skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do handle low-end devices? Do you reduce the difficulty for them and can this be abused by pretending to be a low-end device that really isn't?
> Are you seriously claiming that there is a national shortage of people who can be trained to empty bedpans, setup IVs, draw blood, and take temperatures? At any price?

Yes. Because COVID19 is happening right now.

Even if you had infinite money, there's no way you can train all of those people to take care of the COVID19 surge that is literally happening right now.

The effects of the pandemic are here and are already having obvious consequences.

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COVID19's job is closer to shoving catheters into people while you put them under a ventilator, setting up IV drips, etc. etc. But yeah, its happening on a massive scale as we speak.

> This is obviously not true, people are not dropping like flies whenever a nurse in America takes a vacation or calls in sick.

Lets see how long those patients last if a nurse doesn't change out their bedpans or catheters, while refreshing their IV-drips while they're on a ventilator.

Plus the math for keeping track of vitals to determine how many corticosteroids to inject into someone to optimize their chances to live through it all.

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https://oklahoman.com/article/5677006/asymptomatic-health-ca...

I'm not sure if you realize how dire the situation is right now. Nurses who test positive for COVID19 are being kept on the job because there's literally too many patients and not enough nurses.
Hang out with them? I grew up with them. That was enough for me, and I'm sure the feeling is mutual.

66% of Republicans in a recent poll [1] say that Trump should not concede regardless of what happens in the courts. That amounts to advocacy of a coup d'etat. There is no room for negotiation with these people, any more than there was with the Shining Path or the Red Brigades or the Khmer Rouge. They have chosen their side and committed to it.

The alternative is too terrible to contemplate.

It's time we started contemplating it. Because the other side is doing just that, and then some.

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/23/2020-election-results-almost...
Someone on here has tried to get all their data from both Facebook and Google. I wish I could find the blog post. The tech companies are claiming their Takeout/equivalent is sufficient under the GDRP and anything extra we ask for is not being provided due to it being "non user understandable" or in a "machine format". IIRC.
That doesn't explain why there must be such a restriction.
I believe you're overstating your case. Of course he doesn't deserve all the credit (or even most of the credit?), but the reality is, "the people of California" take cues from their leadership; not just the Governor, but all leaders. Of course not everybody respects the leadership, at any level, or at all levels. And it shows, in areas that levied death threats against people for daring to suggest that they wear a mask, for example.

Newsom was clearly not being completely honest when he said "we'll let the science dictate the reopenings" and then immediately turned around and said "science says we can reopen!" when folks in Orange County were threatening to execute their public officials.

Obviously you can poke holes in any policy; some of them were overly broad, some were overly narrow. Some exemptions made no sense. Some tradeoffs made no sense. The goal is to get it as right as possible, not to be perfect.
The only thing magical about AWS' backend is how much manpower they can throw at things.

Amazon doesn't have a good engineering culture. It's all about shipping things as fast as possible. People get promoted an leave for other teams, and the new folk gets burned out due to on-call load while trying to fix crappy software they have inherited.
Exemplarity is a joke whose extent is only proportional to how much you look at these guys to know what to in your life.

Why would you care of anyone if you take care your own life into your hands.

Everyone is human. Do what you what you want to do.
Having talked to dozens of Amazon engineers, the only consistent picture I've formed in my head is that the culture varies wildly between teams. The folks on the happiest teams are always aghast at hearing the horror stories.
Anyone have an example of hCaptcha usage?
Neither of Jeremy Bank's sentences are relevant to my first comment if you try to contort their interpretation so they do not conflict with me.
I've not seen it that way, but I've seen memory called "primary storage." Historically storage and memory have been used fairly interchangeably, but when talking about a modern PC, "storage" usually implies disk (or disc, or nvme) and "memory" implies specifically the DRAM.
How is it less kill if all the male chicks are raised then used for meat? Same number of chickens being killed either way, some just get slightly longer to live.
Are there better arguments for anything in pure math being a posteriori? I fail to see how 4CT (or any mechanized/computer-aided proof) could possibly support this idea.
so it would be better to say:

I really feel for our frontline workers. But for years they enabled the AMA to cap residency spots and created an artificial scarcity that drove prices of healthcare up.

Now they are whining that they are a scarce resource? And they, using the money they acquired by leveraging their scarcity, even bought a submarine piece of PR to buy sympathy from the public so that they don't try to figure out why exactly they are so scarce! But again, I really feel for our front-line workers. If only there was a way to have more of them yet budgeting the same amount for healthcare.

Yeah, that does sound better.
Memory Bandwidth in Apple’s M1
If you ran for a few meters and tried to control a ball at your feet, you'd understand somewhat. Even that is extremely difficult to do well- shifting the ball and keeping it under control of your feet and away from defenders.

