skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as Futurists did want to shape reality rather than describe it, their best contribution was the description of such troubled yet somehow exciting times. The manifesto is from 1909, fascism yet to come. The tension in the form and language reflects the subterranean conflicts of the time. WW1 was around the corner. Even though many futurists were absorbed by fascism (not foreseeing how far the violent charlatans that ran it, were from their ideal), their art still is valuable as a testimony, a narration. For this it has a beauty of its own: it carries intact, a powerful message from a time long gone.
On Macs, Courier (but not Courier New) can do it, though not by default.

(Open up TextEdit, enable Rich Text, select Courier, type "ff", highlight it, go to Font > Ligatures > Use All. The "ff" will now take up the width of a single character.)

I've run into a bug where certain styles of Courier Prime turns into ligatures in Google Docs. (Long story short, whether or not ligatures get enabled is a complex interplay between the OS, font, browser, and application, and not every layer always does it right.)

I'm not really sure why font designers even bother creating them in monospace in the first place though, I can't imagine any valid use for them. The only thing I can imagine is if a badly written application forces a ligature character, at least the end result will be readable rather than an empty box or something.
It is if both people are wearing it.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/more/masking-scien...

It lowers transmission by 80%. Masks help more if the person who has it wears it since they won't be transmitting the virus.
We shouldn't be using fiction to inform anything about our actions in real life.
This comment and another got me looking into mRNA more. It seems like an mRNA vaccine is more akin to food you consume that produces a desired effect, rather than something permanently sticking around in your body. It doesn't permanently modify your genetics.

mRNA is usually produced by DNA and is temporarily used by cells to create proteins. In this case, the mRNA is used to create proteins with a similar structure to the coronavirus. These proteins produce the desired immune response but do not harm you. Like other proteins, they don't stick around permanently, just the immune response does. Additionally, the mRNA itself only lasts several minutes to days. [0]

It's a relatively simple biological process that's well understood. This gives me a lot of confidence in its safety profile. Unlike a regular vaccine, you also don't have to create the protein directly, which leads to fewer errors during production from my understanding. You're producing a simpler, more basic compound, and can be more certain about the quality of individual doses.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_RNA#Degradation
“Karen” believes the public park facilities belong to her
Stochastic terrorism still isn't Big Brother.
Wait

doSomethingWithThing(thing)

Doesn't know about user, why does it need to be polluted with the concept of an AuthenticatedUser type which it does nothing with?
> It's their life, not yours

This attitude is why the pandemic rages on with such intensity in so many places
> These days you can't have a woman who wants to be a housewife on your show unless that's being portrayed negatively or being poked fun at.

Is that really true though? If you mean that you can't have a houswife as a character on your show that very obviously isn't true. If you mean you can't make a show where a character aspires to be a housewife, I'm not sure I understand what the narrative purpose of such a story would be. Becoming a housewife isn't really an aspirational achievement in the way having a prestigious career is, and I don't think it's a story many are really interested in, nor one that would be easy to tell in a manner that doesn't seem forced. There is certainly a lot of media (both in the past and today) where a woman aspires to romance or marry someone, and domestic fantasy is a common element in those, but that isn't really specific to becoming a housewife, and the romance is the key aspiration in those.

It also doesn't help that maintaining a family on a single income is not economically viable for most people anymore. People want stories that relate to their own fantasies.
To those promoting masks to mitigate asymptomatic spread to others, I came across this study showing asymptotic spread is almost zero (1).

Is this something we have missed are there other studies that found the opposite?

(1) https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-2671
Yeah I have the same thought. On the other hand, SaaS and Electron were not really things back then. It's possible that if enough heavy workloads go into the cloud and basic ones just turn into wrapped web apps the actual underlying instruction set becomes irrelevant much faster.
> It's extremely aggravating how most file systems can't create a pool of storage out of many drives.

Some would argue that is the job of the volume manager, not the filesystem. On Linux it's LVM2, FreeBSD has vinum, for example.
Which features of IntelliJ is VSCode lacking?
> 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.

How does giving money to something like the CNCF gate projects? How is the world those are developed in differ culturally from open source culture?

I've developed for CNCF projects and random projects (some of which have become popular). I didn't notice a culture difference. I did notice an outside support difference.

I'm curious what you mean.
Ask HN: How to accelerate the adoption of secure email?
Google Chrome accelerated the adoption of TLS for websites by making it difficult to access websites over insecure channels. This is likely because of their dominant market position. LetsEncrypt also commoditised the certificate business to the point of free.

