skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am so lost in this stuff.

What was the deal with the story on HN a few days ago before the story dropped, saying that AIS showed a RN warship off Crimea and people were claiming live cams and direct observation showed it still in port in Odessa? Was this the Defender? It's very hard to Google for now. The date filtering tools aren't good enough. The lines between fiction and real life are blurred.

Sure feels like the UK are engaging in firehose disinfo, as Russia has practiced for years. It seems impossible to understand what's really going on, and I fear even historians won't be able to figure it out because 10 years from now these events will be buried by even crazier happenings. Strange times.
> A socialist worker model of co-ops can provide competitive marketplaces as well.

Yes, co-ops are also a recognized type of organization in capitalist countries. They exist all over the world in and compete in the markets where they participate.
According to this (preprint) paper(n=52000), recovering from covid-19 protects just as well (or even slightly better) than getting vaccinated.

Also note that vaccines focus on the Spike protein only, and you're immunesystem takes the entire virus into account, which might offer better protection against variants.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v...
Merely "fails it"? The American lifestyle and consumption model has been one of the primary drivers behind it...
Taking this thread straight into ideological flamewar hell was not a good call. Please don't do that to HN. Of course the real damage is caused more by the upvoters, not the original comment, but you've started it by tossing egregious flamebait in the first place.

I will mark this off-topic now (which downweights it on the page) and we'll see how good or bad the other comments are, but at the time I'm typing this, it doesn't matter how good or bad the other comments are, or whether this thread even has any actual comments about Cuban vaccines, because the flamewar you started has filled it with low-rent internet flaming about (god help us) communism, Israel, and who knows what else. Such flamewars have nothing to do with the mandate of this site. They convince no one of anything, except how right they are and how aggrieved they are and therefore how justified they are in doing whatever they want to the other side.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Edit: I'm getting the feeling that I may have left some people with the impression that I lack sympathy for Cuba or admiration for the achievements of Cuban researchers. Not at all. I think this is a great topic for HN to discuss. In order to be able to discuss it, we need to avoid flamewar and to avoid flamewar we need to avoid flamebait. That's all I mean, and I see that I put it in an excessively flamey way myself. Sorry!

If you don't see how the GP comment is flamebait, that might be because you're not aware of how large and geographically/politically/ideologically distributed this forum is. What to some readers reads as a bland factual statement is guaranteed to land with others as an outright provocation. That is obvious to me because I deal with these divisions in this forum every day. But I can see how it might not be obvious to others, and that's no doubt why my comment came across as excessive. Perhaps this was conditioned by spending the bulk of yesterday dealing with political flamewars on HN.
That's also a good reason to standardize all open source code in C.
> late in development MCAS was given more control authority than initially planned

... without triggering re-evaluation of the seriousness/consequences of failure. That meant that failures of MCAS were considered unproblematic, which meant that lower levels of redundancy were deemed acceptable.

Quite a process/management failure.
If it's Boeing, I ain't going!

Hard to believe they wouldn't invest and ensure that their software is perfect after the MAX incidents, but here we are.
There’s a good Planet Money on this from NPR. They imply that the real profit is from not stocking fresh goods and other items that 1) spoil, 2) have lower margins and 3) require employees to constantly restock. So they basically sell high-margin goods (negotiated in bulk) with absolute minimum costs. That’s it.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/26/717665452/epis...
https://youtu.be/0UYDdJN53ak

Spherical drones with lights would be able to produce tons of drama.
when the objects get closer the potential energy “releases” energy to the kinetic energy. When you pull them apart the potential energy “stores” the energy. It’s not really “math” answering that question, but it’s very basic Newtonian mechanics and you can set up the math for that and it’s often quite straight forward simple differential equations.

I’d recommend khans academy if you want to learn more, as it’s really not that deep into the material at all. And if you dedicate a weekend to learning the subject matter you’ll not only get rid of the mystification you feel about the subject but have a really good understanding of it.
In general most OSS projects don’t have the resources to spend on UX development -and- developing the core functionality. I don’t think most projects would be against UX contributions. You could just create an issue for a project to discuss it, or bring it up wherever their community is.
I don't see any sane reason you'd intentionally access the first element only of a list by using a for loop with a non-conditional return. But anyway okeydoke. I do wonder if there are any realistic non-bugfix refactors/enhancements that would result in a whitespace-only change, or in general how often in a real codebase you are going to get a whitespace-only commit diff. But yeah, I understand it is possible, cool.
You're not going to be running openssl or stunnel on an 8-bit microcontroller, though.

mbedtls/polarssl is usually the library of choice for microcontrollers (or, really, things that are not POSIX), but not sure even that will run on an 8-bit micro.
A really good talk on the myth of "testing makes static types unnecessary" from Gary Bernhardt (Wat Talk)

