skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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We are a group of students from Germany, searching for interesting projects, where we could contribute and learn a lot. Our interests are: applied category theory, computational + "anything" and more generally any applicable math (optimization, ML etc.). We actively search for interesting non-standard topics that might be in a long-term perspective relevant, could enrich our backgrounds and serve as a source of inspiration for future research.

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Propublica is going after everyone now lol. billionaires. police departments...who is next?
Autoupdates are like not locking your door so that the burglar can rob you without breaking in.
This is a huge problem in advertising. I don't know if there are any regulations in my country but this practice is rampant. It's unbelievably annoying and when you're watching something like a cricket match that plays all day with an ad break every 5 minutes, it can make you go insane. It's practices like these why I carry no qualms in using ad blockers or consuming pirated content. (Hey, I've already paid for a subscription, shouldn't matter where I watch it, right?). I for one, am absolutely outraged at content producers pushing down dark patterns and attempting to exploit me to the maximum every minute of our interaction.
If the schools weren’t closed to protect the kids, then that seems to bolster the claim in the headline, “closing the world’s schools caused children great harm.”

Children, who have the least agency and the least blame for the situation they find themselves in, were being asked to take a pretty big hit for the benefit of many of those who actually did have more agency and blame.

We closed the schools just fine but still had a real hard time getting universal mask wearing (for instance) to happen. Yet again, children suffer to pay for the selfish decisions of the adults.
That is a great perspective and sounds like Ben Graham's concept of margin of safety in chapter 20 of the Intelligent Investor. Apply that to your investments and find businesses that have a margin of safety and have considerably more earning power than the going rate of debt and you will do well.
Ah, but this is how everybody does things now! An article is text, maybe some images, and of course 20MB of JavaScript spyware.
"Scraping by" with a $1.5M house, two leased luxury cars, and three vacations a year. Get all the fucking way outta here with this "IT'S BECUZ TEH EVIL GUBMINT TAXES" bullshit.
a subset of journalists seem to continually forget that media is still real, social media perhaps even more so

nobody else seems to have this delusion, except cops responsible for investigating threats and harassment campaigns against individuals.
I wonder if there could be positives in the experience, some maturing, and gratefulness when returning to school. On what data is this based on?
Isn't the "bad apple" proverb exactly that one of them spoils the bunch? What did it get corrupted to?
I mean, I agree with you, but it's journalism, not a research paper. This article states uncategorically, front and center, that the source of the information, CDC, won't publish this stat themselves due to "limitations in the data". The "analysis" is pretty obvious how AP did it, from the text.

Again, I feel your pain every day, but this particular article seems fine to me! They aren't pretending to possess secret information and thus be able to have secretly derived insights. It's designed to be read in the course of 2 minutes, tops. Within that category, it's far far better than the 99% of drivel out there. It's a shame to fit it into that class of junk journalism.
41% of school-aged US kids are estimated to have gotten COVID. Not such a great success.

See Table 2 of https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
... so you're saying that for ever kWh you add to your neighbor, you should remove from another house nearby?
Is there a link to private.sh or gigablast Open Source software?
Let's hope these people never learn about the Crystal Radio[0] that does not need a external power source.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio
That calls for a big ol' [citation needed]. I've been doing this for over 30 years, and I've never heard of a single instance of this happening. I'm not omniscient, but one would think I'd at least get a whiff of such if it is occurring.
Hyperloop company: ultra-high-speed travel between Calgary and Edmonton feasible
GPG isn't going anywhere and Debian is not abandoning it.

EasyPG is very mature in Emacs, makes using GPG a breeze and is integrated really well. Age doesn't even support signing and has no Emacs integration.
Ironic comment made in ignorance scientific history.

People might take you seriously if you were Michał Sędziwój and had the published studies from the 1600s to prove it. But then they may not, as they did with Sędziwój. Malone has published studies on mRNA from ‘89.
> If you aren't at least a little bit hungry or challenged, your brain is going produce some lazy uninspired trash

This resonates with me. I know from experience that being comfortable stifles your creativity. I've felt more creative and focused while uncomfortable, be it by resource constraints, heartbroken, lonely or angry. At my age I prefer comfort, but I understand why some artists deviate from the norm, and even behave as if they were deliberately seeking a tortured life.
> Genuine question: what do you think "defund the police" means?

To some people, it means take some of the money from the police, and have actual trained counselors, mental health crisis workers, etc. I have heard of many that hold up CAHOOTS [0] in Eugene, OR as a model, that are MUCH cheaper than police, to help interceed in some cases, where police do not have the training. (the police training for gaining compliance seems to be using taser, force or weapon of some sort, since they are trained for extreme situations)

To others it means completely abolish the police. However, I have heard very few with this view personally, but according to those on the complete opposite side of the political spectrum, this is what they all mean when they say it.

