skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is in great part due to idiot anti-vaxxers…
Can you elaborate, for those unfamiliar with Office 365?
> But there's usually a point where you realize that "this should've been a script" ™.

There is less accountability for essential business functions that a product provides.
Hmm. I thought that meat was always on the prized top. A steak, for instance, or at least some good poultry.

Bread used to be very much the base, so basic that it ended up being mentioned in the daily prayer.
Not saying it’s the reason, but Sweden has higher urbanization than its neighbors. The country also has more people who don’t speak the native language.
Belgium has a similar population size but more deaths (27k).
Shows that you work and earn income, apparently.
> This is almost never what you want. The most frequent case is to wait for the termination of anyone of a group of threads, which cannot be done with join.

I also have to say that this doesn't match my experience at all. Typically, my threads run for the whole duration of the program/object and I only need to join them when the program/object is done. In fact, this pattern is so common that C++20 added std::jthread which automatically joins the thread in the destructor.

I literally never had to wait for "the termination of anyone of a group of threads". For you it's apparently the most frequent case. This only teaches us not to make too broad assumptions. The world of programming is large.
Endlesss.fm is the way to go for playing music with friends online for free.

Instead of trying to beat network latency (which is impossible) endlesss provides a shared looper and a clock to sync all your gear to. This way you can jam with people with zero audible latency, building up ideas. And a bonus is that every version (“riff”) is stored and can be revisited or exported into a DAW. It’s an incredible tool.
I do not agree that maximizing profit is necessary. A company needs to take care of our customers and employees, and only make enough profit to keep doing so. More is just unethical.
Nope. Wifey made it in the pressure cooker.

Turkey done quickly and tasty.
Yes but how would you know that without reading all 6 bits first?
There are already second generation vaccines though, which are more effective against these new variants.
> Because the change is small, an updated vaccine doesn’t need Phase III trials and/or regularity approval. So, this whole process should take a max of 6 weeks.

This appears to be incorrect, Moderna says it needs 60 days to just get into trials (https://twitter.com/megtirrell/status/1464225637590310938) . The FDA has not said what the approval process will look like, but its safe to say it will be non-zero
Why is everyone you're referencing -- and for that matter, you too -- so damn hysterical? Vinay Prasad, case in point:

> When democratically elected systems transform into totalitarian regimes, the transition is subtle, stepwise, and involves a combination of pre-planned as well as serendipitous events. Indeed, this was the case with Germany in the years 1929-1939, where Hitler was given a chance at governing, the president subsequently died, a key general resigned after a scandal and the pathway to the Fuhrer was inevitable.

It's a mask & a vaccine, not the beginning of the Third Reich. The fact that your sources can't see the two as different things (and not as part of some slippery slope), tells me they've already arrived at a conclusion and will ignore all contrary evidence.

I know masks & vaccines feel oppressive -- but facts simply do not concern themselves with your feelings. There is a world of difference between the Third Reich and public health measures to slow the tide of preventable deaths. To be honest, I can't believe I'm having this debate here.
To correct for under-/overrepresented groups you need to change your hiring decision based on the groups of the applicants. And preferring hiring based on these groups (sex, race, etc) is sexism and racism in my books.
The point is not that the people aware of the situation can avoid using these services, the point is that Microsoft (just like Apple and Google) is abusing its control over the OS to entice millions of people to use their own services. This is not an even market, competition is distorted. How could better competitors emerge in such situation? As if the unlimited fundings these companies have was not enough.
It failed to apply to populous or notorious Muslim countries like Indonesia or Pakistan, only to those which Obama had previously put on a list. It got a bad name for political reasons, not for the facts of the executive order.
Fox News is not a credible news source, they themselves termed it as entertainment that no reasonable person would take as news.
Especially people who would use afterpay. That said shopping on mobile still sucks.
The countries impacted feel villainized and punished. In the future they might decide to not report their findings or other countries seeing these countries become pariahs may decide to not their findings of new variants, lest they be cutoff.
The 8088/8086 had a MMU that provided only addressing space extension, from 16-bit to 20-bit.

It did not provide memory protection.

The PDP-11 MMU provided memory protection so that process isolation was possible, but its main function was also addressing space extension, from 16-bit to 18-bit in the first version and from 16-bit to 22-bit in the later version, but that function was much less convenient to use than in 8088/8086.
>If this is true, why is it when showing a chart of data it is almost impossible to pick when any of these measures went into effect?

Quite exactly the opposite is actually true: it's always very clear from such charts that the measures are very effective.

Some examples:

https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/phac-aspc/images/corporate...

https://www.nejm.org/na101/home/literatum/publisher/mms/jour...

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/state-timeline

Doesn't take "PhD level math" either, just some basic understanding how the effects are delayed by incubation period, testing and reporting, and how an exponential function changes shape as the exponent changes
Or just stop making pointless UI changes. But that's not really the point.

