skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and it didn't help when during the BLM protests, when social distancing was being trumpeted in all contexts, a number of doctors (can't remember if the CDC endorsed it or not) came out and said the massive crowds at the protests were acceptable because "race issues are health issues too" or something to that effect. That's obviously hypocritical to anyone with half a brain.

If there's a kernel of truth to the right's message it's that there is an elite class in DC that is woefully out of touch and seemingly incapable of actual leadership. They just spout what they think, however asinine or poorly phrased, and we're supposed to listen because they're certified "experts". I know enough people in government agencies personally/have the scientific education necessary to filter the signal from the noise, but I can understand someone who doesn't have those advantages just refusing to trust anything they say. They sound like arrogant nerds, and a lot of them actually are.

Someone needs to remind anyone who releases a public statement that they are first and foremost in the business of public persuasion, not absolute truth telling down to the smallest detail for its own sake. That means clear, consistent messaging that a high school dropout who failed 9th grade Biology can understand. Broad strokes. Simple actions. Leave the nuance in the footnotes for the professionals who can handle it. For example, the messaging should have been some variety of "wear a mask as often as you can until we get a vaccine, then you can take off the mask if you get vaccinated" combined with support of mandates to enforce that path. Are there problems with that? Sure, but it gives people a simple path to follow, a light at the end of the tunnel, would have a positive impact on average, and doesn't get bogged down in ultimately irrelevant details about the tactical effectiveness of masks/vaccines and provides an incentive to get the vaccine. And consistency alone can be powerful messaging if there's even a little truth behind it. Much as I wish we were, we are not a nation of scientists and cannot be addressed as such.

And yeah I'm sure there are a million "it's different behind the curtain" excuses for why things were done the way they were. Same way when things are designed by committee at a large company everyone involved is conveniently not individually responsible when things go wrong. I'm not sure what the precise solution is, I'm certainly not in a position to influence anything related to Fauci's/The CDC's messaging, but someone has to start taking actual personal responsibility for the outcomes, and be in a position to relieve those who have proven ineffective. Granted it may already be too late for that, people are entrenched hard.
That's really interesting. I've always observed anecdotally that female preferences change drastically between very young women and older. Specifically, teen magazines aimed at young girls always seem to have very feminine, boyish, non-threatening males. My observation has been that this preference is dropped pretty sharply as women get a little bit older.

I never knew (and still, don't know) to what degree this trait is actually universal. (ie, perhaps it's just a weird quirk of teen magazines in the last 30 years) Do you have links to that study or anything like it? I'd like to check it out.
It was a contrived example with the tile. I've had to do that calculation in the past with other materials.
All quantum-mechanical processes can be reversed. In fact, this process is actually a lot more common in the other direction; a positron and an electron making a pair of photons is matter-antimatter annihilation and it happens all the time. This is because a couple photons are thermodynamically preferred over an electron-positron pair at room temperature. It's kind of like how allotropes of solids will form and reform as you change the heat and pressure.
Take a look at this experiment in Siberia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park

>The aim of the project is to research the climatic effects of the expected changes in the ecosystem. Here the hypothesis is that the change from tundra to grassland will result in a raised ratio of energy emission to energy absorption of the area, leading to less thawing of permafrost and thereby less emission of greenhouse gases.[8][9] It is also thought that removal of snow by large herbivores will further reduce the permafrost's insulation.

>To study this, large herbivores have been released, and their effect on the local fauna is being monitored. Preliminary results point at the ecologically low-grade tundra biome being converted into a productive grassland biome and at the energy emission of the area being raised.[10]
Got it. Regarding fast you have something like Vaex on python side (but not sure how fast it realy is). For me I had with pandas the most issues using it's multiindex.
Quite a few people here argued that Facebook is somehow doing a special evil, so yes people are kinda saying that.
Did this happen in the English or the Chinese Wikipedia?
You could use a textbook specifically designed for adult learners like the Wheelock.
Show HN: My WebRTC app – needs road test
Hello everyone! - this is my first time here, so I hope you're all well and that some of you will have time to test my app.

I've built a WebRTC-based messenger and video-calling app which is now published (for early access) and testing on the Play Store - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=global.coms.tw... is the url for Android people.

3 years ago, when my last corporate gig ended, I was at a loose end until I dove into WebRTC, which I though was sooooo cool :). So I set about building a Skype alternative since I'd used that every day at work.

Being also privacy a security conscious I've steered away from ads and cookies and any kind of surveillance, activity monitoring, logging - things of that nature. This is a "communicate and leave no trace" kind of tool.

You'll have to make a username and password to test, but that's it. Then it's a matter of connecting with a friend who's also joined and doing some messaging and video calls.

User "Coms Support" - that's me - is in everyone's contact list and available as much as possible. I live now in Thailand, so my timezone is ICT, which is GMT+7, EST+11 or PST+14. I work from dawn 'til late, so there's a good chance you'll find me online at a time that suits you.

