skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument is the worst possible faith argument but I'll bite and let you waste some of my time with your non scientific citations.

Now here's how misguided you are:

Literally from the first article you posted: (which was a fricking opinion piece!)

“"""If you look at any one paper — it’s not a slam dunk. But, taken all together, I’m convinced that they are working,” says Grabowski.""""

"It's not a slam dunk"

Anecdotal beliefs from a random person named Grabonski in an opinion piece article is not science. And this is your 'good faith' argument?

I didn't even read the rest of the links you posted because they're going to say the same thing: that mask effectiveness is inconclusive.

From the world health organization:

"""" At the present
time, the widespread use of masks by healthy people in the
community setting is not yet supported by high quality or
direct scientific evidence and there are potential benefits and
harms to consider."""

Not yet supported by high quality or direct scientific evidence....

It's the world health organization saying that...

It's clear masks stop droplets but maybe at a community level continually putting a plague vector directly on your respiratory system for a virus that stays on surfaces for days is not a good idea...

Additionally Sweden has had no mask mandate and Norway has had no mask mandate and they both have the infection under control they both have less deaths per capita than the United States.

Yet you ignore all of this data that counters your narrative.

Because the Corona cult... was wrong about lockdowns and are wrong about masks...and are trying desperately to justify their mistakes so they don't feel bad for putting 40 million people out of work and crushing people's lives for a year.

Your thinking is as bad faith as it gets and I really hope the Corona cult gets the karma that's coming to it at some point.

Your arrogant ignorance is hurting a lot of people unnecessarily.
“time to check to time to use”

As you intuited, a problem that arises in environments that lack transactions/locks/etc
Do flag! No matter how hard someone has worked, but by just thinking and guessing you will take action. You are doing a great job :-)
The news is depressing. This is, in its own way, a form of voter suppression.
I removed Nano Defender and then reset uBO to default settings which should do it.
The new abnormal: CIOs report a cautious outlook for Q4 tech spending
Nothing can't be certain for the 'will be' part.

With enough policy tools and barrier, EU cloud will happen.
Obligatory zoidberg: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/your-musics-bad-and-you-shoul...
He didn’t really embarrass himself with Nate Silver. I’m not a big fan of Taleb personally, but his criticisms of Silver were sound.
It funny you mentioned this because the "science and data" overwhelmingly supports wearing a mask to cut transmission, which is also a major factor in why a overwhelming majority of people support wearing one.

https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/36/eabd3083

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-07-08-oxford-covid-19-study-f...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7191274/

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417906/still-confused-abou...

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-0948_article

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02801-8#ref-CR4

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768532

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202004.0203/v3

Who would have guessed that most people are reasonable and take heed of doctors and scientists?

Why have democracy at all if you don't believe our collective ability to make good choices most of the time?
I myself is a developer and been running a blog for four years so what you are doing is not a rocket science. I earned via guest posts, affiliates and Ads. I could not write an ebook yet as I am not so focused atm.
> Just because the amendment explicitly addresses the government, doesn’t mean that non-governmental entities shouldn’t respect the vision of the amendment

The vision of the amendment is the government getting out of the way so that progress can be made by the vigorous use of choice of what ideas to publish and distribute by private entities. Private entities promoting the ideas they like and not doing so with those they dislike with all their resource are the purest embodiment of that vision.
One person's rich services are another's vendor lock-in.
i love grids, but one quick word of warning: currently, there is not yet support for subgrid (with column/row definitions synched). meaning each grid cell must be a direct child of the grid parent. this gets in my way constantly when i'm trying to do some responsive layout change.
I signed up for their storage offer (that you manage via their Konsole tool), and the first thing they needed to let me use my account was a scan of my ID. They even required a photo of me holding it.
> 2) Rust's ecosystem makes it easy to find and integrate solutions not offered by the standard API

This is a double-edged sword. I'm a huge fan of Rust's tooling, but when it's so easy to add dependencies, this inevitably leads to deep dependency trees, slower compile times, and less knowledge about what's actually happening inside most rust code bases. Often times when asking about how to solve a problem in Rust, the answer comes in the form of "use crate X" rather than an explanation of how to solve the problem using the language itself.
They're talking about a 30% boost overall on a new release which is an amalgamation of many pieces, including use of this new instruction.

Can you give an example of something the maintainers said that made them seem "not super familiar with it"?
Please don't compare anti-consumer behaviour of US mega-corporations with the atrocities that intelligence services behind the Iron Curtain committed on their own peoples. It's simply not in the same ballpark.
Correction: it's Sunday (today)
We can't just redesign the news because the incentive structure isn't there to do so. You have to Foster a culture where people don't treat politics like religion. When the culture doesn't give undue attention to self important people who wear suits and ties, then the incentive structure changes how news is produced to fit that environment. But if we just treat issues like these as engineering problems, tweaking variables to fit a broken environment without considering the human aspect, the system simply won't support whatever improvements we try to make.
Summary Emails for Firefly III
Not only that,

- How do you make sure the users are not writing badly optimized tables/pipelines that end up consuming too many resources.

