skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.science.org/news/2021/08/grim-warning-israel-vac...

Israel has among the world’s highest levels of vaccination for COVID-19, with 78% of those 12 and older fully vaccinated, the vast majority with the Pfizer vaccine. Yet the country is now logging one of the world’s highest infection rates, with nearly 650 new cases daily per million people.

More than half are in fully vaccinated people, underscoring the extraordinary transmissibility of the Delta variant and stoking concerns that the benefits of vaccination ebb over time.

I think that 60% figure is the percentage of vaccinated and hospitalised.
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/nearly-6...
> An excellent argument in favour of including some humanities course in tech degrees at least.

What are you seeing that I am not?

It looks to me like the author of the article went to a liberal arts school (Hampshire College) for a BA in cognitive science and philosophy before studying a PhD in neuroscience, and is a published fiction writer (both short-stories and a novel).

I suppose what a tech degree is needs to be defined, but in Canada a computer science degree would involve "breadth electives" that cover humanities and the social sciences. It is at least two of each depending on if one is studying for a BSc or a BA (a BA would require more). Even a degree in computer engineering in Canada would require at least one course in the humanities. I think this applies in the US as well. I believe computer science and computer engineering are the stereotypical tech degrees people picture when the argument is made that tech is lacking in an understanding of the humanities and ethics.

It seems that the author of the article is about as far from a typical tech degree as I've outlined above, but you may be seeing something else that I've missed?
That’s a weird argument when the browser project has multiple orders of magnitude less backing than the add-on.
it's not but it's essentially the same practically speaking -- you get type A|B|C you write code to interact with it in just one way. Either by casting, or generics. weakly typed language do that for you, but they are looked down on.
This argument is based on a deep misunderstanding of what democracy is for. It is not a system for making the best decisions. It is a system for getting everyone to accept the decisions that have been made without resorting to violence by giving everyone the feeling that they have had their say.
Doubtful. Democrats pushing for vaccines haven't been effective in getting their most reliable voting block, communities of color, to take the vaccine. Trump has been imploring his supporters to take the vaccines but they're the other large group that makes up the unvaccinated. There are groups that blindly follow whatever their partisan leaders tell them but neither party has very good control over their voters when it comes to vaccination. The media certainly would like you to think it's a partisan issue but it's only one if you ignore either of the two largest groups of unvaccinated.
What is Figma?
We shouldn't celebrate all computer optimisations, if the optimisation breaks laws and hurts people.

People were annoyed with unsolicited mail, so invented "no junk mail" signs, and laws.

A handwritten address requires human time and thus is probably not worthwhile for low-margin spammers. It is a costly signal that a letter probably isn't junk mail.

By reducing the cost of the costly signal, he breaks the value of it - now everyone lives in a lower signal, higher noise world: more likely to get unsolicited mail, more likely to throw out legit non-spam handwritten mail.
To be totally fair, Akamai predates BitTorrent.
> Containers are great and all, they solve many problems but they're not the only solution and theyre definitely not the best solution to every problem.

There a large number of developers around now who've never done traditional (RPM, DEB, SysV) packaging and don't understand it. So while the large distros like Redhat and Debian push on with it, the development community only sees Dockerfiles, Snaps, Flatpaks etc.
Please don't rush into the comments with a reflexive reaction to the generic topic or something in the title. That's not a substantive contribution and it makes for a much less interesting thread. It would be much better to react to something specific in the actual article. Threads are sensitive to initial conditions, so it's particularly important not to do this when the thread is fresh.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker (2019)
It fails to do what it lived up to do.

I had an IOT plug fail (plastic melt) and returned it, and they took it back, no questions asked.
Figma has facilitated improved product management productivity via easy collaboration between designers, managers, developers, copywriters, and others.

I don't really care about the tool's performance optimization or lack thereof! It's the team's performance I care most about.

If the designers were complaining about Figma's performance, I'd see your point, but they like it too...
Obama's association with Ayers, his pastors sermons while Obama sat through them, his derision for people clinging to guns and religion were all things very reasonable people could be upset by. You are being purposefully selective in your remembrances.
I am an extremely boring pilot; I read the flight manuals for the aircraft I am piloting, follow the checklists, read the NOTAMs, chart my course while paying attention to the weather and practice situational awareness.

Anything involving "unofficial", please ignore. It might as well say "One crazy trick to land a Gulfstreamm G280". I am sure the test pilots just missed it while developing the flight procedures.
While I agree with your three points I simply do not understand why this narrative rarely, if ever, seems to take into account the fact that:

children cannot yet be vaccinated
rules are based on a local level and changing all the time
women are making a decision between work and managing their home and their children

a 2 income home is very common but also often enabled by external help, even if its babysitters or after school programs or kids hanging out at the park
In aerospace engineering, we take that kind of thing seriously.

