skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You dont have much experience of national health care systems do you?

China is a developing country it doesnt have the established early warning systems in place that developed countries have for monitoring potential health risks and they dont have the contingencies or over engineering in place that other countries have.

Simple example for you to understand, take the new VW Golf R, officially its 320hp and 420nm 1550kg, power to weight ratio is worse than the Seat Cupra Leon R at 300hp and 400nm 1392kg, yet why is it performing better than the Seat. You can watch the mystery here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycKWQBCpwMg
but let me tell you, sandbagging technology, ability, performance, what ever you want to call it is a valid technique, I believe its even mentioned by this Chinese philosopher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War

So are we "watching" a magic trick of sorts and if so who is the magician in this case? Is it Lies,_damned_lies,_and_statistics?

I find many GP's to be "useful idiots", they know what they have been taught, I love pushing them towards jihard aka cognitive dissonance when I have to interact with them but if you are clever enough, you could create a system which could even keep them in the dark. Try to think how clever terrorists might work, so take a look at the security services around the world like the CIA for example. Look at the things they have done in the past! Shocking! Shocking I Say!
IMDSv2 is supposed to solve that

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/configur...
“The app is hosted on AWS” makes a less incendiary though more accurate headline…
This algo would work well for computer generated synthetic images,
not as well for scanned images.
I get the reasoning behind the browser makers' decision, but I really wish Web SQL had become the ubiquitous option. SQLite doesn't make a standard, but pragmatically I think it would have been a better option than how IndexedDB turned out.

A declarative storage syntax for a declarative display engine. Seems a good fit.
> turn the lights on when the power's out

Well I go start up my backup nuclear reactor in the basement of course.
The moon is a somewhat facetious benchmark, but we harnessed fire some 400k years ago. Agriculture, or more generally culvitating your own food, is another major milestone that happened 10k years ago, or thereabouts. Those are more reasonable, especially because other intelligent species could piggy back off our technology to speed up their own progression.
This is just an opinion but CFA does not scale well. In my experience overall quality and service at CFA has dropped considerably, and not just at new stores, but older ones as well. Part of the issue is that CFA does not allow owners to own multiple stores, so every new store has a rookie on top. Well-trained, but not experienced.

Every INO is company-owned, overall I think it manages to keep quality pretty high at all it's stores. Of course part of that is due to the extremely limited menu, and also that INO has never been known for fast service. INO basically tells customers up front, we aren't convenient and we aren't fast and we don't sell anything except burgers... that's 3 areas of potential customer dissatisfaction that they take off the table. All that is left is price, which is good not great, and taste/quality, which, to its credit, INO is pretty fanatical about. Edit: and cleanliness/service, also strong points for INO
Reminds me of something I read earlier mentioning "design by consortium" where the complexity of something goes up because there's so many people working on it and not enough straightforward documentation
I have no idea if it'll meet your requirements or not, but have you looked at something like this GE direct-wire smart switch? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YTCZZF0
Exactly controlled font rendering and color accuracy over the web are impossible to get exactly right because what is correct for one OS/GPU/screen combination will not be correct if you change OS or screen (and sometimes GPU).
> you have to learn how to properly press them (with about a 200ms hold)

My water filter infuriates me to no end with this. Maybe if the switch were polled every 50ms I wouldn't notice it, but 200ms is so long for my otherwise patient composure that I prefer to drink the water from the tap.
Hmmm, don't suppose the machine will have an api (or even accessible electronics port), so the IT and/or electronics types can really go to town with it?
I’d really want to check the sources on that to see the methodology. I’m in different spaces so it could be different here but that’s pretty much the polar opposite of what I’ve seen – people use social media or web searches, and hit the App Store only when pushed with a hefty drop-off rate. I’ve heard that this is very different for a few categories like games, which makes sense, and I think a key part is how well you can sell the benefits to the user: games, Uber, etc. have a pretty clear benefit but it seems like installing an app is seen as committing to some kind of ongoing relationship.
No, it's my commitment to objective analysis and not bizarre herd behavior combined with religious/cult undertones that led me to this conclusion.

I always love when someone posts like one single "study" that almost always doesn't even qualify as amateur hour (eg data mining) and thinks it's some sort of mic drop, as if there aren't 25 disconfirming studies or data points for every one thing saying masks have even a faint amount of efficacy.
I was one of those kids, that didn't do good at math compared to other subjects. I was still close to a top student, albeit a lazy one. maybe that affected my math ability. it was only in college, ie in the States, that my math scores average high B's and A's n those scores were in calculus etc, math required for CS.
> I happened to learn to read at age 5 (not in Germany nor USA) but that didn’t make me “better” than other kids; they did other things.

