skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's kind of the nature of poverty, isn't it? If financial insecurity isn't forcing their hand, are they actually poor?
I mostly ask industry-specific questions but here are some of the generic ones.

Who do you admire on your team and why?

How long does a purchase request take?
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Absolutely false. I am not saying airports are a source of infection. What I am pointing out is that air travel is allowing for all these variants to propagate to new populations.

The pervasiveness of the UK variant in Europe would have been contained or at least decelerated with travel restrictions.

A living proof of this is both New Zealand and Australia. These countries still allowed for sea and air freight but banned travel. Both countries are roughly back to normal life, while we in Europe are still trying to blame pharmaceutical manufacturing vaccine output, as if that is the sole cause of our problems.
Three month gap between Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine doses increases efficacy
We certainly assign blame when people or groups whose responsibilities include preparing for and responding to natural disasters fail to do so.
Note that PredictIt offered similar options for all-cash users, and they were also still at 15% for Trump winning after he had clearly long lost.

This was not solely, or even primarily, a crypto thing.
Nearly every successful technology is a prototype that went out of control :)

That doesn't mean we shouldn't try and improve on things given the opportunity, but it's not an indictment either
I don't think that's fair. I can both recognize that FB is better than nothing, whilst also accusing them of fraudulent behavior.
Strava worked with Mapbox when they were switching over. I don't know what exactly the deal was, but Mapbox employees added a bunch of missing stuff to OSM based on Strava data analysis.

https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/114
Revolution it is then!
Congrats on not using FB. Personally, I would pay NOT to have news on my FB feed. I want to see pictures of your kids and hear updates about your life ... not your thoughts on whatever political issues in in the news today.

So yea, it may actually make it better. FB considers "engagement" as all-important. But engagement occurs most frequently when someone sends out a controversial news article. It devalues the service and makes it a less enjoyable experience.
There are many counter posts. They will never, ever be upvoted on Hacker News.
I loved 8, even though it's very different to 7. Pretending to be virtuous, looting in secret and making spells by drag and drop was great.
EVE Online as well but that’s quite a different flavour. I played loads of UO back in the day and spent four years working on EVE. Very few games come close to touching either in terms of being so complex, almost to the point of being real spaces to navigate and live in.
May I be so bold as to suggest that not all vote rigging conspiracies are considered impossible. Just the ones that have been rejected by every court that has tested them.
I run three browsers on my desktop, because the number of things that don't work properly in anything except recent Chrome is enough that I keep encountering issues, I don't want to use Chrome for my regular browsing, and both Safari and Firefox have issues on some sites.

On my tablet, a number of current websites don't run even on Chrome, because the tablet isn't particularly new, so it doesn't have current Chrome. It's still great hardware in perfect condition though, everything that does run on it is perfectly smooth and so on, and I still use it. Youtube in particular is fine. Literally the only reason to buy a new one would be to satisfy the software treadmill.

My old phone didn't run Chrome (or Safari). It had Firefox. The only reason I switched to a newer phone, using Android, was because of sites that gradually didn't run well on Firefox any more. That was annoying, having to ditch a perfectly great phone and replace it with something better for the web but worse for other things.

I have a Macbook Pro at home. I'm pretty happy with it, it's still a fine machine, I use it for work every day. It runs the latest Safari that's safe to run on it, but that's not the latest Safari, because it would have problems running the most recent OS.

This brave new world of "I'm sure we'll be fine supporting recentish Chrome and latest Safari" is a world of exclusion. I don't like the memory usage of Electron, but I prefer it to applications that are a bit broken!

Also, to be honest, I've been looking at memory usage. Electron uses much less than any of the three big browsers. You may know that Chrome famously starts a new process for each tab, and Safari does too. Firefox isn't far behind. As a result, the memory saved by running a new page in an already running browser compared with Electron isn't as much as it was long ago, back in the days when tabs shared memory. This is visible with Safari, as the website name shows up in the system utility for viewing process memory.

I know, that feels wrong somehow, but it's true.

Finally, when using a system WebView, will that save memory if it's opening a separate instance of the system's browser? It must be separate in some ways, if opening an application that uses a WebView doesn't open all your saved tabs from last time the browser was open. (And it's a horrible experience if opening an application does open all the other tabs.)
What was the cost benefit analysis of winterizing for a once-in-30 years event?

Is it worth paying 10% extra (for example) for electricity forever, in return for having 3 extra days of electricity for a few days in 2021 and 2051?
The paper:

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

"In the participants who received two standard doses, after the second dose, efficacy was higher in those with a longer prime-boost interval (vaccine efficacy 81·3% [95% CI 60·3–91·2] at ≥12 weeks) than in those with a short interval (vaccine efficacy 55·1% [33·0–69·9] at <6 weeks)."
> I don't really understand this criticism, because there's no good alternative.

