skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I throw everything into my Nextcloud folder. I have a Mac Mini running 24/7 using a Hazel rule on any file in the root, older than 7 days, move to a top level folder called Archive.

...Archive is huge. But its a great visual separator.
>I've heard literally nothing from the medical community about tips, methods, or instructions for ensuring protestors do not cause a new outbreak.

I think this is a typical example of the medical community's method of communicating with the public - until they've studied something to death, they're too afraid to say anything, and if pressed, will just tell you to keep doing what you're doing, even if emerging evidence to the contrary and widespread anecdotal counter-examples are starting to surface.

Think about the whole mask fiasco at the beginning of this mess. The CDC actually told Americans that wearing masks might make them more likely to get the virus, despite masks being an effective preventive measure against all other known respiratory viruses to my knowledge, plus the widespread usage of masks by literally billions of people in Asia is a pretty good indicator that it can be done safely.

During "normal" times, this general approach may be 100% right, you need to be very sure you understand even low-incidence side effects before you tell 8 billion people what is good for them and what isn't. But that's simply the wrong approach in the face of a fast-moving pandemic - you need to be able to do basic risk/reward analysis quickly and recommend the path that is most likely to work, even if you're not 100% sure, and you're operating on some educated guesses in the absence of hard data.

Basically, they need to operate more like engineers and less like doctors, at least for a little while =)
Please tell me one of the topics is abortion. Always a good icebreaker. Virus cafe? Seriously, will my computer catch something using this site?
Using the word virus on the internet is like using the word bomb in the airport. It's not a good decision.
"law that heightens the penalties when cops attack the press" seems to be talking about increased criminal penalties not civil liability.

Ending qualified immunity doesn't do anything to help the application of criminal penalties against police who violate the law, it only restores the civil liability for those actions.
The blog post linked by the parent post very clearly argues the data is fake. So I think you are misinterpreting what the parent post is saying. But I totally agree with your sentiment that this is truly terrible and everyone involved should be more than a bit ashamed.
I don’t support Trump and am not even conservative but look how I got downvoted when I pointed out that someone misquoted him. Sorry, you want to claim that conservatives ignore facts and then proceed to downvote me when I literally reference Trump’s verbatim quote from Twitter to correct your misquoted version?

I almost think Trump keeps winning elections out of a sense of schadenfreude. No one likes the guy, but when you constantly get downvoted and people attempt to silence any minor disagreement from the party line, it sure makes you want to vote for him out of spite (I won’t though).
To me that's the more shocking part. In this day and age of everyone having a cell phone and therefore camera, these will be captured. Yet the people involved (individually and as an organization) still went ahead, and in fact often applied violent tactics against the press broadcasting live. They either don't think they're doing anything wrong or don't care as they believe (probably rightly) that there won't be any consequences. Both are disturbing.
I suspect that, fortunately, USA is pretty unique in terms of healthcare billing. Even in places with no singlepayer or the like.
If I understand correctly you can do that today (nix builds with bash scripts by convention but there's no reason you can't ask it to use Python or whatever or call into Python/etc from bash). But that's all orthogonal to the expression language.
> my friend who started a 20 million dollar software company in Chicago and then moved to Prague to try to repeat it and he knows exactly why software engineering doesn't scale in Eastern European countries

I'm curious, why doesn't it? What went wrong with your friend's enterprise in Prague?
The first screenshot you posted shows that you've already upvoted it. That is why there's an 'upvote' below the title and between the '36 minutes ago' and 'flag' links.
No you're not. But you all know you're weird to the outside world and not care much about it, because you belong - a necessary human need is fulfilled
Are those confirmed influenza deaths? They're several times lower than the CDC's estimates for total US influenza deaths, which are usually around 35,000/year.
Or a single person outperforming over a long time horizon.
I don't think it counts as inside trading. If a senator hears expert discussions about a pandemic in China and sells all his stocks - does that count as insider trading?
It's not anti-intellectual to reject a philosophy that is based in the rejection of the very concept of truth and reality. Post-modernism itself is anti-intellectual, as it's a philosophy that individualizes experience while dis-individualizing responsibility. It rejects both empiricism and rationalism to choose the unhappy middle between the both, elevating anecdote above experiment, emotions above rationality.

"Critical theory" isn't even a thing and barely even intersects with post-modernism, although I suppose it shares some philosophical leanings. It's just a repackaging of Marxist ideals applied to other demographic groupings besides class, and it's just as easily disproven.