- How do you facilitate data discoverability so they don't end up creating a new table where 90%+ of the data is already present in another already existing one?

- How do you make sure they are mindful with the way the model the tables such there are not too many files due to bad partition/bucketing, compression is leveraged and good datatypes are picked?
> shortest path, least amount of risk and resource investment.

That is laziness.
If you want to get really depressed you should look into the state of our media where they themselves have something at stake. One examples from the top of my head would be Peer Steinbrücks destruction in the weeks running up to the 2013 election where they collectivly decided that fighting against tax evasion is bad. Or the reporting about Article 13 where they forgot to ask critical questions about how some of the arguments made absolutely no sense and could someone please explain that in more detail?

On the other hand if you are looking for more nuanced reporting I've come to like deutschlandfunk radio lately.
Not the same, Optional is like Option in Rust, it’s about existence, not success or failure.

I believe std::expected is the correct answer but it’s unclear to me if it actually made it into the standard yet or not. I thought it had but can only find proposals...
This is incredible. I wish I knew about this years ago. I have long been looking for impartial news sources. I used to listen to CBC, NPR, and ABC (Australia) to try and get more angles to a story, but that got tiring.
I live in an apartment building in a quite noisy locale, Manhattan in New York City.

I solved the problem with pliable silicone "putty" earplugs. They provide the closest to dead silence I've found.

The earplugs attenuate sound by 50% is my guess, making inaudible all but the loudest ambulance sirens and shoes dropped to the floor in the unit above.
>Is the German tracking solution really 400 times as complex?

That's irrelevant when it comes to spending. The cost of something is always proportional to how much the customer(here the German government, read the taxpayer) is willing to spend not how complex the project is. While it might not be more complicated to implement than in Finland, the German government has more money than the Finish government so it was billed(read fleeced) accordingly.

It's like asking "Are SV engineer really 400x times better coders than Europeans?". Maybe not, but they can charge 400x more because their market conditions allow them to. Simple.
Sigh... I wish it were like that in my country (.de).
Your ISPs seem to have done the right thing, letting go of the useless asymmetric download/upload-rate as soon as the technology allowed.
Here they still do that asymmetric nonsense on fibre(with the exception of a few regional ISPs), if there is fibre available at all. Milk the cow until it's empty, I guess.

:(
That's weird, I've been having a hard time using Google Classroom and Drive because it actually is respecting cookie restrictions.

I have to temporarily disable third party cookie blocking or Google Drive videos don't play in my browser.
How about the (fairly critical) ones raised by the authors of uBlock?
It's about nudging the developer to do the right thing out of the box even if they aren't really aware of all the intricacies. Ergonomic design like this will become a big deal in the future: even if you have very little idea of what you are doing the program actually will be reliable and do the right thing, provided you did not stray too far from the path the language (and the library) nudges you towards.
The operation it accelerates is very simple, its just not really required much outside of javascript. It is already identical to an existing instruction, just with slightly different overflow behavior that javascript relies on.
Pretty much. Just like the funding for Covid recovery and green projects. All taken up by big companies, zero chance for a small business to get a grant. Which is simply stupid.

Throw more money at the current system, which has gotten bloated and complacent and clearly doesn't really work. The taxpayers pay for it.
That's so interesting. I'm very computer literate, and a huge reason I couldn't stand Safari is because it didn't show it didn't show favicons in the tab bar. I typically have dozens of tabs open, and really need some way to tell them apart quickly -- such as favicons showing up. (I did find a hack to do it, but didn't love it.)

You might ask her to try again. Safari 14 actually shows favicons, and that is such a welcome relief.
People have died of the common cold. Edge cases happen.
The Bank of England has been using a digital currency for years. When British banks settle up overnight, nothing physical is moving around. I'm pretty sure the same would be true of any developed country.
Just the fact that a large amount of scrutiny is placed on crates using unsafe in the ecosystem is a huge step up from C/C++. Compare to how critical openssl was and how few people were actually looking at the code before heartbleed.
De Botton's "The News: A User's Manual," inspired me to cut back on my news consumption. The blow-by-blow of the news isn't particularly enlightening.

De Botton's other books are worth a look, too.
The URL hiding thing is probably because it looks pretty and they think it reduces phishing.
> Note that host is hardcoded to localhost. This means it should never connect to any machine other than the developer machine.

