skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
luckily, existing walls of known construction are widely available
https://www.econtalk.org/bret-devereaux-on-ancient-greece-an...
Reddit once was an interesting platform when they still championed free speech. Today you have jealous moderators and heroes banning content they don't like.

Perhaps their metrics look better now, but I have the impression the platform as a whole got a whole lot dumber.
Time and effort.

True story: I college I had an upper level math course. On day-one the prof comes in and says (paraphrasing) "You've got the book. Read it. If there are questions, I'll help. Otherwise, you're on your own."

We left that class pretty angry. He's not going to teach us? Etc.

Long to short, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. Up til that point, I was always taught such things (i.e., math and technical material). From that class forward I had the attitude, confidence and mindset to teach myself. Let's just say the number of technical lectures I attended the rest of my college career was cut in half.

Dive in. Find the medium your prefer (e.g., video, books, etc.) and keep going :) Ideally, find someone else who shares your curiosity so you have share the highs and lows.
I think the article covers it pretty well, or at least what the problems are.

What is very worrying is someone accepting they cannot verify the technology because "IP" but still handing over enormous money.

You would think there were enough spin doctors around that people would be really wary. You might bet on "people not products" in early stages but you still want at least a PoC or some half-baked product to prove it mostly works and just needs improving.
This is your typical modern "objective" journalism today. The only thing not clear is whoose financial and / or political interests they are trying to boost today. Follow the money / power, I guess?
Inevitable outcome in a society that is terrified of everything. And to think that our ancestors sailed across the oceans into the unknown and faced diseases, war, famine, and worse. Now we are instituting a surveillance state in the name of a fairly bad flu virus with a 99% survival rate.

We really need a new frontier. Hopefully space travel happens before human beings become completely domesticated.
In the US, all 50 states have some type of mandatory vaccination for public schools (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_policy_in_the_Unit...). Most, but not all, allow religious or similar exemptions; some (including California) only allow medical exemptions.

I think your point--which is spot-on--is that a lot of the outraged reactions appear to be from people who are unaware (or unwilling to acknowledge) the very long history of compulsory vaccination (and who probably had such vaccines themselves as children).

That's not to say that any mandatory medical intervention shouldn't be treated with serious consideration, but the unwillingness to acknowledge precedent is bizarre and, I suspect, to some degree dishonest.
Inside vs outside of the city and wealthy inner and middle suburbs is a far more massive cultural divide than red state vs blue state, nominal political party membership, rich vs poor or anything else.
Yes! That's exactly what I had in mind. Very cool technology.

It's like giving mechanics/diagnosticians an IDE with lining, autocomplete, dev docs, etc as opposed to coding on notepad.
Actually having had to wear a gas mask in the military for hours... I would LOVE to see this. If you think an N-95 grade mask is hard to breathe though, try wearing an NBC mask for 8 hours a day. :-)
Ah yes, the shithole states like Vermont and Massachusetts, which are so much unlike the paradise that is Mississippi.
Oh we have plenty of infections, tens of thousands of cases per day, but we have much fewer deaths because infected vaccinated people rarely get sick and if they do are extremely unlikely to die.

Early this year we were seeing similar rates of new infections per day, but about a thousand people were dying every day. Nowadays the death rate is about a tenth of that, concentrated among the remaining unvaccinated population.

Israel seems to be having a similar experience, people are catching the virus but those that are vaccinated aren't dying as a result. They're introducing mask mandates and considering tactical lockdowns to try and protect the unvaccinated population. We may need to do the same, nevertheless the best way to protect people who can't be vaccinated is to vaccinate everyone who can be.
Those vaccines were properly tested. These vaccines were developed hastily. In Europe they are still treated as test vaccines, so you have to sign a paper and take the full responsibility for any side effects. I've gotten this far without infection although I was exposed. I have decided I just don't wan't to risk it. Also I am prepared to give up my access to ICU if that is what it takes for gov to leave me alone, as far as I see, taking up beds is the biggest issue.

There are some other reasons, but those are purely related to political situation in my homeland.
Charterhouse of Parma, War and Peace, and Les Miserables as well.
Actually the relationship between the weak nuclear force and the electromagnetic force is well understood. It would have to be related, given that the weak interaction is the cause of beta decay, which results in a neutron becoming a proton (which has a positive electromagnetic charge) and the creation of an electron (which has a negative charge). The force carrying particles of the weak force can also have electromagnetic charge, further demonstrating the connection between the two phenomena.

