skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Granted I'm playing on PC, but I'm 25 hours in and having an absolute blast, and just like the Witcher 3, I'm having more and more fun the further in I get.

Great fun, phenomenal graphics and seems well optimized, It's one of 2 flat-screen games to really keep my interest this year (doom eternal being the other).

I think it helped that I didn't really keep up with the hype train, I just watched a few trailers and bought it. Based on that, It's been great.
It's suspected that this mutation arose from a single patient who had a long case of COVID-19. Here's an interesting pre-print study on an individual (not the one from this mutation) who harboured many mutations over a 101-day period. [https://www.cogconsortium.uk/news_item/persistent-sars-cov-2...]

In terms of this strain, the actual rate of mutation is higher (5.6E-4 nucleotide changes/site/year vs 5.3E-4) [https://virological.org/t/preliminary-genomic-characterisati...]
I'm curious how this works in terms of interoperability with Javascript but I couldn't understand that from reading their website. Does anyone here know how the interop works, by any chance?

* Can JS functions call Assemblyscript functions?
* Can AssemblyScript functions call JS functions?
* Can Assemblyscript manipulate Javascript objects? Or is the communication restricted to low-level types such as integers, WASM byte arrays, and so forth?
Was in Morrison’s last week, employees without masks chatting each other up
Synchronizing Async Functions in Node.js
Many other clickbait articles claimed that M1 is better than the best desktop class CPUs. I only tested the water and found otherwise. The 5900HX is planned and should be within 90% performance of my 5800X within 45W TDP. Not close to the power consumption, but then zen 3 is only on 7nm, while M1 is on 5nm.

The Mac Mini is $699 with only 8GB RAM, that runs out after a few browser tabs. So, for a work machine, you would need at least the 16GB model and add $200 to that. Though the build quality and the panel is excellent.

You could opt for the 5600X. The core count is not relevant in the article, as the benchmarks are mainly single-threaded.
Respiratory protection for bush fire fighters is something we only just started getting serious about in Australia last summer. I started wearing a reusable P3 respirator on the fireground about this time last year and found it made a massive difference to my recovery in the few days after a fire.

From what I understand about the way things are done in the US most people don’t even wear a disposable P2. Hopefully articles like this start generating a conversation both within the fire services and amongst the people they protect.
It's "strong" in that you can see some effect in blood of people tutoring vs people waiting. But that's about it, you can't draw other conclusions from it. It says absolutely nothing about volunteering, health, being kind, etc.
> Github-like readmes are awful for that purpose. They have no TOC

I add TOCs in README.md's as they get longer, and I suggest everyone consider doing the same.

Example:

https://github.com/eyalroz/tpch-dbgen
Is SCA often set up to run on the fully built end result running on the production machine? I’ve generally seen them as pre-merge-to-source-control.
Not sure. There aren’t that many conservative software developers, and those that are are more likely to wind up in Provo or Boise. On the other hand, there are lots of conservative Californians outside of the Bay Area and outside of tech who have left the state, they are more likely to have wound up in Texas.

Let’s hope the Bay Area can lose a million or two people to bring some sanity back to traffic and housing prices.
Except NileRed didn't heat and compress the wood afterward, and removed all the lignin. The article mentions only removing some lignin.
I found this to be a good description of what to watch out for
https://youtu.be/v-8t0EfLzQo

It's not even whether they're telling you a true thing, it's the story they tell around it
If you were going to defend the position 'God's not dead', it's possible (cont)
(2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20965564
Looking forward to the movie!
Indeed, in addition I personally have never thought of podcasting as something with sound design, musical scoring, and high production values. Some of my favorite podcasts are really just a few people talking over skype or sharing a mic. Literally, the opposite of the description which is clearly just an old media outlet trying to maintain relevance.
Eventually I'd like to move the site to open source, but right now the repo isn't in a place where I can do that. As for specific parts, it's pretty purpose built and this is my first Rust project and so I'm not sure which parts would be helpful to the community. And I doubt they would meet the communities standards just yet :)
It depends a lot on what time you take the train IME. At 8am it's nearly 100%, on a Friday evening it's closer to 20%.

And of course on the rare occasion a staff member challenges someone not wearing a mask, they claim they're exempt and don't have to provide any proof.
Who are the programmers building these control structures, it has it be people like us. Maybe people like us who have lost hope.

Programmers will be the first luddites.
I'm not sure I understand #2. Today, workers can switch unions with a vote, right? If the argument is that the workforce at any given company should be represented by an arbitrary number of unions... I'd have to give that some thought, but it sounds like something that would occur in a post-scarcity science fiction world (a dystopia, or perhaps just an anti-union parody) wherein the future workforce consists almost entirely of lawyers. Maybe it wouldn't be that bad.
Restricting the use of subscribe links to prevent circumvention
My pet peeve is when people present averages with no care. If the average is is the result they want to see they assume everything is fine under the hood.

