skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't say I'm familiar with the repositories behind KDE, but can somebody point me to say the top 10 - 20 repositories with the most activity, that would be good for determining overall health? I'd like to analyze them and I'll share my findings.

I've studied hundreds of popular open source projects and I've found that "days active" and having lots of developers with mid to high level impact to be extremely good indicators of project health.

vscode and GitLab are probably my favorite repos that best highlights this. If you look at the vscode project

https://public-001.gitsense.com/insights/github/repos?r=gith...

and switch to the impact view and sort by "days active" you can get a sense of what I mean. The more developers above 25%, the better. "First commit" which is also discussed in the post, is also another good indicator. For vscode, you'll find a lot of developers with 5 years of experience.

And something that may seem counter intuitive is, you don't want contributors to have "very high" impact, as this indicates high bus factor risk. For impact, you actually want people to lie on the bottom of zone 2, as that indicates high individual impact and evenly distributed effort. Since GitLab isn't on GitHub, I can't share the insights for it, but that's what GitLab looks like.

Note: Don't install my tool as the docker image has an expired license, which I need to fix.
Well, it is something from a dystopia. So... yeah.
This has nothing to do with what I or the other poster said. I'll reiterate that many people who were forced to work were not happy about that fact.

You're somewhere between pretending those people don't exist and claiming that those lower class people who didn't want to work but had to are also morally bankrupt. It's neither coherent nor respectful of those you claim to be defending.
I happen to have co-founded a company (Wrapbook) that makes it easy to work with gig-based workers as employees. The entertainment space long ago settled this fight and classifies everyone as employees, not as contractors, even when they work a single day.

This fight has nothing to do with independence and only has to do with employers trying to save some 15% of an employee's wage in taxes & keep themselves off the hook if people get injured on the job.

The savings are real - somebody making $1000 a day - classified as an employee, costs an additional estimated $150.

You can pay short term workers as employees pretty easily (we facilitate it).
We've been mining for quite some time now. Have we ever been able to do it without major negative impact on the environment, at least in the easiest, most practiced of conditions? Mining "in a responsible way" is like "clean coal". It's a euphemism for something that still does a lot of damage but fills some pockets enough to call it whatever they want. The scientists are there just to minimize that damage.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26956077
I think it's amusing to imagine what the fifty-years-from-now equivalent of this might look like. "I built a fake 'cell phone' that lets my grandpa 'text' me, it translates the words into thoughts and beams them directly to my neural implant."
Isn't there something like Fouriernets and spdnets already, and stuff on Riemannian manifolds and my head is spinning? Followed Daniel Brook's work for some time, e.g. https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02290838
QNAP shipped Hybrid Backup Sync with hardcoded credentials of walter:walter. This was used by ransomware criminals to encrypt photos and videos and demand payment in Bitcoin for the password to decrypt the data.

From that page:

> The code has 27 occurrences of e-mails: waltershao@gmail.com or walterentry20140225@gmail.com in the code.

More information is available here:

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/04/26/qnap-nas-ransomwa...
So it takes 12.5 hours to fill a single tape?

I guess it's hard to wrap your head around data sizes that big. It's pretty impressive when you consider that SATA tops out at 600MB/s, so these tape drives need to hang off of a faster bus.
Maybe it's a good time to make a new rideshare startup that actually treats drivers like independent contractors.
Could you come in twice in one day and then WFH on the remaining days?
Well, there's no cholesterol at least.

Edit: Also keep in mind that cheese is a processed food too. I think it's somewhat subjective whether oil mixed with starch and yeast is more processed than milk coagulated with an enzyme (rennet, usually from mold), strained, and fermented. Processed food isn't inherently unhealthy, but both cheese and vegan cheese definitely are.
Indeed, but I also think that such a system also depends on having a civil society and a number of other things that are provided by society as a whole: The entitlement of corporations (e.g., liability limitation), the modern money system, and a relatively prosperous consumer class providing demand for goods and services. We're living on top of a huge pile of what can only be described as technology.

