skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Racism is rooted in lack of exposure to diversity."

Uh, have a talk with South African whites sometimes.

And isn't American Deep South, with its 30-50 per cent black population, considered stereotypically racist, while you have a lot of anti-racist movements in mostly white places like Oregon and New England?

It does not work in Europe either. For example, the far-right Rassemblement National has most support on the French Riviera and Corsica, places where the Arab and African populations are very numerous. It struggles to gain support in Bretagne, where there is little immigration.

Israel is very diverse and the level of ethnic and religious violence there is massive.

I am Slavic myself; traveling around former Yugoslavia, I heard things that would absolutely stun American readers. There are people absolutely ready to slit throats of the villagers two kilometers away, just because of a different religion.

From your comments, I hear the conviction that upon meeting people from a different culture, everyone will rejoice and cherish the changes. You do not take into account a possibility that two cultures may, upon contact, develop a serious conflict, perhaps even ending in war.

Diverse places like Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia, former USSR, the Caucasus, Lebanon, Iraq or lately Western European metropoles seem to be a hotbed of conflicts.
I'd be curious to know what some of "missing" concepts were. Obviously they turned out not to be necessary.

> Many familiar computing ‘concepts’ are missing from UNIX. Files have no records. There are no access methods. User programs contain no system buffers. There are no file types.
It’s a puritanical virus that only attacks people partaking in leisure activities. Apparently it leaves schools and workplaces alone...
Not sure what I was expecting. It gave me back the first line of the abstract as response. (For anyone wondering, the paper I tried was: "A Heterarchy of values determined by the topology of nervous nets" by Warren S. McCulloch.)
> or daily pledging your unconditional allegiance to a nation

Wut, that's some serious 1984 shit, where is this common?
I disagree. The UK’s economy is far more international than New Zealand’s. The U.K. ranks 4th worldwide for international travellers per capita, and New Zealand 38th. Shutting down air travel to the financial centre of the world would have been an incredibly risky move at the time. It may have been the right move in hindsight, but at the time it was far easier for the tiny island on the edge of the world to even consider doing it.
From the abstract

> The input polymer is polypropylene or polystyrene, and can include discarded plastic containers of these materials, ...

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspa.202...
This makes me think. Are there consultancy shops (or individuals) that specialize in reversing/opening file formats/protocols etc?
Shaving with double-edge safety razors: Establishing a Protocol
>Apparently you still don't get it.

I do. Stop projecting about "not getting it".

I fully explained the position, and why your original example falls through.

QED.
> actually holiday makers returning from infection ravaged Spain,

isn't this alternatively of a case of holiday makers infecting each others in droves while vacationing in all the same places in Spain?

R was lower in Spain in July and August than in the UK.
+1, around half of the things the author mentions seems like a pure nostalgia.

Some of the points contradict with each other - he praises having independent OSes (and read-only disks) in one point, and then he wishes for settings to be consistent through OSes.

Also, some of the things he mentions already exist in MacOS, which is weird because he uses an old MacOS as an example. For example one application-one file is still true - most apps are packages, and you can have multiple versions of each app on the same MacOS, and it doesn't matter where you run them from.

Sure, the settings are stored in separate directories, but this was also a conscious decision. In the times of DOS, you had your user files and folders scattered everywhere, and now it's in your home folder.

He also postulates for an abandonment of linking ("each object representing a file, not a link to a file") - that's actually quite interesting. I think it would go badly quick, but a nice idea.

Ah, and finally - no auto updates. Sorry, but if we have persistent internet, we need auto-updates for security reasons. I absolutely hate it at times (especially on Windows), but it's a necessity to keep the security :/
Good idea. If the Old Reddit stops working, then I will definitely change my redirect configuration to this one instead. (I don't write on Reddit, but sometimes read stuff when linked)
Food and Turing Machines
Our World in Data does show excess mortality for US: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/excess-mortality-raw-deat...
When Covid is over, are we still going to talk about ‘murdering grandparents’ by visiting them during seasonal flu season?

