skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the added bonus that it would be better for the students’ health generally and would likely improve overall educational outcomes.

An awful lot of our handling of COVID has been farcical (a year and a half in, we’re still relying on cloth masks and obsessively sanitizing surfaces), but in the case of schools it’s veered toward absurdist/tragic.
> More specifically, the the `#[derive]` attribute on the enum lists which procedural macros to execute (Debug and Snafu here).

Yep I've used Rust before...

It's still like putting comments above your functions.
Well, city size (or really metro size presumably) follows some sort of power law-ish distribution in general. So, if you look at tech employers who historically mostly hired people from certain regions on the West Coast and see where they're hiring today, it's not surprising that they'd tend to cluster around larger metros given that's where a lot of people are. (Or at least there are more people in X large metros than there are in X arbitrarily-chosen smaller towns and cities.)

I'm guessing to study concentration more broadly you really want to study a broader distribution of companies. I'm not sure that looking primarily at CA outflows for future job positions is necessarily an unbiased look at tech job distribution more broadly (and really not just tech jobs but employment at large West Coast tech companies in general).
Media Lens wrote about this in July and it was also posted here on HN: https://www.medialens.org/2021/a-remarkable-silence-media-bl...
Human train labour is not really a big deal. Modern drivers are basically security, comms, engineering, exception handling that conveniently moves with the vehicle.

If freight trains go routinely robotic then expect to see more of this in the USA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHc6DrCgqTw
Let's say that when Facebook cannot announce their DNS prefixes, the DNS resolvers from other ASes cannot reach their DNS servers. But why? Does Facebook change the IP addresses of their DNS servers and other web endpoints constantly? Shoudn't Facebook IP addresses be cached by DNS resolvers?
Obviously.

So what would’ve happened if we had created a zillion jobs installing air filtration to create healthier workplaces across many dimensions (not just Covid) instead of paying people to stay home?
I have a lot of respect for solder and rework skills like this, but at the same time, it doesn't seem worth it for a game you can buy for $50.
Easier, but not safer. Pure carbon (mixed with something inert, to prevent burning) doesn't need armed guard for the next 500 years at least.

IMHO, the easiest and cheapest way to store carbon is to grow algae to make hydrocarbons (oils), separate them mechanically, then spread them over a soil as fertilizer, or pump them underground, or burn part of the algae to make a kind of charcoal (to prevent biodegradation).
The Andromeda project was about creating a local alternative to the largely US-dominated cloud space. Given that, the argument that it is counterproductive to push a project which is dominated by US and non-european companies (look at the foundation members) and where most development expertise is outside of Europe, does have some merit no?
If I was Xi, I would be looking at Ruppert Murdoch as evidence par excellence of the corrosive effect of foreign investment in media.
I mean diversity of races in addition to diversity of thought :) High cost of living only really applies in a very specific area.
Any EULA agreement is between Facebook and the End User not the creator of a Chrome plugin.

If they have a case it is against the individuals who use the plugin.
If I’m a hardline Westerner and I feel like participating in a pro-Chinese Western Community, what are my options? HN isn’t the place for this. Basically, I’d like to praise China for the last handful of bold moves they’ve made, but the usual channels (FB, Twitter, Reddit, HN, …) are vehemently anti-China. I’d probably get shadowbanned or banned saying the three child policy is the way to go forward.

Any suggestions?
I don't think they actually published the papers, they just wrote stories using the papers as the source.

Assange is also accused of assisting his source in attempting (unsuccessfully) to crack a password hash, thereby (the prosecution alleges) taking on more the Daniel Ellsberg role rather than the Washington Post role.

Not commenting on the appropriateness or not of prosecuting Assange, but the situations have significant differences.
> How is it different from the Washington Post leaking the Pentagon papers? Honest question, not snarky.

