skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The vaccines are still quite effective after the first dose, and, I'm saying this without being a researcher in this area, should be enough to flatten the curve.

"The Moderna vaccine has been shown to have an efficacy of approximately 92 per cent in protecting against COVID-19, starting 14 days after the first dose." - https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/the-mod...
Will FOSS and uh... indiscriminate distros face hurdles to bundling this? If this is good with interacting with CLI, Linux distros could experience a Cambrian explosion of GUIs. Ubuntu's flutter installer project could get leapfrogged.
I've heard some courses require submitting assignments via git, and that's something that makes a lot of sense. I wish everywhere would do that.

Even if (at first) students just do a single `git add --all && git commit -m "finished project"` it goes a long way to just exposing people to the concepts. Provided the infrastructure is in place (eg GitHub or gitlab instance), it really isn't much different than dealing with a zip file, but provides 10x the educational value.

Bonus points to the prof that builds assignments that involve git branching from an earlier assignment.
I find it regrettable that the things we eat and drink get so much more attention than the air we breathe in regards to health.
I think it's more suited for informal study groups. To learn glue scripting and debugging you need playtime. What happened to MIT, students are too overworked to play?
I've been extremely happy with IntelliJ plugin for Scala.
I do use Visual Studio Code for Python,JS,web, etc.

What would be advantage of using VS Code over IntelliJ for Scala?
I feel like it’s a bit like asking what’s next after linux. hard to say because the solution is good enough it’s going to last. There almost has to be a fundamental revolution in computing to overthrow linux at this point.

That will come, but it’s a ways out and difficult to see. Most of what we’ll see are different abstractions that will utilize linux under the hood. Same with kubernetes. It’s not that a new kind of OpenStack is going to usurp it, it’s that what comes next will be built on top of it as it becomes mroe and more the norm… until the next major computing revolution. (completely decentralized storage on phones a la pied piper? quantum computing?)
Why would you be in crypto if you're a crypto bear?
Scala is one of the smallest typed languages in terms of syntax.

See slide 13:
https://www.slideshare.net/Odersky/preparing-for-scala-3#13

With scala 3, syntax has been simplified even more, e.g.:

No more braces necessary.
Top level declarations.
Extension Methods.
I'm a mammal.
I'm also pretty baffled. I fell for the M1 Macbook Air, and now that I have it... I still reach for my Thinkpad 90% of the time. Maybe it's just because we're in a pandemic, but the battery life didn't really wow me, and the performance was a little underwhelming compared to the Ryzen APUs I had seen on laptops half that price a mere 12 months ago.

And that's just the hardware side of things!

Not only are your coreutils horribly outdated, but getting a complete set of development tools on MacOS is a nightmare. Unless you install the 65 gigabyte monster (!!!) that XCode is, you're getting a gimped toolset, and Apple is kind enough to offer the end user absolutely no modularity in that install. MacOS still doesn't have a good package manager (though Brew and Macports are fine), it still doesn't have support for any industry-standard graphics APIs (sorry, Metal is still a joke), and your "end-to-end" encryption still sends your keys to Apple and third parties.

Seeing a developer use a Macbook used to be a symbol of pedigree back when OSX debuted, since it offered a pretty unparalleled Unix desktop experience. Nowadays though, MacOS has become such a bloated beast that its hardly worth using in my opinion. Big Sur feels like Apple's take on Windows 7, and I can only imagine that they will make the same mistakes that Microsoft did in their hubris with Windows 8.
So if you're performing CPR, could it increase the chance of survival if someone else performed mouth-to-anus on the person? Maybe in the future first aid kits won't just come with CPR masks but also anal dilators and a brush.
Forget window snapping for a dollar, try window snapping for free with Rectangle! https://rectangleapp.com/

