skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Argh! Thanks for spotting it! As moyix said, we were tricked by the arXiv latex cleaner tool. We've now updated this, but it will take a couple of days to clear arXiv moderation.
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No. There have been plenty of people traveling in and out of Hawaii all along. There were some quarantine/testing requirements at various times. But certainly not closed borders. I even looked of going there at one point but, when I looked, hotels were quite expensive.
Is hydrogen as lifting gas still verboten? Yet aok under high pressure as fuel?
I think the most economical way of thinking about it is that we're stuck with a percentage of refuseniks and have to deal with them continuing to spread covid.

I am of a certain population that is more succeptable, and I just accept that there are people who would welcome my death from covid if it would save them from the slightest inconvenience.

I admire you for making reasonable arguments, you have more patience than me by far.
That is a fascinating quote. The original if anyone else is curious appears to be from here:

https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Rfl9mwoQBzkC/page/n93/mod...

The line after "We must plant a few masses of granite as anchors in the soil of France" ("Nous sommes maîtres de la faire , mais nous ne l’avons pas, et nous ne l’aurons pas, si nous ne jetons pas, sur le sol de la France, quelques masses de granit.") is perhaps an even more cynical take in light of the French Revolution that directly preceded Napoleon's rise.

> Croyez-vous qu’il faille compter sur le peuple? Il crie indifféremment Vive le roi, vive la ligue! Il faut donc lui donner une direction, et avoir pour cela des instruments.
Yep - my biggest gripe is seeing errors with no context around them - either a stack trace or...well...the context.Context.
this is the cancer in our industry. seems interviewing is geared towards whatever mega tech companies. yet this on hacker-news. a place filled with seed-stage companies, and early series * who probably just want someone who can get shit done.
anecdote: honestly, I have had more problems regarding visa status more than anything, in picking up jobs.
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The point isn’t that you will have an issue using a random string, it’s that attackers who know you do so will be able to convince a customer service rep they are you by answering the question “I just put in some random keystrokes”
Every time I hear Blue Origin I start laughing. What a great joke. Can you imagine NASA having to rely on Bozo for a lunar lander? Never going to happen....
Original link returns error. Here's a working version
https://www.rte.ie/news/world/2019/0404/1040560-lancet-diet-...
Still not an excuse for being a dick to the person reporting it.

This is one of my pet peeves with the FOSS community: they want to be taken seriously as an alternative to proprietary software, but they are completely unwilling to act like professionals in any way, and then the complain that people are sticking with proprietary alternatives.
this appears to be a link to .PDF of the content :

https://github.com/sysprog21/lkmpg/releases/download/latest/... [PDF]
If the information has no requirements to be kept secret then they are very, very useful.
I wonder why everyone is so convinced that Republican politicians pull the strings, FoxNews is the mouth of Sauron, and >43% of the population is fooled by their evil puppet leaders.

I think it works in reverse, like evolution. The people are the chaos machine that generate ideas. The ones that stick FoxNews latches onto. If politicians don't get in line, they don't get reelected.

It's like coronavirus for political information. It mutates in the masses, and the ideas that are the fittest survive - becoming political points for the Party as a whole.
Masks, snap lockdowns, closed borders and mo international travel, privacy violating monitoring… Oh yeah, that sounds really normal.

What’s your end game?
> don’t do very well at stopping spread

It‘s probabilities. The vaccinated kid who dies after getting infected because of transmission via unvaccinated.

Although interestingly, not everyone gets the annual flu shot. So maybe this will turn out to be the same.
Yes - it's insane.

HTML/CSS/Carefully-managed (modern) JS or Typescript is the way to go. A backend framework that supports DB migrations, authentication, templating, and email. This wouldn't have been reasonable 5-10 years ago, but is now. (Eg modern JS DOM API and language features, CSS grid and flexbox)

Maybe a declarative framework for a complex SPA.

