skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no one lighthouse number. The site is likely using their own scores that are based on (but not direct averages of) lighthouse. Perhaps they give a score of 1 to the lowest site and scale up.
> No doubt they’re fully vaccinated by now as well.

Why would you assume that? Statewide, it looks like CA is just shy of 50% vaccinated, and in SF it looks like (eyeballing the by-age graph) around 60% of adults are fully vaccinated (and 30% of kids)[0]. So around 40% of the adults (and 70% of the kids) you run into in SF are not fully vaccinated.

You might think it's not a big deal, and we don't need to wait out the full two weeks past the final dose, but many of us don't think wearing a mask in public for a couple more weeks is a big deal after we've been doing it for a year already. Even if the risk is low, why take that risk just to take the mask off a couple weeks early?

> ... but now that the pandemic is getting under control it makes sense to weigh mental health more heavily.

And that's exactly what the state has done (whether intentionally or otherwise). If people still choose to wear a mask, that's up to them, and we should respect their choices. But I agree that out-loud recriminations directed toward random people who are distancing but maskless, and may even be fully vaccinated is ridiculous and goes too far.

> you see people driving alone in cars wearing masks.

Sometimes I do this by accident, just forgetting to take it off when I get in the car. Maybe that's common?

[0] https://covid19.ca.gov/vaccination-progress-data/
Using feature-flags. It is a boolean attribute that gets controlled via an interface. The codebase (Front end as well as backend) build features based on the value of a feature-flag.

When a build is open to public, a load balancer will strategically deviate the traffic between two features and the analytics code will pickup the metrics which will be later used for analysis.

Post build process, based on the review of usage or conversion rate, the feature code cleanup will be done.
How do you trust the content of the adverts?

I mean... on the level of JavaScript, SVG, CSS, etc... you either have to incredibly constrain what an advert can do as you cannot moderate them all or be aware of every possible attack vector... or serve them from a different domain so that the browser security model applies.

The risk to someone like Google of a rogue advert causing an account compromise is far greater than the risk of some % of lost revenue.
When a pretty well known main ethereum developer lost $ 250 million due to a smart-contract bug, nothing was reverted

https://news.bitcoin.com/parity-calls-for-ethereum-hard-fork...
People are weak - and if they see more examples that masks are not necessary, they'll follow. So I'm trying to not wear mask unless absolutely necessary, but it's hard, the pressure is real.

Not to mention kids - masked kids on playgrounds break my heart.
Amazon will distribute ebooks to public libraries
Not sure why you’re downvoted - your comment about Singapore is correct. In fact, 9 fully vaccinated people were a part of that outbreak.

What that tells you is the vaccine will only protect the vaccinated. Unvaccinated people are still at risk and could be infected by someone vaccinated.

So keeping restrictions in place until everyone has had an opportunity to get vaccinated makes sense.
Gardening is one of those subjects that brings me as much joy and satisfaction as developing and shipping productive software to real customers.

There is no greater feeling than to have fed ones family direct from the house garden, or to have raised ones children to understand and appreciate the rewards of cultivation of renewable resources, plants, in their own lives.

Every single human being should have a plant that they take care of, regularly, and participate in its life. No matter if its an avocado pit growing in the window, or a field of leafy greens, the care of plant life is a very rewarding activity.

We eat from our garden daily for 9 months of the year, and this year had the pleasure of seeing our last season's crop of mangold survive winter, rejuvenate, and provide us with ample harvest.

Gardening is a lot like programming, though. If you don't take care of the base layers, you may find yourself with a broken framework and need to refactor.

Just like programmers should know their compiler - gardeners should know their compost. The better the compost, the better the garden ..
Hmmm. Personally, I would much rather have a lofi hologram that is capable of moving around, as much as I lack technical implementation specificity here :)
Starline seems amazing, but there's a black mirror quality to the ultra pristine resolution.
Haha that's actually a good point. I love to have a reference for how my data is structured.
Great idea.

