skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"The goal posts will always move" ... you're right about that! I think I remember, two weeks to stop the spread

The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented event in our lifetime. Is it better to have a leader who modifies her approach as new information becomes available, or one who stubbornly sticks to the same plan when it has clearly failed?
Mighty (YC S19) is hiring engineers to make a faster browser
How's this for an experimental setup: get a cohort of people going in for surgery under general anaesthesia, and randomly place them in a north or south facing windowless room afterwards :) no added risk, and pretty minor cost
USPS stock price? Remind me which stock symbol that is.
The largest hurdles in these sorts of projects tend to the GPU and video codecs.

I wish them luck and hope they succeed in entirety, but I can only early adopt so many things. Hopefully Apple doesn't reinvent their GPU every single year.
PC Building Simulator Is Free on the Epic Games Store
There is also:

https://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html

Which ranks languages based on number of tutorials searched for (via Google trends). It also has python at number 1.

I lucked out and learnt python 10 years ago so feel "ahead of the game". It's a language that feels so malleable...

Thre only negative is that type annotations aren't part of the core language. You have to run a separate tool (mypy) to check your types. Feels like it should be a flag on CPython or something.
I've seen programs that serialize the undo manager, but is there an advantage to using git instead? I suppose it does most of the work for you, but you'll still need to manage actions that can be undone but don't directly modify a file (these are entirely app dependent, but could be something like changing which tab document is selected).
I don't see the payout. If you buy $100 of Tether, it will only ever be worth a maximum of $100.

By what you describe, the crypto purchased with Tether would be the Ponzi... but that's not the subject of this article or my question on why people insist Tether is a Ponzi.
You are imposing arbitrary and extreme standards for the usage of the term fact. These standards neither reflect real world usage, nor do they reflect any sensible first principle definition.

You also consistently conflate trust and faith. I have to trust a number of entities to come to the conclusion that this is a fact. Just like I have to trust a number of social entities to come to the conclusion that the existence of atoms is a fact. The point is that there are excellent reasons to trust these entities. Faith is trust without reason. That is _not_ at play here.
So your theory is they know how to make a vaccine that will last for life, but they didn't because it would make them less money?

a) This would require global collusion and conspiracy, since any vaccine maker who could make a durable vaccine would drive its competitors out of the market.

b) This greatly overestimates, IMO, the capabilities of our biotech/pharma industry. It's an amazing and spectacular achievement that they were able to make working vaccines at all in a < 1 year time frame. They don't have any secret immunity-boosting technology in ther back pockets.
> Playing videogames is another drug with which to escape reality.

Perhaps, but that isn't what this research (and the related research it builds on); this is about a specific kind of task (Tetris is the specific instance studied in this and some of the other research, but there is some on closely related, similar tasks) and how its use closely after traumatic events prevents formation of intrusive memories from the trauma, and how (combined with particular other techniques) it can disrupt established intrusive memories from past trauma.

> Unfortunately, it's not really a permanent solution as intrusive thought and memories begin to show up during downtime.

In the form studied, it actually is a solution with permanent effects.

EDIT: “Tetris is highly-effective, unsupervised, self-applied first aid for psychic trauma” is actually a very big deal (as is the supervised treatment result for established trauma.)
Ask HN: Do you still use FTP?
I am checking to see if FTP is still popular deployment method due to its simplicity over git workflow. I am working on a side-project related to it.

What's your deployment workflow like? Do you use plain FTP or SFTP?

Thanks
For me it's Rob Zombie's Hellbilly Deluxe. Not proud of it, but something about it gets me into a flow state for coding sessions.
I could do this when I was young, too, even with my eyes closed after walking around blindfolded. Went away after puberty.
Most of the checks "I" write are actually written and delivered by my bank. That's the case with utilities, garbage, etc. But checks still are the easiest and most natural way to give a person or a service person money on the spot most of the time. I'll use Apple Pay or whatever if that's what someone wants but a check is easy and straightforward.
A couple points from my end:

- I miss the airflow ui to monitor the workflow execution, clear failed tasks, its pre built notifications, emails and so on.

