skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting! I would say that the template library is one of the main reasons I reach for Go. If you want to have a microservice with a useful human-readable status page that tells the operator all about the application's internals, it is a snap in Go, while in C++ you'll be pulling your hair out.
> 13.3% of influenza patients also have the same spectrum of diagnoses

I recently got and recovered from COVID-19. By far the worst part about having COVID-19 for me was the psychological toll and anxiety of having a virus that the governments and media make out to be as if it's as deadly as the bubonic plague, when in reality at least anecdotally for me and my friends who've gotten it, none of us experienced more than mild sickness, and all of us recovered within a week or two.

When I first got COVID19, I remember telling my girlfriend, and her breaking down in tears, having told me horror stories of young healthy people who died from COVID. I mentioned "hey at least I'll have the antibodies / T Cells", and she responded that there have been cases of people getting reinfected, which may be true - but is certainly not the norm. You're just more likely to see these horror stories being paraded around the news than the vast majority of patients who only experience mild symptoms and recover with no lingering symptoms.

I don't mean to dismiss the suffering of those who've fallen seriously ill and died from COVID as that is obviously tragic, but at least in my experience, none of my 20+ friends I've spoken to (mostly in their 20s / 30s) who got COVID got more than mild sickness, and all recovered after a week or two.

Were we all lucky? Maybe. But my point is, there seems to be an enormous discrepancy between how the governments and media are portraying this disease, and the reality of this disease. Dishonest alarmist journalism like this that tries to paint a narrative of a deadly disease without putting numbers in proper context, calling "anxiety" a mental illness during a pandemic, not properly controlling for the general context of the fact that we're in a global pandemic with government lockdowns, travel bans, and people out of work is a serious problem that only exacerbates the general anxiety and depression of the public.

Of course people should know about the horror stories too, but we're really not getting a balanced perspective here, which is a huge problem and has serious mental consequences.
Doesn't seem like they deal with the 10^6 X slowdowns you encounter with HE. Seems inherent to all the obfuscating computation.
Oddly enough, I remember reading several articles from people like Nate Silver and other pollsters assuring me that their models had compensated for "Shy Trump Supporters". Some pundits even argued that "Shy Trump Supporters" are a myth.

I personally received something that looked like it was from a pollster in an unsolicited text message. Did I answer it? Of course not. I get inundated with spam calls and texts constantly. I'm also weary of answering any pollster because I have no clue how my responses are recorded and if such responses are being used in an advertising profile.

I wonder if pollsters have some way of compensating for that in their model? Because it looks like their methods are just to try and adjust sampling rates for other demographics rather than changing their questions and outreach methods.
I won't fly Air France, not just because of AF447, but also the time they diverted into an airport in the middle of a civil war and had a whip round in first class to pay for the gas to get out of there.

https://www.independent.ie/life/travel/travel-news/air-franc...
This is very cool, and I learned a few things about some intra-solar-system size equivalencies (eg. that Europa, Luna, & Io were so close in size).

A few objects seem like they are missing though, like the asteroid belt, the solar system (or perhaps 'orbit of Mercury', [...], 'orbit of Mars', 'orbit of Jupiter’, etc.), the Kuiper belt, & Oort cloud.
It is was a prelude to what happened to TikTok. Or almost happened to TikTok as now with the Trump administration is gone, it makes no sense to do a deal with Oracle.
That's a little unfair. The parent is making a meta comment.
Ockham's razor doesn't apply in adversarial contexts.
Do you imagine the VCs had to sell all their clothes and are now walking around wearing barrels held up by leather straps, before they retire for the evening to a cardboard box over a steam vent? You really think they had to cut back their Dom Perignon budget over this loss? Do you think they were "strongarmed" by this investor?

There is what is for them a teeny tiny pie, and rather than demanding their small slice back they said "you know what? Go ahead without us. Bon Appetit :)"
The rev.ng decompiler nightly builds have been released
I wrote a bit about it in a Twitter thread[0]. Context is machine learning projects for enterprise in the mid six figure range that can be tackled with one or two people. Contract, problem statement, dealing with people, and abstracting into a product.

It may be relevant to you. Questions are welcome.

- [0]: https://mobile.twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/13106682933...
Is it common to house non-violent offenders with ones convicted of violent crimes?
"pill seeker" Jesus Christ, just punch me in the face, why don't you. I hate people who just go "oh you just want drugs". No, I want the pain to go away and not to be treated like I'm pretending.
I would have believed the chip designer. He explained the problem (an issue involving synchronization between different clock domains in this case) and why the workaround (that WE had to figure out, without help from the vendor) was correct.

