skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting to read this here. When my son was born (naturally, normal weight, fully healthy, and around expected due date), the midwife in Denmark had educated us about the Danish way of handling the birth - as soon as the baby comes out, they literally put the baby on mom’s chest, and leave us(parents, and baby) alone in the room for about an hour. Nothing needs to be done other than the baby being in care of it’s parents! They believed it helps the baby form a natural bond, but also acclimate to the outside world better than being whisked away and cleaned.

It was such a lovely experience. One of the many things I am thankful to Denmark for.

Several things that I was surprised to learn while going through this in DK.

1. Childbirth is handled by midwives (Jordemothers) instead of doctors. Doctors are brought only when medication or any treatment is necessary.

2. Child birth is considered a natural process and never treated/thought of as a sickness or medical condition. This is reflected in the whole process.

3. The social healthcare system works great. It changed my perspective even more. Not having to think about hospital bills or insurance leaves us parents to enjoy the arrival of our little one.

4. If everyone in the country, regardless of their current financial condition gets such an experience for their childbirth, I will gladly pay my taxes, and never complain. Healthcare should not be a business imho.
all electric Fords coming soon.
The human genome is finally fully sequenced
New wood treatment techniques even allow for wooden "skyscrapers"
The $10/m right now seems on the high side.

Even the copy suggests you're better off not getting this, waiting at least a year for the content to be posted "every month," then subbing for a single month to read it all.

Maybe the Wikipedia/donation model would have been a better play for MDN then this, particularly as freemium was originally about micro-transactions, not $2 more than the cost of Netflix's Basic tier.

Now it falls into the uncanny valley of: Too "product" to be a donation, and not really enough of a product to be a real product.
That's an option that states do not always have. You'll have to make a point in one way or another.
I’m convinced it’s up to the country’s population to take any action. If you don’t like what Russia does - don’t talk to them, don’t buy anything from them. If you’re convinced that certain territory is “illegally occupied” you can say “hey guys, come and study for free if you live there!”. This way you can educate people and try to convince them you’re right. Instead, we end up with Coursera not allowing Crimeans and Iranians to study, or GitHub access being blocked there. It’s such a petty move.
Not having to deal with withdrawal is a superb intellectual boost, certainly.
Most of it comes down do conviction and sticking to my not-so-promissing setup for 1 year, while every single of my peers were either thinking WTF are you doing, or telling me why my thing would fail. The rest is luck where we could scale way past what we though was possible.

I stayed focused by creating a penalty system where if I worked for less than 7 hours that day, I'd burn 1$ for every missing hour. I still maintain that spreadsheet with the self-debt over time (that I have yet to pay, but I will by burning crypto). Also my screen saver message is "get back to work"
420(!) EC2 instance types: the good, the bad, and the ugly
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> Transphobia has long been one of the most major and ubiquitous narratives around which the far right mobilises. The way in which transphobia is utilised as a narrative within the far right must be afforded considerably more academic and policymaker consideration. Transphobia should be recognised as a security concern.
Having the browser vendors write documentation might be an issue because they will all write it for their own browser.
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/ - DCRainmaker is THE run/bike/swim tech reviewer. Extremely in depth reviews with lots of pictures of any and every major tech device that hits the fitness world.

https://weatherwest.com/ - In depth explanations of mostly California weather phenomena and medium term predictions.
We studied that case in my college classes, and I decided to never work in a field with such risks.
I'm probably echoing a lot of people here but:

- Dan Luu [1]

and for design and insights in that discipline:

- Arun Venkatesan [2]

I first saw Dan Luu's list of programming books (https://danluu.com/programming-books/) when researching CLRS during my sophomore year of high school. This list and his insights on pure CS are really enjoyable to read and pique my interest. Also, his post on latency [4] secured the idea that minuscule UX improvements is as important as UI and that we should optimize for both. jvns introduced me to the Recurse Center and dluu confirmed that I could, in fact, participate and do something cool. (I also took his Hugo template for my own blog which has served me well though this week I'll be designing my own with cues from the latter.)

