skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, never show cumulative stats in a graph - it almost always go up and to the right: not insightful at all.

I mean thats the definition of a cumulative graph... it basically has to go up and right. But thats ok. You can look at the slope of the cumulative graph to tell if its gaining steam or not. For example you can clearly see that the cumulative views on StackOverflow is flattening out, but the HN mentions is approximately a slope of 1
Yes, it will evolve further, but human ACE2 receptors aren't evolving rapidly within a generation any time soon. There's a metaphorical window of possible mutations that will allow SARSCov2 to bind to receptors and a huge swath of that window clearly is taken up by protection from vaccines (especially mRNA ones). There is a finite space in which it could still evolve _and_ evade vaccines. That space is likely _extremely_ small. "Too much" evolution renders it ineffective at infecting humans.
There was a whole thing about how, legally, LSD for personal use landed you in more trouble than LSD for trafficking, because the penalties are by weight, and that include the carrier paper for personal use, but only the crystals for trafficking.

EDIT: This was specifically addressed in 1993, in amendment 488 to the US sentencing guidelines. https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/amendment/488.

This 1992 article from the LA Times details some of the consequences — https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-07-27-mn-4335-s...
In the Arabic script letters change their form depending on the letters before and after[0]. It is a lot easier to understand this when you try to write the letters by hand.

[0] This is also true for all handwriting in a cursive style. It can be avoided by using block letters, but this is less efficient because you have to lift your pen frequently, which is slower than just moving it into a new direction.
Building a vision of life without work (2015)
> If a major company invested in the SML ecosystem, it would take over the programming world.

I like SML both out of nostalgia and for its actual merits, but I don't think that's true. SML was far ahead of its time, but it's showing its age now. Its simplicity is also correlated with an absence of handy features (e.g. ad-hoc polymorphism). Many companies invest in OCaml, which is slightly more crufty but with a (much) more healthy ecosystem, yet it hasn't taken over the world.

I do wonder what would have happened if SML had "won". In many ways it was pragmatically engineered in the early 90s, at a time where no other functional language was comparable (except maybe Caml). Its much-vaunted formal specification does leave a few pragmatics-shaped holes, however. For example, SML has no standardised way of splitting programs into multiple files. Each compiler does their own thing (although at least MLton and MLKit both support MLB files).
'There are ever present dangers that we just live with like the chances of getting in a car accident and dying'

Have you not noticed how we have put a lot of time, effort and money into increasing the safety of road travel? Do you just 'live with' the chance of dying in a car crash, or do you have technology like seat belts and air bags?
Kafka is only exciting when you're wanting to stream a metric shit ton of data without things falling over.

If you're using it, you're constrained by its engineering decisions, so you need to be sure it's a worthwhile tradeoff.
No, you should not freak out even if you are not vaccinated. The overall risk for the unvaccinated are still very low.
Really? Then why do governments feel they have to force men to take time off?

Men in the relationship are typically seen as the "arm" of the patriarchy.

It is true that in this case it would benefit men if they were granted more time with their children (at the expense of the mothers and the family finances). But that is more accidental.

Show me a "proper feminist" article arguing for the benefit of men, rather against the exploitation of women, with regard to that subject, if you believe you know feminism so much better.
You literally quoted the answer to your question
So you want a lot of children, but not to take care of them. Ok.
Higher costs for any inputs, not just wages, can drive it as well, no? Even if spending remains flat, that is, prices go up and people just buy less stuff while spending about the same amount of money, or even spending less?
AFAIK Elm can't actually write to the filesystem, how does the compiler get around that? Or has Elm changed such that it can work outside the browser now?
Short term: medium/low risk bonds, TIPS. Long term: equities.
You're being downvoted, but that's actually a good question. An explanation that fits the fact is antigenic drift. A variant that's different but not necessarily that much worse will outcompete another variant in which the population has built up significant immunity. The difference in fitness doesn't need to be that large.