And I agree. As a user and developer, I have no idea what the OP is on about
The Herokus of the future will run on top of kubernetes.
The FBI is a political organization and domestic spying machine. The US is a police state.
I lengthened the lengthener URL about 7 times before my browser complained it was too long
Problematic housemates.
Skepticism is fine, but shouldn't you detail the reasons? (not just all possible reasons)
I can give you an example I used a few months ago:

struct Shape {
Shape() { init(); };

void init() { reset(); };
virtual void reset() = 0;
};

struct Point: Shape {
virtual void reset() { _x = _y = 0; }
double _x, _y;
};

int main() {
Point p; // KA-BOOM
}

Compiles without any warning with -Wall & -Wpedantic, fails at run.
Manual UIKit Layout
I'd also add that its hard to run an e-commerce business, you need to source products, manage supply chains, manage teams etc... We know this is going to be hard and went in eyes wide open this is not just about marketing or just about financial engineering. And we have experience running operationally intensive companies that utilize and develop technology.
> “There’s too much publicity,” the XSS administrator explained. “Ransomware has gathered a critical mass of nonsense, bullshit, hype, and fuss around it. The word ‘ransomware’ has been put on a par with a number of unpleasant phenomena, such as geopolitical tensions, extortion, and government-backed hacks. This word has become dangerous and toxic.”

I am... flabbergasted. What? Ransomware has always been a brand of extortion; it's right there in the name. Extortion has become dangerous and toxic? You have got to be kidding me. I wonder what's next for these folks. A life of simple, honest, pleasant and non-toxic crime?
> to add Window snapping for a dollar

You have to pay extra for basic window manager features on macos? How is that even caring about the experience of users let alone devs?
I highly doubt he is making his decisions based on academic studies. He is quoting dubious personal anecdotes to justify his decisions.
I don't think it's the only factor but it's been my belief for a long time that it's one factor. If you assume 18 year olds entering CS programs started to widely use computers and game consoles as kids in the mid to late 80s, that lines up well with the decline in women entering CS. [1]

Again, there are almost certainly other factors, and correlation is not causation, but there is at least logical correlation.

To your broader point, a lot of kids enter college with only a broad idea of what they want to do. And high school courses don't really offer much guidance. High school science classes have very little to do with their counterparts at good colleges.

[1] https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-the-declinin...
It’s backwards on purpose, from my understanding. Bad old days marketing folks still have the upper hand at ms.
What are sovereign democratic nations if not the people who make them up and voluntarily choose to consume what you call "simplistic US cultural propaganda"?

Or in other words: who the hell do you think you are to force other people to listen to what you want?
There's a few decent ones but like a lot of Rust stuff, they're young.

I hear you though. It's, IMO, a core tool missing from my Rust toolbelt.
I think programmers' editors in general have treated "automatically run arbitrary code supplied by files you're editing" seriously as a security vulnerability since sometime around 2000.

(For example, Emacs realised that 'local eval' wasn't a good thing to have enabled globally in Emacs 19, in 1994, and spent the next decade or more closing many other loopholes involving local variables specified directly in files.)

If modern editors and IDEs are no longer thinking that way, I think that's a mistake.
with the current formulas this is true. https://www.forbes.com/sites/williamhaseltine/2021/03/25/mod...

seeing almost half the efficacy after 250 days.
roff et al are about the only thing I don't miss about early Unix. I had a job in the late 80s doing document editing/preparation for a CS professor, and some was TeX and fun and some was nroff or some such and not fun. Even had some special transforms you had to hook into the generate output pipeline.
Reminder that sync is not backup. If you delete a file, all your other copies will happily delete it too, giving you no way to recover.
Oh that's a great improvement.
Ask HN: What do you use to write technical documentation?
By technical doc, I mean server infrastructure, services, network and code (but feel free to extend the discussion to something else if that's your specialty). I'm using a mixture of asciidoc and markdown. I like being able to have diagrams from code in my document (mermaid, plantuml...) Currently I'm using IntelliJ for that but I wish I would have something more adapted to documentation. Do you have any recommendations? I'm also interested in things related to technical documentation in general (good practices,...)
haha nice! I built the exact opposite the shortest possible URL shortener :) https://t.ly/
Back in my day we were "real programmers" and edited files by precisely waving magnets over our hard disks. Sure we still had some dinosaurs around that longed for the days of swapping out sector gears on their difference engines, but they were harmless enough so we kept them around for the amusement.
They are, of course, lying. They don’t want the extra attention that comes from attacking public infrastructure or affecting large numbers of people.

