skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My own feeling is a little bit of scepticism when the headline asks if person rightly heralded for one paradigm shifting invention several decades ago can save us again.

That's not to downplay Berners-Lee's historical importance or the usefulness of the stuff covered here, just that we sometimes - at least on a popular level - look to big name saviours which probably says more about the journalist's constraints than the value of the contemporary contribution.
.NET Conf is a free, three-day, virtual developer event co-organized by the .NET community and Microsoft. This year .NET 5.0 will launch at .NET Conf 2020! Come celebrate and learn about the new release.

The agenda [1] contains some interesting topics for .NET developers. The videos will be published on youtube later on. See [2] and [3] for the sessions in 2019 and 2018

[1] https://www.dotnetconf.net/agenda

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLReL099Y5nRd04p81Q7p5...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1rZQsJPBU2QG1rEfV5ZW...
> All these new technologies, the techniques, the principles were in development since years if not decades.

Yes, I first heard about intramuscular nucleic acid injection around the year 2000. At the time it was naked DNA and not RNA in a lipid nanoparticle suspension, but the principle was the same.
It’s just such a fundamentally bizarre idea that I think it needs a lot more support than just “not totally unbelievable”. Most people don’t warp all their decisions around partisan politics.
ATM don't have time to read in depth but can someone explain if Pijul allows a user to checkout a subset of changes (say I only checkout one folder or a file)?
Thanks. Ordered. TIL that the amazon app is dumber than expected. The link above being Canadian, when I ordered, the app said it could not ship the book. Changed to a .com and then I could order the book. Yay computers.
You should take the markets seriously if you want to make a lot of money. That’s why rich people are rich.
I think it's more about tiredness of having people saying that anything not written 100% in C/Assembler using a <20k binary taking more than 300k of memory is a bloated mess and everything was better in the past and we all should use C and C++ for everything.

(I will use C/Assembler if I'm coding something for an C64, Amiga or a 4k/64k demoscene intro but I'm not gonna put up a server written like that on the internet for people to exploit)
this is the only investment I find possibly useful. Liquid nitrogen is so common in industry that I don't think there will be a problem sourcing enough just from spare capacity.
I fail to see what is terrifying, exactly? Care to elaborate?
It's the BBC, I wouldn't expect any scientific rigour from them.
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I find productivity is a false metric to measure yourself against. The most productive person is the person who writes the most code / features, but usually the most important people don't write code, they help others, whether that's understanding problems or giving direction.

I still agree with the title, I give my attention to as much as I can handle, and no more. I have (restricted) notifications turned on, I try have interesting things around me, I tackle as many problems as reasonable at the same time, but slowly because I find the best solutions are where I've had a while to think about while in the shower for example, and how they interact with other problems.

PS: if you're trying to learn something, disregard everything I said, focus is so important when learning
Amazon wants to win over Sweden. The Swedes have other ideas
Do you know if they're still around, sounds as if maybe they could go out of business
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I don’t know why you think it’s not possible (or that it’s anything more than trivial). Revenue, affiliated companies, third party service providers, etc are all basic legal concepts.

The risk is far more likely to be inadvertently making the licence overly narrow and preventing usage by companies that you would actually intend to allow (or at least contemplate should be allowed).

Regardless, the text doesn’t really matter. Most companies will run for the hills as soon as they see anything remotely like the contemplated licence. It’s just not worth the risk for them.

Source: former lawyer.
Anything that could distract you from compulsively checking ad filled apps is bad according to Apple.

Get that stuff out of your life.
It's a good indicator of what the world (well, people with capital) believe in. A very positive general market reaction might indicate that the news is correct. (Might.)
> That's not an unreasonable decision for a blue-leaning businessperson or scientist to make.

Intentionally murdering possibly thousands of people (or tens of thousands? or what, who knows?!) for some assumed political gain is absolutely, 100% an unreasonable decision for any human to make. Intentionally delaying a vaccine would certainly be a crime, no? Not to mention absolutely abhorrent and completely evil.

That is not a "reasonable decision" to make by any stretch of the imagination.
I’ve also realized lately that just being able to maintain my focus (and quiet the anxiety that causes context switching) would be a bigger productivity boost than any methodology, tool, or programming language. It’s worth more than 10 years more experience. I’ve been diagnosed with ADHD in the past, so it’s always been a struggle. What’s the secret? Meditation? Drugs?
It's come to a point where I have to search for reviews on YouTube because there, I can at least be assured that the person reviewing it has the product in their hands
It's a 2-dose regimen, needs to be stored at -70C, and Pfizer already said they'll only have 1.5B doses over the course of the next year.