Consider cell phones. The richest person in the world could not have a phone that they can carry in their pocket and make a call to another rich friend from anywhere in the world, if not for the widespread consumer demand that drove the construction of the cell phone system.
The browser is the app.
My Startup Failed Six Years Ago. I’ve Been Hiding from My Shame Ever Since
I hear this sort of thing a lot but don't quite understand it.

I've been a vegetarian for eight years, but I eat meat substitute products. I have ethical issues with eating meat and I feel considerably better physically when I don't eat meat, but that doesn't mean that meat doesn't taste good.

I'm quite happy to be able to pop some Quorn mycoprotein into a casserole and eat comfort foods of my childhood without having to kill an animal to do it.

(I have to agree about Tofurky though. I'll generally go hungry voluntarily if that's the vegetarian option.)
Amazon’s Profit Run Continues, Bolstered by Sustained Demand
>> there will be considerable political pressure to "do something" about the next flu wave. This must be resisted

Why on earth does it make sense to resist sensible public health measures to reduce the influenza to R0<1?

The measures would not need to be nearly as drastic as those for COVID ("normal" R0 of 2 vs 2.5+), so more handwashing (good to minimize a broad spectrum of pathogens), masks (already culturally ordinary in many countries), and especially better indoor ventilation systems would be a long-term benefit to everyone.

I'm mostly hoping that the success of better sequencing, mRNA vaccine technology, and the rapid development deployed for CV-19 will also be applicable to influenza and help minimize or practically eliminate it.

Are you assuming other measures?
When I get the flu I don't report it to flu trackers. Rarely have I ever told my doctor. Is this uncommon?
Take a look at https://invent.kde.org/explore/projects/starred, this should give you a good overview of the most popular repository.
This can be easily solved. You can bind a variable to a checkbox like this:

@bind allow_run html"Run cell below <input type=checkbox>"

and wrap your long running cell in the if block:

if allow_run
your_code
end
I don't think healthcare can be solved by taxes, since the US population is already paying more per capita then for example Germany where everyone is insured.

By the way, I think healthcare is also kind of a factor, which attracts rather young high skilled workers who can afford an insurance policy.
> I think this just shifts the responsibility and point of attack onto the owner

The owner is always a target, it doesn't change that, it just removes a bunch of single points of failure and middle men.

> An attack is still possible and worse yet, it is completely irreversible

Attacks are always possible, but depending on your threat model you do end up eliminating a number of them. As I said, with a naive implementation you make an attack irreversible, but it's not impossible to imagine an optional, committee base KYC-based account recovery mechanism.
Not at all. I live next to a tiny shop in Mexico that sells fruits, vegetables, and some extras like oatmeal and beans and olive oil. I eat healthier (according to research reviewed by NutritionFacts.org) and more cheaply than anyone I know once I decided to limit my diet to only the things they have, incidentally vegan.

I spend almost nothing on food in this shop. Same for all the poor Mexicans who live in the area.

It’s quite obvious that ubiquitous access to cheap animal products is a first world thing.
Probably be a web service that does that for you. Like those old fax webservices.
Yup. The 30-hour (I think that's the value) cliff for insurance wasn't a brilliant idea.

I don't know the best (most efficient for society) solution, but I'm pretty sure phasing out the tax write-off for employer-provided health insurance is a good start.
I'm not a blockchain fan but "somebody tried this once and it didn't work" is hardly a dismissal of an entire class of ideas. Beanz didn't catch on but bitcoin seems to have.
José Zelada, cumbia composer known as ‘Genio de América’, passed away at 61
Right, but that clearly isn't happening. So where does the worry come from?
> Why take away choice from those who specifically decided not to get a full-time driving job (which have always existed)?

There are millions of employees in the US who work part-time and choose their own schedules.
I think what they're saying is that, unlike real cheese, there's always something wrong with the taste of dairy-free cheese. FWIW my experience has been the same.
[IANAL]

My understanding is that if a worker has any characteristic of an employee, they are an employee. Any of several criteria are sufficient and only one of them is necessary.

