skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Delta Lambda etc.
So school is about to start and covid is still a thing. Delta is going to take out a bunch of unvaccinated people including some kids. Next is the lambda variant which has killed more people as a percent of infections than any other variant. Lambda basically decimated Peru. So what are we going to do? Local and Federal governments have basically given up and in to the anti maskers. There’s seems to be no good way out.
That's a fair point. I am thinking from the other end - if these efforts were instead redirected at supporting open hardware systems, how much more beneficial it would be for the open movement?

By reverse engineering closed systems, you are adding value to it but not changing its nature - you are not really making it "open" (the next iteration will just "close" it again). Meanwhile, Apple just uses these reverse engineering effort cleverly for PR for the M1 through social media marketing. In effect, you are just helping a trillion dollar company design better closed systems while helping them make more money (by attracting naive Linux users to spend money on their hardware).

There are open systems that are struggling because they don't have talented developers working on their projects. Wish these developers would instead work on these projects - Sailfish OS, PineOS, Librem - Purism etc. For example, there are a lot of Intel / Arm tablets that either run only Windows or Android. It would be nice to run one of these Linux based mobile OS distros on it, and create a genuine alternate to the Android / ios duopoly on Tablets, right?
RE: the circle maintenance effort, I’m finding that people are using group chats (in messenger, WhatsApp, etc) as a solution to the pain points Circles set out to solve.

For example, I’ve now been added to a chat with all my extended family, one for my local community group (and subgroups), and a couple friend ones from college. And now when I have something to share I pick the relevant scope just like Circles, and finding my contacts are more open to sharing casual thoughts vs standard posting.

I have a hunch that it works because the moderation/curation becomes a group effort instead of just a maintenance activity asked of me alone, but it was an interesting realization when I realized what was happening
Take a Windows 10 PC that just booted without loading any 3rd party stuff. Wait say 60 seconds to should really be ready, hit the windows key and there is a noticeable delay. I get it not everything needs to be instantaneous, but even basic OS features like browsing files on a local SSD has all kinds of little pauses.

Mac, Linux, iOS and Android all have the same sorts of issues.
It's not the lucky 1%, it's the carefully selected 1%.

The other 99% is where the random rejection component amounts to more like "bad luck".

IOW good luck on its own isn't even enough, but bad luck can set you back years.

And since there's realistically at least another 2% out of the 99 who would have been equally performant if there was actually room for them to be accepted, the greatest pool of most promising candidates are among those whom have been the most unlucky.

Hmm.
Apple introduced (and kept) mandatory animations throughout the UI. Clean install M1 or not, that alone makes it feel slow to me.
> In what country can you give away 40% of your paycheck making less than 6 figures to then pay for dental work, prescriptions and education out of pocket while needing to make 3x the average salary to afford an average house?

Yeah, I dunno... Maybe there's a little bit of the "grass is greener on the other side of the fence" effect going on here, but as an American, if I hadn't read the rest of your post, I would have sworn you were giving a brutally accurate description of the US in that last sentence.
If the politicians had not spurred faster development by funding competing teams, we wouldn’t be able to stand here today and label one of those teams as a loser.

One team may be failing, but the broader process has clearly worked to produce revolutionary progress in our space industry.
minimalistic simulations = MinimalSim
More importantly the inclusion of non free drivers.
And marketing.
I thought it was a fixed price contract, but apparently nasa has been paying them above that.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/11/nasa-report-finds-bo...
IT Taliban
Ha, I suppose in context your interpretation makes more sense :)
Shows being cancelled earlier than fans would like is hardly a phenomenon exclusive to Netflix.
I run a full dual stack service in Azure [1]. I couldn’t get instance level IPv6 working, but everything else works in both v4 and v6.

I will echo that many Azure
services don’t support v6 yet, though.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ipv6-...
A means address. The IPv6 variant is called AAAA because IPv6 addresses are 4x longer than IPv4 addresses.
What about a key named “_comment”, or something similar? Of course, the underlying software must ignore unknown keys, so it’s not a full win anyway.
Thanks for explaining. I'm not sure that's laughed at in every language. It's standard in Clojure to just define things as maps, lists, etc. I actually think it's a pretty good idea.

Your examples, datetimes and regex, make the DSL option seem nice. In picking good examples you picked ones I'd be familiar with. But that's sort of the trick. If something is completely new to me, I'd much rather have it blown up.
I used to think that before I had to edit the ejabberd.yml config file. Now I think it's only remotely useful as a subset to use in Jelkyll headers.

Just use TOML for configuration instead.
Science is ever changing and evolving. We are becoming more clever with recognizing biases and separating correlation from causation. But it's never perfect
> You can always do things retro-actively.