There's the option of surfacing the panic-ability of a function in the same way the constness is surfaced, which would allow some subsets of the code to ensure they won't call a possibly-panicing thing, even at the cost of convenience.
(I have very little biology knowledge, so treat this with a bag of salt.)

My understanding of the protein spike mutations is that they consist of a number of deletions - and deletions that have shown up repeatedly in a viral genomics database (convergent evolution across related viruses).

These seem to me to be a number of host (human) specific mutations that are actively selected for when one of the spike sharing viruses jumps to humans.

The fact that these mutations are deletions (are they?) means there's a very real limit to the degree of change

- there are only so many human specific optimisations that can occur, and once they are made it should be significantly more difficult to reverse them.

Once all of the optimisations have been made, the virus's attack vector will be left static, and it will be left without the protein structure that it depended on to infect the species that it jumped from.

The virus won't be completely backed into a corner, but it will be limited to a significantly reduced rate of change - which should make it easier to control.

So how wrong am I?
I joked in the beginning that gaben should look at it, but in all seriousness, someone should email him the link. I think the best positioned player to drive this type of effort is the marketplace.
The public telephone network is incomparably more interoperable than something like WhatsApp. You cannot self-host it, but you can keep the exact same phone number while switching providers (which is even more flexible than email), phone manufacturers and OSes, and "client" (phone modem) implementations at will.

No such thing is possible with WhatsApp. Various implementations come from the same company, do not have feature parity (e. g. phone calls are not supported on certain mobile OSes), and definitely don't allow anything in the way of integration with the outside world. A PSTN connection can be hooked up to a PBX to let you automate voice and all kinds of other things, while SMS can be synced to the computer using an app with the appropriate permissions. In short, PSTN is malleable, while WhatsApp is not.
I was wondering why I was agreeing with this article. It's the most un-Fowler thing I've read from him.
> and turn the area into a charred wasteland, unfarmable and uninhabitable for centuries to come.

I believe the lad test understanding is that it would not be like this. Most likely, after a year, if you plowed under the topsoil, you could get back to farming.
> I agree that there's going to be an ambient level of anxiety from knowing that there's a nasty disease out there, but are you really saying that not being able to see your friends and family, or losing your job, or having to scramble to work from home while managing your children's remote "learning" has no additional impact?

Of course it has an impact. If we didn't have social restrictions and consequently had much higher rates of infection, death, and long term disability, that also would have an impact. There's no world where, given a global pandemic, there are no severe impacts. Most arguments against social restriction that I've seen don't acknowledge this though. I mean, the other reply to my comment said "why not put some of the blame on the millions of people who died from this thing, who probably could have lived through it had they lived healthier lives", to which I can only reply "what?" For at least the most vocal opponents of social restrictions, they seem to have a radically different understanding of how respiratory infections work than I do.

>Lockdowns aren't binary. We're allowed to consider the costs and benefits of individual measures

Absolutely. It's not the people who are able to do nuance I'm taking issue with here.

> it is not at all clear that stronger measures lead to better Covid outcomes.

Well, I think the evidence is pretty clear that taking either none or very few measures has led to worse outcomes. Among places that have taken measures, I agree it gets hazier as you then have to go from the general "lockdown or freedom" argument into "which specific measures work best." The latter discussion is where we should be; the former one is, to my mind, based on an unrealistic set of assumptions.
> I have never bought a prebuilt Windows PC, so this is pure speculation, but I am wildly guessing that the dominance of Chrome is because computers are now coming with Chrome preinstalled and configured as the default

I'm not aware of any Windows machines shipping with Chrome pre-installed. But as soon as you use any website that's owned by Google you get spammed with install links for Chrome.
& by comparison to Libya it's doing ok.
I got bored of bookmarking the sites and added a section in my site, so it's easy for me to check those in my mobile.

https://bobbydreamer.com/irevere
They just want their name to come first. ;) Besides, it has a nice ring to it! wink wink
> In my opinion military spending should be reduced greatly.

But if the US does this unilaterally, its nuclear warheads are the last thing spending should be reduced on.

It would be great if all countries mutually agreed to do this, but I won't hold my breath waiting for it to happen.
> They've now come along to start messing with the privacy to start selling ads. It is insane that they're able to make such a mess of this. Is there a word for anti-innovation?

Yes, "capitalism".

The problem with capitalism is that despite lofty claims about it spurring on innovation and such, it pretty much does the opposite. I don't imagine that this will be a popular comment on here, but alas, it is how it is.

Innovation means experimentation with uncertain outcomes, but humans (including investors) generally dislike uncertainty in their lives. Those two factors combined mean that from a capitalist perspective, it makes a lot more sense to invest in a tried-and-true method with a veneer of innovation but predictable returns, than to truly innovate.