2 main ways: first, Julian is an Australian and never lived in the US, and Daniel Elsberg was a US citizen living in the US the time he released the PP and thus was protected under some semblance of need for a trail to ensure he was in fact an enemy combatant or a spy for a foreign nation-state--these charges were then dropped subsequently when the public was made aware of Watergate and Nixon stepping down.

Secondly, it's a blatant selective application of the Law, even with Snowden who has repeatedly asked to be tried by a jury of his peers, which will never happen. There is nothing more to it than that, Jullian never stepped foot in the US and the leaks were ultimately done by Chelsea Manning and hosted on Wikleaks and sent to major publications around the World, who has also been through hell and back before getting her sentence commuted.

Ultimately, it's become a politicized issue and Julian Assange has been a the bane for the DoD and Intelligence Agencies of not just the US but many other countries, so despite the UN calling his continued arrest a Crime Against Humanity, nothing will change until he is either made an example of, ironically this means that Assange will have lived up to his supposed reputation for being a megalomaniac and thus will become a martyr the same way Arron Scwartz has become from the FOSS community.

Suffice it to say, I'm a big fan of Jullian and followed his work since his talks at the CCC (2011?) and all of his Wiki stuff which involved Bitcoin etc... I fear the Julian we all knew has likely been eroded away and has clearly had his faculties get destroyed along with his physical health, mental health--he was diagnosed as autistic but I'm sure the PTSD, loneliness and forced isolation have been more severe than anything else after all these years.

Julian isn't a hero, he is a deeply flawed Human being who decided that he couldn't bare not acting at a time of crisis; something that we should as a species should laud, but instead we are forced to witness the systematic destruction of a Man's life for making the World aware of what took place in perpetual and unjust wars.
Yeah I'd like a Showstopper book for Windows 95.
Somehow there's a decent amount of tech in the healthcare space, which has a lot of codes and regulations as well.

Which I also don't understand as it seems like more trouble than it's worth sometimes (I worked for a corporation that was in that field at one point, we were expected to make big changes almost every year when new laws got passed).
A lot of this is closely related. Encryption and spread spectrum are sort of tied. Ideally, spread spectrum looks like noise. My carrier isn't a sine wave, but something which looks a lot like a one-time pad. If I'm allowed to experiment with modern transmission, security goes up, at least beyond the level of a casual listener.

I also think you could maintain the spirit of ham radio with encryption. It kind of depends on how it's done. If I establish an encrypted connection to a stranger on the waves, and I'm using the connection to peddle commercial goods, if I do it enough times, someone will report me.

There's also the issue of security when interacting with anything digital. I don't mind remotely controlling equipment in the clear, perhaps, but I do mind if strangers can commandeer it. Signing is good enough for that, but encryption is better. A lot of things I'd like to do -- if I were experimenting with radio -- I don't want hacked.
To be fair to the downvoters, on the surface I appear to be whining about a headline. But what I'm actually doing is complaining about a common thread I see in the industry, where people use ML as a crutch to avoid thinking, and are frequently proud of "solutions" that don't even work despite their absurd computational expense. And for some reason, people in ML command ridiculously inflated salaries.

I'm all about using the right tool for the job. In this case, I'd say algebra, if the job is "park the car." If the job is "teach genetic algorithms with a simple example," no complaints except for the headline.
Well, I’ve learned something, thanks.

“ Gmail doesn't recognize periods as characters in addresses -- we just ignore them. For example, you could tell people your address was hikingfan@gmail.com, hiking.fan@gmail.com or hi.kin.g.fan@gmail.com. (We understand that there has been some confusion about this in the past, but to settle it once and for all, you can indeed receive mail at all the variations with dots.)”

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-mo...
Ask HN: Is Ktor a good back end framework to learn?
How does it compare to FastAPI, Express and Gin Gonic (Golang)? My goal is to make a REST API that a React Frontend will consume.

Also, I already know Python, JavaScript, a bit of Go and Kotlin.
France built out nuclear and the costs kept rising.