Just to help with the postmortem:

1) “localhost” is just a loopback to whatever machine you’re on

2) the user and pw are pulled from config

So someone was running this from the production server or had the production DB mapped to localhost and ran it with a production config for some reason (working with prod data maybe). The hard coding to localhost will only ensure that it works for the machine it’s called on - in this case the prod server.

Things you might do to avoid this in the future include a wide spread of things, the main recommendations I’d have are:

1) only put production artifacts on prod

2) limit developer access to prod data

Best of luck
The android gmail app is horrible with this. They load a couple of your emails above ads so that the ads start on the second or third row.

And the re-ordering happens as your mails and the ads are loading! You might be about to tap your email, then the ads load in and you suddenly click on an ad. Or you want to tap the top row, but the app decides to put a different email above the ads and you end up tapping into the wrong mail because it was reordered just before the tap.
I don't watch the news either but I do scan headlines here and on AP and/or Reuters every day and follow up on what interests me.

I can't say "it contains no actionable information that changes my decisions". For example the news that Obama wanted to renegotiate the "SOFA" agreement before he even took office made me regret my decision to vote for him in `08 and I did not vote for him again in 2012 because I already knew he would not end those wars.

The only actionable thing I've really done since is keep others informed via FB of our progress to end those wars but for the most part interest in that fell off long ago with their yellow ribbon car magnets so it hasn't amounted to much real action.
I think you might find the book "the innovators" by walter isaacson interesting, especially wrt the protocols.
> Peter has adopted the code and molded it for years, Anakin to a digital C3PO. He'd grown attached to his creation. He loved Art more than anyone else alive.

True gold.
> What? In CMOS energy / op is constant unless you have dynamic voltage scaling. Which processors have this?

Approximately all computer processors.
A ton of sites work better with Chrome than Safari because engineers often don’t put in the 20 min it would take to fix minor issues with Safari and build only for Chrome on the Mac.
> But they purposefully use CLS in Search to increase clicks on Ads

You present this as a fact, but it would be absurd that Google would use such a cheap and easily detected trick to increase CTR. It would be bordering on ad fraud and I'm sure that Google, of all companies, knows better than that.

Occam's Razor says that this is a stupid async content loading bug, which they subsequently fixed. I've never seen this happen and when I just tried it without adblocker with that exact search term, it didn't - the page loaded with the ad.
That is the main factor indeed, but the other questions do change the amount by which you go above 50 a lot, and there are other paths to get to being predicted positive without having loss of smell or taste (LOST). From what I read and if I remember correctly, different studies say somewhere between half and a third of the people did not report LOST while they did have other symptoms (there are also completely asymptomatic cases of course, but that's iirc more like 1/5 to 1/10 of young people). Even if you have no LOST, the model can return positive, despite LOST being very characteristic.

I don't know why male/female or age matters, my best guess is that the younger males in their sample were more likely to have a positive test result. That seems like a pattern which would shift over time as the media claims different age groups cause it, different measures are taken, etc., but I'm not really qualified to question their results or change the model without (new, or so much as the original) data.
Ask HN: What did you purchase that measurably improved your quality of life?
An obvious one might be a new car (e.g., Tesla), or a house that you improved your quality of life.

What other purchases might be worth considering?
What I learned after using Nuxt.js for 3 months
I do not think that that's what will happen.

Section 230 will NOT get removed. ISPs and email service providers, and blog platforms, will still be able to use it.

But companies that add/remove/replace/gray-out/delete/hide/push-to-bottom content that they claim they did not editorialize -- will be called Publishers.

So these businesses will not be able to use statutory protections that are available for non-publishers under section 45.230.

An analogy might be: a for-profit-business cannot claim tax benefits available for a non-for-profit organizations.

So the tax-code does not get removed, just because somebody was actively abusing it. It stays the same, but the abuser would face criminal investigation.

And if the abuser was found to systemically and purposefully avoiding to be recognized as 'Publisher' (or as a for-profit business in this analogy), then the criminal penalties would be more severe, then otherwise.
I've been trying to cut news and social media out of my daily habits as much as possible, and am attempting to replace it with reading books whenever possible. It sure isn't easy, but I feel significantly more productive, healthier, happier and overall more human on days where this works particularly well.

What helps is to not have the phone in your bedroom and charge iit elsewhere instead - replace it with a Kindle or a book and rread that instead for a few minutes upon waking up.
Can interoperability and data portability still be legislatively mandated if APIs were ruled copyrightable in the Supreme Court (Oracle vs Google) ?

Can monopolies go further and claim their user graph and user data is also under copyright ?
IT salaries in egalitarian Europe are a lot lower than in US.
The truth doesn’t have an agenda
If your argument is that seasonal needs are different from diurnal needs, and that gas can supply both but only if it gets to subsidise one with the other, then you should say so explicitly, because even now that’s merely my best guess as to what you’re trying to argue.

