skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in a part of North America that kept its schools open during most of the pandemic. Children are learning and playing together. The games they play are pretty much the games they would have played a bit over a year ago. The adults in their lives don't transfer the stress that they are feeling to children whenever two kids get the urge to hug each other. It is almost as though the pandemic does not exist.

For the most part, it does not exist in our small corner of the continent because adults behaved responsibly. This means that most of the measures we take happen behind the scenes: the children have a few more rules to comply with, adults calmly correct them when those rules are broken, and (most important) the focus is on teaching them good habits and sheltering them from the burden of the emotional stresses of this exceptional time.

If we have another outbreak, I am all for shutting down the schools as a part of a swift and hopefully short response. Just as keeping children home for months on end is not good for their mental health, exposing them to a twisted version of the classroom environment for an extended period of time is not good for their mental health.
A tab retains the history (could hit back and go to the page that led me there), a booknark does not.
Ask HN: Is headless a good solution for small businesses?
The headless CMS approach seems to have growing adoption among enterprise businesses. However, for small businesses with a simple marketing or ecommerce website I'm not sure they can reap the same benefits, in particular cost saving.

For example in one report I read the average cost to implement headless architecture for enterprise business is $2.6 million. But for small businesses, if they need custom development each time they want a new feature added the headless model becomes cost prohibitive when the same feature could easily be added with a plugin/app on a traditional WordPress or Shopify site.

Interested to hear other peoples' experience with using a headless CMS for small business clients and thoughts on opportunities for the future?
That post then links to another post about 'Chesterton's Fence', which references this story below, which reminded me a lot about how Brexit came about.

> Suppose that a great commotion arises in the street about something, let us say a lamp-post, which many influential persons desire to pull down. A grey-clad monk, who is the spirit of the Middle Ages, is approached upon the matter, and begins to say, in the arid manner of the Schoolmen, “Let us first of all consider, my brethren, the value of Light. If Light be in itself good—” At this point he is somewhat excusably knocked down. All the people make a rush for the lamp-post, the lamp-post is down in ten minutes, and they go about congratulating each other on their un-mediaeval practicality. But as things go on they do not work out so easily. Some people have pulled the lamp-post down because they wanted the electric light; some because they wanted old iron; some because they wanted darkness, because their deeds were evil. Some thought it not enough of a lamp-post, some too much; some acted because they wanted to smash municipal machinery; some because they wanted to smash something. And there is war in the night, no man knowing whom he strikes. So, gradually and inevitably, to-day, to-morrow, or the next day, there comes back the conviction that the monk was right after all, and that all depends on what is the philosophy of Light. Only what we might have discussed under the gas-lamp, we now must discuss in the dark.
> The idea that there is "one true way" is partly what bugs me about it (and uncle bob in general).

I tend to agree with that, and the original article in general. Mr Martin's approach helped originally, but the dogma now can and should be moved on from.
In the US early childhood education programs describe services from birth to kindergarten such as preschool, preK and screening services for autism, learning disabilities etc...
I'm aware of Dota's win prediction chart.

Do you know about STRATZ? They also have a win probability chart on their website as well as predictions for each hero in the game.

In their Discord, different people have asked the same questions about these "win probability" values multiple times because often they're very unintuitive (Because they are not actually probabilities).

> It's not really a black box, because you can see the win % change over time and get a feel for what it's weighting

If it wasn't a black box you would know why it's weighted at a particular value.

I think it's mostly a curiosity and not that helpful if you're trying to analyze your games.
"Don't try to make a career out of optimizing the SQL queries to display a preference page on a line of business app at a company that no one has ever heard of. That is not the straightforward path to having other people learn you are capable of doing meaningful work."

This is so sad. Optimizing that SQL might require being really clever and can bring enormous value for the company that maybe nobody heard about but might be providing some not so sexy but useful service for half of the country.

I've never heard about company that is building software that runs nearby power plant, but certainly this company is much more useful and have more positive feedback for the society than something "sexy" like Facebook.
Don't forget to throw in a bit of machine learning and deep learning. And issue some sort of cryptocurrency while you're at it. That'll really bring in the investors.

