skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's neglected in that article is that essentially the whole town is vaccinated:

https://www.masslive.com/capecod/2021/07/how-provincetown-ac...

Despite virtually everyone in the town being vaccinated, 25% of the cases in the outbreak were in the remaining handful of unvaccinated people! As more areas reach close to 100% vaccination, we will start to see weird quirks of statistics like this more often, but if your takeaway here is that it's really easy for vaccinated people to catch and spread COVID, you're very wrong. Breakthrough infections are prevented by vaccines like Pfizer with about 99% efficacy, and without a breakthrough infection there is no transmission. If pretty much everyone were vaccinated, the odds of transmission would go to zero very rapidly.
I agree completely, and I'm not using my real name on here or in any public forum. But I suspect you may have responded to the wrong comment.
How many deaths will be prevented because of milder winters?
Suburban sprawl and its roads are down to the finest detail, exactly as regulation require them to be. There is a deep and longstanding intellectual tradition behind the whole thing, why the roads must be so wide, the curves so gentle, the homes and the shopping so far apart, the parking lots so big. All of it lovingly crafted by planners and traffic engineers in the names of safety and quality of life. That tradition looks at any place which is compact and pedestrian-friendly and says, this is a backwards and inhumane relic of the past, progress demands that we never repeat it. Where will they park?! Any such place that you see is either grandfathered, or built on hundreds of variances.

The buy in for lots of regulation and coordinated city planning is so pervasive that you’re like a fish unable to see the water.

The good news is that you don’t really need to change the degree of the regulation or the bureaucracy responsible for administering it. You just need to replace every rule with its opposite.
That's only a size of regular modern video game... the downloads of which are pretty mainstream these days. Saying that a 50 gig download is a barrier "for most" is definitely not true.
>Then, on 26 April, during a session titled “Science as a Human Right,” the streaming platform went black for about 10 minutes from an alleged cyberattack. The next day, another alleged cyberattack disrupted the platform. Kearney says NAS doesn’t have “any further information on it, or on the cause.”

>Although there is no evidence that the calls and email from the Chinese embassy had anything to do with the cyberattacks, “it’s very suspicious,” Roberts says.

Random question: were they using Zoom by chance?
Is there a way to get this simple theme / stylesheet to work for the regular Wikipedia? I really like it.
Babashka fills the scripts / one-file programs niche rather well. It comes with many built-in libraries[0], add-libs equivalent, and very fast startup time

[0] https://book.babashka.org/#libraries
Either cars or pedestrians go - nothing else is safe.
Should artificial intelligence be made more accessible?
It would be nice to hear an Italian teacher read this article
One reason would be because you heard about Azure Sphere, their security marketing, and the 7 properties of highly secure platforms, so you order a devkit.

Then when you open the box you discover that despite all the security talk, the only way to officially program the Azure Sphere is with a C SDK.
You should compress the individual article texts with zlib. Right now, looking up an article text for a decent size article ("Virus") takes 10 round-trips-- 5 appear to be btree traversals, but another 5 (!) are to read in the page content, as chunks of 8K 8K 16K 32K 64K. Compressing the article might cut one round trip off that

Increasing the sqlite page size to a much larger size like 64KB or 128KB may improve average latency too, since fewer btree pages would need to be fetched to find the offset of the desired row, and most page contents could be read with one fetch. This matters more when fetches over the network take ~100ms.
While the progress seems not up to the speed, the approach itself sounds pretty nice. You can make improvements module-by-module, from the bottom to the top. With this approach, it's very easy to set priorities using conventional profilers. No large deviation from usual daily operations.

On the other hand, this won't be very attracting for small projects, where the biggest bottlenecks are in 3rd party frameworks and libraries. Not being 100% compatible with upstream Ruby (from what I heard), this compiler might not be able to save your day.
Thank you for your reply. It wasn't my intention to make you reveal too much about yourself, so no problem here.

Sounds like an interesting character either way. You already need to possess a lot of mental flexibility and social intelligence to thrive inside both engineering culture AND marketing culture.
A struct of string length and then a C-string is a cumbersome solution (but we are talking about C, everything is cumbersome) but it should work for all use-cases.
i was just on steam for a few hours, and my experience always ends the same anymore, bigot edgelords harassing me for not denying the holocoust or other shit, people need to slap sense back into their kids, we are in an infinite downward spiral
I don’t understand myself, why I choose chrome over firefox. Mayba as a web dev, I want to make sure most people will get my website right
I don't know the link but it probably used features from a field called stylometry.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry

It's been used to discover the author of disputed novels from the past.
"national security crimes" are actually "political crimes". There's a reason many countries exclude both "crimes" from extradition treaties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security#Impact_on_ci...
? pretty sure Open Media Vault on Raspberry Pi could setup a RAID with 2 USB hard drives, have been using it for almost 3 years.
The big issue I see with Firefox is that they lost a lot of power user's when the removed XUL extensions and the underlying engine doesn't have good third party wrappers like QtWebEngine (that I know of) so creating reskined browser's is pain.

