skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Schools are no different from any other mass gathering - if you practice social distancing, it's relatively safe. On the other hand, various states are already hard at work banning schools from even requiring masks, and schools simply are not built for social distancing, and a mass return to school while maintaining social distancing would require substantial expansions of school buildings, buses, staff, etc. We don't want to spend that money so we are just going to give up on the social distancing instead.

Where people mask up, and when the area has low covid levels, students don't spread that much. Once the area takes off, the schools do indeed spread. (Which is kind of an obvious statement when you think about it, like of course kids don't magically have COVID when nobody else does, but also that they can spread it once an area starts getting a significant infection rate.)

I don't think going back to school in a state that has banned schools from masking up, during the surge of delta variant we're currently undergoing, is particularly safe at all, no.

> No, it's because an education is a fundamental human right which is being denied to children, and the policy of closing schools has caused immense damage to their learning and mental health for practically zero benefit in reducing the harm caused by the virus.

It's great that you have such strongly-held values! Then you won't mind spending the money to expand schools appropriately so a safe environment can be maintained, since the education of children is such a critical social outcome.

Like, I remember my high school and 25 kids was a small class, and hell no we weren't 6 feet apart. Explain to me how we get 2500 people 6 feet away from each other in a building that was designed to serve 2000 students that are 2 feet away from each other. That's the question that has to be answered to reopen safely.

Once schools are reopen en-masse, instead of just a limited basis (that allows spacing), we're going to have to address that capacity problem. Or more realistically, we just won't, and if the kids spread then oh well.
If only the transaction confirmations were as fast as these responses usually are.
How I Review 2,000 Olympics Photos and Deliver 25 Right Away
It must be nice to have problems like that.
Note that Icelandic is currently not well supported either ("In progress" with 384/5000 sentences and 86% Localized). Actually, Guaraní is better supported at the moment, and quite a number of other common smaller-ish languages aren't well supported yet either such as Hebrew, Danish, and even Korean (which is not small or even small-ish at all). Some other smaller languages are, such as Breton or Irish. Overall, it's a bit inconsistent. I suppose that this is because in the end, these things depend on the number of people contributing; there's a reason Esperanto is near the top, as it has a very active community of enthusiasts who love to promote the language.
My coworkers who do want to return (our offices are open on a voluntary basis) want to make everyone else return too because there’s no reason for them to go in if there’s only 10 people there.

Personally I have friends outside of work, so I haven’t been in.
Extremely grateful for tech giants like Amazon putting pressure on the rest of the industry. I wouldn't work for them but I definitely benefit from them in cases like this. Hopefully the rest of the industry follows suite.
Unix à jamais: nouvelle série en cours sur le Club iGen
Very interesting.

Here is Oaklands rough data for robberies.

Black 8228
Hispanic 575
Unknown 462
White 107
Asian/Other119
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Total 9491

Per 100K
Black (non-hispanic) 8,000
Hispanic 575
White (non-hispanic) 89

This is something like a 100-1 difference? Can these numbers be right - I was having some trouble finding good data from Oakland though I know they look at this closely.
Alas, that's what taxes should be used for :)
Issac Arthur has a thing or two to say about Arcologies:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsl-GBEZ-_Y
Knuth also talks about Dijkstra here:
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/commemoration/EWD-commem...
Practices for managing a hybrid remote team
The TFSA is not something that can be abused by a high income individual.

It has a $6,000 yearly contribution limit.

Canada, if anything, has an investment tax scheme which favours middle class investors. For someone making millions of dollars Capital gains tax is tied to your income tax bracket in Canada so it is very likely that you would end up paying higher taxes.

Canada also has a tax and income information sharing with the USA, so someone making big bucks in investments in Canada could not benefit from means tested programs in the US.

The scenario you proposed is entirely impossible.
> that, to me, is not political, but as raised previously, financial

The idea that there is a difference between these two things is one of the more pernicious ones of the last hundred years.

Money is power. The exercise of power is politics. They can't be separated.
Do you mean that they simply amplify the difference between the two signals?
"The top five languages by total hours are English (2,630 hours), Kinyarwanda (2,260) , German (1,040), Catalan (920), and Esperanto (840)."

How did they get almost as much training for Kinyarwanda as they have English?
> Home Affairs Minister Karen Andrews said the change was introduced out of consistency. “This does not stop Australians ordinarily resident outside Australia from departing. However, these people will now need to apply for an exemption,” she said.

My reading of the above was that citizens living abroad would still be allowed to leave Australia and return to their home. They just need to go through a centralized exemption process in order to demonstrate that they are residing abroad
What an ignorant comment. Children without serious co-morbid conditions are not at risk.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/cdc-covid-19-coronavirus-vaccin...

