skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AFAIK, the weight difference between TEU and FEU (forty-foot equivalent unit) isn’t that big. You probably won’t be hauling heavy things in one of these things anyways. Likely only high-value stuff will be hauled on an airship.

This is just the theoretical calculation of an airship the size of a cargo ship. It would have pretty incredibly capacity if built, but of course no one has built anything like it.
Remind me how many people died at the confirmation and how many people walked around with zip ties to use on Congress?
Embrace ...

Extend ...

It's quite obvious where they're doing it. VSCode doesn't support some Microsoft extensions if you don't use the official builds (which are proprietary, contain telemetry and nagware) and doesn't have the official extension store.

Take the software that's open and run. They haven't changed. They WILL try to fuck you over.

The people running to Gitlab were overreacting when they did, but may eventually be proven right too. Microsoft has shown it hasn't really abandoned its tendency to back-stab its users and itself.
>Scientists are not yet sure of how the vaccine affects transmission – and this is currently undergoing research.

I don't know how much clearer they can get with that next sentence.
Why post a link to a Houston Chronicle article that requires registration? How many HN readers possibly want to join Houston Chronicle site?
> and the difference between 60% and 90% is a lot less critical than the difference between 90% and 100%.

Hard disagree. It's common knowledge, and was even mentioned in this fluff article, 90% accuracy is within the experimental error of the "truth set". It's entirely possible alphafold is more accurate then the X-ray crystallography source for a large portion of the data set.

I would like to know what are you basing your very bold claim that 90 to 100% is bigger than 60 to 90%?

Talking to random people in the pharmaceutical industry also seems like a very poor way to find truth. It's a very big field/industry with entrenched interests and very narrow fields of view. Also, roughly 100% of the companies who are asked, "are you about to be disrupted by new technology that you didn't create and is totally different then the way you do things?" answer, "Nope!".
Back in my cab driving days I would occasionally pick up women from a shelter (for medical appointments and whatnot) and some of the stories they told me about their stalker exes make a $30 investment basically nothing.

The amount of effort they would put into stalking is mind blowing.
I see some parallels here to cases like "Google Glassholes"[1] or the "Sony see through camera" [2]. Both turned to be PR problems, even though technically the companies did not do anything that was not already otherwise possible.

[1] https://nypost.com/2014/07/14/is-google-glass-cool-or-just-p...
[2]https://bettermarketing.pub/sonys-see-through-camera-disaste...
When you need something like NSTableView that has no SwiftUI equivalent
Upgrade your gray matter, 'cause one day it may matter!
People Are Wearing Dangerous Radioactive Pendants to Ward Off 5G Radiation
"94 to 95 percent"
It's 2021, not 2006. The libertarians have long since been replaced by CoC writers.
And basically calling anyone “deplorable” for not taking the vaccine isn’t going to work this time either.
And what exactly is "Platform as a Service"? Can someone define that?
It happens randomly from time to time. Usually F5 fix it immediately.
Coming from a Ruby background, I got into Swift by first learning SwiftUI right around when COVID started. I know that sounds backwards but it actually made understanding Swift a lot easier. Overall, I was impressed (specifically with SwiftUI) as it was fairly easy to understand. Sometimes I wish I could do web layouts using SwiftUI. Clojures, Grand Central Dispatch, and Decodable in Swift took a bit longer to get used to.
As far as I can tell, the advanced features of Longhorn like WinFS just kept on running over schedule and eventually they had to cut down the scope and release Vista.
It's more nuanced than that. America has the issue where there's 2 big tent parties, but there's a million little fiefdoms that are easily captured by radicals. Things like local school boards, where people just don't have the time and energy to pay attention to every detail. Last November, my ballot up here in Seattle had 25+ things to vote on. In California it's probably even worse.

