skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This has been a horrifically sad accepted reality of US higher education for a generation. Students are easily-influenced, naive, and economically vulnerable.
Non paywall version here:
https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/it-was-once-kkk-stronghol...
How much do you know about cryptocurrencies, blockchain and bitcoins?
> China doesn't need a smaller population

China needs much less old people, but more young people.

This is not well-understood in the West, but China is a communist country with only a limited social safety net - hospitalization is not free unless you're a CCP member. You can google for "China big sickness" to read about it - cancer treatment or a heart transplant is almost as expensive as in the US (around $200,000 cash in advance each.)

You can see videos on Youtube analyzing this - China is screwed because of the previous partial one child policy, doubly so since that became "the new normal" for young parents.

Demography — China's Reckoning (Part 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-0DGu7gCq0
You also forget to mention they changed the font of certain UI elements to the same as the wordmark, namely the server name. The legibility of the new font is objectively worse than the previous one, though as long as it remains exclusive to the server name I agree, it's not that big of a deal.
What are some examples of "enterprise SSD"? I actually would like to buy one because I suppose they are way more durable than consumer SSDs, and less likely to die on me. But the closest to "enterprise" that I can find are the samsung pro.
Facebook won't remove posts claiming Covid-19 is human-made
With you 100% on the 'block' editor. Instead of offering a decent alternative to regular site builders they have changed the landscape so someone may as well us wix or squarspace since wordpress is now offering nothing better?
It seems to be mainly a west coast thing. "Good vibes" always bordering on fake vibes.

East coast seems to be more willing to tell you that your idea sucks, you suck, and your grandma sucks too. Unfortunately they're also way less likely to give your company a decently sized investment and valuation, so there's that.
I'm reading that was a fake interview
Twitter: Social media giant lists new 'Blue' subscription service
You are correct that this is the same Peter Daszak that is president of EcoHealth and he appears as an author on some papers put out by WIV concerning bat coronavirus research. He was also the only American representative the WHO allowed on the Wuhan visit and investigation earlier this year, after the WHO rejected three other nominees from the Trump administration. There are massive conflicts of interest all over his involvement in this tale.

The other department you are thinking of is NIAID, which is a sub agency of the NIH. Fauci runs NIAID. The EcoHealth grant which went to WIV was from NIAID/NIH. You can find links to the actual grant from this fact check (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/05/04/fac...), which ironically is one of these deceptive fact checks that claims something is false in the headline, then claims deep in the text that it is only partially false,
all while the original claim is actually essentially true.

As an aside, Professor Ebright from Rutgers described the EcoHealth-WIV research as “unequivocally” gain of function research (https://www.factcheck.org/2021/05/the-wuhan-lab-and-the-gain...). He also accused NIH/NIAID of systematically undermining and avoiding oversight processes that were meant to prevent dangerous grants like this, especially since GoF research was banned in the US (https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/04/06/fauci-must-explain-wh...). Ebright also accused Fauci of lying during the recent senate hearing where Senator Rand Paul questioned him (https://www.nationalreview.com/news/biosafety-expert-explain...). Ebright was also one of the few brave signatories on the March letter pointing out flaws with the WHO investigation and study, and asking for a new investigation (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/04/us/covid-orig...).
It completely depends. I think building a site on Squarespace/Wix can very easily be considered irresponsible.

edit: For Wordpress only install reputable, necessary plugins. Turn on auto-update. Keep backups. Things should be just fine. Now you aren't locked into a single platform and you can extend your website as much as needed (unlike Squarespace/Wix which severely limit what you can do).
My first thought was that teaches me to do the bear minimum and then sit back.

That doesn't make me feel comfortable. Luck is a factor in life but we want people to work to give them the best chances.

Perhaps a lottery where each positive attribute gives a greater chance of winning.
It's so interesting to see just how successful WordPress is. Among developers especially. I look at small business websites all around where I live and it's all WordPress and every single one was made by yet another wordpress-shop that does nothing but setup WordPress for people. It's a huge ecosystem.

And you know what I have learned by talking to these businesses? It's that WordPress is still not easy enough to use for non techy people.

Nobody wants to touch their website, out of fear of doing something wrong. So they have to go pay someone to do it every time.

I'm running pinkpigeon.co.uk, which tries to actually make websites easy enough to use for everyone. But I am actually running into a problem where people expect all websites to be like WordPress and the first thing you hear is "oh I don't want to learn another thing". It's only when I show them the system, that they go "oh wow, that really is a lot easier". The problem is trying to convince anyone of this remotely via the Internet. Much easier to do in person.

I have the utmost respect for WordPress and used it much myself, but at the moment it's challenging to have to be compared against it when simpler solutions exist.
Sealed bathrooms are quite common in luxury developments in China, and the Gulf today.

