skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I expect that what they've pointed to as the cause is only part of the problem. We'll never know the full picture unless they share it.

Being upfront, my experience of the people in charge of the organization there doesn't have much goodwill left. Nothing against Thibault personally, I think he's done some great things but seems to be busy with whatever he's interested in and management isn't it, and he has some unprofessional people with access that work for the project/charity.

I had volunteered my services years ago as a System Administrator (no charge) with suggestions, but with limited modes of communication, multiple issues going stale, no response with an auto issue closed. They have issues that don't get addressed, and their process doesn't appare to be aimed to cultivate qualified volunteers or improve the bus factor of the project.

To make things worse, when I expressed disagreement with constructive feedback regarding one of their process decisions, one of the other dev's with access apparently took offense and the next day I found my lichess account had been edited by an admin without notice or notification. I could not log in (wrong password), the password and email for password recovery were changed, and trying to access the profile URI directly showed the account as banned.

It seemed this was done out of spite, and definitely without any kind of due process. Appeals by email went unanswered within the 90 day cutoff I gave them. As a result I submitted a complaint to the french charities regulatory body and moved on since the group wasn't worth wasting any more of my time. I haven't heard back so who knows if anything came of what I reported.

In my opinion, they've got more internal problems than they let on, and to me this is just spillover.

Its unfortunate because any failure like this impacts so many people, but I don't find it surprising given my limited experience of the people there.
That's...wildly out of context.

Trudeau is criticizing the existence of the notwithstanding clause and it's invocation by the Quebec government to the effect that clip has him describing, not endorsing that behavior.

https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/justin-trudeau-shares-father-s-d...
I haven't done any Go in my life, but this bit about immutability interests me. Is there a general movement in the Go community towards immutable data structures?
>it would be valuable if you need to send lots of invoices, pay lots of bills

That is actually a very valuable function that QB provides, because it enables the ability to view financial reports on either an accrual or cash basis. For tax purposes, your business is required to choose one method of accounting or the other at the start and then generally stick with it forever. For management purposes, you can in QB view your reports at any time using either method, because it's all based on the same underlying transaction data.
Yes. Only straight, white males are explicitly verboten from applying.

And it’s ok to discriminate those, right? Right?
People will say "well you can't just make more nurses and doctors in 6 months!" However, had we built or repurposed buildings as COVID-specific treatment centers there would be a fairly standard treatment protocol that could be applied by people without 4-8 years of medical training, allowing the highly trained nurses and doctors to supervise the process and multiply their effectiveness. Combat soldiers learn basic emergency medical techniques, with some going from knowing nothing to being able to run IVs and be fully certified EMTs in 6-9 months. Stories abound of how bad they are at hitting the vein the first time, but it's certainly preferable to dying in the waiting room.

The lack of healthcare capacity has been a conscious choice. There's been no serious effort to build it out. We've chosen to indulge this fantasy that humanity can get control of COVID and we'll just vaccinate it out of existence, despite decades of knowledge about how difficult that would be from our research into other coronaviruses. So when I hear that we need to give up another year of normal life to "keep the hospitals from being overwhelmed", it is frustrating to hear.
> There are as many if not more liberal vaccine refusers as there are conservative ones

No, there aren't, unless you torture the definitions to the point of uselessness, or unless your personal experience means that you personally know 50 liberals and 5 conservatives (and 6 unvaccinated people, split evenly between the two). [1]

Or, if you have to use your eyes to believe it, look at any vaccination rate map [2], and contrast it to how those states vote.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/10/01/for-covid-1...

[2] https://www.mayoclinic.org/coronavirus-covid-19/vaccine-trac...
Using heat pumps also makes it almost on par with the cost of natural gas.
So you are asking for a client setting (in Element I presume) to stop nudging users to set up e2ee? Did you file an issue for that?
This is a low quality tweet by a cryptobro who appears upset that HN doesn't agree with their beliefs. Maybe they should try to understand why instead of making emotional and ageist outlashes
First of all you’re not going to be all by yourself. Ask previous developers or peers if there are any. Ask them to help you navigate the codebase and find good candidates.

On the opposite scenario, where you have to take ownership of a large codebase and there’s no one around that can guide you through it, if every time you learn something about it you turn it into a test case you will do your future self a favor and at the same time also tracing your progress.
> Presuming data about lower severity holds, it would be surprising to me if hospitalization or deaths aren’t noticeably lower than delta; which, in turn, was noticeably lower than the original.

Well, that should always be true: the people that are most at risk are already dead from earlier variants, and our treatments are light years ahead of where they were 18 months ago, reducing hospitalizations (and death) for everyone else.
If you’re trying to describe critical race theory, that’s not it.
Are you a biological woman that enjoys hunting? Two-Spirit.