Now try to imagine people trying to hack you down (totally normal defending back then) and tugging your shirt, in the blazing heat, at altitude, against a team that humiliated your country in a war a few years earlier...and instead you waltz around all of them, make them look amateurish, and knock them out of the biggest sports tournament on the planet at a sport they invented.
quiver is great. Basically Mac's Notes but for programmers.
Speaking from personal experience, while an infant may not be inside of you it's definitely still putting a strain on the parents' resources and health.
What you and professionals consider an "impulsive decision," many depressive types have been considering or have considered but never told anybody for a long time. It only seems impulsive to you because it appears to be random. If anybody has any understanding of human psyche when they're depressed, they would know it's something you plan but play pretend to others so they don't suspect you need to be "locked up for your own good," as what tends to happen to people who try to seek help.

Mental health problems don't persist simply because people can easily buy guns and kill themselves. They continue because people are afraid their going to have their liberties taken away simply because they want help.
Thanks for this. Seems like this thanksgiving break will be perfect to learn a bit more about blender!
First real computer I used, and first exposure to open source was v7 on an 11-45 in 1981. The sysadmin caught me running a huge print job. Asked angrily what I was printing. I said the C compiler source. He says "Oh, ok, that's fine then".
Using hCaptcha is also contributing to some ML model for different companies serving unknown (to us) purposes.
If the Buster plugin can't solve the reCaptcha for me [It does fail from time to time] then I just don't bother visiting that website. Or if it's a site I need to use, then I'll try again later and see if I either get let in without being asked to jump through hoops, or get a reCaptcha Buster can solve.

I simply refuse to waste my time and drive up my blood pressure by doing unpaid training work for Google's AI, in order to visit some crappy website. I really wish more people would start boycotting any site which uses reCaptcha [or its derivatives], so we could get rid of this blight on the internet.

I've spotted this new hCaptcha junk show up recently on a couple of sites I used to frequent. I don't visit those sites any more. So well done webmasters. Apparently annoying the shit out of visitors to your site tends to drive them away. Who'da thunk it?!
Absolutely, the cutoff to be a large farm is quite low. I am a farmer myself, but we have a very large plot compared to the cutoff point (~10,000 acres, half of them permanent and half row crops). There are enough difficulties to managing our operation, I would never advise someone to go into the business unless they had an almost religious calling to it.
There are significantly more devs than that (the total is also over 900, that's from 2018).

It depends what you mean by "optimizing their engineering stack". They certainly do put a lot of effort into tooling, by necessity since historically there hasn't been much available for OCaml. For an example of stuff going beyond the open source work to make OCaml usable for large projects, see https://blog.janestreet.com/putting-the-i-back-in-ide-toward...

Obviously there is a lot of infrastructure that you need at a FAANG and not at a company with a few hundred devs. But any trading company that doesn't want to pull a Knight Capital needs to make sure their software is correct and reliable (probably to a greater extent than most of a FAANG).
How does the way we distribute meat create that much more carbon emission than distributing a comparable amount of plant based food?
Using any kind of privacy/adblock extension that supports domain-level whitelisting (e.g. uBlock Origin) works fine, and this is what we suggest in the accessibility FAQ. Apple didn't build fine-grained controls into their browser before making this recent change, unfortunately.

That said, we're working with the browser makers on native support for our next gen privacy-preserving approach to this via Privacy Pass.
And in turn they cripple the web on their devices so they can’t compete with apps.
> insane whitespace

THANK YOU (sorry for shouting).
That's my biggest pet peeve with the new UI.

I feel like I'm using some mix of Mac OS X UI and a child's toy. Everything is so big and spread out, there's barely even space for longer text areas.

Don't even think about putting windows side-by-side with JIRA taking half a screen, it's unusable.
I'd really love these captcha services to allow me to download an extension that allows me to bypass their captchas. This extension could verify my identity and/or device, or just keep an eye on my behavior to validate that I'm human.
+1, in the process of building a pipeline such as this and would love to sense check approach
It sure is. It’s also quite interesting that i have to get very close to the screen to create that third circle, but then can get quite far without loosing it, even when looking at the right or left circle.
See answer above. There is no need to argue about facts.
Words have meanings and they are not debatable. "Living", "death", "to kill" are rather simple words there is really no place for confusion about what these words mean.
Utility-First – Tailwind CSS
This scenario is not realistic, as you can just lengthen time between subsequent login attempts per username.
ITT: people getting mad about a guy's reasoning where he says "well, I looked over there and it might be worth looking deeper into"
It's really not clear why it appears without comment on the same page. My impression is that as a first step you would use BCPL to bring up a C compiler that targets a new machine, and then use it to port UNIX onto the new machine.
Why corn when they can eat worms and what they find on the ground roaming free?