If the virus truly had a massively larger R0 value, as is asserted in TFA, then you'd expect it to catch fire extremely quickly as soon as it starts showing up, and everywhere it is found. Ron Fouchier (see TWiV 777 as cited elsethread) certainly believes that these huge R0 values are not plausible, and that antigenic drift fits the observable facts better.
Bitcoin privacy tools are improving. Its possible to "mix" your coins using CoinJoin which masks your spending history.
> Yet, I am not sure if in that particular case this follows the spirit of the free software.

Eh, the spirit of free software is that the user has several important freedoms. This is true with OpenSearch, but no longer true with ElasticSearch.

The fact that a large percentage of the code was original developed by Elasticsearch B.V is entirely irrelevant to the “spirit of free software”.
The Human Side of Elixir
A traditional martial artist who has seriously trained in sparring would also be able to deal with an unskilled fighter fairly easily.

The difficulty arises when the rules of a sport cause a fighter to ignore situations that can arise in an actual fight. For example, I train in Dog Brothers Martial Arts. Grappling is common and encouraged, but at the same time most fighters conceal training knives on their person and headbutts are common. That requires an adapted form of BJJ from that used in MMA. Overhooks become more valuable because they allow you to control a limb that is holding a weapon. When you are in the bottom of guard you need to keep your opponent away from you so that they can't headbutt you.
Years ago, I found a scientific paper that evaluated them all on a fairly detailed rubric. As I recall, it turned out that they're all, in actual fact, crap stream processing engines. You just need to pick the one that's crap at things you don't need to do.

(I could frame it in a more glass half full way, but I find that the pessimistic way of looking at it helps a lot with trimming down options when you have far, far, far too many options.)
that's an overstatement of DeepMind's results and not fair to the people in the field.
In 2021 there's honestly not any good reason to know about Scientific Word. It was a good product 20 years ago, but it doesn't bring much to the table today that you'd have a reason to pay for.
> Xi was a member of the Standing Committee in 2008 and he was given the political responsibility for the 2008 Olympics.

Fascism is when you host the Olympics. The more Olympics you host the more fascist you are, and if you're in charge of organizing the Olympics you're the next Hitler.

> Maybe before your 玻璃心 breaks you should learn a little bit about your own country’s history before you go around tossing insults.

Googling a random insult in Chinese doesn't make your argument better. Who is "my" government? Why is everything racial for you people. What do you hope to achieve throwing in a random insult in Chinese to the Chinese person?

> insignificant terrorist attacks which are not an existential threat to China

Insignificant Terrorist Attacks. Listen to your own words. People like you are always willing to sacrifice other people's lives in the name of your nonexistent "free speech". You clutch pearls about "shutting down newspapers" but I've yet to see any of you Googlers acknowledge the fact that you clearly censor content the US deems extremist. Or are you going to go on about the 2 billion Uyghurs being simultaneously exterminated, forced to celebrate Ramadan, and then given 20 sterilization procedures every hour? Your allegations are bullshit and every actually Muslim country agrees that it's bullshit. But keep using them as a rhetorical device.

> excuse to crack down on freedoms or minorities, I speak out against it.

You mean the federal program to accuse American academics of espionage that explicitly targeted Asian men, which has so far resulted in a trial where thefbi agent in charge admitted to fabricating evidence but will likely still end in a conviction because the jury is completely white? Or do you mean the systemic police violence against black people and the occasional public exectution that caused several months of riots. I already know what people like you's opinion of it is, you don't care.

> As for use of national security as an excuse, I’ve been protesting the NSA for 3 decades. I released one of the first anonymizing web proxies and designed anonymous mailers to fight FBI carnivore and NIST Clipper/Skipjack. I spoke out against the Patriot Act in 2001 when the US government used the 9/11 attacks to impose it. I spoke out against the Communications Decent Act when it was proposed and released software to combat it.

