skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incredible to see the detail on how he is using paint in various transitions and ways when you get up close. You can zoom all the way into where a pupil takes up my entire 1080p screen, amazing!
With respect to the private testing entities with buddies in parliament that make it mandatory for us to pay businesses like Randox, I entirely agree.
I'm very happy with the 1Zpresso JX manual grinder but I don't have anything to compare it to.
Dang you spend more time banning accounts than constructively participating on the site. Just look at your comment history.

This goes against the spirit of HN. We value open discussion here.

Your actions should be brought to PGs attention. It seems you are abusing your power as moderator. This is not in HN’s best interest.

Just because you disagree with someone doesnt mean you should ban or silence them.
I know Marxism/communism is supposed to create a union of the global proletariat that transcends nationalism, but has that ever actually got anywhere? Communist states seem to me just as fragmented and independent as any others. There was the eastern bloc dominated by the Soviet Union, sure, but that was straightforward imperialism enforced by military power. Similarly the Chinese hegemony over Tibet, Xinjiang etc seems straightforwardly imperialistic based on enthnographic domination. Marxist movements seem just as prone to factionalism and division as any other, if not more so.
Sadly I can't re-attempt a migration because my YouTube believes my legacy account has been merged (despite it not being merged).

The gaia migration tool simply says "account not available for migration", and that's that.
> it's actually completely irrelevant. Where covid came from is meaningless now.

Wonder if insurance companies would generally have the same opinion.

If there was an actually provable origin, do you reckon insurance companies _wouldn't_ give them the bill? ;)
The author’s word salad honestly doesn’t qualify as ‘remarks about the normal distribution.’ The author is wildly flinging random technical terms around. Try substituting ‘normal distribution’ with ‘exponential distribution’ or simply with ‘collecting data’. You can draw two possible conclusions from that sentence: either the author believes that observing data or —- horror —- drawing it is racist, a violently anti-knowledge stance, or the author is stringing words together like GPT-3 in hopes of sounding woke. This kind of discourse is an insult to science and an embarrassment to the journal.
I think it has some ugliness to it, but the idea behind it is necessary. The restrictions it places on front-end scripts are currently very challenging to work around, particularly if you're trying to implement a strict CORS policy on an existing website.

It's difficult enough to implement that it probably won't be implemented on the majority of the web - and maybe that's okay.
The social rewards for fitting in are better than being right.

It's not really a surprise.

See case of man that discovered handling corpses and delivering babies afterwards was causing lots of baby deaths.

His reward was being declared insane and dying prematurely.
>It all boils down to a capacitor that Asus inadvertently installed backward.

Commodore used to do that in almost every model of Amiga, but those were mostly in the Audio section and only biased by -1V so no catastrophic failures.
What do you mean by “i [sic] guess android [sic]”? Over 70% of smartphones in use run Android.
Then how about you practice your own damn rules? This one in particular

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

In the strongest possible interpretation (had you assumed good faith) my comment is NOT inflamatory.

I am pointing out that pandemics are a PvE (Player vs Environment) game, not PvP (Player vs Player) game. And I am stating the ovious: the E in PvE doesn't care about your rights.
On the Android side mostly Samsung and Chinese phones.
>Natural immunity doesn't seem to be very useful against covid. Or, at least, not more useful than the vaccines we already have

Do you have any evidence for that? The question has obviously become politicised. Experts figure out what information they think might make people more relaxed or careless about covid, and heavily push the reverse line. It's no wonder people's trust in experts is failing.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/24/which-...

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
Such a shame that an article that goes to such lengths to (accurately, as far as I can tell) list so many people's commercial entanglements with Chinese interests ran out of space to make a single mention that their purported white knight, Trump, has numerous such entanglements himself, and commingled his commercial and political actions more nakedly than anyone else: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/09/22/ivankas-tr...

