skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So do the COVID vaccine mandates, frankly. Relatively short lived (~months) protection against infection, which itself comes at the cost of encouraging vaccine escape variants to become the dominant strain.

Furthermore while protection against infection/transmission wanes incredibly quickly compared to natural immunity, the protection against severe disease/hospitalization does much less so. Therefore it is quite silly for a vaccinated person with a functioning immune system to be afraid of catching COVID. (This is usually the point in the discussion where people start saying "what about this one super rare immunocompromised person who the vaccine doesn't work well for"...)

So the whole idea of population-level vaccination to stop the spread is absurd on its face. And the real world data only further underscores that (mass vaccination did not stop the 2021 waves, and if anything it seems like vaccination helped briefly prevent some people from acquiring natural immunity due to briefly protection them against infection, which just made the vaccinated population even better substrate when Delta came roaring).

If someone's concerned about COVID, they need to get vaccinated and stop trying to control everyone around them. It's really quite simple. The collectivist benefit of vaccination is poor at best, and has a lot of theoretical concerns associated with it such as https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou.... Whereas the individual benefit wrt mortality&morbidity is a much stronger argument.
This is the second such PHP thread I've seen in the last 24 hours (the other one was on a different web property); gotta love people shitting on PHP like it's 1998
The distrowatch ranking is heavily gamed to the point of being useless. That's why MX Linux is the top now.

Top distros actually being used are Ubuntu, Fedora, and Suse on the desktop, Debian and CentOS (or RHEL if you pay for it) on the server.
A 4x perf/W improvement on multithreaded workloads (well, a multithreaded workload at least) is pretty impressive. But, its important to note that that is comparing to Rocket Lake, a stopgap processor family manufactured on Intel's old 14nm process. Alder Lake is "Intel 7" (or third generation 10nm before the rename - supposedly similar performance to TSMC N7).

Personally, I'm more interested in their laptop CPUs where efficiency is more important. But, there is presumably less to be gained since Intel's current Tiger Lake platform is already on their second generation 10nm process. Intel said today that Alder Lake laptop CPUs are shipping next month, but they still havent been formally announced.
That "lavish funding" era extended largely from WWII, with specific focus on technologies such as radar, fire-control (computers), and the Manhattan Project, was inspired strongly by Vannevar Bush's "Science: The Endless Fronteir" (itself something of an HN perennial), and kicked mightily in the keister by the Sputnik scare and nuclear / missile arms race of the 1960s.

By a decade later, numerous factors had taken much of the steam out of the sails (to mix metaphors): the Vietnam war, foreign exchange and major changes in global currency, and the emergence of domestic peak oil in the US (lower 48 at least) with ceding of control over global petroleum production and prices to the Middle East, along with numerous consequences there. At the same time, Detante and the opening of China, and political scandals (most notably Watergate), and the civil rights and anti-war movements, changed attitudes toward government (amongst the Left) and toward academia (amongst the Right). The former is well documented through the general counterculture movement, the latter probably through the Lewis Powell Memorandum.

At the same time, there was what I'd see as a real decline in the pace of both scientific and technological progress in almost all areas, save information technology and some materials science.

TFA actually focuses fairly narrowly on one element, which is the explosion in publishing. I'll address that in a top-level comment, as I feel it's been overlooked by most other comments.
Wow, that's almost the same thing that Typescript is to Javascript. Is all of that openly available to outsiders? If it is, I think I might to rethink my stance of php that I had for the last 15 years.
I haven't seen a huge emphasis on SSI + client other than projects like Next (which is ok but kind of clunky).

My experience with Hack was that it was just server-side ... is there some front-end aspect to Hack?
Fact check doesn't seem to the right phrase here. Naomi donated collars years ago. Each collar lasts "a few months". Martha has a "handful left". Martha hasn't been able to find additional collars. What facts did NPR get wrong in the article?