I’d still disagree (PV in the right places can be so cheap that it can already make sense to get through winter by putting down x3 as many panels as you need for summer), but it would be clearer.
Why is anyone using Chrome at this point? I use Firefox and honestly, I wouldn't even know the difference if it weren't for a few unique UI features. Old habits? If that's the case, you deserve what you get for your laziness.
It's all about order. Established companies are the order. Anyone muddling the water is a threat to order, so they get sidelined.

It works well for the average citizen, but not so great for innovative and ambitious people.
I wonder what's the current state of desktop on OpenBSD
It did. I did not rewrite the stick. There seems to be weird problem how USB3 is treated at boot time.
This was a problem 3 years ago and it's still a problem:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1030234/installing-with-usb-...
Here, the best definition by Denzel. The need to be first, not the need to be true. They don't care who they hurt. https://youtu.be/GXYzjYBTlpA
I'm down to using Chrome for Google Properties that I use (Gmail, Drive, Meet), then Edge for regular browsing on my PC, and Firefox for browsing on mobile.

It's a reasonable amount of work to manage your privacy these days even for someone with the knowledge. So many users either (1) don't know, (2) find out and don't really understand how to fix it so they don't, or (3) find out and don't care.

Without some level of accountability at the public policy level we won't see a level playing field. Google is doing with Chrome what Microsoft did with IE (back in the IE4/5/6 days). If they continue while public agencies move slowly they'll catch up eventually and I believe we'll see some level of enforcement action.
The Chilling Murder of Colombian Soccer Star Andres Escobar
Colombian soccer inside the 1980s and 90s turned into inextricably related to society, and the Andres Escobar murder became a sad instance of this fact.
If you are the person who uses rooted mobile then this is definitely your material. I had a router that stalled if i use torrent and had to reboot to get it to working. Then i explored and found this amazing project.

Router firmware's are fully of buggy and on top of that they abuse users just because they can https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24530009

Buy a router that supports openwrt and you can block ads at the router level among a lot of other cool things.
Game theory: see prisoners dilemma, tragedy of the commons etc.

You might think you'll be better off of the tax rate went up by 5% (say) but you'd certainly be worse off of you alone started paying 5% more.
But for real, what sites are broken? I’ve been using Firefox for years and haven’t found one.

Some are broken by my tracking protection, but toggling that off for one time access generally yields a working site.
I agree. I gave up halfway through. The author is exceptionally long-winded.
DARPA literally gives grants to anyone with innovative/crazy/out of the ordinary ideas.

It's the opposite in the EU, big companies get funding to develop something. Startups have no chance, unless someone knows someone.
Fair point. My response is quite binary when there is a full spectrum of engagement possibility.
Sure, the bill would need to include a clause that specifies that the API must not be copyrighted, or something to that effect.
Right, and it's this idea of "forced" that concerns me. Every country that imposes lockdowns on the premise that they were forced, that they didn't have a choice, they just had to stop the disease from spreading. But very few countries have indicated they have a plan for how to permanently stop the disease from spreading - in most countries, experts believe that there is no workable plan and the disease will spread for decades at least. So how can we be confident that lockdowns won't continue for a few years until they just become the status quo?
This, this is awesome
Then, if C++ could also obtain metadata using the file handle, and the Rust programmer must also take care to call the right "metadata" which even when it does different thing is named completely the same and as the code as written doesn't make obvious if the right overloaded metadata is called, how is Rust better? I.e. how Rust in this example helps me as a reader of the code to be sure if the right metadata function was called?

Call me old fashioned, but only C is more sure to be explicit there as it wouldn't allow two different functions having the same name. If in C++ the corresponding names are also overloaded, both C and C++ "aren't cutting" if the obviousness is not there.
COVID restrictions are way more than just masks though. In many jurisdictions, we’re requiring small businesses to remain shuttered while their competitors are allowed to remain open.

A small toy shop is closed. Meanwhile, Target and Walmart are allowed to sell toys in-person (and Amazon online). What’s going to happen to that toy-shop owner 6 months from now after everyone has been trained to shop at their competitors, after they’ve missed a Christmas season, and after they’ve got 6 months of back rent due? The shadow of COVID restrictions don’t end the first day the government graciously allows them to open their doors.

Many of the “solutions” (send a little money and let them delay rent payments) are answers maybe more fit for W-2 employees but not for business owners.
Right. Probably says something more about the Atlantic editors than the people who actually do incredible and productive things either on Show HN or Product Hunt to even waste an hour on reading dreadful articles like this one.

Now if you excuse me, I have to continue counting the pages of sales from my paid customers for this week.