skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Constantly.

I don't mind high level videos to give a 10,000ft view but for everything else the written word wins every time.

Currently re-reading A Philosophy of Software Design and just started "Grokking Algorithms" alongside the 2-3 fictional books I have on the go at any given time.
The question is whether I trust your "survey" or the CDC's recommendation.

But also, in both cases based on a quick skim it seems to me like you're misrepresenting the studies. In the first study, the control was "normal practice" which included mask use. In the second study, I see no claims about cardiac damage; I understand it to say that masks make it harder to breathe, which is useful information but not very surprising.
Rather than absolution via perceived failures by political opponents, maybe we can grant some compassion?

The more important thing is that these later surges, which are not unexpected, are looking less deadly https://covid19-projections.com/estimating-true-infections/#...
It's a bigger difference than it sounds, because the space taken by the taskbar and window chrome are fixed. So the extra pixels go directly to your vertical scroll area.
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In https://www.amazon.ca/dp/0143118757/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_C2b...
My uninformed hunch: There's likely a lot to be said for 1) requiring all apps to use a single modern GUI toolkit, and 2) optimizing that toolkit for the use case of touch. Rather than having a single codebase that's supposed to solve all use cases in addition to 30 years of baggage.
> Take regular walks and use that time to think. There is something about a steady walk that seems to improve problem solving, especially for more abstract/creative things.

When I’m thinking really hard about something, I _have_ to pace back and forth.

I’m not sure that walking will make me think harder, but I’m sure it can’t hurt.
Some forewords on whats going on will be good. Link takes you to 2+ hours long video of two man talking by the fire. Are they resurrecting old Ubuntu Linux desktop environment?
Why we Are Lonely
"The smartest person in the room... is the room." -D. Weinberger
Last time I was visiting Japan my friends with Apple phones were able to add their physical cards to their phones and then top up their suica/pasmo cards digitally but I had Android and it was impossible.
"What color is the sun?"
"Bright."
New AI workloads also run on dedicated blocks. I.e. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A11#Neural_Engine
Read the books, read the manuals.
They have switched from hard caps to soft caps. Your unlimited plan isn't really unlimited. It's all in the microprint, but after enough bandwidth is used, there will be repercussions (varies depending on provider).
> I either keep a single full screen window

Pretty much what I do with my single screen. Probably down to being a contractor for a long time and never knowing from one day to the next if I even had a desk to sit at, never mind a monitor or two.
As a Typescript developer, I really like this! Haskell has always been difficult for me to grok but this syntax makes bridging the gap really intuitive. Bravo!
Mfrs use them because they are not patent encumbered. There are some fairly high power 8051 clones, true. But in most applications they are barely sufficient.

In this case any kind of MCU is making life harder than it needs to be.
“they pay a multimillion recurring contract”

That’s not a bad customer. They may be a tough and unpleasant one, but as long as they’re bringing in more money for your company than you’re paying out to support them, you’re solid†. The bad ones are the ones who land you in the red for your trouble.

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† Of course, if you can find yourself other customers who’ll generate more revenue for less pain, by all means cut the ballaches loose just as soon as you contractually can. That’s just good business.
The point of a school reopening plan isn't to "solve this" - as you say, there's no way to escape the fundamental problem that the coronavirus will spread at school. The point of a plan is to make targeted reductions in the spread while accounting for the likely secondary effects. Paulding County has chosen to allow the virus to spread, and whether or not we agree with that choice, it would still be better if they didn't have students jammed shoulder to shoulder in interior hallways.
This is funny. HN's general consensus on any political issue is that, regardless of context, the right is the true evil.

And you can even test this. Support communism in a comment and see how fast you get upvoted. Support Trump in a comment and see how fast you get banned.
From "War-time Diary, 1942" by Orwell:

"[27 March] Crocuses now full out. One seems to catch glimpses of them dimly through a haze of war news.

Abusive letter from H.G. Wells, who addresses me as 'you shit', among other things.

The Vatican is exchanging diplomatic representatives with Tokyo. The Vatican now has diplomatic relations with all the Axis powers and - I think - with none of the Allies. A bad sign and yet in a sense a good one, in that this last step means they have now definitely decided that the Axis and not we stands for the more reactionary policy."
The argument is no one knows the exact details of the whole system.

That is obviously true, the only experts at these companies are the engineers who write code. There are still details they don’t understand.

An expert would have to be the collective knowledge of every engineer that worked at the org and there would still be missing detail and ‘bugs’.

This is literally why the security industry exists, bugs are inevitable.

I don’t think the argument is ‘crazy’, it’s accurate when speaking about data protections.

To assert your data is safe is to assert there are no security issues with your software.

The only way of asserting this is to either encrypt everything or not store it at all.

