skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure it's (only) an educated vs uneducated thing. I have a friend who is an anesthesiologist who is a (somewhat) anti-vaxxer, and university professor friends (yes, more than one) who are (again, somewhat) conspiracy theorists. Not chemtrail level, but 'yeah but how do we know MH17 wasn't a false flag operation by the Americans' level. (to me, that's already nutjob territory; for others, that's 'healthy scepticism').

In these people, I theorize it's a badge of honor for them to be contrarian, and to be 'independent thinkers'. Which, in the abstract, is a good thing I guess - but where is the line? It's all phrased in a way that there is no 'proof' possible, because there is always an extra layer of 'but that's just what THEY want you to think!'.

I was at a (responsibly socially distanced, thank you) bbq yesterday where several highly intelligent, respected professionals were spouting... let's say... things with dubious intellectual justification. But hey, with some in that company being literally antifa t-shirt wearing activists, at least it's entertaining!
> Realizing how allergic major companies are to GPL code really creates some skepticism when they speak about embracing open source.

I'm aware of Google being AGPL-allergic, but are there companies out there that ban everything under the ordinary GPL? They'd have to avoid the Linux kernel, if they really meant it.
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I've been made aware after posting this comment.

I just figured that I'd share what appeared to be a useful comment from someone else the last time I participated in a discussion about this, I'm glad I did as I now have a number of further resources to do better research.

Also, just took a look at MOAI, it looks pretty cool, I'll have to add it to the list of things to play with when bored.
>I get why the legacy plant owners are fighting it but why are the state regulators fighting it?

Corruption. Namely, Regulatory Capture.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
Microsoft is not a charity, they also need to get money.
It's hard to interpret what Trump is trying to gain from this deal, does he want to:

o Stop the purchase altogether

o Just want to stop ByteDance making money from the deal

o Want to punish Microsoft

o Want to get a good news story about how he made the US $x-bn dollars?
Thats not a narrow range at all for a very well insulated fridge.
Some additional salt in this particular wound is that the use of the Marketplace of VS Code extensions is also proprietarily licensed. So all these open source developers are shoving their extensions into a competitive advantage for one of the world's largest tech firms.

What does this mean in practice? I guess it protects from the competition. Such as the VS Codium project which provides VS Code binaries without the proprietary parts. But also, as a consequence of this, without the Marketplace of extensions.
That's one reason that I have started paying attention to the Theia project.
I like to keep things open.

Link: https://theia-ide.org/
I don't think it says "Software not open-source is bad".
But more something like "It is marketed as open source but it is not".

Developers should be aware that VSCode is not as open source as it claims it is. In my circles, developers could swear VSCode is fully open source without even knowing VSCodium.

If people were more aware about this, they might think twice before using VSCode for everything and getting lock-in (just like the article says)
There are doctors, experts and even whole nations that disagree with you that there is evidence masks are effective.

This is the problem with arguments like this. It inevitably turns into a fight over who gets to pick the evidence and experts, as there is always reasoned disagreement.

Heck, China is an existence proof that mask wearing doesn't stop the virus in any meaningful way. Sample size, a billion. Checkmate. Are we done?
Dynatrace and AppDynamics are available as on-premise APM solutions, a bit on the expensive side though!
Nah .. the book was great and the movie was only average.
This makes no sense to me.

If your test involves two different GUI systems running the same 'specialised libraries', you are running the specialised libraries, not the GUI systems.

A media player involves heavy crunching and streaming and memory I/o, and access to the GPU if possible - these things that game engines excel at.

Most GOOD game engines are in fact an entire operating system, abstracting away the host operating system, and attempting to depend on it very minimally - giving coders an environment which does not have to conform to "business user" semantics.

This doesn't mean game engines don't burn through energy. But on mobile, at least, most of the good game engines do allow you to fine-tune your frame-rate such that, indeed, you don't need to update anything - video or stream - at all unless some event happens..

It would be an interesting test - but beware that there are multiple approaches, and even plain ol' definitions, for how a 'game engine' differentiates from an 'operating system'.

The two systems of thought have been intertwined, commercially, for decades...
This is correct. Here's the OSI's list of approved licences: https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical
Isn't this known as the Decoy effect? Having a middle tier makes the pricing more palatable.
Ask HN: How do you deal with tech industry anxiety/FOMO?
Being in early stage tech in my 20s is making me anxious. Everywhere I look people "seem" to be killing it - or at least selling that what they're doing is the greatest thing ever or the most right thing for them. Lots of hype building, VC marketing, thought leadership, etc. But also legitimate fundraising milestones, amazing product launches, great hustle.