In the bigger picture, Congress passes laws and delegates authority to a branch of government to establish rules and regulations using a process complying with other statutes that dictate how rules and regulations become binding.

Essentially, in the US at all levels -- Federal, State, and Local -- there are two types of legal requirements. Statutes and rules/regulations. The statute is the what. Rules and regulations are the implementation details...ok, there's actually a third parallel part which is legal precedent established by the courts.

Anyway, Congress delegates authority to executive agencies so that it can focus on other things and not have to micro-mange each tiny detail of everything under the sun.
I used to eat and enjoy vegan cheese but it isnt really like normal cheese. I liked it because it was a bit stringier and went well with mac and cheese.
I'm going to guess most people here had short hair while in elementary school...you're all so lucky!

I've always had clean thick long blonde hair, which happens to be lice's favourite hair type. Every time there was a lice outbreak in school, I got it. Its very much a thing in Canada still.
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We are talking about liquid assets though, not net worth. As other commenters have pointed out, the middle class has most of their net worth tied up in non-liquid assets such as cars, houses, or retirement funds.
That is not necessarily the case. The client may well have restrictions on what technologies you use, especially if they are to run and maintain it after you have built it. This probably is considered part of the product.
Things are getting better, but a lot of the fruit you eat is selected for shelf and processing stability. Flavor is a secondary concern, and nutrition isn't considered at all.

Some people think the latter is part of the obesity epidemic. We have lots of cravings when we are malnourished, and while hyper palatable food can explain a lot of this, it's not the only culprit.

Those peaches you eat are the only ones you can get because the others bruise too easily. If you want a 'better' peach you're going to have to plant a tree. It's one of the 'sales pitches' that gardeners and permaculturists use to try to convert people. If you want more nutritious vegatables, you're going to have to get your hands dirty. Vine-ripened foods can be a profoundly different experience than store bought, as anyone who has ever grown a tomato will be all too quick to tell you.
We have blood sausages, why wouldn't we drink some animals milk. Humans have been also eating entrails and brains for a long time, so milk is just another ingredient in the omnivorous diet of humans.

You point out the for-profit incentives of dairy industry, but surely you don't think that it is much different for non-dairy/vegan products. Of course they are also pushing for same kind of acceptance at societal level, which means $$$.
How to Map Nothing
Bah, when you've maxxed out your cuda cores, who's to prevent you from reaching for those sweet tensor core 100+ tflops mat-mul now?
> I think the truth is that most math is pretty simple to describe and doesn't require a grand framework to formalize.

I agree -- most fields of math are happy to establish their own axioms, and leave the reducibility of those axioms to some "foundations" as an exercise -- an important one, but not one that necessarily furthers the field itself.

However, Voevodsky's stated aim for his Univalent Foundations project was not to formalize everything under a grand theory of everything. He got the bejeebus scared out of him when one of his results was very, very subtly wrong, in a way that was difficult for mathematicians to verify for years, even given a reasonable inkling of a counterexample. So he sought to improve the state of the art in proof verification.

You might argue, it's better to produce a verification tool for one field of mathematics than all of them at once. But you'll have a hard time finding any significantly complex theorem that doesn't draw insight from multiple places. (Arguably, that's why they're significantly complex in the first place). And all fields of mathematics have some basic elements in common. So, I'd argue, you're unlikely to do a good job for any but the most narrow domains of mathematics without seeking some level of generality.

Any "foundation of mathematics" can be used for this purpose, and plenty of theorem provers have been built on each (Twelf, PVS, Agda). The draw of category theory is that it seems to capture at a fundamental level many of the basic conceptual elements we see across mathematics. (Homomorphisms are so universal it's not even funny.) It seems reasonable to pick something that starts us closer to where we want to be; the difficulties we encounter are more likely to be fundamental problems and not issues of encoding.
They lost most of the market for two reasons:

- Final Cut X was a major re-write that didn't support importing old project formats for something like two years and didn't support all required video formats for the same period

- Mac Pro was abandoned, twice. Once for years before the trashcan design. Once for years after the trashcan design.
I save more money on my Amex platinum every year than I spend. Not even trying, really. If you use Uber, rent cars, and click the cashback program links in your emails it's actually quite easy to come out ahead.

