skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, this requires a bit of knowledge of Quebec politics.

The quebec premier is a pro-business populist. So, his leadership method can be accurately summarized as, doing what's best for business, and covering up for the issue this causes using populist issues (law 21, for example) or aesthetics.

Well, as cases started increasing in Montréal, he wanted to act though. But he didn't want to implement an actual lockdown, as that would hurt the economy (much like fumbled the first lockdown where cases almost went to zero, but instead of continuing slightly longer and implementing mass tests and tracing, he lifted it right before tracing was up to capacity and cases went to zero, but I digress). For the same reason, he didn't want to close down schools, which are a large driver of infection here according to public health data.

So, he implemented somthing he knew would look though to his base outside of Montreal, without actually impacting the economy, which is an 8pm curfew. Obviously, everyone with a bit of knowledge knew this would be useless, but there goes. As the curfew went on, vaccination of the health sector picked up, and the healthcare system went from a large driver of cases to non-existent, allowing Montreal to bring R under 1 and cases to go down. He obviously acted as if the curfew contributed, and pushed the curfew to 9:30.

Then, he had the brilliant idea of : putting back schools to full-time learning instead of one-day-on, one-day-off, even as the schoolboards and teachers didn't want to - supercharching a large infection driver, but also, outside of Montreal, opening back up indoors dining for restaurants and indoors gyms (without masks!).

Unsurprisingly, this led to an explosion of cases outside of Montreal, while Montreal kept stable amounts of infections despite a delayed curfew and full classrooms. So, he rolled back those measures, and to look though again, he put an 8pm curfew in the high infection periods.

Despite the fact that cases weren't increasing much in Montréal, afraid that the lack of increase despite a delayed curfew would show plainly that his curfew, flagship measure, was useless, he put it back to 8pm in Montréal. Nicely, this means that people now only have two hours or so to do their groceries, supercharging the mass of people there, indoors.

So there it is, it's really just aesthetics. If it helps or not doesn't matter, as long as it doesn't annoy his base too much and looks flashy, it's good for Mr. Legeault.

Also, he added a mandate to wear masks in outdoor parks, while almost no infections at all were recorded outdoors.
The park closures made very little sense. The playground closures made sense when people were worried about fomites, and the early lab studies (that largely measured the wrong thing) suggested that fomites were an issue.

A school is neither a park nor a playground. Schools are mostly indoors, mostly in inexpensive buildings with correspondingly poor ventilation and/or air filtering, and have a lot of people talking and breathing the same air. This is a totally different situation.
It's really not. People definitely can and do have parties without the curfew. They just do it during the weekend or overnight. Besides, data shows that Quebecers already followed the measures pretty well, and only a small fraction of overall infections came from unknown causes or illegal gatherings, much dominated by schools and work (healthcare before vaccination).

Data from the public health agencies suggested it would not and had not had any impact.
I used to hold this view, and I argued that exchanging ad impressions for web content was some sort of social contract. I think this would be defensible if not for the massive privacy violations, and the fact that Google and Facebook continually alter the deal, and pay politicians to ensure we have no seat at the table to negotiate.
similar, but we always used to say "abs are made in the kitchen, not in the gym".
Calories in, calories out absolutely work.

Except that humans don't manage their diet by counting calories. We have regulatory mechanism that supposed to do the calories counting for us.
I have the same reservation about ever more tracking increasing conversion, but I would guess in reality the equilibrium price might come as more people use adblockers vs those who would turn them off if they could be assured they weren't being tracked and only being served some form of a content-based ad.

For a large site like Facebook, adblockers might have a small effect, but for smaller sites seeing 30-50% adblocked traffic, their choices might be direct ad sales, and likely little else. I saw a post about ethical-ad-server recently, and maybe such ad servers should be the ones default unblocked by adblockers.
Facebook had years to not exist... yes.
> Dodgson, but his contributions are not considered noteworthy enough to make any kind of timeline.

By whom? Obviously the poster did. Lots of people think of him in connection with his work in logic, which isn't research-level, but I think of him in the context of, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgson_condensation , which to my somewhat amateurish knowledge of the subject was a research-level contribution for its time.
Interesting! I did not know much of that.
The top post in this thread was someone asking what made Proud Boys far right. You responded with an accusation of bad faith, and supplied SPLC and Wikipedia as evidence. Then someone said that those sources weren't solid, and asked if you had better sources. You responded by criticizing both accounts for being new, and for not supplying sources themselves, but with no better evidence. (I note with some irony how new your own account is.)

The original article made a claim. I don't think, in discussing such an article, that it's fair to immediately assume that it's bad faith to ask for evidence for the claim. Nor do I think that, when someone points out that your evidence is shoddy, and asks if you have any better evidence, that the correct answer is "you didn't supply any". (The actual answer to the question would appear to be "No, I don't".)