My experience is the opposite. Because I learned to read early, I was able to absorb a huge amount of information previously inaccessible to me. There was simply no comparison - I was far better in every subject that required either knowing some information or processing it. The only exceptions were the subjects where body skill was important (art, PE, etc.) - in these areas I had some competition, I others there was nobody. I believe our chances balanced more or less in the second year of high school.
hi, the nextjs integration looks all promising. Especially how fast it is integrated.
I wonder if there is a smart way to automatically verify a session and get user details on one of my own api routes?
I'm of the opinion that "info" is for long form guides and "man" is for short references.

(replace "info" with some better reader than the default one though)
The implications, if that is the cause, are shocking. Forget about the deck crew and the pilot being blind morons. It means the flight computer for a plane that took twenty years and a trillion dollars to develop can't detect that there's a fucking cover blocking the engine.

How does a twenty thousand dollar sedan have a more robust readiness-detection system than a hundred million dollar airplane?
It has data size in header: https://github.com/phoboslab/qoi/blob/master/qoi.h#L77-L82
Just put exif info after data :P
Essentially, Egyptian language survived as Coptic, which uses a Greek alphabet. The names on the Rosetta Stone are easy to find because they are circled in the hieroglyphs ("cartouches"), and it became clear that the symbols were phonetic. Once you know some phonetic symbols, you can quickly start sounding out other words. Knowing Coptic, you can start to understand what you can read phonetically.
> So what's the compelling reason to ship these as a single source file, instead of using the more logical and standard solution of a single header and a single source file?

C doesn't have a packaging format or dependency manager, so having to keep track of two files would be pretty cumbersome.
I have almost the same list, plus I recommend a web browser macro recorder like imacros, uivision or selenium ide.

Which one you prefer depends on your taste. They are great for casual and quick form filling and testing, and save me from too much typing and clicking.
> All I hope is that this cancerous ideology doesn't grow any further than it already has.

Give me one reason why you think your hope is valid. Everywhere I look this attitude seems to grow stronger and even discussing it becomes socially awkward, at least in some circles.
I am a developer and I always try to re-use a solution (preferably open source) instead of rolling my own (I'm happy to do the latter in case the need/situation demands but those cases are not that frequent). I also happen to enjoy devops (specifically CI/CD stuff and enjoy the integration aspects of connecting things to achieve a goal and see the entire pipeline producing the end-result). So I guess you'll have to find people that have the integrator mindset instead of those with NIH syndrome. At the same time, you do need some talented developers as well in case you do need to roll your own. It is a balance like most things.
US DoD Opens New UFO Office
> one good thought experiment would be to ask whether a student who graduated from a first tier public research university in 1990 or 2000 received any less of an education or formative experience than a student who graduated in 2020.

I will say, as someone who went to university during the period you indicate, it was called overpriced and not worth it at that time as well.

Your counterfactual is a valid question, but I think it’s also irrelevant. As I said in my last post, the price one pays for any given university can vary wildly from full ride to full sticker price. Your argument seems to be that the sticker price is higher than the median salary in America, and higher than in other countries, therefore it’s overpriced. But again, those who make a median wage in America aren’t paying sticker price for college. I went to the most expensive university in the country at the time and paid 30% sticker price, making it more affordable than the public university down the street. My roommate paid sticker price because he came from a wealth family and didn’t qualify for any support. We both would report that our experiences were formative, yet not overpriced.

So you see it’s impossible to make any blanket statements about this. It’s really specific to the individual.

Anyway, that’s all I really have to say on the matter. I welcome your reply but I think my opinion is stated exhaustively.
With the price of copper going up I'm starting to think everything will become smart just because it is cheaper to wire houses with thinner wires and smart switches. Hopefully things "just work" though.
The very first computer game I played in 1971 was called Colony.

Colony was someone's attempt to turn the secretary problem into a computer game. Except instead of trying to hire one secretary, you were piloting a starship full of colonists and you would visit n planets in order, whereupon you were told how suitable they were for colonization (using Star Trek like planet classes) and you got to decide how many colonists you would beam down to colonize it. At the end, you were rated on your performance.

It is the game that turned me into a hacker. Unfortunately I never got to play it again and I never found its source code nor any reference to this game. And it wasn't until I heard about the secretary problem as an adult that I figured out what the game was really about.
I have done both over the years. I started out primarily frontend but have gravitated towards backend. I try to keep up with frontend, but it does change very quickly. To your point, backend changes far less frequently, but it does change. I feel like its slower pace of change makes it a more sustainable career path. Time will tell.

A lot of people are saying they’re similar in difficulty, but I believe backend is simpler largely because it’s easier to model. You have a much simpler more defined picture of these are my inputs, this is my output. You also have control over the exact environment your software runs under. Frontend often feels less like a science and more like managing chaos. Backend just has so many less variables outside your control overall.