Arun is a physical/digital design nerd and someone I read religiously. From photography to the design minutiae of the Apple Card [5] /Mac Pro [6] /iPod HiFi [7] his in-depth posts really allowed me to appreciate even the smallest of design choices and how they play into the larger, big picture, design system as a whole.

[1] https://danluu.com/

[2] https://www.arun.is/

[3] https://danluu.com/programming-books/

[4] https://danluu.com/input-lag/

[5] https://www.arun.is/blog/apple-card/

[6] https://www.arun.is/blog/mac-pro/

[7] https://www.arun.is/blog/smart-speaker/
The first time I taught a blind student, I was teaching C. I walked up to them to find they were clearly irritated, and said something like "Nothing works, I don't understand".

Looking at their computer, it appeared to be off. I said, delicately, that were they sure the computer was turned on. They laughed and turned their laptop's screen on, saying (as you say), they left it off to save battery life!

The problem turned out to be they were using textedit, which while a nice light (and highly accessible) editor, by default turns "s into “”. Unfortunately, Apple's text-to-speech "helpfully" just described all these as speech quotes. This made it impossible to understand, from the compiler error, why the code wasn't working. A quick head into settings and the student was off (they soon changed to textmate, also very accessible).
I believe they've also been contributing to the docs themselves since Google shut down their own effort (may have just been a section of web.dev?) a few years back.
I wouldn't be including Microsoft in that list. Microsoft's own documentation is excellent.
Virologists (or the DNI...or anybody) cannot, in fact, look at a viral genome and tell whether it evolved naturally or in a lab. The reason these people make these claims is because they, like you, see everything as political.
I am waiting this to be followed by "premium" tier for consumers that allows them to see "hidden" likes.
Ask HN: Does University Choice Matter?
Hi all, I'm about to go to university in the fall, and I wanted to get all of your opinions on whether specific universities have any benefit.

I'm a high-school graduate with slightly above-average grades who has been accepted to a somewhat good university, but nothing like the Ivies, Berkeley/Stanford, or McGill/UfT. My university has had a couple Prime Ministers, some arch-bishops, 1/2 of a tech CEO, & a beloved children's book character.

But other than that, there is no real "prestige" to the university (but the city/campus are very nice).

I'm thinking of going to a post-graduate degree (medical), so I wanted to hear from all of you. Thanks.
New F* Tutorial
I think a more relevant question is:

What if the lab leak story is not true, but it continues being pushed by the sitting US administration for political purposes, then what happens next?

I think a parallel is the Soviet disinformation campaign in 80es trying to link AIDS to secret US biological weapons research. Especially in poorer countries it contributed to skepticism and paranoia around treatments and prevention measures. Ultimately the Soviet empire collapses while the paranoia and mistrust in official authorities persists.
Designing a democratic system on Mars can improve the way it operates on Earth
IRA and a lot of the Russian APT groups have quite a bureaucratic system running the show once you actually start to do a bit of digging. Same for most western agencies as well, but that should be no surprise. I am not quite sure about the management of the various APT groups out of China; there is a bit of a reporting disconnect about the layer between the Ministry of State Security and the individual groups, but given how other groups/companies that are actually run by the PLA operate I am assuming a sizeable bureaucratic layer as well.
There’s always a relevant XKCD!
The README has some links to installations used by open source projects and companies, see my other comment [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27301712
Mozilla's CEO would loooooove this
Seriously. Everyone spies on everyone else and everyone feigns surprise when their spying is uncovered. That's how the game is played and it's always been that way.
https://www.cringely.com

over 3 decades of IT industry commentary and insight.

he doesn't post as frequently anymore but I still enjoy it.
Demystifying Iterables by implementing a Python like range function
> If you can't prove it didn't happen, denying the accusation is libel. Fair is fair.