You can reason about all the forces being related in some way. For example, beta decay happens in free neutrons, but does not happen in a helium-4 nucleus; there should be a connection with the strong nuclear force that explains this. In some sense the fact that we can observe or measure an interaction implies that it must be related to other forces, since our ability to make an observation is itself dependent on such connections (in the end you need some electromagnetic effect that your eyes can perceive).
Everything doesn't have to be JSON ;)
One would hope. My struggle previously with having a cold is that those can stick around for a week or two - until we set this new precedent for working from home I couldn't just disappear for a week because I didn't feel well so I'd inevitably take a day when it was especially bad, but then I'd come in and spread it around anyways.
> Our largest healthcare provider has already mandated vaccines for their staff

Seems reasonable to expect people working with many sick and vulnerable patients in a healthcare setting to be vaccinated. That’s one of the highest risk scenarios I can think of for exposure and transmission as well as the most likely place to concentrate vulnerable patients.
if you re-arrange you have to wait for the bitstream to finish downloading, and thus lose the 'display something early on' feature.
This ^

It's mostly urban vs rural, even on the coasts and in states like CA.

Visual: https://brilliantmaps.com/2016-county-election-map/
My take away was that the author doesn't necessarily claim to have all the answers here. It's more of a list of general guidance that is reverse engineered from the type of behavior the she observed was definitely unsuccessful.
In this day and age "working for someone else" is no longer prestigious, at least in my circle.
And evicting tons of black people.
Yeah what's next? Making other behaviors that have a small but established likelihood of endangering the lives of others or their property illegal at little to no cost to the liberty of an individual? Pretty soon I won't be able to drive my car under the influence, or without proper insurance, or while not wearing a seatbelt, or I won't be able to discharge my firearms in my 0.2 acre backyard in a suburban area.

650,000 people have died and that's with taking some pretty extreme precautions (for what we consider extreme anyway). It's not just the old or the infirm. Healthy people in their 20s and 30s. Toddlers. We have gone to war over much less.

We have a ton of safety regulations that govern how we build homes and infrastructure, how we plan for fires and natural disasters, how you live your daily life, and pretty much anything else because they are effective and do save lives. This one seems reasonable (mandatory COVID vaccination - influenza vaccines are significantly less effective and in general the people that die from it society seems to be ok with).
> But why should it be web-based? Why would something else web-based 'beat' this based on that fact alone?

Software distribution and/or installation, presumably.

But these factors mostly apply to the consumer and prosumer market segments (hence, the web triggered the 'consumerization of IT'), rather than to the professional market.
Network latency will dwarf CPU time in that case; the CPU can idle while waiting for responses.
Icu beds are a function of staffing long before equipment is a limitation. We've fired nurses and not rebuilt over the last 18 months. If nothing has been done to address staffing for seasonal diseases in that time, it's either incompetence or by design. This is why hospitals run at or near capacity all year round and have capacity issues every flu season. It's a business decision. It also happens to be easily exploited by the narrative.

You can go back and look at 10+ years of UK NHS "hospitals desperately overwhelmed" annual articles. Just because you hadn't heard of it before doesn't mean it isn't normal.
> If I had thought one or two years ago how the CCP was going to handle the pandemic,

In that case, it would be quite an inaccurate prediction on your part given that the CCP/China actually handled their lockdowns and continue to manage quarantining with far more stringency than the US, Germany, and France. You're drawing a comparison between the three western countries and a fictional China that wasn't borne out in reality.
Maybe Proton could lift that ? It was originally developed as an ICBM, but likely just on paper to get funds from the military.
> Inevitable outcome in a society that is terrified of everything.

I agree. Lots of folks afraid to take a shot that's been well-studied and given to millions and is, in all probability, quite safe. ;)

I chalk it up to the youth, who are selfish and only able to think about themselves and their Friendster ranks and how many YouTubes they have on the FaceSpace.
you wish! the whole point of hiring me was to have somebody younger learn the ropes of how our complex, outdated, and undocumented systems work. if the senior programmer gets fired, especially right as the school year is just starting, there's no way the other programmer can handle 100% of department responsibilities. and that's assuming she's willing to follow such a mandate anyway! she's out of office for a week so I haven't been able to ask her.
Lincoln's second inaugural address[0] spells out why in some detail.

0. https://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=false&doc=38&page...
Blackout Texas. They're breaking the law, violating rights, controlling companies, and no doubt they'll try to enforce it if you step in state lines. Watch their governor get ousted over all the people no longer able to access Facebook.
Money/economy was certainly a big reason.

Back in 1860s, cotton and other plantation heavy industries where very lucrative, the southern states were very wealthy enough to be able to field a big army for years, while they lacked strong industry to support an extended campaign.