I don't pick a browser for the Firefox or Chromium engine (unless a site needs it), I pick a browser based on the UI and configuration management. So I use Qutebrowser that is keyboard based and a declarative configuration. It happens to use QtWebEngine but that is not why I picked that browser.

Since I don't use Firefox... I don't really recommend it to anyone. Firefox's early success was driven by educated user's telling other people to drop IE for the better product. It also means a lot fewer developer's are using the Firefox engine when developing websites... especially the developer's that would put in the effort to submit bug reports & patches.

(At least last I checked, recreating a Qutebrowser like experience in Firefox was at best just really annoying and would still lack features).
>What's neglected in that article is that essentially the whole town is vaccinated:

i don't think it was neglected, as it is more like obvious thing wasn't explicitly stated - as vaccine obviously not increasing infection chances, 3/4 of infected being vaccinated means that vaccination rate >= 3/4, and that pretty much means "essentially the whole town is vaccinated"
A pragmatic solution that requires users to have 43GB of RAM? Right.
> Browsers come and go.

Here's what one of the main authors of KHTML has to say about this: https://twitter.com/LarsKnoll/status/1421121639845187585

20 years ago you needed a fraction of what is in a modern browser today. And it's getting worse. Chrome ships 40 to 70 new Web APIs every 40 days or so: https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence
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My name here is my name on Reddit is my name on GitHub is my name in real life. I’ve never believed it was possible to be totally anonymous on someone else’s server, so it’s good to have the reminder that I’m absolutely not every time I post anything.
I feel like, modern extensions of the Microsoft command line excluded, I use Linux for one thing and windows for another. I've yet to have a windowing environment that simply works like windows does in Linux. The same is true for my experience in the terminal but visa versa. Different tools for different jobs. But, it's 2021 not 1999. Maybe times were different then.
As an old dude, I am amused by the "ahead-of-time" nomenclature. I suppose it says something about the prevalence jit compilers.
With pure crud you don't and did not need any code since the early 80s (there have been nocode crud generators since the early 80s); it is always crud+something where something is human and usually something custom which requires programming. For ML this something might be easier or impossibly hard: it is already quite easy for someone who knows almost nothing about the theory to utilize ML that does stuff that could not be done 15 years ago. However, depending on what 'something' is in the ML case, it might be impossible for even almost-experts to fill in: an expert might be needed at that point. This is not the same with crud where most 'something', albeit usually not codeless, can be done by very mediocre coders. What I want to say: the gap between 'works with a few clicks' and 'custom code' is usually larger with ML as the expert level needed to reach it is concerned.

I do not think that gap can be closed soon.
I believe PornHub was taken down because it had movies of a very influential person in the country. Not movies that would fit his stature.
Really depends which metric you're looking at when measuring safety to be honnest. Granted US have some of the richest and safest places in the world, they also have plenty of other places straight from a 3rd world country. The US approach to health is terrible compared to many other countries. Homicide rate is much higher. If you think USA is politically safe, January 6th would like a word with you.
It's unsafe.
> There's not enough high-value jobs to go around

it's hard to make this argument when you apply it to the industrial revolution which has already happened, and people aren't completely destitute because of it. In fact, people, on average, are wealthier because of it!

Automation means wealth, and this new-found wealth means more demand for goods/services - of which may not yet exist today. How many people would have guessed that a youtube content-creator is going to be a thing?
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Hi user here.

Is there a estimated release date of the Inter Display font?
If a model did particularly well while almost every other model did badly, it would have gained attention in the community (not to mention, the researchers who worked on it would be actively marketing this!). Even if the researchers who worked on the paper weren't aware of it, it would almost certainly be brought up during peer review. The only way that such a model would not end up on such an extensive list is deliberate omission, not lack of rigor.
Just a note to say that your writing is excellent!

After seeing this HN post yesterday, I bought your /Crafting Interpreters/ book to see if it could help me evolve my AST-walker into a threaded-interpreter (using GNU's computed goto-label extension.) I find your writing style to be just the right mix of humor and content to keep me engaged.
Here are a few pics from ebay. Note that the story is 22 years old and he worked in the 1980's so he may be thinking of an even older design than the one I found. It's not like literally a cube but it's notably more cube-like than any consumer drill, and the handle shown here looks like regular pipe with a rubber handle. I really don't think you should take writing like this literally.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/FHcAAOSwLfVg0K4w/s-l640.jpg

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/LosAAOSwZS9g2quf/s-l1600.jpg

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/c1EAAOSwmAhg~B-F/s-l1600.jpg

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/U-kAAOSwT4Ng~B-Z/s-l1600.jpg
No. Stop paying the execs. They obviously are steering the ship into the rocks.
> it stopped video chat on the web for years

How?