Nobody cares if you sabotage a random small business. Lots of people care when you attack a fuel pipeline. Attention is bad for this business.
I was talking about the Toronto transit system. It's a safer city than London, but definitely not because of an abundance of good samaritans.
In the UK we say I was so tired I was breathing out my arse. Maybe phrases come from a deeper understanding of ourselves than we imagine. Or Maybe not :-)
coincidentally I was reading this article yesterday:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/X1-Carbon-Gen-9-Lenovo-has-to-...
> For me the sweet spot is monolith(-ish) 12-factor applications packaged up in containers.

exactly this.

Once you go with this you take technology out of a microservices definition and all that remains is how you scope your service.....
Bitcoin is something that was created out of thin air. There’s nothing backing it except what people believe it’s worth. There’s no inherent value.

Even baseball cards have an inherent value, ie, the cost of the paper that the card was created from. You can eat the card or you can burn it as tinder in the worst case. With a tulip bulb at least you can grow them and look at them
You can also eat tulip bulbs.

With Bitcoin you literally have nothing because it’s completely virtual. So people are speculating over the value of something that is just a mathematical calculation.

Anything like that can change in a heartbeat. People can collectively decide that it has no worth and then you’re stuck with nothing. That’s what happened with tulip bulbs overnight. One week, people were buying houses with tulip
bulbs and the next week they were worthless.

And yes, I know the argument behind USD and it being a fiat currency. But I don’t subscribe to it because it has critical mass.

We have seen the same thing over and over again in history with stuff like Bitcoin. Dotcom bust, housing bust, etc. I don’t believe Bitcoin will be anything different.

When Bitcoin is actively being used as a currency and not speculation then that’s when I will change my mind. Until then it’s a fad that will eventually go to zero. I believe the US government and other governments around the world will ban its use and use terrorism and money laundering as the key reason. It will go to zero soon afterwards in my opinion.
I can concur (and I've only had a single-unit demo)! It's so hard convey this over text and not IRL.
I mean it feels almost cliche to post this at this point: https://xkcd.com/538/
I buy computers from System76 and they are good. Highly recommended

But if it's not a wireless ergonomic keyboard, I am not interested

The Microsoft Sculpt Ergonomic Wireless keyboard, despite its flaws, is the healthiest and most comfortable keyboard I've ever used. Started using it four years ago and I'll never go back

Ideal if you edit in Vim: https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Ergonomic-Wireless-Desktop-...
So much of this is incorrect. You can prefer the ThinkPad, that's fine! But you've got several incorrect statements.

"Unless you install the 65 gigabyte monster" - It's 9GB. With caches and Simulator, maybe another 9GB. 1/3 of 65 GB.

"sorry, Metal is still a joke" - It's different, but developers who have to write shaders in Metal actually have pretty good reviews of it. They admit it isn't as convenient as having native Vulkan or OpenGL, but Metal has it's charm as a language.

"your "end-to-end" encryption still sends your keys to Apple and third parties." - INCORRECT. It sends your data over an encrypted connection to iCloud without any end-to-end encryption, but if you disable iCloud Backup, your data is completely end-to-end encrypted. This is very different than sending your E2E keys to Apple.

