skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still blows my mind that we shot this thing out into space, it flew through the solar system for 7 whole months and then went through an elaborate series of steps to slow down (from many multiples the speed of sound) and land by way of a giant parachute and a rocket propelled sky-crane. And now it is sending us data and everything just works™

I didn't know about the orbiter until today - that is also really neat. The rover's Cortana in the sky.
Cool to see this on HN! I worked for Prof. Smith (quoted in the article) as an undergrad. TGFs also emit beams of electrons. One of my projects was investigating whether we can detect these beams of electrons bouncing back and forth along Earth's magnetic field lines.
That's my point when making comparisons to other states about who produces the most wind power. Data needs to be normalized.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1138/
We should have what you need. Feel free to email me at anuj [at] hi-george.com

Also you can browse our library at https://hi-george.com/visualizations
the rich always had a use for "art". This just bridges the gap now that the rich is also in kleptocurrencies.
Also, lord knows how much spent in insurance payouts, property damage, and wasted food when the power went out. Plus the economic drag created by infrastructure being wrecked for the next couple of months, diminished tax receipts, etc.

Have you seen the videos of hotels flooding after their pipes burst? Fixing that stuff isn’t going to be cheap at all. I would bet that those hotel operators are now going to spend a lot more fixing up their buildings than whatever reliable energy would have costed. Oh, and any damages building won’t be generating any profit until it’s fixed and everyone else is doing well enough to spend on discretionary items, which will take a while since every plumber is probably booked solid for months.
I agree regarding the chaining. I don't even remember thinking twice about it when it was introduced. But the ability to transform exception types without losing the original context and stack trace is actually a pretty big deal!
This has nothing to do with free speech at all. And it does appear that ramble could be seen as Parler-esque. It's got comments citing dailystormer and whitedate.net as "Free Speech" paragons. We all can be pretty sure that any left wing posts on such cites, as with Parler, would be moderated out of existence.
Because of politics.

Many of the people that keep using C as is, will never use something else no matter what.
Do PWA's support notifications?

If not, then no.
Electrino, but looks abandoned:

https://github.com/pojala/electrino
Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine now a lot easier to transport and distribute
The simplest answer is - they are not building it for usage on earth. They are building it just in case we need it for these guys:

https://www.cnet.com/news/harvard-astronomy-professor-avi-lo...
> And as the executable gets larger and refactored, some of the "executable" code will inevitably become "library" code. What then?

Then that is migrated to `thiserror` (or something bespoke) at the same time as it's migrated to the library context.

The library / executable is the delineation between providing a Rust-level API for third parties versus consuming such APIs.

If you're providing a Rust API, you want to provide precise error so that the user is able to precisely target and handle errors if they need to.

If you're only consuming Rust APIs, then you want to precisely handle some of the errors you get, and just chuck the rest over the side.
We likely won't eliminate it because eliminating a virus has happened only twice in human history (smallpox and the non-human disease rinderpest) and it's considered more difficult for diseases that can transmit to/from other species.

But living with this coronavirus certainly does not mean that 5% of the population will have long term negative health effects, especially in light of a dozen effective vaccines (and more in the pipeline). We should also consider what we mean when we say "long term" for a disease that has barely been around for a single year.
Comparing the Gamestop fiasco to Bitcoin, Gamestop just looks like normal market activity, where Bitcoin looks like criminal pump and dump activity... in my opinion.
"check the licenses of the next 10-20 repos (or more, if you have time or motivation), which are labeled "open source" and you will very quickly see what many people think open source license to mean."

That proves no such thing.

You might as well say "check the programming language used on the next 10 or 20 repositories and you will very quickly see what many people think open source programming language to mean."

I only ever licence my own stuff as gpl or the closest cc analog for projects with a physical component, and in almost all conversations, with people in and out of any IT related field or hobby, I call it all open source.

The special meanings for "open source" and "free" are definitions a very few people have come up with as a way to give a label to a distinction which exists so that they can deal with that distinction, but no one I know ever uses those terms in that way in any ordinary conversation or even writings. Even professional writers writing news articls, most frequently use the term open source to apply to anything that isn't closed source. Even they might only say "free" to mean without monetary cost.

The special definitions are almost like a document-local definition. They aren't even jargon. Meaning, you can't even say that everyone in a given field means those definitions when they say those words. The set for which that assumption would be true or at least plausible is only everyone in one or two organizations.
Long covid is really rough from what I have heard. That being said if enough of the population is vaccinated you won't be seeing severe covid symptoms anymore with vaccinated people and booster shots in the future. So the virus is circulating but its affect on the population is dramatically different than 2020/mid-2021. Well that is the plan anyways.

