skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is blocked by a paywall, so I couldn't read the whole article as I don't have a subscription.

The belief that masks are controversion speaks more to the individual than the disease itself. People don't want to wear a mask because:

1) It infringes on their freedoms
2) They may have conditions such as claustrophobia which makes them very anxious and may trigger panic attacks
3) Ignorance, not keeping up with the news on their effectiveness
4) Belief that they can't get sick
5) May not have enough money or resources to make a mask

While the reasons are varied, I've mostly found #1 to be the case. Speaking to that, if you feel your freedoms are being limited in a pandemic, and that causes you to protest, is more of an emotional response than anything. Best not to argue with people who hold this view because you can't change their emotions on the topic. Better to maintain distance from them like everyone else to keep your family safe.
There seems to be some evidence that a higher infectious dose will not only increase the probability of an infection, but also its severity.

(This makes sense in a simple thought model where the virus starts replicating once it "hits" you, and then your immune system needs N days to ramp up and attack it back. The bigger the initial load, the more the immune system will have to fight back once it's operational. - Not saying that's how it is, just that this is a simple model to make plausible what appears to be empirically seen.)
Isn't this just Marxism with all the Marxist theory about class struggle rephrased into plain conflict theory language and de-jargonified?
Yeah but that still seems like a severe overpayment. I mean, I get that connections will make a big difference in getting the role, but I never expected it would allow someone to get away with overpaying to such a connection.
That guy's amazing (and has a great take on the whole issue).
Aren't all social media platforms guilty of being data vacuums?
Covid-19 is biting extremely hard in India. Handling has been very poor so far.

Stroking nationalism and pointing at foreign enemies in hard times is a tried and tested tactic.
Many people are very scared to publicly support him.

Tolerance and respect does not extend to Christians or conservatives.

Was joking that a new method of insurance fraud is to simply put a Trump bumper sticker on your car and wait for someone to torch it.
I am not denying anything you're saying, I also know many older programmers who have no issues with their career.

My comment is about the perception of older programmers and why this may affect enrollment in Computer Science.

I agree with your analysis, but this is not the perception that the general population holds.
I'm from an Italian-Spanish family from South America (grandparents emigrated to the New World during World War II), and I lived in Europe for 5 years (studying abroad).

When people think of currency, they tend to focus on the supply side (monetary policy) and forget to look at the demand side (necessary liquidity).

There is as much dollar-denominated debt outside the US as there is within. As counter-intuitive as it sounds, the crisis is creating more demand for US dollars, not less. This is why the Fed expanded the "dollar swap line" program. The "eurodollar" system is often overlooked, yet one of the most important drivers of the global economy.

Compare the policy of the Federal Reserve with the ECB (Eurozone) and the PBOC (China). And you will see why not only will the US dollar not collapse, in the coming years it may get so strong it could lead to a new Plaza Accord.

The Central Bank of Norway had to restart intervention in foreign exchange markets for the first time in decades. Norway, the #1 most developed nation in the world, experienced a dose of monetary reality on the 22nd of March (look up NOKUSD).

The so-called "rising power" of China is as marketable as it is absurd. Every other quarter there is a story of the PBOC injecting liquidity and lowering the capitalization requirement for banks. Needless to say, the Yuan still pegs to the US dollar for a reason.

Public opinion and mainstream media are divorced from financial reality, and we don't know if this is due to hysteria or sheer incompetence.

The surprise comes with the realization that the noisy political infighting of the American political class is orthogonal to almost everything.

The US may be a disaster, and simultaneously be the best in the world. Trump may be an idiot, and simultaneously be the smartest in DC.

Moral posturing isn't a substitute for good banking.
> I'm also not sure how much The_Donald was as a community. The sheer volume of users at its height seemed to involve a huge amount of brand new accounts you never saw again / never posted again (except when they show up as a group again), and etc. Or those without brand new accounts show up and post strange dishonest lead in type posts that sort of try to lead folks down a bigoted path ... that you can blatantly see in their post history.

This is very much a side note, but I do wonder what sorts of things would be enabled with more visibility into this kind of information. For example, average and median ages of all accounts in a thread or subthread. Per-user visualizations of posting histories (time of day, subreddit, etc). Information that would enable automated correlation (by time or subject) of posts from different accounts. Stuff like that. I'm sure they must have something internally that does at least some of the above.
It is actually worse.

That claim is about Western Europe only [0]. Think about it. Without USA and UK entire Europe would be occupied by USSR. Litva claimed it was liberated in 1993 (48 years after end of war). I never understood them until one day.