Lack of education is a greater risk for children (and society as a whole) than any virus.
Tax breaks for rich middle class people :-)

As with solar power used to be, our solar installation is guaranteed an 8% roi for 20 years plus the advantage of the power we generate
There's a button you can click to stake ethereum on Coinbase, which seems a bit past the vapor stage.
If ethics are not a concern then the right move is whatever you can get away with. As other posters pointed out, if you don't disclose your US citizenship to foreign banks then that information is not going to make its way back to the IRS. Canada is probably the only country where you wouldn't want to try this.
We maintain an add-on for our customers. For a long time Firefox was where we did our development, and released first. Their process was quick & easy, and a lot less confusing to navigate than Chrome/Edge.

Something on their end changed for which add-ons would require manual review. So a minor update (bug fixes, and a UI addition) has been in queue for review since June 22nd. We went from waiting hours to 6+ weeks at this point. There's plenty of frustrated people in their forums, but no real answers.
I’m sick of messaging my co-workers when I’ll be in the office
> it’s very hard to “innocently” end up with one of those images that they are looking for from the database.

Of course, there's no telling what images will be in the database when this inevitably expands beyond CP.
Asking if someone feels guilt does not imply the existence of guilt. One can feel guilt without being guilty.

Also asking for "strong emotions" does not strike me as the same question OP is asking.

In my book, the question is perfectly fine.
Im building multiple apps under the https://tinytiny.app name. Nothing commercial. None fully live yet but I’d love it if anyone could follow along and provide feedback. My email is in my profile.
I bet we'll see PR from Google, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft soon, with roughly the same timeline.
The no-fly list and the terrorist screening database aren't used in a court of law. The Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment guarantees you access to all the evidence presented against you. You also don't need the original images to defend yourself, though apparently CP can be presented to a (traumatized) jury [0].

So if you're charged on the basis of a fuzzy hash matching, you'd subpoena Apple for the photo in your backup that matched, present it to the court (since it doesn't actually matter if it's CP or not to be admissible), and you win the case.

0. https://www.johntfloyd.com/the-difficulty-with-criminal-evid...
My company announced a couple of months ago that they are planning on having everyone come back into office starting on September 1st. I request a "full remote exception" three times, and was rejected each time, one of which coming straight from the CTO. So I found a new job and put in my two weeks - somehow, everyone up the chain from me was incredibly surprised and disappointed, and even offered me a "full remote exception" if I stayed (I declined). How long are companies going to pretend that Pandora's Box hasn't been opened with regards to remote work? Why are we pretending that employees aren't as productive when at home? This last year and a half have shown tech companies posting record profits, so it's clear that employees are just as productive from their homes as from the office. Those who can adapt to this new world will be able to hire the best talent, and those who can't are going to really struggle and lost talent.
From the Forward (by Peter Blake) - italics mine

What I think he (Paolo Soleri) is trying to say is this: there is an inherent logic in the structure and nature of organisms that have grown on this planet. Any architecture, any urban design, and any social order that violates that structure and nature is destructive of itself and of us. Any architecture, urban design, or social order that is based upon organic principles is valid and will prove its own validity.
In the near future Firefox is just another Brave, Opera whatsoever. I am just curious how long some poor souls work their heart out in the engine room until the management inevitably forces the switch to chromium.
I too despair when I remember the days of software instantly responding to keypresses. But I fear that no matter how much today's developers knew about computer architecture software would still be slow, because latency is like a gas: it expands to take up all available latency-toleration space in a program's audience. Compressing it back is expensive, ergo it's a race to the bottom where business leadership would not let those developers actually take the time to make software more responsive.
Wonderful quote. I have the mentioned book and definitely recommend it.
And another flaw in the system highlighted by this case,

>If Strickland is released, he will not be eligible for compensation from the state. Missouri compensates only inmates who are exonerated through DNA evidence

It's also worth noting that despite this issue not being a priority for the governor of missouri, he did find the time to pardon two individuals fined after pleading guilty over pointing firearms at protestors from their property.[0]

[0]https://www.khou.com/article/news/politics/gov-parson-pardon...
>JS Kid Pix / Kid Pix 1.0 was released in to the public domain and this is an HTML/JS reimplementation.

source: https://github.com/vikrum/kidpix
It's a shame that it's intentional, and it's a failure of what a good prison system should be like.