Why everything must be reduced to an industrial activity when clearly it doesn't need to?

I guess "teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" is not a good advice either, how much fish food do you need in a lifetime?

And who's gonna pay for it?
Yea, i'm new to Blender and am working on a 3D->2D game - in the planning stages. One of the early things i identified was that an extremely well optimized (for dev UX) asset pipeline needed to exist. So i started testing Blenders API.

It has been great so far - and even more surprising i'm so far writing all the asset code 100% in Rust via Pyo3, which is really nice.
This was my point. Google is already doing this[1] for account access, and they will prevent competitors' browsers from logging in.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25172755
Large-scale events (LSEs) are becoming more and more common. It'll keep getting worse.

AWS has to take a hard look at how they build their software. Their bad engineering practices will eventually catch up to them. You can't treat AWS the same as Alexa. Sometimes it's smarter to take your time to ship stuff instead of putting it out there. Burning out your oncall engineers is not a feasible long-term plan.

AWS will be in deep trouble when/if GCE fixes their customer support.
Please, what is the service? I want to pay someone to solve Captchas for me.
Morals of meat treatment seems to be a vast whirlwind of inconsistency that I think largely stem from people know having a full understanding of how their meat gets on the table. I've grown up rural enough to have butchered a few animals and can easily talk about it while at the dinner table, but many people seem to have this extremely strong line between the animal and the meat, and even if they intellectually known they are related, it isn't emotionally connecting.
I agree with you, you have two sides that believe their side is the only side. What do you do? Where do you start to break this impasse?

Look I get that I was wrong in stating my own opinion, in such a way the vilified the other side. Such behavior will not lead to compromise, so I’m happy to say I myself have no influence over politics
The two package options are "Alternative Facts" and "Reality"
And that's how you know that your VPN and adblockers work :)
Are you opening the required ports (4001, 8080)? I found it was like that too until I did opened the ports.
The nfa wasn't, unless you're broadening anti-gang sentiment in the 30s to like anti Irish it italian sentiment.

And it's dubious that this is true for other regulations against "assault weapons".
> I have yet to hear someone high on the left address why either they believe that the right's stance on an unborn child's right to the 5th is wrong

The argument is that an unborn child that can't support itself outside the mother isn't a whole life yet. And if accept that it is a whole life and the mother is obligated to use her body to sustain it, why don't we apply that same argument for say mandatory organ donation? We don't even do mandatory organ harvesting on dead bodies, let alone compel living people to donate organs, due to the principle of bodily autonomy.

> I sincerely think that if the left took the time to argue against the steelmanned argument from the right,

I don't agree, since most of the right's objections are rooted in religion. You can't convince someone to abandon what they consider an article of faith using logical arguments. The right also consistently opposes government support for poor mothers (the group most likely to get abortions) and children, and sex education (reduces abortions among teenagers, the next biggest group). If they were sincere about being "pro-life" rather than just "anti-abortion", they would be strongly in support of these policies. Why bother arguing with people who don't even act in a manner consistent with their proclaimed beliefs? What argument would they accept?
Honestly captcha seem pointles to me.

Literally every time I'm in a situation where I'm required to use a captcha to access a site it is impossible to successfully solve the captcha in any sane amount of time.

This happens both with google and cloudflare.

Tbh. if they don't trust my connection can't they just tell me so instead of pretending to provide a "I'm not a robot" test which is practically (close to) unsolvable???

(Note that this post only refers to captchars guarden the access of an site if they somehow don't trust your connection, not "I'm not a robot captures" on forms or similar).
Agreed with all of that, more links:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(operating_system)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amoeba_(operating_system)

https://github.com/void4/notes/issues/41
One feature I've wanted is an error return keyword to complement 'return val;' something like 'error_return val;' Then a feature where if a function does an error return but the caller doesn't check the error the compiler inserts a exception or a panic.

So you could write code like

log_stuff(stuff); // on an error will panic.

var rtn = log_stuff(stuff);
if(rtn.error)
{
// handle error
}

try
{
log_stuff(stuff);
}
catch()
{
// jumps here on an error
}
Well you don't have to make copies of strings to slice them, just ask strtok!
Is this information not helpful?

I am completely disgusted by the HN tone of "it's pointless to look at this because there are potential flaws"
I used mmhmm today to record a quick demo [1] and think it works really well for that. I like the looks a lot more than the normal rectangular overlays in Zoom or ScreenFlow.

[1] https://twitter.com/mkvlr/status/1331630391233564676
i bet you give great code reviews
For a counter point, look at how child abuse was treated pre 1900 before it become politicized. It really calls into question any notion of moral objectivity when you consider what society used to consider acceptable treatment of children before someone made it into a political issue that has eventually becomes something so ingrained into our society that to not agree with it would get one condemned as a inhuman sociopath.
Real CS degree from a college of engineering at a large state university.

