skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Thank you for inadvertently proving my point. The evidence for the efficacy of universal, compliant mask-wearing is extremely strong,"

Indeed, thank you for providing a wonderful example of "scientism": a blind belief in the conclusions of "science", even when you're presented with ample scientific evidence that disproves your belief.

If your secret evidence is so strong, you should cite it, instead of merely asserting that it exists. I just gave you two incredibly well-sourced articles showing that the opposite is true, and your response is to insult me and claim I'm wrong (without proof).

Michael Osterholm (CIDRAP) and the Oxford Center for Evidence-Based medicine are not crackpot organizations, and the cited articles are reviews of all literature, not "specious studies". In all likelihood, these articles have already discussed the evidence that you believe is compelling.
taking 2.9%+ of every sale is a lot though, no?
There are a lot of replies here asking about correlation with non-racial factors such as economics or crime. The fact of the matter is that Blacks in America are poorer, suffer higher rates of unemployment, lower educational attainment and are forced to live in higher crime areas as the result of decades of racist housing policies and centuries of oppression. This is reflecting that legacy. Black people pay many different taxes merely for being Black in America, this is just another in a long list. As another example, Black people pay higher tax rates due to higher relative property assessments (https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/02/black-pro...).

For a more complete accounting, I recommend reading The Color of Law https://www.epi.org/publication/the-color-of-law-a-forgotten...
> Using the same application (the same "modern" browser) for both purposes, [...is...] unnecessary. The text of the articles can be retrieved and read with much simpler software;

Well, to push this a step farther, the great thing about extensions like uMatrix are that you can turn off Javascript+Cookies on a site-specific basis. So I know people who would feel like it was too cumbersome to juggle two browsers at the same time, but who don't have the same aversions to saying, "oh sure, I could turn Javascript and cookies off by default, but turn them on for this one specific video/shopping site."

> There is some relief for the location issue.

Definitely. I didn't want to go too in depth here, but this one of the things I'm getting at when I say Panopticlick shouldn't be the only thing people look at. Panopticlick doesn't even consider geolocation around IP addresses at all, so there's an entire vector there where Panopticlick won't tell you whether or not you're vulnerable.

There's a world of considerations here that are just hard to fit into a single comment.

> employing some software, e.g., standard UNIX utilities, other than a modern browser, to extract the image or video URLs, is sometimes necessary.

cough youtube-dl cough

If you're a user who's comfortable with the terminal, this can be a game changer even ignoring the privacy aspect. I see people all the time on HN complain about bookmarking a video and having it disappear later. Not a problem if you download them.

If you want to go even farther and you're comfortable with Bash scripting, youtube-dl even has options around managing playlists, so you can kind of "subscribe" to ongoing playlists/channels and treat them like podcast RSS feeds.

But with that I'm straying off topic.
The source of the explosion is easy to identify by the enormous crater filled with seawater where the pier used to be.
Tokyo is doing fine, and referenced in the article.
I got to have festivus dinner with the folks at Arcosanti in 2001/2002 after I invited myself onto the solar powered electric golf cart as it was making its way back from a booze run into town. The whole place was staffed by idealistic misfits. There should be a 1000 Arcosantis.
Fully agreed but if everything is in one folder out of the it doesn’t need to be hidden anymore, it could be “config” instead of “.config”. Maybe even “config” (project config inside version control) and “.user-config” (project config by developer not inside version control). The issue hints at this but deliberately descopes user configs. Files inside the folders could have a dot depending on if they are normally edited throughout development or normally left alone.
Not sure I agree with this due to the fact that all projects are different and such their tooling requirements will be different. I don't think it's fair to just apply a blanket rule of 'use fewer tools' - this tends to end up with people writing their own implementation of existing tools which then turns in to tech debt so it's kind of a void argument.
But there are usually several versions of python with several pips, possibly in combination with anaconda with multiple environments, a combination of named and rolling releases, and a SAT solver that's always slow but occasionally spontaneously decides to become extra slow and extend your build time by hours.