What would it take for a similar thing to happen for unsigned and unencrypted e-mail? Which companies or organisations could contribute to a fast change?
I can't find a source right now but I remember reading that people were more likely to wear a mask if they think it protects themselves rather than those around you, so there's some humanitarian value in pushing that narrative even if it's not technically true.
The article takes an absurd angle at "fragility".

It assumes that Linux distributions do not exist and we deploy applications by coping an executable around like people did in 1980.

In reality I never had such "fragility" problem around Python.

Some distributions did an excellent job at ensuring that all the dependencies are met at build time and that the build is deterministic and reproducible.

And that the same dependencies will be available for 5+ years without breaking changes - while also receiving security fixes.
Looks like a language heavily influenced by Rust! I'm interested to see if we see more drift in this direction. Rust's by no means conquered the world (yet), but things keep moving in that direction, I'm curious if we'll see looser or otherwise quick-n-dirty (https://users.rust-lang.org/t/prototyping-in-rust-versus-oth...) Rust-like languages
EAF is also a kind of window-manager, just for PyQt instead of X11. Though, EAF-Component have problaly a bit better integration into emacs. KDE/Gnome-Integration seems to have died with dbus a decade ago.
I'm not anti vaxx.

But I totally understand after institution after institution failed us all, that people will be skeptical about a miracle vaccine developed in mere months.

I have faith in the scientists, but anyone can see the incentives are dodgy here.
If it cheers you up: I'll get myself vaccinated as soon as possible. Not just for myself but also because "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" as Mr. Spock would say.
During the 2009 Swine Flu epidemic, I designed ancillary equipment for a bioreactor used for making an experimental vaccine. If any supplier or subcontractor was dragging their feet, all we had to say was "this is for a machine which makes the swine flue vaccine" and we suddenly would somehow jump to the front of their queue. I imagine the situation is even more that way for anyone involved with Covid vaccines, so I am 0% surprised by how efficiently this was developed. Magical things happen with price and priority are no longer concerns. (edit:sp)
> That can't be said for any other desktop.

The vast, vast majority of my Linux and Windows desktop apps share the same core keyboard shortcuts. `Ctrl+S` is always save, `Ctrl+X always cuts and `Ctrl+W` always closes the current window. The terminal is one program that doesn't - but that's fine with me because I don't think of it as just another program - it's more like a wholly different operating system or subsystem. Aside from that, the amount of work I have to do with memorizing extra keyboard shortcuts like `Ctrl+Shift+C` for the terminal is still overall less than what I'd have to do on a Mac.

I can operate the entirety of Windows or XFCE with just a few shortcuts that I've memorized (or not) while macOS will have you using the mouse or memorizing hundreds of distinct shortcuts - one for each separate function. Even something simple like switching windows - on a Mac you have to memorize 2 separate shortcuts - one for switching between programs and another for switching between windows in that program.

Macs also don't have keyboard acceleration via the "Alt key + underlined letter in context menu." They also don't have a dedicated right-click key. These are super useful since I can hit a key to bring up a menu and then hit another key to activate a menu item - no memorization required.

I've never seen anyone operate a Mac with just their keyboard. Anyone I've ever observed on a Mac used the touchpad very heavily with low efficiency.
Wearing masks, like hand washing, has limited benefits if most people aren't doing it. Vaccines are also far more effective if a large number of people get them.

Studies comparing populations with almost 100% mask wearing and countries with almost no masks would make for a better comparison.
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Security questions can be used to reset your password. They are backup passwords. They should be treated as such: randomly generated and stored in a password manager. Different for each account. Any decent password manager will have a "notes" field or other way to store such data encrypted in the vault. Since they're almost certainly stored in plaintext on the backend, they should have at least 128 bits of entropy. 20 random printable US keyboard characters, 10 diceware words, etc.

Question: What colour was your first car?

Answer: SterilityExcitableFifthAbideEnrageGaffeHazilyRecoupSacrificeIllusive

Question: What was the first street you lived on?

Answer: G]6a)ERXnVd}`<(p'tY}

Etc.
> The notion that cities should be designed to be adaptable and are ‘living entities always changing’ comes from a world view that puts non living entities of cities like buildings and roads and infrastructure over living entities

No, it's the exact opposite. Adaptable cities adapt to serve the changing needs of the people living in them. This is better just building new ones with different features when the old features are found to be inadequate because:

(1) Geography (access to fresh water, natural trade routes, climate) matters for cities, and the good places to site cities are mostly taken,

(2) The people least well served by an existing city design will naturally be the least free to abandon the city for a new one.

> . If you want cities to be living entities, then the citizens should curtail migration in and out

I see no rationale for this. You repeat it multiple times, but without clear reasoning.
> Fortunately I don't need to though, because soon we'll probably have 2 great vaccines to choose from.

