skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"I understand that there's always a cost benefit analysis to all of this, but the high and mighty attitude towards people who simply want to feel happy needs to stop. It damages every discussion."

Everyone wants to simply feel happy. Everyone is sick and tired of all of this. Everyone wants to go out to a bar and have a pint. But we can't. We just can't. And not because the government says so. But because many many many more people than necessary will die if we do. That's the reality we live in now. And not understanding that, while acting as if your feelings matter more than others' lives makes you sound like a spoiled child. That is what people are being "high and mighty" about.
I live not in the poorest of countries, but $3 is what school teachers make working full-time outside of a few major cities
two months of next to $0 revenue
"I can't figure out what will be relevant in six months" might have been a legitimate complaint a decade ago, but those days are long gone.

React has been a core part of the front end ecosystem for almost 10 years. Angular is more than 10 years old. Vue is the "new kid" on the block at about six years old.

React is roughly 10x more popular than Vue or Angular according to npm usage, has been far more popular in usage terms for many years, and continues to be growing faster than either Vue or Angular.

Complaining you can't figure out if React or Angular or Vue will be relevant in six months is a bit like complaining you can't figure out if C++ or Java will be relevant in six months. Yes, there is lots of advancement happening in the front end space. Yes, that's a good thing. No, it's not an excuse to act like you're paralyzed to understand the current state.
Who, if we're still talking about radio, will tell you that if you don't want your packets collected and understood, don't broadcast them in the clear. The FCC guidelines and the law are real clear about this, and it is a very specific way that the analogy to glass and visual EM spectrum breaks down. Discussions and sibling threads have run to ground why it works that way. There's a reason the specific word used to describe the transmission of data via radio is "broadcast."
Most of the companies and universities working on vaccines have experience on earlier coronaviruses: for example Moderna and the Jenner Institute / Vaccitech worked previously with MERS vaccines. So they're not starting from scratch.

Other companies like Sinovac have also been doing challenge testing already (I believe Oxford too, but AFAICS they haven't published anything yet) in animals, so far with good results. EDIT: Sinovac findings were a preprint, but now it's been published in Science, so I guess it has more weight.

Also to speed up trials, Oxford is doing a hybrid Phase II / Phase III trial, hoping to get emergency use authorization in September if vaccine responses are positive.

Lastly, most companies and consortia are ramping up manufacturing at-risk (because there's no guarantee vaccines will work) to make sure the demand is met earlier.

So it is likely that if a vaccine works, it will be around earlier than before. Whether everyone will be able to have it, is a different matter entirely.
And explain to me why this doesn't make Nebraska a hotspot?

Do those workers magically teleport elsewhere after work? Do they not go to the grocery? Do some of them go to church? Do they not wind up in the local hospital?

You don't just ignore inconvenient data.
Learning Rust in 2020
I had a low paid data entry job one summer at university well over a decade ago that involved a tortuous process for digitising gas mains installation information. I discovered ahk and found I was able to install it, so I began to script the repetitive entry screens spread between multiple different programs. It allowed you to write a simple GUI form to collect various data up front. There was a lot of window picking and timers and sending of mouse clicks. It was really quite depraved but it worked. I could finish an hour's work in about 10 minutes and spent most of my time listening to Tom Stoppard plays.

I showed it to my immediate manager who I liked; they had a huge backlog and issues with the health and safety executive. She was interested and I thought I might get a slightly better low paid job maintaining my script, but alas the overworked, underskilled, and somewhat frightened IT person couldn't stomach the risk of getting in trouble for using it. So a hundred or so people went back to doing things 6 times as slowly and much more error prone-edly. It's stayed with me as some kind of lesson about inefficient use of human capital.

It was the first time I can remember really solving a problem I had with software. Thanks ahk. You beautiful ugly thing.
I prefer the term "software engineer" for a reason I haven't seen yet in this thread: clarity when speaking to people in other industries.

Among many of the people I talk to on a regular basis, if I told them I was a "developer" they would assume that I was a real estate developer.

If I told them I was a "programmer" it would be a little clearer, but before I moved into software I worked in the events industry for a few years, where "programmer" means "one who develops event programming."

In practice, I could append "software" in front of either "programmer" or "developer" to provide that clarity, but "software engineer" seems to be more common, and to me feels like it more adequately covers the totality of my job, which is as much about measuring, planning, and communicating as it is about producing code.
I disagree that Resharper was required to be "decently productive". Resharper turned your Honda of a Visual Studio into a Lexus, and Java developers (who were already used to Lexuses of their own) appreciated it... but you can still drive around with a Honda. Similarly, the limits on extensions in Express editions wouldn't hinder learning .NET development, or even working on most projects.