- Passing state between step functions is a bit tricky tbh. I found airflow’s way a little more straightforward.

- Step functions seem to scale better, especially when you aim to use it for dynamic workflows. The recent update of step functions where you can literally use any aws service api (compared to a couple weeks ago where you were restricted to around 10 and then you only had lambdas) minimises its weaknesses imo.
Absolutely an illegal banking scheme
That's its biggest strength.
Well no, because it will be less of "submarine crashes into a whale and pushes it forwards" and more "submarine swims partially in whale". Compared to the forces involved, living tissue just isn't that strong.
I just updated n.py!

Here's the content of the git commit msg:

add cat & ls features
add default extension env var
add ability to define ext of a new file
update help txt
add examples to help txt
remove ugly exit_code var in bash commands
add autocomplete script

Now I can see all the files with `n ls` or some files with `n ls text`.

I can even edit a file very quickly by doing `n [tab][tab]` and selecting the file I want to edit!
Completely agree.

Tiger was the most pleasing OS I’ve used from a visual perspective. It was also peak skeuomorphic design. I miss Scott Forstall’s influence in every Apple product since he’s been gone.
California has the highest income tax rate of any state. So... any state with comparable or worse infrastructure. And there's quite a few of them [1] [2] [3]

[1] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/infrastruct...

[2] https://infrastructurereportcard.org/state-item/california/

[3] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/07/08/states-that-...
We use pip and virtual envs; not sure about tox
AFAIK "professional/medical" tests like 8 bands and may have put a decibel meter to their equipment this month. or not.

some professional audio engineers have some special recordings they listen to on everything and use a faith based or at least difficult to quantify internal process to come up with the "right" sound. I'm more in that end of the spectrum.
> might be that the music gives the mind something to hold on to

The way it feels to me is it gives me a consistent background to work. For example, once I have decided on a particular way to solve a problem and its time to code - I put a long DnB track.

Another way to describe it is that it gives my brain's CPU a consistent clock, so to speak xD
If there is not sufficient USD to back them then its fraud. People purchased these securities relying on the representations they made about it being backed by USD.
I was curious if you were right. So I found numbers here instead of just claims. It’s been big money, that’s true.

- Pfizer revenue for the quarter ending June 30, 2021 was $18.977B, a 92.39% increase year-over-year.

- Pfizer revenue for the twelve months ending June 30, 2021 was $55.520B, a 59.83% increase year-over-year.

- Pfizer annual revenue for 2020 was $41.908B, a 1.79% increase from 2019.

-Pfizer annual revenue for 2019 was $41.172B, a 0.85% increase from 2018.

- Pfizer annual revenue for 2018 was $40.825B, a 22.31% decline from 2017.

As to Moderna, they were very poorly performing until COVID, their vaccine likely saved their business.

Good for them, I guess. I haven’t ever been a fan of big Pharma (textbook regulatory capture to start), and that hasn’t changed unlike some people who now cheerleader for them after years of skepticism.

As to boosters, and people’s tolerance? Nothing either way surprises me anymore.

Edit: factual Pfizer numbers, no “conspiracy narrative”, still not allowed, got it
Twitter reaches for the sky from shaky ground
The only negative is that type annotations aren't part of the core language. You have to run a separate tool (mypy) to check your types. Feels like it should be a flag on CPython or something.
These hidden cores are fascinating.

In the past, I was interviewing at a hardware company and one of the things they had just discovered was an "unused" and undocumented processing unit that they could run a process on to get squeeze out more compute from the cameras they used for calibration for the hardware bill of materials that they had already settled on.
> provide social service, employment to the masses,

If I want the computer to do XYZ, and I can provide an XYZ service to other people? They're paying me to do my bug testing, and I get to feel good about it.

