skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Vivaldi user I would really like to see more growth in this area. There are some great ideas in browser forks and I would like to enable them.
it would be great if we can move past the browser and debundle the tech, for example we should have a few different JS engines, a few different CS engines and a multitude of different GUIs ...
You should form a club with holocaust deniers to be honest.
"I'm inconvenienced and no longer care if others die because of it!"
> Why is no industrialized nation capable of vaccinating 10-20% of its population on a given day?

Probably because there aren’t enough qualified people to do the work. It takes a lot of people to manage a mass vaccination. Even just crowd control at a mass vaccination site requires quite a few people.

It’s not clear that capacity to vaccinate is a significant factor in industrialized nations at this point, anyway. Vaccine uptake had halted due to “hesitancy”, not capacity.
That sounds super cool :) Interesting that he special cased it for that one bridge, and good that the water level there is reasonably stable, but that would definitely require some checking before making a run at a later date because the waterschappen are known to occasionally change their policy and suddenly you'll find that your 'known depth' is off by a meter either way. Lower wouldn't be much of a problem I guess but higher very well could be.
Why Omicron quickly became a variant of concern
"Please stop propagating this BS." At least in the US hardly anyone has or uses FFP2 level masks (N95 here) and the government has not promoted them (except on the last page of the CDC page on masks with half a sentence saying they're better). And the data on cloth masks does show their effectiveness is much lower than initially advertised.

If the parent was speaking about the US, then they weren't propagating BS, as hardly anyone speaks of N95's when talking about masks. I assume it is because the government ran a massive ad campaign to get people to not wear them in the beginning.
I hate to break it to you, but a virus doesn't really care if you're sick and tired of the situation. It sucks, yeah. No, it's not OK to stop caring only because it's been so long. The socially responsible behavior is still the best course for an individual, even if surrounded by morons.
Mozilla betrayed the people a thousand times. It's time to face we the people have lost the war.
It's time to move on and build something new.
Really, people make such a production out of it. You can use the tinfoil to line an existing hat.
What developers find surprising about Postgres transactions
More or less is relative. In 2019, Indonesia had 15.3 road deaths per 100.000 inhabitants per year [0]. For context, Norway had 2.0, United States had 12.4, and Liberia (the worst on the list) had 35.9, to pick a few random data points. While I definitely agree that the traffic in Indonesia is chaotic and that can lead to more accidents, that doesn't tell the whole story.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Maybe they are big fans of Newsradio (one of my all-time favorite shows) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JpwjnMFlJI
My theory has been a little different. IIRC Horn and Please are written on the two sides asking the tailing vehicle to blow the Horn. And the OK comes from the OK word written on the bumper (in the middle) by the manufacturer. This was a requirement as far as back in the 80s (may be even earlier) to stamp the OK (on the lines of OK TESTED) I guess. People got habituated into reading Horn OK Please and the integrated with the culture.
All countries or states that had initial comparatively high fatalities like Sweden, Italy, Portugal, New York, Florida are doing relatively well now regardless of vaccination status.

A possible cause is that there are fewer vulnerable people left.

Even if the vaccine does help against severe cases, it does not stop the spread, so being vaccinated should be an individual choice and not forced like in Austria. That is why a closer look at highly vaccinated countries is in order, everything else is unscientific.
Always wondered how Google can pull it off then. I assume their legal team figured out the threshold of what they can do, and now they do threshold - 1 so "it's ok"?
Author here!

Postgres runs at a different isolation level than similar databases like MySQL, which means transactions behave subtly differently.

This means experienced engineers can assume their past experience carries to Postgres, and may be working with an incorrect mental model. The same goes for people who learned transactions theoretically, who may assume Postgres gives you greater guarantees than it actually does.

