skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
authors goal is to "very occasionally learn" yikes
My city recently renovated a huge square, got rid of all the trees and shrubs and plants, and turned the whole thing into a giant concrete wasteland. The mayor was quoted as saying that "not every square needs trees" ... It's mind boggling.
From my point of view, the correlation is definitely not 1, but while competitive code is not good code, and therefore the skills and discipline differ, there is a strong correlation between good competitive programmer and good programmers. Just like sprinters and marathonians, sure best sprinters are not necessarily the best runners for long distance, but they are definitely better than me.
I downvoted for an opinion-based answer. Yea generally viruses evolve to be less deadly and more infectious, that’s the trend (but certainly not a law), but the important thing is the time scale. Plus there are endemic viruses that are not benign. So this comment came across as a bit too confident. Feel free to expand on it.
That's a wildly flippant response this issue.

"ah, you'll be fine" seriously?

Think of the likely user who has a pacemaker. They are probably a man, he's probably in his 60s, 70s, or 80s. He's likely not all that familiar with the intricacies of modern phones. His kids probably convinced him to get a phone so he could stay in touch more easily. That's the audience we're talking about here.

It'll happen a lot and while it's happening the lifesaving device is fully disabled. That's a big deal.
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I use the Logitech M510 on my Mac, and love it. Bought it in 2012 or 2013. The form factor of the Mac mouse is just a deal-breaker for me. Its beautiful, but makes my hand hurt.

I never installed drivers for the mouse. Its just a mouse; I shouldn't need them.

I recently bought their updated version of that mouse for our Windows machine, and tested it on my iMac; no drivers required. Maybe there are fancier mice that require special software, but I hardly use the fancier scroll functions of the mouse I have, so I have a hard time believing there'd be other controls that I'd be willing to install new software for.
how is a NFT any more arbitrary than a hallmark card?

both are "artistic" to a certain degree, completely useless after the purchase and initial exchange.
Spoken like someone whose knowledge of the world ends at the US border. Hate to be the bearer of unpleasant news, but there are parts of the world where HIV was mostly a heterosexual disease. The nature of the main infected population depended upon how HIV was first introduced a country and what cultural behaviors helped or hindered its spread.
This certainly was not the experience of other countries such as South Africa where the majority of transfer (roughly 80%) was via heterosexual transfer.
While you can definitely manually pipe all of the pieces together and have a functioning system, it's significantly easier, and likely more secure, to use the battle-tested auth library of a framework.

One could also use the builtin language functionality and external packages to write custom crypto, and I think we'd both agree that that's a bad idea. I'd argue that it's the same for authentication in general.
EFF points to DRM as a driver of vendor lock-in. I would point to opaque, often proprietary standards for dynamic, user-hostile data formats. Word processing documents come to mind. DOCX and DOC never have been fully cross-vendor compatible as far as I can tell. And the leading word processor doesn't transparently support a format that is. The situation is improper it's an anti-social moat for the dominant software vendor to construct.
> No npm

You still need packages

> no Microsoft lock-in

Does Deno implement its own TypeScript compiler? Even if it does, it's entirely at the mercy of Microsoft who are the only ones who develop Typescript specs.
Logitech software might be bloated, but it's downright lean compared to the Roccat mouse I just got for my son.
It is testament to solar power that Australia has been able to achieve this given the decade of constant government sponsored FUD aimed at suppressing renewables whilst simultaneously actually encouraging, and attempting to provide financial backing for, new coal-fired power plants.
What magnifies this problem is that unrelated, offline companies are more and more frequently requiring you to use these tech products in order to do business. On United, you can't buy a drink on the airplane without installing an app (only available to serfs of the apple or google empires). You can't attend a Cubs game in Chicago, again, without an app (no physical tickets, before pandemic). You can't see a menu at a restaurant without a smartphone and personal internet connection. Order carryout only through an app, etc.
Maybe something like the following would work:

* The account creator provides a photo id and an EIN

* You verify that the id is valid (visual/ML inspection?)

* Extract the expiration date and make sure it's unexpired (OpenCV/Tesseract)

* Extract the name from the id image (OpenCV/Tesseract)

* Check to see if that id matches the registered agent for that EIN.

This assumes that there is a unified API for EIN/TIN lookup in the US and I don't know if there is.
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The continent of Africa would tend to disagree with such an assertion.

Heck, in some countries, more than 15% of HIV infections are contracted at birth.

https://www.verywellhealth.com/hiv-statistics-5088304
> Isn't that the type of software that keeps being defended here? ^^

No? I've basically never seen that and I see endless posts like yours.
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I drank 35 cl of Napoleon-brandy. I feel better now.
Yeah, this. My home state's college's CS program boasted it was one of the best in the northwest. My friends that went through it constantly had to ask me to explain simple stuff to them because the professor's assignments were wrong or confusing.