My country was attacked without declaration of war in June 22, 1941.

My country was attacked without declaration of war in February 27, 2014.

It opens eyes.

I can't be sure but people from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Mongolia, Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine may understand. You may check what do they think about Russia, like Poland [3].

Russian government antagonizes these countries. It does not matter because its real enemies are its own people.

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Navalny claims "27 millions Russians" - that number is entire USSR [1], Russia loss 13,950,000; Ukraine loss 6,850,000.

[0] Sorry, Russian language source for now https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-52611746

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties

[3] first link I've found - conveniently omits partitioning czechoslovakia and early years but is representative https://www.znak.com/2020-01-17/chto_v_polshe_dumayut_o_ross...
Ah right. Because the U.S. is never involved in war, it's a different story for youtube etc...
> Tiktok is clearly a data vacuum masquerading as a social media platform

For any value of "TikTok," including Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, iMessage, gmail, &c.
I had previously worked at a terrible startup, lost my job, and moved to Oakland to cut costs. I think I save 50%.

With COVID-19 there was no point to live in San Francisco anyways, my neighborhood is more peaceful, I have more space, better weather and there is less social unrest. My breaking point was a mob destroying my neighborhood in SF.
I don't think that was the case but I am open to sources.
If India (or any other country for that matter) would be in an armed conflict with the US, they would probably also consider banning various US controlled services.
Used bookstores tend to be very, very good. You can find all sorts of amazing gems in there you'd have never thought to search for via a web interface. Even better, they tend not to be packed with the bestseller of the day.
Lol one things I liked to do is whenever I see secondhand bookstore/stalls... is browse for "The Ninja - Eric van Lustbader" one of my favourite books as a teenager... I usually find at least one of the books in this series. It reminds me that everything is still in place and ticking along as planned in this crazy world. It's just so consistently there !
I believe the shift to this is already happening.

That's perhaps why China is getting a bit more cocky
Well, first of all, there's a massive difference of threat scale between "the apps I have personally chosen to download and install" and "every website that I visit, even if only for a moment."

Second of all, there's no App Store review process for malicious websites. An app that wants to harvest your data will at least have to have some vaguely plausible useful purpose in order to even have a chance to try.

So I don't know about you, but personally, if you were to ask me, "Do you think a restriction that reduces the number of people able to harvest your data in this particular way by about 90%, or is it totally useless if it's not 100%?", I'd say go for the 90% solution rather than just throwing up my hands and saying it's hopeless.
Somehow these remind me of Ising machines, where our neighbors align us and heat randomly flips us. Except we recoil at the extremism of the extremes to settle further into our current position.
> That's easy: I don't want to participate in spaces where religious white nationalists feel safe,

As a white, religious person, - but not a nationalist: I always felt safe on HN and I hope most HNers are OK with that as long as I play by the rules?

Why shouldn't everyone feel safe as long as they play by the rules?

Edit: I'm not hurt. I'm hoping to get a better worded explanation from you :-)

Edit 2: The reason why I ask is because sentence is quite absurd and cannot be what you mean. Just try to imagine someone saying: "I don't want to participate in spaces where atheistic colored globalists feel safe," here on HN.
I'm not expecting a tailor made example, but as you say one that I can compare to my own situation.

Obvious things would be like vims make command - I'm not going to turn around and say a webpack example isn't relevant because I'm a python guy as I can see a direct parallel. But lots of this is standard and in major ides, or well written and tested plugins are available.

Saying I can send emails on a file save is not that useful as I can't see any reason I'd want to do that. I'd definitely not want to throw together a regulatory setup - that should not be something solved there (margharitaville comparison).

Broadly - it's not necessarily that the rest of us are missing some incredible wonderous world because we're too blind to see. It may simply be that the freedoms afforded are of little value to us.

Edit - I think I've got it sorted in my head why I don't care as much about this.

My problems are typically shared by lots of other people, and so solutions that suit me are readily available. I don't enjoy building my tools as much as I enjoy solving other problems with them.

It's the same reason I got rid of my mythtv setup and just bought something that worked to play videos. It was less flexible but did what I actually wanted better than my own setup and didn't require me to build and maintain it.
It also depends if you can tolerate living with your parents. My one living parent is driving my sister nuts, for instance.
This post describes several potential "problems" with NPM packages, but not _why_ they are problems in the first place. The author doesn't say why they consider circular dependencies bad, or why dependency depth should be low, or even why their categorization of packages is the way it is (and leaves out large categories like tools and CLIs).