Not every learning curve is positive.
Of course he CAN NOT be a freedom fighter and this jab MUST BE safe ... because otherwise ... what would that would make you?
Do you have a time machine to bring this bit of information back in time?

And, would anyone have believed you?

Many things are obvious in hindsight.
I’ve found it’s easier (and cheaper) to use a cracked Spotify app.

Btw, this is from 2019.
A lot of recommendations here, but it's surprising no one has suggested Sophia Script yet:

https://github.com/farag2/Sophia-Script-for-Windows

IMO the best and most holistic solution for debloating and de-botnetting Windows.
> Richard Feynman slept with many of his friends' wives and tried to sleep with even more of them.

If you're going to indict people for having immoral sex, you'll have to indict probably 90%. If you include trying to have immoral sex, how many would pass your test?
> “This study suggests that HEPA air cleaners, which remain little-used in Canadian hospitals,

What, they are "little used"? I'd assume that's the first place that would have adopted them. So strange how some hospitals operate.
To those reading this who are not spenczar5, up front I'd like to apologize as it is somewhat off topic, but also somewhat relevant as this commenter is the one who inspired my reply originally.

> I downvoted because I thought that the comment's dismissive tone is not helpful

I can't help but notice though that you initially had a rather dismissive comment, which I tried to reply to so I could ask for clarity, but you had deleted it by the time I hit submit. My comment that you are responding to was initially for you.

Can you shed more light on how this dichotomy exists? Generally, if you don't care for those types of comments, you'd also not make them, which even now in your second content is somewhat derisive with the "middlebrow dismissal" even if it is a quote from pg.
When you change your password, you're usually required to enter both the old and the new one. This is when the check is usually performed.

What I'm more worried about is the system that some Polish banks use, called masked passwords over here. With this system, you're only required to enter certain characters of your password, but the set of required characters changes at each login. This exists to make key loggers much less effective. There's apparently some hashing going on (something to do with curves and polynomials), but I couldn't find more details when I last looked.
> never seen one even fined for pirating software or any other kind of media,

It has happened in the US. Se https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/sep/11/minnesota...
I haven't been to CA for a couple years at this point. There's still a lot of tech industry there. I assume that, for better or worse, the Bay Area goes back to tech being at the center of many things--which as I suggest is good or bad depending if you want all tech all the time or not.
You know, it feels like you're right about the technical aspects, but there's an alternate point of view to be considered: maybe, in some circumstances, the dynamic loading and execution of code through reflection and other mechanisms actually is a bad thing?

If i got a euro for every time i run into problems at runtime when porting Spring to Spring Boot or Spring Boot 1.X to Spring Boot 2.X projects, i'd have enough money never to have port projects like that over.

Whereas without such dynamic logic, if your code compiles, you can be pretty confident that there won't be such oddities, classpath or dependency conflicts, weird scoping rules for Maven (especially with the <provided/> option which means that all of the sudden your app becomes dependent on an app server and its specifics - does your install of Tomcat or TomEE have the correct version of the .jar you want to use, or maybe it'll be missing, or maybe there'll be two libraries loaded at the same time?).

Of course, picking a tech stack in which such approaches and dynamism aren't even prevalent is also a good alternative, though not everyone enjoys the more static way of development either.
Why on earth wouldn't you look at a resume at all? Or do you mean that you skip the degree part of it?
There are more costs than just monetary costs. Convincing people to kill their neighbors is also expensive.
I see the confusion. American health insurance doesn’t really fit the term insurance as you define it above. I agree, insurance should be for catastrophic events. But in the US, a health plan is expected to cover all your medical expenses, minus co-pays or deductibles. Perhaps there should be a different term for it.
Love the style and use of TypeScript, especially considering the target crowd (Data-scientists)
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets, and steal loaves of bread." - Anatole France
Assuming you mean trust in MS in general and not in what the OS does: broken trust isn't easy to fix, and this tool indeed doesn't do much in that regard, but it does fix some of the things which lead to the broken trust i.e. what the OS is doing.
Stop trying to make "Hunter Biden" happen. "Hunter Biden" isn't going to happen.
Professional driver, currently drive long haul but pre-COVID was hauling around people (who don’t like to be referred to as “freight”) and before that non-human freight. Started as a temporary job (just a couple years to save up some money) in ‘98.

