skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a good comment[1] that really stuck with me from a while back, and it strikes a balance between the two. Basically, avoid using medicine for minor issues -- instead focusing on general wellness through diet and exercise -- but for terminal conditions, be willing to take more extreme treatments.

To quote the key paragraphs:

>>I have seen what modern medicine does to people. "You cholesterol is too high, take this statin and your number will get better. Don't take it and you will have a heart attack". And then you have family members and friends take the drugs, and start having side effects.. random pain, random problems that stop them from being physically active. So then they go back to a doctor and get some new medicines, that maybe fixes the pain, but then adds a new side effect. And pretty soon they are bed ridden and taking 14 pills to stay alive. What a bunch of crap.

>>I am not anti-medicine, but I am anti-cutting-edge-for-margain-gain medicine. If you have AIDs, you probably should take some medicine. I vaccinate myself and my children. However I think that if you are active and eat well, I don't care what my cholesterol is. Maybe it is high, maybe it isn't. And if you aren't active or eating well - you need to fix that (not take medicine). If I start dying of cancer, I will throw every medicine I can find at it. But if I am good and healthy, I am going to leave well enough alone.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11506599
Police interactions, maybe. But actual crimes committed should be a relatively objective metric. Can we discuss that one or it’s not allowed for some reason?
Amsterdam, Schiphol airport, 1998. I did not see any more until after 2001.
Gray Mirror of the Nihilist Prince
"The US doesn't have much institutional experience dealing with rioters or massive protests of this nature."

Surely you're joking! Grab a history book. Now where would you like to start? I'd suggest you begin 1861 (or a little before) when US Americans went on a four-year mad spree to kill each other which they did in such huge numbers that the death toll tallied more than that of all other wars the US has fought in (WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc.).

(From my observation of the present troubles, it seems to me that many of the issues that caused the 1861-65 War Between the States still aren't resolved 155 years later.)
It's actually worked well for me. But, I never want to see a program on my Linux boxes automatically running root over a network connection for any reason without my specific say so, never mind just to install Chromium.
speculative memoization on execution states? Wow, that can never be energy efficient, can it?

/update
she actually says the word memoization in 22:15, so much for original thought.
The hypothetical you’re clearly referring to here is a high-performing white or Asian applicant who regrettably has to be rejected to make room for a mediocre black applicant. This concern is 1% based in reality and 99% based in racist resentment.

Companies make hiring decisions based on all sorts of factors that have nothing to do with performance. Two extremely problematic ones are:

1) soft “skills” like charisma, rapport, etc, which are much more about social identity than social ability, and in particular discriminate against nonwhites, women, and many LGBT people

2) Unvarnished and criminal Klan-style racism, such as turning down a well-qualified job applicant because his name is Jamal, or assuming a black woman must have lied about her 3.9 GPA, which is still rampant in all 50 United States, and an enormous reason for the black-white wealth and income disparity. This sort of blatant discrimination has been repeatedly observed in the 21st century and is a plain fact.

These two practices are not only widespread and illegal, they also deprive companies of good talent. The reason for diversity quotas isn’t to distort a (nonexistent) meritocratic hiring process, but instead to correct grotesque violations in actually existing hiring practices.
There are two things to this:

Compare the rate of gun-related crime in a country like Switzerland (where guns are readily available and many people have been trained to use them) with that in Germany (where guns are as rare as hens teeth among the non-criminal contingent of the population) and you'll notice that Switzerland does not suffer unduly under a wave of gun crime. Why not? What is it in Swiss society which makes it possible for people to have access to firearms, the training to use them yet the wherewithal to know when not to use them? Germany and Switzerland are neighbours, they mostly speak the same language, they're both affluent countries. What would Germany look like were firearms as widely spread as they are in Switzerland? Now compare the Swiss data to those in the USA and a clear difference shows. What is the difference between Swiss and American society which can explain this difference? Is it affluence? Switzerland is a rich country but so is the USA. Is it the fact that the difference between rich and less affluent is bigger in the USA than it is in Switzerland? Is it the amount of cultural diversity? The USA is a diverse country, Switzerland is largely homogeneous. Is is the overarching culture? Is it the difference in trust level? Switzerland is a high-trust country, the USA is not.