So I don't like your style of argument here. You're awfully quick to accuse the other side; that's not a good attitude to bring to HN. (They may in fact have been "just asking questions", but that shouldn't have been your assumption right out of the gate. "Assume good faith", as the HN guidelines say.)

> As to the first part of your comment, I can't, for the life of me, figure out how you misinterpreted my observation like that.

Well, then we're even, because I couldn't figure out what

>> Your rambling comment devoid of sources, on the other hand, is academic material on the matter.

was trying to say. I made a guess - apparently a wrong one. But even knowing that the guess was wrong, I don't know what you were actually trying to say.
Fauci ‘not sure’ why Texas doesn’t have Covid uptick after nixing masks
Is this science driven or emotion driven from the other side? If virus is airborne and can spread without symptoms, are you saying younger age group does not get the virus or does not show the symptoms? If they do get the virus, then they can spread it. The closures were to prevent the virus from spreading and I do not understand why the measures used to contain it are a mistake.

From the OP, it seems clear that virus is airborne, spreads in clusters and people spread it before showing any symptoms. I am open to suggestions on what are the alternative ways of stopping the spread?
Her earlier two related posts on metaepistemology were amazing as well:

https://zeynep.substack.com/p/lessons-from-a-pandemic-annive...

https://zeynep.substack.com/p/critical-thinking-isnt-just-a-...
Could we just make something that spams the FLoC algorithm with garbage so we get put in random interest cohorts?
NNDM has nothing to do with passive investors. It's bid up by retail hype.
You can spend thousands of dollars creating just the right environment for listening to just the right music, or never spend any money on it at all.
The best stack is the one you know. That said, for elegance and productivity it’s python all the way.
Thank you so much for posting this. I was working on something similar and this helped a lot.
Why do so many people think science is some neat and clean process adhered to by altruistic seekers of knowledge in lab coats?

Science is chuck full of competition, posturing, and political shenanigans - especially for popular subjects where there is fame and fortune on the line. Scientists are human beings. They, just like the rest of us, want to be right and to be rewarded for it. We humans are often not graceful about being challenged or proven wrong.

Worse yet, this messy process is filtered and spun by politicians and political media before being presented to the public.

Really, it's remarkable that things have worked out as well as they have. We have at least three viable vaccines being widely distributed and only a tiny uptick in mortality in the mean time. Things could have been much better, but they also could have been much worse.
It's partly a social signal. I live in Quebec and the notion of 'curfew' has a very eerie and ominous 'feel' like nothing ever in my life.

I feel it's more powerful than the time we were seeing NYC hospitals blow up in COVID disaster.

It's 'over there' when it's on TV ... but when you 'have to get home by 8' it a visceral effect.

To the point wherein never before have I truly contemplated the authoritarian nature of the order - though I'm fully sympathetic to the Provincial Leaders trying to stop mass death, it's pretty scary that this can happen and the Supreme Court ruling on the case that was brought before them was really scant. Basically, the Judges said 'it's for the good of the people and proportional so it's ok' - but there's basically zero in the way of parameterized logic, precedence, or specific legality to all of it.

As far as the Health Officers supposedly miscommunication information, I suggest that these are intelligent people, and that obviously there's still not as much consensus as the comment implies.

'Gaslight of Science' I think is better exemplified by those denying COVID or vaccines.
Zeynep is one of the best possible writers out there for a HN crowd, IMHO. Super intelligent, dives deep into the relevant data, and thinks things through.
Discussed at the time:

The Story Of Larry Page's Comeback - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7641114 - April 2014 (130 comments)
Calories in calories out could help if you could accurately measure them. I suspect that most people can’t. But you are right, internal mechanisms regulate both hunger and activity levels.
I did this for an M1 mac running macOS 11 (Big Sur) recently, and posted a summary and the actual pcaps:

https://sneak.berlin/20210202/macos-11.2-network-privacy/
Because everyone is still wearing masks there, in the metropolitan areas.
I've never heard this saying, although along similar lines there is 'kill the chicken to scare the monkey'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_the_chicken_to_scare_the_...
Teens are not average people. They care more about being “cool” than most adults. My understanding is that Android phones are very uncool.
That the CDC didn’t update guidelines that the virus was spread in the air until October seems near criminal - how much political pressure was on them to say “it’ll all go away soon”, as was stated by political leadership over and over?
BDFL vs public governance body. Ask yourselves which you want, and why. I truly believe, what we're seeing is consequences of governance. If you care about why decisions are made, you need a very particular kind of BDFL.