I "intellectually" understand I shouldn't care, but I do. I always feel anxious that I'm not doing enough/successful enough/busy enough.

How did you deal with this?
Where is EU in this embarrassment?

Suppose Margrethe Vestager called and said TikTok, you are banned unless you let a "very european" company take over your business? And by the way. We would like a cut.

And would the US still being able to say "national security" if it was fully owned by German business running on servers in some Swiss mountain?
MS is embedding themselves in the open-source community in such a way that it's almost unavoidable to make use of their proprietary tools

Embrace, extend, and extinguish [1]. It’s practically Microsoft’s motto.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...
> I think her post fails in the last section "Do the easiest part first". This is too much thinking, reasoning and I think will backfire. She should delete this section.

I respectfully disagree. This approach absolutely works for me. I usually start a big difficult task by removing trivial inconveniences (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/reitXJgJXFzKpdKyd/beware-tri...)

For example, when I'm about to write a spec, I first do the easy trivial stuff, such as creating and naming the document. Or, when I write a difficult email, I write a rough version of it in a blunt caveman language.

I'd keep this section intact.
What are product requirements documents and why you need them
How do you know they actually pay you more?
My company is fully remote. When I interview people, I don’t know how old they are, nor do I care. I look at their job history as it relates to their ability to perform the job for which they are applying. If you were applying for an associate or junior developer position, your lack of experience wouldn’t really matter. I would worry that your bouncing around reflects that you can’t be counted on to stick it out for more than a year.

To change my mind, during the interview, when I ask, you would need to explain what is different about your approach now. Not just that you want to be different, but what you are doing/thinking differently. If you gave a decent answer and everything else lined up, I would take the chance.

So, my suggestion is look for small start ups. Their hiring practices aren’t as rigid.
Selling windows and office, generally. The licensing of these extensions is mostly irrelevant to their plan and the reason they spend money on this development.
How is Sublime Text more open? It's closed source.
And they wouldn't get money if they licensed these extensions differently?
Worth noting there have been multiple flu strains throughout modern history which have been more deadly than COVID has been so far.

Aside from 1918 Spanish Flu there was also the 1958 Asian flu which killed ~2 million.

COVID is also less deadly than even an average flu for about half of people who get it, but many times more deadly than the average flu in about a quarter of cases.

The bottom line is unless you have a set of sustainable measures which can keep R below 1, then you’re back to just bending the curve to keep hospital capacity available.

Realistically I think that locations that have a very low herd immunity percentage cannot be successful in keeping R below 1 without intensive shutdown and lockdown measures, which of course must be sustained indefinitely.

However once a certain level of herd immunity is reached in a community, a more sustainable set of measures can be enough, in concert with the innate benefits of herd immunity, to keep R below 1. I believe this explains the current dichotomy we see in places like NY and MA versus FL and CA.

It’s not a question of “MA does better wearing masks than CA” it’s a matter of masks plus MA’s herd immunity keeps MA below 1 while masks with the lower herd immunity in CA keeps them above 1.

You don’t have to be much above or below that R=1, after 30 days the results compound either way.
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If, as the author says, live collaboration is important, then its probably much better to rely on GNU screen or similar. It follows therefore that you should then be using an editor that can run inside of a terminal such as Vi or Emacs.

Also, the revelation that Visual Studio Code is not in fact as open source-y as it could be should come as a surprise to nobody
From the start of this year, Esther has free healthcare.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_univers...

Most likely, Esther can also "provide an SSN". Identity theft is normal.
Collaborating During Coronavirus: The Impact of Covid-19 on the Nature of Work
You seem to be very confused about these things, though those misconceptions are common...

Ultimately Free Software and Open Source mean the same thing. They come from philosophically different viewpoints that they emphasize - free software tries to emphasize on freedom, while open source is more a technical approach and often comes from more business oriented people.

