skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's where social sciences come in.

Because people associate wearing a mask with disease, restrictions, illness and so on. A mask taps into beliefs and deep-seated fears about society, the wider world, uncertainty, personal freedom, body autonomy and public health. As such, in Western culture, wearing masks carries widespread stigma:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/04/america...

https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/wearing-a-mask-while-a...

Wearing a mask is a stark wake up call whereas many people simply want to go to business-as-usual as before. During the 1918 pandemic, SF ordered people to wear masks several times. At one point, some people were fed up and started an "anti-mask league".

Today, washing your hands is not questioned, and social norms dictate that one washes their hands at various times. It's something you get taught to do from a young age. That wasn't always the case, as washing hands was heavily opposed in the 19th century when it was first suggested by Ignaz Semmelweiss and Florence Nightingale.

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

It took time, campaigning and a lot of education across several generations to get to this point.
I've churned butter once or twice

Living in an Amish paradise...
I used to think exactly the same thing. I found in my own experience that this was because I was thinking of habits in too broad of terms. The trick was thinking of very small habit changes, not huge ones.

I found this book interesting, "Tiny Habits". The author does a much better job of explaining this than I probably can.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0358003326/

(Also note that one of the common definitions of addiction is where you want to do things but cannot because of some habitual behavior. Only you can judge whether that's the case or not, but I would think that's a different type of problem than regular habits)
I live in Switzerland. There are plenty of cats and plenty of birds as well.

I think this is because Swiss cities are fairly small and fairly green. There are plenty of places birds can go that are safe from cats and other predators and a forest is never far away.
Thanks, that helped!
Automate searching for small businesses without a website around the world
Artificially deflated lending rates, 5 year fixed-rate loans, explicit government pressure to expand the mortgage base, and what happens 5-ish years after the interest rates start coming back to their long-term averages?

I remember back in 2004, some of my colleagues were all chatting about flipping McMansions. My housemates and I threw a party, and some poor half-drunk girl I didn't know was telling me that Warren Buffet was warning about a housing bubble and asking me, a stranger, if she and her boyfriend had made a big mistake in recently buying a house. I felt very uncomfortable on several levels trying to give her comfort. Going to a party without her bf and pouring her heart out while half-drunk to a stranger wasn't the biggest sign of looming trouble. There were long warning signs that things were not going to be alright. Hopefully she and her bf were able to ride out the crash.
birds have adapted

Air-to-Ground cat-seeking missiles?
I don't think the number of deaths in Sweden (around 1500) is that high. Sweden has 10 million people. Some sources report it as 10% (of all cases), but I would be very cautious with these numbers. We know since quite a while that the number of reported cases can only act as an upper barrier, which may be between 10 and 15 times too high.

In Germany you are only tested under some conditions. I know many people that had quite a few symptoms and have not been tested even though they wanted to get a test. Only the ones that got severe problems or had relatives with a positive test. The conclusion is that we only know the death count quite well, the rest is mostly guess work.
> When 'Software engineering' eventually becomes a true profession then these requirements will almost certainly be prerequisites for all practitioners.

This wouldn't work. Most software isn't life-and-death. That's a big difference from bridge engineering, nuclear engineering, and aeronautical engineering.

If you're hiring someone to do Python scripting, there's little point insisting they have a grounding in formal methods and critical-systems software development. You could hire a formal methods PhD for the job, but what's the point? The barrier-to-entry is low for software work. Overall this is probably a good thing. Perhaps more software should be regulated the way avionics software is, but this approach certainly can't be applied to all software work.

If your country insisted you become a chartered software engineer before you could even build a blog, your country would simply be removing itself from the global software-development marketplace.

> compare the biggest bloatware O/S program ever written, MS Windows, with that of tiny, fast and highly efficient Kolibrios OS

I broadly agree, but in defence of Windows, Kolibri is doing only a fraction of what Windows does. Does Kolibri even implement ASLR? One can build a bare-bones web-server in a few lines, but that doesn't put Apache out of a job.

> My own suggestion to up the standard of open software is a sort of halfway house where cooperatives of programmers would be paid reasonably acceptable remuneration for their contribution to these major open projects. In turn, there would be a small nominal free (say $5 to $20) levied on large scale open software programs such as GIMP

This doesn't work. It means a company can't adopt the software at scale without implementing licence-tracking, which is just the kind of hassle Free and Open Source software avoids. If I can't fork the software without payment or uncertainty, it's not Free even in the loosest possible sense.

The way things are currently is far from ideal, but we still have excellent Free and Open Source software like the Linux kernel and PostgreSQL.

> open software aficionados are usually doing it for the love of it—and that's a true strategic advantage.

