skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you tried telling/asking them in some way?

I would normally try to have a night out and buy some drinks and get the subject on discussion after hours.

It could be "as simple" as saying that they don't always have to speak English after hours or during lunch. Depending on what you think about that ofc.
What this article assumes is that people in control and in research 1-2 years ago "knew everything about covid" or knew what we know now. They didn't.

What we should assume is that 99% of people in general are morons and not specialists - just like you and me are not specialists and belong to the same 99% and can't comprehend these things and because they can't understand these things, they are also failing in explaining that to public. Explanation takes understanding and thinking. Government officials(including in health) does not do thinking - they only act according to instructions.

We more or less know right now what is going on and IMO it is still debatable if mandatory masks are long-term solution. What general public has forgotten is that eyes are as good open doors for covid infection(and so far only distancing, good sunny weather and relaxed unstressed healthy people has prevented spread of virus or they have getting through covid sickness without noticing it - without symptoms), not to mention that masks does not offer 100% protection, but more like 80%, not to mention that people are 100% unprotected when they have to eat or drink or if they are entering without spacesuit in highly infectious rooms. So, in short - it is easier to tell people to wear masks - but it would take a lot of explaining all iffs, where covid infection can be passed from one to another, so correct information would be that masks can reduce covid infections, but not prevent it fully.

Besides the main problem here is that covid is not deadly virus for healthy people, but it affects mainly people who are already living their last days. It just is mind bogling, that people in general have no idea how many people are dying every year and that that number is too big for what medical services were meant for.

As for seatbelts - some of the deaths in car crashes could be avoidable if seatbelts were not worn, as passenger might have been ejected out of car and could have a chance of surviving impact(if it is not a wall or other car, but grass or bush) after landing, instead of burning alive inside of crashed car. So, everything depends on situation and timing to receive that help where it is possible to help.
-In Norway, the law states that if you are to use your phone in a moving motor vehicle, it needs to be installed in an approved handsfree holder, with the screen as close to the driver's normal field of view as possible. No hand-held use is allowed.

If so installed, you may use it to initiate and accept calls.

You may also use your phone for navigation, entertainment &c provided the phone is configured for whatever purpose while the vehicle is stationary or using either voice commands or vehicle-integrated controls.

You may NOT touch any phone buttons or touch screens for any other purpose than dialing a number or answering a call while the vehicle is moving.
Ask HN: Why do I keep failing Captcha?
I find this an issue every time I'm using a VPN. The tests just keeps on coming no matter how many times you get "right". Are we being trolled?
I think this is the case. A siege is just one scenario out of many where someone could be attacking you in a castle. I have also been in several castles in UK where the penultimate step before the roof is deliberately 1 inch higher than all the others. The story is that if you were being chased up the stairs your attacker would trip over onto the roof and you could easily dispatch him. Would this author also claim the rationale of this feature as a myth, and that they just made the same measurement mistake in multiple castles?

Incidentally, if you're not aware of it, a 1 inch difference in stair height will almost certainly make you trip up. I did myself when I was climbing them at first.

Also the notion that once attackers were in a castle it's all over is not true. Late medieval castles were designed to be modular, layered and flexibly defensible. The enemy might get into one part, but you could retreat to another part and defend that. Might give you enough time to be relieved by an external force. Have a look at Caerphilly castle as an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caerphilly_Castle

Finally, it seems that no real explanation is given to the bias towards building clockwise staircases. Why would this be the case? Doesn't it just mean that wherever possible they would build the staircase clockwise because there was some inherent advantage?
What's so bad about Moodle?

I mean it's not shiny, but it worked fine, what else should app like that do?
Huh? I would say there is a very non-arbitrary difference between buying a phone or logging into some service. I mean in one instance you actually buy a physical thing that you own, for the other you use someone else property.
You are arguing the letter and not the intent, as you've done in many of these threads before.

You are also continuously seeking reasons to justify the way you have already decided you want to go about this, so effectively you are just arguing for your own satisfaction, not to gain insight.

Your arguments by assertion hold no water for me. Good luck with this attitude.
Well they are actually https://www.newscientist.com/article/2294250-how-much-less-l...
I'm not conflating anything. When it come to pandemic counter-measures, the country and the government (in one party systems, the party) are and can be used synonymously.

But let's say, just for a thought experiment, it was all the CCPs (bad communists, aren't they?) fault. How exactly does that help us now? Or does it excuse some of our democratic governments from screwing up? Or people from not getting vaccinated? I don't think so.

