skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The US policy response has been far more costly and destructive than it needed to be.

As with many things, the US response combined all the worst parts of the left's reaction to the pandemic with all the worst aspects of the right's. We had ham-fisted lockdowns (of dubious effectiveness) that destroyed small business and harmed mental health while simultaneously we had a right-wing crackpot antivaccination movement that prevented vaccine herd immunity from being achieved fast enough to really impact the virus.

Our present day two party system is like a two fisted beat down in boxing. First you get a left, then you get a right, then a left, then a right, until you're curled up on the floor and you can't take any more.

Maybe a constitutional amendment to ban political parties would help, or at least ranked choice voting so we no longer "have" to vote for incompetent fools or "our vote doesn't count" against the other incompetent fool.
"It is just business" - this kind of thinking is why we have shitty situations like this. Upwork is a billion dollar company, 12K is a joke to them whereas 12k is a lot of money for an individual. The customer paid Upwork using someone else's card, he didn't pay the freelancer. So the party that got duped is Upwork. They should either eat the loss or recover the money from the customer, if that is possible.

Notice the only party that is getting screwed here is the little guy? Why is this acceptable?

Maybe this should NOT be "normal business relationship"?
Actually it is backed by US law and the strength of the US government in terms of enforcing those laws. In particular, the dollar is backed by US tax and debt laws; US taxes must be paid in dollars, debts in the US can be cleared with dollars, and US courts deal only in dollars when working out damages or in bankruptcy proceedings. As long as people doing business in the US follow those laws, which ultimately requires them to respect the government's ability to enforce the law, demand for dollars will exist and thus the dollar has value.

So it is not really about reputation or violence being used against those who would "interfere" with the dollar (whatever that means). I would argue that the value of the Yen is more influenced by reputation than that of the dollar, since people tend to treat Yen as a "safe haven" during economic crises (but ultimately the Yen's value primarily follows from the Japanese government's ability to enforce its laws).
Yes, but I was explaining that no reuse requirement can be equally important for encryption schemes that don't have it included in the name. Claiming that one of them is worse than other because of number reuse even though doing so is equally wrong for both is not a good example.
The F-Droid issue mentioned nothing about blobs as I recall, the reason was they want to be able to push security updates in a timely manner. F-Droid makes it far too easy for people to keep using an old version.
I think it would be easier to move and then find something. Toronto has a good and growing tech scene. I think you should be able to find something interesting fairly quickly with your experience.
I choose to do both at the same time. Apparently I came off too extremist to some which is an interesting potential lesson for me. At the same time, I'm seeing people project and do uncharitable interpretations. Curious.
I follow the folks over at 100 rabbits (https://100r.co) and I think they’ve sort of developed yak shaving into a lifestyle.

I don’t want to go too far into it cause the website is a treasure trove and exciting to explore on your own but if you follow some of their latest stuff, they’ve built a stack based virtual machine, and a whole set of software around it and it truly feels like they are just exploring every avenue that interests them without rushing themselves. Truly the embodiment of my grow a beard and learn Haskell dreams.
> on windows

This is the mistake. Linux and, I believe, OSX come with several tools pre-installed including python.
Given the many years of launch delay, did they use the opportunity to upgrade some components, like CPU or camera sensor?
This really hits home.

I work at a recently IPO'ed unicorn that is doing extremely well and can confirm that in the early days (sub 100 employees when I started) we were more concerned with people who could ship software/solve real problems and had data/experience to confirm this. Now that we are public and growing, it's all leet code style questions to get hired, and I can say first hand that the velocity of development, as well as innovation has dropped off a cliff.

It's to the point that I've stated to leadership that I would fail the interview for the job I've been a top performer in for the past 5 years as the interview format doesn't actually focus on real world skills, but memorising algos.

We've essentially imported this culture into what was once, one of the most dynamic companies I had ever seen. It's awful and I can't wait to leave. Most of the older timers are already going for similar reasons.

More of a rant then a comment I guess, but I just really related to your experience.
My point is: what I believe the author meant when he wrote that a typeset document 'is dead', is that you're not actually editing the typeset document. You're editing the code, which is then rendered - maybe instantly and continuously, but still.

You're not __directly__ editing the "nicer" representation.
You are under the assumption I believe that speculation in it's current form is a good thing. Friedman Doctrine never worked, he himself admitted it.

Crypto is not for buying your latte. It's for the people that cannot trust the system that issues the money to begin with. In your country perhaps it's not an issue. I am sure there are plenty of countries you can see that it is.
Exactly my thought... according to the article the freelancer and Robin know each other and are in good terms.