It allows to make up something fancy very, very quick, and no risk that $10 per hour worker messes up somebody's gold plated loo.
Just one more tweak is all we need. Instead of just pseudorandom stuff filling these drives, it should be sharded copies of the internet archive, and a distributed search engine.
The Crisis of Optimisation
If academic research science is having a crisis of integrity, then what can we expect from the world closed door corporate A/B testing?
You're on the peak of mount stupid
Did the same sort of move in 2015 with a Suitcase, a backpack and a snowboard bag. Extremely liberating.
I find the concept of removing entrance tests so more black people can be accepted into college divisive too. Sometimes divisive issues just need to be addressed head-on in a way that avoids unnecessary flamebait or emotional amplification. I feel the article did an OK job at that, considering how sensitive the topic is.
The redundancy is not free. The false positives cause the car to potentially react in the wrong way and that can also kill people. Tradeoffs have to be made in the real world.

Why don't we force ever car to have radar, sonar, cameras, lidar and so on. Who cares what the cost is? If we can save a single life we should equip all 10 million cars that are sold every year with all of these things.

This is not how safety works, if with vision they can hit the targets they are trying to achieve and radar causes issues, then removing it is a option. Radar also uses energy and is extra weight you have to transport and its extra cost.

This is specially true that because of all their investment into vision their new pure vision solution is better then the old vision+radar solution.
What name(s) do you have for it? What's the philology?
Funny to hear that you learned patch queues with mq. mq was my favorite part of mercurial and it's how I learned to use patch queues too.

Thank you for maintaining StGit — I really enjoy it as a tool! topgit is fine, but quite heavy. I don't use stg much at work with squash merge workflows, but I love it for personal projects or when I need to work on a series of commits with intricate change sequencing.
I agree HTML5 is very unsatisfactory in tying parsing to markup, but it has an extremely important and redeeming virtue of parsing existing HTML documents in the wild.

I agree no one should base a new markup on HTML5, but eh, no one is? You seem to be attacking a strawman there.
An "uber for friends who you can ask for favors" app could be a solution, but I'm not sure if your friends would be classed as employees or contractors.

</satire>
WordPress is an open source project, immensely supported, fully customizable to it's core and that let's you port your website to virtually any hosting service out there, that let's you export all your data however and wherever you want.

Wix and alikes are proprietary software, that lock in users on their services, have limited customization options, don't allow you to edit code and have little to no export options.

Whoever pays someone else to have it's website built on wix or alikes is getting a very bad deal, due to the above mentioned restrictions (compared to WP) they'll end up very dissatisfied in few years if things go well (meaning more traffic and more needs).

Source: experience. As a developer I feel the frustration coding for WP, but at the same time it's the best compromise to provide a CMS that the average user can manage
I think there is a sizeable market for a basic 'none blocks' wordpress clone with a limited range of options for themes and plug-ins.

Anyone who needs to install a plugin to add a table or to do a redirect is already well catered for.
Royal Oak isn't really a small city though. I mean it is, but it's a Detroit suburb, so probably not what OP meant.

Michigan does have plenty of nice smaller cities though (e.g. Grand Rapids, Lansing, Ann Arbor, St. Joseph, Traverse City, Marquette, Houghton).
Explanation why HTML is not that great from a CS professor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH0o-QjnwDg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4dYwEyjZcY
It seems you can edit any name of the avatars, creating a custom one.
Ok, that's a little more interesting - a "neutral" benchmark of several tools, though still very much in a niche use case.

Is there any effort to include Julia in the TechEmpower Benchmarks? If it's trying to be a general-purpose language, that's the first place I'd look.
The Phoenicians were at the top of the game when it came to sailing and long journeys. If anyone could do it, it where them.
I like to imagine there's an alien species zipping around in FTL space ships, and the only difference from us is they picked one endianness and ran with it.
1. You're using the technical definition of monopoly in a debatable way to hand-wave away the issue. Each of these companies have excessive market influence.

2. All of these companies are already in bed with the government (e.g. illegal NSA spying). They also try to enact policies that are in agreement with politicians agenda as a bargaining chip to get more favorable legislation and enforcement.
What is "plotting" more exactly, and why does it destroy SSDs (but not HDDs)?
It was NOT the easiest part before HTML5. Thanks to HTML5 effort, it now is. This is the great accomplishment of HTML5.
Ha, did it twice in three years. From India to Netherlands we shipped about 20% of our belongings. But from Netherlands back to India we just took 6 check in luggage with us in the airplane. We setup everything from ground up in India. It was much better than shipping, unpacking and setting it up.
yes, I've replied the same below. Now I've flagged myself (via email) hoping the mods can take the post down. I hate to be involved in misinformation.
Essintial Tips for JavaScript
From that article (edit: second article):

> The economical miracle can be divided into four stages: the recovery (1946–1954), the high increase (1955–1972), the steady increase (1972–1992), and the low increase (1992–2017).

