skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
20 and 50 feet are both far beyond "nearsighted" range and into "normal distance," without being all that different from one another.

3,000 feet is quite different (for one thing, atmospheric effects start becoming relevant).
Everyone knows this and yet obesity is still a problem globally, leading one to think other approaches might be worthwhile
Not at all wrong. What protects my (in the US) bank money isn't that I own the $10 the bank is holding for me; it's that the bank is FDIC-insured and if it's ever not able to satisfy our contract and give me my money back, the US government will step in and hand me my $10.

... and that $10 has value because the US government says it does, and people believe it (including international banks and other naton-states, which cram physical dollars into secure vaults as back-stops against the implosion of their domestic currencies).
API meaning data API/structure, not a public/restful API.
Well, the forklift mech in Aliens was pressed into combat. Never say never...
But doing that is literally empathy, a useful skill.
From what you are hearing, are staffing levels the same as pre-covid, and how much is reduced staff vs increased COVID patients contributing?
This has got to be one of the dumber arguments I've seen made in the media and especially here.

Kamala was saying that if the only person telling her she should get vaccinated was Donald Trump, then no, she would not take it.

The (very clear) implication is that she would prefer that people who actually know what they are talking about (i.e. virologists, doctors, nurses, scientists, the FDA, the CDC, NIH...etc) recommends getting the vaccine, then she would get it enthusiastically.

Is this really too hard to understand or are you really trying to use this extremely flimsy argument to accuse her of hypocrisy?
Physicist Discovered an Escape from Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox
I made a chart

https://imgur.com/a/mI8OdpW
For reference: https://imgur.com/r/hacking/rG0p0b2
I must presume that at that level of direct interaction the evidence of losing customers, and the accompanying insults, will be clear.

I also once wanted to go to the theatre to see a company I had been dreaming of seeing for decades. They only sold ticket online. I told them my insulting part, I used «dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire [and] by a combination of violence and sarcasm» [M. Palin], I left, as duly.
It sure is clear we don't teach statistics well enough in secondary school.
I mean, it's an event based form builder. Same as almost all of these tools (going WAAAAY back, 20+ years at least).

I have not used Lazarus for any serious project, so if there's something particularly novel that you enjoy about it, I'd love to learn!
Hey! this is way better than actual user experience :p

Here, I have a grey text I can't read, but at least I don't have three popup windows and a box asking me to login!
You might be the safest driver ever, but you still need to carry auto insurance to take your car onto public roads because youll be interacting with other drivers.
FWIW, you're still welcome to drive your car, absent any insurance, around your own private property.
We sacrifice some freedoms to join and reap the benefits of joining the group.
As one of those users who prefers to distinguish UI from content, I support this message.
> Others have not invested into EUV

Not entirely correct AFAIK. EUV is something the industry pretty widely worked on, ASML just have the best tech in the end.
Are photos uploaded to iCloud encrypted client-side?

I suggest the answer is in the negative, given the ability to look at them on the web, and the ability to reset your iCloud password using 2FA.

These suggest Apple has a copy of the decryption keys, which I'm happy for them to use to scan files I have stored on their servers, for CSAM, or, within reason, anything.
Yeah, the main difference appears to be states that have high vaccine participation and states that don't.
I agree with you but I got an important point out of this interview and that is in previous works such as "Hypernormalization" Curtis focused more on ideas, while in "Can't" he brought in personal stories to make the ideas more accessible and relatable. This observation was made by Brooker.
I spend too much time thinking about and tweaking my digital life on platforms.

I am a long time paying customer for all of Proton Mail's services, and sometimes I assign my domain to Proton Mail. Sometimes, when I will be doing lots of traveling, I instead use a secure forwarding service to send everything to Gmail because I like calendar integration, etc. better. Speaking of Google: I let them permanently track my activity on GCP (a service that I love), Google Play Books + Movies; I let them keep usage data on YouTube for 3 months; everything else I configure for keeping no data.

Re: losing data when leaving a platform: I have never even thought of backing up my data from Twitter or Facebook because my posts have little meaning except for advertising new versions of my books and sharing cool tech papers, etc. that I discover. No need to archive any of that. When I go swimming in the nearby Verde River, I can enjoy swimming through the water without wanting to save any. Same applies for social media.

BTW, a great way to control use of social media and other platforms is to use the https://freedom.to service. Very inexpensive, easy to configure, and is very effective for thoughtful time management.

EDIT: I do fairly frequent backups of Gmail and ProtonMail, and keep local copies of my GitHub repos on multiple computers. My iPhone pictures go automatically to iCloud, Microsoft OneDrive, and Google Photos - funny that my life history in photos is to me the most important thing to backup.
Not using OOP is a bad practice? That's a hard sell.
Some communities will self-organize into highly-vaccinated and scarcely-vaccinated schools. My local schools, for example, will probably be highly vaccinated. A family member of mine is moving to Florida so their children do not have to wear masks in school - theirs will probably have a low vaccination rate.