If Robin realized he defrauded Upwork by mistake, he should just pay up. If he doesn't, then he is actually willingly defrauding upwork, who should throw the book at him.
I believe the product is

https://www.etsy.com/listing/817724829/customizable-led-blue...
We'll always be biased until we directly observe Dark Matter ;)

There's another gotcha: if we are inferring the hidden from observable properties, might not the charge of "feature engineering" also creep into the model? Why human observable properties of the galaxies and not nature's implicit representations?

Pretty eye-opening to think with enough supervised training data humanity approaches a GAN for cosmology!

Discovering Symbolic Models from Deep Learning with Inductive Biases

https://deepmind.com/research/publications/2020/Discovering-...
Not really. RPi printing server setups are somewhat common.
> The pandemic response completely ignored the costs of shutdowns. There has been little or no consideration of their impact on physical health, mental health, education, business, employment, worship.

Anyone who went to an open bar or a packed church service in the USA in December 2020 can tell that governors and the courts were both very sensitive to business and religious concerns about impact on worship, business, and employment.

Unclear who you mean “exaggerated the risks” but the actual risk of fatality was more like 0.6% of all infected in the USA pre-vaccine.[0] 0.3% is the case only after torturing statistics or using international statistics from countries that skew younger and have fewer risk factors.

[0] see https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...
You might like this instead: https://youtu.be/uUAvXYW5bmI
Are netsplits still a thing in modern IRC network deployments?
What baffles me is that in the US banking system one can claim refund for a payment made two years ago without a proper legal process! This should significantly reduce trust in the system.

As a business, the money in my bank account can be taken back at any point and the onus of fighting back for it is on me. How is that reasonable?
If UpWork thinks they are the same they should sue Robin in court not take money away without a court order.
(At least in Germany) if you rent some parking space but don't pay the parking space owner is not allowed to tow your car to force payment.
Another alternative is the oj app (ojg/cmd/oj) which is part of https://github.com/ohler55/ojg. It relies on JSONPath for extraction and manipulation of JSON.
CockroachDB is probably the best example of a modern RDBMS.
As written, this story also includes a part where someone was using someone else's credit card without permission.

The magical crypto future we've all been waiting for is that the guy who paid $12,500 to a freelancing platform for something he had nothing to do with and no knowledge of should get stuck with the bill and everyone should move on?
So he got scammed by Robin. And Robin was smart to meet the guy so Upwork has reason to believe that contractor is also a scammer (the account is not closed because they want to recover the money first).

Without cooperation from Robin this is a hard case for the contractor. If he had logging by screenshots it might be easier but with manual logging of hours there is very little reason to believe.

In short, Robin scammed the contractor using “contractor friendly” tactics: manual logging, let’s meet, etc. Upwork does warn about that, but scammers will tell something like “I trust you”, “upwork invides your privacy”, etc.
It does appear to be handcrafted HTML, generated using [1].

> This is a static website generated using a Common Lisp program. See github.com/susam/maze for the source code of this website[2]

> Just like the original website, every line of HTML and CSS that appears in the website is handcrafted.[3]

[1] https://github.com/susam/maze/blob/main/site.lisp

[2] https://susam.net/maze/about.html

[3] https://github.com/susam/maze
I think the comment you're replying to was meant sarcastically.
It can give extortionists / kidnappers a nice list of potential targets.
We have no details about what actually happened, perhaps a business relationship gone sour, perhaps the client was using their parents' credit card, or perhaps it was in fact stolen (though it's questionable that the charges would happen for so long if this is the case).

Regardless, irreversible transactions would be more like cash payments. People seldom go around with their private keys for $13000 on paper in their wallet, (though a password protected hardware device would grant similar freedom with less risk), and if they did and it got stolen, it would be up to them to try to move the funds before the thieves do.

I'm not denying that a shit-ton of crypto theft happens, but in this case it seems like there's more to the story than we're getting. If the client had been paying with crypto, it mean they had undeniable access to the funds. Again, it doesn't mean the funds weren't stolen, but I have yet to hear of a case of a recipient of stolen crypto being asked to pay it back.

I'm wondering if there's even precedent for this. As a business owner, if someone walks in and pays cash for goods, then someone else walks in and says the person who just paid you used stolen funds, are you obligated to pay it back? If so, haven't you just been stolen from?
If someone made a bunch of purchases from you with a stolen credit card, Amazon expects you to eat that cost and pursue the buyer to be made whole?
> Funny how people are adopting the word "DRM" here even though printer cartridges have nothing to do with "digital rights".

Thus, it is common in hacker circles to consider DRM as an abbreviation for Digital Restrictions Management.
Do not get too excited for such a list though because I think around 180 of them were just bolts, locks or actuators securing the movable parts of the primary mirror.
How do I list what's running? I have to Google that every time. How do I list units? What are units? What the fuck are... and so on. The output is hard to read. The files are all over. The directory and file names are counterintuitive. It’s just… needlessly arcane.

