skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are also some leading Black intellectuals, including the historian Nell Irvin Painter, the poets Reginald Dwayne Betts and Gregory Pardlo, and the linguist John McWhorter. And there are a number of journalists, including several opinion columnists for The New York Times.

Given the climate at the Times right now, this is brave.
It's still choices. You want to care for your child more than you want to sleep, etc. You don't have to do any of those things. Parents abandoning their children is a popular choice.
We aren't economically isolated from the rest of the world. We're still exporting and importing. Exports in some industries are higher than ever. We're still bringing in workers in certain key roles. NZers can leave (though they'll probably need to pay for quarantine when they get back). The main things that are suspended are international student and tourist arrivals, and when the flood of NZers returning home abates, we'll probably be bringing them in through the quarantine system.
It just occurred to me (and thankfully it's likely no one will ever read to me) that someone could combine memes and do goatse to meeting.
> ... the parentheses (completely unnecessary for representing a tree in 2020) are a hazing exercise / loyalty test. I love Lisp

Which Lisp do you use since you dislike parentheses so strongly? Dylan? Something else?
Yes of course, the author is grossly misunderstanding what people mean when they say “I don’t have time”. But he is correct that it is not literally true in the strictest sense.
Bloom County, Dilbert (shudder), Doonesbury (though the characters at least aged and moved through life)... All pretty much wore out whatever made them special in their prime.
I'm retired now, so thankfully don't have to look at CVs any more. I was a university/college instructor, so over the years I reviewed many, many CVs of applicants for computer science teaching positions. Some comments on the blog post and the other comments here.

a) If I saw a CV with a picture, I'd call up HR and ask why they let the picture through. Pictures, and even names, give information that can be (and has been) used to discriminate on racial and gender grounds, among others. I always wanted to hire the best candidate, based on track record. Pictures provide no useful information here.

b) When I got the CVs, I'd look primarily at what they say the applicant has done, rather than formal qualifications. CVs then went into 3 piles: worth interviewing, worth interviewing if nobody in the previous group pans out, not worth interviewing. I would tend to give each CV about 1 minute of attention in doing this, because in my experience the interview tells you a lot more than the CV.

A CV is primarily for getting one's foot in the door, and announcing interest in the position.

My alltime favorite CV was one I reviewed for hiring a successor when I was leaving a university teaching position. The job posting specified “Masters or PhD in computer science required”. The applicant's CV detailed some very low-level education in a field completely distant from computer science. The cover letter said “I recognize that I may not have all the background needed for this position. If so, could you please tell me where I could get it.”
> Why don't you have access to pattern matching in your Lisp day job?

The lisp I use (scheme) does not have pattern-matching built-in and nobody has made a good enough case to add it as a special form.
In Japan so much of mainstream prime time TV programming is reactions videos. Often people reacting to food from another prefecture with a minimum of two picture-in-picture heads reach the to the video.

My wife is addicted to YouTube videos / YouTubers and I think there’s a high degree of similarity.

This content feels low quality and cheap to produce.

I think that article captures this phenomenon well.
Yet asking Glide or Dep to solve semver for a typical medium-sized Go service would peg your CPU fans for an hour or two and usually fail.
Just let Calvin & Hobbes stand as its own beautiful finished thing. One of the reasons Calvin & Hobbes is so timeless and beloved is that it's not _that_ anchored in any particular time period. While it's dated somewhat by its big chunky TVs and landline phones, most of the "Calvin being a kid"-ness is timeless. Hobbes & Bacon couldn't make it five panels without referencing contemporary politics.
Every single time I've walked by the physical store location in NYC on a Saturday (or holiday), there's always people approaching the entrance expecting it to be open. They're certainly losing business at the store too.
I was just talking with my girlfriend yesterday about the various reasons for overlap between coffee nerds (espresso and pourover) and software engineers. Delighted to see this video here (I usually pick up his video links from Reddit), though it does come across as potentially peak hipster.
I'm unsure if this is a terrible attempt at sarcasm or just a really terrible take.
FWIW based on how it was written I interpreted it as the latter "you have to do this for it to be a problem, so it's less bad than you think", so glad you clarified that wasn't your intent.
It used to be like that in Canada when I was growing up. Stores were fined for opening on Sundays. That went away in the 1990's.

But Israel truly stops. No buses, no trains, no stores, no restaurants. In the town of 50,000 we were in, we found 1 single fast food place.
NZ ditto, except just about all our COVID deaths were in rest homes.

Not all elderly are in rest homes, either.

I don't know of anywhere with widescale community spread that has been really successful at protecting the elderly.
The iPad development supposedly started before the iPhone even though it was released after.
What a load of "I'm 14 and this is deep" material. It's 2020 and people still preach this Jerry Seinfeld/The Secret stuff.