Always been interested in tech stuff and around ‘08 or ’09 taught myself to program properly so I could contribute to Blender since I enjoyed using it but aren’t really that good at 3D art.

Kind of wish I’d signed up for an account at slashdot at the turn of the century for some ‘hacker cred’ but looking at my account over there my first post was in ‘05. Incidentally, that’s where I’d learned of this Linux thing since windows ME was such a POS I was super happy to find a replacement…thinking back that had to have been in ’01 or so.

Also remember messing around on the interwebs in my college days in the mid-90s but didn’t do too much techie stuff, mostly just whatever your common person did on the web in those days.

Now I just read HN to get my news fix when I get an off moment here and there…
> You seem to be talking about military use of FIXED (not portable/tactical) microwave, which is a different space.

Which is what the original post/article was about - the fixed terrestrial microwave network that AT&T ran... which was a major joint effort with the US military.

Sorry I got caught up on "similar" being confusing when the military was 100% involved with what the original post was discussing (specifically the AT&T Long Lines network) - I regret my comments.
What Is Spring Framework? An Unorthodox Guide
I feel the exact same way. Google's design sense in general is terrible.

YouTube is a UX nightmare. Gmail and Maps are probably the only two half-decent products but they're both becoming very heavy and bloated these days.
But now you have to look at the expected value as well.

A 10 million dollar company, lets say at a conservative 5x earnings multiple means 2mil annual profits. At 80% margin that's 2.5mil ARR. For a B2B SaaS product you should be able to get at least $1,000 / customer annually, which means you need to find 2500 customers to own 100% of a 10 million dollar company, which in the age of email and Facebook marketing is very much within reach.

And these are conservative numbers. A strategic buyer might very well pay 10x if you're showing nice growth, margins of 90% are not unrealistic in SaaS, and you could possibly raise prices depending on the value you are providing and who you're selling to.

Now ask how many stars have to align to reach a billion dollar valuation, assuming you haven't been screwed over by your investors by the time you reach that point.
An introduction to Go Kubernetes' informers
For vehicles, it's the standard sales tax when you purchase it, net of any sales taxes you paid to other states.

Registration is about $50 plus local surcharges, maybe another $10-$20. There is list here:

https://www.txdmv.gov/sites/default/files/body-files/FeeChar...

In terms of it funding schools, it's fungible money going into state or local coffers, so that's more of a political thing to justify the fee. Schools get some funding from the state and the rest from local government. The fungibility of money must be one of the best kept secrets in politics.
Yeah, I was irritated enough that I first made a petty comment which I immediately regretted. I don't remember the phrasing but it was something like "Sheesh, where's your article then?"

Anyway, I deleted it because I can't really defend that tone myself, and think that a downvote says enough.

I don't really understand the rest of your comment. What dichotomy are you talking about?
Most Google apps pre-date Flutter by far, and teams developing them (rightfully so) are not going to port them to Flutter.
The Underground Bicycle Parking Garages of the Netherlands
I think Lincoln didn't have access to an arsenal that could end humanity if used in the wrong way, so I don't know if the comparison is warranted.

In general, if someone is trying to exterminate a population, then I believe that they fall under the lunatic umbrella, and that the umbrella should come down like a Venus fly trap and gobble all of them up. On balance, if we did this to every such person throughout history, then history may have fared better. There are zero populations of humans that need an exterminator (at least, an exterminator of humans).
WRONG !

You are force to think this way !