Right now most Android devices come with a custom Linux kernel, and you can't just use the vanilla kernel instead because it doesn't have the drivers for the hardware. Which means that when the OEM stops supporting the custom kernel and it has vulnerabilities in it, you can't replace it with anything on that hardware, so your choices are to stay vulnerable or throw away the hardware.

If they'd spend a minimum effort to get their drivers into the mainline kernel tree, the hardware would work with any version of the kernel without needing special support from the OEM, so then it would keep working with new third party kernels indefinitely -- even if the OEM goes out of business.

But reviewers don't distinguish between the devices that have this and the ones that don't, and don't tell consumers why it's important, so consumers buy devices as if it doesn't matter, when it does.
there is a element with a 90 degree angle that consists of tiny individual metal wires.

That looks like an early version of what is now called a "Zebra connector".[1][2][3] Those are a stack of alternating conductive and insulating layers, and look striped, hence the name. These are used like gaskets between two PC boards. There are several conductive layers per pin, so you get a connection without carefully lining everything up.
They're vibration-resistant, so they tend to be used with keypads and in automotive dashboards.

I had no idea those were still around. I saw them mentioned once in some article about early digital watches.

This would be a useful technology for things that stack together mix-and-match like Arduino shields, but you want something less bulky and more reliable than 0.10 header pins.

[1] https://www.zebraconnectorsmfg.com/product/elastomeric-conne...

[2] https://www.fujipoly.com/usa/products/zebra-elastomeric-conn...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastomeric_connector
Woah, mate. I think that way of thinking might be more-than-slightly career limiting.

The community does play a role in the ecosystem you’re buying into. You will most likely need to send PR’s / bug reports in at some point. If the core team tends to ignore bugs/external contributions, it is a point to consider.

Furthermore, if your first knee-jerk reaction to the behaviour you think undesirable in reports is to “limit their reach and upward mobility” I think you need to think seriously about what mentorship means.
> Does anybody think these variants will ever stop?

RNA viruses have high mutation rates and variants will never end in the same way that flu & common-cold variation continues. The more interesting question is how will our immune systems adapt and will vaccines continue to provide protection against severity of illness at the same time as they apply selective pressure that enhances viral transmissibility?

Of further interest is why Japanese and Taiwan infection and severity rates remain comparatively low and what - if any - role their openness to a certain anti-parasitic, protease inhibiting drug has played in their success.

Also of great interest is why aspiration isn't mandatory in the US to prevent the vaccine from entering the bloodstream (primarily the heart) rapidly and in large quantities.

Many unanswered questions.
“Oh Myyyyyy”
—George Takei
I find that the sort of people who call others snowflakes end up being the biggest snowflakes of all.
Can Ribbit w/ the max lib run everything from SICP?
It'd be really cool to have a self contained (html or other text) file of the SICP book.
F: not sure how much public procurement they are doing

A(pple): seems unrelated and unhelpful to ban this large hardware firm if the goal is to be a "software superpower".

A(mazon): ok sure, build your own europe cloud.

N: lol

G: excellent idea to ban the only major competitor to microsoft office? chrome os for schools, gmail for business compared to exchange, etc.
Lockdowns don’t make any progress. They put everything on pause. But as soon as you unpause, all of those saved lives are at the same risk they were at before. And you can’t pause forever. Each lockdown becomes less and less effective as people stop caring.
Nope, currently learning Rust, really would love to read the articles about best practices & hidden costs
Zorijushi rice cooker. It can cook rice perfectly and can hold cooked rice for days.

Facebook portal. Yeah Facebook privacy and all that but that's a good product that allows me to call people without having to mess with the phone. The audio and video is super clear. I use it despite it's from Facebook.

Work sharp knife sharpener. It's superior to sharpening the my knives with the stone.

Apple airtags. I often forget where I put my keychain so this is really well executed. Apple airpods. They just work and they are nice enough.

Hakko soldering station. I don't know if the recent Chinese usbc ones are better but the hakko one I have work well enough for everything I want to do.
So there are some drives that allow you to install custom firmware called LibreDrive on them that bypasses the security checks. You can then use a tool called MakeMKV to rip the video streams into an MKV container. What is beautiful about this approach is that you can take the whole movie, all the subtitles, audio streams, different angles and dump it into a single file untouched(no re-encoding) and then operate it like a DVD player but using your native software's controls which is so much better than relying on the DVD menus.