There could be all sorts of reasons NPR didn't mention Naomi. How did Martha get the collars before Naomi's donation? How many years of collar donations/purchases is NPR obligated to mention in their article? Is there anyone else outraged they didn't get mentioned for providing collars years ago?
The article quotes:

> "I've tried all the forms of ventilation, and the iron lung is the most efficient and the best and the most comfortable way," she told Radio Diaries.

At no point does it say that she can not use any alternative.
A Practical Guide Getting Customer Feedback and Prove Traction Before Product
I played casually for a while, but I'm convinced it's just too broken a game to endure much longer.

Besides, my favorite idea from it is secret coded bidding, but the game doesn't really support actual secret codes without falling apart past low-level play (they'd quickly become entirely opaque and extremely specific, making the whole thing kinda pointless), so they're not allowed, and leagues often outlaw most of the interesting things you could do with bidding (heavy jump-bidding bid systems, for instance) in order to keep the game from collapsing and/or to keep the people who want it to run just a certain way without any surprises or hiccups happy.

I eagerly await my discovery of a card game that keeps the parts of bridge I want to like, without requiring a ton of extra restrictions that suck the fun (for me) out of it in order to keep the game working properly. It may be that no such game is possible, but I hope it is.
Right. What the ruling class wants is `free speech` being restored to what it was before the days of the Internet. When you could say anything you liked but it never got amplified because the bourgeoisie controlled whose speech got to reach the masses. They had a monopoly over the flow of information.

Now we have the facebook `whistleblower` in Britain this week with her scripted performance calling for more state control over online speech. The ruling class want the power of free speech contained and the dominance of the traditional bourgeois fully restored.

The book `Revolt of the Public` goes into this in detail and it explains much of the upheaval we're seeing. I highly recommend it.
Huh, I'm unfamiliar with Dataframe. Thanks for mentioning it!
You're making sweeping general claims about the media which I agree with, but I'm asking specifically about this story. To the extent I would classify NPR as propaganda, it's (currently) for a particular half-progressive/half-third-way American liberalism that would love to have a story about a scrappy DIY global supply chain saving someone in Oklahoma.

ETA (since I'm rate-limited...):

> Do tell us more about NPR's liberal bias.

Sure. By telling these kind of fables about how global capitalism is actually good for everybody, they're trying to prevent growing class consciousness that would eventually force fundamental, revolutionary change to how we allocate resources.

Oh wait, you thought I was to the right of NPR? Sorry, no, that probability distribution is barely distinguishable from Nazism at this point. Also no one to the right of NPR would ever use the term "third-way" in criticism of it.
Just be careful not to blind yourself. Even a narrow flashlight cone could be enough for you to find and kill the bug by hand.

Link to a previous post about this mosquito turret concept: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27552516
No Iosevka?
I would think praising democide would be the presumptuous part of that exchange.
How a cross-validation strategy can drastically impact model performance
The Amish have negotiated a pact with modernity (2018)
It's right up there with auto seatbeat alarm stoppers?
Related question, to those who have experience in both PHP and Hack, is Hack worth it? Would you start a startup in it?
This could be really useful for finding birds in trees when I'm out with my camera...
Housing wouldn't cost a million$ if not for inflation. There has always been demand, and people always found ways to meet it. But with inflation, especially high rates, your mortgage was paid back with dollars worth less than when the house was first purchased or built.

How is this a concession to the old? Why is it that someone worked for 30 yrs to pay off their mortgage shouldn't get the same treatment, mainly "appreciation" due to inflation that everything else gets?

