skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read GP carefully, they're not making the argument that users will choose Firefox because it's written in Rust, but rather that the improved security and performance brought about by Rust would be what attracts and retains users.
I've been using it for I think well over a year now. Started with using it just to add/remove files from staging. Used git for everything else. Slowly added committing, pushing, creating patches, seeing history, ...

It's quite fast and is easy to add it to your regular git flows.
Thanks for being honest, there are too many people always saying "Rust is the best for everything!".

I like Rust a lot, but use the best tool for the job.
If you stipulate that 'Rust is going to yield a lot of result when it comes to security, memory safety and maintainability' (see parent comment), then a great many Internet users out there would choose Firefox if as a result of being written in Rust it's more secure, memory-safe (less crashing/bugs) and maintainable (more and better features).
More than some: the DifferentialEquations.jl library for Julia is one of the best for any language.
O'Reilly book about Google Cloud Run released
MATLAB is one of those things I've spent a ton of time learning in college, but never used in real life. I've used python to get around MATLAB installs that barely worked.
Huh, I've been using Windows forever, and didn't know that!
>some ODE support

Best ODE/SDE etc support of any programming language. Including composing them with machine learning and AD, GPU, multithreading, DSLs and symbolic simplification etc

https://sciml.ai/
The tests that they used in Austria cost 7€ a piece, and apparently there are even tests available for 4€ (bulk price obviously)

A friend of mine recently ordered a pack of 25 tests for less than 200€ (he only had to check a box confirming that he was a medical professional). They test the kids with a throat swab every time before they visit their grandparents.

Frequent testing is absolutely feasible if you really want to.
I went digging a bit, and there's work being done to making it possible to use react-native for cross-platform desktop apps too: https://github.com/status-im/react-native-desktop-qt Doesn't look production-ready yet, but seems promising.
I don't follow Bitcoin, but after first hearing abort how it would be a decentralised network, all I could think was "have you ever heard of the power law?".
If Bitcoin's price increases by just 4x, it will have a larger market cap than any company in the world.
Right, but the price one pays are outdated packages.

CentOS 8 was released few days ago with kernel 4.18, which not even LTS is, and is older than the current Debian stable kernel(!).

If you need to install anything besides the base distro you need elrepo, epel, etc which I'm not sure can be counted as part of the support.
Here’s some reading that helped me understand it:

https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/books/article/3...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/02/age-of-surveil...
Bitcoin isn’t useless, it’s useful for storing or transferring Bitcoin in a permissionless way.
What is the relationship to Google, mentioned in the title here? Cannot find any reference.
The whole game for the social sociopaths is to pretend that the federal government had no obligation to provide for people's livelihoods during lockdown - which they absolutely did, obviously. This was wholly intentional, to sabotage health-and-safety conscious Democratic local governments, and force them into the Sophie's choice of mass unemployment or mass death among their constituents (local GOP leaders, for the most part, of course didn't actually care about mass death OR mass employment, since their constituency is the handful of billionaires who fund the whole party and right-wing ideological apparatus; so they were able to further sabotage the health-and-safety efforts by simply refusing to implement any).

The state and local governments that shutdown did the right thing - they put the health and safety of their populations first. The federal government failed them by defaulting on its obligations. It did this intentionally.
> The hard question would be how to maintain the existing programs that provide social assistance to the elderly without a larger population of working people to pay the taxes to fund them. The existing solution is to run preposterously large deficits every year, which seems problematic/unsustainable.

This boils down to “how much GDP are you willing to burn to keep the elderly cohort comfortable.” How each country handles this demonstrates their ingenuity and character. Can you be both compassionate and efficient? I think so.
Very divisive territory you are getting into here :D

Just wanted to add that the track record of predictions about the environment doesn‘t shine a bright light on the (popular) science in the ways you mentioned. Just have a look at the club of rome report. When a part of science gets overly politicised you should get wary.
> only if Trump or somebody with legit access to Trump's account

...or the sender.
No, I believe the root cause is that there is so much more stuff to buy in today’s world, and advertising has grown so powerful and visibility of products has increased so much that people can’t resist urges to buy things. So we need more and more money.

I look back at things you could buy 30,40,50 years ago, much of it sucks and doesn’t compare to what you find today. Back then you didn’t need much money because there wasn’t much to buy. I look at the ads and they’re garbage, not engaging at all and doesn’t convince me to want the product. And because people weren’t posting pics of things they purchased to some social media, seeing something cool that I might want to buy usually only happened when going over to a friends house, or seeing a random passerby in the streets. And that meant those people were usually close to your own economic class, so the items weren’t out of your league.
New Intel Optane P5800X 100 DWPD SSD Dominates PCIe Gen4
The argument isn’t about power in the sense of authority, but power in the sense of having the tools to control the situation.
Real-time decoding question-and-answer speech dialogue with human brain activity
> None of this is reflected in the article.