The other part on the gun control question is the age-old adage that in countries where guns are outlawed only outlaws have guns. They're not exactly hard to come by after all. It seems to work in a country like Japan but it probably takes Japanese culture as well as the physical lack of firearms on the island nation to pull this off.
Then maybe more thought should be given to how the dominant ISP's as well as other anti-competitive business practices have put the local municipalities into a position where they 1) don't have the cash to lay down their own pipes 2)are put in a position where blatant anti-competitive behavior like strangling newly laid pipes would not be adjudicated fairly. A two prong approach of subsidizing local pipes and pressuring existing fiber to behavior fairly.
Wow. After reading these comments, I'm definitely going to look into it. I always found the idea of a sleep study (which my insurance btw refused to approve so it'd be out of pocket) annoying because ... heh, well, I was worried I would barely sleep at all in a clinical setting. Ironic, perhaps.
Meanwhile, at your local PD, they are learning how to protect the "sheep" (that's you, civilian) under the method called, and I swear I am not making this up, Killology.

https://www.killology.com/
Ad Buyers Should Rethink Facebook Spending, Says Media Matters for America
For those who have trouble with the link:

https://archive.is/E3cu3

Original title lacked context. It was:

Ad Buyers Should Rethink Facebook Spending, Says Media Watchdog
Sure thing. Either way, don't torture yourself about it. Probably getting a dog or learning to ride a motorcycle would give you more enjoyment than working at a big-bucks tech job.
Almost certainly what you can fix and release in an hour has higher priority than something that is going to take a month, for example.

I have had quite a bit of success in having the technical teams assess the length of time a fix or a feature takes to do, but letting the stakeholders determine the relative priority.

I have seen requests and suggestions go from completely critical when requested, but when estimated at a couple of work then broken down into multiple much easier and clearer tasks when the stakeholders are included in the prioritisation discussion.

My experience is that stakeholders much prefer having things turned around quickly and they will what they can to optimise for things that are quickly and easily deliverable.
>Are you ready to condemn the entire profession because of a handful of bad experiences?

1, maybe 2, deaths are a "handful". Repeated, country wide, incidents is far more than a "handful".

How many people should be executed, in your opinion, before you are ready to condemn the entire institution?
> Since then, it has come out that masks are actually extremely effective in preventing spread.

No it hasn't. Show me the research.

> "all masks didn't work, but you should save it for the health care workers". The absurd contradiction

It's not an absurd contradiction. A member of the public walks around and is only going to meet a few people with covid-19, and hopefully they are pre-symptomatic (because if they have symptoms they need to stay at home)

A healthcare professional is stuck in a room with symptomatic people, often in close contact. And they're not wearing a cloth mask or fluid resistant surgical mask, they're wearing a mask that has to be fitted to them. They have training on how to put it on and take it off. They also wear gloves, a gown, and a face shield or eye protection. They have running water and soap, and they have alcohol handgel. For fluid resistant surgical masks they take them off and use a new one for each patient.

One patient in one ICU bay will have 30 pairs of gloves used by staff per day.
Yes. Night and day.
I think if we're considering the morale of the engineers, then they would prefer to work in a wild environment rather than an overly rigid one. In a sense, it's fun to write bad code, commit it without consequences, and just watch a report of your LOC go up (the key metric for engineers in this strawman company).

I think from the business perspective, they would rather have slow to no changes rather than breaking changes. Presumably there is already a product that makes money, and would continue to do so if kept in a maintenance mode. Layer on poorly applied practices, and you've effectively turned it into that.
Great question!

I have a pretty standard organization of my home folder, not interesting enough to describe except one mildly interesting method (very mildly interesting):

Everything that is not in a subfolder of my home folder but directly at the root, gets archived once a month to a path like /archive/2020/04. I keep the last rolling 3 years of archive. The rest gets automatically deleted, but is permanent backed up in a B2 bucket.
Aside from sleepiness, what sort of symptoms did you have? Are you referring to mood disorder and/or inflammation?
> forced updates are why I ditched Windows in the first place

Samsung has followed suit w/ Android. Once an update is available, the user can defer it three times before the phone is rebooted. Not even Apple pulls this crap.
95% is not “the vast majority”.

To put 5% in more extreme terms: would you play Russian roulette with a 20 chamber revolver and one bullet?

Each interaction for police is like pulling the trigger in that hypothetical game of Russian roulette. This is why the absolute numbers are actually very important.
Stacking hashes is not cryptographically sound. The additional hashing weakens the credentials. Cryptographic hashing is a very fragile subject.

"Assuming an attacker has broken TLS" - this makes no sense. If I had broken TLS, I could send you a login form with no hashing. I could modify your legitimate API requests, without the need for your credentials. I could take your token and forge requests as I wanted. All your assumptions go down the drain, as the security relied on the presence of TLS.

Basically, making this setup is generally harmful, while only providing negligible benefit in a doomsday scenario where all bets are off regardless.

If you truly want to have better security, you need an entirely different system. E.g., local private keys used to sign requests, or a proper password exchange/validation protocol. Smacking another hash on top does nothing good, and the idea is a good example of why normal people shouldn't crypto.
Am not impressed with the Transrapid-derivative they listed first. In Germany it failed for a reason. In Shanghai it's operating at a loss, has impractical cabin layout for the purpose (Airport shuttle, luggage/baggage) and hasn't been expanded as initially planned. Why is that?