/s
GnuCobol? Text mode only.
It's the greek letter Xi, used because it's looks like an E. Nice metaphor for NFT, which look like a real thing but aren't.
I'm not sure i get what you mean by "hav[ing] to be compiled separately", but as far as i understand, the flambda intermediate representation of the ocaml backend has no (notable) distinction between a functor and a function (or a module and a record). Everything is untyped so it works. That's also how the runtime values are (which need to exist since there are first-class modules now). I believe that thanks to this ocaml does (could?) inline modules and functors. I'm not so sure about cross-file or cross-package inlining tho.
Florida is currently facing a $2-$3 billion tax shortfall (numbers vary depending on the time of projection [0]) and California is facing a budget surplus [1]. There are details around this like one-off capital gains and tax rates and budget cuts, but the overall story is that FL had a slightly higher death rate than CA in exchange for an overall economy that isn't doing so well. Some of this is due to the fact that FL's economy is tourism-driven and my personal response to that is: as a tourist I was very tempted to (safely) visit FL this winter, but the whole "our state doesn't believe in basic COVID restrictions" thing made that much too scary.

[0] https://www.wftv.com/news/local/facing-3-billion-shortfall-l...

[1] https://apnews.com/article/gavin-newsom-california-coronavir...
No weirder than “prolife” folks often intersecting heavily with “pro war” and “anti lockdown” folks.

US lives in a weird bubble where they ignore the very successful policies around the world and create these weird internal narratives that they all follow relatively blindly
Sylphyo: Expressive and subtlety acoustic wind instruments
The host is the culture, not any one individual.
My favorite is Chicago being called ORD. At least with that, they renamed the airport and that's the cause for the weird characters
You don't really need that service performed that badly if you can't pay that much for it either. Offering crappy jobs is bad because people might actually take them; now they don't have the free time needed to find better ones. It reduces economic productivity and it might be cheaper to just pay them unemployment. Makes traffic better too since they're not commuting.
Crystal could perhaps fit the bill. It is (a lot) closer to Ruby in style though.
Maybe grade inflation is a thing?
You have missed the point. This is not about whether or not there is an afterlife. This is about getting to the root of the disagreement, which is not the sincerity or disingenuousness of the slogan "think of the children". It's about the weight people place on avoiding certain kinds of moral transgressions, and the fact that whose who do believe in an afterlife almost universally believe it is eternal.
Collaboration to learn isn't penalized. Just the collab to cheat part.
Oracle Apex is probably the best
Rather than JWZ, you may be thinking of the Mailman system for customer service at Amazon in the early days, as recounted by Steve Yegge [1]

[1] https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely” — John Dalberg-Acton
Right now that is what is happening, but as the title shows those variants don't achieve immune escape.

The sum total of mutations necessary to achieve immune escape and overcome herd immunity is a lot more likely to come at a cost to overall fitness.

Also I can't guarantee that West Ham United won't win the Premier League, but the safe money is all on Man City.

Paper on the possibility of mild disease endemicity:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6530/741

AP coverage of that paper:

https://apnews.com/article/common-cold-india-coronavirus-pan...
It seems like the simple solution is just to change your phone’s sleep settings when you know you’re going to be cooking
Not sure how they plan on turning a profit. Twitter, reddit, et al have been working on pacifying their platforms for years in order to make them palatable places to advertise
Their hospitals are overrun every second winter, dude. They had as much a medical system problem as they had a COVID-19 problem. Check this article from 2018.

https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie...
“I genuinely can't hear what audiophiles hear”

Often they can’t, either, as blind listening tests show.
One of the most useful pieces of programming advice I have been given is to make an abstraction on the third time you solve a given problem. It encourages making abstractions for common tasks, but also acknowledges that in a large codebase the wrong abstraction is an order of magnitude more expensive than not having an abstraction at all, and it's unlikely that you have enough information to make the right abstraction the very first time you are looking at a problem.

As with all things, there is a cost (slightly more code duplication for rarely-solved problems) but also huge benefits in having really solid abstractions built from lots of experience.
For anyone else wondering what NFTs are:

> Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are digital assets that are indivisible and provably unique. They can be used to represent both tangible and intangible items.

https://decrypt.co/resources/non-fungible-tokens-nfts-explai...
does anyone know how AMP seems to avoid this (despite the hate here). On AMP sites I rarely get the post paint jumping around insanity.

My own metric - non AMP site + clickbait headline = jank and constant jumps as dynamic stuff happens (be it ads changing or show off or attention grabbers or analytics maybe).
Even if vaccinated people can contract the virus, they are likely to fight it off relatively quickly and keep the virus load in their bodes low, keeping their chances of transmitting it much lower than an unvaccinated person would.

Lets say being vaccinated halves your chances of passing on the virus compared to an unvaccinated person. If almost all the population get vaccinated, we can ease the lockdown to the point where we tolerate doubling the chances of re-infection. The lockdown easing and vaccination effect should cancel out. If vaccination reduces your chances of passing on the virus by 10x, then we can tolerate a 10x increased risk due to easing lockdown measures.