Oh and I forgot about setup.py. That too.
Here goes Fiber Curtain
I've owned an Arcosanti bell for 25+ years.
This is looking at the problem backwards. Neighborhoods with higher proportions of African-Americans living in them are charged higher insurance premiums because AAs tend to be poorer, less educated, etc. because of their unique history in this country (slavery, racism, Jim Crow, etc.), which results in them being more likely to live in rougher/poorer neighborhoods, thus warranting higher insurance premiums.

Giving AAs $20 off their insurance policy doesn't fix the problem. We need a Marshall Plan-type of investment in AA communities and a multi-generational commitment to try to heal the scar of slavery/racism in this country.
You can prove trust once and get several tokens to spend later. There are various people looking at this like Cloudflare and Google.
You're are not any more ignorant for avoiding political content on Facebook, it is a bunch of strawman echo chamber trash.
Crediverso aims to boost financial literacy among Latino Americans
Fun and Uranium For the Whole Family in This 1950s Science Kit
What do you think the structural reasons are?

> I'd almost rather flag this submission than deal with commenters seeking

That approach worries me. People are discussing trying to figure out what’s going on. It is not hate or spam. Some make mistakes. Some opinions you might disagree with or even don’t like. If you don’t want to participate, then don’t. But why trying to block others from discussing the issue?

These attempts to block free speech are very worrisome. Let’s keep at least hn free from rightthink moderation.
Jobs to be done is helpful to get a baseline understanding of what problem you want to solve. However personas and more detailed design work will help you understand your audience and their motivations. This helps you figure out if you’re building VSCO or Facetune.
Why do humans prefer to mate in private?
They’re not a monopoly
It's too bad that the iMac doesn't support Target Display mode anymore.

I've been pretty happy with the 5K Ultrafine.

Besides availability, the tricky part may be matching the display interface, as the LG is Thunderbolt only.
This is a non-issue, thus no need for a solution.

If you have too many config files, then you should use less tools.

Besides, most of them are already hidden anyway (because of dotfiles).
Hmm... chess with the feel of poker; that could be fun.
This is an interesting point. I just rode a motorcycle through southern Utah and was stuck by how much nice housing there was in seemingly ridiculous places. What is the commerce there? Why not Arcosanti with its intentionality and proximity to Phoenix?
Just me or does anyone else think there’s going to be a reckoning in interchange regulation in the US like Europe soon?

Merchants are hurting, and now the pandemic has forced cashless transaction adoption at an accelerating pace.

The egregiousness of both exempt debit interchange and credit interchange fees is almost laughingly insane compared to Europe, where it is heavily regulated. Would be surprised not to see bi-partisan action sooner rather than later addressing this very question eg Durbin Amendment Part 2.
Are you referring to the argument that Haskell's IO type is insufficiently granular to distinguish between something like erasing a disk and something like catching an async exception, or that the language's first-class feature set should be extended to things like async exceptions so they don't need to be part of "the rest of the universe" ?
It's not always that simple. For example, if you inherit from a class that has private members, you are actually going to allocate both the parent and child.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27813539/what-happens-in...

Also, if you don't mark your methods and classes as final, you're gonna be allocating functions everywhere as well.
Geostationary is very very far away and useless for nighttime. Imaging satellites usually have a shorter polar orbit that precesses east to west along with sunshine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-synchronous_orbit
That’s already the case. You have at least China’s Internet, Russia’s Internet, France is discussing ways to do the same, Australia seems to want to do it too, Thailand did some experiments a few years ago, etc.
That link is a really good read. Better than TFA, tbh. And also particularly well written

> An interesting side-effect of PEP 518 trying to introduce a standard file that all projects should (eventually) have is that non-build development tools realized they now had a file where they could put their own configuration. I say this is interesting because originally PEP 518 disallowed this, but people chose to ignore this part of the PEP xD We eventually updated the PEP to allow for this use-case since it became obvious people liked the idea of centralizing configuration data in a single file.