Domain-specific languages, poorly-performing frameworks, and excessive use of dependencies is pervasive.
So offer to mirror it then. The D in git’s DVCS stands for “decentralised”.

I’ve heard some dumb complaints in my time but the real beauty of this one is you made it on another site that’s IPv4 only (HN doesn’t yet support IPv6 either).
Exactly. I support local businesses if they're reasonable. I get that rent and everything can add a bit to the cost. But if they're just greedy scam artists asking 2-3x the price you can get online for everything, expecting your charity just for being local, then I won't shed a tear when they go bankrupt.
This "conversation" needs to change to overtly and before other considerations,

address the fact that it's not the office, even, that many people hate; it's the commute.

That is true for my family. I'm cool being in-office to see my co-workers, at least on a flexible basis;

it's the commute that is a MFPITA. This goes ten-fold for my wife whose company is notoriously backward wrt WFH policy and has been kicking and screaming to get people back to giving up hours a day to create that management-reassuring "buzz of the busy bees" so satisfying to extroverted social-reward-driven Type A types.
In addition to the obvious issues, this method ignores python's __abs__:

https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#object.__...

You can make you own "numeric" types in python by implementing the proper methods in your numeric class.
Since the author is using his Singaporean military service as the analogy, Singaporean-Malays need not apply. Their faith supposedly makes them an inherent risk, so they’re likely only eligible for low-level software developer positions, or maybe DevOps since that’s where most of the firefighting is.
So far, my favorite one is the Otter Browser but I am still a new user: https://otter-browser.org/
You can tack on all these mod cons though with clients. Like Quassel or IRCCloud. That's the nice part of IRC. It's so simple that everything can talk to it, unlike most commercial services
Slavery and mass immigration are simply mechanisms the rich use to lower the cost of labour.
That works if you want to win the land. China only wants the land in Xinjiang, they would be ecstatic if the whole place was Han Chinese.

The US by contrast has enough territory already, they don't want or need Afghan soil. Instead they went to war so that Afghanistan would have their chosen government. The only way to do that is to colonize it and exert direct control. They never committed to that (it's kind of frowned upon internationally), so it was a failure.
> Why not just explain the thing?

I asked first if y’all wanted to know because:

1. It will take a long time to write the answer so I first wanted to know if it would be at all interesting or if it would be dismissed as whinging and excuses.

2. in the past year, I’ve had severe negative responses to posting a verbose text response. I wanted to avoid that by first asking if people wanted it.
When I'm drunk and I find pizza in the fridge
> A good example is a Bubb Rd, the part north of McClellan, in Cupertino (which has a bunch of Apple offices): much improved signalization and there’s now a bumper divider between the car and bike lane, making it very safe.

Yeah, sadly a kid died on that stretch a few years back — likely why they added the new improved bike lane.
Your comment is slightly out of date. The stated position of both the Australian PM and NSW state premier is that elimination is impossible, and vaccination/reopening is the goal.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-update-we-cant...
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Zizek wagers that a new form of communism decidedly distinct from pre-COVID way of doing things can emerge from the socio-political experience of COVID, he may not be on your side here.
What kind of behavioral problems are you referring to?
This weekend I was traveling with my kubuntu machine and despite searching for at least 20 minutes, I was unable to find the controlpanel/settings page/widget/app that will allow me to connect a WiFi network, so I gave up and switched to gnome.
> I'm just wondering if I'm being lazy by not trying hard enough or efficient.

I don't think anyone else specifically said this, so allow me to be one of the few who say you're being efficient. Sure, you could spend time to understand this stuff, and yes it's important knowledge for the world/society, but knowing about black holes really isn't going to change anything you do, unless you're a physicist or working on something involving deep space (and likely not really then either).