Are you a biological man that enjoys maintaining a household? Two-Spirit.

It is an indigenous cultural construct for allowing variation in gender constructs.
If this service existed in an extortionary way, why isn't there competition that undercuts the 36% rate? Perhaps it's because such high rates are necessary to make the business profitable at all.

While the government thinks they just saved people from an evil corporation, all they've done is completely prohibit such customers from acquiring loans.

If there is opportunity for arbitrage, you or I or anyone could step in and create a seemingly profitable business while also providing a social benefit.

The moral hazard introduced by the government is the issue.
Cool, so it's acceptable to send the analogous e-mail regarding immigration status to lots of people.
Reddit in particular is infected by this kind of toxic thinking. One on the one had, I think individuals hate being fooled, and so there’s a rush to decry any remarkable or interesting anecdotes as “bullshit”. In this case in particular, I suspect the disbelievers are stuck in soul-sucking jobs they hate, and one way they cope with that is by truly believing that everyone else in the world is in a similar situation.

Its such a strange, depressing way to approach content imo. Did the story happen? Maybe, maybe not, we can’t know for sure. Do I want to believe it happened? Yes. Are there valuable aspects in the story that I can learn from and potentially use in future? Yes, absolutely. Is there any harm in me choosing to believe his anecdote is real and it’s actually made up? No, I don’t think so.

There’s actually a whole subreddit on this topic https://reddit.com/r/nothingeverhappens

Also, don’t get me wrong — there is plenty of fake content, or implausible content, that is worthy of skepticism because it has a nefarious agenda, fosters misinformation, etc. But sometimes people just need to chill out.
> Nobody cares that you teach the history of racism in the US

Have you missed the latest conservative boogeyman of "critical race theory"?

> correctly educate children about the civil war and slavery

On the contrary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy
Going from the code:

> Special programs 42

> (1)It is not discrimination or a contravention of this Code to plan, advertise, adopt or implement an employment equity program that

> (a)has as its objective the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups who are disadvantaged because of race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, and

> (b)achieves or is reasonably likely to achieve that objective.

> (2)[Repealed 2002-62-23.]

> (3)On application by any person, with or without notice to any other person, the commissioner may approve any program or activity that has as its objective the amelioration of conditions of disadvantaged individuals or groups.

> (4)Any program or activity approved under subsection (3) is not in contravention of this Code.

It's fair to assume they have a representation gap that they need to ameliorate among their current tenured quantum researchers, hence the hiring restriction.

No comments on whether or not that's "right" or "wrong," but that's the inference.
Yes I like that autocratic regimes, terrorist groups, and rogue states have a very hard time financing their operations. The meddling is certainly not perfect and not without collateral damage, but yeah I think most Americans are probably pretty okay with that.

Awfully suspect that people start coming out of the woodwork with arguments from “principle” coincidentally with them having a vested economic interest in a weak dollar/weak state generally (or at least thinking they have interests in those things).
Grooming? Looking for lgbtq kids and supporting them isn’t grooming.
I think a lot of the panic can effectively be ignored if you're a bit savvy technically and follow some benchmarks.

I have a little SVG "badge" that gets rendered each day. It's green, unless any of the following four benchmarks are exceeded for my local area, in which case it's red:

- RT > 1

- Cases/100k > 10

- Test Positivity > 5%

- ICU Usage > 85%

If any of them are over, it's red. For me, red has meant I limit my social activities. This seemed about right to me for Delta. For Omicron, I'm holding steady with that strategy for now, but if it turns out that Omicron isn't as severe for unvaccinated people, I might relax the strategy to only look at ICU usage.

What's been interesting over the past six months is that it has tended to turn red when everyone was partying, and it'd turn green again when people were still freaked out.

At any rate, it means I can ignore a lot of the rhetoric, because if Omicron subsides quickly, it just means my benchmark will turn green sooner.
I'm sometimes thinking about the bigger picture, and wondering what will happen in hundreds of years? Will Western country end up more and more divided, and will China become more and more united and like-minded? One variable that seems to indicate to the contrary is that transparency is a huge factor in allowing a society to improve itself, and China is becoming more and more opaque.
That's a bit premature. We are not 'building two new reactors', there is a coalition agreement that two new reactors will be built but that's a far cry from it actually happening, and it may well never happen because there is a ton of opposition to this which will at a minimum delay construction. The proposed dates for starting operations is after 2030, which means that from a climate accord perspective this is a meaningless gesture.
Hire me and we can find out :) I am of the opinion that 1 developer can build an amazing service, compared to 10 normal ones
Well, technically that is currently a crime. Those underground pharmaceuticals are illegal drugs. I agree that they shouldn't be illegal, but it currently is, so the statement is not disproven by this quote
For me it's not an engineering problem but a human one. Since the waste from a single power plant during one year of operation is enough to kill hundreds of millions of people we have to ensure no madmen get their hands on the waste for thousands of years after we have spent all the watt-hours the waste has produced.