Hilarious and indeed interesting
That story is quite funny because the true story is actually about how Kennedy Sr. saw the signs of the top of the stock market and got rich by selling his stock and buying...

gold, which he later used during the depression to purchase distressed assets like real estate.

The parallels between the 1929 crash and now are chilling.
It really depends
I think ultimately it comes down to personalities. I'm the kind of person that likes directories and folders. And having top level files feels clunky and disorganized. Like much organization, taken to the extreme it can be a form of procrastination to avoid doing real work. Yak shaving, if you will.

But opening the root project folder to just a list of subfolders gives me a very nice first impression.

Below is my list of config files for https://www.joyapp.com (Django + NodeJS). Not a hugely complex architecture, mind you.

Some notes: .editorconfig at least tries to consolidate this for some things. And pyproject.toml could help with Python. Still, definitely jarring and something I've noticed.

.coveragerc

.dockerignore

.editorconfig

.flake8

.gitattributes

.gitignore

.isort.cfg

.prettierrc

.shellcheckrc

jest.config.js

mypy.ini

package.json

pytest.ini

requirements.txt

shell.nix

tsconfig.json

tslint.json

webpack.config.ts

yarn.lock
A lot of research goes into testing things that seem obvious. Sometimes it turns out the obvious answer is wrong. I think this is why Kinrany asked for empirical evidence.
What makes it dystopian? The Wikipedia article is sparse on any sort of quality of life info.
You're describing the Cold War-era First World (US-aligned countries), Second World (socialist countries), and Third World (unaligned countries).
I'm not a node dev, but our projects at work keep growing with helper files. We have a .buildkite to control the build, we have a makefile, a Dockerfile, a docker-compose file, go.mod and go.sum. These core files are about half of what we had a few years ago, so that is nice. The makefile references a dozen helper scripts though that are also checked into the repo (helpers to run tests, build images, publish images, clean up, etc). Most of these are vastly similar between different repos/services we run. I can't think of something better, and there is a part of me that enjoys the lack of magic: just follow the code starting at ./buildkite which will point to each make operation which will point to each helper script. The other part of me feels like, "I just want to write some code and as long as my project is structured right, everything else should be shared tooling _outside_ my repo."
Modernize network function development with this Rust(+DPDK)-based framework
When I worked at Twitter, we just had a lot of competent engineers fixing the scaling problems left by the amazing engineers.
i didn’t say that. but it’s among the most expensive.
I never quite got the Orion(nuclear?) engine design eg. is it literal "nuclear explosions" or just using nuclear as a heat source.

I think they push fluid through the bells, maybe other materials(like ceramic) for the larger nozzles... can they use magnetic field to contain heat... probably not assumes it's ionized or something ha... heat still goes through magnetism. I got it, active heat destructive interface ha.
This is incredibly vague. Is this a proposal for some kind of standard or protocol? It says that "many of the world’s biggest telecommunications companies are Clean Telcos", so whatever it is it can't be that difficult to achieve.

Is someone familiar enough with this to provide a source that discusses what "Clean Carrier/Telco/Store/etc" entails technically?
I think jbarciauskas said this better than I can, but how is it at all dishonest? Yes, there may be specific inputs that cause these rates to be what they are, and those inputs may be obvious. But the conclusion seems equally obvious, and perfectly honest: insurance costs more in Black neighborhoods. Acknowledging the inputs only makes a stronger argument for institutionalized racism.
Yeah, I take a cluttered root dir over having to hunt down files I may not know exist in various places in order to fully understand a project I’m not the maintainer of.

Gets me every time when a maintainer puts Dockerfile in some random subdirectory.