For example when a 737 has a broken light, then it is not in compliance with the approved type design and any aircraft in such a state is legally not airworthy.

Fortunately we have provisions in airworthiness to defer rectifications of unserviceabilities that have no/marginal effect on actual airworthiness, but the point stands. The light is part of the aircraft's design.

If you change a light to a new kind of light, then you're embodying a Design Change which is a Big Deal (tm) even though it seems minor, and that piddly little light will go through the same design approval process as, say, a new wing. Less structural analysis will be conducted (obviously) but it's still the same process.

In aerospace, changing the nozzle on an engine changes the design of the engine. "Design" in that context is an industry term and it doesn't have the same nuance as in other contexts.
Taleb favours "street smarts" vs "intellectual yet idiot". In this context "street smarts" probably means being a one boxer.
Discussed at the time:

Why Figma Wins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23584954 - June 2020 (181 comments)
How could you possibly say democracy is the most successful government system in history? There is little reason to believe that. These sorts of kitschy phrases being substituted for real discourse is why were here.

Democracy is nice, but historically it leads to very bad outcomes in a few hundred years. What remains to be seen is whether or not this democracy will sustain itself.
This is the useless rant.

Here is short version of how I understand author's pont: "if you look at something (piece of art, architecture, book), made at a point in history, you need to remember about all the struggle, that may be related to that thing".

This is pretty awful principle, to live by, in my pov.

Putting something in the context and appreciating the art are different things. Ivan Terrible was terrible tsar, but I will still appreciate that painting.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Iv%C3%A1...

If somebody will put that picture into some gallery, like "100 pictures and classical music" in youtube, I will never notice that there is something wrong about it, albeit it is not that great. And it is fine.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/13AD0/production...
Simple code extra: Readability examples
> Amid McCarthyism, Parsons was accused of espionage and left unable to work in rocketry.

I would say his own society wasn’t very welcoming of him. As I recall he kept his occult interests mostly under wraps and his career was finished once it no longer was, subsequently dead during the McCarthy era.
Throwing around 'psychopaths' remember a good number of people grow up with abuse or neglect. Probably easier for them not to care about distant strangers and meaningless numbers. We are a vast planet with 99.99% of people in need of serious therapy. (Probably everyone)

I'm curious the statistics of how many people have lost a close contact in the pandemic to COVID. Maybe a lot of deaths are neglected parents and grandparents which is why it seems like so few people care about taking COVID precautions seriously anymore. In the US it seems we are past fatigue into exhaution in the majority even as cases continue in the unvaccinated kids and adults.
I have 2 RAVPower batteries, both 20k. One had a 120v outlet on it, and I love them both. They don't overheat, have yet to lose capacity, and charge fast.

They were the only ones I was happy with after using Anker, Duracell, Best Buy branded, etc. All would charge/output slow, heat up, lose capacity, etc.

My next purchase from them is going to be their Solar Cell and their portable charging station.

Def gonna try that charger out, had been eyeing it for a bit now, thanks for the heads-up!
Exhaust systems on ICEs are much more than simply a muffler and directing exhaust gases away from the driver.

Exhaust systems can be tuned, as in using wave propagation to scavenge the exhaust gasses out of the combustion chamber much more efficiently. Intake manifolds are tuned for the opposite effect. The dyno tests on my Dodge V8 showed adding a 3/4" spacer between the carb and the manifold added 40 HP at the peak power rpm.
+1 for K6. The open source is quite easy to setup and their cloud (freemium) makes life pretty easy to scale/distribute/visualize tests. I use it for https://wphostingbenchmarks.com for many years now (used to be Load Impact).
I'm on Linux, so the only way to use Figma is in the browser.

Everytime I use it, I'm astonished at what can be done with a web app — and makes me wonder: why didn't Adobe make a web version of Illustrator or inDesign?
To the comments: many here seem to accept as given that nobody running for office deserves the privilege, but I don't think that's true at all. In fact, I think governing is hard work, and expecting people who aren't interested to do it well is naive. I want to be a principal engineer—does that make me a bad engineer because true engineers care nothing for esteem, or a good engineer because I sit around reading and thinking about software all the time?

To the article: "Modern policy is too complex for there to be meaningful electoral accountability. Electoral capture is too easy and too important for powerful interests. So, what’s the alternative? Get rid of elections. Use lotteries to select political officials."

...What? "Elections imposes insufficient accountability on representatives"...so let's replace it with a system that imposes zero accountability on representatives whatsoever? That's an alternative, but not a solution.
Isn’t the second point an argument against fragmentation? Google had an integrated messaging platform, they’ve now abandoned it for multiple platforms. Where was Legal saying no to these new endeavors?