It also strikes me as bizarre to see Trump as a champion against autocracy when the man basically never met an autocrat he didn't like (cf his bromances with Putin & Kim Jong-Un), or as a champion against the Uyghur genocide that he specifically approved of: https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-china-detention-camp-x...

Having relatives and friends whose families are affected by Chinese repression, and, just in general, preferring my children to grow up in a freer world, I'm concerned about the ever more repressive Chinese state, and the smaller and larger ways in which I am complicit in the ascendance of that state. But I don't think there are any easy solutions to be had (e.g. "just stop doing business with them"), and I think there are not even easy solutions to be had for the Chinese themselves (e.g. "dissolve the people's congress, disband all security forces other than traffic cops, and call for a snap election in 60 days").

And the article strikes me as an entirely unsuitable starting point to start a meaningful discussion about what could or should be done.
Is wanting people all over the world to have basic freedoms "deeply political"? Personally, I think it is a lot more important than the latest tech trivia.
I think you misunderstand what CORS is. Are you under the impression CORS is a way of blocking requests? It’s the other way around.

Browsers prevent most types of requests that go from one hostname/port/protocol to another by default. CORS is a way for a server to tell browsers to relax these restrictions in some way.

If you disable CORS, all that means is that the default browser behaviour applies, which means that more types of requests are prevented.
But those died due to illegal drugs won't be elligible for insurance claim. It is strange the article only showing 40% increase in deaths. I would like to see the breakdown. Is it mostly due to heart-related deaths like stroke or cardiac arrest? How many of them has been vaccinated? How many due to natural and unnaturql causes. What I have heard was some deaths due to cardiac arrests in young people. And these are routinely classified as "natural". I like to see numbers backing that. We know vaccine caused heart inflammations and deaths. What we don't see is numbers refuting that and strange for our pharma to wait 75 years to disclose their findings. Do they need to edit the reports that already submitted to FDA?
> suggesting that foundation status or lack thereof meant that the ban was a good thing.

Obviously not, I was talking about the shit article and not the ban. They speak of “the free press foundation” like as if it’s a real thing and not a substack page some guy renamed a week ago.

> Your other posts suggest that you don't know why the account was banned, so why is that question relevant?

That’s the reason Twitter gave to the account holder.

Obviously this guy was botting his accounts in order to gain more visibility for his paid zerohedge clone they’re all promoting https://www.alphaletter.co/

Check out the “uncensored” Gab posts, most of them are pushing his sketchy paid newsletters https://gab.com/NancyTracker

Some other twitter accounts belonging to the same guy that were simultaneously banned:

https://twitter.com/redditinvestors

https://twitter.com/readalphaletter/

https://twitter.com/HermanHughPP

Oh, and the thread from the guy himself where he discusses his business https://web.archive.org/web/20211230221325/https://threadrea...

It’s all a part of his marketing play idiots are falling for

> Every day I would tweet about how Twitter is going to ban me to exposing political corruption. My newsletter exploded.
I work in the web3/blockchain world.

And I don’t really care if any of it takes off. I have no interest in crypto or the politics surrounding all of this.

For me, it’s something new and interesting. It’s like the Wild West. It has some energy behind it.

Is most of it a scam? Sure. But will we learn anything from it? Hopefully. I think of it like Product Hunt. 99% of the projects will fail, but 100% of the people probably learned something useful.
I respected SA for that. And I think it was on topic for them given the anti-science sentiment transpired from one of the sides. And science will always be political.
To me Orwell's guide to writing seems to be the best mix of practical and style: https://infusion.media/blog/george-orwells-six-rules-for-wri...

Short, concise and to the point.

The missing 7th rule is "empathise with your target audience". the reason its missed from Orwell's rules I suppose is because he assumed that you were trying to change people's minds, so you would construct your argument from their point of view.

Technical writing should be an exercise is empathy: "how does this thing work, why should you use it, and what areas you might struggle with when trying"
off the top of my head: metafilter.com, lobste.rs, something awful,
In asp.net we just use:

app.UsePathBase("/api");

And we have 0 issues.
Figuring out wether ticking or not ticking the box usually involve knowing how to read.