Honest question - is this the same argument we hear about "forgiving" student loans, meaning having people who didn't sign up for them, agree to them, utilize them, or even go to college, pay of the debts of those who did?
A Brief History of Russian Science Fiction
> Teaching a willing participant how to do virtually anything with a computer is feasible in 2021

You could become a billionaire in the coding bootcamp space if you know how to do this.
Windows 11 has things like core isolation and "memory integrity" on by default now and that, so I've heard, can lower benchmarks by 10%-20%. Not to mention Defender running in the background constantly scanning all processes, which unfortunately can't easily be disabled.
$9 million
User friendly seems to be a euphemism for enabling users to persist in ingorance.
Hack features have actually driven a lot of the additions into recent PHP versions. So the more relevant question might be the other way around
Sure, but when you use a high-level language for low-level functionality you're always going to be vulnerable to changes in how the OS interacts with the run-time library of the language. I'm amazed that Psychtoolbox's use of Matlab has worked for this long, but, like Flash's obsolescence, maybe it's time to use a different language. In any case the problem is not OSX but the implementation choices made by Mathworks in Matlab for OSX.
> It was just one example though.

One bad example. The problem with examples like this is that some people will believe and repeat them. Some problems are fixed and people don't even check before spreading the word. You can even find in this thread people talking about how Ubuntu included amazon ads.

> I tried to install a NVIDIA driver for example on Linux Mint and it wouldn't work until I edited some file to use a different kernel module that would start earlier. Spent ages trying to debug it. On Windows the driver gets installed automatically and if I want to update it I just launch the Geforce Experience and hit one button.

Good luck trying to use mint. But AFAIK, Ubuntu comes with NVIDIA drivers by default. There's no need to "launch the Geforce Experience and hit one button" to update it.

It feels like you searching for a complicated way to do things and then complain about it.
Peergrade seems cool. But it seems like it is geared for institutions like universities. Is there a version that I can whitelabel and use for general public. Like, I let users create a login on my service and post their assignements, writings. Reviewers on my service will give feedback to users.

Happy to pay, if the service is not expensive.
Joe Rogan called this?!?, because that should be the first person you go to for medical expertise. A comedian/podcaster/MMA commentator??
Reminder that these journal publishers have egregious and exploitive contracts with universities, and should not be commended for turning any blind eyes to such databases.

The state university I attended publishes their subscription expenditures, link to the document here [1].

Besides the outrageous prices the other thing that jumps off the pages is how many of them have managed to hide the amount of tax money they receive from a state institution with contract terms.

1. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1132742/
The example is too vague to really make a conclusion.

However, I was really just replying to that sentences that you quoted and disagreed with. In my opinion, those two sentences are perfectly valid.
Book: "The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation"
This meeting, however, probably would have been in like 2017. We're just seeing the results now.
You’re thinking of the Federation.
OK, replace a single terminal command in Linux with opening the software app, searching for Nvidia, and clicking install. This would be the user friendly process on pretty much any mainstream distribution for getting the latest drivers.

Having to navigate through Nvidia's website, create an account, and download a bunch of bloatware that takes forever to install is barbaric. Calling Windows user friendly is a meme at this point.
> The Touchbar was my daughter's favorite - an Emoji keyboard

This is the Macbook Pro, they shouldn't be optimizing for children's love of emojis. I get what you're saying about your other usages of it, but I hate the Touchbar with the heat of a thousand suns, and given that Apple did decide to remove it on the Pro I'm guessing my sentiment was in the majority.
This. I maintain a project that has to build about 28,000 object files. It takes less than a minute on Linux. Even though our binaries run on Windows, we willfully choose not to support building them on Windows. I tell people, trust me, it'll compile so much faster if you just create a Linux VM on your Windows computer and then run make there. But they never believe me until they see it with their own eyes. vfork() is a thing. It also helps to not have to fsync() on close() due to shortcomings with win32.
Huh. Wonder why the solution wasn't deemed to be getting rid of the problem person, if it was mostly isolated like that?
The first electric car is unrecognizable from a Tesla Model 3. It is not appropriate to compare them. To me, it sounds just like saying SpaceX and Starlink is fundamentally the same as an R7 + Sputnik. It's a narrow view of progress to ignore substantial incremental improvements over time. While you might not see big external differences between a 1980s car and a 2020 car, a number of engineering professionals working in different disciples would be incredibly impressed.
Agreed, there is a trillion+ $ prize on that.