Doesn't this vary depending on who consumes your code and how easily they can adapt to change?
Correct link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/the-perl-foundation-...
Maybe AWS, Azure, and GCP, but not places like Digital Ocean. IPv6 is still very niche, and it's suffering from that effect where it being very niche keeps it very niche. Nobody wants to be an early adopter (and momentum seems to be dying), and the result is that there's no adoption.

I think we've been trying to make IPv6 happen since 1998, and ... it's not happening.
I wish there was an official name for the fallacy of assuming that a given activity done at any scale are equivalent. You sharing screenshots from your Facebook and an add-on automatically slurping data from millions of people's Facebooks are not at all the same thing. They both might be okay to do but the reason for the latter is because it would be okay to do the former.
vlc maybe?
Anyone reminded of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath?

According to Wikipedia [0], the eponymous expression occurs in Chapter 25, "which describes the purposeful destruction of food to keep the price high:"

> [A]nd in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grapes_of_Wrath
An overview of stacks and its implementation in C
I was unreasonably sad when The OA was cancelled.
Removing Last of Obligatory Covid Rules, Denmark Says Goodbye to Masks
This link took me to https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/08/
Lisp is the lambda calculus + AST as syntax. The Wolfram language is a symbolic reduction engine without AST as syntax. In other words, nope they are not the same at all.
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He thinks it has a higher risk of long term side effects. It's nearing anti-vax territory although he does admit the efficacy of vaccines and doesn't overplay the current knowledge on side effects. It's the boogeyman of possible future side effects associated with spike proteins that he's playing into. He thinks continued use of ivermectin is safer than vax plus boosters. And he thinks they're of similar efficacy so he's choosing ivermectin.
yea, the one that never gives you up, never lets you down.
Please do, I'd love to read it
Past related threads:

The Light Phone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21943649 - Jan 2020 (277 comments)

Light Phone II - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20951777 - Sept 2019 (2 comments)

The High Hopes of the Low-Tech Phone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20878498 - Sept 2019 (1 comment)

Light Phone 2: A simple 4G phone with e-ink - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17252143 - June 2018 (144 comments)

The Light Phone 2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16495707 - March 2018 (3 comments)

Light Phone 2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16493485 - March 2018 (6 comments)

The Light Phone: Leave your smartphone behind - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16356013 - Feb 2018 (3 comments)

This minimalist cell phone is designed to be as basic as possible - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14284972 - May 2017 (1 comment)

The Light Phone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9599142 - May 2015 (8 comments)

The Light Phone Is the Anti-Smartphone - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9569625 - May 2015 (1 comment)
Hrhrhr. I did pipe-bombs with it with which I've torn down brick walls of abandoned buildings which where already rotten. Water bombs also, with electrical ignition via very thin wires and flashbulbs. I don't get the 'without killing yourself' though. Black powder isn't like the potassium chlorate you have when messing around with fertilizer.
You can grind every constituent of it all day like you want.
And then mix the grinds together. Maybe avoid static electricity. But that's what cotton clothing is for, isn't it?
I don't have much self-discipline, but if I did I would disable notifications and time box a couple hours for sharing things/ replying. I think a lot of the issues are from consumption more than sharing.

That being said I use to have a lot of engagement on my twitter account and I got to the point that posting would give me anxiety because of the possibility of negative replies despite whatever I said being mundane. Also watching others get "exposed" for certain behaviors gave me anxiety as a somewhat popular person in my social network. I wanted the engagement, but after I got it I found out it wasn't what I was expecting/wanted and stopped.

I guess I didn't really have a secret as much as just learned the hard way.

edit: couple hours per week*
https://archive.is/eUGhT
We have technical specialists at my company who developed a great visualization interface for our product. Everyone who has seen it is really impressed. They ask why we can't have nice visualization tools like this built-in. The main engineering team won't adopt the solution because the graphs are red/green instead of gradients of blue. The technical specialists believe we shouldn't make the blue gradient the default, and instead believe that because color blind people are a minority, a mode that works for them should be a later add-on. I understand where they are coming from, but personally, I think it would be great to have the out-of-the-box UI be useful for colorblind people. The weird thing is, the two teams have had this difference for several months now, and haven't done anything about it. Unfortunately, it just seems like the most talented developers are just apathetic towards this. Almost like the brain space our design team devotes to ADA compatibility is in th specialists mind devoted to actually making something useful. It's an odd dynamic.
Well come on, what is it :)
> I think this is why we see the oft-repeated trope (on HN especially) that people who post happy photos on social media must actually be secretly sad and miserable behind the scenes

This is not about success, but about being realistic about what you can expect from your life. Everyone is going to be unhappy from time to time and everyone will have downs ; this is just not what you usually see on social media. So when people say this, it's to reduce people's feeling of being inadequate, not to take away success.

