skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had fun with this, it's a great concept and well executed.

Except it did not work well for me at all on mobile. The playing field and the buttons were really tiny (half the size of my finger) and missing them ever so slightly caused the board to zoom in and ignore my next press.
Holy whackamoly! Booting directly from .iso files on a thumb drive? What kind of black magic is that?

This is the neatest thing I've seen on HN since the actually portable executable!
To be fair it does say, “got started,” which is correct. He got started learning math via self learning.
I never understand this argument. Yes, taste matters, over and above any other factor. If it didn't, we wouldn't continue to kill so many animals.
It is worth noting that this was claimed in exactly one publication from researchers that are not experts in the field. The publication has meanwhile earned an expression of concern [1] by the publisher that unfortunately does not give much more details. It is also quite strange that the paper was published in a journal about cancer research.

The other big inconsistency is that the epidemic did not become nonticeable in Italy until late February 2020. If COVID was already present in September 2019, why didn't it spread rapidly like it did anywhere else?

[1] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/03008916209877...
Penpot is really amazing https://penpot.app

Similar to Sketch or Figma but Open Source https://github.com/penpot/penpot
Have a try if you haven't! I wish one day I could replace my Figma workflows
There is a simple solution to this: buy it local. It might solve all issues with the meat (how do they feed these animals, etc.) but you at least know where it comes from.

I know it's not possible for everyone, but there is currently a big surge in local farm shops. I'm lucky enough to have a farming cooperative in my town where i can order weekly food from local farms and shops. I eat mostly vegetarian, but it's nice to have an option for some decent meat once in a while.
You have way more insight than the average non-tech person. You know who is big and a small fry in the game, know the trends. You read the tech news in the last 10 years. You have preferences and opinions.

I cannot say the same about say, agriculture, food or musical instruments.

So yeah, we have some kind of edge here.
For one we could make these viruses in some remote base with no people in 100 km radius instead of a megacity with an international airport.
http://nominolo.blogspot.com/2012/07/implementing-fast-inter...

I've been interested in this lately. I keep getting the feeling that it, like lots of programming knowledge, remains locked up in the minds of a limited set of greybeards.

Not entirely the same thing, but Mike Pall wrote luajit2 mostly by himself. The interpreter alone is faster than the original luajit.

When I see how much small teams like the lua team and Mike have done, I know there is massive inefficiency in our industry. We got caught up in the new hotness and we discard all of the knowledge of the past, to our own detriment.
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I never said people are crazy.

And I don’t know about the examples you mentioned because I haven’t looked into it.

My point is basically that explaining an anomaly by “visiting aliens” is quite a leap of faith.

I also highly doubt that a credible sighting would not be picked up by the general scientific public.

So given the immense vastness of space and the resulting difficulties in colonising it, I remain unconvinced.
I'm not speaking hypothetically; I have spoken to many different therapists over the years. I attempted to seek out ones that would practice cognitive behavioral therapy, but because I guess I'm not good at finding them, I've had ones that tell me they'd rather do things their way. This is after having to switch from one to another and restart the relationship if it doesn't work out. I don't think I can recall any single person I've attempted to cooperate with ultimately producing a positive outcome yet. Seeing someone who is a stranger to you every few months with the expectation that you'll have to open up and explain the darkest aspects of yourself all over again is very draining after it's been repeated too many times.

I absolutely could be doing this wrong, but every time it doesn't work out I tend to lose faith. I wanted therapy to work out for myself, and the people around me are still telling me that I should keep trying to get into therapy, as if it's the last and only option left for me to improve my life, as if there is no other practical way of treating my issues. Given that nobody around me has professional knowledge of the techniques, and that my friends and family are generally not going to want to listen to everything that's on my mind, I'm inclined to believe them. I probably just haven't found the right person for me yet.

About all the people close to me say is "finding a good therapist is hard" and leave it at that. They're not wrong, but I'm trying to figure out how to work around this problem, and it's frustrating. I'm currently on a wait-list for several, and I will only potentially be able to see them for the first time after several months at minimum, perhaps because the pandemic has caused an overwhelming demand for mental health services.
Also checkout u-2-net: https://github.com/xuebinqin/U-2-Net
There is a variant that can turn images into line drawings.
> No one needed to die for you to eat it.

I wonder what you make of carnivorous animals (cats, lions, tigers and the like)?

