skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another thanks to Codeacademy :)

I got my feet wet and learned basic Python through them. Really got me over my fear of programming being crazy hard and the my fear doing something "wrong" to mess up my computer. Took a couple more years before I really got invested, but codeacademy cracked opened a door which led to a few more.

The other day I had the top down after cutting out of work early to go flying, and thought “life is good.”
Show HN: Blank NFTs
GPUs are just resistive heating with extra steps, COP 1. Heat pumps can do way better most of the time.
That’s exactly the point though!

The real question is “what is the relative severity, conditioned on prior immunity” — as in, what is the intrinsic virulence.

As in, should an unvaccinated person with no prior Covid expect delta symptoms, or this list? We apparently still can’t answer that with confidence given the data currently available to us, but it seems unlikely to me that this cohort should expect anything milder than the wild type.

We can hope it is milder, and we’ll learn more soon.
That's why I made the distinction between public hosting and a private album.

For public files, I fully agree with you. For private ones, not at all.
You're confusing literacy with numeracy. To give you a counter-example to what you're saying, my son reads above grade level, but has math anxiety, and would struggle with some of the questions that mixed percents and fractions, especially on a timed test. If he decides he wants to teach, he'll be great at it, but he'll need to level up in math skill and get more comfortable with juggling numbers in his head.

Your comment about wanting better-educated people to teach is legit. But we have, in America at least, run-down areas with crappy primary schools. Some of those kids will feel a calling to teach. What should we do about that? Find resources to help them get to where they need to be, or tell them they're too dumb?
OTOH if you need the GPIO, power consumption or form factor it's hard to beat a Pi. They're not the best on power, but they're better than a NUC.
Out of an interest in late antiquity, I've been fascinated by the change from paganism to Christianity. Under paganism, rites were carried out to secure favor for the society and if there was a personal aspect, it was transactional (if you grant me favor, I will make such-and-such a sacrifice). But this tradition also contained various mystery cults wherein secrets would be revealed to you upon initiation (the popularity of which increased in late antiquity). Early Christianity can be seen to function in this mystery cult niche, but why should it have proven to be so successful? My suspicion is that the personal aspect of religion and revelation became increasingly important. Why that might be is good fodder for speculation.

To relate this to the part of what darkwater you are responding to:

> My biggest issue, implicit in my initial comment, is that we as humanity should grow up and stop needing a mythical figure like a "God Almighty" to care about our neighbor.

And the heart of your response:

> It turns out, people can relate to, be influenced by, and learn from participating in stories with other people a LOT more than they can by changed by propositional debates and lectures.

I have the sense that there was a moment in western culture (vaguely late golden/silver age of Roman literature) when we could have stepped past religion into philosophy. Stoicism was well-regarded, its aim (like cynicism and epicureanism) was to achieve a state of ataraxia, tranquility, and a major portion of the curriculum was logic. But a mass shift in mentality towards personal divine revelation took place instead, so I (reluctantly) have to agree with you.
Being that this is coming from a (former) core maintainer of the stdlib I think it's worthy.
> Let's say it's 100% of the government's fault, which I don't believe, but let's just say it for argument's sake.

Who else's fault is it? It isn't the public, that is for sure. You can't blame people for human behavior and "not taking this seriously". These governments asked us to pay one of the highest costs you can pay--they asked us to donate 2 years of our short lives to their cause. And thus far, they have done absolutely nothing but blame the public for their failings.

Life is short. Being asked to flush 2 years of your life down the toilet in this purgatory we are in is a huge ask. Don't you think we should see some results now?
it was metaphorical . he blocked him on twitter.
You can just compare the APIs, namespaces are like the individual components of a jail. You can use them to build something like a jail, or something different that has a different security model. This was discussed a lot in an old HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13982620
I was in a recent emergency situation where I could’ve needed to spend thousands of dollars on the same day.

I just don’t have that kind of liquidity.

I can turn the required savings/stock in to cash with 3-5 days of lag. But not the same day.

This is where a subprime loan would be useful as a bridge, and in that situation I don’t think it would ruin my life.

Consumers know what’s best for them. As long as the APR is accurately advertised, I don’t see why people should be jammed up because some people think interest is a sin.
Americans are allowed to say anything, because it doesn't matter. In the end all you can do is to choose between two largely identical parties.
Can someone explain in English what is going on here?

I thought I understand DNS but I guess I don't.
> Companies should not be allowed to issue 'punishment' to customers.

Why not? Contracts with penalties are very common.

Subscriptions should be cancelled when an account is banned but it's not obvious to me why there should be a refund. Subscription services usually don't allow for partial refunds when you cancel. If you force companies to refund in case of a ban, you need to force them to allow cancellation at any time with the same refund.
> When I actually meet someone, It was always someone who is in their mid-20s to 30s without a job.

