skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Experience helps, but it doesn't take an expert to tell that removing 90 packages in order to install 1 application doesn't seem normal.

You're looking at it from a seasoned Linux user's perspective, not from the perspective of a guy who has used Windows for decades and can't remember the last time he needed to use the Command Prompt. I don't know if it's lack of empathy or unrelenting bias.

Is it hard to believe that millions of desktop users don't understand what a "package" or a "dependency" is? Windows doesn't link packages dynamically, it's just fat statically linked exe files, or exe files bundled with everything needed, like AppImages. For someone who's never known the concept of a dependency, expecting him to understand that wall of text is pretty elitist.

> One of the reasons I like Unix-like operating systems (aside from macOS, which violates this principle) is that they don't waste your time with tons of warnings and locks and gates

Yes, agreed, and I'm of the same opinion, which is why I use Linux as a daily driver. However, this is NOT the experience a new user or a complete beginner should have. A power user experience for beginner is like giving keys to a car to someone who's never driven one and asking him to drive in a metropolitan city with millions of cars on the road. You know what's gonna happen and it'd be pretty weird and apathetic to blame the beginner if he crashes his car and gets injured, which is what you're doing.

> But I'm not very interested in running systems which are designed to cater to people who want to use them (and use them recklessly, at that) without understanding them at the expense of users who are willing to learn how they work.

Sure, but then let's not proselytize Linux and how it's beginner friendly and how it's "better" than Windows or Mac when the intended usage involves knowing how to work on a terminal. Unless you can confidently say that this Linux distribution doesn't require you to touch the terminal, ever, not once, don't recommend it. This is why I don't recommend anyone to use Linux, not unless I want to waste their time and see them in pain.
Wasn’t this reported a few months ago? There were a few other brands in it too.
This country has more than 300 million people. Any federal agency having a bottleneck of merely ten clerks for processing FOIA requests is unreasonable to the absurd.
That was actually pretty interesting. Here is a video of the device in use:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x3aDW8ghaY

I am not sure if it is worth the price, but it's cheaper than a top of the line smartphone with a time-of-flight sensor
The downside is the ecosystem turning into the JS/TS ecosystem. Where the zealots have pushed TS to the point it all just looks like C# and what makes JS nice is being lost.
> That’s not the point. OP tried to draw a comparison that private enterprises in the US do the same thing — they do not.

FB/GOOG absolutely do. You may trust the USG or the companies it pressures into this domain of behavior more than the CCP/Xiaomi (or may not - it is not relevant to this point) but the comparison is there.
Wanna bet and check back in 5 years?
I'd welcome a sincere discussion regarding how to fix public records laws that are designed to be unrealistic and waste the maximum amount of time and effort for both the requester and the public agency.

We would all like the maximum safe transparency but I somehow doubt most of us would like to pay for it.
If you liked the simplicity of windows 2000 you'd likely do find with an XFCE4 desktop environment.
> Now adjust for risk based on population age differences and see how the difference between states looks.

About what you’d expect if the actual recent infection rates were similar after Florida's drop from its mich higher recent peak, rather than Florida's being now much lower the way the reported case rates would suggest.
They are getting more complex these days
GDBFrontend v0.9.4-beta a serious performance optimization and bugfix release
It’s not that they’re fashionable, it’s that their ergonomics have improved significantly over the past decade. I saw dynamic types as a response to cumbersome static type systems, but increasingly type systems are becoming more expressive and less cumbersome.
Alzheimer’s vaccine step closer after new treatment reverses memory loss in mice
> AC-DC-AC conversion is around 98%-99% efficiency now.

I'd really like to see some citations with specifiic BOMs of equipment that can accomplish this, because the datacenter industry would like to have something like that, but it's my understanding that the efficiency is nowhere near that 98-99% figure.
Tell that to the folks who hold the purse strings
Greenery – FSM/regex conversion library
Same is possible with Facebook groups. IMO it is easier to find a well-moderated Facebook group than a well-moderated subreddit. Most people seem to use one or the other, and don’t really have a basis for comparison, though.
> The point is more that Ruby is still being used and improved upon all the time; far from 'dead'.

Exactly the same with PHP. The handful of Rails devs I know bemoan the fact that fewer shops are growing their Rails/Ruby use. I did a stint at a shop that was mainly PHP, but they migrated most stuff to a combination of node and python, because "they couldn't find php developers". While it was sort of true, they couldn't find affordable php devs to work with the legacy mess (which was only 5-6 years old), and it was cheaper to have less experienced (but more) node/python folks come in and rebuild distinct bits of the older PHP stuff (at least, that was my understanding as an outsider - this happened after I left).

