skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat unrelated, but FYI - No authoritarian tyrant exists without support of, or at a minimum, indifference from, most of the population. It may not be literally a majority, but it often is.
Thinkpads are a good bet for Linux compatibility because they are very popular with Red Hat and Ubuntu kernel developers. They’ll do whatever it takes to make Linux run well on their machines.
I share your wish, but I think that a big part of this is actually only understandable through experience.

Just like you cannot really describe an unknown taste to someone, or describe colors to a blind person, etc.
This is the field of datastructures. There isn't 'just' one be-all to end-all. There are so many kinds of hashing/tables, trees/balancing, hybrid (e.g. skiplists), priority queues, etc. Because there are so many possible combinations, if the choices matter it's useful to use a language that lets you make your own. This is one of the main reasons why generics for Go is a big deal. Go always had generics, but it's only been for the built-ins array/slice, map, and channel. With user-defined generics any datastructures/interfaces can be conveniently made and used without language/library/compiler support.

Its curious that for Python this is blog post material, but for Go it's intrinsic to understanding the performance and usage of slices or maps, or in Java (and other langs) would be referenced merely by the class name ArrayList. The fact that so much can be done effectively in Python without always having to think about such details is an achievement of the language and ecosystem of libraries and packages.
CGI can be incredibly well done and definately enhance a scene. But is has to be used by a competent director.
I think it's in reference to the Chinese stance against vaccine mandates
> It doesn’t crash in many invalid states, so browsing can continue uninterrupted.

the best argument for using JavaScript and it was the second item in the list.
You describe two phenomena that appear to be true of every two sided market ever, namely:

- One can typically get a better price than what is displayed or quoted

- The price of liquidity is higher when markets are volatile

While yes, nobody would argue those things are good, can't they just assumed to be the nature of markets? There doesn't appear to be anything about the micro structure of modern capital markets where HFTs thrive (stocks, some options, FX, etc.) that makes these particularly bad.
Sweden has vaccinated pretty much all elderly people
Surprised they didn't call it YAYAML
I clicked on the site just to check it out and ended up spending 15 minutes on your demo puzzle... well played.

Awesome job on all the user interactions. The dragging controls are pretty intuitive, it always did what I expected, and it's very smooth/seamless. The little touches like the autorotation are very helpful. I can imagine that having really great interactions differentiates this from many other similar sites so good job there.
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how wrong other people are or you feel they are. It helps nothing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I get the lower body temperature, too. How do you deal with it?
what's wrong with dhall?
> because you never actually want the OS to enqueue 18 hours worth of IO at once

As a thought experiment, I think there are usecases for this kind of thing for a hard drive.

The very nature of a hard drive is that sometimes accessing certain data happens to be very cheap - for example, if the head just happens to pass over a block of data on the way to another block of data I asked to read. In that case, the first read was 'free'.

If the drive API could represent this, then very low priority operations, like reading and compressing dormant data, defragmentation, error checking existing data, rebuilding RAID arrays etc. might benefit from such a long queue. Pretty much, a super long queue of "read this data only if you can do so without delaying the actual high priority queue".
Also 'HN to Kindle' works with Kindle app on phones too, The highlights need to be exported individually for each book but there are wide variety of options available for storing that data on a phone.
Merge with machines? With a vaccine? I've had many vaccines. Am I 95% human now? or 90%?
Very mild. Put more effort in it. You should use more of the keys words like PLANdemic, pharma mafia, fascism. Bonus points for bringing in the aliens.
I can open a game but the interface freezes after a few seconds. I'm using the beta.
Freedom is worthless. Better live your life in lockdown, than stand a 1% chance of dying. Or actually, better for someone else to live their life in lockdown, than to have me stand a 1% chance of dying.
It's a common hack, i.e. Salesforce does same for the security token, IIRC same with github.
Apple are bidding on exact (trademarked) product name matches (eg “HBO Max” and “Tinder”).

