aspect or another.
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Nothing at this point. I was just curious.
Now go win some $$ on

nanoquakejs.com
Exactly. I feel much sharper, much more energetic, and much more optimistic. Exactly “like I have a different brain”. Those days are awesome. If I could even get a couple of those a week, man, that’d be nice.
This is actually career advice I was given as a kid by an engineer at a nuclear power plant: “don’t give the impression that you’re uncertain during discussions even if you are.” I remember thinking “isn’t it literally your job to be uncertain?” That really bothered me and I’m reasonably sure I wasn’t wrong to be bothered.
You didn't find it because you didn't look. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on "Imprint". Quote:

"Codeberg is a non-profit organisation dedicated to build and maintain supporting infrastructure for the creation, collection, dissemination, and archiving of Free and Open Source Software. If you have questions, suggestions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact us at contact@codeberg.org."

It's a kind of club ("eingetragener Verein" [1]) that is funded by its members and through donations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_association_(German...
This is also why I don't really like that some propose various "herd immunity" schemes - we simply don't know what the virus actually does to people in practice, even if it does not outright kill them. So it seems very irresponsible to propose schemes like that at this point in time.
[IANAD] hydroxychloroquine is an immunosuppressant and shouldn't be combined even with vaccines ( https://www.medicinenet.com/hydroxychloroquine/article.htm#w... ), so using it when immune system is really fighting an infection may happen to be very antiproductive unless it is a case of COVID triggered cytokine storm (hyperinflammation) when such immunosuppressant is probably what you'd really want. May be it is a reason why in come cases of COVID it works and in some doesn't.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

"However, in hyperinflammation, immunosuppression is likely to be beneficial. Re-analysis of data from a phase 3 randomised controlled trial of IL-1 blockade (anakinra) in sepsis, showed significant survival benefit in patients with hyperinflammation, without increased adverse events.8
A multicentre, randomised controlled trial of tocilizumab (IL-6 receptor blockade, licensed for cytokine release syndrome), has been approved in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia and elevated IL-6 in China "

Notable fact is that majority of the deaths of the second wave (the deadliest, which in addition to children/weak/elderly was also strongly hitting healthy 25-35 years old) of Spanish flu was due to cytokine storm.
> ... his wife is pregnant.

Prime Minister Johnson is not married.

In 1987, he married Allegra Mostyn-Owen. That was annulled in 1993.

Twelve days later he married Marina Wheeler.

Johnson and Wheeler finalised their divorce in February 2020.

On February 29th Johnson announced his engagement to Carrie Symonds.

He is engaged to be married, and his fiancée is expecting.

But he is not currently married.

More details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Johnson#Relationships
Believe it or not, it's pretty hard to conduct a large-scale study in the middle of the largest pandemic in modern history.
You're missing context. It's 10x more lethal in CERTAIN DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS.

The data so far shows that it's the same lethality or less in people under 60 y.o. with no pre-existing conditions which is a huge proportion of the world and it may even be LESS because 80% of those tested have NO OR MINOR SYMPTOMS so who knows how many have it and haven't been tested!

It's not even remotely serious at all in that population.

Context matters in epidemiology am I incorrect?
Here's some info from their blog https://blog.codeberg.org/codebergorg-launched.html
Yeah, Amazon has stopped issuing purchase orders for a huge number of non-essentials, which probably contributes to really high delivery estimates. If anything is out of stock at their warehouse, they have no idea when they might have room to restock.
You could show this comment to anybody from either of the general left/right tribes, and they’d think it was true. Whether you’d use this reasoning to deride Fox News, or CNN (or pretty much any other ‘news’ organisation), would boil down entirely to your tribal affiliation. When I was younger, having “critical thinker” or “anti-establishment” views would generally lead to the conclusion that politicians and mass-media tend to lie/mislead to promote whatever their agenda is. Now, those same views seem to lead to the conclusion that “the politicians and mass-media of the other side tend to lie/mislead to promote their agenda, but the politicians and mass-media of my side are generally pretty good”. I think that’s pretty sad. But perhaps I’m wrong, perhaps things have always been this way, and my perspective has simply changed. That said, I don’t remember any counter-culture icons coming out to endorse career politicians who’d accepted millions of dollars from big business interests when I was a kid.
Netflix Party at least has existed for years. I used it at least 4 years ago if not longer. What surprises me is that none of these sites have made a built-in version of this feature.
> They are likely not considering that even the younger are taking as much as a 1% risk of their life

