skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree, but I feel like you're understating it. The reason people don't trust "authority" is because they can't always tell when they're trustworthy, and the more disconnected from their "authority" figures they are, the less they are able to figure it out. So when public health officials, the same public health officials that told us to stay home, close our shops, give up our incomes and livelihoods and stability contradict themselves, they lose trust, and let's be honest, rightfully so.

It is one thing for us as laymen to discuss the efficacy of masks, staying at home, shutting down the economy, not partaking in the activities we used to enjoy and so on. It is an entirely different thing for a person in some kind of authority, like "public health", where your primary domain of expertise is communicable diseases to step out of their lane (which is communicable diseases) and say despite the supposedly high risk of death and bodily destruction that an apolitical virus with neither vices nor virtues nor policy positions can wreck, it is entirely okay to go out and protest something, but only if it is something that "we in authority" currently agree is worth protesting. This is, by the way, not long after the 9th Circuit said allowing Churches to reopen (even with limitations) would make the Constitution into a suicide pact.

People don't trust authority because authority doesn't want to stay in its own lane. Take Anthony Fauci, he has done a remarkable job staying out of the fray as much as possible and simply acting as an advisor to the President and to the people, and people trusted him even when they wanted to imagine their own politics on him. As a civil servant, absolute standout guy, and he's now considered one of the most trusted medical professionals in the country because he stays in his lane, meaning he allows his politics to take a backseat (not even the backseat, it's back in the trunk) to his job and Office (Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases).

Forgive me, I went on a small rant, but to conclude, when you have lying in the first instance and not staying in your lane in the second, one of the effects is going to be a loss of credibility, and that's both just and understandable. Choices have consequences, and that includes lying, and that includes using your unelected Office for activist purposes. Even when you're right about something, up to and including the efficacy of masks, you've already lost credibility, and in the case of masks, you've already directly contradicted yourself. (I mean "you" as in public health officials recently, not you specifically my fellow HN).
Except it’s not unnecessary at all, Japanese writing is fundamentally different from Latin, stroke order is crucial. And it’s probably not a coincidence that Japanese kids are among the smartest and best educated in the world.
Hey folks - we're back in business. Clearly Dax the Duck had a case of the Mondays!
The JVM project Loom will seamlessly enable io_uring and restartable sequences for Async IO
Physicians, and Lawyers also hold advanced degrees.

Both of these fields have a non-trivial amount of people earning excess $1M a year.

It is really hard to come up with a useful average when including with History PhD's and Dermatologists as part of the same cohort.
Pranks are only funny when everyone thinks they are funny.
Normally that does the trick, but it doesn't tell what went wrong so it could repeat again.
That's what initially drew me to Haskell, and how it seemed closer to math than most other programming languages.

Lazy evaluation brings this to the fore, especially with needing the programmer to make decisions about the sequencing of operations.

Consider these two statements:

x = a + 5;
y = b + 3;

So these statements describe the relationship between 'a' and 'x', and 'b' and 'y'. Great. With most programming languages, the programmer also must choose the sequencing of these operations. When they should occur, and in what order. With Haskell, this goes away.

The compiler / runtime system decides when (or if) the values of 'x' and 'y' will be evaluated. With a really, really smart compiler / runtime system, this can lead to great optimizations a C programmer would need to implement by hand when porting code to a new platform with vastly different performance characteristics.

Now... in practice... I found Haskell hard to get comfortable with. I'm quite happy with Rust these days though.
who in the whole world wants their state pension funds to be stored in WoW items?
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I agree that being able to read source and modify the code for experimentation are important.

In my experience, the best way to read source code and experiment are to get the source from the upstream repo (eg. GitHub) and read/build from that. I do this with code written in C or C++ all the time.

The code is always out there (unless you're talking about proprietary software, which none of your examples above are).
I've recently created a free tool to create good-looking CSS color gradients that might fit your audience:

https://mybrandnewlogo.com/color-gradient-generator
Yep, same here in Russia:

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQmxq...

https://ds03.infourok.ru/uploads/ex/07bc/000585fb-26570f7b/h...