I read this article (a long time ago) about a NYC girl who was saying that investing $30/mo on a Match.com account was the best investment she had made, as it meant she'd get treated to top restaurants, etc. by the guys for free.
I think we should take advantage of Omicron right now and let it rip through the population as it's most likely less deadly. Not doing so could be catastrophic and lead to more deaths in the future if the virus mutates to be more deadly.
> The objective way to identify gay men is to ask if they have slept with gay men over a certain period.

So what's the objective time period? And if a gay man has an unlucky streak for that length of time, do they auto default back to straight?

What about bi or pan people? If someone identified as bisexual but you have only ever seen them in relationships with the opposite gender, can you reasonably say "you're actually objectively straight"?

The idea of objective metrics for social categories falls apart under the slightest scrutiny. The government can assign objective markers but only for things that are objective - the whole "gay men not being allowed to donate blood" thing for example is meant to screen out HIV right? So the metrics are aligned around that goal (also it's a messed up system but that's another subject).

The government measuring certain metrics does not make them the objective definition, because the government is not the definer of reality.

I think you're confused by a lack of understanding of some of these ideas, plus a healthy mix of "there are quite a few insane or poorly reasoned progressives", but mainly the former. For example, sex and gender are different things, and some of the things you have said confuse the two, but also some arguments from trans activists also do that.
The problem with NFTs as “performance art” is that the bulk of the performances are zero-content, trivially reproducible exercises in pointing to something else, and that’s just not special. Such NFTs can be reissued by any one of thousands of off-brand NFT-minters, most of which will be just as good as the first to mint, which is to say, not good at all. The long run supply and demand picture suggest the outlook for those is pretty bleak.

Compare another recent speculative craze: some rare Beanie Babies are still worth a lot! (Valentino the bear is $1900 on eBay.) But most aren’t worth more than their value as a toy, about $5. What do common NFTs have that give them value when they’re not part of an active hype machine process anymore?
TikTok Rival Triller Inks $5B Reverse Merger Deal
I subscribed to GH activity for the Author's friendliness-enhancing utility library. It's for parsing build information from the debug pkg:

https://github.com/carlmjohnson/versioninfo/

The primary motivation curiousity to learn if this becomes "the [best/default] way" folks reach for when leveraging BuildInfo to implement binary versioning in Golang.

It could be a nice benefit to the entire go ecosystem if there becomes a widely-used, de-facto, and consistent automatic versioning scheme (for the common cases, e.g. minor point release lineage).
Outlook addin sample with Python back end
Why is this good? - This allows you to use Python as the backend for your Outlook addin instead of using node.js. So you can use flask, and any other python modules with your outlook addin. Microsoft ONLY has examples from asp.net or node.js for there office addin samples, so I am hoping this will help others who want to make an addin for outlook or office in general but with using something like python.
There's no goalpost moving. It's the same thing I said originally.

You shouldn't be swayed by inappropriately small sample sizes. Your response was "well what if I had a lot of them?" My answer was "still no."

.

> In the meantime, I'll go with the best we got.

This isn't even close to the best we've got.
So based on her other blog posts she looks to be hard right leaning so this post doesn't really surprise me. No proof other than her retelling of "leaked" documents. Same crap, different day..
I think there is a point to be made here.

Let's say I have the following code:

func open() (*os.File, *os.PathError) { return os.NewFile(1, "stdout"), nil }

// in main
// (some lines omitted)
fi, err := open()
if err == nil { fmt.Println("no error")

So, my question is, does that print 'no error' or not?

Normally, you would say "no, it does not, 'err' is a nil '*os.PathError' so it does not.

However, I didn't mention what lines were omitted, and those lines actually matter!

// main
_, err := os.Executable()

fi, err := open()
if err == nil { fmt.Println("no error")

Having that line before it changes the output, and the error is no longer detected as nil (since it's now a non-nil error interface referencing a nil struct).

Why does this matter? Well, it's extremely common in go (idiomatic in fact) to reuse the "err" variable name, and it's also extremely common to use it in multiple assignment with ":="... where despite using the declaration syntax, you can re-assign to existing variables without their types changing.

I think that's what the parent was pointing out: a combination of type inference and automatically "converting" a struct into an interface for you (both in assignment, as I showed above, and when you return a value, as shown in the parents example) means that you can end up with this issue without doing anything as obviously wrong.

In other languages, returning concrete error types means the caller has more type-system information and is good. In go, returning concrete error types gives the caller more information, but opens them up to accidentally implicitly casting it to an interface and blowing their foot off.

As such, we have almost completely untyped error returns, and any time a gopher thinks "this is dumb, why don't I use the type system for this?" they're actually just loading a shotgun and pointing it at their foot.

> I don't think this is a different (and thus not "worse") case

All the above was just to say, I think it's the same case, but it's pointing out that it's "worse" because it interacts poorly with other parts of the go language spec.