If the root dir is full of dozens of files from all the tooling needed to build your software, maybe you have another problem than directory structure...
I am only about 30 pages into my copy. I think this book has a strong potential to move the discussion on how and why open source works forward and the analysis thus far reflects many of my personal anecdotes as an OSS developer beginning my career in the Kernel and moving to GitHub style projects.

So far I think this book does an excellent job:

- Summarizing why the popular analysis of “OSS developers feel overwhelmed because they need more maintainers helping”. Spoiler: it is unlikely that more maintainers or even money is really what most developers need.

- Why the values and interests of the GitHub generation of OSS development is different than the Linux Kernel or FSF eras that proceeded it.

- A brief introduction to the personalities and movements that have formed OSS development so far.
Yeah, I was kind of really surprised to see this instead of a chording system.
Great, now I can suck at chess in 3 more dimensions.
Russian ship's cargo of dangerous ammonium nitrate was stranded in Beirut port
I have some trouble understanding what people mean by scalable today, especially why people seem to have to run entirely event driven, and not mostly on the socket read/write edges?

Soon to be almost 20 years ago we pushed >10k messages per second on a JVM, using essentially pentium pro class hardware, and the messages spread over thousands of TCP consumers, yielding average latencies well below 0.5 seconds. Not really low latency, but low enough that we didn't need much lower

This was on a purely blocking implementation, because that was before almost anyone did anything like that on the JVM.

With the advancement in async IO, it's got to be possible to drive many millions of sockets, or have really low latency targets before you have to start being really careful?

So what are you guys doing that seems to need so much async code?

With that I mean actual async code, not code having locks but pretending to be async by using callbacks everywhere, because that's somewhat common.

I'm not trying go be rude, I honestly don't get what people are doing that needs more than the JVM should rather easily provide, unless possibly you have super low latency targets?

There seems to be too many that have to resort to quite cumbersome implementation strategies, so I'm starting to think there's some corner of the industry which I have completely missed, and which requires these strategies regularly?
JavaScript isn’t the hero we wanted, but TypeScript is the hero we need.
What were they? According to the article, there were physical controls to turn the wipers on and off but not to adjust the speed.
> PRC apps threaten our privacy, proliferate viruses, and spread propaganda and disinformation.

It's hard to discern propaganda from the attempt to fight it nowadays, or maybe there never was a difference in the first place.
This is where the focus should be. The entire world has put all eggs in one nest. That's just asking for trouble.
> Women tend to be burdened with more responsibilities than men, and thus have less time to carefully comparison shop.

Or maybe because women care more about brands and men just pick what’s cheaper. Or maybe because men need smaller variety of options. Or maybe because men consume more razors per store visitor. Or maybe because men spend less time in stores per dollar spent and selling for men is cheaper. Or a dozen other reasons.

That claim about women responsibilities is very simplistic and likely wrong. Unless you have some data to confirm you pr statement, share please if you have.
"To help ensure these anonymous tokens can't be used to identify you or your location, they change every 10-20 minutes. ... On a daily basis, your phone downloads a list of all the anonymous tokens associated with positive COVID-19 cases and checks them against the list of anonymous tokens it has encountered in the last 14 days."

This page actually explains this pretty well for a non-tech-savvy audience.
People tend to think of only 1st order effects. They don't tend to think in 2nd, 3rd, ..., nth order effects--not that it's easy to quantify the effects, but it's usually not difficult to see/imagine those potential relationships.

This is why a lot of rhetoric in general is so effective: it prays on focusing on simple first order effects instead of attempting to look at issues holistically. I'm not saying hollistic analysis is simple--far from it--but one needs to be aware that life is really complex with a awhole lot of gray areas.
Basically any non-distributed one. In addition to the others that've been mentioned, there's CVS and Clearcase
I tried to downvote this, but I think it’s already downvoted to the max. There is so much wrong with this pattern.

Please use something like Poetry to manage deps.
> unless you've got a very big fleet

Starlink
Thats comparing Apples to Oranges.

