skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd recommend reading the three articles below, which constitute the public back-and-forth between the prominent historians who have been critical of the project and the NYT.

I'm not sure how you can read these (especially the brutal Atlantic article) and come away believing that the Times is acting in good faith w/ regards to the publication and defense of the 1619 Project.

When you look at the arguments offered up by the Times, they seem to be holding themselves to some standard other than objective truth.

Just look at their arguments in defense of Hannah-Jones' claim (which she states as a fact) that "one of the primary reasons the colonists decided to declare their independence from Britain was because they wanted to protect the institution of slavery". The NYT offers their support of this argument in paragraphs 7-10 of the Editor's Response [0](the second half). The author does not even attempt to support the claim was factually correct. He makes no argument that this is the belief of any single individual, let alone a believe as common as Hannah-Jones makes it out to be. Instead he states the existence of a single anti-slavery ruling, and the fact that news of it appeared in the newspaper. QED, defending slavery was a primary motivation for the revolution!

To my eye, the author seems to be merely attempting to establish the argument's plausibility, as though the simple act of defending an argument is an acceptable substitution its for objective truth.

History is and always should be about inquiry, about discovery of truth first and foremost. Making statements of fact about history without a regard for the truth is dangerous. There's a word for that, you know.

And people are pushing to put this into public school curriculum!

[0] Original Critique and NYT response:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-th...

[1] Historians' response:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/1619-proje...

[2] NYT Issues Correction:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/magazine/an-update-to-the...
Then (in your absurd hypothetical scenario) those agencies are being incredibly stupid, they're wasting their time on on high risk / low reward strategies.

Oh wait, you're probably talking about the United States? It's scary how fucked up that place is just millimetres below the surface.
While this is probably true, I don't think it would be entirely fair to beat apple up for not having an EU only warranty program tuned to the minimal that is required.
Only if the blackblaze implementation supports put byte range... Not supported by default.
> I've been having this discussion since 1997

I tried VR back then, and I tried VR now. It sounds like you haven't tried it now? I've seen people crying because they couldn't believe how crazy it was. Just give it a try!
This comment resonates with me. I've been to meetings where we spent hours and discussed these things. I tend to ignore them and do as instructed. The work is pretty boring. But I get paid for it. I think my peers don't like me. I don't blend in. I'm not part of the culture. I will eventually get dismissed. But I'm not mad or angry. I move on to the next project where I contribute more effectively.

We need to accept change. Your company eventually will move you to a new project or dismiss you. They need to put your software baby on maintenance and squeeze out the last bucks before they shut it down. Life continues with or without you. If you become pro-active, you'll have a fun ride with it.
…then you buy a new connector, as mentioned previously?
NYT has flirted with death before. The Chicago Tribune went through the bankruptcy wringer. Just this year the owner of several regional newspapers, also the second-largest newspaper chain in the country, declared bankruptcy: https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/13/media/mcclatchy-bankruptcy/in... The first biggest was merely acquired.

AP isn't a publication, it's a co-op association that syndicates stories, so it actually also suffers from the aggregators' problems.
Well, I'm glad that's settled.
> moral of the story: 99% of people still don't understand the > nature of software. very few people--like rich hickey ? ? (clojure), or fpb (mythical man-month)--seem to get it. tech >?is mainstream and most people are missing historical context >and experience.

This is it. As engineers, we want to build the best can. As managers of a business, we want to product the most profit we can. As marketers, the more income that comes in, the better off we are.

Chose 2 of the 3. Marketing almost always wins one of those slots.

If someone could produce a solid infrastructure to get rid of ads and all that nonsense, but still get a product out in front of everyone, I think that might be the holy grail.

(I hope that if you figure this out - you might give me a .5% royalty) when your successful.
This is fantastic.

I don't understand why this did't go bigger on HN.

(Maybe because missing shapes?)

Might consider posting to Product.

Let me know if you do and I'll add my voice (jv at vip dot ie).
If there are options c, d, and following, I'd like to hear them. But your second paragraph is pure option b, the notion that we can't afford it.

I think that's wrong. We of course can't afford everything, and I never said otherwise. But what we're talking about is "a safe (as possible) job". There's no particular reason to think that if Amazon takes proper worker safety precautions, suddenly they'll be out of business. Might Bezos be marginally less rich? Sure. Might Amazon customers pay a smidgen more? Sure. Will society collapse? No. Will some other workers suddenly not have a safe workplace? Also no.

We can afford it.
It would be awesome for manpages and vim helpfiles to have formatting and color like this.
This is not EU specific, duty is typically due on consumer good when you move them between countries if you haven't owned them long enough. It's not always enforced or enforceable of course, but it's there. See for example people buying cars on either side of the US and Canada border for use on the other side.
The 1619 Project was such an awful bit of journalism. Totally not surprised it won a Pulitzer.
The antibody fits the spike protein like a lock and key. They key might fit other locks in humans with varying degrees of fit, on other cells in the body.