We're leaving that problem to hundreds of generations to come, who will get no benefit from it, just so we can have cheap energy today. That seems unfair. It's equivalent to Julius Caesar building the aqueducts using some technology that France would still have to pay for today.

I think investing in energy storage - hydrogen, ammonia, pumped storage to mention a few - would be vastly better. Solar and wind already generate more electricity in Germany than nuclear ever did, if it could be stored during the proverbial cloudy days, the problem is solved permanently and in a much better way than with nuclear power plants.
That is a very generous way of thinking about (no doubt) very smart people.
> Americans can say anything

Well, less so these days than 20 or even 10 years ago - the suppression just doesn't come from the government now. There are a lot of things you really can't say in America and there are a lot more of them than there used to be.
> Before you use this as an excuse to accuse the commenter you disagree with as being a Wumao

Well, most people generally shouldn't be doing that in the first place (it's against the HN guidelines in particular and bad form in general, with the exception of blatant repeated bad-faith low-effort posts).

Even so, using "is this propaganda a distraction or direct engagement" as a heuristic for "is this post propaganda" is also not a great thing to do. Any large organization engaging in propaganda will have multiple large sub-orgs, stakeholders, and inconsistencies due to misaligned incentives, miscommunications, and the squishiness that comes along with propaganda.
> Germany is a net exporter of electricity

Oh, it is. Right now it exports all its coal and gas and wood burning production to neighbors; while only using 7.5% (= 8.94/(63.2+56)) of its installed wind and solar:

https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/DE

The great question is: how can Germany manage anything with no baseload from nuclear or coal? With current gas prices, it is going to get very expensive.
At this price the deal probably minted quite a few new millionaires, so I think it’s a good thing for people who worked on something for 10+ years.

It’s no S1 but for a lot of early contributors it’s probably a ticket to never having to work again.
Probably like this [0] but with less violence and more credible threats post custody.

[0] https://xkcd.com/538/
> and defend their home with a gun

that policy has had quite the downsides on people's lives
The nuclear reactor that we have has been operating at a massive loss and can not compete in the marketplace, decomissioning costs are the only reason it is still switched on.
It's the Aboriginal version of 'transgender / queer'.

The paradox is - if there isn't an objective way to identify these groups, then arguably they do not exist other than purely in terms of 'self identification' which is a serious blow to the legitimacy of anything, really.

So if LGBTQ+ were formal categories, then we could just use those instead of adding 'Two Spirit'. We wouldn't use the Aboriginal, German or Japanese words for them, because that would make no sense, we have words for things which exist already.

But because categories are culturally defined, but more paradoxically - self-defined - then it exposes a serious problem of postmodernism.

Everyone should apply to the position as 'Two Spirit' - there literally is no material definition for the categorization, and the Canadian Supreme Court would be bending itself backwards in Asana Yoga poses to find out how to apply the Woke Terminology that lacks any definition.

The Law is inexorably funded on objectivity, it can't very well function otherwise.

Pulling the thread on this Sweater will undo it completely, the best thing to do is start pulling on it hard because it will expose the inanity of it all.

I actually do support people in vulnerable situations, and getting people from marginalized communities into systems which they feel they can't participate in, but this isn't the playbook we should be using.
I’m reminded of the common quip that the US military is the largest socialist organization in the United States.
https://vimeo.com/44078865

Why is everyone afraid to talk in this video?
Right now jsynchronous message passes using custom encoding in JSON which keeps simple changes as small as an HTTP header, but with byte level encoding I think this could be halved.

Some compression on top would probably do wonders for huge volumes of changes, though more browsers are supporting compression on the websocket level.

I'm not familiar with the name differential update. Instead of passing potentially large states back and forth, Jsynchronous numbers each change to your synchronized data and shares these changes with all connected clients. This is called Event Sourcing, and it enables jsynchronous to rewind to previous states by running the changes from start to any intermediate state.
Lining Things Up in CSS
[Edit: I found the blog entry from March that mentions SpectrumOS.]

Maybe you should know about the project SpectrumOS, which seems to have extremely similar goals to yours.

https://spectrum-os.org/

I think instead of running persistent VMs for different roles, it spins up VMs very quickly to run individual apps in.
Show HN: Kawipiko – fast static HTTP server
Imagine living somewhere like China where it's gotten to the bad state it is in now - when 5-6 years ago there was a real trajectory away from where it is now, and the world (including myself) was cheering on China.
You know that relative freedom exists when people are free to protest and discuss openly incredibly stupid ideas. It's a feature, not bug.
Commercial content can be political content these days.