Obviously this isn't some top 40 program. Had I known then what I do now, I would have applied to some of those programs.

Back then, I wasn't aware of other programs or even names of universities known for computing (other than MIT). I came from a small town that didn't have many opportunities for kids interested in tech in the late 90's early 00's. So you pretty much went to one of the State Universities.
I'm not a professional mathematician, but as far as I know those are relatively standard, widely agreed positions.

Also, the four color theorem is not the only theorem that is impractical to prove by conventional means, another relatively famous case is the classification of finite simple groups.

Furthermore, we now have mature proof-checkers (Coq, Isabelle, Matita) that have been successfully employed to formalize the proof, so the argument that "the four-color theorem doesn't count" is even less convincing than it was at the time.
> How it’s phrased is irrelevant to who bears the burden of proof.

It's a principle that the person who presents a positive case is the one who needs to come up with the evidence. I can say "there's no god" without evidence, it's the guy who says the God of the Bible is real who has to explain what he means.

> I find your claim...

Note the reply chain, I didn't claim anything.

> By this logic, if I say something like “there was no moon landing”, I could demand that you offer evidence to the contrary instead of offering any of my own.

The contrary would be that there was a moon landing, and indeed the person who claims it happened would be required to come up with the evidence. Luckily there's a lot of it.
And the forms of energy, deliverable size, etc., etc.

Ham sandwich prompt radiation, thermal pulse, blast, and long-term radiation effects are somewhat less than those of the Little Boy gadget. The last may depend on how much hot sauce is applied.

Both weight and volume exceeded the B-29 and would be better suited for a bulk-cargo carrier of about 30' beam, 40' depth, and 300' length.

The relationship between promptness and completeness of reaction is an interesting one, and not limited to TNT and petroleum. The WWII atomic weapons haad a pretty remarckably low efficiency --- most of the fissile material was dispersed before it could fully react. Nuclear power generation is far more efficient. And generally slower.

See related the Beruit 2020 ammonium nitrate explosion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154155

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24064248
The issue you'll bump into is attracting the same caliber of talent.

Compare the offers from Dropbox, Facebook and Apple.
I don't think SQL builders are a good comparison because:

- SQL can already be made fairly readable by default, it's not just a long series of cryptic tokens. The main point of SQL builders is not to make SQL more readable, it's to make SQL approachable by people who don't know SQL.

- There can be several ways of achieving the same result in SQL, with sometimes deep performance implications, so it's really important to understand what is being executed and in what order. Regular languages are much simpler and while the string representation of the regex might end up longer than the handcrafted equivalent, the runtime performance should end up being the same since in the end it's all deterministic finite automatons.

- SQL builders have to be at least a little bit opinionated to be really useful, in general they make it easy to create simple queries but can quickly become limiting for complex queries, especially if you already know SQL. These "verbal expressions" on the other hand can easily map 1:1 with raw regex constructs, allowing somebody who already knows regex to express exactly the same logic, just in a more verbose and human readable way.

This verbose syntax operates at exactly the same level of abstraction as normal regex, it's just a syntactical transform effectively. It's like JSON vs. CBOR or something like that.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a terrible name to help a product spread? I can't even imagine myself saying "I am using mmhmm for this effect" to my colleagues. They would be like "what was that you said?"
I never saw ScoMo's annoucement, but there was no way I was going to download the app, and told everyone else not to.

Having said that, the architecture he is describing is similar to what co-worker and I had been discussing. So had the app been built that way, and had they been able to give me the confidence in their capabilities, I would have been ok with it.

What we have now is a bunch of random companies that are getting our phone number and/or email address, and the locations we visit. No real oversight, completely useless for any sort of real tracking.

It's a shame when we have a lack of trust in the gov't, but the alternatives are no better. What should we really be doing.

In some ways, we're lucky to have so little covid here, but what are other countries doing?
I don't work in any of these areas, but I hesitate to presume that just because they are considered "blue collar" jobs they require no training.

Here's a pamphlet [1] put together by the Federal Highway Administration, called "A Playbook to Build Tomorrow's Highway Construction Workforce". On the first page you learn that there is a shortage of heavy equipment operators, cement masons, and iron workers. These jobs look non-trivial to me. I don't think you become a cement mason or iron worker overnight, or that you can just learn "on the job".

[1] https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativeprograms/centers/workforc...
This is what I was missing. Thanks for clearing that up.
Your brain runs your body using something like a budget
Technology adoption in US households, 1860 to 2019
15% of the web. And probably only of the commercial web.