Yes, Bill Cosby was sued this way. He was accused publicly, he denied the accusations & they sued him for defamation. Everything depends though, it can be harder to show a denial caused damages or is not an opinion ie; I disagree with the characterization of events.

> Maybe the real problem is firing someone from their job due to non credible accusations

Shouldn't an accusation have real potential consequences, like employment termination? In that case sue the accuser for libel.
You're making a claim that vaccine hesitancy is about being a rabid conspiracy theorist (or "mixed messaging). I don't think you're right.

People don't like getting vaccines for rational reasons like: they don't like getting shots (much less 2), they're worried about side effects (which are real), they don't trust new technology (like mrna vaccines), and so on.

I think people should get vaccinated. But I understand why someone wouldn't and it has nothing to do with believing in q anon. It's like paying your taxes: I don't like paying my taxes but I do it because 1. I drive on the roads and 2. it's illegal not to. If not paying taxes was legal, I hope I'd still pay (because I drive on the roads) but a lot of people wouldn't (even though they should) for reasons that have nothing to do with being a conspiracy theorist.
Thanks for the details. I have not worked on a plant that had intake gates upstream of a headpond so was curious as to what the layout was. The nice thing about hydro is that just about every plant is unique!
Or you could make vagrancy a crime and deter people from thinking that behavior is okay. Sure somewhat cruel, but so is making average citizens feel unsafe because there are thousands of people with nothing left to lose hounding them.
The Great Basin area is the first thing I checked, to see if that worked well, and it does.
Or, to be more precise, inversely proportional to age
I don't think that's the negative you think it is. It would provide a lot more clarity on how the browsers differ.
My programming path is similar to yours! Started with C++ then moved into Perl. Then realised that uber-dynamic-typing in Perl was a death-trap in enterprise software. Then oddly found satisfaction in Excel/VBA because you can write more strictly-typed code in VBA (there is also a dynamic side) and even safely call the Win32 API directly. Finally, I came back to C++ and Java which are "good enough" for expressing the static types that I need. The tooling and open-source ecosystem in Java makes it very hard to be more productive in other languages (except maybe C#, but they are in the same language family). I'm a role now that also has some Python. While the syntactical sugar is like written prose, the weaker typing (than C++/Java) is brutal in larger projects. Unless people are fastidious about type annotations, I constantly struggle to reason about the code while (second-)guessing about types.

You wrote: <<I wish C++ type system was more expressive.>> Can you share an idea? For example: Java 17 (due for release in the fall) will feature sealed classes. This looks very cool. For years, I (accidentally) simulated this behaviour using enums tied to instances or types.
Nebraska passes bill to allow banks to hold cryptocurrencies
Of course! I only meant that (in my experience) academics tend to be headstrong and idiosyncratic, they don't always respond to incentives the way you might expect.
this is a pretty textbook definition of unions, which has little parallel with what unions do: they use collective bargain power to obtain more power for themselves, with some breadcrumbs falling down to the actual workers.

works like this: it's all fun and games until the union can get to the point where union participation becomes mandatory for joining the sector/company. after participation is no longer optional, workers essentially end up feeding two owners, with unions demanding higher fees, red tapes requiring more union mandated bureaucrats, while promises to workers get delayed or forgotten

I'm all for unions, but there's some truth in being skeptical and attentive around them. if requirement for mandatory union fees and automatic union participation for sectors could be outright outlawed, I'd be much more optimistic, but these aren't and I don't.
Taiwan SSD Makers to Sell Drives Directly to Chia Miners
>Apple: “we’re a hardware company, it’s not our job to document the web”

Or, as everyone who's ever had to look at Apple's developer documentation knows, to document their own operating system APIs.
From the link:

> Conspiracy theorist Ivan Katchanovski, known in Ukraine for online ballistic “expertise” of trees on Instytutska square to “prove” Maidan protesters shot each other

Which invalidates it right away. I’m yet to hear a convincing story from the Ukrainian government about who shot people on Maidan.
How is saying "I like a comment by adding a like to the list of likes" better than just saying "I like this comment"? I genuinely don't understand why REST advocates think it's a good idea to divorce an application's data model from its business logic, as if the business logic is a minor implementation detail that can be ignored.