There's so many lessons why that is terrible, like the fighter cockpit design history, and yet it's super common for people to stop all inquisition when the average shows them what they hope is true across all subgroups.
I don't understand what you think is shown "through" the roof of the clubhouse (or cars, for that matter). That's just the roof:

https://goo.gl/maps/bsSQjADvWuynPLvq6
But generally, news orgs don't commit to doing huge year-long projects/investigations into something they know to be fake. Or, if they do, the story is about the fakery (and the psychology/personality of the person behind it) – it doesn't attempt to pass it off as "maybe true".

The average investigative reporter receives tons of bullshit or otherwise overhyped leads. It benefits no one to elevate each of those into a prestige project.
I haven't listened to the podcast.

Can I ask, how would you feel about conspiracy videos doing the same thing? Those that present a conspiracy and then show a reporter trying to verify the theory that ends with the reporter indicating they believe "part of [the] story is probably true, but never expresses certainty." I just can't help think that if the topic was aliens or 9/11 instead of the Caliphate and the author was fox news or reason magazine, you'd consider it drivel.
google with filters for a dollar a month would be awesome, like a function to "block this domain forever"... it would clean my search results from the annoying offenders. and i would gather user inputted blocked domains data to produce better search results for non subscribing users...
It’s better to open source sooner rather than later even if it’s not in a place you’d want it to be. Like some of the work you have to do might be done by the community.
Cross-laminated timber is already being used for 10-story buildings today.

Here's an 18-story one:
https://www.dezeen.com/2019/03/19/mjostarne-worlds-tallest-t...

And there's a 12-story one in Portland:
https://www.archpaper.com/2017/06/framework-portland-timber-...
> Kindness takes courage.

Not for a kind person. For a kind person it takes courage to be rude. It takes courage to say no, because it's so easy to say yes, because it feels good and it feels right (and I guess is also better for your health?).

I would stop trying to change people or even thinking you can. Someone will pretend they changed all thanks to you, only to be themselves again later when they're done robbing you.

There's a pervasive pattern of the narcissist type surrounded by submissive people and leaving a trail of submissive victims. These people are immediately repelled if they sense you're a waste of their efforts. When you're submissive, they'll take from you and betray you later. When you're not, they don't even ask. They reveal themselves immediately. But they make their money and build their empires by collecting those who yield to them and remain loyal despite occasional revelations of their true character or lack thereof. Trump could easily be seen as such a phenomenon. But most people who are OK with their job will yield to keep it (backed by the psychopathic behavior of corporations and their lack of character, because they aren't people). And many will submit just to make money (even to evil). So there are no shortage of such people to take advantage of. And the more people thrive by doing so, the more we create. Some may even become president.

If you believe you're water, seek water. That is the best approach. Strengthen your water coalition. Stay healthy, strong, and happy. Once you're good, then fulfill your purpose.
I would say the author provided all the evidence for you to draw such a conclusion, but never insinuated as such. The most concrete thing he ever said was that GRRM lied when he said that the 'Dothraki were an amalgam of ...'. If you were led to such a conclusion without the author even making that argument, I wouldn't say it was preachy, but impactful.
I was thinking something similar. My first comment on review or even looking at the code is why the exception is swallowed up without logging or a comment about why there is no logging.

That of course leads one to ask what this code is actually doing.
They are too busy doing math to write memoirs and be publicity hounds.
Thanks for the post! I just spent a very enjoyable bit of time on the first chapter of this book.
Several of the new mid-rise buildings in Atlanta, including Facebook's new office building, are all-wood construction using new techniques [1, 2].

This is currently the largest timber building in the US [3], and they've announced they're building more.

I imagine this is going to become booming business.

[1] https://atlanta.curbed.com/2020/3/19/21186363/facebook-atlan...

[2] https://www.ajc.com/business/real-estate/midtown-wood-frame-...

[3] https://structurecraft.com/projects/t3-atlanta
It's cool but is is from 2018; why now?
I really don't think you can call that an algorithm, it's a set of human defined rules. You could call it a formula, but an algorithm implies a series of steps which are not present here.
PrivacyBreacher (showcase privacy issues in Android) - https://f-droid.org/packages/io.nandandesai.privacybreacher proves the point
trial free!
talk to us + no pricing info - tells me I can't afford it, and this is a place that gives different prices to different people = I would be wasting time looking any further into it.

Sure I'm not the target market, but I'm not even going to bookmark it so if I get into the target market I won't remember 'there was this cool / fast thing we could use that starts at $X" - and I won't recall this is an option to consider for clients / associates that are in the thousands or hundreds or tens of thousands of budget tiers.
You're right WebAssembly hasn't provide seamless interop for compound objects. AS expose special utility called loader:
https://www.assemblyscript.org/loader.html#usage

There are also exists other projects which simplify this:
https://github.com/torch2424/as-bind
IMO we can and should take measured risks when shipping too. You can only learn so much in fake environments.