The MakeMKV Forums will get you started on the best drives/proper techniques.
I saw what OP initially wrote before they started editing it down a bit. This is one of the ways that misinformation viruses spread. OP saw it on a radicalized forum somewhere, copied it into a less-radical forum and started watering the message down a little to aid in radicalizing others.
I've never found the argument that acknowledging, much less attempting to correct for, systemic biases in hiring is always equally as discriminatory as the biases themselves to be compelling, as the only possible conclusion to reach from that rationale is to maintain the status quo and its biases at all times. If one accepts that unjust bias exists in the system, it is impossible to correct that bias without discriminating to some degree against those whom the bias favors.

There also seems to be an unspoken assumption in OP's post that diversity hires are never as qualified as white male hires. It's entirely possible for women, POC or other groups to be hired as qualified candidates.
People also forget that it wasn’t a Muslim ban. The world’s largest Muslim country was not included in it.
Does that mean part of the compiler is security-critical?
What happened to Nu?
Your comment is currently the only one on this subthread that I would characterize as an accurate and evidence-based response.

Once we agree that the evidence for masks is weak and mixed, then sure, we can debate costs and benefits of the intervention. Or...we can do more studies.

It's been almost two years now. I think it's rather shameful that we haven't done the science, and we're still guessing, don't you?
It could be the “rebirth” of the Meraki platform - I don’t think the cofounders are malayali so while a Malayalam word seems more apt, i think it’s less likely.
> why Japanese and Taiwan infection and severity rates remain comparatively low

Just a stab in the dark, but generally high social conformity and particularly mask wearing.
20 years in Canada (Montreal), 10 years in Southern China (Shenzhen). Not watching news much (other than HN). I'm a skeptical by nature.
On one hand, I hate MS. On the other hand, EU tech companies need to be better and EU consumers need to support them.

Step 1: all the tech companies should stop using Windows (and MacOS for that matter). They whine about MS but still use their products. So use Linux, use LibreOffice, use EU based email or roll your own, develop software on open standards, etc...

Look at what the non-MS (and non-Apple) FAANGs do; they use OSS operating systems, tech stacks and build their whole infrastructure on open tech and standards, apart from a few proprietary bits rolled in-house.

EU tech's problem is that they all try to be MS but aren't. None of them seem to model what they do on the successful non-MS/Apple big tech companies.
What is unfair about the playing field? Why aren’t European innovators creating YouTube alternatives? If they are, what specifically is it about EU law that prevents them from being successful?

It seems like there might be a cultural issue at play - I keep hearing about how European VCs are much more conservative, and European banks/investors in general just don’t want to invest in software like they do in the US.

Every time there’s a post about working hard at startups, or at work in general, the European commenters are the first to raise that as a self-imposed crime against humanity. But some would argue that a small uptick in hustle might help Europe compete with FAANG and Silicon Valley startups. It’s not impossible to compete - see Spotify, which drove more established US competition out of the market.

I understand the European solution is to have national champions that are heavily subsidized (the US does this to some degree, too, at its peril) - but should that be the first choice?
Stop. The articles explicitly tell you that the rate of people missing vaccines went up during global lockdowns. People missed their appointments and stopped vaccinating their children.
Ah, Brian "dox the critics" Krebs. Reeaaaly solid guy.
then you should also have problem with capitalism/plutocracy.
> The difference between what they get paid for a potato and what I pay for a bag is quite extreme.

Not only extreme, but also obscene.

I recall in the late 90's someone described the poor profitability of potato growing in large tracts of the USA, and it sounded impossibly low - in the order of hundreds of dollars per acre.

Sad but true -- while revenue per acre may be ~$2500, costs are ~$2000 [0]

There's probably an on-topic observation to be made here about the past century or so spent driving subsistence farmers off arable land, monoculture, soil destruction, leading to an objectively unsustainable potato farming industry (in the sense of throwing more Joules into the working of the land, than you are getting out of it).

[0] https://www.farmprogress.com/story-potatoes-profitable-risky...
Theoretically masks would be much more effective than this - I think the 30-50% number came from a study where they looked at actual non-professional usage of masks. Most people have bad mask hygiene, so there is substantial air leaking around the nose or chin. Many of the makeshift masks people used are insufficient to capture viruses, but they do greatly reduce the "blast radius" of your breathing and coughs.
I don’t think OP is concerned with yearly shots or covid hanging around. It’s the lockdowns and other restrictions that people care about.
Wait, I know some physicists and scientists who use Costar. It's almost always somewhat tongue-in-cheek, just a little fun to add spice to life. Not a 100% serious religious guide... in the same way I know serious scientists who own a and cleanse a few crystals for the 'aura.'

It's kinda like pointing at a scientist who plays DnD and carries a DnD good luck pin and saying "DnD isn't even real! It's just play."
Design is about tradeoffs, as I think something the submission addresses very well. Something I recognize about your implementation of get-article! is that it knows a number of implementation details:

* it handles http requests
* it uses a jdbc data source
* the result of the parsing function and the arguments of the database fetch function are coupled,
* the result of the database fetch and the formation of the http response are coupled

This has implications both in testing and in application maintenance. What needs to change if you decide you want to add caching in front of the database? What if you want to pick up requests off of a Kafka stream instead of from a web server?