[0] https://whitebirdclinic.org/cahoots/
I find it strange that burnout is always framed in this way. I look at it as one's subconscious getting sick of waiting around for you to grow, building internal resentment. It looks different for everyone after that point but I think that is what drives the burnout we're used to seeing in tech.
> But you won't ever starve or have no place to sleep and your health will generally be taken care of

Which are things I concerned myself with early on. I probably won't ever have to be homeless, but... health stuff - knowing that if I stop paying for 'insurance', regardless of how much I've paid in over... decades... I'll be denied things - that's still troubling.
We're also all the product of several rapes down the line of our ancestors. That doesn't justify rape when it happens now, does it?
Yes thank you missed a zero
Not necessarily. There is an opposing argument that we need to accept the risk of death as a part of life. When does a population decide the risk has been reduced enough? I could argue we are well past that point.

As a culture we have completely lost touch with the natural cycles of life. The boomers in positions of power have clearly prioritized their own safety at the expense of the upcoming generations.

That's probably inflammatory. But it's a popular opinion where I'm from that isn't vocalized in the media.

Without trying to say one take is right or wrong, this can in a lot ways be reduced to the security vs freedom tradeoff.
There's a log home building place that just started near where I live. I still have my tools from when I did it as a kid. Very tempting.
>>> political reporting is basically TMZ for boring, ugly people.

Can I get that on a TShirt please ?

(And yes, was it Nietscheze who says politicians are just sales people for their manifestos?)
Nonesense. When they get a gag order they have zero choice and recourse. Their options are shutting down the company or comply. They can join a legal fight to stop this practice, they however must comply with every order they get.
I'm speaking as an American. Owning also lets you build equity and get it back someday.
It seems like a smart decision once you look at car companies' market caps:

Tesla: $651 B

Toyota: $288 B

Volkswagen: $152 B

Daimler / Mercedes: $99 B

Ford: $60 B
Building a Successful Startup with Go
Maintainers aren’t interested in taking on extra chores. However, important contributors already do receive attribution, in the format of news articles, here:

https://lwn.net/Archives/
Yes, we saw that work very well with the lab leak story.

</sarcasm>

The world is changing and we don't know the answers. We should focus on inclusion of all suggestions and then order the world so that we can afford to have some people make mistakes - the alternative is that at some point we are going to have everybody (forced or not) make some terrible mistake from which we, as a society, will not recover.
should attempt to start with a shop class / home economics being mandatory like Gym was when i was in highschool... Thankfully they were available to me - to many of my friend's kids don't even have the option these days as the shops and kitchen labs are closed due to costs... but they sure fund the shit out of sports.
Is not a tree and is a huge headache, yep. It depends on the location. What is normal for Europe can be a economical sink hole in US.
If I was already well-paid, I probably wouldn't leave a job just because of the investment money but if I already wanted to start my own business and could do with the extra dollars for R&D, it would definitely be worth looking at.

Assuming of course, you don't have any qualms about your tech being used to kill people at a later date :-/
"One bad apple doesn't spoil the bunch" in response to police violence.

This happens to phrases a lot. Also consider: "pull yourself up by your bootstraps!" when the original purpose of that phrase was to mock the absurdity of the notion.

edit: Merriam-Webster did a blog post on it https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/one-bad-apple-...
Wait, what are they measuring? Shouldn’t they measure incoming fluid temperature, outgoing fluid temperature, and volume?

I thought the scam would be to heat the metal temperature probe inside the exit pipe faster than it rejected that heat (doable with an RF beam).
because $3 billion is tiny compared to Tesla's size
It's interesting that people are willing to provide the "we shouldn't make conclusions without facts" argument for hydroxychloroquine, but insist that they were "right" about the lab leak way back in March 2020 when nobody knew anything.
What's unethical about ticket scalping?
I've had people try to tell me "all cops are bastards" actually means we need to do a better job policing the police, with a straight face.

Poorly chosen slogans seem like they really hurt the movement. But maybe the ACAB crowd truly does think all cops are bastards.
>Clearly not, as most libraries are now Python 3 only, so the switch did happen.

You don't build a convincing argument that the python developers did nothing wrong when saying this 1.5 years after python 2.7 has been EOL.

>I do see a lot of people complaining but I see no practical solutions being suggested. "Just don't do a breaking change" isn't a practical solution when the problem being fixed was such a core feature of every language, strings.

A system should have been put in place to allow python3 code to import python2 code. Then people have an incentive to actually run python3 and use python3 features.

