skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many of these people would have died in the next year without the intervention of Covid ? The general idea is that lockdowns are doing way more harm than they prevent. As acknowledged by the WHO and many others ;

" “We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of this virus,” Dr. David Nabarro said to The Spectator’s Andrew Neil. “The only time we believe a lockdown is justified is to buy you time to reorganize, regroup, rebalance your resources, protect your health workers who are exhausted, but by and large, we’d rather not do it.” " [0].

" ... thousands of medical health experts signed their names to a petition calling for the end of coronavirus lockdowns, citing the “irreparable damage” they’ve caused.

"As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists, we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection,” read the petition, known as the Great Barrington Declaration. "Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health." " [1]

[0] ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=915&v=x8oH7cBxgwE&feature=yo...

[1] ; https://gbdeclaration.org/

See also ;

Years of potential life lost

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

COVID-19, unemployment, and suicide

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...
I'd argue that there's culture and there's vultures. In any place, a community of people create a unique culture.

Geeks create most of the artifacts & traditions of that culture, but the entire community (either passively or actively) contributes, supports, and adds to it.

When that culture blows up, the vultures move there because they find value to exploit in that culture, while simultaneously supplanting/destroying/building over that culture.

In your example, maybe the local ("earlier groupie") who studied chemical engineering knows the artists, supports their shows, smokes with them, shares his or her life with them, and has the culture ingrained in them even if that person isn't directly an artist or geek.

Continuing the example, contrast this with a "later groupie" who would move to said location. This person might move into a new highrise development that used to be the warehouse where aforementioned artist & chemical engineer would kick it on weekends. The vulture will also support noise ordinance laws that would kill the informal events/performances of the culture that said chemical engineer used to attend, and where said artist would perform his or her art when that person was still 'underground'.
To echo some of the other comments here, this is a text that's really only appropriate for those who already have a graduate-level grasp of statistics. I love that it's freely available, but ESL is not an introductory text.

For example, here's a screenshot from the introductory chapter (pg. 26): [1]. The authors expect you to already be familiar with matrix analysis applied to statistics.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning (ISL) [2] is aimed at those with a high school level of math.

[1] https://imgur.com/q0NeqdR
[2] https://statlearning.com/book.html
Computers and their programs consume energy in the form of electricity to do work. How is that not metabolism? I recall seeing a reference to a biological species that also consumes electricity.

In addition, they use that energy to (often) lower internal entropy and replicate themselves. They evolve with the assistance of a symbiote (humans), and are subject to competitive pressures for evolutionary fitness.

Mating is almost unheard of, but composition of parts is rampant.
True for usb-old. usb-c should have the power.
It's amazing that synology would hold themselves back with a proprietary app when they are trying to sell hardware and are competing against Google and Apple.
(I can't see the link, its offline) the difference is though, there is no expensive heap scans. That is new (it's called "trial deletion", see the Bacon paper) and makes it "deterministic" due to that, independently from the heap size and suitable for hard real-time systems https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/12/08/introducing-orc.html
Great article.

As far as metformin goes, you may be on to something. Far from being a "Vitamin M" panacea, research is trickling out suggesting that the older you get, the worse it is for you:

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-11-age-decisive-positive...
Can you imagine an article on the BBC or on HN front page saying:

"Girls are trailing boys in engineering jobs: why?"

implicitly identifying that as a problem which needed to be fixed.
Apps are actually user hostile by far. They're also developer hostile.

Web apps are all about freedom. They're free for the developer to distribute, they allow the user freedom to run on any device they own and they also allow the user some freedom to alter the app via extensions/ad blocking/etc.
Definitely not bait because I like to jump around with languages so it's natural for me to compare them (that's why I do it.) I wrote my web server in Go, my util to find duplicate directories in Rust, etc.. I wasn't saying C# is faster than Rust, I said C# got faster.
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Docker Image means it includes an extra OS install. Your iPhone uses the same OS for all apps.
Before all the details we need to arrive at the right ballpark and establish the basics. I know on my example that even though I got through school with good grades, I was still full of misconceptions due to a few key errors fed from teachers, bullshit pseudo knowledge I picked up from ufo+mystery magazines and TV edutainment.

So first, there is nothing special about life. Life doesn't break the normal laws of physics we use to describe everything else. Our naive concept is often along the lines of a game engine with inputs coming "from outside", from spirits or something. But there's no evidence of that. Living material is ordinary.