Edit: Thanks to whoever downvoted me, because they had nothing worthwhile to say in response. Rejection of objective truth is a core principle of post-modernism, you can ask the post-modernists yourself if you like, they'll agree. Meanwhile speaking the truth earns you hate since the rise of post-modernism.
I would think that this engineer's ideas of how things were going to change were mistaken. I don't know the insides of this case, but generally, the impact you have on the game you work on depends on three things:

- the trust and empowerment that project leads give non-lead staff

- the amount of non-lead stuff with a voice

- the ability of said leads to have a say in how the project is run

In this case, the leads remained, the project owner (the publisher) remained, and doesn't sound like the staff increased much if at all; so I really doubt things would change much in that sense. Given what happened, someone thought that something in the studio/project had to change, but I just doubt it would be the presence of staff's voice.
Yes, the first rule of ARIA is if you can use HTML instead of ARIA attributes, do so; e.g. use <button>, not <div role="button">.

Some roles inherent to HTML elements are only conditionally exposed; e.g. the <section> element has the ARIA landmark role of "region" but assistive technologies that list landmarks should not include such section elements unless it has also been given an accessible name, e.g. <section aria-labelledby="contact-info"><h2 id="contact-info">Contact Info</h2> ... </section>. I've read that the <aside> element is not really an ARIA "complementary" landmark if it's the child of another landmark but in practice it still seems to be treated that way.
Arresting someone (restricting their movements) without probably cause that they are guilty of a crime is generally known as "false imprisonment", sticking them in a van and driving them away is generally known as "kidnapping", both are crimes.

If we believe the journalists that they were legally in the area, and the police either knew this or at least didn't have probable cause to support that they weren't legally in the area, I don't see how both of the above crimes were not committed.
> The parent comment is making a universal statement, and so it would hypothetically apply to companies everywhere

I don't find much value in hypotheicals. Even the far right Ben Shapiro admitted he would support UBI if automation makes most jobs obsolete.

There are smart workers and dumb shareholders, but at the end of the day, people respond to incentives. Audi workers would never agree to convert their factory to EV had Tesla not already proven that EVs are something consumers actually want. This isn't a bad thing, but it comes with a cost. Tesla was able to ramp up production as fast as it did because they didn't need to run every decision past a union.
(Shrug) When weighing theoretical abstract harms against everyday atrocities, I find it fairly straightforward to pick a side.

The ACLU says, "There is a long history of law enforcement compiling dossiers on peaceful activists exercising their First Amendment rights in public marches and protests, and using cameras to send an intimidating message to such protesters: “we are WATCHING YOU and will REMEMBER your presence at this event.”"

I don't remember anything like that happening, at least not recently. Do you? The FBI behaved that way towards MLK, certainly, but it didn't have anything to do with body cameras.

In any case, I haven't argued, and won't argue, that police officers, or even the department itself, should have access to the footage except when necessary to defend themselves. Ideally it would be encrypted with a key held by an oversight board with substantial civilian representation.
I bet this anecdote can describe any 2 countries and price of something
Project Lightning: NSA's Cryotron Computer
Now I know why hitting the computer always seemed to fix it :)
The Dyson Mains Electric vehicle suffered from range problems.
IANAL. I've always thought of freedom of press as the right to publish. Is it now expanded to the right to be and go where others cannot lawfully go?
Swarms of Mass Destruction: The Case for Fully Autonomous Drone Swarms as WMD
00.INFO - Notes, references, some original sources

10.TASKS - Any work I do for a specific person that can be completed in a week

20.PROJECTS - Multiple related tasks or tasks that have transmogrified into a full-blown project

30.MEDIA - Says what it does on the tin

40.ORGANIZATIONS - Different groups I've joined

X0.CORE - Private or important to me alone
X1.PRIMARY - Important to me and I'm responsible for it
X2.SECONDARY - I am responsible for some of the work but it's not important to me
X3.GENERAL - Everything else that I still need to be aware of
X9.ARCHIVE - Everything that I'm to afraid to delete even though it's irrelevant

So a folder/file might look like:

00.INFO/00.2019 JOURNAL/

00.INFO/00.2020 JOURNAL/

10.TASKS/11.2020 PRIMARY TASKS/20200603 JS 401(k) Rate Report.xlsx

20.PROJECTS/21.2020 PRIMARY PROJECTS/202006 FY 2020 401(k) NDT/

40.GROUPS/41.Eberron Campaign/20200531 Campaign Notes.md

I probably overthought it but it makes finding things pretty straightforward.
It makes sense to catch any exception in certain specific places. For example in this case, wrap the entire batch of code for loading the file, parsing and processing it, and displaying on the screen in a try-catch in whatever code builds and displays the wallpaper. Then if anything goes wrong, you can log the error, and do some sane recovery steps such as removing that wallpaper and reverting to some default wallpaper that you know is good.
They cover that under heading “ 3. Most "good" programmers move to the high-income countries”
Mr Jackson, how about you introduce a bill, which requires interview and work requirements waived for your preferred diverse group. /s
Any person getting a 20% in some small number of trades is fine. An individual getting 20% over a long period and a wide range of trades is definitely suspicious.
Are you good at making friends yourself? This fake empathy "I understand you" then ignoring their view is quiet alienating. People have been giving you realistic feedback in this thread (Virus Cafe is a terrible name and seems hyperfocused on a trend that is on its way out) and you've just been blowing them off.
Large businesses use government as a tool to suppress competition, sure.

