skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I watched the whole thing this evening. Some really clever animation trickery, amidst really uneven quality. Some bits that show much we as a society have evolved (the isle of pleasures).

The Permit A38 thing was worthy. I imagine someone who's never worked would probably find that segment dull, but I winced in sympathy.
How many people are developing commercial software without a framework? Software needs architecture, tooling, best practices and the rest. Taking the library approach just results in ad hoc frameworks emerging over time.
There is nothing much Govt can do; You're on your own; https://masks4all.co
My point is that microservice architecture is not just the singular pattern of "code talking over the internet", but a collection of patterns and techniques, focusing on when and where to split up code, and to focusing on the communication strategy you use.

You can 'get around' microservice architecture by not doing it. The point is that if you're familiar with it it's a lot easier to 'accidentally' be successful - or at least, that's the proposition.
That's admirable in theory, but sounds like a recipe for getting your head blown off. There really are unrepentantly awful people in the world, and sometimes we need to save innocents from them.
For the FBI, there is such an organization. The FBI Inspector General investigates malpractice committed by FBI officers. However, the scope of their ability to fix problems in the FBI is limited because prosecutors rarely take up cases against law enforcement. They also hold FBI officers accountable by writing reports for congress. Again, the usefulness of this is limited by the unwillingness of Congress to act on this information.

(Inspectors General exist for for every federal agency)
For all the hate, I think Facebook does a lot of good in the world. Anecdotally I credit FB for playing a big part in bringing me together with my wife (we met in person at first, FB kept us in each other's feeds, rest is history).

My opinion: go for it.
I'm mixed. I enjoy programming video tutorials, but they are often too slow and padded with non-essential and repetitive information. Unless there's a transcript, searching for a part that you need a recap of isn't much different than information retrieval from tape drives in the 60's. The best video tutorials have include a transcript and a github repo.
I rather disagree with your first sentence. Forth is not Lisp, nor is Prolog or APL Lisp, and none of these languages are one short conceptual leap away from the others. Even a very rudimentary Forth can express concepts which have only hazy correspondences in a Lisp, like words which twiddle the return stack or yield a variable number of results on the parameter stack.

I find it misleading at best to casually intimate that Lisp is some kind of ur-language which exemplifies simplicity and thus lies at the root of any design space. Fans of Lisp are overly eager to stake claim upon ideas which do not belong to their language.

I don't mean to bite your head off about it; this is just a trope I find tremendously frustrating.
It does not define "human rights". It defines some legal rights of people within the jurisdiction of the document - not some global notion of "human rights"
Agree.

I don't think the Wheel specification was intended to replace application distribution. It is aimed at the distribution of individual Python libraries.
Popularity of blog posts are driven largely by SEO which is good for marketing but not so much for consuming knowledge.

I believe a lot of people (myself included) don't realize they read a lot of blog posts and articles about a topic they are interested in, but have no time trying out, and feel they know something about the subject when most of these articles are copying each other to gain popularity.
Chrome bookmarks. Folders.
Well, in Australia's case – the wage subsidy comes from the Australian Tax Office (ATO), which is our equivalent to the IRS. So if you haven't been withholding income tax from your employees, you can't get the subsidy for them (unless you confess your past tax evasion, which obviously you aren't going to do.)

But, paying employees cash only is much harder than it used to be. Many customers now only want to pay card. The tax office sees the card payments coming into your bank account, if you try to pay your employees cash it is easy for them to catch you. So, I think the number of workers actually hurt by that is relatively small.

COVID-19 has accelerated the transition from cash to card payment, because the health advice was to avoid cash payments (due to risk that cash may spread Coronavirus), and many businesses responded by refusing to accept cash entirely.
> Also hard to believe that more training and bodycams have negative effect [...]

The police use body cameras for real-time facial recognition of the policed [1]. It 100% has, and explicitly is, a negative effect. It was a right of center “reform” on the police that did nothing but further expand the power (and future of abuse of power) of our policing institutions.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2017/03/22/real-time-face-recogniti...
Yeah it's called mob rule
The freedom to practice religion is also a very fundamental right of our democracies, yet it is still illegal in many places due to the lockdown such as California.

Yes, the frequency that people attend protests is on average much less, but the number of other people that one is exposed to is much greater hence why "larger gathering venues at a pace consistent with public health and safety, such as nightclubs, concert venues, and live audience sports" (which are often outdoors as well) are in the very final phase of California's reopening plan. If policy makers agree that protests have a low aggregate risk, why would they place things like concerts or sports events which happen mostly on the weekends in the final phase when there are now protests happening every day?

