skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, much of the approach that worked for Sars shouldn't actually work for Covid - in particular, Covid has characteristics that make it much less amenable to contact tracing than Sars. (The UK, US and I think most other western countries used the same contact tracing early on that kept Sars out of those countries. It didn't work. You also don't see this discussed much, because it doesn't fit the narrative - except to attack the UK government for discontinuing the contact tracing once it failed.)

The one thing that did work well early on is restrictions on travel, which the WHO, China and the press in Western countries campaigned against. The only Western country I know of that applied reasonably sensible travel restrictions early on is the US, and very soon it's going to get a new president who campaigned on the extremely dubious claim that those restrictions made things worse which went basically unchallenged by the press. (In particular, Italy's travel restrictions - which are often pointed to as proof the US ones were stupid and pointless - only blocked people from travelling directly from China, so they could just travel via other countries and Italy had no record of where they came form. I know the UK's government-funded experts concluded that was much less effective than banning people who'd visited China recently.)

Those travel restrictions also wouldn't work for any country geographically or geopolitically close to Italy - they were still reporting basically zero cases at a point when a substantial proportion of the population was infected. This probably put countries which were closer to China than Italy at something of an inherent advantage.
Prompted by this thread, I went to the (slight) hassle of compiling the latest octave (and installing the dependent libs along the way). What a pleasant surprise! I remembered ancient versions (maybe v3?), and it was a (very) poor relative of matlab then. What change since! Nice GUI, editing, debugging, documentation - all under one roof. Looks perfectly adequate to me for anything really.
What comes after Git?
There's a term for this: "level of abstraction". Also "level of detail" when it comes to computer graphics. He hasn't said anything remarkable here. To move faster, to understand things at a grander scale, to understand some larger phenomena you need to (sometimes) skip unnecessary detail that would slow you down in pointless arguments.
His Name Was Daniel. He Died in a Shoot-Out. He Could Have Been My Son
You're correct, Cameron did miscalculate but to blame him entirely forgets the mood of the country and the political parties in 2010. There was a lot of talk about leaving the EU in the run up to the 2010 election from of course the usual suspects like Farage but also from Cable and Clegg (leaders of the lib dems).

According to the source below:

> To the best of our knowledge, the Liberal Democrats were the first of the three major UK parties, including Labour and the Conservatives, to campaign for a referendum on EU membership.

Only party which didn't push for an EU referendum in the 2010 run-up was Labour.

https://fullfact.org/europe/lib-dems-first-call-eu-referendu...
I created a DIY sunlight spot to get through these dark December days
We are on an investor's newsboard, these fat cats dont know any other way to live.
But then we can't "accidentally" re-enable it later?!
What makes a teen abuse a drug?
When the surrounding of the kid is not good and filled with peers, they get influenced and start acting in a certain way to look stylish. Following others and adopting their habits is the common reason. It start influencing the teen brain and results them to get addicted. This situation is seen in many cases.
https://landmarkrecovery.com/peer-pressure-drugs/
I agree, the presentation of important metrics is so crucial and I don’t like it, just wanted to hear HN opnion and actually is there a way to stop this data manipulation somehow? Can we build some product that can somehow solve this problem, because big percentage of population believes everything they see regarding data from ipsos and other big publishers.
Given that a typical garbage truck weighs 25+ short tons (https://www.reference.com/world-view/much-garbage-truck-weig...), it seems likely that you start to run into the legal limits for local roads.

E.g. in NYC (https://www1.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/motorist/sizewt.shtml), the max weight for any vehicle is 80,000 lbs, likely much less if you’re the length of a typical garbage truck.

Can you really go electric? A 2016 bullish Quartz article (https://qz.com/749622/the-economics-of-electric-garbage-truc...) says the typical garbage truck travels 130 miles a day. Unclear what the additional weight of a capable battery pack would be, even after accounting for the saved weight by removing what must be a pretty hefty combustion engine. It’s certainly interesting that the company (Wrightspeed) profiled in the article seems to be doing more than just garbage trucks now. Their Route 1000 powertrain/platform only quotes 24 miles of pure EV range (https://www.wrightspeed.com/the-route-powertrain), so it seems like there are certainly trade offs between range and weight regulations.

I imagine once long and medium haul trucks make it to market (perhaps Tesla or Volvo), maybe we can say we’ve reached the energy densities in packs that make hauling around weight equivalent to an 18 wheeler possible at a reasonable cost.

Other reasons that maybe no one has done this already:

* Garbage trucks cost $250k+ (https://bigtruckrental.com/front-loader-garbage-truck-rental...). I’m guessing there are regulatory requirements around collision safety, and maybe longevity requirements that become a factor.