I don't think that a high number of dependencies is necessarily bad, or a low number is necessarily good. A dependency can often have factored out common functionality into a shared and higher-quality project than the same bespoke implementation re-implemented in several packages.

I think we'd need some more complicated metrics, possibly looking a bit like a web of trust analysis, to determine quality and health of packages. Depending on a well-maintained, popular, and highly-trusted package like lodash or express shouldn't be an indicator of low-quality or low-trust. We also have deprecation and security notices provided by NPM.

So I'd be much more interested in questions like "how many unique, low-trust packages are included in this package graph?" or "how out of date are the dependencies?" to try to estimate package health. From there I'd be curious to know how healthy the ecosystem is in aggregate, weighted for usage.
It's been a while since I visited r/politics or r/latestagecapitalism, but both of those (used to?) have plenty of calls for collectivization, permanent revolution etc.

By the way, I'm not American and my birth certificate says I was born in USSR.
I don't see a problem with targeting Chinese-made apps, given how much China blocks from other countries. Free trade has to work both ways.
There is no guarantee any app is not doing this, should we ban all apps?
I consider HTTP the 'pipe' over which the data is marshalled. It has it's own error codes, it's own verbs, and it's own protocol that has nothing whatsoever to do with my API for my APP and that's the way I want to keep it.

I do an HTTP "post" to send up a JSON object as a request, and I get a JSON object back as the reply. No one is going to tell me there's a "simpler" way. There isn't.

For example, if I need to delete data, I'll call "deleteSomething" as an endpoint. I could care less if HTTP has a delete in it's language, because I don't want/need any of that coupled into my API or affecting my API in any way whatsoever.

That way my API can be moved to some non-HTTP pipe at some point and it will remain unchanged. It's just like how in good OOP you ideally code to 'interfaces' rather than coding to 'objects' directly.

Here's an example controller:
https://github.com/Clay-Ferguson/quantizr/blob/master/src/ma...

You can tell it's perfectly type-safe on both client (TypeScript) and server (Java), and the API itself doesn't have any clue it's even be running over HTTP, and that's a good thing.
thanks... didn't know about this. Just bought it for my son.
So it's just opportunism, then? Condemn the other; refuse reflection. Or am I misunderstanding you?
The split made a lot of sense to tiling window manager fans. Admittedly a small niche to accidentally target a mainstream operating system to, so unsurprising it got so much bad press.

In 8 the tiling window manager and non-tiling window manager were separate worlds you switched between virtual desktop style. In 8.1 they made the entire non-tiling window manager desktop a "proper" tile. (In 10 they killed the tiling window manager.)

As a tiling window manager fan, it's easy to sometimes wish they'd gone down the other path in some AU 10 and "promoted" more Win32 applications to proper tiles in the tiling window manager, rather than "demote" all the tile capable apps to the chaos of traditional non-tiling window manager.
I think it depends where you hang out on HN. I also think it is civil for the most part, but there are a few threads I have been apart of where I was shocked at the racist, homophobic, sexist comments coming in. They did get downvoted pretty quickly, but I was still surprised by them appearing in the first place.
> Same with Reddit. Add up all the "moderation" time spent removing negative or controversial posts and I bet much more time is spent on content compared to programming the site.

Well, but there is easy solution to this. Just do it in the exact same way the reddit does it, which is to have individual fiafdom communities that have self appointed moderators in charge of their own communities.

So, if a user doesn't like a certain community, with a certain moderation policy, they can stop reading that one, and instead go to a different community with a better policy.
no. there's more to it. THis stand-off, as India realizes, isn't going to end soon so country is preparing for that [0]. China is attempting to threaten/bully India for many reasons one of which is stopping India from creating near-border infrastructure. Prior governments ignored border infra on the Chinese side to appease China while China continued to develop infra on its side of the LAC. Modi has changed this policy [1].

0: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/ladakh-sta...

1: https://www.geopoliticalmonitor.com/the-end-of-indias-panipa...
Can Cargo-Carrying Drones Jump over Air Freight’s Logistical Logjams?
I would to.

However, I wouldn't oppose there being a "cyber martial law" if there was some sort of "cyber declaration of war" that would enable the US government to declare software/hardware products from another country to not be used in native soil (while in "cyber war").

The US doesn't have to allow a malicious player to map their whole infrastructure and technology usage habits.