This explanation has always surprised people- I hope people find it interesting!
The media and government can't be trusted with germ theory. The whole idea that we have control over the virus and that our actions are tantamount to killing people with it or not is ludicrous. The virus is going to spread, and its going to kill people. People aren't killing each other. We will all catch covid. The "treatment" has been so much worse than the disease. 5 million died due to covid, but hundreds of millions will die due to the global economy tanking. People acted like we were "sacrificing" lives to the economy, but in reality we were sacrificing children's childhoods for extending the lives of septuagenarians.
> I have to strongly agree with your last point - I also never understood the massive hard-on that the technical user-base has against useful telemetry.

I think it would be far less hostility if we as users got access to the information ourselves. E.g. I would think it would be very useful to see stats on which features I'm using in firefox, how often, which features I'm not using, how many tabs I have (compared to the average user) etc., and I would be much more happy to share that data with firefox if I can see it first.
I hope you are aware that the world has evolved. We just don't run the compiler on bare metal anymore. Thanks to the latest UX, UI (GUI is obsolete), ML and AI advances the compiler runs in a web browser which runs in a VM, which runs in a container. And browsing the Slackware changelog is still a challenge on latest Edge /s
I suspect that TFA's author is aware of this, but rats' vision is so poor that I'm not certain VR is the correct modality for them. IIRC they rely on smell, primarily, along with touch, to navigate their environment. I imagine that the rat just decided to accept the likely-ineffective vagaries of the experimental setup, because the smell of food was tantalizingly nearby.
> why would they need to know English exactly?

because if they know English, they can get higher paying jobs
now that we have LSP running as an external process I hope they jettisoned java and are instead using C/C++/Skia or something for the editor so it's fast.
> For years folks have been asking us, “JetBrains, when will you create a lightweight editor?”

So we gave you anything but a lightweight editor. Lightweight editor implies speed, focused purpose, simplicity. What we get instead is remote collaboration, cloud functionality, and a distributed architecture.

Does this thing support language server protocols for the listed language or will it continue to use Jetbrain's implementations?
There's plenty of rationalization for noise pollution on this thread. In my view you're closer to the mark. Drivers honk at red lights, which is completely irrational.

"Honk more, wait more - Mumbai"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q358fIosAsU

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_from_noise
Shoutout to someone using the term "emotional labor" correctly!
Thyme and oregano are easy peasy to grow at home.
It is not going to stop... new variants, booster shots, masks, lock downs, tests for everyone everyday. Get over it. It's like airport security, once setup, the system is not going away and soon nobody will remember how life used to look like before all of it happened.
This perpetual copyright extension fails to take into account the public's investment and contribution to keeping characters such as Mickey Mouse relevant. It really should be public property by now.

Another example although, thankfully sanity eventually prevailed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You
Masturbation Is it harmful or beneficial?
For starters I would want my government to change the narrative. They should do their own independent research and present their own facts. Instead they blindly buy vaccines from US and repeat the agenda as everyone else.

There is way too much politics involved. Pandemic should make people naturally empathic not forced by their governments to blindly obey.
No, Portugal had initial high fatalities in 2020 and 2021. You are just regurgitating mainstream in a hostile manner.
KDE now uses Blink to render KHTML IIRC.
Thank you for sharing this. This is actual news and I am somewhat dismayed that none of my news feeds picked it up ( I have long given up on dramarama news edition ). I clearly need to made something more custom.
But it is the common cold:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/UvuXzdVwj3ed/

Get lots of Vitamin D from sunlight and be sure to take your Vitamin C. Breathe lots of fresh, unfiltered air. Keep the curve low.
18ish years ago I was using Firefox as my primary browser and then testing in IE. Now I still run Firefox and instead test in Chrome. Rinse, repeat. Although I'll admit testing and fixing for Chrome is quite easier than it was dealing with IE and it's various versions.
I am arguably an expert in Indian English and I can assure you the phrase "Horn OK Please" does not have any meaning nor is it grammatically correct.
Oh yes, I'm not hating on Spain, but the parent comment seemed to deny the persecution Jews experienced and portrayed it as some sort of righteous anger on the part of good Catholics.
Better than just deleting the functionality.
> 1. In many ways Apple's anti-competitive behaviour on iOS/iPadOS is a blessing. It's one of the few things that keep Chromium's dominance in check. Of course, it's not great that Apple are stifling innovation like this, but consider the alternative: Chromium dominance on all platforms.