Indeed! And I'll be going with the adenoviral route which has been used for more than fifty years, rather than the brand new, first time ever mRNA product.
It reminds me of Comic Sans...
That is an interesting point, and I think there are at least two factors in this tribalism. Firstly, there is a faction of the population (or maybe most of us, at some time or other) who choose what they believe on the basis of whether it would lead to outcomes they would prefer, rather than on evidence for or against the proposition. Then there is another faction who assume that if you do not agree with them, then you must have bad motives. The sort of tribalism we are seeing here (and elsewhere) arises in the intersection of these tendencies, and people who take the first position over this matter are 'primed' to also take the second: they want the virus defeated, so if you are skeptical of this treatment, you must want the pandemic to continue, right? And people who realize that the evidence is not good may suspect those who insist that the treatment is effective of having ulterior motives.
Let's say I build such a system and in 2 years from now, I want to add another 20 disks, is that possible too?
It's C notation. Other languages use other notations like ~= or /= or <>. And any conceptual overloading of ≠ is a tiny fraction of the problem with = (it's too bad ASCII'67 dropped the ASCII'63 ← in favor of _).
Ownership is a conservative restriction of allowed behaviours (i.e. rust still has ref counts), the three approaches don't do exactly the same job
From what I've read ~20% of COVID cases end up with some long term affect, some of which are quite bad and could be permanent. While the vaccine also probably has risks, I personally would rather take my chances with the vaccine instead of infection.

At the very least, the vaccine seems less likely to kill me in the very short term.
There's a code variant that disambiguates 1 and l (and others).
For more elaboration on this line of thinking (I'm fairly certain that the author of this piece has read it) I really love Stephen Kern's The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918. The prose still gives me goosebumps.

Here's a PDF of the first few chapters: https://monoskop.org/images/e/ea/Kern_Stephen_The_Culture_of...
The homepage includes snippets of both the regular and code variants, and they do look pretty distinctive in the code variant.
D let's you do that if you want.
Newgrounds is actually one of the main financial sponsors of Ruffle, the project that makes the Internet Archive's Flash support work.
People took interest because the idea was seductive. COVID anxiety dominated the news cycle and made everyone feel hopeless. HCQ arrived on the scene as a purported miracle solution. Everyone wanted to believe it was the antidote to the COVID problems.

> For the HN audience it would be like people taking an almost tribal approach to go-lang vs rust, debating it on national television, without any of them knowing what a loop is.

In the business world, this happens far too often. Usually a non-technical manager reads hyperbolic internet chatter about how Rust is the only way to write secure code or that Node.js will boost productivity by allowing your front-end devs to write back-end code, then they assume their understanding is superior to that of the actual programmers.

Once the non-technical people start having strong opinions on technical decisions that disagree with the experts, it’s not a good sign for the company. Likewise, once the president started advocating for medications that weren’t supported by evidence, it was obvious that this administration had no idea what they were doing with their response.
Where have you read that?
I absolutely agree with that! I was just presenting what I presume was the company's defense.
I had to put it into Outline: https://outline.com/S8at4k
This is maybe (but it’s heavy maybe) true for the ideas of religion and science.

In reality religious institutions and people opposed and still oppose science and scientific freedom due to their beliefs. Of course other groups of people also do this, but there is a correlation between religion and science opposition (E.g. creationism is heavily tied to Christian religion).

The more science explains the further religion is pushed back.
You can ssh into your remote and start a tmux session then. If you are disconnected you ssh back then tmux attach. :-)
Please cite the lengthy list of institutions that have failed us all.
My credit card company (in the UK) has blocked AliExpress but not Wish. This doesn't make me want to use Wish, but maybe it's a reason why others would prefer it over AliExpress.
n=1 is irrelevant

I don't care about one persons experiences.
I am one of those most at risk people and like hell am I going to get it first. It looks like it will be safe but I can weather a few more months self isolation while it is adopted on a more massive scale.
I love that it has an easy "solve for x" function! I miss that from my good old TI-89.
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Any remarks/experiences about the "record size" of ZFS, maybe especially in relation to RAIDZx? I don't fully understand it.

I have in a NAS a RAIDZ1 of 4HDDs on which I set a recordsize of 1MB, currently full at 50% and so far performance has been good with both big and small files... .

I'll probably create in a future a RAIDZ2/3 by using ~8 HDDs and I'll test various record sizes but I just wanted to know if anybody had already any positive/negative experiences with some combination of record size and RAIDZx... .

Thx
I know it's not what Anders wants, but I can't help wondering why there's not an initiative to compile to native binary code from TypeScript... Dart isn't much different from TypeScript and has this ability.
When a company like Wish is cashing out, this feels like a top?
I kind of agree with your statement about multi-select, but even so, I love to use it!