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/ideology
That's what the Novavax vaccine does, but it's still in testing and approval stages (although the trials results for now look like it works fine). As far as I understand, part of the problem is finding a way to produce the correct protein efficiently.
Puriphico Prototype Enclosure-Design Sketches
Telegram adds group video calling at last
As a user interesting in security and following the field quite closely. I know about the limitations of their bug bounty program and some bad experiences some people have had with it. They still ship security updates to 8 years old devices and 3 years old OSes. Is that a problem?
Magazine dates are typically the date the issue is removed from shelves, not the date it first appears. So they likely synchronize with the actual date of print availability.
I believe even countries which are wastelands industry wise can easily make some if it's nation level project.

Even Bangladesh, out of all places, got a vaccine plant built on its own.

Even freaking Rwanda seem to be about to start vaccine manufacturing.
Yeah, I was surprised USA was able to come up with a COVID vaccine too, given the recent reports of government corruption, armed insurrection and police brutality.
I was waiting for someone to post this.
The unenviable part is the $30-70 range, not the 2x income spread.
For the same reason solitaire is an online app with ads now.
dollar stores are essentially a predator on the lower to middle class; and marginalized communities. also these stores are notorious for only carrying highly processed items, not exactly the best diet to feed your family on.

also, for those $1 toys they sell I bet the source of manufacture is dubious at best. if the nike sweatshops are bad, I can't imagine the working conditions for a dollar store sweatshop are any better.
There was no conversation in the first place. Just a bunch of absurd propaganda for a horror regime.
Is it speculation or is it hedging? We weren't speculating on toilet paper when it was massively out of supply early in the pandemic. Rather, there was a demand shock, and maybe a bit of a supply shock too. If TP's spot price had been meaningfully allowed to float, I have no doubt that it would have traded at 4x its long term average, even if you had factored in only consumer demand.

All that is to say I don't see compelling evidence here that speculation is the cause of the problem. I can as easily see more benign explanations.
> July 1, 2021 issue

I guess that they published the July issue some days early. I guess that if the month issue is already finished, it makes sense to publish it.

Here you can see the mail-date cover-date relationship for the physical publication: https://www.nybooks.com/publication-schedule/

The magazine with cover date "July 1, 2021" is mailed on "June 8, 2021"
Ask HN: Helping a teenager learn software development fundamentals
A close friend's teenager asked me to help him learn to code. What I promised was that I would look for resources that he could use to learn the fundamentals so that he could start building tangible things.

He's been interested for a while (and has done some coding at school), but what has tipped his interest is an elaborate strategy board game he's designing that involves updating levels of resources and strength at each play. The game is a ton of fun (at least for his adult beta testers), but it's a lot of work for him as the "central bank" to manage everything by pen and paper. A spreadsheet could help, but he's started imagining more possibilities.

I want him to build a real foundation. That means things like understanding the command line and what it means to execute code in an operating system, how to set up a minimal development environment, etc. -- so that even if his first kick at the can is a command line assistant for his board game, he understands what he's built.

Is this a good approach (it's how I learned, but I'm definitely open to other approaches)? What resources do you think I should point his way?
It really is a great achievement. As an African I hope our leaders are taking inspiration from the Cubans. If we put our minds to it we should also be able to produce our own vaccine.
yeah some tablets have bad ai spellcheck tho apple’s isn’t great either

have you ever used a Pinephone?
Why do you want to sell something as congac other than to pretend your product is from Congac? Why can't your product stand on its own two feet? You could call it "Moldovan Brandy" and be done with it.
This looks like a neat idea—I can see upsides and downsides, but would have to experiment to see if one outweighs the other.

One thing I didn't see in my (admittedly quick) perusal of the tutorial and faq: what is the technique to run a Unison program from the command line? Is it practical for making unix cli tools (yet)?
How do people survive then after 40?
Let's be entirely honest here, the US could provide health care for all, in the same way the NHS operates in the UK. It is not the R&D costs that are preventing this, it is a very powerful medical insurance lobby that prevents it.

And no, it is not easier to provide better healthcare, even without doing the R&D.A higher GDP is what enables better provision of healthcare and the US has the highest GDP and is in the top 10 per capita, Cuba is at 87th.
I'm a layman so I don't know if I can really give a satisfying answer to your question. All I know is what I see just doesn't make sense to me.

