skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're not comparing like risks. The risk-free/very low risk rate of return is probably more in 2-3% range right now.
16 of 121 patients admitted to hospital with Covid, and who completed a survey, reported hearing problems about two months after discharge.

"Munro said his team is now investigating the prevalence and causes of such problems, noting it is unclear whether they are down to the virus itself, the immune system response, stress, or even treatments for Covid – or whether it could simply be that hearing problems become apparent in a noisy hospital where individuals wear masks."
This is only being talked about now, because ABI compability is already working.

The Swift compiler is in C++ targeting the LLVM and therefore with great interoperability with C and C++ through Clang.

The Swift compiler also ships with Clang, and you can link C and C++ projects that are dependencies of Swift packages using the Swift package manager with little effort.
Are you sure about that? It looks like the law explicitly excludes the legislature. RCW 42.30.030 says it applies to "meetings of the governing body of a public agency".

"Public agency" is defined in RCW 42.30.020, which says:

> As used in this chapter unless the context indicates otherwise:

> (1) "Public agency" means:

> (a) Any state board, commission, committee, department, educational institution, or other state agency which is created by or pursuant to statute, other than courts and the legislature;

> (b) Any county, city, school district, special purpose district, or other municipal corporation or political subdivision of the state of Washington;

> (c) Any subagency of a public agency which is created by or pursuant to statute, ordinance, or other legislative act, including but not limited to planning commissions, library or park boards, commissions, and agencies;

> (d) Any policy group whose membership includes representatives of publicly owned utilities formed by or pursuant to the laws of this state when meeting together as or on behalf of participants who have contracted for the output of generating plants being planned or built by an operating agency.

See https://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=42.30
Seems like Roe vs Wade is Closer to 60/40, but regardless, that’s a pretty loaded question. What does overturn mean? Complete ban on abortion? Replace with something else?

When asked if pro-choice/pro-life, Americans are pretty evenly split.[1]

So as per the OP’s comment, which issues are so strongly supported that only party clearly supports them?

Gun control? No.

Welfare reform? No.

Higher spending? No.

I’m genuinely curious.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/1576/abortion.aspx
Self-Hosting Git with Cgit
I have my own USB-C crappy story. I have a 2020 MacBook Pro 16” with bootcamp installed. Recently I bought a USB-C hub, if I try to boot into windows (hold alt at Apple logo) the machine literally cannot boot. At all. I have to disconnect the hub in order to make any progress.
Facebook reportedly choked traffic for left-leaning news sites
From the post:

>perse was afraid to go outside

>TV made it possible for per

I'm not a native speaker, so genuine question: is this a common thing or a Stallman thing?
It could also mean working less hard for the same amount of money/status.
> We're discussing law in the comments here like we're all lawyers

Even worse, we are discussing the future social effects of changes to law as if we were psychics. Not even lawyers or the best judges could claim to do that correctly. The default position seems to be "revoking Section 230 will ruin the Internet". I'm honestly trying to see how and I just don't see it. It would change the Internet and it would make certain classes of business more difficult.

> Facebook will only become more centralized as other online communication platforms are unable to bear the costs of publishing user generated content

I don't see a substantial change in Facebook's position either way. Is everyone still waiting for Mastodon to usurp it? Or maybe we dream of some young, ethical startup to win the hearts and minds of the globe and show us all how to be benevolent in this space? The idea that Section 230 somehow helps create the conditions that gets us out of the mess we are in is a pipe dream. I would love someone to sketch me out a plan, based around the legal protection around aggregating user generated content provided by the current laws, that slays the beast of Facebook.

> Do you trust Facebook to not start censoring links to external websites?

Not anymore or less than I trust Facebook to show my posts on anyone else's feed. In a world where there is Gigabytes of content generated each day, more content than any human could possibly digest, Facebook necessarily shows you some slice of it. The fact that we don't hold them accountable for the slice they choose is frankly crazy to me.

> How are content aggregators going to exist? Forums? Chat rooms?

Should /unmoderated/ content aggregators, forums and chat rooms exit? This is a fundamental question which I am scratching at.

It seems people are making a motte and bailey argument here. They seem to suggest content aggregation couldn't exist without Section 230. This is hyperbole. It would mean the platforms that aggregate user generated content would be forced to strictly moderate it or face legal trouble.

> How is Google going to exist if it's liable for what it links to?

That brings us firmly in the territory of law that I am not familiar with. I know there are cases where the question of publishing links and how that relates to content and/or copyright is grey. However, what liability I would face if I were to post a link on my own blog to someone else's content is something I have no knowledge of.

> Meanwhile, all of my other options for discussion will slowly start disappearing as it becomes too costly to continue operating.

