skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One option is of course to get a job in one of those companies that is a user of your project. You get to work on your and possibly other similar projects, and the company gets an employee they already in advance know is going to be skilled and relevant. If your code is very useful for some, it ought to be possible to harness its popularity to offset some of the potential negative side effects.
My 2006 Mac Pro was very nice to use in winter for this exact reason
Pagan is another word that should be dropped even more certainly than cult.

Pagan is the word Christians used for non Christian religions starting after the Roman state converted, not the word anyone used for themselves.
Ligatures were created to prevent crashes of overlapping bits of characters. But this is an issue that shouldn't really occur in a monospace font.
Lipid nanoparticle used to envelope and deliver the mRNA. They’re using different makeups which affect the mRNA delivery and stabilization in the vaccine.
What does this article have to do with technology? Seems to me it is purely a political piece. Aren't there other platforms for political postings?
No but they won't hesitate to spend money on (8 sq/ft) something that will war out and they can easily change but something that you basically get one chance at and it determines your environmental quality and comfort, they could care less.

I take it you never worked in construction or home building and gave quotes. You would understand how people don't even give the mechanical any consideration (waste of money) but will spend 10's of thousands on cosmetics. You could build their foundation out of lego but you better use marble and gold leaf in their bathrooms.
As a parent with two kids who like minecraft - is Roblox safe for kids? I've heard yes and no.
Types say what, docs say why.

The semantics of a number or a string aren't described by their basic type.
So just for three thing you claimed "Swift is miles ahead of Rust in terms of language usability and ergonomics." Wow. Now let me tell you Why Rust is miles ahead than Swift.

1. Swift abstract away lot of memory management by defaulting to thread safe reference counting. In Rust you are free to use stack, heap and wide range of other option. Rust has a freedom here. ARC is basically a garbage collection whatever apple say.

2. Rust pattern matching is novel. You can see match on csharp, php because its so good.

3. Rust is far better in concurrency world.

4. Cross Platform support is Meh in Swift. Its starting but its too far.
If you are writing ios app or anything for mac yes swift is ahead.

But in other field Rust is far ahead. See the link for fair comparison. I have used various PL in my life time from c, c++ , java, swift , rust etc. And I am not biased towards rust. But simply saying swift is miles ahead is totally unfair to me.

https://v4.chriskrycho.com/rust-and-swift.html
I'll let you test it for me and find out what the long term effects are.
Unfortunately it isn't using a usual font license. It's not really clear under what conditions you can use/redistribute it.
Looks like inferred return type on the `planets` function on the first page?

I'm not a big fan of this. IMHO local inference is great, but it makes things so much better when function signatures are explicit.
LOL.. what if those planets ARE inhabited and us sending seed-of-life “goo” is lethal for them, or seen by them as an act of genocide or invasion?

What if “an act of science” is the thing that ends us?

While equally idiotic a question, it’s not being asked because someone says “we must follow the science”.
>Thanks to the UPU, Before July it was cheaper to mail a package to Chicago from Shanghai than to shop to Chicago from Dallas.

Do you have a source on this? Most claims of this nature that I've seen fall apart on investigation - usually they compare a bulk wholesale rate for slow international shipping to a retail rate for priority domestic shipping to get this result. I'd like to see an apples to apples comparison that shows this.
We have had on in our 'Saved for Later' in Amazon for probably over a year now, just never pulled the trigger. Best price I have seen is $200. But I suppose it might have paid for itself by now if we had done it initially.
As, well, "Hackers", we are probably used to being able to synthesize information we need ourselves. New API? Read the quickstart, patch together the documentation, you're good. A complex societal problem? I'll find the data on it, and form a better insight in 20 minutes than a journalist describing the story, who clearly doesn't understand fractions. New programming language? Give me a week, it's either like C, Haskell or Lisp.

Many of us also regularly read scientific papers, pick up new tools or frankly whole new academic fields, just as parts of our daily lives.