The period of highest growth ended in the 70s, which ended some of the optimism of that period.
You're just handwaving calling everything about the climate "chaos." If it were just climate = chaos x total energy they wouldn't build models at all.
But your parent link indeed shows that ublock origin on chrome is crippled when compared to firefox, not just performance benefits.

More about CNAME:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26347110
Installing a WordPress site is actually very straightforward, in fact the platform is famous for its 5 minutes install. What you are describing as hard to achieve is copying state that is kept in the database, but I don't think this is an inherent issue to WordPress. But if you are creating the entire site locally and want to deploy it to production, it seems that WordPress may jot be the right solution in your case, instead a static site generator would be more appropriate.
I am not a programmer, and I have written one over the course of a week. It passed all the tests in the particular JSON test suite mentioned in the article except one, by design. It allowed bad unicode in parts of the document, because that was the data it was being fed.

I am not even a programmer by profession. Anyone that can write a recursive descent parser can write a JSON parser.
It seems like Phabricator supports this type of workflow, and I really wish there was wider popularity so I could push for it at work. The lab|hub style PR ends up with people falling into giant PRs that are difficult to review.
Yes but even at current population level with 1.5 kid per women, it's still very difficult to achieve quality life for everyone
I went the static site via Hugo -> cloudflare workers sites route. It is so vastly superior to fiddling with hosting a SQL database, plugins, constant updates, etc.

I built an entire frontend around it (my username .co.uk) which tries to reshape how tech novices work with websites.

I have found small business owners I talked to (n=10) to be allergic to dealing with their WordPress or squarespace sites, because despite everything, they are just not simple to use. They just try to cater to too many use cases. Being everything to everyone comes with complexity that's very difficult to navigate as a tech-novice. Though I think squarespace do a better job than WordPress. Albeit more expensive.

The funny thing is, people have grown such an aversion to dealing with websites that I am also having quite a hard time trying to get anyone to look at it. As soon as they do though, it's like a lightbulb moment for them, to see how simple it can really be.

Naturally the trade off is flexibility, but I haven't had any complaints about that yet. I am not dealing with very complex sites though (and wouldn't want to either).
With the trends in vehicle prices being what they are, they might be able to sell the van on the other side of the trip for more than they bought it for.
What happened was... Donald Trump might have been right for the wrong reason (jingoism as opposed to evidence). It's literally a case of "a broken clock is right twice a day." -- but nobody can discuss it rationally because people have lost the ability to do disambiguate information.

My understanding is the NIH was sponsoring GOF research at the Wuhan lab precisely because it was considered to be too dangerous to be done domestically-- and guess what-- it was. And now those folks who funded that very research were in charge of the sham "investigation" to look into it.

And before you ask-- I am as progressive as they come.
I mean it's literally the same idea as in set theory.

phi is an empty set,

(phi) is a set containing an empty set

((phi)) is a set containing a set containing an empty set

Furthermore, it's one of the only syntax rules; if it's not a list, then the first element is an operator/function.
> I find it surprising that you are so much more convinced than a lab director of the lab in question that no such leak was possible.

> when she could prove that the outbreak in Wuhan was not any strain that the lab had a record of storing.

You answered your own question. That's the point here: the evidence does not point to a lab leak.
The old turntable.fm was basically a chatroom in which people would take turns queueing songs for the entire room to listen to and talk about. You could like or dislike the song playing as well. If enough people downvoted the song it would be skipped.

It was pretty magical in summer 2011; I made real-life friends on TTFM and I learned about a ton of music I had never been previously exposed to. I was disappointed when it died because it really was a lot of fun.
After 2 days of wall
To wall coverage in print, online, on radio and on tv, you had heard about it.

Breaking is when things are changing rapidly and an event is currently
Happening.
> If you want performance benchmarks vs Fortran, https://benchmarks.sciml.ai/html/MultiLanguage/wrapper_packa... has benchmarks with Julia out-performing highly optimized Fortran DiffEq solvers, and https://github.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/Octavian.jl shows that pure Julia BLAS implementations can compete with MKL and openBLAS, which are among the most heavily optimized pieces of code ever written.

That seems to be very Julia-specific comparisons, which I'm sure will be oriented towards the use cases Julia has been designed for. I'm more interested in "neutral" benchmarks and more general-purpose computing areas.

> Furthermore, Julia has been used on some of the world's fastest super-computers (in the performance critical bits), which as far as I know isn't true of Swift/Kotlin/C#.

That's more a reflection of culture than performance though. Back when I worked with a bunch of data scientists they would happily run Python or R on our Spark cluster, consuming oodles of resources to do not very much, but balked at writing Scala, even though their code would have run much faster.
I like to point out to people that a lot of the things in Jules Verne books that seems futuristic were contemporary.