I’d first go with an Internet cafe style booth booking. Book an hour slot and get your coffee included.

Setup cafes in major cities and I think people would use this - could imagine setting a meet with a friend in another country. Parents showing off their new babies. Etc.
Your bubble is showing. SF has massive swaths of people who aren’t in white collar jobs and have been working the entire time. They actually make up a lot of the cases that did happen.
And you didn't provide any argument against them being "needless middlemen". Many middlemen are not needless, like Amazon, where a value is provided that benefits manufacturers, distributors, warehouses, sellers, and buyers. Some asshole buying tickets or PS5's specifically to resell with massive price hikes is not a valuable middleman providing a valuable service. They're a leech, forcing themselves into the middle of a transaction they didn't belong in the first place to steal value from both sides of the marketplace.

HBO was a perfect example of this. Cable companies acted as the middlemen, because HBO didn't have the staff or inhouse expertise to operate a direct-to-consumer facing product. Now they do, but cable companies can still offer services that make their participation as middlemen sustainable and desirable for some consumers.

> That is liquidity where it might not have existed previously.

It did exist, only it was stolen by scalpers. They're not creating value out of thin air. They're not redistributing assets geographically to make them more accessible, or offering secondary insurance or warranties that make choosing them a smart option. They're stealing opportunities from actual customers looking to purchase a service or good, but instead are forced to secondary markets because of rent-seeking parasites.
How's your compost? I've reached the point where thats my first question for every gardener I meet.
Yeah, then Apple will revert macOS to the NeXTSTEP theme!
There was a security incident.

Chrome updates to a version which had a vulnerability and there was a window period, later on chrome updates to a version which didn't have that vulnerability.

Someone noticed this and made the report publicly available.
>"Sometimes they do it because they want to serve their community.[...] "People think they can solve important problems of society if they go towards these [subjects], Dr Javidan says.[...] At the same time, affluent Western societies like to encourage people to "follow their passions" in education and work, Professor Charles says."

Same reason Israel has women in the army. Aspirational collective, national projects and a focus on service to the community override whatever innate cultural or natural differences there are, and national focus on scientific excellence and actually valuing scientific expertise reinforces it.

>"She followed a large group of Australians from age 16 to 24 and says the gender gap in career preferences is already clear in school. So few teenage girls report interest in engineering as a career. No wonder they do not show up in engineering classes at university. Dr Sikora says the move away from compulsory mathematics in school is not likely to help the situation."

The opposite in Australia. Individualism, personal preference, indifference to mathematics and the sciences and personal choice will reinforce gender stereotypes. I'm genuinely confused why people are surprised by this.
I think that the amount of political/social information that people seem to divine from observing maskers/non-maskers, as well as the signal that people think that they are sending by being one or the other, is one of the strangest things I've ever been made aware of.

When I leave my house, I grab a mask, and I wear it basically the whole time I'm out and about. I don't notice it, it's just a non-entity to me. I genuinely barely notice whether other people are wearing masks or not, and therefore obviously don't make any judgements about them.

If I'm walking alone outside during the day with a mask on, I'm not saying "I believe that this outdoor environment poses a legitimate risk to me, and based off of my 99.99+% survival chance from COVID, I'm still terrified that I'm going to catch it from some long distance passerby." When I wear a mask, my thought process is "I don't notice this thing, and if it helps mitigate the chance that I'll get sick or make someone else sick, I'll mostly wear it when I'm not in my home." I'm not constantly putting it on or taking it off based off of my immediate surroundings; I find that to be far more of a nuisance than just wearing it.
It's not virtue signaling, just poor risk assessment.
You don't have to use neo4j or any graph database to use RDF. It is just your current model seems very graph based and actually not that difficult to map to RDF, it would likely be possible to do with a jsonld context, and if you provided such a context then it would make your data a lot easier for others to consume.
Does Polygon stay relevant after Ethereum's PoS?
2^64 is hardly horribly insecure. Its on the edge of what a gigantic compute cluster can do. So its not secure, but hardly horribly insecure. Especially even if you can get a quantum computter working, its not going to be on the same level of operations that a million dollars in AWS credits will get you. At least not for a very long time.