I'm not sure this is necessarily true. Outside of reddit and hacker news I can't think of any other space I even bother posting anything. The majority of my meaningful communication is done 1-on-1.

We're treating a specific class of communication as sacrosanct. Not even: I'm free to say what I want. But rather, I'm free to create open public spaces where anyone else can post anything they want. We're talking about a very specific kind of thing and I'm unsure if that specific thing is worth having at all.
After clicking 5 times on "Object to Legitimate Interest", I lost my own interest.

Damn you OneTrust! Why can't you just respect GDPR without needing to constantly invent new dark patterns?
I used to do that, but then all of those blocked domains start appearing in the ssh auto-completion alongside those configured in ssh config, which gets annoying.

I prefer dnscrypt-proxy over PiHole if you don't want a UI.

NOTE: A benefit of PiHole/dnscrypt proxy on a local server like the raspberry pi is that you can use it across your devices instead of just on your laptop.
argh, yeah steaks :-P
https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/

If you have steps to repro, this is likely the best option for having it fixed
> some of the bloodthirstiest predators on the planet

Present company excluded, of course. A typical human "sports hunter" can easily kill a lot more than 200 animals. And if you count all the animals that die to feed us or are simply accidental casualties of our infrastructure and resource extraction... well, the mind boggles.
>>Here speaks the voice of bitter experience. ;0)

Hear! Hear! It's another mystery of capitalism! People screw up majestically, band-aid it, and still they make money. I'm not complaining, btw, having made plenty on the phenomenon...One might suppose all those people laboring mightily to band-aid all those problems must have some kind of incentive to do it that way, eh? Magical!
It's explained here: https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html

tl;dr - "perse" is his preferred gender-neutral pronoun
I’m a software engineering looking to work on a project of mine. I’m looking to learn from others’ software engineering experience. I am interested in learning from you. I would be happy getting on calls and paying per hour. Let’s discuss?

Side note: How do I find consultants for: React, React-Native, Node.js servers, Chat client-servers, and architecting/planning solutions?

Can there ever be a legal issue with me getting some knowledge from others and applying it in my work?
Are you comparing an old-style low-def laptop panel against a modern retina one, though? Of course it'll be more expensive to replace and probably require a most specialised part.
NHS using drones to deliver coronavirus kit between hospitals
By the way, you can help rms by volunteering to maintain this website, if you wish too. It's basically about publishing his political notes, which means formatting them, uploading them and occasionally finding old references and link to them.

It's a bit hidden in the content of the home page, but you can search for "volunteer" to see the reference about it.
For patients who are going to die, that typically happens about three weeks after initial infection. After the lockdown orders will lifted it still takes a while for businesses to reopen and for people to change their behavior. There are delays in state level data reporting.

So I would say that if we don't see a sustained rise in death rates in about three more weeks from today then that would confirm the "null hypothesis" of lockdowns being ineffective. Or if they have a major spike in deaths then that would indicate that lockdowns are effective.
There's a whole section at the end on "Change doesn't mean to quit".

Companies where engineers can flit around due to boredom are few and far between. In 99% of companies you are in a position because a company needs someone to do that thing specifically, and you might have your eye on something else internally but it's less risk for management to hire someone new into that position than it is to leave your position uncovered. And you are not there to learn, it's nice if you can learn of course, but the company is paying you to do the thing you do right now, giving the reason that you simply want to learn something new isn't a compelling reason for an internal transfer for most companies, for that reason.
It's a Stallman thing: https://stallman.org/articles/genderless-pronouns.html
Ask HN: Is there a role for a Solution Architect at startups?
Most jobs seem to software development or marketing. As someone who is a Solution Architect it doesn't seem start-ups present much of an opportunity for me.
Work through a consulting agency and then branch out on your own once you know how to find leads.
I don't think that adopting a syntax that looks similar to Smalltalk means it has 'adopted Smalltalk syntax'. I like Smalltalk as a language, I do think that Swift would have been better if it's runtime model was more similar to Objective-C and Smalltalk, but it's not fair to say Swift 'added Smalltalk syntax to address a special case'.

I do agree in general that Swift can benefit from a reduction of special cases, but my personal feeling is that Swift is getting more consistent every version (at least in the features that already existed). YMMV, of course.
>That alone warrants action.

In only warrants action if we're sure the negative consequences of the action won't be greater than the negative consequences of the viral deaths.
That's a paradox I've encountered. Companies don't reward loyalty of their current employees, yet they prefer CVs signalling loyalty to the employer.

It's no paradox at all. In both cases they are simply optimising for paying the lowest salaries they can get away with.
'Holding' is the key part of the offense.

..would allow police to take immediate action if they saw a driver holding and using a phone at the wheel.