Even in April 2020 we had rough but useful numbers on the hospitalization rate. Just some quick Googling turns up e.g. [1] which says that around 20% of those who test positive end up hospitalized. Now the Pfizer vaccine by itself had like 40k participants, with 9 severe (out of 162 confirmed cases) of COVID-19 in the placebo group, and 1 severe case (out of 8 confirmed cases) in the vaccine group. [2] [3] So right off the bat it looked pretty promising, and IMHO they could've just cited these numbers and let people judge for themselves... it's not like people don't have the intuition to realize that 1 patient couldn't have been 2-3 instead. But even if you think that wasn't enough data to be convincing, at least now we have mass vaccination rates they could be citing. Like literally ~40k people have been hospitalized with COVID-19 in just the last week and nearly all COVID deaths are among the unvaccinated now, and it's not like the vaccine just came out last week.

An Associated Press analysis of available government data from May shows that “breakthrough” infections in fully vaccinated people accounted for fewer than 1,200 of more than 853,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations. That’s about 0.1%. [4]

How is that still not enough data to switch metrics at this point? Why do they still think efficacy rates are more relevant for people instead?

[1] https://www.tfah.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/COVIDunderly...

[2] https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-deta...

[3] I don't know why this reporting differs from the 100% I see claimed elsewhere; 1 severe case doesn't sound like 100% effective at preventing severe cases? I don't know if they're discussing different trial phases or have different thresholds for "severe" or something else... but regardless, it's irrelevant to my point.

[4] https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-941fc...
No: NGOs, academia, a free press... None of these to my knowledge are able to operate in Cuba with what most of us would consider trustable autonomy from the government in publishing information that constitutes an independent research.
This sounds dubious, can you provide valid sources to back this up? He said he never wanted to get into agriculture
// expulsion of natives

Just wanted to point out, Jews are native to Israel.
You said it better than I did
I agree with you. The reason why we still link it to Bloomberg is because of the vision we have, not the current state of the project. Kind of similar to a self-driving startup mentioning that they will become a Tesla - It's not true, but you get the idea and concept.

I made the repo open-source first at the end of February, given that we are only 3 devs (2 adding features and 1 dev ops) all with full-time jobs, there's only so much we can get our hands on.

I don't have access to Bloomberg Terminal. But I'm pretty confident that there are features that we've got that Bloomberg doesn't. E.g. we have a screener for stocks that can be specified by our user base and made available by everyone (https://github.com/GamestonkTerminal/GamestonkTerminal/tree/...). This is what having an open-source project can bring, combining collective knowledge of the community.
I think whether your statement is correct or not depends on how you define “capitalism working right”

In a purely free market with no outside checks,
monopolies are very common and almost inevitable. As Adam Smith says in Wealth of Nations:

> People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Effective regulation is needed to prevent monopolies and cartels.
Magazine issue dates are usually for the month they are on sale, so realistically a month ahead of when you'd buy it if you're buying it as it comes out.
I remembered this article from 2011 about bsnes:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-...

Tragic loss, RIP.
I find your language much more inflammatory than the comment you are referring to.
Indeed - nothing non-capitalist about co-ops. If a company wants to decide to structure its ownership that way then why not?
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27652814
Experience has value, but it surely tapers off. If someone who is 50 and has 30 years of experience is no better than someone who is 40 with 20 or 35 with 15, why would the 40 or 50 year old expect to make more?

That tapering effect surely applies to some extent, if only because beyond a certain point you might keep gaining more breadth of experience but for any given role you’ll only be using some part of that experience.

Still, I’d argue that with broader experience often comes deeper understanding as well, and that tends to retain its value no matter what you’re doing. There was a big jump in what I could do straight out of university and what I could do at 25, but there was also a big jump between that and 30, and between that and 40. Importantly, I think, those changes weren’t measured on the same scales.

Earlier in my career, I was learning about specific languages or libraries. I was also learning how to operate as a professional and collaborate with others and use tools for things like source control and bug tracking.

A few years later, I might still have learnt new languages, but I didn’t really see each programming language so much as a particular programming style with some specific syntax attached, and the interesting parts were often more about the general programming style or any unique features or idioms. Similarly, I didn’t see a library so much as some data processing or a communications channel that the library provided.

Today, I mostly just see data and interactions. I’m more aware of qualitative properties of code and systems, like readability and maintainability and testability. I’d say I’m also more aware of the bigger picture than I used to be, of how we write programs to solve some problem that is defined by a business requirement or a personal itch we want to scratch.

In another decade or two, I would like to think that my understanding will have continued to develop, but I’ll have to get back to you on that later. :-)
Weren't they merely using the Amazon app store as an example?
It's at least second or third worst. Worst would be writing your own deployment tool that does what CloudFormation (or TF or Pulumi) do. Second worst would be writing a tool that uses a templating language to generate CloudFormation and only using that.
Yes. Try this bookmarklet called Readium (https://sugoidesune.github.io/readium/).

It works great for NYTimes, Medium, Bloomberg.