Take away the government's power to suppress competition, and they'd still have and use many other tools.

Attacking the government is a distraction that's quick, easy, and wrong, like blaming surfers for the tsunami washing over the city.
Looks like Mitch McConnell is doing well just following the benchmark (VFIAX: Vanguard 500 Index Admiral Fund)
How many people were killed in Mexico and Columbia?
If they need to wait in atomic context, they probably do.

e.g. for linux: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/timers/timers-howto...

ATOMIC CONTEXT: You must use the delay family of functions. These functions use the jiffie estimation of clock speed and will busy wait for enough loop cycles to achieve the desired delay
LRADs and Sound Cannons Are Not Safe. Here's How to Minimize Their Effects
Yeah, over a long enough time window I think portability and correctness will always come back to bite you. Apple could've saved time by making Darwin only handle one processor nicely, but then the Intel transition and ARM additions (iOS is still Darwin, after all) would've hurt more. Windows coasted on x86 for a while, but now that they're targeting ARM I'll bet they're pretty glad that it was originally built to be portable. Code that only works on the exact system you need today might be good enough sometimes, but if you survive long enough you'll want it to be more flexible than all that.

EDIT: I should add, this applies to applications, not just OSs. If you're an Android dev - will your app run on Android 15? Will it work on ChromeOS? Will it run on Fuchsia? If you're writing Windows software - will it run on ARM? If you're making webapps - does they work on Firefox? And maybe it's not worth the effort, especially if you don't plan to be selling the same software in 5 years, or maybe you think you can just deal with those things when you get there, but if you plan to still be in business in a decade then you should plan accordingly.
And yet, today, consumers seems to be malleable enough to accept everything, starting from giving access to their mailboxes to strangers.
Is that what actually happened? Or did some early Slack employees pivot? Regardless, they would've been a minority of the workforce.
I’m about to build my third hackintosh, although it will be my first on OpenCore. Can you expand upon why you call these “bugs” and which patches you are referring to?
IANAL but bring a lot of knowledge from a corporate structure perspective. A company is nothing but a contract that is agreed upon between a group of people. While there is a distinction between airing a company vs an individual (concept of limited liability), this isn’t the case when we are talking about fraud. Fraud exposes the board and management for charges. In this case, she was on the board and she is also the CFO. It is fair game that she is held responsible for fraud. Now who should hold her responsible for it is another question. Does US have the right to do so? I personally think so. What value would the US financial fabric have if a company HQ’d in an extra territorial jurisdiction is able to conduct fraud elsewhere, using banks that are global? How would your idea that US cannot charge the CFO extrapolate is a company is HQ’d in Cayman Islands?
Show HN: Web app to blur and remove exif data of protests pictures
Augmenting Human Ability
When colleges admit non-traditional students, people complain that "they're taking up all of the spots of the Asian students who deserve it".

It's a common complaint on HN.
It's a great read. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12280139
If we're continuing the parking lot analogy, it's like there's an almost unending grid of parking lot after parking lot, and you can travel to any of them instantaneously and for free. Some parking lots have a lot of people, so you'd rather go there if you want to be heard, but nothing is stopping you from setting up shop in an empty lot, and nothing is stopping people from visiting your lot.

Now, given that major social network advertise pretty much everywhere, this might not be an entirely fair analogy. Some parking lots have ads for them posted in every other parking lot. But it's a point worth making that access is relatively egalitarian on the internet.
Yeah, this. Most people I’ve worked with aren’t American (although Canadians+Americans together are a plurality or maybe even a majority). It makes sense that if you want to make money and are OK with living in the US, you would move here to take advantage of the significant pay arbitrage.

Although CS masters in the US are glorified paid immigration programs so it’s not a perfect comparison. But this also holds up in industry.
> police and their families don't/won't/can't be sources which would make their stories more accurate.

That's not true at all. Media coverage of law enforcement matters is filled with quotes, anonymous and named, from the police community. That's not less true right now.

There's nothing stopping these people from talking to the press. Like anyone with an opinion, they're happy to do it for the most part.
Just switched from CVS to Walgreens for this exact reason. They were charging the insurance (and us for the uncovered amount) full prices for generic versions.