I think it’s worth noting that (at least I believe) the reason apple limit the usage of other browser engines in iOS isn’t (mostly) about maintaining control and dominance. It’s about battery usage, WebKit is heavily optimised on iOS to ensure optimal power efficiency. The number one priority is that the lowest denominator of iPhone user is happy with their device, and battery usage is the number one KPI people care about.
There's a significant contingent of people who think if we all just followed every precaution, all the time, forever, "we" could stop the virus, and it would die out. Coronaviruses don't behave like that. At some point, everyone on Earth will be exposed to this virus, and masked or not, vaccinated or not, each person will have to deal with how it affects them. Some people are hardly bothered. Some die. Some wind up in the ER 3 times, and have lingering problems (like me). I get that masks can help slow transmission, but can we stop pretending that if we all "just did" whatever "the authorities" tell us to do that we would magically escape from this plague? The data from various countries concerning protocols and amount of people following them just doesn't seem to support such thinking. Such data seems to be suggesting that it's much more about genetic makeup than anything else, and not masking and distancing and hand washing.
"I am not arguing in good faith nor do I have an ounce of empathy for someone that have not seen family and loved ones for more than 2 years".
Was this in Jakarta or a smaller city?
> They basically don’t have any other product that is competitive with vscode.

All their products are very competetive, even when paid. A license for any professional developer is a no brainer (in my opinion anyway).

If they want me to pay more for a next gen Jetbrains IDE I’d do so without hesitation.
Hmmm this goes against what the RKI is saying. Omicron is indeed very infectious, as the data has certainly shown so far.

This appears to be an individual in the thought camp of "we don't know if it's a big deal so let's not treat it like one". I disagree, personally - we did that the first time and it made things worse. Why risk it?
RedHat seems to be working pretty hard to make that experience better. For a long time, there has been a need to be "somewhere in between". While Eclipse, Netbeans and IntelliJ have been all about the entire Java EE/Application Server experience. Some folks didn't need all that just to write a few Spring Boot microservices. Sure the IntelliJ Maven task tab makes things super easy. Some folks are okay with typing out those commands on the CLI. So, VSCode with syntax highlighting, auto-imports, and some smart completion is enough to get the job done.
“We two ours one” always puzzled me. I assume this is about overpopulation and encouraging families to have a single child?
Your point is?

You're saying that Portugal had high death rates prior to vaccinations, fueled by an uncontrolled spread?
The rendering engine part is kind of the least problematic bit, because there are three primary options (Gecko, WebKit, and Blink) and they're all pretty up-to-date and open source. You could also pick up Goanna, KHTML or Servo if you didn't want to use any of the big three as they're open too, but there'd be work to do on them.

There's no particularly good reason to start your own renderer from scratch.
I am so tired of this bullshit, it's so damn tiring. Everything feels, just so very useless, its just sad to see how much this thing has effected everyone, everyone I love, every stranger I see, we are all getting pushed to the limits, people are depressed some people are suffering in silence while governments and organizations like the WHO are not telling us exactly what's going on, they change the narrative everyday, apparently its a lab leak, apparently its not, sometimes its bats that caused this, sometimes its some poor nobody at a wet market who caused all this, you listen to ten experts and you hear 20 different stories.

I don't know what to believe in anymore, no matter how much I follow the rules, wear masks, take care to social distance myself from others this things doesn't seem to go away.

The media says its the fault of the people who are not social distancing, they are saying the vaccine will work, just two shots they said, then it became 3, and now apparently we might need to keep taking this vaccine longer. Oh no what? there's another version and the vaccine I took are no longer useful?