Motorists will still be able to use phones to pay for goods or services at drive-through businesses.

..motorists could still also use phones as satnavs, if not physically holding them. Drivers could still be prosecuted for driving without due care and attention if they try to type in directions at the wheel.
Can I ask what happened to your startup?
Report on Twitter’s 7/15/20 Security Incident and the Implications for Elections
Try the "tensorflow/tensorflow:1.15.0-gpu-py3" Docker container. Most Linux distributions support Docker, and Nvidia's been working on supporting GPU access in them.
I'm sympathetic to the idea that a company is going to be better at doing backups and maintenance than I am, but for the first point: it sounds like they're using the local machine's SSH key to wrap a symmetric key[1]. Unless you're sharing the same SSH key across all of your machines, this tool probably isn't very useful when switching between computers.

Edit: It looks like they generate their own SSH key instead of using an already present one[2]. So you'd presumably need to copy that to each machine that you'd want to use so that it can unwrap the real (cloud-stored) decryption key.

[1]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/charm#how-it-works

[2]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/charm/blob/master/keygen/ke...
Seiuemon Inaba pioneered the machines that help make cars and phones
Maybe they will replace it with an AI-powered option: "Show only comments that confirm my pre-existing worldview".
Not cool for secure government departments who will look to use something else.
Back to a User
Sure, but moving to a new position every year or two within the company you work for is hardly flitting, and can actually bring a lot of value to the company. Plenty of companies I've worked for will at least allow people to move around between teams from time to time, so I feel like that 99% comment is at least somewhat of an exaggeration - at least when applied to companies that are large enough to have multiple teams.
It’s wise for a language to be parsimonious with syntactic constructs at first, and then gradually introduce concepts which seem like they should obviously be there.

Multiple trailing closures fit a common use case and seem like a natural extension of the language.
In an ideal burning reaction in atmospheric air for C4H10 you get 4 CO2 and 5 H2O (and a bunch of N2) at fuel ratio of 15:1.

So for 40 tons of fuel with C4H10 you’ll get around 120-130 tons of CO2.

Once you do the math and convert from mol for each product to KG it more or less comes out right.
Hydrogen is 2 g/mol, Oxygen and Carbon are 16 and 12 respectively.
So you are essentially tripling the mass simply because you are adding a heavy molecule (oxygen) to the mix.
Consider the question of "something went wrong and the field was over-fertilized and will not be able to grow anything for 5 years" or "something went wrong and 5x the legal limit of pesticide was sprayed on the field."

If this is stock equipment with stock software, the manufacture would be at least partly liable (probably fully liable).

If you modify the equipment/software so that it plants seeds at a different density than the settings and inadvertently make it so that when the fertilizer runs it also overfertalizes the field - who is at fault?

You own it. You can modify it. Is the manufacture still responsible for the functionality of the device after you modify it? If the modification is software and after the "oops, I screwed up" do a factory reset of the software - is the company properly able to defend itself from changes to the software?
Oh yes 100%.

There are times when I go work for other people and you really do need to be able to play buzzword bingo or pass a time trial using specific frameworks, or even repairing a project with that framework.

They still don’t simulate the real world so I don’t interview others like that.

Devs that work for me often are entrepreneurial in the sense that they are going out of their way to contract or moonlight, so it always entertaining how separated they are from the business acumen.
Banks help scammers with their bad UI
Or make a prototype in Figma and use that to validate the hypothesis. Significantly less time and commitment.
You don't have to count. I typically make a rough estimation and go from there. For me that still is faster than putting hand on mouse, searching current cursor position, aim, click, and back to proper keyboard position. Of course ymmv
i still like this idea, yes you basically need 7000 charge ports, according to this : https://www.google.com/search?&q=how+much+does+an+electric+v... , you can install one for ~500 - $1k, that's an additional $3.5m million on the price tag. Then to install the additional wiring and some method of recharging cars on the boat at port you'd probably need at least half that so an addition 1.75 for a total of probably ~5 - 6 million. Also you wouldn't necessarily have all these batteries on the return voyage unless you were shipping cars back as well. If you cover the boat in solar you would get additional energy.
Senna and Gerhard Berger in 1990. Alain Prost had switched to Ferrari.
"Then, despite all precautions against the virus, a family member got sick. Then another and another and another. Now, seven months after the shutdown, seven people in Ricardo Aguirre's extended family and his father, Jesús, 67, have died of Covid-19 complications."

