skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. There's a dichotomy here that a lot of people don't know about that might help you get a better picture of the distinction you mention.

Logic and Science are different in the sense that Logic does not require any evidence. Logic uses simple assumptions called axioms and then theorems derived from those axioms to make broader statements about the system. A computer is basically a system molded around logic so that you can use logical reasoning to derive statements and ignore evidence. This is what I mean by "rigor." Ironically, for convenience, testing (aka science) is used in computer programming even though formal analysis is a stronger (but more challenging) form of proof.

Science on the other hand is more evidence based. If evidence contradicts logic than the evidence takes precedence. The medical field is more science than it is logic hence the distinction. A computer programmer can use heavier reliance on axiomatic reasoning to derive statements but the medical field will defer more to the black box statistical results of evidence.

The difference is literally the same difference between math and science. Computer Programming blurs the line a bit but overall programming is closer to axiomatic reasoning than it is to science.
This is the “new amazon.” Old Amazon was really customer focused. Back when prime was a good value ($80/year for 2 shipping) everything just worked. You could find products easily, order, automate reorders.

In the past five years, every visit to Amazon involved wading through ads for bad products (eg, search for Iphone7, see sponsored ads for Samsung phones). There are more sponsored line items than actual results.

Prime’s price has almost doubled and I had 6/25 packages take longer than 2 days in the last year I had prime (compared to 99-100% for the previous 15 years).

One click doesn’t work because if I try it, I get charged for shipping even though free is available. I have to manually go into every over and uncheck 1-day shipping for $5.99 (or whatever) and select free 2-day. Every time. And I have to click through a screen to manually say I don’t want to buy prime.

Amazon sucks now. They abandoned their customers.

Comically, Walmart has a better (easier, faster, less bullshit, cheaper) experience than Amazon. I never would have guessed.
> In my country it is illegal not to subscribe to the state TV channel.

This is, frankly, a very silly thing to get hung up on.

First of all, I assume you mean you have to make some payment that goes to that channel, not that you're forced to watch it.

Second, this means you're essentially passing a presumably small tax that is earmarked for that channel.

In other words, it's not any different from all the other taxes: paying them is part of life in society, and you're never going to agree with all their uses.

I bet there are far bigger items in your government's budget that you disagree with.
The bar is higher for professionals speaking in their field of expertise
Not to be rude to a new account, but I have spoken to legitimate investment managers (who are licensed to have assets under management) who believe there is a still a reasonable possibility of a squeeze occurring (refer to the 800 strike on the GME options chain [1] [2], specifically the volume and open interest on those contracts, and the ongoing failure to deliver shares reports from the SEC [3] [4]).

That's not to say WSB isn't....exuberant. They are, but that doesn't mean everyone in there is delusional. Maybe it goes back to $5, maybe it goes up, but it's pretty hard to say between retail, institutional, and what is going on behind the scenes. We departed fundamentals and technicals a while ago, and it's not easy to pick out the signal from the noise.

Disclaimer: Not an advisor, not investment advice, comment is for educational purposes only. Thoughts and opinions are my own.

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GME/options?p=GME

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GME/options?strike=800&strad...

[3] https://www.sec.gov/data/foiadocsfailsdatahtm (most recent zip file, extract and grep GME)

[4] https://wherearetheshares.com/
This has been on the CDC website for quite a while now:

"Currently there is no evidence that people can get COVID-19 by eating or handling food."

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/...
"But what if we vent the toxic gas into the place where you go to see if there's a problem with the toxic gas..."
Huh, Wiktionary suggests that these came from "do on" and "do off" or similar phrases in Middle English. I never realized that!
Oh well. Back to SPY.
I would imagine money primarily. On top of that, the larger the room gets the more costly and ineffective this becomes.
Profit margin and ability to ship/store easily.
Why does Array.prototype.find() return undefined and not null if it didn't find a value? According to your logic, the sentinel to indicate "this array doesn't have an element that matches the predicate" should be null.
You still seem to be taking a very non charitable read. I aluded to the browser, specifically because of the hard split between content markup and stylistic markup that is of very arguable benefits.

It is alluring. And when it works, it feels magical. Yet I still prefer TeX over many of the document systems I have been subjected to use. Markdown being a strong modern contender that embraced the ascii art nature of plain text files. Throw in the modern resurgence of jsx and the hard won separation of scripting from content is not even fought anymore.

To the ui/ux point, directly, I'm not even sure what you are arguing. The APIs that you list are all notorious for being bad leaking abstractions. And is why people make products over them, introducing new forms and functions for a different set of users. Just look at how you shoe horn shaders into those low level APIs.

