skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But you're basically trying to superset the TS compiler. If this doesn't cover TS typechecking then it fails on it's promise of a single pass compiler stack.

Are you suggesting that TS team is so incompetent or legacy burdened that their codebase is impossible to extend. What use case of TS would you exclude to arrive at simpler code base ?

Writing a transpiler that ignores type checks is probably simple but also quite useless for dev workflow - if I need to run a separate type checker might as well run a separate linter and compiler, the tech is established.
I think this can be viewed as a marketing and UX problem, sort of. It reminds me of the Wii Amiibo - people actually paid money to train their AI bots because of how Nintendo designed them. Not sure how many people, but a reasonable enough segment of the market that Nintendo thought it a worthwhile investment anyway
Throwing out names doesn't help. Bootwizard shouldn't have even said it wasn't Oracle.
I'm not sure if you're aware that mobile gas vans with their exhaust piped in were used extensively by the Nazis, or whether you'd only heard of Zyklon-B and concentration camp gas chambers.

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

"The gas vans were specifically designed to direct deadly exhaust fumes via metal pipes into the airtight cargo compartments, where the intended victims had been forcibly stuffed to capacity"

They were used to kill "Jews, Poles, Romani people, mentally ill people, and prisoners".
My preferred job for social interaction would be a bartender or server. But, I think it'd require some training before starting especially the former one.
It's possible in that it exists, although I don't know to what degree of rigor the tests have been verified. (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/opinion/coronavirus-tests...)
One exception is if your business accepts payments which can't be reversed

I do sometimes wonder how much global loss in economic productivity is caused by the various payment methods that allow customers to retrospectively reverse purchases or payments with a high or certain likelihood of taking their money back and possibly also costing the merchant a fee, whether or not the customer has any legitimate basis for doing so.

Even with an extremely low chargeback rate, the amount of hassle the occasional chargeback does cause to one of my little businesses is wildly disproportionate. We are generally very keen on looking after our customers and in practice we tend to refund liberally in cases where for example there seems to have been a genuine misunderstanding on the customer's part, even if legally we have no obligation to do so. Consequently, we have a generally very positive reputation, and sometimes even people who didn't find our product was right for them turn out to be good ambassadors. I would gladly decline the probably tiny number of customers who wouldn't buy our stuff without the option to make us give their money back involuntarily in exchange for the certainty we would get, and I don't think our reputation would suffer in the slightest for it.

I can only imagine how annoying this sort of issue must be at a much larger scale, like running a fashion store in the current circumstances where most sales are online, and then encountering Rita Returner who wants to buy five new dresses every month but then always returns four of them (one or two now slightly marked and not able to be sold as new) because the law says she can and there's no way to prove she caused the marks. A friend-of-a-friend apparently saw a huge cost to their business from a situation not unlike this in recent months.
Agreed but you got very large monitors. If you have regular sized monitors (~23-24") then you can arrange them in more creative ways than horizontally.

I'm using 3 monitors - the two main are right in front of me, the one on top of the other, and the 3rd is on the side, rotated vertically. I tried several arrangements and I found this one working great for me.
Try using Kaniko with GitLab CI, it will save you from having to run privileged / DIND containers.
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You do realize that Japan did not surrender after the complete and utter destruction of Hiroshima.

The allies who surrendered to Japan in Batan and elsewhere were treated as inhuman -- "surrender" was the ultimate shame -- there was no honor is surrender. It wasn't until after the bombing of Nagasaki and the news of Soviet attacks in Manchuria, the complete and destruction of numerous other Japanese cities, and potential mass starvation that surrender came. They were more fearful of being occupied by the Soviets, than surrendering to the Americans.

America has her sins, but she is not the monster the revisionists make her out to be.
I'm trying to understand how ordering lunch can ever be described as "elegant." It's a mundane task. I'm largely convinced that it's not the manner, but the body it's done in or the credit card on the person.

People are really good at convincing themselves that things are just so.
The damages and side effects of masks are consistently and systematically downplayed. Benefits are vanishing if exist at all. The group think is such that you will never see any of these mentioned in the media.

Here is a study that shows that cotton masks increase(!) the incidence of flu like diseases:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/

And here is a study that warns that wearing masks leads to cardiac damage:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-020-01704-y
Learn to communicate efficiently and directly in writing.

I personally like McCaskill's handbook from NASA Langley because it's focused on practical matters:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19900017394/downloads/19...

"Effective writing involves far more than following rules of grammar. There is a craft to creating phrases, sentences, and paragraphs that ensure communication."
EdgeQL: We can do better than SQL
This. While I can appreciate that Apple is taking a huge risk in creating their own chips, I cannot believe that the performance of the chips will be on par with current x86_64 chipsets based on Apple's past. In all honestly, the vast majority of Apple's clientele for computers are businesses, who basically just use them for basic web browsing/office work, which isn't a high bar to meet the needs for.
I don't want to appear a naysayer, but everyone should be aware that N95 masks usually aren't effective at the intended level because of the lack of a fit test and training by the non-professional users.

