skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most cases it doesn’t make economic sense to implement graceful failure. OOMs are rare (unless you are a Java programmer).
That is one completely valid but also slightly reductionist way to look at it. I think it is quite telling that even trans people are saying "yeah that topic is a bit too messy to untangle even for us, and we're the ones living this experience" - the issue is mainly that there are multiple valid requirements are inherently contradictory. I suspect the issue of transgenderism and athletics is a very good example of a Wicked Problem.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicked_problem
Stop and think about why people don't like masks. Think at a deeper level, don't jump to superficial explanations like people are lazy or selfish.

People don't wear masks because it is dehumanizing.

You start to treat your fellow citizen as a bag of viruses. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone is just a non-distinguishable face.

This is the reason, in my opinion, why people don't want to wear them. It is a lot more to it than an inconvenience.

And that is why it is only regularly worn in societies where dehumanization is already common, where there are too many people and none caring about each other. It is also common in societies where freedoms and innovation are scant and it is a tool to suppress society.

At that point it does make a difference if you should be compelled to wear something that does not actually work.
You could transmit a chirp, and use that to distinguish it from a nuclear EMP.
Sweden only messed up if you consider the variable to optimise to be the number of deaths. If you attempt to minimise sum decrease in quality of life as a consequence of the pandemic, then as callous as it may sound, the severe lockdown strategies come out of the equation quite poorly.
Evidence from coronaviruses that cause common colds show the ability to be reinfected but even in that case immunity still lasts for months rather than days. In the case of a more severe disease like SARS, antibody responses have been found after 17 years. We don't know enough about Covid to make a good guess about immunity but it seems unlikely that someone could be reinfected days after recovering.
Absolutely, and also for 'buying' movies on Amazon, Apple, Google and (especially) smaller services.

The product you're buying is really: rental of unknown duration. And unless that's really substantially cheaper than actually buying it on disc, it's a terrible deal.
It's not because 'function powers' make sense, yhey are just iterated function application. That's how they work for the natural numbers and when you extend that to the integers, you immediately get f^-1 for the inverse.

Notation in higher level maths is almost always very ambiguous. Because many concepts are analogues of each other and to reflect that notation is just taken from the analogue.
Within a single domain, (like high-school arithmetic) you will usually not have this ambiguous problem. But once you move past that, it is something to get used to.
Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE may be lying to you
And we have now the easily accessible documents that describe the context:

Statement by Deputy Press Secretary Roussel on the Soviet Nuclear Test Ban Proposal, March 29, 1986

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/research/speeches/32986b

"In this initiative the President invited Mr. Gorbachev to send Soviet experts to the United States to examine our new CORRTEX verification system and to observe a U.S. nuclear test in mid-April at our Nevada test site. The President made it clear that if this meeting leads to an agreement on verification -- incorporating CORRTEX -- which meets our concerns, he is prepared to move forward toward ratification of these two treaties."

White House Statement on the Soviet-United States Nuclear Testing Talks, December 15, 1988

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/research/speeches/121588c

"Under the terms of a U.S.-Soviet agreement negotiated in the previous round of the NTT and signed at the Moscow summit, underground nuclear explosions were conducted at the U.S. test site in Nevada in August and at the Soviet test site at Semipalatinsk in September, with observers from both sides present. The purpose of the JVE was to allow each side to demonstrate its preferred verification method for the TTBT and PNET. The results of the test were discussed during this round. We believe the experiments demonstrated the effectiveness and nonintrusive nature of CORRTEX, our preferred method of on-site measurement."
It looks to me like another example of failed automatic comment moderation. But again, it will be interpreted as big tech kneeling to the CCP.
DRM is ridiculous.

I have/had some 20 books on the market, all of them also as ebooks (PDF) and not a single one of them is DRM'ed. I refuse to sell ebooks on Amazon, because their ebook format is not open. This year I will publish my first EPUB book. Also without DRM.

However, most authors just don't know and/or don't care. Either because they do not know anything about DRM or because they only care about sales, and with some publishers DRM is not an opt-in. Unfortunately!

So, yes, I understand the frustration expressed in the article! Look closely before you buy any ebooks!
I think with Next you can "build" the website (the HTML for each page is generated like it would be if it was executed in your browser) and then serve the static HTML + JS if needed, which makes for good SEO.
> What does speaking english has to do with this?

> Regarding twitter case I feel that it's unfair to classify the issue with a single anecdote. Especially when this anecdote is about notoriously mismanaged, pointless corporation such as twitter.

Evaluating online behavior, which is presented in text, across all languages, is Hard.

It seems clear you didn't watch the video. Pool doesn't present Twitter as a single anecdote, but an example of a larger problem.

Addtionally, it is not clear to me that a platform as large as Twitter can be dismissed as an "anecdote".