Some orgs are moving away from PHP - others are moving towards it. Same with Ruby, although I don't see as much movement toward Ruby as I do with PHP. But I do also see orgs moving away from each.
I don't see a huge difference.

I find it an equally problematic off-sourcing of state functions to corporations, to have as an excuse "but it's not state censorship".

-- and this is something that has been commented on, and spread increasingly more, for half a century...
Please cite a source where discussing American historical atrocities on social media gets you whisked away by the secret police.
Irrecoverable Carbon
Author of the post here, yeah for the admin tooling that I derived this from I actually do use "components" (functions that turn javascript objects from an API into HTML elements), but the real reason I discovered this was because I wanted to do it in a way that my Haskell and Rust-ruined brain could grok. I have a hard time with React's reverse PHP stuff but have no problem translating what I can conceptualize the DOM as in my mind into Javascript syntax using this (admittedly clunky) set of wrappers. Consider code like this:

let content = div({}, [
h3(feed.title),
ul(feed.items.map(item => li([ahref(item.url, item.title)])))
]);

This kind of stuff is way easier for me to deal with than the equivalent in JSX. I don't know why, but It Works For Me :tm:. It also has the advantage of not requiring a separate build step so you can just slap it into a Go binary with a go:embed directive and you're off to the races.

Plus as far as I understand it's fairly idiomatic for people to reinvent their own JavaScript frameworks for when they need something between JQuery and React. Xeact (zi-act) is designed to fill that gap. Serve with laundry sauce.
My Terraform development workflow
The difference (until recently) here was that investment assets were going up but the cost of living, in general, wasn't. That's a big differentiator between a bubble and inflation. Recently, however, the government started printing money and giving it to the poor and middle class. That's producing inflation, since they tend to buy stuff instead of just "letting it ride."
Apple's Car Project: Everything We Know
It's both.

Without local resources, whether economic or life-sustaining, you're not really a colony, but a scientific expedition or military outpost or both.

Both of which put you under the political authority (and reliance for survival) of your sponsoring entity, which to me largely quashes the whole sovereignty appeal.

That isn't to say that there won't be "true believers" who buy into the idea of starting a colony, as it's sold by Elon or NASA or the US Space Force or whoever. I'm sure they'll find volunteers.
IME the argument on bike helmets is a little different: it's not that requiring helmets will encourage riskier biking behaviour, it's that requiring helmets will shift people to drive instead (and that an extra car on the road is increasing danger to _others_). It may still be a bogus argument, but it's definitely distinct from the risk compensation argument given in the article.
Duffs device wasn't about computation, it was about writing bytes to a serial port. That is constantly writing to one memory location. Just a bit of being a pendant that you.should expect.
Yeah, Sorbet and the progress being made in Ruby-land makes me want to go back and give it a good look. I really like Ruby. I just really like writing silly in/out tests less.
I remember that feeling in 2007. Then, in 2009, my house was worth 600k.
> while hydrogen _IS_ light enough for an airplane

If you do the watt-hours per kilogram calculation the very best lithium ion batteries are something like 255Wh/kg right now.

Hydrogen fuel cell systems for small to medium sized UAS are somewhere in the 700-800Wh/kg range right now, including the weight of the (rather heavy, seriously engineered) ultra high pressure carbon fiber wrapped tanks needed for it, piping, and fuel cell.

Something like a tank of Jet-A fuel is >4000Wh/kg.

Hydrogen itself is light, the tankage systems needed to reliably contain a large volume of it on an aircraft are not.
Should they have delayed the emergency authorization of the vaccines until these 330,000 pages had all been reviewed and redacted? It would have cost hundreds of thousands of lives, but I can't see any benefit from that course of action.
Again, NO ONE is asserting that the CDC messaging is causing all the problems.

But it was, and id, certainly contributing to it.
Really hope at least HMD/Nokia keeps Android One alive, did they push everyone else out of that market or what? Are phones with bundled crap that much cheaper for comparable specs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_One
Now what?

When no one has an answer to a complex problem, quietly get out of the room and work on something simple. That produces the best outcome. Cuz you know 2 things are true - there are problems the chimp troupe cant solve And there are people in the room who will never admit it.
They can distinguish it... at a rate of around 500 pages per month.
It sounds like they're just comparing total power required by the countries with the power produced on average by the reliable grids.

But you can't manage a grid like that and not get brownouts.

You need to account for two numbers in your planning for capacity... the average use and the projected peak use. If you don't have the overhead capacity to cover the peaks, then you get brownouts and outages that can negatively affect the entire grid... and not just the percentage of people that the grid can't supply.