I look forward to chatting! - and thanks much for your time :)

Craig.
Infinity Category Theory Offers a Bird’s Eye View of Mathematics
The pool of workers available to UK companies has just been significantly and suddenly reduced. There is an actual shortage - the number of vacancies has exceeded the number of unemployed, without even taking skill into consideration.
It is telling that the euphemism “undocumented immigrant” is considered less polar than the factually descriptive “illegal immigrant”. “Undocumented” suggests ambiguous legality, which is plainly false in the vast majority of cases to which the phrase refers.

It is also interesting that there is no neutral term for this topic. Actually, now I’m using euphemisms. It’s not interesting, it’s disheartening.
Just for a note — JY Lee just cane out from behind the bars a few weeks ago.
The FDA initially wanted 2 months of data for under 12, just like adults. Then they changed their minds and wanted 6 months instead. I'm sure they had a reason, but in 70 years of vaccines, we've never had a side effect after 2 months. If they changed their minds once, they can damn well do it again and get this thing out there.

Then there's the objections (and resignations) to the booster. The specific reasons being:

> current vaccine supplies could save more lives if used in previously unvaccinated populations than if used as boosters in vaccinated populations

We all know this, but it's not the FDA's job to factor in global supply and distribution. Are boosters safe and effective? That's the FDA's job. Will denying boosters in the US increase first shots in other countries? That sure seems debatable to me. But regardless, it's not the concern of the FDA. I don't know what the hell they have been doing, but they've been going far beyond their scope lately.
Big ISPs fight to save exclusive wiring deals that limit choice in apartments
One coder's experience writing a novel
The meme to mock those critical of immigration (usually conservatives) is "Those dirty immigrants are taking our jerbs!"

It's a miss statement about when the crux of the issue is. It's not jobs being taken, it's wages being held low.

I worked at a warehouse that started pay at $12/hr. This was in 2016. Talking to one of the older guys, he started at $12/hr as well. In 2001. I'm sure you can guess what the worker makeup of that place looked like. There is no need to raise pay if you always have willing workers.
> The places with the highest gun crimes are also the places with the toughest gun laws

Only in America. Other western nations have tough gun laws and also low gun crime, because you can't hop in your car and pick up a gun in a neighbouring state.

And actually the correlation is only seen in parts of America. New York City has tough gun laws, comparatively low gun crime and a lower homicide rate per capita than the rest of the country.

Time and time again people say "tough gun laws lead to more gun crime" but really they mean "in a country where it's really really easy to buy guns, we mostly see the negative impact of gun ownership in high-density poor neighbourhoods".
Thanks for increasing my list of examples why this is so bad.
While I agree that the rational course for anybody who is able to get vaccinated is to get vaccinated, people may still have reasons—however irrational—that are not idiotic.

Lets say you are a person who has had substandard health care all your life. And justly see the medical system as something not catered for people like you. You know the history of inhumane medical experiments being conducted on your ancestors as early as a generation ago. You also know that the medical profession has had severely wrong and racist theories about health care for your ethnicity.

Now the medical profession asks you to trust them and accept the vaccine.

Now I am not that person, and where I’m from the health care system has proven it self to be extremely valuable for me personally and those who I love (and coincidentally has one of the highest vaccination rate in the world). But if I put my self in other’s shoes I can easily understand how vaccine hesitancy is only natural.

Now what to do about it: Respect peoples concerns, e.g. don’t call them idiots for these concerns. Try to understand and educate. If people still don’t want the vaccine, don’t panic. Keep giving vaccines out for free to those who want it (and please include poorer countries). Perhaps if enough people are vaccinated worldwide it will slow the spread and mutation rate of the virus enough that we won’t have more of the mass waves of new variants and the vaccination status of each individual becomes irrelevant.
if you are moving with the almost the same speed and in the same direction as the debris, then there is a very small impact.
You can't give credit to Star Trek because I am pretty sure this possibility was understood before Gene got to it. ;)
2 year LTS is exciting! Hopefully the other vendors follow suit.
Also, censored.tv.
Maybe instead of de-orbiting debris they could collect it into a small number of well-known locations. Instead of 10k pieces of space junk to avoid in a particular orbit you could just have one or two. Might have less demanding delta-v requirements that way.
How to Embrace Change and Reach Your Goals
> "Facebook is an accelerant."

What is the shape of evolution? Many believe the shape of evolution to be a line of deterministic "progress" with a forward and a backward movement that may be accelerated.