More people are stuck on Java8 which has been EOL for a very long time. They are often stuck because Android hasn't upgraded afaik. But Java11, 14, etc can use almost all Java8 code unless it uses I think sun.misc.Unsafe or something like that. The point is that people can use modern Javas with Java libraries targeting older versions.
I'm not so sure about it not being partisan. When I think of "own" in this context, it's mostly in relation to "owning the libs." I'm not sure if this particular usage is used mostly by left-leaning pols ironically, or right-leaning pols unironically, however.
There is no such thing as dispassionate cost benefit analysis (or at least, there isn't outside of a very narrow range of specific cases).

Cost benefit analysis for big complex issues like coronavirus requires the identification and quantification of things that are really difficult to identify and quantify, and there's no easy way to do that without some form of subjective value judgement.

CBA done properly is a good way to make these judgements explicit and transparent. CBA done badly is a good way to hide those judgements behind a load of figures. Neither is dispassionate.
> But these children will grow up soon and one day ask, "Why us?" I hope we have a better answer for them than, "There was much we didn't know..."

It's a good lesson that life is messy and unpredictable and society can only do so much to shield us from that.

If they cannot come to grips with the idea that a year of their education was sacrificed to try and save lives during a global pandemic, that's on them. Kids around the world and throughout history lose education for way worse reasons.

For instance, when I was growing up I lost at least a year to teacher strikes. My teachers went on strike for months at least once at every level of my education, Elementary, Secondary, and University (Yes, I was paying for it. I lost more than half a semester. No I wasn't refunded or credited for the next year or anything.)

I wish I could say I lost that time because we were trying to save lives, instead of "My teachers union was happy to use my education as a bargaining chip in trying to negotiate for a better collective agreement, and my school board would rather let me and everyone else go without than give the teachers union what they wanted"

At least "we were trying to slow a pandemic and save lives" sounds heroic.
Precisely! Especially for your average Chrome extension from a developer you don't trust.

(Also, author here: I submitted the link with a shorter title that works best with HN's character constraints)
It's well known that you should make the "correct" choice the default. So unicode should have been opt-out (from __past__ import legacy_strings). Result: Everyone batch-adds unicode opt-out to their whole codebase, but new files use the modern way. Gradually people remove the opt outs as they go over old code.
> You can just imagine how bad it gets for any other random company out there.

Or how surprisingly solid developers can be at non FAANG places. Not everyone aspires to work at Amazon.
For those unaware, the Washington Post has gone back and retroactively edited their articles from when Trump was president, where they claimed that the lab leak theory was “debunked”

Journalism is dead, and apparently pointing that out on Hacker News will get your comment deleted for “not adding to the discussion”
Not your down vote.

You(ABA/Federal Gov't) claim us as subjects to your federal state. Notice the COVID bailouts going to the highest cost of living states with the largest state income taxes and budget deficits/debts? I don't really give a fuck about equal protection for states when the administrators are wholly removed from accountability. Notice the gun laws in DC and NY - the political and financial centers? Weird how the powerful in those states aren't accountable for their failures, always a bailout at the expense of labor for their financial and political quandries.
How many times in the last couple decades have the financiers revealed themselves as liars while paying no personal cost for their lies and deceits?

In an above comment -

" > My New York bar oath says: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of New York."

Note the order. "

The 14th Amendment is a fraud not because Southern states didn't ratify it while not apart of the Union. It's a fraud in the lack of enforcement against the power structures that initially enacted it.

I don't believe you'd see it my way, I'm thinking because it's a bit - to quote Upton Sinclair, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
Do we know when and why the perception of child nudity has shifted ?
Microsoft Learn has Rust learning content as well: https://docs.microsoft.com/learn/paths/rust-first-steps/
This is more of a question to anyone that may have insider information

It is normal for any large organization to be interested and use many language

But is microsoft really getting invested and interest in Rust?
Will the start using Rust for some of their major products
Or is this just business as usual
Yes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_conservation
Ugh, Twitter mobs? Governments that got the pandemic "under control" gained approval ratings, the ones that messed up, well, that I agree with Biden aide that quipped "Covid is the best thing that ever happened to [Biden]". Had Dumbass & Co. got it under control, he would've probably won the reelection...

So I don't think it's just the Twitter mobs...
Everyone's always bitter how technology's stepping stones fit into particular niches and manage to eek by -- providing inspiration for better systems to come when there is a proper problem and ecosystem to support them isn't enough for these types. It's like questioning the purpose and validity of the moonshot.
Which is the problem with they mosquito shooting turret, as well.

I hate mosquitos as much as slugs - but I do not like people to loose their eyesight over it.

There would have to be many reliable savety mechanism, before this can become a thing.

Otherwise I will have trained one, to target ticks as well.
Isn't that something that's contractually agreed?? My work couldn't cut my holidays if they wanted to. They could make it difficult for me to actually book them by denying requests though.