People might be aware that submarines predates 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (the first submarine named Nautilus dates to 1800), though a surprising number aren't. In general, mechanical things seems to be the things people are most likely to believe are that old.

But when he described a fax-like thing in his story Paris in the Twentieth Century, people tend to be sure it was a fantastic prediction.

Only the book was written in 1863, and the first commercial fax-like service - the Pantelegraph - went into commercial operation between Paris and Lyon in 1863, and the invention happened many years before. Becquerel, Rossini and Napoleon III all were involved in demonstrations.

Outside of Jules Verne, my other favourite tech that people think is more modern than it is, is video telephony. But when you think about it, the crudest version you can build of video telephony is "just" a pair of TV cameras and a pair of screens. Hence the video-telephony network set up in Germany in the 1930's (but people are often surprised at how old "real" video-telephony is too; people are even surprised to hear about CU-SeeMe these days; then again my son is surprised I had electricity when I grew up given I predate Youtube)

I think a lot of it is because we think in terms of the modern conception of what something is. But as you can see if you look up the Pantelegraph, you can do "fax-like" fairly easy: The early variants tended be variants over the theme of breaking a current (like the Pantelegraph) or using magnetic ink with a simple scanning device that caused the resulting current to directly drive the rendering on the other side. And video-telephony a la Skype or Zoom is complex, but video-telephony a la the most basic camera and screen is simple once you have the cameras and screens.

We see the same with photographs. If you look at modern cameras, they're of course complex and it's easy to imagine them as modern (imagine what it will seem like to kids growing up without having seen mechanical cameras...) but look back at the processes and the simplest cameras and simplest photographic processes are almost literally a science experiment for kids now that we know how to do it, and the genius lay in figuring out the concept.
This is what software should be like. Highly personalized and usable by the designated audience. Not bloated, not filled with "useful" features. Fulfill a core need.

Well built!
This blog is a gold mine, or a deep well. A deep well of gold.

I would love to just download them onto my Kindle and enjoy them out in the sun with a [insert beverage].
Which is an example of ossification, in this case at the IP level.
A + B

I applied to a job posting on Dice that was posted by a recruiter
There are countless reasons for doing so.

One major one being that people don't/can't drive a massive truck to haul their possessions and would rather leave it in the hands of a professional.

Another one being that they're not driving to the place they're moving to, but instead taking a plane/boat/train/foot/bike to get there. Unless they charter private planes or boats, or pilot them on their own, it's a little unfeasible.
> many of your visitors and clicks are repeat visitors

I think this isn't a guarantee and depends on what kind of application you're trying to build. A DMV website is (hopefully?) not going to have many users returning every day or even every week or month. If it's not social media or gaming, it's probably not going to have any sort of consistent userbase, so most visitors are not going to benefit from client side caching.

> You think heavy HTML responses are cheaper than one extra-heavy initial JS request?

If we assume "cheap" means cost-wise here, almost certainly. Consider a search engine like Google. If you are generating HTML server side (ex. PHP), the row count is limited by whatever you assume the user's screen resolution will be. That means a few hundred results returned at most, since no user is going to scroll through thousands of results on the same screen. So you perform a DB query and generate the HTML for a hundred rows or so and return it, job done.

Now consider the JS equivalent: the user downloads up to a megabyte of bundled JS. Then, the JS has to perform a fetch call to some API which probably returns the rows in JSON. At last, the client side JS iterates over the JSON and generates some new DOM elements for each row. Job done.

In the JS example, the user's browser had to download the bundle and the API response in order to render the rows, while the PHP example only queried the DB in order to render them. You might think, well the PHP way still uses up bandwidth to get results from the database right? Which is technically true, but pricing wise your database is most likely in the same data center as your web server so you're not paying anything for that bandwidth (since it's going over a physical direct connection cable instead of the Internet proper). Whereas the user is 100% not going to be in the same data center as your API server, so you're going to get whacked with bandwidth charges wherever your API is hosted on top of serving the JS bundle.

Of course, for the majority of people we're talking about pennies here. It really doesn't matter until you start getting more than 1 request per second, at which point every hour of every day of every month of every year is going to compound your bandwidth pricing problem until you figure out a way to slim down your payloads. Or, just do what most news sites do and keep adding third party advertiser JS until your ad profits outweigh your bandwidth expenses. Lots of options in this brave new frontier!

See 1MB club: https://1mb.club/
Ivermectin is actually getting the same treatment as the lab leak hypothesis had till a week ago. Many credible sources are screaming that it's time to get a good look into it since it appears to be a great treatment for covid.
An undisclosed algorithm being used for analysis of evidence should basically have its conclusions disallowed in court imho.