skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. I basically agree with the article:

> The experience may also prompt people to take all respiratory viruses more seriously, leading to lasting changes in mask wearing and ventilation.

I don't think that mask mandates will continue, but I do think that many more people will choose to wear masks in situations that warrant them. In Asia, it was already pretty common before COVID-19 and even before SARS. Walk around Tokyo on any given day and you'll see people wearing masks (mostly to protect others). I think the West now has some idea why that might be a good thing.

The world has irreversibly changed. There is no getting around that.
100% branch coverage testing came up on another submission, Why Is SQLite Coded In C ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28278859 ). This paper discusses the benefits and drawbacks of that requirement and describes how it's a European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS) standard, which I guess could be a reason why it's followed by SQLite, and thought I'd share.
It is not only the quality of the food in Tokyo, it is also the quality of the restaurant design, the service and the price. Especially in the mid range there is no way you can get a similar overall experience anywhere in the US. I had friends coming to visit me from NY and they were in shock from the overall experience they can get for a $50 meal just popping into a random place without even booking because there are so many good places per square km.

Now for sure, a lot of foreign food places are Japanised to match the local preferences but there are so many places that are true to the original taste that it doesn't even matter, it just adds to the variety. That's true also to the US, they don't have "hispanic" food, what they have is Mexican food everywhere, you will be hard pressed to find a good restaurant from a place below central America.
What happened in my case
(password reset for the online account for a credit card) was rather:

Operator: ...

(Real) me: Err.. all of it? [hoping p,q,r-th characters will be enough]

Operator: Yes please.
The bookstores use to carry books with various templates for these. I am sure you could probably find a book online to purchase.

There are also online companies that sell various sorts of things. I would not want something too generic as you may need to customize if for the local laws where you reside.
In support of this comment, the US has a record trade deficit. This means it sent quite a few dollars overseas.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/balance-of-trade
It's the same point as above. They could do shady things with your data on their server. They could do shady things with the data on your phone. They always /could/, and up till now I trusted them not to.

But now they /have/, that is the change.
The original "Manhattan Project" was to produce a nuclear bomb once the physics of sustained nuclear reactions were well enough understood to know it was possible. This level of knowledge was probably known about fusion power generation in the 1960's. As you said, more funding is not always better. It is the whole structure of the project that is important.

The Manhattan Project was organized by a military general with direct access to the president and the willingness to use it to get things done and a well known scientist overseeing the scientific side of things. They ran many different paths to possible success at the same time (U235 and Plutonium bombs, at the top level) and had about 130,000 people working on it with the urgency of war and no worries about patents or trade secrets. There were lots of bottlenecks and new technologies to invent in the process, but these problems were systematically addressed and overcome.

I don't really think any "Manhattan Project" or Apollo like program run by the government could be done today, but I don't think the US has completely lost the ability to do such things. SpaceX is making amazing progress on rockets at the moment and if they get people to Mars in the next 4-6 years, I would say they have accomplished a similar feat.
Would it be legal to send encrypted messages via HF or VHF link?
Uhuh. Hawaii, an entire US state that is "a bunch of islands in the middle of nowhere" and yet somehow didn't eliminate the virus has far fewer people than New Zealand.
I just attended a 7 year old girl's birthday party who was gifted a bb gun by her domestic-swilling uncle. We confirmed the temptation to shoot balloons is real. That said it seems like the other points you mentioned are working in your favor. The chances of hitting a small moving aircraft at a relatively high altitude is much lower than a 747 loaded onto a passing train. Plus I would like to imagine the temptation to shoot at something would diminish significantly as our hill billy wouldn't necessarily know it is unmanned. Not to mention anyone who has listened to a firearm safety talk is well-versed in how gravity affects projectiles. I wouldn't anticipate this being a significant problem, but it was a fun thought to entertain nonetheless.

And hey I'm just spit-balling here but isn't wind a much less of an issue at dusk, night, and dawn? Would this not be a significant factor in when you would operate? I would imagine most people shooting 747s on passing trains aren't getting out of bed to do that, after all.
A couple of people have brought this up here, and it's an argument that makes sense. I'll just note that the sqlite page, which is what I'm critiquing, isn't written this way; the project doesn't say "we use C because ECSS requires us to build software in an 100%-branch-coverage language", but rather speaks to the important benefit of literal 100% branch coverage. It's that important benefit I question, not the logistics problems they face, which I concede.
> There was no link this video in this article.

The Rand Paul was linked to in the first paragraph, “in a new video making the rounds on social media”.
I think most people carry their security keys on their keyring. And since most muggers don't demand keys I think people should generally be safe.
Vaccines reduce the likelihood and severity of getting a disease, but they don't block it 100% for 100% of people.

