skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks unnecessary complicated, but it seems there's no way around some of the complexity if you live in a country without a centrally issued ID for every citizen.

However, the whole gender and name changing process should not have to be more complicated than what people that want to change name after marrying have to do. But I guess there's still no political will to make it simpler.
Godocs.io Six Months Later
Consuming drugs is not a crime in most jurisdictions.

And with not wearing a seatbelt, you are the victim, along with your loved ones and the rest of us who have to help bear the cost of the emergency response to accidents involving major injuries or fatalities.
Absolutely! I want to try that.. We are especially interested in testing the latency minio could offer.
That’s a stronger claim than I was making; I don’t think it’s categorically unreasonable to assume there’s motivation to intentionally release a virus.

I think it’s unreasonable to think there was a motivation to intentionally release Covid.

I don’t think there’s reasonable motivation given when and where the outbreak started, how the virus works, China’s response, etc.

I think the particular scenarios you’re painting are also quite extreme/unlikely, so any claim that a virus was released intentionally would require extraordinary evidence in most cases/I’d rarely entertain that hypothesis. There are less drastic and risky ways with less blowback of dealing with all of those issues, even if you assume a very capable bad actor and ignore the normal and expected amount of incompetence and error.
He doesn't. That's why it said putative.
I know it's fun for people to hate on GNOME but if you actually read the bug reports, the feature was not rejected. The patch was rejected in favor of a different way to implement the feature.
Did you read the article. The investigative group is compromised. The doctors who were part of the group have strong connections and even experiments running in the same lab.
Have Few Meetings
Show HN: One-on-one.tech – I built a business networking website
70 billion farm animals are the small minority, and 8 billion people are the majority?

Is it ok to cause suffering to humans who are minorities because they are minorities?
When we create red tape, we often assuage our guilty consciences with the thought that "it's just an annoyance, and I'm happy to annoy other people if it means they'll do what I want them to do". On the contrary, the red tape that restricts tree cutting in California has killed hundreds of people and cost billions of dollars. Placer County is home to two national forests with "checkerboard" mixed private and public ownership and extensive public recreational use. There is no more important job for Placer County officials than removing these impediments to fire safety, and there's not a chance in hell they'll even consider the issue this year.
Huh, what a coincidence — I just re-read Thud! a couple of weeks ago! An excellent illustration of my point that phonetic spelling is highly dialect-dependent.

(Oh, and don’t worry; I’m a native English speaker, and I can’t understand Pratchett’s gargoyles either.)
> 2) No emoji colors

Colored emoji are working fine in my alacritty terminal. Here's my fontconfig file: https://github.com/dbrgn/dotfiles/blob/master/fonts.conf
Since this is a common misconception, I'll note that humans didn't evolve from apes or chimpanzees. We share a relatively close common ancestor with them.
Hi HN community!

I’m Dennis and happy to show my side project one-on-one.tech which I built over the last couple of months. It’s a website which helps professionals to improve business networking by having one-on-one meetings with other professionals who match their interests.

Problem:

I hate the traditional way of networking and I bet many of you too. Too often I found myself in networking situations with other people but couldn't get much value out of it. After thinking about it for quite some time I ended up with 3 reasons:

- Lack of common interests: Working as a technical person in a business department I usually have a counterpart who has completely different interests than me. Even though it is still nice to learn about other topics I couldn’t expand my network with people where I could benefit from (and the other way around).

- Approaching people can be awkward: This counts for real life situations as well for online situations. Do people actively network via Linkedin?

- Networking in groups: Often when I was in a networking situation, I was in a medium sized group of people with extremely unpersonal conversations.

Solution:

I actually started this project as a capstone project for learning purposes after a django course with no intention to build a real product. That's the way it is when you are bored during the pandemic so one year later I have the first working product ready which aims to solve the problems stated above.
My website allows you to create so called “one-on-one” meetings. These one-on-ones are always related to specific topics so people get to meet like minded counterparts. Other users can then reach out to the one-on-one creator in order to organize a conversation like a virtual/ real coffee. No AI involved which creates matches for you. You decide.
My main goal is to bring together the right people and raise the quality of networking.

Technical Implementation:
I used Django as backend and HTML, CSS and Javascript as frontend (nothing fancy). I implemented a very basic Service Worker in order to provide a PWA. My website is hosted on Heroku.

Future:

After investing quite some time in this project I want to validate this idea in public in order to get feedback. My actual goal is to implement this in larger companies for networking between employees. I feel like there is great potential for this as the networking possibilities in large enterprises are very poor (Please challenge me on this assumption).