Besides,in most places where that is an issue, its trivial to switch to 256bit algorithms

> (CAVEAT: where the speedup is applicable, which is often hard.)

Grover's algorithm has pretty wide applicability. Its the exponential speed ups like shor's algorithm that have super limited applicability.
Ethiopia = .et
Being very bad at something means that you will work through it without ego. You haven't yet attached your self worth to the thing, so you don't care how you are perceived at doing the thing.

I struggled so much studying computer science in college just because I was afraid of looking like I didn't know something, instead of realizing that I was supposed to not know these things because I never encountered them before.

I took some biology courses for fun, and easily got the top grades in the class because I had no attachment to the result or subject matter.
Oh wow, totally reminds me of the Solarians in Asimovs "The Naked Sun"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun#Physical_distanc...

Reading this shortly before the pandemic spread gave me a really strange perspective on the whole remote working boom.
Voracious, thanks :)
You could, you are right! :)

I still think that batteries are a slower, more complicated (and therefore expensive), heavier and less environmentally friendly tech. Hydrogen just seems more “elegant” somehow. Again, offering potential for much faster refueling. Once you come up with a good way to safely store it in a vehicle or a device.
Nazism is fundamentally evil. Author tries to highlight that there are certain types of people that would get attracted. You can see this first hand with softer version - Trumpism, immigrants from Latin America supporting Trump as you had Jewish supporting Hitler.
read CtCI

CtCI?
While I'm skeptical of homeownership and car ownership in particular for other reasons, absolutely a healthy capitalist economy needs easy access to credit for potentially socially useful activities.
How do you tell from the outside it's not for rational reasons?

I don't see how wearing a mask is irrational just because it may not be critically necessary. It doesn't measurably inconvenience me to keep my mask on, and I don't have to think about when I do need to put it on, so even a marginal safety benefit may be worth it.
See - now we know were all those Qt devs are :)
I find the very notion of algorithms being "privileged" and that somehow math can be "equitable" weird.

I don't see any problem with a teacher saying "this is the algorithm I'm going to teach" and testing them after teaching it. I don't see how that discriminates or hurts anybody. If they know another way, so what? If they can learn that way, they can learn another way.

> because it's not the standard way

"Because it's not the algorithm I'm teaching" is not unreasonable. I never got bent out of shape by a teacher/prof saying "this is the way we're going to do it." I just did it that way. I wasn't being oppressed.
Most internet providers here in Finland provides you fiber connections from 100-1000mbs pretty cheap. And 4g/5g connections from 100-300mbs for cheap prices too. Most of them does not have any data caps.

I have 300/100mbs connection which costs 20 euros in month.
I visited a WebGL page a few years ago in Firefox on a laptop running Ubuntu, and it crashed the X server, taking down all other applications.

I don't know of any other browser feature with that track record.
I think price went waaay up for both, thus mining increased substantially. That was about a time I started looking for a graphics card to potentially drive an 8k display under Linux with open-source drivers (so, AMD), and the price for RX5700XT locally has gone from 600€ (I wasn't going to "overpay", ha) to 1000€: not that 5700XT would have done the work I need it for, but GPU prices locally mirror the ethereum demand and likely electricity usage too.
Ibm is a competitor in this space. Although there is some debate about google's claim, ibm is a very biased source as they have financial incentives to bad talk google.