On top of that, even if you assume storage technologies get you to 90% of needs covered, that last 10% is a heavily necessary pain in the ass. Without certain industries having the power they need, none of the technologies that make all the renewable power possible can build products.

Not to mention all the consumer goods that would be impacted by not having those industries powered.
It can make things more intuitive. If you use mental models people already have, they tend to pick things up faster. I think the point of the cube, for instance, was to help people keep track of multiple windows a little easier by making it spacial as opposed to just a list. Maybe it wasn't very effective in that case, but I think the hypothesis was sound.
The one thing helmet laws seem to do that may be a public health risk, at least in cities with bike share systems, is suppress how many people ride. When you cannot ride a bike without a helmet, a good chunk of people will opt to take a car or walk instead of using a bike share.

To my knowledge, the number of cyclist collisions stays relatively constant with the number of cyclists: more cyclists mean around the same total number of collisions, which is fewer on a per trip basis. As a benefit, by acting as a natural barrier between deadly fast steel boxes and pedestrians, having a lot of cyclists also saves pedestrian lives.
He describes compile time backdoors (Rust macros) and backdoors that can be triggered by loading the code into a standard development environment (standard hooks called by code editors on load). Both of these are novel. Name squatting and account compromise are common to several ecosystems, but using a compromised account to backdoor a transient dependency that automatically executes code when your CI system compiles, allowing it to steal the tokens you use to publish builds to your customers, while you are asleep, is somewhat novel and worrying. And then as a bonus, compromise your laptop when you start inspecting the rubble to work out what just happened.
This is exactly how I feel as well. Though, maybe I’ll come around once I learn TS better? I recently had to use it on a new project. TS was, quite literally, a nightmare. I was amazed how less efficient and how much longer things took. We probably spent 20% of our time writing JS and 80% trying to figure out how to get TS to stop complaining.
Does this factor in the wetware upkeep during the development cycle? Development in C generally is slower than in most of the other languages.
Loss of critical thinking skills most likely. Especially in younger people as the emphasis in education on teaching critical thinking is undermined.
>What I wanted to say is of course the government is not expected to be a model of information sharing

The FDA has made a public commitment to transparency regarding Covid-19 vaccines.[1] Given that, I would absolutely expect them to be a model of information sharing.

[1]https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavi...
They approved the vaccine. The general expectation is that they released the approval after reading relevant information. They have 329,000 pages of information, so it can only go 2 ways : They either had enough people to already go through those documents, analyse them and conclude the vaccine was safe in about a month. In which case, they could reallocate those people for a month to redact said documents. The alternative being that they reviewed a small portion of said documents, which would render their argument completely moot, since they would only need to release the documents they actually used during their decision

I would expect the redaction to be way less involved than their review and analysis.

Worst case, they could hire the same number of people for a month to do nothing but redact those documents.
In the unlikely case their whole agency was busy reading and analyzing all 329k documents, and redactors would be paid on average the same amount as the average FDA employee, it would cost the FDA 10% of its annual 2020 HR budget, which would be $600M, or $2,000 per page, which sounds absolutely ludicrous.

on the other hand, it seems general population vaccination should be at the top of their priorities. Releasing those documents should only help them fulfilling that goal. So they should invest in said release.

No matter how you're looking at it, "shenanigans" seems to be the most appropriate term here.
Doctors are are much more trades/crafts people than scientists. Among the several I know personally and/or professionally, few are current with the latest research, or even know how to interpret it. They follow the treatment manuals they're provided, which do the best they can with the information available at the time. At the beginning of COVID, the manuals had to make many decisions on incomplete data; none of the drugs they recommended early on are still in use.

Most of the world understands this. It's mostly in the USA that we deify doctors. Few have first-year statistics competency, or can critically read a publication. And that's fine - it's not their profession.
Twitch etc have precisely such lists of words. Democratic movement is an idea that threatens the Chinese power structure - things that you probably don't like are a threat the American power structure. Just because you also personally find them kooky or immoral is irrelevant
"Freedom is worthless if we're all dead from disease" doesn't seem particularly substantive to me.

In any case, please make your arguments without swipes and without breaking the site guidelines in the future. You've been doing that repeatedly, not just in this one case. That's not cool.

Commenters tend to underestimate how provocative their own provocations are, and overestimate it in the other person. Objects in the mirror are much closer than they appear. That's why we all need to err on the opposite side - otherwise we just get a downward spiral.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
A shorter version is that (fixed) timezones perhaps address some problems and create some new ones if everyone is sitting at their own local computer and/or making phone calls.