All of this, on the one hand, gives us expertise in coming up with our own, often better informed views about the world, on the other probably makes us overconfident about our information synthesis abilities in fields other than the wider CS.

sed '/we/I/' etc.
Posting the Matthew Butterick's definite ''ligatures are bad'' take, in case anyone is interested.

Q: Ligatures in programming fonts? A: Hell no https://tinyletter.com/mbutterick/letters/q-ligatures-in-pro...

> And not because I’m a purist or a grump. (Some days, but not today.) Programming code has special semantic considerations. Ligatures in programming fonts are likely to either misrepresent the meaning of the code, or cause miscues among readers. So in the end, even if they’re cute, the risk of error isn’t worth it.
Then you haven't ever written a line of C/C++ I presume? Ownership is just a formalization of the way almost all resources (including memory) are managed in C: A single function has the responsibility of doing cleanup; that responsibility can be moved around to other functions of course, but only one ever has that responsibility at a time.
The solution here would be to disable the cop with a magic comment, write an explanation accompanying the comment and move on.

If you need an exception to Rubocop, that's available to you.
There was a small suspicion and some previous studies that maybe (a big maybe) HCQ would help in some infections (parasitic and virotic - well, it does help with Malaria)

But that was that, a suspicion, not to take it as the holy grail of the disease
So it looks like U+27F6 ⟶ rather than U+2192 →?
> “It is hard to find an example of quackery that has spread so far, influencing the public health response to a deadly pandemic and creating widespread confusion across the entire globe.”

Or the WHO themselves claiming that masks do not work for months then suddenly reversing their position in the middle of the pandemic. But "Trust Science" they said.
In light of the parent comment, we should presume that the team had Christian representation and those Christians were fine with it, not that there were no Christians. There’s a lot of media that uses caricatures to vilify Christians (“Easy A” comes to mind), but there is relatively little uproar from Christians about it. They don’t seem to be very sensitive apart from a small handful that our society cherry-picks as the basis for our stereotypes (e.g., the Starbucks Christmas cup fiasco was literally one guy and Buzzfeed ran that story like it was a nationwide Christian movement).
Glasses don’t get as fogged if you have a surgical mask with a metal wire for the nose clamp. Fits better than a plastic insert and does not let air shoot out the top into your eyes when you exhale.
One core difference seems to be that references are checked at runtime. In Rust you have to be able to prove that a reference to a value can't outlive the value, but Vale is more trusting, and simply crashes if a reference outlives the value in practice.

You have constraint references, which crash the program if they still exist when the value is freed. And you have weak references, which turn into null. Constraint references can optionally be compiled into raw pointers.
I think that would have a negative effect on individuals and open source developers. Have a dependency on npm, 10$/m. Have a dependency on Nuget, 10$/m.. I'm at 20$/m for my project which may or may not be a commercial product.

With this model, the fees could increase with each distribution platform your project depends on.
Very helpful! Thank you for pointing that out! I will get a fix out for it.
>authoritarian, charismatic leader.

you mean like the pope?
Fair enough. English isn't my first language, so I basically go with what the dictionary says, in this case "An adherent of a polytheistic religion in antiquity". :)
Wasn’t Remdesivir also given emergency approval and is now to be avoided ?
Why does metadata encryption matter?
Yes, they're essentially minmaxing their income, consumers be damned. They know that people will buy their games no matter what, so they don't even bother optimizing for them.
Thanks. Obvious looking again.

Turns out I have the catacomb 3d game from the Id anthology box I got years ago. I’ll fire that up and see what I think tonight.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/id-anthology
Covid-19 present in Italy as early as SEP 2019, lung cancer screenings show
I think that the complaint is that the goalposts have moved when they should have expanded (isn't creating a broader range of what's acceptable the point of "diversity" and similar goals?).