Who here doesn't want money? Or a satisfying career? It's not just a dopamine hit from instagram that makes you waste time there, it's that people are emotional being with far more complex motivations (or lake thereof) than just "not wanting it bad enough." Have you considered the possibility that perhaps people are intimidated by the fear of failure, of feeling they are not deserving or good enough, and hence are afraid to attempt it? Have you considered that they are probably lying to you and themselves because of other fundamental fears they don't want to confront? Have you considered that these reasons can also often be attributed to systemic discrimination, both real and emotional both deliberate and unintentonal, due to race/gender/class?

If you're right, no one browsing instagram should be unhappy since they're doing what they truly want. If you posit that they're just not reconciling their true wants correctly, and that's why theyre still slightly thirsty for other goals, why won't that be an explanation for the other alternative: people have logical wants that are stymied by emotional blocks (fear, lack of overall motivation, etc).

I suppose by extension poor people just don't want to not be poor bad enough, or homeless people don't want to be not homeless enough?

The thought process you have probably works for some people who can fully divorce their emotions from their goals, and glad it works for you if it does. For the vast majority, such atttiudes are nothing more than a bunch of dopamine-hit-filled "motivational" Ted talks which they can never apply in their own life.
How I got Nvidia’s most expensive GPU using one weird tip
Layered store and struct embedding in Go
GP said "pay staff triple". For 70% of nursing home workers in USA, that would be enough to get it done. The other 30% aren't rich enough to ignore tripled income, but rather they have family situations that would make it impossible. It's a pipe dream anyway, since our Congress is only capable of giving public money to rich people.
> Those appear to be general public heath agencies with names like: "Department of Health Services"; "Medicaid"; and "Department of Health and Environment". I don't see one mention of the word "infectious" to indicate specialty.

Lmao what, that’s your argument? That’s just what the states call it. Take, for example, the Minnesota Department of Health. Among other things, its main charter is “disease control and prevention”[1]. This is true across the board. Every single US State has such an agency, whose staff are currently working full time on COVID. “I don’t see one word of the word infections”. Come on, really? THAT’S the best you got?

> "ECDC has approximately 300 staff and commands an annual budget of over €50 million."

What’s your point? The EU has funded their centralized agency less than the US, so? That doesn’t change the fact that the US has a federalized structure similar to the EU, where the States have a similar level of autonomy as their counterparts in the EU. The US State health agencies fall under the purviews of the State governments, which are wholly independent from the Federal government.

> "CDC's budget for fiscal year 2018 is $11.9 billion.”

Take this and also compare the budgets to the state government health agencies. The New York CITY Department of Health, whose responsibility includes infectious disease prevention has a budget of $1.6 billion, with 6,000 employees[2]. That’s just for the CITY of New York!

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

[2] https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/about/about-doh.page
Why is React needed to display static HTML?
Ask HN: What's happening with mid-word word wrapping?
As of today, word wrapping is occurring (for me) at arbritrary places within words, such as between the "a" and the "n" in the word "an", or between the "b" and the "asically" of "basically". Other websites are not affected. What's causing this?
You’re not alone. I’ve sold at some awful times. I haven’t lost much though, and that’s probably more important. If you generally walk away with more, you’re doing good enough.

Unless this is your only income or something.
Learn a handful of knots. You don't need to know the entire boy scout manual, but solid understanding of 4-5 knots - be it a trucker's hitch (adjustable), improved clinch (fishing/permanent), half hitch, etc - will be the right tool for the moment. When we go camping, we end up bringing a handful of tarps and paracord. Always fun to see the monstrosities people come up with as we try to string up a sun/rain shelter.
I'll research it, thank you. If I can't figure it out (I'm not great at systems-level programming), are you available for a small amount of contract work?
I guess I don't see the problem of the preferred first speaker in practice.

Let's take the examples in question: I've never seen either Murray or Pinker come out of the gates swinging with poorly framed appeals to genetic determinism (if they make reference to such things at all it's almost always in response to criticism, and it never seems to be more than very light handed considered speculation). I've also never seen them lob insults, outright support mob justice, or make a targeted cherry-picked attempt to discredit a particular individual (admittedly I'm only so plugged in so it's possible I'm missing something). Yet their critics seem frequently guilty of this.

In other words, I don't think I'm holding them to a lower standard for having spoken first. Am I misunderstanding the argument? Or am I actually doing this and I'm just not aware of it?

Edit: Perhaps it's also worth stating that I do hold these two people in high regard which definitely lowers my defenses when it comes to quickly evaluating their various claims. Mainly based on how they have engaged in good faith. That said, I disagree with both of them a lot. Recently I've put a lot of effort into identifying a group of folks that I disagree with but respect, since it seems like almost nobody does that and it seems like a big problem that people only respect those they agree with.
I rarely look into my side mirror without thinking "OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR."