I do agree that political protest is a very fundamental right and rarely ever be restricted, but many who share your opinion were against the anti-lockdown protests which is contradictory if one believes BLM protests should not be restricted because they are political protest. People protesting the lockdown is also democracy in action, even if one believes the reason for protest is not as important. The democratic right to protest is not dependant on how important the issue is seen to be.
Command at Sea
I think wearing masks and gloves reduced cases, not lock down per se
FWIW, I don’t think the majority of the officials intended to lie about this. It wasn’t anything that started this year or anything - they’ve had the same message about masks since as far back as the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/03/23/face-masks-much-more-t...

> But the CDC has recommended against mask use. I hypothesized that the CDC was intentionally lying to us, trying to trick us into not buying masks so there would be enough for health care workers.

> But that can’t be true, because the CDC and other experts came up with their no-masks policy years ago, long before there was any supply shortage. For example, during the 2009 swine flu pandemic, their website offered the following table:

> [table in link]

> And during the 2015 MERS epidemic, NPR said South Koreans were wrong to wear masks:

> “[ . . . ] Masks can be helpful for protecting health workers from a variety of infectious diseases, including MERS… But either type of mask is less likely to do much good for the average person on the street…Wearing a mask might make people feel better. After all, MERS has killed about a third of the people known to be infected. But there are no good studies looking at how well these masks prevent MERS transmission out in the community, says Geeta Sood, an infectious disease specialist at Johns Hopkins University. “On the street or the subway, for MERS specifically, they’re probably not effective,” she says. One problem is that the masks are loose fitting, and a lot of tiny airborne particles can get in around the sides of the masks.”

> So if studies generally suggest masks are effective, and the CDC wasn’t deliberately lying to us, why are they recommending against mask use?
I'm pretty sure theres already a foundation that we'd expect that wealth to go to...
There's apparently an English translation released very recently: "How everything can collapse: A manual for our times."

I haven't read either version, but piecing together the thesis from reviews, it seems to be a somewhat more evolved form of Malthusian catastrophe and Peak Oil(/Energy), with a dash of climate change alarmism [1] and Piketty-style concern over inequality. And technology won't save us because... well, I haven't found anyone who can elucidate that concern. It seems to me that the commenter who wrote "this book seems to be only for those who were convinced beforehand" has it right.

[1] I don't like using "alarmism" here because it suggests that I don't think it's a problem (I do), but I can't think of a better succinct description of "if we don't fix this literally tomorrow, we're totally screwed."
I got a Ph.D. at age 66 (2018)
Is that the job of health officials to determine? Whether a particular political cause is worth the risk?
It's probably more like deciding that your organization is simply incapable of writing software (which I've seen before).

The typical next step is to outsource it to an outside organization that will cost 3x as much and produce software of far lower quality. It's a win, though, because the exec's can point their fingers at them, perhaps even sue them, and in any case proclaim loudly that nothing could have been done. (And also, that they should get their bonuses anyway.)

We'll see.
Maybe the 20% of the population was more susceptible? It seems that the outbreak was concentrated in long-term care facilities, healthcare workers (who received a larger viral load than average), and the poor (who tend to have more pre-existing conditions). If the 20% is not randomly distributed the math can still work out.
Thanks! I've edited my comment accordingly.
It's the clearest most basic example of a double standard. For you to try and talk your way out of it proves it further.
You're confusing the lottery with the McDonald's Monopoly game
Where are you getting the idea that they will fire everyone? That is how the nation of Georgia handled it but it doesn’t mean that’s how Minneapolis will. They said rebuild they system from the ground up, which means restructuring the system of accountability, not necessarily everyone loses their job.
This hints at there being non-humans doing NLP research at the moment.
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Follow the scientific hypothesis-driven approach.

You try to prove that your hypothesis is wrong. If you can't find evidence that your hypothesis is wrong, you can "accept" that your hypothesis is right.

This forces you to try to find holes in your logic. If you can't find any, probably it is solid.
China may send 100k ducks to battle Pakistan's locust swarms
Unlike servers, the components can take their balls and go elsewhere. Good luck with that.
I'm not saying it's bad; there are good & bad aspects of everything. I don't even know if something can "be bad" or can "be good." Everything is both. It's the dual nature of reality. The tao symbol has light & dark, touching each other & wrapped around each other in a dance, and furthermore there's a dot of the light inside the dark and vice versa. One thing lives right in the center of its opposite. Feckin deep I know rite? A wheel carries loads and runs people over. Babies are cute and pains in the ass. Democratization of information means more democracy in information which means less aristocracy in information, I mean it's as simple as that. (And democracy and aristocracy each have good & bad aspects.)