In those days you couldn't have (on your professionally produced, mainstream, mass market TV show) a woman who didn't want to be a housewife as a main character on your show unless that was portrayed negatively or being used for comedy. These days you can't have a woman who wants to be a housewife as a main character on your show unless that's being portrayed negatively or being poked fun at.

Por qué no los todos?
The academic usage of the word cult is quite different than the common usage, the common usage is the one that has relatively recently acquired a deragatory meaning.

I’m not in favor of taking words, misusing them, and then taking that misuse as standard and saying nobody should use them.
The reverse is true.
Shanghai to Chicago is cheaper than Chicago to Dallas.
Trump said he was going to get rid of the subsidies but he never did.
> There's a correlation between lines of code in a file and bug count. Does the typing outweigh this?

This is where the famous 'compiler' steps in and catches your typos and errors with "types" at compile time.

> If you're writing good unit tests already

Compilers are not fragile. Unit tests are fragile. IMO, a significant factor contributing to relation between N (lines of code) and B (expected number of bugs) is human error. Humans write unit-tests. For a fun spin, consider the fact that "more unit-tests" means "more lines of code" and thus "more bugs", but now in your "test suite".

[p.s. fragility above refers to the inevitable drifts between the original test-subject (and associated test code) and subsequent changes to the codebase that require updates to the test codebase.]
Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but the latest I had heard was that _pre-symptomatic_ spread was the issue rather than asysmptomatic. As in, if you got covid but never developed symptoms, you likely never had enough viral load to transmit the virus. If you later showed symptoms then you likely had a high viral load between contraction and showing symptoms and were likely to transmit the virus. So if this stops the symptoms, it may also stop the viral load from reaching transmitable levels.
Interesting.. it's strange more countries don't require this (and/or that companies want to hide it in the first place).
I'm glad that you and your cohort are not more than a very tiny minority.
Yeah scrolling sucks on eink. Only option on Firefox on Android eink tablet was to use uBlock's My Filter feature:

*##span,a,div,p,li:style(color: #000000 !important; background: #fff !important;)
The HubSpot Culture Code [slides]
The product I'm most proud of having worked on. Hundreds of hours invested for over a decade.

Yes, it's a slide deck -- but think of it as a template.

Shared with the community with love.
I always thought of Wish as an AliExpres front, doing drop-shipping at higher prices. Therefore, I've never used it myself. I might be wrong. Are there good reasons for why someone would recommend their loved ones to use Wish over AliExpress?
People gotta get paid
Which one do you use? I love proportional font but find most of them not suitable for code. Input Serif is the only proportional programming font I can find but it looks too old school.
Sure, some do. I can't speak for them. What annoys me personally is that sometimes they seem to praise very arbitrary stylistic choices as objectively superior. I think front-end developers are more prone to fashions than other kinds of developers. The blogs seem to go through phases.
Totally agree. The font size is defined as 3% of min(viewport width, viewport height). On my full-screen desktop browser this results in so large text it is unbearable to read. Fiddling with browser window size results in varying font sizes ranging from way too large to way too small to read.

Massive accessibility fail. Font size is one of the few things that usually works fine out of the box with modern browsers across devices of all sizes - unless someone decides to do crazy stuff like defining the font size in relation to the viewport size.
Note C++'s semantics are akin to ownership, it just has different defaults and none of the safety guarantees. A std::vector is owned by the current scope, ownership can be passed around using std::move and references can be taken using &.
I sort of agree, but enforcing this only on things public / exported can be a nice compromise.

(I mean this as a general statement. Idk how the language handles this)
Phase 1 &2 data. 1 is mostly safety checks, but it involves several dosing profiles (typically starting low) to get a safety profile. 2 tests dose response and more detailed safety. 3 tests efficacy using the dose profile determined by phase 2.
I think the idea was that the team had Christians and they were okay with the depiction (or perhaps didn’t feel safe objecting), not that the decision was expressly made by non-Christians.
The overhead of Agile/Scrum/SAFe takes around 30%, other meetings take another 10-20%, other stuff probably takes another 10-20%.