Playground: https://go.dev/play/p/4MYEZr8D5Qv
> This is racial discrimination. It's unfair and should be illegal.

This problem arises because the people putting these policies into place (or their constituents, whatever) are trying to redefine the meaning of "fair".

Your definition of "fair" (and mine, and most peoples, and the sane one, and the original one before it was hijacked) is "equal treatment". Their definition of "fair" is "equal amounts of assets" - equity. Put another way, these laws are driven by people who think that it's unfair for different people to have different amounts of money.

You can probably guess which ideology this comes from.

Anyway, given that definition of "unfair", it's natural to define "racism" to mean "unequal outcomes" (different amounts of money) instead of the original "unequal treatment". From their perspective, the action mentioned in the article decreases racism.
Most people don’t get in abject misery when they get COVID. In fact the vas majority doesn’t even realize it
In the post Twitter mob world, expect that context no longer matters.
No, actually not. I hate that website with all my being, and I hate all the naturopaths that spout nonsense about nutigenomics.

I sat in on classes at UNC Chapel Hill and I only use peer reviews studies. If you want to challenge my knowledge please do so. I have spent 20 years doing this.

I have a livelong disability and it runs in my family. NO one knows the cause but I am pretty sure it is mitochondrial and is largely affecting oxidative stress.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20833242/
The big green button lies. They are trying to bend the language to mean things that it legally doesn't mean. Just as they call unauthorized distribution of content "piracy" or "theft" (it's neither), they call a temporary revokable permission to access their content "purchase". And if you click that button, you agree with it knowingly. When it bites you in the nether regions, they'll remind you that was exactly what you paid the money for. Nobody forced you to pay money for that, you did it voluntarily. You are the one that gave them all the money to build this system.

I understand that you may value digital goods. I have some I value too. You just need to understand that just as with physical goods, even more with digital ones - if you don't control it, you haven't bought it. If somebody could just come and take your car, any time for any reason, you haven't bought a car. If somebody can just come and take your game anytime for any reason - you haven't bought a game. You bought a ticket to play it, maybe, but that's wholly other business.
I've had good luck with this fork of PCSX2. I've been able to play Kingdom Hearts with my Nintendo Pro Controller on my M1 Mac and it runs really well.

https://github.com/tellowkrinkle/pcsx2
Most likely inertia. us-east-1 was the first AWS region, gets new features released there first and is the largest in the USA, so many companies have been running their for many years, and the cost of moving to us-east-2 > the cost of occasional AWS created downtime.
I thought running a generator full time was illegal AF due to environmental regulations?
> Say I live paycheck to paycheck

Well, that's your problem right there. Unless you have routine access to spending opportunities that yield more than 36% in yearly returns, which I'm going to assume is pretty unlikely.
I will give conduit another look if I ever try to setup a server again. I am quite active in the rust community and maybe I could also participate.
APR is the financial equivalent of those labels in the grocery store that give price/100g (or price/oz if you prefer). It allows you to compare the cost of borrowing money across a range of products regardless of a loan's duration, compounding frequency, or non-interest fees. So yes, it's very fair.
> Not every system need to scale to many machines (ex. multiplayer games with limited number of players)

the author writes a websocket board game server. Most, if not all, of these complaints read like the author isn't partitioning the connections by game.
It's worth noting that we pay for both, import and export of electricity in Germany. This is due to the failed* energy transition ("Energiewende") into renewable production. We pay for our overproduction on sunny and windy days, because the electricity _has_ to be bought by network providers.

* inefficient and too expensive
If you've ever played with HackTheBox / TryHackMe (hacking playground) they provide VPN config details where you connect and can access all sorts of services, DBs etc to hack.

I imagine a similar solution could work for coding, networking etc training.
My Chinese colleague was randomly walking by a protest in his city recently.

He didn’t even know there was a protest nearby until he was ‘visited’ all day by police and had to sing the praises of the ccp.
I bought a Pi 4 with the intention of using it as a services box for a Synology NAS, but it turns out that hosting a Postgres cluster over the network isn't a good idea.

I've since moved the data onto an SSD directly connected to the Pi and use the NAS purely as a backup mechanism, which I guess was the point of having a NAS to begin with. I get the impression that trying to run things directly on the NAS is cumbersome with Synology's OS.
Venture capital, Harvard, Stanford, it’s all the same racket. Because the best deals and students come to YOU, you don’t actually have to DO anything.

So it’s no wonder this scam possess the smell test.
There was a third team from WebTV, that was based around the team that designed the 3DO M2.

That team lost the original Xbox internal design contest, but went on to design the 360 and later Xbox consoles.

The Dreamcast WinCE project did contribute several engineers to the Xbox org. It mostly taught MS how the console game business worked, showed them where WinCE/Direct X needed to be improved to support consoles, and gave them a list of things not to do.