Apparently the people concerned about governments using this opportunity to grab more power to keep us all in order are crazy antivaxers, the moment you step out of line you become a "non believer" in science, the moment someone questions science they become an idiot a hillbilly a tinfoil wearing lunatic. Apparently we should all fall in line and listen or else we are the problem.

Reasonable people I knew in my life are now getting more and more agitated, many people are angry, many people are lost and suffering in silence. The rich are getting richer, the powerful are getting away even after they were caught abusing children just because their mother is a powerful person.

Somethings gotta give, we are at our limits now.
We've taken to ringing our bicycle bells if we're approaching a corner or intersection we can't quite see past.
That opportunity is still there.

Enough features to distinguish on, enough political/managerial reasons for choosing an independent FLOSS engine over one controlled by Google.

Sure, Edge/MS won't move to this engine anywhere soon. Nor will Brave switch over tomorrow, or electron rebuild around their tooling. But the world is full or "HTML-2-PDF renderers, headless testing toolkits, (embedded) webview-libraries or electron-alike toolkits, which are now almost all exclusively Chromium based.
That seems much more reasonable that the strange "on kerosene" theorised in the article.
If masks didn’t work, surly we’d all have anecdotes of people catching covid while wearing a masks. I literally have not heard of a single story. Everyone I know who has caught covid was maskless (not even stories of people wearing masks poorly).
I just use emacs and ssh /shrug mostly. with use-package I'm able to pull all my plugins onto a new machine one the first emacs startup.
It takes ~1 months at quickest approach. This pretty much eliminates any biological pandemic level issues.

War on Mars will also be something else. Canadians understand this all too well. You're far enough from everything to make you not a target. Life on Mars will be precarious for everyone far worse than the mutually assured destruction that prevents it happening on Earth.

It doesnt eliminate all issues, but it certainly eliminates lots of issues.
But why don't the numbers add up is my question. There is a want, a need in the market and that - as it does for housing - drives price.

In fact, I bet if "amenities" went up in price the cost of housing (read: demand) would fall.

That's how it works, unless someone or something has their thumb on the scale.
Two years isn’t an inconceivable time to build additional hospital capacity and attempt efforts at preventing normal causes of medial and nursing school drop outs in order to bolster the number of adequately trained medical professionals available to staff those hospitals. In fact a lot of countries have an artificial cap on the number of doctors and nurses which is driven by various medical professional associations, the government could easily have said “STFU, well take as many doctors and nurses as the universities can graduate” to these “industry self regulations”.
I tried on pycharm which I still pay for. Remote setup was painful especially as it would be MOST useful for new users
I would say, wisdom is when you more or less can predict which consequences there will be. But trying to evaluate them, even if you do not know for sure what happens, is IMHO a sign of intelligence.
Classic web-dev people have little incentive.

All others have lots. That's the point.
Yes, but that return on investment was simply a mechanism, not a goal in itself.
>The entire history of humanity is the fight between those who work, and those who make others work. Workers never won this fight, ever. The pyramids got built for free, serfdom, slavery, wage slaves, it’s the the only fight there is.

Okay? That's why unionization is important for the ones who don't have the power.

>Millions died in the trenches in WW1, millions died in every war. Dumbasses, they played you.

I'm unsure what point you're attempting to make with this statement.

>Have you ever woken up at 6am to go to a job? Did you take a 30 year loan to buy a house? Did they tell you can only really quit working at 65? Sorry, If you don’t optimize for income, you are beyond retarded.

Again unsure what point you're trying to make. Why does it matter when I wake up to do my work? I wake up at 5-6am every day because that's my optimal sleep schedule.

>There’s 8 billion people on this planet, and I intend to have people do my work for me.