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23957506
By saying it wasn't a company could imply it was another company that someone else asked about that you didn't respond to.

If you say you're not going to answer in a positive, then you also shouldn't answer in the negative.
I'm not aware of any essential nutrients lacking from a plant-based diet, aside from maybe B12, which is supplemented in animal feed and besides would probably be provided by soil bacteria if agricultural soil was healthier and our produce wasn't washed so well. A few amino acids like taurine aren't in plants but are synthesized from others in the human body.
> We don’t insist that everyone in Congress understand how the B2 Spirit “stealth” bomber works, or how serotonin reuptake inhibitors help manage depression, or even how the internal combustion engine works. Yet we justifiably expect our government to regulate them.

Indeed, that's not what I'd insist. I'd insist on elected officials to have a team surrounding them who they can ask and who in turn can ask others when decisions have to be made.

In other words, leaders have to know how and when to delegate. If they don't know how to do that, then I assert that they aren't and cannot be good leaders.
JSON doesn't do comments.
Not wrong at all. I do 3 days in paper bags. Reasoning for paper is that it breathes more than plastic and the half life of the virus is shorter on paper as well.
This was a field with multiple products on the market. How much VC do you need to deliver benchmarks of shipping software?

Similarly, saying cloudless home automation is easy sounds like you’re leaving out a lot of experience other people gained about the challenges of getting consumer adoption with the need to take on 24x7 server maintenance, connectivity challenges blocking popular features, etc. which made that class of products less appealing to most customers.
You left out running Z3 in your list of tasks. Did you read the article?
Skipping the field-terminated bit, I just grabbed a hunk of preterminated fiber and some dumb media converters. It creates a dielectric gap in my network, so lightning and surges coming in on the cable modem, can't damage the rest of the network. (I used to fry a wifi router about twice a year during storms, and got sick of replacing them...)
I also can recommend https://github.com/tchiotludo/akhq for basic Kafka management
U.S. Navy Sex-Trafficing Scandal in Bahrain
I'm explicitly saying it's not a problem as he claims and should be discussed, and deliberately gave the reasons why it's an interesting discussion.

That's not irony.

Not interested in that discussion? You can collapse the thread using the [-] button.
It's getting disingenuous to call it tech. At the point of interface it is media. The effects of these new media have on society are not well diagnosed by tech experts, who specialize in understanding how a thing works, less so with how it affects.
I meant to say “western Europe” so as to exclude the communist-influenced purge of religion from Eastern Europe. Also, most Americans would consider Buddhism a religion.
I was under the impression modern browsers suspend background tabs to some extent?

But anyway, you're talking about a very specific use case that only partially generalises.

I'm typing this on an 2014 11" MacBook Air 6,1 i5-4260U CPU @ 1.40GHz, 2001 Mhz, 2C / 4T with 4GB RAM running Windows 10 with two Chromium Edge and Firefox, 2D CAD and vector graphics programs running.
Grammar, Punctuation, and Capitalization: A Handbook for Technical Writers [pdf]
There's a deep irony here, given that the literal genesis of the company's trademark is in their victory over another, much larger "Apple" in a different industry:

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

(tl;dr: Apple Corps sued Apple and settled, with Apple promising not to enter the music business under the Apple brand. Then Apple entered the music business in a big way a few decades later, Corps sued again, and lost.)
Ever tried Lync? I'd take Teams over that shit any day
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ios to windows; apple to microsoft;
I find it strange that people still defend the U.S. in a post-Snowden world.

> held accountable

How exactly? For all we know the CIA is still doing it's thing. As for U.S. companies spying on people, I am sure fines have taught them not to. /s

Censorship is bad but it's TikTok, it's not like the censored parties would lose sleep over it. Same with Zoom, the plethora of alternatives make it a non-issue in my opinion.
There is no good answer.

It is possible to do child care safely, as some programs in NYC remarkably demonstrated over the spring and summer, but it is all too easy to fail. And even "success" still involves some level of infection, spread, and risk of death or long term health impacts in the participants.

The overall aggregate risk may be low, but the predictability in any particular case is also low, so engaging is something like playing a game of Russian Roulette.

That said, in NYC, we are open to having our 3 kids return to in-person school, at least in the 1st quarter, while we expect 2nd and 3rd quarters over winter to be full lockdown. Even if there is a return for the start of 1st quarter, we do not expect it to last, as the temporary quarantine bar is low, and the overall fragility of the dependencies and relationships required is high.
On call doesn’t mean always available for anything, though. It should mean if something truly breaks you’re there to help fix it. If the former is the case, I’d definitely set some boundaries to reduce that over time.
That is a good question - I'd say that yes, they absolutely are different than software professionals -- their level of work brings in some aspects of both categories - they consume/use their engineering education, then create new work based upon that foundation, and have a combination of skills from both their training and their experiences.