The bearish hypothesis is vaccines could not be effective against newer variants and the carnage continues, could all airplane travel be banned in this scenario? Could Lockdowns continue in perpetuity? Maybe? I really doubt this scenario as history has never seen a scenario like this, looking at previous epidemics, like the swine flu of 1918 the virus ran its course in a year and half due to immunity after infection. Given we have vaccines being deployed now this should stop the virus in its tracks after more people are being immunized.
One level of abstraction further down, Gates are analog, not digital. If you don't clock things right, you could end up with huge currents going through two transistors trying to drive something opposite ways, and then lose the chip, or battery life, or an intermittent glitch.
Yes exactly. That’s because this one is still pandemic and not yet endemic.
The eyes are for sure so important
Oh that would be cool! I hope it will become downloadable.
Thanks for clarifying that... definitely not the message that we are getting at work, which is strictly making immunity claims. This leads many people to think either "why get vaccinated if it only lasts 90 days" or worry "does this mean I will need a booster shot every 90 days"
Have you seen the study where scientists converse with dreaming people? If not
I played SWG from its release until its final shutdown, though I had several months-long breaks during the run.

I posted a few articles on my blog after it was shut down in 2011. Here's one of them, going into the crafting system:

https://benovermyer.com/post/2012/star-wars-galaxies-craftin...
Precisely. The list of attacks (?) described in the email is an assemblage of meaningless phrases (like "favicon XML injection" and "JS stochastic Templating") and unrelated occurrences ("Solarwinds Oct/2020").
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America was last invaded in 1812, so it's not at all clear to me that, absent nuclear weapons, it would have been invaded in the latter half of the 1900s.

Their absence would have made a conventional war in Europe with the USSR more likely, and perhaps this would have lead to an invasion of Alaska. I don't see a scenario where any credible belligerent could have projected power into the US mainland.

I do agree that the net effect of nuclear weapons has been less human death, including of US citizens. But invasion is farfetched.
> If a person uses “she” or “he,” do not use “they” instead. Likewise, if a person uses “they,” do not switch to “he” or “she.” Use the pronouns the person uses.

This matches my own understanding; I have no idea why you are referring to this article as if it supports your bizarre crusade to misgender people.
Unless there are race-specific drivers of poverty, which there are. Saying it would be racist to address race-specific factors is tacitly implying that the current status quo is either equal or acceptable. If a blanket policy designed to help the poor fails to accurate consider the current situation, they may help "the poor" by layer on yet another disadvantage to minority communities. It isn't racist to apply nuanced solutions to help different communities with unique problems.
We are talking about a far future outcome where we have no choice left. I want to avoid that future, but if it came to it I’d at least want to have a chance.
From the user perspective it's inside the database, you can run mindsdb in the backgrond,connect it to the database once, and then do everything from within the database (i.e. connecting with a sql client to your database server and issuing commands the same way you would query "normal" tables).

From a technical perspective it's a separate server that communicates with the database through various mechanisms (e.g. federate engine) but it's no different from e.g. multiple instance of mariadb being abstracted by a galera cluster into something that behaves like a single database from a client perspective.
It's not really identical though. Like I said, Fahrenheit is higher resolution at these scales so that is an advantage. It doesn't mean everyone should convert to F. Just that both systems have benefits. If I changed my perception of the world to C I wouldn't actually gain anything, personally, in the context of weather and HVAC.

If I need to take measurements while boiling water or making ice then I would probably use C.
No. The original art either has to be gated by a central source of truth (not decentralised), or entirely made public by uploading it in full to the blockchain. There is also not much of a concept of ‘lending’ the data, as owning the token and not owning the token are effectively the same thing, and there’s no ‘proof of deletion’. Opinion, but NFTs are a bubble. As soon as someone publishes a site that makes it easy to download them without paying the market will crash.
Stores are already out of water. They would quickly run out of gas to power everyone’s generators.

Definitely generators would have helped, but only to a point.
Based on low in-school transmission rates, it's not obvious that the disease has a natural R > 1.0 among children (likely, because there is strong evidence that asymptomatic cases, which children generally get, have low transmission).
Not sure why this is downvoted, this is a good point.

Before people are getting hyped around this, this is alpha software and not production ready.
I think a lot of people are seeing inflation on things that technology can't easily bring the price down on. Such as homes.
It's worse that people actually believe it is a reliable way to predict the future especially now with the pseudo-intellect speak that people in the crypto space resort to.

If wisdom of the crowd worked then casinos would be out of business. There's an entire industry on the other side.
Comically my favorite reference is a paper fold out cheat sheet I got 30 years ago. I’d link you to the company but it’s in my office gathering dust for the past year. I could find it through googling and don’t want to point you to one I don’t know about.