However, VS Express itself took a while to appear. Back when .NET first appeared, the only thing that was free was the .NET Framework itself (including command line compilers), and online MSDN documentation. Eventually, we got SharpDevelop.

But, well, there's free, and then there's free. In my home country, you could buy a bundle of CDs with complete VS 2002 + MSDN distribution on the black market for around $20. Which was still expensive for students, mind you - so the same bundle was then shared around the class (including the teachers, who only had an older bundle of VS6).
Life is complex, hence most things have advantages and disadvantages.
> use an iMac as an external screen for a laptop, or for an iPad Pro

RIP Target Display Mode. ;-(
Pretty cool!

What I normally do in a pinch is use Google Drive.. it has a "scan" option that you can take a picture with your phone.
This creates a field in which 20 of the 27 jurisdictions have some entrenched interest which securely holds the upper hand in that particular jurisdiction, secure from competition, free to earn economic rents.
> Guess what: if the world is going to improve for poor people then we rich people are going to have to forgo some luxuries; reagonomics/"rising tide raises all ships" doesn't work (how well are the poor people in SF doing?).

How does rich people forgoing luxuries help poor people? Moreover, the poor people in SF are doing a hell of a lot better than many parts of the world. I lived in Africa for two years and a minimum wage worker in the US would be considered almost unimaginably wealthy.

Poor is relative, and the working class in America would be doing great if not for the massive inflation in college, housing, and healthcare prices. And what do all three have in common? You guessed it, the government! It should be no surprise to anyone that the natural result of pumping absurd amounts of money into these sectors (student loans, government subsidized mortgages, medicare/medicaid) is inflated prices.
They supply short Counter example and claim they're both the same. However looking at the code button handler called onClick for react and onPress in React Native. Unless this is a simple typo why doing crazy things like that?
"Staff" and "Senior staff" and such are only recognized by ingroups. And often you need to be a staff level engineer to even begin managing people in tech.

In most industries that aren't tech, compensation and prestige are directly proportional to how many people you manage. Only in tech can individual senior engineers have impact that justifies the high pay without managing people.
Same feeling here. still waiting for that killer flutter app to convince me one can actually build a real app with decent latency in flutter
There are a whole lot of folks who would love to get away from the Bay Area if possible. The infrastructure is crap, the geography impedes growth and transit, the natives don't seem to like us, tax burden is high, real estate is expensive, and it's a major fault zone. I don't see how paying $1M+ for a 60 year old house makes sense, especially when there are still gang shootouts and high property crime.

If investors want to move into that market, they are nuts. I don't think you can extract any more money from residents than the current market is already doing. It's one more reason not to buy a house here - how much more do you think prices will rise? Will that $1.5M, 1400 sq ft house full of lead paint, asbestos and aluminum wiring go for $2M next year? Probably not.
As a black person among black people? Can, have and will continue to.
Skype is Electron now.
Wink extends deadline for subscriptions to May 20
nice, means that Qt apps fit well enough that you don't even notice them :p
I would be careful with Flutter’s web port. It’s going to be a pretty divergent approach in terms of web dev familiarity, bundle size, and compatibility with native web features (they had to implement copy and paste from scratch, for example). It is very similar to the approach Famous took back when. It is not looked kindly upon by many web platform advocates I know.
While your points on broader power structures are entirely correct, I can understand why their friend put it that way. There's a natural tendency to attribute the state of your country to its past. The caste system was just the noticeable local manifestation of how societies have tended to structure power the world over.
I don't see this happening soon, as macOS screen interaction is largely optimized for precise pointing (mouse, trackpad, Apple pencil) and less for gestures/multitouch (though some are supported on the trackpad) and Apple seems reluctant to change that. But you never know.

Personally I'm extremely happy with Sidecar and being able to use an iPad/pencil as a smaller Cintiq.
Yes, I was imprecise, I meant at roughly the same cost.

Just seems that the spinning rust guys have to jump through some pretty extreme hoops to get density up, while the flash guys "just" have to reduce cost, which gives them more angles of attack (ie either further density increase or process optimization).
Ask HN: My GitHub Pages site went viral. 120k requests and 6 gigs. What do I do?
So I built nesteggly.com. Literally an MVP I cooked up over the past couple of months to help my gf plan her retirement. Being a 100% static website and not thinking many people would find it very interesting I decided to host it on GitHub Pages.