Thanks, Mr. Larson.
Someone close to me struggled with addiction. I was more supportive than most, making an effort to spend some one-on-one time, and having difficult conversations about his treatment. (In hindsight I still wish I did more.) In spite of all my professional experience (where knowing and reassessing priorities is a constant) the most powerful impact on my ability to prioritize in my personal life was a phrase from his study:

> What do you want to do? And what are you prepared to give up in order to do it?

This hit me like the proverbial freight train. Every time I have to consider my inability to meet a priority in my personal life, I now always consider it in the frame of what I can lose. Indeed, letting go of things I previously prioritized - but are unimportant - is more joy than most of the pain needed to fulfill many of the difficult tasks in my life.

Perhaps I also do this in my professional life too. On difficult projects in the past I enjoyed the disapproving glances in the morning stand-up when I say "didn't do it" to 2 tickets only to be able to say "done, merged, and closed" to 1. Doing a little bit of each, in some circumstances, would have murdered productivity. If they didn't like which one they should have said which was more important.

I also appreciate what ISL said about the author's age. Time has also helped me to appreciate that everything exists in a context, and a person's age is a very important frame for understanding others.
This is also happening to me in desktop Firefox. Only HN is affected. (textarea inputs -- on HN -- are also affected.)

I tried to submit an Ask HN too, but it seems to have gone to "new" instead of "ask".
OS(X) Arch Handler is my bet.

`archhandler` was in the name of Rosetta's sysctl variable.
Can you share more info about the parentheses being a hazing test? I’ve seen Dylan syntax [1], but is there something else that shows the parentheses to be unnecessary in 2020?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_(programming_language)
> Always condemn 'the enemy', even when you agree with them. Anything else could be interpreted as a sign of disloyalty.

Less cynically, the concern may reasonably be that the relationship to claims certain of the signatories have made about the relation of particular events to the broad themes the letter raises alters the message of the letter when they are associated with it.

Context matters.
>No AI functionality to detect humans/animals/cars, it barely even qualifies as an NVR.

eh.

after having to maintain these systems for long enough i've come to realize that the AI system, if one exists, should be a separate compartmentalized system that is far away (architecturally) from the actual NVR functions.

I'd rather the NVR system be faithfully 24/7 recording (because AIs are imperfect and I need real accountability), and be focused on the job of stutter-free/jitter-free/low-latency/high-resolution recording.

Then , in my experience, it's best to have another system that deals with everything else like scheduling/event notification/ai detection/streaming.

it's a pain logistically, but it's nice to be able to deal with practically everything that is 'NVR-sourced' without touching the recording solution.

((this isn't really Unifi specific; just general IPTV/NVR advice.))
I disagree, specifically depending on when that assumption might have been made. My first computer came with 1KB of ram, expandable to 16KB. I have no doubt the designers of that and most of their peers at the time made similar assumptions. My second computer has interesting "bank switching" to circumvent the 16 bit database limitations of it's 8bit cpu that could openly address 64KB, and managed to mostly usefully have 128KB of ram in it. I suspect it's designers would have also happily made an assumption about 640KB being "enough for anyone".

(Also, maybe you should look up the definition of "apocryphal? I know he never said it, and strongly alluded to that, and didn't attribute it to Bill for that reason...)
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-disappearing-so-fast-...
It doesn’t need to do that at all, any more than the EU government needs to ensure there’s a consistent strategy among its member states that everyone is executing.

Different strategies apply for different states, because they have different elderly populations, different density characteristics, and different health system capacities.

Further, we still don’t know which approaches are the best, since we’re still learning about the disease. The fact that there are 50 separate approaches being tested affords us a wealth of data to operate on to shift strategies. As you said, fighting a pandemic is in everyone’s best interests, and states can and will change their strategies to minimize suffering.

An example: Governor Cuomo employed a fairly disastrous nursing home policy, which is largely what caused New York’s staggering death rate (at this moment, the highest in the Union). To be fair to him, he didn’t know that the virus would have this effect, and upon seeing the results from other states (FL, TX) which specifically protected nursing homes, course-corrected his own State’s strategy. This is a win for everyone, in the long run.
I know sometimes new designs need some time to "grow on you". I do not believe this is one of those times.
Yes, once you get employed you keep making even more.
My M.S. thesis was based upon his pioneering paper, the first paper to analyze the performance of a heuristic, "Bounds on Multiprocessing Timing Anomalies.", 1968. Thank you, Ron Graham! I was also privileged once to review a random graphs paper from Fan Chung his wife!
The very next post in the blog is about how the author is taking a "gap year" and how wonderful that is: https://blogofjake.com/2020/07/06/great-year-for-a-gap-year/

Why doesn't everyone do this? If you feel like you don't have time to achieve your goals, just take a whole year off and do whatever you want!