"bloated beast that its hardly worth using in my opinion" - The same could be said for Windows 10, eh?
Have you tried to obtain a loan for a startup? I recommend you go try to bootstrap it without collateral & the bank is just happy to eat the loss when it doesn't work out.
I have been dealing with a similar problem: Very old holdings that I first traded for back in 2013. It's unfeasible to record what I traded then since it goes through a trail of dead exchanges. I've been filing them as capital gains as I trade them now, dating their purchase time back to the year I originally traded for them(thus making them long-term), and their acquisition price as $0.

Marking acquisition price on trades to $0 is consistent with how I've seen the IRS behave in the past when I failed to report stock trades accurately($1mm volume = $1mm taxable when this occurs), and since the prices have increased 1000% in most instances(I buy and hold for years, and while I traded in 2017-2019, I did not trade at all in 2020) the initial cost is easy for me to write off.

I plan to use Cointracker's reports going forward.
You can index your crawl data with StorkSearch[0] then use its js interface for search.

[0]https://stork-search.net/
>I don't have to fight my OS. It works with my brain.

I think that's a mantra that applies a little better to Linux than it does MacOS. Linux is well known for it's customization, and you can really pad out your desktop to be an ergonomic and customized place designed for you. MacOS, on the other hand, is practically the definition of fighting your OS: you aren't allowed to have a proper package manager, Apple has to drip-feed you old coreutils through their notoriously slow XCode service, and now you aren't even allowed to use a VPN without Apple disabling it on some of their apps. I don't really see how a Mac elevates your workflow that much, especially when most of your praise seems to be towards GNU tools and your Linux machines.
relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/538/
> Teaching tools of the trade is, well, a trade school thing

I disagree. So much of our computing literacy is in how to _use_ the systems, and understanding concepts of using the shell, debuggers, source control, etc.

I see these kind of classes as more similar to the foundational courses in math you take before you dive into Calculus. If you haven't studied algebra, or memorized arithmetic facts, it's going to be very rough if you start into graph theory and Calculs I. Math and science majors already have students who have spent literal years being exposed to concepts before they get to college.
I realized a french press was raising my LDL (after switching to a french press for this very reason). Now I use a fine paper filter with a glass chemex for pour-over coffee, and it removes the LDL issue.
There is at least one H mart in Canada: in Vancouver. Great place to get cheap food down town.
Everything you state describes YC a decade ago, or even more recently but none of their current actions beyond empty words have demonstrated this sort of focus or commitment. I don't doubt that all the partners are genuine, honest and ambitious, but it's hard to see from inside the machine. YC is moving up market.

The good news is it's never been easier to bootstrap the phase YC traditionally got you through, and there are a lot more resources and higher level of sophistication from other providers. This is thanks to YC in a large part, but their role and focus has changed.
Of course it’s malicious. In context they were making a tongue-in-cheek joke intended to expose those that never heard about the MLK letter(s) to their existence.

In other news, I only learned about the assassination of Fred Hampton quite recently. That’s a fun one.
It could be something as simple as decrypting some files with PGP or some open source tool
You forgot BSD… oh wait I guess they’re also user hostile because they dare to ship without GNU grep
Terrorism is a non-state use of violence for political aims.

Ransomware is non-state, not violent, and is done for economic, not political aims.
Your most welcome!! That is why I suggested organic marketing! No Ads Spend! It gives you the opportunity to connect with people authentically and asking questions that can add value to your business!! Have you thought about creating a FB group/community? If you don't have one already? It's a great way to engage your target audience!
I'd like to lean towards keeping terrorism defined essentially by intent--namely, the intent to use asymmetrical, threateningly or actually destructive, and emotionally activating ("terrorizing") means to manipulate a body politic or society towards a desired change.

If serious ransomware attacks are being conducted by state actors with the sole intent of causing damage, and we want to use powerful terminologies to describe them, "acts of war" seems a reasonable start.