You might have an argument if Apple was bidding on more general keywords like “online dating” to send traffic to the App Store’s Tinder page.

Apple are trying to intercept purchases and/or raise ad costs for the mentioned companies.
Even the old cylinder/head/sector addressing almost never matched the real hard drive geometry, because the floppy-oriented BIOS CHS routines used a different number of bits for each address component than ATA did, so translation was required even for hard drives with capacities in the hundreds of MB.
How easy is it to fake Austrian vaccination cards? The ones my friends have (in Dallas, TX) are indistinguishable.
China is notoriously one of the least free countries on Earth. GP is implying that Austria will soon be even less free if they keep this up.
Keeping leaf values as strings is quite elegant. I’ve found the auto conversion to be inconsistent across yaml implementations in different languages.
Before Airbnb there was Couchsurfing. I think academic publishers are a better argument against the unnecessity of Airbnb than Airbnb is an argument for the necessity of academic publishers.
No businesses were shut down, pubs and clubs were open and no masks were ever required to enter a business. They closed a few public buildings for a short time but nobody was ever locked down.
Every TV is ad-free if you don't give it internet access.
Half of the Vizio home screen is a carousel promoting third-rate streaming services like Tubi and Crackle. At least it's not ads for prescription arthritis medicine, but it still looks pretty advertisingy.
Just to get a feel of the type of information Breitbart, sorry, the Brownstone 'institute' is trafficking in:

- Vaccine Mandates are Unethical

- Police Charged Thousands of People For Petty COVID Violations

- Vaccine Passports: Institutionalized Segregation

- The Cause of Myocarditis: COVID19 or COVID19 Vaccination?

- The Six Major Fails of Anthony Fauci

- Health is Personal and Medicine Must Be Personal Too

Since when did hackernews become /r/nonewnormal?
My mind reels

Then you've never lived in a place with no zoning, where someone can open a junk yard next to the home you spent 20 years saving money to buy.

You can do what you want on your land. But at the same time, you have to live in a society with neighbors. There is give-and-take.

If you want to do anything you want on your land without restriction, feel free to save your money and buy your own country with no other residents. Until then, you'll have to learn to get along with other people and understand that what you want may not always be what is best for everyone.
I doubt the appliance companies have researched it, and I say that as a product/marketing researcher.
You can just plug in an apple tv. Problem solved
Bezos predicts only limited number of people will get to remain on Earth
It's really not that complicated given it's a fixed 6 digit appendage
> My family grew strawberries in eastern Colorado for a few years and one of the big problems was the extreme sun. In order to extend the growing season we used low tunnels to shield to plants from frost. However, the low tunnels during the peak summer months would act like a lens melting irrigation lines and even damaging produce.

Sounds like problems more ground-coupling of the thermals would help mitigate. This guy used "Earth Tubes" in combination with partially buried and appropriately oriented greenhouses:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD_3_gsgsnk
Merging with machines as in doing everything over Zoom and in VR due to lockdowns, not as in being vaccinated makes you a machine.
What is the relevance of these clips?
How many Austrians have already recovered from Covid infection and thus have long-lasting nasal/mucosal sterilizing immunity that stops both infection and transmission, unlike vaccines which reduce severity of symptoms and risk of death?

CDC estimates 146 million Americans have already been infected, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
We've banned this account for using HN primarily (in fact, exclusively, it seems) for ideological battle. That's not allowed on HN because it destroys what the site is supposed to be for.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Obviously, it would be convenient if the unvaccinated are gathered into some specific locations so the rest of the country can get on with life. After all, they can't just be left sprinkled all over.

They could be called freedom camps or something catchy and people would just telework and live there.
Can Bitcoin Survive the Apocalypse?
> So why did the health authorities radically change their minds about mask wearing in April 2020? The cynical would say that the authorities feared a shortage of masks if they would have told the public to buy masks, leaving health professionals unprotected. This hypothesis is unlikely for two reasons. The first is that from the beginning we were encouraged to use cloth handmade masks that could be sewn by anyone and even be an additional source of income for poor communities.