Agree that this can be an advantage. Some FOSS projects are known for their focus on technical excellence. That said, the same can be said of some commercial software companies, like iD Software.

> One thing is for certain, we urgently need to raise the standard of software generally and it seems highly unlikely that we can do so with the way the industry is currently structured.

Software firms today are doing a good job of making money. If the market rewards regressions in UI design, and using 50x the memory you really need (thanks Electron), what good would it do to regulate things?

Apparently most people don't care about bloat, and they prefer a pretty UI over a good one. That doesn't strike me as the sort of thing you can tackle with regulation.
It’s cool.

Tech debt is a HUGE deal. Since I work alone (for the most part) these days, it’s an absolute killer.

I can’t afford it at all.

The single biggest guarantor of a massive debt (IMNSHO) is a rigid up-front specification.
You might want to check Inko[0] out. It is still in alpha stage of development so you can probably contribute to it as well.

Inko is a gradually typed, OOP language which uses erlang like isolated processes that don't share memory for concurrency.
I found it interesting.
There's a halfway house. Give everybody a basic living wage. If somebody wants to do more, sich as being a doctor, engineer or farmer, then pay them commensurately more. Change taxation to suit.
The idea that a "scientific consensus" exists on IQ makes it sound like stronger than it actually is - the field of psychology is much less rigorous than actual hard sciences and the bar to clear is very low there. That IQ is universally accepted among psychologists despite a number of very obvious glaring flaws is more damning against psychologists than adding to the credibility of the concept.
Bitcoin isn't "unstable". It's very stable, as money is released on a very predictable and predetermined schedule. You know precisely how much inflation is going to occur and when it will end.

The only "volatile" is the exchange rate market of Bitcoin to USD. Obviously, this is going to be volatile for some time because demand varies from day to day. What's obvious, however, is that the trend in demand is continuing to increase over time. If you look at purchasing Bitcoin to hold for 4 years or more (or indefinitely), then you aren't concerned about the day to day fluctuations in the exchange rate.

If you purchased Bitcoin at any time in the past 10 years, and held onto it for 4 years, there is no point at which you could've made a loss. In fact, on average, you would've almost doubled your money if you converted it back to USD after 4 years.

They say past performance is no indication of success, but next month we enter another "quantitive hardening" period in Bitcoin, where the new supply released over the next 4 years is half of the supply released over the previous 4 years. If the rate of growth in demand stays the same, the exchange rate will continue to rise - but that itself causes an increase in demand because more people want to hold onto an appreciating asset rather than a depreciating dollar. Especially true given that the Fed has committed to rapidly devaluing the dollar this year in a struggle to deal with COVID-19.

Bitcoin doesn't care about the virus. There's nobody to bail out bitcoiners. The State is the virus, and Bitcoin is the remedy.
"The way a programming language is used is the way it encourages its usage."
The way libraries are written is therefore the only representative metric for your definition of "language".

You still haven't made a point how C++ is relevant, given that Rust is arguably a safe systems programming language.

Since you really dislike the 5-10% impure parts of clojure, you must really hate the 100% impure common lisp.
So whats your point really?
That clojure is still too close to common lisp, and we should all use a haskell or idris with s-expressions?
Its impossible to edit a tweet to correct a typo. The author acknowledged the typo in a reply at the bottom of the thread.
Somewhat Faster JSON Support for iOS/macOS, Part 6: Cutting KVC Out of the Loop
Free Computer Science Courses from the World’s Top CS Universities
Take a gander at my work. It is quite possible to ship without debt, but you need to be flexible (the word “agile” is almost worthless, these days, so I prefer “flexible”).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22908688
But those things generally don't pose an obvious risk to other people: a paraglider who trains above a kindergarten will be regarded differently to one who trains on a mountainside. And infectious disease is worse yet: the negligent sufferer can harm others not just through direct infection but also indirectly, e.g. by sickening hospital staff.
Well wouldn’t fan boys who stop using fb after they get an inside peak be a good barometer?
> We need double blind studies to see if it is.

See my comment elsewhere in the thread; my wife and I did this (sample size of 2, but still...) There's definitely a difference between supermarket butter and "premium" butter — whether that's worth $50 is a matter of debate. I think the difference between butter brands is much more pronounced than differences between wine though.
> His crowning achievement wasn't in deducing the bonds were overvalued/fraudulent, it was in finding suckers to take the other side of the bet.

I thought that was one of the most interesting / exciting parts of the book.

The fact that they literally had to go and find people who would sell them insurance on the mortgage backed securities.
In a mediocre university you learn how to run a VMware virtual machine in OS class and that's it.
In a working capitalist system, where prices are not artificially held high (zoning laws etc), the cost of living is low enough that even that average worker can trade off working time for leisure time.