Worst case we may have to retain some limitations in social contact for a bit longer, but hopefully nowhere near as onerous or we've had to so far.
> The republican party in its present incarnation is a deplorable group with no ethics and bad intentions.

Source? It’s not clear to me how an intelligent person could think this about 40 million people without some severe brainwashing. Rather than “this group appears to have different priorities than I”, it has become, “these people clearly have no ethics”.

How would you feel about right-wingers saying the entire Democratic Party has no ethics and bad intentions because it continually supports baby murder? If you don’t think that’s a fare assessment of the party’s ethics, perhaps you should reconsider how you arrived at your conclusion.
Donations from supporters?
Your conspiratorial bitterness has no place in a healthy discourse. Take it somewhere else.
Big Pharma uses this heavily to bias research in academia for their marketing purposes. It used to be that academic research was rigorous and objective. An academic title had prestige and respect. Now it's so watered down.
This is such a bizarre rabbit hole. I may be wrong, but it doesn't seem to be anything financially worth fighting over, there surely can't be any real money getting made here, except for the very happy lawyers.
I think it’s eye opening that physicists cannot explain how a computer operates physically lol
That was the "let me Google that for you" response to your own completely unsupported claim. It seems like you're unwilling to look at evidence contrary to your opinions; the 'debate' is amongst deniers who aren't looking at evidence. I suggest some self reflection is in order; you're arguing with the same tactics as a climate change denier.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-tragedy-of-the-post-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_COVID
I'm not convinced we can get an effective global, rolling vaccination program in place to set up effective population immunity.

From what I can tell, almost all public discussion of the future of Covid is similar to a "happy path."
> I'll express another one: I think the whole thing about "ZOMG! Suicide rates through the roof!!!elevelty!1!" is blown out of proportion, largely thanks to pseudo-news web sites trying to grab clicks on the internet.

Certain news sites in my state spent 2020 lamenting about how the lockdown is causing overdose deaths to skyrocket. Well, 2021 rolls around and the 2020 overdose death statistics were calculated, and there were about a dozen more overdose deaths in 2020 than in 2019, a change that is statistically insignificant when comparing it to the tens of thousands of overdoses that occurred in the state each year in 2019 and 2020, or to the tens of thousands of people who died from COVID there in 2020.

For whatever reason, the types of people who shared such news in 2020 were not the kind of people who gave two shits about addiction and its effects on others before the pandemic. I say this as a person who has struggled with addiction in the past and has lost numerous people I care about to it. It seems to me that the overdose stats were merely a tool to be used to complain about policy that they disliked.
Perfectly well. I've used it for models to be 3D printed, as well as plans for building a greenhouse.

It's ugly, it occasionally breaks your models, and it's capable of doing anything you could possibly want it to. It's like Gimp (before the new UI) vs. Photoshop.

There are lots of tutorials, but the quality is all over the place, and a lot of the wiki articles are out of date. The best way to learn FreeCAD (in my opinion) is to find something you want to accomplish (fix that broken part in the dishwasher) and experiment until you get the hang of it.
I don't think we've done a poll asking that question. At any rate this is a representative democracy so we expect our leaders to trust the experts.
https://poki.com has 30 million monthly active users. That's more than e.g. DOTA 2, CS:GO, or any other single Steam game. Yes there is a lot of trash, but there is also some decent stuff on there.
Which is a huge problem.
But don't lockdowns cause a "loss of power" (economic, trade, prestige)? This just doesn't make sense to me.
While on average, every year roughly 1 in 85 people dies.
The death rate from Covid is not double digits in Italy or any other country. Where are your numbers coming from?
They managed to bring MS Team's and other vast portions of their authentication infrastructure down twice in the last year due to pushing changes through the pipeline as well. I don't know what the hell is going on over in Redmond.
Is Chik-Fil-A preying on people by letting them start franchises? The investment requirement is actually the same and they're probably more onerous.
It definitely looks wild but it's pretty capable as a truck.
15,000 lb towing capacity, 35" tires for clearance, 35 degree approach angle, and adjustable suspension.
IDK, like I said it really wasn't having much tangible effect on my life. But, it was always there gnawing at me if I thought about it. I mean, there's always (1) the potential of getting caught, which would not be fun, and (2) the loss of time that could be better used. And the minor gnawing at the conscience.