(Not comparing the two diseases, but wondering where grim Covid attitudes will persist)
Three peaks which line up perfectly with three national level mixing events? That happened in all regions round the country?

Bullshit.

If you want to play with simulations that clearly do not reflect real life, go ahead, but to me the Real World data is presently showing opening unis killed 10,000s people.

And it makes sense too. Eat out to help out you stayed in your local area. The time periods were short, often outside, and many of the people mixing were already exposed to each other.

Opening universities meant 100,000s of people moved around the country, met in big groups during induction, lots of mixing of new geographic regions. The time periods were long, often inside, and all the people mixing had never been exposed to each other.
Maybe a "this is cool; but enough for now" button? It would remember the category that you like but turn down its recommendation frequency for a duration (session?).
Thanks. I must say, I prefer weak copylefts for my projects (MPLv2 with the incompatibility clause), so my concern isn't copyleft per se, but the virility of it.

That said, I do have a couple questions:

- Would a non-AGPLv3 open-source or source-available project using K6 be incompatible with AGPLv3 given they might "distribute" CI/CD along with their open-source or source-available code?

- If a closed-source project publishes results from K6, are they now in violation of AGPLv3?
I can compare the two. The school passing grade does not imply any useful command at all. And it is eternally boring. And if you are not languages talent, you don't like it cause you are only failing and never feel good.

The internet makes massive difference in availability of movies with subtitles you can watch over and over, songs, later easy to read blogs. Discussion forums also provide super simple english to begin to read. Books and articles are too hard in comparison, both in vocabulary and sentence structure.

Duolingo is massive thing.

Yes, teacher is necessary too. But if you actually want your kids to learn other language, the web and games available easily for free now make massive massive difference.
Raspberry Pi web-based Overclocking Tool (select right settings for Pi 4 / 400)
> Given the average age of deaths by COVID-19 being above average life expectancy, this totally seems possible to me - lots of excess deaths early in the year, but the opposite later in the year, resulting in net "deaths as usual" over the whole year.

Life expectancy at birth, and life expectancy given a particular age are very different.

Most of those Covid deaths were above life expectancy are using life expectancy at birth figures, which is very misleading (as if you make it 82 you're almost certainly a fitter than average 82 year old).
In our agency augmented HTML (Htmx/Intercooler, AlpineJS, etc.) is very useful for web designers, they can go further with interactions and behaviors while staying in a HTML/CSS environment. Also it helps a lot in the communication between the design and developer teams, because there is a lot more understanding of what's going on.
Why Backyard Birds Are Getting Drunk on Fermented Berries (2014)
Well, the point of making users "figure it out" is so that you don't need a 100-page manual, or a training session to use the software.

As for the fact that interfaces change - I noticed that it's an issue mostly with Windows&Linux. MacOS has a high consistency of interfaces across the apps - might be due to a HIG that Apple publishes?
The UK is connected to continental Europe via the Channel Tunnel. We rely on an endless stream of trucks coming across from the continent and driving directly to destinations throughout the UK with their original drivers to supply us with important things like food, and they often then go on to do delivery trips within the country. (One of the big reasons that Brexit is supposed to be such a disaster is that it'll disrupt all this. With the scale at which this happens, even a small delay to each truck is apparently enough to cause massive disruption.)

Remember, this is a very good way of spreading Covid-19 to new areas - it's almost certainly how it got into Beijing, which was the best and most aggressively protected city in all of China at the time.
London in particular is a massive international travel hub. It’s a part of the EU (for a few more weeks...), not an isolated island.

NZ has nothing that comes close. Australia is about a 4hr flight away.
Although both are standards by accident.

C because when UNIX started to get widespread, that was the way to settle difference across multiple language implementations.

