skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you would've lead in with your background I might have been more careful ;) Just rubbed me the wrong way the way you wrote it, so i wrote my response in a similar manner.

Good software is equally intricate and complex as many other fields that superficially seem more complex, like Rocket Surgery. Unfortunately it has changed a lot over the last 20 years. Just learn to use these libraries, go to a bootcamp and call yourself fullstack developer.

Few people even know what instructions per second even means. Deliver 300MB chat applications or 40GB Games to your customers and call it a day.

Good software development is more than an art or craft, it is seriously hard and takes a lot of experience and it is NOT relaxing at all. It is rare, unfortunately and it's just frustrating to see the decline over the last 20 years.
> Think about why you want to lose weight. Is it to be healthier, or is to reach an arbitrary number?

Many possible reasons. You would be surprised at the number of people doing it mainly to be able to fit into pretty clothes.

It's difficult to find motivation to lose weight to be healthier when you don't actually have any health problems yet.
Her rendition is so vibrant and pleasant; it's of almost an otherworldly beauty.
Measuring impact of government actions and other factors on Covid-19 mortality
Well, there's the rub. No one seems to know, even today, how long after exposure you become contagious. That's especially the case for asymptomatic spreaders (as we assume the child was, if the child was the source for the parent).

Everyone seems to say "1-2 days before symptoms start", although some sources say "2-3 days". And yes, as you say, the 2-14 days for becoming symptomatic seems to be much more agreed upon.

That's where it seems to me to be a very rapid spread (below average) from the wedding to the LTCF. But not impossible.

I was also curious about the situation around the LTCF in the days leading up to that outbreak. I was expecting to find that perhaps there were other community cases around there that could have contributed to the LTCF.

However, looking at the MeCDC website for Somerset County (where the LTCF is reported to be located), the county seemed to be pretty "under control" in the days leading up to this event. The most recent confirmed cases had been over 2 weeks prior, on July 24th. It's actually the longest they had gone without a new case in almost 3 months.

Given that, I'm more likely (as the CDC concluded) to suspect the contact tracing from the wedding to the LTCF as being the cause. It's not an absolute link, but it's probably more likely than I originally assumed.
Kosher Foods
The Why of Y [pdf]
In what world is this the rule of law and not just arbitrary bullying of the ruling elite?
I love the strange design of the blog. The design, with the crazy spacing and bullet points makes it kind of fun to read.
Trump to Rush Drilling Leases in Arctic Before Biden Takes Over
Does anyone have statistics on mask wearing compliance in public? Seems like someone could use ML to identify people with and without masks. Last time I went out shopping it was 100% compliance (and using a mask correctly) as near as I could tell.
I have my own experience with weight loss. I used to get sick constantly, had low energy and snored at night. A few years ago got serious, started weight training(was running but weights made a huge difference), also cut out all the junk in my diet(snacking now healthy, more water). I was never obese, but just carried a good amount of weight, The results have been dramatic.

I no longer snore, and have ample energy throughout the day. And I have been getting sick alot less now. Other things that I found to be interesting is I now have a very good sense of smell, I can now smell very faint things my Wife cannot. Also I always had a terrible balance and that has changed dramatically as well for the better.

If there is one thing that was life changing for me, it is losing all the weight, I couldn't recommend it enough for everyone.
Yes, the topic of the article is human extinction, and one can be pedantic and say, why stray off topic? However, conceptually close is near-extinction, with unfathomable suffering and waste, destruction of nearly all human culture, nearly all humans, and nearly all plant and animal life. It's worth a sentence or two to mention this in the article, to avoid confusion on the part of the reader that the author wishes minimize the negative effects of nuclear war - which would perhaps make it more acceptable in a way.

That said, the analysis seems sound, and despite the chance that the conclusion could be misconstrued or misused, it is important to remind voters graphically of the horrors of nuclear war. That's a better strategy to avoid both extinction and near-extinction, rather than counting on military planners to not overshoot their goals of near-extinction.
I agree. Incredibly though, the same organisations will spend hundreds of man-hours quibbling over whether a dev team really needs a $20 app.

Sometimes I really hate working for large companies!
Florida 2000 was indeed very different. That said, Gore was hoisted by his own petard and not by SCOTUS. It's important to remember that Gore did not wish to recount the entire state and all the ballots in the same way, but only in areas and ways considered favourable to Gore.

If Gore hadn't tried that stunt, the process wouldn't have dragged on until December, and the Court wouldn't have been able to interfere. Even more ironically, later attempts to check the count show that all of the recounting standards Gore had actually asked for would have led to Bush winning; Only a complete and fair recount may have allowed Gore to win.
What about polarisation of politics and deglobalisation? Are those real and what's their impact?
The more I think about this comment, the more it just seems so wrong. Yes, depression is not always caused by lifestyle, but it definitely can be.
What you are saying just sounds like an excuse for taking the easy path.
If trying to change your lifestyle to fix your mental health is a bad thing, what is your counter suggestion? Taking pills that make you addicted, not solve the problem and make everything worse if you stop taking them?