The sample drivers written by the company were all buggy, by the way. They wound up doing a cut-and-paste with our workaround in their next board support drop.
I am glad that the author didn't force election authority to use plan9 from outer space.
Sometimes I worry I operate more like a wasp than a bee, here. Anyway, great story and coverage.
I think what is happening here is that the attitude of Apple towards normal users is spilling over to its attitude towards developers. Which is obviously a big problem, if that is indeed the case.
> yet regardless of motivation.

Regardless of the motivation USA is more dangerous than Somalia (4.31/100k) - of course there are other reasons to be scared there,being killed is only one among many - but still it is kinda bad IMO.

If we count, for example, people killed by the police, there have been 1,004 killings in USA in 2019, 3 every million, 34 every 10 million residents. compared to Germany, whose police is said to be quite violent, it's 30 times more (Germany is around 1 per 10 million residents) and 170 times worse than Japan (0.2 per 10 millions)

All in all, as much as I know numbers don't tell the whole truth, something needs to change over there .
Or go to the library!
why the servers are in Chine ? For asia market or for communist part?
so glad to see more folks speaking out against the mediopolitical coercion happening around the pandemic. it's both fascinating and horrifying to watch the machinations work their way into our brains and out of our hearts and mouths.

masks and lockdown, and spinning our wheels over who're doing those things right and who're not, aren't going to save us and is full-on, simplistic media and political performance (biden is still unhelpfully screaming "wear a mask!") distracting us from the weightier subtleties.

the policy that minimizes spread is to not breathe strangers' direct exhaust (not just air) for a prolonged period of time. we need to hone in on that one behavior, not its poor proxies, like masks and lockdowns.

distancing for instance is a much better primary mitigation for the populace, rather than getting lost in the fear-based political weeds of masks and essential businesses. with that singular focus, we'd have had greater agreement, cooperation, and effectiveness (rather than performativeness), and less uncertainty, anxiety, and fear.
Did dang promote this to the front page? :)

Seriously tho... shout out to dang for all the hard work he does.

(Please don't vote me up if you agree - I don't want the karma - just comment instead...)
In case of running/testing window manager on Linux there is Xephyr(1), which creates a brand new display (opened as a new windowed "app") that can be used without breaking the main $DISPLAY that comes with GNOME/KDE/XFCE/i3.

While ago, Julia Evans has published a blogpost about challenge to write own window manager [0]. Perhaps, you will find it interesting if would like to get know more about typical debugging tools for a window manager development.

[0]: https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/11/25/challenge--make-a-bouncy-win...
Thanks, will look at those.
Vegans choose to abstain from animal products, not that they "don't want them."

The reasons might be environmental, ethical, moral, or religious, etc... Not important, just that a vegan or vegetarian is simply someone who did a cost-benefit analysis where, to them, the costs of meat (environmental degradation, massive suffering, personal guilt, my-god-said-so, whatever) outweigh the benefits (taste, convenience, social acceptably). That's merely it!

It's not cognitive dissonance to want to enjoy some of the benefits of something without some of the costs - that's what vegan "meat" (at least attempts) to do.
BA are not going to be putting me on a a narrow body Boeing aircraft
in Europe a supermarket buys the products; usually it will pay in 90/120/180 days and it has the option to return unsold items and will have advertising agreements for better/larger shelves, but everything is in the store is own by the store
Thanks for the feedback zrobotics. We updated the verbiage to not include "military grade encryption".
Future Crew's Second Reality Code Review (2013)
Indeed, most of the incarcerated are very poorly educated and often simply mentally ill to boot. This is a medieval system.
For sure--that sounds real smelly. (Unless it's being used to pull in attributes that are shared between and used for wire-up, but those should then be in a separate assembly.)
The current title ("iO from Well-Founded Assumptions") is the title of the paper.
hang in there.

I had my github repro banned as well. I built this cool app you can share projects with friends and compete with git stars. Once it got seen - it violated some policy they randomly made up. Oh well. 7 years of projects gone. Lesson learned. But when it happened, i remember how mad I was. I was so sick with hate. To Github I am sure some guy named "brad" clicked "block" right before he left to get ready for the gym --. To me it was personal.

But you need to keep moving on and not keep the hate.

https://github.com/ransom1538
Have you tried langauges other than C++ and Go? Almost anything makes you pull your hair out in C++!
(2019)

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20643052
The term is intentionally oxymoronic: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Humble%20Bra...
Ask HN: How are you networking in the time of Covid-19?
I think the title says it all. I was never that great about networking, but now my feel my anemic network is all but gone. How are you networking in time time of Coronavirus?
> Saying politics were the issue is mostly used merely an unfalsifiable statement.

Not at all. There are plenty of historical treatments that clearly document the political issues that prevented the US from capitalizing on its military victories. For example, see H. R. McMaster's book Dereliction of Duty.