The thing putting a negative spin on it is that at least in this author's opinion, "Most tech content is bullshit." I'm saying maybe that's because now we have access to the bottom 90% too along with the top 10% that we already had. (There was bullshit in the old days too of course, but it was usually found coming out of someone's mouth as opposed to in a book that someone bothered to spend money to print thousands of times. Although there are exceptions there too! It's death by a thousand disclaimers up in here!)
I'm unsure what people are building when they say they are building micro services. I don't understand how any company like Uber or monzo end up with 1500 services to maintain.

I mean do they abstract the function of "emailing" out into 50 different micro services. Or 1 micro service?
I don't agree. "Structural" indicates a structure or framework (in this case the legal system) independent of individual actors.

A cop and his boss acting badly may be systemic. It isn't structural.
So looking at the economic model, and the transaction where Bob pays through Charli to Dan...

This means that Bob can "pay" Dan through Charli, run off without paying, and now Charli somehow owes Dan? Does Charli consent to being in the middle of this transaction? This seems like it's ripe for abuse.
But snakes don't have wheels. Why not call it "skins?"
I originally heard about the treasure from HN a few years back. I wrote a little webapp to help narrow down the available areas. I'm hoping that the location is eventually revealed and that it shows up on one of the layers I came up with...

https://intothefor.rest
Not sure about the plan, but in reality, a heavily armed, untrained populace ready to shoot on sight. Might be a win.
People here keep on repeating that statement, yet people actually implementing microservices keep on believing it is a solution for an architectural problem. If they majority keeps on implementing microservices for the wrong reasons then who's right? What you describe is just classic SOA. Then what are "microservices" exactly?
Human pulled carts are common, too. I live on a very steep hill, and use a dolly a lot to bring something up. It's a heluva lot easier than carrying stuff. Not even close. I can easily manage 4-5 times the weight on the dolly than I could carry.

Even navigating stairs with a dolly is easier than carrying a heavy weight, and much safer, too.

I'm utterly unconvinced by Jared Diamond's claim that lack of pack animals made the wheel irrelevant.

Oh, and any significant construction site would find it useful to make a road to it, even if they only were carrying things.

Even when barging heavy loads, to get the load off the barge and up to the site a dolly is still highly useful.
> A First Amendment violation might be harder for some Republican senators to stand behind.

Not really, as senators their first loyalty is to the voters who elect them. Polls show trump has >80% loyalty from GOP voters, who are the ones who control senators via primary elections.

Even a single GOP senator voting against trump in the first trial was a shocking and unexpected result, it’s likely if impeachment was done again the Senate would simply vote to ignore it and not hold a trial (as they have done in the past re: certain judicial impeachments). The only reason the first ‘trial’ was held was to provide political cover for certain moderate senators in their 2020 races.
That was Musk, not Bezos
Something similar to this is Game Done Quick[1] which is a week long speed running competition. Because it is always streaming you can turn it on and see what game is being played. I would look at the schedule and make plans. "better tune in Wednesday because they are playing brood war".

I might tune in to this "Cloudflare TV".
Also when i was watching the best of video on bots there was a error saying "Quota exceeded". Not sure why that popped up.

[1] https://gamesdonequick.com/
> Could you formulate an example where the composition would be asymptotically slower only for lazy languages?

No; we both know no such thing exists. The same code will always be asymptotically faster in a lazy language.

The problem is that lazy languages (or at least, the one lazy language in widespread use) encourage a style of code that would be asymptotically slower if written in a strict language. In a strict language, a function is slow or fast, and a slow function is always a problem - which means performance is easy to reason about. In a lazy language, a slow function is not necessarily a problem, depending on how it's used, and so you can't understand performance without understanding the whole program.

An unreliable optimisation can be worse than no optimisation at all. Worst practices should be hard. In theory an extremely vigilant development team could always write code that would be fast if executed strictly, and therefore guarantee no performance problems, but this would require an enormous manual effort since the language doesn't help you with it at all.
Yep! That's the one.

There is also a theory that a portion of the burnt out cars you see are actually set on fire by tear gas canisters. Those canisters contain a combustable charge which creates the aerosol (from a solid compound).

Since they are being fired everywhere, it's not surprising that some end up underneath parked cars.
The problem is not that they took a political stance. If a group of doctors wants to come out in support of Flat Earth, so be it. The problem is they potentially compromise the health of the public at the expense of their political message. Again, nothing was stopping them from acknowledging there is a risk, but that it is worth it.
> I think 'live' television serves as an effective master clock for synchronizing shared experiences.