Almost every post on this blog makes me angry, it's really an impressive achievement.
There's nothing fundamentally different between necessity and want. Not even staying alive. Most people die because of choices they make. Just not always so soon after making those choices. But it's still a choice. People also regularly make choices that risk their lives because they don't mind a small chance of dying to get something they want.

Spending time commuting to work is obviously a much simpler choice. They want the things they can get from the money they earn more than they want those 2 hours free for another activity.
One could claim that actually the main "argument", which isn't really much an argument, is that the government could not legally order a lockdown.

Or, well, they could still order it. But since it would have been illegal, it could not have been enforced in any way, as it would also be illegal to follow any order to enforce it.

Some politicians wanted a lockdown, but soon found out that Swedens crisis response laws are not triggered by disease, at least not unless it's a clear threat to the continuation of the state as such. Covid IS serious, but this far it doesn't look like a civilization ending disease.
As a consolation, check out the 'April Fools' comics in the new Berkeley Breathe 'Bloom County' comics. He works with Watterson to create 'Calvin County' on those days.

Here's one example [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/bloomcounty/status/848140939520598018
> The Swedes are betting that nobody in the world will be spared from COVID

It's also a bet that medical treatments won't improve and a vaccine won't be developed.
I’ve noticed the same sort of switchover, although there’s the crazy outliers I think it’s mostly come from a good place & I’m happy to see it. Anyone that has to go through burnout knows that A) it sucks and B) there was now no time efficiency to what you were doing, because you are now ~0% effective. Basically it feels like the industry just read the operating manual on the human brain and realized collectively it wasn’t sustainable.
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Developed in time, yes. So far, at least using the US as a benchmark, it's not.
Glad to see comments recognizing this trash for what it is, what is it doing on the front page?
Blocking cholesterol storage could stop growth of pancreatic tumors
There were rumors about “the true video iPod” by mid 2005 based on patent filings - a touch screen iPod that was 3.5 inches. People didn’t know back then that they were really getting leaks about the iPhone. The earliest mention I can find via a quick Google search is this.

https://www.theregister.com/2006/02/09/apple_readies_video_i...
> Go modules is probably the most well-wrought versioning system for a programming language. The amount of thought that went into it is insane.

appreciated, but i share GP's sentiment.

without the uncalled for bashing though. because package management and versioning is hard. for all the backlash they get, package management in python, ruby, php, nodejs, all makes sense to me!

they make so much sense that, in my opinion, that the situation is akin to picking a side and sticking to it. just like you would for your favorite text editor. you perfectly understand what is going on.

go package management on the other hand makes no intuitive sense!

it took like 3, 4, or 5 long blog posts to explain it to us. and all i got from them is how hard package management truly is. i still can't intuitively do it.

i haven't touched php or nodejs in a while but i will be able to get composer or npm or npx (or whatever it is nowadays) to install something for me, locally or globally. not saying it is done right. what i am saying is i get it!

sorry but something is not right with go modules.
Thank you! I'm tired of the "Sweden ignored coronavirus" meme that simply isn't true.
Australia and New Zealand aren't good comparisons for testing rates because they have negligible community transmission. When no-one's infected with COVID-19, people aren't going to seek tests as much, and a higher testing rate is not necessary.
Most places are already doing that, and have been for a while. See Newsom's orders/recommendations. They could agree if they wanted, apparently they don't for reasons we may not know.
Burden shifting is a rhetorical trick not a positive argument for a position.

It's unreasonable to suppose that the burden of proof lies with the party in the minority or with the person positing a change in analysis rather than the one making the claim in the first place.

The idea that people who believed disease was caused by bad smells or evil spirits accepted an unfalsifiable claim uncritically does not mean we are forever stuck with it. This would literally mean that any group of people would be stuck with every unverifiable belief from the last millennium either forever or until we could democratically convince the majority. Truth isn't a democracy.

Science and logic says that we not only reject verifiably false claims we reject those that just don't make testable claims in the first place. Every mainstream religion is a mixture of potentially falsifiable claims with vague hand waving that is neither here nor there. After dismissing the actual it is not necessary to address the hand waving. If it doesn't make any claims its not worth discussing.

The notion that god doesn't exist doesn't require absolute mathematical as its a probabilistic statement of my confidence as to the likelihood of the existence of a literal creator not a mathematical one as in fact are most of your statements about most things. When one feels sufficiently confident in an analysis one often feels sufficiently confident one says such a statement is false. After dismissing the reality of 99 it is entirely reasonable to consider dismissing the existence of god even while acknowledging that this will probably never be a scientific answer to unfalsifiable claims. The notion that the deist may dismiss the need for evidence while the atheist is required to submit proof of a negative is just another sort of burden shifting.
I was confused for a moment – you meant “good thing I’ve got screening on”.