But eliminating timezones make it much more confusing for someone traveling. Yes, some local norms differ. Spanish dinnertimes is a commonly quoted example. But, in general, if you're in a city in a different timezone you have a pretty good idea about how the flow of the day goes with some adjustment for local norms.
Europe is too fragmented to come up with a response to totalitarian CCP regime. Heck even in the USA the CCP has successfully drafted think tanks, Hollywood, NBA players [0] to tow their line and quell resistance to Tibet, Taiwan, Uygher atrocities etc.

[0] https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/582244-ene...

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I don't think it does. Rights to search & seize physical goods isn't the same to search a digital device and force a transaction. At the very least, you can with-hold passwords i.e. refuse to participate, in a way you can't prevent police from searching your vehicle.
> Like "freedom" is a freedom to choose Pepsi or Cola. I want neither. Or I want tea. Or the drink that is traditional for my culture.

This is a needless point - there is nothing in OP that would extend to whatever choice you have. You aren't supposed to fixate on the particulars of an example or metaphor, but abstract from it the point being made - which is the suitable abstract "change in a system" - any system, any change.

It feels like you taken this particular choice of example to dunk on Americans in particular.

> that they should live by his own weird rules

What "weird" rules? Parades and signs in particular, or the promotion of LGBT?

If the latter, why is this weird? It's hardly the same as your strawman-examples of promoting junk food and sugary beverages.

> Everyone should have McDonalds, even on Mt. Everest. Everyone must drink Coca Cola

says who?
"Blog posts".

Your mind is going to get blown when you find out there exist whole departments at universities that aren't sciences, and that there's kinda of a tradition of academic scholarship that goes back centuries in the humanities.
Obviously I agree with you, but you could ask a Chinese citizen the same thing and they'd be able to provide no evidence for their own country
Seems like violent, ideological white supremacy is thrown shade when math education is used as an example of white supremacy. Maybe we can talk about who benefits from this?
Martin Scorsese's damning study of masculinity
RIP

I've just used what's built into the OS these days. Not as good, but good enough post-covid where documents can be fully digitally executed.
Here's the indictment which has more details: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1449276...

They had apparently sent the following email to a large number of registered voters:

We are in possession of all your information
(email , address, telephone ... everything) .
You are currently registered as a Democrat and
we know this because we have gained access
into the entire voting infrastructure. You
will vote for Trump on Election Day or we will
come after you. Change your party affiliation
to Republican to let us know you received our
message and will comply. We will know which
candidate you voted for .
I would take this seriously if I were you .

This kinda reads like a Nigerian Prince™-level email scam, except that it looks like they had the actual residential address of the registered voters.

It is interesting that their campaign seems to be pro-Trump, the guy who once vowed to tear apart the Iran deal.
I just really like writing silly in/out tests less.

Were you writing a bunch of tests to make sure that A is passing arguments of the right type to B?

I'm not sure that's a great use of time. If A is passing the wrong thing to B, B will throw a `NoMethodError` anyway once it tries to do anything with the arguments, which will make the spec test fail anyway.

But maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by "silly in/out tests"...
> The worst ones include something like, "After going through your publication record, I see that you are an expert on this topic...". You should not expect a response. I create a new email filter to be sure I never spend time on your messages again.

Hah! That sounds like the "I came across your LinkedIn profile and was impressed by your experience" of academia. Of all the stock phrases recruiters use in their cold emails, that's got to be one of the more annoying ones. I can see why you'd block those people.
The two coolest things about truffle, IMO, is the debugger, which lets you debug/step through past transactions, even ones on mainnet, and the --dry-run feature, which lets you run your deployment against a local copy of a real network, without syncing the whole blockchain.

Both those features lean heavily on the work I do on Ganache, an Ethereum simulator that has all sorts of nice development features that a public node doesn't.
There's no such prohibition. The rules ask you not to fulminate, call names, or do flamewar or political battle. If you want to explore political topics in the intended spirit of the site—intellectual curiosity—that's different. People do that all the time here.

That may sound like a hard line to draw, but in practice it's not as hard as it sounds, because accounts tend to fall into a bimodal distribution: ones that want to smite enemies, and ones that want to explore curiously. This site is for the latter, not the former. It's not possible to have both, for the same reason you can't have a tank battle in a city park: the one destroys the other.

If you want more explanation about how we draw this line on HN, there's a lot of it at these past links:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
> How long would it take a team of 10 people to even read 329,000 pages of documents in addition to their current workload, let alone review those documents, which likely would frequently require back and forth consultations with others to do properly (e.g. the legal department or Pfizer's people)? How likely is is that they'll get money appropriated to beef up staffing levels of their FOIA team to get this done much more quickly?

Why on earth is there even a potentiality of anything __compromising__ in there to even have to fucking review it?

Everything FDA should be presumed public. Like. Everything.