So there are weeks with 30% coding and others with 50% but not much above that.
Thanks, I think I'll do a combination of this with a fallback to downloadable MP4 and inline video tags for clients without Javascript.

You say to convert to HLS/Dash, does hls.js support both? Pros cons of one other the other? Make sense to do both?
Another S-1 where all gross profit is being spent on ads:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1822250/000119312520...

Literally the same amount. Will it grow without full ads burn? Who the heck can tell.
Roblox covers several different things which is why the messaging is mixed. Also, parents have varying attitudes to risk.

The PC version is not safe for children.

The console platform versions are safer for children because they have controls over messaging. The quality control of the games is minimal.

Parents need to be aware that Roblox stuffs in-app payments everywhere and these can be excessive and in-your-face.

My child played Roblox on Xbox One but never found it a particularly enjoyable experience.
>>> - PII data: Names, phone numbers, email IDs, and ID numbers.

>>> - Credit card details: Account number, CVV number, expiration date, card holder’s name, and cost of hotel reservations.

Ouch
Most days nothing happens that will be in the history books. Richard III https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England was born on October 2, 1452. Most days in 1452 nothing happened that was important enough to go into any history books.
Last year me and a friend played a game of "wishing". Spend $30-50 on cheap crap on Wish, and the shipping is so slow that you end up getting surprises in the mail the rest of the year.
I also thought this was already general consensus. I.e. that face masks are used to prevent you from spreading disease, if you are infected but without symptoms.
I got a tetanus shot about two months ago. I used pain medication (just normal-ass ibuprofen) because the injection site gets very sore after a few days. There's a lot of valid reasons to be concerned about being in the early run of a brand new vaccination, but injection site having a bit of pain is hardly one of them.
These problems are complex.

If companies start putting together tiger teams to support open source then they never really get to everything they use, just what open source projects are most important to them.

When companies fork/adopt/insert themselves we have concerns over corporate influencing, sustainability, and independence.

When companies just throw willy nilly money at big hunking shells like the CNCF it gates projects into this very corporatized world that is quite distinct from open source culture, and again damages open source.

This just touches on the contribution model, this doesn't even touch on the thousands if not hundreds of thousands of license violations (if you're behind on updates who has time to go enforce licenses?) It mentions but doesn't touch on corporatization or undue influence.

I'm not sure I know what to do but it's a problem worth solving.
> DoH servers must use either well-known IPs, or to be bootstrapped by the plain DNS.

The easy solution is for the well-kmown IP to be in the same pool that a major CDN uses, so it can't be blocked without major collateral damage.

As for being off by default, that's absolutely not a feature. Basically nobody who's non-technical will ever turn this on, even though it will improve privacy for no downside for most people. What "trouble" does it cause anyway?
You know, ignoring laws and abusing workers innovative, like a rideshare service or Amazon.
Thats quite wrong. Bridges with serious design flaws can stay standing for quite some time and then collapse. Any civil engineering structure can.

I mean, the tower of Pisa is a great example. Serious design flaw: building a structure on a flawed foundation (technically the soil is the problem). The structure stands for centuries, but the inevitability of its collapse is certain until the Italians righted it and strengthened the base.
Those aren't even fake. They don't list apple as the brand. They don't use the apple logo. The only "fake" thing is using "for airpods" in the product title.
Having spent time with languages that use c syntax and ones with whitespace based syntax, I much prefer the latter. I think c syntax is seen as plus not because it is better, but because it is familiar to more people. See also ReasonML
This company is the epitome of trashy consumerism.
According to this article:

https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/xl/i-arhundrer-har-haralds-sl...

