skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve always thought Guy Clark’s song Stuff that Works captures this ethos perfectly. Here is the first verse and chorus:

I got an old blue shirt and it suits me just fine

I like the way it feels so I wear it all the time

I got an old guitar, won't ever stay in tune

I like the way it sounds in a dark and empty room

I got an old pair of boots and they fit just right

Well I can work all day and I can dance all night

I got an old used car and it runs just like a top

I get the feeling it ain`t ever going to stop

[Chorus]

Stuff that works, stuff that holds up

The kind of stuff you don`t hang on the wall

Stuff that`s real, stuff you feel

The kind of stuff you reach for when you fall

https://genius.com/Guy-clark-stuff-that-works-lyrics#note-85...
Related to profiting off pandemics, or rather by causing them: pack animals by the thousand to breed viruses and put them near other species closely packed to promote virus mutations -- aka factory farming.

Presto, save money and promote viral mutations that can jump to humans. And they'll keep doing so as long as it's legal. In other words, expect bigger pandemics or legislate.

Here's a video on what few are working on but if we don't stop, we'll see more pandemics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_ppXSABYLY.

My short podcast episode on it: https://shows.acast.com/leadership-and-the-environment/episo...
Interesting idea, but talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
To make it harder to get people to vote on real information, in turn making it easier for candidates they support to get moved into positions of power. See for instance Thierry Baudet in NL, who is clearly favoring Russia in the same way that Donald Trump does in the United States.
Consistently assigning work to big firms who consistently screw up... All they want to do is show that "they're trying", and the charade will continue until someone does get fired for buying IBN.
It's a counter propaganda effort against pro-Kremlin propaganda, which is still propaganda in itself, no matter how factual and analytical. An honest anti propaganda effort at minimum would not label undesired propaganda as "disinformation" and would focus on all propaganda in the media to provide a baseline for comparison. I don't see this ever happening though, political systems on the West rely on propaganda just as much as Russia, and something like that could only weaken the power they have, while pushing counter propaganda couldn't, so they just do that.
The Original Source of Covid-19
I'm surprised Apprun nor Solid have been mentioned yet.

Are there any TypeScript reactive frameworks? I know you can use TS with the others, but finding tutorials can be a pain since it all these are JS first frameworks.
In OPs story, the trip to the local hardware store was hours away...
> Russian disinformation is not trying to create consistent counter-narrative to the West. They just throw out stuff wildly to sow confusion, doubt and distrust.

Adam Curtis covers this in his 2016 HyperNormalisation in "A World Without Power":

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation

It's about 2h22m into the doc. Do a search for "political technologists" for more articles.
It's not flamebait. It's a valid question. Your politics is showing.
A fair concern. For me it doesn't work because the table headers aren't laid out the same way as the rows and that's just two ways of confusion.
Because they don't exist. All vaporwear selling scam tokens
> The point at which the government should have rewritten their COBOL systems into a language that would have a talent pool to draw from was at least 30 years ago.

Lack of foresight, lack of understanding that codebases are a living thing and are never "done". But hey, let's all work for ad companies and put our best minds at solving how we could make people see more ads!

Isn't it the power of the executive branch to requisition corporations or people in time of deep crisis in order maintain the continuity of government and its critical systems? Isn't unemployment claims such a critical system?
Lots of foam inside HF coax, outer mantle will burn, paint will burn, electronics will burn very nicely and the are a lot of plastics that would sustain a fire. Nasty stuff coming off that too when burning (dioxins).
Uh, no. No major media I consumed in the US was pushing "just a flu".
Please don't try to influence people how to vote with replies to the comment.
that's some survivorship bias.
A startup, by definition, is a business that hasn't yet figured out how to turn $1 into $1.01 in the best of times, and relies on investment money to fund its operations.

They are in no way shape or form better suited to weather an economic collapse than a traditional business. Traditional businesses know how to turn $1 into $1.01.
That was also the case with the QC25/35. With a proper amp the DT-770s sound better than almost any NC bluetooth headphones, it's a different category. That said, I'd recommend you give the Sony WH-1000XM2/3 a listen. They're not perfect, but the sound is much closer to the DT-770.
This is the kind of attitude that has resulted in a million code vulnerabilities in C because the idea that it's inherently unsafe is just an idea 'peddled by people unskilled in its application' (to re-express nicely). It's the kind of attitude which will ignore the many inconsistencies in languages which were the result of historical accident instead of good design because it's just a blind acceptance of the way things turned out to be rather than what they _could_ be. Many who go on about 'discipline' are often creating error prone applications and, ironically, peddling 'discipline' as that very magic bullet to cure all ills.