If you're providing something that you think is a really good service, but not for people like you, and not for somebody specific you know either, it's probably going to be rubbish.
This happens, but for the example of talking about a TV show, setting your perspective is interesting context. I don't know why it would be described as "kid gloves," though, any more than someone prefacing their comments on industry regulation with the company they work for.

What the OP is describing is more like that the real subject of the board is white male nativism, and in order to talk about any other subject on what is supposed to be a general venue you have to somehow connect it back to the group's tribal concerns. It could almost be a challenge: how would you do it with ice cream? Maybe lead in with a dig at Ben & Jerry's. How would you do it with a new iPhone release? I have no idea.
Neither Go nor Java or dynamically typed languages. I also think it is hilarious he shits all over every language yet he himself spent the better part of a decade pushing javascript onto the server.

I wouldn't trust a thing that comes out of this SJW factory. Who put money into this company?
> Some programmers will do in 1 day what you wont achieve in a life time. And not understanding that makes you a bad programmer by my book simply because this is the foundation of the job.

Most projects out there will not benefit from such a person. If you don't understand this, then in my book it makes you a poor employee. I mean, it's great if this 10x guy can solve some challenging problems that most people cannot, but if that 10x guy cannot show how it helps the business, I hope he's not in my team.

Most businesses are complex and messy. Connecting your code to business value is not easy.

Looking at some of the comments here, people are going out of their way to both defend the existence of 10x programmers, while simultaneously working very hard at not putting any kind of metric on their ability (e.g. "no, it doesn't mean they can produce 10x code or replace 10 people or ... it means <something very hard to measure>"). If you're going to insist on some quality that is hard to quantify, then stop using numbers to describe them. They are geniuses, but not 10x.

In my experience:

1. You cannot replace 10 average programmers with a 10x programmer and hope to achieve the same output. Output, by the way, is not defined by code, but by activities that help the business move forward.

2. While there are some good claimed 10x programmers who work well with others, most of the ones I've encountered do not. In my last job, we had a team of several truly brilliant folks. They could dive deep to the assembly level or work at the system level (scripting, etc). Any bottleneck that arose - they would dig deep and figure it out.

It was the least productive team I've been in. They argued amongst themselves on the pettiest of things that had no impact on the business. When asked why I was leaving the team, I literally told them that I want to be in a team that writes SW. That team's productivity was so low I couldn't reasonably claim they wrote SW. It's not that they didn't write code, but that most of it would not see the light of day because of constant bickering.
... The concept of a car company purchasing a flailing solar company that happened to be owned by the same individual is probably worth of some eyebrow raising. So, I am not sure "manufactured" is the right term here, regardless of the motivation of the people involved.

(I have no vested interest here)
You can write this as a oneliner too. But the problem here is not lambda, but the lack of map/filter-methods on list. Disputable whether this is good or bad.
> I think that multitasking between multiple tasks has been somewhat-generally known to not be possible (for most people) for a while now. However, this part of the article was novel:

There is no actual definition of what would constitute a “task” here and that alone makes all of it quite dubious in the way you outline and any other things in how it's often extrapolated.
> It was impossible to know the rate at which immunity would decay in January.

Yet it was possible to declare the vaccines safe enough to make them mandatory?
I definitely feel like I'm generally less productive when I have music on for a majority of things, though I will put on headphones with one key exception: if the noise the headphones tune out is more distracting than the music I would be listening to.

Though typically when I do put on music to work, it's old Amiga soundtracks or something. I wonder how much the difference in levels of distraction for lyrics vs. no lyrics.
They aren't holes: they're areas of wings with no scales.
You're getting downvoted but I can attest that I did exactly this. It's a completely nonsensical investment to be fair.

My theory was less "invest in Elon" and more that there are a few different scenarios (on decade+ timescales) where either Tesla acquires SpaceX or vice-versa. Seemed like the most practical way to possibly own SpaceX shares one day - even if the probabilities are slim.