But in terms of what licenses actually qualify as either Open Source or Free Software - they don't differ. And the GPL absolutely is an Open Source license. The organization that made the term Open Source popular agrees:
https://opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license
I recall arguing about European specs vs American specs a couple years back on reddit. Very strong insistence that the American route is superior. Don't think that legislation is getting updated any time soon.
High Availability for Mortals
Microsoft’s TikTok buyout would cover every Five Eyes nation other than the UK
A crash is not due to one cause. Multiple things have to fail for this to be a problem. Blaming pilots is way too simplistic. The design of those warnings were highly confusing and overwhelming. Saying "oh, just have better pilots" it NOT good enough. It should be as per the Swiss cheese theory where multiple things should fail before there's a problem. Further, not hide things like MCAS, downplay the need for additional training, refuse additional training when requested, change MCAS without notifying FAA, pressure people into being quick over safe, design MCAS to rely on a sensor, have a critical system (MCAS) rely on one sensor despite this not being allowed (critical systems MUST have multiple sensor inputs), etc.

But yeah, it was the pilots not reading a message.

Looking back, MCAS was not a good idea. But whatever led up to MCAS might have given the 737 MAX also some other bad changes. At the moment we don't know, maybe in future it'll be "obviously aside from MCAS the 737 MAX should also have a fix for X".
The blue headlights are absolutely atrocious for everyone: pedestrians, other cars, people living in nearby houses, ...

They aren’t even good for the drivers themselves. The blue light kills your night vision and makes it impossible to see into shadows.

Car headlights (and road lighting) should have a limit on the maximum power at each wavelength, with very strict low limits in the blue part of the spectrum.

The marketing of blue headlights is based on almost fraudulently misleading claims about the visibility and power efficiency they’ll provide. They should be banned.
I love that Invidious doesn't have an algorithm that changes your recommendations based on what you've watched. It's so freeing.
Most states do not have the equivalent to TÜV or MOT.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unit...
Perhaps try to register as a non profit organization and apply for institutional grants from foundations.

If you want to run it as a viable business, farming as other people mentioned has potential for disruption. But it might be a bit ahead of its time and more risky.

Another area that companies will pay big money for is manufacturing process automation.
> but I think that turning it on by default is unethical

Not to mention illegal in the EU without explicit informed consent. Accept-by-default etc have been ruled illegal by courts many times.
What exactly do you think is the alternative to giving deworming treatments?
"Philip Alston, the former UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, upon the release of his final report, which will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council tomorrow by his successor, Olivier De Schutter."

Anti-scientific conspiracy theorist?
Yeah but today policy is determined by tie-wearing businessman with Excel spreadsheets and fancy words like "opportunity cost" etc and anyway why spend 50c per person when you can spend the equivalent of $100 in some fancier military gear /s

I'm all for planning and financial outlooks but there's a point where this becomes "let them eat cake"
I think it's 3. MS realized that it's not as powerful as it was in the 80s and 90s because Apple and Google took over a huge portion of the computing market with mobile. So they have "changed their ways," not because of any altruism but because they have to change their ways to compete from a position that, while enviably strong, is also a laggard especially on the consumer and developer side of the business.
“We are constantly reviewing compensation philosophies to better recognize the talent of our highest performers and keep us competitive in the industry, all with the aim of rewarding and investing more in top employees.”

This is execspeak for screwing the majority and only giving their chosen few a decent raise.
I think floating the "More" link to the top is a great idea for such a valuable recurring thread. In the meantime, I got annoyed and threw together a minimal full-text search to canvas opportunities faster: https://hnjobs.lifeoverip.dev/
The scales fall from tetrometal's eyes .... yes, a huge amount of the discussion around masks is pure virtue signalling.

That's why there's this huge focus on masks stopping the spread by pre-symptomatic people, which is a highly dubious and never-before tried idea, for which basically no reliable evidence exists (masks pre-COVID being intended to stop you getting sick, not other people), and which is an absolutely pure form of virtue signalling. It's literally a highly visible sign that someone is suffering discomfort for someone else's health, except, that only works if you believe it's actually true.

Look at the Nordics. In Sweden there's no mask requirement because the epidemic is disappearing. In Norway they pointed out that given the tiny number of infected people, even if you assume masks work perfectly, 200,000 people would need to wear a mask constantly to stop one new infection. And this is a virus with an IFR of about 0.1% so you end up needing millions of people to wear masks constantly to stop just a single death, almost certainly of a person very close to the end of their life anyway.

The numbers just don't work, at all, once the epidemic has faded away. And as Sweden and other places shows it can fade away without any mask requirements.
"Microsoft fully appreciates the importance of addressing the President’s concerns. It is committed to acquiring TikTok subject to a complete security review and providing proper economic benefits to the United States, including the United States Treasury."
=> So US Treasury will give MS money to buy TikTok (US market only)? And they have limited time to make this deal? So US Treasury will effectivelly own the US TikTok... and NSA will record every move on it and process it with BigData...
> We're creating a world of shame and judgement over wearing PPE,

I think this would happen anyway, because of psychological dynamics in group/societies (cases of public shaming, drives to and against conformism etc abound throughout history).

