skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've given a lot of thought about this in the past, and I do agree with you but it's not because of Pluralis Maiestatis. From the reader's perspective, the team developing the product that I'm selling is simply a set of people. Whether the cardinality of such set happens to be 1 at this particular time, that's an implementation detail.
> It's probably better to have a 50% hospitalization rate and an R value of 0.8 than a 5% hospitalization rate and an R value of 2. After 3 'generations' of spreading the second situation already has more hospitalizations.

Sure, but those aren’t the only choices. Over the last 30 days the daily case average has increased by 500%. During that same time the daily average hospitalized has risen 100%.

And the test positivity rate has increased to almost 30%, which implies an almost comical undercount in actual cases.

The contagiousness and severity are diverging in an extraordinary way. We’re likely undercounting cases by 1/5 or 1/10th.
The “lunch will be a pill” stuff is always funny to me. There’s a major volume issue unless you’re gonna have me eat chunks of uranium or neutron star or something.
trying to check something on the web today:

>giant cookie popup takes up half the window

>figure out how to reject and close it

>another popup "allow this webshit to access your location"

>close it

>another popup "allow this webshit to send you notifications"

>close it

>another popup, allow this webshit to login using your google account

>close it

>another popup, autoplaying video, screeching into my ears at max volume

>scroll for 5 mins to find what i'm looking for buried deep at the bottom (and its probably not even there)
Geez yeah if I was making roughly $1k USD every three days I would definitely be a Mac guy, no question.
Having cancer is the opposite of being healthy, but the opposite of healthy is being sick rather than just having cancer.

Aka, someone that’s homicidal is abnormal but not necessarily eccentric.
> They are tracking consent popups.

Not when the only choices they present are to allow or disallow nonessential cookies.
Most people are celebrating it here. BUT are google, facebook and co the only companies that get punished for this? Seems really weird to be honest if true. How about French companies?
Just to add a point to the contrary, but I was able to type this entire message while only glancing at my screen a few times. Muscle memory of fifteen years has gotten me used to touchscreen keyboards. Everyone has their preference.
The article also misses (I)LBM, interleaved bitmap, which was a de-facto standard image format for games in the late 80s/early 90s. Also the default file format of Deluxe Paint. According to http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/ILBM the first spec was published in 1986.
Why not just font-display:swap? Seems like the simpler solution.
He landed everything except the peeling furniture (kudos for the Ikea prediction) and labor conditions. Interesting how labor hasn't advanced much except for women in the workplace (he nailed that perfectly).
User Perspectives on Critical Factors for Collaborative Playlists
> So the solution here would be a fine that is also affecting the developer.

I'm not sure that's the right thing here. You'd end up with some poor junior dev getting punished for what is essentially a decision by their boss.
Read the chapter in the book before the lesson. This is essential before the first day in class.

Sit in the front row, ideally the center.

The first test is the most important. But is dependent on class size, the bigger the class the less it matters. e.g. class of 5, if on the first test you score an A, then the teacher will know it. If you come up short later, the teacher will wonder what they did wrong, as you were clearly understood the earlier material. In a class of 100 the teacher probably does not know you or your test result.

Discuss the projects with others. You might think you understand it, but talking with others will often help you clarify ambiguous items. Seems like all projects / assignments have a large degree of ambiguity.

For each / any programming class, make sure you learn how to use the debugger. Learning how to debug effectively will save you huge amounts of time.
>>there are cleaning institutes for electrical equipment...even in Birmingham.

But no one touches my Server...and room ;)
This is surprisingly accurate, reserved and balanced through the lens of society as well as science. I was expecting something more fanciful like flying horses or whatnot.
I see $6.59 on thriftbooks for Good.

comparing pennies on books with a dozen different editions/formats isn't super interesting.

Anyway, usually the cheapest book on Amazon is usually thriftbooks, but as parent notes, thriftbooks adds $1.30 for shipping if the book is under $10, which makes it a better deal if you can get free shipping on thriftbloks site
Hell, my house has vinyl siding. No repainting every 5-10 years and you can pressure wash it in an hour or two. Close enough!
> It’s as “foreign” as any NATO country’s army to another.

I don't believe your comparison is even remotely adequate.

Could you point out an example of a NATO member requesting a military intervention from another NATO member in their own country to respond to protests?

Because what we're seeing here is a blatant attempt by Russia to preserve Kazakhstan's regime by having foreign armed forces intervene against the nation's civilian population.
Pre-internet breakthrough, circa 1991 I bought a friends 2400 baud modem. I lived in Hong Kong, local telephone calls were free so BBSes were pretty widespread.

I vividly remember downloading my first nude picture (I hesitate to call it porn, it was pretty tasteful compared to what you can find these days). It was pre-JPEG so think it was an uncompressed bitmap, I waited at least an hour for it to download 1 line at a time. It was tortuous, but ultimately satisfying.