Well, you haven't supported any of your claims with data, unlike the article.
We, in many places, did.

Federally, there was no strategy because federal powers were devoted to promoting the pandemic (e.g., via the Defense Production Act invocation to shield the meat packing industry from state safety efforts) rather than fighting it.

OTOH, hospitals also require skilled staff, which takes longer to build.
Rocky makes me think ‘unstable’ and ‘uncertain’ which seems at odds with the stated vision of the distribution. Might make for a tough sell.
> But already what they do with it _themselves_ is a problem.

That they have it is a problem. That one entity knows so much about billions of people, in such intimate detail, that's a huge problem.
Do you live in a rural place with a small, connected community? That's the only way your "promotions" would have had any impact. I find it hard to believe that posting on social media single-handedly saved that business. I find it much more likely that people started getting more acquainted with the new reality of the pandemic and after re-budgeting started buying food at places where you get lots of calories for cheap (like Little Caesar's).
In the end, this is software used to reach consensus in a distributed manner. I don't see it much differently than any other hard fork; the stakeholders reached consensus.
Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12649740

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15898263
You can debate it, but the reality is paying businesses to pay employees was what the PPP loans were sold as. And it was sold with a lot of exploitable flaws under the premise that it would ultimately help employees from getting laid off.
Lately it seems to me Debian and Ubuntu have made some strange package decisions. They have morphed into a desktop oriented build with snap packages and auto-updates enabled by default (among other strange decisions). There's a ton of stuff we always end up disabling in the new release because it's super buggy and doesn't work well (I work at a small MSP). I'm not sure who replaced Ian Jackson, but Debian seems rudderless.

Centos was the rational other free choice, not that Red Hat hasn't made other equally strange decisions.

Sometimes I think we'd be better off rolling our own, like Amazon does.
Repo was created by this guy: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/why-i-studied-full-time-fo...
Bitcoin hit relative lows in late 2018 and late 2019. The only years with a statistically significant increase at the end of the year were 2013 and 2017.
I've heard it, and said it, pertaining to not having a fourth child. Semi tongue-in-cheek but having to buy a van would be one extra inconvenience.
China recovers Chang’e-5 moon samples after complex 23-day mission
From Facebook Reality Labs:

> Today in Nature Communications, Chang and David Moses, a postdoctoral scholar in Chang’s lab at UCSF, published the results of a study demonstrating that brain activity recorded while people speak could be used to almost instantly decode what they were saying into text on a computer screen. While previous decoding work has been done offline, the key contribution in this paper is that the UCSF team was able to decode a small set of full, spoken words and phrases from brain activity in real time — a first in the field of BCI research. The researchers emphasize that their algorithm is so far only capable of recognizing a small set of words and phrases, but ongoing work aims to translate much larger vocabularies with dramatically lower error rate

https://tech.fb.com/imagining-a-new-interface-hands-free-com...
Two things:

1.) I've written only a little bit using GTK, starting over this past month, and it has been very pleasant. The real issue I have is not knowing what documentation to use, or being a bit confused by the tooling. The existing open source projects using GTK I've been poking at over the last month written using JavaScript, Python, or C are all pretty (relatively) easy to grok and start working on. I'll definitely be back for more... FWIW- I do tend to learn by reading code; so for me, jumping into something totally foreign or unknown is pretty normal.

2.) I'd highly recommend trying Flutter+Dart for cross platform desktop applications. I've been writing my first, for about a month now, on Linux, and it has been fucking great mostly because it works. It uses Skia under the hood so rendering is fast and applications aren't totally bloated. I can speak nothing to building Flutter projects for the mobile or web variants but it seems neat in theory.

I'd definitely prefer to not write Dart, but I also accepted long ago, when you want to write GUI you pretty much have to learn a new language. It's close enough to JavaScript and/or Java learning it is pretty much just figuring out "WTF? Is X called?"

It's also a lot nicer, IMHO, than things like Electron because there's an actually useful SDK [1]. Electron, like the web, will require to you DIY a lot of really boring shit like wiring up list views to only use/reuse the displayed elements. Flutter, like most desktop GUI SDKs, brings a useful set of widgets to the table you can easily customize.

[1] No hate on Electron here; there's zero fault to be had for the web SDKs lacking useful APIs for making web apps... but that's a wholly different conversation I'd rather not have right meow.
Haha I do this too but stop telling everyone about this one weird trick or our secret will be out!
Octave is ok for that, but not as good as Matlab. All the Matlab plotting functions work, but the plots don't look as nice, and require more tweaking to get them to "publication quality". Octave includes a Qt-based GUI, but it is not nearly as polished as the Matlab GUI.

