skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A few weeks ago, I was mailing my friend a gift for his upcoming birthday when I recalled that he got me nothing for my birthday. I experienced a flash of anger, and was tempted to trash the package instead of mailing it.

This speaks more to the author’s selfishness (more accurately childishness) rather than anger. The need to be completely reciprocated in every gesture is selfish and speaks to a zero-sum mindset.

I know first-hand: Like the author I have been prone to fly off the handle much of my life, and only recently (past year or so) have realized that I was equating reciprocity with justice, and that is an incredibly narrow view of the world.

This was an eye-opener: If everyone gave only as much as they got, the world would be a significantly meaner place. Rather, it’s those who give without receiving that make the world a better place.

Since then, I stopped keeping score, give what I can when I can, and receive happily whatever is given to me, without judgement, although I am still working on that last bit (You gave me what?!?..), but then I’ve also stopped trying to be perfect.
It was obviously a joke. After "....convinced nothing will convince you anymore" you should not expect a rational argument.
Long covid is a problem that is going to keep on giving. A large portion of those who get covid will have symptoms 6 months later, and many cases are life altering.
What if it deserves 1 star? You'll then tell me it deserves 3 stars and erase my rating right?

Why is it a controversy that an app that doesn't let you buy stocks when it hurts insider hedge funds gets rated a derservingly minimal 1 star?
Oh my God, your country truly is fucked up, isn't it? I've lived in police states where the laws aren't steaming garbage like that.
Thank you so much! Will fix it soon :)
"Making GitHub's least visited page fast and performant"
Is it known whether transmission of the flu (which is definitely seasonal) is affected by temperature in the way this study covers?
> if you were to look at the extreme and print a ton of money and have zero usage there would no inflation

That sounds correct, under the assumptions of classical economics.

Inflation is the cost of things going up. Classically, price is considered an equilibrium of supply and demand. If I print money, but don't use it to demand goods, why would the price of goods change?

Reality is more complex than classical economics (and I should note, I'm not an economist). Expectations of inflation (due to say, seeing a giant pile of cash coming off the printing press) can trigger prices to rise.

But hopefully that helps to explain why it's generally accepted that velocity plays an important role in inflation, not simply supply of money.
Looks like the top of the "downloaded" list is basically all of Bob's mods? What's the story there - is it basically "Factorio but with an alternate game progression"?
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> Then in real life example you will have real doctors and nurses giving conflicting advices and having wildly different viewpoints on the details.

Exactly. Real life example - someone I know asked her doctor about getting the Moderna covid vaccine while pregnant. The doctor not only said it was ok, but also verbally recommended it and gave her a written paper to help her get the vaccine. She was able to get it a couple days ago. Then yesterday the World Health Organization announced that pregnant women should not be getting the Moderna vaccine because they were not included in the trials.

So who’s right here? It’s hard to trust a “real doctor” when something like this happens.

It also happens that, doctors in particular, barely see you for 5-15min, that is not enough time for them to fully understand what is going on with you and your whole history. It’s only enough time for them to make a quick judgement based on their pattern matching abilities from their own experience and then give, an educated, recommendation. But they are not really vested in you in particular, you are just one more, and if their recommendations don’t work for you, they usually don’t really care and won’t go down the rabbit whole with you, at the most they’ll just refer you to someone else.
I don't know if I will have a meaningful impact or not, but my intention is certainly to impact the rating.

Otherwise, why rate at all?
Yeah the criminal defense is through union action to ensure that police get extra time to manufacture stories and the like before evidence can be collected
Thanks for this article, I just found out about 2 interesting apps, activitywatch and nomie
If you go to ontario public health website and read their summaries on current covid papers, you'll note that the vast majority of papers come to the conclusion that schools have almost no impact on the spread of covid.

But no, keep applying youre second grade logic: spreads through air-> indoor places unsafe-> CLOSE EVERYTHING.

That's not to say some of it isn't security theater (ie my parents were washing cookie boxes with soap some a couple of months ago), but those measures aren't being driven by the public health, but rather the unrelenting fear mongering of the media.
Redditors made millions of dollars. A couple hedge funds lost billions. Where did the rest of the money go to? Other institutional investors. Nearly 10% of Gamestop is held by a mutual fund where experts try to pick undervalued stocks.

https://money.cnn.com/quote/shareholders/shareholders.html?s...
Ah, yup, I stand corrected, they moved off of Apex. I told you not to quote me on that! ;)

Nevertheless, they still have capital requirements they have to adhere to in order to ensure settlement can occur, and it appears they were on the verge of being unable to meet those requirements.
Ask HN: How do I spend less time updating “business logic”?
I work with operations teams that need to frequently update very simple business logic (think SQL). Other engineers who work with operations teams (customer success, fraud/risk, content moderation), do you use internal tools to make you productive? Or enable ops to self-serve via low-code?