Yeah, the CCP sucks. Taking away personal freedom, incerting spyware in phones in other countries, ignoring human rights left and right wherever they go, paying of our capitalism based democracies, continuously threatening Taiwan and strong-arming everyone (from the IOSB all the way to western democratic governments) from acknowledging Taiwan as an independent nation. But COVID? Not so much.
The tight spiral staircase thing is about towers. The road toward and from wall was large non-spiral staircase. There is entrance from tower too, but in castles I have seen it was not the only way to get there.
How to Make the Flip Phone Better (Again)
It's not for actual everyday use (afaik it never will be either), it's built for those that want to build and explore a from scratch OS.
You're more likely to find Marmite in a British cupboard.

I have some Marmalade, but used it once about 2 years ago.
I never tried British marmalade, however I love our similar products such as peach or orange jams; sadly there's no way to make a sugar-less one.

By the way, the word marmalade brings memories of my English teacher at school telling us how the three "a" in that word were pronounced each one in a different way.
I see your sources are pre Delta variant
Look a lot like C#, which I guess was an inspiration. What be are advantages over C#?
How long until it receives a Pentium?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29046117
Incredible that the lawmakers were stupid enough last time to ban not phone usage in general

This was not stupidity. It's an example of specific, well-scoped lawmaking, which is exactly the sort of thing we should welcome. It's targeted specifically at the use of communication devices while driving, provides appropriate exemptions, and seems like an entirely appropriate step given the nature of the mobile device market in 2003. Now the regulations are being tightened further, again in a reasonable way, to deal with the problems that now exist.

And now they are repeating the same mistake by specifying that it's illegal to scroll through playlists or play games

This is not what is happening, and is clearly an example of the sort of thing that will be banned under a more general rule of "don't use a mobile device while driving".

Just ban phone usage nonstop already like other, sane countries. Make an exception for navigational purposes, and hopefully we can have fewer deaths because of distracted driving.

This is exactly what is happening, along with additional clarifications on what counts as driving (e.g. being stopped at traffic lights is still driving) and ensuring that commonly-used, safe features (for example, making a contactless payment at a toll booth) are not caught by the regulations.
That is google analytics for traffic analytics.
looks pretty nice
True. Our default is to go for higher estimation especially coming from a senior. 13 should be broken down tho.
> It is not the purpose of this blog post to outline all of the evidence against the swordsman theory.

Well then. Bye.

Seriously, why even write a blog post like this if you’re not going to put the necessary information in it to make your point.
Facebook tests giving more control of News Feed content to users again
I've seen lots of good come out of GNNs in the biomedical space.

For example, in drug discovery you can treat any molecule and its biochemical properties as a graph so you can store the entire structure as a graph. So you make a million graphs of the biocompounds you know, a million graphs of random/similar compounds, and see which of the new million molecules the GNN will predict to work on disease X.

Long review here that might be closed access: https://academic.oup.com/bib/article/22/6/bbab159/6278145
the sad true is that it's not going away because of people like you, i got rid of gas
>The /dev/random is the “very foundation” of cryptography on Linux, developer Stephan Müller told The Daily Swig. “If /dev/random breaks, the entire cryptography on Linux is broken,” Müller said.

I thought using /dev/random was depricated and that you should instead use a getrandom syscall that blocks if you don't have enough entropy.
If you read enough of the examples on antiwork you see most of those "texts from the boss" posts are fake.

They usually follow a formula.
Boss: I need you to do something ridiculous.

Employee: I quit.

Boss: oh bother, I done goofed. What can we do to get you to stay.

Employee: fuck you

It's sad what people will make up for internet pats on the back
Well he did have a point that we sort of fucked ourselves with KDE 4 and Gnome 3. There was even some instability in Enlightenment that let the Bodhi Linux people to fork.

Now we have a lot of DE forks and I think we don’t need them.

I still like Gnome, I like what Gnome 40 did. I wish I could get it on Ubuntu, I’m thinking about switching to Fedora just to get stock Gnome 40.

KDE look awesome for people who like that type of Desktop.

I tried Mate and XFCE and have a slight preference for XFCE. I would love it if the two could somehow combine efforts and maybe establish a real contender for a third desktop.

LXQT is done. It looks good for people who want something slim with a more classical windows like layout. I honestly think the Trinity Desktop people should probably just look at what they would miss from KDE 3 in LXQT and see if they can port those parts over and just join LXQT.

I would love it if Bodhi just got over itself and started working with mainline Enlightenment. Maybe Pop!_OS should do the same.

But other than that we still have Cinnamon, Pantheon and Deepin. All (if I remember correctly) build on or forked from Gnome and probably not going away. I think Pantheon and Deepin could probably work together on one DE separate from Gnome. Maybe Cinnamon could join Mate and XFCE?