I know the numbers are still super fuzzy and it depends on who you ask, but at least according to Wikipedia, the US fatality rate for ages 20-44 is 0.1-0.2%, not near 1% (though certainly at-risk individuals would be higher than the average...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus_disease_2019#Progn...
Nice find! Appreciate it.
One issue to consider is that the COVID wipes out our ability to treat serious flu cases by swamping the hospitals.
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This is how news site will look like in 5 years (tech wise not appearance wise). Good luck running adblock on it.
Covid-19 Primer
Before reading TFA, I was thinking "What's their agenda?" / "What's in it for them?" / "What's their bias?" etc.

But this is a deeper cut.

However, in looking for kayfabe, there's the risk of conspiracy thinking.
It was already possible in 2011, but alas politics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQiUP2Hd60Y

https://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/
My parents live in Sunnyvale and my mother is also immunocompromised, so they're going through the same thing. They have some people helping them get things from stores, and I'm absolutely certain they would be happy to help out your family. Feel free to reach out (email on profile) and I'll make sure you're taken care of.
> Like, who would use their work mailing address with a medical clinic?

Someone hiding their visit from a spouse?
Controls don't work on FF74 / Webrender / Wayland.

The browser reports the mouse as captured, but mouse movement and movement keys have no effect. Click to shoot does work though.

(Chrome works fine)
Kayfabe is such an important concept in this historical moment! To me, the “audience” is the most interesting component, and the “performers” are almost irrelevant, except to the extent that they must provide some fantasy that (ever so nominally) purports to be reality (or lies purporting to be truth). The psychological process by which the audience fully commits to and “believes” the fantasy, while at the same time being fully aware on some level that the fantasy is obviously untrue is fascinating, and deserves much more attention and research. Obviously, this is closely related to the idea of doublethink, but kayfabe gives more agency to the audience. Rather than being forced to engage in doublethink by big brother and an authoritarian government, kayfabe “believers” are all together with each other the agents of their own delusion. I think the biggest contributor to whether someone “buys in” to a kayfabe fantasy is their capacity for conformity; seeing the rest of the crowd treat the obviously untrue fantasy as if it were reality gives the individual permission, or “cover”, to participate in the fantasy themselves.

I’m guessing anyone reading this knows what non-wrestling kayfabe scene I’m talking about—except maybe those who are already participating in it themselves—and even for those folks, well, it all depends on what “knows” means, doesn’t it?
David Friedman is a well known libertarian and sometime anarchocapitalist whose moral and political philosophy is notably at odds with the concepts invoked by those who call for large action to tackle climate change.

The fact that he's smart doesn't change the conflict of outlooks.
This seems somewhat of a silly critique. By the same logic, we know that the vast majority of problems can not be solved by any program, yet we write programs to solve problems everyday. Or we know that the vast majority of mathematical statements cannot be proven or disproven, yet we can do math proofs just fine.

I think we don't suffer from this because we end up asking questions that are relatively simple. Technically, there are many more uncomputable numbers than computable ones, but we are much more interested in the infinitely smaller set of the computable numbers than the uncomputables. (Furthermore, we are much more interested in rationals than we have any right to be, considering that there are many more real numbers than rationals).