It is true that much of the blame lies with military leaders; McMaster's book makes that clear. But the reason for that is that those military leaders were acting like politicians, not military leaders; they were telling elected politicians what they wanted to hear, instead of telling them the military reality. Politicizing the military does not do either the military or the country any good.

> If the goal of the wars are redefined to some really narrow goal like just eliminating Saddam, which is revisionist at best

That was the military objective, and it was achieved. No redefinition at all.

The political objective was never clearly defined, which of course is not a recipe for success.

> Afghanistan is also total chaos, 20 years later. Military might sure isn't helping there.

If you ask the military to do a political job, and don't even clearly define what the political job is, of course they're not going to be able to succeed. That's not the military's fault. It's our political leaders' fault (and our fault as citizens for allowing them to get away with it).
I was disappointed by the content of the article as well, I was hoping for something about the incredible amount of insight and wisdom offered freely, as well as the give an take you allude to.
That doesn't work unless you already have the using statements, which you won't have as you haven't added it yet.

I just tried it.
Ah... dang = [Dan]iel [G]ackle

I always thought it was just a mild expletive that reflected the role of moderation
Was that you?

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/gzvf70/go_developer...
I think it's unfortunate people reacted to this point in the way that the author has. At least for me, all I'm saying is, look at everything this guy had to go through! And look what his payout is. It's not pissing on the payout, or the guy's effort, or saying he's a mark. It's acknowledging that most businesses don't even get that far, so this is the good case. Meanwhile, you can sit down and make the same money in less time, taking what I would wager to be a significantly larger number of naps. And it doesn't involve magic, or being a big-cheese VP, or any of this other stuff people say.

Now, obviously not everyone is cut out to be an employee, let alone an employee at a big tech co. Nothing wrong with being an entrepreneur, if that fits the cut of your jib better. It's just to say, let's be honest about the risk/reward situation here. It's not high-risk, high-reward compared to getting a big tech job. It's high risk and middling reward. The job route is much less risk with an equal or greater reward. Why is it so horrible to say this??
Glad you like it motohagiography! We agree with you!
If eBPF is new to you (it was to me), this article offers some useful context to help parse "eBPF brings to the Linux kernel what JavaScript brought to the browser" (which made me shudder at first): https://thenewstack.io/how-io_uring-and-ebpf-will-revolution...
Money isn't everything. I've turned down interview opportunities at both Facebook and Google because the roles on offer were not roles I was interested in doing. In the past I've broken off Google's interview process because the glacial pace they were moving at just was not worth it to me.

I earn well, so granted I'm not turning down as much as some would, but to drag out a tired old saying, I work to live, I don't live to work. I have plenty of things I want to do - some of them I can do in the right job, many I can't.

Of course one of the luxuries of already earning well is that the multiple of my current salary it'd take to convince me to take a job I don't actively love the sound of is far higher that it otherwise would be.
That would make sense if documentation were a standalone product, but it's completely complementary to the language, so that doesn't make any sense.
I think a lot of posters assume that their audience lives in the US, and more specifically in a high cost of living coastal city like SF or NYC.

What "a lot" of money is varies dramatically based on where you live. Take a look at how much it costs to [rent a room](https://sfbay.craigslist.org/d/rooms-shares/search/roo) in San Francisco, the cheapest possible housing option for an individual without a family. If you are working full time on a business that has 1k monthly revenue, your income will be less than 1/3 of minimum wage.

On the other hand, in many places in the world as OP pointed out, 1k a month would be enough to live a comfortable lifestyle.
That would imply such a link exists, seems to be a lot of complete nonsense being thrown around in this thread around nutrition and food.
Yeah, you're right. Some people adjust way better than others...
I was reading that they do have internal chip production, but that the chips are incredibly expensive relative to what they get. But it's worth it to them to have their own source of chips and also chips that they trust, even at a huge multiple of the reasonable market cost. In a million dollar tank, a $10,000 chip you trust is less of a concern than a $400 chip that you don't trust or may lose access to in wartime.
> As for Zoom, I don't understand why people trust them or still use their product if they are at all concerned about security. It makes very little sense.

Phone calls and text messages aren't particularly secure either, doesn't stop people using them
Hah. No hanged nails at high noon.
You seem to be correct (in so far as Firefox is also dead): https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Xamarin,%2Fg%2F11...
This really hits home for me. I have a genetic disease (no specifics to remain somewhat anonymous) that generally causes me to be in pain 24/7. Sometimes it's worse, sometimes it's better - but it's always there. As such I've learned to live with it the best that I can.

The last time I went to the ER (a few years ago now) for something unrelated, I was in extreme pain. I'm used to pain. I can tolerate constant pain pretty well. This pain was way above what I could tolerate.

Instead of help from the nurse I got a lecture about lying about drug use and lying about pain. Eventually I got the help I needed but the whole experience was just so degrading at a time I would have preferred to die rather than continue the pain I felt.
That seems like an absolutely massive penalty just for "having a different opinion" to the point where I feel like you're burying the lede.