I know there are cases, where medication is inevitable and is the only option. But this is a minority. The vast majority of mental health issues we have today, are caused by lack of virtue and values, choice of diet, sleep and lack of social interactions.
This deleted $150 billion off of Ant's valuation. Yet the bigger news in China tech this week was the new proposed Anti-monopoly rules that wiped $280 billion off the market. [1]

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/12/morgan-stanley-chinas-draft-...
The varying strategies (and their varying results -- even when applying the same strategy but in a different location) is rather surprising to me, especially when you dig around a little and find that plenty of places don't re-think their strategy for decades while the results remain 'meh' at best.

Maybe this works well for Australia, or they are stuck in 1990 and simply haven't looked back and wondered if anything could be done differently.

Example would be: instead of catching everything you see, you can also collect information until you find a pattern, central driver or societal problem and solve that to solve the underlying problem. The counter-example would then be: instead of always trying to catch the biggest fish you can also make a few examples and disturb something like a criminal network by messing up the actions of their foot soldiers.

I suspect the way you go about it increases or decreases the amount of individual requests you need in order to execute your mandate.
QE Wanting to Move to Dev – How to improve C skills with no mentors?
Hi! I'm currently trying to move to a dev role from my QE Automation Role and just had my first "take-home" assignment. It was all written in C, and I think it was good, but I'm really nervous since it's my first official submission.

Anyways, how did you improve your C skills or start feeling confident that a program you submit is good/great?
AI passed human intelligence many times already. We just keep re-defining the problem to avoid that.
Profit is revenue minus expenses. Employees don't do this calculation, as the employer normally pays for all work expenses. Their paycheck is pure profit -- no expenses to account for. As such, people don't really think of paychecks in these terms, so it sounds strange.

It makes sense in the comment above, as the cab driver actually has work expenses that they pay for out of pocket and are not reimbursed for.
The $4,200 and $17,499 are different car models from different manufacturers.

$4,200: WuLing Hong Guang Mini EV

$17,499: Kandi K27
In the 1932 election, if there are a bunch of blank ballots being put in mailboxes everywhere and the only check on them is a shitty algorithmic signature check, I go from house to house collecting them every morning and sending them in for the non-Nazi party with forged signatures.

Oh, wait.
Sweden in the past 30-40 years.

Perhaps not historically significant, yet, but clear as night and day when you have lived here over the course of that time.

What has happened in Sweden during this time? It was until very recently almost impossible to have any public, critical opinion about migration without risking being labeled racist. Why? Not sure. But seems to me, a reaction due to fear that Sweden could evolve to something like Nazi Germany. Which of course was not going to happen.
It was not a close vote. Prop 22 won by 17%, which is very far out of the margin the most successful political ad campaign could plausibly hope to skew the vote by. It won because middle class Californians didn't want to spend more money on Ubers, not because Uber and Lyft successfully bought the election.
AI isn't a vague term at all.

It is extremely well defined. The best example I can point you to is from the 1990's by Russell & Norvig in their seminal work "Artificial Intelligence" which coalesces a half century of research. They spend the first 100 pages clearly defining the types of domains and vocabulary needed to define the space of AI: it is an exhaustive analysis with citations going back decades, covering early thinkers like Norbert Wiener and Von Neumann. Your claim indicates you haven't really studied the field. But everyone jumping into tensorflow on a raspberry pi has probably had zero exposure the to decades of research put into AI.

Your second claim about a giant mind that might dwarf all of humanity, is, well, grandiose sci-fi. Much like Dyson Spheres or Time Travel.
From what I understood, you wouldn't need to prove P=NP, you would just need enough computing power, as in, on the order of a few RTX 3090s.
I always loved arch for its minimalistic approach. Well, maybe this is not entirely true since when we was pretty much forced to switch to systemd :) but it is still my favourite distro, even after those sleepless nights. I am maybe a weirdo but I don't regret a minute spent fixing my installation :)
I wish we had hard figures about how widespread qanon is in the us. Could it be a political force. Regardless, it is clear that it's wrecking lives and tearing families apart. I see many new subscribers to the casualties sub every day.

Representative topics:

Wife: "Cancel our vacation because world war 3 is starting first week of November..“

I think I just lost my Mom...

My mom went from relatively sane to watching prophecy videos and thinking Kamala is a demonic lizard in a meatsuit. My entire family now believes we have less than 10 years left before Jesus comes back

Lost my beloved Aunt

I lost my family, my wife, and my best friend to this. I don't know what to do.
>> This is empirically false. We have records of dance music, of broadside ballads that were sung in the streets, of the music people played at home. And there were lots of student drinking songs about being young and free.