Some more info about this -
On Medium, it only works on urls with 'medium.com' in them. Won't work on other custom Medium domains (like betterprogramming.pub) because of a CORS related issue. It works by fooling the site by making a fetch() call to the current url without sending cookies to the site.
Agreed. 95% of all those apps are useless and rehashes of existing apps in some way. And the only reason the whole thing doesn't fall over is because of semi-random search that "spreads" some portion of user downloads to lower quality (or less popular) apps, thereby incentivizing the spaghetti-throwing-at-the-wall ecosystem that is the app stores.

Curation models are better in that sense, because they have a limit that forces a quality filter. The alternative is just an evolution of the spam model. You see it with Google turning the web into blog spam, YouTube with videos, ebay/Amazon/aliexpress with "products", and the app stores with their 5million "apps".
Despegar's comment gets to the heart of why the Cuban vaccine is interesting. Nobody would be surprised if a nation with open trade with the US could manufacture something at this quality level; most of them are manufacturing Pifzer and Moderna.
Thanks for the long-term support. Do you consider the click-to-fan out isotopes now to be too clumsy for your use?
They were in the start menu. Ads for software and games. There was that candy crush saga game for ages.
Alt-Tab is supported in this actually, but no window management otherwise.
Wait until it automagically fails.

It may be great for less-skilled people, but for anyone running anything where it's too critical to outsource support it's then necessary to have a systemd expert inhouse (and such a person has proven extremely hard to find).
So, how does one get an -0 short of typing it?
Because I think it's gonna end with a lot of people losing money they can't afford to lose.
Would you mind to explain what kind of exercises do you do for your fingers? Thank you!
It was not “an invasion”. Jews were fleeing genocide and arrived as refugees. Then Jews in the Middle East and North Africa came soon after fleeing pogroms, expulsions and dhimmitude.

As for “expulsion” 22% of Israeli citizens are Arabs and further more are Druze, Circassian, Bedouin, etc. with equal rights. An Arab party is literally part of the Government right now. If you’re going to try to derail a topic with ignorant nonsense about Israel, at least get your facts right.
When was I ever talking about changes to GNOME other than the systemd dependency? What am I walking back?
The documentation (man pages) is still pretty bad. It's always a guessing game for me where to look up the config options: systemd.exec, or systemd.service, or systemd.limits, etc.
Sadly these did not take off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard
Bleach does go bad though... If left too long it will decompose and lose potency... So not the best example maybe...
We were on our way…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_thaw
I'm not up to date with the nuance of the US pension system, but this article seems highly loaded:

> For decades, conservative governors and state legislators [...] have worked to undermine public employee pensions.

> Last year, as the Covid-19 pandemic raged, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell denied governors’ appeals for federal emergency aid because he saw an opportunity to punish states for their pension debts.

And so forth. Granted, I don't know the history behind all of this, but even with the benefit of the doubt these seem very stark takes without any additional context.
Related reading: https://lord.io/text-editing-hates-you-too/

However, I do think Drew has missed some necessary nuance here; especially with <select>, which is painfully limited. There are situations where a decently-implemented custom control will work better than a native control, even when it necessarily misses some of the nuance the native control would have had.
Getting the disease is being infected. It is important that people not get it in the first place, so they can't transmit it to others.
I cook in titanium pots. They are marketed to ultralight hikers, and are mostly too small, but you can find ones large enough for kitchen cooking. It's easier to clean than iron or steel, but not as easy as teflon. The nice thing is, unlike coated pans, you can use copper wool on titanium.
I'm one of those folks who can't focus on my own thoughts during a presentation. I can understand the ideas being presented, but cannot critically evaluate them until later.

All I can muster is to write down questions. It's just a bulleted list of "Slide number/title. Question." I can ask them in real time if the presenter consents to interruptions. Otherwise, I'll ponder over them later when I can focus, and follow up if necessary.

I pretty much never approve any decision in a presentation without later analysis. That is, unless there is somebody else in the room that I can delegate that analysis to post-approval.
I'm a brit. This pointless bs is exactly why I wish we'd cut "defense" spending. Defense means picking a fight with Russia to pretend Crimea is part of Ukraine!? No thanks.
Why is drawing a boundary around a geographic region any more fair than drawing a boundary around a corporation? Either way you have a group of people who benefit and a group that does not. If you want to be part of the group that benefits from, say, the Google brand, you don't even have to move. All you have to do it buy Google stock.
Is your workplace toxic? Now you can blame that one toxic colleague
They have been replaced by Linux distribution wars.
Because IMHO there's reasonable use of types and then there's "the type system is the code and the application is expressed merely as type transformations", which to me is fetishisation of types over getting things done.

I'm not trying to say all types are bad.