skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>statistically speaking the steam store has the most garbage out of all the stores combined x100.

That's basically a non-issue. Steam has had a ton of random shit in there for years and people still prefer it to all of the other stores.

It's in fact preferable to have too much than too little. GOG might have DRM-free games and a fancy launcher that combines ALL of your game libaries from different launchers (GOG Galaxy is pretty neat), but it doesn't really benefit me when Mass Effect Legendary Edition isn't on sale there.
Hetzner does not open port 25 outbound (SMTP) until you have paid your first invoice. I therefore believe them to handle this problem somewhat seriously.
I Have a B2 visa, could I visit the US for a few months, get a job and apply for a different type of visa? And if so, how? Would be in the tech industry ofc.
Yeah. But, I felt this is better than opening multiple browser tabs and losing focus. So, I built this.
I don't mind sharing my country of residence, of all things.
Which is why it makes it so strange that no browser designers seem to get that the way to go is to stack tabs in a vertical list instead of horizontally. It would use more space but the space is in less demand so it wouldn't matter anyhow.

So until the browser designers get a clue I will be stuck with Firefox and the Treestyle tabs plugin which is the least horrible solution for people that use a lot of tabs.
> According to some food scientists, it is possible for the larvae to survive the stomach acid and remain in the intestine, leading to a condition called pseudomyiasis. There have been documented cases of pseudomyiasis with P. casei.[13][14]

Noooooooooooooope nope nope nope.
The real mystery for me that while trust in government remains very low & partisan fear of the other is presumably at all time highs ... at no point does anyone manage to make and carry the argument that the government is too powerful. Instead the US government keeps growing, both in the responsibilities it takes over and the share of the GDP it represents.
Yeah no disagreement there. I had totally forgotten about the JS POC - ugh!

The JavaScript argument is interesting to me in that it's already flawed. I suppose I'd rather focus on the security issues with browsers running code on my computer more than anything else since it's effectively the "but what about ___" answer to so many threads like this one.

I've seen a few other comments suggesting per-process rules to enable or disable branch protections. That's an interesting thought, especially considering you could apply it to either "trusted" or "untrusted" code depending on it's source.
> Linked article refers to the changes in Safari as "thoughtless UI", which is a fairly common argument used against changes that people don't like. Against Apple, Microsoft, WinAmp, Reddit, etc. [...] someone saying "Whoa...this is different and I don't like different."

Back in the 90s Microsoft did put some research effort into Windows 95 and i do not really remember much of a blowback to the new UI despite being radically different from Windows 3.1. There were a lot of people complaining for the higher system requirements, how Win95 felt slower and even how "infantilized" DOS by forcing a GUI on them, but as far as the Windows UI itself goes pretty much everyone agreed was a big improvement to the point that other UIs started copying it to a functional level (ie. not just the window theme). There were even projects that recreated it on Windows 3.1 (Calmira).

To this day a lot of people consider Windows 95 to be one of the best and most well thought UIs.

(and honestly even though i think that overall Win2K is peak Windows, i do believe that ever since Win98 Microsoft started taking a form-over-function approach - see the toolbar buttons losing their relief and becoming shapeless elements indistinguishable from any other icon despite having different interaction with the user)

Sure, some reactions in UI changes tend to be "i do not like different" but that doesn't make all reactions so. And even then, do not dismiss the pure "i do not like different" reactions either: people spent time and energy to learn the UI they use, unless a change is a radical improvement (e.g. Win3.1 -> Win95) they are very justified to be pissed off at how the designers of the new UI wasted all that effort and nullified their knowledge for marginal gain (assuming there is any at all... or even worse, becoming harder to use like many overpadded mobile-first UIs look on desktops).

(the same applies to changes programmers often dislike too, like languages, APIs, frameworks, etc - for many users UI changes are the equivalent of Python2 to Python3, except as users are often powerless to do anything about UI changes, they happen way more often)
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A comment on lobste.rs summed up my feelings perfectly. https://lobste.rs/s/hpk3lu/prossimo_memory_safety_project#c_...
Show HN: 'Sierra'- Framework to integrate web apps with Python(no server needed)
https://pythonawesome.com/a-python-framework-for-building-and-integrating-web-app/

Hey guys, I've developed a Python framework called 'Sierra' for integrating Python with regular web dev on HTML and CSS without the need for a server.

So you would be able to work with all of Python's functionalities and be able to execute them within the web application without any need for the intervention of a server (think Flask, Django) and still develop and style the web application any way you want to

It's still pretty new, so we're developing at a really fast pace to bring out new functionalities

I would appreciate if you guys checked out the framework - documentation and the GitHub repo and gave some feedback on it.
It’s probably a bit more complicated than that… if failure rates went way up because of COVID, it would probably be an honest representation of how little students learned, but it would also screw over a lot of kids and affect their futures. It’s not really their fault that society didn’t adapt well.