If you truly want innovation, then what you need to do is to take away the personal cost of failure (including but not limited to financially) as much as possible - across the board. The VC startup model is often claimed to do this, but really it just moves the cost of failure to the investors, it does not eliminate it.

In a capitalist socioeconomic model, where having a cost of failure is a fundamental tenet of the ideology (it's what defines the hierarchy), this sort of "anti-innovation" will always keep happening. It's simply the logical thing to do under the circumstances.
I also started with U3, on an 8-bit atari.
Played through U7.5 but passed on 8 and 9.

I think the series probably peaked with U6.
The idea is that it is not an empty silo. The thinking is that if your opponent wants to launch a pre-emptive nuclear strike against you, they'll need to target all your nuclear missiles with theirs, to prevent you from retaliation. If you have lots of missiles spread out in otherwise non-strategic locations, you can make it harder for your opponent to preemptively strike you, as they'll have to destroy all these random missiles to prevent counter attack. In doing so, they would be failing to target densely populated areas, which would lower the efficacy of their attack.

Not saying I agree or disagree with it. But, that's the logic, anyway.
Are you sure about that? Most of the time, Electron apps are split into multiple processes, and the task manager (by default) only shows the main one. Order your processes by name and I'd be surprised to see the total under 150MB.
> Front-end developers have to test against Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, at a minimum.

Do many companies actually do this though? I've only ever been with companies that test against Chrome. The one time at FF bug was found, that company told that client to switch to Chrome.

I know there was a kerfuffle about Airbnb and Groupon only doing Chrome as well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AirBnB/comments/dv7v6n/customer_sup...

https://thenextweb.com/dd/2017/11/28/please-build-websites-w...

Maybe in theory all platforms are considered, but in practice many companies just do one and the others mostly just work.
One advantage of condition systems is that the caller gets to decide whether the condition is even an error. Though the restarts are still under the control of the callee.
Hey. Same - I have recurring dreams (across years) on the themes you mention + a few more (inventing "flying", cosmic apocalpypse). Shall we connect to see if we can solve this mystery? - see its connected to personality or life experiences?
This rabbit hole goes as deep as your budget allows.

If you're curious, search for Renishaw probes on youtube. They make some of the best mainstream tooling in this space.
At least you don’t need to worry about dementia, alzheimer’s and parkinson’s, as well as many other degenerative diseases. It’s pretty well documented that specifically Swedish snus prevents them effectively.
Your complaining was working, just very slowly, like water dripping on a stone.
I think they're overstating the browser compatibility problem too. It was really bad 15 years ago, but today it is almost a non-issue. Between significantly improved standardization of web technologies, and new tricks like polyfills, I think it has become pretty uncommon for apps to not just work on multiple browsers without any tinkering.
> Accepting or declining terms certainly is negotiation, even if it seems limited [...] what will get you kicked out is marking yourself available and then declining rides

There is a contradiction here... Keep in mind that Uber have always explicitly stated that they are just a platform to connect drivers with passengers. So the negotiation (even if it is just accepting or declining terms) must happen between the driver and the customer - i.e. every new passenger.

Except that, as you point out, Uber punishes drivers who negotiate in this way! The driver isn't even allowed to refuse customers. It's as if you told your agent "ok I'm open to work", they reply "there's a job 150 miles away, you need to be there at 6am every morning", and you weren't allowed to decline!

So we started with very little negotiation power (the "contractor" can say yes or no to the terms predefined by the platform), and then saw this reduced even more when the platform prevents "contractors" from negotiating in this way with each customer - clearly they are a contractor no more
post-infection-and-recovery and post-vaccination are not the same.
When a hurricane, flood, tornado, or other earthquake hits - do we 'assign blame' in the same way?

Yes, of course.

Why isn't this whole event just considered a natural disaster?

It is, but unexpected or rare events like "natural disasters" test our systems of emergency response. Disruption is likely in many cases, but if those systems fail it's important to understand why, and how our responses could be improved in the future.
Also wxWidgets/wxWebView and pywebview

https://docs.wxwidgets.org/trunk/classwx_web_view.html

https://github.com/r0x0r/pywebview
How come these images were made available to BBC, but not to the mission raw images web page [0]?

[0] https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/
I don’t know. Are you suggesting that we blame neither the weather nor the known lack of winterization but instead a C-B analysis?

Definitely the analysis is important but this feels like moving the goalposts to divert blame away from the known lack of winterization.