We have recordings from the 16th century? Do you mean "recordings" as in sheet music for automatic pianos or organs etc?
[2] Should be fairly easy to debug, as you can see what routes have actually been bound in the Cloudflare dashboard.
Considering this is Apple, I'm surprised how bad the UX of the cards+slider is.

At least on desktop the country cards have a delayed animation and feels super unresponsive.
Show HN: Howdy Stranger, a browser extension to delete locally stored data
This approach makes sense for something that's random and not easily preventable, like lightning strikes and pancreatic cancer. It makes no sense for COVID, where there are very simple things you can do to greatly reduce the risk of spread: Namely not going to large gatherings, and wearing a little piece of cloth on your face. It's just like wearing a seatbelt. People don't wear seatbelts because they live their lives in constant fear--they wear them because they are simple, low-effort ways to greatly reduce risk of death.
I don't think Obama would have supported it as he called Clinton urging her to concede early on election night.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/307536-obama-urged-cli...
Nobody would pick Python because it performs well. In many (and as performance of computers in general improves, more) cases, it performs well enough though. For one (admittedly absurd) example, where it just doesn't: a network device driver in user space: https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy-languages
No one disputes there was violence. What is disputed is who perpetrated it. As far as I know, there is no evidence it was committed by CHOP participants.
Nice way to revise history to make the Holomdor just a result of lack of computational power not a genocidal atrocity. Next up Mao's 5 year plan only killed millions of people because of an error in a spreadsheet. Other than that it was totally going to work.

In all honesty to reduce this to a simple problem of calculation and balancing a sheet is incredibly simplified and narrowminded, it's like reducing all of art to a single dimension and analyzing it on that.
We really do prefer people fill out the form rather than try to ping us on Twitter. :) https://www.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-durable-object...

We are taking things slowly. Storing data is a big responsibility. We'll need to test with a small number of users for an extended period (a few months) to work out any reliability issues before we really scale up.
Trends for the next decade.

- Areas of coastal cities abandoned due to repeated flooding

- Areas of high fire danger abandoned in California and Australia.

- Mass die-off in India due to excessive population and lack of water.

- US, UK, and Israel classified as "failed democracies" due to autocratic leaders.

- Terrorists cause a worldwide epidemic.

- Apple announces IPhone 20. Nobody cares.
The problem with CAC in this market is that I doubt enough people say, "I'm hungry, I'll open door dash". Instead I want to eat from a local restaurant whom I call for delivery and then door dash pays someone to bring my food. In that case DD hasn't "acquired" me as a customer.
A few of the brighter bulbs in sustainable agriculture treat their animals more like you might an intern.

Except for the whole bad day at the end. Either Salatin or Shepard, I forget which, feeds his animals treats inside of his animal trailer so they don't even get stressed out getting on the truck, the way you'd put treats in a cat carrier or dog crate.

If we want intact ecosystems in farm country, you're going to be using farm animals for their similarity to wildlife. That's a lot fewer animals, with a lot longer lives, but in the end you still have maybe a 10th of the volume of animal products. Not many grade A, thick-cut T-bone steaks in that supply chain, but plenty of soups and stews. And really, selling that animal may be most of your profit margin. They've eaten marginal and surplus foods all year.

Most of these fad diet folks have this stuff all wrong. We didn't eat all fruits and nuts. We didn't eat all meat. We ate a steady diet of opportunistic foods, and meat was a supplement to our nutrition, one that was critical in us developing the mental faculties and ecological range to have this argument in the first place.

To be a vegan requires you to use a global supply system for your food, which has its own carbon footprint problems. Meat is a seasonal food that got us through winter and early spring.

It has been asserted, sometimes as a throwaway line, in a number of historical documentaries I've seen, that part of structural classism in the middle ages was denying meat to the working class, leading to developmental delays. Malnutrition made them dumber. Easier to control. 'Course, they gave themselves gout in the process...
For some reason DoorDash decided to ban my account one day, I have no idea why. I found out while trying to order food.

I ask their customer support chat, who told me they'd be in touch in 24 hours.

24 hours later I indeed got an email:

"I've looked into your account and our system shows your account has been deactivated due to account activity that violates our Terms and Conditions of Use."

I asked what ToS I violated, but never got an answer. Some research shows I'm not the only one in this situation. What a weird thing to do.

I deleted the app.
That's not entirely true, Sanders often doesn't support gun control
One thing the example shows is the classic problem with OO's mechanism, namely binary functions. For a given class, something like `+` is impossible to implement elegantly, it has to bias one operand over the other -- after any syntactic sugar, it's always `arg1.op(arg2)`. Module functors resemble true ADTs more, in that they do not dispatch from a live instance of the datatype.
Labelling yourself a Nazi is confessing to conspiracy to commit genocide. This is a crime, whereas being disloyal to the president is explicitly not a crime.

