skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i wrote a bit more about this recently which seemed to resonate with others: https://www.swyx.io/part-time-creator-manifesto/

basically, you want to create something you control on your own. the minimum viable version of which is a blog or newsletter, but it could easily extend to youtube or teaching on egghead.io or lynda, up to and including a full fledged side business.
So if I'm reading this right, Reuters sent survey's to an unknown number of school districts. Of those sent, 74 replied, and of those 55 answered "yes, we saw an increase in this metric" to at least two questions on the survey.

How many would answer yes to at least two in most years? How many schools saw a decrease in metrics? And how many surveys weren't completed, as a district having issues seems more likely to respond?

I don't doubt there have been issues, but without the full survey details I don't trust any of this article's conclusions.
Worked on bank to bank middleman software. There is no 'standard' form.
I've never really seen anyone heavily take issue with the concept of NFTs. Everybody's just taking issue with the PoW.
Here is something for you to consider: this is the new 'normal'.

That world you lived in 18 months ago? Gone. Not coming back. There is no 'end point', it just goes on and we learn to adapt. Eventually we get better at it, learn more about what is and is not a risk, and a few things start to look like the 2019, but most things don't go back.

This is the reality you need to adjust to.
Me too. It was a huge PITA, a sick joke.

I doubt it's the lockdown per se that's causing problems rather than making kids sit inside and play what amounts to really crappy video games all day.

I mean, that's what this quote says to me:

> “Every morning I woke up crying because it was another day of online school.”

Can you imagine the torment? It's like something out of Kafka, or "Brazil" (the movie.)

Seymour Papert must be whirling in his grave.
This would likely be an insignificant blip in terms of the world's total energy and CO2 output. I think focusing on those types of micro-optimizations is unhelpful as they don't make any meaningful difference, and take up way too much attention. It's like making people feel guilty for taking a shower in a drought, when residential water use is less than 1%. Every person could go the rest of their lives never again taking a shower, and it wouldn't make a difference.
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I think this is a win-win. Twitter and Reddit don't have to moderate Trump communities and Trump's supporters can speak their minds freely.
I mean, makes sense.

Can we get a new category for "Fraud" under ycombinator.com/companies?
Could it be that you did have comparable results? The thing about ubiome was that the results were so high up the evolutionary tree (or at least when I did it in 2014 or so). So it would be like comparing a fish to a tree.

That said, it told me my composition was like that of an East African, which I am not. That wouldn’t surprise me as I have gut issues. My big hope for the next 30 years is we meaningfully crack the nut on microbiomes and can bring the next major evolution in medicine to a reality. We need these kinds of companies as a step 1.
Likely nothing. Look at Florida for a decent example of what’d happen at scale if we left schools open. It’s been fully open, 5 days a week in person, since the start of the most recent school year last September. The state as a whole has done better at dealing with the virus than other similar sized large states. It also has a wide range from dense urban to light rural populations.

It’s not that you don’t have any mitigations. It’s that you tailor them to the problem. Florida did have lockdowns for senior centers and that likely lowered the overall death rate given the skewed mortality stats.

So why did they open, but not CA or NY? I’m sure cozying up to the teacher’s unions at the very least factored into those states’ Governor’s decisions.
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WHO insider blows whistle on Gates and GAVI global health dictatorship
It is now beyond dispute that the WHO is beyond compromised. Because of its funding — a large portion of which comes from the 'one-man nation-state of Gates' — it fails to complete its original mandate. Worse, WHO serves corporate masters and through its dictatorial powers is essentially destroying, not improving, the health of the world.
Because young and healthy only lowers the probability of dying and not the probability of long term effects. "COVID-19 patients also suffer kidney and lung damage at above-average rates, with kidney failure occurring in more than a third of those who become severely ill. In a few cases, the virus has even been found in spinal fluid. This can trigger an immediate infection in the brain known in medical terms as meningoencephalitis. This can also have long-term consequences, such as permanent cognitive problems and memory impairments."
University is, at least in the classical form, a scientific institution. And science is communicated in writing. So at least in principle, exercising the writing of papers and essays under time pressure is completely natural.

In practice, though, the writing is often hardly instructive. There are very few people that take stuff like "The Elements of Style" seriously. And the subjects are usually quite trivial.

But calling writing per se is as much "busywork" as learning a programming language, CAD modeling, or working out mathematical proofs by induction.
I guess what you consider unit testing I consider useless testing, what you call integration testing I call unit testing, and maybe what I call integration testing you would consider end-to-end testing?
From the UK, where they've closed schools pretty much universally across the country.

Yes, the slight immunobump from being exposed to pretty much every year's influenza outweighs being next to one of the most socially isolated groups.