These companies will never do that so we end up with these complex arguments in Congress justifying it’s ‘safe’.
It's stated to have a liberal slant, so especially on social issues it would disagree with Trump. It's also explicitly said bad things about Trump's demeanor or attitudes.

However, it does praise some actions that Trump and the Republicans have done with regards to covid19. I overall find that it greatly tones down the extreme takes / perspectives I see on Reddit, and finds lots of nuance
It definitely doesn’t help that astronomy students are taught that the sun and sun-like stars are called yellow dwarfs, and almost all visualizations of stellar types associate spectral class G with yellow as well…
This is a good approach because it focuses on the desired outcome ('no invalid configs get deployed'), and doesn't try to use a proxy ('you have to validate locally') to get there.
What is a typical reason someone wouldn't be able to be vaccinated?
Unfortunately there are no other ARM designs that can compete with X86. And Apple CPUs will only run in Apple Hardware executing Apple Software.
This is slightly tangential but if you are moving and fiber internet is an important consideration for you then check out this tool I made to check fiber connectivity in bulk:

https://gigahood.com/

It also checks within 500 ft of the address. You may be able to trench a fiber line out yourself at that distance.
NASA has always used private firms to design and build practically everything. SpaceX will be constrained by the same things as all the other private aerospace and defense contractors: export control restrictions, domestic production laws, and most importantly the loss--and transition to a domestic rival--of a huge (even primary) customer if that customer should be displeased with their choices.

If SpaceX (or Blue Origin or whatnot) manage to transcend the need for US government money, well, good for them. They just created a huge new swath of economic activity, which is exactly the goal of NASA in supporting commercial services.
Interview with Bill Gates on Covid, social media
Not OP. But suppose you read books from when you are 10 until you are 70. How many books a year? For me, 5-10. Now multiply.
Couldn't agree more, a proper debugger is not just a glorified printf.

Where I currently work there are two of us who actually leverage the debugger everyone else is using printf() style debugging.

I can find an issue faster in a codebase I've never seen than devs who've worked on it for years but in another part - the superpower? hit a breakpoint nearby and single step through it at high speed adding stuff to the watch list then repeating it and watching the watchlist mutate.
The Delta IV and Atlas V were developed twenty years ago. Given turnover and the new management structure, lots of those people are gone or not in the same roles.
Vaccine Debate - Kennedy Jr. vs Dershowitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfnJi7yLKgE
Here's a modest proposal, an idea I got from reading Supernova Era by Cixin Liu: we could send the kids to boarding schools in China. They have covid under control and we already outsource a lot of industrial production to China so why not outsource education too. Shipping kids over there and back could help stimulate the airlines and maybe Trump could negotiate a deal to pay for it via subsidized soybeans and other excess agricultural products. The parents would still have an externalized child rearing service and the kids would get a nice cross-cultural experience. There's probably excess real estate in Chinese boomtowns that could house the American students. Then when covid is under control here and Trump and his immigration restrictions are in the past the Chinese can resume sending their kids back here to the US to study.
Vaccines are not without a risk, and the current versions are being rushed.
I am not anti-vaccine, but I am cautious about untested politicized medicine. I also am not a fan of a poll that over simplifies the situation for a cheap bit of attention.

- How effective is the vaccine. The influenza vaccine only reduces the risk of flu illness by between 40% and 60% among the overall population during seasons when most circulating flu viruses are well-matched to the flu vaccine.
- New vaccine - How has it been tested? The Federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program exists for a reason, and these vaccines are being rushed.
- Why this particular vaccine? There are at least 120 in development.
- Article indicates the vaccine is free. No vaccine is free. Even if there is no direct financial cost to the person getting the vaccine, there will be costs and expenses to getting it. If your not upfront about this, what else are you not mentioning? Perhaps the vaccine is free, but not the administration of it?
- How is this vaccine administered? A recent Phizer vaccine requires two doses 21 days apart. It was not clear what form it was, but I suspect an injection which the article uses for illustration. This means dealing with some medical office twice, likely during the day and requiring an appointment and taking time off work and getting to the site and it is not stated how much that 21 days can vary.
- Look at the governments reactions and responses to date. There have been issues politicizing the response and many failures to date and this poll wants me to blindly trust them.

Some Resources:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-risks-of-rush...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/bill-gates-on-covid-...

https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200515/pfizer-says-covid-1...

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/08/07/fact-sheet-explain...

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccines-work/vaccineeffect.htm
At school in England in the 90s we alternated between (among others) 'rugby football' (aka rugby) and 'soccer' in games lessons.