As for the poor schools, you're right - we have to leave those open.
Have you recovered from the mental fog/memory problems?

As a 30-odd year old knowledge worker (vaccinated), that's the thing that affects my personal risk assessment the most right now.
That’s the issue I’m highlighting. The dystopian evolution consists of all these small steps where people shrug and say “everyone else is doing it” and it ratchets up another notch.

The only way to stop it is to stop giving an inch. But that will never happen, guys like him have way too much to lose to take a stand. Plus most of the other YouTubers will happily continue so it will have been for nothing.
Doctors can normally be sued just like anyone else. They carry liability insurance. Vaccine makers are the only ones who been able to get immunity.
The website does not suppose anything. Your user agent is explicitly asking for a dark UI. That that's not what you want is between you and your browser.
I guess I'm particularly irritated at the dark mode for Word, which makes it look I have black paper and white text, except the text color is actually black (and paper likely white). When I edit text in Emacs, I don't have any expectation that the dark theme will show up in print output; but Word is a WYSIWYG. Fortunately, its easy enough to disable.
Also because of how terrible hospitals are in many places. Wait times insane, staff overworked, etc.

I'm vaccinated but quite fearful of anything which puts me in needing medical attention. The unvaccinated are a burden i'm tired of supporting.
Tesla at their scale are not short of space. They can afford a few more square feet of tent or wherever they want to keep their computer.

I just don't see why volumetric efficiency matters at all for this computer.

All that matters is usable flop per dollar. And if you put it in a cold place with very low electricity costs (eg. iceland), the electrical efficiency doesn't matter much either. All you care about is how cheap can you make high speed transistors.

The Dojo design looks like it really wasn't optimising for what matters at all.
We have done substantial testing.

Barring a time machine, the "is it safe ten years from now" cannot be answered conclusively today. We're left to use other available evidence to make a risk analysis, like "mucking with the immune system tends to have effects that show up fast" and "what do we know about mRNA in the body, especially when delivered by viruses?". There's a risk to inaction, too.

We don't look at evolution and go "welp, can't test evolving humans from microbes, so we must avoid drawing any conclusions".
I experience similar things. Frankly, I think the media has put so many weird labels on people who choose not to vaccinate that after the lockdowns, the vaxed people found a sort of sensation in talking to non-vaxed people. It felt like in a zoo. "So, you are not vaxed because you are afraid of the pain?" The actual reason for most, which is "I have decided to risk an infection to let my immune system do its job" is never really talked about because I mostly end up terminating the conversation because it has this distinct derogatory tone from the ohter side.
Let's apply that logic to everything, then, and see how it works out. You're fat or obese and have health outcomes stemming from those choices? Enjoy your heart attack, fatty. You get injured doing something "non-essential?" Your mountain bike accident sounds like your problem. You're a smoker and get lung cancer? Sorry, no treatment is available for you.

You don't get to dictate the health choices of others. And if we're going down that road (which you seem to embrace) a vaccine against a disease with such a low death rate hardly seems a logical place to start. But that's presuming logic is the starting point, a conclusion lacking evidence.
What? No. If anything, the browser should provide an option to override what's being communicated to websites.
How does that follow? How deadly a virus is for any given individual should be independent of how many other people got it (outside of situations where the health care system is overwhelmed and can't provide adequate care - but that'd make the numbers worse for the US, not better).
As someone who has tried both: semaglutide and smaller diet changes have been a lot easier for me than fasting, which did work but was stressful and extremely difficult to do long term.
At the rate with which hospitalizations are occurring, and volatility of the situation, the only viable strategy is to simply turn many of them away and leave a lot of hospital capacity for slack.

Hospitals cannot roll the gurneys out into the street and dump non vaccinated people when they need to make room. Once admitted, they can occupy lots of resources for lots of days, so I say just make it easy and tell them to hit the road for the time being.

I do not even see a reason why elective procedures should be affected by the selfishness of non vaccinated people.
Some NFTs are distributed as 1/1 (like a single-edition print of a photographic negative), while others are distributed as an edition of 50 or 1000. In the case of platforms like ArtBlocks[1], each edition is itself unique and tied to the transaction hash, hence their tagline "1 of 1 of X."

The buyer holds the token (cryptographically secured to their wallet). Any person can save the JPG that is conceptually tied to the token, but that does not give them ownership over the artistic token (i.e. they cannot transfer it to another wallet).

Part of the challenge here is that it gets to the question of "art ownership" in a digital domain. If you own a JPG, do you own the artwork? According to the artist who is distributing the work as a token, and also according the social consensus of others who are collecting art in this way, the answer is no.