As far as point 1 goes, nobody ever claimed otherwise. Its just an arbitrary milestone. Walk before you run. Quantum supremacy is a step in the journey, not the destination. You make a hello world program before making actual useful programs.
>* around 40% of the adults (and 70% of the kids) you run into in SF are not fully vaccinated*

Vaccination rates are not uniformly distributed across the state. It’s a big, diverse state and SF has a much higher rate relative to the average.
Any relation to the hypercore project? Sounds similar in tech and in name, yet I can't find any reference to it.
Nvidia sells toys for gamers. Expensive toys, sure. But crypto is for people wanting to convert graphics cards into serious money. Nvidia would probably want to extract a majority of the profits of such customers if it can, because it's doing the majority of the work.
Between Flat Data and Github Actions I feel like we've just invented Yahoo Tubes again but without the snazzy UI.

The simplicity of what Github is doing leads to tighter and simpler control loops that will favour simple workflows.
The whole point of karaoke is being bad at it!
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I agree, but as an indirect consequence it’s allowed highly paranoid people to be able to blame and outrage vent at others. Which isn’t exactly healthy.
It's more like you wanting to buy an i3 that is up to spec for your games, but then Intel launches a new batch of those i3's with intentionally reduced gaming performance because it's not meant as a gaming CPU (in the eyes of Intel), please upgrade to an >= i5
Indeed, and bubbles are in assets not goods to consumption, and stimulus is supposed to boost consumption in the first order, so the comparison seems even more far fetched.
I use an app that rotates my background with pictures I took on my phone, I wonder if the UI colors will change every two hours as well :)
As a (mostly) solo dev of a project, I do switch between I and we sometimes confusingly, at least on Twitter. "I" focuses on my work (which the project mostly is) but "we" sounds more like there is a community (which there is, and others have helped me). So I'm not always sure which one to use for things like "I am / we are planning this feature".
>how do you find out whether your soil quality is still good enough?

The plants will tell you. But the answer always, always is: how good is your compost?

Until you get composting right, gardening can be very frustrating. But it all starts with a proper compost. You can fix almost any soil issue with composting techniques.

The curious thing about that, though, is that your compost, if its a house compost (based on output from your household) is only going to be as healthy as you, yourself eat. So that is a factor as well ..
Try cooking. The skill cap is high, it doesn't take much to make things OK, and you gotta eat.

it has helped me a lot. Plenty of times I don't want to do it, but it's hard to put off for long. You can screw up a lot, and the results are still edible.

Every damn meal I make has problems. Usually it's pretty good, but there are things I can do better with the output and the process. No matter the outcome, I feel better after eating. I'd suggest keeping a small stock of premade stuff on hand. a stack of crackers and some soup. Sometimes I just can't get it together.
With AMP they just offload their concerns to Google, and I assume they will stay doing that. They have no alternative to their ridiculous ad-tech burderns so I can't see it changing.

But who this does help is websites who are capable of producing a fast experience and don't rely on a dozen ad-tech companies snippets, which will tend to be the smaller sites.
Google Glass flop.

Calling it now.
> electrolytic capacitor dryout

Has anyone spotted electrolytics on a card in the last ten years or so?
You just proved their point. Not much has changed in 70 years - still plenty of self-appointed “educated elite” who are more than happy to explain why other people are wrong yet never turn that same filter on themselves. Their bubble and isolation (“he had a classical education”) has left them so out of touch with the life of the common man that they can’t fathom any explanation for their beliefs but character weakness and ignorance. All while ignoring their own blind spots.
I do the same, and I usually have hands full / a small child with me, so it's way easier to put the mask on before you go outside.
Wouldn't it be really difficult to put a 55 inch TV in portrait mode?

Although I think as I live in a city with small apartments, wall-mounting is much less common. I guess with a decent wall mount perhaps it is trivial to rotate it?
"The receptionist’s phrase
had prepared her for the only kind of link she knew, a simstim signal routed via Bell
Europa. She’d assumed she’d wear a helmet studded with dermatrodes, that Virek would
use a passive viewer as a human camera.

But Virek’s wealth was on another scale of magnitude entirely.