Additionally, some people can't get vaccinated, or vaccines only work more weakly for them.

Also also, pandemics have knock on effects beyond just the people who get sick, in terms of economic impact, as well as societal rules and restrictions, e.g. schools closing down because of too many sick people, medical procedures getting delayed because the ICU is overwhelmed, etc.

No person is an island; even someone who hypothetically somehow had magical superimmunity from the start of the pandemic would still be facing its effects.
I wonder about this as someone working a small indie software business rather than a startup.

Most of the replies here seem applicable only to products offering new capabilities, as opposed to products intending to be better implementations in existing categories.

The problem I see is I can say, "My product is like X except it's more usable/efficient, less buggy, and looks nicer," —but they'd have to take each of those claims purely on faith, so it's not very useful.

Thinking about it more, maybe it's impossible by definition to pre-validate this kind of product: your offering is strictly in the implementation (not some abstract new feature concept), so the validation has to take place with respect to concrete details of the product's realized form.

Maybe the best you can do is take this into account when devising strategy around the ordering of features to develop: e.g. if your claims are on usability or performance, focus on that first.

(Then again, seems dubious since most all of the example qualities I mentioned are sort of emergent from the entire product being in place, can't really develop them in isolation...)

Any thoughts?
>I guess the biggest drawback of C is that it keeps contributors away

There's this idea floating around in some circles that if you could just adopt technology X, more people would contribute to a project.

I myself was guilty of this ... believing that if we added a web frontend to the DAW I've worked on for 21 years, all those JS/webtech developers would show up.

There's no platform or language you could choose for SQLite that would increase the number of contributors. C is already a wildly popular programming language, with far, far more practicing users than Rust. Rust may be The Cool New Thing at present, and in time it may possibly grow to something much bigger, bigger even than the C/C++ universe. But that's not true right now, and it also wouldn't be true even if SQLite was implemented using some impossibly performant JS or its cousin.
I grew up in Hollywood and have lived in Los Angeles most of my life. I hated it growing up but upon returning had an experience of rediscovering my home town and finding I love it.

My favorite part of LA is something that is sadly gone with the rise of the LA tech scene, cannabis scene, and migrations from SF and NYC. LA was always a place where you could find a cheap apartment, studio, warehouse, etc, focus on your work (whatever that is) and disappear in the sprawl and then emerge as necessary to engage socially.

There was always an abundance of store fronts and warehouses easily converted into studio spaces and an abundance of fabricators and materials suppliers to feed all sorts of artistic practices. This was due to LA's rich history as an industrial center.

If you wanted to start a small gallery or little studio community you could essentially throw a dart at a map and find the perfect place for you and your friends.

Now with the real estate boom, the expanding tech startup scene, and the cannabis industry LA is becoming more and more expensive and options for creative lifestyles are becoming slimmer and slimmer.
Yes, the work definitely lends itself towards the question "is this better or worse than an equivalent human developer?"
This is quite a difficult question to answer, although I agree that simply giving a large number of humans the same prompts could be insightful. However, then you would be rating against an aggregate of humans, rather than an individual (i.e. this is "the" copilot). Also, knowing research, you would really be comparing against a random corpus of student answers, as it is usually students that would be participating in a study such as this.

Nonetheless, we think that simply having a quantification of Copilot's outputs is useful, as it can definitely provide an indicator of how risky it might be to provide the tool to an inexperienced developer that might be tempted to accept every suggestion.
I myself am blocking these annoyances with an adblocker so I'm in the same boat as you.

That being said, the value that these patterns are gaining the businesses that employ them, must outweigh the value lost from people who are so annoyed that they take their business elsewhere.

It is how it is, unfortunately.
How often do you re plug in your mouse?
OCaml is much faster than Go in the bytecode mode, as you have interfaces files which drastically simplify the typing process.

The compiling pipeline of bytecode is basically typing -> lambda -> bytegen

Bytegen is really close to what Zinc does.
Well, but it does make the code slower
We've done some pretty f'd up stuff to folks of color in the past.

One of the most notable examples is that of the Tuskegee study on untreated syphilis, where we denied effective treatment w/o informed consent.

PoC have higher infant mortality rates, and the myth that PoC have more tolerance to pain (and therefore require less anesthesia) is still quite prevalent.

It was bad enough that we had to actually produce a report on what is considered the "bare minimum", but even that has not been totally effective. (https://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/regulations-and-policy/belmont-repo...)
I’ve noticed cgo dependencies massively slow down compilation.

E.g. the hugo project built with and without extended features. Build without and it’s all go, it compiles in the blink of an eye. The tooling in go, from a devops point of view, is surprisingly good. It’s not just compile speed.