Ps didn't get to RTFA as I'm on the go sorry
Plug-ins and extensions to GUI applications tend to end in tears. If you add enough extensions to your web browser or IDE it will be FUBAR.

The reason?

One reason is that any code that uses CPU and blocks rendering can freeze the app. Browsers avoid this more than anything but at severe cost (asynchronous everything, limited content filtering, …). No individual memory allocation is bad but make enough of them and you have a problem. Malware is a big problem but is down the list.

I tell people to (1) not install extensions, (2) only install a few trusted extensions that save resources (ad blockers, anti tracking)

Installing some extension because it is going to make it ‘easier’ to use a feature on some website is like buying stuff on the dark web and being amazed when you get a visit from the FBI.
People said this 3 years ago too, arguing Tesla was too big. guess what: it got way bigger. Tesla is forcing other brands to have to adapt or die. They are way behind Tesla in technology, infrastructure, and marketshare for electric vehicle and battery tech.
I believe (or at least hope) we would hear about it from implementors.

I was acquainted with some black hats in junior high and high school. Guessing how they are as adults, I'm pretty sure you can always find someone who will do it for the lulz, if not for the money.
> If the schools weren’t closed to protect the kids, then that seems to bolster the claim in the headline, “closing the world’s schools caused children great harm.”

Absolutely, it did!

But is that more harm than if their parents, siblings, grandparents, or friends got sick or died from covid?

In short: Does that harm outweigh, balance, or is it overwhelmed by the harm caused but not closing schools?

That's not an easy question.

That being said, while I disagree with how the article's initial positioning on this topic (that governments didn't weigh the harms), I 100% agree with the rest of the article and I hope governments use this as an opportunity to improve education by learning from these experiences.

> We closed the schools just fine but still had a real hard time getting universal mask wearing (for instance) to happen. Yet again, children suffer to pay for the selfish decisions of the adults.

This is sounding suspiciously like a nirvana fallacy.

All solutions for managing COVID are imperfect, and the defenses are layered. I struggle to believe there is any scenario where school closures are not a useful tool in the COVID prevention toolkit.

Would it be nice if other measures were more effective and school closures could be used more sparingly?

Sure.

But we don't live in that world.
"The Japanese firm paid $21.15 per share for around 1.4 million shares"

That is some decent profit
echoing this, i've met and made most of my current deep friendships via climbing and snowboarding. shared experience and time lead to friends
> Also, the bug buster benefits if they get up high on the leaderboard, because job recruiters will most likely use the leaderboard for lead gen. If you're looking to make a job move, moving up on the leaderboard will help.

I already get plenty of recruiting inbound without having to donate my time to fix bugs for Internet Points.

What you're saying is that this is a worthy use of time for people because they'll maybe move up in the leaderboards which then might lead recruiters to reach out to them.

And after all that, you have to do a phone screen, technical phone interview, a full-day onsite, plus whatever other hoops you'll be made to jump through to change jobs.

Yeah, no. Hard pass. Seems like a huge waste of developers' time.
Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)
I recommend something that you create something tangible.

You get sense of accomplishment - I made this - feeling.
U don't have share it or be good, just creating a thing - your thing - feels good.
I'm sure they would have been.

I'm also sure they wouldn't have migrated.
There’s a lot of commentary here on news reporting and social media but I really don’t think that this is a problem unique to our time. The end effect of virality is herd mentality, which then creates populism past a certain threshold, and we’ve certainly had populist leaders in history before.
> My assertion is that we shouldn't, as a society, accept that some things are wrong. Such that that is the wrong argument to use here.

I'm not sure I'm following how your comments got here. Do you intend to make the above broad assertion ("we shouldn't, as a society, accept that some things are wrong")? To put it another way, are you arguing in favor of moral relativism?
Every time I read this type of post I get amazed at how primitive my use of personal email is.

No folders, no tags, no rules. Just inbox and read status.

Ditched gmail for iCloud a few years ago. Simple, cheap, well integrated.
==likely==

What is this based on? Are you in HR? Do you know of examples of this happening?
Total market valuation of Tesla is over $600B, so $3.6B is 0.6% of it.
What's the Most Significant Hack in History?
One day you'll put your finger on a sensor on your phone that pricks you to get a drop of blood and analyze it right there on the spot. Kinda like square does for mobile credit card payments.

Maybe that's how you'll unlock it too, which might help with phone addiction /s
Amplification of extreme views to cause higher engagement is the entire business model of social media. Engagement is turning out to be the exact opposite of what we actually want and need as a society from social media but alas it correlates best with their profits so they continue to have features that ensure it runs rampant.
> Panasonic’s share price increased 4.53% in the morning session after Nikkei reported the stock sale.