I often hear "oh well {criminal justice system, healthcare, insert other bad industry} is not a failure because it's doing its intended purpose, which is profit". No, that's the current goal of the system running it. The actual, intended purpose, in a functioning society, is to {serve fair punishments and rehabilitate, enhance quality of health, etc}.
What, you don't think your employer should control your medical decisions?? /s

Its amazing to me how people have thrown their bodily autonomy out the window when there is suddenly a new risk.
I've scoffed at covid skeptics since Winter 2020. There was already enough info out at the time about conditions in China and initial cases spreading globally to see that it was no joke. Then people continuously kick the can down the road saying after summer, no after winter, no after spring, no after summer again. It's not that hard to see that this isn't something we're going to overcome in a year or two.
Is there a CFD library available to simulate water floating in space?
I am trying to develop a VR application that will show students the effect of releasing water in space. Is there a programming library that will help simulate that effect? Or is there any literature available on the algorithm or maths for achieving that?

I am trying to achieve the effect shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_qPWZbxFl8
No, actually, it isn't. It's more like "I assert that my joint was badly designed by evolution and a competent human could make it better" without having any actual ideas how it might be better.

Your examples are also flawed. Mechanics and doctors fix one instance of a system. They are not charged with fixing all of them.
I didn't have "a shit ton". I said that out of ~x00000 images, some might be bad.

But, yeah, I've deleted them now.
Apple will reportedly scan photos stored on iPhones for child abuse imagery
Anyone used Strapi? Or wordpress + advanced custom fields + wp-graphql? I like the look of Sanity.io but it's not open source / self-hostable.
You do know that about half of all people in the U.S. classify as having hypertension, right? It's not uncommon. People who look perfectly healthy and feel like nothing is wrong can have it.

You probably have it.

So if we're being "realistic about risks", we have to acknowledge that roughly half of all people who get COVID are going to have at least one "underlying health condition".
Yoshi's Crafted World which appeared on March 29, 2019 was built using the UE4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshi%27s_Crafted_World).
There are people who are suffering greatly under these arrangements and it's not talked about much. It's much easier to understand how hard it is to have kids at home while juggling work than it is to understand the detrimental effect of Big Tech having you move somewhere, then shutting off any ability you have to form social connections

There's a lot of ways to nerdsnipe that argument, ex. "just move back!"...it's too late, those social connections are gone
I don't think just nudity was illegal ever. But just suspicion can hurt people.
dom + css (+ layered compositing) is an extremely versatile and free form UI system

the old ui widgets can't really (I assume) vary that much in properties or location (the layouting is stricter and will break if you push it too hard)
I write lots of Elixir at my day job. What’s been tricky for you setting up LSP mode?
> someone having standing to call BS on Dijkstra

This is a really off color remark for an author of "Coders at work".

Dijkstra was probably amongst the first European coders and wrote the earliest operating systems.

If you read knuths remarks, he just has a difference of opinion, but the final conclusion is the same. The theory of algorithms is more important particular language or implementation details.

EDIT: Case in point, I learned my first language Pascal programming for 6 months without a computer.
PDF is portable. It's uses are legion because it is standalone.

PNG is also portable of course, but it is always embedded in something else. Outside of the tech bubble it is going to be a "what-is-a-png?" for the average person.

Everyone everywhere (to a first approximation) can handle a PDF as a document. PNG as a document is problematic for a vast number of people.

Though my first choice would be jpg. Everyone knows how to use them and they can be embedded in other documents easily.
Second game console surprise (to me anyway, apparently this has been around for a while) in a month. I never expected to see the Intellivision brand on a console again.

The model they're going with here is certainly unique. 100% ESRB E10+ or below, paying developers for cost of development, the Karma Engine for dynamic difficulty adjustment, all games both single and multiplayer, local multiplayer only, and no loot box or other predatory bullshit.

Honestly, I'm pretty skeptical about how well something like this will do in the market, but they definitely have a vision for this thing.

P.S. I do wonder if this may have started life as "should we make an Intellivision mini?", which would have been a natural move considering how often Intellivision games have been re-released on other consoles. If so, I give serious props to whoever decided to do something more interesting instead.
I would add to this:

1. Their package/plugin system sucks (last I tried it anyway). It basically just seems to download a bunch of junk files for every plugin without any intelligence, and if the package updates you have a big mess on your hands, trying to combine your app code with the newest plugin code.

2. You are pretty much forced to use C#, even though the company has more money than god and could easily fund grants to allow for great variety of language options. By siloing themselves within the C# ecosystem, they will likely never have an ecosystem of third party development tools that could improve the lives of their users.
Apple CSAM Detection: Technical Summary [pdf]
Thought this was a compelling illustration of how market dynamics intersect w. potential shenanigans... Carol is careful to not level any direct accusations, which I appreciate--but the presentation definitely suggests the data is either inaccurate or the liquidation was in Binance's favor (unwittingly or otherwise).
Can Firefox be forked? It's buildable on various OSes, is it legally possible to pick up the codebase and keep working on it in the spirit of original Mozilla?
> I must question the value of a "software engineer" who is working at a layer so abstracted from the reality of implementation that they don't have to understand binary.