As her fingers closed around the cool brass knob, it seemed to squirm, sliding along a
touch spectrum of texture and temperature in the first second of contact.

Then it became metal again, green-painted iron, sweeping out and down, along a line of
perspective, an old railing she grasped now in wonder."
Also depends what you're doing. Singing together is impossible over standard video conferencing, for example.
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> This is what you get when things like mask wearing start to become more of a social display than a rational decision.

I'm OK with society changing and optimizing itself so we always wear masks in public spaces, but especially in public transportation, in doctors waiting rooms, on planes, in the same way they do it in Japan.

Reasons people wear mask even after vaccination is that they can still spread the virus to others. So it would seem less selfish taking care of others. Ideally people do this out of consideration for their peers not because it gets enforced by law. But as I understand this is a hard pill to swallow for Americans and they immediately have to create a divisive situation where it's no longer about being considerate but about "virtue signalling".

People are generally filthy and especially those not wearing masks and going all Karen in 2021 are very likely not vaccinated. The way to tell if somebody has not been vaccinated is to just ask them who won the election.
"As a well-known problem in NPC, the Hamiltonian Cycle Problem can be now resolved practically in deterministic polynomial time, so this problem is in P and we prove that the conjecture of P=NP holds."

I'm skeptical, but the paper is short ...
no, the Chad way would be to not specify a license at all ... what's next? talking with str() about its feelings?
why thank you
Every human brain has inherent, powerful functionality to read depth cues from 2D images to infer object separation, shape, and distance.

Flat design intentionally avoids including any of these depth cues that would take advantage of this functionality. It is one of the best examples of form over function I can think of.
Apple sells tangible goods. Google is a middleman selling online ad services. Apple's customers are consumers. Google's customers are advertisers. Do advertisers care about Google's choice of colors and shapes. Google only needs to be effective at one thing: selling online ad services.

Without advertising revenue the middleman is doomed. Not true for companies, like hardware vendors, that sell products (instead of giving them away as a means to enable more collection of data about users, who will be the targets of online ads).
you see people driving alone in cars wearing masks

Off-topic fun fact: in Germany, that is verboten.
Why 'poor'? Have you factored in everything going on that person's life? Do you know if they have a friend or relative who might be at higher risk? What if they have a young kid and they don't want to risk it? What if they just consider wearing a mask a mild inconvenience when compared to - say - the risk of being intubated?

I honestly can't understand this whole obsession with shaming people for wearing masks. Who gives two shits if someone else is wearing a mask? How does it affect you?
Does this work with existing keys, including ones generated on the device? (as distinct from 'resident' here which seems to generate on computer and copy to device, anything else special?)

Basically wondering if I can drop gpg-agent (for SSH auth purposes anyway) and 'sshcontrol' without changing key.
Ask HN: I (student) accidentally ran out of AWS credits. What can I do?
Basically I was testing different services with my credits and suddenly I see this upcoming bill will be $200. Sure this seems not a lot. But I think it's quite hefty as there was no warning that my credits ran out.
Yeah exactly. I had been noticing Reddit was really depressing and aggravating me; there was stuff on there that I would see and get angry about it, and the anger was what kept me coming back. When I realized that I uninstalled my reddit app from my phone that very night.

It was a fantastic decision. I still have my account, but I only engage with it when I'm sitting at a desktop computer and have a specific community I'm engaging with. I'm a huge Formula 1 fan so on a race weekend, I'll check out some of the posts on /r/formula1, for instance. But no more /all, and most importantly, no more scrolling endlessly for hours. It's been a really great change.
Institutions should be allowed to fail, loose money and go bankrupt because of their bad decisions. Like everyone else in society.
Advice for young scientists and curious people in general
Reaqtor's Open Source Journey
How corporations buy and food made with prison labor
Any advice on actually finding the idea that is worth doing? I have a notion page with 20+ tiny ideas, but I still don't find any of them encouraging enough to spend time on. How to overcome this very first step?