I wish we could rewind most of the web at least ten years. Everything was better then — I enjoyed Gmail, Twitter, Foursquare, Flickr, etc.
Hit it in a nutshell. I find C++ great as a language - complex but wonderfully powerful. It's like wielding a sharp [DragonSword]. However, the tooling is in the stone age compared to Rust. And there doesn't seem much cross-vendor interest in improving matters. The committee sticks to the language and not the broader ecosystem.

This makes it a no-go for younger programmers who are spoilt by friendly tooling - great build systems, package managers, superb documentation tool compared to the ancient, decrepit dinosaur that is doxygen, etc
But how does Google “harvest attention?”
There is a feature in English to call the same thing different words depending on one's moral judgement towards them. Shooting a person dead is a "kill" if a homeowner has defended himself from a burglar, but a "murder" if the burglar has fired first. My language for comparison only uses a single word, regardless of circumstances.

That's where the paradox has to be coming from. When they say "end censorship" they mean "prevent filtering that we don't want to happen" (like whistleblowing). But at the same time they absolutely totally want NOT to prevent filtering they want to happen (like drugs, child porn, terrorism, etc). It's only censorship if they don't want it, if they want it that's not censorship that's a different word.

It's like saying it's a candy if it's intended to be eaten, but a toy if it's intended to be had, and then expecting to eat the candy and have the toy.
Then wouldn't the app have an incentive to send you on dates with the most obnoxious and/or dangerous people possible, so that you refused to attend any more?
To find CSAM on Freenet nowadays you have to go out of your way to search for it. All the default index pages (entry points) filter out content that is illegal by itself (as CSAM is), and if you talk about that in FMS or Sone you’ll quickly find your pseudonym blocked by most accounts.
> Apple really likes iMessage because consumers seem to be really into iMessage and it seems to create a positive feedback loop to get people to buy iPhones

Well, it would be a bit...naive not to have a phone that can send text messages. You gotta have something.

But it's interesting to note iMessages and Apple Pay work well with each other.
Yeah looks like they're generating vortices to mix high and low velocity air better. The problem here is this will decrease the efficiency of the engines as it's adding drag to the flow coming through the nozzle.
I've tried getting into gnunet on and off for a couple years now (granted the last time was 2+ years now) and it was always inscrutable to me. Nowhere near as easy as Tor or even FreeNet (which is a dead Java app used only by the worst people as far as I could tell).
Church turing paradox but in comments ~ ;p
- to elaborate

One take is that it’s bollocks- a mechanistic measure for a mechanism to “win” at has nothing to do with human creativity. One would argue that the arts should be taught with stem to help engineers interface with humanity- especially the indefinables.

Another take is to ask what it is the machine isnt quite doing. As i believe its been said before “tell me exactly what the program can’t do and i will make it do exactly that”.

But where does it end? To satisfy the argument we will need to define creativity, humanity, arts, not to mention bicker on the semantics of building the necessary shared ontology!

The synthesist in me thinks the next Shakespeare surely could benefit from n+1 “monkeys and typewriters”
Currying may be useful if you have a function that you are passing around as a first class object, and you don't receive all of the parameters needed to evaluate it in one place in the code. You can simply apply one or more parameters when you get them and pass the result to another piece of code that has more parameters and finish evaluating it there.

The code to accomplish this is going to be simpler than if you need to get all the parameters together first.

Also, there is the possibility of more code reuse, since functions taking a single parameter (another curried function) don't have to match as specifically with all the parameters.

http://net-informations.com/js/iq/default.htm
I'm a big fan of this audio retelling of a bit of his life:

https://www.idlethumbs.net/somethingtrue/episodes/babylon
Is it morally wrong to hold two jobs?
Chainloading Ubuntu with Grub 2 from Archlinux with Syslinux
Not wanting to attack here, just wanting to add more info:

IRC over Freenet is actually in use today: It is called FLIP and has 1 minute round trip times. Which is shorter than what people typically notice (except if they actively measure it), because most take longer to type their answers than FLIP needs to deliver it.
No way, you got one of our letters? That's crazy! I'd be curious which version you got. We sent a few different iterations. I'll have to look you up tomorrow when I'm back at the computer.

Re: the system. I can't disagree there. It's a disaster and there has to be a better way. Counties rely on a certain percentage of people protesting and the ones that don't get kinda screwed imo. The unfortunate truth is that everyone should protest every year. That's a broken system. Some other states only revalue every third year, so the counties have a better shot at fairly valuing everything because they have 1/3rd the workload. Not Texas though. They revalue everything every year, so it all just gets ballparked.
My dad flew ground attack jets in the Korean War. He said it was easy to sneak up on a target, as you were traveling close to the speed of sound and so the sound didn't get there before you were in firing position.

You only hear the jet after it passes you.