I don't know if I've even seen discipline defined beyond some self-referential 'avoid doing these bad things that our language/environment allows by knowing that they're bad before you make the mistakes that show you they're bad'. Do developers just shrug and accept it as a fundamental design constraint to good programming languages when their booleans add with their integers and concatenate with their strings and give essentially random results? Do they not wonder: is there a system, more fundamental than linting, which can solve many of these issues in a general case?
Most business models also don't work if the world plunges into global thermonuclear war, but we still consider them to be sound.
That is exactly the key. They are plugged into the belief systems of the gullible. Religions also do this, and to some extent our past history of belief has set us up to avoid skeptical thinking at all costs.
Grams have become kind of standard for baking, even in the US.

I think this is due to the use of "baker's percentages", which specify the weight (not volume) of all ingredients in terms of a percentage of the weight of flour used. So for example, "3% salt" just means 3 grams of water for every 100 grams of floor.

It's a lot easier to do this using grams uniformly, than some mix of lbs, oz, cups, tsp, etc. The system really takes advantage of the ease of conversion between units in the metric system.

But the oven temperate doesn't change even if you add more flour, so there's no need to do any scaling conversions for that. This let's people get away with using antiquated units for temperate.
Surprised they don't put all that in some sort of conduit though.
You made also incorrect factual claims. Not just claims about them doing qualitatively poor job.
You're right that it's important to observe the dough and modify timing as needed.

I think, however, that for many folks who are trying out baking sourdough for the first time, it helps them a lot to start with a fully detailed recipe that includes timing. The instructions on that bread scheduler will AT LEAST get you to the right ball park (assuming you use similar flour to the instructions).

For those starting this out, I would recommend following one of these detailed recipes, do it several times or more, and that way develop some sense of what factors to tweak.

Taking a closer look at the instructions, I see they're not emphasizing dough temperature during bulk ferment. Household kitchen temperatures can vary quite widely and this temperature is an important factor in how long the dough takes to ferment. That's why it's valuable to press the dough with your finger and gauge readiness prior to shaping steps.
Thank you for the nice comment. Means a lot to me since I just had to pause it because of the coronavirus, hope to restart again after a while.
The full extent of Wakefield's abuses didn't come out until later but it was clear at the time that the research did not support Wakefield's claims. Even if you ignored the methodology and simply accept the study's results, what it found was that the measles virus was present in the guts of 12 children with autism. This does not support the conclusion that autism is caused by the MMR vaccine (nor that the single vaccine Wakefield was promoting would be better). And indeed is too small scale to suggest much of anything except perhaps more research. At the press conference Wakefield was the only researcher suggesting MMR should be stopped.

The Private Eye and the Daily Mail were the ones to take the story and run with it. Turning it into a political "Wakefield vs. The Establishment" fight, rather than a scientific one.
Can you also guarantee that the rewritten code does not change any undocumented behavior? I think that is the real challenge.
Maybe clicky the search box on the official EU website?

https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/se...

See this news article: https://eeas.europa.eu/headquarters/headquarters-homepage/32...
If you, like me, hate cheating and being cheated, you should really read the mentioned book "How to Cheat at Everything". Another book that I recommend is "The Big Con" by David W. Maurer. And if you are one of the few people who have never seen "The Sting" you should watch it now. It is one of the best movies ever and you may learn one or two things about cheating.

Edit: I just found that the book has become really expensive. It used to be 19 US$.
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That would explain maybe a 100x difference on it's own. But that's already way over, if I aggregate data from close family about how many spam calls they got.
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There are still benefits to choosing the same ecosystem. If everyone uses Java or Go and the same web framework then they can invest money into libraries that are useful for all 50 states. I've been at organizations that simply decided to use the same stack as another state (not USA). You end up using the same plugins and libraries. Even if you choose the wrong ecosystem because it is not mature enough you can just build it yourself and everyone benefits.
Here's a horrifying thought:

"Smart" toilet/sink/pipe + sewage testing = data
I think it tells a lot about the values of a society that let's something like that happen. And I don’t mean this in a judgemental way. It’s similar to corruption. It works as long as enough members of society either profit or don’t care enough.
I smell a lisp
I'm actually working on one. I don't know what will come out of it, but it's an interesting endeavor. As soon as it's shareable I will share it on Github.

I'm basically trying to do a superset of typescript where you create elements so:

const root = c({
el: 'div',
children: [
`hello, ${store.user.name}`
],
attr: {
class: 'bold smart',
id: 'abc',
bla: true,
},
evts: {
click: () => {
console.log("Clicked")
}
}
});

And store store.user.name is "magically" reactive.