That doesn't mean that if they repoened you wouldn't see the opposite.
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Show HN: Help the Restaurants Go Online
Not a rocket science project nor ML/AI/CRYPTO/ESG/GME - just sharing with the community as I've been a reader for years (literally since the moment I spotted THAT orange page at my friend's desk).

The project idea was pretty simple - assist restaurants with creating and posting their menu online with no cost and no effort.

Motivation behind project:
- Plenty of family/friends struggling during the pandemic months
- Having my project 'my baby' where man can focus on all aspects of the business, not coding only
- Solving the specific problem of hosting multiple subdomains with no/zero effort and maintenance cost
- Extending skillset above coding SEO, marketing, building the audience, blogging
- Not really profit-oriented, but for sure with ideas how to cover cost of bigger traffic if it comes to that

Highlights/lessons:
- Tried out interesting architecture
- Get a better feel of AWS services
- Realized how nice alternatives are - Netlify, Vercel, FaunaDb (ending using both stacks for cost effective solution)
- Finally go a legit reason to try FB and Google ads (the former are pain in the ass if you don't exist on Facebook)
- Did some digging for alternatives and included them on the blog - https://blog.emenu.today/ (even added this very post there)

Fails:
- Overcomplicating UI/UX - trying to go with unique design instead of casual and familiar bootstrap style for the user
- Literally close to 0 users, way more bots signed up for it lol
- Maintaining 3 separated pages/projects - landing page, app itself and the blog - could easily be squeezed together in one repo for simple pipeline, editing etc.
- Diving into offtopic - like looking the simplest blog editor/creator - for me it was Hexo - hexo.io
- Not picking the better idea - recently even FB added the menu tab (still it requires editing menus, generating images and uploading, but people are used to that)
- Probably not pushing harder

Any comments, questions welcomed.

Cheers guys!
perhaps as an intermediary with a NAS endpoint? it was just an example, like 1.5 years for the 1TB version or 3 years for the 2TB, you get the idea
> I can't fix a failed state

No, but you can get involved politically, and support policies and legislation that will make a difference.
Tools are easy. But if a company can't supply replacement parts then your SOL with any repairs.
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Being vague isn't the only thing wrong with SOLID. The idea that there is "one true way" is partly what bugs me about it (and uncle bob in general).

I don't think that there is a set of design guidelines that can be applied with mathematical precision, but there are a set of code "costs" (like cyclomatic complexity) which can be measured with mathematical precision.

That is to say, all other things being equal, if a pull request non-negligibly reduced cyclomatic complexity I'd be happy to claim that it increased code quality. I don't believe that this idea is false.
I LOVE that West Wing episode. A group of kids get shuffled around the white house, not important, ignored. The leader of his school group gets to ask a question to President Bartlet after impressing a staffer.

"Do you think the budget deficit is especially unfair to younger Americans?" -> " a follow up, do you think we'd have such a large deficit if children were allowed to vote?" Such a good use of debate.

I think it's worth debating whether to give teens the right to vote. In my mind at least to 13 and up - but it's capricious / hard to draw the line or come up with 'tests' that aren't flat out repeating our disgusting past treatment of Black Americans.

The West Wing episode [clip below] spells out some of the argument:

I miss the West Wing universe. Would be awesome to see a reboot optimistic show about getting things accomplished, showing a vision for how it's possible to tackle climate change and our other ailments. But move the show past today's progress (it does not treat women well/give them voice, stance on gay marriage etc).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSDxg-bDw1A
which comes from peer-review and other scientists verifying it.

.. there are too many Prof. Dr. Dr. that did not "cheat" but still claim covid isn't real .. so the title really doesn't mean anything at all to me .. also having studied myself seeing what kind of idiots also got their exams .. it's maybe just a proof they can 'write' and 'read', but even believing this would proof 'understanding' is a big overestimation of the title itself ..
I think that bringing up the fact that "there is demand" is not necessarily an argument that it's okay to break the law. I think it's the start of a proposal that the law should be changed. Whether or not we agree, that's the thing to address. Not "is breaking the law, in general, okay", which is silly.

I also think it's wrong to equate the proposal that minimum wage law should be changed because there is demand for jobs at a certain wage with the proposal that murder-for-hire should be allowed because there is demand for it. Minimum wage laws are barely 100 years old in the US, while laws against murder are as old as law itself.

I'd venture to say that you could describe punishments for murder to any civilization in history and they would at least understand why you would propose such a thing. Minimum wage law, not so much. If some newcomer to my 18th century town is willing to work on my farm for a season for nothing but room and board, and you tell me that that relationship is exploitative and should be illegal, I'd call you insane.