To me it sounds like very productive work and a progression of technology. It's 2021, where 99.99% of us don't have to implement our own binary protocols, and work with computers rather than microcontrollers. If you're bit shifting, then it's most likely extremely low level work, which, as is the point of advancements in technology, is necessarily becoming more and more rare, or some case of NIH.

I do work with binary protocols, so I'm very familiar with bit shifting, but I also realize this is all grunt work that I'm having to implement due to poor vendor support of usable/no libraries.
》Basically the only country in the world that charges taxes on money you make and spend somewhere else, just because of where you were born.

Some other countries do that as well. Norway for limited time period. Some others have exit fees etc.
Oh sorry for the confusion - but yea I read you right... I just didn't want to type out wheeled drones each time. I definitely understood the point.
I'll have to read this paper, it seems interesting.

This problem also reminds me of this: https://jon.thesquareplanet.com/papers/phd-thesis.pdf
Tesla FSD Beta 9 Month Improvement Comparison Video
Sorry - my comment was more of a general "we can't keep everything closed and continue to impose lockdowns" rather than "we have to stop WFH and everyone should go back to the office," in spite of the article.

Still, to expand on the issue of WFH, I absolutely see no problem with it and I even advocated for it before the pandemic. I just wish everyone who wants to go back to the office for legitimate reasons (because they like to see their co-workers, because they have bad working conditions at home and what not) were able to if vaccinated.
This is the worst thing about people who prefer working in the office: they aren't satisfied by going in, they need to force others to go into the office to keep them company. At least those of us who prefer permanent wfh don't impact other people's decisions. And worst of all are executives and managers who want people in chairs to make them feel important and noticed.
Previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068741
Julia Robinson [1], who played a crucial role in resolving Hilbert's Tenth Problem, was once asked by the personnel department at her university to submit a description of what she did. She gave them a description of her typical work week:

Monday: Try to prove theorem
Tuesday: Try to prove theorem
Wednesday: Try to prove theorem
Thursday: Try to prove theorem
Friday: Theorem false

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Robinson
Just trying to imagine the thought process that leads one to conclude -- given everything we know about Covid and its (lack of) harm to children, and the widespread availability of protective vaccines to any teachers & staff who want one -- that the thing we should do is spend vast resources stretching the size of every school building, classroom, and bus to ensure people can remain 6 feet apart at all times, in perpetuity. And that we shouldn't reopen schools until we do this. It's really something!
The flu is far less contagious than COVID.

Even small measures affect the numbers.
> Oh, if only AppImage was widely accepted. Very few developers distribute via AppImage and basically no DEs understand what they are. Not that AppImages need them to, but it'd be nice.

To clarify: Not many FOSS developers distribute via AppImage, or not many proprietary software developers distribute via AppImage? Since the former is to be expected, but I'm curious about your experiences with the latter. To be honest, I haven't seen that many AppImages in the wild either, but I'm also not using a lot of proprietary software on my system at the moment.

> Incorrect. Windows quite often has a driver available via Windows Update, sans overengineered bullshit control panel. It is usually a bit behind the latest-greatest though.

That's good to know. Do you happen to have a document or some other resource explaining the Windows Update graphics driver distribution system? IIUC Windows a) configures some sort of "Windows Basic Display Adapter" on first boot, before b) installing basic IHV-specific drivers via Windows Update. But I understand the IHV drivers installed by Windows Update support all graphics card features, only without the control panel? I always thought there is no alternative to the separately installed IHV graphics driver, especially if you need OpenGL/Vulkan/CUDA/etc. support. But if Windows manages to provide that functionality automatically through Windows Update, that sounds like a good alternative.
The Art of PostgreSQL: a modern PostgreSQL book in 2020
Hungary does not tax it's citizens living abroad.
For a large audience, I would also consider jpg, doc, and/or tif. With jpg being my first choice over pdf since jpg is easily embedded in other documents.
I don't think we should care about people having such unreasonable interpretations. It's fair to expect adults to have enough emotional maturity to differentiate between the limitations of a website interface and a personal, targeted attack.
This headline might as well be click bait.

It's important to remember that this is a proposed amendment. It won't pass unless the infrastructure gang supports it. And it's very unlikely that they will support it, because that would mean that the bill isn't fully funded. Not being funded would kill the bill, because the Republicans who support it are demanding full funding.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/03/senate-bipartisan-i...
Probably not. There's very little reason to do this, as ext4 is so much better.
Exactly. It's fair to propose minor tweaks to a system while (implicitly) admitting that it's fine otherwise.

It's quite something else to say "the system is broken" while having no idea whatsoever how some new system would avoid all those problems.