Okay? So you purely see work as a means to what, get more stuff and food? That's tragically simple-minded. Work can be done to solve real problems and help people, such as researching diseases that impact humanity. Is that the work you're having people do? You seem more focused on material goods and personal energy expenditure than anything else
it's not "just like Chrome". It's not great, but it's not in the same ballpark as what Google does.
It's hard to believe Mozilla will do much considering 90% of their revenue comes from Google.

for better or worse, Apple has been the single biggest driver towards privacy enhancement.
If you actually think that your video means anything, you're too unwise to realize how unintelligent this sounds. A coronavirus is a type of virus, as an educated person and barely-sentient animal that can read a Wikipedia article both know. Did the "common cold" kill people like this in the "80s"? No? Then go home, Mr Crowder, and stop spreading misinformation. You don't understand what's going on.

But if you're willing to respond, and in case any other readers still believe you, what's a "rhinovirus" and why does the internet suggest that that is the "common cold"?
Please provide clarification: is something "relative" if people disagree on it? If there are two different interpretations of a single data set, for example, does it mean that the reality of what that data means is "relative" or just that one or both interpretation don't have enough information (or appropriate understanding of it)?

Basically, I want to know what "relativism" actually means to you since your quote seems to imply that anything you think about is "relative". Thank you, I'm excited to hear your response.
On a Mac you can click the trackpad anywhere, which is great. But all Windows trackpads have a hinge at the top, so you can’t click near the top. Why don’t any Windows laptops use a Mac-like design? Is there a patent?
I'll be sure to tell that to my neighbor who lost both of her parents and a sister to COVID before the vaccines were available. I'm sure she'll understand.

If omicron is actually a breakthrough variant, I'm sure all the people who are about to die will also understand how hurt your feelings are.

I'm merely pointing out the selfishness in your stance and how harmful it is to the overall efforts of the medical community. That's not bad faith.

We've all had an absolutely shit time. You're not special.
This whole thing will never end, will it ?
Should we be prepared to live with masks, mandatory vaccination, QR codes and worse for the rest of our lives ?
It's happening, soon to a HTTP://rubygems.org near you I hope
Show HN: A malware scanning API for file uploads
Similar but different: a company called MicroAcquire[1] facilitate the buying and selling of small companies, though unlike tiny[2], don't acquire them themselves.

[1] https://microacquire.com/
[2] https://www.tinycapital.com/
> As someone who grew up in a rural area, honking before going around turns on small roads or crossing single-lane bridges you couldn’t see the other side of was something we did regularly to avoid being hit.

I've never found this in rural Indiana, but I wish it were common practice. I've found people often simply assume no one is coming because there are so few cars on the back roads; very nearly experienced a head-on collision approaching one curve a few years ago.
> They followed the basic test/trace/isolate advocated by WHO seriously

No. TW started inspecting flights from Wuhan before the WHO even did anything. NZ blocked inbound flights while the WHO was figuring out what to do.

> TW itself got a chance to act early due to warning by PRC doctors due to cross strait connections.

No. Taiwan heard whispers of SARS/Unknown pneumonia and reacted accordingly.

> Again, import case statistics from TW/NZ demonstrated PRC exported less than a few hundred cases to these places TOTAL

No. NZ closed its border to China in Feb. TW closed its border for flights from Wuhan. China stopped domestic flights from Wuhan but continued to allow flights out of Wuhan. This has nothing to do with "they can't keep foreign citizens trapped in country", because 1) they can and 2) they do.

> Yet you list actions of how CCP took covid MORE seriously then and now than basically anyone else.

So you agree that welding people into their apartments is a good approach to controlling the virus?

> Politicized by Tom Cotton and republican peers in early Feburary

It was a valid theory, and still is. Was never a conspiracy theory to anyone but the left. While nothing from the PRC has been anything other than propaganda conspiracy theory. The lab leak theory should have been taken seriously in the beginning when it was theorized at the beginning of Jan.
I read about that but it hasn't made it into the production version :(
A man goes around with a sharpie destroying QR codes
This is very inspirational, goals