That just means giving up on more consumption, or funding one's own retirement. It's evident though that most people prefer consuming over anything else. They buy shiny things, go into debt for it, then are forced to work off the debt.

Thinkers like Marx may feel different about the whole thing, they need their time off to do what fulfills them. Most workers, even those performing hard manual labor, feel empty if they don't work.
I'm all in favor of a negative income tax. In turn, get rid of all the entitlements and all the red tape.
If you want to see some crazy financials, you should go and look at the oil and energy sector right now.
I'm in a similar position at a growing startup. Condescending PR comments, poor leadership in a sense where 'you should x' because another developer likes it that way even though 'way x' is not researched.

I just laugh because in reality its not a big deal and its just software. We get paid a decent amount of money to transform business requirements into reusable, testable code. Not take ourselves seriously and demean our colleagues. I try to be extra nice and supportive of everyone in almost a tongue-in-cheek way because I have life outside of programming that is pretty sweet and don't link my identity to the quality of my code (or what others think of it).

My advice would be to grow thicker skin and not take things too personally. With that, don't take your colleagues so literally either. No one is as 'smart' or 'dumb' as they appear.
they love running stories like but it's actually nonsense, and there's no evidence of it happening, as the article itself admits at the end. the crypto guy quoted here sounds like a clown.

you don't need to hide in NZ. going with NZ just adds significant layers of complexity and risk, as we have seen now - orders can be closed to non-residents and citizens as NZ and AU have done now; airlines can cancel flights due to lack of demand leaving you stuck. In addition if you get to south island NZ you do not need to hide underground. You'll be fine above.

Just buy some land in Idaho in hilly/mountainous areas, I promise nobody is going to bother looting you there, and you can always drive there from CA if you need to.
Intel P-State Driver Preparing to Default to Passive Mode for More Systems
This title smells click-baity.

And after the cat stairs post, this is the 2nd atlasobscura link I've seen within this hour. Is this HN, oder Atlas Obscura?
The classical time control chess is boring. It really feels like an exercise in memorization.

I stopped watching those as almost every tournament ends in armagedon. Its a statement of the incredible skills top players poses, but its incredibly boring to watch draw after draw.

Quicker time controls are more dynamic and allow to play subpar move to throw off your opponent. Often you can see some crazy attacks.
Yeah, industry grade food in the US seems to generally have worse quality than industry grade food in Europe. But if you buy expensive stuff you can find high quality food almost everywhere.
To be honest quite a few apps don't seem to play nicely without the Intel-specific instructions present. REAPER won't run at all, Cubase crashes unless you remove the surround panner VST, Pro Tools would crash on launch last time I tried it (but this may have been fixed since)...
NYC also does this, for the same reason:

https://youtu.be/i9jIsxQNz0M
OK, I've read the paper; can you help me reason through a scenario?

As I understand it, the Merkle-CRDT represents a Merkle tree as a grow-only set of 3-tuples. When you add a new event to the thing (as a tuple) you have to reference all of the current concurrent root nodes of the data structure, in effect becoming the new single root node; and your event data, which must be a CRDT, gets merged with the CRDTs of those root nodes. Do I have it right so far?

Assuming yes, let's say you have causality chain like so:

1 --> 2 --> 3 --> 4
`--> 5 --> 6

Two root nodes, 4 and 6. Two concurrent histories, 3-4 and 5-6. It's time to write a new value, so I create a new tuple with references to 4 and 6, and merge their CRDT values. Last Writer Wins, right? So either 4 or 6 dominates the other. Whoever was in the other causal history just... lost their writes?
They don't ask technical questions or anything related to CS...
I think the main problem is that the DOM and javascript are just too large for one person / small team to maintain, so you get feature lag. I'm hoping webassembly and canvas are a small enough target to overcome this, but if we were to look at what could have been, Scheme and something like Tk would've been better
For a second there was thinking Live, Neutral, Earth?!? Wow these Neanderthals were far ahead...
In switzerland, large glass structures often have pictures of prey birds on them to discourage birds flying in to them.
http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?art_id=201...

The paper that says he did not sexually assult the woman is clearly not notarized, as you can see on the photo provided by him.

http://www.labortoday.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=1468...

He alleges that his attorney did not submit the notarized paper. He says that he lost his appeal because of it. His attorney was Moon Jae-In, who happens to be the current sitting president of South Korea which started his term in 2017.

He was fired from Samsung in 1995, but his radical protest started in 2018. Coincidence?

About the sexual assult, you can see that it's all her allegations. It's a shame it's copyrighted so I can't share the article but you can buy a page of The Busan Paper, 1992/May/25 23p.
The Lie That Helped Build Nintendo (2019)
Dollar is by far biggest offender is all of those categories, but bitcoin is the currency of evil, eh...
I think that one needs to be careful to use names that describe political systems to refer to things that are philosophical.