Compare that to our local community college, which seemed to have a much more well-rounded course and taught the fundamentals in a way that made much more sense.

Anecdotal of course but certainly defies the "rule".

Another anecdote: I did maybe 100 interviews while I worked at Uber. If I had to guess, I'd say 30% were from university grads (or soon-to-be grads).

Of those, most couldn't hardly write a line of code. Several candidates in the same age group came from a non-college/-university background and usually outshone those who did.
It’s news in Chicago so the Chicago papers don’t consider it “cheap” just because it’s commonplace. DC had a lot of murders in black neighborhoods too, at least in the past. Shouldn’t the Washington Post, a DC newspaper, cover those in detail? And if the time period of the article doesn’t line up and the murder rate rose later, how are those earlier black victims “cheap deaths” even by that metric?

In every circumstance, there appears to be a racist connotation to calling black murders “cheap deaths”.
Seriously, I would have assumed Rust, Elm, Julia, D, or Zig if that were the case.
That's why I don't really understand why there are still covid restrictions in countries that are close to full vaccination, like the UK. There isn't really a next step after having vaccinated the population, it is "steady state". So do they want us to have these restrictions (countries you can't travel to, endless testing, mask requirements) forever?
Brutal lol
Didn't the Spanish Flu (which was way more virulent) basically evolve in this way?
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But how is it a good thing though. It's really not a simple "solar > coal". Solar has its own set of downside. And solar supply chain is heavy on fossil fuel right now, so you may have the same burning of coal behind the scene to make that solar energy. I've read reports where it was actually worse than directly burning the coal.

Some people wave solar and wind like it's some miracle no-impact tech. It's heavy duty tech that impacts the environment at every step of its lifecycle, and for which even CO2 emissions are not a clear winner once you look at the full picture.
HIV is what it is because of its type. If all viruses are like that we probably won't exist or would have evolved to fight it better.
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Seems like an homage to the classic Macintosh Neko DA...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrrsuuodyLk
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I think it's pretty common for major companies to have an archive of industry milestones (like the Honda Collection Hall). Plus what they paid for this NFT is probably cheap for the PR they get in return, positioning them as a hip crypto player instead of a stogy old payment processing company.
> The Logitech software doesn't work on Linux

This is funny, considering it's an Electron app. They just didn't take the time to port, apparently.
The joke was "it will only happen once, because it will kill you".

(Which is inaccurate, of course, since it sounds from the article like disabling a pacemaker in this way will only open up an opportunity for your heart to fail.)
I can relate
What about the original SARS?
I noticed something odd.

The image on the post is this - https://deno.com/deno-on-mdn/table.png

This is the image used in og meta tags - https://deno.com/deno-on-mdn/header.png but this one includes a visual cue and it becomes immediately clear that Deno is added to the chart
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It's 100% possible that we work for the same company, on the same team, and have complained about the same individual on HN before.
> Let’s get these out of the way:

> 1. Yes, we’re building on Electron. Yes, we are aware of the performance tradeoffs, but have decided this is the best choice for us. We’re shipping Windows, Mac and Linux clients along with browsers with a four-person team — it’s the only good way right now to do that without features taking six months. We’ve modified the screen sharing pipeline in Chromium to reduce latency as much as possible, because with interactive screen sharing, milliseconds matter.

Literally a massively popular post from this week, and all of their comments within are "Well yes, but theoretically VS Code got it to slightly over a hundred megabytes when idle so naturally Electron's perfect."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28223515
Gillard, ironically, had fucking balls. Australia is a decade behind where it was 10 years ago - so, yep, we're fucking 20 years behind where we should be.

And these corrupt cunts will be voted in again, I'm sure of it.

cough Off-topic, but... NBN cough
A warning is good thing, but the drama is less welcome. Blaming Apple is absurd too: the defibrillators have built-in kill switch that responds to strong magnetic fields. At the time where this was designed it was concluded that it is very unlikely for such strong magnetic fields to occur in real life. Well, that assumption is wrong these days.

It is a responsibility of the designers of the medical devices to assure they are safe. Furthermore they naturally have to be replaced every few years, so it isn't even hard to phase out the outdated design in a coordinated fashion. But I guess this costs money and it is cheaper to blame others.
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In the case of the U.K., it's the population (not the government) that is holding things back. My impression is that Boris Johnson is opening things up as fast as he thinks he can get away with, without an enormous backlash that gets him removed from office. Unlike, say, France where the positions of government and popular backlash are reversed.
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Logitech is absolutely as bad, or worse than Roccat here. I have no legitimate way to get mac drivers for my mice, because they aren't on Logitech’s website anymore. And thanks to mac bs, they don't work out of the box.
For some goods the customer can be asked to agree to a no-refund.