The larger problem is people with these positions are not even interested in evaluating other positions, a claim supported by your comment and the down-voters of mine.
“COVID patients do not sneeze either.“

COVID prevents people from sneezing? I would assume one would still sneeze whether or not they have COVID.
Show HN: Covid Comply
You can press Ctrl+C and it should give you a message reminding you how to quit.
1. Cummings hasn't been given a strict talking to by the police.

2. Cummings hasn't issued a public apology.

3. Gaiman isn't an advisor to the Prime Minister, and wasn't intimately involved with the drafting of the rules he broke.
There were other factors at play in the downfall of Sears than just failure to take advantage of their positions at the time. Sears, in a sense, became a victim of its own success. In the heyday of parasite capitalism, it became more profitable for a small group of bad actors to make Sears fail.

Xerox is a more apt example of the 'missed opportunity' narrative.
You assume too much. This happens on windows too. Install a fresh copy of git, and issue `git commit` from a repository. You'll get dumped (last I checked) in vim.
Also related: G.I. Taylor who developed the theory of blast waves to the point where he could estimate yield from photographs published in newspapers, and wrote papers that published the classified yield of the first US nuclear tests.

Edit: His estimate was between 17 and 23 kilotons of TNT, the real yield was 22 kilotons.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.1950.004...

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.1950.005...
Mistakes in elderly care appear to be the main driver of high death rates.
The return profile depends a lot on the stage of VC you're at - while a 100x return might be plausible for an early angel investor (who also expects 90% of their investments to go to zero), lots of later stage VC's will be quite happy with the more consistent 5x outcome.
Underground nuclear tests don’t make huge holes in the surface. That’s the whole point.

Here’s what they look like at ground level:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/heres-what-an-undergro...

Plenty of room for the computer to survive.
It wasn’t. A few coastal cities were colonized (HK, Dalian, Qingdao, Xiamen, Tianjin, Shanghai), but China is huge and that went nowhere near the qualification for “largely”. Also, in all of these cases, only parts of the cities were considered concessions (eg an island of Xiamen), not the entire city.
> Every Mastodon instance has an About page (no login required) listing all instance bans and reasons

There are instances which require an account in order to see the bans (cyber.space). There are instances which do not list bans at all. There are instances with made up reasons of banning made up instances (mastodon.art). Even that flagship instance lists incorrect reasons for removing instances (claims that certain instances shared illegal content when said instances do not allow any form of illegal content).

In addition most mastodon instances do not disclose their policies via AP. See for example https://fediverse.network/mastodon.art/federation
As you can see now that the thread has matured, there are a lot of proponents of this architecture that have production experience with it, so it's likely not as dumb as you assume.
The First Crypto Trading Tool in Hands of a Traditional Investment Institution
Epigenetics: Biology's Quantum Mechanics (2011)
Yet another reason to use native tooling. If you want to take advantage of AWS features - you have to use AWS features.

Blame Hashicorp if they don’t have a similar feature.
Quickly Onboard New Clients with RChilli's New Features
I just watched the video. Can anyone answer these questions?

What prevents the burning from getting into the mixing chamber? It seems like the sliding valve is open while it’s burning. And there’s higher pressure in the cylinder.

What prevents the mixing chamber gas from getting into the compression reservoir?
VR/AR would play a big role in moving to a more remote-friendly world as well.
They’re literally entire companies of 100+ employees selling a product that helps you figure out how much money you’re spending on AWS https://www.cloudability.com/
How Do You Decode a Hapax? [Also, What’s a Hapax?]
We need to count these total after a couple of years to see which strategy worked.
Tor[1] doesn't use DRM.

I think it's worth calling out publishers that aren't hostile to readers. Are there others?

[1]: https://www.tor.com/2012/07/20/torforge-e-books-are-now-drm-...
Ask HN: What cross platform RESTclient are you using
I have a simple need to make one off GET and POST requests while testing and building an API. I used to use Postman but it's all project based now and to much hassle to deal with in my work flow. Before Postman there was a Java app "REST Client UI" unfortunately the UI framework does not size right on high dpi screens and as a result I sopped using it.
So what do you used to test API and hack a websites API? What are the pros and cons of the tool. Also what kind of work flow do you used for this kind of task?
> we all agree

Well, that's the issue, isn't it? Do we all agree? I think a lot of people do. There's a disturbingly large number who do not. And there are corners of the Internet perfectly willing to entertain their fantasies of establishing such a political party.

I think whether one should cut that off at the knees by monitoring such sites and, when necessary, squelching the channel or one waits until someone has grabbed a gun to act on the ideation is an intensity slider on paradox of tolerance that reasonable people can disagree on.