Dreamcast’s controller and accessories were also quite influential on the original Xbox controller.
Sorry, not gonna play "its not a real lockdown" pedantry with you. I don't care what you call it. Any restriction we made in the last 2 years be it closed small businesses, masks, vaccine mandates, hall passes to go on dog walks, "not allowed to walk on the dry sand, only the wet sand", closed playgrounds, closed schools... all of it... it was all in the name of flattening the curve to build supplies and increase healthcare capacity... right? If that is true, where are the results?

And if the goal isn't to flatten the curve to build supplies and increase healthcare capacity, please inform me what the goal actually is. 'Cause if that ain't it... I have no fucking clue what we are doing.
From work experience, only a small amount of website contact information work to actually contact the person in charge of the website.

My very rough estimated would put it more like:

40% of email addresses is no longer valid or has an mail box that does not get read.

30% reaches the web design shop which built the website many years ago under a different brand. They blindly forward it to their customer if they still have that information. The contact information is many years old and likely a dead end.

20% has auto-reply and do not get read.

1-2% has algorithmic reply that links to a FAQ.

5% actually reach a human being. Those 5% however are still a good enough reason to not do this!
These are straight lines. Not sure you even _want_ Bézier curves in this context, striaght lines are probably clearer in these graphs with hundreds of connections.
The first line of the Canadian Human Right Act is:

For all purposes of this Act, the prohibited grounds of discrimination are race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability and conviction for an offence for which a pardon has been granted or in respect of which a record suspension has been ordered. (Emphasis mine)

Straight, white, cis-male seems to fall under a lot of protected classes.
A few observations:

- TikTok surpassing Google.com to place #1

- YouTube.com + Google.com still dominates

- for all its traffic, Twitter looks like the odd one out in terms of actual returns as a business (profit, stock cap, etc)
There's no need to delete the old gmail account, just use the new account for anything new, and change the mail address to the new one for the few frequent and useful accounts.

Over time, the old gmail account will lose its importance, and there'll be no real risk if Google decides to ban it.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait to HN? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly, and we ban that sort of account. We're trying for a different sort of forum here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are countless stories of people who have had to go through the most absurd contortions in order to be allowed to stay in the UK. I'm happy that that didn't happen to you but don't dismiss this as 'a stretch by any measure' because things worked smoothly for you.
To be fair, men do it too!

https://la.eater.com/2019/1/17/18186932/dine-dash-dater-arre...
If you live paycheck to paycheck, which is consistent with your total savings being less than $500, the chance that you will be able to pay back $515 on your next payday are basically zero.
It seemed to me like the business is having financial trouble and cannot pay a fine like last time, so has to be penalized in another fashion, maybe I'm misreading it.

> The order would also impose a $100,000 civil money penalty based on LendUp’s demonstrated inability to pay.
Some of us feel trepidation about Chrome being 'too big to fail' simply because Google has demonstrated itself to be capricious and fickle in terms of continued support for products. One only has to glance at killedbygoogle.com to see a pattern of rather arbitrary decisions to kill various things. If for any reason Google decided to kill off Chrome, it would be nice to have an alternative to fall back upon.
Back in 2012 I made a series of blog posts about all the unique image algorithms I could find:

- Facebook (that I designed): https://blog.vjeux.com/2012/image/image-layout-algorithm-fac...

- Google Plus: https://blog.vjeux.com/2012/javascript/image-layout-algorith...

- Google Plus, finding best breaks, which also explains fancy text layout algorithm: https://blog.vjeux.com/2014/image/google-plus-layout-find-be...

- Lightbox: https://blog.vjeux.com/2012/javascript/image-layout-algorith...

- Lightbox Android: https://blog.vjeux.com/2012/javascript/image-layout-algorith...

- 500px: https://blog.vjeux.com/2012/javascript/image-layout-algorith...

I hope that’s useful!
If the rack your instances are running in are totally offline then the ec2 api unfortunately can't talk to the dom0 and tell the instances to stop/start, so you get annoying "stuck instances", and really can't do anything until the rack is back online and able to respond to API calls unfortunately.
I get a “cool,” but when my wife says that she’s a therapist, she gets instant respect.
It is hard and it takes a long time. And I would not recommend it if you are not suffering from any chronic illnesses. Most people's disorders are due to diet/environment.

A good place to start is uploading any data you have into https://promethease.com/. I would ignore most of the "good" and "bad" results, I only used it to find rare SNPs that might be linked to my disorder.

The best thing you can do is get your whole genome run. You can do it now for about $200.
This has been useful: https://github.com/rakeeb-hossain/functools

It contains generic implementations of

Any
All
Count
Filter
ForEach
Map
Reduce
ReduceRight
Sum
Chunk