It's a nicely hedged bet though. Because worst case, I've just invested in some (not much) TSLA stock.
Many public datasets have skewed classes so if you take a random approach you're not gonna have a good result. And N might not be big enough anyway.
> Currently, PHP is about 6x faster than Python.

In a 100KLOC codebase, 99% of the performance issues are going to come down to 5 or 10 lines of code.

Don't get me wrong, I'm extremely happy that MS is funding a multi-year project to improve Python performance, and I think it will confer enormous benefits to the ecosystem. And frankly I think that it's absolutely needed.

But for me it would also be weird to choose languages based on some notion of average performance. Like sure, a line of Go might be faster than a line of Python on average, but if the entire bottleneck of your codebase revolves around one line of regex then what is doing a rewrite actually going to accomplish?
I am in full agreement with you on the problems with the Nobel Peace Prize.

They awarded the price many times for purely political purposes to warmongerers that went on to commit war-atrocities at scale, like Carter with his track record or Obama that had no track record.

If the argument is that this is a way to try to encourage good behavior then the committee also need to withdraw the prize when the recipient don't.
Fight for privacy is everyone's concern
Not in the US, but in the UK all my jobs have asked previous salary. What's more ridiculous was one position where the recruiter was trying to convince me to take a job with a company at a lower salary than I wanted. His argument was your last salary was X so the new company aren't going to pay you y, because y was too much higher than X...
California is the first state to ban 'stealthing,' nonconsensual condom removal
> repeal of the SALT deduction in 2017

The SALT deduction wasn't repealed (for which a coherent argument could be made, though it would still be a bad idea), it was capped (for which there isn't even a principled argument.)

> High earners pay an effective tax rate of > 50%.

“High earners pay high rates” isn't exactly a sign of a backward tax regime.
I'm not aware of any organization that made them mandatory in January, so I don't know what you're talking about.
I guess the more accurate statement would be that human cells have the machinery to do it.
Implementing infrastructure-as-code with Ansible and Git
I'm fairly certain you do multitask in someone's definition thereof; you have simply defined what you are doing as “one task” and someone else might disagree and this alone makes me suspect of all literature on this matter.
Yeah. My county puts out hospital numbers about weekly. I haven't checked recently but a couple weeks ago, of current hospitalizations from covid, 203 were unvaccinated, and 14 fully vaccinated. And this is in a county where > 50% of the people are vaccinated.

How anyone can look at those numbers and be against vaccines or question their effectiveness is...mindboggling to me.
SSN is insufficient to get full access to the IRS online account system. Which kinda makes sense given how many data breaches have happened, but it is still annoying.
Need Advice- Anyone Know BlueWeb (Korea) for Domain Re-Purchasing?
Hi all,

In a typical rookie mistake, I let my website domain expire. Using whois lookup, BlueWeb (Korea) is the reseller, and Tucows is the domain registrar. From what I read and hear, this is typical of BlueWeb to purchase website domains where ownership expires.

It's a super obscure name. The website is currently not used for anything. I've gone ahead and bought the .net, .org, and .co domains. Even made sure to create the Twitter handle. Everything seems to indicate they would want to sell it... but I've tried a hundred times (and a hundred ways) to contact them, and I can't reach the owner. Lost it in mid-2020, next expiration of domain is mid-2023.

Listing the approaches I've taken:

Approach 1: Used tieredaccess contact form for Tucows, the recommended way to contact the owner. No response

Approach 2: Sent many emails to all the generic blueweb email addresses: business@blueweb.co.kr, master@blueweb.co.kr, webmaster@blueweb.co.kr, etc. Every email address I could find associated with BlueWeb (even using WhoIs on BlueWeb). No response.

Approach 3: Emailed Tucows staff. Got responses from a few people. They said that the form I filled out did get sent to the owner, and that they would forward my email to the owner, but that the owner has no obligation to respond.