I see what you did there.
Thank you for your honesty! "I don't want to do it" is at least admitting personal responsibility. Your responsibility to protect your (presumably unvaccinated) child is also a rational decision. Young people are particularly good at seeing things on the ground and picking them up, but are also unlikely to wash hands before touching their faces. Therefore I'm specifically calling for young men who don't love their own lives (depressed computer nerds like me) to serve the greater good.

I haven't yet logged detailed times (only started counting yesterday, before that was just picking these up as regular litter on my commute). But here's a few from today's log.

32 total between Gossamer Dr and Pakuranga bus stop ~11:45 - 12:40, of which 9 on road (usually a 15 minute bike ride, was more like 25 minutes that time due to stopping regularly, then a walk through the car park)

16 masks Shore Care/Smales Farm has infectious substances bin from 18:45 to 19:30

4 masks Pakuranga plaza (1 countdown, 3 warehouse) 20:40-21:05
> Dark patterns in digital services are not just about greed. They give the US government greater power which translates to increased protection of its citizens.

What?
If one thought that a more infectious but less severe coronavirus was economically advantageous, how long would it take to breed in laboratory mice? Obvious you couldn't announce making it, but if it happened to spread, that's good for the world, right?
The creator of bitcoin is worth $73 billion. Remind me why it isn't considered a ponzi scheme. Web3 is blockchain technology, it's AI. It's a meaningless buzzword startups use to sound innovative.
> Or, no more so than a woman staying with a man who takes his depression out on her. Which is a very dangerous thing, indeed.

So by your own words, you agree that telling men to stay with women who take their depression out on them is a dangerous thing.

> One of which is that men who can't hold their shit together are by definition more dangerous and harmful than women who can't.

By which definition? You're completely wrong here. The problem isn't that it's an "old times view", it's that it's dangerous and sexist.
> Your country does.

What do you mean by can't go? People "can't" go to high-school either if they don't get the minimum grades required in elementary school. How does this even relate to the money angle that I'm criticizing?

> So, should we tell them "no" up front?

What do you mean by telling who no up-front? By requiring that you actually have finished high-school math before being accepted for a 4-year math program in uni? That's just common sense.

> You already said that you/your country won't pay much, so why is it wrong for me to express the same sentiment?

Uhm, no? In what way?
Even though they had a pair of great BASIC compilers, IIRC VB/DOS didn't include the ability to create a standalone .EXE file. It was a "bytecode" compiler with a required "VM/Interpreter" runtime that was rather large.

This was about the time that Microsoft was buying up all the 3rd party BASIC libraries and pulling the redistribution licenses from customers, too.
> I'm not sure GP was intending to make that distinction (rates globally for the test vs. the sample population being tested by.. what a given doctor/hospital?) - I haven't come across that before.

> If the population is the same then your changed-order definitions are just inverses

No, you just haven't understood the concept.

Let's assume some condition has a prevalence of 20%, and a test for it will correctly identify presence of the condition 95% of the time, while correctly identifying absence of the condition 90% of the time. We can immediately answer the first question: when the answer is "yes", the test will say "no" 5% of the time.

You have proposed that when the test says "no", the answer is "yes" a share of the time that might be the inverse of 5%, or perhaps 5% itself. I have no idea what you meant -- and I suspect you didn't either -- but the correct rate of false negatives is not 5%, 95%, nor 2,000%.

In a model population of 10,000 people, we will see this:

| condition present | absent |
test positive | 1900 | 800 |
negative | 100 | 7200 |

From this table we can see that the false negative rate is 100/7300 or 1.4%. The false negative rate looks much better than the sensitivity and specificity figures because the condition is rare. The corollary to that is a horrific false positive rate of 800/2700 = 30%.
oh come on, there's much more basis than that. For starters, the lab was specifically working on coronaviruses!

