skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hospitals are collapsing again, we can't ignore it.

Get people vaccinated.

Or else we're going to wind up "flattening the curve" again until we finally burn through enough dead people that everyone is effectively either recovered or immunized and then the endemic burden should be an order of magnitude lower.

And hospitals only have so much throughput going through the ICU and into the morgue that they can sustain, which is limited by burned-out human resources, that have been strained and quitting during the pandemic.

If you want to totally let it rip and destroy the ICUs then you better drive really fucking carefully for a few months and hope you don't get a poor diagnosis of something or other fairly nasty. Have a bit of a chat with your appendix and make sure its feeling happy and doesn't blow up.
For me that is wishful thinking that ignores increases in other platforms.
Wow, we have been using DokuWiki for years! I read the comments on the WP page, and am a bit confused. Is DokuWiki considered so niche that it is unknown? It certainly isn't as big as Wikimedia, going by community, but it's actively maintained and works well.

We use it to host a research project, as well as a data store. It's _zero setup_, with file based storage, which works really well for hosting locally on your computer.
> Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

I wonder what's faster: The new GUI, linked user accounts getting suspended or the project getting legal issues with the result of being taken down.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

No, seriously. I support projects like this. But they pretty much always end the same. It's always sad to see so much effort go into waste. I get the motivation but I think there are a lot of other things to spend this kind of work on other than somethings that breaks a service's TOS from just reading the title.
Op did not provide a single example of an Electron app that competes with native performance. When pushed, they became indignant and said that they have personally worked on several snappy Electron apps, which, however are secret. Also, there are apparently no other examples of Electron apps readily at hand.

So we end up where we were, with VsCode as singular example, and in turn, with the distinctive suspicion that the inability of anyone to point to even one decently performing Electron app may just simply be because Electron is not very good.

The downvotes then probably arise from the fact that this argument has been replayed on HN hundreds of times.
This should be fixed in the master version, we just didn't get our hands on making a patch release yet.
It's not even just video games! Leaflet's great for real-world non-video games maps of the whole world. It's by far the easiest system to make any random old image zoomable and pinchable.

My brother and I created a map of our local Costco in Figma and just put it up at https://costcomap.com/
The fact that the professor highlights Mongolia and Siberia as examples of countries with superior systems is very emblematic of this type of thinking. No Americans would be happier if the USA lifestyles started resembling the lifestyles of those countries.

The GINI coefficient is better in those places - but much less so than his anecdotes would have you believe.
It is to provide you with credit. A deposit may work as well. Prepaid doesn't have the issue.
Basically all developed societies are "super cooperative", irrespective of stuff like wealth inequality. You want to see a society where the "competitive" spirit OP talks about is still flourishing, look no further than Afghanistan. A remarkably "equal" society, since few people there have any wealth at all - but still not a place you would want to be in.
Sure. I'd guess someone could also sneak an easter egg in there to cause the battery packs to self-immolate.
It's clear that the problem is that politicians can get to close to the money. That the people's will has no influence on policy.

Could we cap net worth of 'public servants'?

Would things be better in America if there was a max population per representative? I.e. 1 rep per 50k.

Why can we not randomly select 500~1000 at random each year pay them 150k to serve as a proper house of commons.
Bank of America stopped doing virtual credit card numbers a few years ago.

I think Citibank allows you to do it, but I have no personal experience or knowledge.

I have a card from Capital One that allows virtual credit card numbers.

Privacy.com is a service specifically for this issue. It allows you to generate lots of virtual cards and even use fake names so you can't be tracked so easily.
You don't need a tablesaw to make some shelves. You'd get very far with a hand held jigsaw. Can be stored in a drawer and costs around 100€ for a decent brand. You just need to be a lot more careful to get things perfectly straight, compared to a circular saw.
I use `alias grep=ugrep -G`
Delta variant was identified in India in December 2020. India began administering vaccines in January 2021. Vaccine refusal could not have played a role.
The few times contactless has not worked you just put in the same card in the chip slot (why would it be two different cards?).

Besides, I don't see how your situation is an argument for mag swipe. Are you saying contactless fails more than mag swipes? Or that mag swipe is faster than contactless/chip? Absolutely not my experience in either way.
Ask HN: How to find my niche (personal projects)
Hello HN,

Due to the pandemic and an influx of stress recently, I went into self contemplation and tried to find what I don't like about my life. One of the things that stood out was that, regarding my career and my love for computing, my knowledge feels wide but shallow. I feel that this is limiting my creative capacity and my ability to create fun and interesting things. As an example, I see articles here about reasonably complex subjects and am mostly capable of following them, but lack the inspiration to create something of my own that would not be a copy or close derivative of the articles I read.