Also manifest destiny and especially Monroe doctorine all pre dated the civil war, there was certainly strong idealogoical belief on who the continent was for.
I'd say that the pressure for fission becomes higher as the scope of federal government increases. Using spending as an approximation for control:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYONGDA188S

WWII being an outlier of course. I'd like to have the numbers for the 19th C.

There was a time when a state/county/municipality could largely ignore central government diktat. With centralization there'll be a tendency for a single dominant group to get into everyone's business more and more. This can happen via statute, spending, or even lack of law enforcement in desired behaviors.

..and of course it tends to split urban vs. rural, Anglosphere vs. everyone else. The wish or need for central control varies quite a lot between the groups.
To the extent even that supermarkets can get away with having completely open-topped aisle-long chest freezers.

Matthias Wandel has done some related fridge/freezer experiments I saw recently via Youtube:

https://woodgears.ca/heating/freezer.html
https://woodgears.ca/heating/fridge.html

(Particularly the (upright) freezer one is more directly about temperature & door opening, from what I recall.)
Interesting, this was made super clear to me, and even included instructions to leave it plugged in for at least 40 minutes after waking up in the morning so it can communicate. Generally the insurance companies don't like paying for supplies for people who aren't actually using them, and need to see that you use it for an average of 4 hours per night or whatever.
By that same logic, shouldn't your rights end at the epidermis on my arm? Don't I have a right to be secure in my person, as that phrase implies? That interpretation makes more sense to me than asserting the right to be exempt from natural biological functions like disease.
Small side project to help Small side Projects
I have been following Indie hackers across a few websites for a while now. I wanted to make my own little project but I wasn't sure what I could build, so I was doing some research on idea validation. Most people seemed to create a landing page about their product along with a contact button. I thought that sounded like a good way to test ideas. When thinking of ideas I realised all my future landing pages would have one thing in common, a contact page.
There was my idea , a contact page builder that would be quick to use to allow me pump out a contact page in under 1 minute. Its pretty simple but its useful for raw projects. I hope you take a look at it but don't roast me too harshly, this is my first ever solo side project
I get the hate for Electron, but to me, despite the issues, it's not going away.

I think a better approach is to figure out how to make Electron more performant in the various OSes.

I haven't gotten into the internals of Electron, so I'm not the one to reflect on the approach, but seeing some of the improvements that MSFT made with Edge over Chrome in memory usage gives me hope that this is achievable, even if it doesn't happen immediately.

Back in the 1990's we faced a similar thing, where web "apps" were ugly and slow, and not as powerful as the desktop apps that many corporations had developed in C++ or VB or Delphi. Today of course, the situation is much different, and we use web apps all the time. I really truly believe that Electron (or perhaps a successor - like how VS Code superseded Atom) will not go away, and in the future we will be much happier with it.
Canada achieved a high vaccination rate without resorting to lotteries (in most provinces, anyway), or mandates (until this month).
Central Banks Monetize Land
Because they have such an influence on discourse. I'm not saying that any old little forum should be covered by the concept. But when you have billions of users, you're necessarily a little more "public" than if you're a startup with 1000 users.

ISPs aren't currently common carriers as far as I know, although I'm leaning towards the idea that they should be. There is precedent for this. I'm of the understanding that Disneyland is considered a common carrier. Facebook is certainly "delivering" users' content to other users. They have a complex algorithm to route posts to different people's feeds.
While true, that has nothing to do with what I stated. I was referring to consumers being more apt to purchase something that shows recyclable. Subconsciously or not.
> our ancestors sailed across the oceans into the unknown

Some of our ancestors were almost completely wiped out from novel disease brought by those that crossed the oceans. They were probably also terrified.
> laws and governments are not needed when communities are small and everyone personally knows everyone else.

Crimes like rape and sexual assault still happen in cases where everyone knows one another (90% of cases). Even when everyone involved is family! The law and government are still needed to give strength and redress to these victims. What recourse would they otherwise have?

People are mostly peaceful, but emphasis on the mostly. The mostly doesn’t go away when then community size decreases - people will still mostly be peaceful, but others sometimes won’t. And when they won’t, that’s what law and government are for.
OK, so does the "RV64" checkmark on the page mean anything at all?
That is evil and brilliant and I love it.

We should go into business together. :-)
> full screen! Despite talking the time to make the display show you only relevant things in settings

This is a long standing gripe I have with the Apple Watch too—a busy group chat can effectively DDoS you out of being able to use the thing, because notifications are always full screen. There’s also a ~2 second delay before a notification can actually be dismissed, because it has to complete its swoopy animation first.

