skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OTOH parsing with a recursive descent parser requires either a machine with a stack and the approriate calling conventions OR a lot of work to fake it. FORTRANs before F90 had no recursion (and you still have to explicitly declare that a function is recursive), and many early and easy architectures have no hardware stack.
While people do die from pneumonia and staph, I am giving you the anecdotal evidence that nobody in our school (or myself) died from it, which you cannot refute, because it is true.

While these sicknesses ARE deadly, nobody stopped their lives in considering them. And 100% of people did not die from it, though they could have.
Pre-delta, even: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-delta-variant-is-more-conta...
Omicron explosion spurs nationwide breakdown of services [USA]
I do have thoughts about performance too but I was following the "get it working then make improvements" route :). Thank you for the suggestions.
Where I live that has been the policy from the beginning. Keep the hospital system running.

That said, because hospitalizations lag case numbers, I assume they are trying to extrapolate from case numbers to future hospitalizations. Of course that changes depending upon the individual variant that is currently spreading.
> That kid with the mask down had literally just tested positive for COVID. That's not "minutiae".

You just said, a paragraph up, that they had all been in the auditorium for 3 hours, which (again, according to you) is "far longer than it takes" to get sick. Let's assume you're right -- we have an auditorium overcrowded with kids, many of whom are spewing aerosolized, highly transmissible virus into an enclosed space. For hours.

So yes, worrying about a silly mask on one kid, in that context, is more than a little hysterical. I'm going to wager that most of these kids weren't wearing rigorously fitted respirators anyway.

Even if you don't believe that (why wouldn't you?), the idea that a moment of "mask down" is going to present any sort of exceptional additional risk is clearly nonsense.
So it will delight many in the blockchain industry to learn that Kasparov, easily one of the smartest people alive, is now a champion of cryptocurrency.

Delight it shall.

But it doesn't change the fact the fact that, tragically, history is full of instances of brilliant and (like Kasparov) commendably ethical and principled people who ... nonetheless become caught up in all kinds of foolishness and nonsense.

Like a certain Sir Isaac Newton for example, who couldn't help but get sucked into this (in its day, equally irresistible) vortex:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company
This comment reads more like dismissive pedantry. What happens on the whole statistically matters more than hoping to get lucky with perhaps some local effects cancelling each other out.

What is your actual point?
> give kids the chance to choose to go to school or not ... most won't go

I mean...that's really up to the parents, not the kids.
This is why most mainstream languages are increasingly coming around to the benefits of FP. I would love to use Haskell at work but Kotlin + Arrow gets 90% of the way there while staying familiar and easier to learn.
Lung cancer risk was established with control group. We don't have control group for a planet so we use climate models. The article is about remembering that we use models because of lack of alternatives, not because they are as good as control group.
The problem is that a major part of the value of universal education is that it provides a means to provision social welfare without stigma – telling only children who need this support to come in undoes this.
>So. "All things considered", what's your opposition to what I wrote and not to what you imagine I wrote?

OK. Lets' start here. Do you have citation for any of these gems?

> the vast majority of people in this world do not live in dysfunctional governments

> There are very few such governments on earth, all things considered

Anyone who would write such subjective, unprovable "facts" with the certainty you did is not interested in honest debate.

Please read the links I provided regarding economic freedoms in the world. China alone is ~ 20% of the worlds population and has currency controls prohibiting its citizens from spending their own money how they wish. That's a single country.

As I said, I'm not here to debate the merits of crypto. I'm here because you are coming across as minimizing the economic struggles of millions of people. If that's not what you intended then fine - feel free to clarify. But that's how you are coming across (in additional to being generally aggressive and angry).

Having said that, I would challenge you to provide support for this assertion:

> crypto makes the problems with dysfunctional governments worse

Unless I'm mistaken, you seem to think that people can't/don't cash out abroad. Or that they can't wait until the economic/political system is safer to cash out domestically. Am I understanding that correctly?