There should be a similar premise for type systems. Perhaps any type system will disallow valid statements, but we can try to make it so that those valid statements are above a certain length, say 100,000. Then, there are still infinitely many valid statements that are illegal, and they may be much more elegant than their counterparts, but they're so long that it is irrelevant for practical purposes.

Now, actually building a type system like that is a whole 'nother beast. I imagine you would give up some notion of completeness for a level of "predisposition", that is, the type system predisposes programmers to making legal statements in the same way that normal number systems(reals, rationals) predisposes mathematicians to making provable statements. A slight nudge towards writing programs in a certain style can go a long way in terms of avoiding "illegal but valid" statements.
I think this is assuming malice where incompetence may be a more likely explanation.

I was in the "it's just a flu" camp through early February, and then changed my mind pretty dramatically a few weeks before the U.S. (or Hacker News, for that matter) consensus shifted. It wasn't that I held an insincere belief beforehand; it's that the data initially supports two possible interpretations, and that as more data becomes available, "it's just a flu" becomes less likely and "this is a serious pandemic that will result in lots of life" becomes more likely.

For me, the critical pieces of information were details about what the Chinese definitions of "mild", "severe", and "critical" cases meant. I'd seen the death rates by age, which had a death rate of under 0.2% for people under 50 and it going up to 6-11% for > 70. I'd also seen case breakdowns where illnesses were described as 80% "mild", 15% "severe", 5% "critical", and 2% "death".

A logical conclusion to draw from that is that for 80% of cases, it really will be just a flu, an additional 15% would be a really sucky flu (pneumonia not requiring hospitalization), and 5% of mostly elderly patients require hospitalization.

The information that changed my mind was the clarification that 80% mild was broken down into 40% mild (cold symptoms) and 40% moderate (walking pneumonia), the 15% of severe cases all required hospitalization, and that hospitalization rates were not that different (factor of 2x, rather than factor of 30x) between young and old people. That and some math about how many hospitalizations that is vs. hospital beds available in the U.S, and the reports coming out of Italy that made it clear that the high death rate was not because of China's air pollution or smoking rates (both of which were reasonable hypotheses with the data available, particularly the increased male mortality and preponderance of smoking among Chinese men).

On a systemic level, it's entirely possible that the decision makers simply have not updated their mental models with this new information. There are a bunch of cognitive biases why they wouldn't: normalcy bias, unwillingness to look at unpleasant facts, and commitment bias (once they've publicly stated that it's just a flu it's hard to walk that back without looking like a fool). There's no need to assume that they're willfully spouting bullshit because they know they won't get caught. It's entirely possible that they're spouting bullshit because they believe it.
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That's great! Sometimes these things change meaning when they hop contextual boundaries. On HN, a title like that tends to backfire, at least once the story makes the front page.
Right, but this might change as people they know start dying. It is easy to lie about things happening that don’t directly affect the people being lied to, but if you personally know multiple people killed by the virus, it will be hard to lie about it.
The listed examples are conspiracies by the dictionary definition - "a group of people acting in harmony to a common, illegal end" - but I don't think they're the same thing the parent poster was referring to. Conspiracy theories generally revolve around some secret action by the government or other large organizations, not open slaughter. A better example might be COINTELPRO.
Carbon taxes, and protectionist trade tariffs against countries who don't adopt carbon taxes.

Make non-compliance painful enough, and the defectors will fall in line.
These days, I consider anyone saying "[the climate] always has [changed], and it always will" as immediately disqualified for having any worthwhile opinion on the climate.

Climate is a serious issue. It's time we stopped entertaining these people.
Understood! The name is inspired by "Open*" projects. For instance OpenAPI. The goal of this project is first to design a specification format for APT repositories like OpenAPI is doing for HTTP APIs.

I have to admit that it is not the best name ever. I'm "open" to any better proposal. Feel free to open an issue with the best meaningful name idea you have!
That's a useful start. I'll definitely dig into this.

The question still stands as to why, even if the problem lay with journalists/media rather than scientists, is why did they get it so wrong?