Hotel stays and checked bag fee waivers will put you way into the green.
Then that's a bug in Firefox that needs to be fixed, not worked around.
So what happens after 2029 in terms of the project?
They want to run an ad network was the idea there, so they could get stock valuations like Google and Facebook.
That's good to know. But I was talking about the package manager and starting the Pluto server.
A Framework for Hiring a VP of Engineering, from Shopify's VPE
Your 2nd paragraph seems to have a mistake: influenza vs flu?
The author is female.
Trying to demystify CORS in a couple of paragraphs....good luck with that! I think 200 page book would still be too short to demystify it. It's a crazy topic
I'm also lucky to be quite healthy, almost never sick, The last time I had a flu was probably somewhere around 2010, because I was still in my second to last job, which was the only time ever I had to take a couple of sick days

But my lifestyle is quite different. When restaurants are not closed, I eat out at least twice a week. I don't often wash my hands. And touch my face all the time. I don't bother avoiding sick people because I don't think I'll get sick.

I'm the opposite of germ freak. I don't like washing my appartment and people visiting me can easily see that.

The social distancing rules had a big impact on me and the amount of social I get.

I guess I'm just lucky with my health. Or maybe my hymune system is well trained. Who knows?
I always preferred thunar or pcmanfm back when I was into exploring all those Desktop Environments and Window Managers ; some of the xfce/lxde tools are particularly light on additional libraries needed, which makes them great options if running a wm only and wanting a slim system. lxterminal with i3 or dwm for example. Actually preferred that compared to rxvt-unicode. But happy to agree on the larger point: it's been showing in the end product. Particularly the KDE community has done a wonderful job slimming down its codebase.

Tried KDE a few months back for a short time, was surprised that KDE's footprint (in mb of space on disk, not ram) was not that much heavier than LXQT. The desktop experience seemed polished, though for me it has far too much gimmickery (in settings), and at this point I'm quite used to Ubuntu's Gnome. But happy for a healthy ecosystem. When I got into Linux (back in ~2008 probably?), I remember the choice with regards to full DEs was KDE vs Gnome vs XFCE vs LXDE ; there are more today, but I would hate to see one of them gone for good, and wish all of them well. Good to read that KDE seems healthy.
And while they do 'talk back' in their own way, they can't organize. Yet.
> we also have evidence in the actual observations of epidemic dynamics. Over the southern hemisphere fall of 2020 (northern hemisphere spring), covid cases increased more rapidly than influenza cases in countries that were entering their flu seasons. That's compelling-to-me evidence that covid in fact has a larger basic reproductive number

Yes, we know that SARS-CoV2 increased, and influenza went away. That's trivially observed. We don't know why flu went away.

To turn that observation around and say "Covid grew faster than flu, and therefore it has a higher R0, and therefore, the flu went away because {insert your favorite NPI} was just good enough to stop it" is begging the question.

It could just as easily be any number of other factors that you're not accounting for. There's also a number of other faulty assumptions inherent in your logic. For starters: there's no particular reason, a priori, that a person couldn't have both flu and SARS-CoV2 in the same year.
Exactly. The difference between WeWork and Google Cloud is that WeWork has an unproven viable market, whereas cloud computing has competing, larger players. (If you are implying that GCP could collapse like WeWork)
Having school age kids means constant illness at home. Not usually severe, but annoying.

Was one nice perk having kids at home. 9 months of no illness.

6 weeks after going back family had Covid. No it’s back in the routine of mild illness at least monthly.
It is when you call it vacation or paid time off. Call it "work delay credits" or something of that nature.