(I "kind of" agree because a sibling comment is right that multi-select is a restricted form of macros, not search and replace. Because the things you can do with the multiple cursors are more than just search and replace.)
WashingtonPost.com consistently renders faster than AMP for me. The main thing is that they have a solid engineering culture and thus don’t have a ton of JavaScript in the critical path to rendering so you don’t get the AMP behavior of showing a blank page for many seconds when anything goes wrong loading Google’s multiple large JavaScript files. If you use a mobile device this happens surprisingly frequently - it was one of the factors motivating me to switch to DDG since Google favoring AMP meant I’d hit blank pages multiple times a day.
Jailbreaking uses vulnerabilitities, but doesn't (by itself, of course it allows the user to) introduce any. It even allows you to patch the vulnerability behind you before Apple does officially (see JailbreakMe, 3.0 IIRC).
Most schools require vaccines which have been in circulation for a long long time and presumably whose long term risks are well understood. I think it would be pretty stupid to force mass vaccinate such a rushed vaccine, don't you think?
On a risk basis, it’s clearly better to get the shot than COVID. But you aren’t wrong in you belief the vaccine may have unknown side effects. The trails were not powered to find the 1 in 10000 side effects that pop up. We won’t know those for months.

Not that you’ll be able to get the vaccine for months anyway, unless you work in healthcare.
I'm also curious about this. Unrelated: Note that the phrase "inconvenient fact" is usually used as a bad-faith attack in ideological arguments, rather than just being used literally, and you may catch flak from people misinterpreting you.
I think you may be thinking of implicit returns, where the `return` keyword is not necessary. An inferred return is a separate feature where the return type is known by the compiler, but not stated explicitly by the programmer. (Note that the code in question uses both.)

Ruby, of course, technically has both as well. However, inferring a return type in a dynamically-typed language is probably less noteworthy ;)
I have never personally seen a randomized study with anywhere near 40k+ participants for any cardiology or cancer-related treatment. Recruitment for this vaccine trial is much easier than studies with specific conditions like heart attack, stroke, or cancers, simply due to their incidence rates. In cardiology, a 20k subject study is massive in scale.

All this to say that for the pivotal phase 3 trials submitted to FDA for approval, I would suppose almost all existing drugs had much fewer than 40k participants.
I saw some doctor using a band-aid on the nose to prevent the fogging of his glasses. Don't know how well that works, it hit the frontpage of reddit iirc.
“Can you imagine any other company supporting old, decrepit technologies like that other than Microsoft? I have a kinda newfound respect for them and their engineering culture of long-term support.”

MS seems very willing to support things for a long time. On the one hand that’s a good thing but it doesn’t stop them from constantly cranking out new things and putting them on maintenance quickly. I would much prefer if they stuck to less things and developed and improved them over a long time. Especially in the desktop development area I simply can’t see a coherent strategy. Over the last decade we had WinRT, Winforms, UWP, Silverlight, WPF developed in addition to Win32. I like desktop development but I can’t recommend with a good conscience committing a long term project (in a lot of companies in house software gets used over decades) to one of the MS frameworks because there is a good chance it will soon be obsolete. It doesn’t really help when people say “but it’s maintained” if your chosen framework doesn’t get any new features and there is no upgrade path to the latest framework.
I find some ligatures help a lot. I can often miss != but won't miss ≠ or ≢

I think the whole idea of pre-pending ! to negate is a poor idea in general, it's too hard to spot especially in long convoluted lines where it's just thrown in before a complex bracketed expression.
Very much so. They had to operate literally underground and use codified signals and emblems to avoid prosecution (social or otherwise).
I've been programming for over three decades, on many different systems with many different fonts. This topic pops up every so often but I cannot help but think that to me, it's the ultimate bikeshedding...
It sounds like this game is vilifying one religious/cultural group as a whole while glorifying another. I’m not familiar with many games that do this (at least not for real/nonfictional, extant groups at any rate). Some might argue that this is the same things as having Muslim terrorist villains, but the distinction is that these games don’t vilify Muslims in general but rather terrorists.
> false positives have far more implication than one individual short time of anxiety.

That was my point - for example in Liverpool 700 "asymptomatic cases" were found (0.4% of those tested) using lateral flow tests[1]. Well below the expected ~2.5% of the population currently expected to be infected, and well within a range which makes it likely that a significant proportion are false positives. All of these people will have been legally required to isolate for two weeks, many likely unable to work.

The problem with mass testing is that the false positive rate is far closer to the actual incidence.

[1]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-54966607
Thea audacity of over-confident ignorance never fails to surprise me.