I've never heard 'soccer ball' though. 'rugby ball' and 'football'.
I suggest you pick up an iPad and try doing something demanding on it.
Like it or not, our society has been set up (for many years now) such that children attend school during the days. Implying that parents are the bad guys and "treating schools as daycare" is disingenuous and insulting. Parents, and society as a whole, make long term, life plans around the fact that children will be in school; not because it's a daycare, but because it's important and required. Changing that (cancelling school) impacts life in a significant, financial way; the kind of way that negatively effects both parents and children. We see the same type of thing when schools suddenly change starting times to be later; work schedules need to change and it's very stressful to everyone; people lose jobs over it. This is like that, but orders of magnitude more impactful.
What are you avoiding, deep down?
Monkey Type – a minimalistic typing test
lots of teachers are young. Lots of people who work at schools are young. Let the old stay home, there is no reason to keep the young and healthy home. Again what are you going to do if we dont get vaccines?
1 in 4 in Portugal: https://www.publico.pt/2020/08/08/sociedade/noticia/quatro-p...

I personally will probably not do it as well for a while as I am not an at-risk group and don't fully trust the 'speedy' trials.
> type of date your looking for in a fetish bar

Yeah this reminded me of the "hanky code". Either the asset is requesting immediate extraction, or signalling he's into watersports!
Coinbase says it halted $280k in Bitcoin transactions during Twitter hack
I suspect it has to do with number of windows required for your work. If it's a couple, I guess switching desktops/screens/windows via shortcut is equally or more efficient than separate screens.

However, if I have ~10-12 windows I regularly need to switch between (2-3 related projects in the code editor, 2 browser windows - 1 browsing/docs, 1 the actual app I'm working on, terminal, db mgmt tool, Figma, Slack, email, Calc for some of the data, file manager), a tiling manager or multiple desktop on just one physical screen make things significantly harder for me...I might be missing something obvious in how it's supposed to be used.
I like multiple monitors when you have two of the same size and vertical resolution next to each other at the same height. Having the mouse cursor jump I find to be distracting. On a laptop I usually stick to the one "monitor".
> If you sue, you better win because ...

I think it'd encourage companies to only sue, if the expected value from winning, was large in comparison to one's litigation costs times two.

Which seems ok to me
The Germans (just the Germans) lost two million dead, and many more wounded. If you add the other Axis powers, then it looks even worse.

Consider, also, that there were numerous fronts in the war. The Russians lost almost as many as the Germans, but they were on a totally different front from the European allies, so maybe we could say the Russian trenches were the worst, but I'll bet that they had a lot of Cossack cavalry; which, I suspect, didn't do so well against machine guns.

The Ottomans had a huge civilian death toll, but that included the "Armenian Issue," which people like to fight about (My wife actually had a neighbor that was a survivor of that "Issue," and he called it "genocide").

The short of it, was that no single nation suffered as many casualties as Germany. It's notable that they suffered so few direct civilian casualties (but look what happened from secondary causes). Boy, did that change in WWII.

The only nation that came close to Germany for total deaths was Russia.

Then, of course, we had the good ol' 1918 Pandemic, and everybody took that in the shorts.
This is getting stupid. People.. aging, cancer, Alzheimer's still exist. Maybe time to reprioritize & organize efforts?
Metallic ethernet is explicitly not designed to be used between separate buildings so you really should not use it for that application. The physical layer can survive surprising overvoltage conditions, but it is insufficient for lightning strikes and there is no sane way to add surge protection at the building entry as would be done for telco outside plant copper wiring.
I think you overestimate how CPU intensive the inference is.
Metabolic byproducts are literally toxic, and your liver and kidneys remove them constantly. "Detox" is probably overused but your comment is wrong too.
Then nobody will use it for reproducible builds. What is your point? Performant compilers for an arch are likely to produce similar code.
This is a good observation. I feel like I tell myself HN is a source of information... but it really is not. You might learn "the news" from HN, but you are not learning per-se. I would point back to another comment that reading will give you more learning. I think a fair number of us may have (temporarily) lost the ability to sit and read un-distracted. I know after about a mere 10 mins with a book in a quiet room, I get antsy.
In an early stage startup with customers, you're on call 24/7/365.
IMO the WMs on windows and OSX sucks.

sloppy focus is way more helpful than multiple monitors. You can have your editor largely obscured by documentation (or the other way around) and still type. This is especially nice with modern UIs which seem to think wasting screen real estate with white space and ribbons is an important recent innovation.
I started doing this a couple of months ago[1], and the fact that my notes are public acts as something of a forcing function; I’ve found that I engage with technical content a lot better this way. I consider myself the primary consumer of these notes (I’m not looking to provide learnings/advice in particular), but making them public has been a step in the right direction for me.

[1]: https://timothyandrew.net/learning
People who choose not to vaccinate can impact others by spreading the virus to others who cannot vaccinate for medical or religious reasons. They also spread to other people who choose not to vaccinate.

Vaccines are also not 100% effective, some people who get vaccinated are not themselves fully immune. If you choose not to vaccinate you also put those people at risk.