Edit: Getting off-track here, but “Is it worth paying 10% extra (for example) for electricity forever, in return for having 3 extra days of electricity for a few days in 2021 and 2051?” For the record, that 10% also buys you other perks, such as 47 human lives so far. To intentionally tug the heart-strings, check out https://www.google.com/search?q=texas+deaths where you can read about, for example, a little boy freezing to death in his home.
That wouldn’t make sense, given that repo structure truly is unrelated in any way to the distinctions between monolith applications vs microservices.
The enemy doesn't know which silos are empty.
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That's if you buy the numbers from China at all.

For all we know, China just stopped counting and is accepting whatever new cases or deaths come up.

We know they fake other numbers. There's not reason not to think they aren't faking them here.

If the news wasn't telling me about the Virus all the time, I would not know there was a "raging" epidemic. I only know one person who contracted the virus among my entire family and friends group.
She makes some good points about capacity, then tears off on an anti wind rant. Wind has performed well in a number of extreme weather events around the world, including in Texas. Why harp on about wind reliability when gas and goal are offline completely?

She seems to have difficulty in seeing the wood for the trees. Why might there be such storms, anything to do with all that fossil fuel consumption? It's something she refuses to even mention, which makes the essay hard to take seriously.
You mean clearly have the ability to borrow money to deal with problems.
Or do they simply don't measure the results independently?

My observation has been that for many, it's both "don't" and "can't."

Facebook makes it easy for people to advertise. Auditing your Facebook buy is a different skill set that requires different thinking, and more time than most small business owners have. So they just trust Facebook isn't lying to them, the way that they trust the metrics that the local radio station salesman gives them. Except that the radio station salesman will lose his job if the numbers aren't right. There is no punishment for Facebook lying to its advertisers.
> Technology as a whole is centre-left

or maybe it just isn't and crypto is a counter example? not sure why it has to be an axiom that tech is "Centre-left" especially considering the historical relativity of terms like right and left
Interesting that Vitalik doesn't mention that presidential gambling is illegal in the US, save for a few no-action letters[1] to specific clearing houses. That alone puts a massive selection bias when trading contracts on platforms like Augur or Polymarket.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market#Legality
The creator of Nyan Cat just made almost $600k for a NFT of their work. Incredible.
You bet, and thanks for your condolences. In short, almost certainly this doesn't apply to you.

The pattern is that in these scenarios, usually the people are quite intelligent and often accomplished. This gives them a repository of valid phrases and concepts to draw upon to breath legitimacy into their boogeymen. The evidence they present, however, is completely benign. That person, however, has quite the story they think is proven. It's literally as if they're showing you a basic electronic device w/ the cover removed and that proves all sorts of maliciousness.

Attempting to argue back is completely ineffective and even if you "win" one point, they'll quickly shift to another and nothing sticks, especially not the next time you talk to them.

I wouldn't even remotely compare this to more commonly contested topics like differing religious/political/social views, even at the extreme. This involves a visceral fear that >you< are actively being attacked, not some nefarious, shadow with a grand plan.
What was the cost benefit analysis of winterizing for a once-in-30 years event?

Isn't this exactly what is missing?

Is it worth paying 10% extra (for example) for electricity forever, in return for having 3 extra days of electricity for a few days in 2021 and 2051?

It might well be, yes.
The article did mention how they are used to draw fire away from populous areas. I think that has value...
The issue with Tor, and the issue with ad substitution, and other things are reasons to doubt the judgement of the developers.

Brave is interesting, and I do play with it. I utterly distrust it, though, and do nothing important with it.
You're in good company: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/02/08/mendeleev-periodic-...
Why? We use protocol buffers for communication between services, evolve them all the time, and don't use version numbers. Any new functionality is enabled by booleans or optional fields in the proto. The approach works fine, I haven't noticed any problems in years.
I am not sure if you are joking or not, but I had exactly this conversation yesterday morning with a friend who was heading into an after incident review meeting. Wouldn't it be nice.
Note the twin charts. Big difference between odds of global elimination vs local elimination. 39% of experts think local elimination likely, a further group think it is possible.

And it plainly is, a bunch of places have done it. Once we have vaccines widely it will be much easier to get rid of.

Any country that succeeds in getting rid of it locally can have reciprocal travel arrangements with other countries or require proof of vaccination for entry. This is already common in many countries as a travel or visa requirement so it’s not outlandish to imagine countries with no virus locally may add vaccination as a requirement.

The virus is seasonal too. So once you have a good chunk of the population immune it should be feasible to eliminate it in summer via testing and contact tracing.

Global elimination would be much harder, but it’s not crazy to imagine there being a growing group of countries that stay covid free and maintain it via travel restrictions on those places that have large outbreaks. Due to possible future pandemics countries will probably have more viral border control anyway.

This doesn’t necessarily entail a massive reduction in travel; so for clarity that’s not what I’m advocating above.