skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why is the lockdown necessary then?

I address this in the last line of my comment. The economic damage is present because most people lock down on their own - reducing trips to stores, not going out to restaurants, etc. I didn't need the CDC to tell me to wear a mask back when they were resisting it; I just did.

Formal lockdowns help with the much smaller number of "fuck you I'm not wearing a mask" style folks who wind up being superspreaders.

> You are just pushing a preconceived notion here.

I'm citing things; you're just responding "nuh uh" to them. Who's pushing preconceived notions?
> can create a GraphQL server and essentially ... have their app brought to its knees trying to fulfill an intentionally complicated query is kind of concerning

I've seen this denial of service attack against SQL/Relational databases as well, and I imagine if it triggers more read replicas, that a large bill could be caused as well

so it's not unique to GraphQL
Octopus Deploy Company Handbook
Anyone would be interested to help on building a google translate for math?
Having just completed a change that should have been small, but ended up spanning ~75 files, I can attest to this. It would have been small, up until the point where one of the excitable members of the team discovered Uncle Bob and got excited.

Which, disclaimer, I generally like what Uncle Bob has to say. But there's this thing, and I don't quite understand how it happens, where it seems to be really easy to implement the cosmetic parts of the programming style he advocates while simultaneously achieving the diametric opposite of the fundamental goals that these techniques are supposed to achieve.
Boycotting a company that did something awful (or threatened to do something awful) to an individual is the opposite of cancel culture. Boycotts are a well-established and effective method for individuals to take action against corporations. It's not as if dropping your Times subscription is somehow going to silence an individual
Ok this is entirely off topic, but I'll ask because Krebs is being discussed. Does anyone else find the comments on his blog posts incredibly toxic relative to other tech blogs?

I've seen his site linked on HN several times and in many of those cases, the content was fine, but the comments seemed to turn into strange, angry rants.
Go tell the passengers of MH-17 how peaceful Russia is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17
Maybe you just need to package it differently? I know I've bought Kindle books on similar issues and that there are people who work as consultants doing such things. Not to say that you necessarily want to become a consultant, but you don't even necessarily need to create new content... just stick some of it behind a paywall or in an ebook.
The UK government has set up a fund to help startups with non-repayable grants
I don’t know what the right amount of testing is, but proponents of less testing argue that its downsides are worse than its benefits, not that testing doesn’t prevent cancer.

I don’t see how the reference you give addresses that.
Some important context not mentioned in the article:

During summer, Swedes are spending as much time as possible outside (to make up for the dark cold winter months). Most offices are closed anyway, and unlike many other countries in Europe which have removed their previous limits, Sweden still has a 50 people limit on public gatherings and strict rules for how restaurants and bars can operate (for example, only table service, no bar service, even for outdoor venues). Amusement parks are closed. The authorities still ask people not to use public transport if they don't have to. Plus, people in risk groups (who don't have antibodies) are still asked to limit their interactions with others and to limit their mobility.

So considering that infections are happening mostly indoors, that Sweden nowadays has more restrictions in place than many European countries that locked down and then opened up, and that Swedes generally protect their personal space and don't get too touchy with others (in comparison to some other cultures), it's not a surprise that the numbers in Sweden are going down.

I'm happy about this trend. The way I see it, the country gets a second chance now to get things right ahead of fall/winter. Sadly, considering that the state epidemiologist and his team still are the same (and that he evidently mostly cares about telling everybody how great his strategy is/was), I guess they'll find ways to screw things up again.
> ... uncovering blockers as early as possible is critical when coordinating a bunch of entities.

I think the challenge for me has always been that the "uncover blockers" piece means building one or more small prototypes to prove out the capabilities of the dependencies, check feasibility, etc. So the building of these prototypes occurs prior to or in parallel with the authoring of the design doc, but then at a certain point they get paused so that the design doc can be completed and reviewed, and then picked up again when it's time for the "real" implementation to occur.

But pausing there takes discipline, since it ideally happens at the exact moment when all the main blockers have been cleared away and it is maximally tempting to just step on the gas and start into the work of cobbling the prototypes together into the project.
If you are looking for made in Japan clothing, you won't find it at Uniqlo. They are just another company producing clothing in low-wage countries to ensure higher profit margins. Absolutely no difference from the other fast-fashion companies mentioned below, except geographical.
I liked the article, but this is not a quantum computer. Please do not take away the credibility of what a real quantum computer could achieve. This is at best an algorithm to reveal the angle of polarizer, and also the nature of light.