I think a better comparison we could make is the sale of heroin. That's another instance where two consenting adults enter into an agreement that is currently, but not historically, illegal. It's also an instance where many argue that the relationship is exploitative, despite being voluntary. The similarities with minimum wage law are, from my perspective, deeper and more resonant.
They don't call it 'contemporary art' for no reason. We all know that the drawing itself is worthless but the signature is what is 'valued'.

NFTs are just giving life to 'contemporary art' again which can be shortened to 'con-art'. Allowing celebrities a get rich quick route with their signatures. Heck, even an AI can paint something and auction it at Christie's and then re-auction it as an NFT.

As for this NFT and the rest of them, No thanks and no deal.
> are you implying that the act of deciding to have a long lockdown necessitates that the decision makers do not care about children

I do get this impression from watching interviews with some of the public-health experts advising governments. As an academic, I can recognize my fellow academics who are obsessively focused on their own field and passionate about it, but they might not realize that people outside the field don’t have the same investment. For some of these public-health experts, reducing transmission to zero and avoiding every potential death is paramount, and the societal and political consequences are only at the margins of their consciousness at best. However, the general public is broadly ready to accept some level of morbidity and disease spread in order to live with fewer restrictions, there is only a debate about how much.
I think that's still not the right way to look at it. Calling it "ignorance" is unnecessarily pejorative. It's a difference in quality metric. Some people attach a lot of value to avoiding (what they believe to be) moral transgressions because they believe it imperils their soul in the afterlife or something like that. You may vehemently disagree with this goal, but if you accept that as a goal then this narrowly focused "think of the children" actually makes logical sense because the afterlife lasts a lot longer than this one does.
They also are sitting around listening to leaderships carefully crafted justification day in and day out. I’ve had otherwise smart engineers who work in advertising tell me that people enjoy looking them, and any criticism of “user engagement at any cost” is met with bewilderment.
Now SuperPAC funds can be used like VC, and just when the world so desperately needs another G+
"think of the children" is only about keeping them free from sin, not actually educating them because well educated children are likely to become atheist adults.

Getting money out of politics and the church out of education are the two most effective things we can do to advance our civilization.
Our species has evolved to deal with deaths. Social isolation goes against human nature, it's a lot more harmful than any pandemic.
The videos age as well though. They aren't necessarily always in their prime, so its impact does tend to get reduced over time. so not "happily living on".
The second wave of the 1918 pandemic was also more deadly to younger people.

Various theories have been offered as to why, none of which are proven, including that it may have been observational errors or due to overcrowding conditions due to the war and viral dose.

I wonder if it isn't due to the virus coming under pressure due to a large chunk of the population becoming immune, so evolution favors higher transmissibility. And the easy knob the virus has to increase transmissibility is to increase viral load, which has the side effect of increasing virulence/lethality. That is consistent with that fairly well studied mechanism of parasites/viruses, along with being consistent with what we're observing.

At any rate considerations like that are why I'm not letting my guard down until I'm vaccinated and why it seems stupid to do so.
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If you work in tech and you're very bright, it's trivial to see the signs of a bad workplace and be unable to find work elsewhere. I do not believe anyone would choose to stay if they were very talented, because it should have been obvious there were problems and it should have been easy to leave.

Everybody I know in tech that's any good has no problem finding a new job on short notice, including people with less than one year of experience.
"Convenience of distribution" is, by nature, targeted at application distributors which are not the end-users I (or the OP) claimed to be affected by the messaging.

So yes, I think the messaging in GNOME Software should be improved (hard for me to check on Ubuntu because it does not come with Flatpak support on by default).

Note that ".bashrc and similar" is a huge amount of files (just off the top of my head, .profile, .zshrc, .cshrc, .Xsession, .xinitrc, .ssh/config [for eg. ProxyCommand]... you get the gist).
They should've claimed to be AI-powered, then nobody would've called their shit. Things get especially murky with AI, as no one understands it, and it's hard to prove outright fraud. I've seen this firsthand: a YC-backed startup I worked for which advertised an "AI-powered" background check literally was a bunch of if-statements and pseudo-random guesses which didn't even provide the same results for identical inputs.
That's so awesome to hear!
Is it social isolation?

Or children living a care free life shocked to learn there really are invisible monsters?

Being socially isolated wasn’t the only new reality they had to assimilate.

As someone who grew up rural, DIY, ending up further left than Sanders, the one size fits all assembly line model of education we push kids through doesn’t really seem like it’s thinking of the children.

It seems more like it’s “think of the past greatness these behaviors brought to the motherland!”

As usual the real outcome is forcing intense logistical effort on the masses to manage all this for diminishing returns in their paycheck and increase in stress.

It’s hard for me to see it as truth instead of hand me down narrative.

The Greeks taught math and physics before we had bachelors and PhDs. Our educational system looks back to medieval France, where pretentious ranking for political reasons took hold, when the top down hierarchy knew best!