It's going to be a very slow roll out.
There really couldn’t be, no. The mechanisms by which people think there could are easily falsified.
Ask HN: How do you submit invoices for lunch reimbursement?
I work in India. My employer offers free lunch as a perk. But we don't have in house kitchen. I can submit food invoice for a working day and it would be reimbursed in next month's compensation. But this process is cumbersome and manual, both for submission as well as approval by finance team.

1. How is it done in your workplace?
2. If you use any tool to do it, which are they?
3. Would you like to have a tool which covers invoice submitting and approval process?
I wrote an app which I use for exactly the same purpose and it's served me quite well so far. I've been writing almost every day for a year. I keep it on a separate screen and jot down my thoughts if I feel that I lack focus (more info here https://sonnet.io/posts/ulysses).

Feel free to check it out, it might help you too: https://ulysses.sonnet.io

Another tool that I find helpful: iPad Pro + Concepts for doodling/ad hoc notes.
Why? Are you going on a trip? Will you be able to get it in time?
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True. But seeing a potential path towards making a sifnificant dent to the uncontrolled spread of the virus is a welcomed respite from nearly a year of darkness.

EDIT: I upvoted you because you make a valid point. Things will not recover overnight. But at the same time, we can still celebrate the hope of a promising solution.
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There are source-available licenses for this:

Polyform Non-Commercial License

https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0

Prosperity Public License

https://prosperitylicense.com/
I’d be wary of applying causation based on that correlation. When you are the expert, people come to you for things. You communicate more, but that’s not what made you the expert.

I’d posit that attention and communication are both secondary to core competency in software development. My guess is that information synthesis and lateral thinking are the core competencies of great engineers. I don’t think you can get the information you need or as much lateral thinking without attention and communication, but that doesn’t mean they are the core competency.
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It doesn't always work like that. It's clear to some folks that ZM will decline based on the fact that a COVID vaccine was virtually inevitable. However, there are lots of investors, mostly retail investors, that are willing to buy a stock without fully pricing that in. E.g. Tim's dad sees that Tim is using Zoom for school and decides it would be a good investment. Other investors are willing to buy ZM for short-term gain as long as they can get out before it crashes back to reality.

The same thing happened to Hertz, which even after declaring bankruptcy and almost certainly being worthless continued to trade at a healthy volume. In fact, Hertz tried to get approval to dilute and sell more shares to capitalize off the fact that people were buying their worthless stock.
Exactly the same here. I think when a headline starts with "UK firm to..." I just immediately see Boris Johnson cutting a ribbon when the big "Moon Oxygen" factory is opened. :D
Screw the media for pushing this and lockdown as the only possible solution. This will still take ages to be rolled out.
I didn't know about that. Do you happen to know which tribe's mythology inspired him to write this? The wiki says "possibly Apache" and doesn't cite where that possibility came from. I've been trying to learn more about the people who have been here longer than my people since learning what they're still going through and how little I learned about that growing up beyond stereotypes.
Not stated in the article: this was part of the Trump Administration DHHS's Project Warp Speed, which funded 6 different vaccines concurrently.

https://www.hhs.gov/coronavirus/explaining-operation-warp-sp...
> I cannot find an issue tracker. Hoping the author reads this. The project seems very interesting

https://nest.pijul.com/pijul/pijul/discussions/new
The stock market is "a graph of rich people feelings" (attributed to someone on TikTok)
I'm interested in what it offers compared to Wren.
I'm really curious and hopefully the author will see this.
There is plenty of evidence and ongoing study of long-term sequelae.

Denying such is wildly irresponsible and hostile to the community.

Stop trolling.
> I do garlic at commercial scale with fertilizers but my own food is grown 100% organic. There is a big difference in taste. What we should keep in mind though is that organic is difficult/expensive to scale. I doubt that it will be possible to feed the entire global population with 100% organic food. So that tasteless tomato that you buy at the store might not be the best but it does feed you.

The argument that it doesn't scale negates the majority of Agriculture's 10K+ year history. This modern system of chemically driven commodification of food is rather new (post WWII). Granted the World's population is larger than what it was back then, which introduces challenges, but the truth is we are facing disease due to the over-consumption of the 'abundance' more than anything else in the West, and the East is following as well.

While I agree the current monetary incentives are not aligned for its success, and the business model that had proven profitable for small scale, local and often organic farms working for the past ~15 years has been essentially curtailed due to COVID, as so many restaurants are limited in capacity or shut down altogether, it is not beyond the realm of possibility to transition how we view Agriculture and Food as a whole. I think this re-calibration is necessary for the challneges we face as Species on Earth moving forward and sincerely believe COVID may be the the disruption we needed to question the 'business as usual' model.