This is happening here.

For Germany, see https://www.it-recht-kanzlei.de/digitale-inhalte-widerruf.ht...
Yep exactly. The way I’ve been thinking about it lately is that we live with a foot in two worlds.

In the physical world, we have a cascading set of governments, councils and countries we form part of in a participatory process. If someone is smoking next door I can raise it with the home owners association. Or my local council. Or if laws need to be changed, I can talk to my member of parliament or get involved in the local political process. As a society we spent thousands of years and countless deaths to reach this fragile place where we take collective responsibility for our shared spaces and communities. Who pays for the roads? We all do. Who sets the rules for public spaces? We all do.

On the Internet, we absconded from our collective responsibility to invest in shared infrastructure. So, absent other investment, a bunch of US corporations went around creating “free” services. You don’t want to pay for infrastructure? No problem. We’ll cover the bill, so long as you don’t mind us tracking you everywhere, selling information about you to advertising brokers, and advertising to you directly. Don’t like the spaces we created? We’ll aim some of the best AIs humans have ever created at your mind to algorithmically find your attentional weaknesses. All to keep you hooked on outrage, so we can show you more ads. You don’t live in the US? We don’t care. We’re in charge and we’re enforcing American “decency” standards on everyone. Don’t like the feudal empire we built? You’re welcome to delete your account and banish yourself from our society. If we don’t do that ourselves first, automatically. Good luck with the other feudalist corporate empires down the road.

We’re all paying for this as we watch social trust fray around us. We’re paying with a generation lost to outrage wars on Twitter, antivaxers on Facebook, the capital hill riots, teen suicide, conspiracy theories, and witch hunts. All pushed on people by algorithms that our community has created in a desperate attempt to maximise “engagement”. All so we can show more ads at any cost. Never mind if democratic liberal society crumbles in the process.

We’re kings of the world, and the only responsibility anyone can name is to the almighty dollar. Somehow maximising shareholder value is held in higher regard than our responsibility to leave a functioning society to our children. Help us all, but we need to do better than this.
> term limits also protect the public from whatever tyrants they might accidentally vote into power

Yes, and "everyone" is aware about that, so that is not interesting :-)
In parts of mainland Europe it's recognized as "warning, rowdy drunk British tourist" ;)
> Will that not just bring about another npm situation in a few years?

Speaking of which, I was wondering if it has an equivalent for "npm audit", and I've found a project which provides some of that capability:

https://deno.land/x/audit@1.0.0

Rather than rely on a single source of truth for audits, it seems to rely on developers specifying a location which is trusted to make audit reports about their modules.

That's a slightly different trust model, but it's better than nothing and at least prevents the controversial false positives problem of "npm audit":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27761334
I think it's a key point to mention that it's more that the hosts will evolve, i.e. develop immunity or die off, rather than the virus. The virus will continue to mutate but mutation activity is invariant to lethality (up to a certain point where lethality precludes transmission - where SARS-Cov-2 is far away from). In fact, because there is a correlation between viral load and lethality, the virus will actually get less benign on average in the short term.
They want coal miners to vote for them. But they want everyone to vote for them. The Greens and Labour party are both actively hostile to coal; it was a simple political stunt to sweep up some easy votes.

Doesn't mean they're going down with the ship. Sit down and think it through - the Liberals aren't going to waste political capital on coal if it isn't a money spinner. There isn't anything to gain. There are all of 10-15 people in Australia who are ideologically wedded to the idea of coal for its own sake.
To be clear, this comment is about IDEs for common languages where they are a viable and general consideration as the topic is about IDEs as a whole. Platforms and/or languages where IDEs are commonly known as limited/awful, with no alternatives, are a moot point and not the root of the topic's points.

The points made and most of these comments are a joke. Basically bad practice and poor use of source control is being blamed on IDEs. Anyone with these problems (in modern times, old projects/approaches are products of their time) simply isn't a competent dev and/or never studied. I don't even recall any of these things being an issue in the first months of learning to code, 10 years ago.

To be a good programmer, don't learn from bad sources and don't be overly lazy to the point you develop bad habits. You can do all of that while still using an IDE. How you use the tools available is on you, not on the tools.

If a tool is so bad it enforces bad practice and has no way to avoid complicating workflow, find a better alternative. A tool is meant to streamline and improve workflow, not hinder it. I've never chosen to use an IDE that has enforced any of the issues being commented on, as if the only alternative is avoiding IDEs outright. I choose to use IDEs that are best-suited for the language I am using, are flexible and allow me to work how I like without convoluting my workflow. I also never commit IDE or user-specific files to a repository as that's just awful practice.