As an aside: because you started your reply with "Again...", I suspect you didn't notice that this is our first interaction, and I'm not the other commenter you are engaged with. I suspect some of your anger/confusion is because you are confusing us?
Statistics are tricky to think about, even for people with technical educations.

Something that was a lightbulb moment when someone was discussing professional baseball players. I forget the exact point the blog was making, but it came down to this: many things in life, like the ability to throw or hit a baseball, falls on a distribution that is close enough to a gaussian distribution. But when talking about professional baseball players, they represent just the very right hand tip of that distribution. Whatever intuitions you might have about gaussian distributions needs to be thought about in light of that.

The same applies with extreme weather events. It is easy to look at articles and headlines describing an exponential increase in the frequency of extreme weather events. But think for a second about the equation of a gaussian distribution. When you shift the offset by a small, fixed amount, the area under that right hand tip goes up exponentially.

No, one cannot point to climate change as the cause of any individual weather event. But it is a measured certainty that the warming is happening; the number of record high temperatures are a multiple higher than the number of record low temperatures every year for the past couple of decades. It would be weird if the temperature rose and the number of extreme events went up, say, linearly.
Stranger Things

The Crown

Bojack Horseman

Lupin

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Russian Doll

Glow

Narcos

Sex Education

House Of Cards (although, this is less fun to watch now considering Kevin Spacey's real life actions but the show itself was and is quite good)

Dark

The Witcher

Daredevil

The Haunting of Hill House (similarly Midnight Mass and Haunting of Bly Manor)

All of these are award winning as well as just being incredibly good shows. I think Netflix just pumps out so much content. There's plenty of bad stuff, but there's also plenty of very very good stuff.
> If you see idle is above 20 it's recommended to explore using PgBouncer.

Exploring pgbouncer when you have lots of idle connections is a great tip, but 20 idle connections feels _extremely_ low to me. I've seen postgres databases on AWS Aurora serving over 13,000 transactions per second with hundreds of idle connections (because of client side pooling with a few dozen backend clients) just fine. In fact, around that scale is when we switched _from_ pgbouncer to client side pooling to simplify our architecture, and we noticed no degradation in any major metrics.
For the shutdown, do you use systemctl poweroff? If so, and you are sure that there will be no dataloss, you could use the --force parameter.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/systemctl.1.html
I would argue that panic and fear gives them the legitimacy to maintain physical control over some things that would have normally resulted in them being voted out of office or impeached.

Let us not forget that the roaring 20s and laissez faire capitalism, all of which were voted for, came after an era of pandemic flu, a world war, and increased government control of things under Wilson.
I worked for 3 years on the design the 757 stab trim jackscrew. We considered every failure, and had redundancy for it.

The AL flight cracked its nut, and the balls fell out. I don't know the details of that design, but on the 757 the ice scrapers on both sides of the nut will hold the nut in place if the balls fall out.

If I recall correctly, if the AL pilot had simply left the trim system alone after it failed, and landed the airplane, it would have been fine. Instead, he kept fiddling with it, driving it up and down, until it tore the nut to pieces. The loud screech it made when running in a half broken configuration should have chilled anyone's blood to bone at 30,000 feet.

As that incident, and the later MAX crashes clearly demonstrated, once something goes wrong with the stab trim system, you move it only enough to get the airplane into a flyable state. Then, you turn it off and leave it the frack alone. Land it, and let the mechanics figure it out with it safely in the hangar.

One incident where the stab trim failed and the poor pilots were just passengers to their doom was that 747 that took off from the base, and some tank in the cargo hold broke loose, slid back, smashed through the bulkhead and broke off the whole stab trim system.

That really wasn't the stab trim system's fault, you can't really design for a tank falling on it. It was the fault of no redundancy in the straps holding the tank in place.