In contrast, I see that some people find their niche, be it creating a site with auto-generated fractal art or their own text editor or even entire operating systems. I admire them but at the same time, I struggle to understand how they get their motivation.

If I spend a sizeable amount of energy exploring a niche subject and I end up not finding it satisfying, the energy feels wasted as the knowledge does not always transfer to the rest of my activities. At the same time, since I cannot relate my current activities to something I'm not familiar with, it's hard to judge before hand.

I've tried the approach of trying out everything I find interesting, but combined with full-time work and the amount of information online, most attempts have remained very shallow with little to show for it.

For people who feel that they have found their niche(s), what was your path towards them and how do you know if a project will be something worth pursuing for your personal enjoyment?
They get ROI if people subscribe to spotify. Why would they care whether I listen to podcasts through their official app or through a 3rd party's app?

If spotify's podcasts are available in my preferred podcast app after I've logged in to my spotify account, they still get paid. And I'll listen to & appreciate way more of their podcasts that way. And they can use it as another funnel for potential customers.

Its win-win.
How so? There's no swipe motion you need to get right; just slide in the card and done?
The traditional extension of this joke is:

"Hey. Don't oversimplify. First you gotta hammer them flat and trap lightning inside them."
Another major difference is that Nelson's mistake was in a field in which he was an expert. Cranks are almost never experts in the fields they are making claims about.
Like, contact the customer service hotline, and since they're sending the SIM card through the registered address, someone must get it in delivery. Alternatively, just literally ask the customer service to change the address. They should checked these kinds of requests, but considering that currently the T-mobile data leak is on the front page, you shouldn't be really shocked on how lax American security standards (except for their military) are.
I've added some images and a disclaimer to the readme. In case you still want to see the proper results. ;)
I also heard the more esoteric food was something the rich ate, but the food for common people is something that is still served and delicious.

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210719-what-did-the-anc...
urgh maybe I should talk to a tax expert. The section discusses NSOs but I have ISOs. I also don't know how it's impacted by the fact that the company I work for is based in Boston (options were granted after I moved to Cali though), and I'm mainly curious as to how it would be impacted if I move to an income-tax-free state before the options vest
Adding some slight nuance to this as it sounds like Jeremy Clarkson might be oversimplifying a tad.

Nobody in the UK (or in England at least, i'm not as familiar with devolved policy) gets paid for full rewilding (in the sense of taking land completely out of production and leaving it, a philosophy most famously espoused in England by the Knepp estate). English agri-environment policy expects some kind of active management of the land taken out of production. There are a range of options farmers can choose which they have to discuss and agree based on the land type and context with a specialist adviser. For bees this might be cultivating a plot of plant species chosen for pollen and nectar, for example.

The payment is calculated on a model based on "income foregone plus costs" so in theory should be worth exactly the same as an equivalent crop on that patch of land (although in practice this obviously varies a bit depending on how marginal the land is and fluctuations in the market). Generally the amount of admin and time required, and the limited funds available, means that nobody is making very much money off this.

The much more broken UK subsidy is the Basic Payment System - a leftover from the EU Common Agricultural Policy. Here farmers are paid a flat rate per hectare for any land used for agriculture - just cash handed over with no incentive to either improve productivity or manage for the environment. For obvious reasons this disproportionately benefits massive landowners. This is thankfully currently being phased out and the funds shifted towards the agri-environment model, which has its problems but at least delivers something.
The iOS client isn’t much better, it seems as if they’ve given up on decent offline support all together.
America is a nation mostly shaped by the idea that human nature is competitive and hostile (and capitalism would be the way to channel these emotions for productive outcomes).

I rather live in a place that underlines a different trait of human nature. There will always be aggression and competitiveness, but places that make the base assumption of cooperation turn out to be much nicer, more liveable and generally more efficient.

Also: if the US had the same voting system as most modern democracies where one vote has the same voting power, independent from which province or state you are voting, policy and live in the US would look a lot different.
Interesting question, related what's going to happen to domestic Internet connectivity. Are the Taliban going to introduce censorship and monitoring?

My guess is that dot af domains are fine for the moment, though they might begin adding restrictions to 'appropriate use', making it hard for people to buy domains (or renew).
The goal was to get as many people vaccinated first before being naturally exposed to the virus.

That should cut down the fatality rate, along with the rest of the lifelong damage the virus causes, by at least an order of magnitude.

The goal was also to avoid the hospital system and ICUs collapsing, which should be a natural result of everyone getting vaccinated.

Vaccine boosters yearly or every other year were also always discussed as early as March 2020 to deal either with waning immunity or reformulations to address antigenic escape.
I have a feeling the vast majority of traffic should be pub sub / love query not request response, and yet is currently the latter, and this might mean this is shooting for the wrong goalposts.
Valgrind is great, precise but slow.