(wow I completely forgot how to write Ж the right way...)
And you have to stow your laptop for the duration of the instantaneous flight
I agree but that’s unlikely. In the meantime my ublock origin blocks 100% of this bullshit anywhere on the web and nextdns does the same for my console, “smart” tv, and iPhone.
Thank you, mmlkrx. I'm focusing on this today and I appreciate your help! I will keep this feedback in mind and emphasize the points you have made.
How do you know it doesn't happen every day at Bing?
almost none of those issues are handled by local police forces beyond being manpower arm to other federal agencies.

and racial issues are a major component to what these protests are about our current policing system doesn't work well w/ diverse populations.

arrest related deaths top 1k/year (bjs.gov) in the US that means every 3 years police kill more people than the largest terrorist attack in US history. they are far more dangerous than any terrorist group to american lives.

so yeah reforming them is probably a good idea.
I'd like to add to to your statement.

The entire quote which this article branches on reads:

> “The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic animals in southern China, is a time bomb.”

I'd say that the second part of that statement carries more importance then the exact type of virus and the specific research on that type.

I'm no virologist, but if the barrage of news from the last few months have taught me anything, it's that the actions of humans are a big factor in increasing the probability of any type of outbreak. Sure, researching specific families and types of viruses gives us valuable insights. But in and of themselves, tying that knowledge into a larger interdisciplinary framework and translating that then into socio-economic policies, safety guidelines, legal frameworks,... is really important.

Going back to the quote above, this Vox piece does a great job explaining that side of the equation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPpoJGYlW54
Right. This guy got a PhD to get a PhD. That's fine, but there is no moral to this story, nor is there any purpose to this.
"Rather than burning and looting, protesters should turn their ire on lawmakers and judges who facilitate police immunity."

Let's see...

Lawmakers make it hard to register to vote, remove polling places, and make districts such that minority voices (party or ethnic or race) are minimized.

Our national executive branch is conducting a propaganda campaign against making voting easier.

Lawyers cost a lot of money. The people that cops kill don't have a lot of money, typically.

This is one of those dumb "you should work within a system that makes it practically impossible to work within the system" things.
Definitely. The most creative artists, musicians, acrobats etc are not the ones that skipped learning the basics. Only when you mastered the basics very very thoroughly can you start being creative and innovative.
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Towards the end of that first video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M91AYp3_x5k&feature=youtu.be... he definitely gets struck by the arc, which makes me question what the point of the metal suit is. Is it just for show, to make it look more dangerous?

My understanding is that the frequency is such that it doesn't interact with anything in the human body neither the heart nor the nervous system but I would expect that an arc to the eye would cause some amount of UV damage.
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I'm pretty sure that is not correct. I've had issues with games on the PS4 not wanting to start, and I know the PS3 required HDCP for certain games as well.
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Razer seems to be NVidia only, so I don't think they'd be my first choice for a Linux machine.
What's the advantage of this? Surely they're better off pricing it at 2x the expected ad revenue, since then they can expect to get twice as much now as they otherwise would get eventually? Indeed, even if it were 1.01x the expected ad revenue they've won with this upsell.
Postmodern philosophy is very much a thing, and arguably the most important part of Postmodernism. I think Derrida, Foucault, and Baudrillard would be disappointed to hear you say that there's no such thing as a defined Postmodern philosophy for life.

The philosophy is all about subverting epistemic certainty and rejecting the very concept of objectivity. Moral relativism isn't unique to Postmodernism, but it's a critical underpinning. As is the idea to reject objective truth.

You're arguing that I do not know what I'm talking about, except this was actually my field of study. I am very familiar with all aspects of Postmodernism and as I said before if you ask the Postmodernists they would agree with my assessment, although I'm sure they'd have more positive things to say than I do.
Two random thoughts (and coming from the point of view that I am a fan of some aspects of Japanese culture):

1) You start to wonder whether such training to follow stroke order, "staying within the lines", is a reflection or contribution even to the rules-following society that Japan is?

2) I am sure many have written about it before, but I have never dug into it -- why is it that when you see English rendered on a Japanese website, it's always in a Courier-era font that is instantly recognizable? (highly pixelated, wireframe looking font). Is it lack of interest in development of English fonts for Japanese audiences? Is there some deep incompatibility in the page / paragraph rendering "technology"? At the same time, Japanese / Chinese characters in Japanese websites do have the equivalent of people designing different fonts (stroke widths, curvatures, styles, etc) -- why is English special (and badly rendered)?
This feels basically exactly like my experience too this year and last. I even had a professor tell me straight up when I emailed him that I basically wouldn’t get in since he already had prospective students with publications in the exact area reach out to him. I’ve kind of realized that without a string of publications ahead of time you’re basically out of the game before you even try. It’s like you have to have done PhD level work before you can do the PhD. It’s left me totally lost on what to do from here, getting a PhD has been a life dream for me so it’s hard to ditch the idea. I guess we might be in the same boat.
I had the same experience pulling together personal home pages in chronological descending order from a database of text files.