Should they also subscribe to your weird moral system?
I think you significantly underestimate the skills required when constructing history from primary sources. Unleashing someone on an archive without some library science education is very likely to result in a disorganized mess of documents. You need formal organization skills, some knowledge of document forensics and an understanding of standard document practices from the time you are studying.

Also, in order to write clearly you need a lot of years reading and writing practice. You can get that on your own but a humanities degree is going to get most people there faster.

Amateur historians are good to have around but you don't want to run the entire front line of primary source history gathering off them.
Nice layout of the dominating conspiracy theory that is constantly being repeated on various alt-right media.

Basically COVID-19 is the result of evil and illegal experiments setup by Anthony Fauci (US researcher and long time civil servant) at the Wuhan virology lab and covered up by WHO scientists.

It is as idiotic as it sounds.
Could solar be used to artificially cool mountaintops water like they do in Himalaya?
Resulting economic crisis. There's very few things "too big to fall" that are bigger than China.
But killing is not humane if the individual does not want to die.

Humans give themselves incredible characteristics compared to other animals, it's like they are miles ahead of every animal when it comes to self awareness, emotion, rational thought, it's like evolution in their case made a giant leap and not an incremental step like it is for everyone.

Why are then humans comparing themselves to obligate carnivores like lions, tigers to justify their actions?
Why are they looking at their natural bodies to justify the actions? How come when it comes to taking a life of another animal for sustenance, sustenance that can be achieved without the kill, they do not want to lift themselves up and draw a line between nature and themselves?

There are many things that come naturally yet we do not want to mimic that.
This makes me think of something that's been sitting in my quotes file for years:

"What one wants is to be able to talk with a diverse club of smart people, arrange to do short one- off research projects and simulations, publish papers or capture intellectual property quickly and easily, and move on to another conversation. Quickly. Easily. For a living. Can’t do that in industry. Can’t do that in the Academy. Yet in my experience, scientists and engineers all want it. Maybe even a few mathematicians and social scientists do, too."

-- Bill Tozier, Diverse themes observed at GECCO 2006[0]

I'd like this too. So far, I haven't found it. Both your link and TFA seem to be talking about something like that, so I'm hopeful.

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[0] - https://web.archive.org/web/20120711014452/http://williamtoz...
Why not just compare their water usage by calorie/kcal? Nuts can easily be the largest energy source in a meal or used as a standalone snack because they're so calorie-dense.

https://waterfootprint.org/en/water-footprint/product-water-...
Certainly! I’m just making a statement about their expectations — not about the epistemological value of living up to them. (Probably negative.)

Still, if you’re born in a country with a machismo based culture, where “opting out” is much harder, it’s good to be aware of what game is being played!
Yes it is.

Also of note: when you're insured with a public health insurance in Germany, a spouse and kids without income of their own are automatically insured as well, without extra cost.
> * I don't blame you for being unfamiliar with it*

I do.
Anyone versed well enough to call this man made likely has a lot of skin in the game and doesn't want to risk being ostracized and cast out. It would probably be a career limiting move.
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People are people everywhere, I'm sure plenty of drivers in e.g. Sweden get distracted or make bad choices - indeed Swedish road design policy is that road design should explicitly accommodate that. "Culture" is a lazy non-explanation, and wouldn't explain why e.g. the Netherlands had similarly high collision rates in the 1970s, but now doesn't - not because their culture is less American now (at least, I can't see how such a claim is at all defensible), but because of deliberate policy changes.

You can't prevent all distraction or all bad choices, but you can reduce collision rates by at least a factor of 20 or so with the right policy choices - we know because these other countries have done it. So I think it's fair to say that the majority of collisions are caused by not making those policy choices.
no it is not, not managing them properly, is usually the indication of not experienced leadership...

bad employees (could be a decent person, but just a bad fit for the team), might affect a team, but they shouldn't affect a whole department if the management team knows what they are doing.
You have a valid point; killing an animal in order to eat it is not immoral, assuming you don't let anything go to waste. Factory farming, on the other hand, has nothing to do with how nature works. It's all about who raises the animals and how.

It' the same thing with the environmental aspect. If the animals graze all their lives then it might even have a positive effect on CO2 uptake in the long run, and it definitely is required for some biomes to survive. But, again, factory farming isn't exactly natural.

And yes, that applies to vegan food production as well.
Unprofessional, low-quality employees think employment is "king of the hill," when really it's "tides lift all boats."

Very few people believe teamwork is a rising tide because very few companies do.