I get why the 2 party system evolved at the federal level, but there's no reason why we couldn't have more parties at the local level. That's exactly what happens in Canada, for example.
In Australia to activate a sim you need a form of ID, if you were to put a sim card in a GPS tracker you could easily be identified. air tags not so much.
Linux is not about choice (2008)
Wait, your motivating example is keeping parents out of the loop... do you give this example to show that it usually goes really bad when informed consent is missing?
Or do you mean to argue that it's okay to experiment on kids without consent, because the end justifies the means?
Or a third option, that I'm overlooking currently?
At my employer we use Objective-C++ to interface with some shared C++ code. Swift can use C directly but it can be useful to wrap a C library in an Obj-C interface to be easier to use in Swift.
is anybody doing anything with swift outside of iphone or mac app development? I recall there was some effort to make it something more than that but I think that's been mostly abandoned at this point since there are so many much better languages already
I feel the same way (lack of good alternatives from all sides), and find myself becoming a bit of a one-issue believer in

- Open primaries

- Ranked choice voting

I believe our current system rewards either extremism or outwardly expressed extremism. Each side has to one-up others on the same side to prove that they are the purest avatar of their side. Current candidates are physical manifestations of click-bait.

But at the same time, effective politics requires nuance and competence. The shouting match that is current US politics definitely lacks nuance. I believe nuance is a prerequisite to competence.

In the last ~6 years or so, I learned that there are some people towards the middle, on the “other side” that I’d have been delighted to select as my #2 choice either for reasons of temperament or specific policies. Open primaries and ranked choice voting would have let me do that.
What are you spending fitness money on? Dumb bells and a gym membership don’t break the bank for most software engineers.
Most of the energy in France is tied to long term contracts. Spot market prices aren't really meaningful.
Did you use some form of Bayesian statistics to choose which chunk to query?
No discussion of Klein bottles would be complete without mentioning Cliff Stoll's Acme Klein Bottle company.

https://www.kleinbottle.com/

His warehouse is pretty unique: https://youtu.be/-k3mVnRlQLU
I feel for your plight, but our first duty is to try to prevent this place from degenerating—or at least to stave that off as long as possible (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...), and it's quite clear that ideological wailing is one of the factors that most needs to be dampened if we're to achieve that. The best I can offer you is that the opposing wailings are just as dampened.
All 5g crazies KNOW that the bands arent 100% effective, so when they do get cancer, they are thankful that they didn't get it worse or faster.

I'm trolling obviously, but this isn't going to stop someone that believes these still stop 5g rays
That is because formal independence - as used in this survey - means a considerable risk of war with China. It is no surprise that people hesitate going to war when the current status quo is somewhat ok.
Diesel Chevette with Isuzu 4FB1 engine and five speed. It's an engine meant for generators, forklifts and other industrial applications. It's incredibly robust.

The rest of the car is another matter ;)
> Vaccinated people. I feel like you aren't following the debate.

So what exactly is this inconvenience, caused specifically by unvaccinated people and not government policy?

> No, why would you?

Depends on your answer for the above.

> Yeah if you think "you better stay inside so I don't get COVID because I don't want to get vaccinated" is a reasonable stance, this won't go anywhere.

So who exactly are you protecting with vaccination then? Other vaxxed people who are also protected? And as I mentioned in another comment, why pretend to understand the motives of the unvaccinated to make them the 'enemy?'

> I even completely fail to fathom how "you should limit your own liberty to protect me from my choices" is remotely acceptable

But it's ok to limit the liberties of the unvaxed because 'risk?' Everyone has rights or no one has rights. This is fundamental. Are you ok to be called unvaccinated if they decide boosters should be monthly even if a newer variant is evading those vaccines again?

> You can either get vaccinated and go out, or not get vaccinated and stay in. How is it at all reasonable to tell me what to do because you don't want to get vaccinated? You're basically saying "everybody else needs to stop driving because I like walking in the street instead of the sidewalk, how selfish of you to still want to drive!".

But being vaccinated doesn't stop it spreading while you're out, which highlights the selfish motives for getting it. You don't care about not making people sick, you care that your freedoms aren't restricted. There's a lot of vaccinated people in hospital still, are they an inconvenience?
I meant not working for Google.