Git has the same problem but at least git is excellent enough software in other ways that it makes up for the horrible UX. Systemd is mediocre.
What strikes me in this "comments/rebuttals" is that they mostly miss Moxies' main points and underlying critic. Some comments are pretty obvious and certainly understood my moxie...
The anti-vax movement isn't just right-wing. Blacks are the most under-vaccinated demographic.

And it is important to distinguish those who are against mandates from those who are against the vaccine.
Admittedly my first bot was indeed in mIRCScript and its abstractions but it wasn't long before I had a !spawn command that was a function that connected sub-bots directly to IRC as a protocol because why not I guess

Also wrote a script that sent email directly for tinkering purposes, later used that protocol knowledge to get my first tech job haha "how does email work?" "how in-depth do you want?"
Is it me or is it obvious Robin might be a fraud? Like “Catch me If You Can” kind of fraud.

Seeing that they worked on investment presentations tells me Robin might be a fraud out the gate.

Grifters grift you by being your buddy and not some sketchy person selling you a used Rolex hanging on the inside of a trench coat.
Australia wasn’t under a prolonged shutdown. They were fully unmasked and having parties over the summer. Movie companies were filming there specifically because of how Covid-free they were. Again, what are you talking about?
Where can you find someone to drive a tractor when you need it and not need to be paid the rest of the year 'when you need a driver so do all the.other farmers. When you don't nobody else in your area does either.
Delphi still exists:

> Build Native Apps 5x Faster With One Codebase. For Windows, Android, iOS, macOS, and Linux

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi

And it's free if you don't make a lot of money of what you build.
MKBHD made a video about Apple and the paradox of choice. Pretty interesting
As someone who works for a bank, I can shed some light on this.

> ... he said this is a bit of a mess-up as he forgot that there is “a credit card connected in his account that wasn’t actually his”.

The typical chargeback is for a billing dispute, but this does not describe a billing dispute. If the client was authorized by the cardholder to use the card (ever, not just for these charges), the bank considers the charges authorized. The bank isn't going to get involved in a conflict with the cardholder and an authorized third-party. However, if authorization was never provided and the charges are reported timely, the bank will take liability and pursue their collection. In case of fraud, the bank might charge back to the merchant, but only if the merchant failed follow their contractual obligations in accepting the payment. In any case, I presume you have no way to knowing that the card was not your client's card, since you did not actually process the payment. This should be enough to get you off the hook, but only if you were truthful about your interactions with your client.

> Why would a bank take my side (a freelancer from another country) instead of his own actual client who never actually requested those services?

Because their business model depends on it: They make money when their clients get charged. If the cardholder ever get the client permission to use the card, the charges are valid, and the bank makes money.

> Let me get this straight — Upwork, a billion-dollar company, wants me, a freelancer, to work for free on their platform for approximately 230 hours (with my hourly rate) because a client on their platform was using someone else’s credit card?

This sounds generous. Often, payment processors want immediate repayment of chargebacks, especially ones as larges as these.

> How in god’s name is that my fault?

That depends. If you tried to protect your client by hiding from Upwork the fact that your client acknowledged using someone else's card, then that's how. If you were honest with Upwork, then I don't see they can recoup these charges from you, unless the contract you have with them says so.
I tried zero guesses but entered “EEEEE”, hit “Give up” and it told me I got it right in one try and the word was “DECAL”!

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
Oh, yeah, that should be illegal.
> Fauci later said

GP gave an actual quote, can you provide one for this as well?
Can you explain why mobile developers run away from third party components?

I'm a full stack/data engineer and use third party components all the time. In fact, I'd choose a popular and maintained component for the job, instead of writing it myself. I have no issues using as many components as I need. This seems like a bad practice in mobile.

If I encounter a bug in my dependencies, I find it, fix and send the fix to the maintainer. The same as I would do with my own code.
How does remote school == prolonged shut down? Los Angeles was having outdoor dining and stuff during that time. It’s clear that schools simply were t prioritized at that time, not that the city as a whole was on lockdown.
I just want to say thank you for that link; it was an inspiring read. I think it's time to watch Barry Lyndon again.
The counter-attack is people using Upwork as an advertising platform, i.e. take a small initial job paid through them, then for future work have the client pay directly. By the dollar, it's lower fees and lower expectations of Upwork.

Counter-example: for US employers, Upwork is a godsend when paying overseas staff, because they handle the legal, tax and reporting complexities.
Historically, Brother has done a better job of getting affordable lasers or laser like printers out to consumers. Canon rested on their laurels and played catch up afterwards (much like they did in the mirrorless camera space)
What I am saying is unfair is your insistence on trying to think of astronomy as a problem that can be resolved by scale.

> that a vaccine would take 18 months to develop. I said it could be done in 6

Cool anecdote. I was also part of those who thought it would be done earlier, we agreed on this. This is not comparable at all.