Python is also just ok. You can use matplotlib[1] to create plots using an interface explicitly modeled on the Matlab interface, or use higher-level wrappers like Seaborn[2] which reduce the amount of work required to create nice-looking plots of certain types. "Zoom to different features" can be done via Pandas[3], or directly via NumPy, although the syntax can get a little cumbersome. The best Matlab-like GUI is probably "Scientific mode" in PyCharm[4], which requires a paid license. Jupyter notebooks[5] are a free option, but don't include all the features you'd have in a Matlab-style GUI.

R is, in my opinion, best-in-class for exploratory data analysis. The combination of ggplot2[6] and dplyr[7] makes plotting, drill-down, aggregation, etc. easier than any other environment I've used. Chapters 2 and 4 of the free "R for Data Science" book[8] provide great examples of this. The RStudio[9] GUI is comparable to Matlab in features and overall polish, and it's available with either an AGPLv3 or commercial license. Jupyter notebooks also work.

The major downside of R is that it's very optimized for interactive use, which makes deploying it to any sort of production environment tricky and error-prone. I'd mostly advise doing your ad hoc analysis in R, but rewriting things in another language if you want to deploy them. The other downside is that all the major deep learning libraries use Python, so if you want to do work in that space you should really just use Python.

[1] https://matplotlib.org/

[2] https://seaborn.pydata.org/

[3] https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/user_guide/indexing.html

[4] https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/matplotlib-support.ht...

[5] https://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/stable/notebook.h...

[6] https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/

[7] https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/

[8] https://r4ds.had.co.nz/

[9] https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/c...

Roy Beck here is far more articulate than I could be in the 6.5 minutes I have to type this answer.
From what I've seen of police misconduct, the general form of misconduct is that the police officers generally just blatantly lie. The problem isn't that they're editing records of things that happened, the problem is that they're lying about the records in the first place--and I think the George Floyd protests make perfectly clear that they are more than willing to lie even when they know that hard evidence (in the form of other people recording the scene) contradicting them will exist.

That's the basic problem with blockchain: it only really provides nonrepudiation (someone can't back away from a statement they made previously). It doesn't have a solution for people willing to commit perjury, and when you look at all of the social situations where official records are distrusted, the main reason for that is that officials are known to be committing perjury and face no repercussions for it.
Kobo eReader is any good? I'm looking for a eReader.
>Is there a good argument against Clojure in this case?

I use Common Lisp and my main argument will be that Clojure isn't an "interactive programming" language like Common Lisp, Smalltalk (and Pharo, Squeak, Scratch) are. And, for me, this is removing one of the main, core advantages of Lisp.

Dispensing with the interactive programming features is, IMO, a step backwards in the state-of-the-art. Common Lisp ADDED all the improvements in the state of the art: Interactive programming from Smalltalk, lexical scoping from Scheme, various high performance/low level features from StarLisp and ZetaLisp, a very powerful OOP system, etc. And then, thanks to it being highly extensive, almost any feature can be added to it.

Clojure features like threading macros, immutable seqences, software transactional memory, and others, are already available in Common Lisp by just importing (loading) the respective library.

One of Clojure's main advantage is to be able to call Java libraries. But, surprise, you can do this in Common Lisp too, easily, by using the Armed Bear Common Lisp (ABCL) implementation. Which runs on the JVM too and makes the process of calling Java libs really, really easy. I have made a working example here, calling all the Swing UI library (java) from lisp:

https://github.com/defunkydrummer/abcl-jazz

It's true that Clojure has more widespread adoption in the industry and more libraries. However the library ecosystem on Common Lisp is decent.

>and you can get actual work done in it which is an advantage over some of the other options

This implies you can't do "actual work" in, for example, Common lisp. Which is not true, since there are companies that, in this very moment, are doing well paid, critical commercial work using Common Lisp.
The test is very good at detecting the virus if you have a high viral load. Waiting a day and doing another test means that the low-level infection you missed yesterday has had another day to replicate, making it easier to detect.

You're also probably much more infectious when the virus is at levels that are detectible by the antigen tests, so even if you miss it when it's at a low level, as long as you detect it when you get really infectious it can help lower your chances of transmitting it.
It's useful for moving money from countries with capital restrictions into USA dollars. I know a few people from SEA who use BTC for exactly this purpose.
Covid vaccine: More than 130k vaccinated in UK in first week
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I know this may sound like a blasphemy and anachronism rolled into one, but why can we not return to purchasing a copy of software? All of a sudden, the incentives to deliver 'monetizable' product are gone, because you already got your money. Or that does not jibe with continuous rent seeking?
Unfortunately in a democracy it also demonstrates how large a percentage of likely voters are elderly, which also seems like it could cause serious problems during that sort of demographic shift. (Notice that almost everywhere, people over 65 get a vote but people under ~18 don't.)
12/16 is tiling WM day.