And let me just clarify, the prescription bottle had the generic version on the label, our receipt was for the non-generic!

We complained to the CVS pharmacist about this and their response was brazen and they wouldn't budge even when we said we will escalate this to our insurance company. We did escalate it to our insurance company (not Blue Cross Blue Shield), but never heard anything more about it... perhaps more will sue in the weeks to come.

Edit: This was in SoCal, not one of the states mentioned. Also, we weren't part of this plan that they talk about in the article.
One of the potential reasons that ex-USSR has quite low death rate (even if we consider that numbers are forged, and actualy 5x (!) bigger than in reality is that all of these countries actively use antimalarial drugs.
When an Abused Family Member Date or Marries a Person from a Loving Family
Reading the abstract to the Lancet article [0] would probably convince any decently trained science reporter that all is good. They tick all the boxes for what you are supposed to do when you do a case-control study. It reads as very professional and well done. I certainly thought that it passed the bullshit test on first read. The problem is with the data itself, and it isn't obvious it is fabricated because it is such a ridiculous over the top lie that you wouldn't think someone would try to make such a lie.

0. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Windows 95 is now an app for macOS/Windows/Linux [2018]
Microsoft, Amazon, & IBM express ‘solidarity.’ Should they end police contracts?
Original title was too long. It was:

Microsoft, Amazon and IBM express ‘solidarity.’ Should they end police contracts?
Ohh, that's a good idea. I roughly do the same, but maybe the thought that something important might be lost would cause me to be more thoughtful about organization on the front end rather than sorting through it after the fact.
Others have provided excellent answers explaining both regular tugs and gravity tractors. So let me add a justification of my "1st rule".

It boils down to the fact that in space you can, with a very good degree of approximation, determine the trajectory of an object not under thrust, knowing only these two things: it's position at a given time, and it's velocity at that same time. These two vectors give you a single trajectory through space.

It follows from two physical laws that you may remember from high school:

- Newton's second law, or F=ma

- Newton's law of universal gravitation, or F=GMm/r^2

If you put them against each other, you get ma=GMm/r^2, or consequently a=GM/r^2. The acceleration (and thus, future position and velocity) of an inert object in space is independent of its mass. So all you need to tell where it will go is to know where it is, and what is it's current speed and direction of movement. And, of course, what other bodies influence it with their gravity.

Of course, in practice, there are other considerations in which the mass may become relevant. For instance, solar radiation acts on the surface, impacting force that's scaled by object's mass. The same is true for collisions with various stray atoms, especially prevalent near planets with atmospheres.

But discounting above factors (and, again, you can go pretty far just ignoring them), if you have two objects very close to each other and not moving relative to each other, they'll just go together along the same path for a long, long time.
Billboards aren't seen up close, resolution requirements aren't that stringent.
The particular words for insider trading are "material non-public information." If the expert discussion is on Youtube, fine. If it's only available to senators, using resources of the US government, then it meets the definition of insider trading.
List of places you can host your app for free
I can do all things through Postgres: Lessons for the Elixir programmer
The freerangestats article is the clearest and easiest to read discussion of this topic I have found so far. Glad to see it in the top comment :)
I feel like I know more than most people about it, I've seen Sandy Munro and Ritchie B Kidd tear them apart and talk about them, I've just googled tesla battery structural and found nothing. They are a thin metal stamping held up by a few bolts. The one in the Dyson pics looks like its built into a deep aluminium floorpan rather than being a separately cased item.
I have to admit I find this type of article about old computer/software quite interesting as recently I discovered a backup of mine that contained source code I wrote in 1993. I was writing assembly language back then. Using a really great library called Spontaneous Assembly. First version 2.0 and then 3.0. SpontaneousAssembly 3.0 added support for easily writing TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) code.

Back in the early 1990s I was in college and working in the computer lab. So I wrote various little DOS utilities to help us better manage the computers and the interaction with Novell Netware.

Due to this reminiscing I have even purchased a few tech books from that time. MS-DOS Encyclopedia, Peter Norton's Programmers Guide to the IBM PC, and some others.

I only wish I still had a copy of SpontaneousAssembly 3.0 as it would be fun to recompile some of my old code!
Are you implying that these people agreeing with his decision are from white nationalist orgs?

Or that they fear people from those orgs?

If 1, that seems unlikely that would be the majority of people. If 2, well, that's the opposite of the case here.
The problem is that people are already desensitized. They've watched X come and go and they act shocked every time. Then they continue to push it down their list of priorities when they vote.

By next week this will be pushed out of the news. By November it will be completely forgotten, except among the minority who it directly affects and were already aware. All of the outrage you hear now will not translate into change.

So when people say "X has been bad for a long time", people need to hear that as "and this time you should remember it and do something".