HN allows users to like comments. All it needs is a `/like-comment` endpoint that you pass a comment ID to. Anything else is pointless mental masturbation.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
Facebook refuses to appear before South Africa's parliament
Thank god it's gone, it looked awful in an otherwise picturesque environment.
Writing the tool to fire yourself is definitely a level up from merely being asked to train your replacement.
EU should sponsor directly the contributors of open-source software without any middleman. A contributor can switch companies like socks, giving money to corporations is pointless. Also, contributors have to apply to be granted funds. The EU can't really babysit.
It means the drop hits the ground and evaporates or soaks into the sand, I guess?
Sure, but it's not EU's _job_ to fully fund Mozilla. And since when the European Union has to give money to an American corporation? Last I checked the USA is the biggest economy in the world, and incidentally where Mozilla, inc. is legally based.
They could have used other soldiers photo to conceal identity. Again, Protasevich joined Pahonya at a later date, not at the very start.
Yeah, you are right. It's that the vaccine spikes don't stick the way they are intended to, so they are moving around the body like the virus.
$5 a month when I'm using my regular web browser (chrome), $10 a month when I'm using private navigation. $10 a month on Firefox too. Maybe because I'm in Europe and it's adjusted to salaries/cost of living?
So the doctors and nurses involved should just deliver babies for free? Does the free care apply only to standard births, and then they get paid if there are complications? Or is anything involving the delivery plus anything arising from it provided for free?
Society chooses that. You don't live alone but in a group.

What if I, as a boss, only want to promote women that have sex with me? What if I as a hiring manager don't want to hire black people? What if I as a teenager accept to work for a dollar an hour with 2x unpaid overtime? Why should I even pay taxes to support social programs? All these are against my 'freedom'

There is a big big big difference in power between Uber(others) and individuals, and just because someone small minority of people will have their 'freedoms' trampled, it doesn't mean that we shouldn't do what is best for society at large.
You could try to find out by opening an account or alternatively with a GDPR request.

I just checked the chronology again: I performed the initial order months before opening the account, yet the line-level item details are there (and last time I checked, there was no way to delete these, for a payment years ago).

Oh, and I'm almost certain that somewhere within the fine print of paying at that store I consented to all of this, but this does not make it any less creepy from my point of view.
That makes no sense. Aside the confirmation from protonmail of the timestamp, that's not the proton mail UI, so it's at the destination. The timestamp says "Sunday 23...", so it's way more likely to be in the local timezone.
This person is misinformed about basic concepts regarding respiratory disease.
At first glance, this feels a little distasteful. I've always thought of the MDN docs like Wikipedia; a non-profit public resource. Attempting to monetize it feels... wrong somehow.

So long as the docs themselves remain under CC-BY-SA though guess it's not really a problem. The premium features they currently offer seem reasonable, and if things ever get too out of hand the community could always just move to another site. It also doesn't sound like something I'd pay for though, so not sure how successful it'll be.

On the positive side, more funding to maintain MDN could turn out to be a good thing in the long term. I guess we'll have to see.
This lab leak caused a historical pandemic that's killed countless people and infected even more than that. That shows that whatever was being done safety-wise, it wasn't nearly enough. Research of covid-level danger shouldn't be suppressed (if anything, we need more of it to be prepared for the next pandemic), but it should absolutely be more stringently controlled. Millions of people now have to go through vaccinations, quarantines, testing, and more as a result of the leak. It would've been quite a return on investment to prevent all of that time and effort by requiring covid/coronavirus researchers to quarantine themselves from society or something in case of infections.
Sounds more like setting up the stage for deniability / future finger pointing / told-you-so etc.
would you do it yourself if it were an option?
I am using a 5 stop vile system right now, I don't even know if thats a thing the big boys do or not but its the only way I knew to handle things without needing to using lasers or mechanical weighting systems; both of which I have not the least bit understanding of.
ImmuniWeb AI Platform Major Update Q2 2021
Reminder that Mozilla fired the people that wrote the content.
> Why not separate concerns? Crypto currencies work without Proof of Work today.