However in your particular case the issue is exacerbated by the fact that PPEs effectively became part of identity politics.

It's possible that quite a few people who are shaming you for not wearing a mask are doing so because they don't believe you're honest bout your medical condition and instead you're making this up in order to "stand your ground".

People are kinda silly; we all hope that people from "our side" of the political spectrum are not, but once identity politics dynamics kick in human beings tend to lose quite a bit of their rationality.
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Trump is signaling that Microsoft is his lackey and Microsoft is signaling in the affirmative. That cloud business from the Defense department sure is lucrative.
I don’t think Package Control prevents you from downloading its extensions and using it with another editor.
> JavaScript isn't that. It carries too much legacy baggage. Too many gotchas; too many pointy bits. It's also just super noisy.

Not only that. If you use types, and then an FP library, and then immutability, these three are at always at odds with each other.
Yeah, and who's going to make all your stuff for dirt cheap? Do you have any idea how hard the economy relies on China to be be competitive, even more to survive.

The thing is you probably could shop around and buy things made elsewhere but:

1) Chinese made things are convenient.
2) Chinese made goods are competitively priced.
3) Chinese made goods are readily available.
4) China makes other things too, such as materials, medical supplies, vaccines...

Probably 98% of the items in your house come from China either directly all indirectly.
The most insightful computer vision project
Video overview of the project https://youtu.be/HgB54rRLwrg
Good point, not a great analogy. My sentiment was the risk of this becoming normalized and even formalized.

When I was (a lot) younger, I had a pet theory that the anti-virus companies were making the viruses and that it was a sort of protection racket.
Until wireless headphones can reproduce audio with the same quality as wired, I'm out.
Yeah, locking/unlocking the car out of sight sounds like a bad idea. It doesn't sound like a sufficiently important use case to justify obnoxious sounds.
I would say that it can be both. Large organizations like Microsoft have so many different people and teams that there isn't necessarily a group-think. On the contrary, different teams will have different priorities, and keeping people aligned is a really hard job.

The thing that bothers me about Visual Studio Code is that does conform to the general Microsoft rule of enabling telemetry by default. IMO, this is not good practice, and in some cases it seems to have been encouraged or mandated at a senior level. We should not have aggressive data collection in the world's standard desktop OS, or compilers baking vendor instrumentation into C++ binaries by default.
Ivermectin is known to have a negative impact on biodiversity:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00489...
The dutch often separate vehicle and bicycle traffic (physically, not just with paint).
I disagree, plane being out of service for a while should be a tested risk factor and is entirely within the realm of possibility pre-COVID.
It’s misleading to take this headline and not actually read the document and notice how few these differences are.

Observable cells are basically Javascript, with a small handful of additional conveniences (most importantly: they can reference other cells reactively) which make a huge improvement in the notebook context, and make Observable significantly more pleasant than any other notebook environment (Jupyter, Mathematica, etc.).

Javascript libraries and code snippets can be used as-is in an Observable notebook, and anything in Observable cells can be straightforwardly ported to vanilla JS at the expense of a bit of effort and slightly uglier code. (Or the Observable runtime and standard library can be used directly externally.)
Most people haven't got the message yet that governments are acting irrationally. If governments mandate a mask law, then everyone becomes a cop. The other dog walker you see on the path, who is terrified of what they think is a disease that has killed 7% of the population[1], will report you and because it's the law you'll be punished even though it makes no sense.

Look, we're in an environment where rationality has disappeared. Now is not the time to be radically changing human interaction, possibly forever, on the basis of atrociously poor statistics and data handling.

[1] https://www.kekstcnc.com/media/2793/kekstcnc_research_covid-...
I wanted to point out that for all of Elons tweets he certainly isn't the guy making the graphics and videos. Unless SpaceX is paying their graphic designers using exposure or outright slavery they are spending money on it.
> It also frustrates me that this prevents someone from building a compatible plugin for VIM or any other editor. This would be much more powerful if it could be in all the IntelliJs as well.

VS Code implementation could be used to implement VIM because VIM can use language server infrastructure etc. IntelliJ would be a game changer for me but Microsoft OSS-ing their implementation would have 0 impact on this - IntelliJ uses their own language analysis infrastructure, FS, etc. and they shown no interest in using language server protocol.