Although, appreciate the efforts.
Small correction with regards to AN-124's name, Ruslan doesn't stand for "condor", condor is its NATO reporting name, Ruslan is just a popular Russian name.
Rust – How do I create a global, mutable singleton? (2015)
Yup, and given his proclivity to dox it is concerning that some call for violence.
That's not what is required. Here is the text of the law:

> In this subsection, the term `Postal surplus or
supplemental liability' means the estimated difference, as determined by
the Office, between--
``(A) the actuarial present value of all future benefits
payable from the Fund under this subchapter to current or former
employees of the United States Postal Service and attributable
to civilian employment with the United States Postal Service;
and

They have to fund the benefits that employees have earned. Not all of the pension cost that will be accrued over the next 50 years. That requirement is the exact same as private sector pension plans.
Oh, you mean they can't stand it that Outlook uses an open protocol (email) or that yet another vendor is adding yet another chat client with yet another proprietary protocol so that every time you add a new person or business you communicate with you have to install a client...

If Slack had any sense they wouldn't go near any courtroom anywhere.

Microsoft has done more damage to both "Skype" and it's "Teams" product by renaming a beloved product (Lync, not be to be confused with Linq or Lynq or several other homonymous products to "Skype for Business" and then "Microsoft Teams". (e.g. kill two products for the effort of one)

Really shareholders ought to be able to force covenants on companies such as "no renaming products" and "no mergers" and if they could you might see it add significant growth and remove risk from the companies that have them.
Simplicity is described as being "disentangled" or the opposite of complexity.

I personally often picture complexity as a graph of nodes and edges:

- The more edges you add, the more complex the thing it describes.

- The more rules you can deduce about the graph (for example "it is a unidirectional circle-like") such as the flow of the edges, counting etc. the less complex it is.

The imagery in the talk describes it similar: Complexity is more knotted and interwoven. Simplicity is more straight-forward, clear and composable.

Ease is described as something being "near", also in the dimension of time. Something you already know or can learn/do quickly.

The talk goes on describing how simplicity requires up-front investment and time to achieve and also how ease and simplicity sometimes overlap and when they are at odds.
Brain connectivity levels are equal in all mammals, including humans: study
No, you're still making the quantifier scope error. I'm saying you'd be better off not reading the full list. It doesn't follow from that that you'd be better of without knowing about any of the items of the list. Your mistake is anbalagous to inferring (B) from (A):

(A) John doesn't want to eat the whole pie.

(B) John doesn't want to eat any of the pie.

I'm saying that you're better off not eating the whole pie / reading through the whole list. It doesn't follow from that that you're better off without any pie / without knowing any of the test results on the list.

That's why the list in my hypothetical scenario is comprehensive. If I was saying that you'd be better off not knowing anything, then my hypothetical scenario could just have been "you get some kind of test result giving you information about some aspect of your health", rather than an unrealistic scenario where you get completely comprehensive information about your future health.
A private, for-profit social media service can decide which customers they want business from and which customers they don't want business from. It's one of the main rights you have as the operator of a business: the right to refuse service.

The conspiracy theorist's right to free speech doesn't mean Twitter is obligated to carry their speech, either.

If you dislike this your best available remedies are 1) find a service who wants your business, or if none such exists, 2) start your own social media service, or to "solve" the problem for good, 3) engineer the existence of government-operated social media services such that law mandates all citizens have unfettered free speech on the service
A good therapist is a debugger.

Debuggers show you a step by step at a low level, but some are better at highlighting "interesting" modes of operation that are not necessarily what we expected. Just like race conditions and those tricky concurrency issues, a debugging session with our brain can help identify how we get stuck.

Sometimes, just the way we frame something gets entangled with another underlying issue and reframing a topic can free up that deadlock. Othertimes a trigger can be uncovered and we can apply a patch to temporarily avoid triggering it while we go delve deeper in the issues that are awoken by that trigger...

But like any debugger, it's only as good as how we use it: it's not a magical tool that operates on us passively. Beyond the trust factor, it can take a while to figure out how to best leverage the therapist for our needs.
Seems like a classic-style omnipotent god could write anything conceivable in some eternal Lisp dialect that he maintains personally. If he’s really capable of violating thermodynamics he should be able use knowledge of the future to ultra-waterfall the design and implement it flawlessly thereby completely avoiding accumulation of technical debt.

It’s fun to imagine Jesus returning in 30xx AD but this time instead of absolving the world of its accumulated sin he wipes away the accumulated technical debt of 1.5 millennia worth of corporate IT
literally never heard of this one before.
I wasn't saying it was a failure, but that it is hard to call it a success. Again I think we will need to wait a while to determine true successes or failures (although I think here in the US it is trending towards being a tremendous failure).
Offline classes aren’t worth the cost of full tuition...
What about your views on vlogging and what about your views on modernizing this techs I mean vlogging is the next gen tech of blogging because everything is needed to be changed with time
Come on, it was pretty obvious from very early on (during the Wuhan outbreak, then validated in Italy soon after) that the disease did not kill 1%, the symptoms for the vast majority of those that get sick are mild (to even being asymptomatic), moreover that the age skew was extremely strong. The median age of death is over 80!