If you refer to WebRTC, here's the timeline: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27970623

> it continues to obstruct open innovation elsewhere & everywhere.

How about Google? https://twitter.com/johnath/status/1116871231792455686
big data + statistics + linear algebra + massively parallel computation = "AI".
But it doesn't represent the people, which is the problem: https://act.represent.us/sign/the-problem/
Why Tesla’s ‘Beta Testing’ Puts the Public at Risk
Before C was born, developers were using system programming languages with handles just fine.

C lacks a handle because its designers didn't care to provide one, it is after all based on a language whose main purpose was to Bootstrap CPL.
Yeah. The time to do it is pretty short, and the prize pool is small. I'd say it's just for PR, but you think someone would call out how off those numbers are.
Aren't there vehicular manslaughter laws in the US? In Romania you have them for DUI, breaking general traffic laws (going through a red light, not respecting pedestrian crossings, etc).
Trolling is done in bad faith.

Exploratory discussion is (hopefully) done in good faith.

Allowing for rough corners and prickly spikes makes it possible to have more efficient and productive interactions. But only if participants act in good faith and put on their thick skin hat. Having to self-censor and shave of anything protruding is limiting and inefficient.

This is not an endorsement to misbehave.
I think the experience varies from person to person. Some may be in it for the money, some for the thrill (and many for both).
Well, it's relevant when talking about what is traditionally an interpreted language right?
I don’t bike anymore, but I don’t accept that answer. If someone can be pulled over for speeding, talking on their phone, or any other reason, they should be pulled over for e.g. tailgating a cyclist. There’s no reason why that shouldn’t be the case. But I don’t have skin in the game right now.
> a giant golden cage where debt-laden poor people look at exagerated external events and told that at least in America they can starve while speaking out

Making the Chinese population believe that by enduring the deprivation of their freedoms they would obtain a better economic condition is what has brought the Chinese Communists where they are.

Seeing this model exported to Hong Kong is already quite depressing, it’d be better to consider this kind of argument for what it is, at least as far as any western country is concerned.
So how are you intending to do those calculations in your mind?
For Python people, I believe the Sorbet Compiler is basically to Ruby what Cython is to Python. Although, Cython is happy to compile things without types attached.
I’m sorry, what? Definitively no part of the headline is a lie, nor is any criticism of its factual nature even remotely sensible. “New exotic particle, a type of tetraquark” is completely valid when reduced to “new exotic particle, a tetraquark,” which notably does not say “new exotic particle, the tetraquark.” Collective noun usage, not singular. It’s terse but clear English, quite common in print, and a fantastically weak hill to die on. Watch:

“The junior double whopper, a cheeseburger, is implicated in the coronary event.”

I’d forgive it if it were confusing to someone who learned English as an additional language, not if it’s dishonestly called dishonest.

So no, they are not stating a fact. They’re mad at “the media,” an apparently singular organism, and they believe they’ve found an excuse to bore us all yapping about it for a minute but instead have misunderstood the English language. And you’re right there to back up the same tiresome hooey despite its demonstrably ignorant foundation.

If you’re going to call something a “linguistic trick” it is advisable to master the language, particularly if you’re going to write three paragraphs on the “dishonesty” of a well-written, economical headline about a pretty cool thing science figured out while you were obsessing over the nefarious motivations of people telling the world about it.
I guess a better question would have been what did he write?
For a surprising (to me) historical perspective, a video recently posted to YouTube [1] shows a remastered film taken from a car driving through midtown Manhattan in 1945. There seem to be no crosswalks or lane markings, and pedestrians cross wherever they like [2]. Market Street in San Francisco at around the same time looks similar [3]. I wonder what the pedestrian fatalities were like in those days.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br8u7u35weA

[2] https://youtu.be/Br8u7u35weA?t=116

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfM6La2RlAg
You really can't fathom why fire departments dislike stuff that can't just be put out, but needs to be kept cool for hours and hours with lot of water?
Good idea. I'm in.
I'm not buying the dichotomy. Apart from anything browser-specific, JavaScript's weirdnesses ought to demolish this ideal as a real possibility. It's just a question of how broken, how crufty.
I guess you are trolling. And is really sad that such an one-sided argument as yours even exists.

First, you are missing that this is a Delta out-break. Delta has been found to be able to evade the vaccines more than other variants. This is something new and something we didn't know just 2-3 months ago.

Next, without stating how many percent of the population where vaccinated in MA what does three-fourths imply?

Governments world-wide are struggling with how to respond to Delta. Because it is more contagious and even for vaccinated people there is a risk of hospitalizations, there is a struggle what to do. Lift all restrictions (as England has done)? Stay rather strict (as in France/Germany where there are still public mask mandates)?