The missing feature I was comparing was the ability of Go to provide good estimated heap and allocation profiles using minimal overhead on a production workload.
The World’s First 3D Printed Steel Bridge Opens in Amsterdam
Afghanistan: Facebook confirms ban of Taliban-related content
One could think that multiple failed military interventions through decades which resulted in worse mess in the end than at the start could teach some lessons but apparently not.
Let's send warships do deal with trash problems - yeeeeee haaaaaw, oh yeah.
More leading businesses join vaccine uptake drive
Most of the problem you describe here can be overcome by talking with your kids. My 11 year old knows full well that I’m going to say “no” to anything that isn’t related to his school work or something that we’ve had a prior conversation about. He has his phone for communication and his school scheduling software (isams). No social media, no games. My younger kids have iPads and we use built in functionality to make the App Store entirely invisible to them. If they discover something they like through other means they know they can talk to us and discuss.

It’s really not that difficult to communicate with your kids and then this kind of problem goes away.
There wasn't poor evidence, Jesus Christ. Masks were one of the most researched forms of PPE out there, with many million man-years of practice. And the FUD about masks was not restricted to home-made stuff but any form of respiration filters.

The only reason masks were in doubt was the incompetent advice from WHO bureaucrats, and the bureaucrats on national advisory levels mindlessly droning it. This was not evidence based.
>>No, the compiler or preprocessor should process a higher level instruction that you write using the editor.

Yes. Macros.

Only Lisp has it. No body really uses Lisp. And languages like Python don't have it. So we have to use these hacks for the mean while.
It'll save disk space but not resident memory? Debug symbols etc shouldn't be paged in. The Linux binary goes from 20MB to 10MB stripped.
1 year in Cali out of 3 years after grant before vest = 33%

1 year in Cali out of 4 years after grant before vest = 25%
Friendly reminder that when you delete your discord account, they don't delete your statements, just strip the account name from them, similar to how Github is doing it with their ghost account. For Github, I sort of understand it. For discord, it feels very dangerous to me.
FWIW, 0 A.D. started out as a mod / total conversion for Age of Empires 2. So the inspiration is rather direct :)
The presumably rightful allegation of exaggerated numbers in Graeber's book does not necessarily render the existence of "bullshit jobs" untrue.
I see that the (alleged) empirical flaws throw a shade on his hypothesis, but they do not disqualify it in its entirety.
Toys and Hope
It is not only hard for you, but it is also hard for a computer. And Go expresses this perfectly.
Once you hide this behind a convenient `slice.Delete(x)`, you may end up with a codebase that bleeds performance.
What is the age of the hospitalised, and what is the vaccination rate for that age range? I expect most of the hospitalised to be elderly, and most of the non vaccinated to be young.
Care to contribute to the conversation and explain why? At risk populations do get eg the flu shot.
Partially agreed, many times it's just a patch over a codebase that's stuck only running on JDK 8 - people expect tuning to be sufficient when the code is slowly rotting.

I'd argue that most systems that won't die out eventually will need a rewrite, or alternatively, in the modern day we'll see more and more polyglotic systems popping up.

Therefore it always makes sense to explore the best options for a particular bit of development, regardless of whether it's Node, Python, Java, Go or something else.
It has 8 lines. 7 of those are metacommentary (aka "noise"). 1 is useful information ("data"). It would be more efficient to have a higher signal-to-noise ratio in comments. Especially when responding to someone who is politely asking a question requesting more information.
IEEE Standard for SystemVerilog Language Reference Manual
You don't have to neglect that no country is invaded to spread democracy. And people learn from that. Not from what you say, they learn from what you do and that is defending your interests. The spite will be larger than the love for freedom and democracy, hell, the US doesn't currently make the impression that they like freedom very much.

That is not a clear cut in Afghanistan. Perhaps the US just invaded because the Russian tried and it was believed that its hub location could enact control on neighboring countries. Terrorism netted the needed excuse, but it continued after Bin Laden was out of the picture.
Deterministic ethernet varieties been around for a very long time.

If you have fabric determinism like Infiniband, and capacity reservation on the receiving side, you can just dispose of connection paradigm, flow control, and thus get great deal of performance, while simplifying everything at the same time.

I do not see much use of it though unless you are building something like an airplane.

The uncounted PhD hours spent on getting networks to work well do amount to something.

Dealing with RDMA aware networking is far beyond the ability of typical web developers.

Deterministic Ethernet switches cost a fortune, and are lagging behind the broader Ethernet standard by many years.

Making a working capacity reservation setup takes years to perfect as well.

99.9999...% of web software will most likely *lose* performance if blindly ported to RDMA enabled database, message queue server, or caching.