I'd also bet that bitcoind is probably the most deeply studied codebase on the planet.
Tree does have some options for file details as well, -p is the same as ls -l or and/or you can use options like -hug individually. -hugDC for dates and some coloring too.

Maybe not as great as exa but not bad for the classic option.
These pointless arguments over HTTP semantics are one of the biggest problems with REST. Just use GET/POST for everything and stop thinking about which of these few verbs best fit your use-case. You'll be more productive.
My experience is the reverse. I've set up a few (custom built) desktops with Linux and they worked great, but recently wanted to repurpose an older laptop and it's been a mess with a few different distros (doesn't boot with hdmi plugged in, the touchscreen doesn't shut down with the lid down, the keyboard backlight doesn't turn on, etc.).

Unfortunately ended right back at Windows 10 since I did want to make use of that device and not keep futzing around with distros and various out of date configuration files and settings.
There's a whole spectrum of energy storage tech where the tradeoff is efficiency vs cost. At the extreme end of high cost with high efficiency you have magnetic energy storage, then slightly less-efficient but lower cost you have batteries, then in the middle you have things like synthetic methane, cracking hydrogen, and pumping water up-hill, and at the bottom for lowest-cost and lowest-efficiency you have compressed air.

Finding the right balance of overbuilding supply and storage efficiency is going to be a long process.
Same, but then the last time the battery went bad (swelling) with only about 30 cycles on it.
How user obsession made Musical.ly a $1B company
I was being a bit cruel. It's an HDMI 2.0 port, which is useful for presentations (a USB-C to HDMI dongle lives in my backpack for that reason). 2.0 will drive a 4K monitor at 60 fps. Never tried that, but, IIRC, the original USB-C port (and HDMI 2.1) could do it at 120 fps (which, for my terminals, would be... totally overkill, just like 60 fps already is).
MacBook Pro 14 menu bar UX
The highway where trucks work like electric trains
Wait, grenadine is supposed to be pomegranate flavored? I've been using it to make "cherry cokes" for decades... I prefer that flavor to the "real" cherry coke one.
> I have never understood why high density is considered good or desirable.

Higher productivity, shorter commutes, easier access to private services (restaurants, etc), lower carbon footprint.
> Why must everything be dumbed until it can be operated only with point-and-grunt

Why do you think products like the iPad and iPhone are so successful? They work with no configuration and pretty much anyone can use them without too many issues.
> one of my goals is to not rely on a remote data storage solution

Yeah, that's going to be hard goal to meet in this case. A benefit to PouchDB over raw IndexedDB is the great replication support and replicating everything back down in the case of one of those worst case wipes is an alright solution in some cases (but that does require managing remote data storage solutions, unfortunately).

Android and iOS are supposed to manage IndexedDB as Application Storage when installed as an app via something like Capacitor, but it's still not great. Supposedly Android is getting a lot better about it for apps installed as PWAs instead and Capacitor should give you a good PWA path for Android at least. (iOS is unfortunately still lagging far behind on PWA support.)
Honest question - if it was just one guy, why didn't he get banned instead of changing the rules for everyone?
I'm not praising REST at all. REST as it was de-facto used was in my opinion a hot mess that was poorly understood and had developers focus on the wrong things (e.g. pretty urls).