Sometimes esoteric knowledge is useful in other areas, and sometimes learning esoteric knowledge is fun or helpful to build learning skills, but sometimes it's just more junk to fill your brain sponge with. If it doesn't tickle your interest, leave it be and it's fine. If it becomes useful, chances are over time more ways to explain it will have been made and some might be more comprehendable by you.
I’m unclear if you’re saying that one can implement a new access mechanism to Apple’s default photo library (the one managed by the Photos app and that the camera saves to by default) or if you’re suggesting that I need to design my own alternative photo album. If the latter, then “but minor frictions” seems… unreasonable.

Not sure what nation state adversaries have to do with a simple question about photo library access.
I think this depends largely on your location. I live in northwestern Oregon, and whereas there are ticks here, they aren't very prevalent. Despite constantly knocking about in the brush, I have yet to get a tick either.
John is going to Mars. Why?, you ask...
consumption is a perfectly valid hobby or interest for people to have.

Not if there are negative externalities associated with this hobby (i.e. fast fashion) which leads to ecological collapse and depletion of resources.
If you're zooming past cars in traffic and the driver can open the door and hit you, you're overtaking. If the passenger can hit you, you're undertaking.
I know that this is not popular with car drivers, but it is what it is... I had a few cars that tried to push me offroad...
So how does the media go about determining that the Delta Variant is spreading or it it all bull shit?
As a hypothetical exercise, it is still easy to see that none of these are things I can just choose. I know the economy doesn't matter if folks are dying too much, and even then... I'd consult experts. Again.

And to be fair: No where in the original does it say to consider only economics. Economics will come back: People's lives won't.
I am not fond of hybrids we bought a PHEV because in the US it is the right answer to our use case:

90% in-city, now fully electric
10% road trips which may be hundreds of miles beyond BEV range

For us the added complexity is the price of not being SOL if we want to go more than 250 miles in one go.

For those long road trips we're getting exceedingly good hybrid mileage. In town, it's indeed proving all-electric.

If the battery range were 100 miles instead of 40-50 it'd probably be 95% - 5%...
Where is your data that they don’t have long term developmental effects from wearing masks and missing facial cues? Eh?

It isn’t my job to prove anything. Y’all want to force my daughter to wear a mask to attend a public school you better have a hell of a lot of evidence and data to back it up. You need to address each and every criticism and support it with solid research conducted over years of time.

None of that exists and all criticism no matter how valid is met with gaslighting, being called a right wing fool, and name calling. Which says to me there is no solid justification for kids wearing masks besides partisan politics and tribalism.

Y’all are signing my kid up to be your unconsenting laboratory experiment, which is highly unethical and straight up immoral.

I’m not the one pushing kids to forcefully wear masks. You are. It’s disgusting and one of the worst things we’ve done. Almost no European country masks their kids. A handful of blue states are basically alone in forcing kids to wear masks at school. Which really underscores what is really going on, and it ain’t “science”.
I concur, I know about Carmack since I started coding games 15 or so years ago, we've even met in person. Yet, somehow, I didn't knew about Armadillo until this thread. Wow.
I've just started writing C++ for work, and I have to say, I miss stack traces so much. Even with Go errors the wrapping usually made it easy enough, but with how long it takes to get gdb to launch from core dumps (~1m30 on our binaries at work), I really do miss that extra context.
Can't forget former high-ranking members of the intelligence community suddenly having a keen interest in journalism. As paid commenters or otherwise.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/02/06/john-bren...
Convergent patterns between grizzly bear genetics and Indigenous language groups
A Case Study in Digital Radicalism
There’s something that is genuinely confusing for me in this argument. Maybe you can help me understand better.