I'm not sure about Teams, but Zoom lets you use a standard SIP client to join meetings.
your company sounds like it would be very useful to many startups. The tooling stack we went for is:

Jira+Confluence,
circle CI as the CI/CD service
Artifactory for binary hosting
and GitHub+gitlfs

circle had the lowest friction compared to Jenkins and GitHub actions wasn't out at the time!
I think that the concern is more about consumers and risk aversions.

Fish, particularly anything with "fishy" taste, is looked down upon in some cultures. It's also not really cheaper than other kinds of meat, so you kind of get the worst of both "a lot of people have a dislike of fish" and "it's expensive".
Wishing something was open source and committing to build it are pretty far apart. There are examples everywhere where people have built open source alternatives for things. Understandably, there are way more people who'd like an open source version of a given program, so that sentiment is encountered more frequently.

Personally I don't believe in the business model of charging for the priviledge of running code on your own infrastructure. I also don't get involved in "pirated" software. So I would expend "I wish it was open source" to "I wish it was open source or SaaS with some compelling features".

For example I don't care that 1password is closed source because I pay them to store and let me access my passwords. I do care that Windows has a model where I would have to buy a license to run it on my own computer, so I'm happy there are open source operating systems that serve my needs. (Amongst other reasons, in today's climate I'd be highly suspicious of a "free" closed source OS)
> Most GTK4 apps won't be usable outside the intended desktop environment for which they're built.

There have always been apps more heavily integrated with GNOME vs GTK apps.
Gtk4 is easier to port to other platforms, if anything it should be less painful than it has been before.
>The public was lead to believe that the vaccines were highly effective and safe. Now they are realized to be not so effective (against Delta/Omicron)...

You mean how they typically clarified they didn't know how efficacy would play out in future variants? Because that was definitely a thing.
Ask HN: Learning Python for job interviews if I already know Ruby?
Hi HN!

My day job is a Ruby on Rails position. I'm considering looking for new positions, and wonder if learning Python would be worth it for coding interviews. I'm open to another Rails position, but it's not my preferences so I'm not sure about using Ruby for interviews since Python seems to be a lot more common for those types of questions. I also know TS/JS, but have heard that there can be a stigma when using JS for non webdev roles. Any advice?

Thanks!
A student of the original author finished this book and published in September 2018, according to this website: https://www.euterpea.com/haskell-school-of-music/

Besides, the second author also wrote:
> Please do NOT make these files publicly available, as it has created confusion over what is actually in the published book.
Oh god! Please no! I don't want to be forced to chew gum everytime I want to leave the house.
We spend a lot of money on a personal trainer; and a coach specific to my poison (cycling). The personal training and coaching are the greatest expense and I will allow my lights to get turned off before I let that lapse - it's that important to me.

There has been a significant investment in a rowing machine, indoor smart trainers for cycling, and quite a bit of free weights. My wife runs, and she spends a healthy amount on running shoes.

There are monthly subscriptions for things like Trainerroad, Zwift, and "upscale" yoga. The yearly cost of all three might be $500.

I invest in a DEXA scan at least once a year for about $50. Workout clothes wear out and need refreshing, but we go cheap on that and the expense is minimal.

There are periodic expenses - a new Fitbit, or a heart rate strap needs to be replaced - but they are not frequent or costly.

There is a large upfront cost to all of this - I now mention the 2 pretty expensive road bikes we use, but they are years old and have more than paid for themselves by helping us attain better heart health - but it's not prohibitive.

I will also note that we have consciously chosen this route vs. maxing out 401(k) or similar. We are not wealthy (in the financial sense) nor are we sitting on a nest egg or in line to inherit a large sum of money.