Build with all the c deps and well you’re compiling more code so of course it’s going to be slower but it’s disproportionately so.
Absolutely! Your comment and another on this thread inspired us to explore extending our product offering to include people who already have their co-owners in mind and are just looking for help with a property search and setting up of the investment trust. We'll likely move into greater LATAM in the next year. Feel free to drop me a note if you ever have any questions about the search or process, we'd be happy to help (ryan@ancana.co)
15 current and former employees and of course a friendly journalist at some major media vehicle who decided to promote this non-story as something way bigger than what it probably is.
Really, it is becoming tiresome. We are becoming aware of how those tricks work, they should at least put some effort on their astroturfing
More precisely, "the other side" claims that we do not in fact know the vaccine is safe, and points to all the other times "the mainstream" side lied to us as reasons to be skeptical: the US Surgeon-General told us "masks don't work", lying to manage supply, now they're critical; Biden said "get vaccinated, or wear a mask until you do", now the masks are going back on; Kamala Harris said she wouldn't take a Trump vaccine, now there's a big fight over mandates and passports; Fauci kept dangling a vaccine target just beyond what the country was tracking towards (there are articles where he's quoted as saying "I can nudge this up a bit"); Cuomo was hailed as some great leader despite sending covid-positive people into old people's homes (it was his sexual misconduct that finally sunk him).

Hesitancy around covid vaccines isn't the antivax of the previous generation, and responding as if it was won't help anything. Actually having an honest conversation with the public that you're more likely better off with a vaccine is not an easy concept to communicate (as you correctly point out), but it would be a good first step in trying to rebuild that lost trust.
> There is a productive apparatus and resources that feed it - what we are gesturing towards when we talk about “the economy”. They can be mobilized using flows of spending generated by public or private credit, to move in one direction or another.

> It wasn’t pouring money into the sand. Most of the dollars flowed back to America.

Fiat based money (in which currency -- circulating money, is actually debt) works fine when this money is used to build (and maintain?) infrasctucture, markets, industries, which can then "pay back" this debt; which can sustain a society.

The truly sad part, most would agree, is that they'd use this for destructive purposes.

First use fiat-credit to fund a war to break a foreign country and then loan out more credit to pay for rebuilding it. The end result is a transfer of (at least) ownership back to America.
Your Cost of Living argument is lame; the term has a definition which you have overloaded to mean something completely different.

Yes, there are people who will lose jobs for all sorts of reasons, including competitive advantage of different regions (eg China and Mexico have labor that is far cheaper than Americans are willing to work for) or the euphemistic “creative destruction”.

I don’t feel sorry for horse buggy whip salespeople who had to search for a different purpose in life. They already won a lottery by being born in the USA in the most affluent time in history. The economy doesn’t owe anyone anything.

The only thing I wished we as a country had done during multinational trade pacts was not to put the onus on individual employees for proving jobs lost to offshoring; there was moral hazard and the evidence to prove causation was hidden from those who needed the evidence. Other than that, these trade pacts simply accelerated the changes that were going to happen anyway. It’s better not to live in a one-industry town where the winds of change can decimate the Un-diversified local economy.
The question left unanswered: what are their objectives and what do they need to achieve them? Employee unions are a means to an end, not an end in themselves.

Apple employees are paid well and their benefits and working conditions are decent. In my view, the problem is the increasingly authoritarian management regime that governs where and how they work. A traditional union won't help address that problem.
Maybe to you it's a more convenient experience, but not everyone has the same approach to shopping. Some are happy to receive advice for specific products (or to have someone tell them what quality level they're going for), while others are simply happy to be able to have a human interaction at the counter (i'm in both categories).

Moreover, i'm not convinced online shopping is better for society at large. From an ecological perspective, from an anti-monopoly perspective..
And what triggered the allergic reaction if not the shrimp that you ate? If I have allergy to peanuts and eat in a restaurant and the cook slips some peanut in a food that is tagged "nuts free" and I die, can the family of the diseased press charges to the restaurant?

The answer is yes. A restaurant can be liable for food allergies. Whether a restaurant has legal liability or harm caused by a food allergy depends on whether the restaurant was negligent. Because it's the ingested food that caused it.
>I continue to believe that music as a social activity is critical to almost all good-to-great music, and that contemporary technology frequently undermines that.

Agreed on it being a social activity, but disagreed on contemporary approaches undermining the social aspect of it. Sure, it gives you an option to be more asocial when it comes to making music, but it also gives you ability to be more social than ever before.