A bunch of folks online had their own scripts as well. Eventually a few people would release their scripts and it would become known as a "weblog" and eventually a "blog" and many people profited from that.

Wild times.
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My ThinkPad does not at all.
I know I was freaking out and had to use Google directly. :)
Had similar experience in Slovenia in elementary/middle school. We learned upper case and lower case typing, then cursive. All with strict rules on how to write correctly.

Then came high school and computers were now ubiquitous. We all switched to some bastardization of typed cursive. Kind of like writing a computer font with more ligatures. Looks like chicken scratch, is hard to read, works okay.

Biggest thing we dropped were all the cursive characters that don’t look like their typed counterparts.
Packages are not installed globally in opam by default nowadays. `opam switch` "enables the user to have several installations on disk, each with their own prefix, set of installed packages, compiler version, etc".
https://opam.ocaml.org/doc/Usage.html#opam-switch
"I have no idea what the skin color or gender or sexual preferences of other users on HN are and you don't know mine. That's how I prefer it."

This aspect of HN is specifically WHY I feel welcome here and WHY the content + conversation is consistently of higher quality relative to other forums...It's actually one of the few places left online where this feature remains.
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Many “draw a character” input methods actually don't care at all how the resulting character looks and only use the order and direction of the strokes to generate set of matching characters. Similar idea is IIRC also used to order and collate characters in paper dictionaries.
> I am not a physicist!

Man, don't be too modest. With these few lines I'd be tempted to award you a Nobel prize if I were the judge :)

(exaggerating a bit, but more seriously: you seem to have your chops in this department).
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> Language interoperability is another: it's still astonishingly hard to combine languages within a single software artefact unless they're C and C++ or similar things that produce platform-native binaries.

Earlier, you mentioned F#. How easy is it to combine C# and F#?
Sci-fi is mostly about human entertainment and AI on AI battles just aren't as relatable. Consider something like chess, it used to be quite a drama in the human battles for world champion whereas computer vs computer is a bit meh. The trouble with human vs AI is it tends to be one sided on way or the other.
I've noticed this pattern too.

For example, try to draw the character 口 on the 'draw' functionality on jisho.com -- the correct stroke order is (cardinal directions for 3 strokes): 1. NW -> SW 2. NW -> NE -> SE 3. SW -> SE. If you try to do it any other way it will fail.

If this is a problem for you (e.g. learning Japanese and don't know stroke orders and/or don't care to learn them exactly) -- the Google Translate handwriting input for Japanese does not have this behavior (or at least as much) and will effectively recognize your incredibly shittily reproduced kanji.
I hadn't ever heard of the term "sharding", but the team I was on was "partitioning" databases in the early 2000's (effectively sharding at the table level so that we could drop table instead of deleting rows).
This is not quality thinking. Without adequate time to destress and unplug, employees are likely to leave and if an employee leaves, the company will lose far more than someone’s vacation time. Leave employees alone while on vacation unless absolutely necessary.
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That sound they make is extremely ominous, damn
The Pentagon is expected to plan for every eventuality. If they don't, they'll be blamed for not being prepared. The US had plans to invade British domains, such as Canada, between the two world wars (in which they were both allies)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red
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The Mondays? No, man. I believe you'd get your ass kicked sayin' something like that, man.
It’s weird, people report all these issues, but in the past I bought Thinkpads for years & they always "just worked". Took a risk & picked up a Dell XPS 13 a couple of years ago, and that "just worked" too.

It’s like I live in parallel universe of Linux hardware support to some of you.
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Google mentions sharding in a 2005 patent. https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2007011957A2

http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/01/sharding-for-st... notes the term in use within Google by 2003.
Metallica's Ride The Lightning(abridged), with actual lightning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD5oIegFKXg
Maybe they live one billion years, or 10 million times more than us. These 25,000 years for them would be less than a day for us. Just saying :)
has anyone made an MMO better than UO yet?

Nope. UO was one of a kind. What made it special is the way it brought together people with many different play styles and allowed them to form their own communities which were self-policed.

Every multiplayer game since UO has tried to learn lessons from it by policing the players centrally, through the limitation of player interaction. The result is that all of the different play styles have gone their separate ways to games which cater specifically to them.