They certainly create new work... while consuming the knowledge gained from a solid engineering education.
Gladwell's entire career has been seeking one revelatory moment after another. Always backed by (entertaining!) anecdata and cherry picking.

On the one hand, I have trouble believing he ever lost religion given the way he operates. On the other, this seems like marketing for a new book.

Now what's the hand of two hands not clapping?
Paper bags are cheap, provide adequate containment, allow moisture to evaporate, and the virus is stable on paper for less time than on plastic.
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Good to be aware, in any case. Multiple continents is the signal.
You should question whether you really are getting valuable learning from these sources. For example, most product launches / company launches / open source project launches / arxiv research paper announcements / developer conference presentations / AI or ML demos / etc that end up on the frontpage of Hacker News are just noise / junk that gets a flare up of attention and never goes anywhere and doesn’t persist even 6 months later as a newsworthy topic or something someone needs to know to stay current.

The only thing I find unique to Hacker News is much higher quality analytical comments about politics, economics and tech industry labor issues. Almost everything else is in one ear out the other.
The Economist is basically the flag-bearer of pro-capitalist policy, so yes their views would largely be supported by the entire US political establishment.
I use a tiling window manager and often have up to 6 editor panels open at a time, spread across 3 monitors. I honestly don't know how people are productive with a single editor window.
I mean, on call is on call. That's different. But do you have a sane rotation schedule?
Agreed. My major workflows involve a 28" 4K screen with a tiling window manager. The second monitor is often empty or has chat window or music player in it.
I highly doubt the author compiled Z3 with those mitigations enabled, because they are opt-in compiler options. Perhaps if the program makes frequent system calls then the kernel’s mitigations would introduce overhead.
Yes, of course but that's the point. That people are unable follow correct mask usage and get sloppy, especially over time.
Wow, TIL that there exists a parrot that eats sheep. That's as impressive as a wolverine fighting a bear.
That may be true, but try making Italian food with non-standard ingredients and the pedantry comes out in full force.
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From first study: "The null hypothesis is that there is no difference between medical masks and cloth masks. ... The control arm was ‘standard practice’, which comprised mask use in a high proportion of participants [NOT "mask free"]." -- this means "increase relative to surgical masks", not relative to no mask.

Second study is only N95s. Just don't wear an N95 if you need more air for aerobic capacity. The OP study shows that they're not _that_ much better than surgical masks anyway.

But hey believe what you want to believe.
New query languages come and go almost every day. SQL has been around, mostly unchanged, for over 40 years and it's still the industry standard... Just saying.
The Magic of Engineered Serendipity
The general understanding of a consumer VPN is that it hides your real IP address, and provides privacy.

The CloudFlare WARP+ app even says "Your Internet is private" on the splash page when WARP+ is enabled which is false, and misleading.

CloudFlare do not make this clear enough in their app, they should state clearly that your real IP is exposed on the splash screen.
What percentage of the population uses v1.0 software or hardware in a situation where they have zero recourse for possible non-performance?
I know "schools aren't daycare" is one of the talking points for a number of the unions in particular. But it sort of is (among other things). The alternative is for the government to have someone else provide the childcare--which doesn't really change the problem. Or parents have to figure things out on their own however they can.
One of my force-multipliers is the Inmotion V5F monowheel [1]

This is among my favorite devices of all time. It is quick, nimble, and lightweight. It has completely replaced walking, a car or a bicycle for my local trips. While there is a learning curve, unlike a bicycle, it has required almost [2] no maintenance in ~4000 miles of riding, and both hands are free to hold things so I can carry much more than I ever could on a bike. I've transported a desk, groceries, a 50 lb box of firewood, gardening tools, and so on. Plus, riding one is just plain FUN: it feels like skiing or flying. You really have to try it to know.

A pessimistic estimate of the V5F monowheel's efficiency:

* Battery = 320 Wh = 275335 calories

* Weight = 12 kg for the device, so with a rider around 95kg

* Range = 20 km on the low end (25-30 km is typical, manufacturer claims 38±3 km)

Efficiency = 275335 calories / 95000g / 20km = 0.14 calories/g/km

An optimistic estimate given my actual riding experience:

Efficiency = 275335 calories / 91175g / 30km = 0.10 calories/g/km

[1] https://www.myinmotion.com/products/solowheel-glide-2

[2] It still works just fine despite me beating the hell out of it, but the battery has worn down to ~70%
I think the dimension you’re missing is that the a12 also consumes significantly less power. While we don’t know exact numbers, the author speculates it draws about a tenth of the power as the i7.
“Expert witnesses” then?
> how is that an argument against "We got cheap Chinese plastic trinkets?"