Was that what you meant?
It has always been that way. Gordon Sinclair famously noted it a generation ago.[1]

The people I have interacted with across my lifetime from around the world have been quite oblivious to the good deeds of the US and largely only aware of anything negative the US has been responsible for. Cynicism sell better. That's what people who have been news-educated online have seen the past 25 years. In the early days of the Web most people I would chat with internationally were heavily ignorant of the US, other than select major details. Today, every flaw and mistake is magnified and broadcast globally, daily. The US kept most of Belgium alive after WW1 with the CRB [2], and fed ten million Russians daily [3] - who were nationally not our friends - during their famine of 1921-1923. Most people are entirely oblivious to that type of history, even in the US (a failure of our education system). Today it's PEPFAR, keeping millions of people alive in Africa. Or Gates & Buffett donating 2/3 of their wealth to helping poor people outside of the US (and the US treats them as heroes for it). When Russia sent that plane of supplies to the US last week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted they hoped the US would reciprocate the favor back the other direction if things become increasingly dire in Russia. And that is exactly what the US will do, if it is able to ramp up the production of medical gear in the coming months.

[1] https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/gordonsinclairthea...

[2] https://www.nps.gov/articles/emergence-of-the-great-humanita...

[3] https://news.stanford.edu/pr/2011/pr-famine-040411.html
Got any examples of fake news in the Newsbeat section?
That's why I'm clueless at all the politicians and journalists claiming we have a STEM shortage, we need to boost STEM education, need more kids interested in STEM careers...

STEM = science technology engineering math

CS/software has huge demand and salaries to go with it (yay, ads)

Traditional (civil/mech/ee/chem/etc) engineering is OK. You'll never be rich but you'll always be comfortable. (I've had plumbers claim theye make more than me).

Science and math have really bleak career outlooks. Tenure track faculty jobs are a crapshoot. Industry jobs are scarce. Most people I know from college that went into the sciences are either still stuck in PhD or postdocs, or quit after BS/MS and now working as lab technicians or equivalent. Not even glorified, just plain old overqualified lab techs in QC departments and such.

Edit: As a final note, here's a 2015 report from OSPE, an organization representing engineering professionals in Ontario, Canada: https://www.ospe.on.ca/public/documents/advocacy/2015-crisis... An except:

"Information referred to in this report is derived from the Canadian National Census 2011 National Household Survey (NHS). According to the 2011 NHS1, only about 30 per cent of employed individuals in Ontario who held a bachelor’s degree or higher in engineering were working as engineers or engineering managers. Fully two-thirds of engineering-degree holders were not working in engineering at all. Many had jobs that didn’t necessarily require a university degree."
Can’t hire a contractor at that rate either. DCAA controls that very closely.

If a defense contractor wants to pay someone that kind of money they generally have to pay the difference between what dcaa allows and that price out of their own overhead.
MIMO can and does go beyond the single-path shannon limit. See e.g. DVB-S2 using circular polarisation duplex.
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Introducing chaos and disrupting the internal cohesion of their adversaries:

> Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists". Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".[9]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
In the middle of February Heathrow staff was ordering travelers disembarking planes from China to remove face masks because they could scare the population.
Exploring the CAN bus of my Tesla Model S
How would this help? You have to pass captcha to access pages that CF is proxying. You cannot block hcaptcha and continue to access the sites.
Is that true of creditors? I didnt think creditors had a right to object to a change in ownership...
I guess creating an apocalypse simulator game where you could play it very differently would be very hard to create (agent simulation) and might not be fun at all to play...
The influence of fake news mills is overstated by corporate news media who benefit by attempting to legitimize their own reporting. Russian collusion turned out to be a few hundred thousand dollars worth of Facebook ads. Bloomberg spent more than 900 million dollars and couldn't sway the election, yet we're supposed to believe that some fake news stories on Facebook got Trump elected.
The only thing not on the web-site is how antennas work, even in theory.
OK. Now we just need a write-up on The Godmothers of Fake Outrage.

The sheer volume of damage caused by people like Roxanne Gay, Myriam Gurba, Anita Sarkeesian, Zoe Quinn, et.al., is at minimum overtaking the damage caused by Clinton pizza parlor sex trafficking articles, and at best creating arbitrary protections for a wide number of demographics to racketeer anarcho-syndicalism on social media and in public policy.

When an obese, black lesbian on the East Coast wakes up to write half an article on the "White Fever Dreams" of a white author who wrote a novel about an immigrant from Acapulco, because she was criticized by biracial Mexican-Americans on the West Coast, that's leaving a trail of social damage far greater than a faked Clinton Foundation article. No one's stopping a black lesbian Liberal from making a buck on the "lived experience" of Mexican-Americans; or Zoe Quinn using social media to publicize false rape allegations that ultimately led to Alec Holowka taking his own life last year; or Myriam Gurba gatekeeping a culture she was raised 1,700 miles away from in Santa Barbara County, CA. Those people are making a buck off disinformation too, BBC.
Does Brazil already have a new “acting President”?
That's true. Failures need to be reproduced too.
Did I now? Such as?