And C++ because Bjarne eventually settled on ISO as means to settle out the differences across the various C++ implementations that sprung off.

https://www.stroustrup.com/hopl-almost-final.pdf

However this is also a reason why nice tools like package managers and IDEs are ages behind, because when one vendor comes up with nice toys (C++Builder, vcpkg, CUDA), they don't land on ISO and you are stuck in one eco-system anyway.
Most schoolchildren do the Pledge of Allegiance every morning, but in my experience, the only people who think it's some sort of dystopian practice are foreigners whose primary knowledge of America comes from watching Netflix. For actual Americans, it's a mildly respectful gesture that simply implies patriotism...and it's not a particularly huge deal.
Yeah, it's probably the easiest option to rotate it 90 or 45 degrees. Any other solutions I can think of would require significantly more development overhead. Not sure such a minor thing is worth too too much effort
That partially justifies discounts for eating on premises, but I cannot imagine why those would not apply for take away.

Trying to protect waiters/esses jobs, maybe?
HackRF Portapack open-source hacking radio tool spoof all the things
You can't extend your stay allowance by shuttling across the border every 90 days. There is a 180 day/year cap, exactly to suppress this sort of shenanigans.
This is a good thing.

Python wasn’t backed by a vendor and some of the decisions that worked against it might not have happened if this was the case. The 3.0 compatibility, the packaging incompatibilities etc.

And most importantly aws does not have an in-house language that competes for strategic roadmap space.
Show HN: CSS Scan Pro 2.0 – A re-imagined Devtools for web design
Most languages aren't either, they just start the process and evolve from there.

C was still mostly K&R C when the process started, and in C++ all we had was the C++ARM book.
The community, with their NPM dependency hell, and heavy usage of MongoDB everywhere.
The Tenuous Promise of the Substack Dream
Schools and universities open in fall, respiratory diseases usually come back in fall. Doesn't mean they are related. This virus looks fairly seasonal.
Your nuance is lost to the author: "For an obsessed person, it’s always worth it."
PayPal Buying Bitcoin, but still banning accounts
While Paypal is buying up crypto, they are still banning accounts for trading crypto.
The difference between energy in and work out is, exactly, friction, wind, and "other losses", so you have not said anything meaningful. That is your right, but then why answer at all?
Intel failed because AMD exists and has a cross license agreement that allowed them to be clever.

Without AMD in the picture, Itanium issues would have eventually been sorted out.
I suppose so, but who was saying this in 2014 and 2015 when the other smart watches were out and Apple's offering was only a rumour? Back then the consensus was the watch would be a watershed test of whether the team at Apple had it in them. Now that they've conclusively nailed it, we discover it didn't count after all.

Of course the expectation was that the Apple Watch should be just as popular as the iPhone and transcend the watch industry completely. Wearables would be the next utterly indispensable technology, maybe even threatening the phone itself. In comparison, 'merely' dominating the existing watch industry and gobbling large chunks of the fitness tracker market seems underwhelming.
After the first lock down the government allowed everyone to go on holiday abroad. In theory people had to quarantine on their return, but compliance was very low and spread during the flight back was inevitable.
"Live like you’ll never die" can be a reason to put things off because you'll do them in the future. And then the world changes and possible paths are suddenly closed to you.

Anecdata: my father died relatively young in his 50s after a decade of ill health that had forced him to give up some of the things that he loved, like sailing. This made a very big impression on me (I was in my mid-20s), specifically that you only get one life and you must make the most of your health while you have it. I am now older than he was when he died and I don't have a bucket list of things that I want to do in the future. That's because I've already done those things, rather than postpone them until I retire. That said, I'm currently in the process of seeing if I can bootstrap a totally new career for myself, in the outdoor conservation space after decades in the office in the s/w industry. I might not make it but at least I've tried.

YMMV.
Hopelessness, I suppose.

Also, these people are very sensitive & even wiser. If these people can be identified, perhaps they can be relocated to favourable new environments to face challenges.

