skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gonna take a leap and say I'm getting down-voted due to lack of references? So here are some references:

(1) "A growing body of evidence indicates that the Omicron Covid variant is more likely to infect the throat than the lungs, which scientists believe may explain why it appears to be more infectious but less deadly than other versions of the virus." 2 Jan 2022. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/02/new-studies-re...

(2) "The Omicron variant largely evades immunity from past infection or two vaccine doses according to the latest Imperial modelling." 17 Dec 2021. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/232698/omicron-largely-evade...

(3) "Even if the disease is milder, rapid onslaught of the virus could overwhelm health care systems (doubling time of 2.5 days means 50X increase in 2 weeks)" 18 Dec 2021. WHO. https://youtu.be/ltXkJTSBeaE?t=675

- Also: Canada's patients in hospital is the highest its been ever. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...

Dr. John Campbell's videos in general provide good, well-cited references of omicron progression: https://www.youtube.com/c/Campbellteaching/videos
I was responding to this:

> Hopefully Web3 reaches the point that there's a 1-click installer, like downloading an app, that does everything you need it to do, so people can enjoy all of the things they want from the web with the benefits of decentralization.

As long as web3 depends on everyone running their own server (or using someone else's server), i don't see why we would expect anything to change.
> That sounds even worse.

It preserves the privacy of your contacts (no one learns that you have them as a contact) and people have a choice about whether to receive the notifications (it isn't spam). That's not worse.

> Is there a setting when you join that doesn't blast it to everyone who has you as a contact?

It isn't blasting it whatsoever. Their client is querying whether any of their contacts has Signal. If one does now that didn't before, and their client is configured to notify them when that happens, their client notifies them when that happens.

The client has to be able to determine whether it can use the network to contact a given peer. Removing the ability to provide a notification when that happens is just security through obscurity.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007061452-Do...
me: No one wants to ride around in a horse and buggy

stalz: Oh yes they do, I can assure you that the Amish ride around in a horse and buggy

me: how is taking things literally and pretending to miss the point helping this conversation?
A decent trailer can be a more pleasant living experience than a tiny manhattan studio, I fail to see why that should qualify as homeless. Maybe using an in-between category would be helpful.
The technical quality of Netflix originals is really high. One thing that annoys me though is for some reason despite having rigorous standards for the camera it seems a common trend through numerous Netflix Originals to use the Vantage Hawk V-Lite Vintage '74 line of anamorphic lenses. I guess it's a stylistic choice but it results is some (for me at least) annoying image distortion that can really distract from the show. They are literally described at claiming the flaws are a feature: "The Vintage’74 version has certain gentle aberrations and other characteristics that might be considered flaws by others but are welcomed storytelling tools for cinematographers"

You can see this is some example footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhbRkoeNb9U

Note the distortion and blurred top and bottom of the image.
Historically true, but Liquefied NG has turned the economics of the industry on its head in regards to where shipping makes financial sense.
The other thing is the FDA intentionally delayed approving vaccines for 5-11 year olds till well after the school year start. At the same time the CDC was pushing hopium that vaccines alone would solve the problem. Trying to dangle normalcy in front of people to entice the nimrods to get vaxed. Same time conservative political leaders are using the issue as a political football.
You don't need everyone unless you're trying to IPO. For instance, it's not hard to slap mature GUI clients on company laptops to access a company IRCd. You can even use emoji!
I'm disappointed as well. I wish they would fix bugs such as messages presented out of order, non-stop ringing when syncing messages you've already read on another device, or add a robust backup solution.
" For me and most users, the transition was fully imperceptible."

So far. I hope for your sake it continues to be so.
Oh no, I just did it right before the 0.6 update.

But good tutorial!
Only certain folks think of the climate as a '"progressive" view'
Does anyone know how this stores the indices?
How are strings represented in the VM? Is there a benchmark for string operations?
I'm sure you're aware, but there's an episode of the great show The IT Crowd whose plot revolves around your website
Reminded me of the first thing I test when working with stock exchanges. Send order #1, watch for events: trade, trade, trade, executed. … Send order #5: trade, trade, executed. Oh well, works as expected, right? Can't be different. It can.

Send order #27: trade, trade, executed, trade.

Damn ordering got me hard a couple of times.
The blog post is a bit ... excitable. However, why not comment on the Bill itself:

https://gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/legacy/bs2016/billT...
> Film was also sold by the foot. You didn't by film by 15 minutes. You bought film by 1000' rolls (35mm).

But that just makes sense doesn't it? It's only 15 minutes' worth if you run it at 1000'/15m.
There really needs to be some catch-all law that prevents dark patterns like this. (Please excuse the irony that in this case the dark pattern is light text).