The ground crews at the target had to be very vigilant.
Do you know FreeChat? That’s a messenger for android over Freenet (currently in pre-beta but working) which uses Freenet to provide privacy on the level needed for medical data: https://github.com/DennisRein/free-chat-2
I never heard of this during my university days. Or maybe I did, and I’ve just forgotten about it. But it’s really nice piece of math, and quiet useful.
Last year’s Advent of Code had a problem that could be solved quickly using this.
i'm mostly happy with ProtonVPN for average stuff. clearly tho, when it's serious time you gotta pwn your own box
> the response has been so politicized worldwide that pure science has been largely thrown out the window. Every possibility should be analyzed & tested, even if it goes against the interests of a ruling party and all parties are guilty of exploiting this.

This has been the case since Global Warming was coined, then the models didn't line up so they called it Climate Change and castrated anyone who questioned the science.
Plenty of porn in the woods pre-internet.
Blub 101
Hm, I'd personally go with a bow tie.

Nothing wrong with those.
When I lived in Germany in the late 60s, it was commonplace to see NATO fighters hedge-hopping over the countryside. My dad said the Germans didn't complain about it, they knew why the fighters were training that way.
It works because every user can choose their own moderators: You choose on your own whom to trust to filter out the disruptive stuff.

And it’s optimized so you have much less work for that than on the clearnet. On Freenet Spam- and Disruption-prevention actually scales better than spamming.
> average person

The average person can’t even draw bikes that work[1].

[1] https://twistedsifter.com/2016/04/artist-asks-people-to-draw...
I love new programming languages and the concepts they bring to the table. But I feel PL designers should think about Dev experience.

Is it just me or is the "\" in front of parenthesis (func params) is just off-putting. I wonder, what purpose does it solve?

Familiar syntax makes it much easier to adopt and easily convince devs in your team to try it for real.
> unless he stops paying rent

Which,,,is the reason that probably 99/100 people get evicted in the US. The remaining is generally due to property destruction or neglect of the property specifically counter to the lease agreement.

A landlord not renewing a lease to a tenant at the one of a lease term is not an eviction.
These black slashes looks so weird
Growing up in Kansas in the 60s, I heard window-rattling sonic booms all the time. I enjoyed them :-) I'm sure the pilots were having a good time, too.
Single user Nix works out of the box without issues on WSL.
ive also had ebay remove my legitimate reviews of bad sellers. its trivial for sellers to get bad reviews removed
I think you're missing the key point of statically typed languages, that the compiler catches errors for you. Generics are valuable because it allows users to write "generic" reusable functions that are still checked by the compiler. Of course dynamically-typed languages can do this easily, but that's not the point.
Probably looks like lambda. Haskell has them.

\x -> x + 1
The problem they'll have is that they don't update the whole system atomically, so the generations of different packages may be different.

A distribution like Clear or Nix could probably wrangle things appropriately.
Do you want to help fix the debian installer? Freenet has been providing a Gentoo package for years. Other distributions need more work. If you have the skills, then please help updating the debian package! https://github.com/freenet/debian
I'd love to see web apps handle multi-gigabyte file workloads that have the ability to dynamically link in other assets that can be just as large.
Thanks for the response. I am not familiar with either Google Auth of MDM. The token is installed with a suite of Microsoft apps such as Outlook and Teams.

I definitely assume work provided devices are logged and I've been told work provided cell phones are logged, but I don't know if that extends to personal devices. Of course best case would be to try and find out if there is a way to use an external token generator to keep work off a personal device.
Then swiss mcdonalds massively lowered their prices since, you ate at a special mcdonalds or you eat huge meals consisting of many burgers. Or you remember wrong. Last time I ate there a big mac didn't cost more than $7. It is expensive, but not that expensive.
I dropped out, went back to do a MBA part time (while working full time) about 10 years later because almost all director level positions I was looking at required it. It was hard work, but it worked out for me.
It's just not messaging / video / hangouts, Google "botched" their Pay app too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28281259
It works well in terms of programs working. It has similar challenges to C++ that various commonly used abstractions end up producing a lot of code on the program side regardless. It's nonetheless worthwhile, if you have enough programs and resource constraints.
So what is the deal with A/UX anyways?
Nowadays you can actually see privacy-dependant services test Freenet. To quote research from Bern university who do health data exchange research: “This broker is based on the peer-to-peer network Freenet. This network has been defined to be censorship resistant and to protect the privacy of persons sharing data. This covers the needs for protection expected from a secure data broker.” https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/using-freenet-as-a-broker...
The discussion is about the 'git' command itself, not about Github.
I wouldn't say botched for a single misfeature. It's pretty popular where I live, and I heard it's super convenient to do everything from phone recharge and electricity bill to train bookings. Whereas nobody talks about Google's messaging apps.
Singularity – Microsoft’s Experimental OS
It looks like it did make it to market, but with two AA cells, not one:

https://au.pcmag.com/first-looks-1/42130/spareone-emergency-...