* Given that a brand new sleeper semi goes for 50% less (https://youngtrucks.com/new-trucks/2020-volvo-vnl64t860-860-...), there are probably significant costs not typical of a combustion engine vehicle. Maybe those front loading bins require powerful pneumatics, or those on-vehicle compactors need to be able to exert tremendous amounts of force, and so on and so on.

* How large is the market for garbage trucks? Some press release claimed that the global garbage truck market in 2019 was ~$22 billion (https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/07/29/206925...). If we use a unit price of $250k (probably on the low end), that would mean only ~88000 total units sold globally. Of course, I’m sure different countries may have larger and smaller trucks, but you get the gist.

* The customers for these trucks are likely to be municipal governments and a handful of private waste management companies (https://craft.co/waste-management/competitors). I think it’d be a huge risk to build out a plant to put together a garbage truck, have maybe a few hundred plausible decisions makers to pitch on the product, and potentially risk burning hundreds of millions in capital between labor, regulatory certification, endurance testing, battery pack development, power train development, etc.
My rite of passage as a senior developer included starting to ask myself the question: does activity X really move the project forward?

But there's another side to this, of which management is often not made aware of: in longer projects people tend to accumulate, for lack of a better word, "rituals" - stuff that's done manually, even though it should've been automated or dropped.

These are insidious, because they slow down work, introduce inconsistencies (sometimes even errors), but are largely ignored.

And for some reason the arrogant, disobedient, oddly-shaped person is the only one noticing it.

From almost every place I worked at I only stay in touch with one person - that person.
What I’ve actually been doing is resisting attempts to conflate two separate claims:

1) The claim that the EU has never forced the UK to do anything. Sheer nonsense. This is the claim I disputed all those levels above;

2) The claim that laws the EU has historically forced upon on the UK have been harmful.

There are plenty of examples of the latter (take the Tampon Tax as one [0]), but that’s not the claim I was making.

I haven’t advanced the latter claim because it is irrelevant.

Providing evidence of historic harm is not a prerequisite for principled opposition to the EU having the power to impose laws and overrule national courts.

[0] https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01...
To me, "calling a trans person consistently by the wrong pronouns" and "referring to someone at work using a name you know is their spouse's pet name for them" would fall into the same category. I find it hard to view any of these as anything other than Dick Moves. I do have an unusually strong loathing of globally-inconsistent rules, though, which probably makes me more prone than most to generalise the rules along this axis (whereas you believe that they should not generalise past a particular point).

Re Harry Houdini specifically: I think it would have been reasonable, yes. Lord Buckethead does it. In fact, I think it would be reasonable to stand as Borat, and people voting for Borat would be voting specifically for Borat, not for Sacha Baron Cohen. If elected, I would expect Sacha Baron Cohen to rule to the best of his ability as if he were Borat.
Figma: The product design team’s process
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The conventional wisdom was that accessibility was something worth caring about.
In Polish, "ł" is pronounced like english "w", an "w' like english "v".
Compare Jimi Hendrix's studio recordings, with that of his live performances.

The main song in Phantom of The Opera, in the West End, is/was done to a click track - and the performance is/was noticeably flat because of it, in my opinion.
Julia or Swift

I'm hoping the default choice becomes Julia. For one, it's Lisp. Imagine tensorflow or whatever being distributed as one Julia codebase, no separate C++ to compile, no need because Julia can do it all. I hope it replaces R, Mathematica, Matlab, Excel VBA.
We had two full semesters, 5 days a week -- one in seventh grade and one in eight grade, on manual typewriters. What never made sense to me is that my friends who were also into computer programming totally slacked off in the class. Come on guys, you plan on typing for a living, and you have to be here 45 minutes a day anyway; why not just take advantage of the opportunity?
I conceptually love how the answer to the question "how do you stop something from melting the room" is

- stop melting from being an applicable concept

- remove the concept of a room from the equation
> Those factories don't exist in lawless places.

When it comes to labour rights, they practically do. Thats why it is so cheap to produce there. Thats why apple uses them.
For mouse power users I would recommend StrokesPlus [0] , at first I used mouse gestures as a browser extension but with StrokesPlus you can do it on OS level. You can map everything you want as a gesture and even use multiple key modifiers.
You can map the each gesture per app group or global.
An ignore list is also there.

[0] https://www.strokesplus.com/
I had typing classes on a mechanical typewriter in junior high school; after that I maxed out on Mavis Beacon (i.e., got to the point where all she could think to do was give me more speed or punctuation drills).

I don't think typing quickly helps you code more quickly per se. But it certainly helps me write out comments more quickly; and at some point, a big chunk of your time is spent arguing^W discussing with people about how to code properly; at that point, being able to type more quickly is a big advantage.
Completely agree about the tooling bit, after working during some time with Golang (just a bit during these past years) one of the things that I most like about that language is the set of official tools that it has, from formatting your code to check for security issues or unreachable code.