Tell me what you think about the idea & the product itself. Any feedback is highly appreciated!
Why would GL rendering be any less efficient ? You don't have to rerender the entire screen in GL or render at MAX FPS if nothing changed.
AWS is a scam not because it can’t save you money, but because they actively try to trick you into spending more money. That’s practically the definition of a scam.

Go to the AWS console and try to answer even simply things like how much did the last hour/day/week cost me? Or how about some notifications if that new service you just added is going to cost vastly more than you where expecting.

I know of a few people getting fired after migrating to AWS and it’s not because the company was suddenly saving money.
Yes, but where can I buy a SPARC CPU? How many of those who have/can have it are running Illumos and are putting money/time in it? And more importantly what's the outlook for SPARC?
HSV color scheme looks beautiful, but since it doesn't seem to have perceptually uniform color change we won't see it used in papers much :(

I think the rule for audio papers is linear change in color according to energy?

So this rep may lead us to hallucinate our conclusions?
> thus bloating the type

Mildly off-topic, but as of Rust 1.50 [0], Option<File> is now the same size as File, as "-1" can be used to represent no-file. You're completely right though about how it would be good to unwrap it as soon as possible once it is successfully created...

[0] https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/02/11/Rust-1.50.0.html#a-nic...
This gets tricky though as you get deeper. Ok you don't want to wear your seatbelt, what about your kids in the car? Does a baby have to sit in a baby seat? If you don't want to wear a seatbelt, get in an accident and have to get scraped off the sidewalk, what about the person that has to scrape you up? If you are disabled due to the accident, who pays your disability? Who looks after your kids now that you are gone? Society has to shoulder that expense. Does forcing people to wear seatbelts result in a reduced financial burden to others? Interesting questions.
Why not?

I don't see tech say getting worse than it was a decade ago in terms of school bias. If anything it is better thanks to hacker rank, triplebyte, etc.
I think the exemption should be where the crime, even though victimless, has a high chance of causing someone harm.

Drunk driving would fall into that category. However something like illicit drug consumption would not.
Dynamic arrays, hash tables, threads: C++ doesn't have those either as language constructs, they are only implemented in the standard library.

Namespaces: prefixes work just fine in C and don't require name mangling.

RAII makes no sense with C's concept of "dumb data" instead of C++'s "smart objects".
That victimless crimes (or purportedly victimless crimes) are responsible for most prisoners in the US is one of those "everybody knows" things, so it might be puzzling that your call to stop putting perpetrators of victimless crimes in prison would get a bunch of quick down votes.

Alas, in this case it turns out that it is also one of those "everybody knows" things where everybody turns out to be wrong, and that is covered very early in the article.

That's what makes the article interesting--it is not just another article about how our prisons are stuffed to overflowing due to victimless crime. Instead, it finds that that explanation is wrong, and goes on to work out what is actually going on, which is a lot more interesting.

Note that if the question instead had been "why are there so many people in America who have been in prison" rather than asking about people who are in prison, then it is possible that victimless crime would be the answer.
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I think it has more to do with accessibility to guns. Anyone in America can be carrying a gun and it’s incredibly easy for criminals to buy them because they are so abundant. That’s not something people have to worry about in Japan or Europe.
It's Wayland-only, right? Alacritty OTOH not only works on X11, but is cross-platform.
Gnome is one of those projects that should be considered "free in license only". While the project is free to hack on as you wish for your own purposes, your chances of being able to influence the development of the main project are minuscule.

To borrow a term or two, it's developed in the bazaar, but run like the cathedral. Maybe an open-air cathedral.

Firefox is another project that I'd put under this label. All the important discussions happen in the back rooms, and by the time something universally unpopular hits the bug tracker, it's too late for users or the wider dev community to have any say.
How to Lose Fat Pad: The Technology-Driven Approach
As a non-USA citizen it seems to me that Americans are really into self ownership, if you're successful that's because you pulled yourself up by the bootstraps, if you're not it's because you didn't work hard enough. So the person is held 100% accountable for everything they do. It's like the phrase "guns don't kill people, people kill people".
They sold their 40% stake in ARM when they were short of cash.

Switch from Power PC to Intel, and then from Intel to ARM. I'm using Apple as a tipping point, to when the new architecture was so much better than the old it completely took over. Obviously with 90% of Apple devices being ARM already it was an easier choice for them this time. But as each Architecture gets more power as the market is many times bigger, it may be more difficult for the new entrant.

That's why RISC V's win (if it occurs) will be because it's Open Source. Linux won in 30 years against everyone else due to that.
A 1981 conference kickstarted today’s quantum computing era
I abandoned having a free (as in beer) mail account around the time google started doing their own advertising in gmail. At first I went for the ideology approach of fastmail, then tutanota/proton mail and finally runbox (or whatever the Norwegian service is called, which was my favorite by the way), but I just couldn’t live with going from gmail to any of those, and so I ended up with gsuite. When google decided to make having a gsuite for private usage harder, I switched to Office365 where I still have the smallest “only in browser” package.