If an engineer or designer is told to deliberately spend time making an experience less good for someone, they should be able to report that to a government ombudsman, and if their whistleblowing is proven correct, the company should be forced to reverse the decision and continue to pay the developer their salary for the next 10 years even if they choose to quit.

I suppose there are cases when the dark pattern is actually intended to add friction to a path that leads to user errors, like accidentally making private files world-readable, but something like a jury of users should be able to unanimously reach a verdict on whether a given "feature" is really a benefit.
Maybe you misinterpretted what I was meaning. What you quoted from my post was meant as saying they took all of the image from a 35mm frame just to shoot a measly SD image. That's like shooting 4k to deliver SD. It's seemingly way overkill.

>That type of use case seems better suited for mini-DV or other contemporary video formats.

You realize that people were shooting film for TV production long long before DV was ever invented right?
Definitely.

McDonalds grosses a helluva lot more than Wolfgang Puck -- $19.21 billion vs $57.50 million.
On their anime production requirements (https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/360...):

> The working resolution must be 1920x1080 or higher throughout the production, including drawing, scanning, background, CG and VFX.

At least a few years ago, there was a belief that most anime were produced at under 1080p, then upscaled if necessary. Therefore 1080p anime didn't offer and advantages compared to 720p releases. I wonder if this is still true to this day.
Yeah... looking at this it seems like there's still some gaping holes, for example specifying javascript in particular leaves WebAssembly open which is arguably worse than non-free javascript, and anything server-side is just ignored, like you said.
I found it shocking at first. Then I thought about the shitshow that is any kind of organization in high schools. Then I thought about the utter confusion that my own school had trying to set up a simple website.

Then I wasn't so surprised any more. Just disappointed.
And other previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29831709
Why should they not? Compliance is hard even for very mundane things.
I thought his post was not as completely dispassionate and parsimonious as a data scientist could've made it, but it nonetheless was pretty milk-toast and doesn't seem to ad hominem anyone. You're reaching quite hard.
If there were things on there about climate or carbon capture people would find something else to hate about it. It's not enough. It won't work. And so on...
Sure is nice to crop in though.
1. Glib and disingenuous.

2. According to Kriegman's letter to TR management, the internal social media post was reviewed by HR and the head of DEI and approved by the internal moderators. He followed it up with an email complaining about his harassment. It was only after the email that he was fired.

You either have no idea what happened in this story (and support the company anyway) or you're supporting a company for firing someone for emailing a harassment complaint.
I know NASA has a reputation for bureaucracy, but I don't think it will be forbidden to use JWST for other purposes than those 5 questions?

It is capable of being aimed at any point of the sky and show us things we've never seen before, is it not?
I'm saying this without any connection to the service aside from being a customer, but I think Inoreader is doing innovative work in the RSS space.
It's not clear to me what you're actually asking for.

Signal, like it or not (I feel both ways) is keyed on phone numbers. When you look for someone, that's what you look for, and unless someone messages you first, you have to look for them.

So anyone who has your phone number and thinks "hmm, is so and so on Signal?" will find out, yes.

What's the downside to them opting in to getting alerts that the answer is now yes? I find them annoying and turn it off, but I can't avoid anyone who has my number messaging me one time on Signal, that's just how the platform works.
I've been trying to find what it is that keeps overwriting /etc/resolv.conf

chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

and watch the logs for errors/crashing services. It's sad, I know, but sometimes you do need a landmine to identify the trespassers.
A feature that would make this even more fun to use: a way to auto-rotate the map so that the bottom of the screen is the direction that sunlight is coming from at the current time of day. Right now, I can only infer the sun’s direction from the pixelated shadows of buildings, but I’m curious about its direction at different times of day relative to various windows in my building. I think rotating the map with the sun would be an intuitive way to show that direction.

The UI could be a toggle button below the “Tilt map” toggle button with an icon of a sun and a title “Rotate with the sun”.

I understand that the sunlight comes at slightly different angles to each point on the map. The feature wouldn’t have to complicated because of this, though: I would find it intuitive if the feature only calculated the angle from the sun to the location at the center of the visible map.
take a deep breath, calm down. this does not invalidate anything you want or use.
I think analyzing languages through the lens of incentives ("what is this language pushing me towards/away from?") is a great idea. But if Haskell's incentives make it well-suited for programming in the large, why is it so rare to see large companies using Haskell?

One explanation is: maybe Haskell is great for programming in the large, but is not very "accessible" to the average programmer. That is, as long as your team is competent, you can build really large, long-lived projects in Haskell more effectively than in most languages. However, if your languages requires an above-average level of competence, can you really claim that it's suited for "programming in the large?" To me, "PITL" means maintaining a huge codebase across decades, with dozens or hundreds of programmers coming and going. I'm also inclined to discount this explanation because the Haskell community often claims that Haskell isn't really that difficult to learn.