If you think about it, it's actually two sides of the same coin: People only see humongous companies and insane salaries, but not the years of hard work that went into getting there. Similarly, they only see happy faces on social media, but not the bad sides that everyone has.
>Mac, Linux, iOS and Android all have the same sorts of issues.

In Linux you have a choice. dmenu is instant for me. I bet there's a graphical that does what you want, quickly.
The IE effort was gargantuan - it was not NT in terms of sheer difficulty, but 1) we had built operating systems before NT, but never a web browser, and 2) Microsoft wanted to keep it under wraps as much as they could.

The IE team had a carte blanche to succeed by any means necessary. If they wanted a system call to work differently, you had to get it done or risk getting a meeting with your boss’ angry boss.
For what it's worth, when I encounter a project doing this I treat it as a giant red flag that the developers don't care about the quality of their project.

In the majority of cases, there's another project that I can move to and I do so as soon as possible.

There are presumably others like me. So when you say it's sustainable, you may not be accounting for the reputational damage it does to your project, which you will almost certainly never be made explicitly aware of because users know it's not worth their time to file bugs.
Yep the core is very small but also useless if you want to write real software. You need a lot of additional code to have a useful language. With the core you can’t even add two numbers. Unless you encode numbers as cons lists (Peano style). The core for Haskell is also super small (just 1 page). But it takes a lot of additional code to make Lisp and Haskell useful/practical.
Would need a change in the environment. There's no economic reason to do it now, when we've got global supply chains and established businesses with decades of IP. There'd be a strong reason to do it if those supply chains collapsed and we needed to distribute semiconductor manufacturing across a number of separate low-profile sites, if, for example, we entered war, civil disorder, or a migration crisis.
You have a long history of posting flamewar comments to this site and of seriously breaking the site guidelines. We've asked you repeatedly to stop, and you're still doing it. If you keep doing it, we will ban you. No more of this, please.

If you don't want to be banned on HN, please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, use the site as intended from now on, and drop the ideological warfare please. (No, we don't care which ideology you like or dislike. Either way, it destroys what this site is supposed to be for.
Israel to vaccinate against Covid '24/7', Bennett says
This thread isn't about OpenPOWER, but as someone typing this reply on a Raptor Talos II with Fedora 34 (and with a Blackbird in the home theatre), it actually is a more open system than the M1 or x86_64 that is in the same performance ballpark. If you want performance per watt, well, the M1 will spank everything right now, but I don't feel like this machine is at all underpowered (which, sadly, is still the case for RISC-V).

I'm no Stallmanesque ideologue; I'm attracted to the M1 because of its low power usage and I've used Macs for years and for my next mobile system I may end up picking up an Air. But as a desktop workstation POWER9 systems like this really are more open and credible alternatives, and I felt it was well worth the price.
We've asked you before to stop posting flamewar comments and using HN for ideological battle. If you keep doing it, we will ban you. No more of this, please.

Actually you're way, way over the bannable line already but I don't want to ban you and not the other person when as far as this thread goes you were behaving equally badly. If you don't want to be banned on HN, please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, use the site as intended from now on, and drop the ideological warfare please. (No, we don't care which ideology you like or dislike. Either way, it destroys what this site is supposed to be for.
I feel like that's a fallacy. Sure if you stripped away all needless complexity, you'd get to incompressible water.

But people rarely do that.
>Nobody implements their own loops anymore.

It’s funny how this is true in several ways:

* Nobody needs to manually move the stack pointer anymore to implement a loop at the lowest level

* Iverson ghosts [0] let us operate on arrays without explicit loop constructs, e.g. array.sum() in NumPy

* Modern IDEs autocomplete loop syntax

I’m sure there are many other examples I’m missing. All of these are examples of automation of programmers’ work, even if we often don’t think of them that way (especially #1 and #2: higher-level languages/syntax)

[0] https://dev.to/bakerjd99/numpy-another-iverson-ghost-9mc
The Polish government always had a thing for people in funny hats. Miners are treated like royalty there. Poland just loves when people sacrifice themselves for no good reason at all, and the more suffering it brings the better. Miners are portrayed as national heroes everywhere from elementary books to evening news. You can't touch them. And the whole country is scared of clean energy because of Chernobyl. So they proceed to kill millions silently. They also talk shit about Russia all day and then end up getting the worst deal for Russian gas that they are totally dependent on.
You’re thinking mid-2000s IE. In the 90s, IE was far ahead of everything else. The gap between 2008 IE and Chrome was FAR smaller than the gap between 1997 IE and Netscape/Mosaic
Catfish Man on CPU Caches
This article is shallow and generic. Replace "software" with any other business activity and the strength of argument remains the same.
The latest update to EU IV (or expansion, I'm not sure which actually has it) lets you spend influence to place an heir from your dynasty on a foreign throne.
Hmm... I need to try harder with hats, I've never felt great about using them.
Yup, that is actively coupled to depression and most people can't talk about it to help themselves.