Systems are judged historically and empirically, and that is why communism is bad. Ask people who grew up in the USSR, especially from their "republics". Similarly, one should be careful to parade your philosophy under the umbrella of "socialism".

No God, no afterlife, time being important has absolutely nothing to do with political systems. If it has, then you have a hidden agenda.
Distillation on home premises without proper safety procedures is a recipe for explosions and for contaminated/weird distillation products.

I'm a home-brewer, and have cold-distilled a couple of things (you can get up to about 22% that way IIRC), but I'm good with it being a little difficult to get started distilling, from a safety standpoint.
Thanks for the reference, new benchmark looks nice.

Apologize for the 'way off', its reach-able.

And agree its immaterial to signature checks, but since it was brought up...

Either way, there is probably something holding routers back from reaching that, would be fun to speculate.
So instead of right wing liberalism and authoritarian left, something in the libertarian left. Freedom, decentralization, support for all. Whoever you are, you are welcome to the anarchy movement. No capitalism here though, you are no going to pay for the help you need.
Minify JSON with Posix shell solution
I have a colleague who has RP (Retinitis pigmentosa).

He is a SAP front end developer and uses normal laptop/ keyboard running Windows 10 with the addition of a screen reader called Jaws and an IPhone.

He lives close to work and lives on his own and walks to the office unassisted or uses uber further out ... the only issue is when there is a crowd and then we help him get to the canteen for example.

Obviously his audio acuity is way above the norm , his screen reader is probably set at over 300 words per minute.

Also another thing is we make sure the office layout remains the same as he has memorized the layout.
Vaccine-induced enhancement of viral infections
This is such a naive and bourgeois argument isn't it? Free time is only valuable or meaningful if you have the means to make it so, and have been given opportunities to cultivate interests. If you're living in poverty, the quantity of disposable time will not make up for the lack of cash.
What? No it isn't, it's bog standard commodity butter. (UK)

It's marginally cheaper than Président, (3p/100g) and marginally more expensive than Country Life (5p/100g) on Ocado. Perhaps a better benchmark - Waitrose's own essentials one is 13p/100g cheaper, and Waitrose's 'Duchy Organic' is 1p/100g more expensive. i.e. it's in the range of everyday butters that people buy the same brand of every time because that's what they buy every time (because that's what they ...).
> agile...worthless

True IME. Any time I see the word Agile, I now consider it to mean Clusterfuck In Progress.
Indeed, the source looks like the output of a transpiler.
Get some quality sleep. Seriously. I thought I was mentally lazy, it turns out I was just exhausted from chronic sleep deprivation.
What's wrong with Pinboard notes?
>> Capitalism treats the means of economic life, labor, as though it were the purpose of life

I got an involuntary [citation needed] mental response at this. Anyone know if this is a quote from the book, or the author's opinion?
One small detail: when your hearing will get worst you'll probably have to have a cochlear implant. The newer models have a "neat" trick where you can connect them to your phone / pc by using bluetooth so they can act like sort of headphones. Keep your head up and keep walking the path, you can do it!
I assume 'talkers' means people that only talk. OP isn't making a case for or against planning, just saying that if you're taking a small team approach, once the planning is sufficient, the people who do the planning also have to jump in and produce. Your 'small team' can't be one programmer with a team of BAs, POs and designers looking over their shoulder for 40 hours a week.
Any modestly "modern" elevator would have Braille indicators. And many also announce floors same way public transit does.
Did Jack never actually watch squirrels? They don't gather their nuts into a nest, they cache them individually by burying them in random places and remembering the locations.

A therapist colleague used a different metaphor.

Patient: "I'm overwhelmed by (task) and can't get going."

Therapist "Do you know how to eat an elephant?"

Patient: "Uh... No?"

Therapist: "One bite at a time."
Monitor your Kubernetes clusters straight from Slack, MS Teams
I don't really have a link. Taiwan uses triangulation to make sure you stay in place once you've been detected as someone who has been in contact.

Some places have digital access but in general the temperature measurement of bigger buildings are automated. But most places I went to had a paper form to fill out your details. I assume those are shared with law enforcement and CDC once one person who attended the building has been traced as a positive case and then all people and their contacts will be notified and tested.

There is no centralized government mandated central database that I know of. But I do know that once a crime happens they're quite good at tracing your public movements.
One of my friend didn't submit his project for Operating System course, still got an A-. He doesn't know anything about seg fault handling or process scheduling.
How did he get an A-? Because companies are looking for good GPAs rather than what actually the candidate knows. Students complain if they get low grades because it may screw up his career. Since universities are competing for hire rate after graduation (unemployment is serious in south korea) they press professors to give them good grades as possible.