Beyond man, I use a very inefficient system of googling “man ls” (or whatever) and using the example sites, and end up using Linux.die.net [0] the most and find it easier to use than the actual man command.

And I found ESR’s guides [1] really helpful for understanding just how stuff works.

I’m sure I would drive a proper Unix user/sysadmin fits, but I just never am root and always have a backup to restore when I break stuff. So it’s hard for me to really break something.

[0] https://linux.die.net/man
[1] http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s05.html
> And the criticism you're leveling would affect the entire benchmark design, rather than a particular framework score, no?

Indeed. The problem is that many of the scores in the top 100 are really misleading because no one building a web app would implement things that way. There is still some value in the lower down benchmarks but you have to basically read the underlying source to determine if the implementation is remotely realistic or not. For starters I would ignore anything classified as "platform" which is described as:

Platform, meaning a raw server (not actually a framework at all). Good luck! You're going to need it.

For C# in particular I would only consider the mvc variants as realistic.

Edit: I looked into the "asp.net core" composite score a bit more, it looks like those benchmarks are based on the aforementioned "platform" implementations for each test. I actually think this score is even more misleading than the individual benchmarks. At least the individual benchmarks show you the difference between "aspcore" (platform), "aspcore-mw" (middleware-only), and "aspcore-mvc" (full framework with routing).

Here are recalculated composite scores based on the more realistic implementations (aspcore-mvc, aspcore-mvc-ado-pg, aspcore-mvc-dap-pg, aspcore-mvc-ef-pg):

ASP.NET Core MVC with ADO.NET (raw SQL): 3029
ASP.NET Core MVC with Dapper: 2591
ASP.NET Core MVC with Entity Framework: 2195

Compared to Flask's 468 or Django's 280 it's still significantly faster, but not to the same extreme you might think at first glance at the chart.
Good move, Twitter will be better off without them.
1989, 2003, 2011, and now 2021, I don't think I'd call this a once-in-30-years event. When the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission released a report[0] after the Feb 2011 hard freeze, they said "While extreme cold weather events are obviously not as common in the Southwest as elsewhere, they do occur every few years," which seems to have been bang-on.

That report, like this article, correctly identifies ERCOT's "energy-only market" as the underlying source of problems, in my opinion.

0. https://www.ferc.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/08-16-11-re...
Was there a reliable test in Feb 2020 at the time of the WHO article?. Who is to say that they are reporting the numbers correctly? For most of Jan 2020, china claimed covid was mild and wasn't spread human to human (and the WHO backed them up for some time as well).
This coronavirus can pass to/from non-human species, which makes eliminating "reservoirs" of the virus impossible with current technology.
EA also killed Nox and Westwood, and we have some bits and pieces of anecdote about how that went, so I tend to believe what Garriot had to say about that.
Indeed, unfortunately outside of Windows, there isn't that much culture in doing that. C++ Builder is also quite similar.
How, though?

There are substantial animal reservoirs, vaccinating the entire planet won't do it, like it did for smallpox.
For whatever reason, it look a long time for parameters and locals to have a name in addition to a slot and a type in the JVM bytecode. Before that data was introduced, it was an impossible task. Also why things like de-/serialization frameworks required annotations on parameters duplicating the parameter name.
Which targeted is ineffective.

Keywords can be useless while the whole field can be useful. Which is to say noting that I'm searching for C++ and so advertising your compiler or programing class is useless - I'm already a programmer (I just forgot the exact spelling or order of arguments to the thing I need) and my company has chosen my compiler. However if you know I my hobby you can target me with your new drill bit and be better yet.

Though the largest advertisers don't care. Coke doesn't care that I don't like soda, they still want to target me just in case I'm called to bring drinks to some event. Ford can safely assume all Americans own a car and be close enough to right. Likewise everyone uses toilet paper (bidet users can be ignored) and soap (if you don't use soap you should be the highest target, though the ads perhaps should be different from those who use soap)
> Why not `thiserror` for executables as well?

You can absolutely do that if you want, it's just that usually when writing an executable you don't care about creating the precise error types thiserror provides (especially doing so executable-wide), you'd handle the errors you get from reqwest or sqlx or whatever when you get them, and those you don't handle you just want to bubble up to an executable-wide handler.
Something to change the start point of an existing file would be neat. Sort of like truncate(), but for the start.
You are aware that we are talking about the mars rover, right?

The comment that you replied to:

> You can just say "they".

Was a reply to this:

> S/he already did. We just don't know yet.

Which was talking about the mars rover.
My two cents: You should not know a feature that has not been asked of you! Developers sometimes keep adding stuff because they think it is cool/needed but I think more is not always better...
To people saying its silly or dumb. If these "selfies" get posted on Facebook and such it will start a conversation. Possibly spark interest. Which is good for space exploration (and funding).
To make this worse - FB actively undermines your ability to validate their results!