If you’re a truly high skilled worker, then US is not the only place that you can have a good life in therefore if you’re underpaid, you go somewhere else. On the other hand if your skill is not on par, then why would the companies go through the trouble of H1B and hire you while they can hire low skilled domestic labor with lower wage demand (not implying that domestic labor is low skilled, just pointing out that it’s available)
What Today’s Social Apps Can Learn from Web 2.0
The remarkable thing about Apple prices these days is just how affordable powerful M1 computers are. The entry-level Mac Mini costs $699 (https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini). In single-core CPU benchmarks the M1 chip has a Geekbench score of 1744 (https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/9460112), which is slightly higher than the Intel Core i9-11900F, which scored 1726 (https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-i9-11900...) and has a recommended customer price of $422-$432 (https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/212254/...). (To be fair, in multi-core benchmarks the i9 outperforms the M1 by nearly 2000 GeekBench points, but the M1 is still comparable with good chips like the AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX) By the time you add a motherboard, RAM, storage, and graphics, a Core i9-11900F build would be more expensive than an entry-level Mac Mini. Also, the M1 chip has a TDP of just 15W, while the Core i9-11900F has a 65W TDP.

While it's unfortunate that Apple has kept many of the technical details of their M1 Macs secret, thus making it a gigantic effort to port Linux and other alternative operating systems to it, what has people so excited about the M1 is the performance-per-watt and performance-per-dollar ratios the chip provides.
I'm reading the "can" here as normative, i.e. because the optional stuff CAN be done after auth, it SHOULD be restricted to being done only after auth.
There's all sorts of terrifying exponential things that affect HM typechecking in theory (e.g. pattern matching exhaustivity checking as you mention is directly equivalent to SAT, although this is technically not a part of HM typechecking, it is a feature in practice for most HM-inspired languages).

In practice it is actually very rare that they significantly affect compile times because it is very rare for the `n`-size to increase as the size of your codebase increases (these exponential blowups are generally limited to a single expression) for non-pathological code. Basically while you can have exponential blowups inside a single expression, I can't think of a time where you'll have exponential blowups across multiple expressions, which is what counts in a large codebase.

One of the times where big-O analysis doesn't accurately predict real-world runtimes.
Never claimed to be. You claim to have an argument, and I want to know more details. Of course, if you don't have evidence to support your argument...
I've learned to consider it an excellent feature, but is Go's implementation/idiom really better than anything that came before it?

I have marginally more experience with Rust (not that much of either) which instead gives Result types, tuples of 'ok' and error values. And, crucially for this thread, they must be explicitly consumed.

That enforced error handling is novel to Rust afaik, and after a bit of getting used to, an excellent feature I think.

But I'm not sure that the idiomatic (because that's all it is really, rather than language feature?) Go is materially different from deciding all your Python functions will return Tuple[TOk, TErr] and sticking to it, or even that different from returning ok types only and raising exceptions, really.
Not sure if I understand. You can have battery be structural and easy to swap, these to things are not in conflict.

In fact, on the Pack level, many packs are already structural.

Switching individual modules inside of packs is pretty terrible idea.

In fact, you can even go one step further and have individual cells be structural as both Tesla and BYD are doing.
I don't think you're weird - I understand that some people like it and I can kind of see some of the arguments as to why - but the error handling in Go is easily my least favorite thing about it. For two reasons:

1) The aforementioned boilerplate code that makes up a significant chunk of many Go projects and adds no value.

2) With explicit error handling, however deep your call stack is, you are relying on everything in that stack to have done the right thing with regards to error handling. With exceptions, you have to go out of your way to screw them up.

I can't tell you how many times I've gotten dumb error messages like "Invalid string" from a 3rd party library that take forever to debug, and accidentally swallowing an error is even worse. A simple (even crappy) exception message + a stack trace is much easier for me to use for debugging than even the best handcrafted error message in 99% of cases.

I write somewhat equivalent amounts of Python, Java, and Go lately, and each one has their good and bad parts, but there are few things I dislike as much as Go's error handling patterns.
Modern Linux user space is monstrous and labyrinthine. Linux itself is not. I found it to be a really clean system.

The basis of everything is actually the Linux system call binary interface. We can actually trash the entire user space and start from scratch with nothing but Linux. We can even trash the ubiquitous GNU stuff if we want.