But again, in the context of this story, I meant that you can't separate out the ui/ux concerns of a product completely from who owns that product. So, for AWS, they own both service and console. If one is bad, it is almost certainly from lack of prioritization in the team that owns the whole product. Often behind the guise of "this is not the architecture's concerns, but the front end."

Jumping to another metaphor to try and say it differently. In a bike, you can separate the drive train from the steering, but it will be a largely perspective based separation. Such that the entire bike is ultimately part of the steering and the power distribution. Yes, this is a simplistic look at it, but no more so than thinking you can fully isolate one from the other.

(Now, I do have to confess that Tufte is finally really resonating with me. And I fully agree that much of this is as useful as so many platitudes. Ask me about front end versus back end, someday. :) )
Saying SpaceX gets it wrong regularly is LITERALLY false. SpaceX Falcon 9 is fully qualified for all DoD Orbits and has reached highest qualification for NASA Scientific Missions and Human mission for. All require demonstration of reliably relight with incredibly high reliability.

In fact, in over 100 flights, SpaceX did not have a single failure of a Second Stage engine not starting or not re-lighting. This is unlike Arianespace who just had a failure when they tried to start an engine on one of their upper stages.

Outside of that Merlin is easily the engine that can be re-lit more then any other on the planet and its not close.

This however is a non-commercial prototype, where they are testing new technologies. Its a completely new engine of a type that has never flown before and is not finished developing. The vehicle has been newly designed and it does things no other vehicle has done before in a way no other vehicle has done before.

You honestly just sound like an incredibly petty hater. I can grantee you that Russia and Europe have plenty of issues with engine starting on their development engine.
That doesn't make their actions any less immoral. Acting immorally can still be condescendingly called pathetic.
That's an amazing write up, I enjoyed reading about this. Thanks!
Actually, yes, we should all stop what we are doing and fight child trafficking immediately. To argue anything else is a morally indefensible position.

Now, you might say you fight child trafficking currently because you vote for people who make the laws that say it's illegal and "dust your hands", but yet it's not enough because child trafficking still happens. At the end of the day, you are ok with child trafficking happening because, "Well, at least I choose not to traffick children, so that's enough."
I remember seeing an Altair 8800 next to a "Gandalf" at WeirdStuff in Sunnyvale, a few years before they closed for good. Had no idea what these were.
You don’t, because you don’t know how far from that screen a user is. User can override default mode in a browser’s toolbar. That’s what OP wants but has instead to jump through dpi/font/scale hoops to achieve it. You may want to use desktop, tablet or mobile look that is not related to your device width.
Is this a viable landing strategy in the long run? Both SN8 and SN9 landings have ended in total fatalities.

What happens if the landing happens to occur during a 50 mph wind gust, etc. If this maneuver isn't designed to be 100% fault tolerant maybe they need to be thinking about an emergency eject?

I like the simplicity of the Starship design. How much extra weight would a nosecone eject + parachute add?
No, xf86 naming is still there, but you're kinda misunderstanding what a driver is. These xf86 things are tiny pieces for the xorg server. (Irrelevant with Wayland, obviously.) The real "meat" of the driver is in two places: Mesa and the kernel. The kernel module is the hard part. You can install the higher level parts without it, they just won't be useful. You can have the xf86 thing, and libdrm_nouveau, and Mesa dri_nouveau, they don't even require any porting, but they're absolutely useless without the kernel driver, they wouldn't have anything to talk to.
What is way more interesting is that the media can be weaponized by hedge funds, in that many (all?) outlets were incorrectly reporting, that r/wallstreetbets was hyping silver instead of GME now.

To me the whole story certainly brought up a few things worth regulating. Why can brokers just arbitrarily decide to stop trading specific stocks? Why can different entities lend stocks for the purpose of shorting against the interests of the very owner of said stocks? Isn't shorting more than (or next to) 100% of the free float of a company too big of a risk for the whole system and how can we circumvent that in the future?

Before the whole thing, I had the impression, that stocks are safe. Not necessarily their price, but the stocks themself. I was aware that they are a separate asset and don't belong to the assets of the broker. Little did I know that brokers could still just lend them out and that I would only get a maximum of 20,000 € back over here in Germany, in case shit actually would hit the fan. I want to be able to print out my stocks and physically put them somewhere or put them on a blockchain! How is it possible, that in 2021 I could actually lose my ownership rights to a company, because someone else is using it to gamble?
"“Anything can turn sinister if people go in with the wrong education and intentions,” said JJ Kinahan, chief market strategist at TD Ameritrade."

In other words, leave it to the "experts."
This is what useReducer is for at its core isn’t it? You dispatch named type actions and it executed accordingly. Seems like that would work just as well for this, honestly.
another community created information
https://github.com/georgehara/nano/wiki/unofficial
To do what? Treat me more as a paying customer, and less as a product they resell to advertisers?