There's an implication from PTO of a different era where you weren't required to makeup work you missed while on PTO. Much of that has disappeared. That's fine for most salary exempt positions assuming you aren't fed a constant queue of work to keep you pushing 50+ hour weeks regularly and it's OK to do 20 hour work weeks and some 50 hour work weeks.

Maybe I'm just old and people don't care that they do more for less TC than they did in years past.
> The (let's face it, silly) notion that masks and distancing suppressed all respiratory pathogens except one is a theory with very little tracti

Are you familiar with the concept of "R0" and that one virus may be more transmissible than another?

Flu has an R0 of about 1.5, and whatever covid's is, it's higher (last I saw was 2.5).

If we postulate that masking and distancing and similar measures act to reduce these numbers across the board, say by 0.6, that brings flu down to 0.9 and covid to 1.9. Outbreaks don't tend to stay around when their R0 is below 1, which would explain why there's hardly any flu this year and plenty of covid.

Source: I was trained as a mathematical biologist and did a bunch of work with compartmental models:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compartmental_models_in_epidem...

In this admittedly over-simplified model, beta is (per wiki) "the average number of contacts per person per time, multiplied by the probability of disease transmission in a contact between a susceptible and an infectious subject".

Social distancing reduces the average number of contacts, masking reduces the probability of transmission, and both act to reduce beta. You reduce beta, you reduce R0, you win.
It's "ugh" in the Jupyter world too.

A good quality standalone "notebook editor" would be an incredible tool. Nteract exists, but is not "good".
It’s because “almond juice” sounds disgusting
Freedom of speech only existed if you didn’t have freedom of reach. Eugene Debs was an opposition politician with over a million votes who was jailed for subversive speech. His crime was talking against entering the first world war. Woodrow Wilson had his political opponent imprisoned for such speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debs_v._United_States

We want to jail Julian Assange the publisher. His crime was publishing news that went against the elites and their dominant narrative. The real crime was that it received broad coverage.

Our government and the FBI targeted black owned bookstores for carrying anti-slavery, anti-racism and black empowerment books.

None of this censorship is new. It will be applied to all mediums when they have broad reach.
I have not watched NBA basketball in years, but the NBA had the most vague definition of MVP going back decades.

What it certainly is not - since the 1980s or longer - is “best player”. Magic over Jordan in the late 90s set that precedent, followed by Karl Malone winning a few as a good but not great player.

This continued in the 2000s, with Shaquille O’Neal not winning as many as one might predict. I suspect that is still the case.
Opera is beyond rescue. As someone who spent a decade working there it saddens me to say so, but please don't use it.

Actual, executive day-to-day control over the browser tech has progressed sort of like this:

1995: Oslo, Norway

2008: Linköping, Sweden

2014: Wrocław, Poland

2020: Beijing, PRC (the sale happened in 2016, but they were hands-off for quite some time; I think they were being busy with shady fintech stuff in Africa enabled by the Opera Mini work we did mostly in Sweden a decade earlier: https://www.engadget.com/2020-01-19-opera-accused-of-predato...)
At a super fundamental level, epidemics take place on a social graph. In a well connected graph spread will be exponential, but depending on graph shape it could be something else.

In particular you could imagine that if people never venture outside their own block that the social network is an euclidean graph. In an ideal case where people are evenly spaced in the plane and only interact with neighbors, the disease would spread as a circle expanding outwards, so total infections would be proportional to ~ t^2, and current infections ~ t.
Nope. Reuters is still a great source of truth. In fact, Reuters is my favorite publication agency. But, it doesn't mean they are saint and won't ever bullshit.

> I'm sorry, you'll base your beliefs on an article in "Medical Hypotheses".

I haven't made any conclusions yet. I'm still analyzing. Both you and Reuters try to belittle the significance of an entity based on its name or the titles of their publications. While it's possible that the publication is pure crap, "belittling" is one of those crappy techniques one can rely on to defend their arguments.