Problem with advocation of "nihilism" that gets distributed widely is that it is a performative contradiction.

In reality it is either about a wish fulfillment gesture on absolute freedom; a misguided attempt at individuation that ends up objectifying self into a nothing-burger or it is a pragmatic cynicism that seeks to stop the "explore" and promote the "exploit" in explore/exploit tradeoff every agent has to make by asserting there is nothing to explore.
Are the produced mechanisms really the same when the incentives change? That's not really something I can quite get myself to believe.

The incentives in free software, in my limited experience, are to grow a productively maintained system, not necessarily a profitable one (assuming, of course, the existence of some outside source of stable income). And with that motivation, I feel that competition disappears. When I look at an alternative solution to a problem I'm trying to solve, it's more in the lense of 'oh, that's a good idea!' than anger that their solution is better than mine. Then, if I'm lucky, it might be the type of thing that can be refactored out into a library and shared across implementations. I still feel that competition precludes that, regardless of incentives.
It would feel a lot less creepy if they just scanned files on their servers like everyone else.

Is it supposed to make us feel better the scanning is happening on our own devices instead of someone else’s?

It certainly increases the “creep factor.”
Nothing. But I don't see anyone claiming that every high schooler needs to do mandatory shop or culinary arts classes, or lamenting that because you can just buy furniture in a store people no longer know how to make it themselves.
> I wonder what compels people to do that

Two big reasons.

It's enforced in Java that 1 class = 1 file. And it's highly encouraged in C#. Also encouraged in react with components. So what you end up with classes that are too big and files that are too small.

This goes hand in hand with a lot of editors (vs code, sublime text, atom) having the ctrl-p shortcut to find files.
This is a horrible Twitter thread. He leads off with an immediate ad hominem against Nicholas Wade, complete with an accusation of racism. He then states, falsely, that it isn't possible to engineer a virus without telltale markers, ignoring more modern techniques which don't leave telltales. He also conflates engineering a virus with the argument of it leaking.
The thread reeks of cognitive dissonance and cherry picked straw men, but the disgusting racism smear on Wade was just wrong. And I'm not even going to dig into the out of the gate comparison he used with climate deniers. Deeply insulting, and in bad faith.

I also forgot to mention that he deliberately ignored the humanized mice being the location of the serial passage work, and straw manned a "petri dish". Completely misrepresenting the fact that was most crucial.

In the future, using a Twitter account with locked comments is inadvisable. He blocked comments for a reason.
Past threads on this:

I hate almost all software (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15142316 - Aug 2017 (8 comments)

I hate almost all software (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13586596 - Feb 2017 (144 comments)

I hate almost all software. (2011) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10553408 - Nov 2015 (2 comments)

“I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3055154 - Sept 2011 (292 comments)
I don't think (and experimentally, I know I'm correct) it's as zero sum as you think it is. These efforts you think better spent on open hardware are actually adding value to the open systems by making transitions from closed systems easier.

M1 is a beast and needs no further PR to attract buyers. You can ignore its advantages and yell out "our system sucks but at least it's open!", or, you can work on bringing the advantages of the product of a trillion dollar company's RND to the open world.
I've never seen an F# job on indeed.com, they're all C# when companies decide to use .NET technologies.
It is encrypted. But Apple controls the key.
Ask HN: Common Lisp for Startups in 2021?
As the title asks, would anyone advise for or against using Common Lisp in a startup nowadays?
To understand love like that is to understand an equally profound loss.
Software is incredible. Here we are, thousands of people across the globe, having thoughtful and interesting conversations, often on up-to-the minute information. The sum-total of human knowledge is available at our finger tips. We can fly safely around the planet.

OMG, this list would go on forever if we sung the praises of software.

It's complex because it's doing complex things, that no civilization has done before -- That no civilization has ever even contemplated before.

But, yeah, OK, the glib object model is complicated. I'm sure you would have designed it better, and simpler. But you know what? You didn't.
I bought one of these from the second kickstarter wave. After waiting about a year to receive it... It didn't work with my carrier. I waited a few more months with no updates or ETA on support, and then I returned it.
If you haven't gone too far, you haven't gone far enough.
>>There are thousands of types of masks. People can find one they like just like a shirt

The function of a mask runs counter to the function of heat dissipation. You can't get a mask that works well at stopping droplets that will allow heat to dissipitate and not cause steam to collect in the face.

>>100% your opinion.

It's not opinion that having to wear a mask traps warm moist hair that one exhales, against the face.

>>The ‘burden’ should be on the individual proposing to roll back safety measures.

Not when the risks to safety - that the measure is being implemented to mitigate - are extremely minute, and the measures very plausibly have safety risks themselves.
Relationships matter almost everywhere.
Climate scientists have a message for the world: Don’t give up