Like I said, there are tradeoffs. The entire premise of the article is about depending on abstractions rather than implementations. Depending on your particular context, where you want to end up on the continuum should reflect your particular context.
their demands

> No gate keeping (by bundling, pre-installing or pushing Microsoft services) for a level playing field.
> Open standards and interoperability that make an easy migration possible. This gives consumers a free choice.

poorly defined and vague. what is "gate keeping"? what is a "level playing field"?

migration of what? what is envisioned by open standards? what is a free choice?
Electric Unicycle and the Death of American Innovation
Go ahead and paint me as a heartless selfish person because I am looking at probabilities and considering alternatives.

In your world, if just one person dies it is worth shutting the rest of the population for.
Maintaining browsers has become a significant undertaking, so complex that only well-funded corporate interests can afford to keep one patched and up-to-date with the latest web standards. It surpassed operating system complexity. It surpassed pretty much everything else too.

So we can forget about it ever being truly "free" (and free from ads) unless we simplify the web somehow. I also don't think we're going to go back in time and start cutting features out of browsers. So that isn't going to happen.

What might work is a browser funded by massive numbers of small user donations. That's the Firefox model. It kinda works? But Firefox still pushes things on their users and defaults to Google Search.

Another option is to pay for a browser. But there isn't enough interest in a paid browser to get one off the ground.
I have seen a reminder once about time running out to buy an AppleCare warranty, which I appreciated. What other ads have you seen in Settings?
Show HN: Convert a paper menu into a QR menu
I'm 30+ and I just make insomnia overflow by not sleeping to the next day. Then go to bed at (target - 12h).

I never posted about it because it looks silly, but from many years observing I think the answer will always be very personal and rarely reproducible. So I'm posting it hoping someone will relate.

This is a correction btw, I don't do it very often. Just when the time drifted enough it would require a lot of "sleeping earlier" attempts, which don't work with me at all.
>'In this case, they could encourage European competitors to YouTube by using their services and infusing them with some capital. By digitalizing the processes across the union, and by again, using European services.'

Capital infusions have a troubled history, as they've often been used for political payoffs to companies with dubious prospects (Solyndra). I'm also not sure the government will choose 'the right ones', as their criteria may not match those of the consumers, which will lead to specialty government contractors (like US ship construction since the Jones Act).

>" Because Germany is big in Pharma, they encourage the pharma industry along with its research and development."

This seems to be a typical failure mode of government, they encourage & subsidize existing, visible industries, and ignore/tacitly punish 'up & comers'. The film industry is a typical example of the subsidies, and software is a classic example of the neglect.

>"Maybe my understanding is wrong, but I feel like a lot of innovation comes from heavy government-backed entities. And then the capitalists come and distribute these innovations in various forms to the population. "

I think this depends on how you frame the issues; for example, you could say that ARPAnet was the progenitor of the internet, or you could say that 'cisco' was the real innovator. I tend to view 'true innovation' as transforming a niche or speculative idea into something widespread and common, but that's not a universal perspective.
Yes, car deaths have decreased by multiple orders of magnitude in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...
I actually came from AutoHotKey as well, specifically for the cross platform support!

I've found the dev experience with nut.js to be worlds ahead of AutoHotKey as well. You get to use a real programming language with proper modules, data structures, first-class functions, asynchrony, and have access to a vast ecosystem of third party libraries and tooling.

Some Windows specific APIs are easier to work with on AHK due to the collection of built-in functions specifically tailored for automation, but everything AHK is still possible with nut.js since you're just writing a node.js script and have access to libraries like https://github.com/node-ffi-napi/node-ffi-napi that can call native system libraries, with a bit more work involved.
Covid uses trunk based development.
Yup -- projection, plain & simple
Surprisingly, masks with poor filtration underperform at filtering. Show a study that demonstrates the ineffectiveness of an N95.
All current evidence is that masks have a minor effect, measured in tiny fractions of a percent.

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/do-masks-reduce-risk...

To date, I'm aware of no study that has quantified a difference in infection, hospitalization or death that is attributable to travel bans.
Eerie. I was just browsing this site minutes ago. Good all-around guide but I wonder if it could use an update to include things like machine learning, cryptography, or safety-critical software.
Children in the Netherlands are among the world’s happiest
The aggregated over-mortality rate for Sweden at this point puts it in the lower part among the EU, at place 21 of 31 compared countries IIRC. The covid-related death-count at 15000 has been more or less constant since May even while it's surging now in the other countries.

Besides, people keep comparing Sweden to Norway, Denmark and Finland, which is a bad comparison as the demographies are very different.