There are two such lock-and-keys on the antibody, the other key fits the immune system cells, that start a cascade that amplifies the immune response.

Even if it is a weak fit for an unintended target, the response can be an issue.
For what is worth, "there's the product you produce to trade time for money, and then there's you" is precisely what alienation from labor feels like, and you're advocating that one must just accept it. People have a deep need to relate as full human beings to their work. Trying to be content with finding self-worth only outside of work doesn't solve burnout. Work is a big chunk of our time and energy. Humans need to human.
For all the criticism of golang, the fact that it can be used to craft superb software like this is a testament to its real-world efficacy.
The first known case of Covid in Colorado was tied to a Vegas conference.
I was in France in December/January, flied back to SF then to NYC for Real World Crypto 2020. I felt sick after flying back from France, got a really weird flu, similar to H1N1 back then. Flying back from NYC I remember being extremely sick in the plane... I'm convinced this was the coronavirus.

Maybe I was patient 0 for both california and new york :|
Some suggestions:

1) Don't go home, you have a habit of going home and "chillin", so just don't self study there.

2) Stay at your office and self-study there after work. You're already in the environment where you generally "work", so just add on hours afterwards.

3) Enroll in a physical class, like a community college class where you're forced to attend class and actively participate.
> What websites are people visiting that the Pi-Hole doesn't work with?

Usually sites where the dev has based functionality on a JS module loaded from an advertise/tracker site, and that is being blocked, resulting in missing functionality.

Two prominent examples that I've personally had to deal with: CVS, and Taco Bell's iOS app.

Edit: Oh, and google's inserted redirects in shopping results lists are blocked by default.
problem with your utopia is that in order to provide the vagaries of a "dignified life" you are compelling people to labor for others. We have not yet achieved post scarcity and there is never a guarantee that enough people in your society will participate in good faith to sustain those who are, for whatever reason, less productive.

That's not an argument against a safety net, just the opposing force that makes the correct (and possible) solution somewhere in between [UBI, euthanization), and different for each grouping of people.
"They eagerly seek you, not commendably, but they wish to shut you out, in order that you may seek them."

Yeah, it's from the Bible. Yeah, Paul was talking about something completely different from political programs. It still seems to fit. There are people who seek to destroy the existing system first, in order that there will be no alternative but to build a replacement. They thereby show that they seriously doubt their ability to persuade people that their alternative is better. (They also assume that their alternative is the only alternative, or at least is the one that will be chosen. They are, I think, over-optimistic in doing so.)
Ahh, no? I just used the New York Times and an example because it is by far the most popular newspaper in the country. It’s relevant to this post because they obviously won a bunch of awards, as the usually do.

News and quality of news has been a major part of my life since my first ever semi successful project, which was a news aggregator I started over a decade ago. One of the mechanisms we tried then (before reddit existed as far as I know) was a sortof economy where each poster got a certain amount of tokens to “spend” on submissions and comments, and you could earn more tokens when people “paid” you for your quality contributions.

Obviously it didn’t work.

Since then I’ve tried computational linguistics approaches to this problem, which solves a problem, but not the fitness checking one I’m talking about here.

And finally: my wife is a former political journalist, so obviously news and quality of news is a major topic in my life which I talk about, read about, and write about pretty regularly.
Isn't this just because you (illegally) fail to declare it for duty purposes?

If so it wouldn't have much to do with apple, no?
At this point everyone that's had a sniffle in the last 6 months will be convinced it was COVID-19. Test data is the only thing that counts.
Agreed, but who can you really get mad at? The lone, inevitably overworked SWE that was asked to shoulder the entire burden of the business he worked for? Or management, who most likely denied that SWE the support he wanted?

In my last job I'd advocate tirelessly for unit tests, code reviews, all that. And it was always denied. Ironic given that the other engineers I worked with were MEs, who had notebooks full of processes describing how they were to work so that engineering issues would be caught. But the software? "I don't care how you do it, just ship the feature"

As an aside, I've always found "nobody knows how it worked because XXXXX is gone" to be kind of funny: the code knows, so go read the code. It'll mean everything takes 100x longer but the knowledge is there.
Get collapseos, it has a bundled z80 emulator and some shell. Learn forth and continue doing Z80 coding. It's really fun.
The money in a bank is not paper currency. Your deposit is backed by as little as 3% cash reserves. My original point was that crypto is a medium of exchange, like cash, not that it is a store of value, like bank account deposits.
Whenever you compose an email, put your ask in the first sentence. Do you want information from them? Do you want them to do something for you? Put it in the first sentence. Then put the explanation and details in the rest of the email.
Did we ever get any good information on the rates of permanent lung damage or hospitalization for young people? I feel like over-focusing on fatality could cause us to overlook the more pragmatic risks.
Get an antibody test?
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Feel free to email me to talk more about this. I can share trajectories for myself and a few peers who have similar experience.