The video of the crash, shown endlessly on the news, makes my gut turn to water.
How is the data "racist"? It doesn't utilise race at all. It uses citizenship information because tax authorities found that having a non-Dutch citizenship was a strong predictor of committing the fraud.

The fraud encompassed people from mainly eastern European countries (mainly Bulgaria, hence it is known as the "Bulgarenfraude"). Because the tax authorities only checked afterwards, the fraud was often only noticed when the fraudsters had already returned to Bulgaria [1]. The target of these checks have the same race as the Dutch (they are both mainly Caucasian), so it is weird to hear that the nationality check is "racist".

If you look at the press release of the Dutch Data Protection Authority [2] (the agency that imposed the fine), you can see it does not even mention race or racism. It says the fine is due to "serious violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the law governing privacy" and for discrimination in "unnecessarily retaining nationality data in its systems".

I had to look that up because, if I had just read the headline, I would incorrectly believe there was racism involved. Why is this article inflaming racial resentment? Is it just trying to use clickbait to get views? Is it trying to push fake-news for an agenda?

[1] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarenfraude

[2] https://autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl/en/news/tax-administra...
Im getting a

“Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information).”

Since im on my phone im not gonna bother.
Looking for companies to support this claim, I think there could be a case made for Elixir/Erlang.
WhatsApp, for example. Are there Haskell examples I’m not aware of?
I remember Web 3.0 was first a thing maybe 15 years ago when talking about the 'Semantic web', i.e. interchangeable meta data standards etc. That was mostly boring data stuff to 'normal people', so never really took off into the mainstream like 'Web 2.0' did when referencing social media/user generated content.

Then several years later I heard about 'Web 3.0' again, but this time most referring more to the 'internet of things', which seemed to get a bit more traction for a short time, usually around mundane household devices like internet connected fridges and toasters before also disappearing as most of those things never really took off with consumers.

Now for whatever reason it's come back again, but this time rebranded as 'web3' probably to sound more contemporary as web 3.0 sounds very mid 2000s now. This time whoever is driving this is trying to make it about crypto/decentralization etc. as if it's a new thing even though I feel that's kinda been a thing for a quite while now.
Love it. You're doing exactly the right thing.
A year's worth of income is an extremely high amount of economic damage to a person
> Masking is highly effective and just a bit inconvenient.

No, it's really not. It's made no difference in the overall spread. It's also a LOT more than "just a bit inconvenient". It prevents normal face to face human interaction in public.

> Lockdowns are extremely effective just very expensive.

Well the "extremely expensive" part is somewhat right, though it would be more accurate to call them "extremely damaging to society". However, they also are ineffective at at preventing an easily transmittable virus that is spread across ever corner of the globe. At most you just give up one day of your life at the beginning, when they are the most valuable, and trade it for an extra day at the end.

It's a harmful juggling of freedom NOBODY should be forced to be subjected to.

> Vaccines are very effective even against transmission.

Not these ones.

> Nobody is aiming for 0 Covid anymore (except some Australians and China I guess), but getting through the winter wave without too many fellow citizens dead should be something we spend some effort on.

Well all the measures being pushed only make sense in the context of "zero covid". It's time for people to wake up and reject the attacks on freedom that make no sense in the reality of a commonly occurred but rarely deadly coronavirus we will encounter for the rest of our lives.
A lot of cinematographers don’t really like the extreme resolving power inherent to 4K+ sensors, and optics that diffuse that sharpness (for instance, a lot of anamorphics) are VERY much in vogue as a result.
An NFT is a complex abstraction, that can mean many things in many contexts. It's quite powerful as a tool, as a technology. Art is honestly just a fraction of what an NFT can represent. But you won't develop any kind of intuition for that without engaging with it.

As for claiming ownership, yes, if I paid some amount for the ownership of a particular piece of art (commercial rights or otherwise), that is called an exchange or a trade or a transaction. It's quite common in capitalist societies. Not sure why that leaves a bad taste in your mouth. But to each their own.
> I blow up the rootfs once a year for full system updates.