(Let’s do this.)
I own a Cosco from Walmart (for travel), and while they're the smallest and lightest legal seats on the market the build and safety is inferior.

There's a reason we own it, and don't use it day-to-day. It is a fine occasional "grandparent seat" or for travel, but if it is your daily driver and need three across, the Radian is a safer & much better built alternative.
Too complicated for people like Trump, who doesn't even read email but instead has them printed out for example, annotates them and sends a reply as a pdf.

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/donald-trump-technolo...
So you are saying our hospital beds and staff are fixed immutable resources and that in an emergency all other variables must be sacrificed in order to not exceed those fixed immutable resources?
Interest rates don't mean anything if the down payment (or requirements for a loan) are still high for new buyers.

Interest rates only matter if you already have money. Most people don't.
„Don‘t ascribe to malice what can be ascribed to stupidity“ (stupidity and short term, well intentioned, but in the end egoistic thinking, I would add)
maybe this is my tendency towards left-wing anti-establishmentarianism speaking, but I feel that this is somewhat blaming the workers for what is really - I think anyway - a result of the capital holders taking most of the profits from the advances in automation, and then using that money to successfully lobby governments to lower their taxes and not close the tax loopholes, resulting in wages staying the same, and people working the same hours
This is all highly field dependent but I doubt a thesis-like investment is required. Maybe being involved in a publication or two somehow without pay but not a thesis.

Having been a tenured professor who left (sort of, not completely), these issues are really salient to me. I was surprised when I left how many stories I heard of others doing the same. They just aren't mentioned for many reasons, including institutional ego.

Academics in many fields is in a crisis from my perspective. It's not obvious because there's always amazing advancements like the new mRNA vaccine, but it comes at a huge human cost that is rarely covered (pieces like the recent Atlantic article notwithstanding, and some stuff in places like STAT). Also, those advancements are often misleading, because the volumes of stuff that are more typical (like the hydroxychloroquine story) you don't hear about, without the skeptical eye of the world waiting for a much-needed and very-real product.

At least in my field, I suspect the author would have problems returning only because they don't fit the narrative that's required for positions. Again, this depends on field, but a lot of academic hiring, at least at the level of faculty, is about branding of sorts, of building up a story of them being on a meteoric trajectory of genius so brilliant it can't be contained by fate or circumstances of any sort. I've read it referred to as the madonna-whore complex, which is quite accurate. It's hard to explain unless you've been on the side of faculty hiring, but it's very much about looking like the next super-Einstein-Nobel Winner in a room full of people who will never attain anywhere near that much fame (but who think they have), in a scientific process that is really about incremental contributions anyway.

It's all heavily location-dependent too. The author talks about nomadic lifestyles which is accurate, but there's also an element of that which is important to keep in mind: if your nomadic wanderings leads you to a great place, it's great, but if that place is dysfunctional, it's horrible. It's hard for me to say it's a case of grass-is-greener only because it really depends on all sorts of things, including that individual, their connections, and a lot of luck.

I think the pathology of modern academics only increases as you go up the ladder, to be honest, unless you're in a good place. I can't stress enough how much of an oversupply there is at the moment of extremely talented labor, and dysfunctional, corrupt systems that are broken and outdated. There's plenty of academics that is cutting edge and open-minded, but there's also a lot of it that is supremely dated and behind the times, years behind industry due to narrow-mindedness, reinforced by distorted incentive systems.

I keep thinking something has to give but so far there's no end in sight, at least in the US.
True, but sometimes a preponderance of smart opinions helps predict the shape of the future. (Or where I want to put my money :P)
> The transition from one to two kids is a qualitative change for the kid because it means going from no siblings to siblings. That transitively makes it somewhat of a qualitative change for parents. It means the kids always have a playmate and someone their age on vacations.

... Or fightmates, as my mother herself warned me. :-)
Both Debian and CentOS have the same problem here, you're not going to install kubernetes from a default repo on any traditional distro.
Are you implying that if they only bombed New Zealand, they would sufficiently offset all of Bitcoin’s current energy usage? Are there countries are worth bombing for the carbon credits?
Unfortunately those with a low income often are incredibly limited in where they are able to live.

Even as a 'well paid' person in London my choices were limited by the vector of where I could afford, proximity to transport, my office, and family/friend/support connections.