Looking to spend less time updating logic and more time building systems.
Dogecoin was nice as a way to "tip" comments; basically reddit gold without having to pay much. Right now, it's being used as an overt pump & dump scam. It was never made to hold intrinsic value as a currency or as an asset, and the price is artificially inflated due to scammers
There's a lot of controversy and arguments on this at the moment, a lot of it is political with a good dose of Brexit added in.

So to stir towards more positive aspects:

AstraZeneca, which are between a rock and a hard place here, has agreed to supply the EU at cost. I don't know if it's their global policy, I hope it is, but they should be commended for that. That's not what all suppliers of Covid vaccines do.

More generally regarding the Covid vaccines: I find quite extraordinary that less than 12 months after Covid-19 was first analysed we have several vaccines available and we also have the capacity to produce hundreds of millions of doses.
Science + technology + capitalism is a hugely potent combination (ok, sorry that last sentence may seem political but this is what drove the development of these large scale production technologies).

Edit:

It looks like I may need to clarify my mentioning capitalism. I was referring to production capability.

Private companies (not only in biotech, in every industry) have developed extremely effective and efficient ways to produce huge quantities of whatever they produce because driving down costs and increasing efficiency and quantities is how you increase profit. This is why we can now produce so many doses of Covid vaccines quickly and at relatively low cost.
Also immune system response, and so probably severity
Ah, so if they shoot me at all, it's assault with a deadly weapon, just like any other civilian
Temperature doesn't meaningfully affect the spike protein. Neat.

Temperature changes droplet dessication, so heated air that is not humidified will generate more aerosols, increasing the transmissibility of the disease.
The current prototype is based on an Adafruit Feather 32u4 board which has the Atmel ATmega32u4 micro. I've soldered pins A0 and GND to that board and used the internal pull-up resistor of the ATmega32u4 on pin A0. When you hit the button, a sequence of keystrokes is sent over a USB HID interface to the computer. The keystrokes depend on the operating system so when I compile the firmware, it's OS dependent.
In light of this comment I can't really understand what you meant by the last paragraph of your last comment. Were you actually asking? Or did you know, and know that RH's answers to those questions were in fact not nefarious, and just want to keep the drama alive a bit longer?
We think we can be most helpful for people working on life science companies, so mostly focused on that.
Zigler looks interesting! I've given it a look before, would be very nice if it could support Erlang too, but I imagine Elixir macros are doing a lot of work for you.

I think the biggest hurdles when writing NIFs are:

* Interacting with Erlang terms from C/Rust/Zig. Admittedly both zigler and rustler help in this regard, by wrapping Erlang terms. Pony is able to expose raw pointers and structs to C, which I've felt easier to work with.

* Dealing with the Beam's preemptive scheduler. This isn't as big of a problem now with dirty schedulers but still a mismatch compared to normal Erlang code. Pony uses a cooperative scheduler everywhere, so you'll already be used to splitting long tasks in different steps by the time you need to use the FFI, which makes the transition easier.
Last spring I was briefly lectured by a maskless doctor who said I shouldn't bother with the mask I was wearing at an appointment. I shrugged and kept my mask on. A month or two later I saw him again. He was wearing a mask that time and didn't complain about mine.

That doctor didn't just avoid guessing. He gave unsolicited advice, on limited information, that turned out to be exactly wrong and somewhat dangerous.
>> It's unlikely many types of exoplanets

Ya, but if people were allowed to look for hot jupiters in the 70s/80s they would have found the first exoplanet far sooner.
Note the Dunning Kruger effect too!
What is voting then? Nobody's vote matters? Is democracy a sham to you?

The math is simple though. Your vote is 1 added to a total. So is everyone's. The totals don't go above 0 tied with 0 based on your description. But clearly our votes don't all end in a 0-0 tie.
I think there's two key differences here:

1) The police can get away with stuff even when the public has clear video proof of wrong-doing. Usually that's enough to at least trigger the "sacrifice a scapegoat" process, but not here.

2) The police can get away with violating not only policy, but actual laws.
The days of internet massive worms are behind us. Or at least mostly.

Security is vastly better than it used to be and good zero day exploits are guarded jealously. Making a big worm is a quick way to expose a zero day.

The people who have access to these zero day exploits keep them tight for targeted attacks where they are less likely to be discovered.
The section on multithreaded belts hits on my biggest complaint with this game: I don’t like that the belts are multi-lane, I wish they were smaller and single-lane.

I’ve tried to get into Factorio twice in the past but I always eventually run into some annoying issue where oops, I need resources to be on the other lane of a belt, or a grabber arm that should obviously be able to reach something isn’t, or something of that ilk, and I now need to scrap and rebuild my entire design.