I’m not saying they’re right to just pass everyone, but it might not be purely selfish on the part of administrators.
There is a disadvantage for me, because the privacy laws in Europe are stronger than Asia, I lose some privacy protection. Is this a coincidence?

Maybe not but some of my accounts have been associated with European Google entities so it works both ways. It seems that they're simply sorting by IP from which you most often access it since consistent use of proxies resulted in predictable country association.
I would say most teachers pass students so hell doesn't rain down upon them in the form of administrators, parents, and the school district/city itself.
The O-1 visa sort of allows for this in certain circumstances and the E-1 and E-2 as well as the IEPP definitely do - at least to the extent that a founder would get paid by his or her own company.
I have a masters admit for Fall 2021 and am applying for an F1 visa. However there are very few interview slots being opened in India right now and the consulates are rejecting emergency appointments without any reason. Is there anything we can do to secure an interview?
> It’s a virtuous cycle, no? If you are “lurking” then you are not contributing to the cycle but only benefiting from it. Not participating is a mistake, and failure.

Not necessarily. Your argument contains the premise that the choice is between lurking and contributing and indeed if that were the case then contributing is the more beneficial one and lurking should be discouraged. However the premise is false, because there is the third option of not participating at all.

Imagine a group of (say) ten creators, ten non-participants and zero lurkers. If one non-participant switches to being a lurker, the total amount of knowledge about (and enjoyment from) the thing in question will increase, while the enjoyment of the creators stays the same. The total amount of enjoyment has increased. It could perhaps increase even more if the newfound lurker would also create, but that is not always an option and the perfect is the enemy of the good.
I don't know about that, these lines of thinking seem dismissive. There are many valid lines of thought I've read right here on HN-- like one was if 75% of the 1800s generation were alive would society be as progressive and advanced as we are now, or would the elites like JP Morgan think we need to regulate the Internet for pushing unamerican ideals? I don't know how actually character, but many from that time weren't a fan of new political or social ideas.

But I can also think of a few others. Will my poor cousin India, me, and the millionaire rapper Lil Jon all have equal access, or will cost 50 million? Or, if giants like Rockafeller could continue to gain experience and acquire more money indefinitely would the economy be the same way it is today? Another thing to consider is; death can be an equalizing factor-- Steve Jobs died and now he's not part of the labor market. But if he were, he'd certainly get hired over any newcomers. Now multiply that times 1000 as more and more exceptional people become common. There will also come a point where the planet will be overpopulated and we have to choose who gets to live forever and who has to die. Ect, ect..

I think these ideas really need to be answered before people will be comfortable with the idea of a technology that allows some to live forever.
the most exciting thing to me is that they talked about trying to break up the conflict, prevent everyone from flocking together. I love big multiplayer games but so often players gravitate towards one particular point of conflict, the place where they can rack up a bunch of kills. Having a game where different players on a team are given different objectives, different missions, sounds very appealing to me, like a way to keep a larger part of the map actively broiled in conflict.
Who really needs an address bar spanning the entire width of their screen? If you run into an URL that long then it's highly unlikely to contain useful information anyway. Or do you regularly notice yourself scanning through 400 characters of query string gibberish and thinking "that information was so useful that I always need all of it on screen"?
That's fine. Let other people race to the bottom.
To some extent this famous quote is just sour grapes: Jefferson wasn't much involved in the drafting or passing of the US Constitution, so naturally he was not as attached to it as the other founders. Note that this was a letter written from France.
Venv state management adds complexity I personally don't care for.
As far as I can tell, Steam’s main window is a web browser, upon which their web app “Steam” provides the experience we all suffer today. No doubt it has benefits for cross-platform work minimization, but they don’t seem to care how shoddy an experience it provides.
Hah, this is amazing! I wish they taught that in schools. I don't know who they are but they're like a mix between Bill Nye, Carl Sagan, and the Mythbusters. Cool duo.

Great old video. Thanks for sharing. Terrifying goose though.
>really prefer a world where we can be heads up, aware of each other, aware of the world about us, casually participatory with each other as we go about. It's such a waste of personage, of society, when people keep to themselves, wrap themselves in their tight knit world, shut themselves off to the world

Very well said, but far more than a mere preference, I feel that interconnection is the engine driving our cultural and societal evolution and progress. Our paradigm shifts occur at the crossroads where different cultures and ideas freely intermingle. This is why the encroachment of mass surveillance will lead to a cul-de-sac for humanity. Radical inclusivity leads to the opposite of 1984...
ERCOT has been all in the news for the wrong reason this year. Most obvious was the snowpocalypse back in February. During the fall out of that, the ERCOT board went through personnel changes for various reasons. Now, we're being told by ERCOT that we have to once again limit our electricity use because of their mismanagement of resources. It's Texas. It gets hot during the summer causing people to use their AC units. It doesn't take a rocket scientist or even an HN level hacker to understand that a basic management decision would be to ensure your electricity production would be up to the task. If this isn't worth of discussion, then what is?
I can see someone wanting something that the GDPR provides them, while still wanting to use Google. "Right to be forgotten", for example.
Wow, lot's to unravel in this one. First, the kids are trying to skip out on mindless work like book reports. Most of the students aren't bright enough to fool the teacher in the anecdotes, but probably there are some that do.