I still don't think GraphQL as state management is a good idea for anything surpassing moderate complexity. And yes I've worked with both GraphQL and Apollo. I can see the merits for sure; for instance discoverability and being able to generate types from the API are great. I don't like overcommitting to Apollo though and using the overly sized client.
Something is wrong when your state management is bigger in filesize than the SPA framework you're using.
Thanks for sharing! Unfortunately, I don't work with Rust :/
We have tools like Valgrind the same way we have tools like Rust's model checking.
Your linked articles are about how many total Teslas Hertz has purchased. OP is about how many are being allocated specifically for availability on Uber.
You're making a lot of assumptions there. Is it "blue collar" to only have one working parent while the other takes care of the family? I would think most people would prefer that if they can make it work. I am a fairly well compensated software engineer and my wife stays home to take care of the kids because we can afford it, and many others that I work with do the same. It seems a bit silly to have her work just so that we can pay someone else to raise our children for us.
Anything programming-related doesn't matter to the general public. The truth is, if you can't figure out how to install X programming tool you're going to have a hard time with any programming.

Common OS use cases are: installing Chrome, installing Steam, YouTube/Netflix and things, installing software that does basic things most people need (word processor, calculator, etc...), connecting peripherals and thumb drives, etc... And that's all super easy on Linux.

Even programming is easy on Linux if you accept that you need a terminal at some point. Hence why MS has WSL.
That makes absolutely no sense, Wu is in china so some back and forth in order to get the collars to fit correctly is to be expected. Following which you're done because the chinese shop can make the collars to order whenever that's needed.

> bringing a Twitter personality into a story that's not really about her?

Wu was already involved in this. Per her comments she'd already sent packages of collars to be tested and altered / fitted.

Hell, mentioning that there was a volunteer / grassroots effort to produce new collars would have been more honest than the article going "collars where?"
I don't think the situations are at all similar. If you come across a $100 bill, chances are you are in fact the first person to come across it. You've already beaten the odds.

If you come across a man in his 30s-40s who has always been single, chances are he is not a '$100 bill' man. It's possible that he is, but it's very unlikely. This is not the same as saying that there are no such thing as older '$100 bill' men, just like $100 bills do sometimes (but very rarely) end up on sidewalks.
The passport X is not a problem to travel and leave the US. I think there might be problems in other countries upon entry where the computer systems at passport controls do not have a gender X to input. There was just a thread yesterday on how long names like Christopher do not fit into driver license ID systems in New Jersey and that led to many other complications.
By all means not a erlang expert, just read an intro book on it and it mentioned that erlang was not a good heavy computation language, so maybe that's why?
2022 iphone will have a 3.5mm jack. Mark my words ;)
Whatever else she also is, she's absolutely a social media personality.

> full-blown engineer

This, I seriously doubt. As far as I know she's very deep in the DIY/maker scene, but I don't think she's been flashing around a PE cert. Or maybe we have a difference of opinion what a "full-blown engineer" is.
On the bright side I find Discourse's email interface fairly good.

The downside is that they auto-subscribe me to weekly emails when I sign up (which is illegal in a lot of places!). I think this can be changed away from the default by the instance owner but like most default settings it usually isn't changed.
It is called Half Life 2: Deathmatch. Pretty fun, with lots of custom maps.
Is it possible to use PostgREST in front of CRDB to solve this use case?: https://postgrest.org/
Facebook uses a monorepo, similar to the way Google does it. Dependencies are vendored and checked into the repo. Facebook has released a tool for migrating software between repos, which is much like Google's Copybara:

Facebook's fbshipit: https://github.com/facebook/fbshipit

Google's copybara: https://github.com/google/copybara

With these tools, you can make fairly sophisticated choices about how you do vendoring. You can make the internal version look just like the public version, in terms of commit history. And you can export internal commits to public commits, stripping out confidential information along the way (or integrations with internal systems and tooling).
Well, I think one reason a developer would need to make that clear, is so many people have so much experience working with developers like you who make the opposite clear, that they assume the worst.
“Forums”? Is it 2003? Why not a newsgroup or nice Telnet server where people can chat? Such a weird thing to hear the term “new” and “forum” together.
I don't know why people dislike PHP. It's a lot like React (which is so popular and beloved).

I mean, React was developed at Facebook...
I may or may not have (ab)used mine as an emoji keyboard after realizing Github Enterprise could deal with emojis just fine.