Fast forward to the last 24 hours. I've had over 120,000 page views and 6 gigs of bandwidth consumed. Fortunately I'd just set up Cloudflare and GitHub only delivered about 2 gigs of that. I haven't received a call from GitHub yet and my site seems to still be up and responsive.

The questions at the top of my mind:

Is this an appropriate use of GitHub Pages?

Should I be concerned they'll shut me down?

What's the best way to host a 100% static site?
The thing that immediately came to mind for me was 'flare', partially for the obvious "Oh wow it basically perfectly fits with the intention of it!" but also for alliterative reasons: flag / favorite / flare
I think its too progressive where you cannot be a centrist or people will look at you like they look at centrists in alabama.

Bay area has one of the most closed minded people when it comes to politics. Jack Dorsey (Twitter CEO) talked about it in his interviews with Joe Rogan and such - how do we make sure that voices across the spectrum are represented on Twitter and just not what silicon valley thinks is acceptable? There is definitely bias.

I don't want to open a can of worms, but I personally don't like living in the bay area.
> I don't care if some idiot who's not a doctor thinks some malaria drugs might help because he stands to benefit from that.

Not everyone is this shady. There's a real trial (University of Minnesota) trying to determine if HCQ works or not as post-exposure prophylaxis. Sadly, it only needs 150ish more people but it's struggling to get them (at least according to its PI).
Who are you buying from? Seagate also had undisclosed SMR, and I believe Toshiba did as well.
You're right, I was confusing the fact that the founder came in with an acquisition.
xv6 also was switched to RISC-V (not exactly sure when, but sometime in 2019), and it has a nice book for the actual course.

Course: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2019/xv6.html
Book: https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2019/xv6/book-riscv-rev0.pd...

Take a look at chapter 7 for the xv6 filesystem referenced here.
OK, what if the simulation works, did you understand it before?
For the average person, the amount of money Netflix pays its engineers is absolutely life changing. Even if you have to live in the hideously expensive bay area to get it.

Levels.fyi says the average compensation is...450k. But that's for the entire software engineer job ladder, so it's probably skewed upwards somewhat. Still, a median of 250-350k would still be a ton of money.
For me, The Origin of Consciousness by Julian Jaynes. It has really caused me to look at the world through a new lens. While the book is Jaynes' idea, the evidence he provides is fascinating as are some of the competing views that have originated from this book.
> I did not mean to imply you were in the cult of Elon.

That's the issue with hyperbole, it tends to lends itself to extremes.

> You could have championed the people in Hitler's armies as well.

Back to the Nazi narrative, no I personally wouldn't have, want know why? During the (illegal) Iraq and Afghan Invasion I was in staunch opposition, and I went to a Pro-war University and come from a Military family. Both of my cousins were vets of both Iraq and Afghanistan, one with 3 tours in total. I was supposed to be the third, but realized in the 6th grade killing for the State is still Murder and that War is not a career--I wanted to help preserve Life, not destroy it.

I'm glad I got accustomed to having to do with less, as my family practically shunned me for this position and were aghast at my Anarchist leanings and didn't support me in anyway because of my refusal to accept the BS narrative that was sold to them.

So, having lived amongst and worked with said former Hitler Youth, something I'm sure even you as Historian probably cannot say, it was ultimately an experience that led to compassionate acceptance.

He didn't want to fight in Hitler's BS war of Genocide. He was hungry and did what he was told as a child from a rural farming family who had their land stolen from them and was subject to go days/weeks without eating.

He was the 'Opa' of the family I worked for on the farm, I would bring him coffee in the morning while he sorted through the potatoes we planted, harvested out of respect, and despite what you may want to think I never saw a blood-thirsty genocidal maniac.

Instead I saw a broken man who was forcefully inducted to march and sing to feed his Family, who later became a farmer himself after the war and inevitably lost his farm due to Chernobyl's fallout, and a Man who still suffered the affects of unfathomable levels of scarcity as he would regularly take whatever looked edible from our compost bin, despite having access to the store and the farms fresh produce.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but if you're an Educator you really should have better arguments to base your views/convictions on. Nazism was a horrible system, but there are more cogent ways to convey your position than resorting to 'well, Nazis...'
It doesn't have to be a lock, since MCS can have (AFAIK) 1023 different categories and multiple processes can access the same resource depending on their categories

EDIT: Good point about requesting related resources though, not sure how you'd go about that (I'm not even sure you'd actually want that either since you could include '../../../etc/passwd' or something as an <img> tag)
Can you give any examples of Win32 API that manifest design flaws or restrictions due to "single-user domain" legacy?
Fosshost: Not-for-profit cloud-based hosting provider
Your conclusion re: Cordova is pretty outdated. Also these days folks are moving to Capacitor instead.
The above convert command produced credible output only 6KB larger than the input PDF in my limited testing.
Ned Block covers this in his paper on the Harder Problem of Consciousness. Other humans share a similar biology, so we have good enough justification to think they're conscious. It won't defeat solipsism, but it's enough to make a reasonable assumption.