My experience with Debian system updates have been pretty good; I don't think I have ever blown up my system through them. (when running stable)
> we know how to return to relative normalcy. We just aren't doing it, for reasons that have nothing to do with facts and reason.

I would absolutely love to know what this plan you mention is. Because I absolutely do not know if any real path back to normalcy.
Infection isn't a binary yes/no switch that occurs after a specific interval. This should be obvious.

The more viral load you're exposed to, the higher the infection risk. Someone speaking directly to you in close quarters with an active infection is, indeed, a significant risk factor for acquiring the virus.

It doesn't make sense to argue that it doesn't matter because they were also possibly exposed to other students for 3 hours earlier.
Something tells me you don't care much for digital artwork if you think its in any way a dissimilar media.
James Prigioni (one of the videos in the article) inspired me to start an orchard a few years ago. Hoping to get my first apples and plums this year, as well as a very nice amount of berries. Regarding shade-tolerant plants, I planted two kiwiberries last year (male and female) in the same spot where I had some honey berries (not mentioned on list but need 6-8 hours for best production).

Outside the wire, there’s a lot of black raspberry, I think allegheny blackberry and wineberry. I prune many of the black raspberry and wineberry and harvest those as well. The wineberry seems to do particularly well in the shade. Also probably one of my favorite berries.
The nostalgia is partly for centralized reasons. It's undeniably convenient when everyone uses one thing (or ICQ).
K of K invented OMG.
Because a functioning healthcare system (either single payer or a more regulated public/private arrangement) is considered socialism/communism by enough voters and their Congressional reps, and so every actor in the healthcare system operates to maximize their profits, with the citizen healthcare consumer on the losing end. Most expensive OECD healthcare, worst outcomes, and people who cannot afford health insurance or expensive healthcare services die.

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/03/u-s-pays-more...

https://www.pgpf.org/blog/2020/07/how-does-the-us-healthcare...

https://www.brookings.edu/research/a-dozen-facts-about-the-e...

https://publichealth.jhu.edu/2019/us-health-care-spending-hi...
Climate models have shown to be very accurate predicting the climate change that we've been able to observe so far - what aspect of climate change model are you referring to?

It makes no sense to talk about the 'chaotic' nature of a system without relating to the scale and scope of the model. Weather is a chaotic system but this doesn't mean we can't predict it at all what it'll be like an hour later or tomorrow. As we scale it out further, the accuracy decreases but we can predict with high certainty that it's not going to snow in Los Angeles six months out from today.
I've heard that their ink fades to near-illegibility in only a couple of years. Anyone know if there's anything to that?
Non intuitive doesn't mean not predictable. Nor does chaos. Chaos just means that a small perturbation in input parameters can result in a large change in the output. So to have good predictive power you need to pick good inputs with good accuracy. But chaos is also a spectrum so not all chaotic systems are as sensitive as others.
I too remember having all my friends on AIM, and my signature being about throwing real rocks at my sham-friends.
Do any of your friends use Signal? Most older adults don't care at all about privacy, so I'm guessing high schoolers don't care either?
> When a virus is endemic, it means everyone will get it.

There's a substantial difference between "everyone will get it in a year or two" and "everyone will get it all within a couple of weeks", especially where hospital capacity is concerned. My city has one ICU bed available and hospitals have been diverting ambulances.

> But oh, how long have we been "flattening the curve" now?

We've done it several times. After each spike flattens and then comes down, restrictions get progressively lifted. I'm in a blue state that took things quite seriously, and this summer still largely felt if the pandemic didn't exist.
Also an Atlassian here. For anyone wondering, we tend to use Confluence for planning, decisions, team process, tech specs, etc but use an internal view of DAC[0] for code docs. Think Hugo[1] crossed with redoc[2] with a dash of GraphQL support.

Unfortunately the docs-in-repo + PRs-for-updates approach has way more friction for drive-by-corrections/commentary/Q&A from people not on the team, so it's not a holy grail either.