The reality is that there is no playbook.
Are graphs in the font the same as Inter?
The company doesn't have total control here. If all workers organized themselves and decided to demand WFH all at once, Apple would be forced to capitulate. The company can't do shit without its workers.
That's evidence of media bias, not evidence that it wasn't said.

ETA: Here's Jezebel's pre election coverage of their statements, when everyone still claimed Trump was lying about the vaccine being close.

>On Sunday, during an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, Harris was asked whether she would trust a vaccine doled out by the Trump administration before Election Day.

>“I think that we have learned since this pandemic started, but really before that, that there’s very little that we can trust that comes out of Donald Trump’s mouth,” Harris said.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/anti-vaxxer-accuses-...
There's a lot of alternatives, none of them I particularly like best for all cases. So I won't suggest something I don't think is very good. sizeof is particularly bad however for any kind of strings.
There's no guarantee that Apple even knew that this API was being used.
THANKS :)
Sure, I’m not saying all pedestrian deaths are because of phones, but the sharp increase in recent years is mostly phones.
Ah, sure. The ElasticSearch situation.
Microwaves are great but they save waiting time more than drudgery. A toaster oven will heat/cook something with just as little input.
One-hit Epee is a thing. First touch wins the bout; double hits aren't counted.

It's part of the modern Pentathlon.
No need to even go this far. Just have Javascript as an option, not a default. People seem to have lost sight of the fact that the web was and still is functional without all the added browser features. By all means, have the features, but making them defaults is something very different. It is denying the more basic functionality of the web. In some (read: many) cases, using the web in a more basic way without certain features reduces the amount of risk a user undertakes. Sometimes it is just plain faster and more reliable, too.

This developer-dictated "defaults" strategy is developer-friendly but user-hostile; it's why we end up with power users commenting on HN along the lines of "I can't turn off X, because then all sites will break." Most users (non-power users) cannot even turn off X because they do not even know they can. They haven't got a clue. Developers like it this way. This is some highly manipulative maneuvering; this is unethical IMO, but I think like a user not a developer.

Defaults are definitive. Perhaps that's why the current CEO of Google, before he became CEO, worked so intently to get vendors to make Google the "default search engine". Users do not change these defaults.
Depends on the OS, for example,

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/d...
Their names will be forever linked so searching for one will bring up stories about the other.

But those articles seem to prove my point - the stories with 'Amanda Knox' in the heading are about Amanda Knox not Meredith Kercher, her murder, or her murderer. The articles in the UK about the Meredith Kercher case don't refer to her has Amanda Knox roommate.
FIFO/LIFO etc.

I have the impression it's just me, but I never remember which of those means what. Does "first out" mean the first/top-most element in the queue or the first one that was pushed in? No idea, I just can't help it but my brain refuses to memorise this detail and I have to look it up each time.

A variation like "top in, bottom out" would be much clearer imho because it doesn't have this ambiguity.
>This latest move tells you the company believes it will blow over and they're looking to do the minimal required to appease the detractors and get back to business as usual without having to pay people more or pay out a bunch of lawsuits.

it doesn't unless you know the exact peopel hired are the union busting ones. It sounds like this is their HR consultants.

People really need to read past their title. This is a century old firm that has been on all sides of the fence for a signifigant part of American history. They don't have an agenda to regress society (no more than the legal system does).
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For example the SDS library used by Redis.
"Apple has too much control over the web, so let's build native apps in Apple's walled garden" is not exactly the most persuasive argument.
There's a big difference between entrepreneur vs business owner. Entrepreneurship refers to creative destruction which some people actually thrive on because it gives more meaning to their life as opposed to a mundane job or small business.
Since every top-level comment thus far seems to disagree with the Hole Hawg comparison, I will provide an agreement.

My very first programming experience was the integrated shell of Python 2.6, maybe 2.7. I followed wikis and tutorials in order to print various fun little things. Everything past that was further layers of abstraction, buttons, magic, and GUIs.

I was whisked away into the faintly surreal and inexplicable tornado of Android Studio and XCode until my first year of college, at which point a college professor, during the third lecture of class, was asked, "how many students fail out during this course?"

The professor paused for a moment, and said, "I'm not sure -- let me count the number of failing grades from last semester's final," at which point he piped his grade book into a terminal, straight into a series of bash commands that gave him the precise number of final exams that had scored below a 55.

Thinking back, it's not the fact that he could do that -- I sort of knew that was possible, even with a fairly basic understanding of computers. It was the ease, the fluency with which he did it.

Right then, I understood that programming was the closest I was ever going to get to my childhood understanding of alchemy/magic/psionic powers. And maybe even a little bit further than that.

That is what Unix will always mean to me. A genuine, actual, factual spellbook, inexplicably and suddenly laid at my feet.