At that point, I feel less like I’m building a factory and more like I’m working around the game engine, and it just immediately kills my interest in going further.
I'm using a Mid-2015 MacBook Pro and it's far from performant for me. Assuming it's mostly new users who see the homepage page, do they assume their new users have high-end computers?
3) That is for an inline code span only; can interrupt the span, put an escaped backtick, reopen the span. There is an example in the document.
In fenced blocks, anything is accepted.

2) Yes, that mostly implies [1],[2]... pattern. Have to think of other solutions.

1) Well, yes. Aestetics is difficult to quantify. I use empty lines so headers stand out.
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IKEA using AR to let users decide which furniture fits where (2020)
As I understand it, their policy is to supply developed markets at cost until the pandemic is over (whatever that means) and developing markets at cost in perpetuity.
This is a meaningless statement.

What country? What time period? What state?

Hospitals all over have wildly different rates of success. The color of the mother wildly influences the outcome as well.

Some states are very strict with home births. Some are not. The laws governing home births vary far more than the laws governing hospitals.

Also, if 10 babies die in the hospital and 20 at home in the US, that’s a drop in the bucket.

This sort of fear mongering in what the medical establishment uses to push people in five digit price tag births, draining them of their resources just as their family is growing.

I have experienced both hospital and home birth. I would never do hospital again if I could avoid it.
My instinct is that the overhead is small. You need to add a few C stack frames and do some string conversion on each call, maybe an allocation to store the result. It’s not going to be as quick as doing in pure Rust, but the python-to-native code layer can be pretty lightweight I think!
If you go full Sierra Club and shut down all but the "purest" forms of recreating in nature then basically nobody will recreate outdoors and there will be no opposition to destroying nature because so few people will have stake in the issue.
Tackling the Monopoly Problem
Stumbled on the new github landing page yesterday and was impressed. Looks really good. Globe animation a nod to stripe imo
How hard are you supposed to push yourself?
Sorry for asking, is there a tldr: ?
Thanks man this is really valuable knowledge and inspiring words! Good thing is that many of the courses/labs are put online, even with videos of classes and tutorials (I'm really amazed that some even put up tutorials and appreciate the effort they put into bringing the educational exp to everyone else) so we just need to discipline outselves enough to work hard to keep pace with them.
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Now that's a thought. (OptiPNG exists, btw: http://optipng.sourceforge.net/)

The fact is, if you know how JPG and PNG work, you'll know that a colorful and busy image like the one linked in the article, with lots of varying alpha colors and values for anti-aliasing, is basically impossible to compress anywhere close to a JPG.

There are more lossy ways to compress PNG which aren't done automatically anywhere to my knowledge, such as reducing the amount of colors to fit a smaller color space.

What you can also do is turn the image into contiguous chunks so that they are in a pattern that is more compressib… wait, we're just reinventing JPG aren't we.
I think reviews are naturally bimodally distributed because people are most likely to take the time to review a business when it is either amazing or horrible.

I would speculate that this is the reason that Yelp created its Elite program — to incentivize people to write tons of reviews, including for places that were neither amazing nor horrible. This gives Yelp the crucial middle ground reviews that as you say are more likely to be accurate than just the highs and lows.
Cynical?

Thoughtful people who have been on this planet for decades build up a world view based on the countless examples of actors on the world stage behaving the way that they do. A single article or internet search is not how we are informed.
Steven Cohen's fund Point72 suffers 15% loss amid GameStop frenzy: NYT
Is there a reason North Korea would be reluctant to sail the seven seas for a copy of Ansys?
> 1) the use of # rather than underline for headings.

While in theory I understand the appeal of the "WYSIWYG" syntax of underlining headings, in practice I've always found it less readable than expected. Consider, for instance:

I am a paragraph belonging to the previous section but it looks like the heading belongs to me.

I am a heading indicating a new section
=======================================

I am a paragraph belonging to the heading but the heading is weirdly separated from me.

I am another paragraph belonging to the heading.

In some editors/IDE, the underline even gets highlighted / boldfaced, thereby exacerbating this effect.
Yep. The [document][1] itself may be a basic example.

[1]: http://doc.replicated.cc/%5EWiki/strictmark.sm?@text "The source code of the doc"
Nobody has really jumped to that conclusion. I don't think the author of this article has represented Loeb's views or public statements entirely fairly.

Sean Carroll recently interviewed him and if you listen to that, I think you will come away with a very different idea of who Loeb is and what he is saying.
The app literally took actions to the detriment of their users, to benefit of big, connected insiders, going against something as fundamental as the name of the company itself.

Why all the obfuscation and thought experiments around such a simple and blatant reality?
That seems consistent with the article. Fowler doesn't explicit state that mocks are a kind of stub, but it seems to follow from his definitions.
Except the tide you're describing is global, and the policy in question was domestic, and wages and assets within the middle and lower economic classes have indeed stagnated in relation to almost every other economic indicator within the country, which is why "many on the left" consider this argument to be invalid.
And hopefully, some of those extra analytics, animations, and experiences add value. One great thing about high performance on the fundamentals is that it let’s us move to a higher level of abstraction.
The international association football/ soccer governing body? Or the video game series?