I feel like backend can be a little thankless at time, at least from outside. People care a lot more about some new widget than the transparent background changes that took months to roll out seamlessly and kept the whole thing running.
When the virus leaked from the Wuhan laboratory and spread across the globe in a matter of months,

If this is what gets "taught" around the dinner table at home ... then in such a house, all STEM education will be moot.
Apache NuttX OS on RISC-V BL602 and BL604
Yes absolutely, you can use the Ory SDK's `toSession()` function to resolve a Session Cookie (for browsers) or Session Token (for non-browsers, e.g. native mobile apps) to its identity.

We have on the list to add a section about using Next's new middleware feature to protect API routes. Is that something you'd be interested in?
It's a bit of a mixed bag and the terminology is difficult to grasp. I'd say Tcl and Bash are languages that only have strings ('stringly typed') that can be interpreted in a number of ways. JavaScript, PHP, and SQLite's SQL OTOH have lots of implicit type coercion---`1` and `'1'` can both act as a string, a number, or a boolean.

Python is considerably more picky in what it allows in which constructs; it does all the numerical typing stuff implicitly (so switching between integer, big int, and float happens most of the time without users even knowing about it), and b/c of backwards compatibility, coercions between numbers and booleans still happen (`True + 1` is still `2` in Python3.9). By extension, this includes empty lists, strings, and dictionaries evaluating to `False` in appropriate contexts.

I believe that in retrospect most of these efforts—coming up with a Just Works arrangement of strategically placed implicit coercions—that so much defined the rise of scripting languages in the 90s are questionable. Subsequently, many millions of USD went into making JavaScript faster than reasonable (on V8) giving its pervasive dynamic nature. Just bolting down types and banning any implicit coercions would have given it similar performance gains with a fraction of effort and a fraction of the resulting complexity. Backward compatibility could have been done with a pragma similar to the existing `'use strict'`.

I guess what I want to say is that strong and loose typing exists on a continuum much like human languages are never just of a single idealized kind.
> tabs vs spaces

> backend guy claiming clients can't dynamically handle auth by arguing server round-trips aren't ok for SPAs but totally for HTMX vs frontend guy saying not lifting as many interactions to the client makes for worse user experience

Interesting stance. Let me guess, you have never implemented a user interface?
Honestly this sounds like absolutely wonderful qualities I wished more people in the world had.

Nothing screwed us more than willingness of people to take part in conflicts.

Imagine how much harm and waste could be avoided if when generals daid, let's go liberate Afghanistan soldiers responded, nah, I'm good rather then collectively following ideas of imaginary Uncle Sam.
I think an even bigger issue is that anyone would want to read the Bible literally at all.

It's an amalgamation of various writers from different periods in history.
The mods probably added the date to the title later to make it clear. It was discussed in 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9425587 (55 points | April 23, 2015 | 11 comments)

Stories about historical artifacts are popular here and it's not unusual that they are reposted a few years later by someone that missed the original discussion.
Relevant xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/1168/
And that's a completely racist argument. The irony in the people pushing these ideas is astounding. They've basically taken an easy political out and instead of doing the hard work and realizing that African Americans can meet the same standards they've basically just said "nah they're too stupid so we'll lower our standards to make their grades look better."
Emacs blink-matching-paren minor mode does this. It’s quite configurable, like every other thing in Emacs.

Some of the alternatives can be found by starting at: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ma...
> I think for a long time the only thing that will push IPv6 uptake will be legislation.

Is it really such a great idea to force every single device on the internet to be globally uniquely identifiable?
Microeconomic theory would cap total marginal costs (including COGS) at marginal revenue, not just salaries.
How to shoot down a F-35B crash:

"Dealing with what caused the F-35B crash, the British media outlet The Sun reports that it may have been a “cheap plastic cover” that was left on during take-off."

Of course, this may be a simple strategy, red herring, to fool unfriendly nations, but...

Also, makes me think about the MiG-29 which has special opening on the top of the engines so it can tak-off/land on unpaved runways: https://www.quora.com/How-is-the-Mikoyan-MiG-29-able-to-take...
Thanks, too many tabs open.
> Interestingly, many very recent Sci-Fi movies involving realistic-ish human space travel feature spacecrafts with spinning toroidal living quarters.

Some less recent ones too [1]. It never ceases to impress me that this was filmed before the moon landings.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4uOZnao7JM
Documenting a gRPC API – tools comparision
Chaos Cat, a.k.a. the fluffy fuzzer...
Hilbert curves are not that much more complex. Maybe ten or so lines of code. Interleaving bits is already a pretty complicated operations if you don't have builtins for it.
Canada school board cancels book club event with Yazidi Nobel laureate
> Anyway, let’s wait for the official investigation to provide more confirmed details about the incident and its root cause(s).
I wasn't aware ETH Zürich was considered the Ivy League!