I have to say that whole outlook isn’t as good as gmail, all the things evolving spam is super easy to handle with policies. I still have my old gmail address forwarding things that google would sort into “this is the relevant mails” part of its new inbox system, and 90% of it goes directly into my “unwanted stuff” or clutter or whatever it’s called in outlook.

As a benefit it also gave me a TB of storage and in browser office, and while I don’t use the office stuff much, I do use one drive to backup my photos because iCloud storage frankly is almost as expensive as the entire office365 account.
Electronic Health Certificates Specification
/shrug, I would have taken over given the chance.
Design rules in CAD software?

I know that Cadence's ASIC design tools are based on a custom Lisp dialect. I've seen a presentation at a Lisp conference from an architect who was representing myriad building regulations as Lisp expressions e.g. minimum clearance between toilet and bathroom door. There was another presentation about Lisp software for simulating aircraft engine performance based on various input parameters.

I don't know how close these applications are to Racket's ideal but I imagine they're somewhere on that spectrum.
It‘s interesting that B doesn’t require forward declarations, so global elements can be ordered with higher-level concerns first (e.g. main) referencing lower-level elements further down in the source file. Later C and C++ required a reversed ordering (or explicit forward declarations).
alacritty's lack of tabs absolutely killed it for me. They are not open to the idea of adding tabs, either.
That’s not a feature of Windows, but simply how UEFI works.

https://www.happyassassin.net/posts/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how...
A virus with a novel mutation favoring humans would be successful infecting humans, period. I can't imagine any respiratory virus that wouldn't spread more effectively indoors. This "factor" is not particularly compelling (to me).
Exactly!

2020 will be forever the year I lost total trust in mainstream media. It's one thing to just "get it wrong" it's an entirely different thing when the powers that be are actively trying to promote a false narrative.

And then to turn around and label actual journalism and truth seeking as "conspiracy-theorist" and "crack pots" it is just too much to bear.

Filling the news with endless critiques and shaming of the proper way and material of mask to wear but deflect any attempts at uncovering, How the Hell this thing Started in the First Place!

They have become the anti-thesis of news and journalism and a driving force of division in the United States.

A pillar of democracy and free speech has become the thing it was intended to prevent and is now firmly a Fifth Column [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column
And there are many more that reduce felonies like drunk driving or violent crimes to misdemeanors if some anger management or drug rehab program is attended. It goes both way and it’s not clear to me either is working very effectively.
What would the value be of a company that was the sole provider of all imitation meat to America and was the only meat you could buy because of environmental laws against sale and production of legacy meat.
We people of colour have a shorthand way to describe this system of yours: Lynching.

Communities who think they "know who did it" will bypass the right to legal representation, will bypass courts, will bypass proof of guilt beyond reasonable doubt, and will bypass the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

The result, of course, is not justice, but horrific oppression. Encouraging communities to take matters into their own hands is encouraging injustice.
Yes, China was very successful at containing the outbreak by welding the ill into their apartment buildings. Australia and New Zealand had the benefit of their rather extreme isolation from the rest of the world. India looked like it was doing great til it wasn't.
Apple asks about some of the tracking items on device setup
Where does the plastic in our oceans come from?
Curious to know: Why are Brave subject to YouTube’s TOS?
There's actually a new maintainer as of this morning, but I think there's a lot of work to do so new contributions are always welcome!

https://orgmode.org/list/20210506135804.GE3@krupal/
Primarily Occam's razor. The total area available to coronaviruses in the wild to replicate and mutate in is orders of magnitude greater than the area available in a laboratory.
I don't see why you are saying that has something to do with some attitude from GNOME. There are several Wayland compositors that don't implement that feature.
> Linux utilizes its Alpha port as a worst-case testbed for data race conditions in its kernel.

Is that still true in the present tense? Anybody doing this in 2021? Seems like alpha has been dead for a long time.
Ehrm, just wanted to post this and see it's there already. It's a conference talk, and I wanted to know if it's clear and whether it requires more explanations or simplicity.
This is already answered in GP comment: a career in biology would suffer if biological research were to become more suspect to the general population, with a corresponding loss of prestige.
Am I the only one not particularly bothered by fake reviews?

Because there's a button for "Helpful" on each review, and the most helpful reviews more or less generally get voted to the top -- and there are almost always some really long, in-depth ones.

I don't even pay attention to star ratings anymore. I just read the top 10 reviews and get a pretty good sense of what specifically is good and bad about the product.