Let's see how the Japanese do with their https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCMaglev on the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C5%AB%C5%8D_Shinkansen in a few years.
Questioning the Usefulness and Future of Citizen
Does the unofficial social network for protests advance transparency, rubbernecking or divisiveness?
> But our low-level motor actions and perceptions, coordinated by the brain, require a lot of precise computation.

That accuracy is more likely achieved through fast, analog feedback loops than precise calculation.
I think I’d disagree with this. It does hurt him, in that he’d earn more where he is. He will take a hit from this. Unless he’s entirely mismanaged his finances, it shouldn’t hurt much, but it will hurt more than it would otherwise.
The advantage of "to skype" is that it doesn't collide with an existing verb.
are you saying you want to use a json object as input to a query?

Retool does this btw. I work there because the product is SICK!
Once the bomb is sufficiently diffused, the explosion will cover a large area but it will be too weak to cause much damage.

(sorry)
With exit..
Do you have an examples of looting or rioting that was not a direct response to police brutality? There may be some examples, but every example I can think of in my lifetime was in direct response to illegal, violent acts by the police.

Maybe some fringe elements of the Iraq war protests are an exception.
Amen its normal if you cross NHS trust's for more complex cases.

I cant go to my local hospital for some of my tests (post transplant related) which is 30 mns away by bus instead I have to go to another hospital which by public transport will take an entire day.
I wrote Rails professionally for a few years back when that was THE de-facto tech for greenfield projects and new startups.

At the time, I really enjoyed it, but I'd never written a modern-feeling typed/gradually typed language yet (C#, which I found really verbose and ugly, a lot of pre-ES6 JS and Ruby, some Lua + Python).

I would never voluntarily write it again. Ruby/Rails completely falls apart in larger projects if the entire team doesn't stick to best practices + stringent code and doc standards with stuff like YARD or Sorbet. And so many magic, implicit methods injected everywhere.

Super happy writing Typescript and occasional Rust/Go now. I thought Kotlin was pretty nice too, the one small project I had to implement in it.
I wonder if it would be possible to write in a common subset of ruby and crystal, and use the former for dev and the latter for prod?
It's in the above tweet. Your mask is by definition contaminated (that's why you wear it, to catch the contamination), and many people fiddle with their masks. They then rub their eyes, or they touch their mouth.
This comment crosses into personal attack and name-calling. Please don't do those things: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Hacker News is a conversation place, an internet watercooler. People want and need to have conversation on things they aren't experts on. Users certainly don't have to be experts to post here—that would be an entirely different kind of forum.
The suspension and response is only part of the story told in the article.

Another reason seems to be that a prior court case allows cities to opt out of paying legal costs for officers accused of these wrong doings. In light of the risk of being sued and the lack of support from their legislative and executive representatives, they have opted out of riot duty. I would also not be surprised if they feel like they are being classified bad people as a group for the transgressions of a few. Perhaps a bit of getting what they (we all?) have been dishing out?

This weekend in Buffalo could be very enlightening, we'll have to wait and see how this goes.

If we, as a society, believe we can operate with a less powerful policing contingent, can we behave ourselves and not increasingly wrong each other?
capture cards are devices primarily intended for game streamers to give your computer an hdmi input to stream/record games from a game console, but are also useful for other purposes such as turning your dslr into an expensive webcam.

i have this one:
https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/game-capture-hd60-s-plus

you can find others from magewell

i don't have measurements but the latency was indistinguishable from a directly connected webcam.
> If you are worried about a private company "censoring" your speech, you should take this as a sign that you've allowed said company to get far too big.

That makes sense, but what if many private companies agree to censor something? It doesn't have to be a shady deal in a smoke filled room, maybe just everyone depends on advertisers, and advertisers don't want to be associated with some message.

I think the right way is creating and popularizing spaces for speech that don't lend themselves to censorship, but somehow mitigate the problems of non-censorship, such as astroturfing. The internet is a wonderful foundation for such spaces, we're very lucky, but there's a lot of work to do.
Aw man... perchlorates are also pretty abundant in Martian soil... another hurdle for future terraforming I guess :/

(Last I checked, [some] plants weren't bothered too much by these, but the question then is whether they accumulate in fruit...)
Dutch initiative to support long distance trains gets full EU support
Definitely try an Arch-based distro. I run Arch myself, but I've heard good things about Manjaro.
Healthcare professionals absolutely do wear masks. Words have meanings.

Let's make our minds up about whether the lack of papers supporting mask-wearing against the virus is reason not to wear their them.

Also I'm earnestly interested in your source on the distancing evidence.
Your confidence that underfunded local governments have the expertise to know which chemicals they should ignore and for what reasons is...well "optimistic" is the nicest word I could find.
The Pandemic Has Shown Us Where Real Learning Happens
Did it really? People old enough remember riots against police brutality in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s, wars, stupid presidents, consumerism, corporatism, and everything else from past decades...
This smells of a marketing article shoved to the homepage. I'm not a fan of the trend I'm seeing of articles with little technical merit suddenly making it on the homepage next to legitimate technology pieces.