FIFA the organisation was much more corrupt than you'd expect, and so I suppose to the extent this organisation was novel (there are a lot of international sports bodies) the novelty was apparently undesirable.

But I think the FIFA video game may have been the first to introduce several awful ideas, which were nevertheless novel. Blind buy "lootboxes" were introduced to the FIFA games fairly early because fans were familiar with the idea of buying a pack of "trading cards" in the real world which are also blind buy.
Shorting more than 100% of the stock is excessive and irresponsible. That figure is not a conspiracy theory: it is public information that the SEC releases monthly.

Whether hedge fund managers did make a call to their buddies is not the only thing in question here (although the SEC will surely determine the truth). Shorting a stock drives the price down and, while this is no less legal than buying a stock, the question is whether shorting 136% of the stock counts as outright manipulation. Reddit kids have done nothing but pop an artificial bubble, they did not participate in manipulation; as the hedge fund managers and their buddies claim.

> QAnon

I have yet to see the baby cookbook or other evidence of their ridiculous claims.
Offline debates tend to be even worse. You usually don't have time to read it at your pace, whoever talks to you will keep making sounds, etc.
I think what really turned up the anger level on this specific instance is that they just turned the market off when it didn’t go their way. That’s just such a colossal breach of trust.
A agree that is what OP is doing. Disagree that we can dismiss all HN comments unless they are experts in said field.
Thought it was too pejorative/vulgar at the time of post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_(slang)
Data Driven Security Hardening in Android
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Forcing people to perform in ways that are measurably inefficient by several orders of magnitude and punishing people who step out of line is the very nature of imposing job security.

I intentionally stare out of the window letting my life drift away while at the office only because I value my job security. If I wanted to do original innovative work for compensation I wouldn't be a UX developer.
The title is “Making GitHub’s new homepage fast and performant” which suggests performant is something different from (just) fast.
I was wondering why none of the links were working. I was trying to read on the beginnings of Perl6 (now Raku) design (such as in https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/11/perl6rfc.html/) and also check some States of the Onion. At least everything is currently accessible either through the Wayback Machine or here: https://perldotcom.perl.org/
Excess mortality shows us ~100,000 extra people died in the UK since COVID started. Antibody testing suggests that this was a result of ~10% of people being infected. I’ll let you do the maths for deaths due to herd immunity, and whether that is a “tiny minority”.

People at risk include people with diabetes and asthma.

In Scotland, the most hospital beds have been occupied by the 45 - 64 age group. Not sure about other parts of the UK.
Like Briar?
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> I am so sick of this 'stay in your lane' attitude.

To my mind, I'm doing the equivalent of chiding front-end beginners for not spending a few minutes reading the part of the ecmascript spec that describes the language's primitive values. (Or at least a primer that covers the names of those types.) That spec is free, and I can probably find the relevant section faster than I can type this sentence.

Actually, it took me a minute and a half-- it's in section 6.1.6: "ECMAScript Language Types" of the ECMAScript 2020 spec.

It doesn't take much longer to skim that section and start a mental model with at least the name for each primitive type.

Armed even with that superficial knowledge, a beginner is less likely to make mistakes in communication with others. E.g., they are less likely to read a tutorial on symbols, confuse it with a tutorial on strings, and/or waste the author's time asking a question about strings.

Someone who hasn't read the spec (or at least a primer) might assume that those words are synonyms, or perhaps that "symbol" refers to the content, or has something to do with unicode code points, or has the same relationship and single and double quotes in ecmascript.

I have no doubt such a beginner can concoct all kinds of interesting definitions for "symbol" from first principles. Perhaps in some cases their own idiosyncratic misunderstanding describes some "alternate ecmascript" language that has superior features to the real ecmascript. That we can so easily construct these alternate realities is cool in and of itself and is an obvious part of the learning process.

What isn't cool is when a critical mass of commenters who don't know and won't learn the basic terminology pretend to have a discussion about a topic which in reality each comment is in it's on parallel universe of idiosyncratic terminology. Especially on this topic, it's extremely likely that one's idiosyncratic, uneducated take is going to be immensely more boring and fruitless when compared to accurate and well-informed takes on what played out in the stock market over the past week.

I look forward to posting something like this the next time the topics of macroeconomics or unions come up.
To explain what this is: The EU mistakenly uploaded a censored version of the contract earlier today where some blacked out parts could be reconstructed using PDF metadata.

This version has those included in red.
We have 5 nines uptime on all our non crashed systems!
So ... an outsider who just declared something as true. It's tautologies all the way down! :)