Approach 4: Hired a Korean-English translator to call BlueWeb. She did, and they said they would contact the domain owner on her behalf, but they could not provide a name or contact information about that domain owner. No response. Asked Korean Translator to try again a week later, she did, and BlueWeb stated that they cannot do anything else.

To summarize, I've never heard from the owner of the website domain, and they aren't using it for anything. I expected a negotiation, but now I'm not sure what I should do next.

Would LOVE any advice you can provide!
Show HN: CoPilot-like VSCode Extension w option to choose Code Generation Model
so by firing these people everywhere we're bringing those who died from covid back from the dead? cool.
Ansible Concepts
Lie about your accredited status and purchase said shares
Compared to what? A parent, a grandparent? A medical professional? Robin Williams?
Not well.
What is a SJW factory?
Is there a path to by shares if you are a small fish but accredited investor?
This is like claiming -- why it would it NOT be in the best interests of tech companies to create software that is extremely buggy so that people need to stay with them for upgrades?

Sure, the stimulus exists. But unless you have a monopoly/cartel, this is very hard to pull off. And that's what antitrust laws are for.

People would obviously flee from your lousy product to the first manufacturer who didn't do that. If it was not hard to produce a established long-term vaccine, would any consumer/country stay with the short-term one?
It's really not, that's just human nature, this happens to people all the time for all sorts of distractions on their phone.
Six days of every week? For how many weeks?
So why not continue testing unvaccinated people, and allow them to work as long as the test comes back negative? Why throw a blanket over an entire group, even when the majority of them are perfectly healthy?
The initial flood of celebrities were a way to get people to pay attention. That actually seems to have worked. Especially since a lot of those celebrities were Silicon Valley luminaries/friends of theirs -- people who got rich doing tech stuff. There was a lot of draw in users thinking that they were about to get the secret of unicorn success.

After that, there were a lot of people willing to write informative and entertaining content. (Caveat: I am one of those people who was reasonably popular at that time, so take that perspective into account.) That helped them do a lot of good SEO.

Unfortunately, that was as far as their plan took them. They had the eyeballs, and surely it was going to be Facebook all over again. But FB has the draw of a constant stream of your friends, and they weren't going to muscle in on that. Twitter has -- honestly, I have zero idea what it is people see in Twitter, but whatever it is, Quora didn't have it.

Maybe it's what you said. You can't Q&A with celebrities, but you can listen to them spew a constant stream of inanities.

They certainly didn't care about The Truth. They hoped for entertainment. And they got it; they actually did, a lot of the time. But it turns out that there just wasn't a lot of money in it.
While I agree with the article, this paragraph is, erm, a distraction:

> Other studies suggest that people who frequently “media multitask” (like listening to music while checking email or scrolling through social media while watching a movie) are more distracted and less able to focus their attention even when they’re performing only one task

The causality could just as well run the other way: people with poor focus adherence presumnly exhibit it regardless of the amount of distraction.
Well my kid was in the hospital for two weeks with myocarditis. One of 700 cases in the US at the time. Not sure what the number might be up to now. He is fine.

Interestingly enough, my father was in the hospital at the same time being monitored for a potential heart attack.

The were both going through exactly the same testing and treatment. In other words, my young son was, among other things, being tested for the heart attack enzyme.

In this case it was the Pfizer vaccine. The rest of the family, myself included, got Moderna.

The issue --with kids-- seems to have been that the second dose had to be lower than what they were/are giving them. I haven't followed developments since he got out. He had a three month checkout and all was well.

While our entire family is vaccinated, this event made me realize that we must not vilify those who have doubts.

Yes, of course, I wish everyone was vaccinated. And yet, I have to ask myself: What would we had done had we known there was a potential for our young kid to actually suffer a heart attack because of the vaccine? As small as the probability of something like that might be, I am not sure how I would answer the question. My wife is an MD. Her opinion is we probably would have given them just one dose. Still, it's easy to say things like that after the fact.