You mean through proof of stake instead? Yay, now all the people who wanted to avoid having a competent central bank in a free democracy control the money supply get to have the people with the most money control the supply instead.

Jesus fucking christ, you cryptocurrency lunatics have lost it.
Culture Impacts Technology Choice: A Review of Netflix’s Use of Microservices
> https://coderscat.com/ - some fun projects

I wonder if they wished they’d hyphenated that domain
Jobseekers have to apply 100s of job posts.skillsHunt does the same for u
To use your car analogy- just because a new car will be worth more than a used one (and this is much more true of cars than houses), that doesn't mean there's no such thing as a luxery car. Sure, newness is a type of luxery (I'm not sure how much housing price depreciates with time, but I'll believe you on this one), but new houses can be built to cater to wealthy buyers or to cater to lower income buyers.
What's the bottleneck? Obviously the demand is there, right? What's constraining the private supply side to expand? (More explicitly: what happened when the public sector building shrunk, why private sector did not pick up the slack?)

Is the difference that council housing is in a large part publicly funded? Difference in the permitting process?
The Morning paper: https://blog.acolyer.org/

Shocked this has not been mentioned yet. It's on hiatus "for now" but I hope this comes back, this was by far my favorite.
That last part really hit me. Since deleting Instagram there’s definitely people I haven’t talked too but I wonder if it would’ve been beneficial to talk to them at all. Am I missing out?
Then Mozilla would need to move to the EU.
Here are some news articles that might make you rethink that:

- https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

- https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-mozillas-layoffs-an...

Help out, sure. To fully fund them would be taking it too far.
This really looks more like something to get companies to just shell out for. "Oh, you all already use MDN every day for your documentation? Sure, we'll pay for MDN Plus and get a nice bulk discount."
> I mean, I’ve been there, the place is literally falling apart.

I don't understand the need to insult the city, regardless of your opinion of one politician's gestures or proposals.
927 is that relevant one in a surprising number of cases.
>a single nuclear WEAPONS manufacturing plant in Iran

If "mass disinformation campaigns" were very successful, then:

1."WEAPONS manufacturing plant" could be actually a "civilian-critical nuclear power plant related services"

2.You would never find statement 1 is unprovable. In stead you would insist that statement 1 must be false as the consequence of disinformation.

It seems that hacking of any "civilian-critical" services , whether in US or Russia, is less critical than the hacking of people's mind (especially of smart developers/hackers) who would support and thus actively involve in hacking "evil" entities, along with other activities causing conflicts.

I believe HNers minds are less likely to be hacked then those of other communities. (Technology topics are almost never be hacked. I'm talking about politics discussion which is more fascinating to watch how hacked HNer's minds interacting with each other.)

My belief could be wrong because "Mind's I" could be hacked and it's unprovable.
> What if the lab leak story is not true, but it continues being pushed by the sitting US administration for political purposes, then what happens next?

Them it will serve the task of galvanising West's otherwise weak popular demand to do anything about China.

The political system in the West is driven by two things: elections, and lobbying. Western politicians will not go on offensive on China if it will not win them the election, and will probably oppose it if will loose them the election (imagine protesting angry hipster not getting their new iphone.)
Is this, like, a real thing that exists or just a blog post about a thing that should exist? I can't tell.
There’s an accessibility feature called Screen Curtain that turns it off completely https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201443
It seems to be an A/B test, it's $5/m on my side. Which seems fair to me, although I agree about the product angle; I don't care at all about extra content or features, I'd rather just pay to keep MDN going and have everything available to everyone.