As a 13 year old boy this helped cement my love of computers.

As a pragmatist, it gave me the courage to buy a magazine so not to have to wait 1 hr / picture.
I remember trading erotic GIF images was popular on the computers in high school (around '92). I got a floppy of some to watch at home on my Amiga 500, and got hold of a program that could view 256-colour GIFs in HAM mode. It took about a minute to render each image.
It's interesting to compare this to the WEF future projections: https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s...

Especially with regards to this passage::

"In 2022 [economic development] will be as finished as it is to-day in England. American wealth will then be either developed or known, and all of it will belong to somebody. There will be no more opportunity in America than there is in England to-day. Those Americans will know that it is practically certain that they will die much in the same position as the ones in which they were born. Those Americans will therefore be less enterprising and much more pleasure loving. They will have rebelled against long hours; the chances are that in 2022 few people will work more than seven hours a day, if as much.

The effects of this, which I am sure sounds regrettable to many of my readers, will, in my opinion, be good. It was essential that the American race should be capable of intense labor and intense ambition if it was to develop its vast country. But one result has been haste, overwork, noise, all of which is bad for the nerves. In 2022 America will have made her fortune and will be enjoying it as well as she can."
surely u not one of the guys who blamed trumpists for telling how clinton was corrupt?
I have a small two-room apartment and have a little office space set up at the foot of my bed, near the window. Usually I work from here, but sometimes if I feel like variety I work from my "kitchen" table in the living room, on the couch.

I work from a laptop (MBP and ThinkPad P14s). I just use the built-in webcams.

Work desk: Matting StandUp desk. I like it because it is manual and doesn't require cables.

Chair: Varier Variable Balans. Nice to sit in weird positions and fidget on as much as I like.
Those are paranoid things to worry about. Can you name a single example of someone in Europe who was denied some sort of insurance because they clicked on the wrong cookie consent button?

If my government wants to put me in a work camp will Europe's cookie consent laws protect me? None of this makes sense.
I hope you'll be moving on to Culture ship names...

https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft

I guess Minds count as "fictional computers" ;-)
I think you misunderstood what they were saying.

To me, it sounds like the purpose of this suggestion:

> Browsers could hook into these or making a browser extension would be easy enough.

Is that browsers can dictate the UI and so you wouldn't have these dark patterns to fight on each individual website.

I don't know if this would be a good or a bad idea, because indeed I can see people making an extension at minimum and a browser (*cough*chrome) at worst that would allow accepting everything automatically (which would not be legally valid because the consent was not 'informed', but the site owners would have no way of knowing that). On the other hand, there is also the advantage of no dark pattern being possible at all if you implement the API correctly. I don't know. Either way, this is what I think GP meant to suggest.
Reading and watching about these places on YouTube (BaldAndBankrupt) and recently numerous videos about Pakistan, Afghanistan, India.

I can't help but feel modern Western society has lost and forgotten something within. It's hard to describe but easier described as nearest to changes in warmth and compassion.

It's only getting worse and these old places it seems ingrained.
Has the new management of Nautilus managed to keep up with paying writers?

https://undark.org/2017/12/13/freelance-writers-nautilus-pay...
Yeah I wouldn't be surprised if they implement this as a France-only thing, considering a lot of other regions haven't put their foot down yet. It's scummy, but I've come to expect it from these corporations.
I am a fan of the Musgrave Tennessee Reds. Dark graphic that doesn't require a lot of pressure, and a fine looking pencil. Be warned, however: Musgrave hexagonal pencils have a very crisp shape, and some people find them uncomfortable. The Musgrave 600 News is a unique pencil (and has a round barrel) that lays down a heavy, dark line.

I picked up a box of Blackwing 602s a few months ago (thanks to a gift card). They are more comfortable in the hand than the Musgraves, but I prefer the graphite in the Tennessee Reds. I may try one of the darker/softer Blackwing models in the future.

As for review sites, I've really found the Polar Pencil Pusher to be helpful (https://polarpencilpusher.home.blog/).
My own? No. Will that do the trick?
Thank you for translating what Malcx said!
Ask HN: What are some publicly known incidents similar to the Therac-25?
Cases where tragedies happened because of bad management and lack of testing/software failure.
Pretty much every computer magazine from the mid-late 80s onward had lewd software ads in the back.

Alas, I was too young to cleverly find a way to purchase these without my parents finding out, and was never able to locate a BBS that hosted this type of content.
When the world says one thing but Russian media says the opposite, you shouldn't be trusting the Russian media.

Treating anything by Noam Chomsky as a good thing to follow is pretty laughable though.