And you still want the entire world to run off of software and services entirely beholden to the US Government. Your company censors information the US Government doesn't want people to see. You know this in your heart of hearts. You work for a company that seeks to put the entire word under the digital jurisdiction of one government but all you do is complain about countries on the other side of the planet you have cursory knowledge of because they're competition. All your "protesting" against the NSA has done nothing. There are entire engineering schools dedicated to recruiting people for them. They're as active and effective as ever.
Related (and probably helpful): https://rubberduckdebugging.com/
The more important result is although Delta is resistant to being neutralized by existing antibodies, it does not prevent it in serum-trials against vaccinated individuals, the like most biological systems the human immune system is exponential: starting from an effective antibody response, it can overwhelm any nascent infection (i.e. hospitalizations would not be expected to rise).

The number I've seen is a 3-5 fold reduction in the kinetics of neutralization [1] - this is concerning for whether you can spread it, but seems to my eye pretty consistent with hospitalization effectiveness remaining about the same.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03777-9
The article purposefully conflates numbers to tell a narrative. I am talking only about EU, and at that southern EU which is where I've been following the numbers closely. Delta variant has been acting for up to 1 month in some regions, and as described in the article yes cases are up very quickly. However, the article says:

> COVID deaths [...] And if you think Europe or the US will be spared

This is not reflected at all with the current numbers and the author is mixing deaths in one country with infections in another. There hasn't been even a single uptick of deaths in EU so far that I've seen, and we are past the potential 2+ week delay from cases to deaths so if it was of importance for EU, we'd see a massive climb in death graphs. That is just not happening, so regarding deaths this seems, so far, not to be a concern at all for highly vaccinated countries.

Yes there are many other concerns for which we want to avoid more infections (saturation of hospitals, potential for more mutations, etc.) which are worth discussing, but this article is instead just conflating numbers. See a comparison taken 2 days ago of "infections" vs "deaths" in Spain, which includes this delta wave:

https://imgur.com/a/A9VFS4G
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis

> In cryptography, rubber-hose cryptanalysis is a euphemism for the extraction of cryptographic secrets (e.g. the password to an encrypted file) from a person by coercion or torture[1]—such as beating that person with a rubber hose, hence the name—in contrast to a mathematical or technical cryptanalytic attack.
Well now, that is an interesting question.

According to some research, combustible dust is not an explicit category under the GHS (United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals), let alone a sub-division of Class 1. I pulled up some Safety Data Sheets[1] for various flours and Combustible Dust is listed under "Hazards Not Otherwise Classified" in section 2, Hazard Identification. Likewise, section 5 (Fire-Fighting Measures) mentions the explosion hazard posed by dispersed dust.

Per Chapter 2.1[2] of the GHS, the definitions of explosives is: "...a solid or liquid substance (or mixture of substances) which is in itself capable by chemical reaction of producing gas at such a temperature and pressure and at such a speed as to cause damage to the surroundings..."

Which led me down a rabbit hole to see why Combustible Dust is listed as "Not Otherwise Classified", going through amendments to the CFR and some papers on working groups looking to add Combustible Dust to the GHS. Of note, page 16 of this[3] presentation.

>"Argentina Intervention

> Concern over the definition of "combustible dust" produced by flours, grains and cereals because of the trade implications that such an inclusion could produce

> Dust originated from flours, grains and cereals should not be classified as "hazardous chemical substances"

> Reasoning:

>> Flours, grain and cereal dust are not a chemical substance

>> Dust originated from flour, grain and cereal have no intrinsic explosive property

>> Dust is not a dangerous substance in itself

> Requested explicit exclusion from definition"

Luckily saner minds prevailed, and we ended up with GHS Annex 11 which is why Combustible Dust is listed on the SDS I linked. But hey there we see, once again, economic interests trying to muddy up the waters when it comes to safety. But that is a whole different (and rant-y) tangent I could go off on, and I should probably get back to work.

[1]http://s3.amazonaws.com/media.agricharts.com/sites/1846/Flou...