It helps the developer to be more confident about its code.
In my experience, recommendations are still good. You just can't rely on them anymore because if you keep following them, you tend to go to whatever is popular rather than going deeper down the rabbit hole like you used to.

You have to mainly keep to your subscriptions, and use recommendations occasionally.
If i was part of something that was used everyday by literally hundreds of millions of people around the world then even I would love to talk about the ones who gave me the opportunity to be part of it.
This service is sketchy to the max. The public profile issue was the last straw.

The low quality candidates passing through is due to poor quality controls and the ease of gaming the system by cheating
Which paper did you read? You seem to have criticisms of their methodologies, so I expect you've read at least one of the linked papers, yes?
I live in Atlantic Canada and we’ve beaten back several outbreaks with contact tracing, testing and isolation.

We also moved early and controlled travel to and from the region with a quarantine.

The travel restrictions are essential. But....if you only did that you would fail miserably. Contact tracing works very well! SARS-COV-2 spreads in clusters.

We were at zero cases for months, and we’re back down to 0-3 local cases a day in most of our provinces and dropping.

You’re completely wrong that this can’t be contained through isolation and tracing. The issue was most of the rest of north america basically only tried tracing (doesn’t work), didn’t scale tracing, and also never seriously tried to eliminate the virus despite the clear evidence that their tracing systems were incapable alone. (I’m including the rest of canada here)

I agree with you that travel restrictions are vital but you’re underestimating the importance of other tools. Also the Us restrictions weren’t very effective: people still got through! In Atlantic Canada everyone arriving from outside the region has to quarantine for 14 days.

Where contact tracing fails, incidentally, is if you have an undetected case cluster. SARS-COV-2 can spread asymptomatically, so if you miss one it can grow quite a bit. But once you find evidence of a cluster you can move backwards and forwards through the transmission chain and quite effectively. The province of new brunswick has beaten about seven small outbreaks back down to zero with this method. But it only works if case numbers are manageable: the rest of north america let them grow out of control and didn’t scale tracing to match.
games from valve, blizzard, Nintendo or rockstar. They usually get quite a bit of pre release hype and then great reception afterwards. I mean gta5 might not be my personal taste but i cant say it did not deliver.

I believe cyberpunk will still deliver, actually. These huge single player rpgs tend to have buggy releases and cyberpunk was still worse than others, but five years from now people will still be talking about them and i doubt cyberpunk will be very different.
Agreed, some form of manifesto would be a great idea to add a bit more weight to this.

The concept sounds good though.
Ruby version of regex-redux uses built-in regex support, and I'm not even sure if it uses it the most performant way.

Significant portion of the Python test case is FFI code to directly link PCRE bypassing even normal Python extension support.

I guess I should augment some of the SBCL benchmarks with custom assembly then...
god i fucking hate vox
It's extremely anthropocentric reasoning, like "the cost is too large", "you lose control of the hegemony" etc. And that there are "colonists" that "die off".

I'm not sure any of these assumptions are applicable given billions of possible origins of life at various stages of development. Even at Earth, and with extremely conservative estimates, given 100 more years of nanotech/biotech/AI development, we won't die off, and could certainly send autonomous robot probes. When you don't die anymore, 8 years roundtrip (or more) suddenly doesn't seem so long.

BTW in the fiction arena, I suggest reading David Brin "Existence" if you're so inclined which is related to this :)
Python is basically pseudocode so if you don't like Python then you don't like programming.
Well the final books didn't come out yet so we can't say the movie was worse. I suspect the books will be just as bad because the series suffers from the same effect many stories like this suffer from: The writer establishes many interesting threads without knowing where they lead, and then can't tie them up and the series falls flat in the end. Happened with Lost, with Heroes and many other series as well.
Type inference.
That just gave me a nice idea. There's probably a market for "audiophile" eardrops, to lubricate the outer ear, such that the sound waves effortlessly glide through the fleshy waveguide, to hit the tympanic membrane at optimum velocity - or something like that.
>> Xbox One controllers also work flawlessly in Linux

It doesn’t, actually. It works out of the box if wired through USB, or when using the expensive wireless dongle, but it doesn’t work out of the box over Bluetooth. You have to apply nasty hacks to the BT stack to make it work. PS4 controller is just pair & go.
Can somebody fill me in on the security status of the .io registrar now?

In 2017, a Google security researcher took over the registrar, meaning he could update the zone files externally.

It was best practice to stop using .io at the time.

I heard a rumor that a more professional registrar got involved after that, but don't know the details.

Anybody know the story today?
MPs would then have been voted out for overruling the will of the people.

There was a referendum. Remain lost. Last year we had another General Election, with the Conservatives campaigning on a platform to get Brexit done, and they won decisively.
Entertainers are not Engineers.

They fall for marketing significantly easier and use Veblen goods to signal wealth and power.