Another possible explanation is that people just haven't realized that Haskell is a great PITL language yet. But Haskell has been around for quite a while now; why didn't it take this long for C++ or Java or Go or Rust to become mainstream PITL languages?

I think the real reason is that Haskell actually isn't a great PITL language. Clearly it checks some of the most important boxes: type-safety, non-nullability, immutability, etc. But these are outweighed by other aspects -- most significantly, the "excessive abstraction" mentioned by the author. As admitted in the article, "abstraction is too fun!" Haskell's powerful type system, operator overloading, language extensions, etc. are all double-edged swords in this way, and in terms of PITL their costs far, far outweigh their benefits.

I'd really like to see more languages that make PITL their top priority. Focusing on "safety" or "robustness" is too narrow-minded; PITL affects almost every aspect of a language: the syntax, the type system, the tooling, even the compilation speed! AFAIK, Go is the only modern language to make PITL their "north star," and it has succeeded quite well -- but there's certainly still a lot about Go that could be improved. I think we'll see more "PITL-first" languages in the near future, probably incorporating ideas from Go, Haskell, Rust, and others.
I like artifact-driven API design. If you must use REST, Swagger is a pretty decent way to get your API fully set up with everything but the business logic. Personally, I love GraphQL's Schema Definition Language. The whole thing is designed to explicitly declare data types and how to query for and operate on them, we with plenty of room for building documentation in along the way. Sadly, many popular implementations don't start with the SDL, but an SDL can be generated through those, and the good ones are smart enough to pull in documentation from code comments or addordances in their DSL.
And I doubt that the private and charter schools are chaotic like this. So, the students who attend those get yet another leg up over those who attend our failed public school system.
How to navigate a post-acquisition partnership
Ask HN: How do I enter the startup industry?
How do I get involved in the start-up industry? Where do I get information about what is happening in the industry other than reading HN everyday? I applied to a few jobs on angel.co and workatastartup, but got a few rejections (as expected, so not a problem) and no leads. I don't mind starting a business or working in an already existing one, but how do I get started/get in/distinguish myself?

Are startups okay with inexperienced (no internships/full time experience)? I am about to finish my bachelors and looking for a place to work or make my own place to work.

I don't have a startup business idea, but I'd like to get more involved in the community to see where I may be able to contribute.

Any tips/advice and recommendations are welcome! Thank you :)
That's still pretty amazing. It's true, nobody should be required to use proprietary malware just to interact with government services. I'm happy to see somebody finally stepped up and wrote that into law. This will inspire more similar proposals.
>Who do you want to decide that?

The hospitals, I guess? I'm making inferences from the judgement-making of...whoever, not second-guessing them.

If anything, I'm giving complete faith to the system here. My assumption is if they can send out a full fire-truck to respond to a call where clearly an ambulance would be sufficient, they're not doing it despite there also being a fire that needs response.
Wow. What a coincidence. I installed this last night on my NAS. Came to HN to check if this product has been discussed before and there is a discussion from just today!

Anyway, I was wondering if there is a plug-in infrastructure for BookStack in on the roadmap?

Thank you for the product. Looks neat in the minimum time I have spent on this so far.
Exactly. Worst article ever. The writer is either very silly or completely disingenuous.

If a writer had to caveat every statement to be 100% accurate, they'd never get finished or if they did it would be so boring no one would read it. I want to caveat this with - some articles would get finished and some tiny percentage of them would actually get read. If you are still reading at this point, I guess I'm thankful for the caveat because it's now proven to be true. Let me caveat - "proven" is used in a non-scientific manner here because the above isn't strictly a proof. It's just a common sense usage of the word. Let me caveat "common": I'm speculating that it's common sense because it seems sensible to me and I feel like a common person.
This is legit program synthesis for an iterative brute force solution to the problem. But it is in no sense "solving university level mathematical problems". It's not even figuring out that it can brute force it based on the original problem - a human looked at the original problem and told the model how to brute force it, and it did. It's cool that it did, but this achievement has nothing to do with the title and abstract of the paper.
The original Alexa, yes, but that's from 2010.
Unlike businesses that may have a legitimate need to protect what might be competitive advantages based on their selection of suppliers, governments have no such needs. Yet similar municipalities that have very similar requirements buy the same software thousands of times over.

Governments and schools do much the same things everywhere. The next step is for governments that have passed these laws to form consortia to fund and support open software.
A good number is focusing on dna sequencing. Very interesting to see if these will be successful. I highly doubt it as someone who works in the field.

Zenopower seems insane though. How does a 23 year old lead an company working on nuclear power?
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Both because there's been previous discussion already and because the title is misleading. He definitely was not fired for "criticizing BLM" as such -- but for failing to comply with a company request not to use internal boards to do so.
Yes, I was just mentioning that for those that might not be aware.