BUT

What if you asked hospital staff
if those ventilation unit in ICUs do have filter inside
or they just recycle indoor infected hospital air and just add clean oxygen ???

so basically if you get into hospital and they hook you up onto ventilation unit, you will increase virus load inside your lungs because all those viruses you exhale
are not filtered
and you will inhale them later.

So just imagine how much is ventilation hookup in hospital good and how much is bad for you !!!

not talking about HVAC,
im talking about medical equipment directly pumping hospital air into your lungs.
I actually like going to tech events and am glad they're starting back up again. I find the interactions and connections both fun and useful. That said the Bay Area "If it's Tuesday, it must be a Kubernetes Meetup, if it's Wednesday..." thing pretty tiring pretty quickly.
French EU presidency to push for worldwide end to death penalty, says Macron
> His track record of safety was with ships other than the Titanic.

He was in command of her sistership Olympic when she collided with HMS Hawke in 1911.
> Obviously, I would propose that someone who hacks U.S. interests having never set foot in the United States should be held accountable by U.S. courts.

I don’t necessarily disagree, but where this gets difficult is the inverse. When a US citizen commits a crime in a foreign country, will the US let the their citizen be tried outside the US?
Microsoft has promised to actively look into right to repair
"It's perfectly fine to start a company that's only going to grow 10x or 20x best-case. VCs won't be interested in you, but that's fine, you don't necessarily need investment."

I'm not saying this is your fault and I get where you're coming from. But saying 'only' 10x-20x growth is 'fine' as if that's something to be embarrassed about... Yeesh, talk about messed up perspective...

By my reckoning, if you're generating value, have a sustainable business and are giving people gainful employment that in and of itself should be reward enough.
First, you can look at "true tax rate", which has nothing to do with how taxes are calculated (as described in your linked article).

.98% sounds like he paid just under 1 billion on 4.22 billion of reported income (or just under 25%). I guess it sucks to be Bezos, because he spent more in one year on taxes than I'll have to pay in my life.. I'm going to go out on a limb and suspect that figure is not AGI, but total income. I suspect he had many deductible expenses like donations to charity, though 25% isn't that low since the top marginal bracket for capital gains is 20%.

I guess I'm curious how he paid so much in taxes...
It is the "law of the topmost comment" [1] in action

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26357974
Thank you for the counter reply, I'd also disagree with diversity of races comment, but I will step back as I don't think counting people by color is fruitful labor. I'm only replying based on personal experience being all over different parts of the state over the years.
Unless you’d like to have children.
Desktop Assistant: A Virtual Desktop Assistant Written in Python
It’s remarkable to me how little of the discourse of spaceflight in main stream media looks at what the motivations are for so many people in the space field (entrepreneurs, workers at NASA and space companies). This should be required viewing for anyone who has strong opinions on spaceflight today.
The point is to develop general strategies for solving a wide range of problems, not to solve any one individual problem.
Politics and economy don't always agree. The government promised higher wages for domestic work force, but the companies aren't willing to pay for that promise. That's why we have these "shortages" of things. It's a game between the economy and the politics to see who caves first.
> I am a French house-husband…

That is literally my dream job, if only I were French…
Someone from Bloomberg has been looking for the assets behind Tether. They met some of the people who hold them.
no hindsight needed,
why are all those millions of people wearing masks ?
because WE ALL know filtration WORKS.
I'd like to see this working in the UK, where you are regularly expected to squeeze into spaces with <1ft either side, sometimes much less!
1) WIV took down their database, and a NIH version, in 2019.

Those listed around 30 corona sequences.

2) We don't know what corona viruses WIV is cultivating in its humanized mice and lab monkeys.
I suppose the cost of installation outweighed the minor inconvenience of colds and flus spreading in the past. Only now that we have a deadlier virus does it make sense.
Uhh, prob not a place to focus on elegance/hackery/vanity LOCs
Have you tried https://github.com/nicolaspanel/numjs ?
This is new to me. Thanks, I'm eager to try these.