Get a role at a >decent consulting firm in the field you like. Move aggressively into a role where you get to take lead on projects. Find conferences in your area of interest. Speak at those. Build relationships with any vendors that are common to your customers and area of interest. Speak more. Get to know organizers at conferences and seek keynote and panel discussion opportunities. Engage with everyone you can to identify problems. Evolve your content to focus on the intersection of interesting and common problems. Somewhere in here you can shift to a top-tier consulting firm in your field, or to independent consulting, or jump to a vendor, or take on a senior role at an org that would otherwise be a customer of your consulting firm.

At this point you should have strong experience and a reputation for the same. Leverage this to filter opportunities to those you want.

All of this is predicated on you actually being quite good at what you're interested in. You don't have to be world class to start, but you do need to continuously improve. You'll probably end up in the top 10% of your field. Again, predicated on ability.
A couple of more solutions in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19232733
Did anyone successfully compile it for x86 32-bit target? The docker image is 64-bit and the compilation seems to be hitting the gcc-i386 limit of 3GiB.
Only for hardware, and only if you pay extra for it.

Dell's higher tier hardware support is pretty great, but it isn't an apples-to-apples (sorry) comparison.
There are no “private” individuals who commented. These are public comments. As in, they are on the public record. A full name and address was required in order to submit a comment. There is no privacy or anonymity when you’re commenting on the public record.

The NYT of any other organization can pull the filing and see each and every name and address associated with a comment. No combing or linking back to IDs needed. It’s all there for the entire world the see as part of the public record. The information that will be exposed by this ruling is the IP address(es) of whoever fraudulently commented using other people’s names and addresses.
The entire project did not win, just one story from it by one person: https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/nikole-hannah-jones-new-yor...
> He asked what he was missing and I pointed out that the headline was referring to malaria in mosquitoes, and not malaria in humans

Yes, but mosquitos are a vector for malaria in humans. If mosquitos are infected (at scale) with the microbe and can be cured or made "immune" to malaria, it effectively stops the transmission of malaria to people. If the science checks out and infected male mosquitos are released into the environment in areas with high (human) malaria infection rates, it becomes extremely easy (fast, cost effective, simple) to prevent new malaria infections in people.

This general approach is already being used today, albeit with less success. See Google's "Debug" project:

https://debug.com/

Dismissing the importance of the findings here as "only treating malaria in mosquitos" ignores the much broader implications of the research here. The headline is not sensational, and the perceived ambiguity in the headline does not decrease the significance or potential importance of the discovery.
I have a theory: From reading a bunch of case studies, it seems that the main route of transmission is microdroplets hanging in the air. A huge majority of transmission comes from being near someone for an extended period of time (30 min or so) indoors.

Since smoking is allowed in most casinos, they have extremely powerful ventilation and air filtration systems, so that their non-smoking customers aren't excessively bothered. If you've been in a Vegas casino and seen someone smoking, you notice that the smoke almost instantly gets sucked into the ceiling. This may dramatically reduce transmission in casinos or other venues that allow smoking.
It would be good to know how many of these comments are astroturfed from lazy lobbying groups. I imagine that is why they are requesting.
SARS-CoV-2 is the virus. covid-19 is the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2. There are a few permutations of case, dashes etc.

My wife presented with symptoms quite similar to covid-19 to A&E (UK: A&E ~= ER) after a cruise we went on in late November. She has never smoked but she did get quite breathless and shook it off after about a week. As you say, there are a lot of anecdotes.

A decent antibody test would be nice but at the moment we don't know enough about how the bloody thing works. Even if you have detectable antibodies after an infection, does that mean you have any immunity to another infection and if so, for how long?

My money is on this thing turning into another 'flu after about five years. It will stop killing large numbers of people and evolve into a sort of status quo, just like the seasonal 'flus. It will still be a killer but not quite so aggressive as it is now. It is not as aggressive a killer as Ebola but it spreads far easier. Evolution will ensure that it will find a "happy" medium where it can carry on spreading but we don't still feel the need to eradicate it because we can live with the consequences of the adjusted version.

My language in the above para is a bit off but the sentiment is the same. We happily jump into cars every day (not so much now) and kill ourselves and others in pretty large numbers across the world but that is judged an acceptable risk. covid-19 will simply become another one eventually. For now, it is a right old shit show and we do not understand the enemy at all well. We do not know how to live with it.

We will.
Hey HN!