Even without fake reviews, star proportions were never that useful in the first place because they're not a random sampling of users, and people are way more likely to leave a review to complain than to praise, so it's biased no matter what.
> On the "toxic" front, one of the core team apparently ... was arrogant.

An ingredient that may contribute to judgment of this video testimony, is that the same person that describes this toxic environment accuses someone providing a different personal impression of the community of engaging in "micro-agression" in the video comments.
There's so many attempts to muddy the waters it would be funny if it wasn't so serious. Even though I'm not sure you attempted to do that here, it certainly reads like it.

So, basically, you're saying that (many, we know how contagious covid 19 is) people got sick and put into hospital/died with a novel respiratory disease in another (or several other) chinese cities first. However, that was covered up or unnoticed _until_ it reached wuhan, and for some reason a researcher who works with coronaviruses at the lab saw a sick patient (at the hospital?), realized "that looks like a novel coronavirus" and decided to raise the alarm? Additionally, after that only Wuhan got shut down, while the other city or cities which should have had a raging epidemic by now still went unnoticed?

That's what I mean, these other theories to explain away what is the most staightforward explanation makes no sense, and invokes too many unlikely scenarios or coincidences.

Regarding gain-of-function, see [nature article from 2015](https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debat...) questioning the safety of gain-of-function research, and the article that [triggered the reaction](https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3985). Part of that research took place in the Wuhan lab.

(Then there are the conflicts of interest of the WHO investigator Peter Daszak, who is very quick to discredit any theory that the virus might have escaped from the lab...)

Again, this is a farce, and it would almost be funny if it weren't for all the dead and the generally shitty situation for most of the world at the moment.
Actually I do have special insights about the tech industry as a result of me being entrenched in it. These are views that have taken years to proliferate into mainstream consensus view. Investing against my insight into the industry is the best thing I've done.
A couple of years ago I had a geology class in which the lecturer (albeit a non-New Zealander) consistently pronounced Ngāuruhoe with initial /n/. Interesting to know that New Zealanders pronounce it with /ɡ/ instead. (I, of course, pedant that I am, insisted on pronouncing it with an initial /ŋ/.)
It's called corruption. Or regulatory capture if we are trying not to ruffle feathers.

Part of the issue we all keep buying this junk and reporting it to Amazon instead of the police, ftc and other enforcement bodies
Let’s be clear:

It has a zero-tolerance policy for some people. Some get life sentences for crimes committed while juveniles. Others get an “Aw, they’re just boys being boys pass” for their entire lives, right up to being appointed to the Supreme Court.
The faulty logic as I see it is to focus on nut crops opposed to all crops in California, irrigated or otherwise.

The problem is political because California has water rights and the legislature does not want buy the water rights from farmers or use eminent domain to seize them with fair compensation.
I have encountered what appeared to be a domesticated sheep that had gone wild in a nearby nature reserve. Its hair had grown to smother its face, and when we startled it it began running in random directions, only to headbutt a tree and continue on another random direction. I can't imagine that it would be about to survive well in this state, so you're probably right. Though it somehow had been surviving, nonetheless
Commie shill alert, commie shill alert!
If anyone on this thread has any doubt, here is Homer Simpson explicitly declaring that he is a "white male": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t28ZB1t6gg8&ab_channel=Mostl...
Pffft. Right - because code is not completely mutable at any time during development.

Have you considered that the analogy breaks after the obvious bit?
The metabolic face of migraine
I was bitten on my chest by a male co-worker with enough force that if I had not been wearing a shirt he would have bitten a chunk out of my chest.

He was not fired or even reprimanded. Like literally bitten. This was while working for Brit Systems.

I was so shocked I just froze. I believe every word you wrote because I too have seen some things. That was the worst (and sadly not only) physical assault, some of the mind games and toxic personalities in this industry have to be seen to be believed. Don't even get me started on the founder that would try to break up his first employees marriages so they would move into his house and focus on work because the rest of their life just imploded (he then pulled some chicanery in regard to the stock options right before they vested, clawed most of them back and the people who sacrificed everything got nothing, HE however became a multi millionaire).
I believe it was about copy/pasting with wl-clipboard, which didn't worked. May have to try it now again.
They don't have words for it but if you've met shelter dogs or animals that have suffered abuse, they definitely understand the concept of evil. I have a rescue pig that I adore but he doesn't trust men because he lived a life of abuse. I can only assume that he sees men as evil, even if he can't make that statement. Some things are just natural. Humans seem to think we have a superior understanding of all things but some things are immutable truths and natural law. They don't require calculus to understand, just to describe.
Do people of color actually take matters into their own hands? There is an incredible amount of violent crime in black communities that other black people have done nothing to mitigate.
I still favor the lead crime hypothesis for why violent crime was so high between the 70’s and the 90’s.

https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/02/an-updated-le...