There is a great deal of efficacy to the theory/practice that soil remediation to be an effective deterrent in reducing atmospheric CO2 levels; at its core the way Biodynamics has operated since its inception when it was introduced to the nobility in Austria since WWI is nothing more than a distillation of viable practices that follow sound microbiology methods. It may be attached to a great deal esoteric 'woo' but once you see past what is essentially Marketing what you have is the collective synthesis of 10,000+ of trial and error in Man's relationship and the Stewardship we've had with the Nature. That much cannot be disputed.

People not entirely obsessed with this topic forget that a food supply not dependent on inputs like artificial fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides aren't that old and that some countries never adopted it due to the costs associated.

Explaining the significance of this topic without a great deal of context is entirely daunting but, large concentrated populations in former Empires didn't suffer because their wasn't enough BT corn to feed its cattle, and we would be remiss to forget that much.

Detroit's story with urban farming and the culture it brought back with it is a really amazing story that proves that something deemed not 'commercially viable' is not as important as the resilience of a community and a People if the will exists.

> So that tasteless tomato that you buy at the store might not be the best but it does feed you.

'Feed' is questionable, but what it clearly does is introduces a myriad of chemicals into your body that can and has cause(d) other health issues, all while still disappointing your palate.
> Who do you think a "regular dev" is?

Someone who's not employed by a fortune 500 company, probably the 99% of devs?
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I've had similar experiences with video cache and never fully understood it. For example, when I want to block a webm with ublock, adding a rule and refreshing never works, I need to close and reopen the tab for it to take effect.
I'm not sure it's fully possible to not compromise on safety one way or another when doing something like this quickly. Let's say a side effect is that 1% of women become sterile half a year after getting the vaccine - how would we possibly know that after testing for 3 months? All we can do is say it's very unlikely based on other vaccines with similar approaches, and monitor for effects on the reproductive system (or anything else unusual in the body) that is know to potentially lead to something like that down the line. In the end, we can (and probably must) decide that taking the time to disprove there being any long term negative effects, is more likely to cause more harm (because more covid-infections will happen in the meantime) than the good it is likely to do us. But it is still a higher risk than the usual approach where we test for longer.
IME it's very easy to get into a constant state of CNS burnout with deadlifts. It takes a lot of discipline to go into a gym and only deadlift upto like 70-75% of your max. The deadlift frankly is easy and fun, it's really only a challenging lift in the high 90s of intensity. So people who deadlift, probably do it too often and at too high intensities such that it takes away from other stuff.

I think one caveat he doesn't mention, is all the pro athletes choosing cleans over deadlifts also have coaches there who are making sure their form is good.

In that case then yeh, it's a more technical lift and provided you're getting good coaching you're less likely to burn out your CNS on a clean than on a deadlift.
No, it's probabilistic, about the 'amount of protection' from or 'decrease in likelihood' of contracting it, which is why generally people are happy / would have been happy even for a much lower percentage - protecting ~everyone a bit is higher impact than protecting a few people a lot.

It's the same as 'herd immunity', where each member is '90% immune' and as a result the herd is 'more immune' than if only 10% of its members were 100% immune.
It means that people who research this think that the news is correct. And unlike pundits, these people have skin in the game and win or lose based on the correctness of their assumptions. If the market were down today, it would be an indication that the news is hyping something that's doubtful.
> What's important is consistently moving. That means getting up from the desk every hour for a 5 minute walk or some stretching. Switching between standing and sitting at a desk is a first step in the right direction but really we need to be moving.

Yeah, that's it. At least when it comes to overall health (I'm not sure about back issues).

I did a little bit of research on this theme myself and it seems that the key is to interrupt periods of prolonged sitting with any movement (even walking helps) for any period of time (even 1 minute helps). The more intensive/longer the better, obviously.

See also notes from my web-research at http://mnicky.wikidot.com/healthy-programmer (it's based on the book that got me started on this topic, but e.g. in Section 3 there's some additional reading about benefits of making pauses when sitting for a longer time and similar research).

Btw, using standing desk for prolonged time can be harmful as well, the truth is even more than sitting :) So yes, combine standing and sitting, but stand only for a shorter time (after 30min it starts to have negative effects).
I think that's valid, but the flip side of that is that the name alone can also be a factor in its success. For example, there are quite a few other projects that could potentially deal with the NHS's challenges as well, but the question is whether the NHS would have even heard of those, let alone pilot them.
Why don’t you preach the same thing to both genders? If kettle bells work for women and deadlifts work for men, why not preach both to both genders based on current capacity?
People often point to child predators when they argue for things like this. We have examples like Facebook where there's no privacy and child predators abound.
Counter point, chromebooks are now fully capable Linux machines through containers and it’s fully supported by google
The alternative is not much better. If we didn't breed those plant for transportability and storage, then <1% would get to enjoy them.