Next, there's the discipline issue. Yes, they stopped suspending kids in a lot of places because they realized those kids would just be left alone at home all day, and the only reason those kids were at school at all was because it was in some way convenient for their parents.

Finally, there's the homework issue. Yes, homeless is pointless busy work. If something is worth learning, make sure you block off enough time during classroom hours to teach it, otherwise most kids aren't going to learn it at all. Yes, the students are overwhelmed.

We have millions of kids that are from completely broken homes, basic needs like food and housing aren't met, and this person is complaining about book reports? Society is broken.
> With half the term remaining, teachers of seniors received a notification that they would not be allowed to fail students unless they filled out a form right then and there declaring that the student was certain to receive an F.

I think that OP is misconstruing the reasons behind this notification requirement. This notification has to do more with a "cover your ass" policy than lowering expectations for seniors.

The California Education code [1] requires school districts to develop procedures to notify parents of a failing grade. All the CA districts that I worked for had some procedures in place for when and how notify families of failing grades in response to this law. From a quick search, it seems that SFUSD policies 4.2.5 [2] and 4.2.6 apply in this case. The policy clearly states that teachers have to notify parents of grades either 1 or 2 times during the semester (i.e., mid-semester report cards-if you went to school in CA you will remember receiving those).

It seems that OP's school was on a 9-week reporting period, requiring teachers to notify parents of grades mid-semester and that their school added a requirement of filling out an additional form outlining that the student was in danger of failing the class specifically for seniors (probably because most families stopped looking at report cards for seniors). This form is required to be in compliance with the CA ed code as parents have the right to appeal failing grades and not being notified is probably an enough reason for the district to change a failing grade to a passing one in case of a lawsuit/complaint.

I would imagine that failing a class is more "high stakes" for seniors than other students, so they have more paperwork involved for seniors if you want to fail them. Families might be more "litigious" if a student ends up failing a class required for graduation. It is simpler to complain to the board/suing that having to repeat a school year.

The bottom line is that the CA ed code gives teachers final say in grades and even the superintendent cannot change a grade without the teacher's consent. On the other hand, the CA ed code gives some rights to parents to appeal grades and has some notifications guidelines so they shouldn't be surprised of failing grades. OP will be able to fail as many seniors as they want, but they just have to notify their families that they are in danger of failing the class at some point before the end of the semester. At the end of the day, if they have enough evidence for failing a student (that would stand up during a public board meeting/lawsuit), notifying the student's family 9 weeks before the end of the semester shouldn't be too much of a burden.

Links:

[1]: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio....
[2]: ]https://www.sfusd.edu/services/know-your-rights/student-fami...
> “Close browser tab” - immediately exits a Google Meet.

How would you know? Or, put another way: Why don’t you want to trust Google Meet, but apparently want to trust Google Chrome?
Why should they lose their license? They don't need to understand the mechanics of vaccines or immunity to be a proficient nurse, as long as the standard of care they provide follows recommendations and they listen to the doctors around them regarding patient care.

What benefit is there? One fewer person in a critical role due to an incredibly punitive decision is obvious downside. It's like sending someone to jail for a speeding ticket. Absolute fucking madness.
There’s an interesting aside in that neither a CVR nor a FDR would have been helpful in figuring out the cause of the Comet disasters. The way they did was brilliant.
Why doesn't it seem like the government scales with the population? It seems to always require more resources. In fact, I don't think I've heard of a case where some government initiative requires less resources and downsizes itself (I would welcome being proven wrong).

There is a perverse incentive in government to use all of the "resources" (tax dollars) that they have access to. Normally this kind of incentive is counter balanced by competition (the competitor that can do more with less has a better chance of winning), but in this case, the government is a monopoly. They have no competitor threatening to usurp their role.