Also it appears your post was flagged and deleted.
That comment was very relevant, although not 100% true. Facebook does (or at least did) incentivize people to post photos of users who don't have a photo yet, and to "identify" people even if they don't have an account. That's part of their phantom profiles exposed by Max Schrems and friends.

To my knowledge, there is no monetary compensation involved (bounty) though.
Get a KUM sharpener, too, while you're at it, and chances are you'll never look back.

This. You can spend a lot of money on a sharpener, but the KUMs are more affordable and work very well.
I've cracked the code: (S)a(T)osh[E] (N)akamoto

But this answer just leads to more questions.
Do all your classwork. Every single bit. There is a real thing when you are in the habit of writing code a lot. It makes it easier to write more. So keep your rhythm up by doing all classwork all the time and don't keep long pauses if you wanna stay hot.
> And after finishing that, you should understand that when 51% of the population wants to ban the remanining 49% of people to live, it's no longor called as democracy, but fascism.

I believe this scenario fits the definition of "democracy".

> Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία, dēmokratiā, from dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule'[1]) is a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation ("direct democracy"), or to choose governing officials to do so ("representative democracy").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy
Just put it in any small cardboard box and have it shipped as you would do with a small bag, then collect it from the baggage collection place upon arrival.
I thought it was goofy until I remembered that some people eat pills for lunch.
I remember using and WAP2IRC gateway to impress my IRC buddies.
It sounded to me like they agree with you -- type hints are valuable -- just with the caveat that satisfying the tooling around them is a waste of time when most of the benefits can be had with minimal effort writing type hints explicitly for the consumption of other developers.

E.g., when I write numerical python code I'll often just use a string like `"(n_items, n_dims)"` as the type hint, or if the only salient detail of a signature is that some dimensions match I might even write something as simple as `foo(bar: "(a, b)", baz: "(b, c)")`. Ofttimes that's the only data a developer really cares about in that programming context, so a more complete type hint (one designed for mypy and the rest of the tooling) would just take longer to read and understand.
Because it’s downvoted? Probably just people generally downvoting jokes.
All other forms of holding wealth.

If I buy Apple stock, I have a piece of a company that rakes in billions in actual profit by turning raw materials into useful machinery.

If I buy a US bond, I get interest, and it is guaranteed by the full faith and credit of the United States.

If I buy gold, I own a physically rare and hard to counterfeit asset that humans have valued for thousands of years.

If I have a savings account, I get interest, and the money is guaranteed by the FDIC.

Even dollar bills under the mattress don't decrease in value by 10% in a single day.
Well, it's less about the total amount of calories as it is about the amount per volume of food. 300kcal of egg whites is just a lot more food in size, and some people (myself included) just enjoy eating larger quantities and are willing to sacrifice some quality in taste. Also, if you're paying attention to protein intake then 300kcal of egg whites is also a lot more protein than the equivalent amount of whole eggs.

The fat isn't inherently bad, but there are tradeoffs that some people prefer.
Stackoverflow has a really strong user-generated ad signal, like Google. Users literally tell them what they're interested in. They don't need tracking.
How is it related? I think this is a very bad comment that is not related to the topic.
Ask HN: What is your best type of technical interview?
I encountered several types of interview through companies of different values (small startup to big tech). First kind is Leetcode-style interview where your task is to write algorithm/data structure to solve given problems. Second kind discards algorithmic problems treating them as "uneffective" method to choose developers who can produce maintainable, well scalable code. They prefer problems focusing on knowing execution environment like "make autocomplete work for this React template", spaghetti-mess of setTimeout/promises in JS etc. Third kind don't ask coding problems from mature developers at all, they only talk about architecture/internal mechanics of programs from previous jobs or pet-projects of applicant. And asking theoretical questions for basic knowledge of developed systems like "what happens if I type a link in browser's address input and then press "Enter"?". They think that you can't detect good developer by how much of execution environment internals or algorithms they know/they can design, but by their high-level ability to build business programs and systems. It is biasly assumed that interviewee already knows some basics of execution environment and algorithms. Etc.

What style of technical interview do you prefer and what are objectives for that?
From my understanding GDPR and all other EU wide ideas or "Laws" are issued as Directives, each country then has to implement the directives in their own countries laws.

some/ most implement directives in cut and paste manner some don't.
With the current labour shortages we may have come full circle.
For example, ex-nomadic and Caucasian “honor culture” is linked to necessity of trust in regions with predominant animal husbandry. If your cattle gets stolen before winter, you die of hunger. That’s why honor killings and hospitality are the flip sides of the same coin — you can’t afford losing trust. Robert Sapolsky gave a lecture about it.
So you have personally reviewed the code in each cryptocurrency you hold, and you understand all the math behind it?
"unrest" word doesn't sit well with me in a country with 30-years-in-office president.
Now it's just an invisible polluter/killer.
DNT does not have the

GET /cookie-tracking/all/info

API call that GP suggested. Therefore, any DNT:"please track me baby one more time" values are legally invalid, because it could not possibly be an informed decision.