Given the sliding scale, it's probably a case-by-case issue. Hard to come up with a general principle that's going to universally apply; give an example of something people have been silenced on that they should have been allowed to continue, and there's debate to be had, but on the general principle, both sides can probably agree that there's times to silence and times to not.
My background is in Standards for engineering data. I'm trying to push the idea that cleaning up a business' data before trying to apply ML to it may give better results.
> Android is already one abstraction layer on top of another, there is no intrinsic technological benefit of adding yet another one OS-like super app on top of it, or at the very least any such benefits remain to be demonstrated.

This has to be prove by market. If the OS-ish super apps are winning, means the customers are approving it.
Cross channel attribution.
It wasn't impossible after Brexit, it became impossible (or at least very difficult) after she and her advisors screwed up the 2017 election.
I’m not sure why it’s important for features to be in the base install (so not in a separate package). Having theM packaged separately makes it easier to push updates, and you only install the power tools if you care about them.

That’s quite nice IMHO.
Is Allah a Different God Than the Biblical God?
A good example of this can be found in an incredible algorithm with a terrible name: Fast inverse square root.

It sounds like an algorithm for computing the inverse of the square root function, so one might think it's for squaring non-negative numbers, or something along those lines. Not so. It's for computing the reciprocal (the 'multiplicative inverse') of the square root of a number. [0]

Related to this: the way a superscript '2' next to a function means the function shall be applied twice (that is, composition with itself)... unless it's a trigonometric function, in which case it means the square of the result. [1] [2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function_composition#Functiona...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trigonometric_identiti...
Yeah, last time I used it was in 1996 on AIX running on IBM RT PC.
Instead, buy a printer. It's cheap and you can print anything you want, including books. It's much easier to read on paper and with a highlighter, you will annotate and remember much more.

This works -- especially -- in a country where you have to wait ages for a book to arrive by post, not to mention silly countries like mine, where you have to pay tax on books.
Religions have both leaders and tax exemption. I wouldn't be surprised if in some time they'd become one by similar means to the ones employed by Scientology some time ago. Being pro-Trump might add some attached benefits too.
This is not a good road for anybody to go down. It's been done before. My primary example is the behemoth that is CA technologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CA_Technologies

They started acquiring software in the 1980's. Software that would be reasonably good would go to CA to die an awful and slow death.

They're still around. They don't own a single piece of groundbreaking software, but they still make money.
Make an interactive step by step tour guide for your react-native app
I’m curious what google would not censor. Perhaps I’m misunderstanding this but it looks like google is supporting a political party here. The dollar value of this must be huge.
FWIW, I'm not "buying" ebooks or audiobooks anymore because I found out about the magic of digital access via a library card. This is certainly not a new thing, but since it'd been years since I engaged with the public library it was new to me!

I've been tearing through material lately, all through the library app (Libby, which I think is a rebrand of Overdrive), and it's still magic to me that I'm getting all of it for free. Sure, it comes with the normal library restrictions (popular stuff has long hold waits, sometimes tough to find a specific book vs. any book, etc.) but the sheer amount of books available that spark my interest is really cool.

I fell out of the habit of reading actual books for awhile, and diving back in has been like reconnecting with a long lost friend.
Shooot – Dribbble Shots Generator
It lets you upload your website screenshot to adjust it for a Dribbble shot with background color variants and other features.
Your feedback is needed to get to 1.0.0 version.
https://github.com/bourhaouta/shooot
> You still want to accomplish goals

why do that when Civilization V exists?
I'm skeptical of the results here - given that the data is pulled from Blind, an app that has an inherent negative spin and is primarily populated by dissatisfied consumers. Detractors are louder than advocates.
Under this definition, it would seem as if Andreesen Horowitz is not anywhere close to a top decile fund[1]. Does anyone know which ones are? Data on VC returns seems hard to come by.

[1] https://www.theinformation.com/articles/andreessen-horowitz-...
I've read through the FAQ and still have no idea what this is?
A rather lazy / uninformed article by someone who grossly underestimates the complexity of what would it would take to completely automate business processes of a company.

The title question is equivalent to asking: a robot cannot build a car, it's so useless for manufacturing?

Robots can build cars but we need to arrange them in an "alien dreadnought".

Businesses are not prepared to pay the price of full automation, what they expect is to put some open source AI run by a fresh graduate and fire all office clerks the next day.
I talked to the CEO on the phone right after he graduated from ycombinators incubator. I told him he is a lying piece of shit and he isn't solving any problems just lying to workers like every other recruiting company already out there. He d
Told me to remove my bad glass door review. I should have bargained and told him I'll only remove it if he gets me a job somewhere. What a putz, karma is a bitch.
For Signal, sealed sender in theory makes some progress towards fixing this problem[1] but given the service fundamentally uses a central server, you could pretty easily figure out who is messaging who.