If you don't know how the upoll, or iouring like mechanisms work, you can not get any benefit out of RDMA whatsoever

I once worked for a subcontractor for Alibaba's first RDMA enabled datacentre.
Huh, I also thought Go had no concept of finalizers. That is a bit... awkward way to set a finalizer. But thinking it again, it may just be due to my unfamiliarity.
>The Taliban has previously shown it’s capable and willing to harness the vast data piles we create every day to try and filter out people it believes are detrimental to its way of life, including official government databases. In 2016, Taliban insurgents killed 12 passengers on a bus they stopped after requiring everyone to scan their fingerprints on a biometric machine that cross-checked a database of security force workers, according to an Afghan army commander. “Most of the passengers were not familiar with the machine but we knew it was a biometric device that could identify security force members from amongst civilians,” the commander told Afghan news website TOLOnews at the time.

That is a pretty deep penetration of the former regime which is also evidenced by the speed of the power transfer. Not that it is a surprise in general for anybody who paid attention, and the end game was clear, yet the actual forest-fire like speed is still very impressive - for example the pro-Soviet puppet regime back then fought for 3 years after the Soviet forces had left before finally falling.
Downloading the mp4 version of the archive worked fine for me. And I‘m in Germany :-)
> What is so hostile about the previous post ?

We have sensed irony and/or sarcasm in your post, thus it was rightly deemed hostile by the HN post monitors. Please make an attempt to be more polite next time, especially when communicating with high karma individuals.
About Texas:
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/08/12/texas-coronavirus-gr...

Check the graph about mask mandates ... Hoping the best for Texas, yet this looks bad.
Somethings wrong with your vim setup then.
They're just slowly boiling the frog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
We are never going back to normal. I don't know how to make people understand that. It seems they keep believing that if they just go along and do what they are told, things will be normal again.

You will see more variants of covid, more restrictions. If you go along with vaccinating and wearing health passes, you will be left alone for now. But you will have to continue to accept whatever they say. You no longer have any right to say no.
Germany had no democratic tradition either, it was corrupt too. And, as someone else said, many former USSR countries are doing quite well with their new democracies.

The factors are way more complicated then just that.
Scrape DuckDuckGo Inline Images with Python
I don't know if I'm going to quit 'knowledge work', but its sadly telling that the most satisfying project I've had all year is refurbing my mower deck with some paint and new blades and bearings.

I used to go to work with my dad and we'd bust out torches and welders and saws and compressors. Neither of my kids had anything beyond a passing interest in computers and my job (infosec) is completely invisible to them. There are definitely rewarding parts of the vocation and I'm still glad I'm in it, but visceral satisfaction can be difficult to find.

I don't know what this has to do with anything lol.
The QFC (which is Kroger's AFAIK) near me finally started allowing NFC payments sometime in 2020. Part of me wonders if covid and wanting less contact motivated that because the actual terminals themselves didn't change but rather they just enabled the NFC functionality.
Val Kilmer in The Saint used the first gen Nokia Communicator. Loved everything about that movie when I was a kid.
I think only the Snapdragon SoC is fully supported. So, yes, the google Pixel phones and the Xiaomi Mi A2 are curently recommended: https://calyxos.org/get/

I've flashed mine 2 weeks ago and I am very pleased. Without the Google Services Framework you are restricted to the F-Droid store though (not a problem for me personally). And there are several Apps that won't work even if you install the GSF and the Aurora-Store: Banking-Apps, Online-Check-In for Flights, etc. -- again not a problem for me personally, I fly maybe once every 5 years and use Online-Banking from my browser...
+ with families back in China there is an additional leverage to use.
No wonder people hate it then.
The issue isn't "whose fault is it", the issue is what can we do about it, because we're all getting equally fucked by this. The hidden assumption is "we = the west". If China mismanages our waste then we shouldn't send it there, because mother nature doesn't care if it's technically our fault or not.
It is well known that Americans consume far more natural resources and live much less sustainably than people from any other large country of the world. “A child born in the United States will create thirteen times as much ecological damage over the course of his or her lifetime than a child born in Brazil,” reports the Sierra Club’s Dave Tilford, adding that the average American will drain as many resources as 35 natives of India and consume 53 times more goods and services than someone from China.

Source : https://www.blueridgeoutdoors.com/go-outside/united-states-c...
Perhaps they meant Google Code Search?
I'm one of these people. Changed to a 40% contract, work Mon-Tue. I am in a privileged position where I'm able to live with my wage comfortably, albeit frugally. Living in Nordics helps too.

I was expecting that I'd be dwelling deep with all of those side projects that I was craving to do on work days instead of solving semi to not-at-all exciting problems for a company. Found out that those were mostly escapistic fantasies to regain my creative mind under the time and stress pressures.

Now I enjoy living simply. I feel better mentally and physically. Interesting to see where this will go. Maybe I'll eat the hustle fruit some day and start grinding - this idea that dictated my adult life seems very alien for me now.