By the same cbsnews: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/unintentional-shootings-guns-ki...

Did you see the difference?
Yep, I use(d) also old.reddit.com, but I got annoyed of the potential privacy issues of giving all my browsing data to Reddit. Do I want Reddit to know all subreddits I browse, or posts I read? No I don't. Who knows to who they give or sell their data they gather...
All the students are going to be sent home soon to visit their old folks at Christmas, what could possibly go wrong?
>> How many hours were you working a week?

This question immediately tells me the recruitment process is done on my side. The answer is hire more people.

As a developed society we need to make it illegal / strongly penalized to work more than 40h/week on average. Calculated monthly, no carry-over.

Children need our time, other activities beside work are needed in order to stay healthy.

Companies like to pick the most talented people with lowest selfesteam who will allow themselves being manipulated into working 60h weeks.
It is hard, some people are plainly incapable of expressing themselves in article form. Or refuse to. There was plenty of shaming already and it did not help.
Airports and flights mix people from many different regions in close proximity.
How long before 2020 Fujitsu rebinned SPARC chips are sold to OEMs for SPARCstations runnin’ popOS?

It’s not like System76 is going to be able to buy M1s (dang sounds like a weapon when you put it that way ) and Ryzen might not compete with near term successors to M1.
I was able to overclock my Pi400 to 2.35GHz without any additional cooling and it is running stable for 2 weeks now. https://syso42.medium.com/raspberrypi-400-at-4x2-35ghz-87798...
He talked to me for quite a while when I met him at one of his book launch events, around the same time. I asked him what he thought of my startup (at the time), and he said he didn’t like it because it relied on being able to keep certain information secret, but that the world was only going toward more and more transparency. He said it was essentially betting against the mega trend. A difficult lesson at the time, but definitely some of the best advice I’ve ever gotten, and something that’s been permanently added to my collection of mental models.
I mentioned this in a comment above but the U.K. and New Zealand are on Different scales when it comes internationalism. The U.K. ranks 4th worldwide for international travellers per capita, and New Zealand 38th. Looking at the numbers for international trade as a percentage of GDP, NZ quite below the global average, whereas the UK way above it. NZ has the advantage of size and geography too. It’s largest city is 1/10th size of London and it’s overall far, far less densely populated - the UK has pop density of 279/km2 vs 19/km2 for NZ. So while what they have been able to achieve is admirable, if there was one country that should be able to do it, it was New Zealand. Tiny, wealthy and isolated. Expecting other countries to be able to do the same doesn’t make sense.
I'm glad this was posted. I tried it this evening and it worked great. It took me like 20 seconds to get started, and I was hooked. (A few more minutes were required to setup a tsconfig.json so that my editor could type-check the k6 imports. I don't think the documentation really says "add a tsconfig with compilerOptions.types = [k6]" anywhere, but that worked for me. Writing the tests in Typescript instead of Javascript is an exercise for another day.)

I like the design of running each virtual user in its own Javascript VM inside of a Go process. I can just install a single binary, but still write tests in a high level language (and not rebuild the load testing framework for every change).

An idea that's been kicking around in my head for a while is extending Go applications by embedding a WebAssembly VM, exposing relevant hooks, and letting users add whatever they want at runtime. That way, you don't have to bundle a bunch of crap into a statically linked binary, users can go add that later :) K6 seems to validate that this is a good idea; while not WebAssembly, it sure works well. (I would want to write my plugins in Go, not Javascript... but the idea is good.)
I don't think sharing is a big issue: TSO has some implicit acquire and releas barriers on read and writes, so the weaker side just needs to issue the relevant barriers explicitly.
I expected HN to diminish this achievement by saying that 100% renewable was impossible and here it is.

Haven't seen anyone insisting they should build nuclear yet, that always shows up too.
What debt?

The Bank of England has created most of the money, there's really no-one to pay it back to.