Finally, we're not monomaniacal about fitness. We like good food, going to movies, socializing, and so on. We could do 3 nights in NYC for about $2500 - or we can skip that and use the money for new equipment or a trial run at, say, a new gym. We choose the later 9 times out of ten.
GPL is part of why SaaS happened. It doesn’t prevent commercial use and it doesn’t require distributing source code if the user never gets an executable. SaaS is the textbook way to work around the GPL.
> you worked two jobs to build your own business and how it is a great idea that brought you success, you instead told the story about how you fired a guy that worked two+ jobs

The take away that I’m trying to communicate (and clearly not doing a good job at) is pretty simple: have integrity, be honest, and act ethically.

Avoid exploiting, lying, and misleading.

If your employer is cool with you working multiple jobs and you’re honest about it with everyone involved, by all means, go for it!

Just my opinion. Pretty simple. I’m just advocating for people to act ethically.

I mean just read this blog post on Overemployed, having been on the other end of that as an employer, it’s infuriating seeing people jeopardizing their whole career and reputation for a few extra bucks: https://overemployed.com/overemployed-journal-week-2-elhapo8...
Have a Retro-Holiday with the Print Shop Club
It's a fair critique. But when the Captain of an airplane I'm flying on tells me there's an emergency problem with the flaps, I don't ask him for text book evidence, I just look out at the wings and verify the problem.

Check this data in a few weeks.
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#rates-by-vaccine-s...
So we may be able to use brains instead of GPUs sometime?

Phase 1: Collect brains...

Phase 2:

Phase 3: Profit!
Now do Joe Rogan and Alex Jones...
https://archive.md/gbtbX
SwiftUI doesn’t but Swift will still work find with NSTableView.
Thank you for replying. Though, I do not understand why a plugin is required? It feels even more invasive to have such a thing running in the browser.

My understanding is that I have an advertisement ID attached to my user, and that enables Google to infer who I am and what my persona is about, to match me with personalized ads.

Wherever possible I disallow Google and all others to stop tracking me, having done so in my account. I find it odd I also need to disallow the tracking from Google, through a third party site (e.g. anyone's blog) even though I have already done so through every direct means possible. What do the consent settings in Google even mean then if I need to allow/disallow consent of tracking per seperate website in addition?
It's nice to hear that they've found a net-gain by using self-organizing teams.

The article posted plenty of benefits, but I didn't notice any mention of downsides. My personal experience with self-organizing teams has been quite the opposite.

I'd love to hear back from them in a few years regarding how it played out for them. It would be great to have more data to predict when self-organizing teams will work and when they won't.
Maybe the people that don't mind, or like it keep more quiet.
I prefer it, been a CSD user since before CSD itself, with Winamps rolled up UI.
A related question: what type of software engineering work is the most relaxed? So far I have only worked in live services and while I don't feel overworked, I often have background anxiety that I will break something and cause a huge impact. Are there any product areas found at FAANGs that don't cause this anxiety?
>I haven't read any studies done on the effect that this could have but if it was: 1) researched and 2) financially doable (results in net gain) then yes I would. If as a society we can find that doing X will improve the quality of life for all Americans for very little financial cost to us and only a long term positive impact, I don't see why anyone would say no to that?

Are there studies showing that student loan forgiveness would result it better "a long term positive impact" compared to the alternatives? eg. giving everyone a stimulus check, regardless of whether they have student loans or not, or giving everyone earning under $x a stimulus check?
The headline is definitely playing off of fears of a repeat of the Hubble error.
If you have had fake crab on a sushi roll, you have pretty much got 90% of the way there.

I will say that I don't think the spice blends used in a western sausage would do particularly well in fish. When you see fish balls or fish cakes in Asian cooking they're seasoned differently, light and a bit sweet.
Speaks as if "translation" doesn't happen in reading in native languages. A word's meaning can change every other decade, when I'm reading something in native tongue I'm constantly rationalizing what I read into my own words, which I would categorize as translation. Some good translators' work might even convey more accurate original intent than reading natively yourself because they're supposed to study the context of the writing thoroughly.