If we want to think of the children stop forcing them to fellate grandpas old wives tales
There actually seems to be no story about inductive types (e.g. trees) in Python and this appears due to well known theoretical difficulties combining subtyping (required for OO) and type inference (?). I.e. it is a hard problem. There are a few long term open mypy github issues about it, and some hacky workarounds, but no real answer. This is also why languages like Haskell (with good support for inductive types) tend to not have OO. I'm not exactly familiar with the issues, but there is some PLT literature about it, by Anton Setzer and others.
Your quote doesn't say anything about probabilities, so it does not support your argument.
Giving up my smartphone. It's been one of the single best choices I have made for the mental and social health of me and those I interact with, primarily my young family, just so much better.
Hi, Jonathan here, founder of the RaaS (Reforestation as a Service) at DigitalHumani.com

Our solution is 100% free. We are a group of IT-oriented volunteers concerned about climate change, and we pay ourselves for the costs of the solution (which is quite cheap though).

Our RaaS (Reforestation as a Service) API was built because most reforestation organizations do not have APIs. These organizations know lot about trees, climate and reforestation, less so about IT. We help them get the money they need to plant the trees (1$ per tree) by providing the API for free.

The API is used in lots of ways right now by our clients: Planting a tree when someone subscribes to a newsletter, buys something, refer a friend for a mobile app, fills a survey, charge their electric car, etc.

It is much easier for our clients to just choose a reforestation project they want to donate to and add the call to the API in their code.
The human body is good at being flexible and adapting to a wide variety of environments. You see it in a lot of areas of life, rigid efficiencies and flexible inefficiencies. Being more flexible has its costs and benefits. Humans are very much "jack of all trades, master of none".
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I think PostgreSQL is great, but I also think SQLite would be much better for this use case.
The critic, which you do not address, is that (most) NFTs pretend to give assurance of ownership to an "original" digital asset.

The problem with NFTs is a conceptual one not a technological or psychological or societal one. The problem with NFTs is digital "products" by their nature cannot claim originality.

Art might be stupid, but you can actually make the claim of having an original insert_coin drawing, despite its value.
They may as well grow in popularity over time as they get shared and liked and pushed to others by recommender algorithms.
"Younger people are also more affected [2]"

The paper you're citing says "younger" means 59, vs 66 for influenza:

> Patients with COVID-19 were younger (median age [IQR], 59 [45–71] vs 66 [52–77]; P < 0001) and had fewer comorbidities at baseline with a lower mean overall age-adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index (mean [SD], 3.0 [2.6] vs 4.0 [2.7]; P < 0.001) than patients with seasonal influenza.

Also, this is data from a single hospital, across two different years. The overall trends for SARS-CoV2 are not even remotely debatable: the risk of mortality rises exponentially with age. It's one of the most striking features of the virus. To claim, based on this one paper, that "younger people are more affected" is to miss the forest for the trees.

"In the end you cannot compare a pandemic situation to influenza season."

You absolutely can, and in fact, you're doing it. What you're trying to say is that Covid is somehow unilaterally much worse than influenza, but that isn't true. It's much worse for the elderly (>65), but for most other age groups, it's about the same, if not a little bit better. You have to squint and split hairs and pick sources selectively to start making strong claims of increased severity in age groups under ~50, and it's simply not a believable claim for people under the age of ~30.

The disease can be bad without exaggerating its threat.
Yes, he's a believer. This belief in discounting the reasoning gap between humans and software is why Musk is both up at night worrying about evil AI taking over the world (it may already be too late!) and also genuinely believes that autonomous driving is a "solved problem" that just needs some of the rough edges removed (just a couple of years away!).

It's like there is this enormous gulf that most others can see, but to Elon it's invisible.

So don't let anyone tell you that philosophy and theology don't matter. We are witnesses a multi-billion dollar bet being made on the basis of some extreme views about the nature of man, and because this appears to be a core belief of Elon, I doubt he will ever update his priors to make more effective investment decisions based on feedback from real-world tests. He will always view this as a project that is almost-ready with just a few technical glitches to overcome.
The real under story to all these stories about living on Mars is that the ruling class is giving up on earth, instead of using their power to fight to end standing armies and threat of nuclear war its easier for them to focus instead on a selfish escape for themselves and their families, to simply "bail" on all earthly problems rather than apply their considerable resources to make things better for collective humanity. Unlike the rich of the 20th century the 21st century rich have a virus of hate for those with far less resources than them. Rather than being driven to humanitarian action they're driven to flee in fear, hate and loathing for the rest of us.
In case anyone's looking for the presentation referenced at the end (broken link), I found it here from a previous HN thread's comment: https://vimeo.com/74338272
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NFT derivatives will be the next big thing for the ‘20s - perhaps a NFT ETF I can put in my IRA?