You just have to take measured risks, controlling the blast radius as appropriate in your context. But we have to be able to make progress as an industry, and that means taking risks when building real stuff.
I don't think that's even possible. I read somewhere that just about 40% of the population has the type of job that can be done from home. A lot of the rest is sitting at home due to restaurants, stores closing, but a fair amount of people is required to take care of the ones at home. Bringing them stuff, transporting it all.

I doubt we can win from a virus other than adapting our immune system (and some people dying). Even vaccination might just encourage the virus to evolve.
Except for Nintendo 1st party games. The stache has never let me down.
And Ubisoft didn't? I'm not excusing either company, but it seems the reaction this time has scaled in proportion to how hyped people were for the game.

This is the first time I've heard of vendors pulling a big AAA game from their stores and offering refunds immediately.
Is the crystal pyramid causing the Triangle phenomena? though....
good journalism is not unlike good science. both seek to unearth truths.

good journalists present a conclusion based on facts.

bad journalists present facts based on a conclusion.

truth != narrative.

good journalism is extremely difficult and not appreciated enough. we need to increase compensation of good journalists.
Why don't they? What do they use instead?
I'd like to read more on that too
I like how the author makes an argument for extremism (albeit in a limited context) when, generally in society, common wisdom is that extremism is bad in and of itself.
It absolutely did have a lot of other information in it. However, the mistake here was so substantial that it's hard for me to feel like I can trust the rest of its reporting. Remember, it was not presented as true crime - it was presented as investigative journalism. I don't hold average true crime podcasts, which are usually non-experts quoting secondary sources in an obviously non-expert context, to the same standard.
Lucky! We have them all over the place. The users seem so excited to be riding them that they don’t think about anything else. If a scooter approaches a stop sign they don’t slow down. Instead, they expect for a car that has stopped and starts to take its turn to slam on its brakes for them. Likewise, some of the users ride them on sidewalks and expect pedestrians to move out of their way.
The U.S. has recorded over 250k cases in a day for the first time
The caveat is that computing this formula with enough precision to get the correct result needs as many steps as the recursive algorithm.
A %0.1 interest rate increase is like $40/month if you live somewhere expensive. Could you reproduce all of the free services for $40/month or less? I'm not so sure.
Not surprising, unfortunately. Our "call room" in one hospital during residency was a utility closet. There are mandates of what to do, but hospitals routinely ignore them. Who will report problems? No resident wants to have their program lose accreditation.

Our program director (in psychiatry) always pointed out that psychiatry had one of the highest rates of people going over the 80 hour-per-week limit in the health system. It was much more uncommon for us than for most of our colleagues, but we tended to report it on the rare occasion it happened. My surgical colleagues who went over the limit were asked to meet with their program director when it happened, and it was much easier just to "round down."

Glad I did a residency, but mine was relatively easy. I probably wouldn't have made it through some programs.
There are always new things that incrementally improves the theming of widgets. Like some people are trying to find better alternatives to material design, but they didnt really catch on

But other interfaces that had bigger improvements recently are audio and haptics

For user experience, to me this is kinda domain driven because of workflow improvements, but there's a lot of things that are changing in almost every domain. And its kinda hard to find out which one is right because an improvement in the UX might not mean better UX for the users. IE: company A does X but company B does it differently

You can even argue self driving is a major improvement in the UI and UX for drivers, including the screen dashboards. IE: tesla adding that ipad screen, and other vehicles are trying to copy it.
Yeah - I agree, and I suppose given the history and people who wrote Go, I tend to give it a pass here where maybe I shouldn’t. I also don’t tend to do any work in C any more so haven’t noticed that. I would say though that Go library calls work more like Unix/stdlib calls than Java, which makes abstractions out of even the most basic stuff, like filenames.

But my point was more that, relative to Java, the performance and CLI tools feel very Unix like, they remind me of my C programming days. I mean Javac/mvn/gradle are all so slow relative to Go; Java command line tools don’t really seem to care about developer ergonomics. It’s hard to imagine chaining a bunch of Java CLI tools together with pipes!

This is more because of the long startup times and cost of the JVM, but that too is part of the problem.
even if, the virus was engineered, the mutation rate would incur deviation from the engineered character, at the same rate as we are seeing with this naturally occuring virus.

An engineered SARS would quickly be subject to selection.
Also a Londoner. Whilst I've observed greater mask compliance, shops, cafes, bars and restaurants have been packed. I've been to bars freely serving alcohol with no need to buy food, just like the old days. Definitely seeing rule breaking.