It doesn’t sound too bad, but when your average interaction with a smart watch is 10 seconds or less it becomes a real annoyance.
There is an online course called nand2tetris where you build a whole computer from nand gate level (CPU, ram, ROM, memory-mapped display output, keyboard scanning, etc), write your own assembler and high level language, then program it to play tetris. It is, bar none, the most fun online course I've ever taken.

https://www.nand2tetris.org/
AVIF is equivalent in decoding complexity, even in software. It's not order of magnitude different.
Encoders OTOH can be as slow as you want them to be.
Best Bluetooth Mouse for PC
DoL to Boost Vaccine Requirements for Large Employers, Federal Workers
That's a very illustrative example. It completely and utterly destroys the benefit of having attributes and makes the structure less clear in context of the XML ecosystem.

I imagine if there was discipline around attributes being only used for meta-data and maybe explicit (de-normalized) references (which is arguably meta data, happy to discuss), then XML would be semantically richer by default. However like this we are left guessing the semantics if we encounter some XML.

Somewhat in contrast, HTML is generally, but not consistently, better at making this distinction, which enables clearer semantics around accessibility, HATEOAS and so on. Ironically we are kicking that value proposition into the can when driving web application rendering with JSON (like popular SPA frameworks do), so we have to re-invent meta data and communicate that with JSON-schema.
Many health insurance plans already do this. And being fat isn't contagious. Although it is more expensive, hence the insurance differentials.
Nixon was more than a handful of years ago.

The Southern strategy was explicitly about creating such a stubbornly supportive majority in the electoral college that they could ignore the rest of the country.
I was commenting to a critical comment that was, in my opinion, controversial but acceptable.
I don't know who flagged it and why, and it's now disappeared.

Please, please, please: I'm the most provax person out there, but limiting the contrary voices won't lead this conversation anywhere constructive.

The comment was saying the the policies against Covid so far were aimed at the distruction of normal.

Here's what I would have replied:

I can see part of your point. But how do we deal with the fact that the resistance to what you call "the destruction of normal" is mostly made by people that refuse science, fall victim to conspiracy theory, and have in general a tendency to apply magical thinking to policy making?

I'm fully vaccinated and highly critical of how the crisis was handled. But here in Germany the no-vaxxers and the anti-maskers are a crowd of strongly individualistic people that span from tree-hugging spiritual healers to neonazis.
There is no logical thinking in their thesis, and every critique is based on the rebuttal of statistics, numbers, and data-based decision making.
And yet, you can't get into a restaurant or cafe in Germany without a valid COVID-19 vaccination certificate or a negative test.

The same is true for most EU member states.
Could you please share a link to the dumb one you ended up purchasing?
The Maze book is really good. Definitely recommend.

One thing that I've found helpful often when learning a new language is taking some code written in a language I know already and porting it over into the new language. That's more fun with a project that actually does something interesting, and if you've got the original-language version running, you can compare output.

Peter Shirley's Ray Tracing in One Weekend book (and sequels) are also fun little projects

https://raytracing.github.io/books/RayTracingInOneWeekend.ht...
Already refuted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28480736

Unlike yours, the study linked last in that comment has been peer reviewed.
>> What do you do if an order has a negative quantity, if you get a string instead of a number, if a value does not fit in your DB column, etc ?

> Isn't that all just basic data validation and sanitation that we all do anyway? And wouldn't it still have to be done, even if the JSON came with all the schemabloat?

The point of JSON Schema (and schemas for serialization format in general) is to have a machine readable description of the data constraints that both a writer of the data and a reader of that data can use to automate both validation and documentation rendering.

> I don't think I'm suddenly going to accept that the data presented to my function is valid and fit for purposes just because it goes through someone's JSON schema library. That's just passing the responsibility on to a third party, which feels lazy and dangerous to me.

Do you trust the compiler/runtime of your programming language?

JSON Schema can allow to use a JSON Schema definition for translation into validation code. That may not fit all crazy validation rules, but at least that allow to automate one validation layer from a specification.
Yes, you can. Since OpenAPI itself has a JSON schema, you can get autocomplete from any editor that supports JSON schema.

At my company, we found that the auto-OAS generation tools were too brittle and didn't communicate enough information, so we actually do write our own OAS and run automation to make sure it's accurate.

That's also how our architects communicate with developers about an endpoint - create an OAS for it.
Parliament != government. In theory it could pass a law to get rid of the royal charter. Tomorrow morning Congress could threaten ABC with confiscating its license unless they don't publish things they don't like. The German army could storm broadcasters with armed men and for them to broadcast what they say.
What? You should be sure, it's just basic common sense. Facts are facts, and almost everything is nuanced, but for instance claiming that the Holocaust didn't happen, the French did nothing in WWI, or that the Nazis were socialists are entirely factually wrong takes.