Also, if I as lay person am going to be getting my information from sources like NYT and National Geographic instead of IPCC reports directly, have they fixed the problems that led to the erroneous reporting?
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To add to the list: We've had a lot of fun playing https://www.geoguessr.com/, both cooperatively and competitively.
Eric Weinstein most recently explained his Kayfabe theory on the Joe Rogan podcast, in this Episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf0_nMaQ6tA He also makes reference to this particular article.
If you are using Firefox, I think this is the related issue (IndexedDB not working in private mode): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781982
InStock helps citizens locate emergency supplies during Covid-19
This is ridiculous:

> Unfortunately, I’m not able to attend because of prior scheduling—but please keep me updated with action items I may be able to help with.

Way to make yourself a doormat.

I have literally never offered to take on action items from a meeting I don't plan to attend, even by implication as here, and I'm certainly not about to start now.

Of course I'm happy to help people but they need to ask explicitly and specifically because, at the end of the day, we're all pretty busy.
I alias 'git recent' to:

git branch --sort=-committerdate -v

It gives me the following output (first line for not actually included):

[branch name] [hash] [commit message header]
move-radio-and-checkbox-hints-up 9dff690 Move the hints belonging to radios/checkboxes up
update-rubocop 8cace1f Update rubocop and pry, fix some new offences
fix-remaining-injected-content-placement 48dc51d Reorder elements of other inputs
Their half-translated UI (my browser is set to polish) is extremely off-putting.

So many people seem to think that providing low quality translations is improving accessibility. It isn't. It's doing the opposite, pure english websites provide much better UX to international users.

BTW, Microsoft with their automatically translated MSDN docs is by far the worst offender in this area.
There is a doom 3 port to wasm too

https://wasm.continuation-labs.com/d3demo/
Well, that's I ask about duration the food supply will last. If you have a 1 week supply, then yeah, don't dip in. If you have a 3 month supply, then I'd be a little more open to it (personally).

I'm pretty much fine with it as long as I think it's reasonable that I won't deplete more than some fraction of it before I can top it off.
Consider that people in ICU have a much higher mortality rate than the general population, that the government is going to bias their reports towards calm and stability, and that most people would even call a 20% probability of dying pretty bad.

Saying that “he may not survive“ is perfectly reasonable. It’s not saying he’s definitely going to die. I hope the media wouldn’t sensationalize it like this, but there is definitely a chance that he will die.
They also don't mention that Venmo (and presumably PayPal also) won't actually let you sign up with a Google Voice number. They check to make sure it's an actual cell phone.
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I'd estimate they were commenting on the quality of the results, not critiquing the personal efforts of the researchers.
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Optimizing okon's B-tree file creation. Going down from 477.2s to 342.2s
Status of China’s economic recovery so far
Hmm, that's a good point. my main point is that we should treat flu more seriously (personally I would prefer legally mandated vaccines with extremely limited exceptions, and more funding into improved vaccines that have a higher effectivity).

My second point is about the response to covid. To me it's unclear (and it won't be clear to the epidemiologists for a few years) whether the reactions we have taken had the effects we predicted. Much of what we're doing now, it's actually unclear what would have happened if we hadn't has social distancing etc, due to the extremely low rate of testing.

Another issue is that large numbers of scientists have dropped their regular work and are working on covid... most of them will not produce useful results (in terms of health care) and instead, their daily work is being forgotten. This will have long-term consequences for scientific productivity without having a large outcome for covid.

I think making predictions on how many people "could have died" when we're doing extremely limited testing isn't helpful.
Sure. And while opinion polls are lagging, almost everyone in decision-making positions is on board with the minimal predictions in this report. (Even a lot of people normally considered climate change deniers are on board - according to Wikipedia, the report doesn't rule out that climate change is largely driven by natural variability!)
Here you go pal[0]

[0]https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11191-013-9647-9

edit: added missing word.