[2]https://unece.org/DAM/trans/danger/publi/ghs/ghs_rev03/Engli...

[3]https://schc.memberclicks.net/assets/meetings/fall_2017/lant...
The opportunity for optimizing polygons in the rendering pipeline is extraordinary compared to SDFs. For that reason alone, it will not likely be economical to use them anytime in the near future for the majority of modern commercial 3D work, perhaps ever.

They are cool though!
>A private sector business isn't gonna send thugs with guns to forcibly shut down your business and put you in a cage after being too incompetent to take your money, they're just gonna terminate your service and/or sue you.

Historically speaking this is completely false. Even now you can find individual examples of businesses doing things like this, especially in places with little rule of law.

There is nothing magical about businesses - they are made up of the same people that make up governments. Those people have the same power trips regardless of their positions.
Nice to see that guys are finally being open about all of this. Honestly, all of this is just kind of a male menopause and we shouldn't be scared to address it, we should be scared that we're not addressing it. Love it Hone!
It is honestly impressive how bad Reddit's mobile app, and main websites are. Its just so horrendous and so slow and so confusing, and so bad. If you go to a post, its hard to see comments, and if you click in white space it redirects you somewhere almost at random. It takes forever to load anything.

When a million apps are better in every way and the old site is better, its confusing what they are doing over at reddit.
This seems to be only affecting eu-central-1 right?
And while I'd enjoy contributing a chapter to a "Founders at Work"-type book, but I certainly wouldn't want to go to the trouble of finding people to write such chapters, trying to interest publishers, etc. As you say, "maybe that's way more work than what you originally had in mind"! :)
This is the exact same problem we are facing as well. Our clients just want to use it without knowing or thinking what problem they are solving.

Confluent itself says that for a workload of 38Mbps/sec rabbitmq has 5 times less latency than Kafka and is 100x simpler to manage.

https://www.confluent.io/blog/kafka-fastest-messaging-system...

How do you teach someone to look at the problems first and then pick the tools?
A fair amount of that seems fixable with better color choices and fonts/size. It's curious to me that cloudcraft hasn't improved it. Lightish orange on a white background, for example?
We should make a measure, as a form of protest, of Actual Revenue Per Median Household.

How it would work is we'd take your typical, family household in the median (not the average to be less skewed by extreme results). We'd take the income, then subtract Income Tax, the median Property Tax, the median Sales Tax paid on all purchases that month, the median State Income Taxes paid, the cost of Tax Preparation software, and basically all other essentially-necessary government expenditures for the median American family and their lifestyle.

The result would be a percentage of how much tax ultimately is paid to the government every month. Then, we adjust it every month for inflation caused by government expenditure, which has effects similar to a tax on your savings.

The result of this measure, I expect, would grab headlines everywhere. I expect the actual percentage of money paid to the government every month or lost from inflation would shock people.
I went down that (thought) rabbit hole and it was a bit sad to realize the cat and mouse game at play, where content creators on sites (such as recipe sites) are optimizing for search results, and intentionally burying the searched for content in a way that the search engine has difficulty optimizing for, so promote their own ads (more scroll -> more ads). Then once people begin obtaining the info they want from said sites, it becomes (presumably) even more difficult for a search engine to automatically filter it out -- or even decide if it should.

I don't know how to solve the problem at scale, but would love a site that preferentially de-ranks content based on the ads it has. That is, rather than me using an ad blocker, I'd like the search engine to do that for me. That probably exists, but then it also has to be as good as Google which isn't easy. I default to duck duck go, but often (say, 10%) I can't find something I am looking for there, go to Google, and its a top 3 result. Tricky set of problems here but I'm optimistic five years from now I may be happier with my search engine of choice.
Re: lyx as a hard to get into GUI.