But all jokes aside I think you should give these professionals a little more credit--they also factored that possibility into their experimental design and included tests for "useless" token transfers [0]. While parrots would often transfer tokens to empty compartments (for when they knew their neighbor was missing and lacked tokens), these same parrots did not when there was a completely empty partition [1]. Further even the article notes they didn't just hand out tokens automatically or willy-nilly, but were more or less willing depending on the bond.

Personally I think the most interesting thing about the study is not that non-mammalian animals have the capacity for altruism or prosocial behaviors, but that Blue Headed Macaws (despite being extremely intelligent as well) were not willing and the difference is that their general populations form smaller (though equally cohesive) flocks compared to AGPs.

EDIT: and the reason why they used tokens vs direct walnut transfer is that these birds were trained in a prior experiment (with an equally interesting premise) [2]

[0] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)...
[1] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)...
[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-30933-5
Why Bitcoin at $100k is possible
> the air frier won't even turn on until you pair it with the app

WTF. take that crap back.

Buying this shit only encourages them to make more of it. Quit that.
Alexander Schliker, YC Alum acquires Microsoft today for free
>2 - kids who have parents who can afford tutors and such can push the kids through the prescribed steps sooner.

Personally I was lucky my dad was running a computer repair business from the 80's onward. Growing up with a computer and a mountain of pirated educational software prepped me more than anything else my parents could have done. They lucked out that I particularly enjoyed learning.
So how does the game engine work? Anyone looked at the code and want to take a stab at describing the basic algorithm?

Its interesting to imagine asking a bunch of normal devs today to make a basic text adventure. Imagine the approaches they'd take and how lost they'd be!? :D

The very first game I played as called "L Game" on the rare (and underappreciated) RM Nimbus 80186s at high school in the UK. It was a text adventure and the rooms were forming an L. A quick googling finds a playable version online: http://bbcmicro.co.uk/game.php?id=2147 (there goes my afternoon)
Twitter is launching its shoppable livestreaming product
Speculation: in these countries it's more common to segregate educational programs by gender. So there will be dedicated institutions for women, including institutions or departments that focus on computer science. In this context, it's more natural for women to consider computer science as something that women do. This seems compatible with the original article's hypothesis in the general case.
It's a question of framing. Nothing is ever over- or under-engineered. It's over- or under-engineered for a purpose.

What that distinction recognizes is that it's possible for something to have been well-engineered at one time, while still being over-engineered today. Header files in C and C++ are an example of this phenomenon. They solved a very real problem with technical constraints from 40, 50 years ago, both in terms of computers' capabilities and compiler technology, but, since those problems don't exist anymore, they function as over-engineering.
I highly doubt the initial story since it doesn't really make sense. There are tons of checks before takeoff. Jets also go full throttle during takeoff so this isn't something that would just show up during the roll
White House creates new energy division to coordinate climate change policies
FYI, this was already done in San Francisco. There is a twitter thread where someone FOIAed SF unified school district stats to confirm their claims that this change would be beneficial if extended to the state as a whole. Here is what they found:

1. Enrollment in AP Calculus decreased and enrollment in AP stats increased:

AP Calc BC -27%
AP Calc AB -12%
AP Stats +30%

The number of african americans taking AP calculus declined by 54%.

2. The percentage of students who met CAASPP standards dropped from 53% to 49%

https://twitter.com/SteveMillerOC/status/1400948830397341698
I think such private information should be removed on request. But on the other hand that would immediately lead to the removal of inconvenient information of all kind. Just as we saw with the removal of polarizing people like Alex Jones, it did not stop there. And who should hide the information? Google? There are still other crawlers around. There could be third parties with an interest in that person for any reason whatsoever. Should a name be blacklisted for a long time?
A world where western nations haven't formed an international cabal of gang stalkers which silence oppositional countries that refuse to surrender their natural resources or exploit their populations.
"If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike"
TeaVM converts Java to JS, and it has first-class maven support.

https://teavm.org
The flip side with the heat is that I can’t help but feel I’m introducing another failure mode into my heating system with an internet connected smart thermostat which is a whole lot more of a problem in a sub freezing area than forgetting to turn the thermostat down.
Not to counter your point, but natural proclivities and stereotypes are often fighting each other. If a man likes horse-riding, he may not pursue it because in their country that's seen as a girly thing (I'm looking at you, Sweden). If a girl likes horse-riding, she may not do it because in her country that's considered a manly thing (personal experience, different country).

So, all the more reason to fight stereotypes at every step.