I’ll happily encourage them to do that.
Wasn't the original source some folks in Wuhan eating bats? Has that been debunked?

Edit: That wasn't meant to be snarky. It really does seem to be a contradictory bit of evidence.
one word of caution is the current South Korean administration has been dangerously leaning towards pro-CCP. President Moon has repeatedly praised the communist party and President Xi and they have effectively weaponized the pandemic to suppress protests.

Imagine if Trump handed plutonium yielding power plants to Iran on a usb device to win political concessions. That is what has happened in South Korea and there is a massive "USBgate" scandal that implicates the Korean president.

So anything out of South Korea right now under the current admin, we should take a grain of salt. The new Biden administration labelled South Korea as an "illiberal democracy".
This is the rational approach to take. At the beginning it was an unknown, and I was more cautious than anyone I knew. I was gathering supplies and locking down in January. There were videos of people in China having seizures in the middle of the road (whatever happened to those videos, by the way?). The correct response was to be overly cautious until we had more data.

We have more data now. If you're under 70 the chances of you dying, if you don't already have a massively serious disease are statistically almost irrelevant. It's a standard coronavirus like the common cold, that's 2-3 times deadlier than the flu, and predominately only deadly to the very elderly. People are wise now that their claims of how scary it is is provably wrong and are now turning to the much more ambiguous claim about "don't you know that X% have long lasting problems afterwards?". Hogwash. The only thing they have to back that up is that they heard someone else say it. They'll never link to data that says that, because there isn't any.

We have the data now. What I gave is the data. It comes straight from the CDC, not your emotional facebook friend. Any rational human being, who proports to "follow the science", should act in accordance to the data. The data doesn't care about your feelings. The data doesn't care what people on Twitter tell you you should think. We have the data now.

It's to the point where the parent comment and my comment will be downvoted to oblivion because we encourage people to follow the data. Downvoted and censored by people claiming they "follow the science". For pointing out the science. This is not a good situation for us to find ourselves in.
India aside, surely if you get arrested for actually breaking a law that’d be net good for society? Whether law enforcement wants you for an unrelated offence doesn’t matter; they won’t be able to charge you on that (if they had enough evidence, they’d have already done so).
NixOS is the distribution much how Haskell and Scheme are the programming languages in that in their lust for theoretical perfection and elegance, they do not see widespread adoption, but often have a lasting influence on other projects that take the useful parts from their elegant ideas and work them into something more practical.
I've also heard this and still think `relentless` is the best way to describe Amazon's behaviour I've heard, love em or hate em.
The kernel module that hides the standard dirs under / is entirely optional, and is only there for aesthetic purposes.

If you don't want it, don't load it. Absolutely nothing in gobolinux requires that kernel module to be running. Again, its just purely for aesthetic purposes.
No, I meant that the above response calling the other user wrong is wrong itself. The USSR, had it not had to fight a cold war against the US, could very well have been a much better system not just for space flight, but for a way to structure and run society in general.

But yet, if I say this, I will be immediately downvoted because if I suggest that anything other than the established order in the US is the best system, the powers that be as well as the indoctrinated individuals that frequent this place would rather just shut that conversation up than to engage it meaningfully.
Thanks for sharing this. I finally have unequivocal data to support my argument that we should not eat indoors at restaurants.
Isn't he the same guy that targeted the woman in Florida's Department of Health to shut her up about COVD data?

Hippocracy
Very awesome - currently in the process of evaluating these colab tools.

One question: how are you guys planning on funding the online version? Will there be licence pricing in future?
App Lab: A New Way to Distribute Oculus Quest Apps
Yeap.
Mellanox has one advantage , even though it pcie x8, if you put it to pcie x4 slot, it works nicely (according to specs it downgrades itself).
Intel - not that sure about it
I've found UK media coverage of this row disturbingly one-sided (even amongst pro-EU journalists)

You may want to read this for a more balanced view :

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/health-pharma/dragging-a...

It was really AZ's screw up.
The fact is that the EU had a contract with AZ that explicitly required the use of UK plants for fulfilling the EU's orders if need be.
But the problem is that AZ had also promised the UK it would have priority over the goods produced on its soil...
I would add the 6ft rule, but it's unclear to me that people even now realize that's it's based on assumptions about transmission which were proven wrong pretty early on.
yeah looks like quite a bit of HN folks actually bought into the meme stock and now they are furiously downvoting anything that suggests that they might not have been as smart as they've been brought up to believe.
Or "I was the greatest fool."
Can Twitter et al deplatform an entire state?
Don't know about that. I have never in my life bothered with stocks, and now I bought a share with all the spare money I could afford to lose. Me, a complete outsider. I can say at least 1M of the members hold stocks. And probably many more. I only got in the sub to watch how things unfold, intent on buying from the beginning. I don't think anyone would bother following WSB just for the giggles. Most of the posts are for the sole purpose of reaffirming our collective choice of holding GME.
> which China says exist for the "re-education" of the Uighurs and other minorities.