There was an experimental chat application called Ricochet[2] which used Tor hidden services to anonymise users' social graphs, but unfortunately that project is no longer developed for quite a while. Pond[3] was also a similar system (though it was designed to solve the email problem and also aimed to solve some of the timing attacks against Tor by being a delayed-message protocol).

I personally use Matrix[4] on my own homesever which appears to be the most privacy-preserving choice these days -- only the homeservers involved in a conversation ever see the messages. Unfortunately a lot of people use matrix.org as their homeserver (meaning they in theory have everyone's social graph) but for chats with most of my family and friends that isn't a problem (they are either on my homeserver or on their own).

[1]: https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/
[2]: https://ricochet.im/
[3]: https://github.com/agl/pond
[4]: https://matrix.org/
it is not a symptom, treating everyone as a potential suspect is the exact problem that dehumanizes people

you should not be wearing a mask just because there is 1/100,000 chance you might be sick.
Not all authors will accept such donations because it puts them in competition with their publisher.

See Charles Stross: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/03/reminde...
It's quite well known that many non-profits "with a good chunk of money in reserve" end up being deeply politicized in weird and bizarre ways, due to these institutions lacking any kind of incentives or outside direction that might keep them transparently focused on their existing goals. So if you're assuming that even for-profit businesses like Reddit, YT, SO might be acting politically, I'm not sure why we wouldn't expect the same from Wiki.
and Jitsi
This setup is going to lose its sheen really quickly when every attempt at writing a blog post also accompanies three hours of npm package bumps
A glossary for those interested in Chinese internet terminology: https://www.chinasmack.com/glossary#%E4%BA%94%E6%AF%9B%E5%85...
Another Jekyll fan chiming in. It was a good sign for me that it's not super-actively maintained, yet still commands a strong following in an arena with fairly low switching costs. Out of the box, it has most things you want and very little that you don't.

Principle 1 on the Jekyll philosophy is 'no magic', and that's why I love it. It tends to behave as expected, and what it provides is simple enough that I maintain a feeling of full control over the output. I've wrote some little bits of JS to add minor client-side enhancements, and the Jekyll plugin system is easy to dive into if you want to add some site-render features. Great tool.

Kudos to the author for putting something up for discussion. Replace the word 'The' with 'My' in the title and it's a nice exploration of where React tooling for static sites is at.

Keep publishing and sharing mate, you're good at telling a story and have more good content ahead of you.
SARS did not spread very effectively in the community. People were not very contagious before they became sick enough to be hospitalized.

SARS spread very effectively in hospitals, though. SARS was contained through very strict isolation protocols in the hospitals.
There is nothing open source at the moment, many companies build something like this, welcome to the world of product development!

Thing is, if you have a data product, get ready to deploy to their account. They aren't going to ship that data to you, too most cost and risk. You can start with a SaaS offering, 8x markup, then transition them to enterprise license that is more seat / time based than resource consumption.
20 years ago, Common Lisp was a mature, stable environment. Scheme was (and is) much less stable. Even if Scheme were just as mature and stable, I'd guess that Common Lisp would still be an easier choice if the output target was C++.

Scheme is rather functional by nature and has a core reliance on things like proper tail calls and continuations. These require elaborate, whole-program compilation so they can be optimized away. A side effect of that kind of in-depth manipulation will necessarily be output code that is far removed from the layout of the original source (making it harder to understand what is happening or hunt down bugs).

Common Lisp can do functional things, but the core of the language is much more imperative. You'll wind up writing looping constructs instead of tail calls (tail calls aren't actually part of the spec though some/most implementations support them). CLOS can probably map onto C++ classes without too much trouble as well. These lower-level constructs make it easier to reason about performance.

That alone isn't everything. Common Lisp allows you to provide type hints and type specifiers to the compiler. Aside from the speedups they allow in CL, they would certainly make things easier when translating to C++. If that isn't enough of a boost, basically every major CL implementation allows you to define an inline assembly block. These things certainly could be done in Scheme (for example, typed racket), but the reader and unhygenic macros in CL certainly make it easier.
I have no idea how the price is so low in the US then, that's insane. We looked at the Ioniq for my wife last year and it was something like £3000 upfront and then £400 a month for 4 years - it's just a lot of money. For comparison, you could have a brand new VW Polo for £1000 upfront and £200 a month - and there's absolutely no way she could use £200 worth of fuel every month, even if petrol doubled in price.
> And unless that's really substantially cheaper than actually buying it on disc, it's a terrible deal.

It's a pretty good deal when I don't have a disc player of any kind (well, CD).
Why not just wordpress?
It's obviously a deliberate decision to keep the basic windows experience "simple".
Also, you get fantastic Intellisense, since the JSON schema reference is included in the document.
> Kinesis Collect massive amount of data so you can do analytics (like ELK?)

I would say a better description is something like "pay per use Kafka".