Maybe in certain time zones. We’re well into Monday afternoon here, but Cloudflare TV looks like Sunday afternoon in the 80’s - i.e. nothing to watch.
You get wheels of cheese from the Cheese Shop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz1JWzyvv8A
> Of course all factors were considered.

That's not entirely accurate. Even Faucci answered, in response to Rand Paul, he was a virologist. Not a economist, etc.

There's been little public acknowledgement of increases in suicides, illness from delayed med treatments, economic fall out affecting deaths, etc.
Crazy conspiracy theory incoming... What if the Illuminati or whoever runs society just figured out the fastest way to get tons of young people infected to speed up the herd immunity process??
Haha, when riding my bike downwind, I'd sometimes open my jacket wide and let the wind do the work.
I am wondering if this could be applied to network streams as well.

How could we make protocol handshake invisible? AEAD?
Microsoft Surface Headphones 2 Review
Bezos already has a treasure hunt. It's actually getting a legit product that's not a fake item on Amazon.
Yup, public health institutions disgraced themselves in the beginning of the crisis[1], but it turns out this isn't just an unfortunate case of institutional rot: it apparently runs deep, throughout the individuals involved in the field. I'm a big supporter of the role experts play in a functioning society, but public health experts are yet another group setting their credibility on fire to provide momentary warmth to a political objective.

[1] many of them have done so for years, for anyone paying attention
What's wrong with most police not having lethal weapons? If police are in danger, they can request SWAT backup, specialized firearm users who won't shoot in unwarranted situations. Regular cops could even have tasers or rubber bullets to deal with threats in a less destructive manner. Why do they need lethal force for helping their own citizenry?
Actually that's the point of opinion, you get to decide what you think of other people's causes.

Nobody said you cant protest to your heart's content, you can protest over anything. It's just calling out one of those protests is a mite's buzz of a complaint to a lion's roar of shame for the treatment of black people by America.
To be specific: to your knowledge dan has never allowed any troll bait political nicks of any kind.

Additionally: you have a feeling he might allow democratic troll nicks. the strength of that feeling ranges from not surprised if to hard to believe not depending on the day.

Your evidence: claim that the forum is very democratic
What would someone find offensive about the picture?
Are you using the term "blind trust" in a non-standard way? My understanding is that it refers to arrangements where the beneficiary doesn't get to know about (or choose) assets held, not where the beneficiary gets to be anonymous.
> D lets you do away with the GC

But you can't use the standard library if so, right? Or rather you can use some parts of the standard library but not others, and some third-party libraries but not others? It was never clearly explained what does and doesn't require GC.

> and is working on a borrow checker type system like in Rust.

But it only started work on that after Rust became established. So why wouldn't I just use Rust, which has a borrow checker I can use today?
Today I spent at least an hour fighting with Python packaging. The more I think about it, the more I feel that self-contained static binaries are the way to go. Trying to load source files from all over the filesystem at runtime is hell. Or at least it's hell to debug when it goes wrong.

I would love to see a move towards "static" binaries that package everything together into a single, self-contained unit.
Out of curiosity, were guns or poor maternal outcomes for black women discussed as public health issues? The former has long been thought of as a public health problem but it is rarely discussed due to politics. The latter has been a problem for decades but only acknowledged recently. I recognize you have some expertise here, but I don’t think there is a finite set of issues that can fall under ‘public health’.
Observation: “weasel words” gets used a lot in HN comments as a cop out. I wish that phrase could be banned from this site because it is intellectually lazy. Commenters love to discredit articles and other commenters using that phrase rather than engaging in the actual effort to retort with facts. It’s the kind of broken culture that’s been turning HN into the same kind of cesspool that happened with slashdot.
I appreciate the numbers you present. I also think it is helpful to put the scale of death from different sources in context.

But it’s also helpful to present the causes as well. Your roommate can’t cough on you and give you heart disease.
Jesus christ not everything is mappable to software or tech
I said nothing about 'diminishing grievances.' I was responding to a) calling the protestors an anti-intellectual violent mob, and b) an apparent ignorance of the basic terms of the discussion. Again, go educate yourself.
PyOxidizer might be of interest to you.
Also you're not just relying on sight, the sense of proprioception is providing constant feedback of your finger's position even with your eyes closed. So it's not an open loop control problem, it's a closed loop, which is much easier.
I'm with you in that there are other stats which we can compare which may be more similar, but I do feel that the context is still important for those that don't have a real frame of reference for death tolls. "apples to oranges" is very context specific and becomes an argument of semantics quickly. Yes, heart disease kills more people... but is that really pertinent to the discussion of whether or not the protests are worth the risk of the further spread of covid 19?
The article's point is that you can accidentally break accessibility.

Lots of sites so garbage like not showing text if JS is off.