Certainly you should pay back the debt owed to external agencies, but there's no need to pay back that owed to your Central Bank.

If that's too crazy, then refinancing all of the debt over 30 yrs is probably the best solution, as it provides time for the economy to recover.

Conversely, given that demand from the private sector has dropped, if you introduce austerity then it will take longer to pay the debt back.
Not even a full-blown beta distribution, just a special case. And it was published in neurips...
Came here to say “video or it didn’t happen”. Was not disappointed. Terrific explainer, thanks for posting.

It seemed odd not to use a rotating cylinder rather than a disc, for parallel rather than curved scan lines. The cylinder could have become a tape, which would have reduced the size of the apparatus, although not as sturdy. /end steampunk mad inventor daydream
So when R was > 1 the health system collapsed?
It’s been expensive in the UK, too.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britai...
> let's say, the US, where there's now been 3 peaks and the number of daily cases doubled each peak, but the daily deaths was highest in the first peak.

If one tries comparing the US data with the data from other developed countries, what can be seen is that only the third peak in the US has the "realistic" ratio of cases to deaths, that is, one which better corresponds to the ratio from the countries which were able to handle the outbreaks better, as in, being able to detect enough cases early enough, and for that appropriate test capability, adequate to the incidence, seems to be necessary. The approximate expected ratio, worldwide, seems currently (with obviously better testing infrastructure compared to Spring, and as long as the hospitals aren't too stressed) to be 1 case of death per 100 registered "cases", after a delay, and when using some averages across a moving window of data for both both cases and deaths, e.g. 7 day average.

In the first peak in the US it was as high as almost 1 death per 14 cases(!!) -- around 32K detected daily cases with 2.2K deaths were the peaks of the averages! In the second peak in the US it was 1 death per 60 cases. Both show that there weren't enough cases detected, compared to some other countries, and that more appropriate level of testing was achieved in the US only during the third wave. But if there are some systematic delays in reporting deaths during the third wave, it can still turn out that what we see at the moment will look worse, once the wave is over. Even that effect is known to exist in the reporting of one European country: Sweden, where the systematic reporting delay of deaths during the wave gives very wrong impression of the ratio as long as the wave is raising, compared to other countries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25122196 There are some signs that such an effect can be in play in the US as well.

Additionally, what one has to be aware of is that any statistics over a big population will at different points of time not always proportionally reflect the contribution of the events in different areas -- e.g. New York. That way, some big problems for the local population will appear "less bad" when averaged, which shouldn't be comforting.
TCP/IP wasn't bundled with the OS until System 7.5 (in 1994), before that it was sold separately ($60!)
Yeah, the US has nothing like the "Soccer hooligan" culture that's found in Europe. I'm not sure why someone would think high school sports are a massive deal. I think it's due to media depictions of small towns being engrossed with them.
Datasette-ripgrep: a regular expression search engine for your source code
I thought it was during the 80's and early 90's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Archimedes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Graphics#RISC_era

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX#BL_series

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARCstation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT#1987%E2%80%9393:_NeXT_Com...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeBox
Not just studied; he is Swiss!
In France, Teachers Tasked with Fighting Radicalization Face an Impossible Job
You can grow up in a diverse city while isolating yourself to a subsection that has no diversity.

Look at Trump, from NYC. Spent all his time at private clubs.
It's nice and somehow "just works" (although I used it only in a relatively basic way). I used it years ago at my university when doing a presentation on a small JS project I did. It being basically just a web page, I could run my code directly in the slides which is a lot nicer than Powerpoint. And it made a good impression!
Oh, I'm sorry. I meant that I've deleted these "random" files as the user. As a user I have no faith that application developers will properly manage disk space usage for what they cache. If an application like Chrome has no problem taking up 10 GB of space mostly due to caching, then I have no expectation that most other software will do better. Perhaps this information gets communicated to the user somewhere, but it tends to not be done in an easy to understand manner.