Physics teachers will explain that heat doesn't go from cold to warm places. If you ask how fridges can exist, they may say "well, heat doesn't go there by itself", invoking some kind of magic explanation. Now I know there are more precise phrasing in physics, but that's beside my point. We grow up with a concept that there are things that happen "by themselves" and there are things that happen due to living creatures' actions. In this implicit naive view that many, including past me hold, a fridge does an exceptional thing because it vaguely obeys our effortful engineering intentions. We make it do that, it doesn't do it out of its own nature.

Actually in primary school physics class when we learned the concept of forces, we learned different categories: magnetic, gravitational, "holding/mounting" force, friction force, muscle force... And we had to label the arrows in different everyday cartoons, like a kid pulling a sled in the snow: muscle force towards the kid, gravity down, holding force from the ground up, friction force backward. As if muscle force was some irreducible special magic phenomenon in physics. While correctly teaching basic school-level vector calculus skills they failed at teaching fundamental world view skills.

Because there's no distinction like this. Life doesn't violate the second law of thermodynamics.

Of course this article also doesn't claim that, but as I said, it's important to first arrive on the same page, in the same ballpark before the high resolution discussion.
For one, no one needs to install WASM, nor are they going to run into versioning issues because the OS has a hard dependency on it. Every single person with a computer, from a smart phone to render farm workstations, will have WASM support because those devices will have a browser. The only browser that doesn't support it is the legacy IE line of browsers, of which only 11 is still supported, and which only runs on systems that will happily run Edge, instead.

Devs can rely on the fact that users won't need to install a single thing, and users can rely on the fact that they're not going to have to go through the insanity that is "trying to install the right version of Boobletech(tm) Meep(r)" or, hell: "trying to get their OS to even acknowledge that the preinstalled version of java is over a decade old and it needs to stop using it instead of the new version you installed".

If your compiler can target WebAssembly, and your users are on computers with operating systems that are still supported, your WASM application will work for them, because everyone has a browser.
> Trello for a more polished experience

On android, returning from a screen unlock deleted all my unsaved text.
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Non competes are a different thing than IP assignment.

Non competes prevent an employer to forbid you to work for competitor after you leave (or they fire you). Non competes are non enforceable in CA.

IP assignments (i.e. "what you do belong to us") is very much enforceable and very common.

How it's enforced depends on the company, but by default the employer can claim ownership if you do your work on their time or using their resources (e.g. on a company's laptop).

And they can drag you through courts even if it's all your time and your resources.

If you work for Apple, you better not do any non-Apple work. At Google you can do open source work but you have to get a permission.

So as far as IP assignment, CA is no different than TX.
Pfizer charges $19.50 per dose ($39 per 2 round vaccination). You might want to be more cautious about the place you heard MSRP is $10,000 per dose, it's clearly not that price at the volume it's being distributed.
> that was gradually replacing open web standards.

Flash was offering things that the normal web couldn't do (like video). It took a long time for the web to catch up nominally, and it's still lacking

Macromedia would still be selling Flash if there was an open standard that replaced swf and was equally performant

After all the web is now full of SPAs which are a very bloated version of flash pages with much less functionality
Don’t quite get the gist of this... a consensus based system like Raft or a CRDT operation will converge on to exactly one state, yes. I haven’t seen these concepts applied to a message queue. One could build a consensus or CRDT system that used a normal at-least-once message broker as a component, for sure. Is that what we’re talking about?
If you're a teen or twentysomething in the late 90s, your mom is probably a boomer. She's also the most likely demographic to stick with Netscape because it's the browser she started off with and it's comfortable for her.

The kids of the time already knew by 1998 that IE was the future of the web. Netscape had already made their open source announcement and spun off Mozilla in 1998. Navigator was effectively dead.
Sure, here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37254851

Not really sure what you're implying
I've seen many discussions like that. The title sounds a bit weird because everyone already knows that many engineering fields are mostly male, so nobody would write a headline as if this was news.
Pixelfed though is more of an Instagram replacement. It's for publishing photos as opposed to archiving and managing them.
Another hidden gem is Webb‘s Statistical Pattern Recognition
https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Statistical+Pattern+Recognition%...
Apple was particularly hostile to Flash.

When Adobe shipped an AIR-based cross-compiler for iOS, Apple amended the App Store terms to disallow building with anything but Obj-C or WebKit.

There was certainly more pettiness there than "Steve didn't think Flash was performant enough."
I wasn’t provoked though. I literally asked to be downvoted in the GP and then when I was (as expected because of course HN is full of more racist and sexist people than you’re willing to admit) I copied/pasted the same comment and changed numbers while waiting for my builds to finish. It’s not as serious as you keep alluding to (i.e. “I understand Internet posts can be activating.”)

So like I said, I don’t mind calling out racist and sexist people on HN. You should try it some time. I already told you what you could do to nudge this community in the right direction. But again, I already said PG wouldn’t allow this.