This has been known as a burial place for quite some time, and when they first found it they put the pieces in a barn, and then burnt it some time later.
It has been often observed that 1984 was a cautionary tale, but some have mistaken it for a playbook.
I think it was immoral for the scientists to publish the study in the way they did, because they either knew or should have known the media (especially anti-mask propaganda outlets) would miss the following nuances:

- The point of wearing a mask is primarily to protect others, not yourself. Since we know covid has high asymptomatic infection rates, it helps control the spread of the disease for everyone to wear a mask even if they think they have no reason to stay home.

- There was no recommendation for the control group not to wear a mask.

- Very few people, percentage-wise, get covid at all, and many people are staying home, avoiding crowded events, etc. anyway. You could run a similar study demonstrating that over a month or so, a group told to wear seat belts did not get injured or die in car crashes at a higher rate than the control group, just because so few of them got in crashes at all. It would mean nothing for whether seat belts are worthwhile.

People are going to die as a result of the propaganda citing this study. I wonder if the scientists are okay with that.

There may also be an argument that it was immoral to use research money to conduct this flawed of a study in the first place.
I wouldn't call it "simpler", exactly. Yes, it's just getting the immune system to react to a single protein (albeit by injecting genetic material rather than the protein itself) rather than sending in a whole modified virus, but it's based on a fancy new vaccine technology that hadn't been successfully developed and deployed yet, I believe. Anyway, this[0] is a great rundown of the kinds of vaccines out there and in development. Both this one (Pfizer/BioNTech) and the other one that released data recently (Moderna) are mRNA vaccines.

[0] https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/04/15/co...
> Bottom line: this isn’t a matter of taste

Bottom line: this is a matter of taste, like syntax highlighting, use of bold/italic/font face, because everyone configures its own editor to their own taste.
In other news, wearing seat belts does little to protect people and animals hit by the car you're driving.

Masks are about reducing the spread of the virus to other people, not about protecting the wearer.
I'm fed up of people repeating this over-simplified putdown of WHO on HN.

The advice about masks was on their website on March 2020 largely because they were worried about mass public buying of masks, leaving a shortage for frontline medical workers (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-who/ma...).

The guidance was updated as more evidence came in and production of masks scaled up. This should not be compared to outright quackery.
Thanks. My kids would probably play it on their iPads (we don't even have a PC). Most of their iPad games offer in-app purchases already or force them to watch commercials. It's the messaging that concerns me most.
> I learned my lessons and made the fonts bigger. Designs do not look so nice (at-least to me and my team) but they loved my work.

That sent me down a nostalgia trail to this[1] book which has similar advice for Pocket PC developers. Drag the buttons and other form controls onto your program, then at least double their size, to make them go from stylus-required to semi-finger-friendly. Implement some custom code to drag empty screen to scroll, avoid the SIP where possible, wow, lots of memories making UX better for mobile users in the pre-always-connected-mobile-device days.

We're still here working, even if the form factor has retreated to serving delivery drivers and warehouse workers more than the general public. Pocket PCs / Windows Mobile 6.5+ embedded devices are a (often barcode-scanner-enabled) tool to get work done, data input, or data referenced in the field, with no VPN or internet access in several cases.

[1] https://www.apress.com/gp/book/9781590590959
Don‘t know why this got downvoted, it’s a solid point.
Oh, I did not know that.

Thank you for sharing that article! I will update my wording and provide a link to it.
I was a wish customer for hobby shopping (was :)) , and noticed the inflated shipping price change around start of the year (feb-mar 2020)(previously $1 shipping --> $3 shipping) and that was one of the reasons for me to leave that platform..
WSL - Windows Subsystem FOR Linux, meaning It is a subsystem within windows that is setup FOR linux to run.

Its a possession thing.
Valid question. if you started programming dynamic languages like Python you don’t have to worry about memory control.
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It's simpler. HCQ was mentioned by he-who-shall-not-be-named. Many in the United States will have an opinion no matter what the evidence looks like.

Culture wars effecting your viral drug treatments? It's gone too far. Become a culture war conscientious objector.
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