Data or whatever AI/Android doesn't share our biology. And since we can't tell whether it's the functioning of our biology or the biology itself which provides us with consciousness, we lack any reasonable justification for assuming Data is conscious. And then he goes further into functional isomorphs at different levels and how that might or might not matter for Data, but we can't tell.
VST2 just has to die already
Especially given it used to cost well above $500.
I bought into Google Pay back when they had the intro price of $7.99 a month and have kept it ever since. I don't really listen to Google Play, but every now and then I do. The primary reason why I keep it is so I don't have to watch the ads. For me, the cost of $7.99 is well worth not having to listen to the ads. I know not everyone would feel the same.
Well sometimes the cables I have to untangle more often then I wanted seem conscious to me (in an evil kind of way); so, the question then becomes, how do we measure the CUs and, moreover, whether all CUs are created equal.
Go and kubernetes clearly have reached a critical user mass that makes one confident other companies will maintain it even if for some reason google abandons ship.

flutter on the other hand is tremendously complex, and has yet to display any major company having bet their future on it.
Is it that surprising? We have the exact same system in the States.

Affirmative Action exists today. The Ivies modified its acceptance criteria to "soft" discriminate against Jewish Americans in the 50s and 60s. There are arguments that this is indeed the case for Asian Americans today.
Sounds like you're describing was what Americans call affirmative action ("a reservation system so that people belonging to those castes could get jobs/education/opportunities"). I am not knowledgeable about India's system, but I get the impression that like the one in the US, it is politically/culturally divisive and I would take any comment about it as opinion/preference rather than fact.
This might be a naive question, but regarding
“Let's imagine that we simulate the brain in all biological details on a supercomputer. Will that supercomputer be conscious?“

...wouldn’t the only reason for this be one of efficiency? That is, akin to how we can simulate one processor architecture on another.

Maybe the point is a simulation can never be efficient enough to become conscious (at least on a timescale we can grok)...?
Are you saying a single neuron could beat the world's greatest go player?
I don't think that's what they're saying. We could have the detail and understanding but lack compute.

It seems that they are saying that a simulation is required for proof. We write proofs for things all the time without exhaustively simulating the variants.
I like it a lot, it's really neat and well done. I'd likely love to use it on mobile.

On desktop, I've spent a while attempting to "properly" swipe to toggle todo/done and it's been one of the worst exercises in frustration I've had in a long time: it selected the text instead of swiping, or it started swiping but then the action didn't properly complete. Really odd!

I've tried to find whether there was a somewhat hidden "grab anchor" that would've made the experience better, but failed.

After leaving it be, then trying for a little while more, it seems I finally "got it", and have had no problems swiping todos with the mouse since.

I wonder whether there's something that could be done for ensuring my first "bad" experience wouldn't have happened.

Added to my bookmarks, will likely give it a real go soon.
I have no connection to NextDNS other than as a very satisfied user, but my Pi-hole got decommissioned a few weeks ago as a result of my discovery of NextDNS.

I also run their DNS53-to-DoH proxy on a small VM and that VM's IP is the first DNS server in the DNS server list included with DHCP leases (with NextDNS's public IPs as the second and third, losing host-level granularity/logging if the VM is down for whatever reason).
> Elon provided the majority of Tesla’s series A, but he wasn’t a founder in the conventional sense of the word.

Granted, and you're right, his role as CEO would come after all of that.
I don't quite see how it's an unsustainably cheap price that none of their competitors can match, considering that the implicit price of Logic includes $1000+ hardware to run macOS on.
The problem with flutter is you never know when Google will stop investing in the product at any moment when the devs shift their priority.and let it die on the vine.
Yea sorry for being unclear, I meant I need to do all those things. I have evaluated electron in the past and tried to hack the things I need unsuccessfully, but I don't keep up with it so I've edited my comment.
I believe this is something that next-gen frameworks worked around:

http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/svelte

http://npm.anvaka.com/#/view/2d/solid-js
In 3D, it looks like something from out of stranger things.
No actually. There are projects that can run in a server. The spec doesn’t say anything about web only.
It’s not the first time they’ve tried.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-w...
Linux didn't have real threads early on tho, didn't it? LinuxThreads were only introduced in 1996, and they were broken in many ways.