Is there any data to back up your claim about this “small minority”? If I run a sentiment analysis on the most “charged” posts, will the analysis indicate that there’s a “small minority” of racist and sexist people on HN?

Sure, no one’s going to be racist or sexist on the millionth hate post about Electron or AMP. I understand that. Is that all you’re saying?

Have you seen how toxic the Blind app community is? There’s an overlap between that community and this one. Maybe it’s just the exact same “small minority” everywhere... (Sarcasm)

FWIW, to be clear, it’s not that I lack faith in only HN readers. My ideas/truths about the world extend past this community. HN comments are just a symptom of something much larger: a diseased system being upheld by people who just want to see the good in everyone and vomit rainbows.
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I don’t know what point you’re making, but it’s certainly not uncommon to see articles noting that women lag men in certain professions, even insinuating strongly that the cause is discrimination without a shard of evidence.
Also storing hydrogen is not as easy and cheap as other gasses due to hydrogen embrittlement, high pressures and very low boiling point (-250C). But as it often is with fuel it's expansive now but soon it might be proffitable (as it was with tar sands).
The problem is that the original is defunct but "fork" on GitHub assumes that the fork is going to merge changes upstream.

Credit goes in the credits file, not polluting every interaction with the project.
I know the Birth and death of JS gets mentioned quite a lot in WASM context (even as a joke) but I really don't see that being the case.
Most web applications/sites are simple, and won't need to be compiled at a lower level in order to work. On average JS developers will be cheaper than C/C++/Rust developers to hire, so I don't see shops changing their personnel or stack anytime soon, especially if the job is to knock up a website that's a bit interactive.

It simply won't be viable to have low-level engineers do things like "build a dropdown nav" or "make an interactive carousel", and these sort of tasks will always be around.

WASM is there to augment JS in places JS isn't suitable for, rather than outright replace it. JS will definitely still exist.

To answer your Q there's also a comprehensive list of projects using Web Assembly on this site:
https://madewithwebassembly.com/all-projects
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Oh, I recognise that sign! Driven past it a few times, though it's not a regular route for me. But I'm not quite as close as Partridge Green.
I grew up in the VA suburbs of DC, and one of the obvious ways that you can tell the diversity was in the schools. The schools had signs telling all visitors to report to the main office, and (owing to the numbers of immigrants for whom English proficiency wasn't strong) repeated this message not only in English but Spanish... and Arabic (or Farsi, I can't distinguish the two), Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Tagalog.
This was just mentioned in this talk about spacecraft life support systems: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25590724

I suppose you got it from there as well?

It's surprising how simple a setup this turns out to be, for creating a working bioreactor that produces oxygen.
Was anything in Satoshi Nakamoto's original Bitcoin paper compiled in LaTeX?
I taught in public schools and studied pediatric ADHD. From those experiences, I found boys had a number of disadvantages. First off, they are more motor-hyperactive, they move, fidget, get out of their chairs: their very neurochemistry develops differently, making them less adept at the "sit still and write notes" aspect of school.

This isn't "bad parenting" or "overdiagnosis of ADHD" by the way, the brain of a young male develops differently, specifically their pre-frontal cortex (executive function, how to behave/regulate oneself) develops much slower, whereas the motor-neural cortex is overly developed, relative to girls.

Beyond any developmental difference in the sexes, there's culture. Where I taught, the South and West sides of Chicago, any troubled boy was more likely to join a gang, sell drugs, commit violence, etc. These poor boys could be jumped and beaten for living on the wrong street. One student was having anger issues, his cousin got killed, he had latent anger issues which prevented prioritization of school work. Another common issue: his father is gone, he's switching homes constantly, there's no stability to facilitate the slow, incremental progress that is school and learning.

Beyond sheer dangerous problems like the above, I'd say boys channel their effort into sports and gaming more, whereas the girls I taught were more concerned with social circles, popularity, social media, etc. Question, do we think gaming is "better" for mental health than social media? If so, boys may be advantaged, I recall my boy students used their Chromebook to play this bubble game where their bubbles had to chase and eat other students' bubbles: very benign and strategic.

There is a change that happens around puberty, when I was in seventh grade I noticed it acutely. Students transition from caring what their authority figures think (teachers/parents) to caring what their peers think (friends). This leads to a degradation in class morale, unity, and overall drive and focus to follow the teacher's lesson. It was crazy that the 5th graders could stare at me doe-eyed as I explained volcanoes and robotics, but the 7th and 8th graders just zoned out on their hidden phones (god, that's a huge issue as well) or incessantly talked to one another.