I'm not saying it's definitely a lab-leak, but it strikes me as ridiculous to confidently claim it wasn't given the information currently available.
I don’t understand what the article is actually recommending. To avoid CORS requests, I usually proxy www.foobar.app/api to api.foobar.app, but it seems like the article is suggesting the opposite.
Wasmblr: A single header file WebAssembly assembler for C++
But that assumes that file size grows linearly with code length, which is not the case. Twice the code size for a hello wold will be barely any larger than the hello world itself.
You should use io_uring to open and close files asynchronously, instead of open/close.
Businesses deceive themselves when they think they measure user satisfaction.

There's a thing out there called "net promoter score." That's when somebody asks you "would you recommend our business to a friend?" It's based on a 2006 business book with the megalomaniacal title "The Ultimate Question." https://www.worldcat.org/title/ultimate-question-driving-goo...

In theory it's a great idea. In theory it effectively captures a user's attitude toward the businesss. Its inventor, Enterprise Rent A Car, used it to up their game in a competitive market requiring lots of personal service, and it worked brilliantly for them.

But, now the people deploying it in megacorps must have all gotten C- grades in business school. They use it to measure their SUPPORT REPS, not their BUSINESSES. They pretty much only ask it after a support call. So if you give a NO answer to the question because you're frustrated and needed support, the support rep gets dinged, not the product manager.

By the way, anything below a 9 on the 0 - 10 scale in the question means "NO, I would not recommend."

I once got one of those quizzes from my local ISP monopoly provider (Comcast) after somebody CALLED ME to try to sell me something. My answer: "Would I recommend you to a friend? You're a MONOPOLY! " Anyway, they punished the telesales guy for my NO answer. They should have punished the idiot who thought it was an appropriate way for a monopoly to measure customer satisfaction.

A plea to the people who run businesses: take those NO answers seriously. Use them to look for opportunities to improve, not opportunities to punish.
Sorry, I meant assume instead of infer. *not english native.
Proper moderation requires strength of character to moderate evenly people you do and do not agree with. Not something you can impart on others, even less so on juniors.
I agree on all points, except the last one.

If you can downvote, your comment WILL be downvoted based on ideology. No exception. HN is much, much less guilty of this compared to other sides (especially Reddit), but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. If it can happen, then it eventually will, and considering a single downvote buries the comment this a big problem. The real issue resides in using upvotes/downvotes to sort content to give "good" answers more visibility, so unless you only have text at your disposal to express your agreement/disagreement you're ALWAYS bound to have a biased echo chamber.
No, I'm actually both surprised and somewhat ashamed. I wouldn't brag to people here. And I certainly wouldn't mention it to anyone I know in real life. ("What's Hacker News? Oh you're on some internet forum where you have points? Wow.") Is there somewhere deep, deep in my cockles, or sub-cockles, where I'm proud of myself? eh. I don't know. Being ranked definitely rubs me the wrong way. I guess it means some of my late-night missives weren't sent completely into the void.

upvoted, btw. Thanks for making me wonder what kind of asshole I am.
Fish rain from the sky in rare phenomenon in Texas
I was a subscriber of Scientific American many many years ago while being adolescent and young adult. I liked to read about (to me) new knowledge in an easy to digest form. To me it was The Popular Science Magazine.

Some years ago, driven by nostalgia, I bought single issues occasionally but was very disappointed. Its tone did not remind me of the old years. To me it feels like it tries to use tabloid style to approach ever broader part of the public in delivering knowledge and it is just not a combination that works for me. Tabloid is not about comprehensiveness and balanced factual view that I expect from a text in science. To me it seemed like it tries to pick and magnify spectacular details on the expense of important others. True for the selection of topics as well. Using an analogy, my feeling is when someone is making a very tasty cake but uses too much sugar in it, put lots of neon food colouring into and serves it poring huge amount of honey on top on a plate that flashes like a Japanese game hall. Not for me anymore I'm afraid.
Yes, that's called "prejudice" and not the word you're thinking of.
On Being an Idiomatic JavaScript Programmer
I'll suggest over reliance on dependencies on the frontend.