I'm not a fan of vigilante justice in general, but at least the targets in the "punch a nazi" case have confessed, and the punishment called for isn't death.

However, I do not believe that posting "punch a nazi" is a conservative enough position given that the standard of evidence for labelling someone a nazi, in practice, is that they disagree with you on the internet.
This isn't really tied to techjob losses, some job loss will happen but more like blue collar industries that haven't been digitized. So more developers, less non-tech workers. That being said alot more people in tech will move to smaller towns.
While I realize I am just repeating the sentiment that others have already shared, I would like to do so in case Paul sees this and realizes how many people he has helped.

Best content online about Calc I, II, III and DiffEq. Hands down.
That argument is getting old. Yes, you could do those things, but can you do that for billions of people? Going back to the "you don't own your computer"-post from yesterday (or the day before?): it's not simply a matter of 'the big bar corp did it', users that do not or cannot understand technology to a degree that they can also control it generally don't have this choice at all. And for people that do have that choice, you also have to choose the ecosystem (be it social or technical). Plenty of people seem to stay on facebook for the same reason. It's not because it's good, it's because that's where the critical mass is.
Trump stepped into the exact amount of power that Obama had at the end of his term. And he inherited it from Bush. And on and on.

The ammunition of the authoritarian is collectivism. The more of Those People there are, the easier it is to Divide and Rule.
It feels like there's a missing product to go with git: a free and distributed issue management and review system. GitHub should be a view on the data rather than the sole owner of the data
>WeWork showed

Regus existed long before WeWork--as did many local spaces. I guess WeWork demonstrated that there was a market for "cooler" co-working spaces at scale.

As for DoorDash? People clearly want all sorts of rapid delivery and especially younger people who hate calling up a place really want to order through a consolidated web site. I'm not sure that's a revelation. The question is whether the economics broadly work out which is really not proven yet.
1. It's fair to say the President was outmatched by the job. If he wanted to be a dictator, he was incompetent. But the damage to the immediate office of the president is worth considering. No honest person wants to work close to this man, and that's new.

2. The media, in new and unusual ways, has abandoned the goal of neutrality in reporting.

3. The university and corporate culture is overwhelmed with demands for every discipline to consider the "Whiteness problem." What does this description remind you of in American life right now?

"Then, suddenly, I was plunged into all the new activity, as the university was drawn into the new situation; meetings, conferences, interviews, ceremonies, and, above all, papers to be filled out, reports, bibliographies, lists, questionnaires. And on top of that were the demands in the community, the things in which one had to, was ‘expected to’ participate that had not been there or had not been important before. It was all rigmarole, of course, but it consumed all one’s energies, coming on top of the work one really wanted to do. You can see how easy it was, then, not to think about fundamental things. One had no time."

4. The restriction on liberties during the pandemic is new in its breadth and uniformity. It was one thing for un-modern medicine to act regionally in 1918. It's another thing to shut down a Country along the same lines in 2020. We're writing off two years of education for most kids, taking on huge amounts of debt, and shuttering small businesses -- based on a testing regime that seems little better than reading entrails.

We are a tired, angry, debt-laden people unable to agree on the facts. We distrust our formerly-shared institutions. We distrust science if it contradicts political norms.

It's been a bad year.
This comment carries a barrel full of assumptions that the lines you were fed in civics class are fundamentally right and destined to prevail.

Consider: other countries have their own civics classes where they get fed a similar line about their systems.
Then either you don't seem to be very good at predicting the future, or you're a very pessimistic person, or possibly both.

As just one example, #20 is already being done for COVID: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/10/new-test-detects-cor...

And another disease: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2835-2

I could go on, but I think I've made my point.
> The people contributing to WP - the editors - seem more concerned with coming up with Kafka-esque processes to introduce to the community than making the actual work of making an encyclopaedia

This is one of the biggest challenges with building a self-governing online community: The people with the most time, energy, and desire to be in charge are often not the people with the most to contribute. As the bureaucracy grows, actual contributors are increasingly disincentivized from participating in the governance because it becomes such a distraction to actually producing content. At the extremes, these communities end up with highly-political community governance that spends much of their time with political maneuvering and focusing on a handful of fringe issues, while the actual content creators end up operating largely independently.

If you ignore the politicking and realize it's mostly a distraction, there's often good work still happening on the core content.
Afaik, no serious historian is talking about French revolution in terms of single good side vs single bad side.
Sounds like don’t buy Cisco.

But more importantly - you verified my assertion.

Even if a small number of security related technologies have a smaller deprecation window, the others have very long ones.

More importantly - we can even find out what they are!

With Linux, can you even tell me whether Cairo, the graphics library behind GTK and for which there is no alternative is even still supported?