As far as why right then ended up being the time, it's hard to say. I think maybe it was that I made it more about improving myself as a whole rather than rooting out some insidious evil. More of a picking something off my bucket list and doing it.

Did it make me better? IDK, I still find other ways to slack off when I can. But I definitely feel better when I think about it. Much more than I'd expected to. And very possibly it's just some air of a superiority complex above my former self. Which is a stupid reason, but who cares: I'd assume in most people's view it's a positive to at-worst-neutral turn whatever the reason. And of course it's nice to know that I'll never have to worry about getting caught again.
The topic of discussion was:

> If emacs adopted vim-like keybindings early on

I consider it obvious that "vim-like" keybindings are also "vi-like" keybindings, and that emacs could in fact have adopted them before the invention of vim.

It wouldn't have of course; when the Editor Wars were truly raging, the modal vs. modeless debate was at the heart of the partisanship. But that's a separate question.
It is what it is. We all made sacrifices during the pandemic. This had to happen in order to save lives. The only thing that matters is what we do going forward.
Ask HN: Contract Expectations as a Software Engineer
38yo SW Engineering Manager / Director here. I'm struggling the role because I'm a technologist and really enjoy the process of building, designing and seeing software in production.

I'm considering the idea of leaving my management position and doing contract work. In my prior life I was strong in C,C++ and Java backend development work.

Has anyone transitioned back into development from management due to feeling non-creative, non-productive as an engineering manager? What what your experience, did you take a pay cut moving back to development, did you pursue contract work or go back to being an employee, how did you find work?

I understand there is a lot to unpack here, any input would be helpful.
There should be a name for the obscene guilt felt when shitting on something in public only for the original creator to turn up reminding you there is a human on the other side. Sorry!
>There are very few if any societies that abandoned (chattel) slavery and later re-instituted it.

There are quite a few, which goes to show that it's not some whig one-way historical progress. Heck, the European world had abandoned slavery for a millenium and the then re-introduced it en masse in the colonies and in the New World.

But the actual reason societies don't often re-institute something like slavery faster is not some moral advancement, but because other things make more economic sense. You can't sell consumer goods to a society of slaves, nor they make for good workers in more advanced jobs. If those economic conditions change, here comes slavery again.
You and me both dawg. Hopefully beginning next year!
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-07-...

> Researchers in South Korea have found that children between the ages of 10 and 19 can transmit Covid-19 within a household just as much as adults, according to new research published in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention journal Emerging Infectious Diseases
The OSS value is overstated. You can just copy someone else's and claim you did it.
Many licenses (most especially the Creative Commons ones) have a plain language summary, but the summary doesn't supersede the actual license text (at most the summary can be a guide to the intent of the license if there is a dispute, but ideally licenses don't leave any wiggle-room for interpretation).

Licenses are legal documents, and the elaboration is required to make edge cases unambiguous to lawyers, and in extremis, to a court.
If TSMCs march continues, how long will it be before Intel is forced to use them for all their performance chips? Will everyone just have to switch to TSMC?

And if that happens, how long will it be, with much less competition, for TSMC to get sloppy like Intel did, and everything stagnate again.
Oh yes, the high level of discourse in the YouTube Comments section. ;)
Secrecy doesn't always imply impropriety but it can, and that's the challenge with such secrecy, is that one doesn't know.

I.e, I imagine a lot of Apple corporate culture has similar restrictions, yet as far as we know, they're not committing fraud like that.
That's a nice quote, but still doesn't answer the question.
No government in their right mind wants to continue lockdowns unnecessarily. Lockdowns cost a lot of money and make a lot of voters angry
> ..with lockdowns in effect enough to keep hospitalization rates below capacity.

“Want to buy this vampire repelling rock?”
Rich kids have access to private schools, which aren't subject to teacher's unions and political battles like the confusing one you had in New York between the Governor and the Mayor of NYC. They were contradicting each other on policy predictions and did a big disservice.

In California, apparently teacher's unions have been blocking school opening plans. That's what I read and it could just be false or misleading news.

Again, rich people afford private schools, tutors, etc.

In contrast, in France they just went under lockdown in the north this weekend, yet for many months now they had schools open. In the US we're opening up but schools stay closed in many places. Who's being scientific and who's being political?

Nothing makes much sense! We must question authority and special interest groups, constantly. Take nothing for granted, even if a politician claims to be on the side of science.
You mean NSA and the same, but online?
Show HN: Put Localhost on the Internet Instantly
So is it mostly a scam like wine then? I just tune it to what sounds good and I'm off. I just managed to do it for 40$ lol