I'm also yet to read a complaint in comments here that claims to be a specific IDE forcing or creating problems that isn't actually about a company/team that has created a terrible dev ecosystem (or backing off an archaic one) for a project that they restricted and boxed into an IDE. Just because poor project management can make a project a nightmare to work with doesn't make the tools involved the problem.
Where Google devastates other search engines is ability to get revenue from advertising.

Bing used to look like it had an ad load equivalent to Google but it was getting much less money per ad so Microsoft has really been running a charity. Today I see a very low ad load on Bing so I think Microsoft has given up on trying to look like they're successful at selling ads.

It would be quite possible to get better search results than Google today because the advertising gives them a powerful incentive to degrade the search results to train you to click on ads instead.
This is plain false. The majority of infections have been across heterosexuals, and also by blood transfusions.
What restrictions do you mean? I am in the UK and facing no restrictions in daily life.
The CDC estimates that only 15% of cases are completely asymptomatic. But most have mild symptoms.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
Realy wild to me that horse and zebra are so different that one can be domesticated and the other cannot.
Yeah but one other thing to consider is just how technically advanced having a duress password is for the average joe. I think about it like this. Say you're a CBP border agent on the US/Canada border. You inspect peoples phones for images of contraband, etc upon entry. You probably inspect ~150-200 phones per day, now say among the sea of people that are coming through, one of the people's whose phone you searched was actually in "duress mode" and was hiding the real data on the phone. You can't tell me an officer is going to pick that out unless it's something really obvious.

I would go as so far as to say that most border agent's that search phones are probably not even aware that this is a thing that people do. Sure they might have gotten training in a classroom for it, but as far as real world experience goes, maybe 1 out of every 5000 people has a setup like this.
Even in Eastern Europe currently most HIV transmissions happen with heterosexuals. I was surprised to learn that in the Western countries it is mostly spread by MSM (men having sex with men) and IDU (intravenous drug use).
Are you seriously writing a script when the cops are at your door? No, you aren't. You always need to verify that your protective mechanisms work before actually relying on them.
Cory Doctorow has been in the slippery slope warning business for a solid twenty-five years now, but has he ever been right about, well, anything? None of his old predictions stand up. Did DRM silence journalism around the world, or did it simply stop few people from ripping movies, which are objectively now more widely available to more people than ever? Did digital rectal thermometers lead to a massive government database of, uh, rectal temperatures? No? Why does anyone take this guy seriously? He runs this online doom and gloom business to flog his dystopian fiction novels!
Some examples from the UK:

A few years ago (2016), a black MP (Member of Parliament) entered a members-only lift in the parliament building (House of Commons). Another MP (unamed) in the same lift told her: "This lift really isn't for cleaners." [1]

More recently (September 2020), a black barrister (type of lawyer) was mistaken for a defendant three times in one day. Her experience was widely reported in the press. [2]

These examples received press attention, but there are undoubtedly many examples that are never reported (for people from any ethnic minority). There have been horrible examples of racism against people of South-East Asian origin during the pandemic.

Sometimes, it feels that progress is being made. At other times, it seems much still needs doing.

The problem of discrimation appears to be Europe-wide too. The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published a survey in Nov 2018 that examined the experiences of almost 6,000 people of African descent in 12 European countries. Summary of weighted results across all surveyed countries (taken from the report): https://imgur.com/a/gcHR5dk

[1] Black MP Dawn Butler 'mistaken for cleaner' in Westminster:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-35685169

[2] Black barrister mistaken for defendant three times gets apology: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-54281111
Performing those actions on GitHub isn't important because it allows you to technically bypass a restriction by having a third party do it (which I agree is a poor defense) but because the author explicitly relinquished some rights by putting the project on GitHub.
You missed how with government there are laws, the requirement to serve everybody, and legal recourses to most offenses.

A private company like Google can kill your Gmail like that, and that's it, they don't even owe you a reason. It's their "right" to do whatever.
The original SARS had a much higher mortality rate, which meant that trace-and-isolate responses actually had a chance of working. The mortality rate of Covid-19 is nowhere near that of SARS, which actually allows it to kill more people in the end because it can spread stealthily, and no lockdown or trace-and-isolate has worked. There are also more reports of animal reservoirs for Covid-19 than for SARS.
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I’m convinced that crypto will crash and burn, yet I put some money on it because I’m also skeptical of market efficiency and do believe there’s a lot of money to be made in “bad” ideas. I don’t know how mainstream my position is, but I do know a few people who share it.