Then they get used to a system and it's all they know. It's more effort to change and they get locked in.
Ignorance Isn't a Bliss
I'm curious, which toxic personalities are you talking about? I'm not very aware of the personalities in the software engineering world, but I would like to know what other people consider "toxic" in the software industry.
Exactly, only a crazy person would risk the wrath of the Apple lawyer army.
Thanks - very interesting answer.
It was a decisive victory for Leave, and it was made very clear to everyone voting that it was a once-in-a-generation referendum, the outcome of which would be respected.
I recommend http://worrydream.com/#!/quotes by the same author.

I think I accumulated more time re-reading it than any other (single) web page over the years.
Redox OS 0.6, the micro-kernel based Rust-written operating system
Also check out the user-curated section of https://upstract.com for good and less time-sensitive reads.
Something seems off, am getting a "403 - Forbidden" while visiting the page.

Anybody else get it too or am I the only one?

This is while on Firefox Developer Edition on a Windows 10 PC.
> 3) When you buy something (say Domain name in Indian company),there are chances that they sell your information across many corporate interests without your consent.

Here's a fun experiment. Create a temporary email or an email alias & register it on naukri.com & watch your inbox get flooded with non-job related emails.

And here's another one, go to a local store for porting your sim, and receive a ton of calls for loan & credit cards (which unfortunately is quite common).

Data is sold in India by almost every entity.
It's hard to know to what extent his answers came from a genuine casual attitude, as against an attempt to play dumb in order to avoid potentially very serious consequences. I suspect he knew exactly what he was doing by putting German mercenaries and Muslims in the painting and that it had little to do simply with a technical infraction of the rules of the Council of Trent.
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...and the Indian govt rewarded him with ₹10,000 and a sewing machine to earn a living so as to be a part of society again.

https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/in-4-days-nirbhaya-rap...
So how come we don’t see hyper inflation with this excessive government spending?

For decades politicians had one stable message: Turning the highly “balanced” and austere fiscal machinery system towards spending yields only hyperinflation. They said look at Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Yugoslavia, Germany etc. And the worlds supposedly best economists produced models that legitimize this view, making it dominant in education and discourse.

We now gave people basically a UBI, got many people out of poverty with, but all the issues they have been saying would appear and all the false excuses they put on the table have not materialized.

Isn’t one very big scandal of 2020 that all of these people have been lying to the population? That we had the tools to fight poverty and create better living conditions all along but deliberately didn’t chose to do so?

It appears they just want to bully and abuse people by artificially creating a bad situation and then bully and shame them that the people are in a bad situation.
Performance wise it's fine for me but it does have some rough edges like:

- Moves across the screen for a while when using custom scaling

- Doesn't sort by most used result hits (always shows same order)

- Hangs for me when I click on results instead of navigating by keyboard

- Doesn't have an option to kill apps like Wox

But apart from these it does a lot of things quite well.
This is the first time I see the Playstation 5 controller and I want to cry. What did they do to the controller? It looks like an Xbox controller. Is there an alternative controller? Can you use DS4 with Playstation 5? This is awful!

Er. Good thing for the published driver though.
Rolling downhill: Nikola stock craters after failure to rebut fraud allegations
"Stock in electric truck startup Nikola has plunged for the second straight day after a short-selling investment firm published a bombshell report alleging that the company's December 2016 unveiling of the Nikola One truck was a brazen fraud. Nikola's stock lost 11 percent on Thursday and is down an additional 15 percent in Friday morning trading.

At the December 2016 event, Nikola Chairman Trevor Milton repeatedly described the truck as fully functional. But that wasn't quite true, as Milton admitted to Bloomberg earlier this year. The supposedly hydrogen-powered truck didn't have a hydrogen fuel cell, nor did it have the motors and gears required to drive the wheels. Milton claimed the parts had been taken out of the truck for safety reasons."
CockroachDB review: Distributed SQL shifts into high gear
HelloSystem/hello: Desktop system for creators with focus on simplicity
Luigi's mansion 3 does something similar, I wouldn't be surprised if it's using the same or similar technology under the hood. For one of the characters, bits of the dialog sounded like incoherent Japanese and I could make out some words. I haven't played in a while, but I recall different characters had different sounding accents too. I like this approach for in-game dialog!
Request for peer review: “FreeBSD for Linux users”
That's what I was trying for, but I didn't check if any of the fictional ones were based on real people. It was a light hearted way to illustrate that there are so many names that it's common to hear some that sound weird to you.
I would hope that you have hobbies and interests outside of work.
Hmm the researcher nor the article mention the other native Caribbean’s that still exist in Caribbean islands. The Kalinago are currently living on a settlement in Dominica and the Garifana, Arawaks, are settled on St Vincent.

This may be novel research but the article is bringing up information that I already knew 4 years ago, explained to me by the Kalinago historian.