Yes, this is semantics--but some of my concern here is that just freely tossing around "terrorism" gives cover for organizations not to be diligent in at least attempting to secure their networks and digital assets.
I don't think this is that bad as far as animal experimentation goes. Sadly, it can get a lot worse than suffocation.
If you scroll down to the roadmap, you can see that system trays are supported. We don't yet support native context menus, but that would be a relatively simple addition. Our GitHub readme has a table comparing Electron's and Tauri's features, do you think it would be useful to include that on the website landing page?
Curious then if you are simply not investing it at all?

Average returns over 10 years for something like VTSAX (total stock market index) is 13%, granted the last 10 years has been a bull market. 13% of $4M is $520k even half that is $260k before taxes which I think is comfortable to live on, exception of HCOL areas.
> It's the same reason you don't think about managing swap on Windows

not managing swap on windows means being condmned to slowness
I don't think any of this is a crime?
Was posted on Hacker News:

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Information Does Not Change Minds
As a longtime macOS user and an ex-Linux user, I believe for many the idea goes the other way around. Why fight to keep your linux installation working? MacOS has worked nearly unconfigured for me for almost a decade now.
I agree that is an important point. While that was the population that was tested, I think it is OK to infer that there would be a similar response to those under 80 as well.
Learning how to use professional tools is just scratching the surface of what should be taught. How to design a program, how to document a program, software design patterns and methodologies, how to refactor, secure coding patterns including at a minimum authentication, authorization, and audit systems, how to work with bug tracking systems and repositories, IDEs, unix and shell scripts, how to debug code, etc. Then they should display proficiency with assembly, c or c++, at least one scripting language and at least one higher level OO language and one functional language. Then they should also work on large software projects for practice. Then for electives they can focus on different areas of emphasis such as real time systems, AI, systems programming, database design, networking, web applications, etc.

Imagine you study civil engineering but all your classes are taught by physicists and mathematicians, and you are studying physics. Yes, this is all important foundational knowledge for engineering, and you can't be a good engineer if you don't know any physics. But engineering is not physics and to graduate civil engineers without actually teaching them engineering seems like a massive fail. Adding a "missing semester" in which they learn how to use some engineering software is just scratching the surface of what an civil engineering degree should require. That we have gotten away with this in CS-land is just because of the immaturity of the field, not because this is a good way of producing the software engineers that society needs.
It could be shorter still! Stop forcing HTTPS!
Apple clearly has evaluated Window Snapping and decided not to add it for whatever reason. Rumor has it Microsoft patented it.
The Rise of the Thielists
How do we know they haven't pulled another exit scam, Mt Gox style?
Not with Windows shoehorned into the front? They were called “the X subsystem.”
I've always found some solace in not being wasteful. In theory we're working towards a better future - harming animals now will result in world with no harm for an infinite number of descendants later.

This is more or less "do the ends justify the means", but we live in a zero sum universe, so every action we take has to answer this question (if I eat this food, somebody else can't eat it). It's a matter of determining what we think justifies the cost.
Basically none of which rises to the point of hospitalization and is gone in a few days.

The risk of hospitalization among even 18-29 year olds is not negligible. Neither is the risk of permanent side effects like diabetes. Those autoimmune conditions can and do strike even perfectly healthy individuals.

It is weird how the vaccine is probably 1000x safer than getting the virus, but young people in particular are happy with the idea that "that won't happen to me, I'm healthy and young" when it comes to the virus, while they're deeply concerned about vaccine side effects that really aren't concerning at all.

(And BTW "robust immune system" doesn't help you if your own immune system turns on you due to the virus).
I wonder if that became the word for gambling, on its own, due to the strong influence of Catholicism.
You forgot that the pigs/cattle need food.
I see. Last time I saw Rust compilation speed isn’t that fast.
It really depends on the kind of engineering org that you operate. As a general rule, more standards and easier migration paths win.

Compare that to redeploying your k8s manifests from an EKS cluster to a GKE cluster or vice versa. Its definitely not fully platform agnostic, but it requires much less engineering effort.