All these factors together were used to decide on the strategy. Subscribing it to luck is unfair. It is more about expertise or lack thereof. A bureaucrat with little practical expertise is less likely to take risks since they are afraid of being exposed as lacking knowledge. Anders Tegnell most certainly was not afraid of going against the grain.

Introducing lockdowns in nursing homes early on would have avoided probably 60%-80% of deaths. This applies to Sweden and other countries as well.
This reminds me of when the emulation scene originally emerged in the 90s and a lot of people were still running 486 CPUs. Although they're mostly forgotten now due to other emulators surpassing them in features and compatibility, at the time the more heavily optimized emulators like NESA and NLKSNES were kind of a big deal if you couldn't afford to upgrade.
Soupscraper Is a Downloader for Soup.io
They grow. They change. But they can't be killed or conquered.
Ask HN: Learning Qt in a Week
Hi folks, I recently landed a job for creating Qt interfaces for OpenGL/C++. The job starts in a week.

However, I know nothing about Qt and its been almost four years since I programmed in C++.

Can you lovely folks please suggest learning material for Qt and C++?

I really don't want to get fired on the first day.
Sweden hoped herd immunity would curb Covid. It's not working
Croatia?
The variation among thesis advisors within a given doctoral program is sufficiently great that it should be

We need a Yelp for doctoral thesis advisors.

I think the author was reluctant to “go there.”
I liked that article also.

I went to NACL about 5 years ago, and was amazed that most papers even then were deep learning related.

BTW, it is a small nuisance to not have article links on this web page. I had to copy titles/authors, do a web search, find and download. That said, between just skimming vs. careful reading, I probably spend an average of 20 minutes on a downloaded article so the overhead of finding and downloading is realy nothing.
You might have been close to making some kind of reasonable point in the first half of this comment but then you took it to crazy town and discredited the whole thing.

These are rental spaces, just like almost every restaurant in the world operates out of. How is it a sweatshop or anything close to a franchise if someone starts their own restaurant under their own brand with their own menu and rents kitchen space to work/deliver out of?
As I understand it, there is an increased risk of death related to suffocation/co-sleeping.
Show HN: UI Playbook – A documented collection of UI components
Hey!

After my first experience with design systems, I decided to kickstart a project called UI Playbook which is my attempt to document common UI components, their functionality, best practices, accessibility requirements, and examples.

If at least one person finds this useful — it's a win!
Try meditation. It is literally meant to quiet ego-based thinking. Maybe it will help you approach problems with clarity after.

For me, the concepts "feedback loop from hell" and "expecting a positive is a negative" from the book "The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck" were gamechangers.
Came here looking for childish comments...leaving completely satisfied.
The popular suggestion - with regard to your specific example - is that the president himself is directly supporting those federal actions in Portland (against the wishes of state leadership and law enforcement) because appearing strong on crime is politically beneficial for his re-election. There is no other reason for those officers to be present, refuse to wear uniforms, or use civilian vehicles. The

But then, I’m sure you’re fully aware of this and are just making hay.
I agree with you that Yelp for restaurants is generally a waste of the electricity used to run it.

However, I think the problem isn't stars or a lack of nuance, it's that you get what you pay for. If you don't pay for reviews, you mostly get two kinds of reviews, which are at the extremes:

1. I'm angry enough that I went online and wrote a review.

2. I own the business or I'm a true believer in the business.

Neither case is actually what you want from a review. But people don't post middle-star reviews because they don't feel strongly enough about it to feel an incentive to do that.

The nuance comes when you pay someone to write an opinion they don't feel strongly about, which is the only time they can maintain anything resembling an objective opinion. I've found very good products by paying for Consumer Reports, for example.

"But it doesn't scale!" says HN. Sure. Lots of working solutions don't scale, and lots of scalable ideas don't solve any real problem. Bad things happen to good people.
Mattermost and Jitsi come together to deliver deeper collaboration
Thanks for your feedback, really appreciate it! I think you're right that the "Reliable" feature might not tell the user much.

Perhaps I need to show GIFs of other products to show the numerous ways these products get messy. Anyway, just an idea. Will think about it more, very good point.

You're allowed to adjust the color & type of the branding link, as long as it remains visible :-)
Deno design doc for example https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1_WvwHl7BXUPmoiSeD8G8...
Caniuse.rs: Rust Feature Search
> "Hear my words, for I am an experienced psychiatrist with insights and stuff. I'm just not going to tell you which one. I will bask in the glow of accolades but am anonymous to critical articles."