[0]: https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/
[1]: https://gohugo.io
[2]: https://github.com/Redocly/redoc
The failure mode of straying too far from L2 is the inability to shield the highly sensitive optics from both the Earth-Moon system and the Sun simultaneously.
Actually you can't rotate the telescope; they managed orientation even through the launch because if some of the science instruments get pointed towards the sun for too long they'll be destroyed. Now that it's deployed it's even more important that the cold side stays cold.
The Spanish lab seeking the definitive Covid-19 vaccine
I'd like to see irregular Z buffers deployed in a modern graphics engine, as they actually provide pixel-perfect shadows without the need for raytracing hardware. They're pretty experimental, though. Maybe I'll take a stab at implementing them in Bevy sometime :)
Not sure why you're getting so downvoted. You might be stating it a bit dramatically, but I've personally seen this attitude in people when living (by choice) in an RV. Many people seem to abhor the idea that someone doesn't live like them. There's broad discrimination against people living in RV parks and trailers in most municipalities.

Many cities ban you putting an RV on your own plot of land, regardless of the purpose. They often ban trailer parks, severely restrict them, etc to the detriment of many economically vulnerable people. There's often a component of racism too as some trailer parks home lots of immigrants or hispanic folks, marking them doubly undesirables.
I dont like raft personally.

I think it does way too much "all in one shot" v.s. a layered abstraction approach you have to do with Paxos where you build up from the basics of consensus.

The evidence that raft is more "understandable" rest on IIRC a multiple choice question test not on actually implementing the thing working correctly. But (without having seen the test, but being familiar with both algorithms) it is easier to answer questions about what raft is supposed to be doing than paxos, but paxos actually confronts you with the edge cases more explicitly that are still present in raft.

Granted, both are hard to implement correctly! I just think that learning Paxos does lead to a more detailed understanding of consensus than raft.

just my 2¢ and no one asked ;)
> https://xkcd.com/2500

I am unable to find any 1982 Exxon prediction that would meander like the line in that graph. The only plot I was able to find is this [1] from this 1982 Exxon report [2], which is just a slightly curved upward rising sketch, not nearly as detailed as in the xkcd graph.

> the Exxon model from 1982

I also failed to find any signs of there having been any "1982 Exxon model". What [2] is, is a 39-page report, a synthesis and review of publicly available climate research. The list of references is quite extensive: 10 pages.

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6fbaqdWwAEPg5Z.png

[2] https://www.climatefiles.com/exxonmobil/1982-memo-to-exxon-m...
...that you are not allowed to fix?

That's about the only thing that comes to mind when I hear "John Deere" now.
Agriculture continues its long term trend of reducing needed human input. Almost everyone was once a farmer now only a few, and soon even less.

This could shift the skills needed to farm more towards automation/programming tech etc
Key point: this is from Taiwan. Taiwan faces a very real threat of literal invasion by china. Footage, any footage, would be of interest to chinese military planners. The location of small bridges, the state of private roads, whether fields are flooded ... if you are planning a ground invasion you cannot have too much terrain information. But no, that doesnt mean every chinese drone is a threat everywhere. The chinese are not going to backdoor a drone to get footage of some kid's pot plants behind a barn in Iowa.
This video goes into it:
https://youtu.be/2p5E7iXxeQE

Note that even then they had to use brighter candles (they had 3 wicks instead of one).
It’s not just the number of photosites, or even the bit depth - Netflix approved cameras need timecode support, among other features that distinguish a “production ready” camera from a consumer one.
What is the idea behind the immunity against copyright claims? How often does this (claims) happen and what is the problem that the bill is solving?
This just seems like a very naive idea in a very confident HN manner. Have you met teenagers?
We sort of expected that when you spend a trillion or two of our federal tax dollars, the hospitals might get better at dealing with it. This does not appear to have been the case.