I agree its a problem, but its clearly what is working in the market. If someone has excellent tasting fruit but can't store or transport it, its a business opportunity (if they can pull it off at scale). Most of the time you can't, hence the popularity of gardening and eating 'in-season' produce
A lot of people are invested in the stock market, not just rich people. Essentially anyone with a professional-class job has a retirement fund invested in stocks, at least in the US.
Yeah, I think "there's an Oculus attached to this account" should be a massive green flag towards that account being legit.

There aren't many spam/influence campaigns that'll make sense at $400/account.
> 90% still crushes the transmission rate.

Unfortunately, there's yet another property of vaccine performance: some prevent the virus from reaching any level of footing in the host, others only make the body's eventual response stronger, preventing initial footing to cause heavy illness. SARS2-COV is rather peculiar in how its transmission performance is particularly strong in early, mostly presymptomatic stages, so it's perfectly possible to end up with a vaccine that reliably protects carriers from disease, but does not remove them from the spread equations at all, or only very little.
More economic worries mean less caution about Covid-19: Study
Nice article! Well written, and the code looks good.
Thanks ... (it seems I can't find your username, how odd)

I really appreciate the guidance as I'm quite new to it. Especially so because you're enthusiastic about this book :D
Scientific Freedom and Central Planning (Stripe Press)
It’s really really difficult to do either of those things, especially in vote by mail. In Washington, for instance, I can see who is registered, who voted in a given election, and match that to the vote totals.
Pfizer stated it's intention to delay release of findings until after the election. This is not a surprise.
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I think Atlassian have a dual licensing model where you can download the source code and build the product yourself, but only for single users, or open source projects.

Commercial users however have to buy a copy, but the source is available for all.

Maybe somebody could create a github (sharehub?) equivalent where anybody doing a clone has to register and then commercial entities can pay for the licence or single use hobbyists could attest.

people sharing the code can then set what they see as a fair price and the website will take a cut of the revenue (e.g. 30% ducks )
It would be interesting to create a TODO app, get that published. Then slowly add workflow programming features that make it turing complete. At some point you need to add the ability to share workflow rules with other users.

Then you slowly add support for a proper programming language instead of only offering the UI configuration.

See at which point your app becomes an interpreter of data and configuration which can come from the internet into an interpreter of code. Because there is of course really no sharp line. I'm sure there are dozens of turning complete apps that can download configurations from the internet.

Although at the end of the day you are just seeing when the company decides to apply vague policies to swat you out of their ecosystem.
Warp Speed didn't contribute to the development of this one; they have allocated funds to buy the vaccine though

Operation Warp Speed, the federal effort to rush a vaccine to market, has promised Pfizer $1.95 billion to deliver 100 million doses to the federal government, which will be given to Americans free of charge. But Dr. Jansen sought to distance the company from Operation Warp Speed and presidential politics, noting that the company — unlike the other vaccine front-runners — did not take any federal money to help pay for research and development.

“We were never part of the Warp Speed,” she said. “We have never taken any money from the U.S. government, or from anyone.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/09/health/covid-vaccine-pfiz...
Adding this to the pile of awesome tool replacements written in Rust that I use on a daily basis including ripgrep, exa, bat, and alacritty
I'm absolutely willing to accept that very few people are (e.g.) voting twice in different states, filling out ballots mistakenly sent to their address, and similar small-scale stuff. But I do share your skepticism that when the stakes are this high, nobody's trying to meaningfully affect this. Especially this year when anyone could have told you the election will come down to the same small number of states waiting for days to count ballots in a small number of precincts.

We know how well the TSA does because we actually try to send people through with weapons to see how often they get caught. In 2015, the answer is that 95% of weapons get through.

I think we need the same kind of thing for elections. How tough is it to get / remove a few boxes of ballots overnight from wherever they're stored prior to being counted? When you do, is that immediately detected and reported, or is it presumed to be a mistake and just accepted? How many people does it take?

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/investigation-breaches-...
Fake news strikes again. Fact: In USA you dont win until election is certified. This election is currently in court and recount do to fraud caught on and off camera and by criminal confession. There is no winner until this part is over. Al Gore was delcared the winner by fake news and you see how that went after recount.
The same can be said about Android devices. And I don't think it would be any different if the devices were Real Computers.
Well, stock prices move right? If everything was always perfectly priced in, they'd be constant. This movement or reaction is exactly that pricing in of future events given a change in information.