It does take time and fees to deploy to the blockchain, in the same way that it takes time and fees to produce a series of print artworks. My own project (Subscapes[2]) required a significant investment, to upload 17kb of generative art code onto the blockchain.

[1] - https://artblocks.wiki/

[2] - https://mattdesl.substack.com/p/subscapes-part-1-preface
I mean, I made a chart, seems pretty obvious https://imgur.com/a/mI8OdpW
Evidence suggests Delta may actually be slightly more lethal, all else being equal. But all is not equal, a lot of the most vulnerable folks are either dead or vaccinated now.
People aren’t scared up. Concern is around ICU usage and that elective surgery in hot areas are put on hold which include critical cancer removal surgeries.

Also we have a large group of unvaccinated group which are under kids under 12. With life going back to normal, the standard diseases are back like RSV, paraflu and others. Get two at the same time and it’s a emergency room visit. Get 3 at the same time and it’s life threatening. Two at the same time isn’t uncommon before covid. Now my pediatrician says 3 is happening and it’s a kid killer. It boggles my mind why there is pushback on mandating kids to wear masks in schools.
How do I get Hollywood interested in my story?
Are there any links to studies that say antibodies produced from having covid only last 3-6 months?
I'm fully vaccinated, but don't think it's crazy for people to be suspicious of the vaccine.

In recent years huge swath's of the united states have been suffering from another epidemic: the opioid crisis. It is well established that a major part of this epidemic was caused by many of the same major pharmaceutical companies that are now claiming to have developed a vaccine in record time.

What's sad is that this legitimate concern has been whipped up by one side into a completely irrational frenzy that no longer makes coherent sense. I don't trust big pharma companies as a general rule, but I also don't believe that micro chips are being implanted (or even could be) into a vaccine. So, imho, legitimate vaccine skepticism is transformed into insane conspiracy thinking.

What is also sad though is that the reaction against vaccine skepticism has been equally turned into an insane "what are you anti-science!?!" Pharmaceutical companies are complicit in the death of hundreds of thousands of individual over the last decade. Being skeptical of the claims of these companies is common sense, not anti-science. We're also seeing consist contradictions about safety and efficacy of the vaccine. There are already complex side effects and the break through rate among full vaccinated is much higher than initial claims.

For me personally the vaccine still makes sense, and it certainly seems like our best path forward as far as policy efforts to end the pandemic. However the current language and public discourse on the topic is ridiculous.
strictNullChecks is great but they don't cover everything.

Take this trivial example:

const maybeReturn = () => {
if (Math.random() > .5) {
return 10
}
}

const main = () => {
const val = x();

// With strictNullChecks, this checking is still necessary
return !!val ? val * 10 : val;
}

Callers of maybeReturn will have to narrow the return value's type to confirm it actually is a number before working with the variable. In fact, callers of main will also have to check the type since the undefined is carried through when its falsy!

There are other TS/ESLint rules to help avoid this (consistent return for example). But these situations are common. Even with eslint rules to mitigate this, they can be satisfied by specifically returning null or undefined which defeats the purpose.

With options, it's much simpler.

const maybeReturnWithOption = () => {
if (Math.random() > .5) {
return Some(10)
}

return None();
}

const mainWithOptions = () => {
const val = maybeReturnWithOption();

// No conditional checks necessary. And callers don't need to check.
return val.map(x => x * 10);
}

Returning None more clearly demonstrates intent as well when you really don't want to return anything (but want to avoid returning null/undefined) and avoids having to come up with conventions for returning specific values that signify null/undefined by callers.
It really sucks. I bet a lot of these people would like to be elsewhere for a reason. In fact, I know that finding a job is not that difficult right now, but interviews are still quite difficult for me because I don't have much experience. In terms of vacancies, I'm sure that on job search platforms like this https://uk.jooble.org/jdp/-181550210673657612/Head-of-Engine... , it's not a problem to find thousands of suitable offers unless you are a meteorologist or something.
I thought this article was going to be about Eagle Prime, a $2.5M robot that was designed to actually fight against a japanese one, but ended up getting auctioned off on ebay after the parent company went bankrupt[0]

The japanese robot is pretty cool too: "The vehicle can be "armed" with multiple weapons, such as a 6,000 round per minute twin BB rotary cannon, a "LOHAS" launcher which fires either water bottles[4] or possibly fireworks, and a powered humanoid hand called the "iron crow" that is capable of picking up objects, and is linked to the pilot by "what appears to be a Mattel Power Glove". The main Suidobashi website lists two other "weapons", a "Kuratas Handgun", and a "Pilebunker"."[1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu2iKse_GUA

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuratas
User preference can also vary strongly with device or display.

Dark mode can be preferable on an emissive display. I don't generally prefer it, though there are some sites using a darker display mode (Mastodon's web client comes to mind) which I prefer to their light modes ...