It's not, you just read it that way.

> How is this even connected to the flow of the conversation?

One thing (outsourcing our manufacturing -> getting cheap Chinese shit in return) has clearly led to the other (the profits not trickling down through the economy -> our political parties becoming influence peddlers).

For some bizarre reason you seem really offended by what I wrote. I think that your comment says more about you than what you think it says about me. Have a good one.
Back in university, my old roommate did networking at a car dealership and brought home old 10Mb fiber connectors. Yes, 10Mb .. designed for range, but certainly not speed.
All my stuff is mirrored on Twitter, Tumblr, Mastodon, my newsletter and my blog; the easiest way to find old posts in the blog: pluralistic.net
Quit caffeine from time to time. Then it’s way more effective when you need it.
Also, YAML is kind of a hack.

Living in Norway I've had quite a few of these situations where no is parsed to False [1].

[1] https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed/
That was a colossal mistake. Not only have they ruined their credibility in this pandemic but they've guaranteed that there will be panic buying during all future pandemics. It was a one-time weapon that provided marginal benefit and terrible long term consequences that go far beyond contagious diseases. Don't be surprised if anti-vaxxers use this incident for decades to come as proof that health authorities lie.
> Fingerprinting can take care of the recompression problems.

That only opens another problem: adversarial attacks that look totally different, but has a similar fingerprint

>Right now what I see though is that Facebook/Google/Twitter aren't even trying to do the bare minimum end-to-end authentication that Whatsapp/Telegram/Signal already does (create a private key on the end devices, and sign the content to verify the authenticity of the publisher).

>Requiring HTTPS was a great first step for tech companies to protect people and from ISPs. But they do nothing to protect people from themselves being compromised (the Twitter incident was a great proof for this).

Mainly because to 99.9% of users, there's no difference between a message that's signed by the author, and a link to a tweet that's made by the author. Even if you're the 0.1% that do care about public key cryptography it doesn't matter because you're trusting the site to do the verification and key management. It's not like PGP where you can get the public keys and verify yourself.

There's also the problem that people simply don't care. Have you seen how many photoshopped tweets end up on social media? If people are willing believe a screenshot without a link (which is trivially easy to add and verify), what makes you think they won't believe a screenshot without a signature?
No doubt it is the biggest. From the prospective of a Linux user however I'm not complaining. IMO it outperforms firefox vastly in terms of performance and all the different chrome-engine based browsers have been incredibly reliable: Ever since the pandemic started, opera has been my go to for ssh tunneling, while keeping chromium clean. All I had to do is get used to some different shortcut keys and the red logo up on top, but that's it. Still, there are several other engines available but they are still nowhere nearly as polished as chromium. Hence my statement that this has been a successful, partially open-sourced product.
I was the same way and ultrawide is the happy medium for me. 1.5x width lets me have 3 columns of windows instead of 2 and then I virtual desktop for more expansion.
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Are you saying you don’t like the format, don’t find the meetings valuable, or both?
Many interesting contrasts to the crypto alternatives.

The question “what is money for” isn’t asked as much or as loudly as after the economic meltdown of 2007 but is still valid. (I think there is a decent answer, but the way money fits into the answer could be solved in other ways too.) I’m glad to see these experiments being run, if they live long enough they’re not an experiment anymore.

The liquidity benefits of these are very local, problems that arise in the systems will be relatively local too.
It's possible to add more and more constraints on what the police can do when collecting evidence, but it can often have the opposite effect. The judges become overburdened by the multiplying requests and they start to rubberstamp things.
Would be awesome if it ran on Micropython or Circuitpython. Preferably on a Teensy 4.0.
Schools are not an island in this plan. Any strategy, without proper federal plan, resources, money, tests, and tracing is going to fail. A municipality or a city is not going to single-handedly solve this while a pandemic is raging all around, with the President golfing for the 9th weekend in a row.

With our level of infections, and essentially none or useless testing, there is no need to plan. We are all agreeing we are creating a massive spike.
People gathering indoors in violation of government regulations are clearly harming the public, because they invariably will increase the number of infections and deaths.

What are the ethics, though, of refusing to get a vaccine? if Alex Honnold had fallen off the face of El Capitan, he would have killed only himself. Is it not the same in the case of someone refusing to be vaccinated, given that the vaccination is available to everyone who does want it?

There is one difference, I suppose. The person who refuses vaccination and subsequently gets a serious case of COVID-19 causes society to spend a good deal of money treating them in the hospital. (Even if they have insurance they are needlessly increasing the costs of care for everyone.)
I agree with eradicating sources of distractions, but I must protest that personally I've learned _far more_ from newsletters/Hacker News/Twitter than I have from books. When I compare the amount of notes I take weekly from those bite-sized sources versus books, the former far outweighs the latter (like 5-10x).