"no address, no official contact, no link to any official EU offices and so on"

Is absolutely 100% supported by the evidence: the website you linked to.

Their official contact is not any address that follows the EU address format, there is no street address, the official EU domain is not used, there is no link to any entity that could be contacted regarding the functioning of that website as is normal for anything EU related.

They are as close to a rogue entity as I've seen that is sponsored by the EU to date, and this is exactly how it should not be done, especially for an entity that is effectively able to censor news agencies, a very dangerous and responsible job.
Clearly you haven't worked with corporate design departments. The last mock I saw from one particular company had every single font size ranging from 10px to 20px until we worked through it. The spacing was even more lackluster. I think this mostly stems from similar issues as spaghetti code often does — unreasonable deadlines, multiple teams sprung into action in parallel with little to no coordination and so on.

Usually people claim to know how these things "should" be done, but there's always a "but".
Public statement from the Dutch CDC (RIVM) on this method:

https://www.rivm.nl/node/153991
The idea that "A good linter, proper programming practices, discipline will get you there" has resulted in "a million code vulnerabilities in C" !!

That is a surprising jump in cause-and-effect logic right there. I do not code any C, but I assure you if I did I'd consider it part of proper programming practice and discipline to write code that avoids those exact vulnerabilities you suggest. But, picking a whole new programming language instead is just lying to yourself, because there is no perfect programming language.

None! Zero. Not one, no matter how much in love you are with it. They all have their warts, strengths and weaknesses, and if you are not aware of any in your language of choice, and actively working to avoid and mitigate against them (aka discipline and best practice) then you have fallen prey to exactly what I was talking about: the idea that a framework or language is a magical silver bullet to writing clean code. If you thought I was saying JS (or C, TypeScript, Haskel etc) is this perfect, wonderful language, you completely misunderstood me.
hCaptcha is annoying! Even when I'm not logged into Google, I rarely get a captcha when I click "I'm not a robot". With the new captcha, I get promoted 100% of the time.

I'm glad Google is out of the picture (although their DNS, Google analytics/ tag manager, chrome, maps, etc) would know my history anyways. But hCaptcha needs to be less greedy when it wants free labeling labour.
Hell most technical organizations have no idea how to hire programmers.
Ok, but what does 16pt (in the article) mean? I can't tell if it refers to an amount of pixels or an amount of mm.

In the first case the amount of mm would be different for each display. In the second case the amount of pixels would be different for each display.

Perhaps this quote from the article provides a hint:

> Ok, I get the even number thing, but seriously, why not 6, or 10? The majority of popular screen sizes are divisible by 8 which makes for an easy fit.

From this I'd say it is about pixels. But why call it "pt" then? And yes, how does this give useful results on high resolution displays?

I think the article is really confusing.
Also wrong.

Religious belief is disjoint from scientific discovery. [2]

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith_and_rationality
Between Charybde and Scylla. No, thanks.
> "Pure functions" is usually a bad idea with large numeric data structures if they are non-lazy - because you'll end up copying the data.

This isn't necessarily true due to Rust's strong ownership. Methods can take `self` (without reference) as an argument which means the method takes ownership of itself. There is no copy for 'double' in the below example, yet it is pure:

#[derive(Clone)]
struct A {
v: Vec<i32>,
}

impl A {
fn double(mut self) -> Self {
for x in &mut self.v {
*x *= 2;
}
self
}
}

fn main() {
let a = A { v: vec![2, 3, 4] };
let b = a.double();
dbg!(b.v[1]);
}

If you now tried to access `a` the compiler would error out, saying you're trying to access a moved-from variable. If you still wanted to keep the original `a` around you simply write `let b = a.clone().double()`.
Good point! That idea of a black market in this trade is scary.
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Surely outsourced and offshored isn't something to praise them for
I want to make remark about organic synthesis from the perspective of person who is engineer of chemistry by training as did his fair share of organic synthesis (and eventually moved to computational atomic and molecular physics).

It is one of the oldest and very established fields. Unfortunately practices aren’t great. The preparation formulas are often vogue, imprecise and difficult to reproduce. This comes from the fact that often the sizes and types of glassware are not specified, some informations are omitted (how quickly something is changed not only to what value e.g. heat up to 100 degrees but it does not say over what time) etc. Chemists usually (except some theoretical/computational specialisations) don’t have any training in algorithms or programming.

There are novel developments such as https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2018/november/headl...
and references therein. I’m optimistic about them but I expect strong opposition from older faculty. They see synthesis as more than art and think that one has to have “good hand” in order to be a good organic chemist.

I think some generational shift will be necessary in order to change this discipline to more reproducible, strict and reliable. It will come but not that soon :)