... unless I happen to be visiting on my e-ink device. That's 1) not emissive (it is visible under reflected light), and 2) display quality is far superior in dark-on-light than light-on-dark mode.

Keep in mind that I might be useing that device on its own (it's effectively an Android tablet) ... or in its mode as an additional display alongside an existing emissive screen. Which means that on the same computer, using the same Web browser, I could have a preference for either a light or a dark mode.

I've been noting several sites which (despite no "prefers-dark" browser setting) default to a dark mode. ArsTechnica and Nitter both come to mind. (Both offer a toggle to a light mode).

Mastodon is configurable when logged in, but when visiting instances unauthenticated, both defaults to and doesn't provide an alternative for dark mode.

Then there are the sites which present various non-black-on-non-white colour schemes, which includes Hacker News. If these are relying on colour to differentiate foreground text from display background, it fails entirely. At best I get a palette of greys. My e-ink device delivers a 16-shade greyscale colour depth, and the result is at best difficult to read, if not entirely unreadable.

Presumptions about colour, colour support, and user preferences are ... risky.

Incidentally: this is one domain in which terminal-based applications shine. I set my terminal to the font face, size, and colour preferences I want ... and all applications follow those. If there's tuning required (the w3m Web browser is a case in point), that application can be set once, and all uses inherit the relevant pallete.

Web design isn't the solution. Web design is the problem.
I fundamentally disagree with the substance of your argument; when I have dark mode on it's because I don't want my eyes burned-out in a dimly-lit room. I want everything dark. YMMV obviously, but this is a sensible default.

I do of course agree that choice is good and sites should allow users to switch to a light theme.
Except, the current choice of vaccines appear to have issues offering broad sterilizing immunity. Vaccinated people are still "getting" COVID Delta, often with zero symptoms, but are still spreading it.

So they're not even all that good at providing the one thing companies may argue is necessary to go back-to-work; stopping spread. Similar with cruise lines and airplanes requiring it. Yes, the vaccines are very good at saving peoples' lives, but industry doesn't care about that, and it alone is not a good enough reason to mandate it.

You say everyone needs to get vaccinated so we can protect the people who can't get the vaccine or for whom it doesn't work. I have very bad news for you; the vaccine won't help. You can still get COVID, and you can still spread it to your four year old. I can still get it and spread it to my immunocompromised sister. It sucks. That's the reality we live in.
Hot takes like this suck all the life (and not to mention diversity) out of our profession. Every competitive coder I've ever met does it because they think it's fun.
Indeed. I think this stems from presumably wanting to support legacy XMPP where possible, email servers and FTP servers are the other two places this option often comes up.

But it should probably be really clear that the correct way is X, and support for Y should be buried somewhere so most users don't have to think about it, if you do feel a need to retain support for it.
What would it take to change your mind?
Why vaccinate children under 12? The only good reason I can see is if they have some sort of known health condition. Is there any other reasons why you would do this?
Personally, I don't want a web site to know whether I have dark-mode enabled or not; just one more fingerprint. Would they? Or is it just how the browser displays the content?
> the weird, Orwellian ways that the government talks about it, has turned me against the booster.

You desperately need to take a step back and look at yourself and how you evaluate things.

You decided to go against the booster because of your feelings, not because of science. You want government decisions to be guided by science, and yet you are very clearly anti-science with your decision making.

> To many of you here: imagine the Trump admin trying to require you to take the vaccine in November of last year.

What vaccine? There wasn't a vaccine available until Dec 14th 2020.

Are you trying to say if Trump actually cut corners and made the vaccine available earlier than we should have, then people would be mad? Well... duh. The difference is that the left generally follows what the leaders in the scientific community have to say, not the POTUS. The scientific community would have been against cutting corners.
Not specifically for Sonic-Pi, but Troop lets you do it for FoxDot and some others.

https://github.com/qirky/Troop
Ask HN: What are the best publicly available FAMANG code repos?
Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.

Interested in the opinions of people who work there, as well as those who don't.

Best may have different interpretations, so interested in knowing about your criterion for selecting the best as well.
In some countries they refrain from it for heavy demographic component of the elderly. But if it was not for that, which some would call the small part in the issue: no cash etc.
I'd struggle to live somewhere where you have to spend most of your time indoors in and air conditioned environment anyway, but this doesn't seem to bother a lot of people, I guess they are used to it. If we carry on this way maybe colonizing other planets won't seem so bad...
You only need to accept one vaccine for each disease, not every vaccine for each disease.
Well, for example, if you have an a suppressed auto-immune system from other medication, the vaccine is ineffective.
I mean if you're basically paralyzed, how does that not count as being disabled? What do you think muscle weakness and fatigue actually means in this context?
I've been writing Javascript since it was in beta. I love Javascript as a language but, I almost completely agree with what you're saying for all the reasons you laid out.