(Happy signal user btw, no axe to grind. I am commenting how I see the meta quality of what went on with this decision.)
I don't personally care. I'm just saying that it's not crazy to want to do this sort of thing without figuring it out yourself. Maybe it pays for itself in some cases?
Hey thank you for your response, I appreciate your input. I see what you’re saying. You’re getting a lot of data through the feedback so from that perspective you’re not “entirely” re-developing from scratch as you grow. What I’m trying to get at by the term developing from scratch is that say if a company started to get extremely large. At some point, that company will pivot away from the initial Django based web app MVP or MVP in general and start building a modular platform where the frontend and backend are independent from one another, etc. while various forms of technologies are implemented, no? I’m not sure so I’m asking, but I don’t see a company starting with the initial django web app MVP and then still using that as they grow to hundreds of thousands to millions of users (obviously this is an extreme case). At some point, they will start building a more sophisticated platform that’s custom built, no? With that said, why still not build from scratch from the very start, as most MVPS are inherently quick to build and not super complex most of the time anyway? And also why not build from scratch if one will most likely re-develop anyway as users grow and your entity scales?
If curious, past threads:

Kitten Programming Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17681202 - Aug 2018 (13 comments)

Kitten – A statically typed, stack-based functional programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13345832 - Jan 2017 (49 comments)

Kitten: a statically-typed stack-based functional programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11753145 - May 2016 (1 comment)

Kitten: compile to C, stack-based functional programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11506603 - April 2016 (3 comments)

Kitten - high-performance statically typed concatenative programming language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4993640 - Jan 2013 (1 comment)
I mean, how many of us have dozens of half finished projects sitting around before it gets dumped for the next new shiny?
Yeah, I did not mean to suggest you buy different pans, merely that you try a few of those you already have. But it sounds like you just have a poorly performing induction range, where no pan in the world can help.

This is not, however, inherent in the technology as such.
I don't get "easy access to credit" with debit cards. Which is the part I don't understand! There have been many periods in my adult life where cash flow has been a significant problem for me and my family, but it has never even occurred to me to use revolving credit as part of a solution to those problems.

I'm not litigating whether unequal access to financial products is a bad thing. Inequity is a bad thing. We're on the same page there.

But when discussions like this come up and people imply that a bad credit score is somehow life-changing --- that just doesn't connect with my life experience? Like I definitely didn't come up rough or anything, but I feel like to the extent that there's value in access to these particular financial products, I'm well within the cohort of people who would perceive that value. And... I just don't get it? Like: a debit card from a good bank has actually pretty solid fraud protection? And lack of access to 2% rewards doesn't seem life changing?

I have never understood credit cards.
Yep.

A blueberry muffin is around 424 calories.
It takes about 45 minutes to burn that many calories jogging.

Compare that to how many minutes it takes to simply not eat that muffin.

A lot of people are afraid of the feeling of ‘hunger’; I find the sensation of hunger is actually a motivating one. I try to fast around 16 hours a day (eating window 12pm-8pm) and really think it keeps my head clear and helps me work, especially in the morning.
I cannot know what your colleague truly meant, but there are many more explanations than the two that you mentioned.

She may simply have offered to do the task out of kindness to you--not out of a belief in her own inferiority.

Alternatively, perhaps she thinks you wouldn't pay attention to the task and she would.
> Their own health officials said curfew won’t help.

I’m no longer following quebec public health’s announcements closely, but did they seem credible? They’ve been wrong on most everything so I’d need their reasoning rather than their authority to believe them here.

A curfew makes gatherings substantially harder. You have to buy food and drink in advance, and people have to be able to sleep over and be comfortable doing so.

Contact tracing won’t detect many clusters at private gatherings if people don’t say they were violating rules. Public health’s data may not be accurate here.

If I were in charge I wouldn’t use a curfew mind you. I would instead fix public health’s rules: emphasize ventilation, mandate open windows, require masks at work while seated, etc. But I suspect the curfew actually achieves its purpose. Quebec is doing better relative to other provinces than it did pre curfew, iirc.
Isn't 1x supposed to be the average software engineer? If yes, then this doesn't align very much with my experience :-(

Or is it supposed to be that many people are less-than-one-x and aspire to be 1x?
> Calories in, calories out absolutely work.

Is this really true and known empirically? Could the body be better at accessing calories in some foods and not others?

Thought experiment: suppose I wrapped a small chocolate bar into airtight plastic, then I swallowed it. I have just swallowed 200 calories, but my body will access/process/burn 0% of it since it can't break down the plastic.

At least in this one (unrealistic) example, CICO is false.
I'm not the author, but I've used The Movie Database's apis and found it pretty good. At least when I was doing my film project, IMDB APIs weren't really intended for public use; you needed to contact developer relations and what not.
> Microservices with defined interfaces and APIs mean that everyone doesn't need to communicate with everyone.