<BOX type="soap">

The thing about a dependency frontend module, is that it often brings in some really cool stuff, like animations and attractive design elements, but also introduces inflexibility. You have to use the supplied design elements, and you can't modify the animations.

This gets compounded, when you aggregate dependencies.

Dependencies aren't bad. They are how we get big stuff done, with small teams. Done right, they can also enforce UI consistency, and improve quality.

Done wrong ... well ... not so much.

It's possible to have UI suites that provide a lot of customization options, but the customization comes at the expense of increased implementation complexity. There's usually a fairly significant learning curve, which isn't popular, when your boss is breathing down your neck, so many developers opt for the defaults (which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, as that can enforce consistency). It means that they are often using standard tools for specialized tasks (think using an English wrench on a metric bolt).

Also, developers and designers tend to hate (I mean sticking-pins-in-voodoo-doll-hate) usability folks, like Jakob Nielsen and Don Norman; which is too bad, because they have some great suggestions.

The backend can be a byzantine nightmare. Maybe it needs to be, but the frontend should be consistent, simple, and user-task-oriented.

That "user-task-oriented" is important. The deal is helping users to get stuff done. It isn't to impress them with eye-candy chrome, pretty design and fancy interaction. Good UI helps the user to get done what needs doing, and gets the hell out of the way.

The best user interface is the one you don't notice. That can be damn difficult to achieve.

This is often accomplished by doing rote, "cliché" UI. I write about that, here: https://littlegreenviper.com/miscellany/the-road-most-travel...

I am a fan of good interpretive SDKs (ones that don't just present the raw substrate to the programmer), and native coding.

</BOX>
I feel a constant tension where companies and governments are all but demanding everyone owns a smartphone with one of these two specific operating systems for all sorts of things (from banking, to authentication, to government services), but have to somehow facilitate the remainder of users as an afterthought. It makes a lot of things really suck, and that's ignoring all those walled gardens essentially requiring them (Whatsapp and Signal come to mind).
Thanks, that's good to hear! I'll give it another look next time I look at switching things up.
Building SRE Teams with Specialization
All of these analogies are bad.

For the "Did you start with a 55k bmw".

No, but for mountain biking I started with an entry level hardtail cannondale that if it was given to someone today, 15 years later, would still be a fun and safe bike to take down your average mtb trails. (Roughly the same cost as this person's bike, new.)

The analogy is bad though. Learning to operate something in the category of cars is not analogous to starting what you believe to be mountain biking.

More apt, would be to ask me about starting a subset of driving as a hobby - like rally driving.

"If you were going to start rally driving would you start with a 200k race spec subaru, or a 1.5k ali express golf cart car with the word rally written on it?"

I would answer, as I did - neither. I'd get something second hand and more appropriate at the same price point.

> It's okay to buy something cheap with the understanding that its a stepping-stone to something else.

If you are ok with 1) rewarding the scam artists that make these 2) contributing to a culture of low quality throwaway goods and 3) using unsafe and inappropriate tools for the job - go ahead.

> You'd understand if you ever needed a lawnmower and someone recommended a pair of scissors as a replacement for a lawnmower.

Again, no. It would be like if someone offered me a dollar store lawnmower that would break in x mins, or a scythe. You might get farther initially with this piece of shit lawnmower, but I'll get all the way with the scythe. And I'll be fitter. And it will last a lifetime.

> Same with OP - his bike works for him, and you are recommending a different product as an alternative, which frankly is a stupid thing to do (Harsh, I know, but someone had to say it).

I bet you wouldn't give this advice about your own hobbies.
If you want to judge the situation, you have to take relative numbers, related to vaccination state. Then you will see, that a much higher percentage of unvaccinated people get Covid-19 and Omicron, and the vaccinated people are much safer.
Oh, thanks! I took a brief look at the wiki but did not see that!