Not sure how this theory got dismissed. It's been common knowledge for a while that this is exactly what happened. Knowing that doesn't make you cynical, it makes you informed. From [1], written in July 2020:

> Some of the messaging from public health officials was even more explicitly opposed, though. In late February, CDC director Robert Redfield testified before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee and was asked if healthy people should wear masks. “No,” Redfield responded. The day after that, US surgeon general Jerome Adams tweeted “Seriously people—STOP BUYING MASKS.” Fauci himself, in early March, told a Senate committee that the general public didn’t need to wear them because Covid-19 wasn’t widespread enough.

> The WHO was even more explicit in its advice: Tightly-fitted N95 masks, which filter out particles as small as 0.3 microns, are for health care workers dealing with sick patients, and they’re in critically short supply. Masks made of other materials—surgical masks made of a synthetic nonwoven, meltblown textile, layers of different kinds of cloth, and so on—can gap at the sides and don’t, on their own, fully protect people from getting infected. More quietly, public health experts worried that if people started wearing masks, they’d overestimate their level of protection and get careless. The science was blurry, but the message had to be clear: No masks for civilians.

Back to TFA:

> Thus the most likely reason why, at the beginning of the pandemic, the health authorities contraindicated the use of masks was because the vast majority of randomized controlled studies, which are the gold standard of clinical trials, carried out until then had concluded that face masks are mostly ineffective in preventing the transmission of respiratory viruses.

The motive for lying about this later on would be...?

I have to conclude that the entire article is a result of motivated reasoning where the above paragraph was the intended "likely reason" at the outset, with the rest of the article crafted to support it, even in the face of much more likely explanations that contradict it.

1. https://www.wired.com/story/how-masks-went-from-dont-wear-to...
Sure! Dynamic programming, right?
> You are making the mistake, as many do, of assuming that the illusion is not real. The illusion is real, but the ego, which is created by the illusion, is not real.

Gobbledygook nonsense. People much smarter than both of us have been asking these questions since the dawn of time, best get to some reading.
That's not true in the general case and I'm sure you could think of many counterexamples for this.
This looks like they finally found how to tax the oxygen
Great and fun tool! I’m going to feature it in our morning issue at www.shoto.io
This won't get coverage as it would put the blame on Biden administration. NYT is out to try and win support for the current administration, I don't believe they care about actual accountability for wrong doing.
It's not even much better with 256GB. I thought I'd be fine as I used to run Linux with 128GB and had loads of room. MacOS has been very tight with 256GB
The efficacy numbers you might be remembering could have been for the wild type, not the more infectious delta variant. A higher infectiousness also requires a far higher fraction of the population to be vaccinated to reduce spread (rule of thumb is that a fraction of 1 - 1/R_0 would be needed for a given value of R_0 iirc).

You also have to keep in mind that the incidences for vaccinated and unvaccinated are vastly different. Several German federal states record these values and the incidence among the unvaccinated is usually ~10x as high as for the vaccinated, so a small fraction of the population can be responsible for a good deal of the infections. I shall provide a link for the latter in a moment.

Example for Saxony, one of the more affected federal states at the moment. Ratio of incidences for unvaccinated:vaccinated is ~19:1, see:

https://www.coronavirus.sachsen.de/infektionsfaelle-in-sachs...

Example for Bavaria, also heavily affected. Ratio of incidences for unvaccinated:vaccinated is ~9.7:1. Source:

https://www.lgl.bayern.de/gesundheit/infektionsschutz/infekt...

Baden-Württemberg, taken from an article as I couldn't find the original source. Ratio of incidences unvaccinated:vaccinated is ~18.4:1 there:

https://www.swp.de/panorama/intensivstation-geimpfte-corona-...