I get it. KDE 3 to KDE 4 and Gnome 3 to Gnome 3 was a hard transition. But could we please get away from the idea that every freaking distro needs its own damn DE or one that is so customized it might as well be? We have to many desktops with to many distro specific customizations for no gain to the end users.
I'm the different guy but here is my opnion:

>Have you wrangled with JSON using Go? Absolutely dreadful.

No it is not. You just take a json object, put it down as Go struct. Yes, it takes more time unlike in JS or Ruby but it makes this code much more readable. You can open a project and see what kind of json it expects as an input. All contracts are there. Not need for any kind of schemas or yml definitions (though you can generate one if you need to).

>Have you written multiple microservices in Go?

We currectlly have more than a hundred of those. The lack of an opinionated framework is a bad thing only from the management point of view. Once you and your team is done with this - there is really no difference from using a framework.

Again - yes, it requires more time and most likely not a great option for a small company without a developed background (ie no preferred ways for doing different kind of things) but no a problem for a relatively big company. We have a number of teams solving different problems and thus using different ways of building their services (micro or not).

>With Ruby and with RoR I never have to waste time with this and I can get straight to the business logic.

Yes, until you face a problem were your favourite gem is not enough to do the job and you have to go the hacky root.

PS: But honestly this whole topic is getting old. I've build apps in both Ruby (mostly not Rails though, we've had Roda) and Go and while RoR\Ruby\etc are great for one set of tasks I'd never use them for some other tasks. For example systems integrations which is my main job for the last ~5 years.

People often forget the web dev is not just your clients' browser to server communication.
Euler's Number Exists in Pascal's Triangle
Fite me
Do you drive on the roads in the UK? I don't think legislation will fix the culture of not caring enough to recognize speed limit signs. People are constantly distracted or just stupid. Regardless of whether the speed limit is 20 or 30, they all choose to drive at 25. In fact, next to no-one is actually following the 20mph speed limit in most cases. Motorway driving isn't any better, you either do well below 70 or well above it. There's people leaving 100m stretches between them and the next car when there's congestion. Road markings are taken to be mere suggestions. And the road markings themselves are rubbish - how am I supposed to know which lane must I take if the only signs instructing me of that are under the cars in front of me?

I wholeheartedly agree that phones shouldn't be used during driving, but to drive safer and more efficiently, the country needs a change in driving culture.
>and I use Siri to tell it to do stuff.

Using Siri is more dangerous than texting. The below linked research (and others) found that using Siri raises the reaction time 36%. That is 1% worse than texting! For comparison, driving at the drink-drive limit (UK) is 12%. So you are doing yourself a big disservice by using Siri and thinking you are safe(r).

https://www.iamroadsmart.com/campaign-pages/end-customer-cam...
I'd object, to a law outlawing the use of those. Many of them are used to control car functions like climate control etc, and it's never been a particular problem before to allow people to (for instance) change radio station or skip a track on the CD.

With the rise of carplay and android auto, they present simplified, low-distraction interfaces.
If you have more than one device which needs similar external access, you won't have to use a non-standard port.

I have three devices at home which I'd like SSH access to. Because I only have IPv4, two of them aren't on port 22, and sometimes the non-default ports I've chosen are blocked by hotel Wifi etc.

Similarly, I'd like two different webservers to be available, but I can only have one on my single port 80.

For the more typical user, it can mean only one person playing a particular game etc.
Reading a book where Tom Sheppard (former RAF pilot, solo desert adventurer) breaks down the fuel estimation process as:

mpg * terrain factor * safety factor

it's pretty important to him to get his estimates right, so he is rather serious about this.

Assuming your 'gut feeling' is pretty accurate (I suspect it is), you could probably break it down into:

- these components will take X days,

- getting them to work together is an extra Y,

- contingency factor is Z

I honestly don't understand how your gut feeling could be accurate unless you had a well developed sense of those factors, or some similar breakdown of what it takes to deliver a project and where the complexities/unknowns are.
I think there is some weight to the claim.

This is especially true for public user generated content. Any public content should be accessible without limits, but that is not the case with web2(twitter, public Instagram, forums etc).

ofcourse, there are some server costs but the primary reason the walled-gardens do this is more business related than to reduce costs.
I visited a castle with an Italian friend. She was quite excited about it. After we arrived and had our first look inside, she disappointedly exclaimed "this is not a castello, it is a fortezza!".

I thought it was still a pretty cool castle.
In my experience, going down is far tricker (and riskier) than climbing up. Especially when carrying things.

So that theory doesn't sound right either.
Starts by talking about …

> ”looking in each other’s pockets”

… As though it’s a bad thing.