Edit: There's a bit of discussion of "overdiagnosis" or "misdiagnosis" of ADHD. This is a complex issue, but I will say I don't think anecdata is constructive here. By blaming bad parenting or video games or candy, we ignore the reams of data which show that many children can not focus and struggle MIGHTILY due to this.

Children with ADHD have less friends, less academic success, more likelihood to abuse drugs, like alcohol, marijuana, cocaine/nicotine (their dopaminergic system is uniquely vulnerable to stimulants). This is a sad trajectory for these kids, and I think we should consider carefully before we blanket accuse the medical system of overdiagnosis or misdiagnosis.
Choice of administrative services can definitely be a symptom of a larger problem. When most of the services used are unfriendly to the user and one is expected to use these every day, especially with alternatives available, that doesn't tell me they value their workers a lot.
I get the sense this is a submarine article.

For the uninitiated:

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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Then wear masks.

Americans are suffering from the costs of a deadly pandemic.

Countries that have managed the pandemic have avoided a lockdown. Countries that haven't, have been forced into it either through government mandate or otherwise, because people who can afford to, will not expose themselves to risks if it means getting a disease and then dying because your hospitals are full since you've done nothing to manage the pandemic.
Never submitted to HN.

Based on the search results and point scores, I'd wager that no article with "women" and "engineering" has ever been at the top of the front page, as this presently is.
On the contrary, the above computes exactly the identity cipher: your "ciphertext" is your plaintext.

Mathematical results will lead you to surprising conclusions if apply them in the wrong context!
> if there is an API you don't need MQ, or will you make a front MQ for every API you're calling ?

I don't think this is quite right. An API might use a message queue as a transport mechanism.

The MQ only gives you a way to communicate, it doesn't define how you structure your requests.

in your payment example, if you replace MQ with REST, it gives you the same answer.

Some message queues give you rich diagnostics for when messages fail. Others like NATS only give you the guarantee that the server will be up.

MQs come in many flavours. some act like python's Queue, but allow you to use many machines.

Some are as you say, a buffer.

However I like to use them for connecting n transient instances of a service to an API front end. The routing is handled for you, and you can isolate services from each other.
If you listen to it the gap between them is growing which is why there's concern, 1:45 onwards.
What does being MIT licensed have to do with it? And please, don't anyone dare chime in with the the standard "if people want a feature in open source they can 'simply' implement it themselves".

UI technologies that don't include accessibility are simply not good enough. It's not like accessible options don't exist.
It's the mainframe app of our time.
"I recently wrote a utility for myself in ASM after having done several in C. I like both languages, but ASM introduces pain points for no apparent reason."

IMO the_duke summarized it perfectly in other comment: You are essentially complaining that Rust is not C#; Rust is much lower level and makes very different tradeoffs; most of the design decisions are there for a reason, and are good choices (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25593825)

People considering Rust as an alternative for higher-level programming languages are in for a potential surprise or two. I guess this happens because Rust has received a lot of attention and promotion, enough to make some people consider it, where otherwise they wouldn't have thought of using tools that stand at a lower level than what is most appropriate for their needs (or knowledge).

EDIT: I've now read that in this particular case, the parent commenter is consciously playing with different languages to learn about them. Still, I think it would be a misconception to think that C# and Rust are at an equivalent level of programming abstraction, and thus should offer similar ergonomics.
Well, offer up your language of choice, and I'm sure we could work together to find some online comments to assassinate the creators' character.

Perhaps instead of trying to drag someone in a public forum you should've reached out to him and brought it to his attention. Gitter is an IRC-esque platform, it's not exactly designed for deep academic discussions and thoughtful prose, it's a chatroom.

Also, since you've seen fit to bring up Facebook's project leadership, perhaps you should look at the MANY failings of theirs. Cambridge Analytica is only the most notorious, there are thousands of cases of injustice done for users. For a brand operating behind a mission of "connecting the world," they sure are disconnected from serving some of their users.

Facebook runs an impressive ship, sure. They are worthy of much less of my respect than Araq. I've written <1000 lines of Nim, so I'm no expert, but anybody can see that it's his pride and joy. I applaud him for remaining human.

Grow up.
I can imagine Twitter has a lot of services that don't see a lot of traffic and a lot of people who don't have experience with high traffic services.

Take your calculator and do calculations along with me:

10ms = 1/100th of a second.

8 bits = 256 possible values.

For a given node you have at most 256 possible IDs every 1/100th of a second or 25600 every second.

This is absolute limitation which means, you can't just straight use the library without some workarounds to get more traffic through a node. You could of course do things like assign more hardware addresses to each node (maybe even messages on one and odd on another hw address) but then you soon find out the workaround is more complex than just writing it from scratch.