One interesting point I heard from a Lex Friedman podcast is it'll be interesting to do a database of diffs between different translated versions of the same literatures. I think stuff like this can greatly aid people's understanding of the original intents.
Why not drive through a random suburb at night and randomly pick a car?
I worked with a client and a devops team before, I still thinks having a separate devops team is not the right approach.

In my case, the team « responsible for creating and maintaining the tools and processes that allow the dev teams to manage their systems in production », was just a regular OPS team. So they built tools that were not working properly and they struggled to focus on the most valuable parts because they were not using them. At least, they were the one getting paged when systems were down.

My next ask for my project with my next client, will be to embed a devops full-time within the dev team. At least they will understand and share the pain of having to work with a git+terraform ticket system and all the bad ideas that our OPS friends think are great.
Obviously right thing? Perhaps that hubris should be saved until the results are in.....

It takes very very little government intervention to indirectly kill 1 out of 200 people. And when you move to life years lost, the government has to kill less than 1 in some absurdly high number like a 1000.
In this particular case, advertisers were not interested in moving to a declarative format, and publishers were not interested in requiring declarative ads. So it didn't end up going anywhere as a general purpose ad format.
It will be interesting to see if this pill could be used as prophylaxis too, instead of only after the onset of symptoms. Might help with the need to recognize symptoms fairly early on.
Yes, you have misunderstood this all along, and that misunderstanding has already been pointed out to you in this thread[1]. It is effective at preventing COVID-19 infections, which you get after being infected with SARA-CoV-2. It never claimed to prevent infection of the latter.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29619347
Is swift docs still bad? I remember developing for swift was a pain when you need to look for docs. Most of my resource came from Raywenderlich instead of official apple docs lol.

I have since moved away, but current company wants to move from RN to Native dev so i'm confused if i should be onboard with mobile or move to other dev teams.

I find it weird how big companies like Microsoft and Apple have these small flaws. Apple has really bad docs, but good in using its own tech. Microsoft on the other hand has good docs, but almost never uses its own tech (yes, i'm talking about xamarin).
One interesting thing is that Chinese supermarkets, even the ones in the US, tend to keep fish in water tanks, to be processed by the fishmonger.
This is a large part of the plot in The Three Body Problem
This article is several years old. I could swear I heard about this happening even before 2019 though, but all I can dig up through web searches is this case.

Have there been any updates?
It's not "misshaped" if it's precisely the way it's meant to be. The media need to stop trading credibility for clicks, before they run out. I flagged this article, if the idea is to give HN a pretext to talk about Webb, there are plenty of better articles out there to use.
Usually happens when flagging AND hiding too quickly.
Number of souviner models sold, or refrigerator magnets?
If you're curious about the protest against the California Mathematics Framework which inspired this post, I highly recommend this article, which exposes the extremely shoddy and essentially fraudulent research used to justify the CMF: https://edsource.org/2021/one-districts-faulty-data-shouldnt...

Perhaps the most shocking point from the article: the oft-trumpeted claim that SF schools reduced retake rates of Algebra 1 from 40% to 7% by delaying it to 9th grade is entirely fraudulent.
Keep in mind that the Mac Plus CPU was something like an 8 MHz 68000. I don’t think a 486 was ever clocked that low?

Apple used MPW internally for Mac development by ≈1986, as others have noted. MPW was a Unix-like environment. However, the MPW toolchain was much slower to compile and link.

In any case, by the 486 era, a serious developer would have wanted to run a 68030-based Mac at minimum, which would have been a similar experience to this video, but much faster and often on a larger screen.
There was a large effort to bring it into machine learning in place of python, but the team that was over that was restructured and it looks dead.
Enforcing foreign judgements of those lacking jurisdiction is a tall order and certainly not minor. The precedent alone means a forceful approach may get them refusing from sheer spite. Politically it would be suicidal to be seen as weak.

As for how well tarrifs worked, see the story of the Chicken Tax and light trucks.