Democracy is very hard, why would the US have to allow other countries to be able to have such a strong profile and possible blackmail on its citizens?
At least on an iPhone, it's nearly impossible to get bank details and passwords with a native app unless you're using some incredibly sophisticated techniques.

Forcing them to install a native app also massively reduces the number of people who are going to actually let you in.
I think a lack of geographical diversity is coming back to bite tech companies. For better or for worse conservatives believe they are not fairly treated by tech companies. The fact that most US tech companies are on the coasts which happen to be fairly liberal further feeds into this us-vs-them tribal arguments. Curbing divisiveness and helping bring people together has never been more important, I hope we find a way out of the current quagmire collectively as a society.
Yeah, B is pretty deceptive. But you have invented all the deceptive parts.

This reminds me of being angry at your spouse for what they did in a dream.
I wonder if anyone has thoughts on the approach taken here ("Sound and robust solid modeling via exact real arithmetic and continuity"): https://icfp19.sigplan.org/details/icfp-2019-papers/15/Sound...
Interesting, my Jarvis doesn't and it's 18 months old. I've had the same scenario happen that OP described.
Those on the other side of that argument would consider Woodrow Wilson to be a militant SJW.
You’ve done some math.

But consider that virus scientists, epidemiologists, front line health care workers, and hospital administrators have concluded that COVID-19 is much worse than the seasonal flu.

Your math does not explain full ICUs and government officials begging for medical ventilators. It’s not the flu.

Have you considered reading the thoughts and opinions of people paid to be experts on this?
That's not true in this case. There is continued aggression by China, infringing into India borders. It would be stupid of Indian govt. not to react.
I don't see it. Usually when the dystopia is overthrown, the survivors find themselves with the freedom to build what they want. Well, that's already the situation today. No one needs Reddit's permission to build what they want.
/r/cumtown was Chapo adjacent and also got the axe. Part of the dirtbag left or whatever they go by now.
>Something like r/watchpeopledie, they don't have to censor, and it seems contained. I wouldn't want to visit it, not more than once, it may not be healthy in general, but taking it down seems to be "just" censorship?

I can say for me personally after spending some time on that subreddit that I am far more cautious and safe in everything I do. I always look out for falling objects, wear helmets and safety gear when appropriate, drive even more defensively etc. The sub opened my eyes to the dangers of planet Earth, all the ways it tries to kill us, and I don't think I'm alone on this.
All other democratic countries should join India in banning Chinese apps

Don’t allow Chinese apps until they open their own market to freely allow foreign apps like Google, Facebook, Youtube etc to function
This is a good question.

You can enable add-to-home-screen for websites with a single meta tag,

<meta name="mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes">

e.g. Here's one of my website with that tag[1], Ironically this feature was introduced by Apple and is considered part of PWA specs.

But for the sake of this discussion, let's consider PWAs to be one which uses app manifest[2] and uses some high level device features.

[1]https://needgap.com

[2]https://web.dev/what-are-pwas/
Going from what currently seems to be popular: huge botnets that carefully try to curate "real" users from random accounts. Rolling your own (Network that is, like FB or TikTok) seems pretty unlikely regarding initial investments, user base etc.
Would the Krypton Authenticator be of any help to you?

It works through an app on your phone.

https://krypt.co/
This is not related to developing App Clips, just Safari. (Aside -not sure why you're using such a derisive tone with that 'so called' stuff - companies name technologies for many good reasons, so just go ahead and use the name.)
Why would I use the Twitter app, when I can get the same out of the PWA and not have to download a hundred meg update every week for "bug fixes and improvements"?
No, I'm an adult.
Very interesting. I would like to know more about this thought.

Is the problem, let's say, with:

- the country of origin, so if this was the exact same app from US it would have been less harmful, or,

- the amount of time people spend on it, so if people spent time on something like facebook it would have been less harmful?
This is the same argument I'm hearing from people who refuse to wear masks. Unfortunately, the freedom of some is a security risk for others.

Any government is only as good as the trust people place in it. A trusted government invites trust-worthy candidates, is held to a higher standard of transparency, etc. If you want a government that you can trust, you may want to write to your congress-people and ask, for instance, that they ban corporate funding of elections (through those ridiculous dinners), Super PACs, etc. By the people, for the people, after all.
> They are very transparently trying to kick off users/communities that they don't "like".

They are now. But what we are saying is that reddit didn't used to be like this.

Reddit used to be much less moderated, and much more in favor of free speech, almost to a ridiculous degree.

They used to allow a subreddit called jailbait, for gods sake.

Things are very different now, obviously.