Keep in mind that you would need to weigh that according to the vaccination levels if you want to calculate somethign with them but you should find the current levels on the same pages, I think.
Shaming socialist for having $2 million is just as idiotic as asking Billionaires to pay more taxes than what they can avoid. Both are calls for individual charity, not for structural change.

It's completely reasonable for a Socialist to be a millionaire and demand more taxes. Same as when Warren Buffet asks more taxation for the rich.

Political change happens when we change the rules of the game.
Mandatory xkcd

https://xkcd.com/927/
I've pretty simple requirements. I would be using vimwiki if it displayed images. I'm also paranoid and don't want random companies controlling my data.

I'm more interested in functionality than pretty displays. I was like that when I found bullet journal.

I'm also in agreement with others here, I don't want to spend more time on the tool than I do on the job.

No one would read anything I wrote about my workflow!
Its always refreshing to come on hn and see that all the history of philosophy is garbage, because everything is really obvious to some guy.
Made people believe they were living in the movie "Contagion"
Huh, no. YAML is a superset of JSON. So valid JSON is valid YAML. This is sometimes suprisingly useful. Also, YAML is used everywhere and like the other user pointed out, has mature well tested libs for almost every language.
The effects in Terminator 1 were very creative. In one scene they used smoke from cigarretes.
Did any Western country use "lockdown" as a public health measure before 2020? Many countries spent years developing public health plans for pandemics, based on decades of expert consensus.
The critical issue with this so-called stack is the effort to set this up. It seems simple in words but consider how many steps, tools, plugins, devices, human intervention are required to achieve it. Is it reliable? Nope. Is it better? Nope.

You still have to remember those keywords you added so you haven't gotten rid of the memory problem. If even one moving part fails to function properly, the whole system will break so you haven't solved the maintainability problem. And clearly, this doesn't solve the time problem either.

When I bookmark something on HN, it is usually because I don't have enough time to read it or I want to read it again later on. I don't bookmark comments or save them. Not because they aren't interesting but because informal content like comments are really easy to understand. They are short and to the point.

So I take what information I can and move on. If I forget...well, maybe it wasn't that important to remember in the first place. If I forget but want to remember, which is rare, I can just go through the bookmarks, open the relevant link, and go through the comments again or Ctrl + F if I remember something. This is rare. So rare that I can afford to do it manually.

The problem with "knowledge assimilation" aka note taking is that after a certain point, you have more "knowledge" than you even want. The extra becomes noise. At first, the idea to clip and save anything interesting seems so fascinating but soon you realize that you have saved so much that it's become a problem.

That's why using the right tool for the right job is important. Bookmarks are perfect for things you want to save without them getting in the way of more important things. They are just a list. Nothing overkill. No complex organization. No complicated processes. Just press a button and viola!

I do, however, commend the ingenuity of the OP in making such a system. I wonder how long it took to set this all up.
Does Dhall have a .NET implementation yet?
And large parts of Texas.
> It is the whole reason why you can buy a 4K 55" TV for a $~450.

How are you so sure?

For example, if a TV has $15 of profit on the hardware and $30 of profit from ads, then you'd still see ~$450 models if you removed the ads and increased the price.
Sweden's early response was really bad, and it still has bad stats. The saving grace has been the high vaccination rate, but the total death toll is still much worse than any of our neighbours.
NT4 blue screened on me when I was demoing IIS process separation. It was an auditorium full of very technical people, who mostly already knew me from one place or another. Fortunately, I was quite good as a stand up comedian.

I felt vindicated when 98 did the same with billg at COMDEX (or was it CES?).

NT4 had an architectural flaw that was introduced to make some people happier - many device drivers started to run in kernel space and their bugs were able to crash the whole machine, unlike 3.5, where a crashed driver could be reloaded.
Perhaps it's just hard to die twice...?