Product placing a Ford truck and guns versus a Tesla car and rainbow t-shirts.
A lot of rural hospitals were closed last year[0]

[0]https://truthout.org/articles/20-rural-hospitals-closed-in-2...
The problem is by the time you see the effect (hospitilations) it’s too late to do anything about it. It’s like driving with a 20 second lag in your vision.
I think the civil service is supposed to execute the laws of the jurisdiction, and defer to the elected branches when there are policy decisions to be made. If the unions are making their own policies, it doesn't really matter whom the electorate has appointed.

I would use the same term ('subvert') for a government contractor siphoning government funds for activities outside their contract terms. I really don't know what else to call this.
What compelled you to make such a wildly uninformed and bigoted comment?
> hospitalizations lag cases and deaths lag hospitalizations

Why aren't you upset with your governments for not making this a non-issue? You gave them 2 years to figure it out and all I hear are excuses like "you can't just spin up new staff". Bullshit. These governments have virtually unlimited resources to build healthcare capacity to deal with covid. If there was a will to do so, they could have built capacity specific for covid that includes proper staffing.

The fact that entire regions of 17 million people get thrown into month-long lockdowns and asked to cancel christmas because the region can only support like 400 people in the ICU is a travesty.

People should be furious with their governments continuing to blame the public for "possible healthcare collapses". We paid with 2 years of our short-ass lives waiting for them to fix capacity issues. There are zero excuses.
The Americans really love their guns don't they
They were wise to keep Maddow et al. on the "don't trust elections" beat for the full four years Trump was in office.
I broaden it out, instead of narrowing down on something else. Software development is a close enough description for a general audience.
Well the existence of rules in itself does not justify more rules. That's just bureaucracy. But I think what you're driving at is there are rules in place for military folks designed to keep them from becoming targets of manipulation, keep them from making poor household decisions that would distract them from regulatory tasks, etc.

I don't imagine there are many protections for active duty folks that are designed purely to protect the individual. I suspect the primary motivation to get most of these types of laws passed is to protect the government.
Actually we in Germany ( and I heard similar things about the Netherlands [1] ) have quite a few funding tracks that require gender equity for newly created professorships. In the final consequence many openings need to be restricted to only women so this opening is actually more open. Often the story has a recent prequel in which not enough women could be hired (the reason can be manifold and at least some of them are a result of systematic yet often not immediate discrimination)

[1] https://eige.europa.eu/gender-mainstreaming/toolkits/gear/ex...

Edit: added link
Power is far to abstract and far to cheap for people to make even the slightest adjustment to their habits. After all, lets say you knew that making your morning coffe between 07-08 cost 10 cents more than doing so an hour earlier or later, would you get up earlier, or go to work latter? And in 1 cent is more realistic.
> When you have virtually unlimited resources you can do almost anything you want.

> Dunno how because it ain't my expertise at all, but there would be a way.

What makes you so sure?
Not bad! Perhaps people on Instagram don't want to see "businesses"?
Yeah, I think this is what freaked everyone out, but it's pretty clear the intention of on-device scanning was that it would work even if they had client-side encryption of photos before upload .

The whole point of the protocol (as described in the Apple whitepaper) is to allow clients to attest to perceptual hash matches without the server having access to the plaintext.

So, the irony of all of this is that the Apple design is effectively more private than the status quo, but everyone freaks out about it.
Not if you factor time into that math. 5x more infectious on the first cycle means just 5 times the infections, and equal hospitalizations, but the next cycle all of those 5x the number of people spread it again to 5x the number of people. So even though it's 5x milder, you've still got 5x the people showing up in the hospital. It gets worse and worse the more cycles you go. 25x in hospital, 125x in hospital, etc. You run into mitigating factors in real life, as the entire population is consumed, but that's a super steep slope comparative to the baseline.
Exactly, and by “shutdown” they mean “shutters lending for now”

The business is still available to do anything and is well capitalized.

The regulator has to make it seem like a laser strike from orbit, using words like “LendUp was backed by some” in the past tense as if the company is dissolved, but its not and still is backed by the same capital sources.

Time to remedy the operation, challenge the CFPB in court, pivot etc
Being a racist has nothing to do with being a minority or not. Let’s not forget that. The typical expression is majority onto minority group, but that is not a requirement. I.e. if I move to China (or your country of choice) I can in fact be racist toward the majority Han Chinese people living there despite me being a white minority. Likewise they may persecute me for my race and that would also be racism.

I’d also argue the majority/minority thing is weakened in a global context. Why limit such things to the border of a county, city, or nation state?