Maybe evolution is a process which we are unconsciously subject to and consciously participate in forming. It seems directors, managers, and other employees working for Facebook may be more conscious of the role the Facebook systems play in social, psychological, and evolutionary processes, and the outcomes the systems grow.
KYC is going to be the death of privacy as we know it. I really wish more people would push back against it.
From what I remember, it started with saying you'd be stupid to take "the trump vaccine". (In less pleasant language)

To me, it seems to have been politicized by the left first. This in combination with the RAPID flip of the coverage/opinion from the left after Biden took the presidency seems like a pretty good explanation for a good part of the rights defiance.
I had Dutch (my native language), English, French, German, and Latin in high school. I actually live in Germany now but I mostly get by with English. My German is too broken to be of much more use than having simplistic conversations with people that don't speak English. I sound like a complete idiot when I need to speak German. And my job is (mostly) not sounding like an idiot so, I avoid professional situations where this is a thing.

Getting my German to the same level I understand and speak English (or Dutch) is such a massive project that I've never really bothered making time for it. I always have more interesting things to do. And if I don't there's work. Learning a language is a big time commitment and the in between state where I can't really use it without sounding like an idiot just isn't that useful to me.

I've also forgotten most of the French I knew even though I was getting quite good at it by the time I dropped the subject 30 years ago. I chose science heavy classes instead of language heavy classes (the Dutch system makes you choose). So German, Latin, and French were out. The endless & mind-numbing memorizing of words, grammar, etc. was a big contributor to that choice. And I also enjoyed other classes a lot more generally. However, I had English until the end (six years) and was actively reading English books, watching BBC, etc. by the time I entered university. In university some of my books were in English. A lot of online content was English. Immersing yourself like that is what needed to master a language.

English has kind of taken the place of Latin. It's the world's most popular second language. Without it you are a bit marginalized to specific areas or groups of people.

But we might not need it much longer if translation tools keep on improving. The key moment will be if you can have an intelligent conversation with somebody without having a single language in common. Even if it is just in written form, it would matter a lot.
Bad news for you: The moon steals tons of our atmosphere every year... Far more gets lost past that.
Thankfully, the most high risk people in Brazil have gotten two shots by now; we're moving towards giving a first shot to every adult, and starting second shots for everyone. The vaccination campaign was botched by negligence and corruption from the Bolsonaro government, but by now the doses are finally arriving.

We're also having the same discussions about third dose... Currently, the order is to give a third dose for the elderly (70+) and immunocompromised.
The goal of capitalism was never to concentrate wealth in the hands of a tiny minority, regardless of the ideology of the nation.
I made the front page of a local newspaper with an analysis for my friends
> I basically decided to go it alone . . . apply scientific reasoning to the issue

Please be sure to publish the results of your study of one.
Refrigerator Blindness
2023 (hopefully)! They're proposing moving LTS to 2 years instead of 3.
I don't want to use myself as an example because it's just my experience but when I was young people around me smoked, many of my teachers smoked and in TV and movies smoking was still accepted as something approved by society. But I was taught not to do it and never did it.

With this I just want to say that I know it's a difficult task but presenting it as a lost battle/impossible seems to me wrong.
Microsoft announced ARM64EC. It’s an ABI for ARM64 that is similar to x64. They say it allows mixing x64 and ARM64 DLLs in the same process.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2021/06/28/announ...
In LLPSI's marketing materials, they call it the "natural method." (I've also seen "nature method.")

Another term is "comprehensible input" -- but I am not certain precisely how the two relate to each other. But hopefully they're enough for you to go on.
Same. Been using Obsidian for a year now and it's been great so far. I use obsidian-git plugin to backup my notes to a private git repository and for syncing notes.

Obsidian's community plugins are awesome!
>White has come to mean everyone of European descent

I'd be surprised if anyone in Europe even thought of themselves as 'white' until (perhaps) the post-WWII era. Wogs begin at Calais.

>Africa is also very diverse when you take into account Northern Africa.

I suppose that you could consider North Africa as a separate continent given the bordering desert. My understanding is that sub-Saharan Africa has more real-deal genetic diversity in human populations than the rest of the world put together (which makes sense given it's age).

Obviously race is a real thing. Either a giant tree of relatedness with clusters of appearance + small construction differences or simply a way to form self-interested groups (go to any prison for 10 minutes). The fascination with it as of late is unfortunate, but I'm not sure if it's a reflection of resource depletion/overpopulation, a wave of quasi-religion, or people simply forming up teams for a big fight.
I have seen a few science fiction stories where everyone is happily running teleporters until someone accidentally turns off or breaks the part of the machine that annihilates the guy standing on the sending terminal.
Given that Samsung's revenue is about 12% of S. Korea's GDP, I'm guessing that they will not.
Do you have an issue with them reading HackerNews and responding to a relevant post? Its not feasible for the CEO of a huge company to review every support ticket, no
Forth is not a number, so why would quater or 1/4 ever mean 'forth'? Fourth is probably the word you're looking for.
The Demographic Time Bomb
Higher end Ryzens along with NVMe make for great high performance CI local worker nodes.
It has a super long generation time, but at least we have a very large number of carcasses to work from. There's nearly no dodo DNA laying around.
Not an assumption. Just the data showing this to be true almost universally across the US. Statistically, breakthrough cases also skew older. Locally where I live >95% of patients in the hospital with COVID are unvaccinated.
And just scope creep in general. I can't imagine doing professional work without an SPA because that exposes me to risk.
I've seen this in action in some US Youtube channels.