Overleaf has decent tab completion and dozens of templates, as well as limited support for markdown. Let tabnine and copilot get to LaTeX; I think we’ll find the discoverability of “text language on Adderall” outguns GUIs.
Our course instructor on "Estimation and Detection Theory" was a big fan of Scientific WorkPlace. It did such a great job at replacing the chalk-board during lockdown.
I think that is still desirable behavior when compared to a slapstick comedy where the pilot says "don't worry bruh I got this" and then proceeds to plow directly into a mountain side
> You should then spend 10 seconds trying to clear your mind before thinking about one of the three following images:

>You’re lying in a canoe on a calm lake with nothing but a clear blue sky above you

>You’re lying in a black velvet hammock in a pitch-black room

> You say “don’t think, don’t think, don’t think” to yourself over and over for about 10 seconds.

So, I only have the last option available for me, due to aphantasia, which, in combination of not being able to just stop having a inner monologue makes the last option basically a no go either.
I use ports to write to the filesystem. There is a small amount of JS that initializes Elm, which runs in Node and has the ability to write to the filesystem.

Of course if you'll be running elm-in-elm in the browser, you won't be able to do that. But there are more interesting things to do with a compiler in the browser :)
I have my own rule— it’s that I don’t respond to “hi and wait”’s on Slack (unless of course from within my own team/group/mgmt). “External” hi’s just go unanswered. Simply because I get too many of them.

If the person can’t take the time to include a concise summary of exactly what they need with that “hi,” well then, they’ll move on to someone else (they’ll be simultaneously pinging various other people on our team in any case). Usually they will get the picture and follow up within 15-20 minutes with their actual ask, but if it’s not important enough for them to make that extra effort, then it’s definitely not important enough for me.

BTW, I never do the “hi and wait” thing myself. If I need something from someone on another team, I of course say hi. But in the same initial communication, the next sentences are a summary of exactly what I need, as concisely as possible. I do this as a courtesy, because no one has time for hi’s, nor chit-chat.

As far as the actual article though— I highly do NOT agree with telling someone something is OK or resolved, when it’s actually not. That is simply very bad.
You're right, but I proposed that to get an idea on how big is GraphQL compared to other things present in the same space. GraphQL doesn't replace REST and they can leave together, but still, if there are as many searches/results for GraphQL than for REST, or 10 times more, or 10 times less, it would say a bit more about its position.

Edit: someone posted a comparative google trend in the thread: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=REST,Gra.... That's the type of info I expected.
One issue you hit, and it sounds like they may be hitting here, is the need to pay yearly royalties or other yearly licensing fees for some of the components in their software.

The company that they are paying fees to is unlikely to give them a a pass.

In these cases, which are not uncommon, there is not a lot they can do.

(Lots of companies have a mix of perpetual and non-perpetual users and pay royalties on the yearly folks and a one time fixed fee for the forever folks)
Yes.

Improving your physical and mental health?

Commuting by riding/walking/cycling -- counts as sport/exercise?

Running kept me sane through multiple lockdowns.
Yikes, the astroturfing…
I tried it for a few months and didn't feel much different one way or the other—maybe a slight "up" but that's it. I stopped using it.

I did not find it to be addictive, but reactions to substances like this are highly variable across the population. I'm curious if there have been any controlled studies on its usage and effects.
Ports let you communicate with Elm from pure js, for example here’s the cli wrapper for node https://github.com/elm-in-elm/compiler/blob/master/cli/index...
Bellingcat Crowdsources Spycraft, Scales Up Sleuthing
That's for motion sickness. It doesn't remove the animations but just turns them into fades rather than slides, and they still waste the same amount of time.
FYI: On Firefox it's setting dependent and the UX lets you easily decide if you want to use the global setting or set it specific for that extension.
Obviously you can automate that with another repo that has a cron job to push a dummy commit every 30 days.
Free use Tokyo 2020 Olympics API for schedules, sports, events, weather and more
I've read the Baroque cycle. I meant more other authors. The reviews of Dodge in Hell were pretty bad - did you enjoy it?