A perf improvement that takes something from hundreds of minutes down to 1.2s does make the person who did the original implementation look bad. Questions will be asked why it was so much worse before, especially if those minutes came with an associated cost like build minutes or something, and doubly so if the original author has been claiming any improvement is impossible.

Those people may be concerned that they've been knocked down the hill, but they're also probably concerned they'll be seen as incompetent and a liability, and could be fired (rightly so in this case).

A company will often see an improvement a new hire makes less as making something better, and more as fixing the existing employees' mistakes, with absolutely no consideration given for why those mistakes were made.
Macro vs micro.

Appropriate advice at the individual level is often very different than, and sometimes the complete opposite of, appropriate advice at the demographic scale. It's fine to tell your brother to quit the shit and pick himself up by his bootstraps or whatever; it's both inappropriate and ineffective to translate that notion into social policy.

Systemic racism is a macro concern. Talking about it, and what to do about it, is a conversation totally different than the conversation you have with your kids about their lived experience. Being aware of systemic racism doesn't make anyone a victim. It makes them cognizant, smarter, better actors in the system.
Think of it as giving someone on reddit an award... /s
This is actually an artefact of America's protestant ethical roots: "Your circumstances are of your own sinful devising. Develop a strong work ethic and you'll live a good life; it's merely your choices and discipline that stand between you and a successful life."

It's an unfortunate moral code that creates unrealistic expectations, as well as handy judgments for those in the lower classes (and moral justification for those with too much wealth and power). The "meritocracy" is the modern form. I got to watch it in action during the few years I lived there.
I had very strong anti-javascript opinions for the longest of times, and still feel that writing any non-weekend-project in JS is a mistake.

That being said, I have grown very fond of writing "plumbing"-scripts in nodeJS.
The syntax is so much more sane than bash, the documentation of nodeJS is actually pretty good in my opinion, and once nodeJS is installed and available, its super easy to mash something together to get working. For small scripts, the uglier parts of JS do not really matter, and while nodeJS does have some APIs that feel a bit odd to use at times, it's at least well-documented with examples/guides all over the web.

Some folks use python for that exact purpose, but I always felt that getting something going takes me more effort than nodeJS (the fact that I'm just not fond of Python as a language might also have something to do with this).

All in all... for folks still using bash, I really recommend to give JS a try.
This is a perfectly valid and fine opinion for many new projects. Possibly even most. The point were I dismiss this sort of thing is where it is "all" new projects.
It depends on how sequential your script is. It's not very uncommon to start a background task, do something in the meantime and continue when the bg task has finished. These types of async control flows are very easy to model in JS.

And as far as I can see you don't have to await every single statement, because you can do multiple statements await $`echo 1; mkdir test; exit 0`
What does EFF say about telemetry?

I assume they have some recommendations for situation where you need them but want to do it the right way??
A lot of business is done on the course and you always need a lawyer or finance person. Those who can golf get on the foursome and get the credit.

The less athletic smarter ones get sent the work.
>I saw so many of my peers in college “learning” strictly for the sake of getting good grades, not to understand the material conceptually.

I can absolutely identify with this. I've seen way too many class mates get way higher grades than me without even really knowing any of the concepts they're supposed to be showcasing. Meanwhile all I ever had was conflict with teachers.

My theory is that school is simply aimed to produce docile bodies that will do what is asked of them. The whole learning bit is just smoke and mirrors to fool you into thinking that it's useful.
Maybe you're just an unusually talented coder, but I pay dearly for every little extra bit of C++ my code touches. It's often worth it, but never a freebie.
> it seems simplest that the leading world centre would have excellent safety protocols

There’s an unnecessarily large assumption being made here. We can look at the Wuhan institute’s past and the history of comparable labs to get an estimation of lab leak frequency.

Similarly, there’s a whole bunch of context around things like: what kind of samples did the lab have in its freezers when covid was discovered? In the wetmarket case, what’s the transmission chain from a reservoir through to the market have to look like?

Once you compile all this context, then Occam’s Razor becomes a good tool. But before that it’s just a shot in the dark (kinda like you hint at). I’m not sure any single HN comment is really capable of giving sufficient context for this particular case.
Cool project, is active learning commonly used in industry?
> college as we know it going to cease to exist sometime in the next several decades

Probably not because we live in a crony capitalist society now. It's well established at this point and not likely to change anytime very soon.

College began as a purely elitist cultural institution for the rich. Like all other technologies it was only adopted by the masses once the rich became more bored with it.