You can choose not to voice objection with DNT, but you can not give consent using it, and that's what these cookie walls are asking for.

(If you have a legitimate interest, legal requirement, technical requirement, or other ground for processing data while the user does nothing more than browse your website, an up-front banner to ask for consent is never required.)
Another strategy that works well-enough is to ask for their company's legal information and a statement on how they obtained your personal information. I have yet to find a telemarketer who wouldn't hang up on me pulling that trick.
When I hotspot my phone in public, I give it the SSID "FBI Surveillance Substation 3".
Your blog won't load after waiting for like 10 seconds.
Funny.
The law isn't just for cookies, though. It's for consent for all kinds of tracking/data gathering, of which cookies is only one means to do that.
This seems to be MakerDAO VAT contract, for those curious. At least it has comments explaining everything at the top.

https://etherscan.io/address/0x35d1b3f3d7966a1dfe207aa4514c1...
That law never forced companies to worsen user-experience, it forced them to disclose what they do with your data and limit what they can do without consent. This post is about companies building user-hostile and illegal UX. Are you blaming the law for this?
From various anecdotes, I'd expect that the locals slept soundly. But if the bell mechanism somehow broke during the night - a fair number of them would wake up, wondering at the odd silence.
Not in most European countries, where what matters is whether the blades are lockable or not
I made a game for the Altair 8800! It fit in 128 bytes of RAM and had a one-key control. I called it 'Fly'. An X moved up from the bottom of the screen, you hit the space bar and it's direction changed 45 degrees to the left. You tried to keep it from going off the screen.

That was it. What do you expect in 128 bytes of RAM?
I find it hard to call anyone that names their variables like that brilliant :/
If the author is here on HN: link to patch 007 is incorrect.
This means private repositories aren't really private?
Real life is full of risks. You can't seriously expect people to continue socially distancing and wearing masks indefinitely. What morbid insanity.
But not during the night...
Practice public speaking, and learn the art of speaking up for yourself. This industry is overwhelmed with poor communicators. If you are competent but a good communicator, you'll do well. If you're actually a decent developer/engineer with good communication skills, you'll be placed in leadership roles. Do not underestimate this advice: good communications has exponential impact on every aspect of life.
> GDPR and all other EU wide ideas or "Laws" are issued as Directives,

No. The fact that the last letter in "GDPR" is not "D" is a pretty good hint that it's not a Directive ;)

It's a Regulation. Regulations apply directly, and are not translated into local law.

But omgitsabird is correct that GDPR is not the relevant basis here, but a clause in French Data Protection Law. And this clause exists because of the ePrivacy Directive.
Do you assume Putin and western corporations are antagonistic? Putin is just closest strong arm and most appropriate politically.
Show HN: Highlight code in Google slides and Google docs
This way to communicate it does exist and companies can decide to respect it. (Do but track flag).

It's mostly the fault of companies trying everything possible to trick people into agreeing even if they don't want to and shifting blaimn away.

Also GDPR is not technology specific, so it doesn't matter if the company tracks you using cookies or fingerprinting. (Through there are local predcessors of GDPR which are technology specific.)
A couple of rich oligarchs playing around with their money in the west doesn't benefit the western economy much. The money they spend is nothing compared to the economies of those western countries. The ones who benefit from the corruption are the ones who have access to the tax stream.
> driven primarily by pure greed and wishful thinking.

What's wrong about greed? Why not channel it to create a better world?

For every trade, both "greedy" sides see themselves better off, otherwise there would be no trade. This increases the quality of life for everyone.
By “developer” I mean the firm employing the developer, not the individual. A contractor company for example.
> Would you really want a job where you could never, ever be away from a computer because you’re the only on-call person? This doesn’t work.

Works fine for me. $20K a month for two people doing f*k all is insane.
> He said: "There's no advantage to the virus itself becoming more severe."

I thought the virus doesn't care about becoming more or less sever since its transmission capability is all that matters to it and symptoms are hidden (thus increasing transmission between individuals) in the first days of infection and that's what evolution is driving him to be: more transmissible.

The fact symptoms appear sooner than delta seems to be a step backward for the virus in terms of efficacy and it's compensated by being way way way more virulent.

What am I getting wrong here ?

Also:

Omicron could as well have been more severe (and the jury is still out on long covid anyway). If there's another variant less virulent but compensated by hiding symptoms longer... then this would take over omicron and this variant could as well be more severe.

Is that totally out of the realm of possibilities ?

My regular joe thinking tells me that we can only be sure of the direction it's going to take when spring comes. 2021 had 5 vocs, it's only the first days of January.
Problem is that they're bulkier.

Moreover, when you wash them, they take longer to dry.