Meanwhile:

”This year, Connecticut passed a new kind of law aimed at pay equity. It’s one of seven states so far to adopt similar legislation. Employers must tell job candidates upfront — if they ask — the range of pay for the position. That’s aimed at evening the playing field, especially for women and people of color.”

https://www.marketplace.org/2021/11/16/how-are-new-state-sal...

Transparency is how to reduce downsides described in the longer run.
The 5s and 8s are like the Holy Grail. The Grail isn't the point - the quest is.
PhD Student discovers a new type of Water Splitting
Ah, Blackboard.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2014/01/christ-i-hate-b...
Ethics aside, any law determining the priority of hospital admissions based on non-medical reasons is unconstitutional in Germany, according to legal experts. I doubt the situation differs much in Austria.

But I agree, this might be the most freedom-preserving path.
I don’t disagree but that probably means we as an industry need to figure out how to get better at this. It’s not unreasonable for stakeholders to want to have a rough idea of how long a project is going to last.

Maybe this is something software engineering professors can research.
Well, it literally is C#. It's a tongue-in-cheek parody of novelty languages, but it's describing .NET (the "two languages" it talks about are C# and F# respectively).
I do not like that at all. It looks like the stuff I designed when I just started university.
Gibraltar surge in covid cases and is cancelling lots of events, but has 100% vaccination rate. No stopping restrictions and cases even with 100% vaccination rate.
Thanks for the link. This seems to be a ban on holding a phone. (As in the UK already https://www.gov.uk/using-mobile-phones-when-driving-the-law)
Ethereum is also moving to proof of stake... While there are some proof of stake networks which are 'permissioned' (for example, Binance Smart Chain), Solana to my knowledge is permissionless, meaning anyone who can afford the hardware and minimum stake can run a node. This is still a barrier, but so is setting up a bitcoin mining node.
Go Package: Use Controllers with Gorilla
Anyone using Gorilla might find this little library useful to simplify your template logic with controllers:

https://github.com/joegasewicz/gorilla-controllers

#go #golang #gorilla
> So did every piece of technology that was widely adopted change behavior.

>So what?

It sounds relevant if the pill was introduced and got legalized on the grounds that it would not cause that kind of change but e.g. only help married couples to plan their pregnancies.
Last time I was in a team that did this, it was pretty useful.

A wide range would spark a brief discussion (the senior would bring up the points that the junior is missing - yay knowledge sharing) and high estimates would usually result in breaking down.

The key is to keep it short, if need be timebox.
Here probably the hidden motif was that the masks do not go out of stock, so the medical personel has enough.
Still, the GP's point stands. Especially as attackers create a "brand" and establish trust -- if a few quick searches show other people reporting that they paid and things were restored, then you can bet people will feel much more at ease with the idea of paying and actually being left alone after. When a business depends on it, when data loss is at play instead of just downtime, even more so. People will pay.
LXQt with a retro theme may do it. The project reached version 1.0 at the beginning of this month.

https://lxqt-project.org/about/

https://www.opencode.net/abgr/qtstep
Guys, when you do a new language, syntax is nearly completely uninteresting, because it's exchangeable. Please answer some of these questions, instead:

1. memory management strategy [x]

2. target platform [?]

3. evaluation semantics (lazy/eager) [?]

4. argument passing strategy [?]

5. if type-safe: overloading [?]

6. if type-safe: parametric polymorphism [?]

7. if type-safe: (nominal/structural) subtyping [?]

8. if type-safe: module system/language [?]

9. if compiled to machine code: separate compilation [?]

10. if compiled to machine code: ABI [?]

11. if interpreted: multi-threading capability (Ok, this one's a hit on python) [?]

12. ... I probably missed a couple of data points

edit: I should have seen sooner that it is a parody, but my point still stands.
I think this is key. I often struggle to communicate that estimating certain tasks essentially means starting them and that giving a proper estimate might require a day of work (or more), e.g. when getting familiar with a new API or working towards some performance criteria. However, this is rarely taken to heart so most of our estimates are more "if you actually want an estimate it will be essentially random from the top of my head", which satisfied the product owner for now and defers the dissatisfaction that comes when said estimate turns out to be inaccurate.
I also think having a satnav and phone available might even reduce accidents. It will avoid people getting lost, making erratic turns, being distracted and stressed looking for street signs. And with the phone you can call when you're late, and feel less rushed which can also be distracting.

But I think the actual handling of the device should be avoided, a fixed mount helps a lot. Looking down is really disorienting.

But I'm glad I don't have to drive anymore. I find it too stressful these days. Traffic has become too busy and there's more rules to worry about with variable speed limits depending on the hour etc.
The double-edged sword of incorporating social features into freemium products
N95's have been shown to last longer than 10 years.