This will be true if every team handling their own microservice will treat documentation like a real API like product and make it understandable, concise with clear examples. Also it needs a proper way to accept/debate bug/feature requests.

But in my experience this is not happening. There is documentation but it is usually auto generated and most of the times out of date.

So instead of reading it and trying to figure it out oneself it is more simpler to just contact the developer thus => more time spent in communication.

The same when I need a new feature from their API I setup a meeting as usually sending an email or creating a ticket does not guarantee a response => so more communication.
I don't believe the figures can apply worldwide. There are far more teens in India than iPhones. There are far more teens in emerging economies than Apple targets.

And, I don't believe the volume of apple devices reflects the story either. I strongly suspect some underlying sampling bias.

I know from personal experience in the seventies, a lot less kids did drugs and sex than said they did. If dope had been as easy to get as implied, my grades would have suffered. Underlying rates of STIs and teen pregnancy tell a lot more about the reality than surveys.

How could you reliably, non invasively sample the ratios? As an example, the cohort of phone owner kids in school includes huge numbers whose parents legally own the phone and the sim.
This could / should have been a Show HN: with an App name behind it. But I think this story telling is so much better than Show HN and the story is great and funny. I guess other people will have to take notes with their product launch.
If you’re going to use something outside of Ink to provide most of the logic, is Ink the superior solution?
Some devices started to use hardcoded IPs to phone home, so purely domain name based blocklists won't work with them. Is there a similar project with upgradable IP lists to deal with them too? That would be technically a firewall, but then ideally it should also implement DNS based blocking since we're protecting also from the inside.
It would be a nice product to build around any of those ARM small boards with dual Ethernet and WiFi such as the NanoPi R1 and similar ones.
Perhaps the social stigma associated with walking around maskless creates greater pressure to comply than the mask-law did.
To me, in the absence of data, we should default to using best-guess models and not just throw up our hands and say "whatever, nobody knows for sure, just keep on keepin' on". Anyone who has children knows that pretty much any disease rips through schools. If COVID-19 were to eventually be proven to not transmit between children in meaningful numbers, it'd be a huge irregularity. But so many people treat this "no proof of transmission" situation as "proof of no transmission".
Retraining brain to ride cycle backwards
Please stop taking HN threads into flamewar.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I live in Quebec and would summarily disagree with this assessment.

Your statement about the failure curfew policy and closures is definitely not true.

Have a look at the data [1] (Select: Quebec and change the timeframe to include 'all time'.

The original closures in January had a radically positive effect in reducing spread, and there were many more measures in place than merely curfew.

You directly contradict yourself by indicating 'opening up restos schools was a bad decision' when in the preceding statement you literally said that the policies 'had no effect'. They clearly did.

Schools have been opened in many places in the world, and are generally not considered to be superspreading locations - the difference 'now' is not COVID v1, rather, it's COVID v1.1 and v1.2 (i.e. other variants) which seem to be affecting young people at considerably higher rates.

The policy here is not hugely different than most places in the world.

[1] https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/coronavirustracker/
Unfortunately the CDC is doing better than most OECD health authorities that I know of. Canada still hasn’t updated its guidance to my knowledge.

I haven’t checked Europe in a bit, maybe they updated. But judging from their poor showing presently, I doubt it.

There were lots of problems in the US response, but it was far from uniquely bad. And aerosol resistance was ingrained across western health authorities, it didn’t come from the president.
Nope, recent prices are largely correlated to ARK activity. Price decreases have largely been due to the 11! offerings NNDM has recently made, to tap ARK investors money.

https://cathiesark.com/ark-combined-holdings-of-nndm
The story here is that YouTube does not care about content moderation. YouTube has a blacklist but the blacklist is missing the most obvious terms like "White Power' and 'Great Replacement'. Someone at the company is in charge of maintaining the blacklist but was negligent. Why?

Also, if searches for words associated with White supremacist culture returned videos then there are other ways to access them, why doesn't Google simply take them down if they are already labelled?
I like to use Python with PyInstaller[1], but it results in fairly large binaries with a relatively slow startup time.

When binary size and startup speed matters, then I use Go instead.

Finally, sometimes I just write in Bash anyway, even though it is such a difficult language to write in.

[1]: https://pyinstaller.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
> I try to fast around 16 hours a day (eating window 12pm-8pm)

I've been doing intermittent fasting for ~5 years now, and I don't even feel the hunger anymore. The only time I feel it is when I aggressively work out (running ~2 miles in the morning + lifting ~45 mins in the afternoon 5 days a week) and if I'm on a caloric deficit (~1750kcal). I also notice I get that hungry feeling particularly if my macros shift away from carbs (which they usually do when cutting weight). The human body is an incredible machine.