To me it feels like those videos of people who lost their arms and learned to play the drums with their feet.

Impressive, but also born out of limitations.

> tradespeople who use metric

2.625 / 2 = Divide each digit by 2 = 1 . 3 1 (2.5) = 1.3125

Most of the time it isn't needed because there isn't a lot of those fractions going around to begin with. The problem isn't the units, themselves (inches, etc). It's that their relation isn't 10.
I've said from the beginning of this year that I'll get vaccinated as soon as the government gets out of it. At this point, the mandates are specifically why I refuse to get vaccinated. I caught covid in August so I'm immune for the next year at least. So there's no reason for me to get vaccinated and every reason not to.
Yeah i think teenage girls are sometimes mean to each other because they have pride, just like every other human being. Some people’s pride makes them work long hours, some makes them work out, some makes them debate, and some makes them dress up and try to be the most popular.

Also i don’t think most teenage girls act like “Mean Girls” in real life. I was once in school and I have a teenage sister. Many girls like to post instagrams and tiktoks to get likes and follows, but they’re not cutthroat about it and the girls are sympathetic to each other.

The places where girls are backstabbing each other, are probably the same places where guys are fighting each other.
>This feels like mullad is trying to tell us something?

I agree:

>If you would like to communicate in a truly safe manner, do not trust any 3rd party – encrypt yourself. Do not use any US-based service for anything secret, especially if you are a company or government handling PII information.
What's always interesting to me is that in Canada, A&W is almost "premium" fast food. More expensive than the competition, and generally better quality.

They also advertise a lot of "no hormones, grass-fed, cruelty-free, local farmers" etc in their advertising. And they were the first big company to sell the "Beyond Burger."

Seems really different than the American version.
When Trump was elected China had no better time to finally act. A destabilized and distracted west and political cover for actions as responses to Trump's aggressive on China tone.

Even now, we're not out of the woods yet. The west is still dealing with the lingering effects of Trumpism and Covid has balance sheets and attentions. Consolidating power now while nobody in the world will really challenge them. The democrats can't survive a recession on top of the Afghanistan disaster and prolonged Covid. They're not going to really sanction China.
A good old-fashioned Perl log analyzer
Does the "calm tech" movement have much to say? I feel like a theory of learning for software is more important. Of course it should be done in a pleasant way but I wasn't able to get much actionable insight out of calm tech writings.
Men can impregnate indefinitely many women. As long as we have communities in which an individual mother isn't totally dependent on the father during critical years, there doesn't seem much need for competition here. That's a result of monogamy and nuclear families that probably wasn't the norm when humans were evolving these behaviors hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Agreed. Evolution drives our behavior; that fact horrifies some people; and for every observation there is an explanation that is clear, simple and wrong.

We humans are apes and, so, teenaged girls are apes. Apes are obsessed with hierarchy, status and sex. That doesn't change because we communicate using abstract symbols over a ridiculously innovative invention.
Some highlights since the last LTS (JDK 11):

Language Features
394: Pattern Matching for instanceof
395: Records
306: Restore Always-Strict Floating-Point Semantics
409: Sealed Classes
361: Switch Expressions
378: Text Blocks

Language Features in Preview (behind a flag)
406: Pattern Matching for switch
412: Foreign Function & Memory API
414: Vector API

Tooling
392: Packaging Tool (jpackage)

JVM
386: Alpine Linux Port
391: macOS/AArch64 Port
340: One AArch64 Port, Not Two
388: Windows/AArch64 Port

(Source: https://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk/17/jeps-since-jdk-11)
Have they tho?

I think Smart Contract Platforms (SCP) are interesting, but they are primarily for trading shittokens and fraud. The only real use for DeFi I can see is stablecoin market making. But now we are playing with fiat again, are we not? I thought we wanted to get away from these shenanigans.

Bitcoin has not been superseded. It may not be possible to superseded it because of its cryptoeconomic model. Every other SCP printed all the coins on day one, sold to insiders, sometimes mostly insiders. Proof Of Stake is bad for decentralization and censorship resistance. It also misses the point about externally verifiable consensus. I don't trust people, I trust math.

This is vastly vastly different than BTC mining, which was generated through vast energy consumption. It can never be replicated.
You underestimate how a sleep people are at the wheel or just busy with their own stuff, at least in smaller companies, just no time to think "Let's push this junior out, he is doing too well". Not attending meetings could still cause some questions though.