Even China does not deny the camps. The disagreement almost seems to depend on whether "re-education" is considered sinister. In the West? Obviously. In China? That is apparently a normal thing to admit to doing.
Can you provide a citation that an IFR estimate for the early days of the pandemic at ~2%, prior to the development of current treatment protocols, was "entirely wrong"?
> They're very clearly making point estimates to contrast with the prevalent IFR estimates of the time (~2%), which we now know were entirely wrong.

0.01% (their estimate according to the post above) is far more "entirely wrong" than 2%. For instance, https://www.cdc.gov/library/covid19/112420_covidupdate.html mentions an estimate of 0.94% for Italy (in fact I have a hard time of viewing an early estimate 2% as significantly wrong when a later one with a lot more time and data is around 1%).
A heat-map of sorts for a codebase showing the files that have the most-frequent/most-recent edits as hottest. Purpose being to help acclimate new developers to a project by easily seeing which parts of the codebase are most actively worked on.
Tweet from Surgeon General, Feb 19th: "Seriously people - STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus..."; in a March 2nd interview he went further: "You can increase your risk of getting it by wearing a mask if you are not a healthcare provider." (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/surgeon-general-against-ma...)

Fauci in March: "Right now in the United States people should not be walking around with masks" (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fauci-masks-no-longer-need...).

Both continued with detail about saving masks for health professionals and added more context. However, both Adams and Fauci made statements in the early pandemic clearly stated that one shouldn't be wearing masks.

https://apnews.com/article/26f0cb8ed836a76f0e019357cbea7f58
Smart money is on Matt Garman.
The first and second amendment are good examples. There are bills in the House attacking them both in different ways using fringe people/groups as justification.
If I’m a farmer that has corn crops to sell, I receive immediate renumeration for production in the future (in the simplest contracts) if I don’t produce anything at all, I literally take the money and run, it what happens? What about if hail destroys my entire crop? What if it destroys half my crop but I claim it destroys all of it?

There are definite moral differences between those cases but in operational terms it’s better for everyone if I just payout everything as efficiently as possible. Presuming it’s all equal anytime I spend holding real claims because fraud might happen is a net bad. Now expand that to more complicated valuations of future value of money? Should I impede farmer John’s payouts to Farmer Bill because the rain was ever so slightly different on his acres than the other? What if farmer John is willing to forego that expedience for future consideration on his plot?

Multiply this by a billion. We have a complicated market where producers and consumers need to a) set a first price and then b) change their price as both the market conditions change _and also my own as an investor, decisions change_.

It is dramatically more efficient for everyone to just take positions in the market even if some of them are pessimistic.

The same thing is true of any product that had future value and also it’s efficient to make risk management easy. Stocks clear both hurdles trivially.
The CDC and the WHO were staunchly conservative about masks early in the pandemic. Much of the studies we had at the time lacked rigor to show that masks were effective for coronavirus and various parameters. As more and more data came out, they shifted their position.
Here's a better view of the explosion, along with reactions from Everyday Astronaut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=16259&v=l4-PwxnJimg
Show HN: Quicksy
Just tried it. Love the new design! It was super easy to use and the copy/suggestions were great for inspiration.
Only if you care deeply about always having the latest data, rather than just consistent data.

I'm talking more along the lines of ZFS – I can always pull the plug without worrying about FS consistency, because the FS always goes between valid, consistent states atomically.
I'm definitely a fan of the concept of using state machines for UI development, but both of the libraries I've tried so far, XState and Robot (or at least their official React bindings), seem to have a bit of an impedance mismatch when used with React:

Both of these libraries' React integration involves creating a "service" that accepts events and transitions between states internally, bypassing React's own state management lifecycle, which is tightly integrated with rendering. In the past I've seen a number of nasty bugs pop up when precise synchronization between theses two sources of truth for state is required, and they can be a bit of a nightmare to debug and/or work around.

I think a better, more robust integration between state machine implementations and view layers like React with their own mechanisms for state management could potentially involve getting rid of the "service" middle man, and instead delegating internal state transitions of the machine at runtime to React itself, using a mechanism like the dispatch function from useReducer, which seems like a perfect fit.

I've been itching to explore this concept a bit more deeply but haven't found the time or motivation between work and various side projects. Would love to see other folks pick up and run with it if they're interested though!
We should. But it takes hours to cycle all the air in a room through one. I haven't heard of any covid studies, but don't think it replaces a mask.