The only pre-middle-class-era attendees of University were the highly-religious attending theological schooling and the highly-genius (ala Newton).

In our crony capitalist society college represents a simple and profitable hamster-wheel class separator. The same percentage as has always been will be granted upward mobility while an increasing percentage will remain in place.

Until you convince average intelligence people that college will not grant them wealth, status, or success then they will flock in greater numbers to it like a lottery. They will willingly indebt themselves for a mere chance at a better life.

It's absolutely horrific and disgusting what our society has become. If only we could convince people to focus on strengthening the middle class and having a degree of contentment in life then we could get past the crab in a bucket mentalities that the University system breeds.
For an alternative perspective on this - the official WHO report covers the lab hypothesis:

https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus/origins-of-the...

Origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

And unlike the author here, this report is based upon interviews with employees at the lab and various form of documentation provided by the lab. Including health records of the employees.

For more from one of the WHO people:

https://theconversation.com/i-was-the-australian-doctor-on-t...

I was the Australian doctor on the WHO’s COVID-19 mission to China. Here’s what we found about the origins of the coronavirus
The second thing this generated was "centersuchstrongdefine". I imagined a football pitch with a really thick half-way line, and Doge (the shiba inu meme) admiring it like "wow, center such strong define" and I chuckled. Could've been a nice password.
This paper doesn't seem to have anything to do with the experiment I suggested.
Yes, this is a good point. With the Authenticator app on the phone and unguessable passwords (stored in a password manager on the phone), security all comes down to your Phone’s passcode. Know that, and you have complete access to all accounts.

Apple and Google should just short circuit this and directly be an Authenticator as well as manage the long lived token (the password) behind the scenes, which will eliminate the alt-tab dance.
Compare to Deno, which also makes JS friendlier for shell scripting! https://deno.land/

Coming from Deno, the single biggest advantage I see here is the handy tag function $:

await $`cat package.json | grep name`

Hoping someone will write a Deno port of this.
Oh because it was in the middle of a drought, and it was pretty clear that the only reason that it was eating meat was due to a severe lacking of anything else to eat
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For an alternative perspective on this - the official WHO report covers the lab hypothesis:

https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus/origins-of-the...

Origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus

And unlike the arrticle here, this report is based upon interviews with employees at the lab and various form of documentation provided by the lab. Including health records of the employees.

For more from one of the WHO people:

https://theconversation.com/i-was-the-australian-doctor-on-t...

I was the Australian doctor on the WHO’s COVID-19 mission to China. Here’s what we found about the origins of the coronavirus
You can advertise perfectly fine, just not track users to show personalized ads.

These were the norm in advertising until like 2005.
It will use the raptors to decelerate and hot gas trusters to land in the last 10s of metres to avoid this problem.
From wiki:

“ The variant will use high‑thrust oxygen- and methane-fueled thrusters located mid‑body on Starship HLS during the final "tens of meters" of the terminal lunar descent and landing to avoid plume impingement problems with the lunar regolith.”

Potentially they could also brake down to 0 velocity when they switch to the thrusters and land at 0.1M/s, but they obviously won’t do that because it’s just a waste of fuel.
No kidding. Operation paperclip comes to mind.
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I was in a very toxic workplace for the last ~18 years. It's hard not to appropriate bad behavior. It definitely comes from the top.

From people yelling at you in front of your peers, to the not-so-subtle threats. Purposely sabotaging projects you're on. Not providing access or computers when needed. Being yelled at when going to take your newborn baby to a doctor appointment (pre-scheduled).

It's not worth it. Just find a better place to work.
It's too late to keep politics out of this, politics were at the heart of this from the very start. Without politics the consequences of the outbreak would probably have been much less severe.

In the beginning of January 2020, president Trump was already informed by an advisor who had close contacts in Wuhan that the outbreak was much more severe than China made it look like. But he chose not to act on that, because the USA were in the middle of closing a trade deal with China.
However later that month he changed his mind when the first infections in the USA happened, and later even more when a Chinese official came out with a theory that it might actually have been an USA sports team that visited Wuhan in late 2019 that was the source of the Corona outbreak (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/world/asia/coronavirus-ch...)

So this is not about 'people making this about China', it has been China from the start trying to cover this up and trying to make it about other countries. A more transparent Chinese policy would have given other countries the chance to react early and save thousands of lives.
The something you know these days is just stored in your password manager, protected by your phone’s passcode most likely, so it all ends up being “something you have”.