And I've had a friend who wanted to beat the travel restrictions by leaving London before midnight. That's rule beating.

I see it everywhere.

A PSA because it's important: I can promise future you would rather remember "dang, do you remember that shit Christmas we had to stay home?" over "dang, do you remember that shit Christmas that someone accidentally gave Mum covid and she died because we REALLY wanted Christmas with the family in the middle of a pandemic". It really isn't worth it. Not right now. Just be patient and wait.
I've heard "the _s stands for stupid" in reference to those functions. They've never made sense to me, and definitely look like the product of those "checklist experts" --- in which case it's no surprise that intelligent people will naturally find equally stupid ways around it.

To improve the real security you need some experts looking with the original developer into the real code. These experts do need more experience than just good PPT and Excel skills, but they need some knowledge in such software, probably different people for an embedded controller than a node.js application.

In short: There is no replacement for intelligence.

Yet, there is plenty of corporate propaganda (for lack of better term) that advocates the dumbing-down and treatment of developers like they're replaceable.
That made me smile because it's a little the opposite of what happen in many places in Europe. When somebody try to build something new, they have to contend with the archaeologists, who frequently insist that the construction is halted and they start to dig there.
The U.S. has the world's police force, if they wanted to find you, they could.

And for renunciation of citizenship, there's a one time liquidation tax where you pay taxes on all of your gains (so Bezos would have to pay a flat ~20% on his Amazon holdings to renounce). So the U.S. is the only country in the world that could get away with a global wealth tax on their citizens (they already tax Americans' incomes irrespective of country).
I've only just started my career and paid off my student loans so all my extra cash is going into a "high interest" savings account. That being said, I don't have to save up months to buy X or Y which is nice. I don't have so much cash yet that I could stomach losing thousands if my stock choices or the market come falling down. It's still a comfortable position to be in.
Yeah, how about no. READMEs should be viewable in anything and NOT run any code. There is a time and a place for documentation which exhibits the features of the thing being documented inline with the text, but the README is not it. Tell me what the thing is and does and where to get more info.
Polls as a Chatbot. Because sometimes you just need to ask one question
I got chided at Costco for bringing in my five year old without a mask (she’d broken the straps on the ride there), even though the state mandate here is for ages above five. Costco employee said nope, in here anyone two and over needs a mask. So I had to impromptu tie up an adult mask’s ear straps to accommodate her, and go in with a lot of crying on her part because my first try was too tight.
New strain doesn't mean that it will necessarily have very different characteristics but it also doesn't mean that it will definitely not. If it is a different enough strain, it can be 100 times deadly or 500 times more transimissible or both.

Also, the coronavirus that causes common cold has over 160 known strains, which is why creating a vaccine for it isn't feasible. The same can happen for COVID-19.
If they're so advanced why build colonies in extremely dangerous environments? There's a lot of better places out there
Contrary to what people believe, timber actually has very good fire resistance characteristics: https://csengineermag.com/fire-design-of-mass-timber-members...

No need for densified wood to build midrises, structured timber products like CLT (basically, fancier plywood) are already being used to construct 5 - 10 story buildings with the tallest wooden skyscrapers being planned at 20 - 70 stories tall: https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/wooden-skyscraper-revo...
Possibly, and I am just spit ballin' here, it is because to some people the ideas brought forth by the NYT and California's government generally come with an air of them knowing what is best for everyone else, what you should and shouldn't believe, and what is and isn't a problem. To many, right or wrong, it comes across as judgmental or condemning so they are eager to point out any faults.
Solving the Progress Bar Paradox?
Never underestimate how much energy you can store in a phase change ;)
Thanks! That's the link I meant!
That’s a nice phrase. In my group we called it “dick-nosing” - iirc it came about due to:

1) you wouldn’t (shouldn’t?) go around with your dick hanging out of your trousers, so why would you do the same with your nose and your mask

2) you’re a dick if you do this
Leaving out all the garbage - "Research actually testing whether volunteering could have a protective effect against Covid-19 has yet to be conducted" - the article is just Blue Zone Theory.

- Being social with other human beings (in person) is good for you.

- Light exercise is good for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Zone has issues, but I think it's approximately good.
> there is also a lot of reason to believe they are not nearly as effective as was sold to people in the early summer.

Mayeb you can post some (preferably peer-reviewed) literature links that show "a lot of reason" to believe this.
If you’ve never seen the prints of Ernst Haeckel, they are highly worth perusing (personally I think they are masterpieces):

https://archive.org/details/KunstformenDerNaturErnstHaeckel/...
Teslas cost more (after those tax-breaks and subsidies) in Norway than in California. You're lacing the conversation with a lot of value judgements, but those aren't particularly relevant to the question of whether the people of California or Norway are more able to buy Teslas.