And where is the accountability? When things aren't getting accomplished with tax dollars, the answer is always "more." Who is holding the spenders accountable for us?
That's not an excuse to spend even more, or create more waste. And such an expensive device should cater to typical consumers.
Yes, and it looks like it changed to Malaysia rather than remaining in Germany.
It's even worse if you don't enable javascript. Suddenly most google services will be in another language (not english) and there's nothing you can do about it. My google account regularly gets switched to Taiwan, Hong Kong, etc because lots of people from those countries use the same (canadian) VPS provider as me to tunnel though.
Thanks. Is there any way to expedite this? My wife and I have planned an in-person wedding ceremony in Canada for our families based on the posted waiting times so it would be very unfortunate if I couldn’t go. (We legally got married in a virtual ceremony last June)

If it helps, I initially applied in October and it was rejected due to a USCIS error. It looks like one of the ways to expedite is if USCIS made an error that caused a delay?
Dates aren’t natural. I know of at least three different date keys in different calendars that refer to the same calendar day - choosing to use one particular date standard to refer to days is choosing a pre-existing synthetic key, not a ‘natural’ one.
Just to clarify for those who have not been to the burn, “participating” does not mean orgies, drugs and going to parties.

The most valuable currency at Burning Man is ability. Participation can be thought more of as creative skill sharing with no expectation of compensation.

People who show up in fancy costumes ready to party stick out more than they blend in. This reality is distorted by social media, because sweaty dirty people doing shit doesn’t get likes the way glittery revealing clothes do.

> In general, all cultures where some sort of patriarchal/matriarchal hierarchy is the norm (ie the tribe elders get to decide for everyone what is best) would fare pretty poorly at Burning Man I think.

This idea is being challenged right now, as Marian and the rest of the board behind The Burning Man Organization have failed to handle the void left by the passing of Larry Harvey and complexity introduced by Covid.

Interestingly, the financial stewardship of the event and those who participate the most (qualify for presale based on previous participatory contributions) have been the key underpinnings of a corrosion in support for what is known as “the org.”

Burning Man as “owned” by this “non profit” group is not happening for the second year in a row in 2020. This is sensible but disagreements with how the board has handled people’s money and “donations” along with political failures around setting expectations has led to an upstart event is being organized in its place.
My wife and I applied for her green card in September of last year and so far she has only completed finger printing. Insane
As a developer from a run-of-the-mill Latin-Country (No special job agreements a la Mexico/Chile) what would be my best chance to get a visa-sponsored job? Work as a local in my country and bid my time for a L1 opportunity? Anything else without resorting to the H1B grind-mill?
I just switched from EC2 to Hetzner. I found Hetzner's approach much more customer friendly, you set up PTR yourself for instance.
Yeah. The report referenced in that letter seems like the sort of thing that would normally be created or at least signed off by a civil engineering PE. Now, one can stipulate that he was very upfront in the report that he's not a PE and the judge is welcome to judge credibility. But I sort of see where this letter is coming from.
California can't fund any of its public schools properly because of Prop 13. None of the wealthy homeowners care about this, because they're all too old to have kids in school.
Yeah I'm also confused by that part. The first said Germany -> Malaysia and the second said: Will be unchanged but Malaysia
Obvious overreach.

These engineers are no more practicing engineering without a license than anti-vaxxers are practicing medicine without a license.

(OTOH, maybe we're on to something there...)
You're forgetting coordinating at scale, and giant piles of money for parallelization of the building the manufacturing infrastructure. You think regulation was holding us back? How about the infrastructure to make the vaccines?
I just took a look at this for my own account. It has me associated with India; I’m Australian, but spent just over a year in India recently. I have never received any notification like the one cited in this article. (Perhaps because it wouldn’t affect which company service is offered through? But the laws may still differ.)

And as far as Google Play Store is concerned, I’m American for some completely unknown reason, and they refuse to be convinced otherwise unless I give them credit card details; so any apps region-locked to Australia are out of my reach.
Wages staying the same over time while inflation happens is the same as wages decreasing.

And wages have been largely static since the 70s. They certainly haven't kept up with inflation.
This isn't representative of application code and there isn't even any mention of the metrics I mentioned…

> No wonder that M1 has specific architecture optimizations that help streamline ARC boilerplate code

No it doesn't. I told you it didn't the last time you said this.
> Using a mode checker on existing software is unproductive, but rewriting existing, working software that you have to shoehorn into a shape rustc .... will compile is productive?

The rewrite is a 1-time cost.

> Rust’s type system is elegant, but Agda, OCaml F#, F* and Haskell, which are in a whole different league of sophistication, are not?

I am primarily a Haskell user, and I already said I have nothing against GC. Those other languages (except for F#) are great!

> has no specifications or alternative implementations

That is a major downside (I work on GHC and wish it wasn't the only game in town) and affects all of those. That's why I put out SML and the CakeML implementation. SML lacks shiny new stuff but the grunt work has been done.

I would certainly use SML over any variant of C for anything that needs dynamic allocation.
I’m happy that these reports are relatively rare. Most of the time, it just works.