Total deaths per million in Sweden so far: 1466
Total deaths per million in Denmark so far: 471
That's 2D image morphing, not 3D CGI, but yes, jandrese didn't specify.
It’s a demonstration of the straw man argument. He puts up a ridiculous idea so he can then proceed to make it look ridiculous.
We use the EU-wide QR system. I don't know how easy is to get a fake certificate that would pass scrutiny, but here in Austria nobody seems to really check them. If you have something with a QR code on it, they let you pass.
Page 25 pretty clearly outlined that in January there was greater than 100% short interest in the asset.
109% of total shares.... that it was such an outlier.

How is that not a short squeeze...
> I did some digging and the farm subsidies in the US are truly eye-watering, and particularly notable is that the biggest 10% of farms take 90% of the subsidy

Well, yeah. The 90th percentile farm makes $7665 in farm income per year [1] so how much subsidies could they possibly absorb?

"Farms" in the US are overwhelmingly used as a tax avoidance strategy. Only a numerical minority of farms are actually designed to grow food.

[1] https://aei.ag/2019/02/25/what-is-median-farm-income/
Proof it is all a conspiracy and lockdowns don't work!

It seems anti-vaxers have invaded HN today. =(
You're confusing Austria and Australia, but hey, it's par for the course for the dumpster fire level of comments currently on this thread...

I'm going to trust the statistics that the vaccines work, and aren't deadly. The numbers seem to speak for themselves, thousands of samples and you can see any region with higher vaccination rates have lower infection and death rates (well, I guess until the efficacy wears down and boosters are needed...). On the topic of long term effects, I'm going to trust this scientist (of course at the end of the day, that's what it ends with isn't it, what statements do each of us trust):

https://www.uab.edu/reporter/resources/be-healthy/item/9544-...

> Unlike many medications, which are taken daily, vaccines are generally one-and-done. "Medicines you take every day can cause side effects" that reveal themselves over time, including long-term problems as levels of the drug build up in the body over months and years, Goepfert said. But "vaccines are just designed to deliver a payload and then are quickly eliminated by the body," he said. "This is particularly true of the mRNA vaccines. mRNA degrades incredibly rapidly. You wouldn't expect any of these vaccines to have any long-term side effects. And in fact, this has never occurred with any vaccine."
There are two main aspects.

One is long-term food security - even if global trade is mostly fine right now despite the current hiccups, there's no telling how it's going to be in a decade or two, and it's hard to ramp up production (due to lack of skillset, machinery and infrastructure) if you suddenly need it; so it makes all sense to pay some fraction of a percent of your GDP to ensure long-term strategic security of your food supply, especially if it looks like global tensions will eventually rise due to climate change.

The second aspect is that even in the current circumstances we're seeing rapid urbanization and depopulation of the countryside, which is generally seen as a problem for many areas. In a "natural" regime without rural subsidies this would happen even faster.
It's a digitally signed QR code with your name on it. You can't fake it. Some just reuse some other QR code and hope nobody cross-checks the name with some other ID.
The innovation possible due to a customizable battery configuration, and the simple drivetrain of a electric motors, can lead to some very wild experimentation with all kinds of mobility assisted devices. While pedelecs are seeing the initial interest, but a rapid evolution of battery powered exoskeletons cannot be very far.
It isn't really brought out as much in the article as it should be ...

A key thing like about this architecture is it gets some of the benefits of microservices (codebases can be split, services deployed and managed separately, low coupling as a default) but without the downsides of fragmenting the data store, which causes a lot of the issues in a pure microservice architecture.

Once you fragment the data store you now have to fully compensate for the loss of transactional integrity at the data layer. It also forces a coherent data model across all the services - no more "service X" has a slightly different model of a data type to "service Y" - there literally is only one definition of the data type.

So I see it as a reasonable midpoint between monolith and microservice that gets most of the benefits of microservices without the most severe drawbacks.
The reference design document was both an interesting read, and gave a lot of detail on how the system aims to be as safe as possible: https://openaps.org/reference-design/