Huh? I don’t think he has ever used his status as a psychiatrist to claim credibility, nor do I think his readers care about that beyond the occasional anecdote. People (including me) were drawn to his writings long before they were aware of that aspect about him. When he moved to SSC c. 2013 he even made a post about just staring his residency, which isn’t “experienced”.
> why on earth would they do it for a third party

- Legally: They get served a NSL with a gag order forcing them to add the backdoor without telling you, on penalty of prison time

- Extra-legally: They get blackmailed by a TLA do add access and cover it up, or else.

("They" is not necessarily the company's CEO/CTO, but a sufficiently senior DBA/network admin.)
Wittgenstein tried to describe an (emotional + logical) universe with logical rules. That stuff don't work!
Really enjoyed the video (I speak Russian though).
There was the Shadow Brokers story, where he claimed to have identified the NSA leaker: https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/11/28/the-russian-metadata-i...

Then there was the thing where he doxxed two other researchers apparently just because, not even for assuming some crime: https://itwire.com/security/infosec-researchers-slam-ex-wapo...
What kind of prevalance do you need for that to be bad?
The reasoning behind it is smart actually. Instead of focusing on a gruelling coding focused interview, they focused on other interviews where the companies were willing to invest in mentorship on junior devs.
Never seen this particular conspiracy theory before. I think if it were actually a mainstream democrat or progressive theory you'd see it brought up pretty often given pro football's clashes with racial and social justice advocates in the last decade instead of one NYT op-ed from years ago.

If you look up the author of that op-ed piece, she's a lawyer and devoted anti-sex-trafficking advocate, so it is most logical to just view it as an op-ed representing her personal interests and point of view, not representative of The Times, or The Democrats, or The Mainstream.
Classes are not worth the cost of full tuition.
Stop government officials from making policies on twitter and we will consider twitter private company. Still, no one thinks there should be additional regulation on something like twitter? The past account hack just made me think it should be scrutinized more.
War is hell. For every MH-17 ticket holder, there are 100,000 war orphans from the Wests' illegal wars currently being trafficked all over Europe. Lets talk to them as well.
> Over several weeks, Twitter has removed 7,000 accounts that posted QAnon material, a company spokeswoman said. The accounts had been increasingly active, and had been involved in coordinated harassment campaigns on Twitter or tried to evade a previous suspension by setting up new accounts after an old account was deleted.

Maybe it's not just freedom lovers making use of their God-given right to free expression, or whatever.

They are going further than this on also removing many accounts from search, but given the many bad apples, I am unsurprised they're hiding the bunch.
Recreating Ghana's Digital Address System
I think something people need to be aware of is that the engineering culture at places like Google is extremely different than, say, a bank.

Design docs work well for Google because it has decentralized, independent engineering teams composed mostly of reasonable people, with few or no mandates from outside their teams. They tend to fail at companies with underperforming, micro-managing, and/or overreaching teams (e.g. unionized project managers that have literally nothing to do, bizdev telling developers what features to implement (down to specifics), QA teams who are incentivized to find "flaws" ad-infinitum to look busy, etc).

But I see this as a symptom of a fundamental dissonance in goals. Design documents are used by organizations whose goal is to build/change things. Many organizations are averse to change, and their processes reflect that, through overly microscopic documentation, convoluted approval chains, etc.
> What's better, the EU or rest of world?

For Britain, the EU.
Equity for All?
My wife and I have learned the hard way: figure out first if the people leaving reviews value what you value, then look at the number of stars.
All of those.
Very honest and correct. At least in the sciences, there are “outs” in related business and engineering careers.
Show HN: NextDNS beta using the new Encrypted DNS feature of iOS 14
You adjust for that by increasing number of enrolled students. Not by pretending you are delivering the same product.
Thanks pictur, appreciate your reply! How would I share the developments? I am not really a Twitter user. (You can however subscribe to a mailing list, which you'll find on the bottom of the homepage.)
Robin Kiera – leading InsurTech influencer – on opportunities within the space
It didn't really happen so there's nothing to get. Those are seperate quotes taken from different lectures and strung together as though they are a dialogue with a sort of Zen character. See one of the sibling comments by dfaubulich for the actual origin of each of those lines.
Do you know how pretentious this sounds? Not everyone outside the HN tech bubble has any idea what those words mean.
Yep won’t some please think of the children.
One might argue, in the US anyway, that free speech has explicit limits when harming the public: yelling "fire" in a theater is the classic example.

Pushing an agenda of literal chaos and death through theories like "it's only the flu" or "mask = oppression" is getting actual people killed, right now, by the thousands. Of course the devil is always in the details and the fuzzy lines.
Why don't you just ask them?

"Based on the results of this test, you have a 1 in 6 chance of having cancer. This is what the biopsy process looks like, would you like one?
Note: Having a NextDNS account is entirely optional. You can install this beta if you just want to try the new Encrypted DNS feature.