Finally, if you choose not vaccinate and end up in the ICU, you are taking resources in a critical ward that might be needed for patients with other serious medical conditions.
I think your point applies, especially to math. These days research math is a very collaborative and social endeavor. Terry Tao would probably disagree very strongly with you: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-t...

“The popular image of the lone genius ... is a charming and romantic image, but also a wildly inaccurate one, at least in the world of modern mathematics.”
How to Come Up with Content If You Cannot Write Well
Consider rotating your monitor to vertical instead. On the desktop, I always have one or both of my monitors vertical.
Maybe so, but I've never worked for a company that trained programmers. It was always assumed that the wonderful open office plan will facilitate the transmission of tribal knowledge like that.
everyone is susceptible to infections thats not what we are talking about. Most people cant afford babysitters for their kids, 80% of the workforce dont work behind a computer. What you guys seem to suggest will bankrupt most families.
This is a bad faith post intentionally spreading misinformation.

Ignoring the quality of these studies, the first concluded that cloth masks were less effective than medical masks, not that the are worse than no mask. It also evaluated and discussed the use of cloth masks to protect health care workers, not to slow the spread of sars-cov-2 via respiratory droplets.

The second, tiny, study says nothing about damage. Their results suggested that surgical masks reduce cardiopulmonary function slightly with surgical masks and a little more with N95 masks.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunosuppression

Non-deliberate immunosuppression can occur in, for example, ataxia–telangiectasia, complement deficiencies, many types of cancer, and certain chronic infections such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
The bigger problem from a societal perspective is that the “people cowering in fear” often includes the Dept of Justice. Prosecutors are assessed based on win rates, and they know how hard it is to go after a large company with the best lawyers. In some cases, the prosecutors personally know the people at those law firms, and remember them as the best students in their law school class. Would you go after a large firm protected by someone you know is smarter (and better at law) than you? Much easier to focus on the obvious scams and easy wins. This was part of how Goldman got away scot free with extremely questionable behavior like betting against their clients during the Great Recession, or UBS got away with just a fine for laundering cartel money (they sized their teller windows to fit the shoeboxes full of cash that the cartels were bringing in!).
is that 10gbit or 10Gbyte?
I don't know of a single employee of a serious actual business that has been issued an Apple anything. Not a laptop, desktop, or phone. I don't know of a single person that, when given the choice of what to use for work, has chosen Apple unless they already were entrenched in the Apple ecosystem.

The vast majority of Apple's customers are Apple fans, people who merely wish to think different, nothing more, nothing less.

Edit: Don't downvote just to disagree. Comment and state your reasoning on why you think I'm wrong. If you work for a company that only issues Apple devices, please speak up with your experience on how this went, and, if possible, why the company didn't go with Windows or Linux computers instead.

For the comments that try to bring up software development roles: most software developers I know either use Windows or use Linux on the desktop, and loath OSX worse than I do. Very few prefer OSX.

The few people I know that prefer OSX (and will die on that hill) are frontend developers.
Personally, I’ve been working harder because I lost my sense of job security. My company wasn’t hit hard, but there are so many people looking for jobs right now that I could easily be replaced. I feel I have to constantly impress my bosses to keep my job.
About four or five years ago, I was finally able to swing my ultimate monitor setup. 27” 5K iMac in the center and a 27” Thunderbolt Display (2560 x 1440) on both sides. All three wall mounted so I keep all my desk space free. The side displays are angled inward by about 20 degrees. Unlike windows and Linux, which both perpetually don’t seem to care about hi-dpi displays and low-dpi displays in the same desktop, macOS seamlessly handles dragging windows across the entire workspace.

Main task in the main display, docs and other references on the left display and email/messages on the right. Works wonderfully.

I’m so used to this setup that when I go to my real job and am constrained to a single monitor I feel like I’m looking through a periscope at my work.
> home grade routers

That's your answer. The average home user just wants to plug in a device, type in the wifi code, and never think about it again. Only tech nerds want fiber type connectivity. Putting SFP into home devices would see that SFP sitting unused 99.9999% of the time. Why incur the expense of adding it?
Some people are unable to get a vaccine for reasons other than personal choice. The CDC lays out certain conditions for each vaccine where a person should not get vaccinated. [0]

For example, someone who is pregnant or has a weakened immune system should not get the MMR vaccine. It's possible there will be certain conditions for any COVID-19 vaccine as well. These people will have to rely on herd immunity (ideally attained mostly through vaccinations) to ensure they stay healthy. If someone is eligible to get a vaccine but chooses not to, that would be putting others at risk.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/should-not-vacc.html
this is the virus killer war all over again
The only ‘speedy’ aspect is starting the trials quicker There’s no way to speed up the actual results of the trials.