Why can't we have a compiler with built in system call support? Just add a system_call keyword that inlines Linux system call code using the supplied parameters. No need for libc bullshit in the middle. No need for C or any specific language. Someone could make a language today and that single feature would make it as capable as C is for systems programming. They could write software and boot Linux directly into it.
It's worth looking at some video of what a laser strike looks like from the cockpit.

eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eoj3H7LMy2k

And because this happens at night, the pilot looses their dark adaptation - they will have difficulty seeing for a minute or longer after each flash.

So, no, the airplane won't instantly roll over dive into the nearest building. But it is still quite dangerous.
As someone who has a lot of time for OCaml - I'm honestly not so big on F# anymore.

You end up having to use .NET Objects in F# because their modules are so limited compared to OCamls. And at that point I figure why not just use C# - which is a lot more expressive than it used to be - and have a lot less friction using the .NET ecosystem?
I dunno, ZSA (ergodox/moonlander) has a phenomenal UX. Online keyboard editor that generates hex code that you flash using their fully open source tool. And it's all QMK powered so I could program it by myself (it'll never be a brick), I just don't want to.
I wonder if they hadn't used the last one for Cowboy Jeff to thank all the plebs for paying for his joy ride, they would have had their engine?
Shouldn’t it be platypodes?
I think people would give Tesla more credit for delivering if Musk weren't chronically making full self-driving promises that are never fulfilled.
> Turning vaccines into a political wedge issue is one of the stupidest things I've seen in my life.

You ain't seen nothing yet. How about firing nurses, firefighters, police, etc.?
Going to suggest high schools add a bike repair class/course. They can work on bikes students bring in, get the knowledge they need to fix their own bikes.
I agree about the not wanting to die but "Not wanting to kill someone is something like a universal." is clearly wrong in a lot of cultures. And ignoring this fact is precisely what lead to some recent military disasters as well as bloodshed within Europe.
> They are vehicles that need maintenance. You can do much of that maintenance yourself if you're a nerd, but the vast majority of cyclists are dependent on local bike shops to sustain the cycling community.

I do my own maintenance and choose to use local bike shops to source parts. I'm not really a bike nerd. I service my own bike since it's more convenient to pull out my spare bike to buy some easily transportable parts than it is to transport a bike to the shop. I can also fix my bike in an evening and have it ready for the next day, while it may take a shop a couple of days to get around to it.
If you don't have power or water you might die. If you don't have youtube or facebook you'll survive.
> Kamala says she would not take a vaccine recommended by Trump, even if recommended by scientists.

This is not what she said. She specifically said that if public health professionals and Dr. Fauci recommended it, she would take it. The "if Donald Trump tells us" has an implied 'solely' and that is not hard to figure out given context, where in the same statement she says she'd take it if the public health professionals recommended it.

> Biden says he does not trust the CDC and FDA (at the time) because of political influence.

Not what he said. He was asking for more transparency, and suggesting that that needs to happen for public opinion to sway in the direction of getting the vaccines; in particular, during the Trump administration when the public was repeatedly fed lies about all sorts of things.

Both are more nuanced than you are suggesting, imho.
There are popups? I didn't see any. Must be my malware blocker in action.
In case anyone's interested, here's a pod cast episode that contains an interesting discussion with Richard Hippo about how the project came to be: https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
Intel’s product segmentation is just horrible. “The same die is used on server and consumer chips, so let’s just fuse off this huge chunk of silicon (that could be used for something else) because money.”

It’s no wonder AMD ate their lunch with Ryzen. Intel focused of stagnation and segmentation while AMD did the opposite.
> higher R0

Contagiousness can certainly increase. Virulency does not usually increase.

Severe flu seasons are characterized by increased infections, not so much increased fatality rate.

> Citation needed.

"Most viruses become less deadly as they mutate."
https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2021/02/27/... (The article is about how COVID might buck the general trend. But in any case, that is the trend.)
How do you balance wearing sunscreen with getting the necessary vitamin d exposure from the sun?
I prefer how Rust wraps it in a type. Makes it seems like "part" of the language, rather than something bolted onto every function.