I'm not sure what HN can do about it and maybe I'm just cynical and people genuinely think this PR piece has good technical value and "How do you test a soda machine?" is a good QA question.
I think your best bet is to find someone

- who thinks (s)he can generate $3k/mo (essentially 2x of your target),

- who has reasonable proof that this is plausible and

- who cannot build it (her/him)self.

It is also great to have company, to keep you on track, motivate each other when you need it (and you will), and help you sell.. Don't take this as a freelancer gig, make sure you are cofounders/partners in this

Best of luck for whatever life throws at you!
Cheers
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I personally don't packaging apps in a sandbox, its a violation of the basic idea of writing tools that do one thing well. Still, snap gets lots of flack, but I don't see the same for flatpak. Is there some advantage to flatpak that I am missing, or is it just than Ubuntu has pushed snaps too hard?
No.

There's no evidence that masks do anything at all to prevent public spread.

People point to countries that had successful anti-covid work and use of masks, but they're missing all the other work those countries did around social distancing and track and trace.
What if your customer is the government and your users have no choice in the matter?
Chicago is a big city. Maybe some neighborhoods require heavily armed police for many calls. Maybe other neighborhoods do not. Try to use some imagination here. Police officers keep beating and killing unarmed citizens. We need solutions not excuses.
If TLS was broken, I would always be able to get your password by just removing the hashing from the login page. I'd also be able to modify all legitimate requests, and be able to obtain your genuine login tokens for any site.
Launch times and (silly, but it really bugged me) pollution of my `df` output drove me away.
Maybe, but these two languages don't exactly have similar semantics.

You can't make a Ruby program that uses fixnums-only. You also can't make a Crystal program that's dynamic like Ruby. Interestingly, though, when the Crystal implementation is modified to use bignums, the Ruby implementation is over twice as fast while still being dynamic.

What I get from this is that Crystal's static compiler is slower than Ruby's dynamically dispatched interpreter, and Crystal's bignums are so slow you'll need to think hard about whether you want a 50x speed boost or correct arithmetic in all cases.

I think Crystal is a good concept, but it's only version 0.34.0. Every implementation is bad at version <<1.0. Ruby <<1.0 didn't have good performance, either. I'm sure Crystal will be great by the time it gets to 2.6.5, too.
Then let's solve that problem!
Crouch walking is one of those things that is both incredibly awesome but also needs to be optional. I think Alyx did an okay job with it but there were times when I had to literally crouch behind cover not to die. Again, it was pretty awesome but I'm glad they have a toggle crouch option in the settings.
A country with minimal diversity that's less than 2% the population of the US. A country whose largest city has an extremely lower population density than US cities (10x less than NYC, 7x less than LA). You can't just cherry pick data and think it's applicable.
>describe sounds rather exaggerated. Maybe you mean "disintegrated" corneas, not the whole eyeball?

That was how it was described to me. Well the words use were more like completely gone or something like that but essentially the same thing. She got a nice up close view with an opthalmic camera so...that I guess.
That is actually false. You have to pay for AT&T. If you pay for G Suite then you have access to live support.
We recently finished our first node backend (typescript) and I have to say it was an amazing experience. The npm ecosystem definitely attracts its fair share of undesirables, but I struggle to see why JS full stack isn’t the default for 99% of people.
Over 14,000 students have enrolled for tech virtual academy in Nigeria
OK, let's nail this down. Who are the insurgents, and what is their goal?
I'm actually an AT&T fiber user through Sonic and have a perfect experience with my service. Installation took some time originally because they had to route a line into my house but it has been great since.
Supposed to be doing actual work, ended up getting to Computation Administrator in this.
I think this is especially true for large companies. Whereas a tiny startup may be given some leeway because people interact constantly and have a more defined culture, larger companies' culture are generally amorphous blobs that are more easily an excuse for bias based on common background/age/class/gender/ethnicity.
Previous one was flagged; by HN forces of Good, apparently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23433185
> Reddit is the ultimate cesspool of extreme-left right now in almost every city/state/country sub. It's absolutely insane and people who do not agree with official narratives are constantly downvoted to oblivion.

I thought I was the only person thinking this. It really is scary how much mono-thinking is going on in the world
> a world where everyone wears masks all the time is one with with much less coronavirus

You don't know that.
You can get something fairly similar with fzf, using the --preview trick from [1]:

echo '' | fzf --print-query --preview "cat *.json | jq {q}"

https://paweldu.dev/posts/fzf-live-repl/
Try 9.9.9.9 and 1.1.1.1. There are many other external DNS services that don't break AD and eDirectory. You can also run your own but I'll grant you that isn't for everyone.