Developing your film was also charged by the foot. The soup didn't care about your framerate. Just how much was need to process.
> > Before the pandemic, nurses would work marathon shifts

>

> We have the same problem here. I don't understand how it's consider to be sane.

I don't know anything about nursing, but I've read elsewhere that the 12 hour shifts are to reduce the number of nurses a patient goes through in a single hospital visit.

Speculation: A patient in a hospital is like a software project -- better not to change ownership before release, if you can avoid it.
Juicero was something nobody wanted – clearly not true of crypto.

Enron was a deliberate fraud where things were faked – certainly true of many (most?) crypto projects, but not true of the underlying technologies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc) and therefore not even close to being true for all projects in the space.

Equating crypto to Enron is like equating Enron to the stock market – "the stock market allowed Enron make money off their fraud, therefore we should get rid of the stock market".
>> it's part of a broader targeting of muslims that occurs across western europe and at every level of society.
> Except of course it isn’t. Caricatures poking fun at various religions are common...

Oh come on, his statement is clearly not just about caricatures, but about a general trend, not only in french society, which is especially toxic towards religious people, but especially to Muslims. The evidence is abundant and anyone who has not an axe to grind, like yourself, will have no issue in acknowledging these facts.

> There are a couple of fundamental human rights to which everyone is entitled.

Really, is that so? Can you provide scientific evidence for this or do we have to take you word for it? Can we discover those 'fundamental human rights' under the microscope or are 'enlightened' individuals going to dictate to others what are and aren't 'fundamental human rights'?

> On the other hand, nobody has a right not to be upset

Rights are just arbitrary inventions of the human mind so any society has the power to implement whatever rights they like. Not that I am in favour of that, just trying to make it clear that those platitudes you acquired in your circles are farcical. Apropos farcical, there are enough cases which are evidence that people apparently are entitled to be upset, because whenever powerful individuals in french society are mocked or ridiculed the consequences are very different e.g. Charlie Hebdo fired Maurice Sinet (who had been drawing political cartoons since the 50s!) for mocking Sarkozy's son.

Again I expect no concession from you whatsoever, you clearly have a big axe to grind, just putting this out there as a reference for neutral observers.
I would think that capturing at higher resolutions makes it feasible to crop and zoom? In digital production, you always want to work at high resolution for all intermediate stages, then reduce bit depth only during the final output stage.

When I worked in music production a while back, we often had the problem of source material recorded at low amplitude to 16-bit media (e.g. DAT, CDDA, ADAT). While 16-bit is theoretically sufficient, in the real world you need headroom while recording in order to avoid clipping. So we'd often wind up with grungy sound from inadequate bit-depth during capture and intermediate production.
I'm an open source hacker and I like systemd. Once I took the time to learn its APIs I found it does everything I expect.

Your issues with XFCE and libinput don't seem to be related to systemd. I can't see how airing grievances against other unrelated projects would be a constructive place to take this discussion. Complaining about open source projects only supporting some use cases is also confusing to me. A lot of these projects are very open about the fact that they exist only to "scratch their own itch".
> Can't you just send them a maps link to your location?

this is not discrete, it also shares it with google and all their advertising etc

>Or your GPS coordinates?

Not super user friendly.
What is “plastic” deformation in the context of metal?
Because proprietary messaging apps are sad and unnecessary.
Super funny was my first thought but also pretty alarming that they thought they could get away with this. The amount of government contracts they have is probably enormous. Here's something to add to the jokes: A fun example I just found of one of their contracts with the US Secret Service, who they presumably just hijacked the computers of to cryptomine. [1] Hahaha isn't this like how you get a congressional hearing?

[1] https://www.instantmarkets.com/view/ID3116232555101294163817...
Personally, knowing what I know about him, I wouldn’t want any of his money.

That’s just me personally, and I wouldn’t judge others by what I would do, but many people do.
All Your Decentralization Are Belong to Us
It looks better if you view it on their Roku app ;-)
> or release an imessage api

This is an important point. Proposed legislation in the US and EU could this year mandate the sort of interoperability you are alluding to, and it would make much of this controversy moot.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/future-interoperabilit...
Kind of disappointing that the thiel fellowship has finally descended into "fund kids who already have businesses". It was more interesting when it was "fund kids who have <generic> potential", but also I did watch the fellowship struggle to match fundable ideas with money (that is actually hard and takes effort, reputational risk, followthrough, discipline, that I think only one person I knew in the org had - and she left a while back, and probably investments in real leadership training and real mentorship that they weren't willing to do) much less know what to do with smart kids that had good ideas that weren't fundable/profitable.