This phenomenon mirrors the filter bubble phenomenon that resulted from search engines and social media recommendation engines giving people more of what they want.

Edit: for examples of the games that cater to the play styles I’m referring to, look at Fortnite, League of Legends, Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Diablo 3... When I look at this list it’s rather shocking to me that one game could house all these diverse play styles. The magic of it was that it worked, for a time, until more specialized games came along and started drawing away the player base. Then EA brought in Trammel and split the player base which was the beginning of the end.
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> People should be allowed to have a vacation. Full stop. No conditions.

When you move up to Vice President levels of a large company and are responsible for hundreds of employees and a major product portfolio the company should have the ability to reach you in case of an emergency. If a product under your responsibility fails in production and critically damages the company’s reputation should the company be able to call you during a scheduled vacation day or should they respect that vacation day full stop?

At the same time, as a manager, you should be able to plan for contingencies so that you can have a vacation with minimal disruptions. If you cannot put actions into place to temporarily account for your non-emergency regular tasks you either need to have an honest discussion with your boss about that failure of leadership or re-examine your ability to plan.
I don't want to get someone fired.
I can't afford that, I'm a wage slave. So I have to fight with the limited means I have, and one way I can fight (aside from protesting) is to make noise on the internet.
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Probably an operational issue, like an expired internal certificate I'd imagine. Very curious to see the post morten and root cause analysis.
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We will blog about that in the next few days.
A willingness to pay signals that you A. have money and B. care about quality, which makes you a ripe target for price discrimination, which is why "ad-free" premiums often exceed the ad revenue by an enormous factor.
Those shootings almost never involve CCW-holders. It's often people with prior felony convictions who own firearms illegally.

In Canada there are lots of gang members who carry illegal handguns. We just don't have the same degree of poverty as some parts of the US (even though our GDP/capita is significantly lower).
Sorry to disagree with you, but I’m not sure it’s even possible to learn Japanese or Chinese characters without adhering to a strict stroke order. Not necessarily the one they use (although after 2000+ years of teaching you might suspect it’s pretty optimal) but you can’t teach your hand to memorise the movement if there’s no particular order. And since there are so many common elements between characters, you can’t really choose stroke orders for each of them individually either.
Not really. Even with ball point, while for neat letter stroke order doesn't matter, for a messier (normal day-to-day) writing, stroke order absolutely matter. It can become illegible fast if you use wrong stroke order, because correct stroke order tend to create similar overall shape while the wrong order don't. Granted, you don't have to be exact with the stroke order, but general rule still need to be followed -- you can't just write it in reverse order and expect it to be easily readable.
This article isn’t about writing kanji. It’s about writing the letters A, O, k, etc.
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I mean this sincerely, they do?

I don't know much about UX designers jobs, do they deal with project management often?
And the best one of those morals is the conviction to follow the law impartially.
Do they still use Bing ? I thought DDG had in-house search db.
This is very classic solution-in-search-of-a-problem thinking. Its prevalence in the cryptocurrency and blockchain communities is why I'm extremely bearish on both.
I think the problem is also with non-technical people who focus on aesthetics and push technical folks to make the product bloated. Design education would help project managers, and non-tech customers who are requesting that product or feature.

This is such a common problem that there is a meme about it "Can you make it pop a little more?".

Providing advice to technical folks is just a small part of this problem.
How is a pension fund investing in WoW diamonds any different than a pension fund investing in a diamond mine in real life? The only difference is that in real life there is a predetermined (albeit not entirely knowable) difficulty function, whereas in WoW the company that makes the game can just decide to mint however many they want overnight. But if you can use technology to preclude the latter from happening, the suddenly there is zero difference.

Sure a better game could come out and the value of items could come down, but that isn't really any different than if people in real life decided they just liked garnets instead of diamonds or whatever. And presumably as Moore's Law slows down, winning games will stay in the front runner position for longer.

From a pension fund's perspective, you're basically just finding something that a small number of people love passionately and then hoping that as more people learn about that thing, the value of everything connected to the ecosystem increases. That doesn't really seem any different than investing in a social network like Facebook or whatever, which clearly pension funds already do (usually by allocating a small portion of their funds into VC, although sometimes directly).
Oh, that is a really fascinating episode of This American Life. Thanks for sharing!

I would highly recommend anyone take a look at it - it explains where people go and what happens when those linchpin factories in a small town close down, and the growth of disability programs.