Read the book "The Polyester Prince". The Ambani's got it banned in India.

It's an open secret that the Ambani's are the most corrupt family in India.
This is like those code obfuscation contests for project structure. Personally I have enough to keep mental notes on, but it does sound like a great prank to play on my brother.

In fact, now that’s my new litmus test for ‘is this a good solution’.
It’s not, it’s just still really expensive as an ongoing process. £20-80 per session still sounds great to me.
Come on, stop making fun of Yahoo like that, it's been years now...
As you go higher in revenue it goes down

I much prefer a company that takes a slightly higher percentage and provides a great service

than the @#$# at Paypal who will freeze your accounts for reasons like 'your earnings are growing too fast' or 'you compete with our fellow silicon valley company'
> I tend to think of software or media "subscriptions" as "renting access", not as "subscribing", and mostly avoid them.

This is a huge point - they're rentals, not subscriptions.

I blame cable TV "subscriptions"; in theory you can record cable programs and keep them forever (like a real subscription) but with internet TV "subscriptions" they make it very hard to do so. TiVo with a cable card will happily record HBO or Disney Channel, but it won't record HBO Max or Disney+.

Software, video streaming and game "subscriptions" should really be called rentals, because you lose access after you stop paying rent.

Apple could choose to implement actual subscriptions in their App Store. Basically you would get updates as long as you keep paying the subscription fee. Practically this would still be a rental though since Apple breaks its APIs every year.
Alas, outside of crazy hacks like this one (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzTVe6aVgww), there's no way to use the 5K iMacs as an external display :(
I've wondered the same, the answer seems to be maybe, but the challenge is doing so in a way that doesn't blow up normal webpage functionality.

For example, a fingerprinting script might try to measure the viewport height and width, calling on window.height can give it that info, but if Firefox were to fake that info when a friendly script calls for it, the page might try to reflow to the new size, etc. All kinds of desired behavior can use these same values, the challenge is determining whose a bad actor.
>It's the significantly cheaper that is most surprising to me. They are about $100 a year vs. $175 a year for their competitions.

I pay Goodcover $72/year for renters insurance, versus $148/year for a comparable policy from Liberty Mutual obtained less than three months earlier,
Hidden files are never hidden to developers because they need to be accessed and changed so often.
> However, there were a few commenters on hacker news who also guessed it. Funny enough, nobody took notice because the community downvoted the comments.

HN does seem to fetish certain orthodoxies.
Might be wrong but KaiOs is a different entity that partners with Jio.
KaiOs tech works with multiple other telecom providers
https://www.kaiostech.com/
hats off to Facebook for being absolutely shameless and zero ethics

they don't even pretend to be honest (unlike Google) and it's a miracle so far they haven't had to pay damages for all the 'inspiration' they have found from other people's products
I agree with the use of smallish unmanned aerial units.
I also agree with using them in significantly large numbers.
But I'd like to see combination use.

Example:Unmanned plane delivers quadcopters to position and retrieves them later.

Protoss - "Carrier has arrived."
Arcologies in real life are way less cooler than the Simcity 2000 version.

It would be pretty neat to see a single enormous building with self-contained housing, commerce and industry for 20k-50k people. Not to mention the optional space launch capability. The design population of this is what, only 5k people? And it's a bunch of buildings? And it also hasn't been able to move out of the development phase for 50 years? Laaame.
The Global Sanctions Data Base
I just wanted to point out, Butterfly Keyboard on MacBook wasn't much of a criticism at all. It was trade off that is possibly worth it in the name of the thinnest Notebook.

Butterfly Keyboard get most of its criticism when it moved to MacBook Pro, Because now you are putting up with a keyboard that ~50% of the people find it to have worse typing experience at the expense of a possible ( or not as we have seen other vendor capable of doing without it ) 1mm decrease in thickness.

Personally I still want the old 1.5mm Scissor Keyboard.