Ableton Live has a remote collaboration feature now, so you can work on music together with people who are thousands of miles away from you. Quite a bunch of software solutions are available that make jamming together and recording music with people separated from you (by distance) easy and fun. Something like Splice Studio[0] is a godsend for remote DAW sync and collaboration.

0. https://splice.com/blog/how-to-use-splice-studio/
Now the problem is making the acquisition, setup and maintenance of personal domain names and mapping to an email account something the average literate adult can manage.

…and chuckling ruefully as I recall walking recent college grads who are far better devs than I am through what needed to happen for SendGrid to actually work for one of their project, having to start with “what is an MX record?” and “where is that controlled?”
Non-chain shops might be better. I'm learning to service my own bike because the cost of labor and overhead is really high in the US compared to where I got hooked on road cycling (Vietnam).
Not everyone is capable of handling the labor portion of the (labor + parts) equation of servicing a bike (not to mention a fleet of bikes for family).

I certainly can only handle the basics and the family rides a decent amount of miles/wk.

I buy local - many times it's even cheaper than Amazon - and I live in an expensive metro.
Update your resume and just apply for remote jobs. I think you will be surprised at the response.

There is quote I recall from a book I read years ago that stuck with me, "The answer is always no unless you ask"
The ideal would be DNA-based authentication. You go to their store, they prick you and use rapid sequencing to verify that you are who you say you are.
> The amount of productivity of each worker and the primary productivity of the land is finite.

> That is The Pot.

It's not a pot, its a stream; using the available flow isn't draining it (some uses, in fact, increase the future flow.) There are tradeoffs at the limit between present realized value and future flow rate, but most of the time the actual value is inside rather than at the boundary of the possibilities curve, so you its possible to improve one value without a trade-off in the other (unfortunately, the effects on either axis of an action aren't unambiguously predictable, either, so there is often room for reasonable disagreement about the merits of particular courses of action.)
People can't recall their 4 pin password, but you think they will store docs in a safe?

The problem is, no matter what you tell the average person, they are not capable of such diligence.
Is this really so confusing to most people? I feel like it was pretty clear throughout that the first statement in most cases was: "We expect X is [not] effective based on history, but we aren't certain because this is so new" and the second statement was "Our initial research shows that we were [right / wrong]" followed sometimes by a third statement which is "As more information arrives we were right about Y and wrong about Z".

I agree with you that politicians are afraid to give it to us straight, but I attribute their hesitance not to how they expect the people to respond but how they expect media to respond. You get in a little trouble for being wishy-washy, but you get big trouble for giving a straight, honest well-informed sounding (described this way because its not like the announcers are the ones actually doing the research) detailed response and then finding out some of your details are wrong.

I have been thinking about this a lot, we all hate the way politicians speak (me included) but we made them speak this way because while they may not impress anyone they don't give definitive sound bites that will then be repeated over and over on the news when they happen to be wrong.
A third party driver shouldnt be installable without local admin (or a UAC prompt). This is the problem.
AI Can Write in English, Now It's Learning Other Languages
vixen99 wrote: "With lockdowns, consequent suicides ... are ignored"

There is no evidence that there are consequent suicides. Nor that they are ignored.

You write "not yet" .... a hand-wavy statement which instantly adds FUD any topic.

It could be that lockdowns cause people to suddenly die 3 years years later. I could make up lots of "it could be" scenarios. Unsupported claims, with evidence contrary to the claim, should not be used to make policy decisions.

And this is a hypothetical about making a policy decision.
Police agree with you on 3 out of 4
That can be bad for global peace.
I switched jobs after COVID hit, and I realized just how much of the presumed benefits of office culture didn't really exist.

On paper, my previous employer only valued impact, and employees were able to choose their own schedule.

But work from home was explicitly discouraged in very clear terms, and I have been pressured to increase the overlap in office time with my team "for my benefit". That coming from people responsible for my performance evaluation and making hiring decisions felt a lot like "...or else".

It is also for my benefit, I guess, that I got a seat between my manager and my team lead during an office move (open-floor layout). I didn't mind, because they are both excellent people, but it feels a bit weird in retrospect.

We are all remote until 2022 at the very least; I don't expect mandatory office presence 40 hr/week ever coming back.

At some point, the CEOs will have to come to terms with office space being a sunk cost; and either downside, or provide more space for people who do come into the office.

Having in-person discussions with many people at once is still a killer app for physical offices; latency issues inherently make videoconferencing clumsy. But two days a week should suffice for that, at best.
The 3/12 that safe Rust would have prevented would likely have been prevented by enforcing the use of current tools for C. Since neither Rust safety or lint-ish safety are enforced, I think this is a reasonable comparison.
"Should I use this instead of Lightroom?"

If you have to ask, the answer is no. Like learning VIM instead of using VSCode.