Two observations: First, this happened despite all precautions. Secondly, extended families can be hundreds of people, including many elderly. Lastly, in a large-enough population you will inevitably find clusters that are more affected by some illness than the average person. That's why you need to observe solid data, not a media spectacle, to come to rational conclusions.
"Floating Storage and Offshore (FSO) vessel containing tens of million of gallons of oil with a severe list off the coast of Venezuela"

"PDVSA in September sought to downplay the risks after the vessel developed an 8 degree list in late August, reportedly the result of flooding in the engine room."

https://gcaptain.com/photo-shows-fso-nabarima-with-severe-li...
Disagree. I've filed bugs with trivial repro steps and have never gotten any feedback of any kind.

Even just closing them as "wontfix" would be kind.
Cool. Let's start by storing the waste in your backyard. Where your kids play. Let's see how you keep defending that "best type of waste" position while pushing your kids' wheelchair when they are on chemo.

Edit: To everybody downvoting me here, it's easy to say that it's the best type of waste as long as it's somebody elses problem.
In WSL2, Windows uses Hyper-V to run a VM. But Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor, so it runs on bare metal, not as a service within a regular Operating system.

So when you use WSL2, both Windows and Linux are running as virtual machines, under Hyper-V.
YMMV but I found SwiftUI pretty good for a framework that only has two years.

It runs circles around storyboards when it comes to collaboration and traceability. Disregarding bugginess, the previews are a lot better than what was possible with IBDesignables.

The integration with UIKit is actually quite well made, and for most part not needed.

> there's no new hardware forcing its adoption.

While there is no explicit new hardware, there are several popular features that are only doable using SwiftUI: home screen widgets and complications. It will also become the language in which to write universal iOS/macOS programs.

> when server-side Swift is stillborn, Rust is more appealing as a better bare metal language

I agree with this, at least from Apple's part most effort is clearly done on "application level" and usefulness of Swift outside there seems more exploratory at the moment. Personally I'd like them to start adding higher, rather than lower level functionality, and steer towards scripting.
This is not true. There are many many mockup tools that you can use to test without building anything. It's a good way to separate the technology decisions from the business decisions.
Nope. The only link on that domain that matters is this one:

https://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html

And the only text on that page that matters is the disgusting text where Stallman says possession of child pornography should be legal:

'The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia" also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally--but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.'
> This misses the point. I don't care how the language implements the functionality if it meets my performance requirements and it is convenient to use.

I dont think it does, because it meant you are working on a simple language that can only afford to be simple delegating the harder parts to other languages that took the effort to be designed to deal with everything.

The convenience is payed by someone else, and the language that pay for the hard stuff are the ones that are complex, because they need to work well with any sort of algorithms.
A lot of people I've seen change jobs did so because they had offers in hand before lockdown hit. And there are companies and organisations that are still hiring: you just need to be sure that you're stepping onto a firm footing in your new position. If you're moving into a position with the government or an NGO you're probably as safe as you are anywhere, but I probably wouldn't be taking a position as a web developer for (say) a fast fashion retailer right now, or anything at all in the entertainment and hospitality sectors outside the BBC, Netflix, etc.

Still, unless it's really dreadful where you are, I'd stay put.
They are, because they are free in that they are not slaves. Prisoners still have a plethora of constitutional rights.
try Visual RPN calc from store
This looks a bit sketchy, I need to agree with the term of service but the term of service page is empty.

What data do you collect, and do I need to enter my logins for my social media?
That depends on what you mean by "little immunity". Many people appear to have some immunity based on prior exposure to similar coronaviruses. That won't prevent infection but tends to reduce disease severity.

https://www.jci.org/articles/view/143380
Show HN: Extra scripting capabilities in non-standard GraphQL server
While there are some Jira alternatives there still seems to be a an opening for a Confluence alternatives. Any takers?
Most informative thing I have read about Esperanto is http://jbr.me.uk/ranto/index.html
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/11/24/programmers-pr...
Ask HN: Why did Marc Andreessen's alma mater make efforts to see Netscape fail?
I have been reading about the history of the World Wide Web and am at a point where I am reading about the browser wars. What astonished me was that Marc Andreessen's alma mater essentially did all they could to take down their alumnus's revolutionary Netscape browser. From lawsuits to licensing the Mosaic browser with Spyglass Inc., which then enabled Microsoft to overtake the browser landscape, it was very clear they were seeking Netscape's extinction.
Hi! I'm one of the Charm co-founders.

We actually issue a new Charm specific SSH key for you. We then allow you to link machines together with our `charm` account utility. The symmetric keys used to encrypt data are encrypted for each public key linked to your account so you can access your data from multiple machines.
Yes, Rust is one of those languages now. (C, C++ and the newcomers Rust and Zig)
If there's anything the past four years have taught me, it's that our political system is in such shambles that if "we" need to "act" to fix anything then it's safe to assume the problem will not be fixed. Suddenly, the origins of techno-utopianism and the general attitude that we need to invent our way out of everything make a lot more sense.