They remove OrderId's because they deem them "PII" (what!?) and just report number of conversions and conversion dollar amounts.

This, coupled with the complexity of referral tracking, lookback windows, browsers clearing cookies, etc... it becomes nearly (or completely!) impossible to validate any results from FB's ad platform.

Added to that, FB's ad platform's goal seems to be to spend your entire daily budget... every single day... regardless of ROAS. That's just absurd.

Trust Us - they say...
Right now, that's extremely difficult to do without leaking private data. Google and Facebook experimented with it for a while, but both killed the test products because it would require them to trust advertisers with data that could easily be de-anonymized. It's kind of a funny twist that Google and Facebook are able to avoid offering this in the name of user privacy, while the advertising industry is begging them to share more user data.

That said, they're all part of an industry consortium that's working on differential privacy algorithms that will ideally allow businesses to check each other's attribution without actually sharing the personal data involved. https://developers.googleblog.com/2019/09/enabling-developer...
Overdose deaths definitely spiked in the early months of the pandemic. I haven't been able to find anything after 5/2020, but I think it's a reasonable assumption that no one's in the pink of mental health right now, and that means the vulnerable among of us are much more at risk.

But I don't think doctors are making decisions about advice based on emotions. COVID-19 is the most likely cause of death for people 25-44 [1] (supplanting unintentional opioid overdose deaths). COVID-19 has a hugely disproportionate effect on communities of color [2]. Systemic racism also causes deaths; look at asthma for example [3].

Finally, even the CDC is kind of at a loss as to what to do about overdose deaths [4]. Essentially they're like "get more naloxone and get more treatment."

> Who are they to decide which population is expendable.

I get where you're coming from here but, I don't think it's as simple as "lockdowns kill people" because:

- Not imposing a lockdown also kills people

- Even in the absence of a lockdown order, people are hesitant to get together

- There are lots of ways to socialize and get outside that are very low risk (pods, outdoor activities)

- COVID-19 deaths are far, far outstripping opioid overdose deaths due to lockdowns (the numbers I've found show that COVID-19 deaths exceed all opioid overdose deaths, not just the total YoY increase).

But if I could summarize what I think your points have been, I think your argument is broadly that doctors treated George Floyd's murder and the subsequent protests differently than hardships in other communities, and that at least indicates some level of emotional reaction if not outright bias. But I think they themselves have explained why they reacted differently, and I think the data (gathered by medical researchers and social scientists) back them up.

[1]: https://www.news-medical.net/news/20201026/COVID-19-now-like...

[2]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/09/16/covid-...

[3]: https://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/omh/browse.aspx?lvl=4&lvlid=1...

[4]: https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2020/p1218-overdose-death...
I don't think even the US has harbored the insane notion that you could strike all of the missile silos and avoid retaliation. The operating principal for nuclear missiles is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD).

This goes double if nuclear submarines exist (they do). Plus nuclear bunkers are supposed to be hardened against nuclear strike. So they could absorb the hit and still launch. Nuclear weapons are actually pretty poor at destroying protected underground facilities. You need something completely different: a heavy piercing bunker buster bomb full of conventional explosives.

Plus, even if you were magically successful in destroying all of your opponent's nukes without retaliation you've still completely wrecked the environment. Fallout and nuclear winter are still going to ruin your victory.
He locked 1m dollars to take a loan to use, he didn't use 1 million dollars. You can use your assets directly and do earn a 10%+ profit on whatever you put in this case (which I did).
Thanks! Will look into that.
I'm not claiming some huge conspiracy. I'm just claiming that, just like the WHO initially downplayed the risks of Covid19, so too I expect the IPCC is likely downplaying to some extent the risks from global warming.

This doesn't require some complex conspiracy, just some natural amount of wanting to tell people (heads of state) what they want to hear, some amount of funding and promoting less alarmist research, some amount of feeling like they have a duty to avoid extreme rhetoric etc.

I hope it's clear, I'm not claiming that I know all this for a fact. But it is how international organizations seem to operate in general. You would definitely not expect a major international inter-governmental organization to present a position that would be called extreme position, even if that extreme position may be right.
> I said I don't want to force it on people - I never said it was a bad idea to remove yourself from close contact with strangers during a pandemic.

Allowing anyone to opt out disproportionately negatively affects people who are unable to isolate for whatever reason: essential job, medical emergency, etc. People not isolating creates more risk for the grocery checkout person or power plant operator, for example.

> Social distancing is a decision an individual makes, and a rational individual would choose to do this if they wanted to live without the risk of getting infected.

It's just selfishness (or at best rank ignorance) to believe that whether or not you personally isolate only affects your health.
probably not higher than Amazon marketplace's...