I started blogging back in November. I'm a data science / ML person by day and a programming languages lover by night. I combined those two interests with this blog.

I have several posts you may find interesting, I'd love feedback.

I'm sure there are many errors, so I'm pretty nervous sharing this with the world, but I'm proud of the work and hope you find it useful :)
> A FOIA office simply looks for any excuse they can use to deny a request if they want to deny it. The reason doesn't need to make sense or be their true reason.

That's exactly what I was hinting at here. The agency has no interest in the public finding out how much of that feedback was bullshit.

> In my experience it's likely that no technical people were consulted on it.

From the sounds of it, they did at some point consult someone technical and tried to parse their answer as part of their justification for not executing the FOIA request. The fact that they knew it would take a script to extract the data as opposed to just dropping it into a search tool suggests as much anyhow. Though more likely it would just be a couple `sed` commands, a perl/ Python script, or a few command line tools.
Iceland tested 13% of its population. Here’s what health authorities found
The Waiting Time Paradox
While I agree with much of what you say, I feel that speaking out against serious problems with working conditions and the media should always be an option. For the boots on the ground workers, ever more so.

For those in well paying, white collar jobs with plenty of other opportunities, even in the current climate, quitting with an exit statement is more appropriate than trying to burn it down from the inside.

I respect the exec in question, and the warehouse workers who speak out. The idological opportunists pushing an agenda, not so much.
I assume he means not being apologetic about calling it out.
I bought the laptop back when System76 used Ubuntu and have never tried their Pop!_OS, and I use Fedora nowadays. Haven't had any problems with newer versions of Fedora.
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It means scammy apps will spam contact notifications without proof just to get eyeballs, and that's on top of the ones using covid fears to phish for info. Bad actors will exploit this.
I'm not going to go get permanent lung damage and spend weeks in the ICU just so we can reopen the economy. The IFR is one thing but the long-term effects of this illness are severe. Frankly the idea that we younger people should "go take one for the team" is as unconscionable now as it was when the older generation started the Vietnam war draft.
Not everyone who uses software is a software engineer…
The bigger problem is usually the immune system deciding that the antibody itself is a foreign body, and attacking it.

The biggest problem though, is cost. If you don’t have insurance, you may have to add a second mortgage to your house.
skeptic me thinks Vegas is mostly a cartel and these numbers might be made up.
A biased question about bias, nice.

Something something turtles all the way down.
Yeah, we're aware. Unfortunately Gemfury doesn't support GPG signing yet (see https://gemfury.com/help/apt-repository#apt-setup) but we will set that up as soon as they do. Their service made it the easiest to get set up on short notice.
This is unfortunately and hilariously accurate.

It’s a great system in a lot of ways, but it sure has lots of quirks.
1) flu symptoms aren't the same as covid19 symptoms
2) most tests come back negative, despite generally being limited to people with symptoms
3) other coronaviruses have similar symptoms.

It's really very unlikely that any of you had covid 19 in Las Vegas in late December.
I actually use Karabiner now to do Ctrl if held, Esc if tapped. It’s a little tougher to walk people through though:

1) install karabiner elements

2) select complex modifications

3) add rule

4) import more from internet

5) import change caps lock key v4

6) add rule change caps_lock to control if pressed with other keys, to escape if pressed alone

...is my actual current setup, along with a bunch of other key mapping. But I started with what I posted above, which everyone with Mojave+ on a MBP has available already.
This. The vast majority of line managers are very, very far removed from actual costs (and often, actual driving reasons too!).

Talk to an actual office space fit-out specialist to get real numbers. They'll tell you that individual offices are much more expensive than cubes.
Well, there are the billions who are now alive thanks to modern agriculture and medicine. We are perhaps comparing the best of the past with the worst of the present, which may not be a fair comparison. Best is to collect the best of past and present to create the best future.
I've wondered that too. What if in human pre-history (10,000+ years ago) modern rhinoviruses and coronaviruses that cause common colds, were once terribly deadly. We could just be the descendants of survivors who evolved immune systems that were able to deal with these viruses?

One of the techniques of trying to make vaccines is to attenuate it by exposing to to different hosts; so that it will mutate into a form that's less harmful to humans; kinda the opposite of what probably happened here, where a virus that was not deadly to either bats or pangolins but caused havoc when it got to us.
"Arguably the most deployed Lisp today?"

That's an interesting question. My other guess would have been Gimp, and based on a quick glance at Debian's popcon, I'd say Gimp might be slightly in the lead.

Then again, like Open Firmware deployed Forth on millions of computers, right under our noses, it would not surprise me at all if there were a simple Lisp implementation hidden on every computer in the world.

Is there anything more recent than DSSSL?
Caveat - this study may be wrong and needs to be verified.

https://mobile.twitter.com/UNMC_DrKhan/status/12574400820191...