> so $10B was spent to ensure it would not fail. And it worked! But suppose for $1B one could build a less reliable JWST.

That was the plan, JWST was supposed to cost 1B$, not 10B$. And then we were supposed to start building other telescope based on the lesson learned with that design such as: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Ultraviolet_Optical_Infr....

But it ended costing 10B$, not because that's what anyone wanted, but because that's what happens when you try to push the enveloppe. Just like the A380 program ended up costing 25B instead of 9 planed.

> Instead, one makes redundant systems. It is far, far cheaper, and yet more reliable than going for perfection

The JWST does not have 390 single point of failures like the media like to say, a lot of those are highly preferable but not make or break: If the mirror wings failed to deploy, JWST would still work at a lower res. If some of the sunshade layers didn't deploy correctly, it would still work. If the momentum flap didn't deploy, it would still work but require more fuel to keep orbit stable, lowering life expectancy of the missions, Latching mechanisms and release bolts where all designed with tolerance for some of them to fails etc.

There are was actually just a handful of true single point of failures with no redundancy.

> But I do know how airliners are designed and built

Yes I think by now we are all aware since you keep mentioning it in every single one of your comment. And I don't doubt that you know what you are talking about when discussing airliners, but it also seems to me that your experience is a hammer and now everything you see looks like a nail to you.

What I find irritating, is that the team that build the JWST is made of many, many highly intelligent individuals that thought about about how to best respond to the need of astronomy over 25 years, and you seem to think that they are complete idiots that didn't think about solutions and problem that you can think of in 5 minutes on hacker news. They have. A lot of those people come from the world of airplanes. One the biggest contractor for the JWST is Lockheed, which knows a thing or two about designing airplanes and asssembly line.

Hubble, was actually built like that, as it's actually a repurposed KH-11 reconnaissance satellite. Lockheed built 18 of those. Only one of them was ever ordered for astronomy.

So do not worry, JWST is built like it is, not because no one thought about your ideas before, but because they don't help solve what we actually care about.
There was an interesting overview yesterday in the dutch newsite nu.nl that listed the frequency for regular vaccinations for children: https://www.nu.nl/coronavaccins/6177160/weer-een-coronaprik-...

It's actually quite common that vaccinations need to be done multiple times (up to 5 times for DPT) and to have boosters for these when traveling to certain countries.
Just wanted to add here for anyone considering St. John’s wort - it has a ton of negative interactions with lots of very common drugs, so check to make sure you aren’t already taking something that will interact with St. John’s wort. Ask your doctor.

For example, it can make birth control pills fail, allergy meds build up in your system, and serotonin build up if combined with another anti-depressant.
It does make me flinch every time it shows up on the HN frontpage. I wrote it at a time when I cared about getting on the HN frontpage.

That said, though, I do still believe it and stand by it in all particulars.

We'll see how I feel in 5 more years..
IMO there has to be a solid business case to switch a database layer. If MySQL serves your business well, I’d not switch. I like MySQL and PostgreSQL. I’ve used both. I felt the decision to go one way or the other depended more on how the company could maintain it after all decision makers were no longer there. Where MySQL was chosen, getting tooling and support from Oracle or Percona was seen as the biggest benefit. Where PostgreSQL was chosen, quality optimizer and open source was seen as the biggest benefit.

I’d highly recommend to try PostgreSQL yourself and learn it’s config, permissions, replication, administration and querying capabilities. You’ll appreciate PostgreSQL’s casting with :: for example. If you had to start from scratch, you’ll be better informed about PostgreSQL and can include it in your selection process.

When we used MySQL, we loved the ease of replication and tooling such as Monyog/Webyog/Workbench. When we used PostgreSQL, we loved the query optimizer and JSON functions.
>Meanwhile Saudi authorities indicated there was no criminal suspicion.

>France's terrorism probe has been entrusted to the Directorate of Internal Security (DGSI)

someone in SA will wake up in a burning house, or accidentally blow himself up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
Context-menus will land in the next Emacs release and are already available on master. Expect more and more functionality to be exposed via them.

Being emacs, context-menus will also be configurable.

https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/emacs-28/etc/NEWS...
https://ruzkuku.com/texts/emacs-mouse.html
I read about hashing, encryption and encoding and somehow at the end I want to be more vegetarian.
Indeed contact the police as well. The ‘client’ is quite simply a thief.

Using someone else’s credit card without permission to obtain thousands of dollars of services is criminal fraud. Ultimately he should be the one forced to make restitution under court order.
Why I Like D
4233 low fi universe simulations. Not bad. After all, this is still within 100 years of inventing computers. So, after another 1000 years or so of r&d, just think of the fidelity of the vast number of universes that we will be able to simulate...

Of course it is reasonably likely that we are living in a similar simulation. If so, it becomes morally important to lead interesting lives (so they keep the simulation running!)