It's not quite the same, but having moderated large internet communities before, I've seen way too many claims of "moderator oppression" that conveniently left out the part where the user was lightly reprimanded and responded by telling the moderator to "go kill themselves" or something similar.

Obviously, I don't know the details of your issues, so I can't claim that happened in your case, but with no other proof, I have a hard time believing just one side of the story. Can you provide a link to where this "different opinion" was discussed, I'd love to see the interaction for myself?
True, and it is nice to have the capabilities in the stdlib. I just don't like the hierarchy setup, poor docs, and lack of errors/warnings when you get it wrong.

I guess I am just used to Python where there are 1-2 all-star 3rd party packages for each use case that the community tends to coalesce around. Rust appears to be heading in a similar direction.

Since Go has so much web/http stuff baked in, it is more likely that must people just stick with the stdlib approach, even if it's a bit of a PITA.
This is 2nd attempt:

const a = "this is my code";
a = a + a;

(ne znam)

This is maybe

and what about this
The Pandemic's Golden List – 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies
My first tech book after Mike Meyers "All in one A+ 4th Ed" was a book written on Wireshark by Laura. I never got too deep as it was taken from the desk I pulled CQ duty at.
CP/M from Gary Kildall.
>Are you referring to the "scan this QR code to verify your partner's key" function in secure messaging apps?

Yes. Or read the weird numbers/letters over the phone. Or look at the strange image and compare it somehow.

For all I know there is something out there that wants you to compare a tune...
There's been immense applications of iO in crypto already, constructing things we didn't know how to construct from the plain assumptions. This includes primitives which seem, at the first glance, to not have a "secret-less" equivalent.
I used to be in your camp, but ultimately I think the decentralization and heterogeneity of the election processes provides a non-trivial layer of "security by obfuscation". In other words, if we streamline the process too well, we'll find ourselves with a system with a handful of highly vulnerable points of failure.

I would much prefer a seemingly archaic system that, at the cost of annoyances and delays, at least provides us with a reasonable sense of conviction that the results are accurate.
If you think IoT is bad when it comes to security, imagine what will happen when IoT is applied to voting.

Insecure and hackable voting machines were already a problem more than a decade ago, and they're still a problem today.
What about halal? Would it make a broader impact protesting halal butchering given that amount of animals slaughtered in that way is thousands times higher?
MINI iMac G4 Made with NUC and 3D Printer
Have you considered using Qt? It compiles and runs native on macOS, the documentation is superb. You just let the Qt people worry about the Cocoa, Quartz etc. interface.

As a bonus, it will also run on Windows, Linux, Android, iOS.

Qt looks like an "operating system". It isn't really an O/S, it feeds off the underlying O/S, but to the applications programmer, it completely subsumes the O/S.

We converted a 500KLOC Win32 app to Qt (and macOS), and there is not one single Win32 API call left, except for an obscure font enumeration thing because we wanted to stay with our own PDF code instead of using Qt's.
I agree with you, except that I saw all the "anachronistic processes" as meaningful and useful backup systems. Obviously online voting would be simpler for the voter, I don't think anyone would deny that, but you wouldn't get:

1. Your physical signature witnessed by a poll worker, and your identity and presence physically recorded in several different locations.

2. A physical paper ballot only accessible by poll workers.

3. A locally stored electronic ballot only accessible by poll workers.

4. Multiple physical receipts with your votes, distributed to many different physical locations only accessible to poll workers.

5. A trained poll worker available to help at the time and place that you vote.

6. An easy backup plan if something goes wrong.

Online voting is optimized for the happy path, but handling all the edge cases where something could go wrong is extremely difficult to implement and difficult for voters to understand. With online voting you need to ensure the security of the voter's physical device, operating system, web browser, each link in their internet connection, and all of those for the voting servers as well. After implementing processes to secure all of that, you need to communicate the security in a way that an average voter can understand it. You also need to think about what to do when a voter needs help, or their computer crashes mid-vote, or their power goes out, or someone sends them the wrong link, etc. etc. etc.

Current processes are a little more complicated up front, but processes for preventing and correcting errors are easy to implement and understand.
Why Nestle is one of the most hated companies in the world
You absolutely have the right to not board an aircraft if you don't feel safe, and should exercise it. Laurence Gonzales has a story about declining to fly on a DC-10, which saved his life. But even he admits that that decision wasn't rational: you can't judge a decision by what you know after the fact. Even at its worst, a flight on a DC-10 was much safer than his morning commute.

You'll have less luck getting a refund for that decision, but I do appreciate your admitting that the decision is about your feelings, not demonstrable evidence.
> Get ready for documentation subscriptions.

MSDN Library. Everything old is new again.